Wednesday, May 26, 2010

Baby turn around and let me see that sexy body go Bulk Bulk Bulk

So I'm having the eagerness to improve my current physique...


and this week that I have been at the gym was pretty much horse play. Not following my old program, over training, looking at too much bodies and shirt off guys at the gym LOL. (&@^%^^#%@#!@*&#&#!!!!)

Okay, time to mobilize and put the system back again into where its supposed to be. Gee why am I doing this ? (5 page Cap'n Joe Signature Classic philosophical explanation not included)

New workout regimen that I'm going to do… Just taking notes so I remember...

Duration: Max 45 minutes. After 45 minutes, get the hell out of the gym. Manage time wisely.

Tuesday - Thursday - Saturday - Or at least try to do your best.

Cardio: 45min - 1 hour run - 1x a week
5 minute stationary bike included as warm up

Notes:
Three times a week
Lift to Failure. Max up the weights.
Warm up properly.
Don't fool around.
Be serious.
Workout buddy.
Bring music player if needed.

Barbell Squats: 1 Set Of 8-10 Reps

Leg Extensions: 1 Set Of 8-10 Reps

Lying Leg Curls: 1 Set Of 8-10 Reps

Dumbbell Pullovers: 1 Set Of 8-10 Reps

Military Press: 1 Set Of 8-10 Reps

Seated Cable Rows: 1 Set Of 8-10 Reps

Barbell Bench Press: 1 Set Of 8-10 Reps

Barbell Curls: 1 Set Of 8-10 Reps

Seated Triceps Press: 1 Set Of 8-10 Reps

Pullups: 1 Set Of 8-10 Reps

Bench Dips: 1 Set Of 8-10 Reps

Standing Calf Raises: 1 Set Of 8-12 Reps

Crunches: 1 Set Of 10-15 Reps

AND OH!
I just remembered...


This music video influenced me big time with clothing at one big fuzzy blurry point in my life back then...
oh those shades of red. white shoes, jeans, khakis. oh

Sunday, May 23, 2010

Birthday!

Oh Oh Oh, Just for the sake of having a post on my Birthday which still has 111 minutes to go!


It's been a great great day. Awesome.

Thanks thanks all to every all who had it all to make all these over all a big ball!

Happy Birthday to me!

Wednesday, May 19, 2010

Photog

So I remember... photography is one hobby I want to take on someday in the future.


There is just something in a great photo that captures a great moment and just wonderful details that is difficult or impossible to analyze with the eye in the same time frame. And of course the great stories behind them...


" Fingertrips"
Anatoliy & Kate. Zurich, Switzerland. September 27, 2009

With no formal lessons yet on photography... so far for me, the best photo I have taken is this shot of Anatoliy and Kate along the banks of river Limmat in Zurich. As far as I remember, Anatoliy told me to take photos of Kate (his girlfriend) for him... Aww so sweet. So here I was being the personal paparazzi for Anatoliy. And at one point along our day in Zurich, when our other friends told the two to pose for a shot... I saw a moment that was picture perfect, and lucky enough, I was able to press the shutter button at the perfect instant.

Also, this photo poses a question... When I was able to level properly on the horizontal stone at the bottom of the photo.. How come the rest of the background is slightly angled downwards? Okay, now I realize, the stone is angled downwards, the roofs and houses should be the proper leveling guide I have used. Okay... so that's one more thing that makes this photo great, it has imperfections ready for disposal for the audience who may even deem this as an imperfection.

Among the great smiles, poses, angle, color, lighting, and focus which I like in this photo, I especially adore the detail of Kate's finger tips grasping Anatoliy's. It explains so much.

The following days... I saw this photo on Kate's notebook computer, it was her wallpaper. Awesome.

And of course, as an artist who appreciates appreciation... it puts a smile on my face when I see people appreciating the photo I've taken.

Hobby: Photography. Okay. This photo was taken using Canon PowerShotA610 which was stolen in Madrid last December 26, 2009.

Canon PowerShot A610

With over 500 photos during my first 3 days in Spain... when I got to Barcelona, I had no camera. Darnit. This A610 had been my camera for 4 years and had taken over 10,000 photos.... maybe even 15,000. Sulit na. But the fantastic photos lost... Uhhh...

Canon PowerShot SX110

I will go full throttle on this hobby some day, right now it's me and my Canon PowerShot SX110 which I got myself last year for my 22nd birthday... good thing it has CHDK so I can bend the settings to my will.

I am actually a great photographer, it's just that for now I am not one yet.

All We Need is Love, Art & Each Other

Back then, when I was squabbling along Damm Square in Amsterdam in Holland, I took this photo of two guys playing music. Who knows... they could be artists just trying to wander around with their music or something else.... Anyway, I just thought of putting a caption to this...



"We don't have much except for the clothes we wear and this music box we play, but I have you, we have each other, and you have me... simple as it may seem... together, that is all we need to play the music of love."

Hmm... it doesn't sound right... anyway that is not the f'n point.

Sunday, May 16, 2010

Plan C

So today I got fed up.

This is wasting my time.
As the over achiever that I am... this is humiliating me to myself.

For the next few weeks I'll be working in our home business.
and a few weeks later I am planning to work for free in a restaurant in the Fort.

In cordial preparation to Plan B which is well on its way though I got a notice that Plan A is still a hanging thought.

And another plan came up. Plan C.
CIA.

Excuse my French but.. putain ! je veux que ce "PLAN A" se terminer deja!!! putain. ça me coute trop de temps déjà!!

No, my emotions are not getting over me, its just the way plans are going to unfold.

Saturday, May 15, 2010

23 - 23

One week left. I'm really really excited. It's that day of the year. From the planning I start being excited, from the minutes and seconds waiting I feel glad, during the hours I enjoy every moment.


This Saturday had been spent preparing.
Hotel booked. Clothes pre-fitted on my petit luggage bag. Budget allocated. Time frame and itinerary taken note. Menu items to order had been chosen. Sequence of service modified.

Its a self made tradition.

2009.
Wake up late... have a relaxing morning doing groceries
Cook Lunch.
Train to Montreux.
Buy wine, cheese, chips, and fruits.
Walk along the lake.
Have a picnic along lake Geneva with friends
Train to Lausanne.
(Censored)
Train to Geneva
Watch Filipino concert
Go to Geneva Airport to fetch sister
Dinner with her at apartment - having mom's morcon for dinner in Geneva - cooked all the way from Bulacan was quite interesting.

2008.
Woke up early in the morning to go to my friends house.
Donuts for breakfast
Make sandwiches.
Gym with friend.
KFC Bucket meal for two.
Distribute sandwiches to hungry people at the streets.
Rest
Combo dinner at Fort with Highschool and College friends.
On another day: Charity visit - donate rice. Dinner with family.


2007. A bit boring.
Happened a couple of days when I arrived from England. Jet lag killed me and I was sleepy all day.
Snack at McDonalds.
Chinese resto dinner.

2006.
Big Breakfast with my Accom mates.
Attend Class from 810-11:10 AM
Lunch with mom
Early dinner with college people
Late dinner with highschool people
Midnight fun with room mates

2005 - ?


2004 - Rented a swimming pool for the highschool classmates ?

Gee. I don't remember much anymore.

Hello. May 23, 2010.
Yeah. 23 years old. Well it's about time.
23 years old. Let me welcome you avec un grossss bisous!!!
Again... I'm excited.

Edward Theorem

"Have we been hiding from each other? I wonder..." - Rod, Avenue Q

I was in the gym, doing my thing... Prepping my stuff and somethin' somethin'. And he approaches me. "Hey, matagal ka na ba nagygym dito?" - with a smile, and he was kinda pretty. And gee, he was wearing white undies only.

"Mga ilang months na din... ikaw?"

"Ah, ngayon lang ako nandito... nagpapaspa lang ako, binigyan kasi ako ng friend ko ng GCs kaya ginagamit ko today..."

"Ahh... Parang ngayon lang kita nakita dito.... Naggygym ka ba? San ka ba galing? What do you do?"

"I work in Singapore, ngayon lang ako nandito kasi vacation ko, I work out sa fitness first pero dun sa Singapore. Mukha nga... maganda na katawan mo..."

"Huh... not really... madami pa kong kelangan iwork out... tingnan mo to..." Here I found myself showing him a portion of my body... "Diba...?"

"Hindi.. ok nga eh..."

.... (and we talk about each other's life for a few solid minutes) ....

then suddenly....

"Hey by the way I'm Edward nga pala..." Said with a sweet smile, with the looks of his eyes sharp enough to pierce through my soul...

"I'm Joey..."

And we shook hands... a handshake that was revolting enough that it solidly made me feel a strange rush of embarrassment, and it seemed that he did as well...

Friday, May 14, 2010

Corruption

Gee. Finally my laptop is fixed!


The long time screen flicker is gone... LCD Cable fixed.

So I dropped by the service center of my computer and there I told the service guy my dilemma.

Well... we collided on an agreement that he can have this fixed himself.
Instead of the 20 working days that I had been told at the other service center of the same brand.
Instead of the alleged 500 pesos diagnostic fee + cost of parts (no less than P2500) + cost of labor.

I got mine fixed under 15 minutes + 500 pesos.
The sweet convenience of corruption.

At the end of the day... service guy gets 500 pesos for his outstanding service. (fun intended)

And me... with a grin.

How can I make this work?

First, the average cost of hiring someone per day is how much? It's so little that a little amount can afford it. Its the same ol' technique we love doing in the streets of metro manila. In a way I corrupted the brand, but they corrupted me one time too much already.

With such an over complicated layer of what it takes to get the product from the manufacturer to the consumer... practicality and wits taught me to find ways to find convenience and economy in the word hierarchy.

And I've been eF-ed up too much already by the trouble of this brand. And certainly in a world where one gets eaten and the other is the one who eats... I don't want to afford all them shenanigans no more. You've got to play smart, and that one time is enough for you to do all the research, homeworks and upgrading for yourself.

Wohoo! Laptop fixed.

Thursday, May 13, 2010

Pinoy Tortilla de Patatas con Mah-ling

So something to cheer me up...


I remember a few nights ago that Giada de Laurentiis was cooking tortilla so here I was today hungry and wanting to eat something more human-ly than the day old food in the kitchen.

I reminisce with what she added to her tortilla...
Eggs, cream, grated parmesan cheese, basil, thick slices of prosciutto, salt, pepper, potatoes, onions

My version since I don't have all ingredients...

3 eggs less 1.5 yolks for less cholesterol, all purpose cream, cheddar cheese, basil, pre-cooked until crisp mah-ling, salt, pepper, thrice cooked potatoes (boil, fry, bake), onions.

And here it is. Served with 7 buck kick ass bread from the nearby tindahan.

IMG_3106.jpg picture by mr_ang

It was superb. Perfectly cooked, great texture, great color, calm and balanced taste, potatoes were crisp and tender, mah-ling was crisp and tender too.

IMG_3109.jpg picture by mr_ang


IMG_3111.jpg picture by mr_ang

It's love until the last bite.

BITCH

I am having a really bad bad mother fucking day.

Mother fucker.

Someone save me.

Please.

Monday, May 10, 2010

Chueca

I love the costume. I love the choreography. I love the effort. Love this video.




And so I realized this video was taken in Chueca, the more gay and fabulous district in Madrid, Spain. And so I remember the night I when I walked alone the streets of Chueca, looking for sympathy, a little company. Well, I didn't! But I saw great looking Spanish twinks holding hands on the streets over there. It's a romantic place, great bars along the streets, great restaurants, and it felt very liberating being there. Being alone and a naive 21 year old Pinoy at Madrid on a cold winter eve, gee... all that I'd prepare myself for was be a tourist... (What does this mean? I don't know)

And I don't wonder much now why every one was Gaga looking, its in Chueca! Awesome!

Sunday, May 9, 2010

7 Course Meal

Gee... I woke up in the morning looking my mom, can't find her. Not here, not there, not anywhere at home. Turns out she escaped the province and went to Fort. Hmm... leaving me with nothing to do at home. Gee. It's mother's day! Oh... it's also my mom's birthday today! Anyway...


I also woke up feeling energy-less... not the type that relates to calories and mitochondria but uhm... I didn't feel anything exciting, I felt like a sleeping tiger, dozing dragon. Much like a can of Coke with no fizz.

So I thought I'd do something to cheer me up and make the day fun... Mini project for today was make me a T-Shirt with this design...


So off I went to SM North EDSA to make it happen... and read a book with a bottle of iced tea on a corner for a couple of hours. Off I went roaming the isles of the department store... looking for a good fitting nice simple white shirt, simple and smart.

Gee, I was looking left and right while walking down the isle of the department store... looking around and I saw someone. Gee. It was a salesman of the department store who was looking at me with a soft smile, with his face a bit angled downwards, but with his romantic eyes piercing through me. I died.

I don't know who he was, but he had the mix of something that just had that power to knock me off. Strange. I blushed, I felt torpe, I looked the other way, I looked at him back, he was still looking at me, I felt happy, I felt energized, I couldn't stop my feet from walking, I took my last look of his eyes looking at mine, and so I escaped like a mother who wanted to escape the probinsya.

That guy, he just, he recharged me with one look. I consciously felt a rush of blood on the right side of my stomach and me... couldn't stop smiling after.

And after reading my book, I kept myself busy with the great furniture haven that is now at the SM North EDSA Carpark building.

It was a great place, a quiet place for people to roam around and see great furnitures. And also I saw a lot of great looking people. The place felt romantic on a not very busy afternoon. I often found myself playing a staring game with guys I found interesting in that place, not for the sake of anything sexual, it was just for fun.

So I decided to drop by Fort area to have dinner with mom, gee... I'm still so busog over that 7 course meal at Chef Laudico Bistro Filipino
2 Appetizers
3 Main courses
2 Deserts

It was amazing, I love it.

And on my way home, at the FX... there was a nice looking guy who sat beside me, I didn't know who he was or what he does for a living, he looked fine... looked good actually, felt like he was in his mid 20s. But in my moment of being alone that moment, I found comfort having someone's legs brushing mine, someone's shoulder's beside mine, his elbows resting on my knee, someone's forearms brushing mine...

And through those moments, I just closed my eyes, being very aware that that fantasy will last as long as the ride. Enjoying that awesome feeling of being at peace and relaxed, an awesome feeling I feel when I find myself beside someone I can enjoy the moment with.

I closed my eyes, savored the moments and took deep breaths that filled my lungs and filled my heart with happiness through a simple imagination in my head that... well... someone is beside me, and as simple as the situation was, it made me really feel good.

I don't know if he was connecting with me, but well, not knowing was fine with me.

Thus, despite with all them beliefs and rules, them images and impressions... I'm still someone who appreciates the presence, that feeling.

A night where my stomach was filled with great gastronomy, my brain filled with advices and ideas for the future, and my heart filled with something not really real, filled with the imagination that felt pretty damn romantic.

Saturday, May 8, 2010

To Kiss

Just when I woke up on a morning when I felt genuinely confident to say "I am okay"...

Rararhoahoawhourlostzhrohaarrrawexarhayroah!!!

Okay okay, skip the hulahwurtsalhalastahrahvinskytyalemiskazckaya... and to KISS... (Keep it Short and Stupid Simple), all that I felt and all that I wanted to say when you popped on my screen was...

"Gee... I missed you"

"... can I invite you for coffee or something?"

Wednesday, May 5, 2010

CP PC

Je me fermes les yeux, en pensant d’une lettre lequelle je suis obligé de se terminer. Et après cet idée, beaucoup beaucoup de problèmes stupid apparaissent dans ma tête.
Lesquelles sont les resultats d’ennuyance... Tout simplement, je veux finir cet papier, un document donc le consul m’a dit à faire, une lettre de contestation contre le refus de mon visa.

D’abord, je ne veux pas encore à travailler en France, a cause de cette idée, j’ai perdu la passion à se terminer. Merde, mais je sais qu’il faut que je fasse ce document. Ce n’est pas juste que ma patron en France a fait tout ce que possible et puis j’arreterai puisque je suis paressous. Gee.

A cause de cet indolence, apparaissent plusieurs de stupidité.... comme je mange plus qu’avant, ou je pense des autres problèmes d’amour ou amical. Mon Dieu, arretez-moi s’il vous plaît et laissez-moi terminer ce document tout de suite svp. Vraiment stupide... comme à l’université, certified procrastinators, professional crammers.

Tuesday, May 4, 2010

I want this - The morning after

And so I realized I need to secure at least 2 million pesos for this once this Paris job confeerms its denial for me. I'm giving myself a year or maybe two years to raise this money. Independently.

Monday, May 3, 2010

I want this.

Damn. Screaming on the top my lungs whats going onnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn I want this. I want this. I want this!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! GEE!!!


I need to really start the tactic going to come up with the money for this. And I doubt momzy is going to finance me, or maybe a little, of course I should put my somethin somethin as well.
€ 22,650.00 + a tipid mode of 1,000 euros a month to survive in Paris + uniforms + plane tickets + stuff. GEE!!!!

Forget the car, forget the condominium, they can wait!
I know what I want!!!! I'm dreaming. Oh someday someday !

Le Cordon BleuParis


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Plan B

Gee. All day I have been brainstorming on a Plan B since this Paris plan is feeling very very uncertain all of a sudden.


Among the other choices in the still blurry clouds of ideas:
Management Trainee in USA
Work in Pilipinas
Further Studies...

This one I chose...

Career Plan B : Work on a Cruise ship
Seems like the almost perfect plan B since it is...

Something that will allow me to travel the world, again be submerged in the cultural diversity of the world, and of course, see the multifaceted situations that other people are in to. A 10 month contract would be enough for an appetizer, if it seems that I will enjoy, then I'll go for another bite.

All day I have been researching on what to expect, if it would be fit for me, and if I will still be alive after. Well, I'll be stuck in a cruise ship for ten months... and at the end of the day, I realized that I just need to bring a small netbook computer and I will be fine.

There will be no downside, mishaps will all be in the mind, and prayers and brains will be what I'd need to pack in my luggage for this. Working 10 hours a day, 7 days a week for 10 months.
With regards to the social circle and professional relations I will be having, and also considering that this will be culturally diverse, I can play Mr. Diplomatic and Mr. Tactfulness. Proven effective in my school and work back then in Switzerland.

Things makes sense now why I met in Switzerland this friend from Indonesia... who knew it'll be him who will give me tips on this. He'll be starting his work in AIDA cruises in a couple of months. And it does make more sense why I was on a cruise last year, so I have tons of ideas how the work will seem to be. *Crossing fingers now*

The pay is pretty okay. But aside from the datung, the benefits will not be limited to what the eyes can see and what the hands can hold...

I have been eyeing this...
Shangri-la at the Fort by 2014


If all plans go well (plans according to my current wavelength of thinking on a hot 37 degree afternoon, and if by then I'd consider settling already in Manila at the age of 26 or 27), I'd be one of the best suited candidates to work there by that time. And also considering that there's a condominium 5 minute walk away where I can live on my own, its going to be great.

As far as I can analyze the bits and pieces of this... This plan sounds good, but still I'm open to what better things life will offer me.
If it's not difficult, it is not funny. There are just things that happens in our life and for a period of time we don't understand why, but in the right time... we'll understand everything.

Life will be very very sweet. Life is good. Awesome.

Trying not to get too excited now.
Who knows... in a few weeks then I might think of a Plan C. LOL.
And I still need to give the French Consul some rubbin' n' lovin' next week.

Sunday, May 2, 2010

Egg Lovin

It was another Saturday night spent in my room alone, alone with my friend… my BFF.



It struck me that I have been very much alone lately, alone in my room, for a lot of times, with my computer turned on. I have put all my eggs in a basket… All my trust to a friend… and the moment life made its move, it moved us apart… and I can define it right now that technology is not cutting it anymore.



“Holala BFF !… miss na kita... uwi ka na”


Oh last night, it made realize how I damned missed him very much… Oh the things I would do for us to spend a wee Saturday night on a wendy’s, jollibee or a fastfood somewhere and make the night fun. Telling him to go home when gee, I do know for a fact that indeed he cannot for legit reasons. And enjoy life over a simple meal... and the adventures that came after. LOL



The conversations that we plan to be in the future… the future executives, leaders of society, filthy rich, packed with success, oozing with power at our own rights, and of course the hunky hunky super hunky beau guys that we will be… and then we will go to an Atlantis event where I’ll be the actor and he will hold the camera. Hahaha.


ohh the visions we envisioned.



The people of interests we talk about and how to pursue them. Coincidences about the people we met and how it proved that indeed, it’s a small world after all. Oh the guys we talked about, gee… the long list of the guys we talked about… Gee… Just when I see a guy and he tells me ahead that he dated/talked/communicated with that guy before now he tells me that what I should know. Hahaha. He was always 10 steps ahead of me in this category.



Oh the full hour we spent talking just about the fabulousity and genius that was Alexander McQueen and Lady Gaga over a serving of Nachos in a food court, and how we tried to dance Bad Romance over there as if the place became the Bath Haus of Gaga.



How I appreciated the pleasure of someone talking direct to my face on what I am becoming… someone to tell me without hesitation that I’m becoming mayabang, someone to tell me na “nagiging emo ka na masyado to the point na nakakainis ka na, bye”, someone to give me an idea of the ideal date, and how he will make contra to those who I am engaging with by giving me an honest and different angle at situations I put myself into.


Someone who was my mirror to make me see what needs some grooming.



Fair enough, last September we decided to meet up in Barcelona for a grand BFF meetup and para maghasik ng kabalahuraan at kabalasubasan (as we say it sometimes) hahaha, so I booked up tickets and apartments to stay and made it extra long… well, fair enough that I wasn’t disappointed at all that he wasn’t able to show up.



Having him not around taught me how to become my own best friend, me functioning the functions of someone who would be my own true friend. But well, the burger just doesn’t seem to have that same juicy savory taste. And geeee…



If I were the Little Prince who searched all over the universe for the right kind of sheep, visited each planet he stumbled upon on, then right now I’d smile having the feeling of finding the right kind… but feel uneasy with the idea that well… he ain’t here !



All my eggs in a basket, now that I’m aware of it… restrategize, as we would say… I think I should spread some egg lovin. Holala!