So i'm partly done with my x-mas shopping. check. The whole of Sunday we braved the mall sale and found some great finds. Please understand i'm getting semi-o.c. these days. Must be the influence of my boss. i'm about to embark on my first house move so i must get ready to pack. Oh, the travails of letting go of the environs I've grown up with. But then the people are the ones I truly missed. And they have gone ahead too.

Last night I was laughing so hard over Adam Brody's character Seth in the O.C. He was hilarious. He was soo cute. He's even better than the male lead. Most of all, he gets the best lines in the series. I'm also crazy about One Tree Hill. Oh, and the best news is that Studio 23's bringing back Gilmore Girls this November. Yey!

this is Escolta in the 1800s. isn't it amazing to be in a place where so much life and history has happened? 

under the weather

so it was an extended down time for me. which completely weirded me out because usually in 1 or 2 days i'm back in my usual jolly mode. but this one took me weeks. on the outside, nothing's wrong with me. i've been with friends, with people that matter, i'm ok with work, church service. so i ought to be fine. NO.

inside i was a mess. when i'm alone or about to sleep or wake up, i just couldn't muster enough strength to get up or continue on. i mean believe me when i tell you i must have known what sleeping beauty felt. up until now, i don't know why it was like that. probably the lull in my sked, the routine and the all-together nothing really eventful happening with me. the excitement of moving spiralled in my head for quite a while and then i began to feel indifferent about it since the process took long to materialize finally. everything is like jampacked in december.

so when the earthquake happened, at least blood was rushing thru my veins. i mean i was that desperate for something, anything exciting to happen. i was cranky, negative and a total waste of time to people around me. so there.

do you know how odd it is to go to the mall and not find anything to buy for xmas gifts? not one single item? even for myself? am i crazy? di ba shopping is the remedy for depression among women? arrgghh..

now, i think i'm getting my groove back. i wish.

and the earth shook

So i was about to drift to la la land last night when the earth trembled. And it was longer than the last time which was about a month ago. I thought i was just groggy when suddenly even the wallclock was swaying. Good thing i wasn't the panicky type. When you live in a 70 yr old building, it is scary. But then i couldn't find my slippers, so we just stayed where we were. That's how anti-social or stupid our family were har har har..but turns out it was just that one time. I remembered the "Relativity" episode where Isabel and Leo were doing it and there was an earthquake, understably so because they were in L.A. They thought they caused the earth to move. whoa!

Kudos to CNN. they reported it first. The local networks suck!

spelunking in Sagada

spelunking (n) the sport of climbing and walking in caves

Way before i learned what this word actually means, i was able to do this already. yey! we spelunked (?) in Sumaging Cave in Sagada, also known as the Big Cave. It was the ultimate adventure. On hindsight, we didn't really know what we were getting into. Thelma just let us read a few web articles about Sagada and Auntie Day's own trips. And I was the total "saling pusa" on that trip. I bought the bus ticket with only 2 seats available since Thelma and Jen got theirs a week earlier. I only had enough money to last a week and truly we couldn't believe how we even got home. Yes, i promised the mountain mystics i'll go back. with Juan Luna in tow.

a busy sunday city tour

Yen and i had our "day-off" yesterday at Camp Aguinaldo to be at the "Feast" celebration with Bo Sanchez. It was fun to see Mara from our college block who's part of the choir and other Elimites like Work and Randy. I'm not sure if they transferred communities or it's just a guest member thingy. Anyhoo, it was inspiring to listen to Bo. I've read about him for so long but it was the first time i ever saw and listened to him live.

Yen and i had head aches from commuting and too much walking. But it was still fun.

We visited preggy thelmy. Had extended girl talk. which the both of them did the talking. i was just a sounding board as always..hehe. I had a great time just listening to them laugh and shout at each other because they CAn be loud..er. I think I got extra listening skills than most people. I can survive not speaking for days. It's true. It's all about taking it all in.

give me gilmore girls

i missed "gilmore girls" already, ang bagal ng studio 23 ha. and it's not on cable so it's really frustrating..i just have to make do with the website transcripts and spoilers of the show. I love Lorelai and Rorie. I mean if I'll be a mom and that's a HUGE if, i'd be crazy weird like Lorelai. Someone who thinks of her daughter as a friend more than the "i'm the mom so you will obey every word i say" type. My mom and I had a big generation gap but then she was still cool. She was very good with people. She had this engaging personality and was so persuasive. i didn't inherit that at all. She was the happy extrovert. I was the loner, spaced-out kid who had books as playmates.

Another mother-daughter thingy i wanted was "Anywhere But Here" featuring Susan Sarandon and Natalie Portman. Always the kid who acts like an adult, always the mother who has seen it all and determined to live a great, worry-free life. I always get weepy after i watch it. It just strikes me everytime.