so sad

:(

jeez

my head aches super duper. been meaning to go home early so i can sleep but i can't.

i hate pacute girls. there are those that i can totally bear and there are those that i really really can not stand.

i'm swearing off guys/men/whatevertheyarecalled [present guy friends not included though].

i know i know, i'm supposed to be thinking of happy thoughts. can't help it.

Think Happy Thoughts

To cap off my ugly mood last week, I got that scratch on my elbow from a mishap friday night. This week, I'm not going to dwell on them and instead find ways to cheer me up even in small ways.

Like getting these Mirmo toys from Mcdo. (they're super cute!)


Or by helping put up our Christmas tree (kahit medyo na late)

Or having our kris kringle this early on or knowing that Christmas is really just around the corner.

Vacation Lessons

1. Stick with your plans. I was supposed to be staying at home to just eat, sleep, watch tv/movies, and review. This way, I would've saved one-week of expenses. As it turned out, I was out most of the time and spent more than a week's worth of expenses. Food trips from Mandarin to Masuki (the one in binondo) and shopping sprees from malls to 168 and tutuban have left me penniless. I am so poor right now that aside from the fact that there's nothing left off my "luho" budget, i also have debts from papa, mama and siobe.

2. Follow your instincts. When we decided to head to 168, we were first thinking of going around tutuban. We should have trusted our instincts instead. It was a year ago when we checked out mall 168 and at that time, there weren't much people shopping. But apparently, 168 has gained popularity thus the throng of people now. Going around tutuban's cluster building was far tolerable than in 168 plus we found more stuff there too.

3. Know how to haggle. And make use of what language or dialect you know because it helps a lot for you to talk your way into getting additional discounts from the stall owners.

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[I have 4 and 5 but my officemate is ready to go home now. Continuation tomorrow sometime this week.]

4. Try something new. One of the things that I am not capable of is cooking. As much as I love trying out dining places, I wouldn't know how to prepare dishes by myself which is ironic because everyone in my family line are known as good cooks. At home, I am considered inutile in the kitchen. Ironically again, when I went to Japan, I wasn't given the opportunity to be forced to learn since lunch and dinner were compliments of the client. So anyway, during last week's break, my sister would often bake (she had all the time since she was on a semestral break and i was at home to be the official consumer) and I thought I'd try my luck by helping her. Helping her was another thing but for her to let me bake something on my own was a bigger deal. Yeah, congratulations to me.

5. Be flexible. (In reference to lesson #1) If you don't have any control of a situation anymore, might as well go with the flow and enjoy the moment. ;)

Feeling Crappy

and it's not because i'm pms-ing.

It's probably because there's only one more day and my 9-day vacation ends. Then, my sorry ass will find its way back to that pressure-filled place they call office. I've lost count as to how many times I uttered "i don't want to report for work on monday. i don't want to work anymore, period." just this week to different people.

Or it could be because I'm wanting a change of evironment. I know I am wanderlusting. As much as it's easy to just book a flight, pack a bag and off i go, it's not.

Also maybe it's that time of year when I'm wondering about my purpose and all that. It's when the only book in the Bible that I read over and over is Ecclesiastes where each chapter has this to say: "Everything is meaningless, a chasing after the wind."

I guess it doesn't help that all I've been watching are One Tree Hill and The O.C. episodes. Oh the drama and complicated situations. (Speaking of these series, I want to meet up with a number of people and get together. Go out of town, get drunk and just be merry).

Sigh. Even this pint of ice cream that's supposed to be comforting me isn't doing it's job.