Krispy Kreme: Make Today Special

It was a busy day in the office and I was feeling stressed out. But a surprise came just in time and made my day. I am smiling. Really, really smiling.

Just like Krispy Kreme's tag line, "Make Today Special". And today was indeed special... Really, really special. The gift was sweet but the person who brought it is waaaaaaaaay sweeter. Thank you!

Make Today Special

Enjoying the sweetness :)

omg. i love this song.

I've created a playlist in my player where I compiled all my favorite songs and I lamely labeled it as "faves". It contains more or less 70 songs. But for some unknown reason, I chose to listen to Chris Brown's With You last night. As in out of the estimated 70 songs in my player, I played Chris Brown's With You over and over again. I'm actually listening to it right now. I feel this song.



With You - Chris Brown


Chris Brown - With You lyrics

...on expenditures

Paminsan-minsan hindi rin naman masamang bumili ng kung anu-ano, right? Haha, excuses. That's the problem with me eh. I'm a self-proclaimed kuripot pero once I start buying things, ayun... tuluy-tuloy na yun. Like kanina, waldas mode ako. Nakatanggap kasi ako ng pahabol na aguinaldo from my ninong who came here from australia kaya ayun, so I bought a jacket, a top, dvds, bangles, nail polish, etc. And I also reserved some items sa Muliply. :D minsan lang naman ito mangyari and one more thing, hindi naman ganun kalaki yung gastos ko kasi malaki yung natanggap ko. I mean, wala pa sa half. It's been a while na rin kasi since I bought things for myself. Ohwell, that's the highlight of my day.

Tanong: Gaano kadalas ang minsan? Toink.

..on doodling and writing

I know I still haven't posted the continuation of my Feb Fair Diary. Been busy. Duh. It's finished though. Naka-save nga lang sa PC. Anyway, I should be sleeping already coz I only have few hours left for sleep. Will be leaving around 3am so we'll be in Elbi in time for Erik's 7am class. But see, pasaway talaga ako eh. Am I to be blamed if my urge to blog often catches me in a wrong time? Wala lang. Biglang nangati ang hands ko to type.

Story. Went to SM kanina with Erik. We watched Jumper and bought gift wrappers for his uber-late-as-in-long-overdue Christmas gifts for my family. Antamad kasi niya umuwi sa kanila eh. By the way, ang astig lang ng Jumper, as in. You should check it out. As I was saying, we were at the mall kanina then as I was paying for the stuff we bought, I came across this stack of booklets and some scratch pads and I can't help but buy one of those kahit na wala naman akong pagagagamitan pa sa ngayon. What can I do... I'm used to buying small notebooks coz I make them my doodlepad and I've been doing that since I was in grade school. I have lotsa notebooks-slash-doodlepads full of stick figures kasi yun lang naman ang alam ko i-draw, names of my crushes, my wishlists, quotes from movies, my attempts on poetry, my things to do, my original essays-slash-composition, and the like. That's what keeps me awake every time my eyes feels heavy during classes. Though most of the time, talagang nasa mood lang ako magsulat. Hehe.

I can still remember when I was in highschool, nagkukunwari lang ako na nagnonotes kasi tamad ako mag-kopya from the blackboard. So what I do, I keep myself busy doodling on my doodlepad or on the back of my notebooks. And now, kahit my student days are already over, I still can't get rid of the habit. Maaksaya ako sa puno, I know. I have like more or less 10 notebooks na puno ng thoughts ko simula nung grade school ako up to now. And once in awhile, binabalik-balikan ko yung mga notebooks na yun and natatawa ako sa mga pinagsusulat ko. Ang sarap balikan ng mga memories. Diba? Nakikita ko yung pag-mature ko sa bawat notebook na napuno ko ng thoughts ko. It's pretty amazing, really.

Now, meron nanaman akong pupunuin. Dagdag nanaman sa koleksyon ko. Kaya tayo na't mag-doodle guys!

It's fun and it takes the bore out in 60 seconds. Toink!

me? fast typer? *wink

I was blog hopping when I came across this thing. Can it be more obvious that I'm pretty intrigued with how fast I can type? Here's the result.

53 words

free Touch typing

imma chinese gurl with a twist *wink

Okay. After changing my blog's url from sweetswitch to mysushidiet and then followed by my post about the chinese new year, it occurred to me that I've a bit of racial disloyalty with respect to delicacies. Hehe. My ancestors are chinese, which makes my maternal grandfather 75% Chinese and my mom 50%, therefore, I've 25% Chinese blood circulating in my body right now.

I'm Chinese but I'm not crazy about noodles and shanghai. And i soooooo loathe the taste of mantao. Sure I love siopao, siomai and century egg but if I were to choose between siomai and sushi, I'd go for sushi without second-guessing. My blog's name holds all the evidence you need. Take note, with smiley pa yun ha.

Hmmmm... let's just put it this way, I'm a Chinese girl who is a sucker for Japanese Cuisine. Sushi rocks!!

happily busy

been dressing up my page since last night. and i think my time's all worth it coz i soooo love my page's new look. it looks more alive and inviting unlike my previous theme, which is so emo. i've tried my best to make my space as interactive as possible by putting a cbox (finally). you know what's cbox for, right? sooo, tag me with love. jologs naman kung puro ako lang laman ng cbox ko. yey, finally.. the headaches and numb fingertips paid off... i guess. hopefully, i'd be dressing up my page soon with my own blogger theme.

hakuna matata!!

whatta day it was

my january 26 was like 3 hours longer than the ordinary days. for the second time, we were invited to participate as a guest performer in UP Manila Indayog Dance Varsity's annual concert. i looked forward to it for weeks and i was really excited about it because it felt like years have passed since i last danced. of course, i was just exaggerating.. it was just months. anyway, i was also really excited for the new members of the compet team because that would be their first time to perform outside uplb as a guest. so as the days passed us by, i've been secretly having these daydream sequences where the team's having the time of our lives mingling with the other dance crews there. imagine, i was that excited. then few days before the actual day, mam jlu unintentionally ruined everything by announcing that besides sayaw manila, we will also be guesting in another event. she clearly told us that we will not be able to finish the event and that right after we dance, we would leave and go straight to the other one. frankly, i was a bit pissed off and really, really upset.

i was so upset because things didn't exactly turn out as i hoped it would, not even close... this will probably be my last time to perform in a big event with the competing team so i really wanted to make the most out of it. it may not be that big a deal for the others but for me it is. i initially succumbed to the callings of my true emotion but then i thought that if i'd continue to be upset and pissed off, i'd be wasting the small fraction of enoyment that's left for us to celebrate. so i took a deep breath and started to have fun. then i also realized that it wasn't the event that mattered, really... we won't be able to finish the event, so what? at least, we'd still able to dance and show them what we got. what's important is that wherever or in whatever event we maybe, we're all together because as cheezy as it is, i realized that being with the team is all that i need in order to have the time of my life. it's all that i needed and wanted to enjoy and celebrate for the last time.

...and God was so good that another invitation came to us, another outside campus gig. so maybe, that's my prize for being able to keep my cool inspite of everything.

God is good, all the time.
cheers.

d.e.s.p.e.r.a.d.a.s.

i initially thought that this day will be like the others - boring and ordinary. but it turned out to be otherwise. i actually had fun today coz i was able to spend some time with maane. maane is my cousin, who used to be my cousin-slash-best-pal.. used to be, yeah coz a lot of things happened over the years. anyway, after some years, we were able to spend time together just like before. considering our schedule especially now that she's already married. so yeah, it was really fun. we went to the mall and watched Desperadas, which made it all the more enjoying. then we ate and strolled around for a couple more minutes then went home. she has to be home before his husband comes home from work, that's the rule. :D

anyway, short as it was, i really enjoyed the day and really, really missed spending time with her. i wasn't able to take a rigid documentation of our day together. as a matter of fact, there aren't any pictures but it doesn't matter. guess i was busy enjoying the day that i can't afford to multi-task.

so happy. hakuna matata!

finally..

finally, i was able to do one of my plans. i had my hair cut at Bench Fix and since i was a bit depressed, i decided to spoil myself so i also had my hair cellophane-d. gaaad, who would have thought? i started feeling good and positive for the lamest of all reasons. thanks to bench fix.

change topic. in a matter of days. i'd be going back to elbi to train and dance (again). happy, happy. i finally have the chance to effortlessly lose weight.. cheers to that! of course, i'm really, really excited to go back because i really missed my friends there. i missed dancing. i missed elbi life. i missed erik, to top all that. *smile

at last i felt better.. :)

day out with the kamote and pards

was able to catch gene last night in ym. he told me about his breakup with mileth and he really sounded depressed and sad. he wanted to create a diversion. so what better way to do that than getting a full body massage and a body scrub? huh. how i wish that happened. we just went to the mall and watched a movie. gene had fun naman so i think jo and i succeeded in helping him nurse his broken heart.

this day was such a bore so that was practically the highlight of my today.

always

i'll be seeing you all the time.
i'll never be gone.
i'll always be here even if you don't think i am.
i promised you then and i'll promise you now.
i'm always with you as much as
you're always with me, in heart and memory.

the closet queen a.k.a. tcq

She's back, finally. No matter how oa or how weird this may sound, talagang inaabangan ko ang pagbabalik niya kasi as in I really love her items.. the quality, the style, and everything. affordable pa. Amongst all online shops in Multiply, sa kanya lang ako bumili ng more than two items. Okay din kasi siyang kausap, very professional yet very friendly. Sayang lang kasi since I am busy during daytime, tuwing gabi na lang ako nakakaonline kaya when I checked her new uploads, most of the good items were already reserved. Errrrrrr. Sabi ko nga sa kanya, i'll wait for her next batch of uploads para talagang makapili ako ng husto. haha.

Online shopping addict na ako.
Hohoho!!!

tina's bday.

20 na si tina. porn mode. haha!

too bad, people are busy.. either with exams or with work. wala tuloy gathering para kay tina. i was thinking of planning something so i texted everybody to try to convince them that tina's bday is worthy for some of their time. kaya lang, they're very busy talaga eh. even the celebrator, herself, is busy. darn it. oh well, i just wish that tina's day will rock. :D

i miss the barkada. haha.. yuck, emo.

your my guardian angel...

I instantly fell in love with this song... the moment I heard it, all I can say was "aaaaaawww" See? it's not even a word. The song gives me a feeling of something that I can't really describe. I can't think of any concrete term to call the emotion that this song transcends to me. lss talaga ako. I can't imagine how much love or emotion the writer of this song has... for someone to be able to create a song as realistic and lovely as this, gaaaad, I don't know what to say except that i think s/he's really in loooooooove. *blush




Your Guardian Angel - Red Jumpsuit Apparatus

late-night updates.

Missed writing here for the past week and right now, everything's just so crazy. Actually crazier than last week.

Anyway, I just got home from Elbi. Gaaaad. Speaking of Elbi, I miss it soooo bad.. the place, the ambiance, the people, everything! :( Top of it all, I miss Erik and the rest of the clan. All my years in college, I spent with the group. It was a drastic change for me to suddenly not be with them every single day. Same with Erik... soooobrang nakaka-experience ako ng separation anxiety. arg. We grew together at Elbi. Almost all of our special memories happened there. Elbi's our love nest. It was a witness of our four years together and even the moments before that.

Update No. 1:
Last night was a blast. We [clan] had our Preppy Christmas Party. Sooper saya. Everybody had fun, I guess. If there was an award for the Mr. and Ms. Parlor Games, I'm sure that would be given to me and Erik. We practically won all the games last night. Haha. The concept of the games were full of twists and I'd like to commend the youngest batch for that. It has been a tradition of the group na kasi that the youngest batch will be assigned to spearhead the Christmas Party. Moving on, I really had fun kahit na napaupo pa ako sa ngalan ng pagiging panalo. The part was crazy!! Even got crazier after the party proper. Some, including me, are on the pool while others are upstairs videoke-ing while drinking. As expected, there are some who drank too much and got so emo and were out of control. They made the night all the more interesting, that's all I can say. *grin. That was another sleepless night but it was worth the puyat. I feel sorry for those who slept early. They missed a lot.

Update No. 2:
Our business is what kept me busy the past week. This is the first time mom entrusted me with something soooo big, something that can make or break our life, so I'm really giving my all to it coz I don't wanna screw up. puh-lease. I'm super happy because I think I'm doing great and I'm actually enjoying it. It just made me feel so grown up already. Anyway, I was there at our stall last week except for Friday and Saturday. I went to Elbi last Saturday and went home today. About Friday? Well, it was my rest day which I wholeheartedly devoted to watching America's Next Top Model. Haha. I was pretty (and) bummed out. *lol

Update No. 3:
December 9 was utol's birthday. He's 19 already, which I found shocking coz I really lost track of his age. I stopped being concerned with his age since he was 8. Haha. Not that I don't care. I just didn't think of it as a big deal. So when he told me that he's already 19, I was like, "huwwwaaaaaaatt?!!!" Anyway, we celebrated his day at Antipolo. All the Fortaleza's were there plus some distant relatives and family friends. It was a fun day. I just have this gut feeling that he can still be happier. Kung nandun sana si gf... kaya lang, wala kasi siyang lisensya, hindi pa aprubado ni momi si gf and mukhang malabong mangyari.

Update No. 4
Erik and I celebrated our fourth anniversary at Trinoma. I initially thought that it will be just like our monthsaries kasi sa mall kami magcecelebrate. Things didn't go the way we planned it due to time and budget constraints. The original plan kasi involves our supposedly first out of town trip together, solo. So we ended up sa Trinoma. Yes we celebrated at a typical place but the day we had was beyond extraordinary. We really had fun and it was something we can really call a celebration of an anniversary. It may not be as extravagant as how we wanted it to be but that's beside the point now coz we really had a great time. Lustay pera mode kami as pambawi. A very happy anniversary indeed. :)

- 30 -

I left out so many details regarding all these activities, nalimot ko na kasi ung iba and medyo natamad na ako mag-type. i lost the momentum already eh. Sayang. goodnight.

as promised :)

I know I promised to post here the pic of my first-ever-bought-in-Multiply dress once I receive it. Yes, I got it... i got the item, which meant that that was an authentic business transaction [in lieu to my post, Multiply Shopping]. No one's a bogus after all. :D

I got the item and I really loved it. Plus, I also bought another top from another online multiply shop. And I still have another one which was a pre-order. Oh and another one that I reserved and will pay later. Haha. Sinong naadik sa online shopping?!

So here it is, my SunCrackers dress, which I bought for only 250 bucks [including the shipment]:D

Reminiscing..

Few days ago, I had an encounter with the so-called Nostalgia. I was just thinking of how happy I am right now with Erik. See, it's December already, which means that we'll be celebrating an anniversary again - our fourth to be exact. I'm soooooo happy.

I can't help but reminisce how our love story started. We were just freshmen students when our relationship bloomed and now, I'm already done in college and it's Erik's last semester already. Four long years. And in that stretch of time, Erik has always been successful in making me feel really loved, wanted, cared for... with him I felt like I'm a gem, well-guarded, safe and sound, from anyone who would like to take me away.

Having him is more than an answered prayer. God knows how I wanted to have someone who would treat me as his treasure, someone who will make all the happy moments in my life all the more joyful, someone who'll be there through thick and thin, someone who'll embrace all my imperfections and will never take it against me. And He gave me Erik - the very someone who treated me the way I want to be treated and most of all, loved me with all of him, with all of his heart. Erik showed me love beyond compare. No man in my life has ever made me feel so loved like how Erik did.

Erik's a really, really great person. More than his good looks is his BIG heart who can show you that he really loves you - through words, and much more through actions. He is my man - my catch of a lifetime.

Life starts at 40.

Wala lang. This is my 40th post kasi. Sobrang non-sense diba? Kumusta naman yun. Haha.

Oh well, I just wish that this blog will have:
+ more life,
+ more visitors,
+ and more sense.

Maybe after this...
Life begins at 40, after all.

CHEERS!

♥♥♥

Okay, I'm not emo at all but let me be one for now.
I just wanna share this.

I am missing Erik really, really bad. We haven't talked as often and as "tuluy-tuloy" as before these past few days. But we're okay, it's just that, he's been busy and so was I. He was busy with dancing and I was busy with our family business. Ganito siguro talaga when two people don't do the same things together anymore, like us. *sigh

But hey, just so we're crystal, we're really okay. We're not on a rocky road and we're not breaking up or cooling off. I just have to say this, that I miss him big time. Call me defensive, I don't care. *wink.

Maybe this is a "patikim" on what it will be like when we finally both have our own jobs and pursue our own dreams. But nevertheless, I'm thankful to God that He is letting us experience this as early as now. At least, we can use this to our advantage. We can adjust on each other's schedule and make things work. I know we can pull this off. Kami pa?!

In a few days, we'll be celebrating our fourth anniversary. It will be our fourth December 6 together. Grabe, how time flies. Imagine, four years? Not that it's unbelievable. It's just that, I think it's an achievement to stay together for this long and still go stronger every day. Sa dami ba naman ng nakikilala namin sa araw-araw, at sa dami ng nag-interes na mag-penetrate sa relasyon namin... to celebrate our fourth anniversary is really both an achievement and a gift.

And may I add, I am very proud of the two of us because we never had a fight about him or me being jealous of another person. We never had a problem about that. What can I say, we're both good BOOs. :)

It's also very flattering because the people around us always tells us stuff like "Basta imbitado ako sa kasal ha...", "Kayo, mag-break? Newsflash yun pag nagkataon", and blah-blah-blah... It's a very nice feeling knowing that people get inspired with what we have. Few of our friends even told us that we are a living proof that true love still does exist in the world today.

There's nothing nicer than seeing people care for you and care for what you have and be happy because they can see that you're happy or be sad because they can see you're sad. It's nice to affect people's lives.

How I really wish for others to discover this infamous blog because I really want the whole wide world (www - lol!) to know that...

I am happily in love and happily loved.
Four years and will keep on counting.