The Pink Life

Unfortunately, things do happen

Cai — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 15:29:00 +0000

People make mistakes. Everyone does. Mistakes are just the things that either break one or make one. Most often than not, we’d like to forget the mistakes we committed. But sometimes, there are mistakes that just feel good in the most unusual sense.

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Weekend

Cai — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 17:18:29 +0000

Yeay! Finally, a weekend I can call relaxed and refreshing. It wasn’t the best weekend I had but I liked it much, well save for the fact that I went to the ER again last night after a long time because I was crying with a friggin headache and I was vomitting blood.

Anyway, what made this week so special? More special than the Subic and Boracay getaway last week? I dunno, maybe it’s the simplicity of things and the humblenesss of the activities I did this weekend. Or maybe because it was spent with the two most special guys in my life: the Boiffie and the Bestfriend.The whole Saturday was spent with the Boiffie, I accompanied him to his dentist because he’s due to receive his retainers. We went to the far land of Bulacan then back to Trinoma where we would catch I Miss You Like Crazy later that day. The commute to Bulacan and back is tiring considering that it was around 3 in the afternoon – the sun is stubbornly up and the time suggest a nice siesta sleeping in a hammock at the back of your house, under that big Langka tree, you know what I mean.

So Saturday was a visit to the dentist, stroll in the mall, dinner, frozen yogurt, I Miss You Like Crazy, and a visit to The Medical City. Doesn’t sound like a real fun day but it is for me. I got to enjoy one carefree day with my Boiffie, away from work, away from stress, away from my phone sending EGN messages* every so often.

Then came Sunday with the Bestfriend. Because of the visit to the ER, it took me million of years to got off my bed. I woke up past 2pm and it felt like I still wanted more sleep. But I have a worship to attend to so I needed to drag my lazy butt off and went to shower. Bestfriend and I had late lunch before going to church. Then we dropped by SM Marikina to buy some stuff and do a little grocery. We were screaming “Marikiks”* the whole friggin time. I don’t know but it’s was one helluva fun!

“Manong, dalawang Marikiks”, the Bestfriend said to Manong FX driver when he gave our fare. We kept on saying “Hello Marikiks” and “Buhbye Marikiks” and we laughed our silly lungs out.

Then I went home tired but still has the energy to cook the mother a kickin’ pasta. I made her Tuna Basil in Spicy Tomato Cheese sauce poured deliciously over a nice pile of angel hair pasta. I know that sounds really yummy. And I’m not kidding you when I said it’s kicking! I wish all of you can have a taste of it haha.

And then I spent the rest of my Sunday doing my “me” thing: I watched episodes of American Idol, played a bunch of games in FB, scribbled a little on my private journal, downloaded stuff (movies, mp3’s, ipa’s, games) and blog.

I am glad I had this weekend. It reminded me of:

the small things I used to enjoy – and I still, like reading a book and committing to finish it, cooking a random dish for my mom or the Boiffie or for my friends, strolling around the kitchenware area of a department store wishing for the pretty glistening stuff to have on my own kitchen someday, finishing a story or a film (I haven’t made a film for almost two years already, and I haven’t written anything since I graduated college) and how I missed out on those things recently and how I wanted to get back in doing those stuff again.
how lucky I am to have these people around me who care for me so much, and should I say they GENUINELY care about me because really, in one’s life or another, there’s a bunch of people who just pretend to care, I know some and I tell you..
the raw talents people believe I have, and how I think it’s all gonna go to waste if I don’t do anything about it, that’s why I’ll be going to LIRA this year and maybe enroll in SOFA or Sinelab or I dunno, any way I might utilize and most especially improve on the stuff they believe I am good at, because really I’m finding it hard to find something I know I am good at

Me wants to have more weekend like this one. Aja!

See you guys around =)

*EGN messages – work-related stuff, Marikiks – SM Marikina

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Setting goals for 2010

Cai — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 16:13:50 +0000

I know January is the time of the year where people are crazy over scheming resolutions, setting goals and planning their lives. Well, I am never different.

So while I have already set my goals for 2010 privately, here are some of the items that I would like to (and I can) share with you:

Be fit. This would include becoming physically fit by working out regularly and choosing what to eat religiously, becoming mentally fit by catching up with new technologies that would be generally helpful later on in my chosen career path (for present and future roles), and becoming socially fit by interacting more with hoomans and engaging in different interpersonal encounters, relationships and whatnots.

Be wealthy. While reaching my first million is still an impossible feat for this year, my definition for being wealthy would mean no debt of any sort. No credit card statements and no late or unpaid bills. My emergency fund should equal half of my annual salary, my monthly residual income should be able to sustain my monthly expenses. Also, having the liberty to be random in shopping and spending would be a mark wealth. And it should also mean that I can survive 5months of being unemployed.

Be popular. Not that I crave for a 2minute fame for American Idol audition or something (but it would be nice, come to think of it LOL). What I mean here is I should establish my online presence (again) like it’s 2007 once again. Reclaim the fame wtf! But seriously, for the lack of better term what I mean with popular here is to increase my readability – generate threads of conversation through my posts and get involve in supporting at least an advocacy.

Be a linguist. I know it would take time that’s why I should start now. People who can speak more than three languages fluently really amaze me. So this year I will be on my way to being a linguist, and the first language I would like to learn is Korean, in preparation for next year’s visit in Seoul.

Be a jet-setter. Going to places is one my passion. I am lucky that it is also one of Boiffie’s interest. Last year we went to places and we would love to travel more this year. We have already planned this year’s vacations and I hope we can pull off all those trips given that we have limited resources.

Be pretty and happy. And my success in these fields really depends on how I control the variables. Being pretty is never only about soft curls or flowing black hair, or soft and smooth skin, or wearing makeup and being fashionable. Most of the time, being pretty is just being confident and comfortable. Most days I can pull off a lazy outfit but can still feel very pretty. Happiness also is a controlled variable – everyday you wake up and you decide that it’s gonna be a happy one, and like magic it will be. So to achieve being pretty and happy, I must decide to be pretty and happy

That would be all. =) See ya soon.

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2009. The year that was.

Cai — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 20:15:04 +0000

So here goes my not-so-late goobye 2009 post. =)

I know this wouldn’t be the last time I would look back to 2009. It wasn’t the first and it wouldn’t be the last. 2009 wasn’t as crazy as 2008 but it’s wonderful like all the other years in my life. The people I met and have been friends with are invaluable.

In a nutshell, 2009 was a year of:

travel
opportunities to explore new things
frequent hospital visits
getting in touch with friends and old classmates
happiness and love
love-hate relationship with **
and a whole lot of learning

January last year I got to be a lead actress on a film Kuya Bunso made by my dear friend Mica. It was the first time that I did a role and woah! Was it really hard! I already directed three films in my young life and never had I imagine how difficult it is to act. Before I would always get frustrated when my actors won’t deliver what I wanted for the film, but now.. I know.

Mica, Jehz and Cai at the set of Kuya Bunso, Platinum 1000 rooftop

Also, January, I met an accident. I got hit my a flying bottle.. a broken soda bottle.. on my right knee, and I have to undergo surgery so they can remove bits of glass on my knee cap. Ouch, I know. I was confined and wasn’t able to walk properly for a week. Aaron that time wasn’t the boiffie yet but he took care of him. Really sweet, ayt? My bestfriends Mitch and Louis were there too.

: Mica, Aaron, Jehz, Louis, Winston and Me on my not-so-flattering pose LOL

February was an exciting month at work. I had my first project and the results was great. Also, Boiffie took me to a wonderful (and pricey) V date – we dine at Pepato GB3, watched Push, grabbed coffee at CBTL and went to party with Mica and other bloggers at a Single’s Party night somewhere in Makati.

The first time Boiffie and I went out of town was on the first weekend of February. We went to Baguio to relieve the stress and trauma brought about by the accident I just had. The long bus ride to Baguio, the time we spent there, and the ride home brought Boiffie and I closer together. =’>

Then March came and we conquered Mindanao. Boiffie and I had a 4D3N Camiguin-Cagayan De Oro trip with his college friends. It was the first time I was able to travel by air, by land, and by water all in the same day! Camiguin white beach is really a beauty! It was the highlight of the trip for me! Unfortunately, on the last day I got really sick so I wasn’t able to enjoy the rapids that is white water rafting in CDO.

April Boiffie and I had another trip somewhere in Northern Luzon. We conquered Pagudpud, Laoag and Vigan. The beaches in Pagudpud can rival the beaches in Boracay. I lubbit!! We went to Paoay Church in Laoag, hitched our way to Cape Bojeador (and lost my wallet while taking pictures), beach bummed in Saud and Blue Lagoon, ate at Cafe Leona (Vigan’s finest), had a walkin-after-midnight at Calle Crisologo and a lot more.

Paoay Church, Laoag. We got there almost sun down.

Cape Bojeador, Burgos. And because Boiffie and I were just backpacking, we hitched our way up to the lighthouse. Cheap and practical. Wooot.

Calle Crisologo, Vigan.

"I waited. And waited. But you didn't come." LOL @Calle Crisologo, past midnight.

May was full of anxiety and not much at all exciting. It was the month I presented my results and achievements for the first six months of my stay in the company. June was also uneventful, or maybe it was, I just can’t remember it right now haha. But seriously, other than the Boiffie’s birthday, this month was uneventful.

Boiffie’s birthday was memorable. It was the first time I went greater lengths with regards to efforts and surprises. I prepared a series of surprises for Boiffie and I almost made him cry.. poor little guy, he had no idea what I planned for his birthday.

Aary J Fat. LOL

Then came July, the getaway to Palawan with my teammates.

: GWEB. My HP family. =) woooot

And then August! My birth month! Woooot this time it’s Boiffie’s turn to make my birthday a blast. And he did! He gave me a classic Anne Klein wrist watch and a weekend getaway in Tagaytay: Spa at Sonya’s Garden, dinner at Buon Giorno, party at Kontiki bar, picnic in Picnic grove, roadtrip to Caleruega, lunch and cheesecake at Bag of Beans. Melai and JC were also with us that time.

Parang pre-nup lang, LOL. Thanks Melai for making the collage =D

September I went home to Cebu for the first time in ages. Woooot excited much to see the grandfolks. Also I met some CBS people. It was also a getaway with Mica, Ada, Jehz, Winston, and Van and my first time to travel alone by air.

The folks at the airport when I arrived. =)

Lolo.

The Big Cai and the Little Cai.

: Nyok! at Cebu =)

December Last getaway before the 2009 ended: beach bumming and food tripping at Canyon Cove in Nasugbu Batangas and at Leslie’s in Tagaytay, with Boiffie, Paolo and Mark.

Boiffie, Cai and the Lady with hat LOL

And then the rest of the year was history – days in between days.

Excited much to create new experiences for 2010. =)

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Scrapbooking Delight!

Cai — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 08:31:26 +0000

Few months ago, I crammed a birthday card for my friend Melai. I went through my old scrapbooking materials and I came up with this:

Scrapbooking love!

I feel inlove with scrapbooking when I was in grade school. I have invested a lot on my materials since then. Some of it I can still use until now. Some I just keep for memento. In the picture is my small shoe box with recent materials. I’m collecting stationaries, different sorts of buttons and beads, colored and glittered glue, stickers, colored strings of different kind, markers, colored pencils, metal trinkets, ribbons, and a lot more!

And if I have all the time in the world, I would still do this because it makes me feel free and happy. It unleashes my creative side and the colors are just wonderful I can get lost in scrapbooking for a whole day.

In college, when too messy won’t work good for me, I tried digital scrapbooking. It’s obviously like the usual paper scrapbooking but you do it on your computer. All the materials you could ever need is downloadable everywhere. I usually go to ShabbyPrincess.com to either shop or grab their freebies. Then you would need a simple (or complex) editor like Adobe Photoshop or Adobe Element, Scrapblog, PhotoMix or ScrapEase to put the creative elements together and you’re off to go. There’s a lot of digi scrapbooking tool online, you can play with them and choose anything that would suit your taste.

And when you’re all done making pages, you can either print it or just let it sit on your hard drive.

While I really enjoyed digital scrapbooking (mostly because materials can be downloaded for FREE), I would still prefer the old way of scrapbooking. It’s different when you can smell the papers, when you feel the texture of your materials, when you get your hands really sticky with glue or shiny shimmering splendid with glitters, and when you clean up the mess after you produced a beautiful page.

Included in my year-end task is to put-up a bulletin board and to buy more scrapbooking stuff. I am excited to go shopping for the materials next week.

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Suesh Pink Vanity Box

Cai — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 20:13:16 +0000

Yeay! Boiffie and Bestie (and myself) got me a pink vanity box!

Dimension: 306x220x245mm; Price: Php2500 @http://suesh.com

I saw this one from Suesh and I fell in love instantly. I forced my bestfriend and my boyfriend to pledge 1000 each so I can buy this. Hahaha it feels good to be loved! Thanks guys, I lubbyoo!

Two weeks ago, Boiffie and I dropped by Suesh’ showroom in Greenhills to pick up the box. Unfortunately, they’ve already closed when we arrived. We were just a few minutes late then, and I cursed the traffic in Greenhills, and I was really frustrated. The next day, I asked the Bestfriend to pick up the box somewhere in Timog and he gladly obliged. (Uhmm okay, to be honest, it took me a lot of pleading to get him get the pink box hahaha) That was a Sunday, and after church we met and I was giggling like a little girl all the while!

I was so hyped when I saw my pink vanity box at last! It’s perfect for my little collection of brushes and cosmetics. There’s still plenty of room and it’s like begging for more products to be put there LOL Hello makeup shopping soon!

Wooooooot!

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RES 2000 Mini Reunion

Cai — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 17:35:40 +0000

Last week, I got to meet again 13 of my grade school classmates from Rosario Elementary School. I went there from first to fourth grade, before my family transferred to Paranaque.

It wasn’t really a reunion with glam and all because there were only 14 of us there. But it was a very humble get together of old folks who have not seen each other for more than 10 years.

At first we planned to have dinner somewhere in Timog, then go videoke and grab coffee after. But then we thought, few hours would not suffice if each of us have ten years worth of stories. So then we decided to rent a nipa hut in Loreland Resort in Antipolo and spent the night there. We grilled our food, we chatted, we laughed hard, we played, and we saw Matt Evans, the actor behind the remake of Pedro Penduko aired in ABS-CBN. We were practically swimming with Matt Evans.

I didn’t have much sleep that day because I came from oncall shift from 5am-1pm. But it didn’t stop me from being the bubbly person that I am. I enjoyed every second spent with them, especially with my closest grade school friends:

Me, Nick, Billy and Van. Yay I am so happy to see them again. =)

Here’s a class picture during our 3rd grade in RES:

Bulilit, bulilit.. ang liit liit. O(^-^)O

Yay. Cute little kids. LOL

And after 13years, here we are now, I mean some of us:

We are now planning for the next gettogether, and we hope that more people will come. Yay excited much!

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Quick Update

Cai — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 19:47:52 +0000

Hello there!

I am just posting a quick update so you would know I am still alive LOL

I had not been updating for the past weeks because wonky laptop won’t connect to the internet in my new place, AMF I don’t know how to fix it. So I have no time to update my blogs (yes I can’t blog all I want at work, of course).

I have so many backlogs. Amf.

Also, I already claimed my Starbucks planner! Yey! My Belle de Jour planner hasn’t arrived yet, they said it was shipped last November 19, it’s already December 04!

What else? Hmm.. last weekend I got to meet some of my grade school classmates in a very humble mini get together. That story deserves a separate post, and I promise them that I’m gonna blog about it. *Sorry guys, uber busy talaga T__T*

That would be all for now. I will update soon.

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Pink Urinal Starts to Collect Stickers for Starbucks 2010 Planner

Cai — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 14:52:01 +0000

Yey! Starbucks 2010 Planner is now here and the I-have-to-complete-the-stickers-to-get-the-planner craze IS REALLY ON!

Also, our favorite holiday blends are now available – Toffee Nut Latte, Dark Cherry Mocha and Peppermint Mocha! My favorite is Peppermint Mocha *wink*. There are new food items too like Cranberry Sandwich and Chocolate Molten Cake. Yum yum, this will make my afternoon or midnight foodah comfort!

The Starbucks 2010 Planner is way way better than last year’s planner. The cover features the processes of coffee-making: the coffee bean, the roasting, and the coffee. Then here’s the sweet thing – there are discount coupons included in the planner! There are six coupons you can enjoy all year-round, depending on the coupon date. I know, that’s really exciting.

So there. You just need to complete 17 stickers in exchange of a Starbucks 2010 Planner – 9 stickers from the Starbucks Holiday blends and 8 stickers from any Starbucks beverage. Yay, this would mean I will be getting a lot of caffeine for the next weeks! =b

I got my first two stickers already at Starbucks Tagaytay last Sunday. The boiffie and I had a little joy ride and before we headed home, we grabbed hot latte – I had Toffee Nut Latte and he had White Chocolate. It has been a habit for us to drop by Starbucks every time we are in Tagaytay.

EDIT Nov 13: I had my 13th sticker last Friday the 13th. Woooot ~=> Four stickers to go!

EDIT Nov 16: WOOOOT completed the 17 stickers wee!

Woooooooot =”>

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Pink Urinal Fails to Read Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

Cai — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 08:40:24 +0000

Yes that is me and my hair all over my face, I know it’s kinda stupid but I posted it anyway lol. And yes, that’s Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows in paperback. My bestfriend gave that to me few days after my birthday last August – I know this will break his heart K. As far as he knows, I’m a pretty fan of Harry Potter books and that I haven’t read the last installment. I was. So there, there.

After two months, the book is now a hospitable place for pixie dust. I haven’t even read the first few pages.
And it surprises me that I have grown out my once deep interest for the book. During my early years, I would excitedly read all the Harry Potter books – I borrowed all the six books – without putting them down. I would really feel the rush, the emotions, and the thrill. I loved all the Quidditch games, and the characters, and the classes, and everything! I even had a list of all the spells that were mentioned in each book.

When the first Harry Potter film came out in 2001, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, my addiction to the books and movies grew as large as I could have imagined. I watched the movie five times in cinema houses and more than 50 times in VCD – the mother bought me an original copy, how sweet. I almost memorized each and every line! I spotted all the book and movie differences – that annoyed me so much that time, because the movie was far from what I have imagined it in my head (but oh well, the second HP movie was far more disappointing) – but there were awesome changes as well like when they altered the Quidditch pitch from a regular stadium to an open field one with spectators sitting on high towers surrounding the pitch. Also, most of my internet surfing time during those days were spent in Mugglenet.Com – sniffing on HP gossips and stuff. The guys are still up until now.

And oh how I love Daniel Radcliffe! And and how I thought I looked a lot like Emma Watson! Haha that was the most silly thought I had ever had in connection with the Harry Potter craze – that Emma and I were sisters in our past lives! I remember using her pictures in my social networking profiles. Tsk tsk.

Anyhoo, I can go on and on and on talking about Harry Potter and all the stuff I loved and knew about it but one blog entry would not suffice. And… what’s my point again? Ocrap I’ve almost forgot! What I’m trying to say here is maybe I don’t like Harry Potter anymore. Ouch.

Maybe, just maybe, I didn’t love it that much to make me hang on to it up until my adulthood. Or maybe it I’ve realized it wasn’t worth hanging on to anyway. Or maybe it was worth it but it wasn’t anymore. Or maybe I’ve just changed my priorities – work and blogging and makeup and managing finances is now more important than memorizing lines, collecting stuff, reading all news and gossips and stuff, and losing myself into that imaginary wizard-ing world.

Or maybe.. I wasn’t really talking about Harry Potter after all.

So what’s your share of the Harry Potter craziness?