New Year Meh-meh

Time for the boring new year meme! Hurray! But this time I think I'll post the title and first sentence of the first post of each month for 2009.

January
First Post of the Year. I've nothing interesting for a first post so I'm doing an end-of-year slash new-year meme.

February
So, This is Still in My Head Too. And I ain't missing you at all...

March
Watchmen. The movie had great effects and all that, but it was just too darn long.

April
Wanted. I want a netbook.

May
Officially Cheezy. I'm officially beginning to neglect this official blog.

June
:o). A daily dose of Carpet Head for over a month now.

July
Blah. Finished Stone of Tears last Monday

August
Miss You, Hagrid. "The dog is a gentleman; I hope to go to his heaven, not man's."

September
Allo? Boo boring blog boo.

October
Animals Need Rescuing Too. I am so happy to read about Animal Rescue Pilipinas (ARP).

November
Manila Spirits! I'm going to be awfully busy this week and the thought of work depresses me each day.

December
Mini + Pink = Love. Been really busy with work for the last few weeks.

2009 in Review

I drafted a "year in review" post last month, but didn't get around to posting it before the year ended. When I read it again it looked long and boring so I chucked it.

This is my review of 2009.

My 2009 started slow and hard. I got sick. I went to the emergency room for the first time. Actually, I went TWICE. Also around that time or shortly thereafter, I lost my drive and motivation to work. It was so difficult going to work and being at work. But last summer I found loooove, or rather it found me, and everything became bright and sunshiny. Yihee. Not all the lows combined can beat that. For that and all the other highs I’ve experienced this year, I am thankful and still feel blessed. 2009 was great.

The End.




No, wait. I still wanna list some of the highlights of my 2009:

• Carpet Head. Yay.
• Finally visited the infamous island of Boracay for the annual Boracay Open 2009. It was the perfect excuse. Needless to say, I had a blast with the Warriors Is The Best Team Ever Team.
• Went to Beijing with Carpet Head and his parents. My first time to visit a country that required a visa. Haha. Also the first time I realized that Carpet Head somewhat looks Chinese. Honestly never occurred to me. I just thought he has nice brown eyes. NAKS.
• Malakas - Maganda 2009. The Waryoritas merged for the first time with girls from other teams. Yesss we are making friends.
• Started running semi-regularly with Carpet Head. I still can’t run 5k without stopping, but that's one of my to-do's for 2010.
• Weddings galore. Two with Warriors and two with Carpet Head’s friends from college. Carpet Head has another couple friend getting married next year and I have two. Can anybody recommend a dressmaker? I think I should just have dresses made for these things.
• Finally got myself registered. I can vote now. Yay.

The End. Really.

Mini + Pink = Love

Been really busy with work for the last few weeks. My zombie days have final caught up with me so I had a lot on my plate. Madness. I have some stuff to deal with and it's not pretty. Anyway, I just want to get this over with and I've been trying to think happy thoughts all the time to keep myself going. My mantra these days, "Think think think positive." Ahhh, this feeeeerm, I swear, is just GUH-REAT. Sigh.

Anyway, I thank the heavens that I have all these awesome people and awesome more-important-than-work things to save me from my work woes. The latest addition to this world of awesome is my brand spanking new HP Mini!! Bwahaha. The Ever Awesome Carpet Head gave it to me last weekend as a Christmas present. Oh, love. Yihee. It's black, not pink, but it's still the cutest. Wish I could say I'm posting this using little Mini, but I haven't had time to tinker with it because I get so tired and sleepy by the time I get home. I am so egg-cited though to really sit down and play with little Mini. It came with a prepaid Globe Tattoo so I can finally surf at home. Yay. I just bought a cute pink case for it yesterday. It has a pocket in the front for accessories and stuff and removable straps so I can just tuck it inside a bigger bag. Double yay. Happy happy joy joy. :)

Speaking of joy, one of my housemates gave birth last month so we have a little bundle of joy in the house. Whee.

This Is How I Feel Right Now

Winning is Everything

Hah! I knew I'd win something again eventually. I'm a big fan of Click the City's Lootbox and I join almost every promo. It doesn't really take anything much. More often than not, you just answer one question about the featured movie, fill in your details, and VOILA! Congratulations, you're now in the running to become one of America's next top models. I mean, one of the winners of some fabulous prizes. Prizes are usually movie tickets or promotional materials like posters, limited edition t-shirts, and notebooks and what not. Last year, I won Wall-E tickets and Fool's Gold goodies. This time, I won a Inglorious Basterds movie poster and a limited edition t-shirt. Yay for winning! LOL.

Discover Music

Kids, I stumbled on another cool music site with streaming tracks by popular and little-known artists from all around Asia. Isn't the interwebs just the coolest?

AMP by Channel V

Thrillah in Manila

Manila Spirits was a blast.

I took Friday off from work so I could cheer on Carpet Head and the rest of his team, Team Barracks Obama, in the AOUCC Open/Men's Division. Team Barracks won two out of four games. Not bad. The party that night at Gilligan's Greenbelt was fun too. There was the traditional overflowing booze and dancing, but of course we didn't stay too long because we had a whole day of games the next day. (The pic on the right is by Ogee of Circus)

Day 1, Saturday, for the Warriors was sort of our practice for Spirits. It was the first time that all of us, old and new players, have actually played together since the last league, so the day was all about getting our chemistry back. We lost our four games, but it was all good. We still partied hard at the Saturday party in Spotlight, Pasong Tamo extension. The theme was Z-day and we partied the night away with all sorts of walking dead. I want to mention the awesome band that played that night. I don't know their name but they were ridiculously good. They played late 80's and 90's rock, which totally brought me back to the good ol' days. Anyway, it was an absolutely rockin' party.

The Warriors played a whole better the next day. Our first game was against Guambats and we played an amazing 6-point run during that game that brought us just one point behind Guam. Too bad we went over the soft cap by 10 seconds so we missed the opportunity to tie the game and play for a universal point. It was all good though. We lost our second game against Xavier by universal point. Our last game against BC was our one win and it was a well-deserved win if I must say. The Warriors showed great patience against a cup defense by swinging the disc and slowly bringing the disc down to the endzone. I'm so proud of you, Warriors!

The finals party was a blast. The Warriors went on a picture-picture spree with random and not-so-random people. Some of the guys tried to trade jerseys with folks from foreign teams. Everyone had a great time. We capped off the night with dinner at one of our favorite Alabang hang-outs, Congo Grill.

What an awesome weekend.



(EDIT: Just found out that the awesome rock band's name is NATF and they do Drunkeoke every Thursdays at 121 Pasong Tamo and play Saturdays at Capones.)