Jun
24

Pride, love and faces.

Filed Under (Uncategorized) by prechell on 24-06-2009

this is one of those days again. emo.

i watched ASAP last sunday and it surprised me seeing maricar reyes (for those pipol who don’t knw her yet, she’s the pond’s girl who got involved w/ hayden kho’s recent sex scandal/issue). unlike katrina halili, who is a “palaban” type of girl, maricar looks so demure and naive. one who cannot even hurt a mosquito. but what makes me write this entry? it wasn’t because of her being so naive and yet getting involved in such a mess, but it was because of her courage to face the public w/ poise. and bouncing back from that huge trouble she went thru. i can see in her eyes though the pain, the uncertainty, the nervousness of facing the crowd. for all we know and care, ppol are judgmental (just like how i judge ppol in general as judgmental).

i gave her a two-thumbs up for showing up in the show. coz bottomline is, no matter how or what she does, she cannot just hide forever. she has, at one point, had to face that fear of being rejected, judged by ppol. afterall she’s a celebrity even before that happened. and i think it was more of an advantage to her that she just showed up silently and get back to her feet slowly. not that i’m saying that katrina’s done it wrongly. or that women should just shut up if her dignity’s been tarnished. my point is it would have been better to do it with poise. and maricar has done it in such a remarkable way.

who’s to blame?is it the media’s fault for blowing the issue out of proportion? is it Sen. revilla’s exposure of the issue? is it katrina’s all-out-war against Hayden? well, obviously, kasalanan nung ngpakalat ng video.

lesson learned, never ever videotape such intimate moments just to avoid this kind of thing from happening.

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love.

i saw my friend’s pix in her facebook. (finally, nghimo na jud kog facebook na acct). i saw her and her husband’s pix. so sweet. bisan before, bryt na jud ni akong amiga. and so her husband. they’re both smart. u can see it in how they took pix. naay sense. she looks so hapi. m hapi for her. but at the same time jealous that she’s hapi. bad au ko nga friend. huhu…m just hapi that she found her one true love and jealous of the fact that until now, wla pa japon ko kita sa akong true love’s kiss. (hehe…korni)… watever!

m just going to wait pa. still have time. while waiting, mglingaw2x sa ko. kiat dnhe, kiat didto. life afterall is an adventure. o d cge go.

Jun
10

The exodus (leaving Pinas for a greener pasture)

Filed Under (Lifestyle) by prechell on 10-06-2009

just surfing the net today. i happend to spot new FS updates & new pix uploads. tsk3x… it amzed me seeing my old friends now staying abroad…canada, UK, US, Singapore blah-blah-blah…

while m hapi for them, there’s that feeling of insecurity that’s somehow growing inside of me.envious that they are now living a happy life, under that assumption that money makes ppol hapi. we’ll i guess it’s safe to say that they’re earning more. kya nga nag-aabroad mga tao to earn euro or dollars, nd peso.

hmm…m enjoying my life though here in cebu. working. usahay laag2x. but most of the time working. there’s still lots of places i haven’t explored yet here in cebu. but i think it would come in handy if m earning euro/dollar.

bsta puhon. i’ll go places. not bcoz i dont like staying sa pinas. but more of that dream to go beyond the boundaries that this country has. with all honesty, 8 sometimes frustrates me getting stuck here in cebu. if only not bcoz of my friends here, dugay rako nilayas. hehe…

i refused to believe that someone is destined to be only at this or that level. i am the master of my own life. i can make things happen if only i put myself into it. grrr… don’t wanna think about this muna. ciao!

Jun
01

The Calling (a tribute to my Ate Joanna)

Filed Under (Lifestyle) by prechell on 01-06-2009
We always have a choice.
 
This is what I have realized when my Ate Joanna decided to enter the convent. I met her back in college when we used to stay in PUR (Poveda University Residence). She was a year ahead of me. She had played a great role in my life, and has been a major influence to what and who I am now.
 
I have been the eldest of the three siblings. I should have had an elder brother, but he died when we were still infants. So, when I met Ate Joanna, she has been almost a biological sister to me. We’ve been so closed together. She has been my confidante. She knows almost everything about me (I’d say almost because there are really some things need to be left private. Duh! Everybody has secrets.)
 
We’ve known each other now for eight long years. After our graduation, we were forced to leave PUR since they can only accommodate students. Well, actually, she went out first because she became busy on her final year. She was taking up ECE, while I took DevCom. We graduated the same year (2005). I immediately worked for a feasibility project, and stayed in CDO for more than another year. While Ate Joanna transferred in Cebu to review for her ECE licensure exam.
 
Of course, she passed (walay PUR beauty na bugok… hehe). She was hired by Epson as a software engineer, and worked her way up to become a project leader. She was even sent to Japan for a month-long training/work, all expense paid for by the company.
 
Aside from her being intelligent, she’s also a “kind-hearted-minsan-mataray” kind of person. She scolds me if I have done something not so nice. But so far, aside from my mama, she’s the only other person who thinks I’m beautiful. Hahahaha… oh well, Twit2x and Carenne also said so. Hahaha… Forgive me for my vanity.
 
Anyway, after us being roommates, dormmates, housemates, whatever… we now have to finally separate ways.
 
She resigned from work last May 22. She went home for awhile to have some final bonding moments with her family. Then she came back in Cebu just yesterday (June 1) to get her things before she’ll go to Bacolod to join the Carmelite Sisters.
 
I was washing my laundry when she came in with her Mamang and sister. I cried when she left because it seemed that I lost another Ate. I only have few very close friends, and to lose her is a disaster. Until now, I felt a bit down knowing that we won’t see each other anymore, unless she will go out of the convent. She’ll stay there for a year, or more if she decides she likes it there. Until then, we won’t see each other anymore. Huhuhu…
 
It’s her choice. For me, I cannot see myself yet wearing their type of wardrobe. As they’re said, many are called but only few are chosen. Pero la ta kabalo basin magmadre ko bisan d ko kamemorize sa Rosary. Hehehe…
 
Un lang. I miss Ate Joanna. But in my heart, she’s still near me. And it’s a comfort somehow to know that she’ll be there to pray for me. I miss her. I don’t know if she misses my being too loud also. Hehe…