Waaaaaaw

Dear Paris,

You're next on my list. Naks rhyming. Hahahahaha!

TM Photoshoot

Yehessss. :) Next time, I'll try auditioning for a commercial. Hahaha!

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Everybody's either getting married or getting pregnant these days.... Hmmmmm... So, should I panic? Wahahahaha! #nevernamanakosumunodsauso #sabawthought


Hay, school stress... when will you end? I hate online classes.... It consumes a LOT of time.

21 Things You Need Before You’re Ready To Seriously Date by Sophie Martin

This is such a good read. :) 

1. Enough good friends around you that you a) have other people to spend your time with when you want to see people you care about and b) have a support system, should this relationship ever go south.

2. The comfort with your appearance to be naked, makeup-free, and completely casual without feeling like you want to peel your skin off every time your significant other sees you in your natural state.

3. Experience with people you definitely did not want to end up with, so that you know what it looks like much more clearly when someone is treating you well and making you feel good about yourself. (And you can turn away the losers before you waste any real time with them.)

4. The ability to meet, interact with, and impress (within reason) someone’s parents when the time comes.

5. Enough financial stability that you are not going to enter a relationship specifically to help you out with your expenses or give you the luxury of doing what you want. (And who knows, maybe you can even be the person doing the helping out if the need arises.)

6. A good idea of where you want to be, and what you want to be doing, in five years.

7. The ability to put your foot down on the things that are important to you in life early on, so that you know not to spend an entire long-term relationship trying to convince someone that they actually do want kids orlove to travel with you. No one deserves to be lured into a relationship with someone who was planning on trying to change them from the get-go.

8. Enough experiences in your life that felt satisfying, that you can look back on fondly without constantly torturing yourself over never having done things when you had the chance.

9. The closure with all of your exes that ensures you will never be having one of those terrible calls at two in the morning — on either side — where you tell each other that you’ve been thinking of each other and masochistically ask how the other one is doing.

10. The maturity to never again break up with someone in a shitty, disrespectful way, such as over a text message or by just dating someone else without telling them.

11. Enough people in your life — friends, family, authority figures — who can give you good advice when it comes to the difficult moments in your relationship. Because you will need them at one point or another if you want to make it work in the long-term.

12. Flexibility when it comes to having to potentially compromise for someone’s work constraints, or family emergencies, because you are no longer at the point in your life where you want to be making all of your choices completely selfishly.

13. The knowledge that fun, and change, and growth, do not suddenly end when you are in a relationship.

14. Security in your reasons for wanting to get into a relationship. (If you are just serial dating because you are profoundly afraid of being alone, it’s time for therapy, not another person to break up with in eight months.)

15. The desire to learn a lot of new things, and start to love food, music, culture, and hobbies that you’d never before even heard of.

16. A good amount of control over your random bursts of (very human) jealousy, because you don’t want to be the person who calls their significant other at four in the morning in tears because they forgot to text back one time.

17. A clear idea of the things you bring to a relationship, your value, and the reasons why someone would want to be dating you.

18. Standards. And boundaries. Firm ones.

19. Respect for the fact that the people you’re going to be dating are also going to (hopefully) have standards and boundaries. And the idea is to find the common ground between them, not to exclusively impose your own.

20. The ability to take care of yourself independently if you need to, because there may come a day, after a relationship, when you need to do it again.

21. The knowledge that, if someone is ever not treating you the way you deserve to be treated, you can leave. That a relationship ends as soon as you stop consenting to it, and self-preservation doesn’t make you a bad person. 

On parties at iba pa.

"Hindi lahat ng party masaya. May ibang hindi.." - Third Party

Lol. Yesterday, our club celebrated its Back-To-School Party to induct our new members and new set of officers. The party was a blast - kasabawan at its finest! San ka nakakita ng party na yung mga players ang nagdidikta sa game master ng gagawin?!? Hahaha! Such bullies! I really had fun - a much needed break from the stress I'm currently experiencing because of school. Below are some of the pictures taken during the parteyyy. I really looked harassed - fresh(?) from the school look.

Group picture :)

Induction of new members

Our hosts for the night - Jen and my beau :)

The party ended at 12 midnight but some of us decided to grab a coffee at Starbucks Mindanao Avenue. After a wonderful party with booze and lots of fooooodies, add the fact that it's already 1a.m., what do you expect - a very 'deep' conversation over coffee. We talked about baldness, testosterone, cheating, third parties and love. Below are some sabaw conversations:

Jhing to Tim: Ang ganda ng view dito.

Me: Grabe. Nagchecheck-out lang!

Jhing: Hindi no. Ang ganda ng view kasi nagrereflect sa ulo ni Tim yung ilaw. Hahaha!

Tim: Ah oonga. Dito rin sa view ko. Ang liwanag. Nagrereflect din sayo yung ilaw.

Jacques: Antayin natin si Third. Pagdating nya ang liwaliwanag na talaga. Hahaha! Kanina dim lights dito sa Starbucks eh. Nung pumasok tayo mejo lumiwanag.

Tim to Jhing: Pero pare kelan ka pa nagsimula mawalan ng buhok?

Jhing: Nagstart nung 35 ako. Ikaw ba? Ilan taon ka na?

Tim: 25.

Jhing: 25 ka pa lang?!?!

Jacques: Haha! ang yabang mo Tim. 25 ka pa lang pala. at least si Jhing okay lang na mawalan ng buhok. At least he had his time. Mga ganyang edad, makapal pa buhok nya.

Marion: Grabe. Buti pa ko *sabay himas sa buhok nya*

Jacques: Ang yabang mo Marion. Sige ka magantay-antay ka na lang. Kita mo oh mejo tumataas na rin hairline mo.

Third interrupts the conversation.

Third: Sabi kasi nila pag madali mawalan ng buhok sa lalake, mas marami siyang testosterone.

All: Weh????

Third: De. It's according to science blah blah blah

Me: Eto si Third, dinadaan tayo sa confidence sa pagsasalita nya para maniwala tayo sa pinagsasabi nya.

Allie: Eh ano ibig ba sabihin kung mas maraming testosterone yung lalake?

Tim: Ibig sabihin mas lalakeng lalake sya.

Allie: Huh?? So ibig sabihin pag mabuhok, baog???

All: Wahahahahaha!

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We asked one of our new members why he joined Toastmasters:

Jacques: So bakit ka sumali ng Toastmasters?

Tim: Anong gusto nyong sagot? Honest truth?

Jacques: Hindi. Gusto namin yung honest lie.

Me: Hahahaha! So bakit nga?

Tim: Hmmm.. kasi kakabreak ko lang kasi sa girlfriend ko nun..

Jacques: Yown. Tissue.

Marion: So bakit kayo nagbreak?

Tim: Niloko nya ko eh..

Marion's eyes twinkle.

Me: Yown. May makakarelate dito.

Marion: Ay sabi na pare. Ano yan nakita mo mismo yung guy o umamin yung girl sayo?

Tim starts telling his story. And yun, best of friends na sila ni Marion. Hahaha!

Marion: Ako rin dati na-third party eh... Pero nung nagToastmasters ako, nakilala ko naman si Patty. So okay lang yan pare. Ganyan talaga buhay.

---Wow. That statement actually made me blush. Yay.

It's super nice to have a laid-back moments with these people. The sabaw conversations turned to more serious and really deep conversations until the clock turned two. :)

To my eternal sunshine,

God has a perfect plan for each and everyone of us. Most of the the time we dwell on the past not knowing what lies ahead of us but if we are patient enough, we will then realize that the best is yet to come

It's been a year. :)