Thursday, August 26, 2010
i'm heartbroken right now. :( my dog, oreo, has demodectic mange. :(
and right now she's bald and very matamlay. we opted to let the vet cut her fur so that the medicine will penetrate more, since the mange is under the skin. ang mahal kaya ng weekly medical baths niya. x_x that's why we wanted her to be mange-free as soon as possible.
i hope her fur will grow back quickly. i'd really want to see her furry and happy again before i leave.
11:27 PM
Friday, August 20, 2010
three weeks from now, i'll be flying to japan. and oh the pressure. people at home expects me to be really careful there. knowing that i'm the clumsy one makes them really worried about me living alone. hindi matapos tapos ung mga bilin about do's and dont's. i'm over-protected, what can i say.
on my part, i'm actually both excited and scared. excited that it'll be a totally new experience for me. and scared of actually depending only on myself (even if there'll be 9 other ateneans going there), but for the most part, of the dont's they tell me. they think of all the worst case scenarios that scares me and makes me think of the what ifs na rin. and to say that my flight will be on a date the Americans have a phobia of, i think. hahaha. but fyi, i'm not scared to the extent that i don't want to leave anymore. i'm just scared that if something bad happens to me, my parents and aunts will surely make me go home. and i have no choice but to say goodbye to an unfinished jta experience.
but above these, u have faith in God, of what His will is for me. :)
btw, i finished watching He's Beautiful. and i would really like to watch it again when i'm free, which is not in the near future. haha.
10:30 PM
Sunday, August 15, 2010
I saw the new Koreanovela, He's Beautiful, at ABS-CBN. It was just a teaser but I got curious so I decided to give it a try through youtube. It's international title is You're Beautiful.
I'm now at episode 7, out of 16. Can i just say, "MAMATAY NA KO SA KILIG AT KAKATAWA". :"> :))
1:45 AM
Wednesday, August 11, 2010
Superman by Joe Brooks
10:29 AM
Tuesday, August 10, 2010
something to look forward to come 2011. ^_^
10:18 PM
Finally! Having had the earliest deadline for all the application forms to JIU, we should have gotten the our acceptance letters first before the other jta participants. but no. 'cause they're slow. haha
9:02 PM
Monday, August 9, 2010
by Cathy Babao-Guballa
Philippine Daily Inquirer
Philippine Daily Inquirer
As a woman, you spend hours pondering—alone or with your girl friends—the intricacies of the human heart. You always hope and pray that the next generation will get it better than you did.
Below is a letter I found in my daughter’s website (I have her permission to share this). She wrote it to “the man I will someday love.”
I was expecting to read a gushing, romantic, idealistic tome. I was humbled instead by her sentiments. It’s filled with sensible expectations.
I pray that this will make every girl believe that hope does spring eternal, and even if your heart has been broken a few times, you can always put the pieces back together, and make it right the next time around.
Take your time. Don’t rush and don’t just “settle.” If it’s part of His plan, God’s best awaits you out there.
Letter
Dear You,
I will admit that sometimes I really do wonder if you exist.
There is a part of every little girl’s heart that envisions her prince charming. At age three, it is usually of a man who can save her from the wrath of an evil stepmother, wake her from eternal slumber or give her that true love’s kiss.
In elementary school, he becomes the boy with the least cooties, the one who’s willing to cross the playground to share his Oreos even if it makes him a target for the week of all the other boys.
Come high school, it’s that boy you stand with at prom, who your father stared down at the door, who provided you with an experience complete with photos you will cringe at a decade later, a corsage that yellows in the refrigerator, and a faded memory of a night that seemed almost too magical to be real.
Nineteen years into this life, however, and still unwilling to give my heart away, I am still that same little girl who hopes for her prince charming. And although I wonder why it has taken you this long to sweep me off my feet and whisk me off to your palace on horseback, I know that it is probably because meeting you will be better than any fairytale I could’ve read as a kid.
A couple of heartbreaks and a few years wiser though, I will admit that there are times when I question your existence. Because I have yet to meet the guy who makes me hear songs like “All My Life” or “A Whole New World” in my head when I see him does not mean I don’t hope that it’ll ever happen.
I may already know you or may still meet you someday—something I leave completely up to God because I’m pretty sure our story will be epic.
However, I can’t promise you that I’d make the world’s most perfect princess. In fact I’ll probably keep you on your toes and amuse you with my eccentricities—there are a lot of them. I’ll probably steal a bunch of your T-shirts and turn them into shirt dresses, or drive you slightly mad with my obsessive compulsivity and my need to fix your collar constantly.
I can promise to be your best friend however—that person you can rant to after a rough day, the hand you can hold when you get sad, or the person you can text when situations get awkward.
I’ll probably mess up your hair sometimes and hug you for too long, but that’ll only be because I absolutely adore you. I’ll bury my head in your shoulder during scary movies and make you feel like superman when you kill those flying cockroaches that really shouldn’t exist. I’ll cook your favorite food on your birthday and try my best to make friends with your mom.
I’ll respect your nights-out with the boys and make you seem like the perfect guy to my barkada. I’ll watch basketball or soccer games with you, and not complain when you cheer too loudly at the TV set.
I’ll know the difference between giving you space and being constantly there for you—even if it means sitting and playing video games with you or taking hot chocolate runs when it rains.
I’ll listen to your music and we’ll go on epic adventures together—seeing the world, taking awesome pictures, eating awesome food, and never running out of things to tell each other along the way.
I won’t be waiting for you to sweep me off my feet and take me on a magic carpet ride, because I know I won’t need anything like that to fall for you—I will love you for you.
You will be that someone to make goofy faces with in pictures, to lace fingers with when I’m lonely, and to take long walks under the stars with on the beach.
You’ll be the guy who takes me the way I am—and will laugh as I burst into Disney song or pick out pink wallpaper.
You’ll be that someone I envision a future with—us filling out visa forms as we travel the universe, picking out our first dog together and arguing about what to name it, or being snap-happy stage parents in our preschooler’s annual mini-plays. And I keep hoping that maybe someday when we find each other, you will become that someone whose smile I wake up to in the morning and the last one I speak to every night.
So to the man I know does exist, and who will help me maybe make sense of the world someday, this man I can’t wait to love. Please know that I can’t wait to spend the rest of my life with you. But for now, I wait. Fingers crossed and palms held together, I hope that you’re out there somewhere, waiting for me, too.
With the hope I will be yours for always,
Me
10:28 PM
happy 20th birthday, joan carla cheng sy! matanda ka na pero cute pa rin *ehem ehem. Panginoon, patawarin Niyo ho sana ako dahil ako'y nagsinungaling. ehem.* nawa'y ma-enjoy mo ang taiwan at maprotektahan ka ng mga kasama mo mula sa mga aso at unggoy na gala roon. ILABSHU, bibong bata. >:D<
8:14 PM
I'll be reviving this blog for my JTA (junior term abroad) experiences. :)
I'll be going to Josai International University at Chiba in Japan.
I'm finished with my JTA 1st sem. and it was hell. :( I've never really thought it would be that difficult, especially philo. :( and to say I'll be having philo every semester until I graduate. awww, just the thought of it makes me feel depressed already. sad.
Anyway, I'll be going soon and the acceptance/confirmation letter from JIU hasn't arrived yet. The heck. It'll be super hectic once it arrives, errands everyday. I haven't actually packed yet but I have this box of jackets and other clothes for cold weather ready in my room.
I'm really excited! but my parents, and aunts, are really worried about me living alone, and at a foreign country at that.. I've been too sheltered for 19 years of my existence. and just the thought of living by myself makes them scared. haha. I kept assuring them that I'm not that dumb to not know the basic things about cleaning but they repeat all these stuff about how you make this and how i should do that. :| i just keep on nodding or say yes yes yes. haha.
It's August and I'm kind of enjoying the one-month break, knowing that most of my friends are having their hell sem. >:) hahaha.
7:24 PM
Dianne. 19. Philippine-raised Chinese. Dog lover. TV series and movie addict. Bookworm. Most of all, God-fearing.
