Trenta, Part 2: The Get-To-It List

Turning 30 this year is such a fuckin' big deal.

I don't know if it's just me or my friends or Darice (who once told me that when I turn 30, that's when I'm officially old LOL) but turning the big 3-0 is such a major turning point in life. I can't help it but I look back on my 20's and realize OMFG what have I done, and look forward to my 40's and panic OMFG what will I do next?

And add the fact that my birthday falls on the first month of the year (and on this, year, a new decade!), when New Year's resolutions and goals and plans are being mapped out, and I'm WTF do I do this year? This decade? This life?

Well, no, not really, LOL, but I do have several plans and goals this year, which is making me pretty excited about the year 2010 and turning 30.

TAKE MORE PICTURES Last year, I got so tamad taking pictures! It would take a special event to bring my mojo back (Macau trip, my sister's pre-nup pics, Cebu-Bohol trip, erm that's basically it LOL), and I miss taking pictures na wala lang, na just for the sake of learning and experimenting. I kinda had that when I joined Filipina Flickrites but then I got busy (in life, in work, in being a Kris Allen fangirl - wut?), and it was good-bye mojo! And now, my dSLR's auto-focus isn't working anymore, and I haven't invested in any other lens, and I feel like I have abandoned something I really enjoy doing!

That's why for this year, I plan to really get to know my camera, buy new lens (or maybe even a flash!), wait have the auto-focus fixed pala muna haha, and take as many pictures as I can!

PROJECT 365 This should really be under the "take more pictures" goal, but doing Project 365 is more than just taking a picture every day -- it's about improvement, dedication, and sharing one part of your day everyday with the world :) [Wow, that was *deep*] I tried last year but I only got about 7 days worth of pictures. FAIL.

This year, I'm starting on my birthday para maiba sa mga nagsisimula ng January 1 hehehe. Pictures will of course be posted on my Flickr, but I'm thinking of posting it here on the blog too. Because I plan to...

BLOG I have missed writing as much as I have missed taking pictures! I have been such a delinquent blogger last year with the last post for 2009 nung June pa, my gulay!!! Kung kelan pa nagkaron ng sariling domain diba? Especially since last year was such a transition year for me diba? Oh well, I was also trying to be less negative last year too, and I know I can write pretty negative things when I'm pissed off at someone.

This year, I will share stories, pictures, videos and what-have-you's thru my blog, not thru Twitter or Facebook! I plan to, nope, make that I am going to blog at least twice a week :) Susulitin ko ang niregalo saking domain name! :D

IMPROVE HEALTH I only have two constant "physical" activities and they both start with the letter S, and I can't really do the other one without a partner LOL. Also, I started eating rice again last year and it made me gain more weight than I expected.

This year, I have started cutting back on my rice intake (breakfast only, yahoo!) and generally cutting back on the food I eat (except for last night -- my parents celebrated their anniversary with a buffet dinner at 7 Corners waaah!). No more weekly quarter pounder meals for me this year -- maybe monthly na lang LOL! Also, because of certain "conditions" made by a very sneaky friend of mine, I will be playing basketball, frisbee and badminton during our company sportsfest. And because of that I invested in a new pair of rubbershoes, o diba? [Sa tagal ko ng hindi nagspo-sporty activity, nawala yung circa 2003 rubbershoes ko nung Ondoy at kebs lang ako hahaha] Aaaaand, because the new rubbershoes I bought were meant for running, I am going to either take up jogging after work (or after a game), or buy a treadmill LOL (pengeng pera or bonus or increase naman diyan! :P)

Therefore, this year, I will still have two physical activities, with the other S being replaced by Sporty activities ;) [Oh, in case you're wondering, the other physical activity that has been constant is Shopping LOL]

VISIT THE STATES Repeat after me: I'm going to get a US visa. I'm going to get a US visa. I'm going to get a US visa.

Yes, my family is planning to go to the US this year! Unfortunately, I still have to apply for a US visa (if only I can just renew the US visa I had 15-20 years ago LOL) before this plan leaves the drawing board and becomes a true-blue mark on the calendar. I do have made some sort of preparation already for this trip -- I bought my very own luggage LOL! If that's not positive thinking, I do not know what is hahahaha!

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And of course the usual yearly goals of improving my career, spending more time with family and friends, and being the best mother to Darice. Taon-taon naman yan ang nilalayon ko, at hindi ko kelangan maging trenta, o dumating ang bagong dekada para gawin yan :)

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Again, thank you to all those who made the year 2009 suck less! Let's all make 2010 the best year ever! :D

Toodles!

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Trenta, Part 1: Birthday Wish-Ko-Lang List

Sauce

Yeah, so I'm turning the big 3-0 this year. No big party or whatever. Well, make that no plans yet at all, as the big 3-0 falls on a Sunday, and I really don't feel like partying it up when the next day is a work day. The most important thing is to spend it with Darice and my family so definitely I will be with them on that day :)

And yeah, well I'm still crossing my fingers for a surprise party LOL.

And for these:

KRISTOPHER NEIL ALLEN

I mean, really, look at that GQMF, how can I not want that for my birthday?

Okay, I know, I can't really have Kris for my birthday.

But maybe a DM, or an @reply on Twitter maybe?

OR A MEET & GREET PASS FOR HIS CONCERT ON FEBRUARY 6!?! PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE TO ANYBODY WHO HAS ANY ~CONNECTIONS TO THE CONCERT ORGANIZERS, SEND AN M&G PASS MY WAY PLEASE!

Okay, sorry for the teeny-bopper-fan-girl moment. On with the wish list.

POSTSECRET BOOKS

I already had the first 4 books and was planning on buying the fifth one when Ondoy destroyed all of my hard bound books [they were all downstairs, in the living room, and since we weren't home when the floods came, good-bye expensive books!] I'm trying to rebuild the "collections" I lost during Ondoy, and I'm hoping these are still available for sale.

CDs

Together with my hardbound books, my CDs and cassette tapes (most of which were circa my high school days!) were destroyed by Ondoy. I had tapes of the Eraserheads, No Doubt, Kula Shaker, Garbage, Green Day, Alanis Morissette, Madonna, Michael Jackson, soundtracks of Reality Bites and Batman Forever (eto na lang naalala ko LOL). I had CDs of Black Eyed Peas (their first one pa signed by the band!), Alicia Keys, John Mayer, and of course more of Alanis and Madonna. The loss of my "music collection" was one of the major things that depressed me after Ondoy. It made me feel like I lost my past, in a way :(

Yeah, so for my birthday, or at least for this year, I want to rebuild my CD collection too. Help me out if you can :) [P.S. I already have the latest albums of John Mayer and Madonna, so sa earlier albums na lang nila ninyo ako sana matulungan hehe :)]

DVDs

My DVD collection was on the same shelf as the CDs and hard bound books, so yeah, I'm also going to rebuild this collection of mine. Good thing some of my newly bought DVDs (original Veronica Mars Season 1!!!!) were already up in my room, so whew, they were safe from the flood waters. I've started buying DVDs again though because you can get those cheap original DVDs already for around 150 pesos.

But season 2 and 3 of Veronica Mars are still eluding me, so yeah, maybe you can find them for me :) And the DVD of the first Eraserheads reunion concert too!!! :D

50MM PRIME LENS

Oo, hindi pa rin ako nakakabili niyan hanggang ngayon! Siguro kahit samahan niyo na lang akong Hidalgo para mabili ko na yan!

HOLGA ACCESSORIES

Eto pa, hindi ko pa rin mabili-bili. But I've been wanting these for a really really long time.

EXTERNAL HARD DRIVE

I also wished for a hard drive last year, but then I bought a new PC instead so that took care of it. Well, for a while only, because the new TV season has started and I'm scared I won't have enough space by the time the season ends! And seriously, pictures take up soooo much space too!

So to prepare for the onslaught of images and videos, I guess a 2TB external hard drive would be best, eh?

W-II EASYMAY SLIMMING DRINK

Sauce

I just saw this on a home TV shopping channel and wow, I am convinced LOL. Kind of expensive though, but what do you expect from a slimming drink which promises to make you look like an anorexic a model, eh? Wala lang, gusto ko lang i-try, heh. Desperate measures na itu LOL.

KERATIN COMPLEX TREATMENT

Sauce

Ever since Chuvaness mentioned about getting a Keratin Complex Treatment, I was obsessed about trying it out. And then came a more detailed post from Chuva about the treatment, which further fueled my need and want for this treatment.

You see, I'm trying to grow my hair long after having it in a boys' cut for the past two years. Well, it's a little longer now, reaching my shoulders, but it has been a complete torture not getting a haircut every four weeks (the longest I've gone without a haircut was four months! yey me! [and somebody owes me lunch!!! yey!]) because of the frizz and flyaways. I think with the said treatment I'll have bonggang hair while I'm trying to grow it a little longer, and it's not rebond or relaxed or straightened (which I absolutely abhor).

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That's it pancit! And that's just part 1???

Haha, don't worry, just watch out for part 2 :D

Toodles!

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So it's been a year.

365 days ago, I spent one last night with my husband, and then we went our separate ways.

Well, as separate as we can, because we do have Darice. And "sharing custody" presented a few problems along the way (mainly because of him, aminado naman siya in fairness) but I think we're better now.

I feel so much better, as a matter of fact :)

And I wouldn't be where I am now (chos, parang award ba itu?) if not for my family and friends. Thank you for the out-of-town and shopping trips, the pig-outs and drinking nights, the coffee dates and yosi breaks. Thank you for the phone calls, the texts, the emails, the @replies, the DMs, the offline messages. Thank you thank you thank you.

And I apologize for the lack of updates! I have been distracted by real life, Kris Allen, work, Tumblr, Twitter, and Facebook that I couldn't find time to blog anymore :( Also, the stories I could've blogged about that required more than 140 characters are those stuff that will make me look bitter-bitteran, or I'll write in a passive-aggressive way, so diba, wag na lang?

So that's it pancit for now. I'll take this slow for now while I go back to the groove of blogging again.

Toodles!

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Um, weird

Coming from work, I dropped by the small grocery near our subdivision to buy something for my never-ending quest to drop a few pounds.

[Actually, the quest will end this Sunday, after my sister's wedding, and the quest is to shed a LOT of pounds. So yeah. Good luck right?]

I went inside the grocery, with my earphones blasting music, heading straight to the Coffee/Tea aisle.

[Yes, I was going to buy those herbal teas that make you go poo-poo. I was am desperate! I only have 6 days to go!]

But then I noticed the long lines at the cashiers -- meh. Herbal tea-drinking will have to start the next day then.

So I turned around, heading back to the door, when I heard some guy [faintly, I must say, since I was wearing my earphones] call my name.

"Shell. Shell. Shell!"

There was only one guy who can possibly be at the same grocery, and calling me by that name.

I turned to look where my name was coming from, and it was, of course D.

Here comes the weird part.

"Uy!"

And then a weird half-hi/half-bye wave. From both of us. And then a millisecond pause.

Then I took a step towards the exit with "Ang haba ng pila eh." And then another weird millisecond and then off I go.

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I spent almost 11 years with this guy, and what, we're reduced to that kind of interaction?

Although, there was really nothing to talk about anyways.

But gaaah. Why so awkward? [I may have been the only one who felt awkward though. I think it would be impossible for D to feel akward at all.]

I mean, that "encounter" with D felt so awkward compared to a chance encounter with a college acquaintance [who works in the same compound as I do, who I avoid because he greeted me with a snarky "ang LAKI ng pinagbago mo ah" around 2 years ago -- yes, i hold my grudges. Dearly] this same day -- I had a friendlier, more easy-going response when he called my attention as I was walking towards the center gate [I returned his "ang LAKI ng pinagbago mo" comment at him because he did got erm rounder].

I guess the weirdness and awkwardness felt overblown because it got compared to that encounter with the college acquaintance.

Again, I'm going to say it, but it's WEIRD how life works -- you spend a decade of your life with someone, and then, it's just a series of awkward hi's and hello's in the end.

IDK, TBH, DNW. But then, well, that's the way life goes. *shrugs*

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