wi-fi baby

Guess what? i found a wi-fi connection in my room....i'm sooo lucky.

Sometimes,i still feel like i'm in a dream

questions?

what comes to mind if you hear the word filipino?

what is the identity of a pinoy?

I shared some inputs and outputs about our beloved country...i cannot really paint a pretty picture,but hopefully i left some good and strong impressions.

I really have to let go......of what? of many things.......sometimes,stuff sticks like mighty bond,it takes awhile before the mark goes away.

updates

Thanks for all the suggestions on the eggplant ...people...i made it into a pasta dish,since we don't have rice and it's not yummy to eat them without it.

I tried making adobo,my american friends loved it!! hehehe

so what's been happening?

• school has started,we are 28 in a class with 15 nationalities...just from them,I learned a lot already. Made me realize that we are not at all different with them at all....my problems are their problems as well....they are just tall, blond and blue eyed!!
• This is definitely a very exciting year. I am preparing myself to work hard. All projects and papers are individually done,with 2 individual reports at the end of season and end of theme.
• The mode of teaching is way different from Manila,we are not spoon fed.The teachers are very open,students are also very open to voice out anything..... and this exchange of "ideas" ....i find really interesting.
• i'll post some more photos soon!!!

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let´s see......

I.......

• painted walls of the studio and the darkroom
• Washed the floors and mopped them
• carried shelves,tables and other heavy and light junk
• have been at it for 3 days now

I´m so hungry

whoooooooooooo.......they have almost 4 hours of siesta,they eat luch at 2 pm,supper at 9pm......crazy,but i´ll get used to it.

We have been cooking our own dinner,so far we are doing great! any idea how to cook my eggplant?

yah yah yah!!!

The sign of our school,it's located at the Sants area,very very peaceful city,very quiet.
This is Echo,my flatmate,finally after working hard the whole day,we could now check our mail and chat with friends.
This is the courtyard of the school,it is where the students hangout to smoke and make chitchats. This is the small library where there is wi-fi,echo there with her computer.
We have a small pantry where we could get a cup of strong brewed coffee,on the otherside is the photo copying machine.

Here is how our private area looks like. We would all have our small space where we could do our work.


School starts this Monday,i'm so excited.

Why everything is still like a dream:

1. new smell,new sounds,new surroundings....it's still very overwhelming.

2. I earned money by cleaning toilets,washing floors and sweeping hallways.......

3. I do my laundry, plan my day, cook my meals.....

4. passing by the Gaudi Cathedral everyday........no words could describe how i feel everytime I see the magnificent structure.

5. I see jaime de zobel de ayala de leche.....everywhere...even the street sweeper.

6. DANG!

here we GO!

the small reading nook..our flat owner loves to read..she owns a resto that has been written in THE TIMES magazine..how cool is that?
this is the computer area before the entrance door.....it's a pretty big space
look at this ceiling..it's the vaulted ceiling of our living/dining room/....a nice old feel
My bedroom...that's my bed,it's a queensize bed
this is the small TV area
this is part of my bedroom,it's almost as big as my room in MAnila..i have blue shutters.


Hola! greetings from Spain.


Finally after a tiring long flight I arrived safely in Spain. I got to Barcelona around 11:30 nearing midnight. Unfortunately the taxi driver dropped me off the wrong flat,so came my worst nightmare.."i'm lost". I'm just so lucky that Filipinos are everywhere,never been happy to see one! I met Frank,he was so nice to accompnay me til I met Echo,my flatmate who arrived that same day.

It's still very surreal....I'm already in Barcelona. I live in a small district of Barri Gotico. It's located in the city center,near las ramblas where every Spanish and Catalan take their walk. I live near Gaudi's Cathedral and could hear the church chimes every hour. Barcelona is a very diverse country,here you'll see all sorts of people in different races. It's just funny that everywhere i look i'd see "tisoys" and "tisays"..nice change. They also have a way with fashion,very chicck and updated,very different from the "asian-japanese/korean look"


Note: My district looks a lot like intramuros

Since I'm leaving

Dad and mom fixed a despedida dinner for me last night. A fun get together with my family and some close friends. In my whole existence, I felt that with the love and care everyone has for me,I could not ask for more. I have so many people to thank for. I've been really blessed and from the bottom of my heart, many "thank you's" would not be enough to express how I feel.

pala-isipan

Current events determines the outcome of what may happen. But at the niche of time like a blink of an eye,our predictions rarely happens. Here are some examples of what I mean.

Examples of events in my life whose outcomes i never thought would occur,given the present circumstances which I felt so secure about.

• nourishing a long relationship that I thought would somehow lead to "a happy ending partnership" would turn out to be a test of character,pride and a realization that everything indeed happens for a reason no matter how bad it may seem.

• losing a bestfriend through cancer turns out to be tougher than I thought. Instead of wanting to die with her,it made me a better person, so that I could be with her when my time comes. It made me treasure my friends more than I thought I would.

• meeting a new friend or reuniting with old ones could give you that extra energy to appreciate life's little events and making you look forward to more events like these.

• Even how pissed you are with pesky sisters,a nosy brother,nagging mom and srtict dad it turns out that these are the traits that makes you love and appreciate them more.

• goals,careers,how much you earn or how "many" you own does not really matter anymore. What's important to me now is to to live each day as fruitfully as if it were my last and grab the opportunities that comes to prepare me for what i will be in the future.
  

crap crap

I CANNOT PLEASE EVERYONE.......THE END

letting go

and to let go.......

Reality Bites

Eisselle's death anniversary and my own "yah! I'm glad it happened, damn it!" anniversary is fast approaching. Every year seems to speed up double time.

Hopefully it would be a a slow brew for me next year. I just want to savor everything that is about to happen...... Hopefully everything to my good taste....yaaahhhhh hopefully....

Let me tell you how numb I've been this week.

1. I don't really listen to my clients anymore.
2. I say yes to their every demand.
3. I have "floating spree" once in awhile
4. I just do my "chores" quickly not giving any shit about it.
5. I'm so hyper even a sprained ankle cannot stop me from running.
6. This is insane.....but maybe it's just the "going away jitters.....I'M COUNTING DOWN THE DAYS.

Reality Check:

1. Everyone is getting married
2. most are pregnant
3. baby showers are "in" thing
4. My friends literally talk about diapers and breastfeeding
5. Despedida dinners weekly.... including mine
   

Gosh...am I getting old or what..then again,..AGE IS JUST A NUMBER.