"Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men! Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks. Then the doing of your work will be no miracle but you shall be the miracle"
- Philips Brooks
Wednesday, February 25, 2009
Dreaming of a new baby
My hands are all clammy and my heart keeps racing. Yup... A new love in the horizon and it is called the Canon SX1 is! Wuhu!I can't wait for Joey to come home. Sure I miss my brother, too. But because of this. Counting the days. Sunday seems to be soooo far away. The agony of waiting... Torture!
If you wanna know why I'm so gaga over this, check this site and video review:
http://www.cameralabs.com/reviews/Canon_PowerShot_SX1_IS/
My ixus7 finally gave up on me. I still love my little one but I have to move on.
Welcome to the ride that is life
Its such a cliche but life can be a roller coaster. What a turn I just took. But I'm glad I went through it, sucked it in and braced myself for whatever. God is so good. Even in my most stupid and pea-brain moments, He has my back. My direction could have changed just like that. But once again, He is so good.
A few years ago, I was so broken and hopeless with important people in my life. Now, its like a complete 180. I'm actually finding myself trying to catch up. Its awesome and challenging at the same time. It's like I was asleep and now everything is different. I am different.
The things I think are before me are so opposite of where I thought it would be. Wonderfully and inexplicably different. I don't want to have it any other way, really.
Monday, February 16, 2009
Foodie in Boracay
I am such a food fan. Open my iphone and I have notes on restaurants to try in Manila and any other place I plan to visit in the near future. I get it from food blogs, magazines and word of mouth. I find it such a thrilling experience searching for new tastes, finding them and trying them for myself. I completely detest people who are so unadventurous and critical. Its part of the fun! If it sucks, well, at least you gave it a go :)
Going back to Boracay after a couple of years (?), a lot of restaurants have changed. Love the fact that Mariless was there so she took us to a few places and just surprisingly stumbled into the ones I wanted to try.
Here are some of the restaurants we went to this time around:
1) I love BBQ - love the bulalo steak with extra sauce. Served with bbq rice (well, more like Knorr rice. But I love knorr. Knorr goes with everything, I think. So I loved it). Thanks to Mariless for this one. D'Mall as well. Same side as the Lonely Planet store and Gusthoff's.
2) Hama - took the place of a chinese restaurant. Still found in D'Mall. Strawberry shake. Yum! The eel sushi was so good and the bento was the best I have had. The salad, tofu steak was sooo good! So unlike the ones you get in other places.
3) Cyma - well, this restaurant is pretty good. Whether in Manila or Boracay. The lamb is always my favorite. Osso Bucco pasta was also good. Same with the Mediterranean crab and the choco cake was so sinful!
4) Aria - aalways good. and the coffee shop next to it. Same owner anyways. Pizza, Strawberry shake, so much to choose from!
5) REal Coffee - been looking for this place for a while. It used to be in D'Mall but had some problems so it moved somewhere in the Station 1 area. Near the newly opened Flip Flop store. As in kanto sya! Na swertehan lang that I saw it! But the coffee was so worth it and the calamansi cupcake was so good. Brownie was ok but a bit filling.
That's what we tried so far this time in Boracay. So glad that I got to try most of the places I set out to go to.
Going back to Boracay after a couple of years (?), a lot of restaurants have changed. Love the fact that Mariless was there so she took us to a few places and just surprisingly stumbled into the ones I wanted to try.
Here are some of the restaurants we went to this time around:
1) I love BBQ - love the bulalo steak with extra sauce. Served with bbq rice (well, more like Knorr rice. But I love knorr. Knorr goes with everything, I think. So I loved it). Thanks to Mariless for this one. D'Mall as well. Same side as the Lonely Planet store and Gusthoff's.
2) Hama - took the place of a chinese restaurant. Still found in D'Mall. Strawberry shake. Yum! The eel sushi was so good and the bento was the best I have had. The salad, tofu steak was sooo good! So unlike the ones you get in other places.
3) Cyma - well, this restaurant is pretty good. Whether in Manila or Boracay. The lamb is always my favorite. Osso Bucco pasta was also good. Same with the Mediterranean crab and the choco cake was so sinful!
4) Aria - aalways good. and the coffee shop next to it. Same owner anyways. Pizza, Strawberry shake, so much to choose from!
5) REal Coffee - been looking for this place for a while. It used to be in D'Mall but had some problems so it moved somewhere in the Station 1 area. Near the newly opened Flip Flop store. As in kanto sya! Na swertehan lang that I saw it! But the coffee was so worth it and the calamansi cupcake was so good. Brownie was ok but a bit filling.
That's what we tried so far this time in Boracay. So glad that I got to try most of the places I set out to go to.
Sunday, February 15, 2009
Not a bad first at all
Forget the candlelit dinner, the flowers, couples dressed to kill, serenades and all that kind of mushy things you think about when you talk about Valentines. You can only do so much dreaming but the real thing, simple yet it exceeds all expectations and i wouldn't trade it for anything else.
So here I am, post my 1st valentines. Sad but true. But then, it was worth it. Being with the person who makes you feel loved and chrished both in words and in action is far better than all the white roses I can dream about. And by the way, I did get the white roses but it wasn't from Prince Charming. More like Johnny Bravo. Yick! So out the window goes that childish illusion.
But I did get a really cute bag and some chocolates. Hey, I got a heart full of love and my hands had something in them as well. Not a bad haul! :)
BACK TO JUST US
The Straubs and the Milbys have left. Everything feels to be so quiet and I am back to hearing myself think. Nothing to do and nowhere to go. Back to the routine tomorrow.
So here I am, post my 1st valentines. Sad but true. But then, it was worth it. Being with the person who makes you feel loved and chrished both in words and in action is far better than all the white roses I can dream about. And by the way, I did get the white roses but it wasn't from Prince Charming. More like Johnny Bravo. Yick! So out the window goes that childish illusion.
But I did get a really cute bag and some chocolates. Hey, I got a heart full of love and my hands had something in them as well. Not a bad haul! :)
BACK TO JUST US
The Straubs and the Milbys have left. Everything feels to be so quiet and I am back to hearing myself think. Nothing to do and nowhere to go. Back to the routine tomorrow.
Friday, February 13, 2009
At last! Hahaha
Okay, I have to be honest. As for tomorrow, Feb. 14, 2009, it will be my first Valentines Day with someone. Past relationships seemed to fizzle before it got to this point. So I'm looking forward to it. Sort of like looking through a window from the other side for a change.I don't expect anything grand for tomorrow. Sort of like the same thing I did in the previous years but at least I get to spend and share this time with someone now. So that's good enough for me.
I enjoyed being single during Valentines so its a good and natural transition. I didn't miss out just because I was single. Had a lot of great friends on the same boat and had a blast wearing black and pretending to be so anti-Valentines. Hahah Now the truth can be told.
Funny how I look back at how things were last year. Still not used to it, really. I am so corny! But i wanna be corny! Just for today anyway :D
Btw, don't be deceived by the picture. I hate pink. That includes pink flowers.
Devastated
Words cannot express how I feel right now. Its been like a nightmare that I keep playing back in my head. How could this happen? With just a snap they were gone. Forever. No way of making things right. My best friend and my baby... gone.
Every time I remember Siobe, I can't believe something as simple as a routine teeth and ear cleaning could turn into a nightmare. With all my heart I want to pray that Rebadulla pays for this. From what I have heard, I am not the first and definitely not the last.
Seeing her lifeless body lying sideways. Her son, Enzo beside her, dead as well. Why? She was the love of my life. She died so painfully. Her tongue was swollen with bite marks on them. Her teeth were bleeding. She was in so much pain that she actually defacated. Horribly similar to her mate, Buknoy, when he died of cancer.
I would have understood if she was sick and the operation went wrong. But she was so healthy. Probably only got colds in her life. She was the sweetest dog I have ever had. I was looking forward to more years with her. She brought so much joy to all of us and just like that, a insensitive asshole takes her and her family away. All 3 of my dogs dead.
To all those who read this blog, spread the word. If you love your pets, NEVER take them to Rebadulla. He should be stopped. This is too much. Studying in Iloilo, I already heard about him being the dog killer. I only wanted to try their grooming station. It was the very first time and it went horribly wrong.
How can they live with themselves? How can they take away someone's companion and not feel any remorse. These are like people's children. The mere fact that they are sent to be groomed is that their owners feel love for them and actually spend both money and time on them.
My heart aches so much right now. As many activities I have at the moment and the happiness we all have for family who are visiting now, the moment I enter my room and shut the door, I remember her. She was the reason I changed my carpet into wood. I see her pillow, untouched and still has her scent. I open my closet and their unopened Zwitsal shampoo and powder are still all lined up. Bought their dogfood last week. I can't bear going to the kitchen right now. Their cages all empty. Just feels colder around here now.
Dreamt of them last night, too. Some people don't get it. But some people do. Its like a part of you goes away. Siobe was there for me during so many trying times. She would just sit and look at me with her tongue sticking out the way it usually does. I miss holding her. I miss having her on my lap, watching her kids play. How she would automatically take her place on my lap and somehow be able to just balance herself and refuse to budge. I miss her chorizo body. Her sniffs and snorts. I miss how she twirls whenever she sees me and when I reach out and rub her back. She was so funny. Whenever she would sleep with me in my room and she would hear Joey come in, she would try to bark, acknowledging that someone was indeed outside my door but she would do it softly so that we wouldn't wake me up and she would keep looking at me to see if she did wake me. She was great with children. Had her washed for Eva to play with. Siobe loved to crawl under my bed. When I was away on vacation, they would see her looking for me and just hide under my bed. Like she was waiting for me to come home. She was always so happy to see me.
I can never have that back again. I don't wish this to happen to anyone who has a pet. i just feel so angry and helpless at the same time.
To Siobe, Enzo and Genie --- killed on Feb. 10, 2009. On my brother's birthday of all days, too.
Every time I remember Siobe, I can't believe something as simple as a routine teeth and ear cleaning could turn into a nightmare. With all my heart I want to pray that Rebadulla pays for this. From what I have heard, I am not the first and definitely not the last.
Seeing her lifeless body lying sideways. Her son, Enzo beside her, dead as well. Why? She was the love of my life. She died so painfully. Her tongue was swollen with bite marks on them. Her teeth were bleeding. She was in so much pain that she actually defacated. Horribly similar to her mate, Buknoy, when he died of cancer.
I would have understood if she was sick and the operation went wrong. But she was so healthy. Probably only got colds in her life. She was the sweetest dog I have ever had. I was looking forward to more years with her. She brought so much joy to all of us and just like that, a insensitive asshole takes her and her family away. All 3 of my dogs dead.
To all those who read this blog, spread the word. If you love your pets, NEVER take them to Rebadulla. He should be stopped. This is too much. Studying in Iloilo, I already heard about him being the dog killer. I only wanted to try their grooming station. It was the very first time and it went horribly wrong.
How can they live with themselves? How can they take away someone's companion and not feel any remorse. These are like people's children. The mere fact that they are sent to be groomed is that their owners feel love for them and actually spend both money and time on them.
My heart aches so much right now. As many activities I have at the moment and the happiness we all have for family who are visiting now, the moment I enter my room and shut the door, I remember her. She was the reason I changed my carpet into wood. I see her pillow, untouched and still has her scent. I open my closet and their unopened Zwitsal shampoo and powder are still all lined up. Bought their dogfood last week. I can't bear going to the kitchen right now. Their cages all empty. Just feels colder around here now.
Dreamt of them last night, too. Some people don't get it. But some people do. Its like a part of you goes away. Siobe was there for me during so many trying times. She would just sit and look at me with her tongue sticking out the way it usually does. I miss holding her. I miss having her on my lap, watching her kids play. How she would automatically take her place on my lap and somehow be able to just balance herself and refuse to budge. I miss her chorizo body. Her sniffs and snorts. I miss how she twirls whenever she sees me and when I reach out and rub her back. She was so funny. Whenever she would sleep with me in my room and she would hear Joey come in, she would try to bark, acknowledging that someone was indeed outside my door but she would do it softly so that we wouldn't wake me up and she would keep looking at me to see if she did wake me. She was great with children. Had her washed for Eva to play with. Siobe loved to crawl under my bed. When I was away on vacation, they would see her looking for me and just hide under my bed. Like she was waiting for me to come home. She was always so happy to see me.
I can never have that back again. I don't wish this to happen to anyone who has a pet. i just feel so angry and helpless at the same time.
To Siobe, Enzo and Genie --- killed on Feb. 10, 2009. On my brother's birthday of all days, too.
Friday, February 6, 2009
Febbie
February has come and almost through with the first week. But what a month it will be.
Thrilled to have Larissa, Eva, Tita G and Tito Wern over. Eva is getting lovelier each time I see her and I am so proud! My only hijada and niece with blue eyes. Obviously she doesn't get it from me :D I love her to pieces. She is too adorable. I love it when she says "namit!". I almost dropped my food when I heard her. And over squid rings, too (the ones you buy from Estancia). She loves rice. Just rice. Pizza. Hm.. She is so cute! Have to post pics of her here soon :)
Christian and Mitch are coming over tomorrow. Wish TJ and Chris could come, too. But, 'tis is life. We don't always get what we want or wish for. I wonder when will I get to see them again.
Looking at Eva, I wonder how I will be as a mom. Eva may be a girl but she moves like a little boy. She is all over the place and very independently spirited. She can wear everyone out! But I would be so happy to have a child like her. Take note, I want a boy first. So I better get by body in tip top shape by then. A whole lotta running to begin with. But I can't wait. Such an honor to be a mom. Watching Larissa, I can't believe how time has flown. I remember her wedding night. We spent it together with Indah. Now she has a 2 year old daughter and scolding and giving time outs. So surreal!
Christian and Mitch are coming over tomorrow. Wish TJ and Chris could come, too. But, 'tis is life. We don't always get what we want or wish for. I wonder when will I get to see them again.
Looking at Eva, I wonder how I will be as a mom. Eva may be a girl but she moves like a little boy. She is all over the place and very independently spirited. She can wear everyone out! But I would be so happy to have a child like her. Take note, I want a boy first. So I better get by body in tip top shape by then. A whole lotta running to begin with. But I can't wait. Such an honor to be a mom. Watching Larissa, I can't believe how time has flown. I remember her wedding night. We spent it together with Indah. Now she has a 2 year old daughter and scolding and giving time outs. So surreal!
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