Long weekend update

it's been awesome.. except for the fact that my mom left for abu dhabi, hence, we're orphans again. not necissarily, i was involuntarily appointed the "mom". *poopoo*

so, yeah, i had fun though. we spent the whole day at the beach and mac-mac came with his friend terri. it's funny. when i was teaching mac how to make s'mores, he wasn't really paying attention. so we were roasting marshmallow and i quickly made my sandwich. i asked him..

dei : so, how was it?
mac : hold on, i'm still eating the marshmallow..
dei : huh? what did you do?
mac : i'm eating it piece by piece.
dei : what?! that's not s'mores anymore! that's eating chocolate, graham crackers & roasted marshmallow consecutively.

TOINK!!

on sunday, i took my siblings (- dj) to the movies and watched X3. hugh jackman is hotter than ever and ben foster should've had more scenes in that movie *rawr*. it was good, but i agree with jane, that was a bit of a letdown. they changed some of the stories and not enough characters were on there. i refuse to believe that this is the last movie they're making!

anyways, enough of X3, yesterday, kristina and i went to hike up that park near the enchanted forest (aka haunted forest) in pasadena. we hiked for over an hour (back & forth) and chilled for a bit at the water falls; thinking we should've brought food with us. i loved how it had so much big (smooth) boulders of rocks that i could take pictures with.

it felt like i went hiking for nothing when i saw how small the water falls was.. haha

can you tell? we went to hawaii for 2 seconds

oh.. help.. i'm.. i'm.. erm.. falling?

HELP ME!! I'M DYING.. from laughter! LMAO

YAY for long weekends

our saturday was spent at huntington beach. we had bonfire, roasted marshmallows and made s'mores. fun.

Maybe being vegetarian isn't so bad afterall, huh?

ate: what are you, a vegetarian now or something?
me: not really, i just happen to like tofu..
ate: how come i haven't seen you eat meat lately then?
me: well, i think i'm doomed to not eat meat anymore..
ate: huh?
me: i ate the sinigang (pork spare ribs) my mom made yesterday and i'm constipated until now.
ate: oh. that's cuz you haven't eaten meat for so long and you ate pork. you can't do pork.
me: that's why i'm frying tofu to go with my salad.

that conversation with my cousin happened 2 days ago while i was rushing to whip lunch to bring to work.

so, i'm thinking.. i think, i'm on a crossroad now. one way: going (pesco) vegetarian and the other: slowly going back to eating meat regularly. i thought about it. and i think i'm giving up meat. i'm not really into it anyway. i'll eat chicken ocassionally, maybe.

anyways, my mom's going back to abu dhabi on sunday. i will miss her so much. man. she's so funny.. this morning, before i left for work, she asked me, "bakit naka tsinelas ka lang papuntang trabaho?" i laughed and said, "meron naman akong shoes sa work" then she says, "kahit na, aalis ka parin ng bahay ng naka tsinelas." then, i'm all like, "mommy, yan ang official shoes ng california.. lahat ng tao yan ang suot lalo na pag summer.. yung iba nga kahit winter pa. at isa pa, hindi yan tsinelas, flip-flops yan.. roxy flip-flops" then my mom says, "ang weirdo nyo.. tsinelas parin yan."

LMAO!! like i said, i'm going to miss her so much.

Mmm.. refreshing rain

(on seeing the hedge the first time)

What should we call it?I know! Let's name it Steve.

Why Steve? It's a pretty name.

over the hedge is hilarious. hammy's my heroe! i took my sister to see it yesterday. haha. and without a doubt we were the loudest ones to laugh. it's really funny. and i like how cool avril lavigne's voice was. it went from canadian accent to southern cali vally-girlish rocker kinda accent. she's like, "i can't believe you did that, we like worked our tails off to you know.. and you're like whatever about it".

man. there's so much movies to look forward to. i wanted to watch da vinci code at the chinese theatre in hollywood. but it's a good thing i didn't. my cousin said it's a flop and my brother who went to see it said the movie was too long and there were protestors at the theatre. i can't blame those people though, dan brown picked on a very sensitive topic and to top it all off.. what he claims to be facts are really fiction. i read it just for the hey of it. i liked it, i'm not going to lie, i did. but i strongly believed that the story itself is fiction, that it was a lot of bull. the places may be real but the whole thing about the bloodline was and never is proven. it's really poorly researched, that's all i could say. he didn't even make a research of his own. he just based it on other books that he believed were true.

i want to see how louvre looks like though and the other places.. so, i'll wait for the dvd so i could rent it.

anyways, i'm sooo looking forward to seing these:

• pirates of the caribbean: dead man's chest
• x-men: the last stand
• the break-up
• superman returns
• nacho libre (this reminds me of mucha lucha!)
• the devil wears prada

i don't know how i'm going to manage to see all of those movies at the theatre when it's $10 for 1 ticket. even the matinee price is still expensive ($7.50), considering my siblings always tags along and wants me to libre them.

anyways, california, has without a doubt the craziest weather i have ever encountered. i thought it was already "hello, beautiful sunny hot summer; good bye, dreary ol' winter". i even put my winter clothing in a suitcase away in the garage. so, guess what? IT FREAKING RAINED TODAY. i don't understand how this is possible when it was extremely hot the whole week. crazy-ass weather! haha. but in retrospect, kristina was right: "isn't california beautiful? this is the only place where you could go snowboarding in the morning and then be able to go to the beach in the afternoon". so true!!

so, since i don't work today, i made a list of things i've been neglecting and should start to work on.

today, i will make it a point to accomplish the list:

[_] do my nails: mani+pedi
[x] clean my room
[x] clean the bathroom and wash rugs
[_] do my laundry
[x] start reading the book i thought i lost (devil wears prada)
[_] walk my puppy (with danna) to the park
[_] pilates (i really really need to start on this again)
[x] reset and add new songs to "coco" (my shuffle)
[x] go grocery shopping to buy more veggies (with mom)
[x] make food to bring to work (to avoid cookie-binge)

whew. haha. that's a long list for one day considering i already wasted my time in the morning watching tv and surfing the web. come to think of it, it's already 1:25 pm. *psh* i can do this! if i get off the internet now.

Just the perfect day to go on a date at the beach

Yes, she he caught my eye, As I walked on by. She could see from my face that I was,Fucking high,And I don't think that I'll see her him again, But we shared a moment that will last till the end. You're beautiful, you're beautiful. You're beautiful, it's true. I saw your face in a crowded place, And I don't know what to do,'Cause I'll never be with you..

yes, it's james blunt's very own you're beautiful. and i'm reffering that quote to the guy i saw at tucker's tires. man. that place is infested with hott boys *gawk*. My mom's van needed a tire change (all 4) cuz it's old and one of them is really busted (it looked like somebody peeled it like an orange). anyways, this guy who changed my mom's tires was looking at me like he was going to say something. i thought he was going to say something about the tires, so i looked at him and waited for him to say something. but he didn't! he smiled at me. he was probably thinking the same thing i was and was waiting for me to say something. so, i smiled back. haha. that was embarassing. BUT we shared a moment that will last till the end. bwahahahaha! i swear.. the song just played in my head out of nowhere. ha. that was too funny. i just had to share.

anyways, i'm off from work today, which is lovely cuz i'm beginning to get sick of the mall (i never thought i'd come to admit that but it's true). i seldom get a day off in the middle of the week, so i really like this day. it's sunny, breezy, just perfect.

but yeah, nothing's been goin on really. the plan that i made with mac for sunday didn't push through. cuz one, my phone got disconnected. and two, i had to buy 2 mother's day present on saturday. one for my aunt and one for my mother. and i kinda spent my money on the luau we went to in chino hills. then, i went to the movies with hazelle and jenny (and hazelle's husband and her cousin too). we went to see MI3. it was aiiight, i like the first one still, but i gots to give it props cuz it's a pretty good movie for a sequel. hollywood usually sucks the 3rd time around (contrary to the quote 3rd time's a charm).

you know what? it's weird but i'm feeling kind of excited, like there's so much to look forward to. it's ironic cuz lately i've been feeling depressed but i'm just blah about it. i like to ignore it cuz i don't like the idea of my life going to waste playing in my head. so, it's kind of supressed.. floating around in the back of my head. i never pay attention to it. but yeah, it just seems that i'm having a good day today. which is good. i love feeling like this. i hope i'm not jinxing my day. cuz with my luck, everything turns around when i start to notice good things happening. i don't know why, it just does.

so yeah, the perfect weather calls for a chill time at the beach. i really want to learn how to surf. i've two things lacking though. 1.) i have no surf board or know anyone i could borrow from 2.) i don't know anyone who knows how to surf.

or maybe i do, hazelle's cousin (his name is bryan) knows how to surf, but i barely know him. i don't know, maybe, i'll try to ask him if he goes to the beach with us one day. maybe.

Easy like Sunday morning..

only it's saturaday today. i'm finally just at home bumming around (i had a good 11 hour sleep). i needed that. i literally feel like i'm renewed, somehow.

so, today, i took off from teaching my RCIA class. i figured my cousin wouldn't need me to TA for him since it's like the 2nd to the last class anyway.

i haven't been up to anything interesting lately. except for the fact that i discovered falafel mix last week. and where to buy digestive biscuits. there's this arabic deli store right by the 99 cents store we go to.

my sorry looking falafels. haha.

now that i know where to get ingredients for my arabic food craving days; i gots to learn how to cook it properly. haha. half of these falafels were crisp to the core. it's only supposed to be crisp outside. aparently, these little babies are big in new york. i didn't even know america would know about falafel. weird.

oh man, i think my brain's still half asleep. last night, i thought of lots of things to blog about.. but now it seems like i can't get my head of off the thought of making more falafel. sad.

anyways, i got to get off of this chair and start cooking. i promised i was going to make lunch to bring to my aunt's house. i'm making spaghetti and chicken (marinated in oyster sauce).

i do need to get going cuz i need to be done before 12. cuz by 12, hazelle and jenny are picking me up to go mother's day shopping.

oh, oh and on sunday, since my mom is not going to be here for mother's day, i'm planning to go to santee again. with mac-mac and my brother darell. mac has never been there and brother needs to buy pasalubong for when my mom goes back to abu dhabi. i think he's buying accessories for his girl friends and he wants me to pick 'em for him. isn't that cute? haha. after the little shopping spree.. we're planning to go to hollywood at the mann's chinese theatre to watch an american haunting. i haven't spoken to mac though, cuz my phone got cut off yesterday. so we'll see if the plan pushes through.

oh yeah, was it last night, or no, it was the other night. i caught a cirque-a-thon on bravo channel. i just watched one full (2hourshour) show of cirque du soleil's la nouba. and just the beginning of the second show dralion. cuz it was getting late and i had work the next day. man. i've been wanting to watch cirque du soleil perform since high school. i remember, they'd always come for DSF. i remember wanting to go for the varekai performance but i knew it was going to cost me an arm and a leg, so, i never even inquired.

so, finally, after watching it on tv.. i tried to check how much tickets would cost. they have different shows for different hotels. the one that i want to watch is "O" performed at the bellagio and it costs 200+. damn! the cheapest one would be at the treasure island and it's at the very back row which is $145. still expensive! i hate that. well, if it was just me, i could afford to buy ONE damn ticket. but i don't want to watch it all by myself. and i'm sure darell and danna would love to watch it too.. cuz they enjoyed the show on tv. *sigh*

This shit's crazy, yo!!

--> insert big loud complaints here that were deleted due to internet malfuntion <--

dude. i think, i had like 3 paragraphs typed and *poof* it just disappeared. i guess, God doesn't want me whining right now.

well, i guess, i won't blog about the frustrating week and just babble about the random things i did the past few days.

last sunday, kristina and i went to hustle at the alleys of LA. santee alley that is! the famous fashion district of los angeles. where you could find clothes and ten million other stuff to buy. sadly. we walked out of there empty handed. yeah, i know, it's very unlikely. well, it was mostly because i wanted to buy a summer dress i could wear to church when i serve for the confirmation mass (on saturday: tomorrow). i found lots of other stuff to buy but i was containing myself. i was thinking, if i don't control myself, i'd end up buying bullshit and not have enough money for a dress when i find one. *sigh* we never found one. either all the sizes are gone (and we're left with XS--like hello?) or we're left with ugly colors.

we ended up cooling down at starbucks. we wanted to eat at the international food place but every friggin restaurant was closed that day. i think, it had a lot to do with the protest they had the next day (that whole immigration reform or whatever shananagan).

the good news is, i found something to wear from my closet last night. i knew i could find something in there that i could mix and match. i just wanted to see what else i could buy from the fashion district. so, i found this skirt that i bought almost 2 years ago (and i had only worn it once). i found a top that i had just bought and matched it with the white cardigan my mom sent me a year ago (which i never wore). sounds scary huh? i'm whipping up stuff that i don't normally wear. hah. see, that's because i save certain clothes for special occassions. you don't see me wearing a skirt or a dress to look cute with everyday. i don't do dresses. i'm more of a flip-flop wearing, cropped pants and a comfy layered shirt type of girl.

anyways, i finally had a haircut (2 days ago, i think). i haven't had one, in like forever. i kid you not, the last time i had my hair cut was july of last summer. can you imagine how much split ends my hair had? that's what really got to me, the nasty split ends. i was playing with my hair while i was watching yo mama. it was hideous when i thouroughly checked my it.. i think every strand had double or triple split ends. i'm not even exaggerating!

hhhmm.. oh and yesterday, kristina brought me to this arabic deli place. ah. simply delightful. they had most of the stuff i need for my arabic food craving days. i bought a falafel mix *yum* and stuff to make cheese khobez. i also found digestive biscuits on my way out.. now if only they carry glucose too. that should go well with my afternoon chai latte.

Friendster Flowers is pissing the heck out of me!!!

the nerve on those people! i swear, they ruined my day. what kind of establishment says "sorry, you have to buy another set of flowers to be delivered". basically telling me: we're just apologizing cuz it's polite and we don't care if you got assed out.

that got me boiling mad this afternoon. as much as i hate being a bitch to anyone.. i couldn't stop myself from telling them off. damn. if they're not going to do anything about it, i want my money back. freaken irritating me so bad! just because they already got the money out of my account doesn't mean they can disregard me. their fucken messing with the wrong person.

aaaaarrrgh!