Fifty half

call it bad luck.. lol

FIRST: Sampaguita Suites was fully-booked so we had to walk under the heat of the sun from one hotel to another. I ended up with C'est la vie Pension cos it was the cheapest.

SECOND: Crown Regency's DROP ZONE does not exist. I so wanted to jump and fall. I was so damn excited to do the free fall thing which they described in their site as "feeling the gravity against you as you fall freely down a 40-foot drop strapped only with a weighted harness without a cable." when the receptionist said it is still yet to come.. ouch!

THIRD: April and I went to SM to check on Lay Bare, a waxing salon. The directory said the salon is nowhere to be found. can i say ouch again? lol

It was a great bonding time with April though. She treated me at Not Just Coffee. We both had shakes. All i can say is that, mine didn't taste that good. lol.

My tourist guide had to go to work so it was time to part ways. I took a cab to Fuente Osmena while she took another one.

C'est la vie is creepy, i should say. The place was like a meet-up place for old foreigners and hookers. There were girls who look like hookers at the lobby so you can't blame me for thinking so..

FOURTH: my comfort room's light bulb didn't work. so i had to go downstairs again to inform the receptionist who then asked the guard to change it. booo!

no cable tv.. old aircon.. no phones.. plus i don't like the bathroom.. arghhhh!

so what kept me company then? oh well, my book, my laptop, my globe tattoo and my celphones..

it was around 9:30pm that i decided to go out and eat. i walked around the vicinity and ended up eating at Sunburst. i had a joiner around who stays on the same pension house and i could not shoo him away after i repeatedly refused his willingness to join me.. good thing his roommate and his officemate picked him up. aaaahhh what a great relief! i don't want any joiners when i'm doing my soulsearching thing..lol

FIFTH: 22nd Street was on standing. so sad! i had a backup plan though.. to have a foot massage but damn when i asked the lady at the reception area, they were already closed.. arrrgggghhh

i decided to have some drinks as plan C.. walked around the city for a cozy place to get some shots alone but i found none..all they have were bars full of people so i had no choice but to go back to my room and sleep.

what a day indeed!

Fifty

today marks the 50th..so fifty it is!

i'm off the city.. miles away!

and yes it's definitely ME time for the weekend...

(patty and mac cancelled their trips but i decided to go on with mine)

my first ever ALONE trip..

big breakfast at the airport is a good start...

the plane actually arrived 15 minutes before the ETA.

so i called pring and kai so we could meet up...

MEET-UP place: STARBUCKS ayala

TIME: 10am

ONE GRANDE MOCHA FRAPPUCHINO for MS. CEARA

oh i actually get miffed when they can't spell my name right..

i think i'll have to go with BLACK ANGEL next time, that would be easier i guess..lol

kai and erich (who actually came straight from work) arrived a few minutes after but the three of us waited for ms. d who came in at around 11am... hungry! hungry! hungry! kai said we check Kublai Khan's mongolian eat-all-you-can! hmmmm... definitely the way to eat lunch.. a beastly welcome for a travelling doormat..lol

KUBLAI says:

ME: depressed

KAI and PRING: pregnant

(so u can go this thin when u r pregnant huh?!lol)

thanks you my dear sisters for spending your day with me ;-)

thanks ms. d for the lunch treat especially for me...lol

Forty Nine

forty nine...

one more day and it's half of a hundred..

if it wasn't you then i could have gone away from day one..

should i give up or should i just keep on chasing pavements

even if it leads nowhere or would it be a waste

even if i knew my place, should i leave it there...

tomorrow marks the 50th ...

and i'll be leaving the city...

oh yes! leaving to find my so-called self...

i had to leave Niji at granny's house though..

miss yah already my black rainbow...

wish me luck... i'm damn sick but i still have to go anyways...

Forty Five

forty-five....

the longest so far...

so when will i stop counting then? lol

baby, it's cold outside..

and i'm not feeling well!

cough+colds+rain ...... how bad could that be???

Niji and i needed some hot lovin' so i made us a quick sinigang dinner..

yumyum!

Forty Two

forty two...

i'm damn sicko..

i woke up with a sore throat early this morning but still i have to bring my ass to work.. felt like it's flu time for me so i had to take meds this time which i usually don't do.. oh how i hate being sick especially when there's nobody else to take of me but myself!!! missin' mom and pop much.. good thing i have my triple chocolate roll from Red Ribbon, Secondhand Serenade on my playlist and my little Niji to keep me company.. oh yes! my Niji's such an angel... and snuggle time with her is just so priceless...

Triple Chocolate Roll

21:00 and my day is about to end, have to sleep with this pretty bad headache and flu.. Lady Antebellum, time to put me to bed now... i'll be sleeping with you again tonight.. hope i'll wake up feeling better tomorrow...keeping my fingers crossed..

Forty

forty....

No Other Woman Night with Patty after work...

and oh yeah! it's one full month plus ten days more..

today i wish i was cold as stone..

the pain of the absence is unbearable but you know what hurts most???

it's the thought that the people around think i'm stupid...

so sad....

Thirty Eight

thirty-eight...

and still counting...

sigh :-(

today i had my super late dinner at past 11pm..

my cheesy crunchy corned beef balls sealed my day...

Thirty Four

it's september twentynine..

it's a rainy night...

happy monthsary...

dear ________,

it's the end of the month and i just woke up.. i slept with this song the night before .. for thirty four days, i never had a dream of you.. not until now.. it had you, me and some of my friends.. it was weird but the images were clear though the details were confusing like in most dreams.. when i woke up today i was smiling cos it has been made clear that even my subconscious is thinking of you.. i miss you...

xoxo

Thirty Three

thirty one and still counting...

missing you much....

good thing this video made me smile today...

but still i miss seeing you...

my first real running shoes

call it retail therapy...

today i finally bought my first real running shoes, an ASICS Gel-Kayano 16. but before that i first went to runclub for my gait analysis..

RESULT: heel-striker with over pronation

Pronation is natural inward rolling movement of your foot as it starts to support your body weight.

so, i need a pair of shoes on the STABILITY line then...

i'm way to out of budget but what the heck?! these new babies will somewhat make me feel good and besides i'll be using them on my future runs...

on sunday will be your first run Kayano. sleep tight cos it will be your first 10K run when you wake up. only first 200 finishers will get medals, so please help me with that.

Twenty Seven

today is no work day.

as usual i spent my day off from work at home pinning myself infront of my lappy. i had a blast talking to rhodora, ghedi and jpflo. we were talking about life and love, love, love the whole time. it definitely made me miss ghedi times = billiards, movies and food trips (mostly unplanned!)

here are some of the winney lines that day:

"funny thing is not once have you sounded really angry."

"but everyone has a breaking point and you seem to be making excuses not to reach it... i think you are trying to delay it by making excuses.."

"there is no excuse for lack of courtesy to someone you supposedly care about...it's like your parents when you come home late from a curfew and they pagalitan ka kase di ka tumawag. it's not about you coming home late, it's sometimes about the courtesy of just telling them you're ok."

"how loud do you have to scream til you lose your voice?hmmmm... i wonder"

i really had fun talking to you guys. thanks and i think we should do this more often. i am so much of a love-believer/keeper kind. it may not show on the way i look but all those who know me well will surely agree. "it aint over til it's over!" is my all-time love mantra. if it still makes you happy and then go. if things don't go well as you planned, then be it. those memories made you happy at some point of your life so how would that be a waste of time? besides, are you just going to let go without putting up a fight? (just saying.. or maybe just another excuse?lol) what's the best time to give up then? i think if you wake up one morning feeling nothing, then that's it.. GAME OVER!

moving forward. i decided to watch Johnny English that afternoon, that's after buying my running shoes (call it super expensive therapy!lol) it took me several hours before i finally got a hold of my first real running shoes and i guess another hour waiting for patty who had to extend a few minutes at work. so in short, i missed Johnny English .. but i had a great chitchat dinner with patty though.. i will have a separate entry for my Asics so as not to flood everything here.. lol

so it's a dinner date with patty. and since we both love japanese foods, we ended up dining at Red Kimono-Abreeza. our second... but this time we got a whole maki platter to ourselves.. yumyum!

our YASAI ITAME....

and of course our MAKI SAMPLER!

we left the place really late and we hit Chicco de Cafe afterwards. i had nothing, patty had her coffee.. we checked on some mags on the rack and came across this picture. i just couldn't help but take a picture of it. lol

Twenty Six

it's rainy and cold...

the city roads are flooded... too much traffic! i was supposed to buy a new pair of running shoes but ended up having dinner at Miko's Brew with Bamba and Michael.

my cream dory fillet with green mango sauce

hmmmmm... honestly, i'm not that satisfied with what i had. i should have ordered for a grilled porkchop or baby back ribs.. but it was a fun night talking about our pet dogs..

After dinner, i had my first bottle of San Miguel lemon flavored beer at Jickong's.. thanks Mj for the treat! i should say it tasted like cali... i liked it! Manong accompanied us after his work and we all ended up talking about marathons....

SanMig Lemon, SanMig Apple!

Twenty Four

turned the lights on so i could take a photo of her, her cage and her bed

twenty-four. guess this is the answer i've been trying to look for.. i bought Niji a new big bed so she can sleep comfortably, it's actually a super big, soft pillow.. Oh yes she likes it! i can definitely see that.. she loves to use it cos it's soft, warm and comfy. but last night, i noticed something. she didn't sleep there. instead, she went inside her small cage. it was a surprise but i didn't make it a big deal. but tonight she did it again.. why would she do that? why would she choose to sleep in a cold, small cage with no mat on? i bought the big pillow cos i wanted her to stop lying on the cold floor or sleeping at her bare cage.. so why??? is it because she loves her old cage too much and just can't let go..or because she feels happier when she spends her night inside her first homey.. or maybe, just maybe because she loves her cage that much, no more no less.. hmmmm... Niji is like mommy.. she is definitely like mommy!

little pleasures

Twenty Two

when i don't feel fine, i eat!

yes, i eat a lot!!!

call this carbo overloading at RAI-RAI KEN!

chopsticks!!!

YAKIMESHI

i actually thought it would exactly look like what's on the menu..

it looked kinda different so i asked if it's what i really ordered..

he just said, if i ordered a platter then it would look the same..oh crap!

oh my SUSHI!!!!! yum yum!

Twenty One

oh my!

twenty one!!!

i just wanna say...

if everything goes well,

i'd like to spend my days with you

at Acuatico Beach Resort and Hotel Inc.

i miss you.

i really do.

Wish you were here - AvrilLavigne

Nineteen.

oh GOSH!

so funny! heard this song on my way home, after going to church and grabbing some leftovers from my lola's.. the driver then turned it off and moved on to the next one --before i knew it he was playing Before i Let You Go by Freestyle......talaga naman oo... wapak na wapak! huwag naman sana...lol

King of Davao Run

RunClub. Adidas.

King of Davao Run 2011

Rancho Palos Verdes Sports & Country Club

September 4, 2011

15 kilometers

sleeping you

my lappy's wallpaper...

this kept me company in lieu of skype nights

when i was in boracay.

guess it has become a bedtime habit.

aymishu langga.