Elyu Aftermath

So I’m back. It’s always nice to be back in my own room with my own bed and my own fan. I was sort of sick throughout the trip. I blame the bus liner for its super cold temperature. It was definitely an inhumane kind of cold condition! Anyway, who does that!? Only Isarog and Peñafrancia Bus Lines. UGH!

La Union was kind of bitin at the end because I’ve gotten used to the places around me and then just like that we had to leave. But the days were definitely enough for my liking and sanity, I guess. I did like the artsy restaurants and their foods were not a disappointment. In fact, I think most of the budget went to foodstuff. I think the only activity we did was the hiking, which for the record, took most of our whole day and was the only major thing that I can actually say we did at LU.

Mostly, the trip back and forth was the most time consuming of all. First, it took us 20 hours just to get from Bicol to La Union. Then, it took us 13 hours vice versa. Major hassle, weew. I mean, I suggested bringing a car but they said no. So okay, we had to deal with that one.

So I just got home yesterday morning and I have been feeling uneasy ever since. I don’t know what’s going on or why I am all so antsy all of a sudden. I don’t know. It’s annoying me. As much as I want to feel okay, I can’t. I’m just glad I’m able to write about something now because I’ve been having a staring contest with my laptop since this morning.

Oh well, I’ve posted a few pictures from La Union. There’s not much to see. I took videos mostly but not pictures. Hope you like them! Happy scrollin’.

Ma-cho Temple

Tangadan Falls

Urbiztondo Beach, La Union

Ma-cho Temple

view from our hostel

Makai Bowls

GoodReads

There is no doubt about the amount of love I have when it comes to reading books. Mostly, I read romance, sci-fi, young-adult, chick-lit and mystery. What I usually do is I read a new genre after another—it serves as a refresher to my mind. Too much romance makes my brain dizzy, same thing with sci-fi it becomes boring if I read another one—unless it’s in series. It’s like I have this on and off relationship with books which brings me to my confession about how I stopped reading for a year now and totally forgot about GoodReads Reading Challenge.

GoodReads is like a database for all the books out in the market. It’s like Yelp for books with reviews, quotes and whatnot. So whenever I’m running out of books to read, I go to their website and look up to some interesting read. My favorite part is the GoodReads Reading Challenge.

So this is done yearly, the mechanics is for you to set a goal number that you think you’ll be able to read for the entire year. And whenever you finish a book, you’ll include it in your ‘read’ section. So far my best record was last 2013. I read 41 books out of my goal of 40.

My worst record was last year. I can’t believe I just got 4 out of 20! I guess I really did forget everything else when I was in Chicago last year, eh?

But this year, I don’t have any excuses not to read so I set my goal to 10 books for 2017 challenge. I don’t want to feel overwhelmed so I’ll just have to adjust it later after I come close to my number. Good news though, as of now I have read 6 books! Not long before I adjust it to 30. Hopefully, I’ll top my best record and make it 50 this year. 🙂

Wish me luck!

xoxo,

I’ve Been Told I’m A Good Girl

What does it mean when someone says you are a good person? Does it mean you are likeable? Smart? Kind? Nice? When good is being used as the generic term for almost everything that is not bad, it gets to the point that it is confusing sometimes.

Recently, I was told I was a good girl. I believe the reason for that comment was I refused to go out at night saying I have a curfew so the only time I can go out is during daytime. After that comment, it got me thinking how is it true that I’m such a good girl? How was I a good girl? Did I somehow pass that person’s certain criteria as “good”, or what? But most of all, why am I even doubting that remark in the first place? Is it probably because I reject the notion that I am a good girl, after all? 😂 I’m not sure where this is leading but those are some intriguing ideas that I have.

Just wanted to point that I do consider myself as a good person;I share my blessings with other people;I pray;I love my family dearly. However, I am also aware of the evil side that I have. Not only to say that it is normal for every person to have, but I personally think one can only take so much shit in this world that the only outlet that one can have is to respond in such an awful comeback. It’s the honest truth and you know it. Despite the harsh reality though, I try to show heavenly kindness as much as I can with everyone else since I can never know what a person has been through for him/her to act that way. But that’s just me.

It would also depend on like what situation I am in. I know that there are circumstances that bring out the evil side in me and during that time is when my patience is really tested. So yeah, I’m pretty much like everyone else. Sometimes, dressed up as an angel but probably most of the time, more comfortable playing Satan’s role.

Generally, it’s so easy to just identify someone as good. Good being such a basic word nowadays that we tend to look or ask for more when we are given this as an answer. What do you mean good? Is she pretty? Boring? or Okay? Tell me something more!

I guess my point is, the term good doesn’t even cover a tad bit of the description of my whole personality. For me, I find it overused that it is starting to sound meaningless, invalid and useless when it comes to how people respond to things. Not to be hypocrite, but I find myself using that word a lot too. Like when someone asks me how my day was, my to-go answer would be ‘good!’ if not ‘great’. How is it like that? I can’t blame those people who use ‘good’ as a response though. They are probably not interested or lazy to come up with a more sensible word, just like me.

Ciao!

Love, G.

Summer Plans

I swear. I wanted to like write a meaningful post but whenever I open my WordPress blog to write something, every idea just goes out of my mind. A little update then to tell you about my recent activities…I have done my two exams which was the GRE and IELTS. Both results were good, thank goodness or else all my late night sleeps for studying(lol who am I kidding!) would have been for nothing. As soon as the results came in, I started submitting my application for schools and so far I’m still waiting for some documents to be sent for the completion of my application. While waiting though, I do busy myself by helping my dad in his business and playing ‘salimpusa’—a friendly reference to someone joining in an activity, despite not really being a full-fledged member of the group—in his company. So yeah I figured it’s better than doing nothing.

Also, what else?

*literally took a whole minute to think*

Oh, so like last month, I already booked for two vacations for this coming summer. For April, we’re going to Boracay for a week. I guess, it’s been a really long time like almost 8 years since the last time we’ve visited and I bet the algae situation there has worsened, yuck. Not to mention, the heat that we are going to experience. Sometimes, during lunch I can barely take the heat then I remember we’re going to spend a week in the beach and I am like oh my god who’s decision is it to stay there a whole week?! For the month of May, we’re spending a 10-day vacation at South Korea which during that season is Spring so the weather is just perfect, actually. All of these trip agenda were prepared by yours truly and by that I meant the airline bookings, hotels, itineraries, budgets, visa and literally everythaaaang. Despite having those in my hands, it actually makes me really thankful that I’m busy. I can’t really afford to think of any other things right now.

Summer is coming but like my body is still in winter wonderland. It’s still hibernating that diet is not in my dictionary at the moment. Honestly, even my mom and brothers are getting real conscious because of how they eat recently. I don’t know why but it’s just too hard to watch our diet. Haha it’s funny ’cause like once in a while someone will blurt out while we’re pigging out—”I can’t keep on eating, there’s barely even months before we go to a beach”. 😹 Nevertheless, we eat and eat. 🙂 Anyho, that’s all for now. Mwa!

-GLAIRE

06.24.2016

Blog entry:

23 June 2016 10:28PM @Staff house Springfield

Thursday night which means last night stay in Springfield! I just actually got home not too long ago. My co-workers and I went to visit another co-worker that lives here to celebrate her post baby shower. She’s a Chinese so all the food served were different kind of Chinese pica pica which was interesting. I had a good time getting to know my family here in Chicago. After that, we separated our ways–as to there are two staff houses–and here I am now. Tomorrow, I plan on taking the driver’s exam first thing in the morning–just the written exam first. I’m doing a scan on the rules of the road of Illinois after this entry. So Imma say buhbye now!

Signing off!

ST. LOUIS TRAVEL DIARY

Hello! It’s been ages since the last time I made a video compilation. So anyway, this time I had the chance. I’ve included the link of the video below that I uploaded on my youtube account. It’s all about my St. Louis state visit with my CHI friends!

Have fun watching🙂

Sunny Sunday

Finally the sun showed up on Sunday! Sheena and I were able to visit the Shedd Aquarium. Though personally, I find it dull to visit aquariums—I mean, fish? 🙄—except for the dolphin shows or interactive activities with the animals. So yeah I didn’t even bother taking pictures of the fishes. 🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄

Add me guys on Snapchat if you wanna see my activities especially this coming months because SUMMER 💁🏼 and summer means SUN and sun means FUN. Lol.

Snapchat: purtyme

Yours Truly,

G🐒

Things I Look Forward To

Hello guys! Sorry for the short posts lately, I was not really inspired. I just wanted to say how hyped I am with what’s happening to me these past few weeks and for what’s gonna happen for the next couple of weeks. Here let me list down the things I’m looking forward to:

March

1. I-LEAD

Tomorrow will be the announcement for the qualified candidates to attend the 5-day leadership program in D.C. We wrote an essay about a leadership topic and then that’s it. I hope I get the chance to participate and if not, then better luck next time.

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2. Phone

I also bought a new phone—don’t worry it’s not that expensive—for a few reasons. First, I want it. LOL I need not to buy a new phone but I figured I deserve a new few things especially I’m earning my OWN money. 🙂 Second, my current iPhone is locked so I couldn’t use any carrier here on the U.S. so not net which is really hard and complicated sometimes. Lastly, my phone’s starting to crank up since I’ve had it for three years now.

3. Phone Cases

I bought this adorable fur case, sticker, and wine case for my phone. I love it and I may have splurged on it but who cares.

April

1. Night Nation Run

This I cannot truly wait! It’s a 1st running music festival, you know, DJ’s be playing while you’re running at every station and at the end of the musical voyage there’s gonna be like a big party or something. It’s going to be so much fun, don’t you think so?! I’m doing it with Sheena so we better be ready to run a 5K.

3. Moving in with a new family

I’m gonna be moving out to this crappy house, finally! Oh my god, you guys don’t know anything but I have been living in a hell for months now. People here are so noisy, weird, and I don’t know if they’re even human. Possibly not! I mean like how can someone be so insensitive and play their music so fucking loud in morning and before freaking sleep time. Oh yesterday morning, I was still sleeping and dreaming when suddenly there’s this music blaring to the point where I thought I was dreaming about it then I woke up. Oh my gosh, so fucking rude damn it. DIEEEEEEE!

4. Indiana

State visit wohooo!

5. Lighthouses visit

My friend, who also happened to be an intern, planned this trip to visit the Lighthouses nearby Chicago—I’m not sure. Actually, there’s this CHI Squad that we created and the members are all interns from across the world. We kinda go together to different places when we had the chance. So now this trip, probably we’ll go the weekend after the run. Whew, my weekends are full!

May

1. St. Louis, Missouri

Spending a 3-day vacay in that state doing sightseeing and camping with CHI Squad. 🙂

2. Washington, D.C.

If I’m qualified for the program, then I can go to the capital of the United States. *fingers-crossed*

June

1. Duh, my birthday!

Seriously if you guys have any plans on staying here on the U.S. for more than a month, just make sure you’re not under 21 or else you’re gonna miss most of the fun—I mean if you’re aggressive like me.😂🙄 SO FINALLY, I’m turning 21! Did you guys know about wearing a sash and a crown when turning 21? No? Well it’s a thing here, maybe I should do it lol. 😏

Bitch, that’s gonna be me when the bartender asks for my I.D.

2. Niagara Falls

Still pending. But would it not be amazing to see the grand scenery of Niagara Falls?!

3. Color Run

Haven’t bought tickets we’re still thinking about it. Psyched!

July

1. Lollapalooza

It’s amazing how the tickets sold out fast. I had to wait for like two hours just to get past through the front gate and buy the tickets. But this is so far my most awaited event. I’m so ready! 💁🏼

2. Coldplay Concert

Sheen and I bought tix for their concert. We were aiming for a JB or Selena Gomez or Demi Lovato concert but the tickets were soaring and mostly were sold out anyway. Let’s rock! Lol okay they’re not exactly a rock and roll band. 😂 But hey, they’re not that bad.

3. Foam Glow 5K

Another run. Hell yeah! Sheena and I are a serious runner. 😂

4. Las Vegas, Nevada

O.M.G. I’m 21 by that time! 😏 NYEHHEHHHEHEHHEHEHE 😈 Need I say more? And what’s great about us going there, it’s a company paid. There is this CPE convention that accountants should attend in Vegas but who says we’re required to attend that boring lecture? Lol hopefully boss won’t require us to attend the lecture and let me and Sheena wander around the Sin City. Also, there is going to be a night/ball event or something because it’s our boss’s wedding anniversary. Grand, I know!

5. Page, Arizona

We might drive by the Antelope Canyon when we go to Las Vegas if we have chance.

I’ll stop here for now. I remember it’s Monday tomorrow. Good night guys!

Disclaimer: Gifs aren’t mine.

06.17.2014

Had a great workout today! I just got home from gym anddddd I’m feeling super good. It’s been a while since my last workout…2 months ago, I think. Ha 😛 Tho desire took over me and I made my dad order a pancake at McDo for my breakfast 😛

It’s only 8am and I still got a lot of time before my first class. What to doooo? Sleep?

Hmmmm! Nomnom. Just took my first bite on my pancake and it tastes amaazing. I don’t normally eat this thing but I’m hungry and tired and I just want to sleep. 😦

I know this is out of nowhere but I just remembered that I have a diary and I have been neglecting it for three months now. Ohmyghad! 😥 How could I? But then again, I was busy with other things that were far more important than writing in my diary but still! And not to mention the fact the these past months had been life-changing moments of my life and I didn’t write it! 😦 😭😪 Just kill me now. Kinda overreacting, I know. It’s just that… 😥 😥 TOO BAD.

Now this post is going nowhere. Haha I’ve got a lot of things in my mind. Anyway…

I don’t know if my mom reads my blog. She definitely knows about this blog because I told her so. And I’m starting to regret that I did. I mean not just mom but also for those people whom I know personally. It’s just that they could open and read anything on my blog anytime and poof my secret’s gone. Tho I’m not saying they read my blog everyday but you get what I mean, right? Right?

I’m sleepy

05.24.2014

Photo Diary 
SUMMER 2014

Oh Bother!

Yes, you have seen it right. It’s ‘bother’ not ‘brother’. I’ve heard it said from my favorite character Pooh every time he’s irritated! ^^ Haha. I love Pooh. And please! He’s not a gender confused bear. He is a BOY and he is adorable without his undies. :))

I find it cute that Pooh makes it sound angelic instead of saying ‘you motherfucker sonofabitch’. He’s such a charmer, isn’t he? 😀 I know I know. But he’s already taken by me so back off, bitch. Nyahaha.

So enough of my rant about Pooh. Let’s get to my life now even though what I’m about to say has nothing to do with the title above. :))

Last night, I was not able to join my friends in their night out. I had a family emergency so family first as always. Also, my mom asked me to open the store for today so I slept early.

As you may already know, my summer class is officially over making this day my first legit day of summer. Yohoo! But instead of me being at my bed oversleeping, I’m wide awake and sweating in our store. And the hot temperature is kinda making me feel drowsy. I wanna take a nap even just for a minute but there’s no one to trust to with the store.

Anyway, I’ll just have to look forward to this evening and hope to God my mom won’t let me come here tomorrow ’cause she told me she’ll be giving me the Sunday off. *crossed fingers*

Since today is Saturday, so obviously tomorrow is Sunday. Lol (Even I don’t find myself a wee bit of funny.)~~Wait, you’re trying to be funny by that?~~ ~~Ughh~~ ~~Oh shut up~~ MY DRY SENSE OF HUMOR IS OVERFLOWING. Sorry ’bout that. Going back, while Sunday is a rest day for most, it is the busiest day for us because it’s market day for people. So usually, me and my mom are dead tired at Sunday night. Tho it’s pretty much every night, really.

So that’s just it.

And oh wait. I feel like going out tonight with my girl friends so maybe I’ll ask my mom about it. Depends on her mood tho. Huhu.

Au Revoir biatches!! 😁😁😁

Less Than A Week To Go!

Yay! Yay! Yay! Yay! Yayx10000000!
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4 more days and good bye my last summer class!

***OMG! May kuryente na! I cri 😥 ***

Anywaaaaaaay, I don’t feel like writing anymore because there’s electricity na. Mwua! 😉

04.21.2014

Me so tired.

I went for a jog this morning after for what feels like a hundred days finally I did it again. Anyway, I woke up really early! And end up being scammed by my friend. Good thing, I still have another company. Damn him.

I went for 5 rounds in Basilica Minore with Nard. But I think he went for 6th. Glad to see around young people jogging ‘coz before majority of the joggers were elders due to obvious reason, health. But now, more than half are youth and the rest are elders. 😀

Since it’s summer and I’m currently living in a tropical country which only has two season; summer and rainy. Sunny sunny sunny… I can feel it poking past through my shirt as early as 8am! Whyyyy must you be up so early in the morning! You’re giving us all headaches and frowns to our faces.

Today is only Monday and I still have four more days to go to survive this week.

Oooooh. I forgot! A funny thing happened today, like seriously! ~~So maybe not, but come on~~ We had a quiz at one of my marketing subject and there was this question wherein the answer was supposedly ‘BABY BOOMER’ but instead of that my girl seatmate answered ‘BABY BONER’ (she copied and mistook it as boner). Hilarious thing, not to mention the checker of her paper was a boy and when he saw it he let loose a loud guffaw. Maybe this day is not too bad after all. 😀

Slacker

I’ve been working my ass off now for two consecutive day. My family went off to the big city and I was left all alone. All by myself managing our store, waking up early and sleeping late. These days where I wake up as early as five thirty in the morning and still had to travel for thirty minutes to get to the store on time. Unluckily, the bus driver keep slacking off so that I’m always late by five minutes and hail to the workers ’cause they were again saved by their tardiness.

So basically, all I do all day was to face the computer and either play Candy Crush Saga on Facebook or watch movie. Yesterday, I found myself having a headache and still having now. Maybe too much radiation from the computer. Uhuh. But nothing won’t stop me from using computer. What the hell would I do if not this, right? Roam around the store and make myself look like a complete paranoid employer? Uhuh. Not gonna happening bro.

Today, besides my endless face-to-face with my dearest electronic friend, I’ve also found a very loyal friend of mine which was a ‘book’. So I’ve been reading this book titled “The Silence of the Lambs” by Thomas Harris. I know you guys are very familiar with it and maybe you’ve seen the movie already. I found the movie yesterday in this computer and have started watching it but then I thought that I ought to read the book first. I’m not yet half way through finishing the book and truth be told, I don’t understand half of the things they say but still it’s kinda interesting and I am planning to finish it.

Okay, that’s all I have to say. Probably after I’m through with this writing, I’m gonna go check my Facebook account and see whether I’ve accumulated another life in Candy Crush Saga. You gotta try that game too. Everyone thinks it’s an easy pie game but not so fast, you better try it first. And surely after that, I’m gonna go back to my reading. After that, do some standing-walking-peeking check with my people(sounds big,eh?) and the cycle goes on.

Just Another Day

So this is just about my day, nothing special in particular. Just wanna share something to bloggie. =)

Today, I skipped class for no reason whatsoever. I just felt like doing it or maybe because I had no idea what my teacher and my classmates were talking about. Aah! *Stretch* It felt good to finally leave the classroom and head home. But first things first, I went to my dentist to have my dental check-up and stuff. I was there for like one and a half hours and so my cutting scheme was useless. AAAAH! Feel like screaming again. Now maybe I should really just waited up for my class to end.

After the dental check-up, I swung by SM Mall and bought some school supplies and went to one of my favorite places: the bookstore. Usually, I hate crowded places where people would bump you and act as if they are the only person in the place but ehem not in the bookstore. I rather find it wonderful because those people and I share the same hobby. Like why would I be pissed? I’m the same as them, struggling to find the right book to buy, spending almost two hours just to scan pages and going beneath and above the book shelves.

I usually go to Booksale because I find the books there more interesting plus it’s cheap. So as I’m looking in the travel section, I spotted this book about my dream country and of course I dig it but it turns out to be only the maps of the cities. As I’m about to put it back, an elderly woman asked if she could have it because she too like the country. Wonderful, right? I found someone who fascinates the same country as I do. HAHA I know, you totally don’t get a word I say but you will eventually. Whatever! =p

So! I forced myself out of the store before I could buy anything and headed myself downstairs.. =)

I have wished to buy a Polaroid since last last year(?) and last Tuesday my fairy godMOTHER granted my wish. I excitedly went to the shop where I’m gonna buy my cute little thingy but then a dilemma crossed my path. I can’t decide which color to choose. Blue? Pink? Yellow? Seriously, does it even matter what color? Apparently, it does to me. So I decided to go home first and think about what color I want so that I won’t regret.

Home at last! Pajamas…food….internet…pillow…T.V…relax..happiness. God seriously, why can’t I ever feel the same way about schooling? Must be my psycho brain.

Later this afternoon, it rained. RAIN! First rain in the summer or so I thought.

And then dinner came, my dad cooked since there’s no maid on duty today and I washed the dishes.

and…

I’d like to sleep now. Enough with my blabbering. I know this is too long. I have missed you so much bloggie! Good night! I know you love me. XOXO