they spell Christmas..

Christmas.
what really is it? do we seldom experience such hence we have trouble defining it?

when we were still kids, my parents used to tell me and my sister to hang our used socks or plastic bags outside the window coz Santa and his reindeer are 'coming to town' to give gifts to children who have been good all throughout the year.
we then happily oblige them and see to it that we are well-behaved that day.
i remember then that i can't sleep on thinking what would Santa give me.

*the best one i received was a train! complete with railroads and it's signs.. hah..hah =)

only to find out in the aftermath that Santa wasn't the one we're accustomed to see.


naka-duster gli si Santa. sagad-sagad sya magluto. sya gli na ang gabugtaw kada aga para magluto sang sud-an kag kan-on namun. kag and pinakanami sa tanan, NANAY ko sya! whitwhew!
=))


our Christmas celebration this year is simple. we are four in the family so celebrations and milestones tend to be celebrated the simple way. =)))
well, at least for them, they don't know about me. LOLS!
the three(mom & sister) of us went to church to hear the Misa de Aguinaldo.
the choir's really really go0d. 2 big thumbs up!
0ur noche buena? twas a last minute preparation because everybody was busy going everywhere that we forgot our own f0od! haha..
there were lotsa fo0ds this Christmas. it was all worth the cholesterol overload! Christmas is not the best time for dieting, i tell you.

*in the words of Pugad Baboy's Agadulfo "Dagul" Sungcal, 'the greatest adventure one could ever ride is discovering new things edible.'


i thank GOD for everything 'cause this one, is undoubtedly, the best Christmas celebration i ever had.
HAPPY YULETIDE SEASON!!!

P.S.
Christmas Day is three days over pro la ko man japun mabuksan regal0 k0!
this is wat u get if ur a lakwatser0.


= )

bef0re i ate our noche buena

if the Cath0lic Church has the Advent Season(4 Sundays) which is the preparation for the coming of our Savior, i have my own not-so-pious-4-day preparation too.
i won't retell everything that happened to my 'preparation' coz it will just eat your precious time(y0ur blogger, secretly, has a selective amnesia).


December 21 (Sunday)
me and my friends heard the mass together. and everyone who knows us knows where to find our 'sungays and ikogs'(haha..) after the mass.

NATIVE COFFEE!!!

*dont be misled by the restaurant's name. hokey? manang sells not just coffee. she sells all sorts of drinks your blood could ever accommodate. with the exception of course of vodkas, martinis, cognac(is that kog-nak? haha!). there's also a go0d selection of food and 'pulutan'.

we talked and drank the night away till i realized i had to get back home! the night is just flying away whenever we have our 'fat session'. =))

to my alcoholics anonymous buddies, cheers!


December 22 (Monday)
i woke up at 11:30 in the morning because i slept late in the morning. i spent the whole day in my room(the one i'm in love with right now..hehe!) reading Pugad Baboy series. THE BEST FILIPINO LITERARY PIECE. u know, i have this weird theory on my mind that Bob Ong and Pol Medina are just one person.

these stupid pseudonyms.
=)


December 23 (Tuesday)
christmas shopping is never late for beggars like us. so, me and some of my friends went somewhere to buy our Christmas presents for ourselves and our families to0. f0r once in my life, i knew what Christmas meant. the thing is, it's n0t what u give that matters, but the act of giving itself, without expecting anything in reciprocation.

h0key?
hehe!


December 24 (Wednesday)
we attended the wedding 0f my second cousin(maternal side). i served as a sp0ns0r. wtf?!
haha..

twas a good thing though that i got to see my relatives on my mother's side. they are always warm to me when they see us because i seldom go to occasions involving them. so there were lots of 'kamustahans' in the ayer ayer.


i forgot to tell u, my second cousin's just 18!

well, love knows no age.
=))

couch potato mode again :]

GENESIS 6:14
'build a boat for yourself out of good timber; make rooms in it and cover it with tar inside and out.'

familiar. ayt?

the w0rld knows what that verse is all about.

a b0at. a boat 450 ft long, 75 ft wide, and 45 ft high.
we're n0t talking 'bout Titanic here.
neither Supperferries 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10..and the list goes on. (haha! nahidlaw man ko magsakay liwat sa barko bah!)

it's Noah's ark.

---

last night i spent my time watching 'Evan Almighty'!!!(for the 3rd time.)

Morgan Freeman. AMAZING.

Steve Carrell. *yeahvah! simply the second funniest man in h0llywood!(c0z Billy Crystal's the funniest!)

i was laughing out my heart loud in every scenes and lines thr0wn by these tw0 men.
the storyline is working f0r this wretched world.
the effects are g0od. (especially that flood flood thang!)
i just can't help myself from laughing! (lols!)
it's not your usual slapstick movie.

and now, (drumroll please!)

the best lines:
(morgan freeman to Evan Baxter's(Carrell) wife)

'do you really think that God gives you patience when you ask for it? what He gives us is the opportunity to be patient.'
'do you think that God gives us courage when we ask for it? what He really gives us is the opportunity to be courageous.'


(and..)
the lesson i learned:

how do u change the world?
it's thru an everyday Act of Random Kindness.
A.R.K.

although it's a movie f0r those hey-don't-mention-to-anyone-i-was-drooling-out-laughing, THE MESSAGE IS THERE.

*my praise goes to everyone who conceptualized the movie..

for anyone who haven't watched it yet, buy a CD now! (sa may marymart may ara pirated! hahaha!)

h0pe i c0uld live up t0 that message! *smirk smirk
i'm trying! *sigh..
:]

practice makes ferfek.. :))

to say that i can't write, would put you 0n TIME magazine's 'understatement of the year' page.
so after 5 days of p0sting my very first bl0g, here i am.

extracting some ideas worth writing out of that blinking cursor on the monitor.
thinking.
typing.



what a lazy aftern0on.*yawn


th0se five days were spent logging in, logging out. and logging in and logging out again.

this blog has it's great deal of imperfections.
where to start at? the wrong-spelled title(webster told me it shud hav bin 'pensive')?
the lousy lay-out?
or the blogger's boring ideas?

arrianna huffington would agree.


amateur.
neophyte.
bottom of the blogworld food chain.

i am those.

ugh! always a LOSER. *sigh



BUT I'M PROUD OF THIS BLOG.

i n0w have three followers!

1. cheet! (grabeh excited ka gd ya mag Christmas noh? ga dulugo ilong ko basa sng p0st muh. haha! panu na lng b kung la ta ka gin greet sng last last birthday mo? mayu lng gd! talk about luck. haha..thanks for the friendship. tnx pa gd sa Goosebumps!, kag sa tanan nga buks. :]

2. MB had a good start. (kudos t0 U! just keep on writing! :])

3. and there's antoniette. ( naubusan man ko dugo bah! mayu lng gna translate8 mu. haha! hu0 bal-an ko inspired ka mag sulat ah! :])

*pang recruit pa gd kmu ha?! kay may prizes daan at the end of the year..

plantsa nga de oling.
kaldero.
takure.
palayok.
flower base.
band-aid.
betadine.
one sack of rice.
one sack of asin.
kag kutsara kag tinidor.

0key sa olrayt! haha!

depende na gling sa numbers of recruits ny0!

ang may pinakadamu, RPS ang ihatag k0!

ang first edition!

wuhahahaha!

jokers! hehe! :]



and let me end my 2nd post with sumthing to ponder.

"practice makes perfect they say, so just write."
thanks ma'am rems. :]



that's the thing about cliches.
they never lie.
:]

blog virgin no more

s0 this is my first ever bl0g.

what n0w?



i'm really n0t that g0od in writing.
i'm n0t witty, and n0t that very smart.
n0t c0unting my p0or v0cabulary.
i need help!
lol..

so wat made me create this bl0g? u ask.


*thinking..

*thinking..



n0w i'm running out of words!

haha!

maybe i c0uld tell y0u next time! the next time when my neurons start t0 bombard my brain with ideas w0rth writing.




*i'm just really out of words! pard0n me. halata man d ba?! =)