’09 the E-N-D (year that is)

Year End again.

It seemed only last month when i was with the la-single ladies… waiting in line for VTO’s and party the night away.

Last year we had that exchange gifts with the codenames.. which obviously backfired.. when one decided he was “MARIAH”, the other one “BRITNEY” and the last one “PALAKA” wala na obvious na…

I dont need to remember all the other details that this time last year, all i know is time flew by so quick! Faster than i could say… times first break muna! This year have been very different… this was the year of years as i have predicted in my year-end entry last year. LIFE LOVE LAUGH have been totally ahhumm in the year of the OX.

I was of course still so Blair-ish.. but without the chuckinator.. i got the mother chucker of it all (hehe) but then again.. very NATE-ly and so lonely boy.. Ive met a lot of good friends too this year.. so far so good more Facebook friends than usual hehe. Last year at this time i thought facebook was lonely.. i had 20 friends to start with, sad, everyone adores friendster then. Until boom! Online farming became the next best thing after google. Toodles friendster.

This was the year of the BIG BANG. Michael Jackson died, along with Cory Aquino and my pet goldfish Wiggy. My feelings died too.. only to be sweetly resurrected 6months later heheho! As tita mayet said, to be young and inlove ahahay! Korek ka dyan tita!

2009, i got hooked with TMZ (you know it shows daily in HBO) and laughed with the hosts as celebrities make fool of themselves in the real world. This was the year of never its-too-late-for-romance, ask mar and korina. (Sed texted me, he would never wait till he is 55 to get married ). The year of the New Moon, Harry Potter 6, and Paranormal Activities… i hated all the other movies. Except two when i was kilig from start to end coz someones holding my hands (but thats another story).

To review this year, it will take me till next christmas to complete the details. With all my misadventures, heartaches, happiness, palitaw and a stranger than Katorse teleserye life, ill say it has been a good one. Oh on a great one!

Next year will be another good one i suppose, and best of all it will be with my family in the ceettee of promise DAVAO! I couldn’t be more excited, i couldn’t be more happier.

Here’s to 2009, my barok english, my iyalurve, my sedfrey star, my happy mom and dad, my taller than me younger brothers, my beautiful baby sister and to my lala love.. you survived another year! HAYPAYB!

Dabaw bound.

For the past seven years of my life i have been breathing, eating, living the manila life.

It has been a happy, fruitful, fast – paced (don’t mention it), hectic seven years but I am ready to move forward now.

I guess the metro really sometimes sucks the life out of you. In my 7 years i never stopped dreaming of going back to my hometown. Given the right oppurtunity as here in the metro.

A friend of mine texted me, ” I GUESS THE METRO really had you this time.”

Did i like metro manila? of course i loved metro manila! i embraced the culture, the variety the chaos.. the friends the loves

Ill miss the MRT. Shaw station has been a home for me. The easiest meeting point when all of your friends decides its onehellava traffic jam out there we better take the rails.

Ill miss the smell, filthy as it is Manila has its distinct smell it makes you realize you are in Manila indeed.

Ill miss Megamall, MOA, Glorietta (dont care which number), my church CCF, Trinoma, and even Shang (when i decided its sosyal day).

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Im davao bound now. Back to my hometown. I have this feeling that ill be needing a hell of adjustment period but ill be fine..

after all, though im used to that manila life now… i have always longed for this one hell of a moment.

Because even if im surrounded with SM and robinsons here. I still yearn for felcris and nccc.

i texted my friend back “Nope, manila didnt have me, i just realized davao never left me”.

on songs, on love, on love songs

Its coming.. valentines i mean. days to go.. and no matter how you feel yourself outgrowing the tradition, when you see hearts strings on each department store windows, when everyone around you is mushy and sticky (hehe), or when you open up windows after windows of hotel availability booking last minute reservations for sex craved travellers (haha).. cant help but be infected with the fever..

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My pretty friend cyrus and i are compiling our favorite mushy and songs .. cy has the mushiest taste sa kanta hehe ang sweet.. heres one.. it has a local cover done by nina and a foreign singer (which we both think is dedicated for me.. no further comment please)

I’M NEVER GONNA GIVE YOU UP
Frank Stallone & Cynthia Rhodes
(V. Dicola/Esposito/F. Stallone)

I need to know someone
Who’s warmer than the sunshine
Could be that you’re the one for me
Ooh, you touch me deeper, darling
All my emotions’ starting
Come to me now and you will see

REFRAIN:
That I’m never gonna give you up
For someone else’s love
Never gonna let you go
And lose the one I love
Oh, tonight…tonight

Some people never know the
True magic of the moonlight
You give me everything I need
Woman, you really know me
Anticipation’s growing
Come to me now so you will see

REFRAIN:
That I’m never gonna give you up
For someone else’s love
Never gonna let you go
And lose the one I love
Oh, tonight…tonight

Ooh…ahhh…oooh
Forever we’re together strong, ohh
Together here, forever here in love
Never gonna give you up
For someone else’s love (you’re mine forever)
Never gonna let you go
And lose the one I love
Never gonna give you up
For someone else’s love (no I’ll never, no)
Never gonna let you go
No one else’s love

Never…never…
No one else’s love
Never…never…
No one else’s love

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4 Years ago, when i started blogging, it has been my tradition to describe what my valentines would be.. most of them was quietly spent with family hehe(kasi pag valentines talaga either Harrased ako or ang dapat na ka date ko). So i decided for a change this year im gonna be straining my neck to blog about what i think and feel about love this time, this part of my life.. (SELF CENTERED AKO I KNOW)

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When i was younger my dad, used to buy me flowers and my mom for valentines.. mine would be a miniature version of her long stemmed roses. When i turned 17, my family was blessed with another baby girl (so much for being the unica hija for 17 years!) so daddy stopped giving me roses ( i dont know if wala na syang budget for 3 girls or he resigned to the fact na may iba ng magbibigay sa akin). Hindi naman ako na bigo.. meron nag bibigay ng roses so far till i had to move to manila ..

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Ever since i moved here it is always more of a mature valentines. No longer do i desire flowers or chocolates.. more of companionship.. out with friends.. enjoy the single life.. enjoy the dating field, iba na.. this has been my outlook na sa buhay these days.. Masaya palang maging at peace sa where youre at..

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-today-

Now that i have my bestfriend as my boyfriend ahem. It has been a constant remembrance how understanding more is better than loving more. Always better to have a bestfriend than a lover. Always better to hear the truth but measured in love. I even realized that sometimes the best conversation is “silence”. And so far it has been a solid, loyal and annoyingly sweet relationship. Mind you di ako nang iigit- all of my dear friends know how my daily struggle is with my wafu.. but its all worth it naman eh.. we are both happy and that is all that matters.. grounded ang relationship so far so good;

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You ought to know by now
Love is the look in my eye
Lovin’ the way you smile when I say
“I wish you would stay”
You bring out all the youth in me
I laugh and cry out all the truth in me
Out of love
You should know by now

Haven’t you felt by now
Just what it’s like to be loved
Knowin’ that certain touch when you’re sure
Time won’t give you more
You bring out all the best in me
I wanna hold you till you feel t he need somehow
You should know

That if I could just find the words
I wouldn’t be left so lonely
I’m your one and only
Then I’d show you how

Every move as smooth as silk
Say you will
Baby, say you will

Hasn’t it crossed your mind
Haven’t you known all this time
Honestly tell me now, has it shown
How much love has grown
The way I tremble at the sight of you
I wanna learn to love you through and through
This I’ll beg
You should know by now

You should know by now…
You should know… by now…
You should know I love you
You should know by now

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Cy and Kuya

emo mode

This is cyrus .. one of my newest friends in the new company i am working for. We both came from the same town.. the most beautiful city in the south.. Davao so its a no brainer why we clicked.. and it is his birthday today. December 5th.   same date as my beloved kuya don

thats my kuya now, the one wearing brown ha (at hindi ako yang isa aunt ko yan .. sorry he doesnt like much picturan so yan na ang isa sa cute na kuha nya… Now if i were a judge for a prize giving award for exceptional people.. i would let my kuya win (walang favor in hand yan). Its a long story but i love my kuya’s character, i really look up to him as an example ng saying na “PAg may tiyaga my nilaga” or what have you. Dedicated sa work, sa life, sa family.. ay nko i just dont know why he is not married yet till now ( i recalled him saying that he is still not able to get into the point where he could say he is really inlove, knacks)

There is so much to say about my kuya yet i am always flinging for words when i think of something to write for him, the two of us shared a special bond, we both grew up kay lola and thats a different story altogether. And with his pa serious epek always, i guess most people would say suplado or uber serious but he is not really.. he just like that he thinks all the time. He was the one who patiently taught me geometry and trigo in high school and he never ever ever ever gets frustrated when i look at him blankly (siguro nasa isip nya “bobo nito”) but just explains the whole freaking thing altogether. I miss him alot.

Well to my handsome kuya, heypi birthday more birthdays more beers.. i love you always..

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Then theres cy again, heres another angle …

ang pretty ko

Some twenty plus years ago (sa Tecarro hospital daw) ini-re ng mama nya si cyrus paul.. Hats off with his mom, after all she brought a brillant guy into the world (weh). When I was very new to E.com, i figured i’d survive (moving in from a more bloody account) mahirap din pala specially joining a much tenured team. Cy, was kind enough to help me out (in so many ways hehe). He brought in so much comfort, 1st because we speak the same dialect (dabawenyong bisaya of course!) 2nd because he made the transistion so much easy, when in the midst of his calls, he would stop to answer my questions…

As in my previous posts, this part of my life for several months or so has been one of the most turbulent times. Moving into a new job, finally deciding to move further with a relationship and dedicate a whole lot more to it, Iya pursuing chinese lessons (which bothered me to no end when she speaks in chinese) , conflicting family matters.. i was wounded and whenever i have no escape, i felt i found comfort at my workplace (which is something amazing!!!!! really considering i have always hated spending so much time at work and never outside of it) and cy was one of the m

ain reasons for that, his jokes and how he unselfishly listens just makes me forget all the pain..I looked forward to working even if i struggled so much it was still worth spending a day with friends like him.

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As in my previous posts as well, cy was the one who introduce me to our office barney in pink, he pointed out w

here the “better view” of the office is or are for that matter, he unabashedly singled out whos gay and whos not (funny kasi confusing talaga dito sa 5th floor, kahit ang mukhang mader ay father pala or the other way around). He also was my source of business related materials, especially, PEP, friendster, 50+ proxies for bawal na bawal na sites, mariah carey singles and of course my new love (internet love) the DAVAO THREAD OF SKYSCRAPER CITY, which i ended up leaving an old forum for(un miracle un sabi ni wafu).

PLULEEEZZZZz… is cy’s trademark expression, and everytime na nakukulitan sya he would say (sabihin mo muna,  pluuuuleeezzz). I didnt notice how i imbibed this personally till

one day iya said “PLUUULLEEZZZZ” … hmmm shocking…

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To cy, happy birthday.. in my case i always say “another year older, none the wiser” (ayaw sundog ma’am!!) may you be more wise, more pretty, more graceful, more sexy, more contri to humanity and biology… biologically haha..

Thanks sa lahat ng smile, sa pag support mo sa milo at nescafe, at ky barney… lov yah!!my baby soldier loves you too..