So hard to update lately. Our internet connection has been acting up and it's pretty slow to surf the net. It's actually keeping me awake at late nights because it takes too long for me to watch my shows, sometimes, I don't get some sleep at all. I guess it's a good thing that most of my shows are on Christmas break already.

Anyhoo, there's nothing much keeping me busy. My mom and my younger brother's birthday passed by and we had a lot of food here in the house.

I took our car out for a drive last Tuesday and got in a little accident while parking in our own garage. I kinda scratched the side of the car and it's pretty big.How stupid. I'm in big trouble.

I can't wait for Saturday. We're going to a bazaar in the World Trade Center like we have been doing in the past few years. Hopefully, I could find myself something nice.

Our internet has been very annoying lately. It becomes slow even if the connection is supposedly fine. Every time I download, it transfers files at a very slow pace, sometimes, it doesn't even reach 1.0 kb and I don't know why. I think our router is still fine and I think it might be a problem with PLDT because the other computers are also experiencing the same thing. I'm just thankful a lot of my shows are not showing new episodes this week.

My dad has also started to annoy me even more by sleeping in my room even though everybody has been cured of sore eyes already. That's why I'm gonna try to sleep early tonight before he does. I hope he gets the message that he can't use my room everyday.

Driving lessons is over!yey!

It ended quite well. I had a good drive in the final day of the lessons though there are still things I could improve on but I think I could drive well now. The only problem is that there's no car to drive which is why I have to find a job ASAP so I can save some money to buy myself a good car.I can't believe I have accomplished something I've been wanting to do so for a long time.

Last Thursday, I went to my former office and took my last pay and Certificate of Employment. I can't believe I got a fairly big amount for my last pay so I'm very happy. Though most of the money will be spent on a concert ticket for Taylor Swift's upcoming concert here in Manila next year. After that, I met up with Brian and we watched Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows at G4. We were surprised that not a lot of people were watching but then again, we watched at noon where a lot of students were still at school and people in their offices. The movie was great!My entire childhood just flashed to my head and emotions can't be fit in this blog. This would be part of history and the worst thing is, we have to wait for eight more months for part 2!:(

This past week has been crazy. I have finally started to do what I wanted to do for quite a long time--learn how to drive. Last Saturday, I enrolled myself in a driving school in Bicutan called Polaris. I took a tricycle and had difficulty looking for it, not knowing what the place looked like. It was near SM Bicutan so I started looking from there. I found the place nearby and to my surprise, the office was smaller than my tiny room. The lady was nice. I wanted to start but I had to get a student permit first in the LTO which they brought me to last Monday. I enrolled myself in the 7 hour program so my actual lessons started last Tuesday until Wednesday this coming week.

I thought getting a student permit was gonna be quick. I arrived there at around 10:30. There were quite a number of people there as well who were either getting a permit/license or for renewal. I accomplished the application form quickly and they gave me a number so I would wait for them to call me. I waited for a long time and people started to flock but the office was very slow in calling out numbers. To my dismay, it was already noon and just when I was the one who was going to be called, they announced a lunchbreak! Good thing there were food stores beside the LTO so I ate my lunch there. I quickly went back to the waiting shed where a lot of people were coming back as well. Finally, my number was called. I found out I made a mistake in the form as I didn't include my third name out of habit so that delayed me for a while but at least they waited for me instead of calling another number. After paying the fees and waiting in the heat, I finally headed home and me and my mom went to Makati. I watched You Again at Greenbelt.

The following day, I arrived just in time for the lesson. I was expecting that there was a lecture first but the driver, who looks intimidating, just gave me the car keys right away and ordered to follow him to the car. I initially headed to the passenger seat thinking the lecture was gonna be in the car but he gave me a weird look and took it as a sign to go to the driver's seat. He asked me to check the car first, the seats, side mirrors, etc. Good thing I read a few things about driving the night before because he asked me instantly about the pedals and shiftstick without really explaining them deeply. It took me a while before I got the right thing to do and we actually drove around the area after learning the basics. It was fun but nervewrecking. My legs even started shaking wildly which was kinda embarrassing. The car would often die in the middle of driving because I unconsciously press/release the clutch quickly/heavily. I actually know everything in my head but when executing them, I start to panic, like I usually do. After the first day ended, I felt relieved we were still alive!

The following day, it rained so hard and my time schedule was set late in the day. I almost thought of rescheduling but when the rain calmed down, I hurried and arrived a little late. We drove in the same area again in Betterliving but I didn't imagine I would improve so fast, even the driver could not believe it. The hour went smoothly as I was getting into the groove and felt more relaxed while driving.

The third day was almost the same, if not even better. We drove in service road and somewhere in Sucat. The rain seemed to follow me as heavy rain poured in the middle of the lesson and started to calm down as the day went on.

The fourth day, it was what I was scared off. I flopped and started making mistakes I had in the first day. The car would stop sometimes like it did because of the clutch. The driver was clearly disappointed and asked me what was wrong and I didn't know what to answer. It's not like I could tell him that it's natural for me to suddenly flop in the middle of improving.

The lessons resume on Monday morning and hopefully, I could bounce back big time.

In other news, Harry Potter will start regular showing next week and in anticipation, I decided to re-read book 7 again. Hopefully, I could watch it next week even though I know a lot of people are going to watch so I'm sure I can't watch it on the first day:(

Also, my younger brother unfortunately caught sore eyes so some people are staying in my room to sleep so I can't go to my own room for quite some time now. What a bummer.

Last Saturday,during the eve of Halloween, we ate out at Silk which is in Serendra for my aunt's birthday. We were supposed to eat in another restaurant but the other restaurants are so full so we ended up in that resto. They serve Thai food and it was good. Many of them haven't seen me for a long time so I got what I expected, a handful of questions asking me about my job and where I want to work soon. I honestly didn't know what to tell them because I haven't really thought about it but my mind has come across ideas of working for radio stations or concert productions, that sounds way better than my previous job. Speaking of it, I have talked to my former officemates lately and found out things have gotten worse over there. I'm just glad that I got out of there earlier or else I might be stuck in the company.

I already called the driving school where I plan to study driving and I might start tomorrow. I'm both excited and nervous. Especially today when it started raining hard. I'm hesitating if I should start tomorrow already since I'm available anytime so it won't hurt if I do it on Monday. Though what hurts is that I'm gonna pay for it all which will cost me more than 3K:( But I do hope it's worth it. I'm getting butterflies in my stomach and I have zero knowledge about cars!

So good luck to me!

My lola's sister celebrated her birthday at a restaurant called Omakase last night. The resto was located somewhere in QC. It was near the GMA7 building. Several relatives of ours came. Unfortunately, I have no idea who they were since I only see them once a year usually and I don't even get to interact with them because the clan is so big. But I still had a good time. The food was great. There was a celebrity who was eating in the same restaurant and my cousin had his pic taken. She was a Brazilian celebrity who apparently appears on Eat Bulaga but I don't get to watch tv anymore so I didn't know who she was. But she was beautiful though.

I should be taking things more private now. My mom bought a power supply for my old laptop and it's now working again and she just made a facebook account!So I have to be private all the time.

It's almost a month since I have quit my job and it's surprising that I'm still tired despite the fact that I'm mostly at home the entire time. I need to stop stressing myself and really take this period to rest while I can. I'm feeling the pressure to get a job already even if I don't want to. I am not really doing much recently so I don't have anything to update...so that's all for now!

It kinda sucks that my room is right beside the dirty kitchen. I'm very hungry and whatever our helper is cooking is oozing here in my bedroom through my window. I can't see what exactly is being cooked but I think I might be disappointed when I see the food when it's cooked. Don't you just hate it when you can smell the aroma of the food then when you see it, it's something you don't eat at all? I get that a lot but I hope not tonight since I'm starving. But what's more annoying are the sounds from the radio outside. They're tuned into a station that plays music that I don't like so I have to raise my volume when I listen to something and if I'm not, it's just plain annoying.

I've been stuck here in the house for a whole week and as much as I love chilling, I am looking forward to going out. I might accompany my mom tomorrow at the DFA because cellphones are not allowed within the premises so I'll have to carry it with me while she's doing her business. I'm looking forward to eating out.LOL. But we have to leave very early in the morning so I hope I can survive that.

Went to the dentist earlier to start off the day to have some things done on my teeth since I was already due. The whole thing went fast and I was done in less than an hour. Watched another happy episode of Modern Family after and continued downloading this Asian movie that I'm going to watch later. It's a sequel to a movie that I watched over at youtube. I liked the first one so I decided to download this one. It's a gay movie about two guys, one is openly gay while the other one is straight but they became close friends. It reminds me of my thesis so I enjoyed watching it. The first movie is called Permanent Residence and its follow-up is called Amphetamine. I actually got worried when I downloaded it because after loading it, there was no subtitles so I had to look in the net for downloadable subtitles. Fortunately, I found one:)

I watched Eat Pray Love last Saturday. I was a little hesitant to watch it because I found a lot of negative reviews from people who have seen it. Even I was bored when I watched a trailer, despite it being a Julia Roberts movie. I was surprised that the theater was almost jam-packed. Even the line was long. I assumed it was because it's a Saturday and a lot of people are going out, it still gave me hope that the movie is good. The movie was pretty okay. It was dragging in the middle and some scenes could be deleted.

It's almost a week since I left my job and you'd think that I'll be posting more regularly. I guess that's wrong.

My uncle who stays in China came here to the Philippines to have a short vacation and we had lunch along with my lola, my tita and my mom. We ate at Mesa restaurant in GB5. The food was good and we went around the mall after just to look around then had a delicious desert of froyo at Qoola, also at GB5. After we separated ways with them, my mom went to the gym as usual and I looked around. Just the other day, I spent the whole day watching all my shows and the net loaded very slow so I got fed up and decided to get a new router. My mom was initially hesitant to buy so I tried to look for the cheapest one as I went around the mall. I tried to check CD-R king again and even though I've asked them before if they were selling an antenna for routers and getting negative results, this time, the saleslady said they had one and I was relieved as she told me that it works for any brand, since every time I ask at any CD-R King branch, the response was their antennas were only for the CD-R King brand.I'm glad the saleslady that time was nice and did not lie. So I got my mom to buy an antenna for a much cheaper price than getting a new router.

Alos, I also looked for a boombox and guess what, I got to convince my mom to get me one that day!It was kinda cheap, just around P1.5K and the salesguy gave a discount so we got it at a lower price. Now I have a radio/cd player at my room:D

My first week of being jobless has been pretty good so far. I feel no rush to wake up early in the morning to watch my shows cause I can watch them during the entire day.

There is no adjective to describe how I'm feeling right now. I've been waiting for this and have been blogging about it for a long time and the time has come. As you all know, I resigned from the company and I'm supposed to leave on Oct. 30 but last Wednesday, our big boss told me that I'll only stay until yesterday and now I'm unemployed and loving it.

I don't know why my stay got short, my boss just talked to me and said he wants to move my last working date earlier. It was surprising as I only had 2 more working days after that day and I didn't have the chance to have a farewell to all my officemates, not that I have a planned send-off celebration though. And my plans got ruined a little, but an early vacation wouldn't be so bad though.

I already told my mom about my plan of going to driving school and she was okay with it. Now we have to look for where I would study.

So now, I'm going to enumerate some of the major and minor things I've learned and experienced during my stay, both good and bad.

1. Commuting in the wee hours of the day. I've learned that there are public transpo very early in the morning as well as very late at night. Though it wasn't pleasurable as the quantity of public vehicles pales in comparison to regular hours, I was able to survive or else I'll be poor from taking a cab every day.

2. Budgeting my expenses. Somehow, I got to deposit some money in my bank account which I didn't do so before because I had no money coming in. But I've learned that I spend exactly P101 for commute going to and from work. I've limited myself to cheap snacks and also bring food from the house for daily meals which allows me to save more money.

3. Less expenses for miscellaneous. Believe it or not, I only spent some money for clothing this week after I learned of my early departure. I spent money on two shirts that was on sale and that's the only time I spent money I've earned from work on clothes. Though I admit that I spent some money in the earlier months for some things that could have been avoided like watching movies every week in the theaters which I could have watched on dvd like I've been doing recently. But I'm pretty satisfied of my spending ways(or lack of it)

4. Books, books, books. I read a total of 6 books during my stay, that would make it a book per month. I know that's not as many as other bookworms out there but I only read when I have free time in the office plus I only buy books when they're on sale so I don't have a lot of chances to buy a lot of books when there is no sale.

5. Bypassing FB and Twitter. Now I know there are proxy sites but they are blocked in the office too but I learned how to bypass the blocked sites, or at least some of them.

6. Accessories. Since I haven't bought any new clothes during my stay, I made up for it by creating new accessories by using old stuff so they're old but made new in a different way:)

7. Movies. I don't know how many movies I've watched on theaters and dvd but I'm pretty sure it's more than 10.

8. Music. Oh how much I have listened to so many artists during work.

9. I've listened to so many messages from different people in the US and UK and now I've learned a bit more about them.

10. Walk in the city. Despite wanting to get a car, when I'm assigned in a night shift, it's nice to walk from the mall going to the office, listening to music and have some time to contemplate about a lot of things.

There are probably a lot more but I should probably list more in the following blogs so I have something to talk about while I'm a bum:P

I did not realize that I haven't blogged for more than a week now. As you know, our work shifts in the office got a bit lighter but it's mainly because I've been spending my free time on watching all the shows I've watched which I've successfully done so and haven't missed out on an episode so far. Tomorrow, three more shows will be returning and that will be the last shows returning this month. I'm so excited for it. My usual routine is going back to normal.

Aside from those, I've been trying to spend my free time off from work by doing tasks I have been doing for so long such as burning a bunch of songs into blank cds and also try to think of what to spend my money on aside from driving lessons.

Btw, I submitted my resignation letter yesterday at the office and made it official that I only have 5 more weeks of work which I'm looking forward to.

One thing that bothers me lately is the fact that there is a lack of good movies coming out. I have been visiting the dvd stall to buy some new dvds but the ones I want are not yet dvd copy and the ones that are in good quality does not look interesting at all or something I have watched already.

What happened to the good movies:(

I can't believe I'm blogging at home right now. No, I'm not working night shift and no, I didn't take the early morning shift. It's actually a day-off for me today and it's a Thursday!I'm so happy! I'm just here at home the whole day.

Well I really have no agenda for today seeing that there's no show returning today, though next week I'll be watching Modern Family which returns exactly a week from today.

I'm really loving our two-days off from work. More time to relax and to think. Speaking of, I've been bothered by too many thoughts on my head and I need to sort them out. These happen to me a lot especially on days where I have nothing to do. Gee, I wonder how bad it will be when I leave work.

That's just it for now.

It's September and not only does it mean that the countdown to Christmas begins in the Philippines, but it's also the time to grab some popcorn head over to the couch and watch some good o'l shows coming back to you screen or in my case, to my laptop screen.

While True Blood ended, a bunch of programs are returning. But speaking of True Blood, the finale was disappointing and not that great. The cliffhanger wasn't even that good.Overall, I think this is the weakest season they've produced.

The first returning show was The Vampire Diaries. Unlike TB, VD was actually good. I liked how the season started and Katherine, the enemy, was really a bitch! Damon's snarky remarks and badass attitude was still there and Stefan, well, just okay. I'm excited to see what happens to Caroline on the next episode.

Earlier,l Gossip Girl and 90210 made their return as well. I love the fact that we didn't get to see a lot of Chuck in the first episode of GG and also, Katie Cassidy started her appearance. I didn't know she joined the cast since I'm not so updated with the show during the break. I think they're setting her up to be Gossip Girl though I doubt that she's actually the mysterious person sending all the juicy details about the rich kids in the Upper East side. 90210 started good as well. It continued with the storyline left in the previous season and opened up potential new storylines this season. It seems like Annie might be in a good situation with the internship that looks shady. And I can't wait until Teddy's storyline this season unfolds.

But if there's one thing that these shows made me realize, it's that we need a new router asap. You see, our current router has a broken antenna so the signal coverage is not that good. I'm worried for the upcoming weeks since a lot of shows are going to return and it's going to be difficult for me to keep up with these shows if the net is slow.

I guess I need to add that one again to my list of needs.

Just a reminder to myself:

September 9

Vampire Diaries

September 13

90210

Gossip Girl

September 14

One Tree Hill

Life Unexpected

September 20

House

Chuck

How I Met Your Mother

September 21

Glee

September 22

Modern Family

September 23

The Big Bang Theory

Grey's Anatomy

Bones

September 24

Smallville

Supernatural

Brothers & Sisters

September 26

Desperate Housewives

Dexter

October 27

Friday NIght Lights

2011

Greek

True Blood

Pretty Little Liars

It feels good to have a day-off on a Tuesday while having another one on another day. I guess our boss decided to give us two days off for this month because we are so many or maybe it's just until this week.

My sleeping habit is getting weirder and weirder everyday. I used to complain that I do not get much sleep because I don't have time, and now that I have time, I always wake up way early and I can't go back to enjoy dreamland. It sucks, I have been sleeping almost the entire stay at the office last night because of it and I'm back with the afternoon shift tomorrow which means I have no more time again to sleep for more than 7 hours.

I have been downloading some cartoon songs yesterday. I don't know why but it made me miss my childhood. It also made me realize that Disney hasn't been putting out good songs to sing along to this recent,or for quite a lot of years already. The last decent song they prolly put out are the ones from Enchanted. But it's not as epic as Can You Feel the Love Tonight or A Whole New World,etc. I would root this problem to their aim of being mature. I noticed they have been targeting older audiences now. Not exactly old, but teenagers. Camp Rock, HSM, etc. with the exception of Toy Story 3 (which is probably one of the few good ones they've made in the past decade that was good), those movies are not exactly too shallow for very young kids and it's sex appeal is now sensationalized with all the teen pairings and loveteams and the languages. Maybe they were trying to follow the audience they had during the earlier years but they forget to make new ones to continue the epicness of the previous animated films.

Now, I'm gonna go and look for more:)

I don't think I need to further discuss what happened in the Philippines a few days ago. If you don't know, there was a hostage taking last Monday with a former policeman taking tourists from Hong Kong as hostages in a bus. They were on their way back to their homeland but an unfortunate thing happened. I first read about the news on Yahoo's front page during the morning while I was at the office. I thought it was over at the time it was posted so I didn't make a big deal out of it. Later that day, I got home early and slept. I woke up and the news were showing the hostage crisis. I didn't expect it to turn out that way. A lot of people were killed and our policemen were not doing a great job at the whole situation. When I turned on the tv, the hostage taker was already killed but they were still taking the hostages out of the bus, some were alive while some did not make it alive. This is such a big blow to our country. Just when everybody thought the new administration would mean the start of a new beginning, it just went down furthermore. Now, people in Hong Kong are going wild and they even blacklisted the country and imposed a travel ban. This is bad for tourism. Everybody will now be afraid to go in our country and stereotyping and violence might be seen in the future. Let's pray that we get through this in the future.

The following day, it was another big day as Miss Universe 2010 was held in Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas. Fortunately, to the delight of Filipinos, our candidate, Ms. Venus Raj, reached all the way to the top 5 and also the only Asian in the top 15. I thought we had a good chance until she committed a major, major blunder in the question & answer portion. But we should be happy that she still gave us something to be proud of.

This week is going fast:) Last Monday, I was given the 5AM to 1PM slot to work, a shift I was afraid of because I didn't know how to go to the office at that time, fortunately, there were public transportation and got to the office safe even though I was a bit late. I sooner found out that we are getting two days off and I got my first one yesterday. I wished it was on another day but I'll just be happy I got one, especially since I've developed a fever and as I'm typing this, my head is killing me with a headache.:(

I really need to learn how to drive soon especially if my work will give me odd working hours.

Just yesterday at work, I found out that for tomorrow, I have to work at 5AM to 1PM. How am I supposed to go to work at that time? Streets are dark and empty, save from some private vehicles and probably taxis, which I can't afford to take especially if I will be assigned to that shift next month. This reinforces my resignation. I don't know if it's God's way of telling me to leave sooner but I do plan to keep the job until October and August is barely ending. I have yet to tell my mom about my planned resignation but I doubt it's going to be a problem to them, seeing that they want me to get another job, anything that offers better benefits and of course, a higher pay.

What's harder is getting out of my village. Since before I get to the jeepney terminal, I have to past through some sort of forest-like path and also a long street of slums which is not safe. It's not like I know any self-defense nor do I have any material to protect me from crooks. To make it worse, I haven't got any amount of decent sleep for the past few days so I don't know how I'm going to wake up early. I plan to go late for work in case our manager is testing me to see how I'll fare with that call time in case our shifts are rotated by next month. Hopefully, I won't be assigned to that shift or else I'll be forced to leave sooner.

I have already talked to my friend who actually got me the job there and suggested I have to tell my manager about my resignation as early by the second week of September. I'm scared since that is in a few weeks, but hey, on the bright side, I'll be free from the company and I can look forward to the future and hopefully, make it a better one.

I've been looking some blogs and tumblr accounts of random people and seems like their having fun so I might as well take a cue from them and just enjoy what I have. I hope my manager takes my resignation well and shall not hold me against my will.

It seems weird to me that a 20 year old guy like me still don't know how to drive. Not that I've never thought about wanting to cause I've been dreaming of learning how to drive for a long time everyday. Even my cousins who are way younger than me drives and I feel such a...nevermind. A lot of my high school friends have taken driving lessons and got their driver's license already.

Last Monday, as me and my mom were waiting for a taxi for a ride to the mall, my mom suddenly opened up this discussion. We were waiting for so long for a vacant taxi to pass by so I'm glad she brought up the topic. She told me that maybe I should learn how to drive. At first I thought that she was just kidding around like she usually does and until she followed up that we could get a second-hand car so we don't have to spend a lot. The only problem is that I don't have time because of my work. But that kept my hopes up that my chances of learning how to drive is still alive and the thought of possibly getting a car of my own(okay me and my mom's car) is not just a dream. I don't care what car it is as long as it's in good condition. I've learned now not to expect something of a grand scale given that the budget for a car will probably low, especially since it's not the top priority and we have lots of bills to pay and I don't even know when that will happen. Once I get out of my current job, I shall promise myself to try and convince my mom to take the driving lessons. I think she won't disagree with me that I need to. It's the "getting-a-car" that's the problem but that will come soon. Hopefully, we'll get a car once I start a new job, hopefully next year. I also need to take care of some stuff after this job like getting some important government documents like SSS, NBI clearance, TIN, etc. so hopefully, I will be productive after this job.

So it's August now, which marks the 4th month of my employment. That's something to celebrate. That means I have two more months and I'm getting anxious to get out. I just had a chat with a college friend last week who just got employed and her job seems to be good and I'm tempted to go there. I just might if there's still an opening by the time I leave and If I figure out a way to commute there.

I've been having so much frustrations lately about everything. I'm so confused about the future. I'm so afraid of what's gonna happen to me. I want so many things in life but I'm starting to learn to accept how my life sucks so bad.

I'm watching Life Unexpected right now and my life seems unexpected as well.

Believe it or not, I actually wrote two updates for the blog this July, however, I just did not have time to publish it here and it would be quite useless to post it since it isn't relevant anymore. So I'll just give a short update with what's happening recently..

Well, there was a typhoon that hit the country last week. It was not as strong as Ondoy but it still brought some damage, especially to our house. I was lucky that I was able to go home safe last Tuesday, when the typhoon struck, but the winds were already strong and I was greeted by the darkness caused by a power outage in the whole area. I couldn't sleep that night since it was hot and I was afraid that once the heavy rain continued, flood will enter the house again. Thankfully, after I woke up, the sun was shining, however, electricity was still not working and the streets were littered with fallen leaves. That day, I couldn't go to work as well due to the aftermath of the typhoon(there goes another deduction to my paycheck...), the electricity was still not brought back the whole day. When we woke up early in the morning, we noticed that our neighbors already had electricity so we were excited only to find out that our wasn't working. We first assumed that only half the street's houses were fully restored but was dumbfounded when only ours was truly the one that has no electricity until our helper noticed that a wire from the main line of Meralco was disconnected. We reported the situation to Meralco immediately and followed up a lot of times but knowing how slow big companies are, they only showed up yesterday, much to my dismay. That is why I did not have a decent sleep since Tuesday until Friday. Fortunately, the work load in the office were not that heavy. I just hope it would not happen again. Our house really gets the worst of luck everytime:/

I've been catching up on a lot of shows recently like Numb3rs and right now, Chuck and I plan to catch-up on Bones next week. I also started watching Modern Family which is a very funny show.

I'll try to update within the week. I'm so tired right now and need to catch up on sleep:(

So I guess karma bit me back hard today.

As I received my salary last week,I promised myself to deposit a certain amount of money but I couldn't seem to do the whole week because the bank was always full when I go.

However, I didn't realize that Toy Story 3 was already showing in theaters and it had so many good reviews on the internet, it also got a rating of a 100% on Rottentomatoes, not that I care about reviews, but I'm sure the movie would be very good.

So earlier,I did,I almost didn't because the showtime I wanted to watch was already sold out, but stubborn me tried to watch it still even though that means I'll be late for work. While there was still time to kill, I went around, got myself some blank cds for burning and sometime that period, I lost a hundred bucks and I don't know how and where and I only realized it at work since I owed them a 100 bucks. So anyway, the line at the cinema was so long and because of that, the movie didn't start on time, which was not good since I was already late for work. Btw, I had to watch in 3D which means the payment is double. Geez. I heard the 3D was not much different and to be honest,I don't think there was a difference at all. The movie was great!But at the back of my mind, I was worried about being late for work since I'm trying to make my attendance clean and avoid salary cuts. After going out of the cinema, I was greeted by the noise of heavy winds and strong rain, so I rushed to go to work. Along the way, there was a flood near my office so I had to walk through it and had my feet submerged. I was wearing flipflops and 3/4 pants fortunately. As I got up the room, the rain outside stopped and I was around 40 mins late. And just when I thought I had enough, my earphones broke because I accidentally banged them on the wall.How stupid. So I calculated the remaining money I have and figured out I have no enough money to last til next payday so I had to make some budget cuts unfortunately. I just hope I don't have to withdraw money from my savings.

So how exactly do I start this?. I honestly feel that I don 't have the spark to write like I used to back in the days when I look forward to blogging almost every day. Maybe it's time I stop But the other night at work, I stumbled upon a blog of a friend of mine and I was inspired to exert more effort into blogging. Maybe I'll try to insert pictures once in a while but the problem is, I don't have a decent camera to work with. The one on my phone sucks so I have to figure out a way to take pictures of stuff with my laptop's webcam. LOL. My mom has a digicam which I borrow once in a while but it's hard to borrow it from her. She always thinks I'm going to break it as if I'm still a small child. One more thing, Blogger's photo uploader is kinda hard to use. Everytime I upload a picture in the middle of typing, all that I've typed disappears so I have to start all over again. Also, if you notice, my URL has changed. I started hating my previous one so I decided to change it. Earlier today, I was checking out my mini-cabinet and took out my old cassette tape/radio player. All this time, I thought it was still working. Unfortunately, I found out that it won't work anymore as I tried to use it. My main guess is that it's main problem is the power source or whatever you call that part where you install the battery.. It was a little rusty and I guess it just couldn't get the power out of the fairly new batteries that I've inserted. Sadly, I had to let it go and put it along my other junk. With the demise of my Walkman, it further adds to my desire to get a radio/cd player for my room. But don't I have an iPod? Yes I do! But it's different than listening to a radio. I get to discover new songs from the radio and listen conversations of the DJs and find out what's happening in the real world.Unlike the iPod which limits me to the songs I've just put. And, I don't want to overuse my iPod too much which I have been doing a lot.. So anyway, I tried to check out the malls to see if I can find one. After going around, I found a few from a few electronics stores and I canvassed the prices. It's not as expensive as I thought it would be. The price would fall under the P1-3K range which isn 't so bad. I don't need a high-end radio so I 'm sure I won't be getting those that are priced at above 3K. It would be a nice addition to my room which I've been trying to beautify since forever and a good way to make use of my cds which are just kept on the cabinet for safekeeping. Although I don't think I'll get myself one soon. Maybe sometime in July or August when I've saved more money which isn't really a lot right now which brings me to my job. I know I've already talked about my job in this blog a couple of times already and you do know my plans. Well, I think I need to enumerate them as a summary. 1. The salary. It's way too low. It's not enough for me in the future. I'm still trying to spend as little as I can to save the rest to my savings. Trust me, I've never bought any piece of clothing ever since I started working early this year. That is surprising, especially since I'm the type who buys a lot of shirts. LOL.I have a lot of things that I want for myself which would also be beneficial in the long-time and not just a simple luxury, but I can't have it with this salary. I don't expect to get a job that's paying way to much but I at least want a job that won't make me worry a lot. 2. The working days. Just this past week, I got transferred to the night shift which I preferred but I'm back to the mid-day shift which is probably the worst shift we have and it really exhausts me. Plus, we work six days a week!With longer hours on weekends which doesn't give us much time to rest either.I guess I underestimated it when I took the job. To be fair, we work 8 hours only on weekdays unlike other companies that has 9 hours, although you won't really feel it since the travel time pretty much counts as well. So it doesn't lift any weight at all. 3. Health reasons. I think having earphones plugged into my ears are not really good for my hearing plus the insane scheds as I mentioned, is ruining my body clock, that is if I still have one. I'm always sleepy and my eye bags are just getting darker and bumpier.How sad. 4. Probably the most important, my career path. This job doesn't really make me excel as someone who graduated from college. Not that I want a harder job since my job is already hard and tiring, but I don't want to waste those precious years away, those that I've been ranting for 4 years at least. I think I deserve better than this and my family does as well. On the plus side, I like the fact that we don't have any formal dress code. Just casual, sometimes, I even wear short, slippers and some t-shirt on which is really comfy. And, our building is not that far and just a jeep away from the mall and just a few steps from one of the most-visited clubs by my friends for drinking sessions. But that's not enough. I have to think big. So enough about that rant about my job. That seems to be the only thing I'm talking about as if that was a great topic. As I said earlier, I've been trying to beautify my room. I've been doing that without trying to spend a lot and trying to recycle which I've done pretty much. I've even made a bracelet out of plastic bags and a bed headboard out of old blank cds. Maybe I'll dedicate an entire blog for my room sometime. I'm still addicted to movies and series. I've been catching up as well as losing track on some of my fave shows.I've also bought movies almost every week so I can watch a new movie during my day off that I only get once a week so I have something to look forward to. It's June which means I still have 4 more months to suck it up and to maintain my job. Wish me luck

I was going to post something but before I could even write,our internet connection suddenly got whacked and it only worked just now,just in time when I lost any will to write.So I guess it'll have to wait.:)

Well hello there.It's been a long time since I posted a blog.I don't know if I should continue doing this anymore.I feel like I should just scan my entire planner since I update it everyday.Haha.

Well, for the last month,I've been working hard and I shall continue to do so. I decided that I'll just use this year for experience before I find a new job.But for now,I just have to suck it up.

I still get to insert some good times in between though,as I posted,Kelly Clarkson was here and I watched her show along with other fans. It was great! And I got to ride a public bus after a long time and nothing bad happened:) I also got to watch several movies over the past month.I usually have a movie day during the weekend before work.My grandma also celebrated her birthday and we went swimming in Riviera like last year. The country also had our first automated elections and sadly,I wasn't registered to vote.

My dvd player got whacked again so we recently sent it back to Ansons for repair.I do hope they fix it,I don't want to buy a new one.My mom will kill me if I ask for a new one again.

Well,that's the updates so far.Don't know when the next one will be.

I finally got a new laptop.I hot an ASUS notebook and it's quite nice.

I know I have so much to catch up on but basically,I've been exhausting my body with work.Saturdays have been my rest days lately and that's why I'm able to blog right now. I plan to watch Where the Wild Things Are later. I got it last week but Saturday nights are my DVD nights:)

I've been thinking a lot about random stuff lately but it's too long to blog and they're just so random. There are just a lot of things going on in my mind right now that I don't want to think about right now.

So I've got one week left before the Kelly Clarkson concert(yes, she's coming here on May 1). I still don't have my ticket yet but I'll most likely get an upper box a ticket since that's all I can afford.

I'm trying to look for cool artwork designs so I could post them on my walls and all around my room. But I'm quite unsuccessful..

Anyway,I think I had my first magical moment ever.I don'

t know how to call it but, you know, when some hottie you don't know smiles at you,you get a good feeling, well, I got that just the other day, here in our own village. I doubt I'll see that person again but that made my day.

I don't know what else to type,quite honestly.I'm so tired and still in the hunt for something inspiring to beautify my room:)

Updates:

So I survived another week of training and I'm actually improving.hahaha.I'm now training for the British account.

Umm...I watched Remember Me last Tuesday,after some days of not being in a mall,I just had to know how to commute from the mall to the office which wasn't that hard. I also caught Jason Castro, former AI7 contestant, at G5 yesterday evening. But I only saw him perform three songs because I was late due to heavy traffic:(

I'm having a hard time for my laptop.We were supposed to buy a new one this Sunday but my mom got a flight to the US and is coming back Sunday morning, and she has to go to the bank to withdraw some money but since it's a Sunday. The banks are close.We could buy it on a weekday but she's gonna have to bring it home by herself since I have to go to work:(

I have to catch Cobra Starship and Timbaland with Jojo and Justin Timberlake next week!I don't know how but I'll try!even if I can only watch from the bronze section..

It's been a week since I last updated.

So I spent this week working at a graveyard shift. I wasn't that bad at all.I'm just having a hard time adjusting to my sleeping schedule. It's so hard to sleep when the sun is out since it's so hot.

My work at the office isn't so hard but it's kinda tough. We have to transcribe several voicemails during the training and I usually end my tasks a few hours early so I have time to browse the internet, which is good since I can't use my laptop properly anymore.

So I went to the Paramore concert last Tuesday.It was very tiring.People were pushing each other and I almost fainted at one point and the show didn't even start yet. The concert started quite on time, with Calla Lily as the opening act. Paramore started later on. The show was quite short but it was awesome. Fortunately, I've been listening to their entire discography over and over again before the concert so I was able to sing along, not that I'm totally unfamiliar with them, I just wanted to make sure I know what they're singing.

I'm quite worried. I am worrying about my job and I still have a lot of things to do. I need to replace my laptop as well but I'm short in cash.

Ugh.I have stay in the job for at least a year!

Just a quick update:

I had dinner with my HS friends earlier at Sakura in G4.It was one of my friend's birthday and he treated us!We didn't stay up late and now I'm actually watching Dorian Gray.Been watching a couple of movies lately and I hope I can get new dvds tomorrow after mass.Tomorrow will be my last day of being unemployed.

I'm afraid of the job but I'll try to stay there for at least 6 months to save some cash.

I haven't been able to update because,believe it or not,I was busy.

I got the job I was talking about and it starts on Monday.The application wasn't easy cause I thought I was rejected at first.I'll explain more soon.

Got to watch several movies too,like Alice in Wonderland,Wolfman and Percy Jackson.Also,my old dvd player got repaired while the new one got replaced so now we have two portable dvd players.Got to watch a couple of movies I haven't seen yet,and some that haven't even started showing.

We finally bought pillows for my bed!yey!

I'm gonna watch the Paramore concert on Tuesday!oh yeah!

well,I'll try to give you more updates soon.

So I stepped foot on my college probably for the last time.I returned my academic attire,the e-tickets and claimed my transcript of records,grad/class pics and my alumni id.I looked ugly in the pictures.Not surprised though.Bumped into some of my batchmates at school too.I also went to Harrison Plaza to get myself some dvds since it's been a long time since I bought a lot.Got myself a couple of movies I haven't seen yet and also Legend of the Seeker season one,which I already started watching last night.

Later that day,I watched Valentine's Day,a star-studded movie which tells the lives of different people and how they are all connected on Valentine's day.It's such a sweet movie.There were a lot of people who watched and they were all making sounds as they react to moments in the movie that touches the emotions directly.Great performances by everyone in the cast!

I plan to tell my mom about applying for the job tomorrow when she arrives.I hope she won't hold me back.

I received some dollars from my ninang in the US.yey!

I finally graduated!!!

We had our graduation rehearsals,baccaulaureate mass and recognition rites last Wednesday then the actual graduation rites last Saturday at the PICC. I'm gonna miss the school and being a student most definitely and now I'm in the so-called real world.I hope I can find a job soon.I don't know if I'll take the offer that was given to me.I hope I can gather the guts to tell my mom about it.

So far,all I'm worried is getting in the company.I don't know if my skills are enough but I guess,it's better to apply than not at all,right?

So,me,my mom and my aunt Pinky had lunch at Abe in SM MOA after to celebrate.The food was good.We had desert at White Hat after.

The next day,we went to my grandma's house in Libis because my uncle Edward has arrived from China for a short vacation. I got some stuff and also money from my relatives.

Earlier today,we had lunch with my uncle and one of my tita at Recipes in GB3 then after going around,I watched Dear John while my mom was at the gym.The movie was kinda disappointing...I actually fell asleep in one part of the film.Well,I guess I was really sleepy from lack of sleep.Anyway,I'm excited to watch Valentine's Day on Friday. I wanna watch Percy Jackson too but I guess that'll have to wait some other time.

Sorry for not uploading as much.I've been on a BLG high.LOL

seriously,this past week,my mind has been boggled by so many thoughts and problems too,most of them,I have blogged earlier so I'll just do a recap and enumerate all.

1.Broken/Malfunctioning stuff.
So my iPod earphones started to malfunction just yesterday,like the usual problem,the left earphone won't work unless you sorta tweak the cord.So I bought cheap earphones earlier today to replace them properly. My portable dvd player looks like it has to be replaced. When we asked for updates from the technician,he said that it looks like there's no more chance of repairing it but he will still try to fix it.But I'm not putting my hopes high and I've started looking for new players.And as you know,my problem since last year,my laptop.There is a service center in Park Square but I'm not sure if they can fix it.

2.Refund.
I tried to get my concert ticket for The Killers refunded last week to no avail and tried earlier until they told me that I have to go directly to the main office in Paseo de Roxas.I am quite familiar with the name of the place but I'm not sure how to go there..I guess I'll have to take a cab...

3.Graduation
I am worried for graduation.I don't need to explain why.

4.Paramore concert.
I really want to watch this!But I have no money yet,not to mention Kelly Clarkson is also coming to Manila on May 2010 so I have to save for that as well, and also I have a problem that will be tackled in the next bullet;

5. JOB
So I was kinda offered a job by one of my online friends and I'm thinking if I should take it or not. The job isn't exactly related to my course but it doesn't exactly matter.So the job that was offered to me is a BPO job. I have no idea what it is but anyway,my job will be a general transcriptionist.I'll be basically transcribing voicemails and postcodes.Sounds kinda easy at first but after reading some stories and experiences during application,I'm worried that I might not pass.

Also,the timing of this offer was kinda odd.I didn't imagine that I'll work so soon after graduating,all my life,or at least these past years,I've imagined myself to be a bum for a while,that is why I'm pressured to take the job and start earning money.I want to get this job cause I know that I'll probably going to have a hard time if I don't get into a job soon.Another problem is if I do apply and get hired,I might not be able to watch the Paramore concert.Haha.I know that sounds shallow but I've been wanting to watch that since last year.So I don't know if I should apply immediately and wait.I haven't told my parents yet. I'll probably tell them after graduation since I don't want my mom to start spreading it to my relatives.LOL.

Boys Like Girls were awesome last night!I'm so happy that I watched them.

I arrived at MOA around 4 pm-ish so I walked around the mall first.As I passed by the Atrium inside the mall,I saw that there was a small stage and some chairs gathered and I fiund out there was a meet and greet,well, bot the greet part since the audience don't really get the chance to greet them.Anyway,I waited and when they came out,the host,a dj from Magic 89.9 just asked them questions that came from some members of the audience.I'm so glad that I went inside the mall first!haha.Most of the people who were there looks like they didn't know who BLG was anyway.LOL.The meet and greet ended a few minutes before 6pm. I tried to go inside SMX already,but they won't let people in yet.So I ate dinner first at BK then I fell in line outside the venue.It took so long before they let people enter.They let us fall in line at the lobby first and a VJ and a cameraman was interviewing people in the line.Suddenly,the group of teens beside me wanted to be on tv so the VJ and the cameraman came up to them and they pointed the camera at them,including at me so I think I might be seen on tv.LOL.

So they finally started letting people in at exactly 8pm which was supposedly when the show was gonna start but the show was a bit late.The venue,much to my surprise,was quite small,which was actually good since the stage wasn't so far from where I was.Surprisingly,they UPGRADED the gold ticketholders and moved us to VIP just to fill the empty space!I quickly sneaked up the front!How cool right?I paid only almost half the price of VIP and I was watching beside them!

The show finally started after sometime and a dance group from So You Think You Can Dance gave an intermission number to start the show.People were obviously waiting for the band already as seen on their lame reaction.

Boys Like Girls finally rocked the stage and opened up with a cover of BEP's I Gotta Feeling before rocking out their song Love Drunk.They followed it up with their songs from their two albums.The concert was quite short,but definitely longer than their previous mall shows.They didn't sing some songs that I wanted them to sing.So sad but I still enjoyed nonetheless.They were good on stage and the crowd was surprisingly good despite the low turnout of the crowd.At least the people in front was very hyper.To close the show, they ended with theior song,my favorite song of all-time,The Great Escape.

People started to leave right after and almost 98% or even more did not even wait for Hed Kandi.They were also sending out the minors,they almost sent me out cause they thought I was a minor.LOL.How embarassing,thank god I have proof and not a lot of people could see it.I saw one of my friends and joined them for a while as I was waiting but it was kinda boring.There were barely people on the floor and sad to say,it kinda failed,the Hed Kandi gig,I mean.I guess putting the band back-to-back with Hed Kandi.

Anyway,I went home before 12mn.It wasn't hard to get a taxi,In fact the moment I stepped outside SMX,a taxi was passing by.

I can't wait for Paramore!

I'm twenty!I can't believe how fast time passed. I could not believe I'm that old already.

So how did I celebrate it?well,not much.My mom's flight was delayed.She was supposed to arrive on Tuesday morning but arrived Wednesday late afternoon which means I spent the first half of my birthday alone.But it's ok.That's how I'd spend it,if not being with my friends. So I just blasted some of my favorite songs and had my own mini party as I like to call it,which I usually do in special occasions like last Christmas or New Year.So anyway,when my mom finally arrived,we just had dinner with my aunt Pinky at CPK in Makati.I haven't eaten there for a long time so it was great to eat there again.I got a Paramore cd from my aunt as a gift!

Unfortunately,my portable dvd player is broken.We sent it for repair but it looks like we need to replace it with a new one since it's more economical.I hope we can replace it soon,and with another brand since the one I apparently have is weak.

I got my ATM card as well.I just have to say that I picked the hardest and ugliest signature before and how I wish that I can change it.

It's my grandma's bday last Jan. 22.We had dinner at Cafe Juanita at The Fort.The food was okay.Then we had desert at Gelato at GB5.

Our house is getting closer to being finished.The window screens have just been installed and we just need some curtains.I still need bedsheets and pillows for my bed though.

So that's all for now.

Well,it's technically Tuesday so that means I have less than 24 hours before I turn 20.I am not prepared for adulthood but I guess I have to.Haha.

Earlier,I watched the Golden Globe Awards and I just wanna make a shoutout to Glee which won for the first time so props to them:D

My body is still suffering from the effects of the homecoming.I'm still scratching all over because oif the itchiness.I hope this stops before my birthday.

Btw,I need to decide where I want to eat for dinner on my birthday,moreover,I don't know what to do on that day but I hope it will be fun.

So just a quick update...today, we went to the bank for me to deposit some money and to apply foir an ATM card since I'm still using a bank book.How sad.Anyway,I'll get it next Friday.So excited.

My birthday is coming up in less than a week and I don't know what to do.I think we just might have dinner at a nice restaurant with my aunt whom I asked for Paramore's Brand New Eyes album as a gift.Hehe.

Tomorrow is the Alumni Homecoming for DBTI.We went there last year and I think I'm going tomorrow too but I think there are just like 3 of us unlike the kast time where there were a lot of us.

that's all for now:)

Got to watcch Sherlock Holmes earlier.It was really better than I expected.I thought it was gonna be boring but it wasn't. Rachel McAdams is gorgeous as always.

So American Idol season 9 started already. It was just okay.No standouts yet.So far,they've only shown Victoria Beckham and Mary J. Blige as guest judges.Can't wait for the others.

Anyway,I really want to type some more but I have a terrible headache due to lack of sleep.So I'll try to update tomorrow.:)

Happy New Year everyone!

my first post in 2010!

I wanted to update this earlier but I was so busy and my life is not going smooth lately.Seems like everything I own is breaking.First, as you kinow, my laptop is still malfunctioning.Now,my portable dvd player can't read cds/dvds anymore,whether original or fake.I really need to get both of them fixed.It would be nice if there's a replacement but I'm sure that won't happen.

On a lighter note,I submitted my thesis report already,but it's just a draft only but I hope to get it done with before submission.

I already watched two movies this year,The Rebound and Zombieland.Both were good,but Zombieland stood out more.It was funny and not a typical zombie movie.

Anyway,our house is slowly getting back to normal.There are still some stuff to be done like the windows and curtains but I feel like there's still a lot more to be done.Oh well.

I'll try to update more tomorrow:)