Side A

I was leafing through my brother's chord list and found this song from Side A. And HAYLAVEEET! Kahit na si Sharon Cuneta yung kasama nila (sorry, I'm not a big fan talaga). Ayan in-embed ko dito sa blog hehe. Kahit hindi tugma sa state of things ngayon, I love it pa rin. Enjoy!

The heart yearned

I miss you. Miss you so badly. But not you, not really. I just miss having you around, you little punching bag. Pounding on somebody else is not as gratifying as stomping on your pride. And did I mention how I love it whenever I froth in the mouth with all the swear words I know because of you?

I'd die to see you again. See you writhe in pain at the sight of me whenever you remember. And you know what I like the most? When you spread malicious things about me because YOU can't face who you really are. Because then I know it's time for me to retaliate and inflict pain all over again.

Ahh, those were the days..

tara na, biyahe tayo! (Ilocos trip part 1)

The sun crept out from under the clouds! Well at least for the duration of our Pagudpud-Vigan trip. But boy, it was not called "Pagud"-pud for nothing! We were on the road for 16-straight hours, peeing in between long stretches and napping twenty-forever. In short, naubos na lahat ng kwento ng buhay namin, wala pa din kami sa beach. LOL. But once we got ahold of what Ilocos Norte's shoreline has to offer, every ache ceased to appear. To sum it in one word, WHOA! For evidence:


Beautiful. It didn't rain as the forecasts said. The sun smiled and laughed with us. Originally, 4 lang dapat kami but as fate would have it, naging 7 kami! And Steph's officemates (Cheska, Bri, Niki and John) are UBER-FUN! I swear they're a hoot a minute! (Note: Reimbursible, word for the day haha) Here they are in their sun-kissed glory:


Sayang they have to leave din the next day because of work-matters so the 3 of us, me, Steph and Yani had to finish our trip by ourselves. Pero dahil na rin sa kakulangan sa time and takot sa madidilim na parts to Saud Beach, we just went on to see the infamous Windmills of Bangui. Though man-made, it did not lessen their magnificence. At talaga namang matatakot ka sa sobrang laki nila! (haha, I sounded a bit too eager there for a while)

steph in her aviator-kuno shot

steph, me and yani in our sariling-sikap-shot

me in my "happy camper" signature shot (with my ultra huge troso-like arms)

After that, I let the two pressure me into getting a tattoo (though temp lang naman) at buti na lang nagpa-pressure naman ako. I gots me a star-trail tattoo on the uppermost right-side of my back .


We spent the night rolling in the sand, star-gazing (though maliliit lang naman yung stars) at kwentuhan na naman. That's until a group of 3 (shall I say, "boys"? lol, im sure stephy would get what I'm saying) approached us to "befriend" us daw because they're new sa Pagudpud. Our initial reaction (though sa mind lang):

Me: Bago lang din kami, go bother somebody else.
Stephy: Not interested.
Yani: Matutulog na kami so go get.

So talk, talk, talk, and in the end, Steph had to give them her e-mail address na lang. We escaped to the confines of our room which made us,quoting Yani, "mga anak ng Diyos" because it is the owners' family quarters whenever they came to visit. Oh di ba, bongga? Hihi.

As Anne Curtis said in her commercial, "This is our best summer vacay," pause on the EVER part, we'll just replace it with "TO DATE" since we will be having quite a lot (please cosmic void..). I'm ending the first part of our Northern Sojourn trip here dahil sobrang haba na. hehe. Up next, step into the past in Vigan!

Too tired to crawl to work yesterday so I opted to go this morning instead. Regardless of sleeping the whole day yesterday, I still crawled to work this morning. It's already 4 in the afternoon and I have finished only 5% of my workload so far.

I miss the beach. The breeze coming from the South China Sea. The thought that I'm at the edge of the biggest island in the Philippines. The feel of the white sand under my butt. Bagnet. Pinakbet. Longganisa de Iloco. Great company. Fun. Ilocos. Summer.

Okay, I'm having what Chico Garcia calls the Post-Holiday blues. And I don't think I'll be getting out of this pit for sometime so go call me a shrink. Or better yet, send me off to Bora, all-expense paid. LOL.

Blah

There are unique days when you go down on your knees (o, ang isip ha), laughing your heart out. And there are also those days when all you want to do is curl up in a ball and rock yourself to oblivion. Today seemed to be the latter one.

Isip, Isip, Isip

I can attribute the nakedness of my blog on two things: laziness and Facebook. At ngayon, may parating pang isa, PLURK!!! And all because I saw BB Gandanghari's Plurk account hihihi. Anyhoo, mag-vevent muna 'ko...

Tini-test na naman kasi ng corporate world what used to be my palpable patience. Starting off with the difficult times, na sinabayan ng world's most irritating boss <-- (Duwag! hihi). Pero sabi nga ng The Secret, you can conquer all these and emerge as the winner through your thoughts. So now, I'm thinking of the following and hopefully, will continue to believe in the midst of annoyance and strained patience:

1. 3-4 new consultants for April 09
2. 2-3 new clients for May 09
3. Peace of mind in the workplace (Na meron naman 'pag walang ume-AKA.)

And on this note, some more "desires of the heart" na hindi naman work-related:

1. Pursue with our Pagudpud-Vigan trip in utter bliss without going beyond the planned budget (ayun yun eh. hehe)
2. Lose 10 pounds, or 4 inches from my waistline before the said trip (Kaya ko 'to!)
3. Plan some more trips with my trigger-happy buddy, Stephy, kahit masakit sa ulo maghanap ng place at gumawa ng itinerary 2 weeks before our journey.
4. Shift my plane of everyday-thoughts from melancholia to happiness.

At madadagdagan pa ang post na 'to mamaya after 'ko gumawa ng report. hihi. Trabaho na!

where am i?

I've been gone for a week from work, a month or so from blog-o-sphere, and a few months from myself. Where have all the sanity gone?