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what is keeping me busy and why im not updating much

2009-11-25T14:17:15Z

So its been 4 months since i last updated... here's why

work
i just have too much things to do all at the same time. talk about multitasking.. gooooooddddddd! i need a break!

events
once again im part of the christmas party committee. theme this year is "Better together". im going as a crayon with my friends. excited!

daddy
couple of months ago daddy suffered a stroke. good thing he's doing well now. but because of that, all of us in the family are on a diet. hello low fat, low sodium food

Mass downloading for Jakarta friends
boss from indonesia came for a visit. so as a treat to the girls in our jkt team, i DL-ed a lot of dramas and series for them. like jewel in the palace with 70 episodes.. ahhaha labor of love...

Minami Shineyo
Jeremy!!! i just wanted to hug you in episode 14... i love the soundtrack too.

NewS DVD
i liked the documentary part. the concert part made me reminisce my Nov 1 Fukui concert experience.. wish i can watch again. Doms next year!

Glee
im a self confessed Glee-k. the song reditions and perfomances are great! i ship Rachel-Puck! Rachel-Finn is boring! hahahah

Flooding in Manila
last September and October, Manila was hit with several tropical cyclones. i got stranded for 16 hours in the car and 70% of Manila was underwater. some friends' houses were also submerged and they lost all of their belongings. glad they're all doing ok now.

all about arashi
this year was almost all about arashi. i dont really dig them that much so i've been out of the jpop radar for sometime now. thank god for the recent NewS activities and Yamapi single and concerts. im back in the JE bandwagon!

Loveless
Ok. i like Pi and happy that he has a new single and concerts and all but this song just proved that he does not have a nice singing voice. i like the song though but i think Tegoshi could have sung it better. i liked Love Song and Gomen ne Juliet. MOLA was just ok. but Loveless is just not his genre. Dont worry, i still love you Pi.

FT Island
I just love Lee Hongki's singing voice. plus he's so cute in YB :) my fave FT song is BaRae(Hope)

that's all for now. i have to cook in Cafe World... oh that's another reason... Facebook is keeping me busy! hahahha

i was fooled!!!

2009-05-05T02:58:25Z

for the past years since i saw the movie "The Little Mermaid" i've always thought that Sebastian was a lobster. it was only this morning that i was told that he is a crab.

i posted a question in my MSN status asking if he was a crab or a lobster. Jamie messaged me saying that he is a "Hermit Crab". i never knew until now.

o well. my childhood has been fooled for the last 20 years thinking that Sebastian was a lobster.

at least now i know and that i wasn't alone in thinking that he was a lobster. well he really did look like it anyways.

what has been happening lately...

2009-04-02T06:10:16Z

a lot actually...

kkotboda namja and meichan no shitsuji has kept me busy lately. but now that they've finally aired their finale episodes, there's this emptiness looming around. will have not much to look forward to anymore.. they made mondays fun for me.
skip beat, hetalia, special A and junjou romantica for my anime fix
antique, the culmination of my Yaoi phase. joo ji hoon and waffle sunki yumyumyum
le maison en petit cubes - made me cry. its 12mins and without dialogues.. amazing!
dash games (diner dash, farm frenzy, etc.) kept me busy while waiting for the kbn and meichan episodes.
back-to-back birthday celebrations - like 1 every 2 weeks. most of us are pisceans ;)
several quizzes on facebook including - how will i die? - i will get shot according to facebook
still anticipating NewS activities - Koi no ABO in particular (i just saw the Covers in news_jpop and i still hate Pi's hair, prodai hair comeback please)
fangirling Super Junior, Dong hae and Kyu hyun, dong hae cause he's just too cute and kyu hyun cause i love his voice in let's not -_- and i can now recite all of the names of the 13 members whew! - sorry sorry, reset, why i like you and let's not - i love!
and of course, work work work
oh and my upcoming nihonggo lessons with tina-oneechan

now we're looking at new dramas to watch... hmmm... hotshot maybe for showlo and wuchun but only half heartedly cause i dont really like jerry yan...

well there... that's it so far

friday the 13th/valentines day

2009-02-16T03:08:40Z

I had the weirdest Friday the 13th/Valentines Day dream. I don’t know what brought about this weird combination in my subconscious (probably, the jdramas + recent Japan trip + book digging at abie's house + I don’t know what else). Any how, after I got home from abie's house Friday night, I snuck in some reading and video watching before finally going to sleep around 2am. 10am the following morning a woke up with tears in my eyes - from my dream - and a big smile on my face - again from my dream - which is the weirdest combination. Anyhow here's what happened in my dream, I swear it’s the weirdest thing....

I saw myself on board the shinkansen (bullet train) with auntie pot from Manila to Hiroshima (I don’t know why... but that's just it.) I think it was a sleeper train cause there were compartments just like that of a shinkansen and a Tokyo subway train combined. Anyhoo, in front of us was this JE idol - itago nalang natin sa pangalang P - and he was with his manager or somebody else. The train suddenly stopped and we found ourselves alighting on the train platform. I tried to follow P, since I really liked him, but eventually he got away. So auntie pot and I went our way to look at the sights. We found ourselves in front of a temple - not the Japanese temple - but the Hindu temples that you can find in Thailand and Singapore. We went on admiring the elephants and the statue with lots of arms (don’t know who he/she is, probably Vishnu or something). Then we found our way walking the streets when we saw a pillow shop. I went in to see if they had this pillow can be folded in to a small thing and they have it so I bought it. Then I found myself walking again when I saw a fellow GSM employee I then proceeded to run after her to get some papers that are in her possession. In pursuit of her, I found myself in a pond with a small island in the middle with several bridges connecting the island to the lakeside. The bridges were like the bridge in episode 2 of kami no shizuka and the hanging bridge in Takeshi’s castle, the one that wobbles. In the pond I saw several dafuyas (yakuza-looking Japanese ojisans) undergoing some kind of a ritual. Included in the ritual were P and the person he is with. Since fellow GSM employee ran to the pond, I ran after her. During the ritual, P threw in some kind of an explosive underwater that caused some thing like a fountain effect which startled me. I fell in the water and panicked, since I can’t swim. Luckily, I resurfaced and was able to climb the bridge but all of my possessions were lost under water including my books. I then cried and cried because my favorite book was included in the ones that were lost. I don’t know what happened next but I then saw P diving underwater to retrieve my books. He resurfaced several times bringing a book or 2 with him. And me checking if those were my books. I ended up with several stacks of books and the pond/lake water significantly diminishing. In the end the water was completely gone, and I still haven’t found my book. I then cried and cried because I couldn’t find my book. And then I woke up.

It was the weirdest dream but it involved a naked P, lots of water, books and tears. Can anybody explain the meaning behind this weird dream? Cause I just cant. :)

Life Soundtrack

2009-02-13T10:15:51Z

1. Put your iPod (or MP3 player, iTunes, etc.) on shuffle.
2. For each question, press the next button to get your answer.
3. YOU MUST WRITE THAT SONG NAME DOWN NO MATTER HOW SILLY IT SOUNDS!

Opening Credits: destiny - christina aguilera

Waking Up: the light - common

First Day: luv you better - ll cool j

Falling In Love: boku no cinderella - tegomass

Breaking Up: stay - carol banawa

Prom: if you walk away - david pomeranz

Life's Okay: pilgrim's theme - Lauds

Mental Breakdown: breathe - the prodigy

Driving: agua de beber - astrud gilberto

Flashback: gotta tell you - samantha mumba

Getting Back Together: lets get it started - black eyed peas

Wedding: ang iibigin ay ikaw - lani misalucha

Birth of Child: insensitive - jann arden

Final Battle: the way i are - timbaland

Death Scene: natutulog ba ang diyos - gary valenciano

the list just seemed really funny... it kind of reflects how i really am hehehe :)

tired

2009-02-10T08:27:51Z

nina is tired.

nina needs a full 8-hour sleep.

nina needs a vacation.

nina just needs a break from everything.

25 random facts about me

2009-02-05T08:06:57Z

was tagged in facebook. took some time to actually complete 25 things so i thought that i might as well post it here too... so here goes...

1. I'm a ketchup person. I love it so much that I put ketchup on almost everything I eat.

2. I have this weird allergy on preservatives and caffeine. Goodbye fast food, canned goods, hotdogs and starbucks' caramel macchiato.

3. Because of number 2, my favorite drink now is the Double Vanilla tea latte from Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf.

4. I think I have selective OCD. I'm OC for some things but I totally don't care about others, say the neatness of my workstation or my room. I'm all for organized clutter.

5. I'm a frustrated musician. I listen to almost all types of music but I never learned how to play any musical instrument except for my Mplayer.

6. I'm a sucker for Asian entertainment. My current obsession is Japanese dramas and J-pop. In the past, I've been intrigued with Taiwan (because of Meteor Garden) and Korea (because of all these Korean dramas that I watched before)

7. The first ever concert that I watched was last November 1, 2008 at the Sun Dome in Fukui Japan. I liked it so much that I think that I’d just be watching Japanese-produced concerts from now on. The stage productions were awesome.

8. I hate the beach. Ironically, I live in an archipelago where all of the tourist/recreational destinations are beaches. Also, I can’t swim to save my life.

9. I want to believe I’ve matured (or just became boring, for the pessimistic ones). I now dislike the stuff that I used to like before, like getting passed out drunk and hanging out in crowded bars with loud, blaring music. I now prefer having cozy dinners/lunches and hanging out in coffee houses instead.

10. Consequently, my perfect weekend would include a bunch of DVDs, a DVD player, a TV and my bed.

11. I secretly dream of becoming a chef....

12. Or if I can’t be a chef, I want to be an iron chef judge. :)

13. I have very bad penmanship. It’s so bad that sometimes even I can't understand it.

14. I like tattoos and piercings. Just not on me, I prefer them on my guys. :)

15. I love downloaded stuff like videos and music etc, but imp the laziest downloader.

16. I really loved Japan. I'd like to live there in the future. I think that there are still too much for me to discover there.

17. My sisters tease me that I have seasonal friends. It’s not entirely true. It’s just that I have too many friends who belong to different circles and those circles don’t overlap that I find it difficult to keep in touch with them all the time.

18. I'm not a dog person. Sure they seem cute and cuddly at first but behind all that cuteness I am reminded of the fact that they have teeth and can bite and kill me.

19. I love traveling. Sometimes it may seem that I work to travel.

20. I have an affinity to foreign languages. In my life time, I want to learn at least one Asian Language (preferably Japanese) and one European Language (Either French or Spanish)

21. My current favorite dish is the Japanese Omurice. It has the 3 things that I like in a meal. Eggs, rice and ketchup!

22. I don’t wear a watch. I get this weird heavy feeling on my arm whenever I so. So conveniently use my cell phone clock to check the time.

23. Because of the heavy feeling I stated in 22, I also don’t wear bracelets, necklaces and even makeup. The only accessory that I wear is my earrings, my pretty elaborate earrings.

24. I'm a selectively friendly person. Sometimes I can be really friendly and chatty and sometimes I can be aloof and not care. It all depends on my mood and who you are. ;)

25. I found out that I am not as narcissistic as I thought as I found it too difficult to complete 25 random things about myself

a random fandom trivia

2009-01-27T07:59:53Z

i was bored(rather just lazy) so i came up with these. some useless info how i got into the JE fandom.

i got into this fandom March 11, 2008. it took me less than a month to book tickets and fly to their country for a visit. something i haven't done for korea and taiwan and i've been following them for years now. and i still cant believe i spent heaps of money on that trip. no regrets.
my first concert ever was a NewS concert. and it was an overseas concert. and it was great. and i got to touch tegoshi's hand.
i have no idea what really got me into this fandom. i just woke up one day and realized that i like NewS. so i really cant say who or what baited me.
ginza rhapsody is my current favorite song. i listen to it at least 3 times everyday. it actualy changes(my favorite song) from time to time. just last week it was love song, another yamapi song.
i still cannot understand 'Mola'. Each time i listen to it, i need subtitles or a lyric sheet to fully make out the words.
i listen to NewS songs all day that i can name a NewS tune with one note.
i memorized most of the lyrics though most of the time i have no idea what they mean(i still dont know japanese.. still being the operative word.)
i'm starting to expand my horizons. i can now recognize 75% of the johnny's boys during the countdown con, some of them i even know their full name(a vast improvement, i used to refer to them as "HIM").
i bought a bunch of magazines in japan that i dont read. i just skimmed them once to look at the pictures. i cant read japanese. i cant even understand it much more read it.
i love yamapi and all but i think that tegoshi is the most talented of news. i mean he can act. undeniably he is the best singer. and he is intelligent, he goes to Waseda right?
i'm scared to get into more than one group. so may boys so little time.

Happy Birthday Oli

2009-01-22T03:05:48Z

that's it :)

im turning japanese i really think so

2008-12-10T09:09:09Z

last friday was our company christmas party and our theme is the Global village.

pictures courtesy of abie and melvin

i turned Japanese!

kimchi - sushi - hargao

featuring: japan, greece, USA, china, korea

japan, greece, USA, china, korea in black and white

a very korean sel-ca moment

our ED singing with the band - its friday im in love

山pi-lgrimage: the great japan adventure (TOKYO edition)

2008-11-25T02:27:31Z

day 6

off to chiba

- packed up our luggages and lugged them through the shinkansen, tokyo metro to get to chiba, where we will stay for the remainder of our japan adventure
- saw destiny boots
- played with ami-oneesan's angels
- met cherrie-oneesan and her kids shina and yuuchan
- not much pictures here, we were busy playing with the kids to take any

day 7

nikko

- hopped on the subway to ueno where we transfered to the yamabiko shinkansen to utsonomiya where we transferred to the jr nikko line

- was extremely hungry when we got there so we stopped by the local bbq store to eat some japanese bbq
- proceeded to wait for the buses bound for the world heritage sites
- we were kinda late so we just went to the toshogu shrines.
- saw the temples, gold-leaf pressed and hand painted walls, the monkeys, and the gorgeous autumn scenery

-the monkeys!

- i just had to take a picture of the amazing autumn scenery in nikko

- on our way back we were on board the Max yamabiko which was a double decker shinkansen. how cool is that????

DAY 8

- left auntie pot with cherrie-oneesan, aironmelody and i went to tokyo. walked around waseda where gretel dropped her shawl.
- took the odawara line to get to the ramen shop

- and found with with no difficulty

- went home but were to tired so decided to board the bus to the condo.
- ended up riding the wrong bus and ended up in disneyland(people kept on asking us why we werent going to disney so i guess god said we just absolutely had to go there)
-took the same bus and alighted at the station where we started and ended up walking to the condo

day 9

- took the subway to PNB to change money. we ran out of cash!!!!
- subway again to asakusa, had fun shopping on the streets along nakamise-dori, had a blast eating by the foodstalls, took lots of pictures of flowers, sensoji temple, asakusa kannon

- omotesando

-auntie pot really wanted to look for the burberry blue label flagship store.. so after walking and walking... we finally found it...

- while waiting for auntie pot inside the gucci flagship store in omotesando

- subway to tokyo tower, took lots of pictures, went up to the viewing platform of the tower, then went up again to the higher viewing platform and saw tokyo by night(again, aironmelody did not join us)

- gretel lost her book

day 10

- had buffet lunch with cherrie-oneesan

- then bought umbrellas in the cute store in omotesando then attempted to look for aironmelody's lost book

day 11

- prepared for my suicide mission
- left the condo at 5am for our 9am flight. arrived in manila at 130pm got home at 330pm. took shower, reshuffled my luggage, left the house at 4, arrived in makati at 430, grabbed at quick bite at auntie cyn's house, then went back to the airport for my 9pm flight to jakarta, had the most horrible philippine airlines flight, arrived in jakarta 1am.

山pi-lgrimage: the great japan adventure (Osaka edition)

2008-11-25T02:25:20Z

day 1
- we had a turbulence free flight
- auntie pot not trusting our navigational skills flags down random strangers for directions
- our first japanese meal, a near by izakaya with no english menu and non english speakers for waiters. thank god for picture menus.

day 2

-first shinkansen ride from osaka to tokyo.

-b&m tokyo office visit

-NewS concert tickets from satomi-chan

-meeting with b&m angels, sakura, juno and yuko

-visit to the nearby heia shrine

day 3

NewS concert!

-took the train to Sabae, a nearby province where the SunDome is located(the venue of the concerts)

-bought concert goods and watch throngs of fangirls queue up.

- wrote in the travel journal about our concert experience while on board the Raicho train

day 4

- girls lost in osaka
- we were supposed to meet bambi(aironmelody's friend) at a nearby church to hear mass
- got on the wrong train and got off the wrong station
- walked for 2 hours and finally found the church
- heard a japanese mass cause we missed the english service since we got lost
- searched for gretel's japan rail pass since she lost it due to temporary insanity and found it in the nearby kfc
- went on to shin-osaka station to meet up with dom's friend, had green tea mochi icecream

- went to shinsaibashi

- met fuku-chan, saw news kose poster

- had okonomiyaki

day 5

off to kyoto

- arrived hungry at the kyoto station to find out that restaurants open at 11 so we settled on coffee and bread
- bought our bus passes for the day and went to Kinkafuji

- golden pavillion entrance, temple, autumn leaves, ponds, souveniers and green tea soft serve

- boarded the bus to the kyoto imperial palace to find out that it is closed for official use for the day, it is culture day after all
- boarded the bus again to ginkafuji
- had too much fun shopping along the street

- saw bears while walking on the path of philisophy

- saw the kyoto tower in all its glory

- boarded the hep five ferris wheel with auntie pot(aironmelody has acrophobia)

Random Quote

2008-11-11T08:52:35Z

Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired.

-- Jules Renard

now in jakarta

2008-11-10T04:37:38Z

i am now in jakarta for work.

will post a blow by blow account of my japan adventure hopefully by tonight.

news concert!!!!

2008-11-01T15:15:33Z

its amazing......

more to come...

ciao!!!!!

It's officially good NewS!

2008-10-27T10:40:08Z

its official!!!!! dominique and i will be watching the fukui concert! Satomi-san emailed this morning that she has the tickets...

next thing to do, pack and finalize everything then fly to sushi-land.

cant wait!

Random Quote

2008-10-22T11:01:52Z

"All emotional pain lasts for 12 minutes. Anything longer than that is self-inflicted."
- Anonymous

its good NewS

2008-10-21T06:34:33Z

because i am a really good girl, the Lord finally heard my prayer!
the B&M angels from tokyo(midori, satomi and satomi's friend) were able to find us tickets for the fukui concert. i think this was the best news i got this week.

Arigatou Satomi-chan, Midori-chan and Satomi-chan's frie

Arigatou!

2008-10-20T06:35:18Z

Arigatou Khaps, Satomi-chan, Midori-chan and Satomi-chan's friend. because of them we are one step closer to realizing our dream. we can finally watch the NewS winter tour. (well, i hope that Kami-sama be kind enough to heed our prayer.)

Khaps, our officemate, knows Satomi-chan and Midori-chan through the AP marketing team and she was kind enough to ask for help for us. Arigatou Khaps.

And, Satomi-chan's friend is a member of ticket.co.jp the japanese auction site where concert tickets can be bought. and she's helping us get tickets for the Fukui SunDome concert.

we can finally see our flying boys!!!! (if they'll fly. they didnt for the Pacific con so *fingers crossed*)

arigatou gozaimashita!

countdown

2008-10-20T01:42:34Z

10 days to go!!!! i cant wait!

GSDC Manila

2008-10-08T06:07:48Z

sketched by Alex

why i finally went back to the gym

2008-10-08T02:32:15Z

we(aironmelody , my aunt and i) will be visiting japan this october-november. we will be arriving at kansai airport and depart via narita. so we will be taking the shinkansen from osaka to tokyo. we will also be visiting fukui in the hope of catching the NewS winter tour there(if anybody with nov1 or nov2 tickets is reading this, let me know.. ill buy them willingly and will love you forever if you'll sell them to me :) ) so i was going all over the internet looking for directions(and hopefully idiot-proofed instructions) on how to get around when i stumbled across this picture. this is a picture of the train station in Fukui. i read too that most of the other train stations are similar to this. so i took my ass to the gym to prepare. here is how the fukui station looks like.

that's like the steps toward the grotto in baguio or mrt steps times 3. hell i have to catch my breath every time i hike up the MRT stairs.. so goodluck to the world..

dear Pi

2008-10-03T13:31:51Z

i love you and all.. but please get rid of the bird's nest on you head also known as your permed hairstyle.

my birthday wishlist

2008-10-02T02:33:59Z

i know my birthday is not happening anytime soon, like in the next 3 months. but this is quite a difficult wishlist so im starting now. :)
can you get me these 6 boys and wrap them up in a nice package.. with a red ribbon(no, im not talking about the bakeshop) just like this picture? :)

yes and that is exactly how i'd like them to be.

send me these boys.. or even one of them(preferably the third one from the left) and i'd love you for all eternity.

book rant!

2008-09-19T02:34:50Z

i wasted several hours of my life because i listened to my sister's friend when she told me that i have to read this book cause it was a great read.

the gullible me, listened not taking into consideration that we have different tastes. so there, i started reading "chasing harry winston" another novel of the devil wears prada author. i mean, i didnt even like the devil wears prada. but still i read it..

i started on the first chapter and fell asleep after 2 pages. i continued the next day, skipping pages cause i felt that i didnt need to read it all of the descriptions the author has on every thing in the story setting that dont even affect the character or at the very least set the mood of the story. i went on and on doing the same thing. skipping all of the descriptions and sometimes even the wordy conversations that dont make sense and are not said by ordinary people. finally i reached the last 2-3 chapters. i was hoping for a climax. i mean, shouldnt every chick-lit novel have a climax? at the very least make up some huge fight amongst the girls or have this one girl break up with her fiance cause she cheated on him(oh that happened in this book, but the way that it was written didn't seem like it happen) or just create a huge commotion that would make the final chapter interesting. but no! i reached the final page and my reaction was: "WTF! that's it?" i swear this was worse than all of the dan brown novels that i've read. at least dan brown attempted to give us a nice climax. this book had no climax at all. i hate it.

i really really hate it. please give me back the time that i wasted. please please please. i should have just watched kimutaku or one of my japanese series.at least even if the story sucked the time was still spent looking at really cute people.