Home At Last

I'm back in civilization! My gosh, I didn't expect Denver to be like that! The term "boonies" has a new meaning now. HeHe.

Leaving on a Jet Plane

I just finished scarfing down a nice greasy breakfast courtesy of Burger King here at the airport. There was *absolutely* nothing to eat at home. Well, I bought a box of cereal the other day, but there's no milk in the refrigerator.

Anyway, I really love being in the airport. I get this emotional high whenever I'm here, or maybe, I've seen too many romantic movies that I have connected airports to happy thoughts. {;P I love how there's so many different people here. Weee! Granted, no one talks to anyone here, but still. HeHe.

I've been up since 6:30 a.m. and all I really want to do right now is sleep. I was up last night watching Papa Ken on his date with Shao-You on Meteor Garden. How come no one told me there was a part in Meteor Garden with just Papa Ken?! I was drooling like an idiot last night. HaHa.

I'm trying to find F4 look-a-likes around here since Northwest Airlines has the same terminal as Frontier, but as usual, there's no one to be found. Such endangered species! {;P I won't even mention how much I want to sneak into the Northwest flight that is leaving soon for Tokyo (connects to Manila).

I'm also trying to find the perfect opportunity to bust out my digital camera, but I don't want to look like a tourist in my own airport. Dammit! HaHa!

Off to Colorado

Okay, folks, I'm off to Colorado first thing tomorrow morning. Wish me luck so that I find a Denver Starbucks City Mug. Otherwise, I'm quitting this darn hobby. HeHe. Anyway, I promise to bring a notebook with me. Since it's only a 4-day trip, I'm sure I can manage typing those entries out when I get back (versus my 2002 Manila entries that are still yet to be typed out). Have a great Memorial Day weekend!

He's So Lucky, He's a Star

1 girl. 1 new black dress. 0 Match.com Boy. The search continues. If only he knew how lucky he is. Tsk. Tsk. HeHe!

Where in the World is Match.com Boy

Kung ako na lang sana ang yong minahal
Di ka na muling mag-iisa
- Bituin Escalante's "Kung Ako Na Lang Sana"

I'm pseudo stalking Match.com Boy. Last week, I was checking to see how long ago he signed on to the site. The first time I saw his profile, it said "Active in the last two weeks." Then, on Friday, it turned to "Active in the last three weeks." Today, I was happy to see that it said, "Active within 24 hours." So the boy *is* alive, yet he hasn't added any pictures to compensate for the blurry one on his profile. Hence, I'm curious. I am super duper curious to find out who this boy is. I am super duper curious to find out where exactly he lives (We live in the same boonies!). I am super duper curious to find out whether he's really cute. I am super duper curious to find out if he's the answer to my prayers. LoL.

You would think that he would be on Friendster and that he would post the same picture on there. After looking through the Friendster gallery this weekend, I didn't find him. *SIGH. If someone knows of a Pinoy from Seattle who has a Match.com profile AND went to Ateneo, please let me know. Consider it charity work. LoL. I'll even take an Ateneo alumni database (MIS grads only). Grabe, kulang na lang ilagay ko dito yung username. {;P Like I said, I'm just curious. HeHe.

That's the Secret

I now have a body image problem, thanks to that darn Victoria's Secret catalog that came in the mail today. I swear, that catalog should've had a warning label on the front. I think it's time to go back to my fitness streak. If Valentine's Day didn't come around this year, I swear I would've been a size 2 by now (Yeah right! HeHe).

Mix and Match

Co-worker K recently signed up for a membership at Match.com. For the past two days, I have been shown pictures and profiles of guys who have "winked" at her. See? This is why I seriously think that I will be single forever (in addition to not seeing any guys during work hours): I'm not the type of person who would date complete strangers. That's too much for me. HaHa. Anyway, today, I checked out the website and realized a few things:

1. There are *a lot* of single people in this world. Amazing, isn't it?
2. Yet, these single people aren't lusting after fellow single people. When was the last time you had set up a single friend with another single friend and they clicked?
3. The guys that my co-worker found attractive are exercise buffs yet they're single. Hence my theory that looks (or money) are never enough.
4. Where are the cute Asian men?
5. First impressions do count...so use spell check and grammar check when creating a profile. Trust me.

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I just went back to Match.com to see if I could add anything else to my previous post. After filling in the search criteria, I got back a Filipino guy's profile. He's an Atenista (at halata naman na Atenista yung sumulat ng profile)! He's from Seattle! And he's not afraid to say that his body type is best described as "a few extra pounds." I'm a little bit scared though because he wrote that his hair is blonde. I have visions of Asi Taulava in my head right now. Eek!

Anyway, he only has one picture posted. I have a "one-picture-only theory" so I'll wait until he posts more (If you're wondering what this theory is, let me just say that I only have one picture up on Friendster. Need I say more? HaHa). If he posts more pictures, I'll have Co-worker K get in touch with this boy and I'll tag along when they meet. >=P

The Big 1-4

It has been fourteen years to this day. Amazingly, homesickness isn't too bad around this time (Is it still legit to be homesick after fourteen years?). Regardless, I think it's time for a change already. Where to go, I do not yet know.

Junk Be Gone

Last night, Papa Norton told me that my computer had a virus. What did I do? I reformatted my hard drive again. However, that didn't solve the problem. If anything, it angered the stupid virus because my computer kept shutting down when I would log on to the internet. *SIGH. At least I know what I need to do to get rid of it after searching the internet, but still, I'm tired of re-installing all of my downloaded programs (e.g. AIM, Yahoo Messenger, WSFtp. HeHe). I hope this is the last time for now. *SIGH.

After three years of hiatus, I am back on eBay selling some of my Sanrio collection. I dug through the box that was in the guest room's closet last night and I found all these Hello Kitty plush that I have totally forgotten about. Geez. I was also hoping to sell the 10 or so TY Beanie Babies that I have, but they're not selling well anymore on eBay. Dang it. It's amazing how much money we spend on crap we don't really need. I swear, I must start refraining from buying cutesy-wutsy stuff from now on. I might also put back my "Stuff" page on my website, where you can buy my stuff from me. I'll do that in June after the Colorado trip.

80s Revived

I just rediscovered Swatch watches. I would wear my old ones from the 80s since I still have them, but I'm pretty sure they don't work anymore because I left the dead batteries in them for at least 10 years now. HeHe. Anyway, some of the ones in the 2004 Spring/Summer collection are really cute. I would love to lust over some of the plastic ones, but they're just going to make me look even younger. HaHa. I fell in love with the "Flower Orchestra" one from the Irony collection, pero no tengo dinero ahora. As a substitute, I'm using a Swatch wallpaper on my computer. {;P

Game Na!

I think I am actually going to do it. I think I am actually going to step outside of my comfort zone and move out to another state/country by the end of this summer.

How do I know? Because I even downloaded MSN Messenger last night so that I could talk to Danny and find out the 411 about landing a job in a certain multinational company in Singapore. Earlier in the day, I had e-mailed my resume and cover letter. However, after I talked to Danny, I found out that the position has already been filled. Sayang, pero okay lang.

Anyway, I think it's obvious from my posts regarding my Vancouver road trip and the reformation (ack, is that the right form of the word?) of my hardrive that once I have made up my mind about doing something, I'm going to do it. Whether I'm prepared or not, I won't back down from the challenges that I have set for myself. Kaya katakot talaga. LoL.

The Principles That Be

Someone keeps making fun of me for being highly principled: I refuse to buy bootleg Meteor Garden episodes on eBay eventhough they would complete my life right now. LoL. All I can say is it runs in the family.

Hence, I'm quite scared about today. If vote-buying occurs in a certain city, I know that the fight is over. Not because my uncle can't afford to buy votes himself, but simply because he refuses to do so. It was the motto in the last elections and no doubt it's the same this time around.

There's nothing else I can do, but hope that the qualified AND highly principled candidates win this year. Please lang so I can go back home later this year and buy legit copies of MG! LoL.

Wipe Out

I want to re-format my hard drive really bad. The "Alt+F4 requiring" pop-up ad keeps popping up in my home computer and I'm tired of having to deal with it. Can anyone provide me step-by-step instructions? FYI, I have Windows XP-Professional. Help, please.

Scratch This

Argh! Our DVD player scratched my F4 Fantasy Live Concert DVD! Son of a gun! I can't view the last two chapters! Dammit! I refuse to see this as a "sign." Nope, this is not a sign, people. Ken and I will still get married. Yes, we will. LoL.

Strangers in a Strange Land

Over the weekend, I got an e-mail from Lay. She's going back to Singapore on the 21st. *SNIFF. I swear, one-by-one, all the international students that I know are going back to their homeland. How sad. Is this God's way of telling me to finally start making friends with fellow Asian Americans? {;P Or, is this His way of telling me to follow the friends back to Asia instead? HeHe.

Road Trip

I did it! Today, I drove all the way to Vancouver B.C. using my own car. It was my first road trip ever and I survived to tell you all about it! HeHe. It was supposed to take me 3 hours to get to Vancouver. I left the suburbs at 8:35 a.m., and arrived at the border at 10:15 a.m. You do the math and please don't tell my parents. LoL.

My detailed itinerary:

Chinatown: All I wanted were legit DVDs of Meteor Garden I and Meteor Garden II. Did I find them? Yes! Did I get them? No, because all of them didn't have English subtitles. I am so heartbroken about it. I was this close, yet so far. *SIGH. Anyway, to mend my broken heart and ease my frustration, I ended up buying the F4 Fantasy Live Concert DVD. Wait, did I just say that out loud? Please strike that from your memory. LoL. My biggest "I didn't buy it" regret: there was this set of PVC figurines and I think they were supposed to be F4. It would've been perfect to send to Pen, but I opted not to buy it, thinking that the $10 should be used instead on the MG sets that I thought I was going to find. Well, I was wrong on two accounts. Blah.

Galing-Galing Filipino Restaurant: I'm so proud of remembering where it was. Since my brother was always the one who drove to Vancouver, I always left it up to him to get us there. I don't know the address, I just knew it was on Broadway Street. Well, my cousin and I found the restaurant and I had my pork BBQ on a stick. Yes, I am willing to drive 160+ miles to eat a stick of BBQ. Didn't I say we are deprived here in Seattle? HeHe.

Robson Street: It was shopping galore. This was my first time there because whenever I was with the family, we never checked out downtown, much to my dismay. Anyway, while my cousin splurged at Zara, I splurged at Esprit. Our one and only Esprit store in Bellevue closed two years ago so I was way too happy when I saw the store in Vancouver. I bought two pairs of pants and a track jacket. Yes, that is splurging to me. Anyway, the sales clerk there knew that I was Filipino. I was quite impressed. That was the first time I was asked by a stranger if I'm Filipino rather than Chinese. Nice! Besides by MG sets, my other mission in Vancouver was to buy a Vancouver Starbucks City Mug. Did I find one? Of course not! I visited 3 Starbucks on Robson (reminded me so much of Madison Street in Seattle, where there are 3 Starbucks next to one another!) and I came up empty-handed. I stopped by another Starbucks on Hwy 99, they didn't have it either. I even drove to Richmond and they still didn't have it. Blasphemy for real! (Attention: Ayeza! LoL)

Goldilocks: I had a slice of Brazo de Mercedes and a glass of sago't gulaman for merienda. I swear, I thought I was in heaven. LoL.

Parker Place: My last hope for MG sets was in Richmond. My cousin and I knew there was an "Asian strip mall" there so it was up to me to use my super duper galing memory skills to remember how to get there. It turned out that my cousin and I were talking about two different Asian malls. Parker Place was not the one that my brother and I went to before, but good enough for my MG hunt. Dood, my cousin was right: it was an Asian mall for real, complete with a lot of Asian people. Seriously, you would think you're in Asia. Although, I found no MG sets with English subtitles (yet again!), I was giddy. I saw some F4-looking guys that got me smiling. I swear, F4 has changed the way I view Chinese guys. LoL.