HALLOWEEN COSTUMES!

October 13, 2008 at 12:55 pm | Filed under ditz drivel

Even though Halloween isn’t widely celebrated in the Philippines as it is in North American countries (“Halloween” here involves trips to cemeteries because we’re hardcore like that), it still remains to be one of my favorite holidays. Dressing up and trick-or-treating weren’t part of my childhood and as a kid, I could only jealously and bitterly witness on TV this foreign tradition.

Fortunately, thanks to the Western world’s quest for cultural hegemony, dressing up for Halloween isn’t such an unheard of thing anymore. We brown-skinned, cotton-picking rice-eating, jeepney-riding peepelz can now join in on the fun, yey! I think the best part (for grown-ups, at least) of Halloween is picking your costume. There are two Halloween parties I’m planning on going to this year and as usual, I’m in a bit of a tizzy trying to decide what to go as (there’s also the hard part of actually getting the costume). I’ve narrowed down my options to these four:

Read more: I can has Halloween costume plz?

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THINKING OUT LOUD. I AM AN INTERESTING PERSON, READ ME.

October 9, 2008 at 6:53 pm | Filed under ditz drivel

• I read up on CLA today and I was thisclose to purchasing a bottle of Orovo because I am seriously considering going back to taking diet pills. I know that diet pills don’t deliver long-term results and I don’t care because that’s exactly what I need right now: a quick fix. I’ve cut down on my food intake (specifically rice) this week and though I’m not exactly Miss Active Lifestyle, I am far from sedentary (if you must know, I do a lot of walking). So why won’t this stupid belly go away? It’s making me cranky.
  
  
• You know what I need— not want— ASAP? A massage. Some time early this week and for no apparent reason at all, four areas (equaling the whole of) of my back decide to start hurting. It’s highly unpleasant.
  
  
• I also need to stop being late for work because it’s starting to take a swipe at my wallet. Some weeks ago, our HR dudes and dudettes implemented an attendance policy with hopes of motivating us folks to come in on time: for every 15 minutes you’re late, you pay 20 pesos*. Not exactly a princely sum but when you’re chronically late (like I am because of the stupid area I live in), it kinda hurts. I don’t want to think about the amount of money I’ve been fined.
  
  
• The desire to shop ’til I drop (or ’til I’m bankrupt) has been replaced by a hankering to spice things up a bit. Starting with my hair. If I didn’t hate attention, I’d have dyed my hair blonde a long time ago.
  
  
• After six months of living with my folks, I am finally moving out. The brother and I found a two-bedroom apartment in an area I once was deathly afraid of when I was but a young girl (ok, I was seventeen and had just moved to the big city. No, I did not have a cow named Glenda with me). I have yet to get a feel of the place (I hope it isn’t as ghetto as what has been ingrained in my mind), so please wish me luck that I quickly find the quickest, most painless route from my soon-to-be home to work. If anything, I’ll be right next to Katipunan. MEATSHOP**, HELLO!
  
  
• …or maybe not. I’m guessing if I want to be The Best Person I Can Be, I’d have to find a happy balance of my previous (very very fun and very very exciting. Like in the thesaurus, under ‘fun’ and ‘exciting’, ‘Helga’s previous lifestyle’ is listed***) lifestyle with my current one (boring, working thing), I’d need to say good-bye to certain elements of my past. I don’t know what the hell I just said but my point is: I’ve outgrown that whole drunken (post-)college girl thing.
  
  
• It’s Halloween season and I had SO MUCH plans and now they all have to take a backseat. I am not happy about this but it’s a small price to pay for having my own place. I have somewhere to hide those little Chinese boys I’ve been nabbing in the Greenhills area now, yey!
  
  

*Just to give you an idea: I can buy a pack of Marlboro 10s with 20 pesos.
**Neighborhood beer garden that serves cheap beer and cheap, good barbecue.
***I have proof but I’m too lazy to Photoshop right now.

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IN TONDO, THEY CALL ME “HEEL-BREAKER WEBER”.

October 5, 2008 at 11:29 pm | Filed under the helga manual

I have this truly retarded tendency to ruin my heels and I notice that this usually always occurs whenever I find myself in the company of my good friend, Alcohol. It’s bad enough that I don’t have a lot of shoes (ever since I quit my call center job, I’ve gone low-maintenance footwear-wise and basically live in flipflops); now I have five or six pairs needing to be sent to the nearest Mr Quickie for fixing.

I heard somewhere that regularly breaking your heels isn’t a normal thing so I thought that maybe I should just quit being cheap and stop buying the flimsy Korean shoes they sell at 168 for 500 bucks (lol?). Yesterday, I went shopping and the plan was to get a pair of everyday-shoes, best acne treatments (my god, my chin is horribly pimpled right now), and a handful of other necessary things (that ended up unpurchased because I went to a mall that wasn’t very familiar and I kept gravitating towards the restaurants and food places).

Unfortunately, I wasn’t able to find a pair of shoes I could see myself wearing to work everyday (I almost bought a pair of purple flats and a pair of emerald green ones but decided against it). What I did buy, though, were these three and a half inch sexies:

Six beers and two mojitos later…

I’m annoyed at myself.

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LOL, PINK FOR OCTOBER.

October 3, 2008 at 7:15 pm | Filed under lists

October is Breast Cancer Awareness month! Time to pin those pink ribbons (heh), buy pink products (like pink M&Ms) that support the cause, or turn your website pink for the month. Now as much as I would love to do the last (I feel that my blog is due for a re-design and pink is my favorite color), I just don’t have the time right now. So to show my lolsupport for breast cancer awareness, I came up with a wishlist of pink things I covet!

(Yes, I’m kind of a useless person)

A corset:

Okay, I lie. This is really the corset that I want, sucks that it doesn’t come in pink:

Canon PowerShot SD1100 IS in Pink Melody

The Fushion by Bakers Footwear

$89.99 (sale price!) for a gorgeous gorgeous pair. I am in love.

I think pink Hydroxycut pills would be cute. HUHLOLZ.

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OCTOBER, SO FAR.

October 2, 2008 at 6:02 pm | Filed under mr wonderful, the helga manual

1. I find that the best way to drift off to sleep is to think about the boyfriend and imagine (or fantasize, heh) our life some years from now. The scenes are never the same and the details are fuzzy, but if there’s one thing that’s constant, it’s waking up next to him on a white, fluffy bed with my face close enough to his to be greeted with his morning breath.

2. Have you ever felt like petting someone’s heart? It seems to be such an apt thing to do to his.

3. I came home last night to the smell of toaster oven butterscotch brownies my mom “made” and I thought: “That’s not the way you do it”. I haven’t baked anything since high school and I’m itching to do something domestic. I’ve been browsing cake and casserole recipes today. When I have the time, I will clean our oven and make a delicious mess in our kitchen.

4. The cats will probably go crazy and will most likely drive me crazy.

5. I’ve had this nasty cough for almost a week and it’s the most unpleasant thing ever; my throat hurts at certain angles, like when I tilt my head back a bit. If only I could detach my whole respiratory system from the rest of my body…

6. I’m going apartment-hunting this Sunday with my folks and brother. Wish me luck. I don’t think I’m ready to start paying for rent again since I’ve been having such a grand time spending my money on necessary things, but I miss my independence.

7. I need to write two more blog entries, lulz. Deadlines deadlines.

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