girls in the (fake) beach 

happy camper! 

ang cute! (ng llama) 

curious baby llama =) 

kelangan ng proactiv! 

not soon enough. . .

ok. so it wasn't soon. . . it was more. . . eventually. . . i totally understand if you all don't read my blog anymore . . . (nag-drama). . .

still no internet in my apartment. i've actually resorted to sitting on the steps to my building where i could get a signal. i'm just too cheap to go to the cafe place and buy coffee so i could get internet. been getting strange stares though so i don't really stay there for long. . . anyhow, the past couple of weeks or so have been pretty boring. i've mainly been working and not much else. hanna (mbb 99) came here last week so that was pretty exciting. helped her settle into her apartment and all that. it was fun. i'm so happy i have someone to say 'ang taray' to. . . or 'kebs'. . . or 'wagi'. . . at iba pang salitang bakla. . . hehe.

this week was mostly spent in the TA training seminar. tuesday to thursday. 9-4. all day. ano bang ginawa ko at pinarusahan ako ng ganun? hehe. . . actually, nag-half day pala ako kahapon. . hehe. . . delingkwente

paul has moved back to columbus pala. . . and left again. . . for iowa this time. pero for 4 days lang. . .

and school starts next week. ang saya-saya.

still alive. . . no internet in apartment. . . will blog soon. . .

post na talaga

so i haven't been blogging in a while. even i think photo-blogging does not count as blogging. so here i am.

i have cable again! for a month at least. got another one of those try-it-for-free-for-a-month deals from time-warner. i was more than happy to oblige. i seem to be favoring E channel today. saw top 50 hollywood breakups, but in true tv addict fashion, didn't see who was no.1. . . because i was channel surfing. . . am now watching old SNL episodes with will ferrel and chris kattan as mango. . . funny stuff. . . but i stupidly missed the rockstar:inxs results show. aaaarrrggh! that's the trouble with having too many channels. . . but did you guys see mig's performance last night? wasn't that great! i never really liked that song but the way he sang that. . . ooohhh. . . so sexy. . . so i voted form him thrice!

saw phantom this weekend. it was gorgeous! even if we had cheap, nose-bleed seats so far from the stage that i wouldn't have recognized any of the actors had any of them fallen out of the sky and onto my lap, we were that far. first of all, ohio theatre itself is beautiful. it's an old theater with really fancy gold trimmings and chandeliers and stuff. feeling taga-bundok talaga ako nung pumasok ako dun. then of course, the guy who played phantom was really good, i liked him better than the phantom in the movie. also the sets and the costumes were so rich. sulit ba sa bayad. and of course i so love the music from phantom. i cried twice =) once during the rooftop scene where christine and raoul sing 'all i ask of you' (during which paul reached over and took my hand. . . awww sweet. . . insert puking sound here), and towards the ending. i still think the whole story of phantom is psychotic but they tell it with such beautiful songs that i don't really care.

speaking of paul, his folks are coming to town this weekend. scared! i'm kind of nervous about it. i'm just scared of doing or saying something stupid. should i really be this worried? is there really anything i should be worried about? if there is you'll tell me right?

sige. 'til next time.

the couple at the pseudo-bachelor's party/karaoke night singing "a whole new world. . ." 

yes, we do clean up quite nicely. . . 

my (2nd) favorite picture of the day 

the gang. . . all dressed up! 

the newlyweds (aren't they cute?) 

wedding party 

My favorite photo of the day!. . .how yummy is this? =) hihihi. . . yes, that's a chocolate fountain behind my boyps. . .

jazz! ribs! festival!

this post is actually one week delayed, but i might as well post these pix. i was pretty busy last week because i'm actually working now. surprising ain't it?

anyhow, we went to the jazz and ribs festival last weekend. americans have a weird way of combining stuff but i totally applaud this particular combination. the thing was held in the bicentennial park in downtown columbus. and of course it just had to be a 90+ degree day. the place was packed and it wasn't easy too get around, but being the edsa 2 veteran that i am, i had no problem squeezing through the throngs to get to what i wanted which were 2 things 1) funnel cake and 2) ribs. on that day, pretty much nothing could get in between me and spare ribs. i actually didn't have red meat ALL WEEK in preparation for this so i was psyched. there is of course the issue of picking which vendor to buy ribs from. they all had trophies and banners claiming that they won in some barbeque contest in wisconsin or wichita or whatever other places. that didn't really help at all so our method involved finding the one with a reasonable number of people in line. we figured you really coudn't get bad ribs right? and we did get pretty good ribs. i only had one regret and that's that i should've foreseen that barbequed ribs would be so much better if i had rice. . . but at least i know that for next year. . . and aside from cinnamon sugar elephant ears (very similar to funnel cake), i also had chocolate-dipped frozen banana. . . just typing that up makes my mouth water. . . hmmmm. . ."so, how was the jazz?" you may ask. truth is i really couldn't tell you because they could have been playing crap for all i care but i was too full and satisfied to notice. we actually stayed behind the stage so we could hear the band pretty well without being with the crowd in front. they were playing latin jazz fusion of some kind. i would've dance if my butt wasn't too heavy from all the food. and i wouldn't have had anyone to dance with, because as much as i'm crazy about that boy, i'm not that crazy about his dancing skills =)

on other things:

• i tested out of my written english class for the second time! di kasi sila maniwala nung una na marunong akong magsulat in english e. haaah! that showed you.
• do any of you watch average joe? because the guy who got picked is the nephew of one of our friend from cgsa. wala lang. ang cool. hehe.
• i now have a dress and shoes to wear to christina's wedding next weekend. parusa pala maghanap ng sapatos dito sa columbus! miss ko greenhills! anyway, i'll post pics next week. . . you might also get to see paul in a tux =)
• ohio state fair naman titirahin namin weekend after next. fried candy bars! corn dogs! caramel corn! . . . my dietitian won't be too happy.
• ang init pa rin!!!
• yun lang.

downtown columbus 

teka, may tinga pa ba ako? 

paul eating ribs. . . 

unang araw

sadya ba talagang ganyan
palakad-lakad ka't nakatungo
sa'n patungo?
ngayong wala ka na
kailangang masanay na muling nag-iisa
sa'n ka na kaya?

'wag mo akong sisihin
kung minsan ikay hanapin/kung minsan akong iyakin
ito ang unang araw na wala ka na
ito ang unang araw na wala ka na

nasanay lang sigurong nand'yan ka
'di ko inakalang pwede kang mawala
'yan na ngaNababato, nalulungkot
luha'y napapawi ng singhot
at talukbong ng kumot

wag mo akong sisihin
kung minsan ako'y iyakin
ito ang unang araw na wala ka na
ito ang unang araw na wala ka na

--sugarfree