banana chips

watching shonen knife's "banana chips" music video while eating banana chips. this song reminds me of high school days and the heyday of mtv. and the song always gets stuck in my head whenever i eat banana chips. banana chips... banana chips... banana chips... oh yeah! *lakas maka-LSS. :P*

on a totally unrelated note, i'm really glad that i've gotten my little sister into reading, and most importantly: buying books. here's a pic of some of her most recent purchases that has kept me busy recently:

yes, that's an animated shounen knife on my screen. :P

i went through the books like a hungry dog and after a few days, have no more left to read. :( among all these books, i guess i liked "the perks of being a wallflower" the most. it's different from all the books i've read before (in a good way). i've read "tuesdays with morrie" years ago and loved it. "for one more day" was good too but i liked wallflower more. bob ong's "lumayo ka nga sa akin" also had a different format, but i didn't enjoy it quite as well as his previous books. i still think his debut work "A B N K K B S N P L A Ko?!" is the best he has ever done. that's just my 2 cents worth, though. oh well, gotta go raid some bookstores soon!

kawaii

meet my youngest cousin ten-ten chan. she has the cutest, curly hair and the thickest eyelashes. :) i took this pic last month, when her family was here in pinas for the holiday season. they're back in japan now, though. mahiyain/suplada siya in person but sooooo kulit when on video chat. the trick to get her to warm up to you is to bring out a camera. once she sees a camera, she'll smile and be friendly na agad. cute noh? :) btw, she loves the computer/laptop - that's a computer mouse she's holding in this picture. she will probably grow up to be a techie kiddo someday. :)

what's up?

yeah. i know that i haven't been put up any posts for such a long time now. blame the crappy, crappy internet connection that we just got fixed. anyway, let me get you caught up with my boring crap-tastic life.

• went to cebu-bohol-sumilon island with a friend in the first week of december. will do lengthy post soon.
• spent time with my cousins who were on vacation in pinas over the holiday season- they've been living in japan for the past few years.
• spent the holiday season with my family - and hid in my room once the clock struck 12 on new year's eve. i hate the smoke from the fireworks. (arte ko lang. hehe)
• caught up with high school friends - and got updated with the latest chismis. :P one of them came home from aussie and another will be leaving for canada soon. uwahhh. they're leaving one by one! :(
• stayed with my grandma at the hospital - we had her admitted in the hospital because she had difficulty breathing. turns out she had some kidney stones and had to undergo operation. been staying with her too  after she was released from the hospital.
• finally got around to reading half of what's on the "to-be-read" file on my bookshelf

oh, and we were robbed. yeah. pinasok ung bahay namin sa cavite. at multiple times na pala. the thief has been taking clothes from our house and selling them. we didn't realize that this has been happening because me and my sister stay in apartments out of cavite too - my sister in los banos, laguna and me in quezon city. so whenever we go looking for clothes back home and can't find them, we automatically think that they're most likely in our apartment in lb/qc. but the last incident, pati jewelries and cameras kinuha. although we've already caught the culprit - and gotten some stuff back, we will never know the extent of what we've lost. just last week, they returned some clothes - some of which were mine and i had no idea AT ALL that they were missing. sigh.

anyway, i'll have to finish uploading pictures and videos - i owe lots of pictures to my friends and family. will be updating with posts about my most recent travel soon. ciao!