Time for a change

“Flo, mag-dula pa ka ug dance revo pag 30s na ta?(Flo, will you still play dance revo when you’re in your 30’s?)”My friend Cherry asked me as we just finished 3 rounds of DDR at Timezone. “ Siyempre! (Of course!)” was my instant reply.
I was feeling a bit sad when we parted ways because who knows when we will see each other again. She’ll be back to Manila this Saturday and won’t be back here in our Davao not until next year. I remember way back in college when we used to spend time together almost daily. Mmmmm I’m feeling a bit sentimental right now. Not only because of missing college days , and working overtime and listening to Dreamsounds albums..but because I sense a change coming in. The wind is changing its course. There’s a slight shift in the planetary alignment. A giant hand is scrawling something in the stars. I might quit my job soon. Our boss told us that our team would be dissolved and we will be assigned at different areas individually. We will now report to the plantations since that’s where we are needed. This means that I won’t have easy access to the internet. I might actually have to work. I might have to sacrifice my studies. I have to wake up early. I have to travel regularly. And most importantly… I would be separated from my officemates whom I’ve worked closely for the last two years. I’m gonna miss them….miss my old routine..my boss…everything….change. I hate it. I have difficulty in dealing with it. I’m just thankful that some parts of me remained the same..like my passion for dance revo hehehe
Change is constant…inevitable..i might have to stop fighting it …for once…for a change.

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Masao

I've been hearing a lot of good thinsg about this beach at Masao,Mati, Davao Oriental so my friends and I decided to check it out last weekend. We stayed at Gregorio Resort, where they have floating cottages equipped with beddings, airconditioning and Videoke machines!!! The beach in the area is not really good for swimming because there are a lot of fishes, snorkeling maybe.I also saw my very first Tarsier. They're such cute tiny creatures, they're nice to look at but I wouldn't dare touch one coz...err...they're still rodents no matter how cute they are.I thought they only thrive at Bohol but the locals said that there are a lot of Tarsiers in their area.

Then we head off to Waniban Island to do the actual swimming. The beach is picture perfect. Clear blue waters. White sands.Isolated. Unpopulated.More pictures here.

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Sweet release

tears
borne of ache
fell from my eyes
streaked down my face
and gently died
on his lips

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Sporadic

10…13…10…6…4…2…

Nope these aren’t lotto numbers. These are the number of posts I have each month since March. The figures are almost the same with the dwindling number of blogmates visiting this site. The numbers are alarmingly decreasing. Gone were the days when I post twice a day about minute details of my life or sudden bouts of epiphany. And when I blog hop like there’s no tomorrow. When I used to be a comment whore. Nope, it’s not that blogging has lost its appeal to me. It’s just that I got really busy…yes I have nothing to offer but the usual excuse. I think the karmic thingy is now working its magic. I’m now finally paying off my idle days. I’m juggling work and studies and travel and then there’s this guy who has blown me away… ;)
I’ve been putting off writing a “blog hiatus mode” because I thought I could squeeze blogging in between my busy-ness. Even up to now, I still won’t post about having a hiatus. I’m still in a state of denial.
To those blogmates(I think there are still two left who visits my site)…I’ll try to post regularly and visit your blogs…soon.
For now..i’ll be posting…sporadically.

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I come with the rain

Hello world! It’s been awhile since I’ve been here. I haven’t been online much lately due to work,studies, re-reading HP 7 and chasing Hollywood stars LOLS I saw(read:stalked) Josh Hartnett at the Davao International Airport yesterday. Of course, it wasn’t mere chance. Despite, our busy schedule I manage to squeezed that one in. Josh was in Davao for a shoot at Diwalwal, Davao del Norte for his upcoming movie, I come with the rain to be shown next year. There weren’t much news about his scheduled shoot but as destiny would have it the car rental they were using was the same with the one we used in our company. And the driver has been updating us with the whereabouts of the shoot. My officemates and I actually planned to stalk him during his arrival at the airport last Thursday but we were still at South Cotabato :( so we decided to wait till his departure. Unfortunately, we were not able to get a clear shot of him because we froze and panicked when we saw him hahaha He had long hair and sported a beard…sooo ruggedly handsome! We only got a shot of his plane tickets since the driver was the one holding it hahaha very pathetic. Lucky for those who were at Diwalwal coz they were able to take closer pictures of him, even beside him. The people said that he was so down to earth and without-airs. I am now officially a fangirl!
P.S. Here's his pic which i got from the net...well just for inspiration ;)

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Long Live Harry Potter

Warning: Spoilers ahead

I just finished reading the 7th and last book of the Harry Potter Series, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. I have been highly anticipating this book,waited for two years for it's release. I was quite worried that I will run out of copy because I forgot to reserve one. The book was dued for release yesterday and I had classes so I asked my dad to grab me a copy.I explicitly asked him to be there at the opening of the nearest National Bookstore from our home at 10:00am and at 10:05am he sent me an sms that he had secured a copy :) I can't wait to go home but I still have classes til' 8:00 pm and then I had dinner with friends so I was not able to go home till 11:45pm last night. The moment I entered my room, I started reading but then after 30 minutes exhaustion took over and I drifted off to sleep. I woke up at 8:00 am this morning and started reading, only stopping for meals and a nap and almost relcutantly for a bath ;) My eyes were watering and I think my vision is now pemanently impaired but finally I was able to finish the book. Now I can start reading it...leisurely this time so I can absorb all the details and digest the words properly ;) The book is FANTASTIC! JK Rowling is a GENIUS! It is my favorite book on the series.

For me it was almost a given that Harry would have to kill Voldemort in the end. Good has to win over evil right? After all it is still a children's book. But what most readers are still speculating was whether Harry would die in the process? There was a time while reading the book that I almost wanted to stop because Harry was about to die...but thankfully, he didn't. But one wouldn't know about it till the end. Rowling made such a delightful twist in the story. The final battle scene between Harry and Voldemort was FABULOUS(any other words for fantastic?i'm running out of adjectives here ). There were a lot of unforgettable scenes in the book but what really cracked me up was when Mrs. Weasly exclaimed"Not my daughter, you bitch" to Bellatrix and then finished her off :D Rowling was also able to justify Dumbledore's death whom I was hoping was still alive.Tis sad that Moody,Fred,Lupin, Tonks,Dobby the house-elf and other characters died but oh well they were in the middle of the battle and there has to be casualties. I wished Fred didn't die though, he and George are my fave characters along with Peeves.

But what really saddens me is that,now that the Harry Potter series is over . . .what book will I obsess about now? :-/

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Covers

Like I posted a long2x time ago, I’ll be sharing some mp3s of music that I love. But laziness got the better of me thus I was not able to do it. Anyways, I stumbled upon this version of Rihanna’s ella…ella by Scott Simon (the music you’re hearing right now from my blog) and thought of sharing some music covers.
Lately I’m into music covers. Don’t get me wrong I love original music but good covers give an old song or even a new song a different twist. Covers offer us listeners a new sound to familiar songs. It allows music artists to give their own rendition of previously recorded song. Mostly songs by artist they look up to. Some popular bands also do covers of lesser known bands to help them out or pay them recognition.
There are albums by different bands covering up music from legends such as tributes to Depeche Mode, Beatles and Carpenters to name a few. However most covers aren’t included in the artist albums and only performed in concerts or shows so they’re quite hard to find but I found some ;) Here are some of my favorite cover songs that you can download here:

To Love Somebody(Bee Gees)-Billy Corgan
Can’t get you out of my head(Kylie Minogue)-Coldplay
Heart Shaped Box(Nirvana)-Evanescence
So Sick(Ne-yo)-Fall Out Boy
Numb(Linkin Park)-Jamelia
Turning Japanese(The Vapors)-Incubus
Maneater(Hall and Oates)-PATD
Sunday Bloody Sunday(U2)-Pearl Jam
Pieces of me(Ashlee Simpson)- Dunno who covered it but it’s good…way better than Ashlee
Pure Imagination(Gene Wilder)-Maroon 5
Bittersweet Symphony(The Verve)- Richard Ashcroft & Coldplay
Snow Patrol(Beyonce)-Snow Patrol
Since You’ve Been gone(Kelly Clarkson)-Ted Leo
The Scientist(Coldplay)-Natasha Bedingfield


Sometimes I like the cover versib more than the original just like the Umbrella song and also Bowling for Soup cover of Fergie’s London Bridge (I’ve only seen the vid…anyone who has an mp3 of it?)…the original versions are too upbeat. I’m actually not sure if I love the covers because they make some sort of mockery to the original version. I don’t know, maybe it’s just me J but if you listen to some punk bands cover then you’ll know what I mean. I’ll share some songs from the Punk goes Pop album, which covers songs from boy bands like N’Sync and Backstreet boys and girl groups. The versions are cool and guaranteed to make you smile…trust me. You can download it here. Various Punk bands actually have other albums such as Punk Goes 90’s, 80’s, acoustic..i’ll share them next time.

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Remembering the future

I’ve read somewhere that time, the past, present and future coexist. That parallel worlds exist in different dimensions. That sometimes our subconscious can sense the future that’s why we have déjà vu moments. And that space separates these times that it’s more apt to call it Space travel rather than Time travel. I guess Quantum Physics can explain this in further detail. Nope I didn’t get these info from a Quantum Physics book…I actually got it from reading fiction books whose title I already forgot but they have done research on these stuff. . . I guess. So, what I’m actually saying is that the things I’ve said are pure nonsense. >:)
I have experienced many déjà vu moments. Like going to a place for the first time but actually having that vague recollection that I’ve been there before. Or saying something or experiencing something and getting that feeling that it already happened before. I attribute this familiarity to having these experiences in my dreams. Most of my dreams I recall after it happened in real life. I also have dreams that I recall after waking up and then having them come true. Not the I-want-to-be-an-astronaut-when-I-grow-up kind of dreams. But sometimes when I wake up I have a slight recollection of the dream and it actually happens although not in the exact way I dreamed it. Mostly I would dream of random persons and the following day they will make some sort of contact. Example just last night I dreamed that I received an SMS …particularly a picture message from one of our supervisors Sir Nestor. He had never sent me any SMS before and I haven’t been in contact with him for quite sometime. Then when I woke up I received an SMS from my officemate asking me if Sir Nestor made a contact with me about his camera…because it was missing. Okay that was a bit vague right? And takes a lot of imagination to connect but please don’t rob away my belief that I have psychic abilities nyahaha I’m only half serious about my so called ability but I just find it weird how dreams find their way to reality. I really believe in the power of dreams and that it is a way for our subconscious to communicate with our conscious self. Or seeing the future through our subconscious level and then remembering the future. I make it a point to pay attention to my dreams and jot down things that I can recall about it and use it as a guide.Ok so I’m just half serious about being half serious on my psychic abilities. I’m actually serious about it. Here are more examples that I can recall.

I dreamed about a friend’s mother and then a week later I saw my friend and told her that I dreamed about her mother. She told me that her mother just got rushed to the hospital a few days before our meeting because of stroke.

I dreamed about my ex and that him wanting me back. It was 3 months after our breakup and we haven’t had contact since. Immediately the following day we met at a mall while I was having lunch and we talked. He never asked me back though #:-S

I have this recurring dream about a city being covered with water. A month later Leyte had another flashflood.

This is actually the first time that I’ve told anyone about it because I see it as pure coincidences and I’m afraid of being ridiculed. At least here I can delete derogatory comments hehehe Maybe this is a product of my obsession on Heroes..trying to make something extraordinary from the ordinary….oh well…

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