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my life is sunny.

the weekend that was had been a lovely one. as always.

happy happy joy joy happy happy. bliss!!!!!

life is ONEderful.

but i’m not saying that my life is perfect. i still have worries and concerns, i am still angsting over a lot of things, i’m still pobre, i still have a lot of work to do in my life, and i still have to find a cause larger than myself.

however, everything’s really going well. great, in fact.

which made me realize, that this is how it should be. the greater part of life, after all, is sunshine. ü

59 days to go…

My roommate once: brought home quite a number of petri dishes with cultured icky-nesses on them and stored them in our fridge for weeks on end. them damn bio majors! ü
Never in my life have I: gone deep-sea fishing. not that i’d really love to try.
If you spend the night at my house: you will complain of cold (my aircon unit has an unregulatable temperament), you will oversleep (it’s so dark you’d think it’s evening even at noon), you won’t go hungry (the fridge and the pantry is well-stocked, thanks to a wonderful chef of a boyfriend, finally someone who is responsible) and you will stay up late (gabfest till the wee hours of the morning).
High School was: a myriad of fun, drama, and heartache.
When I’m nervous: i get sweaty palms.
By this time next year: i will hopefully be home preparing for something wonderful. ü
Take my advice: if you don’t know what you’re talking about, then STFU. you hear?
If I could have any car, it would be: any model of kompressor.
When I was 5: i already knew how to spell ‘czechoslovakia’. wait… that was when i was 4. when i was 5, i was getting ready for grade school.
Last Christmas I: i made peace with the only person with whom i had a hang-up in my life.
Last summer I: grew a backbone; let go of a lot of bullshit, and learned to love myself. i also discovered the true value of Value, and realized that: all of them were drafts, i have found my masterpiece.
I should be: packing! but instead, i am going out of town. harrrr!!!
The last time I was drunk: was last saturday. downed 3 bottles of red horse. on a semi-empty stomach.
The craziest recent event was: our kopi roti discussion. it was life-moving. ü
And by the way: things are falling into place. surrender, surrender, surrender!
Sometimes, when no one is around, I: walk around the house in my underwear.
My favorite relative is: my Uncle Father.
I have a hard time understanding: people who are truly mean and irresponsible and vindictive and unforgiving and hypocritical. jeez. grow up and let go.
You know I "like" you if: i go out of my way to show you my appreciation.

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i’m tagging: santa claus. santa claus is lovable and generous, and spreads joy and things to hope for to all the little kiddies in the whole wide world.

i can’t wait for christmas!!!

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a pic that says a thousand words.

well, it says only two words to me.

what does it say to you?

*tee hee*

drowned by my “to-do’s”

whew.

back online after 2 long weeks of blog hiatus. my life is in a frenzied state right now. wait, that’s not entirely true. let’s just put it this way: my thoughts are in a frenzied state right now.

i have severalillion things to do, but i’m so pressed for time. so many places yet to visit, but the hours rush in a blur.

i have created checklists in my mind, yet i haven’t done even a quarter of them. so, there. anyone up for purchasing a not-really-used-that-much-coz-i-turn-all-my clothes-pink-whenever-i-use-my-washing-machine (6kgs capacity, rust-proof)? or a 6-year-old, has-served-me-really-well 14in samsung colored tv set (i’d throw in a 10-meter cable wire for an illegal cable connection too)? a hot and errr… room temperature water dispenser (the cold switch got busted)? a closet (sans my clothes of course)? a single metal black bed (which can accommodate two)? and… other knick-knacks. i’ll probably have to make a complete list, no? or we can do it the other way around. ask me if i have something you want, and if i have it and am ready to let it go, then let’s do business, beybeh. contact me if you’re interested. see to appreciate. i can probably throw in a snack and regale you with funny stories. let’s laugh at skeletor. ha ha. that cracks me up everytime. see? i’m getting crazier by the minute.

so watels?

i’m going home to cotabs in a few weeks’ time. and stay there till five days before my flight to the land of roos. hopefully, i won’t drive my family insane during my stay. and hopefully, i’d get to meet up with friends while i’m there. (calling all victors. isn’t tintin coming home for christmas?) again, home. which reminds me, i have to check the rates for tristan and luanne’s flight to iloilo from cotabs (via davao and cebu)!!! freakish. whee. this is going to be an interesting vacation. and that was an understated understatement.

meanwhile, my office files need to be turned over properly. i have to meet up with other manila friends before i go. i am going to clark with my officemates and the boyfriend this weekend, which hacks off two more days from my "packing my life" regimen. seigfred and i have to check out the rest of the interesting places to visit and to eat in from my "interesting places to visit and to eat in list". have to sort out important files to bring with me, and files to leave behind but not throw, and files to burn. have to arrange the piles of books i’m taking with me, books i’m leaving to seigfred, to gid, to lesley and to bring home (and books to return! and to those books borrowed from me, you may keep them, wala ng pag-asang maisoli pa, i know). burn cds. decide on which shoes and bags to bring, which trinkets to pack, which clothes, which everything! waaaah. chaos, i’m telling you.

i try not to be affected by it. so i sip on a cup of coffee and nibble on new faves (kopiroti kopi bun and kaya toast), take my sweet time talking and dreaming with my christmas man, and nurture my budding love affair with haruki murakami.

ciao.

before i go…

just an extremely quick post.

i shall be leaving in a few. off to a (hopefully) better life. (but seriously, can it be better than this?) ü

currently setting my affairs in order. i found out just recently when i was sorting out my pc files that my nintendo simulation wasn’t working. sheesh. and it bugged the hell out of me. eniweis, enough whining already.

might be putting up a garage sale soon. for my appliances, and gazillions of bags and other knick-knacks. any interested participants?

will be transferring to a new blog home too. just to, you know, make everything cohesive. a fresh everything.

seigfred said, time flies and you have got to fly with it. yeah well, let me stretch my wings for a bit and watch me glide. to next year. *wink, wink*

so, people. i might be leaving before christmas, if i can’t help it. otherwise, i’ll be off next year, first week.

if we have some unsettled business, call me. hehe.

ü hug someone today ü

grab a tissue and watch this video.

i have always loved to hug. sometimes, i find hugging even more wonderful than kissing. being touchy-feely, i find that unspoken words sometimes get voiced out through caresses and pats.

one of these days, i am giving this campaign a try. ü

go ahead, hug someone today!

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can’t wait to get home! i need my hug fix.

lost by two

an excerpt from mary’s song:

"through joys and years

through the laughing years

we sing our battle song

win or lose, it’s the school we choose

this is the place where we belong."

boohoosniffleweepweep. we lost by 2. ka-tsak.

oh well. it’s all good. i feel bad for lesley though, who watched the game live, and sacrificed her precious sleeping hours, who texted me afterwards "naiyak ako, grabe."

God may not have been wearing blue that day (hey eric!).. but that doesn’t change the fact that college gave me 4 of the best years of my life. and that the academe molded me to try to become a woman for others.

pero… talo pa rin, shets! buti na lang hindi ako nanood.

joining the bandwagon: tagged by eric the peregrino

1. How often do you blog? i don’t really keep a schedule. i just write and write and write.

2. Online Alias: lusciouslei. somebody called me this a few years ago and it stuck. when i get to start my new blog, i’ll change it to something that will totally be a mind-blower, and something that would represent me more, i s’pose.

3. Have you ever stood up for someone you hardly knew? not yet. i’m not really combative and choleric. but i do have my limits.

4. What do you do most often when you are bored? hah. find ways to amuse myself. read a book, write prose or poetry, travel, people-watch, have uncomfortable interesting and intelligent conversations.

5. When bathing, which do you wash first? my hands. then my hair. then everything else.

6. Have you ever been awake for 48 hours straight? yeah. then i slept my life away for the next couple of days.

7. What color looks best on you? my mom likes pinkish colors on me. i like red and black. but i always get "bagay sa yo yan" comments whenever i’m in olive green. seigfred likes me in neutral and nude colors. *ubo ubo*

8. What’s your favorite alcoholic drink? nothing beats strawberry vodka with sprite or tequila rose. oh, and wild turkey with cola.

9. Do you believe in heaven and hell as a real place that each of us will go to after death? i think heaven is. but i’m not so sure about hell though. coz i think there’s nothing worse than eternal damnation and emptiness.

10. Do you find that you have more online friends than offline friends? nope. but i found some of the greatest people online.

11. What was your favorite subject in school? most of my major subjects, all english-related subjects, and i particularly liked theology with bobby guevarra and all my philo subjects.

12. Are you a perfectionist? let’s just say that i’d rather go after excellence than perfection.

13. Do you spend more than you can afford? not really. i try to keep track of my expenses (operational word is ‘try’). and cease to spend when i deplete my funds.

14. Is it better to have loved and lost than never to have loved before? it’s better to have loved, been hurt and to love again. as i always say ‘nagmahal ka, di ka talo’. yahoooo!! cheesiness.

15. Do you consider yourself creative? in a wordy sort of way.

16. Do you give yourself the credit you deserve? most of the time, yes. and the rest of the time? i celebrate in advance. hehe.

17. Do you donate time or money to charities? not anymore. back in college, i did. ironic.

18. Have you recently done something yourself that you’ve criticized others for doing? much to my dismay, yeah. so nail me to a cross. blech.

19. What’s on your mind right now? the outline of the book i’m trying to write. and "you’re naked, wearing nothing, and it looks good on you… smash into me, crash… collide." portions of a poem that begs to be finished.

20. Say one nice thing about the person who tagged you and the five people that you are going to tag:

eric - met him through my college roomie, earl. he’s always sunny, and very smart.

i’m tagging:

lesley - who loves memes. she’s fiercely protective, and dearly loyal to her friends.

kris - who regularly updates her blog. kris is oftentimes jolly, and i love sharing snippets of mischief with her.

sheryl - who is in desperate need of an update. sheh is gracefully serene. one of my soul sisters. possesses an inner strength that belies her frailty.

karenkristie - who is also fond of memes. KK is a trueblue geekette, and that makes her adorable.

adrian - who collects an assortment of mishmash in his blog. ace has a special talent. one that is highly unbloggable. and that makes him the ‘butt’ of the jokes. pun intended.

up and down and round again

the pen may be mightier than the sword, but the spoken word erases the ugly ink squibbles and recounts the heroic tales behind every scar and wound.

Reunited

Assuuuusss

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