It's Only Night Time When I'm Happy..

Upon reading my blog entries, I've realized how sentimental I've been over the past month. Gosh. Maybe it's just that I find time to blog late at night, when everything's quiet but my heart - it's the only time when I listen to my heart has to tell me. I don't usually hear my heart speak to me during the day with all the distractions, routines, problems, and chitchats from the busy world.

Good thing my nights are quiet that I have a chance to listen to my heart whisper to me what it truly desires.

Love? Peace of mind? Maybe just happiness. :)

If Only Dreams Come True

I get the vibe that spiritually this person was meant to spark a pattern of thought in your mind.
There are no accidents of course.

I do sense a connection here, and the vibe feels strong that you'll see one another again.
I don't think he's bearing any bad feelings towards you.


This unexpected happening this summer has changed me forever. I could feel it. I felt enchanted, mesmerized, and, oh, how happy my outlook became ever since this happened. This brought back the hopeless romantic in me that died a couple of years ago when I was disheartened by the thing called love. This might not be love per se, but this opened my heart, wide open that I now believe in destiny.

I'm thankful for the wonderful memory this summer. Really. Sooner or later, I will forget about this, but I'll forever be grateful for the sentiments it made me feel, and the magic that it brought forth into my life.

Au revoir. :)

If Tomorrow Never Comes...

Well, what was up last Saturday? I went to Gloria Jeans Makati, for a reading. A reading? Yes. It was soul sister D's birthday last Tuesday, and I immediately thought that she'd love to have a reading done by the Soul Card Reader, knowing that she loves mystical stuff as much as I do, so I took a chance, texted Sandy, and booked us a private party reading last Saturday. Her schedule's pretty booked until the 2nd week of May, and lucky us, we were able to fill in an empty slot at such short notice ( I booked Tuesday, scurried to find eight people to fill in the slots of the minimum , and thank god, we were ten! ) .

Sandy is a well known reader. She can read people, and even take a peek at the future of someone. I've heard so much great feedbacks about her from my friends, and they say that she's accurate, and is not your normal "manghuhula" ( which in fact, she isn't, really ). She is also said to give great advice, so we decided to give her a try. Overall, she is far from disappointing - she is brilliant, articulate, and very wise. Someone should get her on TV!

As for me...she read me pretty well - the obedient, respectful daughter, who literally killed her social life over work, being the revered and depended-on sister whom my siblings rely for strength, and the businesswoman that pushes herself to the limit. She also read some aspects of my business that I might want to improve on, and such. Overall, I was a businesswoman that will make it big someday. I really really hope that she is right on that one. :)

With regards to lovelife...well, I don't know. She told me that I was too busy and preoccupied with work that I don't have time to date. Or even think about dating. Gosh, will I be that busy? She gave me an age on when I'd finally meet the one. It didn't sound pleasant on my ears because it wasn't anytime soon. But then, I asked her, " Will he be my true love? " She said, "Yes. ", and " Is he my soulmate?" she gave me an affirmative again. My final words for her regarding that was, "Well then, I'd wait." The things she told me about my lovelife, were enough to set me back on my seat and patiently wait. My greatest fear in life is not being able to find The One, and settle for anyone less. I want to meet my soulmate. I want to experience true, crazy, mad, I can't live without you love. I want to experience Nirvana. Pure bliss for the soul. The climax of my existence.

Okay, I think I got carried away there. She gave some clues - The One isn't gonna be Chinese like I am, and isn't from the Philippines - he's far away. :) Oh, wow. That should be interesting.

I waited for my bestbuds to have their reading, and shared the readings over dinner at CPK and watched 300 afterwards. Cool movie - definitely quenched my thirst for my love for World History - Spartans are indeed the best fighters in history - what the..300 against a million? Insane. But then, I loved their courage and their love for their state. You can't find these traits in ANYONE these days. Afterwards, J and I slept over at M's house, and ate a hearty Sunday lunch. J had a flat tire, so I rode with her to her home just to make sure she's gonna be okay. We had a fun nail pampering session at Bizzie Lizzie - oh, I am so coming back there. The place is great, the chairs are so darn lazy that you could fall asleep, and service is superb! When my parents fetched me at J's house, I was saddened that the weekend had to end and we all had to face our "routines" of our businesses, and jobs again. Shucks, I wish I could just freeze time and enjoy lazy Sunday afternoons. So love them.


Overall, I so loved my weekend. I think , this year , so far, has been the best year for me in terms of friendship - that my bestbuds and I have reconnected unlike ever before, to make up for last year's absence. Last year, M was in Canada studying, J was stationed in Cebu for her job, while K was so busy with her demanding job. This year, everyone's back, and we've never bonded like before - we went to Bora, we went out almost every week, and chatted like hell! I think that this is a great great thing because I really missed my bestbuds so much and right now, I am having the time of my life spending time with them catching up on their lives, knowing them a little bit more, sharing secrets and dreams, as well as feeling like it was highschool again - way back when things were so darn uncomplicated.

Anyway, I must whisper this to the wind hoping that it'd reach this certain someone, and it's ... "You just swept me away, you had no idea.."

G'nite :)

Addiction Far From Over...

I am now blogging to give an update on my addiction with the movie Music & Lyrics, particularly with its soundtrack. Just today I have successfully downloaded four songs for my leisure listening : Pop! Goes My Heart ( so far, my favorite feel-good song ), Dance With Me Tonight ( shucks, can Hugh actually be a balladeer here? this is such a dreamy song, lurv it! ), Meaningless Kiss ( somewhat like Careless Whisper, I just can't get over the scene wherein Hugh sang it and broke his back while dancing wildly hahaha! ) , Buddha's Delight ( my future belly dancing theme song Hahaha! ), Way Back Into Love ( a really, really reflective song ).

Really, I am so hooked with all these songs. I'm off to read the Bible ( gasp, is this true? ), and find out some answers, in which I'll write about tomorrow.

I just have this unwanted stirring in my heart that I'm longing to either satisfy or diminish totally.. Shucks. I want this to end.

All I Wanna Do...

Lately, I've been thinking alot with what I want to do with life. Yeah, I'm okay with my career being daddy's little protege in our family business, but there is, really really something that I want to do. Well, for myself that is.

See, ever since I was little, I've always had this innate fondness for the beautiful. Beautiful things, beautiful places, beautiful people. At an early age, I would flip magazine pages, and admire beautiful women. It turned out that I loved makeup. I remember when I was in Grade 5, I would ask my yaya to buy me makeup since my mom didn't allow me to buy one for myself. As I grew up, my fondness for cosmetics grew fonder, and fonder - I would sign up for the makeup committee of productions, offer to apply my friends' makeup, and self-experiment with it. I became knowledgeable not only with makeup, but also with various beauty products. Some people might call me vain, or maarte, but that's just me - in love with vanity.


My signature makeup brushes - it all starts here!

Now, I have been thinking on signing up on a Certificate class on makeup artistry. Makeup artist? Yes. I've always dreamed of being one, given my passion. I am so anxious to sign up, but given my work schedule, this is such a hard thing to discuss with my parents, given that I work for the family business. Thing is, I don't really want this vain side of me die as I grow up. I want to pursue it, alongside with my budding beauty business that I so want to make big one day. If there were no obligations on my part, I would have happily packed my bags, went to the US and studied makeup. I think that would be my nirvana.

My problem right now is

1. How to tell them
2. How to squeeze in the schedule ( night class )
3. Make the driver do overtime for two months ( I bet he'd be happy! Haha! )
4. Get some time of to focus on this while maintaining a productive, and efficient attitude in my workplace.

Sigh, I wish I had ten pairs of hands. One for applying foundation, another one for applying concealer, lipstick ( hahahaha! )

Buddha's Delight Dance Moves

So, okay, my Music & Lyrics addiction is far far from over. Watched it three weeks ago, and I'm still as hooked as I was when I first watched it. Watched it twice ( once with J, J1 and K , the second time with M ), and the third time at home! The soundtrack is awesome that I listen to it everytime!

Now, my latest craving - or rather, thing that I'm so intrigued about, the song that Cora Corman sang in the movie called, "Buddha's Delight." ( just a weird thing - I initially thought this was called "Booty's Delight." Sheesh! :)

The lyrics were wittily put up, and the lyricist sure did have some vivid imagination - imagine correlating spirituality and sexuality. Very, very intriguing. Here's the lyrics :

Buddha's Delight

(La, la, la
La, la, la)

I’m starting to believe boy
That this is meant to be boy
Cause I believe in karma
(La, la, la)
Boy do you believe in karma?
(La, la, la)
So forget about your past life
Cause this could be our last life
We’re gonna reach nirvana
(La, la, la)
Boy we’re gonna reach nirvana
(La, la, la)

Each time you put your lips to mine
It’s like a taste of Buddha’s delight
I see the gates of paradise
You’re a taste of Buddha’s delight
Tell me all your fantasies tonight
And I will make them happen cause
I’m not satisfied if I don’t get my Buddha’s delight
Oh shanti, shanti
(La, la, la)
Oh shanti, shanti
(La, la, la)

Like sitting meditation
You give me elevation
Can you take me higher?
(La, la, la)
Wonder can you take me higher
(La, la, la)
I wanna revelation
And sweet salvation
And the internal fire
(La, la, la)
Show me the internal fire
(La, la, la)

Each time you put your lips to mine
It’s like a taste of Buddha’s delight
I see the gates of paradise
You’re a taste of Buddha’s delight
Tell me all your fantasies tonight
And I will make them happen cause
I’m not satisfied if I don’t get my Buddha’s delight
Oh shanti, shanti
(La, la, la)
Oh shanti, shanti
(La, la, la)

I’ve got to have my Buddha’s delight
Oh shanti, shanti
(La, la, la)
I’ve got to have my Buddha’s delight
Oh shanti, shanti
(La, la, la)

Oh oh oh oh oooh oooh ooh oooh

Each time you put your lips to mine
It’s like a taste of Buddha’s delight
I see the gates of paradise
You’re a taste of Buddha’s delight
Tell me all your fantasies tonight
And I will make them happen cause
I’m not satisfied if I don’t get my Buddha’s delight

(La, la, la)


Okay, so now the dose of the sexy lyrics is there, but there is just more to it. The dance moves - I am so so so so so impressed! The swaying of the hips, and the booty moves, gosh, I WANT TO LEARN HOW TO DANCE LIKE THIS! Perhaps I should enroll in a belly dancing class - I just might consider that as part of my "live my life" campaign right now. Haha!

Watch the video here, and you might want to learn from her dance moves as well!



Boy, if I could learn how to dance like that, I'd be always in the dance floor. Hahaha! Last time I danced, I don't even recall if that was called dancing. Hahaha!

Oh Happy Saturdays

Saturdays are always fun specially when I get half a day off from work to facilitate the event - the Valerie Beauty Pinup Girl Collection Launch, a mini-gathering by my company (and Tin's ), Beauty & Minerals. Boy, I do hope I get to distribute mineral makeup more, and make this a full time biz since I am so in love with mineral makeup! They are sureball ways of improving one's looks with the inexpensive price tag, plus , they also make women feel good about themselves! I highly value confidence and self worth, since they are scarce resources nowadays, and bringing them back to someone is simply priceless, and really rewarding.

The Pinup Girl Collection Launch was great! At first, we were a bit weary that we would not be able to get decent seats at Starbucks 6750 because of the people upstairs, with matching laptops, who seemed to want to stay there for a long time. Good thing, ground floor tables were fast moving, and we were able to settle at the ground floor. The tables were far apart, but nothing can really stop mineral makeup addicts from getting what they want no matter the distance! Haha! Overall, I enjoyed meeting new people ( finally meeting friend P ), and seeing old friends again! I was able to seek makeup advice from pros like K, and all that! Great, great, great, I shall never tire of holding such events like these! Next time, I want it to be held at Ziggurat, just as mineral makeup addict J suggested.


Beautiful ladies + cute boy :)


Biz partner T with my beautiful Val Pinup girls!


My kadaldalan table :)


Oh, and by the way, if the mineral makeup addicts were able to shop, I was able to do my share of shopping inside Starbucks. Got this mega-cute Apple necklace from addict P ( from Beauty Corner, buy buy ! ). I was able to see the design online and hesitated because it was beyond my budget ( or else I thought ), but upon seeing it, I bought it in less than 5 minutes. Things happened so quickly. Talk about impulsive shopping. Take a look and you just might understand me!


My new Apple necklace! Love it since my childhood nickname's Apple.:)


Yikes! I'm super dark na pala from the beach trip last week! (pic from Patty's multiply site:)

After the event, I hurried to Rockwell to meet bestbuds J, M, and ever-cool buddy J to watch Good Shepherd. It was so funny, or I just got so stunned because when M asked me which movie I preferred ( Good Shepherd or 300 ), I told her that any movie would do fine as long as Matt Damon wasn't in it. Then, I was late for the movie, and the moment I looked at the screen, it was Matt Damon! Wahhh!! I mean, I have nothing against Matt Damon as an actor, person, but I just don't like seeing him or watching his movies! Maybe he just doesn't appeal to me. AT ALL. Hahaha.

The movie Good Sheperd, in my book, is a flop. Sadly, I didn't like it. It was way too dragging for a movie - lasted more than two hours, Angelina Jolie didn't shine in that movie ( and to be paired up with Matt? What were they thinking? ), and the movie was just all about the spy's adventures, that in my opinion, was a great way of wasting one's life away. The symbolism by the last part when he read his father's letter, and the letter being burned pretty much summed up the whole movie. The main character.just.wasted.his.life.away.

Which reminds me, I gotta live a full life. ( Oh, so the movie had some use after all ). I'm still young ( well, sorta, reaching my quarter life crisis soon ), and I need to experience everything great life has to offer as early as possible. I think my Boracay trip made me realize that I needed to do that for myself. So right now, I've been taking my chances, to make sure that I don't have any regrets on whatever things I do. I don't wanna be like Matt Damon in Good Shepherd - I don't wanna waste my life away. I want to have a great , great life worth relinquishing when I grow old.

BTW, M told me that the cutie that I was crushing on , looks 16 (and thinks he just might be 16 ) . Gasp. Oh no! :)

My Boracay Bliss

"I'll open up my heart, i'll be lovin' you
Forever and ever…
I'll be a part of you, in the way i do
Come into my life, so i can see… " - lyrics from Moony's "Dove"

I just came back from a 4-day vacation from Boracay, and this is not my first time going there. Ever since I came back from Boracay June last year, the place captured my heart - the breathtaking scenery of a perfect blue sky with dizzy cloud formations, the crystal clear beach water, and the cool, powdery, fine sand that gives me so much comfort that I want to stay in that place forever.

This trip was so much fun! My bestbuds and I planned this since January and booked for a March 2-5 trip. I had one mistake - bestbud M and I went to Shangri-la for a cram shop a week just before our trip and bought whatever bikinis would fit us! Good thing it fit is quite nicely, or else I wouldn't be happy at all!

Anyway, we spent the night before our trip at bestbud J's house. We spent a good 'ol 3-4 hours trip , from plane to van and boat transfer to the place. After the excruciating wait, we finally arrived at our resort - Boracay Tropics.

Boracay Tropics wowed us with the impressive architecture - a mix of Mediterannean and Asian influence, a lush garden, with great rooms! The dining area was exquisite, we enjoyed the area, and the food was just alright.


Lounging around the beautiful Boracay Tropics

Okay, for the beach, I so enjoyed going to the beach specially at Station 1. The sand was way powdery, and I loved how my feet felt whenever I would walk on that absolutely perfect, fine sand that I've always wanted. We went sunbathing, and J was first to get a gorgeous tan, M got a little bit burned, and K got a little bit red. My skin got a little bit tanned, and I wonder why it won't tan so deeply as J had! Hehe:)


Lazing around Boracay...love the sand!

For our bloopers, we had our moments. Bathroom bloopers ( S, you left your H in the bathroom! ), watersports bloopers ( me hanging on to the Flyfish boat like I'm falling off the building ), photo bloopers ( M on our pool shot, with her crazy laugh that almost drowned me whole ), K with her intense, and impressive CSI investigation skills ( hey,you oughta be a litigator! you can make murderers admit! Haha! ), J with her infectious laugh that is also a potential drowner if you're near water even if you could swim well, and her nonstop teasing and descriptions.

Watersports , I think, were no forte of mine even if I was in the swimteam way back in HS- I got a nasty motion sickness on the boat , as my stomach churned violently ( drat ), even churned more violently with the sight of the inconsiderate man dressed inappropriately ( well, at least to our eyes ) with nothing but sarcasm that comes out from his mouth. I mean, during our island hopping, we were in a group, and people were supposed to wait for each other. I could not believe my ears when he told a group of girls, when they got back late, like, "Hey, took a nap there or something? We were waiting you know?" Gosh. For someone who hates mankind, he should have taken an island hopping tour on his own! Lol!


All of us posing in the Crystal Cave

For the Flyfish activity, everything was slippery that I turned into some blooper girl ! I don't want to talk about it! Lol! M also had her crazy moment with J almost sitting on her! Hahaha!


Flyfish is a very very hazardous sport! Hahaha!

For the Jetski, hats off to J for having this extreme-sports attitude ! I seriously think she could do well as a drag racer. She's a no-fear girl! Haha! I on the other hand, wanted to try to be a no-fear girl with jetski, though.......I didn't know how to drive it!

For our night outs...well, day one night out, got me almost fuming mad and hilariously insane. J wanted me to sing at Cocomangas. Don't bother asking the details, but let's just say I almost chased her with my havs on my hands. Lol! It was alright - the pizza at Cocomangas was absolutely yummylicious, but the Lychee Margarita we had was just okay. We slept soundly during night one because we were tired from our transfer! We're quite lucky that the manong who drives the shuttle for Boracay Tropics is so nice!


Night # 1 at Bora, tummies happy with the pizza from Cocomangas

For night number two, we ate at the Seawind Resort's buffet area. Wow, we feasted on the scrumptious array of fresh seafood, and it was divine! Loved the prawns, the oysters, the salted egg..and even the pasta! What made it more special was that there was a wedding held at Seawind, with fireworks and all. It was absolutely romantic - fireworks on the beach, with a glimpse of the couple holding hands, just looking at the sky, watching the fireworks display, celebrating their love on such an exotic place. Perrrfect.

Walking around Station 1, taking pictures!


We went for some drinks at Club Paraw, and had a blast. The house music was amazing - I so love beach music. I think I had a little bit too much to drink though I think I was still completely rational. It was so amusing to see people do their moves on girls or even guys there, and it was also interesting to see people dancing there. Met some nice new friends there, that sealed the night with a great smile on my face.


At Club Paraw

On our last night on Boracay, right after our island hopping adventure ( a very very tiring one! ), we ate at Boracay Tropics for dinner, but bought some souvenirs and Chori burgers at D'Mall. It was quite interesting to see the array of shops and the bustle of people in Boracay even when the sun comes down. As they say, all the action happens when the sun goes down.


An apparition..Backstreet Girls? Hahaha!

We had our last one hour beach appreciation trip to Station 1 on our last day. Drat, I didn't want to leave! As we were waiting for our plane at the airport, I was in deep reflection on what actually transpired during our trip, and still trying to feel the cool, fine sand on my feet. I'm missing Boracay already. I uttered a silent goodbye, as I boarded on the plane.


We love Boracay!

Goodbye Boracay. Memories are always here in my heart.


Boracay was just a dream to all of us. We would wake up with nothing to do but look forward to have some fun, or just laze around the beach. It was so different from our lives back here in Manila, that we never wanted it to end. We learned so much about each other that we came home with a new, and stronger bond formed. I'll never forget this vacation, ever.

Boracay to me is surreal. It's like, it's almost not real - it's the perfect place on earth for me, and I shall never tire of visiting it every year.


Yours truly ;)

I'll see you when fate twists us up again.