We Are Young (Fun)

Give me a second I

I need to get my story straight

My friends are in the bathroom

getting higher than the Empire State

My lover's been waiting for me

just across the bar

My seats' been taken by some sunglasses

asking 'bout a scar

and I know I gave it to you months ago

I know you're trying to forget

but between the drinks and the subtle things

the holes in my apologies

you know I'm trying hard to take it back

so if by the time the bar closes

and you feel like falling down

I'll carry you home

Tonight

We are are young

So let's set the world on fire

We can burn brighter than the sun

Tonight

We are are young

So let's set the world on fire

We can burn brighter than the sun

Now I know that I'm not

all that you got

I guess that I

I just thought maybe we could find new ways to fall apart

But our friends are back

So let's raise a toast

Cause I found someone to carry me home

Tonight

We are are young

So let's set the world on fire

We can burn brighter than the sun

Tonight

We are are young

So let's set the world on fire

We can burn brighter than the sun

Carry me home tonight

Just carry me home tonight

Carry me home tonight

Just carry me home tonight

The world is on my side

I have no reason to run

So will someone come and carry me home tonight

The angels never arrived

But I can hear the choir

so will someone come and carry me home

Tonight

We are are young

So let's set the world on fire

We can burn brighter than the sun

Tonight

We are are young

So let's set the world on fire

We can burn brighter than the sun

So if by the time the bar closes

And you feel like falling down

I'll carry you home tonight

lyrics from: http://www.metrolyrics.com/we-are-young-lyrics-fun.html

mama and milk tea

I recently introduced mama to milk tea.  She was kinda skeptical to try it at first, but since I was really makulit and kept telling her to just try one, she finally gave in.  We were in Gateway Mall last Sunday and I was looking  forward to my milk tea fix in Chatime.  When mama finally said she will try one, we then had a long discussion as to what drink she will get.  I said lets start you off with the basic milk tea. But, she was kinda on the fence on the taste factor, she was a bit worried if she would like it or not. So I said lets just get flavored milk tea first.  We went back and forth if she wanted red bean, taro, even banana.  My mom is not adventurous when it comes to eating so I need to explain a lot of things to her before she agrees to taste something.  Finally, she agreed to try the Lychee Milk tea.  I went in line while she looked for a seat.  When she finally got her drink, i was very happy that she enjoyed it :)

I got a Large Pearl Milk Tea and my afternoon was complete ! :) hahahaha! :P

Serenity Prayer

God grant me the serenity
to accept the things I cannot change; 
Courage to change the things I can;
and Wisdom to know the difference.

Living one day at a time;
Enjoying one moment at a time;
Accepting hardships as the pathway to peace;
Taking, as He did, this sinful world as it is,
not as I would have it

Trusting that He will make all things right
if I surrender to His will;
That I may be reasonably happy in this life; 
and supremely happy with Him
Forever in the next.

Amen

-Reinhold Niebuhr

from http://www.cptryon.org/prayer/special/serenity.html

Photo A Day Challenge (March 5 - 14)

I missed my weekend blog update since I was up and about last Sunday doing some errands.  I also had some "me" time and spent the afternoon looking for a book that I wanted to get my hands on for two weeks now, but I still can't find a copy.  The book is called The Collected Works of John Carter Volume 1.  Volumes 2 and 3 are quite abundant, but Book 1 is kinda hard to find now, especially since the movie, John Carter, is now showing in the theaters.  I guess a lot of people took an interest to the book due to the good movie reviews ( I know, since that is one part of the reason why I want to get my hands on a copy of the book, well aside from literary reasons and the hunger for a good read... ehem...*insert intellectual nod here*).  AND even if I already reserved a copy in one branch of Fully Booked I still went around some stores to see if I can find a copy faster :P.  The  thing with this book is, it seems that it is only available in Fully Booked and not in the other bookstores (bummer!), thus, the harder it is to find ... thus, the more I want one! grrrr....  Enough of my book addiction for now, and before this blog entry's title is changed to "My Futile Adventure to Finding John Carter", I should start posting my Photo A Day challenge pictures for March 5 - 14 :P.  Here they are:

5.  A Smile 

6.  5 PM

7.  something you wore - was on leave that day and went around UP helping my cousin get her requirements for transfer, thus the shirt :)

8.  Window - our office does have a lot of windows, but the the blinds are always down

9.  Red 

10.  Loud

11.  Someone you talked to today - my cousin Ghina

12.  Fork

13.  A Sign - makings of a new hangout :P

14.  Clouds - since I am indoors almost the whole day, I just made my own clouds :)

Whew! Finished! :)  on to next week's Photo A Day Challenge! and on to my continuous search for the elusive John Carter Book (hope I find one soon!)

up and about with the girls

My cousins Ghina and Regine and I went out a few times this week.  These two girls are like my sisters and spending time with them is just pure happiness :).  Here are some of the pics we got during our weekly eat outs and going around thingies :

A. Midweek Dinner Out at Eastwood 
     We met up for dinner in Eastwood last Wednesday since I needed to go there to get a bag I reserved at Bratpack.  During dinner, there was a little girl behind our table (who Ghina keeps calling Jaden, since she looks like Jaden Smith, who we pointed out is a boy, bit she ignored us :P) who literally keeps popping up from behind whenever Ghina takes our picture.  We were trying to stop ourselves from laughing so hard once we saw the series of pictures she took. Jaden's parents might hear us :P.  Check these out:

We finally got one without her in it, though:

B.  Errands Errands and takaw mode
     We went out again yesterday to do some errands.  I got a new Postpaid phone plan from Globe by the way, with a free Blackberry Curve :) yey!  i spent a few hours on my new toy today trying to figure out how that thing works :P
     Ghina was more excited with the phone than I was, we ended up buying accessories for it right after I got the phone.  I also got her yellow kicker earphones as a belated birthday present.  We ended up eating dinner at Tokyo Tokyo (yup, japanese again) and since we were all hungry by then, we ate A LOT :P  we didn't have room for Magnum Ice Cream after (this was the sad part of my day).
     We went back to our place and watched episodes of The Voice since all three of us looooove Adam Levine (he's so cute!!!) and after an hour or two, the girls went home.

C.  Sunday Surprise at Banapple
     Ghina had a sudden craving for Banapple and she picked me up from the mall while I was doing some more errands.  We had an early dinner there and talked and talked and talked.  Here's what we ate:

Baked Cheesy Penne

Chicken Parmigiano

     Of course, Ghina ate rice :P but she still insists that she is now on a diet.  We were supposed to have coffee or tea after, but were sooooo full.  We also had a slice of Snicker Fudge Cheesecake ... so yummy! :)  My week ended with yummy food and good conversation, it more than made up for the bad part of my week :P 

Photo A Day Challenge (March 1-4)

here goes my weekly post for this challenge :)

1.  Up : kinda obvious hehehe :)

2.  Fruit : my favorite fruit in a bottle :)

3.  my neigborhood - houses on our side of the street

4.  bedside - bookworm alert! :P yup, i am kinda literally surrounded by books even while I sleep.

soooo, thats it for the first week of March.  looking forward to next week!

Photo A Day Challenge (Feb 27 - 29)

Below are my photo a day challenge for the last days of February :).  I made it! yey! :D

27.  something you ate : Sour Punch - pamatid-gutom sa hapon :)

28.  Money : new 50.00 bill.  I like the bright red color of the new bill, and because of that, I will hold on to this  for a while longer hehehe :)

29.  something you're listening to : Dia Frampton! I loved her in The voice Season 1, so glad she came out with her own record.  Some stations are now playing her song "The Broken Ones" on air.

So that completes my February Photo A Day Challenge (at least half of the month since I joined late).  I hope I can complete the succeeding months :)

For March, here is the new list from Fat Mum Slim's Blog (http://www.fatmumslim.com.au/):

I'm thinking if i should bring along my camera (since i have a small, compact point and shoot type one) so i could get better shots.  When i looked at all my Feb photos, almost all of it were taken in the office.  My favorite shot was taken last Sunday in Eastwood for the Night challenge, since it was the only photo I have taken outdoors :P.

My challenge for March : to take more shots outdoors and to be more creative.  Soooo excited to start! :)

Photo A Day Challenge (February 18 - 26)

Since I started doing this Photo A Day Challenge, i tried to stay true to taking pictures every day, but i admit there are days when I did forget (memory gap moments :P) so i just took some of the pics I forgot the next day.  Anyways, here's my photo a day exhibition (naks!) for this week:

18.  Drink

19.  Something you hate to do : working on a weekend!!!! (and doing numbers at that! :P)

20.  Handwriting : obviously am a book nerd :P

21.  A fave photo of you : this was taken in Singapore last April 2010 :)  i took a picture of this photo stored in my iPad :)

22.  Where you work : the JB R&D office :)

23.  Your shoes : my favorite pair of Sanuk sandals :)

24.  Inside your bathroom cabinet : i don't have a bathroom cabinet so I just took a picture of my bathroom shelves :P

25.  Green : my mom's curtains

26.  Night : taken at Eastwood a few hours ago :)

Yey! i completed two weeks worth of photos and I managed to write about it 2 weeks straight! hope i can keep this up.

till next week! :)

Photo A Day Challenge

My friend Claudette is doing this photo a day challenge and being the curious cat that I am, I decided to find out what it was and where it all started.  I found that it was a challenge started by a blogger, Chantelle (www.fatmumslim.com.au).  I love a challenge so I decided to try this one out.  This is the list for February:

Since its my first day, and I am already late in joining the challenge i decided to do the whole week's photo a day thingie (addict mode ON! :P)  so i took five pictures starting from number 13 to 17 :)  Here they are:

13.  Blue

14.  Heart

15.  Phone

16.  Something New

let me explain this one... i was given a new project yesterday and it requires me to do project management, so i need to review!!! :P

17.  Time

That's the last of it :)  I will try to do the photo taking challenge daily and will try to post on a weekly basis (or daily if i can).

Why did I decide to do this in the first place?  To have something else to do aside from work hahaha! :)  i need to keep things light and relaxed and fun even for just a few minutes in a day to keep my sanity in check :)  Plus, this will more or less make me update my blog weekly! yay! *crossing fingers*

till next week!

valentakaw and spantastic date with the girls

As usual, I have no Valentines Date plans, but I was pleasantly surprised that fate has something else in mind for me this year.  Though my date is not actually a romantic one, I had a blast :).

Ghina and Regine called me up to ask if I want to go on a Spa date with them.  I agreed, besides, I don't have anything to do on a Sunday anyways.  It was a pre-Valentines day date of sorts for us three since all three of us are single.  We went to Ace Water Spa in Pasig.  The place is really nice, though smaller compared to their first branch in QC, I like this location better.  The building is new and there weren't too many people.  We changed into our swimwear and excitedly went into the spa area.  We tried all there is to try including the hot herbal pools which was supposed to be strictly timed according to the lifeguard.  We were supposed to try the sauna but when we entered, we literally cannot take the heat, so we just opted to stay in the hot herbal pools.  We stayed for a while there, enjoying and relaxing and laughing and just being silly :P.  Afterwards, we realized we were super hungry.

Since we were near the Kapitolyo area, there were a number of restos the girls haven't tried yet.  Since Regine wanted to have breakfast food (and she has a huge crush on Elmo Magalona who kinda endorses this place) we opted to try out Milky and Sunny.  

The menu has a lot of options and we were excited to try out a lot of things.  Our tummies were grumbling by then so we got the Breakfast Big Plate, a meal complete with rice and hash brown. We also ordered the bacon tostadas, a recommended dish from a blog I read.  We enjoyed the meal so much.  The hungarian sausage slices dipped in spicy vinegar was really good! :)  We were soooo full after this hearty breakfast fare (at 9:00 pm) :P.

menu specials 

bacon tostadas

Breakfast Big Plate

Happy tummy! :)

Our baby girl, Regine :)

It was a really fun day with the girls and one of the best Valentines Date I had in a long time :)