MY ESCAPE

I miss having the person that was my escape from the world around.....

REPLAY

Wish I could go back in time 

and replay some of the moments I miss best.

THREE LITTLE BIRDS

Singin' don't worry about a thing..'Cause every little thing gonna be alright..

Evening with a soothing music, cold breezy air, sound of waves, bottles of beer - I just miss reggae nights at the beach!

I MISS BLOGGING!

I've been to a lot of stuffs lately. I'm just pre-occupied with this and that and it made me neglected my blog for quite awhile. Never realized that I soooooo miss blogging. This will be my 5th post for today. Hell yeah! 


Some might find it weird and maybe wondering why bloggers felt a little bad whenever they failed to post on their blogs. You know what? I am also wondering why! LOL. Well I guess, this is our way of releasing the thoughts we have inside. I admit that I'm not a good speaker, I am having a hard time expressing myself at times. Writing makes it all easier for me to let out what I have in mind. 


My blog also serves as a diary or journal for me, it's like jotting down all those memories, good or bad. It just made me feel good entering a post in my blog every now and then. I encourage everyone to try it!

113th INDEPENDENCE DAY

Your freedom is brought to you by the people who have served this country with honor, dedication, pride and sacrifice. 

Happy 113th Independence Day Philippines!

CHILDHOOD DAYS

It was our company's sports fest last Sunday. It was held at UP Human Kinetics Gym. It was the opening of the said event that's why I decided to come. I just usually attend on the first or opening day. We also had our sports fest at the same venue last year. But this time, outside the gym, there's this play ground like obstacles. Seeing those amazed me and brings you back to your childhood memories. 

I remember so well how addicted I am to playgrounds when I was a kid. All those see-saws, swings, slides, play houses - they drive me crazy! I would always want to play outdoors whenever I had a chance. Playgrounds then are like heaven to me. LOL! Being in those kind of places just gives so much happiness when you're a kid. Whenever you're there, you keep on wishing that the day won't end so that you just have to stay there. Those were the days wherein the hardest decision is choosing what games to play.

Now that I have my own kid, I am thinking that maybe, if me and my son would spend 1 day at a playground, I might act more like a kid than him. Haha! Kidding aside, I got to admit that up until now, seeing playgrounds still bring out that excitement in me. It's so fun to be a kid!

The 'dirty ice cream' - they're the best! Back then, in a late afternoon, I've been waiting to hear the sound of the dirty ice cream vendor's ringing bell, coz' it means that it's time for ice cream! So childlike, I know. It's just nice to go back and reminisce your childhood once in a while. Those days where decisions were made by "enie, menie, miny, moe" and not being found in hide-and-seek was your biggest worry in life. =)

STUPID ME!

Don't make me wait, 

just because you know I will.

Or seems that I need to be awake from a dream,

accept the reality and learn to admit

that you will never be mine.

I knew things would not work out.

It's just me and my stupidness again!

*O U C H*

MAMA CHIT'S

Me and my team went for a drink after our shift last Saturday morning. Yes, you've read it right, drinking on a Saturday morning! We ended it up around 3pm then some of us went for a snack before going home. I wanna share the place where we ate. I love the look of that restaurant, it looks like more of a diner. It was my second time to be there. I enjoyed their food the first time I went there, that was like 8 months ago. I'm a bit disappointed from my last visit 'coz the food doesn't tastes that good. I am just thinking that maybe I am just full that's why I have not like the food that much. 


Check out the photos from my last visit:

The place has that vintage look with all those old and unique stuffs. One wall was decorated with portraits of Marilyn Monroe and Elvis Presley, surrounded by black and white photos of old Manila. You could also see posters of Beatles and stuffs that would make you reminisce of the past. Remember the old black phone? With a circular dial pad? It was so cute to see. I got to say that it's really the interior that gives character to Mama Chit's.

What's in the table?

Photos below were from my first visit:

I enjoyed these foods more than the latest dine I had at Mama Chit's. But I'll give them the benefit of a doubt. I still have reasons to go back there. Their specialty by the way are their burgers with home made patties. The burgers were good, I have to say. Budget per person starts from 100 PhP, affordable enough.

WEDDING DAY

Got a wedding to attend to tonight. A very good friend of mine will be officially married starting tonight and moving forward. The venue is too familiar for me, I am sure it will bring old good memories from the past. Because I had my own wedding at the exact same place.

 I am happy for them. I feel excited, I love weddings! That's how optimistic I am, though mine was not the wedding I've wanted plus the fact that it didn't worked out. Just because my marriage was not a happily ever after, it doesn't mean that I would need to be cynical about it. 

I think I am more excited than the bride. Haha! Will post photos and I hope I get to use my camera right.

SENTIMENTAL

unknown reasons are making me sentimental today... =(

DO YOU STILL HAVE A NEW YEAR'S RESOLUTION?

 

The time i started this post...

It's now past midnight and sleeping is not even in my mind. I am currently in my room, my lil' man is already sleeping and me is typing my thoughts. I actually missed this. The late night, everyone was asleep, quiet surroundings while composing into writing your thoughts. I want to take this opportunity to blog. Since it's a new year, I would like to blog about those new year's resolutions and all. 

It's now 2011 and 2010 was just another year you can cherish down the memory lane. I am wondering.. why is it that most people always got a new year's resolution for themselves? Do we really need to wait till new year to make things right or set goals for ourselves? Nothing against, me is just wondering. LOL!

I do set goals for my self. It's just that I don't plan ahead of time. I work on what I got as of the moment. I have learned to live life at the present and not to worry what will happen in the future. Don't get me wrong, coz it might sound like I don't care about my future. But I think of it this way - I need to make things the way I want it at the present and the future will take care of itself. None of us can really tell whatever is in store for us in the future. But I am a firm believer that whatever happens in your future is just a mere result of what you did today.

I am reflecting on what I've become at this time of my life. Then looking back, I've realized that I never even thought or planned anything of it before. But I am thankful for everything that happened in my life. All those experiences, may it be good or bad, were part of what I am as of the moment. I have no regrets and would still want to live my life at it's fullest.

I would have to say that the most important lesson life taught me thus far is that: GOD has a plan for me! God has a plan for every single person in the world. Whether something good or bad happens, it all works out for the best in the end. Your life may take turns that you don't want to happen, but it is only in time that you will understand why your life had to take that turn. One piece of advice: trust and believe. Just be the best YOU that you can be.

The time I ended this post...

VIOLENCE AGAINST CHILDREN

Change your Facebook profile picture to a cartoon from your childhood and invite your friends to do the same. Until Monday (December 6, 2010) there should be no human faces on Facebook, but an invasion of memories. This is for violence against children. Spread the word!

I pick the photo above as my profile pic in Facebook. She's Bulma from Dragon Ball. It's my favorite cartoon to watch back then together with my siblings. I remember, Sega was the popular video game console that time, me and my brothers would play Dragon Ball all day. I can't remember if Bulma was in the Dragon Ball game for Sega, I always have Android 18 as my character then and also Piccolo, 'coz he was strong, though he looks like a monster villain to me. Hahahahha! Those were the childhood days that you would always want to remember.

"Kame hame wave!" 

~Goku

BALLOON FLIGHT

 

Over a lunch with some friends yesterday, we've talked a little about childhood and kiddie stuffs. Can't exactly remember how the conversation went there. But I remember saying that when I was a kid, I used to believe that a bunch of balloons will fly you up in the sky. Imagine how I strongly wish to have experience that before. My friends laugh hard when I told them that. Childish thoughts, I know. LOL!

Seeing this picture, it makes me wonder again. 

I would need a loooooooooot of balloons. =)

A YEAR AFTER THE STORM

• photos taken during and after the storm Ondoy •

Today will mark one year from the great flood 'Ondoy'. It was a memorable experience and it simply made you thankful for being blessed. It was an unexpected tragedy.

The day before 'Ondoy', I was in a house party at my friend's place. It was all fun because two of my friends were celebrating their birthday and it was a reunion for us as well. The rain that day just won't stop. We were all there until evening and decided to spent our night there.

Next day, it was still raining. Everybody's planning go home that day but decided to play outside while raining. So we tripped, went somewhere, played like kids. When we are about to go back at our friend's house, the flood was unstoppable. In just a snap, it suddenly went high. We don't have any choice but to stay at our friend's place. Everyone suddenly got worried.

We spent one night all together again with worried minds that time. There was no electricity, mobile phones don't have coverage, we don't have stock foods, we can see outside the height of flood, people panicking, cars being washed away by the current of flood and a lot more.

Good thing that the rain already stopped and flood were gone the next day. We could all see the aftermath that 'Ondoy' made. Remembering the look of the surroundings that time, it was a sad picture I should say. Most of the areas still don't have electricity, no phone lines, dirty roads, stores don't have much to sell - it was a difficult time.

It took months for everything to be okay and be back to normal. The worst that I had then was the days that we don't have electricity. It was freaking hard 'coz you were used to it. But I remind myself that I am still lucky because my family and loved ones were all safe.

That experience made me realize what's more worthy in life. Looking back, can't help but just be thankful.


• These were photos taken the day before 'Ondoy', everyone was just trippin' and having fun, we never thought it will be a tragedy the next day •

MUSIC

Yesterday, after work, me and my colleagues decided to have some bottle of beers. There was a videoke machine to that place where we drink. It was actually fun to sing your fave songs or any song you like. Me and one of my colleagues suddenly remember something when one of the songs played.

Have you ever experience remembering the old times because of that song being played? It's like you were back to that specific time of your life just by listening to that song. It can never be a special one, it might have been that it was the time wherein that song was a hit.

So me and my colleague had felt it during those videoke hours of us. LOL! It's just so cool how a song or music can make you felt the exact feelings you had before. Music makes you reminisce and go back to those special memories of your life.


Music is what feelings sound like.
~Anonymous




• photos taken that day •