where did April go??

man. this month went by a breeze. each weekend i'd be trippin and asking my cousin, where did my week go? time rolls by so fast, it's not even funny. it literally feels like i just turned 22 yesterday and then i realize it's may on monday -- ALREADY!

i guess it's a good thing though, cuz that means summer is just around the corner. yay! i could finally wear lighter (material-wise) clothing and flip-flops. i'm really excited about the flip-flop mania. i already started to buy the roxy rafia ones. roxy has some pretty neat summer collection i'd like to get my hands on. and next week, i'm buying sandals from payless. i hope their BOGO (buy one get one 1/2 off) is still in effect. cuz i want to get this and that. those two pairs are all i want for summer and maybe some more everyday flip-flops that i could wear with my jeans and crops.

oh summer of fling.. i love summer. i'm planning to go on an adventure to the beaches. yes. santa monica and newport beach are 2 of the main beaches i want to go to by bus. yes, by bus, yo!! mac gave me that idea.. i've never been to a beach by bus. and considering how far apart beaches are over here.. it could get interesting. i want to take the "laguna beach" tour and "the OC" tour. mac went to the places the OC usually shoots their series. aww. i want to do that! i'm dragging kristina with me and mac.

speaking of kristina, i'm sleeping over at her place tomorrow. it's her post birthday celebration. i insisted on having a slumber party.. hell yess! i figured, we're getting old, so, we might as well celebrate like teeny-boppers while we could still get away with it. haha. it's going to be fun. i'm making arabic food for tomorrow's dinner.. i just found out that she likes arabic food. dude! those kinds of food cost a lot of money if you don't make it yourself. the garlic paste costs like 8 bucks for a small tub when you could buy it for 10 dirhams in abu dhabi. not only that, indian food is expensive too. i found this vegetarian place around diamond bar last month and i bought a PIECE of paratha for $1. crazeeee-ass jippers. indian food is supposed to be cheap. i remember orderring chai and paratha for 1 dirham and 50 fils.

gah, anyways, i'm so bored! can't you tell? i'm babbling again. i'm sleepy but i don't feel like sleeping. i really should though, i have 2 classes of catechism to go to tomorrow. i'm still debating if i should just let my cousin go by herself so i could sleep in. i'm not really needed anyway since the teens were already confirmed last week, we don't need to teach them anything anymore. our work is dunzo! we just need to ask them if they want to be more active in our parish (y'know, serve and lector and stuff).

eeney ..meeney ..miney.. moe ..catch a tiger ..by it's toe ..if it hollers ..let it go
..eeneey
..meeney
..miney
..moe!

ahhh. i guess, i'll go. i just have to pack and just stuff everything in one bag for the slumber party. wheeeee. hahaha.

good nite.

april showers are the best..

happy birfday!!

niggah.. you is old.

i love you girl! i wish you all the happiness for the coming days and there after cuz you deserve it.

happy 21st birthday.. you'd be legal to drink if you were here (though, i know youv'e been legal there for 3 years now) LOL. i could picture us in vegas for a night of sin. hell yeah!! i'd buy you kamikazee and apple martinis all night just so we could get wasted together and get our first tattoos done. haha. i wish.

i know it's already the next day there but technically it's only friday night here, so, it's still your birthday!

YELLOWCARD: On Tour Forever

kristina and i went to see yellowcard in concert at the cal poly gym last night. this band called over it openned for them and another band called mae.

i loved over it! kristina knew them from when she saw rufio in concert. i guess, they openned for them too. anyways, i bought over it's album: silverstrand. i got pete (vocals, guitar) to sign it and i took a picture with nick (lead guitar, vocals). dude!! nick is waaayy hott. i was screaming for him the whole time. check him out on myspace!!

pete and kristina

(too bad pete's married, they could've been a cute couple LOL)

i was supposed to have a picture with him but i guess kristina didn't know how to work my cell phone. so yeah. it didn't happen and all the rest of the picture needs to be developed since i wasn't able to bring my digicam and kristina was afraid somebody might jack hers. aww. how fun!

so yeah, after the concert, we went to tony (our friend)'s house to give him the cookie i baked him for his birthday and the flip cartoon book and "weirdo" badge kristina got him.

oh yeah, i was able to record some of the songs from the concert but we were so near the stage (hence the speaker in front of us) made my recordings sound really crappy.

yellowcard :: empty apartment

a song performed by mae

Cookies.. anyone?

Neiman Marcus Cookies, the $250 recipe

2 cups of butter

24 oz. chocolate chips

4 cups of flour

2 cups of brown sugar

2 tsp. baking soda

18 oz. hershey bar (grated)

5 cups blended oatmeal

4 eggs

2 tsp. baking powder

2 tsp. vanilla

3 cups chopped nuts (your choice)

Measure oatmeal and blend in a blender to a fine powder. Cream the butter and both sugars. Add eggs and vanilla, mix together with flour, oatmeal, salt, baking powder and baking soda. Add chocolate chips, hershey bar and nuts. Roll into balls and place 2 inches apart on a cookie sheet.

Bake for 10 minutes at 375 degrees. Makes 112 cookies.

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who cares if it's a hoax.. the cookies are too damn good!

hello all you happ y people

i attended easter vigil this afternoon. it was an amazing 3 hour celebration in the presence of the Holy Trinity. simply amazing.

oh yeah.. and by the way, i had my first burger in 40 days. i did it! haha. it wasn't all that exciting though. i got a bacon and cheese ciabatta burger with curly fries and rootbeer at jack in a crack. it was aiiight. i'm not too excited about meat anymore. this is a beginning of a new chapter. maybe? i could be vegetarian now.. that i know for sure. but i won't give up meat.. i gained so much weight eating instead. so, on monday, it's official, i'm going on a diet.

but yeah, the point is, i feel stronger (y'know?). i just proved to myself i could decipline myself if i set my mind to it. with His help ofcourse. at first, it seemed impossible not to eat meat cuz (hello??) that's all i eat: meat & vegetables. veggies can be very bland without meat. dude. if you only know how many times i thought of cheating and just eff it y'know.. but yeah.. i survived it. it wasn't so bad afterall.

Happy Easter!

update update update update update

hello world!

yes, indeed, i am still alive, very much so. mwahaha. just been busy and tired, so i spend most of my afternoons washing laundry, walking the dogs or sleeping or no, scratch that, or at church. i hardly ever get sleep. well, it's better than bumming around, right??

anyways, i'm going to do random updates today, since it's really hard for me to gather up my thoughts these days. i want to update everyday, but time and people who are addicted to world of warcraft and rakion does not permit me to do so. *curse those gaming inventors* haha. kidding!

nothing much going on (really). i just try to keep myself busy so i don't feel all emo and start to hate on the world (seriously). other than that, i'm okay. i work in the morning and sometimes i spend most of my time with kristina.

these days flavored green tea keeps me sane in the morning. it keeps me awake and prevents me from biting someone's head off.

sometimes, i do get bored at work, so i find ways to entertain myself. i'd either listen to music with my shuffle, read a book (when i could concentrate enough with all the racket going on in the mall) or take pictures. haha. the last choice is pretty sad cuz i work alone most of the time in the morning, so, i have to set my mobile on timer. bwahaha...

that's my giant cherry flavored iceeeee.. pretty gnarly huh?!

okay, so, for the more serious update, i went to attend my first XLT experience. i'm not sure what X really meant cuz everyone kept saying "no it's extreme.. no, it's extraordinary". whatev. so, basically, it's X Life Teen.

on the way to the OC to attend the XLT at the St. Clare Hall. *aviator twins for the day!*

it was pretty cool. i loved the rocking jam sessions! by the end of the night, we met matt maher (last name pronounced as: myer) cuz he sat at the very back row to hide from the crowd. BUT he couldn't hide from us. *evillaugh* we took a group pic with him.

gosh. i'm so inlove with his voice, very inspiring.

after the XLT event, i was set to sleep over at kristina's so we could go to church togethter at the break of dawn. lietrally! so i could help her set up for the charity walk. but, i changed my mind last minute cuz i really felt like i should start prepping atleast the veggies for my BBQ party the next day. i did show up for the walk and it turned out okay..

we were bored when the thing ended, so we went to the ambulance on stand-by and bugged the paramedics. look! they even let us take pictures inside the ambulance.

later that afternoon, i EMed (eucharistic ministry) at church and we proceeded to go to my house for my barbeque party (yes, i celebrated my birfday 7 days after - cuz i was broke on my birfday).

paul, me & joy, kristina & stefani and joe mama

check out kristina's long-ass tongue..

compared to mine!

me, mac & kristina

it's fun to karaoke after beer. mwahaha. we were singing uptown girl. hell yes!

in other news, i brought my pup to the animal hospital for his second shots appointment. meng! he's gained 5 pounds in almost 3 weeks.

darell & kronk

on the way back, we found a shopping cart and put him in there but he eventually jumped out.

look! he got a plushie-squeeky toy for being a good doggie.

what a brat. he tried to run away with his bone! haha. his leash slipped out of my hands - scary!

you know what else? i haven't given him a bath for 3 weeks. he's a big stinker! my cousin told me that she used up all the flea medication on him. so, he can't take a bath for another month cuz it wasn't water-proof. *pooey* i asked the doctor (who by the way is indian - so, i just had to say kaysahe) how the flea medication works. he explained to me that the puppy is supposed to get a bath once every 2 weeks, just as long as we let the flea medication sit for 2 days to let the medicine settle in his skin.

so, needless to say, i gave him a bath today (with the help of my sissy). i wanted to walk him today but he wasn't in the mood. we literally walked 10 steps away from the house and he layed down in the middle of the street to sleep. haha. i'm not even kidding. it was the side effect from his shots yesterday. the doctor said he will tend to get sleepy and his face might swell. luckily, it didn't swell or anything or i'd have to bring him back to the hospital.

woof? what's that contraption blowing behind my ear?

kronk is my latest love interest and right now, he's clean as a whistle. *sniff!*

~Le Fin~