how do you hold on to someone you've never met?

quotes from the movie il mare:


"There are three things a person can't hide... coughing, poverty and love. The harder one tries to hide them, the more they rise to the surface."


"We're tormented because love goes on... not because it goes away.



waaaaaah! i wanna bawl my eyes over these quotes. tell me, why did i have to watch that movie again?

can you tell me how to get... how to get to sesame street?

another lazy sunday that never was lazy in my opinion. i woke up at 9 in the morning after only 4 hours of sleep. i never really had any concrete plans for this day except for hannie and i to hear mass on a church we've never been to before which is a 45 minute drive from home. the 45 minutes became an hour and a half no thanks to my penchant for being lost on the interstate. needless to say we never arrived in time for the mass. but we had fun anyway.

after the whole getting lost on the way to church thing, we decided to go to sesame place where some of the guys we know are spending their weekend. so off to sesame place we go.

sunny day sweepin' the clouds away

on my way to where the air is sweet

can you tell me how to get

how to get to sesame street ?

come and play, everything's a-okay

friendly neighbors there, that's where we meet

can you tell me how to get

how to get to sesame street?

going to this place made me reminisce on my sesame street watching days. although i'm more of a batibot kid when i was in grade one, i also had my dose of sesame street on some mornings. although most kids are a fan of elmo nowadays, i still like the more vintage characters like grover, the count, the fat blue guy, big bird (how phallic!), oscar the grouch (who is only 10% grouchier than me), guy smiley and of course ernie and bert (who were rumored to be homosexuals...gasp!).

it was all good. i never did a lot of driving than i did on this entire day. now i'm all exhausted and ready to drift off to la la land. i wouldn't be surprised if someone hears me sing "c is for cookie...that's good enough for me..." in my sleep. until the next post.

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this post is brought to you by the letters F, U and N and the number 1.

floatin' like a cadillac...stingin' like a beamer

i got cancelled from work today...wooohooo! that means precious hours i could spend updating my blog, vaccumming (yeah! i'm so looking forward to doing this one), frying my brains in front of the tv and just plain bumming around. but i won't celebrate too much lest i get called in by the nursing supervisor in the middle of the night. please god, noooooo!

anyway, let me tell you the last thing i did for the first time. i went out and watched a movie by myself. yep, you heard it right...by myself. now, i've done this in pinas loads of times but not in these united states. so 3 days ago i had nothing better to do than sulk in the living room and watch those big ass mansions shown on mtv cribs when i realized i haven't seen a movie in weeks. so off i went to the theaters and watched the eight o'clock screening of cars and loved every minute of it. there i was, a 29 year old kid at heart with my nachos and soda, sitting in the middle of the movie theater surrounded by kids with their mom, kids with their dad, kids with their mom and dad among others. i definitely had fun being alone to say the least.

now on to the movie... cars like any other pixar movie was an eye candy with lovable characters like the hippie volkwagen van fillmore, the italian fiat luigi and his sidekick guido and of course who wouldn't love mater for his body? i mean...come on...he he he... watching this movie made me wish for cuervo (my CRV) to spring to life and have his own character and say those witty lines said in the movie. if that happens, i would have a heart attack.

ok, gotta get back to cleaning the apartment.

kachow!

because it's all about me

wala lang...i'm just trying out this slide show maker courtesy of jan reine. aliw!

florida trip no more

okay so G and i will never be able to go to florida this week... boo hoo! apparently gina's schedule is as changeable as her mind is he he he. so instead of spending my money on some overcrowded theme park (can you sense the bitterness?) i'd rather spend my time going to the gym and get my money's worth. also lined up for my things to do this week (not necessarily in order) is to attend a christening, watch the da vinci code, go to new york to renew my passport, update my neglected blog, read the books i brought from the philippines, do my laundry and of course tidy up my ever disorganized room.

today me and one of my housemate went to buy some provisions for the house and decided to watch a movie. (aside: i mentioned that i was going to watch united 93 on my last post...well i did and i cried buckets of tears (exxage!)... i loved the movie but hated the fact that a couple of americans most probably in their 50's were giggling by the time the credits were rolling. insensitive. yes. end aside.)

anyway, upon learning that we had an hour an fifteen minutes to kill before the movie starts we decided to make tambay (how conio!) at borders. like i always do these days when i go to borders i, i got nick hornby's paperback of a long way down and settled myself on one of the couches by the cd shelves. after an hour i was halfway through the book. to nick hornby fans, i suggest you secure yourself a copy. it's an interesting book about 4 strangers facing varied kinds of problems who decided to end their life on the same night atop the same building. it's funny and sad with the usual hornby humor that people learned to love. i'd still have a couple more trips to borders before i finish it though...he he he.

now on to some things that i am contemplating about. o di ba? contemplating...big word. akala mo kung ano nang major life changing decision ang pinagiisipan ko he he. actually i'm just thinking if i should buy a guitar and continue to get frustrated about learning to play or give myself a bonk in the head and stop procrastinating about my pediatric certification application. basta i'm getting lazy these days that my mails have been piling up on my desk. i want to be always up and about, to do things this summer, to learn something new, to go places, to be on two places at the same time with enough energy to spare....alam nyo yon? i just wanna make the most out of every minute of my day and the exact opposite is happening. can somebody hand me a redbull?

eksayted

at about this time i'd love to be in new york, what with the weather being so nice and lovely and of course the tribeca film festival kicking off this week. but i have to spend my weekend working, which is a bummer. times like these, i remember my sister, who i know would enjoy watching those foreign films with me. in a way, it's a good thing i'm busy with work because i don't have a movie buddy to enjoy watching with.

speaking of movies, i am excited to see the movie united 93 ever since it stirred a lot of talks after it was previewed at the tribeca film festival. i heard a lot of people were speechless and in tears after seeing the movie. i'm going to try and catch it after the weekend.

i am currently keeping my fingers crossed that G's schedule will fall into place so that our planned florida trip would happen. i have already set aside six days for the trip and hoping that i'd have enough budget to spend those six days on what they call the happiest place on earth. ano pa nga ba, eh di disneyland! the possibility of not going still looms on the horizon and i'd be totally disappointed if we wouldn't be able to go but the money i would save by not going would be most welcome.

so, whatever happens...happens.

missed

it's been weeks since i came back from my davao vacation. ngayon lang ulit ako nakapag-blog ng matino. kumusta naman yon?

anyways, i thought that 4 weeks of vacation was enough for me. was i ever wrong! this vacation made me realize that i could use up all my PTO's, my holiday time offs and add to that the days on my extended sick bank and it would still not be enough for me. i am like torn between wanting to stay in davao and yearning to be back to the life that i'm beginning to get used to in america. *sigh* i guess we can't have the best of both worlds.

now on to the things that i miss...

i miss playing with my nephew. i miss when he would convince me to stay in their room and play with him and his numerous toys and when i'd get tired of playing, he would become this relentless little boy who would convince me to play some more as if i was the best playmate ever.

i miss the pandesal nights when we would be trying our hands out at piling pandesal dough on trays and the days that en-en and i would spend tending the mini bakery thinking of hilarious names for breads such as "choco something", "pan de cheverlu" and "cheesy chuvaness", among others.

i miss hanging out with my cousins be it at the beach playing labo-labo billiards.

at the arcade hogging all the bumpcars for ourselves and irritating the guy manning the controls.

or even at the memorial park hanging out with our departed "mamay".

i can't believe how grown up some of my cousins have become. some have actually graduated from college and have their own jobs now, while the others have moved on to college. these guys are the ones that used to hog our computer playing counter strike and starcraft whenever we have family gatherings in the house. now they talk about their lovelives or the lack thereof over redhorse and chichacorn.

these little things i miss. the constant interaction with the people i've grown up with and the people who are growing up, with me missing the fun of it all. i guess it's the principle of giving up one thing for another. we can't have it all. that best explains it.

i believe i am getting senti again, so i better end this post now.

ang utan na kayang bayaran

we were walking around matina town square one night looking for bargain finds at the mini tiangges that somehow came about like mushrooms in the area when we suddenly felt like eating at TAPS.

when i was in high school, the only TAPS i knew was the one on ilustre street or what is now known as duterte street. when i got to college and during my stint in davao medical center, more TAPS came about on different streets in davao city. i never knew that there was a branch now in matina where MTS is located and things haven't changed much.

anyway, TAPS has been serving "silogs" way before kiddie meals and happy meals were available in davao city. wala pa'y jollibee og mcdo niadtong mga panahona. that is why eating at TAPS that night kinda made me remember my high school days when we would troop over to the ilustre branch and order whatever "silog" we fancy just right after window shopping at gaisano ilustre.

so while waiting for our orders of lekasi (lechon kawali at sinangag) and primasilog (pritong manok, sinangag at itlog), my sister and i amused ourselves at the rest of the "silogs" on their menus.

me: miss unsa man nang tatosi?
waitress: tapa, tosino at sinangag.
sister: aw, abi nako'g naay libre tatoo samtang gakaon ta'g sinangag.

(katawa pud mo uy!)

digression aside, the thing that caught my fancy while we were dining at TAPS was their ad poster for what they call "ang utan na kayang bayaran". the intended pun surely didn't miss me.

the poster read:

Sweet Pikol Express

P10 lang - ang utan na kayang bayaran

Ang bag-ong pampagana sa TAPS nga tag-P10 lang: Pickled cucumber, onion, ampalaya, carrot & ubod. Tam-isun ug aslumun... makapaspas ug kaon!

things like these crack me up, but it surely makes me wanna be home more often.

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