Salty and Sandy Memories under the Summer Sun

So, after a baker's dozen of mismatches, I finally found and brought home my cd full of photos from our summer outing at Canyon Cove. it's been aeons, but hey.

we left the Hub at around 8 in the morning, right after our friday shift, so imagine the biggest eye bags on earth. but good thing i power-napped at thea's crib, and relaxed some, and maybe snored some too. then a quick detour at mercury drug for all your summer whathavya's (ie moisturizers, tanners, food), and we're off to the exclusive paradise coves of Nasugbu.


the boys...


the gurls...


the us!!

when we arrived, what greeted us was an endless pavement baked by an afternoon sun (where's the sea???). maybe that was how the resort conditions the guests, because by the time we went to the assembly area (a huge room full of pristine white tables and chairs), we were aching for the beach. they fed us first though (let's not talk about the food, it's a summer spoiler). then some waiting for our room assignments, which was a bum because they segregated the boys from the girls... as if we won't find a way to ah...anyways, i think before everything, we had some sort of a program first to commence the whole thing. so we did this survivor-inspired game and some cheering, you know, the usual... so by then we were baked under the sun, and i was sporting this really good tan, and then we're off to the turquoise waters of the south china sea. yey! tssss.



in the evening, we strolled by the beach where i made shout-outs on the sand. it will be washed away by the high tides in the morning, but the memories will stay for sure (remember, everything i write gets everyone buzzing...).



then morning come, our usual breakfast fix (and by usual i mean.. USUAL). then we're off to the waters again! we had banana boat rides, water games, and some lovin... hehe ;p





before we knew it, we were packing our bags, leaving the cove (our room is as trashed as garbage could get. that's what you get when you put five crazy guys in a room and some girls haha) then we went straight to tagaytay where we shopped for pasalubong before we went home. we ate dinner at a burger strip on the outskirts of the city (i had mushroom burger and cucumbers) then back to the bus again for pictures and stuff, some traffic at the SLEX, and then we were back to our old office building, all tanned and still smelling salty and sandy.



ahhh. i love summer. the smell of sun-baked skin and hair seems so perfect for me. it's like ambrosia.

-l'ete me manquera-

Thirteen Thousand Silver Shreds on a Broken Glass

i woke up from a dream where i was lost in a freezing cold hill in what appears to be the countryside of Nordic Europe. it was raining, and I was about to enter a frighteningly withering shack when I heard the pristine sound of glass cracking. I looked behind me, to the gray-blue countryside, and there, at the middle of a ness, was someone I knew, brandishing a long-nosed shot gun pointed at me. I only saw him stepping once toward me, when I tripped on a stump on the grass, felt like falling, and then suddenly woke up on my bed with my drapes aside the windows, and the sun waking me up for the first time in two months.

I was hungry like hell.

I slowly brought myself up against the wall beside my bed, looked at the blazing sunlight, stared at the silver linings of its rays, then got caught up on a stranger silver lining on the windows, stark, contrasting the soft and radiant wisps of the afternoon light. I scrambled off my bed, crawled to the windows, and scrutinized my room's windows like never before. there, on one of the windows half-opened to the outside, is a web of broken glass, spreading like veins on our victorian window panes.

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weird dream.

-the kettle calls.-

Five Punctuations from an Underslept Brain

randoms:

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the reason i love pizza hut so much is because i always get complimentary bread sticks with my mushroom soup.. all the time. i remember one time i had bread fingers because they delivered my iced tea late, and i was a little cranky, they gave me the compliments maybe to appease me. the other time, i was ordering to a hostess my usual house fix (super panalo meal #3 bbq chick fillet), while telling her how much i love pizza hut and that i brought my colleagues to the bistro the last time i celebrated my birthday - they gave me compliments again! the last time, i was just really charming and cutesy, the bread sticks came even before my iced tea and soup.

hmmmm.. i love pizza hut. still behind don hen though in my fave list of local bistros, but then again, it's don hen.

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so i have this colleague who offered to buy me a top from TOPMAN, my favorite color (mahogany, olive green, indigo, white, and egg blue - you choose) for no particular reason, in exchange for a kiss...

freaky... like, do you have life? and the most stifling catch is...

my colleague is a guy.

like how gay could that get?

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my application for nestle seems to have gone a-rot. i feel like wanting to withdraw my actual application, coz i've waited too long, and it's not like nestle's too good a company to keep you waiting on the sidelines.

maybe i'll just withdraw...

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i lost 21 pounds in two months.

i developed an addiction to bacon.

i realized how hard it is to find a girlfriend once you're outside the university.

i realized everything's hard once you're outside the university. . . hm.

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i just celebrated my 22nd birthday recently and for some reason, i seem to be suffering QLC all over again. maybe i miss my friends (by friends i mean those who stimulate my gray, heart, and green matters all at the same time...). maybe i just lack sleep because i do graveyard shift. or maybe i'm just so out of the loop, and my time is allotted to understanding people who doesn't seem to have learned anything in school, that they are ignorami when you start speaking. or maybe because i feel like, in my current environs, nobody understands me at all.

rant.

and and, i also started thinking about career, how im supposed to get up the ladder when im already 22 and i haven't been regularized in a company ever. or how im going to squeeze my life in my work, like maybe falling in love, getting married, buying a house, having kids, investing for their future... i don't even know how to start saving for that! i dunno where to start. huff.

yes, i think the biggest question in my brain right now is: "how will i get started?"

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-it ends with a question mark-

Birthday Belated

Belated happy birthday to meeee!

for the record, I received nothing, as in ZERO, for my birthday this year. It's either nobody even noticed I'm still materialistically-inclined, or the economic crisis has impaled everyone. But that's ok, I'll buy na lang for myself.

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I'm early for work today (oh btw, I work for Manulife now, I'll talk about it some other time). Apparently we have a townhall meeting, and we're going to present something (what it is, I still don't know). But we didn't go to college for nothing, because in those difficult days when the going got really tough, we mastered the art of cramming. We'll cram our presentation later.

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ok gotta go for now. a lot of gimiks ahead, im happy life is revving up to life again.

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oh and there was this stranger at the condo a while ago. I was surprised there was someone there when I arrived.

well I don't have much time. you know what happened. with kimoy, THINGS HAPPEN. haha.

-rev it up!-