Every ending is a beginning.

I would say my 2015 has been the most stressful year for me so far but as what I've always said... I'm blessed to be stressed.

It has full of ups - I've been to places, met new friends, strengthened my relationships, started a new business and almost finished my MBA. I've also experienced lows in work and school. Nevertheless, I am so thankful for the wonderful experiences. I'm looking forward to new experiences, new places to conquer, new businesses to start, new career to pursue, a graduate degree to finish and a whole LOT of lessons to learn. I will not anymore write a long post because words are not enough to express how I feel.

Thank you Lord for the blessings. It has been a great year. Looking forward to an even GREATER 2016.

My birthday weekend

I'm thankful to have a day-off from work last Friday. Marion just came from his Indonesia trip and I picked him up at Makati -- should be at the airport but then I couldn't wake up really early because we just had our company Christmas party on Thursday night. Also, I was able to get home at 12MN because some bully guy who is driving a red Mitsubishi Adventure (plate number WKI 827) hit my car. Tsss.

After picking him up, we had our brunch at SBC Bonifacio High Street. He dropped me an hour later at McDo near St. Lukes because I'm meeting my college friends there before we head to Tagaytay. The Tagaytay trip is welcome-to-the-real-world and/or post-breakup trip for our friend Fay who is mending a broken heart and just took the Bar Exam last November. Her mom also went with us (which is okay because tita is so nice and is willing to treat us dinner hihi) and Vlad was joking that his goal is to have a zero-gastos for the trip. We made a bet that it won't be possible because he is the king of pasalubongs plus knowing his appetite, he needs to eat every hour. True enough, the first thing he bought was a McChicken fillet meal. I asked him, "Di ka nagbreakfast??" which he nonchalantly answered "Nagbreakfast...eh gutom ako eh." "So ang goal mo ay zero money left sa wallet at hindi zero gastos". We left BGC at 11AM and arrived Tagaytay at 2PM. We had lunch at Dencio's and went to Tierra de Maria after.

lunch at Dencio's

     

We checked in at Taal Vista Hotel. After checking in, our first activity was to...sleep. We feel like lolas and lolos. Grabe. We even had a conversation reminiscing how "energetic" we were before -- we can sleep at 3AM and feel sooo alive the morning after. Now, we already feel sleepy at 9PM, lucky if we still get to party 'till 10PM. So what happened to our energy?! We feel so old.

relaxing view at Taal Vista Hotel

giant Christmas tree

After an hour, we went out for dinner. I feel so fat in just 4 hours. My stomach feels bloated and I can feel it say, "Huhu kakain uli??" But who am I to resist a free dinner, right? Lol. After dinner we went to Bag of Beans for dessert.

              

After too much eating, I slept early and I wasn't able to join my friends for stargazing. Yuck ang tanda ko na talaga! But I woke up early as well the following day. We left Tagaytay at 1PM. At 3PM, I waited for boyfie to pick me up at Shangri-la and as my birthday gift, he let me shop  for anything I want! Wohooo! I really love this guy.

On Sunday, my family and I went to Bulacan to attend my cousin's daughter's christening. We went home right after because my family organized a birthday party for me and mama.

I am soooo thankful my birthday fell on a weekday hence, I was able to avail a birthday leave.

On Monday (my exact birthday), I went to Makati Med to have a checkup -- yeah, like this was the coolest thing to do on a birthday nyahaha! (This has been postponed for the longest time. I was diagnosed with hemangioma last June and I had a CT Scan last month). I went to Makati Med to have my CT scan results read by the doctor. It feels good to have so "me" time even if I'm in a hospital. I was supposed to read a book while waiting for the doctor but my time was spent on replying to peoples' birthday greetings. I finished at 10AM and had brunch at Pancake House, waited for boyfriend for his lunch break before I head to Sofitel Vietura for my free treatment. Ms. Agnes, was so nice and the Vietura staff surprised me with a birthday cake.

Yay! I'm surprised!!! 

Ms. Agnes also treated me for a free foot massage. Yay! I feel soooo relaxed. I pick up boyfriend from work and we had my birthday dinner. Hooray for 20-ish years of existence (just because I stopped counting at 25 lol).

Happy birthday to me!

CHRISTMAS VACATION STARTS NOW WOHOOOOO!

P.S. Will climb my bed again. Aaaaah, I miss this feeling.

P.P.S. Hooray! Will have time more time for blogging, hanging around and reading non-business related books. :)

Saw this article circulating online and I wanted to post it here. #Feels. It is a good article and I can actually relate most specially because I just turned n years old last Monday.

The Tail End

By Tim Urban

Note: Hi. The last few posts turned out to be quite…thorough. So to bring things back to Earth, this will be the first in a string of short posts that will be coming out over the next few weeks.

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In a post last year, we laid out the human lifespan visually. By years:

By months:

And by weeks:

While working on that post, I also made a days chart, but it seemed a bit much, so I left it out. But fuck it.

The days chart blows my mind as much as the weeks chart. Each of those dots is only a single Tuesday or Friday or Sunday, but even a lucky person who lives to 90 will have no problem fitting every day in their life on one sheet of paper.

But since doing the Life in Weeks post, I’ve been thinking about something else.

Instead of measuring your life in units of time, you can measure it in activities or events. To use myself as an example:

I’m 34, so let’s be super optimistic and say I’ll be hanging around drawing stick figures till I’m 90.1 If so, I have a little under 60 winters left:

And maybe around 60 Superbowls left:

The ocean is freezing and putting my body into it is a bad life experience, so I tend to limit myself to around one ocean swim a year. So as weird as it seems, I might only go in the ocean 60 more times:

Not counting Wait But Why research, I read about five books a year, so even though it feels like I’ll read an endless number of books in the future, I actually have to choose only 300 of all the books out there to read and accept that I’ll sign off for eternity without knowing what goes on in all the rest.

Growing up in Boston, I went to Red Sox games all the time, but if I never move back there, I’ll probably continue at my current rate of going to a Sox game about once every three years—meaning this little row of 20 represents my remaining Fenway visits:

There have been eight US presidential elections during my lifetime and about 15 to go. I’ve seen five presidents in office and if that rate continues, I’ll see about nine more.

I probably eat pizza about once a month, so I’ve got about 700 more chances to eat pizza. I have an even brighter future with dumplings. I have Chinese food about twice a month and I tend to make sure six dumplings occurs each time, so I have a fuckton of dumplings to look forward to:

But these things aren’t what I’ve been thinking about. Most of the things I just mentioned happen with a similar frequency during each year of my life, which spreads them out somewhat evenly through time. If I’m around a third of my way through life, I’m also about a third of my way through experiencing the activity or event.

What I’ve been thinking about is a really important part of life that, unlike all of these examples, isn’t spread out evenly through time—something whose [already done / still to come] ratio doesn’t at all align with how far I am through life:

Relationships.

I’ve been thinking about my parents, who are in their mid-60s. During my first 18 years, I spent some time with my parents during at least 90% of my days. But since heading off to college and then later moving out of Boston, I’ve probably seen them an average of only five times a year each, for an average of maybe two days each time. 10 days a year. About 3% of the days I spent with them each year of my childhood.

Being in their mid-60s, let’s continue to be super optimistic and say I’m one of the incredibly lucky people to have both parents alive into my 60s. That would give us about 30 more years of coexistence. If the ten days a year thing holds, that’s 300 days left to hang with mom and dad. Less time than I spent with them in any one of my 18 childhood years.

When you look at that reality, you realize that despite not being at the end of your life, you may very well be nearing the end of your time with some of the most important people in your life. If I lay out the total days I’ll ever spend with each of my parents—assuming I’m as lucky as can be—this becomes starkly clear:

It turns out that when I graduated from high school, I had already used up 93% of my in-person parent time. I’m now enjoying the last 5% of that time. We’re in the tail end.

It’s a similar story with my two sisters. After living in a house with them for 10 and 13 years respectively, I now live across the country from both of them and spend maybe 15 days with each of them a year. Hopefully, that leaves us with about 15% of our total hangout time left.

The same often goes for old friends. In high school, I sat around playing hearts with the same four guys about five days a week. In four years, we probably racked up 700 group hangouts. Now, scattered around the country with totally different lives and schedules, the five of us are in the same room at the same time probably 10 days each decade. The group is in its final 7%.

So what do we do with this information?

Setting aside my secret hope that technological advances will let me live to 700, I see three takeaways here:

1) Living in the same place as the people you love matters. I probably have 10X the time left with the people who live in my city as I do with the people who live somewhere else.

2) Priorities matter. Your remaining face time with any person depends largely on where that person falls on your list of life priorities. Make sure this list is set by you—not by unconscious inertia.

3) Quality time matters. If you’re in your last 10% of time with someone you love, keep that fact in the front of your mind when you’re with them and treat that time as what it actually is: precious.

Where did the time go???

I don't fear getting old. What I fear is becoming old enough to realize that I have not lived the life I envisioned when I was six years old.

Lately, I've become easily bothered with the smallest  things. I have become too sensitive and I easily criticize things that did not go my way. I find myself rolling my eyes on work and sometimes thinking if everything I'm doing is worth it. I'm earning a lot (well not really a lot but coming from a measly salary during my banker days, what I am currently earning is a HUGE jump) and I feel that it is still inadequate. I used to live paycheck by paycheck because I contribute to our house and I'm paying my own tuition fee but I realized I was worry-free/stress-free then. Now, not only did I have my investments, I am also able to pay for my parents' vacation at Bohol and Palawan. My friends would point out I am "successful" for being part of management team and being in graduate school at the same time. Yet, I feel that I am not. I have a car and a small business which are my ultimate goals before I reach thirty and yet somehow, I am not genuinely happy. In short, I have turned less grateful and became bit of a grumbler. It is embarassing to admit but I think these are signs of getting old. (Note to self: Read my favorite book - The Little Prince)

As I turned a year older, I vow to chase my happiness back. Not that I am unhappy with what I have now but I want to be more grateful, kind, and positive. I vow to chase my dreams when I was young and to nurture relationships more than building wealth. I guess that's what making me feel sad lately -- I feel the pressure of being an adult.

When I visited Pink Sisters' Convent at Tagaytay last weekend, I talked to HIM and I feel at peace. The last time I went to Tagaytay was when I attended a Silent Retreat (previous post) way back in 2012. I think I should attend another retreat to renew my faith. Anyway, I am thankful for all the blessings I've received and will receive. I guess next year will be my best year yet. Thank you, Jesus!

Happy birthday to meeeee!!!!

I drive the whole stretch of EDSA everyday when I go home and I always see vendors -- you know those manongs who sells peanuts, bottled waters, candies, rags etc. I have a high respect for them and everytime I see them, I feel so thankful for my job. Ang hirap kaya magtinda sa EDSA -- mausok, mainit at delikado. When I was still commuting, I used to tell my boyfriend when we see a manong offering mani inside the bus, "Grabe, magkano kaya nabebenta nila sa isang araw... eh parang kada 20 meters, may umaakyat na nagtitinda din ng mani. So grabe ang competition. Pano kaya sila kumikita no?" (with matching explanation on Law of supply and demand lol). I also tell boyfie "Natutuwa ako sakanila. Nakakainis kasi yung mga magnanakaw. Buti pa sila masipag." If I wasn't asthmatic, I'll buy all their peanuts (I don't know why but peanuts trigger my asthma).

Last Friday, I passed by a really old manong along EDSA. I initially thought "grabe nakakaawa naman" but on the other hand I thought "ang galing naman ni manong. ang sipag". Too bad I didn't have the time to stop and buy from him because traffic was moving and well... I was scrambling for my wallet in my very organized bag *sarcasm* and I don't want to annoy the driver behind me. I suddenly had an idea -- I wanted to give something to all the vendors along EDSA. Well, not really to all....imposible ata yun. I have this idea of buying something (not really grand... things like t-shirt, food or whatever) for them and giving it to them just to let them know na ang galing nila at nabibilib ako sa tiyaga nila. Rather than resorting to easy money (like what snatchers, holduppers do at nagkalat din sila sa EDSA GRRRR), they chose to work hard to earn money. Must  tell this to boyfie para siya ang magdridrive at ako ang mag aabot sakanila. Hahaha! 'Di kasi marunong magabot habang nagdridrive...nagpapanic ako. Wahahaha!

LOL

Fast and VERY furious lol

HOOOOORAAAAAAY! I'M SOOOOOOOOO DOOOOONEEEE with the term :)

I've been on a hiatus from blogging because I'm cramming busy writing my 150-page Strama paper and trying to balance a lot of things in the office. I've been in a grumpy mood for the past three weeks because of many reasons and one of which is not being able to avail my vacation leaves. There was a day when I was allowed to take my leave but I was still expected to answer emails. Sheesh.

I couldn't believe I'm done with my Strama class. The experience was not as what I have expected it to be BUT it was still exhausting. I remember my post last February about how stressful it is to study Financial Management but seeing fellow DLSU students cram on their Strama class, I think I was on a better situation then. Too bad I wasn't able to get the famous professor for Strama (famous because he is so damn good but will really make your MBA life hard) because he already retired from teaching. Nevertheless, I'm glad this is over.

Last Saturday was the deadline of our paper. I felt giving up because I'm just so tired with everything -- I've been working overtime and I don't have time to start on my paper. I was so annoyed with work as I was dealing with the project I never get to finish until now. Hay. So much frustration on people who can't decide. And because I'm re-doing everything for work, I was not allowed to take my leaves. I was on the verge of quitting and actually talked with my boss about resigning. lol. I was not really happy at all.

Anyway, I started writing my paper during APEC when we were allowed to work from home. Thank goodness! Last Friday, I was supposedly on a half day leave but I left the office at around 3PM (on a sidenote, half-day nga yun kasi 10PM naman ako nakakaalis ng office! grrr. this sounds so much like a rant I know but..). Friday night I was on my 80th page but I fell asleep while doing my paper. Huhu. I woke up at 5AM and continued my paper. I can sense the panic from my classmates as they are all asking what time exactly should we need to submit our papers. We just need to upload our paper but me and my classmates were all confused with the time. When I logged in the La Salle system using my laptop, it shows that the deadline is at 5PM BUT when I used my phone, it shows 9AM. At 7AM, I don't think I'll be able to make it to the 9AM deadline so I convinced myself that the deadline is 5PM. Hahaha! Boyfriend was supposed to go at our house to give me some moral support BUT at around 8:00AM, our electricity went out. #HOMAYGULAYGANONBAKOKAMALAS!!! My mind froze and I just wanted the ground to swallow me alive. But I have no time to panic so I immediately took a bath, called boyfriend to cancel his plan of going to our house and drove all the way to his house. I can actually go to the nearest coffeeshop but I cannot anymore think if there's a near coffeeshop that is already open at that time. I was able to drive to boyfie's house which is 35 kilometers away in less than an hour and he was teasing me, "Baby, ang bilis mo magdrive ah. Ganun pala pag nagpapanic na." Grar. Hahaha! So, I was able to finish my paper at 4PM and I tried uploading it in our system as soon as I was done BUT the webpage says, "This page cannot be displayed." Huhuhu. I was already crying because of too much stress. Fortunately after n tries, I was able to access the site at 4:30PM. As soon as I clicked "Submit", I was able to breath normally. Boyfie told me I grew younger by 5 years as soon as I was done with the paper. GRABE LANG.

ang labo talaga ng time >.< It says 7:24AM when I submitted it at 4:24PM haha!

Starting today, I will be stressing only about work. YAHOOOOO!

Hooray to Long weekends! :)

picture not mine :D

A previous officemate (and a good friend of mine who now lives in Australia) suddenly dropped me a message on FB. She said: "Trishy musta ka? Ikakasal ka na ba? saw your post about wedding caterers. May tatanong ako sayo. Naalala mo ba one time nung nagbar tayo sa BGC? Tapos ang mga kasama natin taga ibang department sa Towers?"

I really have a bad memory so I replied, "Huh? May ganun? Haha bat mo inaalala?"

She replied, "Ito yung super weird night na nag bus tayo tapos bigla tayong bumaba somewhere hahaha at nagbar."

"Whaaaat? May ganun?? Haha! I can't remember na may ganun. Hahaha at nahatak talaga kita."

"Oo. Bored ka ata. Saka may nagoffer din na ihahatid tayo sa bahay after kaya tayo pumayag."

She begin telling me the details and I cringe because I suddenly remembered that incident. It made me realized I'm such a spontaneous person. Lol. And I quote myself, "Shocks ang dami ko pala kalokohan noon." Hihi.

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The other day Joan, my New Yorker friend, sent me a message:

Joan: Bff are you here?

Me: I'm not here. Haha! Why?

Joan: Naguusap kami ni Jenna (her sister who became my friend as well) ng wedding stuff like entourage and all. Sabi ko iniisip kita na bridesmaid. Tapos niya torn daw siya.

Me: Huh? Bakit? Haha!

Joan: Kasi daw may mas maganda na sa kanya.

Me: Hahahaha!

Joan: So di daw nya sure if gusto ka nya dun. Bwahahaha. Tapos sabi niya fine daw pero wag daw kita pa-makeup-an. Wahahaha!

Me: *I almost died laughing* Hahahaha! Tawang tawa naman ako bff. Hahahaha! Sabihin mo mas sexy naman sya sakin. Kumbaga magmumukha akong maid ng bridesmaid. 

Joan: Hahaha tawang tawa rin ako eh. Sabi nya gusto ka naman nya talagang bridesmaid natotorn lang sya.

Hahaha! I love Joan's sister. Lol! Anyway, I'm so happy for my friend because finally she's getting married!!! 

I miss my Towers Watsons friends. I miss the good old days. Nothing beats my first job.

Lately, it breaks my heart to watch the news. Let's all pray for world peace.

credits to the owner

I WANT THIS!!! :)

#APEChottie

What's up with people gushing over the Canadian Prime minister and Mexico president? Lol. Prepare for this sabaw short post. I've been meaning to write a long post about my rants and raves on APEC, driving in Metro and other topics. BUT I want to finish my Strategic Management paper first so I'll save that for later. Hays.

Anyway, just to break from writing my business paper, I saw this trending hashtag on my FB newsfeed and all over the internet (I've been friends with Google since yesterday due to my urgency to finish my paper so I can tick it off my to do list a.k.a. TODO list).

My officemate keeps on ranting about these two leaders since last week that we've been checked in at Shangrila Plaza because apparently, some of the APEC delegates were already there and she's been hopeful to see the Canadian Prime minister. She kept on showing us the pictures of the two and been asking who's more hot/handsome.

*Officemate 1 shows picture of the Canadian prime minister and Mexico president to me and another colleague*

Officemate 1: Sino mas bet mo Patty -- eto o eto
Me: Hmm.. parang mas hot si Canadian PM
Officemate 1: WAG KA NGA! Haha porket nakatopless gwapo na.
Me: Uhmm patingin nga uli.
Officemate 1: Oh eto picture pa ni Mexico president
Me: Ayyy I changed my mind. Parang mas matipuno si Mexico president.
Officemate 1: ANG GWAPO NILA DIBAAAA. DI AKO MAKAPILI.
Me: *in my nonchalant voice* Uhmm.. okay lang. oo gwapo nga hehe..
Officemate 2: Grabe gwapo nila. Lipat na tayo. Eto si Patty di masyado affected sa gwapo. Sanay na kasi ang gwapo ng boyfriend neto eh. Bagay sila. Maganda at gwapo.
Me: HAHAHA. Tumpak.

Okay. Haha! Not that I don't gush about handsome guys. I used to. But you know, apparently I have this "wrong"definition of 'gwapo' according to my bestfriend. HAHAHA! Well for me, I really find a guy handsome if his personality is okay, if he has a sense of humor and if he is a good conversationalist. I don't care how tall, hunk or good-looking he is (Well, I care at times haha but personality rules. Haha!) Seriously though, I think my taste on men has gotten better. *looks (and gushes) at Marion's picture and say to self: shocks gwapo nga ng boyfriend ko.* Hahaha! Note to self: Must not let Marion see this post.

Dis-closure

When someone who has been a part of your past still checks you out, what will you do? 

I actually don't mind being friends to people who have hurt me before. In fact, I'm so forgiving that I'm still friends with all of them (all except for one, nevertheless, I wouldn't mind if that person would talk to me). I don't think there is nothing wrong with being overly forgiving. Who would want to carry the burden of hating someone, ayt? It actually feels so liberating to forgive people BUT that doesn't mean I've completely forgotten everything. 

So, I've been trying to be civil to someone who has played a part of my past. I just don't get why that person keeps on checking me out. Hey, I wouldn't mind a small talk (or a "big" talk, if needed). Just don't stalk or ask my friends about me because apparently, I'm perfectly fine. 

I really have this feeling that this person has not completely move on yet. Oh well.

I am currently blogging from Makati Shangrila. For today, I had lunch at Circles Event Cafe and dinner at Chili's for free. It wasn't as glorious as it sound though. It was for work.  I would have enjoyed staying here had it been for vacation. I won't be seeing Marion for two weeks. Starting tomorrow until Wednesday, we will be having a whole day event (whole day means from 7AM until 11PM). We will be checking out on Wednesday and by that time, Marion is off to La Union, Davao, Ilocos and wherever. He'll be back in Manila on Sunday but on Monday, he'll be flying to Thailand for a training for one week. When he returns on the 23rd, I'll be flying to Cebu, Davao and wherever because we have to launch a special project. This made me realize that despite my fondness for travelling and staying in hotels, I dislike travelling and staying in hotels for work, even if it is free. I also realized how much time we (Marion and I) spent on work. Not that I'm being ungrateful -- it's just that I feel that business trips take away the fun in travelling. 

I wish I could smell the flowers more often. I'm starting to miss boyfie already.

Flashback Friday: Funny Conversations

Saw this blog from my other  ("private") Blogger account. This was posted when I was still in college. Lol. Need to post it here so I can reread this when I'm feeling down. Hahaha! I'm lucky to have a bunch of weird friends just like me:

I've been looking for reasons to smile since last week..Aside from the "dancing video" of my friends, these conversations I had with my favorite people never fail to make me smile..  Madami pa yan..Hindi ko lang maalala yung iba..


lovely: di nga vlad pano mo nakita yun?
me: hay naku sis.si vlad naman lahat nakikita niyan.
ox: o cge nga vlad anong kulay ng brief ko?
vlad: ha? wag ka nga magtanong ng wala.
(yown. nabuking tuloy na walang brief si ox. hahahaha! )

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narealize ko na pag naguguluhan ako sa mga bagay bagay, huwag akong magtatanong ng opinyon ng mga kaibigan ko..kasi MAS maguguluhan lang ako...

me: question. ano yung it dun sa sentence na "it is raining."
fay: hindi ba yung weather?
lovely: oh baka naman yung clouds..
ox: hmm. eh di ba pag raining, tubig yun. (ayan na. mas lalo na ko naguluhan)
me: ha? so ibig sabihin "the water is raining"? ano? (syempre nasabaw na ko.sinakyan ko naman yung sinabi ni ox. haha)
ox: oo diba.tapos pag "it is sunny", yung photons naman yun.kasi nga diba tubig yung component ng rain. tapos pag "it is cloudy", yung water vapor naman. (shocks..)
fay: ox..grabe..kawawa magiging anak mo..
vlad: eh pwede naman "today is raining" na lang. (ay humirit pa..)

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In our Stat 148 class...

ma'am cherry: this book has a heart. ineexplain niya lahat hindi katulad ng montgomery na puro computations na lang.
me: wow..may puso..
lovely: buti pa ang libro may puso..pero yung ibang tao.. (may pinaghuhugutan lang si lovely.. pero may point naman..haha)

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after not seing my bffs for a very looooooong time..

alexis: grabe patty ang slim mo pa din.
me: waah.onga.grabe..sobra ba? (duh.nagulat pa ko diba..haha)
alexis: hindi naman..carry mo naman ehh.
me: so ibig mong sabihin wag na ko magpataba?
kathy: ok lang naman yung payat mo. di ka naman mukhang di kumakain.saka di ka naman mukhang naghihirap. (so magpapataba lang ako pag mukha na kong naghihirap..hehe)

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kate: ang baho ko na. grabe. naamoy nyo na ba ko? may naamoy ba kayo?
me: ah.kaw ba yung mabaho? *wala sa sarili*
kate: leche ka! leche! (sorry na kate..)

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pagkatapos ang araw na puro examS:

me: hay. ano ba yan ang haggard ko na. mukha na kong basura.
vlad: ok lang yan. ganyan talaga. magtaka ka kung ako di nageexam tas mukha akong basura. eh ikaw nagexam ka naman kaya mukha kang basura. (sige na nga..payag na ko..ganun pala yun pag nageexam, nagmumukhang basura)

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on borrowing books..

me: pwede bang dalawa yung hiramin na book sa lib?
vlad: onaman. basta iipit mo yung isa dun sa isa.
me: ha?!
vlad: para magmukhang isa lang hihiramin mo.
me: takte.

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ox: grabe pala yung kamalasan ni fay. alam ko na nag solusyon diyan.(akala mo naman tunay..)
me: ano?
ox: pa feng shui natin yung tambayan para mawala yung bad elements. kita mo yung library, iniba nila itsura. madami sigurong nawala na diwey decimal
me: ha? anong diwey decimal?
fay: mali kasi pagbigkas mo ox!
me: diba dapat dewey decimal?
ox: mali kasi.. kayo ang mali. diwey decimal ang turo samin nung bata pa kami. (fine.kami na ni fay ang mali.)

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after ko magtanong kay lovely kung sino sa dalawang girlaloo ang mas maganda..

me: grabe sis..feeling ko natitibo na ko..but no..hindi pwede haha!
lovely: okay lang yun sis..feeling ko nga kung naging lalake ako, manyak ako eh. (nawindang ako sa sinabi ni love..)

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ox: grabe ka patch. mukha ka talagang magri-ribbon cutting. san ba kasi ribbon cutting?
me: ewan ko sayo.
ox: hindi nga. san nga ribbon cutting?
(ignoring ox.)
me: carlou, di ba tayo mag job fair ngayon?
carlou: mag jobfair.tara na!
me: eh sila di ba sila sasama mag-ribbon cutting? (yan tuloooooy.kasi namaaaan.)
carlou: HAHAHAHAHA! cge tara magribbon cutting na tayo.

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while walking along Pedro Gil Avenue..

annie: pasok tayo UP Manila. mamamatay tayo dito.
me: onga eh. grabe. tara.
annie: masaya ka ba sa UPD?

me:ok lang..nakakatakot din umuwi ng gabi dun eh.. (sympre ang layo ng sagot ko sa tanong niya..hehe)
annie: onga..putek..parang gubat dun eh..magugulat ka na lng may bglang hahablot sayo.
me: haha dito din naman ah..scary..
annie: at least dito pag namatay ka, maraming witness..eh dun wala..(sabagay...haha..may point)

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kwentong bayan no. 1:

ox: nagusap kami ni **** sa lib. binigay ko kasi yung handouts sa 46. sabi ko "eto na pala yung handouts namin. sorry kung late nabigay"
me: tapos?
ox: ayun..tas niloko nya ko na "ang aga ng handouts niyo ah"
me: o? tapos?
ox:  ayun..nagbiruan kami..
me: haha close na kayo ah..ikaw sis ha..
ox: tapos after namin magbiruan, niyakap ko siya..
me: ha?????? bakit may ganun????

pero syempre ilusyon lang lahat ni ox yan..hahaha..takte..

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kwentong bayan no. 2
sa Coffee Bean..

vlad: bakit kanina pa ba punta ng punta dito yan si kuya? (referring sa kuya barista na crush ko )
me: medyo.. kasi diba nga may nagalit na ale kanina..tas tinatanong niya kami ni lovely kung okay daw yung internet connection namin..
vlad: o tapos?
me: yun..eh okay naman net namin..nakaconnect naman kami..yung ale lang yung hindi..tas tinatanong nya din kami kung gusto namin lumipat ng pwesto..ang init kasi sa pwesto namin kanina..
vlad: tapos? lumipat kayo?
me: hindi..nakasaksak kasi laptop namin eh..ayun..tapos tinanong niya kung may gusto daw kaming additional order..
vlad: o?
me: yup..tas ayun..tinanong niya ko kung gusto ko daw magdinner after ko gumawa ng paper..tas ayun niyakap niya ko..
vlad: ha??????
me: haha joke lang..walang ganun..