8 Random things

Wee! Makeover. Of my blog template, that is. (For those reading this through a cross-posted entry, click here for the original site of my blog.)

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I've been tagged by both Abigail and David on the exact same thing! :) So let's see, what are eight things I could tell you about myself?

1. Depending on my mood, I can wear the sexiest heels/shorts or the baggiest shirt.

2. I learned survival swimming from my dad: he used to throw us into 8-feet (or was it 10-feet?) deep water at Edsa Shang when we were younger. I was hardly 4 feet then!

3. I have a lisp.

4. My favorite flowers are pink stargazers.

5. I once fell face down at a cheering practice, while we were attempting a pyramid. (This was like, fourth year highschool!) I looked like I just got off a boxing match and I was absent from school for like a week. I had to suffer (aside from a plastic surgery-worthy face) from damaged tear ducts for the entire recovery period. The tears were activated by heat that if I'm not in an airconditioned room, my eyes would well up unconsciously.

6. I'm a very patient person...as long as I know how long to wait up. Tell me to wait five hours and I wouldn't mind. But tell me to wait for ten minutes and be back after 45, then you'd see me rolling my eyes.

7. Never have I smoked and I have stopped drinking [alcoholic beverages].

8. It took me 30minutes to write this eighth item. I can't think of anything else to say.

California Love

It's my second San Francisco flight and it's a long layover for me. Yeay! Al and I went to see Ratatouille (coz I fear that by the time I get home to Manila it won't be on the cinemas anymore). Second day we went shopping and both got a new jacket, went to Pier 39 and Fisherman's Wharf, and had coffee with his friends later that night. Third day, Santa Cruz! Off to the Mystery Spot and then to the Boardwalk (with Ninya and Marco).

So yea it's official, I have a boyfriend. And wish me luck, I just got on another long distance relationship.

As for the post title? That's what my shirt in this photo says. ;)

Physically sick...not.

Psychologically or emotionally, maybe. I've called in sick for two days now. I was supposed to fly HK yesterday but I didn't.

I don't know what's wrong with me. I don't think it's plain laziness though. I can't enjoy eating when it's lunch/dinner time, but I eat a lot towards midnight (and past it). My sleeping pattern is unbelievable. Like last night, (well, technically morning) I slept at around 2am coz I can't sleep earlier, and by 5:30am I was already up and having coffee coz I've been turning and turning in bed that I fear I might wake Mica up--who's sleeping beside me for the night.

My being "not in the mood" to fly yesterday? I have found an explanation. Maybe coz I didn't have that transition time I usually have the day before I leave Manila. I've mentioned before it's like I fall silent 24hours before I leave Manila, to let the thought of going back to Seoul sink in. Well I left Manila on the 20th; and on the 19th I wasn't silent at all--I was celebrating my bro's birthday.

But today's insomnia attacks? I can't explain. It can't be jetlag coz I haven't flown more than one timezone for almost two weeks now. Nor can it be the sleeping pill effect/dependency coz I have not taken a single one in weeks.

@#$%! Gusto ko na iuntog yung ulo ko para makatulog na lang ako and/or to get me back to my old self. Ano kaya problema ko?

You know something's really wrong when you have:
...no one to talk to or chat with but you're still up.
...checked your all your email accounts for more than ten times.
...finished a book in 24hours.
...eaten practically everything in your fridge.
...noticed that all are asleep; or they're waking up and you're still awake.
...done everything you could think of: laundry, nails, etc.
...been listening to Kamikazee coz you've listened to all the mellow songs you have.
...read more than two chapters of D's manual but you're still wide awake.

Today I'm going to our Medical Center at Asiana Town as I'm required to do so for calling in sick on a weekday (kung kelan bukas ang Medical Center), but what will I say? That I don't feel like flying? Or I can't sleep? (Hmm, pwede, pwede..) Last night I planned to take the 2pm bus to the office today so as to give me enough sleep but since I'm wide awake now, I guess I'm going with the 9-ish morning shuttle.

Unbroken Promise

I'm ecstatic. Elated. Happy. Seriously. I just fulfilled a promise I made about a year back.

Excerpt from a July 22 post last year:
"I've been praying like crazy. And bribing God. (Take that!) I promised God that my first 100,000 pesos salary would go to Maverick, my second cousin who was diagnosed of Leukemia a week ago. He's twelve."

It wasn't exactly my first 100k salary, but more of like the first 100k ipon that I had. Also, I didn't give 100k coz it's too bulky to give and since I earn USDs, I handed over $2000. I almost cried in front of Mav's mom. I was shy and proud and touched and all...

Boring. Bored. Bore.

The evolution of Taglish grammar. It's one of the topics we were talking about over eggpie and Coke last night--on my sister's 20th birthday.

We're trying hard to figure out why, of all the English words, Filipinos are having difficulty using the root word "bore" (as in boredom) in a common Taglish conversation. Sample.

Person 1: Bakit aalis na tayo?
Person 2: Naboboring ako eh.

This is incorrect with the fact that "boring" is either an adjective, or a verb in present tense. In Tagalog, using the first syllable twice suggests that it is in present tense so there isn't a need for the -ing at the end of the word. Other word samples: excite/exciting - naeexcite (not naeexciting)

Person 1: Kamusta yung party na inattendan mo?
Person 2: Nabored ako eh.

Though this sounds less incorrect, it still is. "Na" before a word denotes past tense. So why the past tense form for the bore word? Other word samples: try/tried - natry (not natried)

Why? Someone tell me why? What's with the bore/bored/boring word that makes it confusing? I usually encounter people saying these grammatically incorrect Taglish phrases. Bakit kaya? We can't figure this out.

Threes

Taking a break from serious blogging... This is from Tin ;)

Three Things That Scare Me
1. Crime, especially rape (on the news)
2. To become unloved
3. Nightmares that seem so real

Three People Who Make Me Laugh
1. Yana
2. Al
3. Tatay, especially mga corny hirits

Three Things I Love
1. Bonding/conversations over coffee (or tea)
2. Photography
3. Traveling

Three Things I Hate
1. Other people's lack of patience and discipline
2. People talking about me
3. Cuts, and flowing blood

Three Things I Don't Understand
1. Why people smoke.
2. The essence of studying History.
3. Insensitivity.

Three Things On My Desk
1. Laptop
2. D
3. My phone

Three Things I Am Doing Right Now
1. Blogging
2. Chatting over YM
3. Txting

Three Things I Want To Do Before I Die
(OMG I have a list for this!)
1. Get married.
2. Send my parents on a European tour.
3. Be fluent on a third language.

Three Things I Can Do
1. Type with all my fingers, without looking at the keyboard.
2. Magpaiyak ng gulong ;)
3. Fall asleep at a noisy place.

Three Things I Can't Do
1. Cry when I'm not sad. (Like for school plays, etc.)
2. Talk to someone I don't feel like talking to.
3. Cartwheels.

Three Things I Think You Should Listen To
1. Parents
2. Yourself
3. Instincts

Three Things You Should Never Listen To
1. Anything a guy promises in return for sex.
2. Annabelle Rama.
3. People who say too many good things about you.

Three Things I Want To Learn
1. Photography
2. Flying kites
3. How to cook Kare-kare

Three Favorite Foods
1. Pork sinigang
2. Sashimi (except Uni)
3. ...halos lahat e?

Three Shows I Watched As A Kid
1. Ewoks
2. Okidoki Dok
3. Mary at ang Lihim na Hardin

Three Sets Of Three People I Am Tagging
1. My fellow bloggers
2. Multiply-mates
3. ...everyone else who reads this!

Runaway

"I slept only to find out someone else when I woke up."

I used that line as my status today on YM.

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Enjoying Manila, I've been out for the past two days, fetching mom from her office and having dinner afterwards with dad and Yana. In between eating, sleeping, and going out, there's still online time on YM and Skype.

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I realized you can't run away from heartaches. You can postpone it but you can't hope it'd disappear. I know these don't make sense right now.

Moreover, I realized I'm having difficulty investing emotions on people.