Trying to catch up with my blogging, after writing/brainstorming/banging my head on a wall for a personal writing project that I am trying to get funding for. Now that it has been submitted, I finally got a chance to clean my room and the rest of the house, do some cooking, walking, and even *gasp* socializing. I have been watering my memrise.com ( Read more... )

It's been a little bit more than a year now. This is the longest I've been away from home. I would have actually blogged last week, August 3, during my actual anniversary, but my weekends have been really busy. My brother has been having weekend wanderlust, only because it's been so nice and sunny the past couple of weeks, so we've been trying to ( Read more... )

Someone knows a person is having fun if he hasn't been updating his blog for some time. If someone is posting over vacation, then he's not having a very meaningful vacation.

So far, my weeks have been busy, and my weekends even busier. This seems to be the attitude most Seattleites have with the short summer: they cram everything they can do in the ( Read more... )

For 2 days every year, the Seattle Center House (and surrounding grounds) becomes a veritable fiesta. It is called the "Pagdiriwang Festival", held in June (scheduled as close to Philippine Independence Day as possible). My brother and I decided to go there for the sake of nostalgia ( Read more... )

For the past couple of days, I've been busy organizing me and my brother's vacation. I have just been approved for a vacation at the beginning of May, and we have decided to go to Los Angeles for a (hopefully) early summer. I have been itching for the beach, and although it's springtime already, the warmth and sunshine of summer has yet to arrive ( Read more... )

Does anyone remember B?
I didn't think so. I only knew him for a couple of months, when I was working at a tutorial center in the Katipunan area. Needless to say I found him kind of cute, in an extremely geeky way, poufy hair aside.

Anyway, I was on a shoot for a cooking show in Uptown Cebu, when I got a text from an unknown number, addressing me as ( Read more... )

It was a pleasant day when my brother and I went up to Evanston, where we met up with our cousin from our father's side, Ate Elaine, and her family. She is the daughter of our Tita who moved here a while back. Ate Elaine grew up here and doesn't speak Filipino. She married another Filipino American, and they have two kids, our very cute niece and ( Read more... )

There's nothing romantic about my new guy. We just happen to be coworkers. I was cleaning by the outside cash registers one day when someone approached me. It was the cashier, a tall, not-so-old man with glasses. He spoke to me with a Hispanic accent I could barely understand. A few words came through, though: ‘Cerveza,’ ‘hang-out,’ ‘Wednesday.’ He ( Read more... )

 Beautiful day again today! After fixing stuff up at home and driving around town to do a few errands for Mom, I had lunch at the lakeside, even though the wind was still a bit chilly. Seagulls flew around me. There were a few sunbathers just lying on the grass. After lunch, I decided to walk around, and discovered a beach ( Read more... )

After two days of sitting in front of the Home Depot computer for so-called "Web-Based Training", I was given my apron and shoved to the open sea known as "the floor". My co-workers are generally nice and helpful. Some are even cute! So far, I have not met an exceedingly annoying customer yet. My job is nothing short of manual labor, but at least ( Read more... )