One Direction

I love this band formed in X-Factor UK last year. They remind me of Westlife. Harry is the most beautiful guy in the band for me but they are all good-looking so there's no doubt that this group will be chased by the girls audience. I love their new songs "Na Na Na", "What Makes You Beautiful" and "It's Gotta be you".

Made in One Week

There’s a saying that love comes when you least expect it.

Oh cmon.

I can’t believe I will experience these overwhelming emotions this past week. When I thought that love won’t ever come again after all the heartaches I’ve experienced in the past couple of years, here I am again smiling and wondering, it he really the one meant for me?

I don’t believe in destiny in but this case, I think there’s a mixture of fate and coincidence.

I call this entry “made in one week” as everything I am writing now is the result of meeting a guy in one week.

The first time we met, I knew I felt the spark – some sort of magical feeling. Corny it may sounds, but hell yeah. He’s a complete stranger but I felt comfortable in an instant with him after our first conversation.

I’m glad that there is an instant connection between us. I never thought he’ll feel the same way for me too. For him, it was love at first sight. For me, it was love at first conversation. Haha. This was the first time again I felt this to a guy again since 2008.

I don’t want to go into details. To make the story short, after hanging out, talking, spending hours together, meeting friends and family, here we are in a situation we don’t want to be at. It’s time to say goodbye. Yeah, right. Goodbye.

It’s a long story. All I can say is that he’s now a memory to me. One week of love as they say is what I will always cherish. I feel sad but who knows, as they call it serendipity, we may see each other once again in the near future. Nothing is certain especially in love. But I know one thing for sure - that I will forever miss his presence and company.  Am I over re-acting? I don’t care. The hype of this emotional ride is undeniably strong. I always think about him and hope he is just right by my side. But I know everything happens for a reason. Maybe God wants me to think that there is still hope for me to find that one true love. After all, I thought that all guys are the same. This time around, I found the sort of perfect guy but just not in a perfect situation. Still, I am wishing and praying that everything will turn out just the way God has planned it. Love Life.

Oh, Palawan! ♥

The last leg of our sort of WOW Philippines tour this year – Puerto Princesa, Palawan last Nov 19-21,2011.  We arrived in Puerto Princesa Airport around 9:30am via ZestAir. 

Awaiting us is our van that will take us to Tropical Sun Inn. This Inn is not bad at all. I recommend this to all the travelers especially the backpackers. We checked-in and took a rest for around 30minutes then we decided to go to Honda Bay.  

We learned that there we should take or early lunch because there are no restaurants or food stalls in Honda Bay. So w on our way to Honda Bay, we stopped over to “Balinsasayaw” – a restaurant that serves grilled chicken like Inasal.  

It is around 11am when we got to Honda Bay and road the boat that will lead us to 6 islands. Fee here is fixed per boat – P1450 so the more people in a boat the less you will pay. I think one boat can accommodate up to 12 persons. In our case, we are six joined by two couples from Cavite.  

Our first stop is Pandan Island. Of all the island, this is the most crowded because it is where the people can swim. I didn’t know that at first. I thought that I can swim in all six islands so I suggest that if you want to swim, choose Pandan Island, though you can see many starfish in the water. In my case, I only eat halo-halo, listen to music while in Trina’s banig, and made my own MTV (emo mode). We stayed here around one and a half hour then we are off to the 2nd island – the Snake Island.  

 

We thought there are snakes in “Snake Island” but this was really named as it because of the shape of the shore that is like a snake. You can also swim here but the water has many jelly fish so I suggest not. Also, the sand is not as beautiful as Pandan Island. So after strolling in the shore and getting shells, we decided to leave after 20 minutes.  

It is around 2:30pm, the weather is so hot so we all look dugyot. We decided to skip two islands and choose to visit the last two island – LULI and Coral Reef.  LULI is short for “Lulubog-Lilitaw” because it is an island with a private house in the center. During high tide, you can only see it like floating in the water but if it is low tide, it is like a majestic beach. So after taking pictures, we were off to our last Island.   

From afar, Coral Reef is like a Turtle Pagoda. If you like snorkeling, they said that this is the best place to do it. The couple we met dove into the water while we are resting and taking pictures in the Pagoda. We left around 4:15pm so we could catch Baker’s Hill since it is closing around 7pm.  

We are all tired from Island Hopping but we need to go straight to Baker’s Hill without refreshing ourselves. Many tourists are in Baker’s Hill to buy pasalubongs. I can say that this place is like theme park because I can see life-sized Looney Tunes, Snow White, etc characters. We bought their famous Hopia (Ube,Monggo,Baboy) served hot. We also bought choco crinckles and bwonies here. So after around one and a half stay in Baker’s Hill, we decided to go to our Inn to refresh and take our dinner.  

We took our dinner in Kinabuch. It is like Gerry’s Grill only without live band. Actually there is no music at all. So you could here only people talking. If you talk aloud, many can hear – that’s how quiet it is in Puerto Princesa. Our dinner was sumptuous but cheap. We loved it. Around 11pm when we decided to go back and rest as we all need to wake up early the following day for the Underground River Tour. Day one, done.  

Our main highlight of Puerto Princesa Trip is the Underground River. After dinner, we are fetched by the van around 8am that will take us to the river. We are full in the van as we are joined by others. Our tour guide, Ate Mae., is very nice and she knows almost anything about history of Puerto Princesa. It is a two-hour drive from the city so some of us slept. As for myself, I just enjoyed the beauty of the road. After an hour, we stopped over to a pasalubong shop where I bought my red summer hat. After 15minutes, we then continue to our road trip. We then arrived to Ugong Rock where you can go inside the cave and do zipline. We only tried the cave. But we didn’t finished up to the highest point because it struggle for some of us as we are not ready. Some are only in slippers and we thought that it is too dangerous. 

 

So we went down again instead of zipline. Whew, it was really effort. We are all sweaty but then we couldn’t wipe our face. Just look at our pictures so you can see our before and after looks. I actually have pictures where my headband is in my forehead but still I cannot fix it. Haha.  

We are all so tired and in dire need of lunch. So awaiting in Sabang Beach is the buffet lunch. Not bad. While taking our lunch, it rained hard. We are afraid we might not continue to Underground River but fortunately it stopped after around 15minutes. So we are all set. The people in our van were separated into two groups, two boats going to Underground River. From the beach, it is around 10minutes boatride before the River. So as we arrive, we registered and see monkeys and “bayawak” walking around the area.   

After putting our life vest and hard hat, we are ready. Our only light in the river is the flashlight held by Patrick. The tour guide is funny. But as I am inside the river, I am worried that there will be bat poop and urine dropping from the ceiling. I don’t know if it’s water or urine. The river is approximately 20feet. We traveled about 45minutes in 1.2kilometers. The whole 8kilometers is not yet passable since scientists are still studying the rock formations. I don’t know if all the rock formations we saw were natural because they are beautiful like the 3Kings, Candle, Dinosaur, Mangrove tree, mushroom, naked lady, and the best – Jesus’face. Natural or not, I think they are beautiful. But I suggest that the life vest should be cleaned everyday since they smelled bad already it sticks to your skin. After all, many tourists will come and go after being included in the new 7 wonders of the world.  

So we finished and we are set to go back to our Inn. Before we were dropped to our Inn, we stopped over the tiangge to buy pasalubongs. Here I meet a new friend.. =)  

After saying goodbyes to our new friends, we headed to “Noki-Noks” and tried their famous halo-halo. It is like Razon’s but with many ingredients, delicious.  

We are supposed to have dinner in Kalui but the tricycle driver said that it is closed during Sundays so we took our dinner in Divine Sweets which is not bad after all. We stayed here until 9pm and decided to visit their Baywalk where they said we could ride the bicycle. So we rented their sidecar while Chard rented solo bike. It is nice to try this after all. Bonding bonding while under a beautiful night atmosphere. Yes, I can feel it’s Christmas.   

After an hour, we head back to our Inn and packed our things as we are leaving early in the morning the following day around.  

Goodbye Puerto Princesa. Besides being a beautiful and peaceful city, I will never forget that this is where I meet my new friend. I will never forget my Palawan moments.☺

Blast From The Past

It’s the worst feeling in the world to love and hate someone all at the same time.

It’s hard to watch things change when all you want is for them to stay the same.

It’s crazy when you want to let go.. but you keep holding on and you want to move on - but you’re stuck right where you started.

When feelings come and go and you can’t decide what you want.

When you have so many things to say, but you don’t know where to start.

When you want them in your life so bad.. but all you can do is push them farther and farther away.

It’s so hard to think back how things used to be and look at it now and realize that things are different - and they may never be the same again.

You tell yourself it’s not worth it..

but if it really didn’t matter, you wouldn’t spend so much time thinking about it.

Lost and Found

I knew I have lost some "friends" but I’ve realized my true friends - and that pleases me.

However, I do miss the old ones. I miss 2008 a lot.
Sometimes I want to freeze time - a moment.
Do you believe that everything happens for a reason?
Of course, I'd like to think that.
For now, I’m thankful for those that I have and to those I am going to become close to.
I can feel something happening. Something is coming for me.
My life is finally filled up - preparing and getting ready for a change.
I have good people now. I love them all.
I do miss the past.
But I might as well not dwell anymore.
My shoulders are still weighed down, but now I am given enough room to breathe.

X-Factor USA 2011 - 3rd Live Show

Goodbye Stereo Hoggz. I was hoping it's Marcus Canty ('cause I don't like him being too overconfident). I think this group just had a problem with their identity. Their first live show "Try a little Tenderness" is their best performance. The rest is unforgettable. But good luck to this group. Who knows there is still a gap in the market for this boyband thing.. For me this week, best performances came from Astro / Chris / Drew / Melanie. I just love Chris' version of Gangsta's Paradise! Nice!!!

Kobe in GQ Italia

No NBA? No problemo.. Kobe gets another GQ cover - in ITALY.

Janet Devlin

Another X-factor contestant but this time from UK. Just discovered her while reading Drew's fix you video. She also sang 'fix you' in the show. The show is also still on-going in the UK I don't know if she's a strong contender but looking at her videos online, I find them good but not awesome. Sweet voice. I think her 'Your Song' audition is her best performance.

New 7 Wonders of the World

 - I'm on #6 next week!  =)

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The provisional winners of the New Seven Wonders of Nature have been announced. They are as follows (in alphabetical order):

1. Amazon Rainforest – Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, Suriname, Venezuela
2. Halong Bay – Vietnam
3. Iguazu Falls – Argentina, Brazil
4. Jeju Island – South Korea
5. Komodo National Park – Indonesia
6. Puerto Princesa Underground River – Philippines
7. Table Mountain – South Africa

The above list is the result of the initial count of votes after the end of the voting period on November 11, 2011.

Listed in alphabetical order, not in any position or ranking, it is possible that there will be changes between the above provisional winners and the eventual finally confirmed winners.

The voting calculation is now being checked, validated and independently verified, and the confirmed winners will be announced starting early 2012 during the Official Inauguration ceremonies.

Organized by Switzerland-based New7Wonders Foundation, the search for the New 7 Wonders of Nature started in 2009, where 77 entries were initially picked from 440 entries from more than 220 countries. Twenty-eight finalists were eventually chosen and vied for the top seven spots. 

source: http://noypistuff.blogspot.com/2011/11/new7wonders-of-nature-provisional.html

Gandang Gabi Vice - Nov 6 episode

This episode is the funniest! Esp. the "Vina Morales" part! Repeat!

Linkin Park - Rolling in the Deep (Adele Cover)

nice!

Altiyan Childs

Since hearing his voice from our cool down song, "Somewhere in the World" in our Body Combat class, I already searched him in youtube. His performances in X-Factor Australia 2010 were truly wonderful and amazing! He is 35-years old and his first audition was awful - he forgot his words! But then the judges maybe saw his potential so he got in. Week by week, people are starting to like him until he was declared the champion. Thanks to youtube I backtracked all of his performances. My favorite is Lady in Red and Somewhere in the world. But his breakthrough performance is "Livin on a Prayer" - my golly! Check his videos below and just be amazed!

Where to go this December?

Since today is holiday, I used most of my time searching for places where I could spend my 22 days off from work in December. First option is Guam. For only $450 not bad. My aunt stays there so I have no problem. My dad even agreed already since it is just 3 hours away from Manila. He said that it is nice here. But when I checked their shopping places, reviews are terrible. I also learned that Best Buy Store is not located in Guam so erase erase. Next is Honolulu. My dad said it is better here. But when he said that it's a 10-hour airplane ride, I had a second thought of it - I'd rather go to San Francisco if that's the case haha. Lastly, I checked Paris. Woah. Of course, my dream place. But why am I checking the Paris when I know I will only go here for my honeymoon haha. Erase erase again. So until now, I'm still torn, should I pursue my LA trip? Waaaah. At the back of mind, I really want Singapore, but if there is no promo for December, I think I will book my very last resort which is..

Steve Jobs Quotes & Advices

Steve Jobs was born on February 4, 1955 in San Francisco, California. He was adopted by a lawyer named Paul Jobs because his real mother wanted a baby girl.

Few years later, Steve   Jobs went to college but decided to drop out because it was too expensive for him to support himself.

Steve said that he didn’t have a dorm room, so he slept on the floor in friends’ room. He returned coke bottles for 5 cents deposits to buy food. And he would walk 7 miles across town every Sunday night just to get a good meal a week at the Hare Krishna temple.

At the age of 20, he and his friend Wozniak started a company in a garage on April 1, 1976. Later, the amazing duo started the Apple I at the Computer Club in California, but before that, in order to buy 50 machines the duo need to sell first their most expensive possessions including Jobs ‘Volkswagen. 

Apple was named in the memory of a happy summer he had spent as an orchard worker in Oregon.

However, in 1982, Apples sales sagged because of competition from IBM. Not wanting to dwell on these failures, they worked on a new machine called Macintosh. By 1986 the Mac, was a huge success, Apple computer had grown into more than 2 billion dollar company with over 4000 employees.

At the age of 30, however, was fired from the company he co-founded with Wozniak. He left the Apple after losing a battle over control with the Company CEO John Sculley.

Jobs said ,

“You’ve probably had somebody punch you in the stomach and it knocks the wind out you and you cannot breathe. The harder you try to breathe, the more you cannot breathe. And you know that the only thing you can do is just relax so you can start breathing again.”

‘I didn’t see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.’

After five years, Steve Jobs started two new companies, NeXTstep and Pixar.

In December 1996, As apple was under immense pressure from rival Microsoft, Jobs convinces Apple to buy NeXT and make its software the foundation of the next generation Mac-OS. Steve Jobs was named Apples interim CEO in 1997.

Under his leadership, Apple returned to a more profitable company and introduced innovation such as the iPod.

Steve Jobs Quotes and Advices


“There is no reason not to follow your heart.”

“Here’s to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes… the ones who see things differently — they’re not fond of rules… You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them, but the only thing you can’t do is ignore them because they change things… they push the human race forward, and while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius, because the ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world, are the ones who do.”

“It’s really hard to design products by focus groups. A lot of times, people don’t know what they want until you show it to them.”

“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of other’s opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.”

“You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something – your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.”

“Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life.

"All external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure — these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose."

Vertigo

 

You’d think after twenty-six years I’d be used to the spin.

No, but really, its vertigo. 

I hate it.

Stress-reliever!

It's been a long day training.

Gladly, we went to my niece.

Look what I've got.. haha!

A Very "Bad Teacher"

Why did Cameron accepted this role? This is supposed to be a parody of a late 90's hit "Dangerous Minds" but it's not really funny.. I don't even know how Cameron ended with Jason Segel. Oh cmon. It's hard to say whether it was the writing that steered this movie wrong, but whatever it was - something didn't turn out right. It left me strangely disappointed because I knew it could have been a lot better. I do not recommend this film unless you want to see how Justin and Cameron do their own 'doggie style'..

Just Asking.

Friend: I have a question.
Me: Yes.
Friend: Have you really lost your feelings.. (eyes and lips pointing at him)
Me: Haha. 
Friend: I know it's weird that you are both together again..
Me: Haha. You know what? Nothing ever changed at all - Just how to deal with that feeling.
Friend: Hahahahahahaha.

Seoul Searching!

May 5-9, 2012

Annyeong Haseyo!!!

I only have one place in Korea that is a must. 

I just wish you are there too..

Altiyan Childs & Sally Chatfield - Sweet Disposition

This is a very good version of my favorite song. I learned that Altiyan Childs won this contest and he actually sang our cool down song in the body combat class, "Somewhere in the World." 

PAPI

I don't know how JLo does this. She's just so good.

Banayad Whisky

Who could ever forget this scene? This one really makes me laugh until now. 

Super Funny Halloween Special on Ellen

One thing I love during holiday is I am able to watch Ellen's episode on TV instead of youtube.

Yesterday's episode is really funny.

She's dressed up like Sophia Grace and her "cousin" is also not talking just like the real cousin haha. Tony as Nicki Minaj haha.

Also in this episode are the funny photobooth shots of people with surprisingly the "scream" masked man.

You gotta check it out.

Moonleaf Tea Shop

 My favorite Milk Tea Shop.

Their Wintermelon is the best.

Also must-try is their Hakka Milk Tea.

They have branches in UP Teacher's Village Magiting St and Maginhawa St (main).

Love Love Love!

 

 

Daily Dose of Milk Tea

Confirmed.

I'm a certified milk tea addict already.

I just realized it when I ordered everyday last week haha. 

And now, looking at these pictures make me want to order again. 

Can't wait haha.

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