Someone asked me last Sunday..what was the best gift you got for your bday? Without thinking I said having my friends come to my parties(yes it's plural) was the best.. and of course always having my family here by my side... I turned 30 this year and I had three parties already and we still plan to get it going until the end of my birth month hehehe..
Party #1: I Kicked off the weekend before my birthday with a party at Rage(my favorite place to dance).. We had Jaysson, Zair, Chelle, Layka(sp? chelle's friend), Jason, Allen, Irwin(allen's friend), Sarah, Abbey(sarah's friend), Apple, Bingle(Apple's bf) and a few of Sarah's friends join us in dancing the night away.. thanks guys I had a blast dancing my feet off and watching people dance *wink wink*.. and thank you Jason for not being too drunk and kissing everyone again hahaha... opppsss... Allen thank you for the very special appearance, I didn't know you were a good dancer.. we should go out more and practice those dancing shoes.. bwahhaha... Zair stop being so magnetic, she got too many guys milling around her ALL the time bwahhaa.. too bad she doesn't care bwahahha.. she just wants to dance too hehehe.. thanks guys I love going out with you.... I took the day off for my birthday... I wanted to get away from everyone and everything.. I wanted to just spend the day at the beach, by myself.. when suddenly the perfect 80 degree beach weather started to become 65 exactly on my bday.. yeah it never was sunny on my bday.. there is either rain or clouds, yes we used to toss a chicken's egg outside just to make sure what the weather would be like before we set up stuff outside(a whole yolk meant sun, a broken one meant rain), and there would be usually rain whatever the outcome is hahaha.. anyway so there I was shivering to death in bed, waiting for the sun to come out... when jun said we were going to have bfast with his dad, gilbert, matthew, jonathan and my goddaughter eliza mae.. and then they all decided to come with us to the beach.. yay!!!! I know I decided being alone on a freakishly cold, dreary morning on a beach alone was not a good idea.. if there was sun that was another story.... anyway so there we had bfast at micky D's and off to the beach we went.. we met up with my brother John Ray on the way there and he had fun with the kids too as much as I did... after that I decided to grab my stuff and go to the gym but fatigue got the better of me and I succumbed to the calling of the mattress hahaha.. I slept until it was time to have dinner... which I wanted not to do anymore coz I was so tired running after and carrying Jonathan hahhaa.. I love that kid...
(Suprise!) Party #2: A few of my friends surprised me on my exact bday..yay! Yeah mads, asking me where I was going for the night didn't work as a ruse to keep me off track =P mwehehe... anyway Tins, Mads, Paul - thanks for the strawberry pie(yummy), wish you could have shared it with us...and Apple and Bingle - thanks for the Sansrival(drool drool drool) joined us for a dinner with the family at Buca de Beppo... I always wanted to go there and yay I got to do it on my birthday.. finally! and it was good.. we ordered chicken alfredo pasta with red bell pepper and broccolli(sp?), spaghetti with meat sauce, and a big mushroom pizza with spicy sausage.. yummmyy.. i ate too much, more that I should have but it's my bday and I was going to the gym the next day hehehe so there you go yay!!!! thank you guys for coming!!!
Party #3: We went camping yay!!! I love being outdoors.. yeah even in freakishly 65 degree weather with high freaking winds that sounded like a storm outside our tent bwahhaa... We went biking in santa barbara with Jun, Mads, her mom, Zair(yes we are adopting the Cuala sisters all 3 of them that are in L.A. bwahhaa), My parents, my brothers John and Ralph and my lola which if you add us all together would be 9.. That was the maximum amount of people one crazy bike could take bwahhaa... Pedalling to make it move was always a challenge when we had to stop.. I could just imagine how jun maneuvers it around with all 9 of us heavy piggies riding on it bwahhaa... after that we went back to the camp ground to cook more food and eat, which by that time Jaysson, Chelle and Sarah was able to join us.. omg it was the most fun I had with people doing a photoshoot..we jumped, ran, lay down, posed, smiled and laughed until our sides hurt... that was the best exercise every bwahhaa... thanks guys...and thanks to my mom for taking all the pictures.. without you there would be no photo shoot bwahhaa... Apple and Bingle joined us that night but it was too cold to stay out and make a bonfire.. yes we crouched into the tent at 9 I think to grab as much sleep as we can, coz we were so tired of the photo shoot and the biking combined hahaha.. the next day was brighter, more sunny and less windy.. which was good for more photo shoot yay.. hahaha.. then we went to Ostrich Land( they don't sever ostrich burgers anymore and fried ostrich eggs) and Solvang(for some DAN-ISH {according to my dad} stuff hehehe..).. We ate the the Little Mermaid restaurant and everything was good..yummy.. A few of us had the combination danish sausage and meatballs with Mashed Potatoes and gravy and the others had the Danish steak which was soft, tender and very yummy.... from there we went to the bakery and bought some goodies.. I hope the day would never end hehehe... anyway so there it is my bday in a nutshell... for now hehehe...
Monday, April 21, 2008
Friday, April 11, 2008
Disturbing
I was looking through friends' friendster profiles and I was reading on their favorite musicians and stuff and I came across KD's profile that read Marie Digby's version of Umbrella. I knew I heard that name before so I decided to investigate again hehehe..
I was reading through her blogs and it's disturbing to learn that a girl as beautiful as her would be one of those that was ignored and rejected all the time by her peers. You can feel the pain in her song Miss Invisible and I think that it's just sad that kids experience this very early on in life. I know that I wasn't one of the popular kids in high school, i was a transferee too, but at least I had a few people I could call friends. I could say that I have one that I clicked with every year that I changed sections. We had fun all the time I'm still in touch with a few of them 'til now. I always thought that the beautiful girls had it built for them, you know they are popular, liked by everyone. But maybe there is that issue of race. We were lucky to land in L.A. and have my brothers go to a school where there were alot of Filipino kids. The school was so diversified that I think we could make the United Colors of Benetton commercial just with one classroom hehehe... Anyway people should never be judged according to race, color or how they look. I just find it distrubing that this so called free nation that's supposed to have a free society and have an open mind would have people reject each other at such a young age. Ok I know it's not only happening here, there is a reason why there are popular and not so popular kids but It's just sad that kids reject each other, when all they should be doing is having fun...
I was reading through her blogs and it's disturbing to learn that a girl as beautiful as her would be one of those that was ignored and rejected all the time by her peers. You can feel the pain in her song Miss Invisible and I think that it's just sad that kids experience this very early on in life. I know that I wasn't one of the popular kids in high school, i was a transferee too, but at least I had a few people I could call friends. I could say that I have one that I clicked with every year that I changed sections. We had fun all the time I'm still in touch with a few of them 'til now. I always thought that the beautiful girls had it built for them, you know they are popular, liked by everyone. But maybe there is that issue of race. We were lucky to land in L.A. and have my brothers go to a school where there were alot of Filipino kids. The school was so diversified that I think we could make the United Colors of Benetton commercial just with one classroom hehehe... Anyway people should never be judged according to race, color or how they look. I just find it distrubing that this so called free nation that's supposed to have a free society and have an open mind would have people reject each other at such a young age. Ok I know it's not only happening here, there is a reason why there are popular and not so popular kids but It's just sad that kids reject each other, when all they should be doing is having fun...
Tuesday, April 1, 2008
When is it time to shut your mouth
Question for the day: When is it time to shut your mouth?
When you feel like you've been run over by a steam roller at work and your boss calls you ten thousand times a day and piles work on your table again and again and again and asks you why the paper on his hand says this and that, do you just sit there and take everything? I've been in this office almost 7 years already and in that 7 years I can say that I have been able to practice temperance, diligence, patience, kindness and humility among the 7 virtues. It takes all of these virtues to deal with my boss every single day, but through the years I have mustered enough courage to speak up and scream as loud as I can, which is an exageration, but I learned to fight fire with fire and so far it has worked. Just yesterday one of our customers was sick, I know it was mean to tell him to go home and rest 'coz I don't want to be sick, guess what he said "shut the fuck up Ollie!" which was a joke but if I were my old sensitive self I'd have cowered and cried, but being me who I am today I told him to "shut the fuck up" too, an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth.. =).. Sometimes I think that I open my mouth too much though coz now my boss was telling me " are you upset with me or something?", I just told him that I was doing something when he gave me something else to do and now he wants me to explain why the amounts on the papers in his hand are the way they are, I'm not upset, just let me finish what I'm doing right now first, then I will answer your questions... this is not the right time to shut your mouth...
When you are in a line going to the movies, not the library, museum or church, and rude people stare you down like you have some disease they could catch just because you are talking, should you shut your mouth? When you boss mutters something under his breath and you know that it's not something good, should you shut your mouth? when some idiot tries to be rude to you trying to speak in their language when you've insisted you don't understand, cut in line or bitch at you in a different language, should you shut your mouth? I don't, I learned to curse them with my native language, yes, being a Filipino and speaking the native language has alot of positive attributes. Most of our fellow countrymen want to be as American as possible, but me no, I love being a Filipino, oh but that would be another blog. Going back to my topic, just because we don't understand them doesn't mean they can go around bitching and cursing us, I can do that too, I know 2 different languages.. so there you go, NO I won't shut my mouth...
I'm so used to talking back at nasty people behind their back, or maybe in front of them in my native language just because I can and I think I'm getting used to being as nasty as they are, which I think will get me in trouble when I go back home, probably get me beaten up coz everybody there will understand what I'm saying hahaha.. I know this is not a laughing matter but think about it when someone crosses you and you know they said something bad for everyone to hear, do you hold your tounge in check and just let it pass? I have learned to do that at times but when they've crossed the line, I just let them get it too. I know I should start practicing restraint not only coz I plan to go back home soon(I don't want to get beaten or my hair pulled hahaha), but when I get out of this job I want to be the old me who is patient and can tolerate anything, not just too much. Now it is time to shut my mouth....
When is being frank a good thing and a bad thing. It is bad when too much information is said and it hurts the person,either it's not true or they're not ready to hear it, or it's not what they want to hear. It is good when too much information is said and it hurts the person because it's the truth and even though it hurts they should hear it anyway. In the 30 years I have been on this earth I can say that I would rather hear the truth(which usually hurts) than something I want to hear covered in lies and deceit. It's funny that I'd rather be in pain for the time being than wait and carry on a relationship or a friendship that would turn out painful any which way you look at it. Having lived here in this liberated country for the past 7 years I can say that I picked up the good and the bad, but most of all I learned to open my mouth and not just sit there and be a ragdoll. Looking back, I would rather have had my friends tell me I was a bitch when I was and tell me the truth than tell me what I wanted to hear, yes, I can be scary but not telling me the truth makes me more mad than I'm supposed to be, and yes, it will hurt and yes, I can and will recover, I just need time. Having said this I am warning everyone that this is who I am, I am frank-er than I used to be and I will say what I want. I changed, I think for the better but not because I'm boastful or because I'm full of air, this is life and I learned to deal with it and this is Ollie, all grown up, deal with it. No I will never shut my mouth...
When you feel like you've been run over by a steam roller at work and your boss calls you ten thousand times a day and piles work on your table again and again and again and asks you why the paper on his hand says this and that, do you just sit there and take everything? I've been in this office almost 7 years already and in that 7 years I can say that I have been able to practice temperance, diligence, patience, kindness and humility among the 7 virtues. It takes all of these virtues to deal with my boss every single day, but through the years I have mustered enough courage to speak up and scream as loud as I can, which is an exageration, but I learned to fight fire with fire and so far it has worked. Just yesterday one of our customers was sick, I know it was mean to tell him to go home and rest 'coz I don't want to be sick, guess what he said "shut the fuck up Ollie!" which was a joke but if I were my old sensitive self I'd have cowered and cried, but being me who I am today I told him to "shut the fuck up" too, an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth.. =).. Sometimes I think that I open my mouth too much though coz now my boss was telling me " are you upset with me or something?", I just told him that I was doing something when he gave me something else to do and now he wants me to explain why the amounts on the papers in his hand are the way they are, I'm not upset, just let me finish what I'm doing right now first, then I will answer your questions... this is not the right time to shut your mouth...
When you are in a line going to the movies, not the library, museum or church, and rude people stare you down like you have some disease they could catch just because you are talking, should you shut your mouth? When you boss mutters something under his breath and you know that it's not something good, should you shut your mouth? when some idiot tries to be rude to you trying to speak in their language when you've insisted you don't understand, cut in line or bitch at you in a different language, should you shut your mouth? I don't, I learned to curse them with my native language, yes, being a Filipino and speaking the native language has alot of positive attributes. Most of our fellow countrymen want to be as American as possible, but me no, I love being a Filipino, oh but that would be another blog. Going back to my topic, just because we don't understand them doesn't mean they can go around bitching and cursing us, I can do that too, I know 2 different languages.. so there you go, NO I won't shut my mouth...
I'm so used to talking back at nasty people behind their back, or maybe in front of them in my native language just because I can and I think I'm getting used to being as nasty as they are, which I think will get me in trouble when I go back home, probably get me beaten up coz everybody there will understand what I'm saying hahaha.. I know this is not a laughing matter but think about it when someone crosses you and you know they said something bad for everyone to hear, do you hold your tounge in check and just let it pass? I have learned to do that at times but when they've crossed the line, I just let them get it too. I know I should start practicing restraint not only coz I plan to go back home soon(I don't want to get beaten or my hair pulled hahaha), but when I get out of this job I want to be the old me who is patient and can tolerate anything, not just too much. Now it is time to shut my mouth....
When is being frank a good thing and a bad thing. It is bad when too much information is said and it hurts the person,either it's not true or they're not ready to hear it, or it's not what they want to hear. It is good when too much information is said and it hurts the person because it's the truth and even though it hurts they should hear it anyway. In the 30 years I have been on this earth I can say that I would rather hear the truth(which usually hurts) than something I want to hear covered in lies and deceit. It's funny that I'd rather be in pain for the time being than wait and carry on a relationship or a friendship that would turn out painful any which way you look at it. Having lived here in this liberated country for the past 7 years I can say that I picked up the good and the bad, but most of all I learned to open my mouth and not just sit there and be a ragdoll. Looking back, I would rather have had my friends tell me I was a bitch when I was and tell me the truth than tell me what I wanted to hear, yes, I can be scary but not telling me the truth makes me more mad than I'm supposed to be, and yes, it will hurt and yes, I can and will recover, I just need time. Having said this I am warning everyone that this is who I am, I am frank-er than I used to be and I will say what I want. I changed, I think for the better but not because I'm boastful or because I'm full of air, this is life and I learned to deal with it and this is Ollie, all grown up, deal with it. No I will never shut my mouth...
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