Free Movies, Yeay!

Yesterday was our quarterly team Cheers celebration. This event is done by every team here in my office. For our team, we were treated with a buffet of wonderful tasting cuisines.

The food was great!

There was also a raffle held for everyone. So, during speech time the winners were announced and I luickily won a pair of Golden Village tickets and a cash voucher for cinema treats.

I was really not expecting it because I know I am not the lucky in raffles. So when my name was called as part of the grand winners, I was smiling so hard.

Now, Doms and I have tickets to any movie that we want to watch.

We are only choosing among these movies to watch:

Oh Yes, I am Engaged

For our 3rd year anniversary. Doms and I planned for different things to do. I suggested we go to Hong Kong and Macau and he wanted to go to KL.

I searched endlessly for tour packages that suits our budget but unfortunately, we didn’t find any.

So, we went down to the plan of having two days of celebration.

Saturday, 24th October 2009
We planned to shop for our gifts. I bought Doms a pair of Lacoste shoes and he bought me a dress and a pair of shoes. We wore our new outfits in our special day.

Sunday, 25th October 2009
Doms and I went to Iluma Mall to watch Julie & Julia. The movie as so hilarious. I was surprised to see Doms liking the movie and actually laughing out loud in certain areas. After that, we went to the nearest church and heard our Sunday mass. I was thanking the Lord for how wonderful the person beside me is. Doms was the greatest gift that God gave me. Dinner came and we tried Thai Express in Iluma. The food was nice but we didn’t like the drinks that we ordered.

We decided to ride the bus going home so we can talk. The one-hour ride was heavenly! We talked about our future. We talked about our plans of getting our own place after getting married. I love it when Doms and I talk about our old age and how we will spend our life together.

We arrived home and did our usual ritual of playing Guitar tour in Doms’ iTouch. After that we do our next ritual of updating and training our creatures in the iPod application called Creatures.

While playing, Doms asked me, “Mahal mo ba ako?” I said, “mahal na mahal”. Then he asked, “Papakasalan mo ba ako?”, I said “maski paulit-ulit”. Then I hugged him. When I went back to watching him play Creatures, I saw it! The ring!

I was surprised and the only thing I said was “shit” and tears flowed out my eyes. I was so happy and excited that tears went out instantly.

Doms hugged me and kissed me and said “Ayan ha, papakasalan na kita”.

I immediately went to take my phone and took pictures of the ring and of me and Doms.

Here is a picture of my ring in the jewelry store’s website:

Day 1: Working Over Time

It’s day 1 without Doms. The person who was with me for more than 300 days is in the Philippines for a vacation. I forgot how it feels to miss somebody too much.

Shucks!

Well, to keep myself busy, I drowned myself with work. I arrived in my office around 8:50 am and left 9:10 pm. This is how I kept myself busy.

Tomorrow is another day. I plan to keep myself busy again, but I wont go over time!

I badly wish it’s Monday already!

OK, Let Me Erase That Thought

Last week was a bad week for me. I was so mad at Doms and I was being all dramatic about it. Well, that is expected already because believe it or not, what happened last week was really not a big deal. I couldn’t get myself to think that I was able to write 2 “angry” blogs about it.

Reason: It’s the time of month

So, let me erase that thought for you! Friday night, everything was back to normal already.

Now, I’m starting to feel bad again. You see, Doms will be having a vacation in the Philippines for 5 days, starting tomorrow. He will back Monday morning.

For the longest time, Doms was with me and I now I’m starting to panic because he will not be there for me for 5 days. That’s a long time!

I wish it’s Monday already so I Doms will be with me again.

To my Doms, I wish you enjoy your vacation. Take care!

Don’t Expect, Repeat… Don’t Expect

Just when I when I was about to give up, I got an email from the World Youth Day friends. They were mentioning about the next WYD to be held in France in the year 2011. I read the entire email!

You know, attending the WYD in Australia last year was my greatest ambition! I prepared for the interview and the other stuff so that I can pass the test and be part of our parish’s congration to Sydney. Thanks God I passed! I was so happy! But, as always, I was not able to join.

WHY?

Because I prioritized a lot of things first. I prioritized my work, the staibility of my finances and I prioritized our future.

Now, I’m thinking… Why did I prioritize those things? I should have prioritized the WYD because at least with this, I will be fulfilled. Prioritizing “others” just made me feel unsatisfied and this made me expect a lot of things because I thought that te “others” were prioritizing me.

You guessed right! I fell to the trap of hoping again. And this sucks!

Now, that I realized it, nothing that I was hoping to happen to me really happened. OK, let me just make it clear, I am talking about my personal life here. Not work, repeat, THIS IS NOT ABOUT WORK!

Shucks!

Expecting for people to feel the same way as me or react the same way as or PLAN the same way as me really disappoints me.

But how will you handle this?

So, Is This What You Want Me To Feel?

I have no choice.

What else do you want me to do? As if thinking was easy at that time.

It happened instantly, with no warnings! Even worse was that it happened in the middle of the street  while I was crossing. If you were with me, what will you do?

I know you too well.

If you were with me, instead of helping me, you’ll be mad at me. As if it was my fault. Instead of laughing with me and make fun of the incident, you’ll stomp your feet and say things to hurt me and blame me. If you were with me, instead of thinking of long-term solution, you’ll think of the easiest more convenient to YOU way to get out of the situation.

 I really know you too wel.

This happened many times before and I just keep everything to myself.

Now, I feel stuck, guilty, and sad. Just like what you want me to feel.

Why Am I Always Sleepy?

I’ve been asking this question quite often for the past months. No matter how long my sleep is, like 8 to 9 hours, I still gets sleepy when I wake up or when I’m at work already.

I don’t know why but I always feel tired and sleepy. Whether be it a weekday or a weekend. So I made I research about this. Here are the stuff that I collected.

Reasons why even a person gets enough sleep, he/she still gets sleepy and tired all the times:

1. Too much stress, anxiety or depression = This might be the cause of why I still feel tired even when I get enough sleep. I am a type of person who thinks too much about things happening around me and things that will happen. I try my very best not to think or worry about those things but I still think about them! I am not depressed though. I just think too much!
2. Adrenal Fatigue = “is a putative health disorder in which the adrenal glands are claimed to be exhausted and unable to produce adequate quantities of hormones, primarily cortisol. The term “adrenal fatigue” is a label sometimes applied to a collection of non-specific medically unexplained symptoms, but it is not a medical condition recognized by mainstream institutions. Adrenal dysfunction as identified by such institutions is termed adrenal insufficiency or Addison’s Disease.”
3. No excercise = We have a gym and a swimming pool in our condo, but still, I do not have excercise.
4. Lack of fruit and veggies vitamins = OK, OK, I hate veggies but I try to eat them.

Lumpiang Shanghai Galore

OK, so I managed to cook lumpiang shanghai last night, of course with the help of the people around me. Thanks to Gladys for de-frosting and thawing the ground pork at around 3:40pm. At least, it was unfrozen already when I arrived home. Also, thanks to my Doms for cutting and slicing the carrots, potatoes and onions for the shanghai and aso, for frying the wrapped shanghai.

As always, I forgot to take pictures of my wonderful creation, (huh?!?!). But, the picture below taken from http://tarakaintayo.blogspot.com seems similar to what I cooked last night.

Lumpaing Shanghai

It really tasted very well. For a begginer like me, I think my shanghai was 8 out of 10. Mainly because I lack ingredients like celery and the green leafy thingy that adds taste to the shnaghai. Also, I just realized that I potatoes are not really included in making shanghai. Oh well, it still added to the flavor.

Later, I will be trying the Adobong Chicken in Coconut Cream recipe that I saw online. I hope it’s successful.

Food Blog Idol

I really wish that sometime in my busy schedule, I can create a Food Blog. I love trying different types of food and I love writing about it. But, the thing is, I am not a good cook.

While searching for Filipino recipes in the internet, I came across a site where there are various recipes. I enjoyed reading her blog and I am excited to try one of her recipes. Here is the blog address:

http://pinoyfoodblog.com/

So with this, I created a food plan for week 5th Oct to 11th Oct for me and Doms. I will try my very best to stick to this food plan.

Just like y idol food blog, I will take pictures of menus and finished products and share it with everyone.

Time	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday	Sunday
Breakfast						Maling and Bread	Chicken hotdog and Bread
Lunch						Fried Tilapia	Lumpiang Shang-hai
Dinner	Limpiang Shang-hai	Adobong Chicken with Coconut Milk	Buttered Tanigue Steak	Marinated Liempo	Sinigang	Burger Steak with Mushroom Sauce	Afritada

I really hope I can prepare all these food properly. I also hope that they all taaste good.

Swimming Naman!

I really wish Doms and I can have the time ang the urge to try out our swimming pool. I’ve been telling him that we need to try and swim in the facilities included in the place where we live.