hiatus.

currently listening to: silence.



well folks, i'm off to spend the last of my graduation money in ilocos... then i guess i'll have to start looking for a job. how horrible. i'm broke and all spent out already, and i haven't even graduated yet! wahahaha.

see ya on tuesday, kiddies. :)

content.

currently listening to: all i ever wanted/train.


although it happens only once in a blue moon, there are times when everything falls into place, and things go perfectly.

it's practically impossible (especially in my case) to have consecutively "good days". but that's how it's been lately. believe it or not, it's been one good day after another--and although that's an extremely rare pattern in my life--i'm not complaining one bit.

so here we are. a pointless post just because i wanted to share how *darn* great life has been to me lately. please, make this feeling of contentment last. thank you, Lord. i owe You big time. :)

brainfarts from a couch potato.

currently listening to: scratch/kendall payne.


*aaah, the end of another amazing (race) season. finally, a team I've loved (as in L-O-V-E-D) from the very beginning won. my faith in the show has been restored (i've been on semi-strike since the gaghans were eliminated in the family edition). to eric and jeremy--take that! wahahahahah. i love you, hippies! i can't wait for TAR asia--too bad my sister and i didn't get to apply :(

*i can't believe elliot got eliminated from american idol. and i had just recently learned to love him. :( c'mon taylor... you can do it! make me proud, mister! (by the way, does anyone else feel that katharine looks like amanda bines?)

*does anyone watch grey's anatomy? sigh. are they ever going to get back together? i can't stand it anymore!!! please, please, please--see the light! both of you!!! you're meant to be together! can't you see that yet?!?

*desperate housewives update: i can't believe that _____ did _____ to _____! and that ____ did _____ to ______! huwaaaat?! how twisted is that?!? now what?!? and i'm soooo in love with eva longaria's character now!!!

*the prison break dvd's eagerly seek my attention as they sit impatiently on the table. too bad for them, my recently-started friends marathon goes first. friends will always go first... almost done with season 1, 9 more seasons to go! and what a fabulous 9 more seasons it will be! :).

*there are other shows on the list: house, oc, one tree hill, 24, lost... (shows which i either have to start watching, have started watching, or have to finish watching)--but then again, i'm in no hurry to look for a job. there's still plenty of time. ;).

(oops. please don't tell my parents i said that.)

--> oh! and happy birthday, cyn!!! :)

the good and simple life.

currently listening to: scratch/kendall payne.

I love out-of-the-blue/i-just-want-to-say-hi phone calls from people I haven't heard from in months. Roadtrips and going out of town with people who matter most. Making new friends and strengthening relationships with old ones. The feeling of having made up with a dear friend after a long, long fight. Being completely open with someone, letting out all my thoughts and feelings, and finding out that they like me just the same. Receiving unexpected hugs from friends. Sitting around and doing nothing with great, great company. Weddings and the additions to my family it brings. Honest-to-goodness heartfelt conversations. Waking up to the cool breeze that the rain brings, knowing that the day is only going to get better. Being able to go to new places. Saying goodbye to something, knowing that it isn't the end. Fooling around and acting stupid with a camera and friends. Having dinner with my family. Spending time with just myself and my music. Being completely content with how life is going...for at least a little bit.

I love how my summer is going, knowing that it isn't over yet--and hoping that there are even better things in store for me tomorrow, and the day after that.

moving out.

currently listening to: the edge of the ocean/ivy.


2006 is a year of many goodbyes for me. Not just the friend-leaving-for-vacation kind of goodbyes. More of the thank-you-for-being-part-of-my-life-this-is-it goodbyes.

Yesterday, I had to move out--and move on. I was forced to say one of those goodbyes.

There were 15 doors to this "building"--a huge chunk of wood I have learned to love so much. I was on the first floor, the 3rd door from the left (as Lorraine would put it). In a span of one year, I worked side by side with my 9 neighbors whom I have learned to love dearly.

Yep, you guessed it. Yesterday, I had to let go of my locker.

It was an emotional morning. I had to officially say goodbye to something very close to my heart for the past year. I bid farewell to something that served as a storage space for everything--both extremely valuable and completely useless. It was where I went for anything that needed safekeeping or anything that needed to be stored and forgotten about for a while.

It was a place full of surprises that were meant just for me. Throughout the year, I have gone here to find countless scraps of paper here waiting for me--reminders to pay someone, go somewhere, or call someone up. It was here I found love letters and notes from both friends and strangers. A rose. Money. Pictures. Origami.

Unfortunately, not all my "neighbors" could make it to yesterday's drama special. However, Kellyn, Lorraine, Mao, Zeri and I moved out all the things we had accumulated over the year from dark, homey little spaces to huge, tattered, impersonal plastic bags. After taking countless pictures of what we wanted to remember, we took off our name plates, left traces that we had been there, and after what seemed like an eternity, handed over our keys to the lockers' new tenants for the year.

Yes, it was a bitter goodbye. However, we are confident that the new tenants of this building will take just as much care of this place as we did... after all, it's their home now.