ganging up on mama

This is me and my sister chatting about our mom's horrible singing voice. Everyone knows our mom can't sing on tune to save her life. Even my mom herself knows that. It's actually been a long time running joke with our relatives. But that doesn't deter her from hogging the microphone whenever we go to family gatherings. In fact, she bought our Magic Sing just for that purpose. To sing anytime she wants to.

So if I get off-key when I'm singing, please don't blame me. What can I say? I got it from my mama. :P

reminders

just want to jot down a list of the things i have to do for the remaining 11 days of january. from my shopping list to school stuff to managing my finances. it is hard not having a planner. i am now reduced to using this blog as a make-shift planner.

1. shop. 
i miss shopping. will do this sometime this week. i will maybe drop by sm north? or megamall? or rob pioneer?
must buys:
- navi planner. boo. more than half a month into 2011 and i still haven't gotten one.
- will scour bookstores for lee kuan yew's from third world to first. for recreational reading. and because i haven't added anything to my book collection lately.
- bb cream? i've been wanting to buy one since last year but have consistently been putting it off because of budget crunches. but then again, i rarely go out anymore so do i really need to get one? oh well. i'm not really a girly-girl who needs her makeup but just this time, vanity is winning.
- if shopping in rob pioneer, get those earrings i've been eying last december at silverworks. because my ultra short hair makes me look like a boy and i need earrings to warn others that i'm not. :P

2. have my globe line reconnected
i've been pretty much unreachable mobile-wise for the past months because i am too damn lazy to have my prepaid account loaded with credits. globe's technohub branch would probably be my best bet for having the shortest queue for customer service. and maybe i can get a chance to meet up with former officemates still working at technohub.

3. get a new bpi savings account
because the old one has been zeroed out and probably closed by now. since i'm getting my globe account reactivated, i need a bpi account so that lazy me won't have to go to a globe branch and queue for payments. weeeh! i will once again have bill-paying powers at the tip of my fingertips through bpi's online banking. :) i'm still trying to decide if i'll open one at the maginhawa branch or at the technohub branch. btw, i'm also keen on doing this 'cause i've lost some of my money for some reason i cannot fathom. i now say it is a bad habit to have cash just hanging around in your house. :(

4. enroll for a new sem!
and yeah, i'm saving the most important for last. must stop procrastinating and get this done!

ayt! i'm all set. :) now if only i can get my ass away from this stupid laptop, i'd maybe actually get something done instead of writing about doing them. :P

more of pinas, please. :)

i've had this post sitting around in my drafts since november but never got around to posting it. this makes me realize how much of a stranger i still am in my own country. how disappointing. :( so for this year, i am planning to visit at least one place each from luzon, visayas and mindanao. for luzon, i'm planning to go see the hot air balloon fiesta in clark on february 12. on my luzon list as well is palawan. for vizayas, i've already got plane tickets to cebu by the end of this year (thanks to cebupac's piso sale) and am planning to go to bohol within this trip as well. also planning to hit boracay this summer if i've got enough money. lastly, for mindanao, i'd like to experience davao this year. :)

plans, plans, plans..

how much of the philippines have you visited? let me show you my list through this lakbayan map: 

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economically speaking

today, i stumbled upon a web article about the book from third world to first written by singaporean minister mentor lee kuan yew. the article contained an excerpt from the book and i was surprisingly hooked. that brief excerpt was definitely one of my best reads for quite some time. see, i usually read fiction or laughter-inducing or travel-related stuff. history has always bored me to death but the preview that i got of this book left me wanting more. i love how lee kuan yew narrates the events that transpired between him and the former presidents of the philippines. parang nagbabasa lang ako ng tsismis column o diary niya tungkol sa mga conversation niya with our former presidents.

plus lately, inuman conversations with college friends-slash-housemetes has been focused on the economic status of the philippines: what's wrong with it, how our economy has come to what it is right now and what we can do to improve it. siguro kung may makakarinig ng mga usapang-naimpluwensiyan-ng-alak namin, sasabihin nila na "sige nga, ikaw kaya magpatakbo ng pilipinas. kayanin mo kaya?". but still. we are filipinos. it's inevitable to talk about being filipino and the controversies that come with being one. i love those healthy conversations. i love them as much as i love my housemates who stimulates me to think even while (or maybe especially while) drinking. wala talagang tatalo sa usapang lasing. :)

bottomline: i really want this book. i checked the online sites of national bookstore, powerbooks and fully booked but none of them seems to hold this title. i'll try calling the bookstores and inquire about it but if all else fails, i may have to ask someone to buy it for me in singapore. that being the case, sadly, my economical interest might just have to wait.

pimp my profile

My Alexandre Oudin-inspired facebook homepage. I am too lazy to do the work by myself so i had this automatically generated by picscatter. Nice site if you're as lazy as I am. All you have to do is go to their website and upload your picture. Once you've got your pic uploaded, it lets you drag the picture around and zoom it in or out for the perfect fit and it uploads the pics to your facebook account with a click of a button. (or you can download the pics yourself and upload and tag them manually.) It's pretty neat. The only downside is that your profile pic will have a small profilegen.com credit at the bottom. But still, a small price to pay for total laziness. :)

the long and short of it

the end of 2010 presented me with a tough decision: to have my hair rebonded or have it permed. i was thinking long silky straight or fabulously soft curls.

then one day, a friend of mine mentioned that she found a place to donate hair for cancer patients. and boom! the decision was made: i'm chopping off my long locks. :)

yesterday, i went to a nearby hair salon and got a haircut. since i'm cutting my hair, i've decided to pull out all the stops and go short, short, short! my hair went from this:

and i wanted to turn it into something like this:

and now i present you with a couple of pictures of my "did i really cut my hair this short" aka "justin beiber" look. new year = new look. i'm ready to welcome 2011 with a bang! (or probably with bangs is a better term) :)