Youtube comment

There's just something about going through youtube trying to look for some nice videos to watch. And this one video I stumbled upon - some person placed this comment there that just made me laugh! I found this in one of Journey videos (Any Way You Want It)!

Yeah - why the hell is Justin Bieber always being talked about, everywhere, anywhere. Sikat naman!

Glee!

I bummed around for the weekend and ended up watching Glee's season 1! I haven't finished it yet, a couple more episodes left. Funny thing is, I ended up scouring youtube for some pretty funny glee moments that I absolutely loved (took so much time from me!). Aside from the wonderful music, the comedy here is just fantastic. They have these one-two liners that are just out of this league!

Sue Sylvester:


That's how Sue sees it!
I will go to the animal shelter and get you a kitty cat. I will let you fall in love with that kitty cat. And then on some dark cold night, I will steal away into your home and punch you in the face.

Brittany, she's not given much screen time, but she's just hilarious!


You guys, it's like cool epilepsy!
Ms. Sylvester didn't tell me to do this.

random thoughts

Kuya: 24 hours na ba trabaho mo?
Me: Hindi naman, nagkataon this week grabe ang busy sobra
Kuya: Parang hindi na kita nakitang natulog eh

Napaisip ako dun ah. Think about it. Example this Friday, After lunch, went to have my monthly foot spa, worked, sleep, late dinner, played badminton, back to work, and in the next few hours, I'll be running a 5km marathon in the fort. Good luck to me!

HS Friends

I've been hanging out with my high school friends more the past couple of weeks. I've already tried a couple of new restaurants because of them! I even went to CDO with one of them (not in the picture though). And one of my closest friends is coming back from China, so another get together really soon! BBQ at KO's place!

5th wheel!



5th wheeler no more!

HIMYM Quotes

***Just took the picture from the web. If it shouldn't be here, just let me know and I'll gladly remove it.

How I Met Your Mother has been my staple food for the past few weeks, trying to squeeze in a couple of episodes per day to watch. I'm already down to halfway of season 5 and it's not only been entertaining, but it's almost always hits home with their "food for thoughts" every now and then. If you're a regular viewer, you'll probably pick a thing or two. But if you are like me who just came off from a long term relationship, each quote, each conversations the characters say is much much more valuable.

So as a tribute to this great show who has taught me a lot over the past weeks, here are some of the favorite "food for thoughts" that I got from this sitcom.

Barney [about how easy it is to run a marathon]: Step one, you start running. There is no step two

Things happen in our life that don't usually turn out the way we planned it to. Regrets often clog our minds that we find it hard to move forward. Barney tells us that life can be comparable to running a marathon, you just go ahead and run. There's no other way to look at our lives than forward. Moving on is getting on with our lives, and not looking back any longer.

Barney: So he stays home all the time not getting laid? No, see, that's what you do when you have a fiancée. He should be out here celebrating! He's free! He got that red-headed tumor removed.

My best friend did something for me which I appreciated so much. It was a simple gesture but it just said so much.

Future Ted: The great moments of your life won't necessarily be the things you do. They'll also be the things that happen to you. Now, I'm not saying you can't take action to affect the outcome of your life. You have to take action. And you will! But never forget, that on any day, you could step out the front door, and your whole life could change forever. You see the Universe has a plan kids; and that plan is always in motion. A butterfly flaps its wings, and it starts to rain. It's a scary thought, but it's also kind of wonderful. All these little parts of the machine constantly working... Making sure that you end up exactly where you're supposed to be.. exactly when you're supposed to be there. The right place. At the right time.

I loooove this quote. I believe in this, that everything that's happening, it's happening for a reason. We grow from it, we learn from it, and we get to exactly where fate wanted us to be.

Ted: Okay, I'm going to say something out loud that I've been doing a pretty good job of not saying out loud lately. What you and Tony have, what I thought for a second you and I had, what I know that Marshall and Lily have, I want that. I do. I keep waiting for it to happen. I'm waiting for it to happen. I guess I'm just tired of waiting. And that is all I'm going to say on that subject.
....
Stella: I know that you're tired of waiting. And you might have to wait a little while more but, she's on her way, Ted. And she's getting here as fast as she can.

This is probably one of the best lines from season 4!

Let me know if you have other favorite How I Met Your Mother quotes!

CDO + Bukidnon

My friend Stella and I had a planned overnight trip to Cagayan de Oro last weekend. She booked us the tickets about a month ago when Air Philippines had a seat sale - the tickets just cost us ~2000 pesos per head round trip. This is the first time Stella and I went on an out of town trip. For the longest time, the farthest we went to together is just Tagaytay. She actually planned everything. I didn't do one thing. Yehey!! That's a change from the usual!

White Water Rafting
This was my second time trying out CDO's white water rafting. The first one was way back 3 - 4 years ago? We were thinking of doing the extreme rafting this time (more rapids, plus a rapid that's a kilometer long!) but due to time constraint, we couldn't book that one. So we decided to just do the advance level.

Since there were only two of us, we had to join in with some other group. So we met this group who half are from Manila, and the other half from Cagayan de Oro. One of them opened a new hotel in CDO so they invited some of the relatives from Manila to try it out. And they were going white water rafting with us too. We ended up sharing the raft with a couple of people from that group. The part I loved the most was riding the kayak. Feel na feel namin ang rapids! And by the second half of the ride, bumabagyo na! Masmasarap mag white water rafting when it's raining. More rapids and mas exciting!

* all pictures are on my friends camera. I really need to buy a new one! Hindi na nakakafocus nang maayos yung camera namin

Bukidnon Trip


There's a new adventure park in Bukidnon which just opened last quarter of 2009. They offer the longest dual zip line in the whole of Asia so of course, we had to try it out! We hired a driver for one whole day to bring us everywhere we want to go for the day.


Nakakatawa talaga itong driver namin.

While we were waiting for our turn for the zip line (they have to drive you all the way up first), our driver, lucky for him, was given a free zip line ride (dahil first driver of the day daw na dumating sa Dahilayan Adventure Park). While he was up there somewhere waiting for his time to ride the zip line, nag text sa amin, ang sabi "ma'am, baka pwede po kuhaan niyo ako ng picture habang nag zip line". Hahaha lol. kakaibang driver ito!

And then when it was our time to go up, we left our camera to the driver, asked him to take a picture of us this time when we ride the line. And he did take our pictures. So when we reviewed our pictures - lo and behold, I knew he'd do that - he took a picture of himself. Tapos may another picture na nag papicture pa siya (with posing eh). Laugh trip! And that doesn't end there, sa kakakalikot yata niya nung camera, he didn't take a still photo of us, instead, naka set to video na pala yung camera! Crap! Video yung nakuha nung posing ni Stella.

Before I forget, nasapawan kasi ng katatawanan ng driver - The zip line was awesome, by the way. I loved it there. Weather was cool. Reminds me of Baguio's weather. Maganda kung ma develop pa yung place na yun. Dadami ang pupunta dun. In fact, there were a lot of people going to the Dahilayan Adventure Park. When we left there around 10 am, there were already probably around 20 who already rode the line and a lot more in line, and then we saw a couple more cars going towards the park. This is pretty good business. And think about it, per head is around 500-600 pesos, depending on which lines you'd be taking.

For lunch, we dropped by Del Monte Country Club. Going to del monte country club, magsawa ka sa pineapples. Of course, we had to buy some pineapples to bring home!

I love it here. When I grow old, I would really love to go live in the province, somewhere quiet and more relaxed than the busy and crazy Manila.

Food
Of course, what trip would be complete without food tripping. Whenever Stella and I go out, food is always the focus of our activities. Number one priority. Just take a look at what we did last Saturday. Right after the white water rafting (roughly around 5-5:30 pm, they provided us with a full meal - barbecue plus rice and drinks). Hindi pa kami nakontento diyan. After getting home and cleaning up, we went to Countryside Steakhouse!

This restaurant is located in Limketkai center. It's pretty nice there, reminds me somewhat of Greenbelt where there are a lot of restaurant choices around. Countryside restaurant, we heard, is popular for their steaks. Stella ordered Beef:


While I ordered... the Ostrich Steak!!


Ostrich steak was really good. I ordered medium rare, but I initially got it as rare. I think sa sobrang kapal nung meat hindi na talaga maluto yung loob. I did ask them to cook it a little bit further and turned out pretty good. The ostrich steak is tasty!

By the end of the meal, masakit na ngipin ko sa kakanguya.

But our food trip didn't end there. Even if we were so full at this point, we saw this restaurant Candy. It's owned by a friend's aunt. The chef trained in France or something so we decided to try out their desserts. We ordered the "sinful" cake slice. Akala ko "senfol" kasi yun ang sabi ng waiter. Sinful naman pala. :)

Look at that cake! It's brownie + some white cream. Yung white cream napakasarap.


Grabeng kabusugan that night.

Back to reality
Unfortunately, vacation is just vacation and it always has to end. We packed up our stuff and headed home. But if there's one thing I learned from this trip, it's that we really need to go have fun once in a while. Do something out of the ordinary! Be free from all problems and headaches. Times like these, not only do we get to rejuvenate, but we end up making new memories!

New Things...

"There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about life's sores the better. "
- Oscar Wilde

Comedy Cartel at Aruba

My friend Kat invited us to watch Comedy Cartel at Aruba Bar in Metrowalk last Thursday night. One of the stand up comics is her friend so she wanted to support him. It's a different brand of comedy. It's not like the ones you see in Punchline or Laughline (spell check) where the brand of comedy is basically insulting other people. This is more in line with stand up comics you may have seen in the Last Comic Standing show. It was actually interesting, but also painful to watch. The show is as follows: they have a list of comics that goes one after the other. I am guessing the first few are the not so popular ones yet. Take for instance the first guy, literally no one was laughing. It was so painful to watch him on stage trying to make people laugh. Eventually, the show picked up. I can't remember how many they were though. I think it ran for an hour and a half.

We didn't go at once after the comics were finished. We stayed up until 1:30 am there... listening to accoustic music! Parang nag jajamming na lang mga tao doon. The main guy - Lei is really good with his guitar. We even requested a couple of songs and even met the guy!



I'm not used to going to doing this thing at nights. I'm a homebody person so it took a lot of effort from my end to really go to this event and you know what? It was worth it (aside from my City getting scratched while parking there!). Not only did I end up listening to good comedy and awesome music, but I actually got to see an very old friend too and hang out with the girls! Romana - I cant' believe we haven't seen each other since who knows when!

Badminton

I always had an excuse not to play.

"I'm too tired"
"I have work later"
"I'd rather sleep"
"I'm not good at that anymore"

You name it... all possible excuses. But finally, my parents were able to drag me off the bed and got me to play. I told them I would only play one or two games because I still have work the following morning (4am) but lo and behold, I ended up playing 4 games, and staying there 'till around 11:30 pm! In fact, aside from my gym, which has slowly been getting less attention from me, I think I'm about to engage more into other sports from now on. I was thinking of making this a regular Friday night activity for me.

Quiz Nights #7 or 8 at Murphy's

After skipping a week from our weekly quiz nights affair, the gang and I came prepared this time around! Or at least Marcy did. I still can't believe she answered Congo River and Tanzania right. How in the world would you know those things? My brother's team went as well and being newbies there, they actually did pretty good.

Our score was pretty decent this time around 62 (yehey first time in the line of 6) and they got 74! They would've gotten something better had they chosen the right category to jokerize. I still can't believe one of the logos we missed was Pizza Hut! Argh

Papa's Surprise Birthday Bash

On another note, my dad is celebrating his 60th (Yes! Senior na! May discounts na!) his birthday September 10, 2010. And as a surprise for him, we have cooked up a pretty nice surprise party for him this coming Sunday. He doesn't know it yet, but we are throwing him a surprise lunch this coming Sunday at Saisaki! Eat all you can siyempre. We've invited a total of around 40 guests all in all. He still doesn't know it. He thinks we're going to have lunch with my brother in law, who's celebrating his birthday on the 12th. We have some videos prepared for him as well. I'm looking forward to Sunday!

Bev's work area

Since I work from home almost 4x a week, I setup my own "workstation" at home! Not the best picture as I only used my camera phone for it. Anyway, about a year or so ago, I decided to buy a new 19 inch monitor so that I can work dual monitor - Laptop + Monitor. And then recently, I noticed that my brother has not been using his other 19 inch monitor for his desktop computer. That desktop has been out of order for quite a while so I decided to borrow that monitor, plus some other peripherals so that I can set up my new work area! Complete with 2 19-inch monitors, with keyboards, headset and mouse. He even suggested I also borrow is wireless mouse!

This setup is awesome. I can honestly say that I can do more work this time around! This setup is actually the same as how my workstation looks like when I'm working in Burnaby. I guess that's why I decided to set something similar because it really made a difference. Dual screens definitely increases productivity.

However when I'm in Manila office, there's a huge difference. Here, I only use my laptop, plus I have another desktop computer. Helps me with other work processing I need to do. Since these are separate computers, I use a tool called Synergy to sync up both machines. Meaning, I can use one set of mouse and keyboard (the one's in my laptop) to move the mouse and type on the other desktop machine! Helps a lot because you won't need to keep on switching mouse/keyboards all the time between those machines.

What I really want next is to have a better work table, work chair for my mini office at home. I did buy a nice desk around 2 years ago, but that one's stuck in my room. Ever since I started working from home, my brother moved to sleep at my room with my sister, and I ended up using his room as my mini office. Actually, my bro's the one who's making good use of my desk! I on the other hand, ended up with his old huge office desk, not really ideal for computer setup like mine.

That's it! Just wanted to show you, my readers, where I do most of my work!