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I was asked to be a god mother for one of our church mate’s daughter. Her dedication will be on October. The mother is like a member of our family and the father has been with our church for a long time. I was happy when i was told about it. I like babies. They’re so cute!

Hmm.. i’m not very good with giving gifts but i do love giving especially if the person i’m giving it to is deserving or is very close to my heart. In this case, it’s a wittle baby!

I found a site that offers unique baby gifts and i’m checking it out. And since Christmas is near, i need to check out for gifts for my 5 other god daughters. Oh the growing list of gift receivers.

I didn’t know Jennifer Aniston was already 39! Well, after seeing photos of Brad and Angelina with their growing family made Jen think about having a baby. And who be a better daddy than John Mayer?

From Star

The 39-year-old actress feels that after all she has been through watching Brad and Angie’s family grow, she’d love Brad to see photos of her holding her own baby and show him she’s not the self-centered girl he had made her out to be.

“It’s my turn now,” she told a friend. And Jen believes the rocker is perfect daddy material.

“Jen feels so strongly that John is ‘the one,’ ” says a source. “She knows he can handle being a dad.”

Hmm.. She should definitely have a baby while she still can. I heard pregnancy gets harder when your older and i just saw the movie Baby Mama a couple of days ago. I don’t think Jen would like to end up like Tia Fey’s character.

Due to the hot weather, mom has decided to spend our days and afternoons at church; in the area near the river. And with the spacious area, the pugs can run when they feel like it. It’s cool because we get to spend time with the Evia Family and my uncle’s family. We chat, play, and watch DVD’s.

With that “busy” schedule, i managed to reformat my PC and i even brought it with me one Saturday afternoon in church where i installed Tomb Raider: Anniversary and played while the younger kids where watching and looking out for possible things i missed. It was frustrating at first because my monitor wouldn’t cooperate. It would blink and then i would restart the system and check if everything was plugged in well. I didn’t know what was going on. Someone suggested that it might have been caused by someone who shook the table. I really thought it was the monitor or the video card but after a few minutes of trying things out it was finally working.

I brought the PC back home that night because there was something that needed to be done and it was Sunday the next day which means there would be a lot of people and kids would be there. You know how kids are annoying sometimes. They’re curious little people. :big_smile:

Anyway, i set up the PC Monday morning only to find it blinking again, i was desperate. To make the long story short, i consulted with JJ and he suggested that it must be the memory card. And my brain was all “WTF?! how could that be? my memory card is 8 months new!” So then i sent a text message to the technician where we bought the card and he told me to bring the memory card along with the receipt and he’ll check it out. For one thing, i HAVE to find that receipt. It’s here somewhere, i just don’t know where.

Right now i am using the CPU of one of the PC sets we have in the shop. We’re closed at the moment (we’ll be relocating the shop). I took the 256mb RAM from the other computer for this unit to have 512mb RAM. But this unit’s speed is only 1.5Ghz while my CPU has 2.4Ghz. This unit has only 32mb VGA while mine has 64mb, which i need to upgrade for more games! Also, i can’t install and transfer stuff from my back-up because this unit won’t accept my DVD writer. :oh:

I just spent two-and-a-half hours browsing around and making modifications here and there. Once again, i failed to do some blogging. I got home late today, because i went to the mall after school and hanged out in the bookstore.

It’s 12:40am now and I am to blog about what happened to me earlier today, which was Friday. I tried to wake up early because i had tons of things to do. I was supposed to get a foot spa and pedicure, which was originally planned last night but mom spoiled it for me. Anyway, I was to pick out an outfit to wear for our Thesis’ title defense, then study for a quiz, which i failed to do.

Mom and I were surprised to hear a knock at the gate and found my grandpa’s brother, who lives in L.A., standing outside. He just flew in that morning and gave us a visit right away. His name is Boy, so i call him Lolo Boy¹. My mom is his favorite niece and I am his favorite granddaughter because my mom brought me up well. :) He said he was worried because his wife was calling us to find out how my mom was² and there was no answer. Then he was sending e-mail several times and since my mom had no time to go online³, she hasn’t been replying either. So he got worried and decided to fly back to Manila to find out what was going on. He’s so sweet, right?

They went out for lunch⁴, and ended up having dessert instead. I didn’t go because i was planning on reviewing for the quiz, but i ended up sleeping on the couch with Kendo on my tummy. I was almost late for school but then i remembered that it was a Friday and there wasn’t a 3pm class. But i still headed for school because i had to look for Lala and get ready for our thesis title defense at 5:30pm. We got dressed at around 5pm which was a good idea because the first group finished earlier than expected. Actually, everyone was making fun of me because of what i was wearing, but i don’t want to talk about that. The defense happened and ended. We had three proposals and the one that we liked was the one that got approved although the panel wanted to add more stuff, you know, to make it “harder”. Though we’re still unsure if we could really make it happen, but we will try. The good news is that Thesis A is just research, and we don’t really have to do any software programming till Thesis B, but we want to finish early so we’ll probably work on the project soon enough. Wish us luck.

Tomorrow, well more like tonight, is Tita Ali’s despedida party. She’s finally heading to Madrid and leaving Señor with us. I bet it would be fun. I’ll be taking pictures so i would be able to blog about it. I kinda hate myself for not blogging about things i want to blog. Like i made a photoblog, a tagalog blog, Kendo’s blog, and rarely post on them. I have neglected my multiply account too. Oh i suck. I need more time!

Oh! I think Lolo Boy will get me a higher memory hard drive. Mom called me this afternoon while they were out and was asking about our computer’s hard drive. And i could hear him saying something like, “40Gb is not enough. 120Gb is not even enough, she should get something like 500(Gb). I know a place where i can get it cheaper.” And when i asked my mom about it earlier, she said that he might buy me one. Oh Joy! A laptop would be better, but i wouldn’t mind the hard drive for my PC. And mom might be getting me a laptop soon! Well, not really for me, more like for the shop. She found out that there are laptops worth Php10k, so she might get a couple for the shop. Muwahahaha! I can’t wait.

PLDT sucks, which is another story i could write about later tonight. I’ve written enough.

1. Lolo is what we call grandpa [↩]
2. she had a knee operation last June [↩]
3. yes, i’m hording the internet. And she’s too busy anyway!! [↩]
4. but mom had just finished eating lunch when he arrived [↩]

It has been 3 days since my last post and i was not able to work on my new layout. Last Thursday, mom and i were treated by tita Bing to a spa, were both had facial and body massage and mom had the additional of body scrub. I was supposed to get a body scrub too but mom informed the attendant that i won’t be getting one because i had my period. Which sucks.

It was my first time to get a body massage wearing only my panties. It wasn’t as uncomfortable as i imagined it would be or would have been if i was in my teen years. It was pretty much ok because the lights were out and the attendant was a lady who looked like she was in her 40’s-50’s. I enjoyed my massage but the facial was horrible. Mom didn’t like the services because she felt her attendant was in a rush and had no idea what she was doing. The facial was nothing like the facials i used to get from Flawless, but i didn’t mind because i fell asleep. It turns out that mom’s attendant was new and less experienced.

Yesterday, i ran some errands for mom and then in the afternoon we went to crossing with Kendo because mom has still some stuff to do there. Kendo had fun running around but he was so tired and sleepy. I was tired too because i still had to carry him when in areas we do not allow him to walk.

Mom left this morning quite hot-headed. She was kind of pissed at our new helper, but she’s always like taht anyway. She’ll be back tomorrow afternoon.

Oh tomorrow is going to be one very busy day for me. Aside from the usual Sunday church activities, it is Lolo Oscar’s 60th birthday and everyone is invited. I could not go but the choir was asked to sing so since i’m a member of the choir, i have to be there. And i’d also want to be there. It is also my god-daughter’s birthday. Thea is turning 3 and the reason i really want to go is because i know tito Albert is catering and they have the best food ever! They serve my favorites like lasagna and lengua de estofado. So i’d go even if i’m not invited. Tita Marissa texted my mom inviting us for dinner(?) because it’s her son, Andrei’s birthday too.

So many birthday parties, and all of them i want to go to. So much for dieting.

Everytime you write an entry, your brain works to remember all the things you want to write about. That’s my problem. I am too lazy to think of the things that has to do with my life these days. I’d rather post stuff that i get from my phone, because i just have to copy them and post ‘em here. It’s like my way of “updating” my life.

But here’s the real deal, things have been both ok and not, depending in which perspective you look at it.

My relationship with the family is on the rocks. I practically hate everybody. Ok, so HATE is a very strong word. What i mean is that i’m hurt, and i don’t think they care that hey hurt me. My mom and I are ok, so when i say family, i mean my aunts, uncles, cousins, and grandparents.

My relationship with my friends is doing very well. I am to meet my closest friends tomorrow and we’re planning to have a good time. They even want me to bring my scrapbook materials because they want to help me put it up. We plan to meet at 8am even if we are at our best at night time.

I have this churchmate and we are getting close just since this Sunday. He has opened up to me the other day. He has “love problems” and i listened to what he had to say, things on his mind, and i gave him advices and tried to cheer him up. He’s frustrated and i understand him.. There’s nothing he could do now but just wait..

I mentioned scrapbooking, i plan to make one out of memories, happy occasions starting from the pictures i took during Holiday season. The next is of my friends, but that is what’s going to get me broke because if i have to print all our pictures, i’d have to be uber rich. The last is a compilation of me and mom’s pictures with different celebrities, which i already started scanning this morning to have back-up.

That’s pretty much my plan. I’m just adding things up as i go..

oh yeah. Finally a chance to go online. I first off, i would like to say sorry to the people i promised to give gifts. I thought i could still make a follow up but when mom arrived Dec. 22, i didn’t get a chance to use the computer again. It’s not because mom arrived, but because i had tons of preparations to do. The gifts i made aren’t finished yet, i could finish them later today. Better late than never. It’s a lesson i have learned, make the gifts weeks before the occasion. so from now on, i’ll make the gifts months before. :D Gonna make the New Year gifts after i’m done with the late Christmas gifts. :)

More Christmas gifts received and i love them!

i accept any kind of gifts. I don’t mind if i don’t receive any gift, a simple greeting will do. That’s what i tell my relatives during Christmas. My mom and I aren’t traditional. We don’t mind if people don’t give us gifts, but of course we appreciate any gifts given. My relatives won’t take no for an answer. They would insist on giving money whatever the amount is. I don’t take it. I tell them, i don’t mean to offend but i know how tough and harder it is to live these days and i would much appreciate it if they don’t give me anything. I go to their houses on Christmas to greet them and to let them know they are not forgotten. Not because i want their gifts or money.

It’s a hard thing to implement with my cousins. They’re kids. They’re in need of money. But our family is more blessed than our other relatives. And that’s what i’d like to point out to them. The older ones understand, or atleast they say they understand. They will reject but their faces show that they want it. I can’t change them, that’s how they were brought up. But i still try to teach them that the people we go to in Christmas are less fortunate than us.

Our church had a Christmas Party last Sunday and it was fun despite the sunburn. Long story. Weeks before, we were asked to make a Christmas bottle and put a letter inside telling God what service we offer this coming year. I made a Christmas tree out of my bottle, made little stars to put inside and a big star on top. I don’t think i have a picture of it but i will post it if i find a picture. The message i wrote is that i would like to serve God in the means of music. I was given the talent and i would like to use my talent for God. The tree i made symbolizes Jesus as the big star, the little stars His children, and the tree itself is His shiel to protect His Children. I didn’t win but it was still fun. My sibling friends won 1st and 2nd place. They got the major prize which was a Nokia 1110i and an MP3 player.

Christmas morning was another busy day. I woke up at 9am, hungry, but i took a bath, dressed up, and got ready to leave. I prepared the gifts i was going to bring to my mom’s godchildren and mine. It’s what i’ve been doing every year so that the relatives don’t have to go to our house. I deliver the gifts to the ones who were giving it to. The problem with our relatives is, all of them asks gifts from us. Because my mom is the most successful of all the clan. And there are people we don’t know who come to our door asking for something because it’s Christmas.

Have you encountered having someone you don’t know at your door asking for aguinaldo? I know Christmas is for everyone but it doesn’t give you the right to go to a person’s house asking for gifts or money when that person doesn’t even know shit about you. The less fortunate do this every year. I don’t think any from our family does but those from squatters area are the most likely to do it. That’s why my mom hides every Christmas. When you don’t give to these people who you don’t know who’d come to you, they would hold it against you. Like this encounter i had with a man carrying a kid, approached me and greeted me Merry Christmas and had his palms out. I said, “i don’t give to people i don’t know.” He left while saying “Kailangan pa ba kamag-anak para bigyan? Pasko naman ah.” I wanted to run after him and bang his head on the wall. I know i’m mean but what he’s doing is wrong. And it’s worse to give to people like him. I know he’s less forunate but he is not expected so there’s nothing for him. It’s not my problem that he can’t have a life. It’s not my fault he made children when he can’t afford it.

Anyway, i just had to point it out. bleh.

Christmas evening has been an anual Christmas party for the Vicente’s. I heard that a few years back the Alomosen family was invited to join this celebration and another years after my uncle’s family was invited too. Last year, i was added to the lot and was voted President for Christmas 2006. So imagine the tough day i had. I prepared a whole program for the party, provided games and gifts, and host it. But it wasn’t hosted on my place, because my place is small and we don’t have a garage. So we held it where we had party last year. They say that the current president usually collected funds for the party but my mom insisted that she’ll provide the prizes and gifts because she has tons of give-aways. The party was fun and i used 2 rolls and a half for pictures. Plus the other 2 rolls from Church party, then it’s my Lolo’s birthday tomorrow, which i plan to buy another 2 rolls, I’M GOING BROKE! lol. The film rolls are cheaper but getting them printed is more expensive.

I’m not going to hold back on the printing part because i love pictures. I was confident enough to use them all and i can’t wait to get the printed. Pictures would probably be posted Friday. BWAHAHAHAHA!! Damn. i really need a digital camera. My mom would always say that an automatic is better because digitals get broken easily. Her friends’ cameras would hang because it is computerized. But i think it’s because they don’t have the good ones. I still want a digital. You could see the pictures right away, you could erase unwanted pictures, you can upload it anytime you want, and you can choose which ones to print.
I don’t think i’ve ever felt this stressed and tired before. I just want to rest and watch t.v.

Lates! :D

..with a very hot Caramel Machiatto from Starbucks. Yes, the very expensive coffee house. I am trying to save money but since i love pretty things, i want that pretty 2007 Planner. i love notebooks or anything pretty to write on but i’m not very fond of writting. *hehe*

Before anything else, here’s something Irish IM’ed this afternoon and i fell for it. :)

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