“TIME TO SHINE, 2009!”

January 6, 2009 at 8:13 pm | Filed under lists, the helga manual

I know I should probably write about the year that was, if only to make things proper and not rock the status quo (aka, to be like everybody else) but I’m lazy (and really sleepy, considering I woke up at 620am today and I didn’t exactly go to bed last night early nor sober) and hungry (despite having a rice meal some 7 hours ago. Also, I am craving for Flamin’ Hot Cheetos, something that I can’t get at the convenience stores in my area). Now before I start writing any more really long sentences peppered with parentheses, here are my goals for Twenty-Oh-Nine (and no, I say two-thousand-nine, not twenty-oh-nine) (LAUGHING IS NOT ALLOWED):

1) Upload at least 4000 pictures to my Flickr account and perhaps get at least 50,000 views. Current stats: 1,170 items / 36,181 views. Bah. And I’ve had my Flickr since 2004 (back when the monthly upload limit was 10MB!).

2) Stealing this from Luis: no more than three alcoholic drinks a night. Absolutely no rolling over of unconsumed drinks to the weekend. I think.

3) Will not skip work will not skip work will not skip work unless I really really have to.

4) Read more books. Actually read the books I buy.

5) Go on more planned or unplanned trips with friends! There’s a long weekend coming up next month, who’s up for something!

6) Learn a new, geeky skill. I announced on Plurk some time last year that 2009 will be the year I learn Python but since I deleted that Plurk account and because I am deathly afraid of snakes (I am the queen of lame excuses), I need other options. Maybe I should just suck it up and give Flash one more shot. Maybe.

7) Have at least 400 blog entries for ditz-rev.

8) Stay offline for a whole weekend (and not go crazy while at it).

9) Compose a rap song.

10) Have a really fantastic 24th birthday.

11) Complete my Project365.

Gosh, what a very uninteresting list.

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JUST A COUPLE OF THINGS.

January 3, 2009 at 3:58 am | Filed under camwhorage, ditz drivel

I haven’t really been in the mood to blog lately and this is most likely caused by my being on vacation and not wanting to spend the entire day in front of my laptop…not like I’ve been spending my days doing exciting things, anyway. Several proper entries have been drafted, though, and should be published hopefully some time next week. Yeah, I bet you guys can’t wait lolz.

So. It’s 2009. I started Project365! My second attempt at it, and so far, I’m doing good. After all, I’m only on Day 2, heh. Today’s picture:

In the market for digital cameras? Kbai.

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A QUICK UPDATE ON THAT’S WHAT’S UP!

December 26, 2008 at 3:14 pm | Filed under camwhorage, ditz drivel

THANKS, FRITZ, FOR THIS PICTURE. FAVORITE PHOTO OF ME FOR THE WHOLE OF 2008.

I love how everything fell into place, though with much internal emotional panic and frustration, this Christmas. I honestly thought this year’s was going to blow but all in all, my small and quiet and exceptionally drunk Christmas week wasn’t so bad. Three years running now, my Christmas eves have been comedic. In 2006, it was just Allah and me in a messy three-bedroom apartment with too much food for two people. We fell asleep after an early dinner and woke up a little past midnight to open gifts, realized we were too tired to resume our drinking, and went back to sleep (in our living room, by the way).

2007’s was spent driving around the city aimlessly for an hour with the lover, looking for an open restaurant or bar. We finally gave up, went to a gas station convenience store along Katipunan, got ourselves a bag of potato chips, some siomai, a Jamaican patty, and a pack of dried squid. That, folks, was our ghetto noche buena. But it was wonderful ♥.

This year, I saw myself walking around my neighborhood in bunny ears with two crazy friends, battling a crowd of churchgoers. All Mini Stop could offer us was cheap vodka and cheap rum but I ended up getting drunk on Christmas beer (Red Horse and Heineken). Allah fell asleep on us and when Drew and I were sufficiently intoxicated, we popped in a bad Tagalog movie and giggled our way through Christmas.

So! Happy holidays, people :) Time to look for the best diet pill to make up for the ten pounds we all gained.

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BECAUSE BLOGGING HAS NEVER SEEMED SO UNEXCITING.

December 16, 2008 at 7:48 pm | Filed under lists, the helga manual

10 REALLY RANDOM THINGS ABOUT ME
I drink a lot of water, like four liters a day. I avoid listening to pleasant, soothing music when I go to work because the last thing I want is to drop my bitch face and have shady strangers leer at me (not to say that the bitch face is fool proof, but it works…sometimes). I shred tissues to bits whenever I’m out at restaurants (or even here at work). I like rooftops (and worn down steel buildings). When I was a child, I found a black kitten, named her “Gold”, and took her home; dad got rid of her immediately. When I was a child (again), my dad and his girlfriend took us to the city and my brother and I left tissue paper trails everyhwere, thinking we were Hansel and Gretel. I dance, very carefully, in the shower. I think a man is his sexiest when he is sleeping peacefully beside me. I never remember to lock my bedroom door (no, there is no horror story here). I am unsure if this is what I really want to do, but then if not this, what else?

9 WAYS TO WIN MY HEART
Read to me out loud a good passage from the book you’re reading. Sing me to sleep. Tell me I’m beautiful in the morning, right after I had just woken up, right before I’ve rubbed the crust out of my eyes. Tell me what you want me to do (I mean that in a non-sexual context). Tell me stories. Surprise me. Make me feel like no one else— not even my mother or my best friend— knows me as well as you do. Plan our future together. Hold my hair away from my face in the event that I end up puking that night’s alcohol down the toilet bowl.

8 THINGS I CARRY/WEAR EVERYDAY
A pack of cigarettes. A lighter. Keys. My camera. Random receipts. Money. A certain sadness that comes with your love being too far away. A hopeful heart.

7 THINGS THAT ANNOY ME
My neighbor who turns off his router (though I am thankful for the hours he keeps it on). People who don’t reply to text messages (though I am one myself). People who smell. People who hover. Big, unfounded egos. How hard it is to find a good pair of jeans in this country.

6 PLACES I’VE VISITED OR INTEND TO
LA. New York City. Greece. Indonesia. Neptune, CA. Stoneybrook, CT.

5 THINGS I WANT TO DO BEFORE I DIE
Inspire someone so much that they create something about/for/in honor of me. Be relevant. Get married and have kids. Commit a book to memory (I have a pretty good memory but I doubt I am still capable of memorizing long verses of text, so perhaps something short? Suggestions would be great, I like fiction…the non-trashy type). A place in history books (ok, so I wouldn’t mind if this happened post-mortem).

4 THINGS I’M AFRAID OF
Getting fat. Losing people I care deeply about. Waking up one day and realizing I am incapable of fascination. Dead ends.

3 THINGS I DO EVERYDAY
Worry. Have a good-morning and a good-night cigarette. Imagine my untimely death at the age of 25, due to a drug overdose.

2 THINGS I’M TRYING NOT TO DO NOW
Worry. Wake up my Pet Society pet.

1 PERSON I WANT TO SEE NOW
The boyfriend, naturally.

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THINGS I LOVE, PART II.

December 11, 2008 at 6:58 pm | Filed under lists, the helga manual, things I love

The city at Christmas. I love the decorations, especially the twinkling lights. Nights are getting colder, too, and I love setting an Urban Wonderland mood by listening to Christmas songs as I walk from my office to the train station during the trip home at night. Kinda dorky, I know.

ORTIGAS PARK SOME NIGHTS AGO.

The fact that I’m done shopping for the lover’s Christmas gifts. I had such a stressful, stressful time shopping and I didn’t even get up from my desk! First, I found these two tees at Threadless that were perfect but I couldn’t use my card and have the stuff shipped to him. Then there was this David and Goliath tee saying “I Don’t Do Long Distance Relationships” that was just too funny, but I couldn’t use my card again. There were tees at Design By Humans and Topman but his size was out of stock. I was seriously considering going down the DIY path and creating a racy calendar for him (featuring me, of course) until I decided to give Amazon one last try. And woot! He’s gonna love the stuff I got him.

I’m crossing my fingers nothing stupid happens and my order gets canceled (the way F21 canceled Phoebe’s order because they had problems verifying her card). Hee, I’ll be demanding he turns on his web cam so I could watch while he opens the packages.

Cuddling. And Christmas cuddling. Too bad I have no one to cuddle with, at the moment :(

Ukay-ukay! Or thrifting, lol. Lauren (she started a new blog, ukaymanila.com), Anne, and I are going on Saturday to this ukay place in my neighborhood and I’m hoping I can find some really cute stuff. I don’t even know what I want, I just want to buy something! Maybe some air o swiss humidifiers huhlolz.

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