been a while!

doing blogger and catching up with my ex-girlfriend, both! haha.

look how long our hair has grown since we last saw each other!

(and how little weight we've lost :P)

(poloshirt galore)

(bangs galore :D)

it will be years till i'll probably get to do a before and after take with the other kulotski.

but i'd be sure lose more of the latter though ;)

p.s. because gayle, you still don't have facebook! <3

xo, chari

HHWW

I SWEAR TO GOD, GAYLE GULBE OPSIMA, YOU SHOULD GET A FACEBOOK ACCOUNT!



Or better yet, don't! :))
Hayyy pictures!

P.S. I just got your message. How about a bigger one?

amen

redesigned it from reflectionof.me.

found it really cute. funny thing about women, huh?
too bad, men are from mars.
hee n._.-




.

whatsup, erap?

that rhymed, huh? cute!

but i guess you're serious now, huh?

political ads should be serious, you say?

no singing or dancing? the concept being presidential?

that makes me smirk. i could have sworn i saw you in one of those movies with slow-mo running around the trees and those dancing choreography at the beach.

okay, that's besides the point, i know.

but, erap babalik na?

i think i've heard that somewhere. uhm, how about some originality?

how about "i shall return" instead?

anyway, i know you're not as dumb as those sms jokes, which people have circulated before.

but because i lloovvee advertising and marketing, i'd spell out the general idea, contrary to the neck-less interview you had during the late night news.

marketing > advertisement, as defined by answers.com are...

Sponsored informational public notice appearing in any of the communications media that is designed to appeal to a mass audience in order to persuade, inform, promote, motivate, or otherwise modify behavior toward a favorable pattern of purchasing, supporting, or approving a particular product, service, idea, or organization.

well, i'd hate to think that i'm the only person who's thoroughly enjoying the political ads this election year. despite the whole politics behind them, it amazes me how mature, and well, rather creative the television airtime have been utilized.

i'd say, counting colorful at that. persuasion on the roll!

i know it's too early, but here's Chari's Election 2010 Top TV Ad Polls Rating:

1. Noynoy

* Who would have missed the all star cast tv ad that brought in celebrities from both big rival networks ;

* To the "hindi ako magnanakaw" ad ;

* To the "Pinnoyyyy... Noy-noy jingle" ad with very cute baby james raising that right-hand L at the end;

* To the most recent with the projection of what should have been to what had happened,

I'd say great great team is surely behind him on this race.

2. Gibo

Ghad, his ads are tasteful!

* Galing at Talino with the matching dramatic lifting of the head

* The seemingly Globe Telecoms-like advertisement of him walking on the alley

* The most recent Lipad Gibo with those huge-ass planes and that great band play

Too bad the song doesn't get some recall for me, but, I should say, the administration do know how to compete in this race.

3. Eddie

Not as many ads as the rest of the candidates, but his is a classic example of quality over quantity.

Eddie tayo!

Love the double meaning. Well, I say there, my friend, is what we call recall.

4. Villar

Does he need any introduction? Who wouldn't miss his advertisements? It's all over.

A number can easily be shelved or stored down those trash bins, but admittedly, millions of people have likely hummed his jingle.

"Sha ang tunay na mahirap... nakaligo ka na ba sa dagat ng basura, at namasko ka na ba sa gitna ng kalsada, yan ang tanong namin. tunay ka bang isa samin?"

there you go.

so, whatsup, erap?

that still rhymed, huh? cute?

well, definitely not you.

god bless pinas.

what's with february?

so we are friends. we have been, even then, before we used to be together.
okay, so we're fb friends, as well. it doesn't hurt to like some things here and comment some things there.

dropping by his page after seeing an approval hand with a likes this on my recent post, i saw some interesting shout-outs on his wall, jargons as few commenting friends put in - obviously those not bothering fondling with internet savvy, mr. google.

so the posts spells as,


Ik hou van jou...
12 hours ago

Jeg elsker dig...
Yesterday at 10:36am

Men seny jaksy kuremyn...
Tue at 11:16am

Volim te...
Mon at 12:17pm


i find myself actually smiling after getting the first search engine result. aha!
as kris would place it, "love love love love love"

and as i tried to remember the last conversation i had with him, i smile because i have the reason to smile. for him.
this note with or without affirmation, i smile because i think the world owes him this one, with two years' interest.

maybe it comes with the guilt feeling of having wanted to break things off first before.
maybe it comes with that constant prayer before that he'll first find another partner before you would.
maybe it comes with the fact that he is, and will always be among the few people who would always know you best.

that or simply, because i'm happy where i am right now
and who i am with that i hope him that, as well.



as my good friend Norman put it, who i believe has also recently separated ways with his very charming then-girlfriend, break-ups need not be bitter. and i say, even if you're in a relationship, you can't own someone.
rather, you can simply be important - or extra-important - to each other.

that's the beauty and complexity of love, relationship and of partnership, i guess.
it takes a lot of work.

taken at the bay Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia

♥

guess who...

...'s at starbucks drinking coffee jelly?

...has just gotten his eleventh sticker?

...got his planner a couple of minutes ago!

these are just about two of the n number of guess who's that i can remember of, while the last, an sms i received just a minute ago.

i'd say playing guess who's have never been such a happy thing.

if ten weeks ago, you'll tell me that i'll meet a total stranger, as in a toootal stranger, and race for completing stickers to claim god-knows-what-goes-on-people's-heads-and-value-such-overpriced planner, go publicly smug over each seemingly-priceless-but-yep- those-overpriced stickers on facebook, and will be enjoying each other's company, talk about anything and everything over cups of fraps and whatever-you-call-those coffees...except for music...and techie stuff ;D, be each other's student when it comes to learning law and nihonggo, admire each other's (ehem) intelligence, share the same interests, envy at each other's bests, get a lot of homework undone because of too much talking, i won't even believe you.

ten weeks ago, i would not have even imagined that foundations of friendship can take root from a simple hello after being introduced the day earlier, and continue on over starbucks meet-ups.

yep, ten weeks ago i would have laughed at your face. who are you kidding?

yep, ten weeks ago, and not a day later.

while people call it fate, and others call it serendipity, i'd call it happenstance. a happy happenstance.

i'd say cheers to friendships, those that you know will be for keeps.

now, there are things that money can't buy. except for those starbucks coffee jellies ;D (swipe it!)

jai-san, i know you'll neveeerrr learn your lesson, but race you to the next sticker album, haha.

(bungot, i hope you'll find your 365)

discipline.

that's what i was thinking when i was lying on the awkward section of the sofa about three hours earlier, finding my eyes drooping ready for sleep.

toothbrush, wash, and change. in proper order before sleeping.

so i find myself ghad, no longer sleepy after that cold water splatter.

whattodo, whattodo. yep, i found myself finally typing the keys.

so much stories, where to start.

so much pictures, when to upload.

so much preoccupation, how to handle.

for the past three days, i've been out of the house, listening to my high school friend bitter, reminisce, laugh, bitch and just about everything in between on her breakup. so much for starting the year, ey?

i tried to preoccupy her, even hanged on fifty-degrees tilted on top of the tallest building of the city.

i shouted at her, laughed with her, and well, listened, wishing my lame attempts matter.

silently, i wished it would have been as easy for her as I have had..

when finding oneself feeling bad, and one's office mate will just nudge you and say "hey, okay ra ka?" and it suddenly feels a whole lot lighter.

when you find yourself saying, "I'm sad..." and they would simply say "dali, i'll get you ice cream".

and i wish it would have been as easy as that when one can say that "it's happy to be sad sometimes".

emo.

it seems there's a whole bunch of people getting in that fad. jusssttt kidding, haha.

then there's that project 365 pictures, lost in meaning, until you find those who have had defined theirs.

just like sungazing's. yep, you've got to read her story. here.

toothbrush, wash, and change.

it takes discipline sometimes to get up and do them, when it could have been more comfortable not to.

go mess it up if you want.

wash, change, toothbrush?

at the end of the day, there will be you.

Rain Dance
By Julie Ziesemann


Dancing on the porch
in the rain
naked.
Who would have thought
I’d ever do that?
You stood there
afraid to move
hiding yourself.

I laughed and danced
arms reaching the sky
catching rain.
You acted as if I were
crazy as you turned around
and walked away.

You anticipated me to
follow. Your expectations
were the last thing
on my mind.

yey for holidays

coming from a loooong vacation, it's great news to know they're "refreshed" for a new year ahead.
here's to a new year and to vacations ahead ;D


Philippine National Holidays:

Jan 1 (Fri) - New Year's Day (five-day long weekend from December 30 to January 3)
Feb 22 (Mon) - EDSA Revolution Anniversary
Apr 1 (Thu) - Holy Thursday
Apr 2 (Fri) - Good Friday (four-day long weekend from April 1 to 4)
Apr 9 (Fri) - Araw ng Kagitingan (three-day long weekend from April 9 to 11)
May 1 (Sat) - Labor Day
Jun 14 (Mon) - Independence Day (three-day long weekend from June 12 to 14)
Aug 23 (Mon) - Ninoy Aquino Day (three-day long weekend from August 21 to 23)
Aug30 (Mon) - National Heroes Day (three-day long weekend from August 28 to 30)
Sep - Eid'l Fitr (to be announced, calculated September 10, possible three-day long weekend from September 10 to 12)
Nov 1 (Mon) - All Saints Day (three-day long weekend from October 30 to November 1)
Nov - Eid 'l Adha (to be announced, calculated November 16)
Nov 29 (Mon) - Bonifacio Day (three-day long weekend from November 27 to 29)
Dec 24 (Fri) - Non-Working Holiday
Dec 25 (Sat) - Christmas
Dec 27 (Mon) - Rizal Day (four-day long weekend from December 24 to 27)
Dec 31 (Fri) - Non-Working Holiday
Jan 1 (Sat) - New Year's Day (three-day long weekend from December 31 to January 2)

Information relayed by Angeli :)

andy busted it

i was on my hello blogger when i caught andy osbert behind my back reading my supposed-to-be- post. boo!
haha :) but i love him anyway.

anyhow, i was listening intently to colbie caillat's songs earlier, and found myself google-ing the lyrics of Older. dumdedum.

i then dedicate this song to two of my friends, whom I think this song is rather very apt to their current life stories. One would probably never get to read this, while the other would most likely text in sun. dumdedum.

Seems like nothing is black and white anymore? Here goes...



Waited all my life for this day to come
I feel like letting go, life goes on
Wasting no more time
So much to be done
Everything works out
So they say
Over my shoulder, it's tough getting older
Yeah, yeah.......


Seems like nothing is black and white anymore
Shades of grey and I feel a weight over my shoulder
It's tough getting older
I always thought that I knew where I'd want to go
Now I'm here and I find that I'm still getting colder
It's kinda tough getting older


Here before my eyes, many roads ahead
Time for me to choose one way now
If I take a chance
What lies down the road
Feeling so confused, turned round
On and on, on and on
yeah yeah.....


Seems like nothing is black and white anymore
Shades of grey and I feel a weight over my shoulder
It's tough getting older
I always thought that I knew where I'd want to go
Now I'm here and I find that I'm still getting colder
It's kinda tough getting older


Waited all my life for this day to come
I feel like letting go, life goes on
Over my shoulder (on and on)
It's tough getting older (on and on, on)
Yeah, yeah.....


Seems like nothing is black and white anymore
Shades of grey and I feel a weight over my shoulder
It's tough getting older
I always thought that I knew where I'd want to go
Now I'm here and I find that I'm still getting colder
It's kinda tough getting older


Seems like nothing is black and white anymore
Shades of grey and I feel a weight over my shoulder
It's tough getting older




so much for turning a quarter, ey?

hati tayo, that makes two :D

"You don't need to search the details behind my perspective or my personality because i don't like artificial or complicated things. Life is so short so please don't make the life unbearable with your artificial and complicated things..."

"Please catch the moment and share these moments with other exact people...."

- Clementine

mwahhhh!

- chari

Objective Type

.

• What is Relief?

It's when for two days you have earnestly tried locating the missing pouch you've placed the money in - especially after receiving the credit card bill- searched all over the house, get everything tidied up and disorganized again, get scolded by your mom for it, and coming in to the office with the pouch greeting you, "I'm here :)"

• What's Amazement?

When the money you were expecting to be in the pouch turns out to be thousands more than you remembered it.

...and couldn't recount what the money is intended for!

• What's TANga?

Guess who? :P

two in one plus 1 happy kaarawan!

we love you!

we had fun on your birthday, even if nangindian ka, egyptian man tah ka

:)

R.I.P.

Dear Spidey,


I'm really sorry I asked Mama Bel to take you out. You see, next to flying roaches,
you are the next thing that I uhm, do not really like inside the house. You were kinda
big, and those eyes? Ghad.


You scared me. I was sooo wary! Again, yes, sooo wary that you were there when I
got in. I can almost imagine you jumping on me that easily. You made my baths, by
far, my record breakers!


But thank you...


For not jumping on me as I half expected you would.
For keeping the bathroom fly-free. (Looks like I'm not the only one wary of you.)


And as I write this, I know you were as scared, and even more scared than I was. If
only for that, can we call it quits?

You were a good spidey. I'll try to be my best, too.


See you in heaven (a century from now),
Chari

countdown

22:07:22:28

What do you say about work in Starbucks?

I can only wish to be a barista, but no.
I had to escape the office, because if had not, I wouldn't have been productive as I was.

And get this, I was not as productive as I hoped, and I was pretty much calculating that productivity rate, or better yet un-productivity on the what would have been.




So Sir Loge, I was not lying when I said I'd go out of the office earlier to "work". I circumstance-ially missed out the part of "going home".

And Daddy, I did not lie when I texted you earlier that I will be working overtime. I semi circumstance-ially missed out the part though that it be at Starbucks, hehe.



Sooo....

I sit alone in the corner... where there's an outlet, I paid no heed to people who have literally come and gone. And... I paid no heed whether my singing was part of that equation. Yes, I was singing. Can I evil chuckle on that? Haaa :D

So here are some tips I'd like to share with you if your "office", which should have been THE venue for you to work, feels like a roomful of people who can physically and virtually poke you to ask of something and everything, which will make you want to cry.... STARBUCKS!

So here goes:

1. Reason out with your boss. Make him understand that you have already delivered the items that he asked you. Although there is one thing that you were not able to do, tell him he has also one thing that he was not able to do! You have to smile while doing this, of course.

2. When you're at Starbucks, order Sausage and Onion Quiche. This will keep you running when you consume 7 hours of Starbuck's electricity.

3. Order Coffee Jelly. No reasons attached to this.

4. Bring with you headphone. You will likely end up eavesdropping on other people, if not forced to eavesdrop on their woes about the world, if you don't.

5. Get something singing in that headphone, otherwise your attempt on number 4 will be uhm, stupid? You can occasionally swing your head up and down to drown any people's doubts if you're just being uhm, stupid.

6. Sing Cattski's songs. :) You have to be sitting at the corner for this. As you'll pay no heed to people who'll be coming and going, just hope they will equally be paying no heed to you.


So I'd say working at Starbucks is not so bad, at all.

My special thanks goes to Grace H. Bautista. What medium productivity I have had, would have been nipped off to small productivity without the help on that screen layout.

because (again), Gayle you do not have facebook

What do you know of the Philippines right now?
Forty-seventh largest economy in the world
World class tourist spot
World's pound for pound fighter
Fourth best island destination in Asia
But not only that...
We are also a country struggling with many problems.
Bilions of pesos in debt
Lack of freedom of the press
Poverty
Poor health care
Corruption
Bad infastructure
Unemployment
But guess what?
All of this can still change
Because I..
You..
We have the power to make that create that change!
AND IT STARTS WITH ONE VOTE!
ONE VOTE!


To elect the right people who will lead us to starting a brighter future
ONE VOTE!
To ensure that our natural resources are taken care of and put to good use
ONE VOTE!
To trust that our children are being taught not just the good education
but love for country
ONE VOTE!
To secure that our taxes, are channeled towards the right policies
ONE VOTE!
To make sure that for all Filipinos, there's a house
That every house is worthy of being a home
ONE VOTE!
To show the world that democracy means there is food for the hungry
ONE VOTE!
To ensure that no Filipino is an alien in his homeland


ONE VOTE!
To keep the nation's best doctors
Architects
Nurses
Teachers
Engineers
Innovators
Rebuilding the nation
Piece by piece,
ONE VOTE!
That will help our country rise from the ashes
And be the Pearl of the Orient once again
A people of pride, of dignity, and of peace
The change we want may not happen right away
But what matters is that
We make a step towards it
If not us, then who?
If not now, when?

I'm voting
It's our time now
LET'S DO THIS!
We can do this
Fight!
We can do something about it
We have the power to make that change!
So what do you say?



nya, naka-register naka?

di mo kilala ang transformers?!

I am an eavesdropper, occasionally, or most especially when my attention is piqued.

One of my bosses is among that particular attention-piquing interest I have had. More often than not, I can not help but eavesdrop when it comes to him.

Well, not that you can blame me. We have no walls and partitions whatsoever here in the office. And yes, you can't miss his voice. Should I add a natural baritone amplifier?

In the occasion that he roars, it would most likely be...

...one, because he's busy giving someone a piece of his mind. Yes, that used to be his contractors and carpenters during the time his house was still in the process of being built. (And yes, we actually got some feedback on the progress of it when eventually the phone calls lead to him being exasperated over his house insurance, and ultimately, when his house was finally built. It was more fun for me though on the former than the latter silence). Anyway,

...there's two, when he's happy. He roars with laughter.
And seriously?
I can't help laughing myself. If only I can roar my laughter, as well, than having to contain myself with mere giggles on my seat.

Like earlier this afternoon when he was seemingly joking off with a friend. "Nakita muna Transformers 2?(short pause) ...Di mo kilala ang Transformers?! (Laugh, laugh)"

Then just a little while back, he passed by my place - the convenience and hassles of being at the end corner.
Anyway, this time, he wasn't roaring, nor was he angry. He was actually mellow. He was on his way out to get this bento-box to the pantry. Again, he was actually mellow.
And I knew it was his daughter. Who else would he say it's okay to drink sparkling water to, and constantly having to repeat himself, but still in mellow way?

And I find it really sweet.
Although chances are, that baby girl will eventually grow up and have her daddy give her a piece of his mind later on, there was once this scary giant when it comes to subordinates, but gentle giant when he heads back home.


Yes, I was eavesdropping.
It gives me a story to remember. And few times as this, a story to write.
And although I will eventually forget whatever I have eavesdropped on, I have gotten to know that for every roaring of a king, at then end of the day, there will be a room somewhere where the mighty king is far smaller than his height... or throne.

yet again

i miss you.
naa na ka uyab?
hehe.

i was sorting out pictures for posting, then i had to laugh at this one.




yes, there is a future for the philippines ;P







and then there were a lot of your faces, too!
stop making faces? hehe

i miss you my baby :)
i love you 200, too.
i was a little bit dubious if it was typo, yet again, but we'll just pretend i did understand. haa :D


i'll meet you both at starbucks next week, same time :D

under construction

it's piling up.
thrill and not so.
patience will be a virtue.
:)

overwhelmed

how can I help, please tell me,
because I would really love to

how can I help, please tell me,
there is so much more to do

many hearts cried while the pouring came
and all cried for it to stop

my heart cried when the pourings stopped
my heart cried when the people didn't

sad and happy, yes it can be,
overwhelmed by this and that

how can I help, please tell me,
tell me, and I would help








Let's iron this out, Pinas!