a totally rare day...

a totally rare day

listening to: don't worry, be happy by bob marley

elle woods was right. endorphins does make you a happier person. i don't know, but for some reason, i'm like bouncing off the walls, totally happy. and i'm sober, i'm telling you. hehehe. anyway, i have been training like a horse for the past 3 days, i swam for 2 hours a day and stayed at the gym for an hour. the weird thing is, i don't feel cranky at all or sleepy. i'm just so happy! even if all my team mates are totally bummed and cranky since we just came back from our rest days, i wasn't affected at all. as my bff jen would say it: i'm happy-happy-joy-joy!

by the way, the cable guy fixed my cable a while ago! i have cable again! (another reason to be happy!) :-D

5 ways to be a certified beach bum:

photo by beehyve

summer is about to end, and for those of you out there who are still day dreaming about the waves, sand and water (i know i'm one of them, i have to wait till july to hit the beach)...well, this is for you!

1. quit the football team, basketball team or whatever sport you're in. better yet, quit your job. hang out at the beach and surf all day!

2. forget clothes. if you have a bikini, boardshorts, flip-flops and a surfboard, you're all set.

3. if you don't have much money to rent a place by the beach, camp out by the beach!

4. food? all you need is a fishing rod and you're all set.

5. live life to the fullest, have no fear and most important of all, have fun!

credits: riding giants produced by laird hamilton

rant and raves and then some

rant and raves and then some

yesterday was a really good day for me. i woke with "must-be-another-crappy-day" mindset and this what i was thinking on my way to the mall before going to work. i had to get my phone (which was only 3 weeks old) fixed since there was something wrong with the built-in camera. the guy in the nokia shop told me that to get my camera fixed would cost me a whopping Php 3,000! so you could really tell that i was totally pissed off and i blew up on brian (tsk, tsk...poor guy). so i had no choice but to go on with the repair. while waiting for my phone, i decided to go around the mall and check out the latest racersuits from speedo. and guess what? their speedo skin was on sale for only Php 1,500! this brightened up my mood a bit (the swimming gods must be smiling on me) and when i went bak to nokia to pick up my phone, the guy said that they just had to do minimal repairs on it so they only charged me Php 165. wow. to top it all off, my dad just told me that he had my doorknob replaced. yippee! so i went to work in a really good mood, pulling up my daily stats 33%! one of my best days, i'm telling you.

then i realized that all good things must come to an end. i woke up today in a really good mood, even if i woke up a little bit late. so i had to rush to get dressed and everything since today was my nephew's baptism. at least my outfit brightened up my mood a bit (it's so cute, very summery). so when i got to church, i was chatting with my cousin and told her we should get our pic taken in my phone so that i can upload it in my album. and *gasp*! lo and behold, the camera on my phone was busted again! seesh. and top it all off, traffic on the way to work was hell, and i barely made it on time! so you can probably tell my mood today by now. this day totally sucked that it's not funny, it's even afecting my work performance. geez. i guess when it rains it really pours.

i'm only happy when it rains...not anymore

i'm only happy when it rains...not anymore

"people should know that i train like an animal. the progress is the result of a lot of factors and when you put them together, things happen."
--inge de bruin, netherlands
world's fastest woman on water

i was supposed to go swimming yesterday, but alas, it rained when i was about to go to the pool to train. since i didn't want to get electrecuted while on the pool, i eneded up having a chad michael murray marathon (much to the dismay of brian, hehehe). oh well, so i think i have to wait for another week before i can hit the pool. so here i am again, lounging at work while listening to j.lo (not my choice of music, i tell you). ugh. i hate the feeling of not being able to work out. i get cramps all the time and i feel sluggish and sleepy all the time. damn rain. which is funny, because my theme song during high school is "i'm only happy when it rains" by garbage. maybe because back in high school, classes get cancelled because of the rain. not the case if you're already working. you're forced to come to work even if you're soaked. that's life i guess.

new stuff about me as of yesterday:

* i finished deception point and loved it! i still do think dan brown is a god. so im currently reading: harry potter and the order of the phoenix by j.k. rowling (for the 5th time), since the harry potter book 6 is going to be released on me and harry potter's birthday, i need to refresh my memory on what happened during the last book.

* book status: still pending until further notice (translation: pending until i get a new computer).

* i got a massage last monday! wohoo! boy, did it feel good! my massuse worked extra hard on the knots on my shoulder, hehehe.

* chad michael murray is a real babe. my cable's still not working, so is my doorknob and i haven't seen randy's new look yet (and he still has a bad shoulder).

* i uploaded john's new cd and new video into my mp3 player! yay! so i get to listen to him all the time! love his new video, bad, bad boys...i think it was totally hillarious (love the wig!)!

* i lost my cigarette case and cutie lighter last night. is it the universe's way of telling me to quit smoking?!

i know, i know...things will get better...i just wish it will get better soon...

random thoughts while having a migrane...

random thoughts while having a migrane

i usually like summers. but it has been really, really humid lately that i find myself going to the mall almost everyday just to have decent airconditioning (very pinoy, but i have no choice, i received the electric bill the other day and i almost fainted). tried sleeping a while ago without turning on the ac, and boy, i realized that it was a very stupid move for me. i woke up totally soaked, with a splitting headache. but i still had the energy to drag myself to work. so while listening to smashing pumpkins and lounging here at the office...just thought of writing some nonesense to take my thoughts off my headache. at least i'm still living up to my "migrane girl" title in high school...

* people are people had a sale today, and i totally went crazy. brian's comment: "is it the end of the world already babe? how come you're panic buying?"

* my nephew, david johann is getting baptized next week, and guess who's the goddess of a god mother? yep. it just feels weird, my ex-crush being married to my first cousin and they chose me as the godmother of their first kid. well i guess they wouldn't have ended up together if not for me...hehehe... >:-P

* bitchin' at work...im now with my new team, and after being with them for a total of 2 weeks, 2 of my team mates got transferred. it's so sad because none of us can do anything about it. that's life for you, i guess. so now i'm worrying about my own stats coz i just got regualrized and i think i would want to hold on to this job for a little while till im ready to go back to the media industry...

* my cable broke down, as well as my doorknob. i'm slowly thinking that my place might collapse right on top of me while i'm sleeping, or worse, while i'm in the shower. it's taking the cable guy 2 weeks to fix it, and my doorknob is still busted. i bought a new one from the hardware store the other day, now all i have to do is to look for someone to attach it for me...

* randy's shoulder is still busted, and he shaved his head, though i haven't seen him yet. i'm currently back swimming, and i'm trying to grow out my hair coz the pixie cut ain't working anymore... i have a new zit right under my nose and it hurts like hell, not to mention it looks horrible. seesh. i hope my dermatologist comes back soon from her vacation...

* i'm getting an average of 4 hours of sleep everyday and i'm trying to function without coffee. i had to quit my java coz i've been so jumpy lately it's not funny anymore. i'm experiencing a coffee withrawal syndrome. "hi my name is lally and i'm a coffee addict..."

*currently reading: deception point by dan brown. it's taking me forever to finish it, because of all the work that i've been buried in lately. an interesting story, but for the first time, it's taking me 2+ weeks to finish a book.

* state of my book: pending up to now. i'm almost finished though, just one more chapter to go, but since my ninja turtle of a computer broke down on me, i haven't gotten around to finishing it yet. brian calls it "chick lit", well at least he didn't call it a trashy romance novel...

* thank goodness it's already my weeked tomorrow. i'm getting my much needed massage. aaaah... i can't wait. but for now, i have to focus on my work here, my boss just bit my neck because i'm not doing "performance-level". can you blame me if im so damn stressed? yikes...

* footloose auditions were held last sunday. me and my fiddler on the roof/reuter friends thought of auditioning. i was supposed to do my classic "on my own" audition piece from les miserables, but my fiddler "son" edwin (he had the role of motel, while my role was shaindel, motel's mother) said it didn't fit since footloose was a comedy, and we were required to do a song and dance number. so it was "jail house tango" from chicago. so far, the worst audtion ever since my "the wiz" audition 12 years ago. but to quote tita zeny: "at least you had fun!"

so there, random thoughts from my twisted mind. been leading a pretty boring life lately, need to do something different to spice things up. maybe i should climb mt. everest tomorrow...or better yet, rule the world. but i'm glued to my screen for now.

life's a bitch...

life's a bitch.

this weekend was supposed to be a long weekend for REGULAR yuppies out there. well, i was never a regular joe ever since college. i always had to be different. so now, for the long weekend period, i find myself at work, and yes, on a sunday. normally i don't mind, but then, i've been feeling like crap lately that i feel that i NEED r&r...i even put my book on hold because i've been feeling so damn stressed lately. i can't even go to the spa to get a well-deserved massage! arrrgh! i know, it's a small thing for other people, but it's quite a big thing for me since the reason of me switching industries is because i need to relax before i start school again (i wonder when that will happen! with the reate of tuition fee increase and mallwide sales, i'll be lucky if i get to finish my master's degree by the time i'm 40). oh well, maybe this week things will improve...i wish...