I Don’t Care… E-e-e-e-eyr
7/31/2009 04:47:00 PM Posted by noel
No we don’t collect Sandara Park merchandise. LOL! Many years ago, this plate was a freebie when you buy a bag of FRES candies. Needless to say, Sandara endorsed the product when she was still here.
I found this plate on the stack of my mother’s old Tupperwares while looking for a small container for Princess’s a/d.
I don’t know if it’s just me, but watching Sandara Park on YouTube singing and dancing – not to mention I first read about 2NE1 on PerezHilton.com – gives me goosebumps. No, not that kind of goosebumps. More of like the kind I get when I see a video of Charice performing in the US. It’s as if Sandara is our own. I’m proud of her and I’m so happy of where she is now.
There’s really something very Filipino in her.
I promise to watch their concert if ever they hold one here.
A Not-So-Pleasant Taxi Experience
7/27/2009 03:13:00 PM Posted by noel
Going to Bonifacio Global City from the south is no easy thing, especially when you have to commute at noontime, enduring 32 – 33 degrees of hot weather.
On the way to Global City, I had to do some errands in SM Bicutan. I thought dropping by the mall would be great because it’s easier to hire a cab in malls. I also texted my friends who went with me to the Level Up! event to just meet me at the mall’s taxi bay.
Little did I know that I would have a little problem hiring a cab that day.
I thought this sign is big and clear enough, not to mention written in Tagalog, to be understood by anyone who knows how to read.
But then again, no.
Because this guard doesn’t know how to follow instructions written in big letters in front of him.
We waited in line for about 45 minutes to get a cab. When our turn finally came, the cab driver refused to convey by shaking his head when he learned of our destination (Market Market). In normal situations, the guard would make the taxi leave upon refusal to convey. But this guard instead let the one next in line to ride the said cab upon knowing that the driver didn’t wanna go to our destination.
This guard 
prolly didn’t understand the meaning of the 3rd reminder written in big letters on that board in front of him.
A big difference, though, when we took a cab at the Market Market taxi bay to go home. The line was so organized and taxi drivers wouldn’t demand to know your destination before they open the door. The guards also give out leaflets where you can write your complaints about your taxi experience.
No wonder Market Market is always so busy with shoppers and mall goers. Judging by our taxi experience, I’m kinda sure Market Market is more concerned with their customers than the other malls around.
I don’t know about other SM malls but I think SM Bicutan mall admin can learn a thing or two with how Market Market takes care of their mall goers.
Purple Up!
7/25/2009 11:25:00 PM Posted by noel
I was at the Bonifacio Global City Open Field this afternoon with some friends. It was actually the Level Up! event that made me go, and not the Yahoo! Purple Hunt Finale. I’m really not a fan of contests.
The Open Field was so big the five tents in color purple occupied not even 1/4 of the area LOL!
This is the Level Up! booth called Purple Up. 
The Purple Lounge where there were laptops for free use.
It was so hot in the “open field” that only the participants of The Purple Hunt Finale were at the stage area. 
Then Taguig Mayor Freddie Tinga with his daughter arrived. 
The daughter flagged off the start of the race. 
It (the Honda Jazz) was eventually won by Calvin Galgana from Caloocan. 
It was really scorching hot especially when we decided to line-up for the freebies at the Level Up! booth.
By the time we got the freebies, a Calvin Galgana was announced the winner.
We wanted to watch the Level Up! events which was just about to start after we received the freebies. But it was really so hot, Ryan was feeling chest pains I was afraid he’d suffer heat stroke. We went to Market Market instead.
How Could a Jap Be This Cute?
7/21/2009 04:45:00 PM Posted by noel
Yesterday, Doc Erich told me about Japanese Chins. Today I searched for pics.
How my heart melted when I saw this pic.
I want!
Hate
7/21/2009 12:45:00 PM Posted by noel
I really don’t like that new vet. I don’t like the way she stares, and the way she manages to give you a light smirk? Arrghh it’s irritating. Perhaps she thinks that her smirks get unnoticed.
It’s just too bad I had to go to Animal House in Bicutan on the day of her duty (for the second time). I was already referred to Dr. Rose by Dr. Quinto but she’s only in Bicutan on Wednesdays and weekends. And I really had to buy dog stuff yesterday that I had no choice.
On my way there, I was hoping she’d be inside the clinic when I arrived, but luck wasn’t with me cuz she was there in the store/reception, sleeping. She was hunched on the table sleeping on her arms. She “woke up” when she noticed the secretary was talking to me. Oh well, she was back to sleeping even before I left. LOL!
I miss Dr. Quinto, really. She’s so accommodating and gentle.
The World is Round
7/18/2009 09:57:00 AM Posted by noel
17-year-old Zac Sunderland has just completed his 13-month solo sail, making him the youngest sailor to circumnavigate the globe. He completed the feat on Thursday morning by guiding his 36-foot vessel into Marina del Rey, to the presence of hundreds of admirers (perhaps mostly young girls). He started the navigation June 14, 2008. 
Meanwhile, the Philippines will also do an expedition – aboard a boat believed to be similar to the one used by the Spaniards who first set foot on our islands:
the Balangay.
The navigation is aptly called the Balangay Expedition. The Mt. Everest team headed by Leo Oracion will set forth 2010 at the Southeast Asia region, on 2011 it goes to Mirconesia and Madagascar, and on 2012 it will navigate across the Pacific and Atlantic and around the world and returns to the Philippines on 2013.
God bless the team.
I Don't Wanna Wait in Vain...
7/17/2009 02:05:00 AM Posted by noel
So you see when you really, really like something, waiting for it is such an agonizing experience. But some people have zero tolerance of waiting.
I called JP at four this afternoon. He’s still at work but is preparing to go home. I told him I couldn’t hold it til Monday. And he wanted to see Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince on its first day, too. So we agreed to watch the 7:30 screening. LOL!
We were young once again, excited to see a movie we’ve long waited for.
We started going to the movies together in 1998. Cesar Montano’s Jose Rizal. Not because we wanted to see it, but because his mom gave us tickets to that movie. There were like 6 of us, our old barkada. And it’s actually the group’s first time to go out together.
Since then, we would go to the movies with his brother, Jindo, everytime there’s good sci-fi out. The girls wouldn’t wanna join us cuz they didn’t like the movies we love watching. Then after some time, Jindo wouldn’t wanna go the movies anymore. His interest drifted to guitars so he’d rather strum than sit inside the theater to watch.
Well, we go to the movies with other friends, too. But movies of our interests - like Harry Potter – should be watched together. No questions asked.
It was a fine Harry Potter night. If you’d not count the fact that it’s raining so hard going to and from the theater, it was overall a good trip. I also got to pay my credit card bill, had Princess’s card updated (at last), and was able to buy the much needed 600w (generic, though) power supply for one my units that burned out this afternoon.
Anyway, bawal pala magpicture ng posters sa SM. I didn’t know cuz I always get away with it. Kaya lang my flash gave me away kanina. Sayang. Sabi na nga ba camera phones are better. LOL!
Photos via wikipedia.org and thoughtsfromthejockstrap.com