This is the year of weddings. Destination weddings, to be precise! We attended one in the States earlier this year, and had just gotten back from attending another one in Australia. Whew! That broke this year's travel budget into tiny little pieces, I'll tell you that. But it was worth it, as both brides were very close and important people to me ( Read more... )

I consider myself fairly well traveled. I am by no means a jet-setter, but I've been around, in my lifetime, I've been around South East Asia, Australia and Europe. Which is probably why people are always surprised when I tell them I've never been to the States. It's almost ironic, given that most Filipinos first destination abroad is the US. Well ( Read more... )

Years ago, long before her boyfriend proposed, Jo Elaine, my best friend from second grade, said to me, "Pag kinasal ako, pupunta kang States." To which I replied, "Basta hindi ako buntis. Or nagbe-breastfeed." Well I spent most of the last 7 years either pregnant or breastfeeding. I only stopped last year. And that was when she invited me to her ( Read more... )

Five years ago, Lia was born and my world turned upside down. I was 26. Not too young to be a new mother, but no one close to me was a new mom back then. I was the first in my family to get married and have a child. All my friends were single, let alone having babies. And I felt severely disconnected from the rest of the world. It seemed no one in ( Read more... )

Before anything else, let me get this out of the way,

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MIKE JUAN! I can't wait for you to come home with your Xbox so I can watch you play Final Fantasy! I love you and see you soon!

(I'm not kidding, I really do enjoy watching other people play video games. Ask my brothers.)

Now that that's done, let's go to the real reason for this ( Read more... )

It seems I never want to do anything but sleep these days. I spend my waking hours being sleepy, and at night when I go to bed, I can't sleep because I've come to the point where there is no comfortable position for a woman with a human being living in her belly. Of course this could explain why I'm sleepy all day ( Read more... )

The thing about so many things happening is that there is hardly any time to blog about it ( Read more... )

Watched He's Just Not That Into You last Friday with typershark and mamsyeb. Hilarious! I enjoyed it immensely. Mostly because it reminded me so much of college, and the string of not-that-into-me and not-that-into-him so-called relationships I had back then. There was a part where a man comes up to Jennifer Aniston and introduces himself as a wiccan. Oh my lore, I ( Read more... )

Apparently, LiveJournal will be turning 10 years old in a couple of months and they're coming out with a book to document all the most memorable journals, entries, communities and experiences from Livejournal. A community, lj_turns10  was set up for contributions and ideas for the book. There's a new question this week:

How has LJ changed the world? There can ( Read more... )

The following entry was supposed to have been posted last Friday, August 1, but our internet went bonkers on me so it failed to upload. Good thing I was able to save it. Yun nga lang, I wasn't able to post all weekend cause Mike hogged the home computer reading mangga forever! As in he didn't come with us to Serendra, didn't go to his friend's ( Read more... )