Proof of Life

So, just keeping this blog alive :)

Short recap for this year to date:

Trip to El Nido, Palawan - 3rd Week of January

Family trip to Bali, Indoneais to celebrate my mom's 75th Birthday - last week of January

First day ib Drayton Valley, Alberta - March 1, 2024

Canmore, Alberta

Lake Louise, Alberta

Experienced Aurora Borealis just outside of our house

Fall season at the park

Check bucket list - Niagara Falls, Ontario - October 2024

First snowfall today - November 5, 2024

 

Twenty Years Ago

 

My first post in this blog was almost twenty years ago, and here I am now, rediscovering my passion for writing :)

Spam from me :)

So I got a notif from Google that one of my blogs is a spam. Awwww, I wished it was a literal spam haha. It's my first attempt for a travel blog since I started traveling (wow, traveller ang peg) but since all it contains were pictures (but all mine) maybe that's why they flagged it as spam.

It's all about my first solo trip to Bicol. Here's the link of the photos in my FB albums Majestic Mayon.

Should it be restored, I'll post my first trip to Boracauy with my mom and JM and followed by my first trip (soon) to Palawan.

Thinking (Again)

In my last post seven months ago (yeah, that long huh!), I was crushing on someone that left me thinking if I should profess it. It seemed my crushed has gone deeper, and an advice from my feng shui master, not to profess it as it might change the order of the universe (well, my universe only haha).

Okay, so I am not crushing anymore but falling in love but since I have been given warnings and as I get to know this person, I can put a lid on it. Heck, I realized, I am not ready to be responsible for another person, to care for this person, spend my time, effort, money etc. Wag na muna, gastos lang yan hahaha.

Thinking

The past weeks, I have been in an infatuation, crushing on someone I know but unattainable. If only I am younger... if only I look like when I was 25, I would be more confident and out there, more aggressive to get what I want. Oh well, life moves on and so must I.

Btw, just this week I heard news about someone dying, one a relative and another, a favorite Hollywood actor of mine. Really, life is too short, I might need to dig deep, find my guts and profess my love to this crush of mine...or not :)

My (Gay) Love Story

I never knew you were gay.

Akala ko, barkada lang tayo. Nakakatuwa nga ng tinanggap mo akong maging kaibigan sa kabila ng preference ko. Hmmm, dapat pala clue na yun no? I mean, may straight na lalaki ba na makikipagbarkada sa hindi straight?

Pero high school pa naman kasi tayo nun eh, so hindi pa ako ganun kahalata. Siguro type mo na ako nun pa no? Kasi never naman kita naging kaklase, saka bakit naman ako makikipagkaibigan sa yo, wala naman tayong something in common.

Lagi mo akong pinapansin. Hindi ko naman binigyan ng malisya yun aksi nga friendly naman ako.

Fast forward 20 years.

Out of the blue, minessage mo ako sa Facebook. Oo naman kilala pa kita. Kakatuwa nga na hinanap mo pa talaga ako sa Facebook para makuha number ko.

Ayan, tinetext text mo na ako. Tapos tinanong mo kung duon pa rin ako nakatira. Nung sinabi kong oo, aba nung weekend na yun, pinuntahan mo agad ako...

Kwentuhan, reminiscing old times.

At nung nagpaalam ka, I was just going to shake your hands pero anong ginawa mo?

Ninakawan mo ako ng halik.

At dyan nagsimula ang ating love story...

This Blog is 10 Years Old - OMG!!!

Ten years na pala akong luka-luka hahaha

Fifty Shades of Sex (err Grey)

I finished reading this last night. Truth be told, I am not a fan of fiction, I am a hard-core science fiction and fantasy reader. I got intrigued into reading this trilogy when I saw the movie's trailer. I am more of a book than movie, so I downloaded an e-book copy, and plowed to the story of Anastasia and Christian.

If you removed all the sex scenes in the plot, these three novels could be a short story of around 50 or so pages.

Okay, I liked it, albeit the sex scenes. I jumped ahead whenever Anastasia and Christian were doing it. Not because I find BDSM gross but for me, sex is sex. So what do I like about the novel(s)?

I find the characters well fleshed out. Though I give benefit of a doubt to how rich people acts (how would I know, I am not rich hahaha) but the emotional baggage they each have is enough to convince me to believe the way they act as they do.

What else?

I liked the way I imagine Christian to be hahaha.

I come to ask myself, is there such a thing as fifty shades? I am not that particular to shades. For me, black is black, white is white or blue. I guess I believe more on layers? People are like onions that you need to peel like at the end, either you cry at what you will find out or you carry-off your onion skin :)

Unfinished Business

I cooked this last night for today's lunch, oatmeal topped with coco jam to give flavor.  I know, still not healthy with all the sweets on top but oatmeal is so bland!

I really thought I can finish this but looks like this is just the best I can do.

Just like in life, there are fights that you go through the end and there are those that since you know is pointless, you would not go through at all. Just like today. And I am not just talking about my lunch here.

:(

Crush Crushed

Feelings I realized today:

1. the more you like a person, the greater that person's effect on you, positively or negatively
2. it is easier to fall in love than fall out of love
3. it is easier to break-up than to move on
4. you can only do so much, there are things beyond your control. No matter how much you care for that person, if that person does not feel the same way, tablado ka, iiyak mo na lang
5.  there are people you like that do not like you, the same way that there are people who like you that you do not like and people you like that like somebody else and that like you but of course you like somebody shet, nalito ako dun pero I'm sure may nakaintindi naman ng point ko

I'll add more if ever mainis na naman ako sa maghapon ko :)

It's Thursday, my most favorite day of the week...

PS - napaka-unrelated ng topic ko sa content hahahaha

I am back!

It seems I created a Ver2 of this blog: windsofchangever2.blogspot.com. Will be writing there as well :)

This blog is my personal blog, my online diary which my facebook will reflect :)

The other one will be about my learnings.

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