long weekend

Ylangurl is bored yet excited for the long weekend to come. It's a short working week for her since last Friday was a holiday - Independence Day. She's happy she didn't have to work that day. Another long weekend she's about to enjoy this coming Friday, Lapulapu Charter Day. Well, the original date of holiday is on Wednesday but the company she's working with decided to swap it on Friday! Hurray! She have no special plans though but just being not in the office is a relief. Don't get her wrong, not that she likes to be out of work but she just wants to be free. She is so lazy these days.

message recall

I have decided - i'm keeping this blog! So, i'd like to recall my previous entry, lol! Though, yes you can view that other blog of mine, this blog ylangurl.blogspot.com will still be active.

So, do come back and check me out some time. :)

I realized, i missed blogspot. :(

special news!

This blog has been moved and can now be followed on its new site.

http://www.pinkrefuge.com

see yah there!!!! :)

Sinulog 2009

I know, there's much photos and stories about the Sinulog that you can read and view already. But let me share my little post anyway.

Sinulog is the most festive. Most celebrated. Most visited social occasion in the country if i may say. And the most awaited affair by most if not all Cebuanos. It's more than a week long celebration that culminates every 3rd Sunday of January with a grand mardigras participated not only by Cebuanos but by other neighboring provinces as well. New York crowd scene? Hongkong scene? Far cry from the Sinulog scene? Almost!


taken 1st week of January, Fuente Cirle


just striking a pose in the stands... never really watched the parade this year... went out only in the evening to watch the fireworks


Glorie with the Sinulog participants
(they must be tired already, they've been dancing since morning)



watched 3rd String play in The Terraces after the fireworks show

Now, Cebu is back to its mellow atmosphere...

wassup cebu?

Holler to all the Cebuanos out there! Few more days and it's once again the most awaited Sinulog mardigras!

Starting Friday of last week, traffic is exasperating anywhere from Capitol to Fuente to Mango Avenue to Colon down to Sto. Nino Church. Festivity is in the air despite the gloomy weather these days. Hopefully the weather will cooperate come Sunday so that visitors and locals alike will enjoy the Sinulog full blast.

Viva Pit Senyor!

cheers!

Happy New Year! :)
all the best in 2009

no not in hiatus

i'm alive, awake, enthusiastic... just too many things going around my so called life... especially and mostly at work... that i can't sit and write much... but i will keep you posted... just hang on...

well seriously now... i'm really not that alive, awake and enthusiastic since Friday... there were the parties but my colds is getting the way! arrghhh!!! i think i'm going to be sick... aint feeling well early today... i want to be absent but i cant... hahay...

i just won for myself one million euro!

yes i did - in my dreams... or rather in this super deluging spam or hoax mail.

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Who would not wish that it's all true! By then, i'm a whooping millionaire! Arrggghhhh!!!!! Crazy mail!

guess who!?

I just had my confusing moments last week. I can't decide which codename to use for this year's Kris Kringle or Manita-Manito. Then again, i have to make up my mind...



This was last year's codenames: might want to guess, who was I? :)

happy halloween!

Don't wait 'till she looks at you! She has the gaze of a monster!! :D Since yesterday, traffic is already congested especially in streets and crossings where public cemeteries are located. I can just imagine the jampack of people tomorrow. Honestly, i don't like the sight of cemeteries. All the more that i don't like to visit. I get suffocated and i think i'll just pass out any moment because of the heat, crowd, smell and everything. Then again, i should pay homage to my departed loved ones.

While halloween costume parties are very common in other countries, i have to say it's a pitty because their cemeteries are unfrequented. They don't even recognize what really All Souls Day is for. Well, it all boils down to tradition. While we also have halloween parties here, i haven't really gone to one. And i know it's fun! Hhmnnn....

On a lighter note, what excites me most about halloween are the 'kakanins' like puto, budbud and biko! Yummm!

So, everyone, happy halloween! :) Hey, what's that thing on your back???

looking tall, feeling tall

Well, Fridays, most favorite day of the week. To us, it's a no-uniform-day in the office. Hurrah! Goodbye to the lowsy tailored uniforms for a day. To some, this is the day when they could strut their most fabulous if not most outrageous outfits, lol!

Last Friday, most of my coworkers noticed and commented i was especially taller that day. What do you know? Please refer to the above photo! :D (Sakita sa bagtak lagi!)

Miss UN

On my way to work, I noticed that my beloved elementary alma mater is adorned with lots of flags. Oh, October, it's United Nations month. Back then, we usually have this annual Miss United Nations tilt. However, the winner is not determined by looks, presentation or intelligence like any other pageant there is. The winner was determined through a raffle. Each candidate will have to pick a paper and the winner will of course be the one who has picked the paper with the Miss UN title. I never participated in any of those contests not until when i was in grade six. I had to or else i'm incomplete in the requirements for that quarter. I did not won! And i was glad. Because i was Ms. Israel and my costume never had anything that speaks Israel. I just wore a simple dress, nothing more, nothing less. I remember my older sister was once Ms. Turkey and she used a blanket as her gown or cape. How about that? LOL! :D

frustrated CPA

Remember those times during your elementary years when you are asked to sign some autographs from your friends? More often than not, it always include the question that goes like - what do you want to become when you grow up? Most of my friends said they wanted to become a nurse. I never wanted to become a nurse. I hate blood. I hate injections. I think i'd pass out first, before a patient is saved. I don't like the sight of hospitals. Some of the friends said they wanted to become a teacher. Ok, that sounds better than becoming a nurse. But i never imagined myself as a teacher. I mean, i don't think i have that zealous patience to deal with students. I'm stubborn myself so i can't imagine how i would deal with stubborn students. Heheh. But i'd have to admit, a couple of times i would right i wanted to become a nurse or a teacher. Probably, just as to have a sense of belongingness or i ran out of other professions to write down. In reality, i wanted to become a CPA. I wanted to become a Certified Public Accountant and become a lawyer eventually, who knows. But it never happened, i took engineering instead. A few of my close friends became accountants and learned from them that financial statement preparation is never easy. Hearing it, I'm relieved i did not take accountancy at all. If i were a nurse, I'm probably out of the country right now just like what most of my classmates are. Well, i can go if i will work on it, right?

breadtalk

Was in the mall with friends then I saw this shop selling breads. It's basically a bakeshop in the mall. I asked my friend - will they gain enough? just selling bread alone? inside the mall, rental of space per square meter cost thousands? and in North Wing at that? To satisfy my curiosity, we went to the bakeshop and was very very surprised to discover the prices of the breads sold. And i was pretty convinced that they sure will gain more than enough! I think there's no bread that costs less than 25.00 pesos.

Here's why. I bought 3 pieces of bread - 2 garlic bread, 1 (i forgot the name) another bread and it cost me 133.00 pesos! But yes, the bread tasted so good. Even if it's quite expensive, i went back a week after to buy again garlic bread and tried some other kind of bread. I bought 5 pieces and it cost me 173.00 pesos. Tonight, i still can't contain my craving for the garlic bread. I bought 4 - that's 2 garlic bread, 1 eggstraordinary and 1 golden raisin. It cost me 131.00 pesos. Personally, i think it's too expensive. Well, it must go with the taste and the place.

I chitchatted with the cashier and i learned that the bakeshop's main branch is in Singapore. And if I wanted to drink coffee, i'd just go to the adjacent coffee shop and i can eat my bread there free of corkage. The two shops have the same owner/s.

Maybe, if i just go to the bakeshop near our house, my 100.00 pesos will take me home a lot of bread. Hehe :P

sportsfest

Our department sportsfest at work has already started and i'm playing tabletennis. (naks! as if lang gud!) There are four competing teams and I'm with the green team. I'll keep you posted about the activity in my other blog. See yah there!

thank you!

This is just a quick note to thank everyone who have updated their blog links. Thank you guys for the effort, really appreciate it. :)

To the rest, if you have this blog of mine in your links, please change the URL to www.pinkrefuge.com if it's not yet updated. THANKS A LOT!!! :)

feeling sporty and ugly betty

After office hours last Friday, i went outside and play volleyball and then lawn tennis afterwards. I'm never never a fan of volleyball. Ok, i watch volleyball games but i don't play. I just think it's a torture to my gorgeous hands (hehe!). But i just played a little since i was listed to play in the department's sporstfest activity. I at least have to hit the ball you know. I can't stand the pain in my hands so i played tennis instead. Again, not that i'm good at it. LOL!

Later, me and my colleagues went to Paseo and ate tapsilog. Went home at around 2am and then i still managed to watch a few episodes of Ugly Betty. I slept around 5:00am and woke up around 5:00pm to a severe body ache. I cannot move my arms and my hips. Shoots! That was just about 2 hours of running and playing but it felt like i'm beaten up! I slept again and then woke up at 8:00pm and ate my first meal of the day. I later went to Fuente and bought some dibidis. Went home and watched Ugly Betty Season 2. :P

For The First Time

Yah, i've already seen the movie entitled For The First Time, starred by the mega daughter, KC Concepcion. Really, i just wanted to watch the movie because i'd like to see Greece where several scenes of the movie were shot.

Went to Ayala first but they've changed screens already. We went to SM instead and glad that it's still showing on it's 4th week. I said we, meaning i was with 3 female pals (Ky, Jung and Pai) and 1 male pal who requested for his identity to remain unknown! LOL! Di sya nahan hibaw-an nitan-aw, haha! Oh, my comments about the movie? As usual, i'm never a movie critic. :P

pa pink-kay ta ug blog!?

Na hala! pagtagbaw mo sa ka pink sa akong blog! LOL! :P Nabuing na nih, ay basta, ginahan ko ug pink! ;)

tsk tsk tsk

Tsk tsk... been a lousy blogger lately, too many things to write but no time to do it. I will catch up. I promise.