winter weather advisory: pain on the horizon

another snowstorm hit the east coast yesterday but instead of staying at home and grumbling that there's nothing to do, we drove over to pennsylvania at the poconos mountains to don our skis and hit the slopes. yes it was crazy driving the freeways on a weather like that, but doing it with friends makes it crazy fun.

it was already sundown when we arrived at the ski resort because we were trudging along the highway like sleepy turtles but we had the perfect weather for skiing. ok, maybe not, because it was snowing like crazy and was really really cold, but at least we had a fresh layer of powder on the ground.

we were supposed to take legitimate ski lessons because it was a first time for us girls, but because we arrived late, no more lessons were available. however that didn't stop us from renting skis and making fools of ourselves on the slopes. we made do with whatever ski knowledge the two guys who were with us could give but most of the time we were on our own. when it was our turn on the lifts, each one of us dropped like fallen dominoes because we didn't know how to land properly on our skis. we probably looked funny as hell, but we didn't care because lots of people were also falling on their asses everywhere you turn.

after about two hours of struggling with our skis, i would say that we had seen some improvement. i for one was able to ski down a slope without falling on my face and was able to stop on my tracks without resorting to using my ass as brakes. yay me! winter olympics here i come! he he he.

it was a fun weekend all in all, but it wasn't without a drawback. right now i am actually typing this post with very sore wrists and arms and legs... make that sore body. i was coughing all throughout the more than an hour drive back to new jersey. i was so tired i slept for 10 hours straight when i got back home. will i be donning skis again anytime soon? hell yeah! we have another trip planned next weekend off or maybe on february. pain? bring it on.

....and the cycle begins

happy new year to all!

here i am back ranting

so i am back from the philippines and it irritates me when people expect me to bring a boyfriend back from a 3 week vacation as if it were some kind of pasalubong that i am supposed to brandish out from my luggage. why can't they just be happy with the goldilocks polvoron and the ensaymadas? seriously.

don't they realize that i've got massages to be done at the spa, hair that needs to be rejuvenized at the salon, nephews and nieces that needs to be brought to the mall, "padalas" that need to be taken cared of, "mga pabili" on my list. i mean come on, the last thing on my mind is to grab me a guy and bring him back with me to new jersey. that is giving me way too much credit, to be able to get a boyfriend in three weeks tops. i may need a little more time than that.

anyway it's been bitter cold here since i came back. i got the scare of my life when we almost couldn't land at JFK airport at the height of this year's first snow storm. so now i'm back to the normal grind. here's to counting down the days till spring.

umuwi na tayo...hey, hey, hey!

god i can't wait!

on nudity and politics

i went to nyc with my friends last night to see daniel radcliffe in the nude. yes, just another one of those things we had checked off our bucket list (he he he).

so we were lulled to sleep during the first act, which isn't really hard to achieve being that we came from a previous 12 hour shift the night before. but boy did we woke up midway through the second half because the naked scene was way better than a shot of espresso. it was still hard to not think of daniel radcliffe as the harry potter boy who rode firebolts and replace that image with alan strang who orgasmed while riding a horse.

anyways, while walking through times square going back to the parking lot, we were talking about highly important stuff like the just released high school musical 3 and debating wether which shocked disney more, miley cyrus' topless pictures for vanity fair or vanessa hudgen's naked picture scandal? i'm telling you, at a time when america is faced with a choice between mccain and obama, we discuss things like this.

speaking of politics, this heard from a guy in times square:

"anybody wants mccain, obama and palin condoms?! mccain, obama and palin condoms...get it here! because either way, you're screwed!"



funny right? so i asked dennis to go ask the guy if he's giving it away for free and get me one of each (i wonder if he also has a biden variety?) turns out, it's for sale. for how much, he didn't even bothered to ask.

so here's hoping that americans will go out and vote on tuesday, and that they will choose someone who will not screw us over.

hollow inn

it's halloween, almost 5 in the morning and i am still up. i just changed my bedsheets a while ago so i really should be tempted to bury myself under my comforter. but i am not.

2 days ago it started snowing. uhuh... snow... in october. the night before that it rained hard and i was happy for the free car wash. my happiness over the freebie was shortlived however because i was scraping ice out of my windshield hours after. it's getting pretty depressing here these days. thank god for my upcoming vacation to the philippines.

i have started my countdown. i wonder how two years has changed my home?

fall is here...

...and it has arrived real quick. so here is a thought about falling or the not.

"you do not fall in love. you rise in love. that's how you love rationally."

almost but not quite

how do people make the leap from not mattering in each other's lives to mattering? that is the question. ambivalence is the word of the moment for me at this point and i hate it. i wanna be as decisive as i can be but i can't. maybe because i keep getting mixed signals or maybe i'm just reading too much into actions. certain people would say to enjoy the ride while it's there, while my cynical self would prepare for the inevitable blow when it's all over. which reminds me why i stayed away from stuff like this for the longest time.