About A Girl

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i am thoroughly amazed. i was at the mall this afternoon to watch a movie with my sister. she was still on her way so i decided to pay for her ticket first. so there i was, buying ticket for two. a hundred and thirty pesos each. after that, i went to buy some food. well… like i always say, a good movie deserves a bucket of popcorn. besides, i’m used to having popcorn and soda whenever i’m watching a movie. so i went and ordered. isang small na cheese. isang taquitos (my favorite! ^_^). isang sprite, large. isang coke, large. tska isang nachos. then i was asked, maliit o malaki? to which i replied, sige yung malaki na. so she punched my order away and to my… hmmm i don’t know what’s the more appropriate word… dismay or surprise… the screen posted my bill. two hundred and three pesos. fifty-seven pesos short of what i had paid for the movie! and then i wondered, if a guy always pays for a date, how does he even survive? hahahahah! i mean, you know how some guys offer to pay for everything (waaaah! nangyayari pa ba to?! hahaha!). it’s crazy! it’s crazy how expensive watching a movie could be. or even how taking someone out to dinner could be. hahaha! like that’s my problem. anyhow, it just suddenly came to me. buti na lang girl ako! hahahaha!

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about the hangover. you know that movie ‘dude, where’s my car?’ that’s actually the movie that came into my mind when i first heard of the hangover. well, i got to watch hangover this afternoon and i’d say it’s a million times over better than that. well maybe that’s an exaggeration but let’s just leave things at that.

what did i love about the movie? well, the movie basically was about four people who went to vegas to have a good time, screwed up the whole night and woke up not remembering anything at all the day after. the plot was definitely not new but the movie was soooo silly and funny i just couldn’t help but love it. it’s like you know what’s gonna happen but still laugh at it anyway. i don’t know. to me, it was funny. and i loved the soundtrack! i loved the soundtrack so much i had to look for it. i’m glad i watched it. and it was more fun because i watched it with someone.

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i was talking with a friend of mine just a while back. well… he’s one of those who left the country to work some place else. apparently, he’s climbing one of those corporate ladders. and he was like saying he has to make his move now if he wants to get somewhere. and i was like, dude, you’re still young. and he was telling me… e parang nabibilisan ako. and i was like exactly! what’s with the hurry, right? then i went on to realize that maybe i was taking so much of my time. i mean, i don’t really know. am i doing everything that i’m supposed to do? am i supposed to like work on being financially free already? and whenever i think about it, i just realize more and more that no matter how bad this may sound… i love to work. i do. i really really do. it’s like having a sense of purpose or something. like you have a reason to wake up in the morning. you have something to look forward to at least. i mean not that those who are financially free do not have anything to look forward to but what i want to say is… maybe i want to still run round and round the vicious rat race. i want to take my time. enjoy. relax a bit. i mean that’s the pace i have. is it so wrong to take my time? what if the things i want are smaller? (hahaha! as unbelievable that may be.) i know i’m not making much sense. i usually don’t. hahaha! so there. let’s just end this.

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well… tomorrow is another monday. have to go to work. i’m hoping to see blessa and reigna tomorrow. too bad jobert won’t be there. i sooooo miss him already. anyway, good night dear void.

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malapit na.. malapit na malapit na talaga!

malapit na kong maniwala na swerte ako sa mga taong gustong mag-abroad. lahat na ata ng taong nagiging malapit sakin, biglang hinihila ng kung ano mang cosmic energy paalis ng Pilipinas. mga leche kayo!

dahil ba sinasabi kong ayokong umalis kaya lahat ng swerte na dapat na sakin e napupunta sa iba?! at eto pa ang bonggang-bonggang nakakaloka jan, kung sino pa yung malalapit sakin, yun pa ang umaalis! pambihira!

siguro pwede ko nang sabihin na kumakapal na yung balat ko para sa ganitong mga okasyon. anong okasyon? yung pag may magsasabi sayo na, “malapit na kong umalis.. pero di pa sure yun..” pudpud na pudpod na yung linyang yun at binging-bingi na ko. di pa sure yun? pero malapit na? anlabo. anu’t ano pa aalis at aalis din kayo! (yesss…. may galit!)

tangina. nagagalit nga ba ko? minsan gusto kong isipin yun… na nagagalit ako. kasi ba naman ako ang naiiwan. e di syempre pakiramdam ko, iniiwanan ako. ano ba namang kagaguhan yun db?! di mo rin naman ako masisisi di ba? pero hindi rin kita masisisi. kung aalis ka man o nakaalis na.. depende lang tlga sa buhay yan. kung tutuusing mabuti, ako ang maswerte. dahil hindi ko na kelangan patayin ang sarili ko para lang “makipagsapalaran” sa kung san mang lupalop. na kung gugustuhin kong magpakamartir at magtago sa Pilipinas, ayus lang. na isa lang sa maraming pagpipilian ang pagpunta sa ibang bansa para magtrabaho. na mabubuhay ako at ang pamilya ko kahit piso.. perang Pilipino ang laman ng bulsa ko. ang swerte ko naman pala talaga. pero minsan, hindi ko naaalala yun. kasi sa tuwing may aalis, pakiramdam ko nawawalan ako. na para bang nagkukulang. parang pati ako maninibago. makikisama ulit. mabubuhay ulit ng wala yung mga taong dumating at umalis.

nakakatawa. kung magsalita naman ako parang hindi na sila babalik. tska para bang napakalaki pa ng mundo ngayon? e hindi naman na. mas madali pa ngang hagilapin yung mga kaibigan ko ngayon kesa dati. mas madalas pa silang makausap. di nga lang makasama. di bale na, pwede naman silang puntahan e. mejo mahal nga lang.

siguro nga pangturista lang ako. at kailangan ko nang tanggapin na talagang wala akong hopeful na puso at matibay na sikmura para mag-abroad. natatakot akong umalis papunta sa walang kasiguraduhan (hahaha! na para bang may kasiguraduhan ang buhay sa Pilipinas!). basta natatakot lang ako. yun lang yun e. ayoko pang umalis sa comfort zone. saka na ko tatanda. ganito ganito lang muna sa ngayon.

ayokong makita yung isang araw na wala na kong ibang pagpipilian kundi ang magtrabaho sa ibang bansa. kaya kung dito pa lang, dapat matuto na kong maghawak ng pera. na kahit maliit kumpara sa kung anong kikitain ng isang medtech abroad ang kinikita ko ngayon, dapat matuto ako kung paano sulitin at paramihin yung pera na yun. yesss! stewardship!

sino nga bang nauna sa kanilang lahat? sino nga bang unang nagsabi sakin ng “pero di pa sure yun?” (sasampalin ko tlga yun pramis! hahaha!) pero sana maalala nila ko kahit nakaalis na sila. na kung saka-sakaling babalik man, sana ganun pa rin pag nagkita-kita. haayss nakakamiss tuloy lahat. na parang gustong bumalik lahat ng memories (yown! drama!) pero biglang hindi na rin pala.

sabi ni lucy magtayo na lang daw ako ng negosyo. “wanna go abroad? make friends with me” garantisado ang pagalis nyo. hahaha! sabagay, kahit wala akong agency parati naman akong online, available sa mga taong nalulungkot… (ewww!) at walang makaOsap! hahahahaha!

naku baka ngayon na sinasabi ko na to, mawala na ung magic. ayoko rin naman yon. hahaha! basta swerte ako! swerte ako!! swerte ako!!!! period. no erase. no liquid paper!

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i love weekends. i always look forward to weekends. make plans. go out. do whatever. better yet, do nothing productive and sleep all day!

after four months (i think… or is it three?) of training, i’m back to the 7am schedule at least for the first week of august. i have been learning the ropes of TB culture for the last four months now. from reading LJ culture weekly to recognizing what TB looks like on solid media. from making and reading zn smears from MGIT culture to actually identifying the bacteria with biochemical tests. from doing sensitivity testing to releasing the results. i kind of missed being the one processing the specimen. but last week, i finally went back to processing. nakakapanibago. but it was fun! it was the first time for me to work with sir alfred who had been so patient with me even if i got 43 minutes late last monday which left him doing all the work. hehehe! the funny thing is that i worked overtime that same monday for about an hour but i was 43 minutes late. sana pwede na lang ma-offset yun. hehehe! we had to work overtime on tuesday too to finish all the slides. good thing teacher helped us out. thank you teacher! at buti na lang may o.t meal! yum! we didn’t have work last wednesday because of president aquino’s burial. buti na lang kasi baka hindi na ko nakauwi kung may pasok! super traffic hanggang sucat! thursday. hmm… another overtime. we had to finish slides. but they were the ones who read the slides, i only helped sir eman with his work and then arranged our stocks. yea, dakilang bodegera. friday… we had our pictures taken. i think it’s for a new i.d. i looked terrible on picture! hays! sana ako na lang ang kumuha ng sarili kong pic at pinadala ko na lang sana sa itd. anyway i had to go kaya nauna na kong magpapic sa kanila. they were making fun of me, kaya ayan! pangit! i went out last friday. yey! thank you lance for the movie and the coffee. next time ako. promise! (hope you don’t get to read this hahaha!)

i actually got to watch four movies this week. last sunday, i watched public enemies (johnny depp, christian bale) and the proposal (sandra bullock, ryan reynolds). on wednesday, i got to watch my sister’s keeper. and just this friday, g.i. joe. i loved every one of them. johnny depp was great. i love that he is playing a real person now and not some sort of.. hmmm.. i don’t know.. some weird character which requires lots of makeup and wig?! hahaha! amazingly, i didn’t doze off even if public enemies run for more than two hours. that’s how good it was, i guess. after watching that, i bought another set of taquitos and coke then went to watch the proposal. i think this is the first romcom that starred sandra bullock that i appreciated. maybe because ryan reynolds was her co-star. i love ryan. i’ve always loved ryan. i think he’s charming, hot and boyishly handsome too. they looked great together i had to watch it twice. sulit bayad! (jeds, sana di mo to mabasa. libre mo ko bukas! hehehe!). hmmm… next. my sister’s keeper. well… when i got to the cinema, 20 minutes of the film had gone. they said i could just watch it again if i want. by the end of the film, i got bloodshot eyes and a terrible headache. not that this is the first movie that got me crying, but it did anyway and gave me a headache too. i never watched it the second time. here’s the funny part. when the movie was over, i waited inside for the next run of the film. you know when they play music first while the lights inside the theater were on? well… they actually did. the song they first played was off that musical-turned-movie hairspray. after a drama, this is what i heard! GOOD MORNING BALTIMORE!!! i was like… what the hell is this?! so i went to the comfort room and never came back. G.I Joe friday. i loved it! especially because i got to watch it for free.. hehehe! kidding. thank you lance! i wanted to watch it not because i was a fan of the animated series. i don’t even have a memory of it. (i don’t have a good memory anyway so what the heck!) i watched it because channing tatum was there. it turned out to be a really good movie! i especially loved the sword fights! love it! love it! and i loved the fact that marlon wayans was there. this is a good movie. better than transformers 2. definitely better! and oh, reb.. i agree with the megan fox comment you had on your post. got me laughing.

still waiting for the ugly truth and up. after ten years…..

i talked with jen and lucy this morning. it was sooo cool. jen is somewhere in saudi. i’m in the philippines and lucy is somewhere in canada. we were all online this morning (at least on my side of the world). we were in a conference room and we had our webcams on. it was sooo cool! i said that already, didn’t i? sayang walang photo. i guess when you are having so much fun you don’t really get to think about those things. next time na lang.

i cooked tinola today. it has turned out to be one of my favorites. tapos fried chicken bukas! i prepared it today, of course. boil ‘em and fry ‘em tomorrow. then i cooked some stir-fried veges mixed with rice. that was lunch. i got to try that finesse cereal nestle have. it tasted like corn flakes as jenna had mentioned. masarap! arghhh, diet! die yet… diet!

i got to watch ufc again. grabe! sobrang tagal na! i almost forgot what it was like. i didn’t know a single fighter on that episode that i watched today but each fight was great! to think that the episode i watched was soooo last year! galing pa rin. the sport has evolved so much. years back, fighters had their own… hmmm… what’s the right term? field of specialization?! haha! …coming into the octagon. they are good at just one martial art form. fighters today are more well-rounded. i mean, i guess it’s only necessary because if you are going up with an opponent unprepared, you are definitely screwed. sayang wala akong balls… (talking about that channel on skycable). hahaha!

that’s it! hope to wake up early tomorrow. go to church. have coffee. watch a movie. can’t go for a massage anymore. i have clearly spent a lot on groceries already. i’m well on my way outside my budget. maybe next week… huhuhu!

good night! or good morning… oh well, 3am na. 3am in the morning! hahaha! it’s 3am in the morning put my key in the door ‘n’ bodies layin all over the floor ‘n’ i don’t remember how they got there but i guess i must’ve killed ‘em.. killed ‘em..

pangit pag end ng post tapos good morning kaya…

gnyt! gnyt my dear boyd.