trickster!!!

turtle power

Had lunch at McDo down Farrer Road. We knew that it is different from other McDo because of the location, it is surrounded by greens. =) From all the McDos I've seen in Manila, facade is very different. And what did we see? Turtles! Lots of them. They swim in this swamp-like body of water, they climb at a rock and onto each other to take a break from wading, and little baby turtles try their best to climb too.

The picture shows only 1/3 of the turtle population we saw. Quite plenty, huh. Watching them while ate lunch, left us not giving a decent answer to some raised questions. How to know if a turtle is pregnant? Searching the web now, says that you can't tell if a turtle is pregnant because they don't get pregnant, they only lay eggs. Excuse me, what does that mean? Lol, dunno, so moving on... another question, how do water turtles eat in water without getting too much water in their mouth? And how do they poop? The answers, I don't know and not too interested to find out.

At Seventeen...

By Janis Ian

I learned the truth at seventeen
That love was meant for beauty queens
And highschool girls with clear skinned smiles
Who married young and then retired

The valentine's I never knew
The friday nights charades of youth
Were spent on one more beautiful
At seventeen I learned the truth

And those of us with ravaged faces
Lacking in the social graces
Desperately remained at home
Inventing lovers on the phone
Who called to say come dance with me
And murmur vague obscenities
It isn't all it seems... at seventeen

A brown eyed girl in hand-me-downs
Whose name I never could pronounce
Said, 'Pity please the one's who serve
They only get what they deserve.'

The rich-relationed hometown queen
Marries into what she needs
With a guarantee of company
And haven for the elderly

Remember, those who win the game
Lose the love they sought to gain
In debentures of quality
And dubious integrity

The small town eyes will gape at you
In dull surprise
When payment due
Exceeds account received... at seventeen

To those of us who knew the pain
Of valentine's that never came
And those whose names were never called
When choosing sides for basketball

It was long ago and far away
The world was younger than today
When dreams are all they gave for free
For ugly duckling girls like me

We all play the game
And when we dare to cheat ourselves at solitaire
Inventing lovers on the phone
Repenting other lives unknown
Who call and say, 'Come dance with me.'
And murmur vague obscenities
To ugly girls like me... at seventeen

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An ugly duckling girl like me... Not that ugly I believe, lol. Maybe just felt plain. Those times when a teenaged girl seeks attention from someone she admires. =) Hek hek. Those I admired? lol, nevermind. It was weird you know, I have good set of teeth while he opted for a not-so-good set of pearly whites. Oh, I know why, she's endowed and I'm not.

Oh well, no hard feelings. *smile smile* I've had my share of ups anyway. Just wondering, in secondary school, why does the person you like doesn't like you back? Was it a universal dilemma or was it just me? Nah, not just me. *wink wink*

Achew**

I am not feeling well. My nose hurts, runny nose. I have waited long for this, lol. Most of my MC alibis are stomache pains, which are all true. I'm lactose intolerate, ok. And I also had a case of amoebiasis, shhh. Having stomache pain is different for me, the pain just hits and will slowly fade. But not runny nose, the agony and state of yuckiness is prolonged.

Even if I am not feeling oh-so-well, I still managed to edit another wedding pic. Yey! Will I stop looking and playing with our wedding pics, who knows.

Aww... after editing my head aches, my nose feels heavy, water dripping out of my nose, sniff sniff, skin around my nose burns.... sniff sniff.

Ha- Ha -Achew!!!

...DUH...

I'm feeling tired. Tired is an understatement, I feel exhausted and feel I don't have energy. Think it's because I don't have exercise... Hey, I walk to office and back home, do some chores... oh well, maybe I need a real exercise. It's been a long time since I got all sweaty. Maybe need to go to the gym, maybe we'll go after Euge's surgery.

Duh. Everyday is the same, wake up and feel tired just thinking of work, head to work late, and then chaos*chaos*chaos starts. At home, I do what I want to do, cook, surf the net, extra chores I need to do, but ok, no complain there.

Ciao Carabao, lol.

Little Blue Man in my Shirt

I had a fantastic day today! Why? For no reason at all!

After hearing Sunday mass, went to LP to get our exit pass for our upcoming vacation, ahem. And then after that we went to Plaza Singapura to go to DBS. Their website said that they are open on Sundays but hello when we got there, they're not, oh well, site not updated. Had lunch at Yoshinoya, bought face powder and eyeliner at TheFaceShop. Bought few items in John Little sale and then went to Suntec City to look for winter clothing. Huh, not for us silly.

Happy Day. Maybe because of the smurf day t-shirt I was wearing. Just bought it last Friday while Euge, Sheila, Ate Lenlie and I were roaming in Bugis. I was supposed to buy Little Miss shirts but had second thoughts. My rule: If you want an item and it's causing you sleepless night, buy it. If you can fall asleep without remembering it, it's not that great afterall. And oh, I also wore the gold headband thingy, got it from a stall in Sta. Lucia... Cainta hehehe. And of course I'm with Euge who let me buy those things that I need. =) Good. Good, good.

=) / )=

i MISS BEING A BRIDE. =) wITH ALL MY JOB'S STRESSFUL LOAD AND NEVER-ENDING CHORES, i MISS LOOKING LIKE THIS! oH WELL.

aNYWAY, i'M STILL BUSY WITH EDITING ALL THE PICS. nO, i'M NOT COMPLAINING, IT IS ONE OF THOSE THINGS THAT i REALLY LIKE DOING ASIDE FROM SLEEPING AND READING. sOME OF THE PIX i'VE EDITED FROM OUR WEDDING PHOTOS ARE POSTED IN OUR WEDSITE:

http://071207.weddingannouncer.com/

i'VE READ SOMEWHERE THAT ACCORDING TO CHINESE ASTROLOGY IT IS LUCKY TO GET MARRIED ON DEC 7. YEP, YEP, YEP! LUCKY THAT WE DIDN'T GET RAINED ON. =) wOHOOOOOOOO!

eNOUGH OF FEELING LUCKY... WE'VE BEEN BLESSED! hERE'S THE STORY, WHEN WE WENT TO MT.CARMEL PARISH FOR OUR CANONICAL INTERVIEW, WE WERE OFFERED TO BUY RAFFLE TICKETS, PROCEEDS OF WHICH WILL GO TO CHARITY AND THE GRAND PIZE, EHEM THE ONLY PRIZE BEING RAFFLED IS A 2PAX PLANE TICKET TO BORACAY. tO CUT THE STORY, WE BOUGHT TWO TICKETS AND WHILE FILLING THE FORM UP, WE DECIDED TO GIVEAWAY THE TICKET TO eUGE'S PARENTS SINCE WE'LL BE BACK IN SINGAPORE. gUESS WHAT! wE WON! yEY! i'VE NEVER WON ANY RAFFLE, eUGENE NEVER WON ANY RAFFLE, BUT WE WON OUR FIRST PRIZE! aND THAT PRIZE IS THE FEELING THAT OUR LADY OF MT.CARMEL LOOKED DOWN ON US AND GAVE US HER FAVOR.

busy...

I'll be quite busy for the next days, well that is what I hope. I have tons of pictures with me now, all those pics from our vacation, our wedding, etc, etc. Need to have some time and gusto to edit those pics. If not, they'll all be piled up, and we still have an upcoming vacation. Yey! But won't be blogging about that yet. Really, really need to have some PS layouts.

And oh, we need to choose pictures from the wedding photog shots so they can start the layout of our album. I thought having many photos is fun, huh, I never saw the many jobs that come with it. lol