Mary Jane's Niche

And what do you know I remembered my blog!

How are you my niche? It has been a while since the last time that I poured my heart out to you. Maybe I was just afraid that someone might be reading what I’m writing here. Someone who I don’t really want to know what I’m really feeling because I am not used to sharing my feelings with him or her. But I guess I don’t have to worry about that now right? You have come a long way my blog. You are a part of a community now. You don’t belong to only me anymore. This might be the last blog post that I’m going to share with you how I’m really feeling these days.

So many things has happened last year. I thought it was going to be the best year of my life. But it was not. Year 2009 started really great actually. I was having the best time of my life. I finally had the freedom that I have always dreamed of. I was having fun with Tim. I felt so loved by him, my family and my few close friends. I was traveling to places I have never been. I had (and still have) the best job and the best boss ever. I work on my own time. I had (and still have) the financial freedom that I have always wanted. Everything was going so well. But the year 2009 left a devastatingly huge black hole of emptiness in my life.

I have learned so many things last year. One of them is to value time. Especially the time that you have with your loved ones, your family. I don’t have to explain why right? Now I believe that life is definitely too short. To those who don’t know this yet, don’t wait for your very own wake up call.

I have always tried to live my life to the fullest without stepping on someone else’s life. And I will continue to do so. I just want to get something out of my system. I just want the whole world to know that even though I am laughing, smiling and acting like everything’s doing great right now, it’s because I have accepted the fact that my father is gone. I know and feel that he is in a better place right now watching over us. And I also know that if I will be a really good girl, I will be with him too when the time is right.

God I miss Papang.

This post is once again long overdue. Last weekend September 5th-7th, Tim, my brother Rino John and I once again went to Kabankalan and Bacolod. We attended Alex’s birthday. Alex is Tim’s nephew. We had so much fun! Alex now likes me. The first time that I went there he kinda didn’t. Lol. I got to meet Tim’s brother and brother in law for the first time too and they were really nice.

And I finally got to go to Calea and taste some of their infamous cakes, pastries and coffees! I brought home a three layed chocolate caramel cake which the Calea girl said is imported. Imported from where I didn’t ask. Lol. Calea didn’t dissapoint me at all. I am definitely going back there when I get another chance. I would like to thank my very patient tour guide – Tim for finding an open branch because the first Calea branch we went to is closed on Mondays so we went to their Robinson’s Mall brach which was thankfully open. And then when it was time for us to go home we decided to try out Supercat. They reopened their operations I think a couple of weeks ago. They have a much cleaner vessel and we were really comfortable. The fastcraft didn’t even feel the waves. I think it’s because the way the  fastcraft is built. I took some photos and you can find them below.

Enough talk.  Let the pictures say it all!

meet Russell!

Tim and I watched Up at the movies yesterday and it was as good as I expected it would be. So many heart-warming moments and some lessons in life was also imparted by the movie. I love Russell! He’s so cute! I am making this post to share with you my favorite scene from Up and to those who haven’t watched Up yet, you better watch it now and tell me what you think.

But unfortunately, embedding of the video was disabled by request on YouTube so I can only share with you guys the link. Click here and enjoy!

The happiest people in the world are those who have a hard time recalling their worries..

and an easy time remembering their blessings.

–Alin Austin

Farewell our beloved president. You were the best. Thank you for all that you’ve done for our country. For the sacrifices. Despite the things that you’ve done and achieved you have always been a humble person. Even though you’re no longer here with us we know that you’re already in heaven with your beloved husband who has sacrificed a lot for our country too. May you rest in peace. Again thank you!

Here’s what I’ve been up to lately..

I have been busy with:

• Work.
• Studying Module 1 of Sociology 1 – Anthropology (interesting read!).
• Tim’s problem at work.
• Plurk
• Pacman (the Flash Pacman)
• Facebook
• Reading “Bakit Baliktad Magbasa ng Libro ang mga Pilipino” by Bob Ong
• The Eclipse yesterday.

I will attend:

• Bloggers Event at SM City – Iloilo on July 31^st (so if you’re a blogger or an IT person you can attend the event too by commenting here)
• The first Iloilo Bloggers meet-up on the 1^st week of August.

I want to attend:

• Wordcamp Philippines 2009 on the 19^th of September.

I watched:

• Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
• And still watching House MD – Season 1

I want to watch:

• Up
• The Lake House

I have been listening to:

• Waking Up in Vegas by Katy Perry
• 21 Guns by Greenday
• One Love by Bob Marley
• Kristy, Are You Doing Okay by The Offspring (Tim introduced me to this song)
• Straight from the Heart by Bryan Adams

I am fascinated with:

• 2NE1 – They’re the first Kpop band that I actually liked! And it’s not only because of Sandara Park mind you, it’s because their songs are addicting.
• Nobody by the Wondergirls – major LSS (last song syndrome)

So there I was working my arse off last night, actually it was very early this morning around 5:49AM Philippine Time, multi-tasking and plurking with my plurky friends when one friend plurked that Michael Jackson has passed away. I couldn’t believe the shocking news at first so I googled it and I read that he had suffered a cardiac arrest. He collapsed at the mansion that he was renting at the exclusive neighborhood of Holmby Hills in Los Angeles. He was rushed by paramedics to UCLA Medical Center where physicians battled for more than an hour to revive the King of Pop before he was pronounced dead.

Well before the bad news was confirmed me and my Plurk friends were actually not very sure if Michael Jackson really did passed away (I’m using these words for Heather *hugs*) because TMZ was the only site online that’s actually reporting it while CNN and Reuters were all mum about it and were just reporting that Michael was just in a state of coma. We were all hoping that he was only just in a coma and not dead. But our hopes were crushed when CNN and Reuters did report that the King of Pop has actually passed away.

This was a very unexpected and shocking news to all of Michael Jackson’s fans. Before this day he was scheduled to have a long-awaited series of comeback concerts. Nobody expected this to happen but he was after all very sick and I won’t elaborate on this note. But we are all only human and death is a certainty. So what we can do now is pray for him and hope that he rests in peace. The King of Pop’s music will live on forever!

Here’s my favorite Michael Jackson song – “Heal The World”

One more step and I will be officially enrolled at CAP College! I already have my official Transcript of Records from WVSU (with the weird grades) and my Honorable Dismissal as well so nothing’s barring my way in getting that diploma (except studying, exams and tuition fees, LOL) ! Tim is very proud of me. And I hope my parents are as well. I really badly want to graduate from college. So no one should go nega on me now alright? I don’t want pessimists around me.

So wait until I tell you all that I am officially enrolled! Like Tim keeps telling me – FOCUS!