i miss harry potter..

haha... natawa ako...

dear weather, pls make up your mind

it's unbelievable!  almost two weeks now and it's still raining now and then, and now i truly believe that climate change is accelerating and im totally overreacting...

ok, since i have been used to one day rain per weather-changing, it has really delighted me to wake-up hearing raindrops on our window... its so nice to snuggle up and snooze the alarm when it's still dark at 7 am...

fortunately it has been sunny last friday, my usual laundry day.  and hopefully these 4-day holiday (yes, four freakin' days again!) will be sunny, too, because irish, maricel and me are planning to go to bcc one of these holidays.  since irish left the office, the mall will be our haven of laughter.

i can't believe that it's already 15!  10 more days and i'll be flying home again!  i almost don't want to think about it coz i can't suppress the excitement i feel every time i think of jared.

and speaking of excitement, i finally watched new moon last night.  i know, almost one month delayed.  the thing is, if something gets super-hyped up, i lose interest.

so there i was, smiling to meself while watching, and omg i kind of melted over and over again!  jacob is sooo super hyper mega awesome!  i cannot believe he is the same boy from cheaper by the dozen 2!  i was hyperventilating all night... ok, deep breaths, deep breaths...



i also got my phone back!  so now im back to taking pictures of my nails and eyes, i think ill post them soon!

ill be back soon!  its kind of boring in the office coz my boss is out of the country. haven't you noticed i've been blogging every now and then?

because real men don't sparkle

go team jacob.


i hate the word twihard. but i guess, seeing that i'm one of the swooning, ive been bitten by the bug, er, vampire, whatever.

but as much as i love to swoon over edward especially in midnight sun, upon watching the new moon trailer i cannot believe that i'll go over to jacob. he has more expressive eyes, and yes, he is more, um, toned...

im over to team jacob now.

so there, i wasted two hours of today searching for photos, images, and wallpapers of jacob black. i didn't even visited edward cullen's photo gallery. then i put them in a collage and uploaded it in friendster. i would have also changed my ym image if i just didn't love my own pix.

so...





i cannot wait until november.

damn book. i can't put it down!

breaking dawn. currently at page 290/702.


it had never had me gripping a book like this. i honestly didn't want to get out of bed. good thing it's ramadhan and we get off at 2, otherwise ill go crazy in the office waiting to go home and continue reading.

i.am.such.a.dork.


and an idiot. i don't need another fixation! pretty soon i'll never be able to sleep until i have the dvd's, cd's, images, poster, whatever it is i can find....

so much for hating sharie, the twi-hard in the other room.

but when i listened to rob pattinson's never think, i just melted... you know that helpless feeling when you hear a song and you kind of see yourself on a car, driving on a cold night and just listening to that music? dammit, it's making me homesick.

it's just too melancholic. i would probably cry to sleep later.

balance

today i realized that as much as i want to concentrate on one artwork i have to try and switch between three just to keep my boss happy and to get him off my back as much as possible.

it was irritating for him to assume that if i was concentrating on only one artwork then it means im not working hard enough.

the truth is, as a graphic artist, i have to. otherwise the momentum of the design will be gone.

but after six years i started to realize that he will not wake up to the fact that im only human. he thinks of me as a superhero. or maybe more of a magician. and how couldn't he?

i can't blame him for that. not only am i the graphic artist, im also their secretary. their HR. their personal family secretary - and they have 7 members of the family (and growing by the minute). sometimes i get calls at 11pm from his daughter in newcastle UK. or his son in texas. my expertise in the internet seems very helpful to them. plus the fact that im the only one who can put reminders on my phone.

so as i was saying, i started to switch three artworks every 45 minutes - a brochure for their new construction material showroom; a brochure for their (also new) chocolate shop; and 5 requests from a computer shop client.

would you believe it worked? not only did i have three updates for him, i was also able to answer smartly about the progress of our projects. i wish i'd done it sooner, but i know im too stubborn for that.




so speaking of balance, instead of continuing the fourth twilight saga (im still in the bella part), breaking dawn, i decided to check on friendster and my blog. it's hard for me, coz when i start to read it's difficult to stop. i will not sleep, i will delay eating, and i will procrastinate for as long as possible.

and also since i have been asking out loud after finishing the third book "When will Bella finally be a stupid Vampire???"

and every chapter in the fourth delays the answer.


i also watched the movie this afternoon to help me visualize the most exciting part of the fourth book (you know what it is).

robert pattinson is so perfect for that role. it makes me like the visualization of edward cullen more. although i get distracted by kristen's washed out face. jasper is cute too. and 'dr. fang' carlisle would'nt be left behind.

i love the books.




what can i say? im officially cullenized.

the bookworm crawling inside of me

i am so excited, bambi finally bought me the twilight book package!! i am such a dork :D

actually the first one i have read is new moon, which is the 2nd book, but since i saw the movie of the first book, i was familiar with the story. i just saw in in the living room and read it before we went for our vacation. unfortunately there wasn't enough time so i was left with 5 pages unread. now im going to start from the beginning...

unlike dan brown's books, of which bambi also bought me the 4-book package, i kind of like twilight the movie. maybe because i saw twilight the movie first. i have read the four books from dan brown and when the da vinci movie was released, i couldn't stand watching it because i hated the way the movie was going. maybe because i really liked the book and i was disappointed that the movie was slightly far from what i've read. i only watched 7 minutes of it.

that was not a problem with me with harry potter, with books from 1 to 7 still occasionally picked up when we miss reading about hogwarts. although the movies were a little different, those were still excellent movies. especially the 6th... which is the one with the nearest movie-to-book percentage.

along with these series i also had bob ong's books, although my sister borrowed it and brought all of it home. those were really good reads, my favorite is the first one (abnkkbsnplako?!?) i didn't read his last publication, though... (mac•art•hur). i felt that it was so dramatic and i was scared of breaking down...


anyways i was also perusing the bookstore for other books when i saw these coffee booklets and i was so touched by the contents, when i showed them to bambi and tried to read one passage, i was not able to finish it because i quickly walked away from him when i couldn't fight the tears anymore... (*emo mode daw ba sa bookshop?*)




some passages:

"if i have a monument in this world, it is my son." -maya angelou

"when nothing's gone right all day.. it only needs the rush of small feet pounding down the path, a leap, arms locked around about you, a grin, a pouring out of the day's news - and everything goes your way." -pam brown

"a son can be guaranteed to astound you all through his life - astound, bewilder, unnerve, flabbergast... you name it. he'll do it." -charlotte gray

"sons fling themselves. they bounce, bump, duck, dive, slide, paddle, fidget - and fall. then they pick themselves up and do it all again." -pam brown

"he makes me laugh and i feel through him that the world can be a wonderful place." -peter howarth

"... whatever sense of hurt or injustice a man may hold, he knows, in the depths of his soul, that his mother is waiting always for his return." -dame enid lyons


and the ones that made me cry:

"there are many things i would do for my friends - but there are limits. with my son there are no limits. i would give my money, my time, the proverbial right arm. and the wonder is that he never asks, he never pushes. and the nicest thing is that i know he feels just that way about me." -helen exley

"a son leaves home and there's a gap in one's life that will never completely close." -helen thomson

i really miss jared...