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THE NEXT ME? A WORKING GIRL

I’m liking the sound of that. Really.

It may be the cheesiest thing to say but it sounds so fulfilling and it gets me really excited.

It’s like having this brand new thrill. You know how it is when you step into a new pair of shoes for the very first time.

You’re uncertain because you don’t know if it’s going to result in bruises after the day but you don’t care because aside from the fact that it looks good, it actually feels good.
                                  

My experiences are truly nowhere near Betty’s and Anne Hathaway’s character on the devil wears prada because thank God I don’t not have a mean or an airhead of a boss (daniel, i’m sorry you’re still HOT)

My boss is kind and gracious. Gorgeous in fact. I’m not just saying that, I swear, she looks like a teenager

I could relate to them because I feel that I’ve gravitated towards a workplace that is new to me. We all know that my sister’s the real fashionista in the family and thank God for that because she can help me with fashion trends and help me stay away from clothes that aren’t “me”.

It’s kindda funny how I’m trying to find my place in this new job
It’s also exciting because in my first week here, I’m finding a new side to myself.

I found out that I can be:

a) creative
    -I can mix prints and flowers. See my site in a couple of weeks
b) bold with colors
    -Again see my site in a couple of weeks
c) a great photocopier
     -It’s the new thing in meditation
d) a great multitasker
e) the person who eats lunch at two because I’m oh so busy:p

ONE CANNOT THOUGH:

LIVE WITHOUT COFFEE!! THANK YOU TO MY WONDERFUL DR, DR.VILLA FOR ALLOWING COFFEE BACK INTO MY LIFE! I SWEAR I’M NOT OVERDOING IT!!!

Something’s telling me my boring life is about to change very soon and I‘d have it no other way

All for God’s glory!




It’s the weekend people, be merry!

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“I never understood the point of being sad when I could choose to be happy.”

Since I couldn’t customize my site for some foreign reason (something to do with drivers-whatever that means!) I decided to flood the blog waves of multiply if ever there was once much to Kae’s dismay.(heehee. Someone’s bored too!!) I decided to do another set of soul searching, at least as much as I could while sitting down infront of my computer, waiting for something better to do than studying visual merchandising.

I cannot for the life of me understand my fascination with everything mysterious.
Mystery equates to a challenge for me and I can’t fathom it any longer!

If you’ve read Sloppy Firsts, which the title of this entry was taken from, you have probably come across this quote:

“It’s so easy to convince yourself that you’re in love with someone when you don’t know anything about them”



It’s probably the weakness of the daydreamer in me because I always assume that the grass is greener on the other side. Daydreams are always more enticing to me because of course in those daydreams, nothing’s lost. Everything fits in perfectly and there are just those moments wherein you couldn’t help but sigh because when you finally meet the real person behind the pretense of a daydream, you get disappointed because your daydream’s nothing like the reality of a situation or of a person.

In a way, I guess that’s very depressing but then again you can always flip the situation around and try to find something good in every situation.

Yes, there would be times wherein our dreams would definitely be better than reality. Heck, that happens almost every day but what if there would come that rare moment wherein our daydreams won’t even be close to the magnificent reality that is yet to come?

Like those little disappointments brought about by certain circumstances (and for me, greater expectations) are nothing compared to the grandeur moments that got caught in traffic, which is why it’s taking away to take place in our lives.

During times wherein you feel like crap and you’ve lost all hope, it’s interesting to think this way.

It’s always always better to think that there’s something happen and everyday cannot be crappy.

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Lies that parents tell thier children

  1) Habang hinihintay ang isang mall sa Pasig magopen,walang tigil na tinatanong ng dalawang batang babae ang kanilang mom kung bakit hindi pa open ang mall, eh nakatayo na ang guard sa loob.
      Ang sagot ng mommy, “Eh kasi nagppray pa sila”. Well, tama siya doon, kaya lang tinanong ng anak na babae 1 kung ano ang pinipray nila. Ang sagot: “Angel of God”
    Ay naku mader, tama ba iyan, matutulog ba ulit bago mag bukas ang mall?

2) Pag di mapakali ang bata o umiiyak ang favorite line ng mga pinoy ay:
     “Sige ka, pag hindi ka tumahimik, kukunin ka ng:
      A) Guard
      B)Mamang Pulis
      C) Basta Mama period

    Kaya tuloy lahat ng “mama” masama. Walang kaalamalam ang “Mamang Guard” sa Jollibee na siya na ang Public Enemy One dahil lang katabi siya ni Jollibee.

3) Para yumaman, ang best profession ay:
   A) Maging  Sex Bomb Dancer
   B) Sumali sa lahat ng Search… Search for a Star, Search for the next Star… Basta pag may nakalagay na search o quest okay na.

4) Pag uminom ka ng “CUK” di ka na tatangkad. Pag di ka natulog sa hapon di ka lalakas tulad ni Lastikman (???)

at ang favorite kong “lie”…

5) Ang tunay na ligaya sa buhay ay makikita sa kaloban ng tao at hindi sa labas na kaanyoan. Ang favorite superhero ng bayan ngayon at basic example ng theory nila na eto si:

KOKEY.

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“May boyfriend ka na baabaa??!!!” (followed by a booming sound to emphasize THE QUESTION)

That question is the is the dreaded question that I have avoided like plague when I was in high school. I’d often find ways to sugarcoat my answer as to not sound pathetic. Eveyone knows that being single in high school can be denoted as kiss of popularity death, a sign that you’re either:

A) Too Hideous
B) You’ve got impossible standards (somehow this sounds better than the first)

As I moved on to college, the rules changed and questions switched to, “Are you seeing/dating/hooking up with someone right now?”. Sugarcoating answers to those questions became trickier and in my freshman year, I’ve learned the art of saying, “No Comment”.

Soon after all the denying and sugarcoating, I finally found myself asking why am I afraid to say the
huge S word? What was wrong with it?

Culture dictates that boy-girl relationships are normal and the way of life.I respect that, it’s the way we’re built.But suddenly our generation’s too focused on it and it’s never believable to sayt that you’re single and having fun.

That translates to saying that you’re on the lookout for a new guy.

It’s never denoted as a girl being satisfied with being alone.

Just because one’s alone doesn’t mean they have to be lonely. We have our friends, we have our family and most importantly, we have our relationship with our Lord. Those should be enough to fill us with enough love to last a life time.

Just think of it this way, instead of focusing our attention on just one person, we are able to share that kind of love with million others. And you recieve more in return. Which is fulfilling and hardly heart wrenching.

That love would come… for me at least. So I don’t even worry about it anymore. I’ve grown out of the phase where I was too afraid to admit the fact that I was single.

So these days when people come up to me and happen to ask the dreaded question, I tell them with a big grin that “YES, I’M SINGLE!” in a heart beat.

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Challenging?

There’s something about being mysterious that makes something so challenging…
TELL ME WHAT YOU THINK?
does the snob thing work?

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Clumsy

Artist: Fergie
Album: The Dutchess
Title: Clumsy

Can’t help it
The girl can’t help it [repeat 3x]

First time
That I saw your eyes
Boy you looked right through me, mmmhmm
Play it cool
But I knew you knew
That cupid hit me, mmm mmm

You got me trippin, stumbling, flippin, fumbling
Clumsy cuz I’m fallin in love
You got me slippin, tumbling, sinking, fumbling
Clumsy cuz I’m fallin in love
So in love with you

Can’t help it
The girl can’t help it [repeat 3x]

Can’t breath
When you touch me, see
Butterflies so crazy, mmm mmm
Whoa now, think I’m goin down
Friends don’t know whats with me, mmm mmm



You got me trippin, stumbling, flippin, fumbling
Clumsy cuz I’m fallin in love
You got me slippin, tumbling, sinking, fumbling
Clumsy cuz I’m fallin in love
So in love with you

Can’t help it
The girl can’t help it [repeat 3x]

You know, this isn’t the first time this has happened to me
This love sick thing
I like serious relationships and a
A girl like me dont stay single for long
Cuz everytime a boyfriend and I break up
My world is crushed and I’m all alone
The love bug crawls right back up and bites me and I’m back

Can’t help it
The girl can’t help it [repeat 3x]

You got me trippin, stumbling, flippin, fumbling
Clumsy cuz I’m fallin in love
You got me slippin, tumbling, sinking, fumbling
Clumsy cuz I’m fallin in love
So in love with you

So in love with you
So in love with you


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New Life Starts Tomorrow

It’s been a month since school ended and God has been so good to my family and I!

A new chapter of my life begins tomorrow and I am so nervous (please please do include me in your prayers) but at the same time, really really excited!!!

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Just a little message:

Do you remember what the then pre rehab and coke LiLo said on Mean Girls when she played Cady Heron? Let me just refresh your memory:

“Saying someone’s ugly won’t make me prettier, saying someone’s fat won’t make me thinner and ruining someone else’s life (through false rumors perhaps?) won’t make me any happier”

I strongly believe in Karma. I would never do anything to hurt someone’s reputation.

Pedestal
Fergie

Who are you-
and what do you do
To make you think you are above me
But have you walked in my shoes
The pedestal
You put yourself on
Well since I’m breaking it down now
It’s gonna collapse and be gone-gone-gone-gone-gone

Probably one of them tag a longs down 4 the free t-shirt
Cuz you’re a hanger on
You think you got my figured out
Never met me have no clue what I’m about
Maybe I got things you wish you had
You need to stop the hate and get a pen and pad
I work around the clock, so fill your smoth up with a sock
And get you head up off your jock
Tell me who you are and what your background is
Tell me how you’re feelin’ when you listen to this

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Falling in love with UGLY BETTY right now!! It surpasses all of my favorite TV shows. Eric Mabuis is soooooooo hot! haha:)

It’s hilarious, Betty sorta reminds me of myself (ohmigad, the prom dress did it!!) and she truly has the biggest heart of any character I’ve ever fallen in love with!!!!:)

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A little appreciation here and there…




Sometimes soul searching doesn’t mean that you have to lock yourself up inside of a room and meditate for 24 hours straight. Sometimes, soul searching’s main purpose extracts you out of that comfort zone and forces you to deal with people.

When the week started, the last thing on my mind was to soul search, in fact I’ve been so busy trying to send out back up resumes (don’t ask!), loosing a couple of lbs and finishing The O.C.’s season four and The Innocent Man that I didn’t even realize that I was given rare opportunities to soul search and be satisfied with what I had with me right now.

All it took were a few conversations, fixing our garden and a basketball game.
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As we grow older, we tend to take our parents for granted, not that we want to, it’s just that our family falls off the top priority list when we start spending time out in the real world and “real” friends. We get so caught up in the moment that we fail to realize how important they are or how much they’re sacrificing for us.

I must admit, there are times that I go on my own version of brat mode and sometimes expect my parents to always be there for me and giving me the best in everything. What I failed to realize is the fact that in giving me everything, they sometimes forego themselves; some are little sacrifices while some are humongous ones but they hardly make a big deal out of it, like some of us would (*coughguiltycough*).

It didn’t take a major sacrifice for me to appreciate them even more this week (Araneta ain’t near and there’s no underestimating hard to find parking over there at the height of the UAAP fever! It makes me scared to watch another game!!). I really appreciate my two heroes at home and I may not always be little ms. Sunshine but I will love them forever. They spoil me in their own way. I just hope I’d deserve it someday.:)

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At this very moment, I could hear the rustling of leaves and when I actually take the liberty to look out the window, I could see GREEN! HEAPS! There’s actually a garden in our new home, something that my mom have tried to avoid in my 19 years of existence! She’s never had a green thumb, but I must say things are definitely changing! So, anyway that’s beside the point. The point that I’m trying to make is the fact that there are two gardeners outside right now trying to bring things togther and I must admit, in general they don’t have an easy task on hand and I couldn’t help but feel bad. How can I ever ever complain??!

I just have so much respect for gardeners right now and those people who do those demos in the mall. I just feel like crying when I pass by one doing a demo and people ignoring or simply laughing at them. It makes me feel so bad.

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Another is interesting conversation I had this week was with kuya Albert, my favorite sanitation engineer (calling them otherwise seems off to me right now) over at Carl’s school where I wait for him every day unless there’s a UAAP game (like today). He’s so funny and he always has a huge smile ready for any of us. It makes me feel bad to even use the bathroom. Anyway, while I was having coffee (don’t tell my dad) the other day, I got to talk to him because well, technically students, or ex-students aren’t allowed after 3 but I have my ways. Anyway, it surprised me to learn that he had a lot of problems! It was so moving because if you saw him everyday, you really wouldn’t notice that anything was wrong!

Again, they go up on the ladder of people that you JUST HAVE TO RESPECT. Why models or actors? They just smile. These people pick up your dirt!

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I guess the main point of this entry is to inspire you guys today. There’s always something to be thankful for.

Always.
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GO ATENEO!!!

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The absurdity of my being

There’s one secret I’d like to share with you today and it’s this: I ABSOLUTELY LOVE DAYDREAMING! There’s nothing that excites me more than long car trips, preferably those taken before the crack of dawn and my ipod’s earphones fit snuggly into my ears. These rare moments give me the opportunity to be swept away into my dreamland and think of thoughts that are way too unrealistic even for someone who’s been entering the said landia eversince she was six. It does have its benefits; for one thing, it allows me to avoid temper flare ups. Those are my peter pan think happy thoughts moments. It also led me to discover my passion for writing at an early age, which led me to this blog. Although, make believe is truly more exciting than the daily ramblings that I post on this site. Good thing that THE SECRET has shed a very positive light on make believe because sometimes my crazy obsession with my very own version of fairy tale landia is too far fetched and makes me wonder if I have still have some sanity left in me! But in general, I truly don’t see anything wrong with it. It does make me smile in the middle of a hectic, almost unbearable day and makes you hopeful to face a new day before you sleep at night. The creation of my very own landia is often denoted as silly and childish, which is why I hardly share it with others. But without such dreams and without a place to escape every once in awhile, what would the world become? Dark, grudgy. Everything becomes routine and old. Nothing’s exciting anymore.

For me, it creates a sensation of freedom because in my magical world there are no restrictions and limitations, just blind faith.

Faith for things to come and a great leap into the world where anything’s possible and where time is simply an element.

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Was able to watch the UST-ADMU game live yesterday!! I still have goosebumps from the crowd’s energy! It was such an EXPERIENCE. The PBA pales in comparison! Great great game!!! If that wasn’t school spirit then I don’t know what is!

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CURRENTLY READING:
The Innocent Man by John Grisham
CURRENTLY LISTENING TO:
Nelly Furtado’s Loose and still itching to get my hands on Sean Kingston’s album!
CURRENTLY ADDICTED TO:
Coke light, my Lola’s Russian Salad, Shia Labeouf, Hayden Panettiere (gorgeous!!), Chips Ahoy Soft Baked Cookies, UAAP and the Phil Star’s SUPREME section
CURRENTLY WATCHING:
The OC season four!
SONGS STUCK IN MY HEAD:
Rihanna and Ne-yo’s new song; Is the title I hate that I love you?
Jojo’s version of Beautiful Girls
Clumsy by Fergie
Tounge Tied Favordrive
Songs from HairsprayJ
SONGS BY PARAMORE;)

My mind’s being singing a lot latelyJ

CURRENT MOODS:
Happy, Loved, Blessed, Excited.

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Different Moods on a Monday Morning

*INSPIRED
-I just finished reading The Secret by Rhonda Byrne and in as much as I would like to share with you all of the quotes that helped in changing my mindset, I couldn’t primarily because that would be plagiarizing the author’s work and reading it straight out of the book authenticates the whole process of unlocking The Secret.
Kidding aside, the book is so powerful that it would go ahead and consume you in a positive way. It would literally consume you, that is if you know how to use the power well enough.
Out of all the quotes that make the book memorable, this is one that I’d like to share with you an I hope this inspires you today, “You deserve to be happy. You were born to add something, to add value to this world. To simply be something, to be bigger and better than you were yesterday. No one else can dance your dance, no one else can sing your song, no one else can write your story. So seize the moment! Who you are, what you do, begins now!” –Lisa Nichols

*ECSTATIC
While writing this, I am watching the 59th Primetime Emmy awards and it is just HILARIOUS! I’ve been laughing since the show started. Ryan Seacrest is gooood. What else could be better than having all the guys that I love from TV landia together in one venue? H-O-T.

*GRATEFUL
God’s been slowly changing my life and the lives of the people that I love for the better and I am at awe at how truly wonderful He is. He has also led the way for me to draw closer to Him by using instruments to direct me to His way. God is good and that makes me look forward with renewed hope for the future. Things could only get better, that I am assured of.

Have a great week everyone and I am slowly getting my groove back in terms of my blogging! J

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Nostalgic and Speechless (as close to being speechless as I’d ever get!)

“There are better things ahead than any you leave behind!” –CS Lewis

“In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned in life: It Goes ON” –Robert Frost

“I had to face a lot of things that I have avoided and because of that, I grew up. I realized that was a choice, the people I was with, what I was doing with my life, everything in the world was an open book. Nothing was the same after that!” –Shawn Calvin

I’m in denial. I am living in denial and have been living in it ever since I turned in my last and final exam last Tuesday. I have been sucked into its deception and that’s the reason why I haven’t written about my farewell to the academe world in the past days that I’ve been freed from it.

Don’t get me wrong, I am more than blessed and more ecstatic than ever now that I am done. It’s great to have a break, but I must admit, my body hasn’t been able to adjust to this kind of life just yet.

I have still been getting up at 5:30 in the morning every single day and have turned to my trusty planner out of the fear that I wouldn’t be able to celebrate my brother’s birthday last weekend and watch the epic ateneo-dlsu game. But that was pointless because nothing has occupied my time except for the oc, harry potter 7 and bones.

I should really be relishing the next two weeks because I would start working soon but somehow my body is searching for something hectic, something to do. Or maybe my body is doing so because a part of me doesn’t want to admit the fact that I am done with school. And when the time comes when I’d be taking up my Master’s Degree, I know it won’t be the same. A couple of hours every week would never add up to the number of hours I spent with SFC.

But as I post this entry, I don’t think I’m still living in denial. In fact, I think I have already gotten over the nostalgia and just looking forward to the wonderful things ahead.

For the first time in years, I am at a loss for words which is why I hope the other entry that I post would justify the years I spent in college.

God is truly good.

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