MMMiii!

This post is actually late already. The rainy season started a couple of weeks ago but since it’s the BER months already, I’m expecting more rain. Rain is nice. It’s cool. It’s not so hot. I don’t need to make a makeshift dehumidifier because it’s so hard to breathe in the heat and humidity. The air is humid but at least it’s not so hot (most of the time).

To be honest, I love the rain. It makes the temperature comfortable. But I also hate the rain because it brings floods and what not. Also, I’m currently too lazy to get new shoes so when it rains my socks get wet because my shoes has leaks. Just yesterday rainwater got inside the house. Note: Rain Water. Not water from the streets. Our house has too many leaks that it floods inside.

I would like to leave this place soon.

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There’s this grocery store near my place that I like going to because it has all kinds of promotional sales (i.e. products that are about to expire go on 50% discount, like mayonnaise or jam or pickles) and there are also a lot of products there that are relatively cheap. I’m talking about Hi-Top along Aurora Ave, Quezon City. Their floor space is probably about the same or even a bit bigger than the SM Savemore branches I’ve been to.

My favorite mints are these Wrigley’s Doublemint Sugarfree mints. I like all three flavors — Peppermint, Spearmint, and Winterfrost. My favorite would probably be Peppermint. It only costs P68 in Hi-Top. I think it’s like P78 in SM Groceries (I’m not sure. I just know it’s more expensive there) and P100 in 7-11 stores.

Aside from the low prices in Hi-Top, I’m amazed at the cashiers. From the picture above, you can see that the price sticker covers the barcode. Yes-you won’t get an itemized receipt from them. Only the prices and what their general category is. Most big groceries now use barcode scanners like the Symbol LS2208. Heck, even the smaller groceries near Hi-Top, the two Anson’s Supermarkets, use barcode scanners.

This doesn’t mean that the cashiers are very slow with punching in the numbers for each item. Probably because they’re veterans at this, they’re actually pretty fast. Even though I’m fond of watching them punch the prices all the time, I still wish that they’d upgrade a bit (without jacking up their prices) for the sake of the cashiers and customers (who like to keep track of what they bought). I’m pretty sure they can do this upgrade. I’m not sure if the other branches already use the barcode system.

I really like having a record of what I bought. Obviously, some people value this too. When we went to El Nido, Palawan, where electricity is rationed, the big groceries store there have the “cashiers” writing down each item on a sheet of paper, probably as official receipts. It was pretty amazing, although it’s probably for the other people who have their own smaller stores in the town. … But still!!! watching the two young ladies writing like crazy each item and the price…

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We have an avocado tree, and a couple of fruits falls from it from Summer to the start of the Rainy Season. The avocado fruit from our tree is long and green. q3m (Yes, he’s still here) isn’t used to seeing avocado like that, he said. He’s used to avocado that is short, fat, rough and deep purple. When I opened it, he said it also looked different. It tasted the same, however.

I just remembered this because Pop and I went to buy groceries together and we saw the avocados that matched more of what q3m was used to. And we got to joking how it was like a face full of acne scars. He said it reminded him of his classmate in high school whose face was like “a pimple that grew a face (pimple na tinubuan ng mukha).” That was so mean of him.

In his defense though, he said that it was now just a joke amongst them. That classmate used some really effective acne scar removal medication that was prescribed by a dermatologist and it worked. That classmate is also now a heart surgeon.

But still, because of that story, whenever I see that kind of face, I think “avocado face” =_=;; I’m so mean

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It’s been raining a lot lately. There are good things and bad things about the rain.

Good things:
It’s not so hot
My air conditioner actually cools without an additional fan
I don’t get as cranky
I can actually go outside to our kitchen and cook when I feel like it

Bad things:
The possibility of flooding is always there
If Taba (my dog) goes out, he’s gonna be not white anymore
I cook more so I get fatter
I’m always paranoid about floods

I was chatting with my friends from #GameMusic on PsiGenix about being hot and being cold, about which one is better. So far more people preferred being cold than being hot. Getting frostbite is being stupid because of lacking clothes, while with hot, you can’t really do much about it. Although being cold can be expensive too. Like for example, you’ll need a furnace and then you’ll need furnace filters and what not, and all kinds of thermal wear to keep warm. But that just means that you CAN keep warm even if it’s freezing

Whereas if it’s not, sometimes even airconditioners break down because it can’t handle the heat.

What do you think is better? Being cold or being hot?

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A couple of days ago, I received an unofficial wedding invitation via email from one of my high school classmates. Of course, I’d like to come and I did say I was going.

It’s on October of this year. *big sigh*

What am I going to do for a dress? I need to do something about losing abdominal fat. A LOT of it. Four months… four months…

I say I need to start dieting but I just ate noodles again this morning before breakfast. And then I ate breakfast an hour later.

I hope it helps that I’m currently addicted to iced barley. Grains should help in … umm… losing something… right?

AAARRrrghhh…. It’s also Marj’s Post-Nuptial celebration in 2 days. I want to go… But I’m too fat. =_=;; BLAAAARRGGHHH

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Today we didn’t really do anything. We just went to the groceries and bought a bunch of local beers so he can try them out. He made me read out loud The Plague by Albert Camus and he slept while I read and every time I stopped reading out loud, he would wake up and tell me to read again. I don’t think I’ve ever talked that much in a long time that isn’t work related.

We don’t have real plans, but some of it are in motion already. We’ve got Sagada booked for April 1-4 and Corregidor on April 7-8 (yeah, overnight!). I don’t really have any free life insurance quotes but I’m really nervous about the Corregidor overnight trip because I’m afraid of ghosts.

For the Sagada trip with a separate room, we paid P5,650 for the tour plus P500 per person so that’s P6150 in total. And then for Corregidor, we’re doing the overnight which is P2,499 plus the lights and sounds show of P150. For those 2 trips alone, it’s already P8800… We’re already broke. >_<

We’re going to lie low for now about spending.

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I’m not even going to finish doing my backlogs because it’s practically the same. Me being lazy and not finishing it. I was practically doing my clean-up until this morning so that would make it until Cleaning Day 17. And I didn’t really finish. I got really tired and bored of it so I just dumped whatever I didn’t want to handle anymore so I just stuffed them wherever there’s free space. Yu’s arriving soon and although I should be bothered, I just can’t be bothered anymore

I went to the airport worrying a bit because my room was still messy. Oh well…

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I’m really tired of cleaning, and it’s my fault. It’s always my fault. I just can’t get myself to work on cleaning stuff for the whole day. My mind (and my butt) starts wandering to the computer and I do stuff, like check my Plurk. I saw Sara’s plurk that she planned to eat some Devil’s Food Cake from Chocolate Kiss and I figured… I’m so bored of staying at home (even though I just went out a couple of days ago).

So I figured… why not? I replied and said I’ll go too.

Sara had Devil’s Food Cake, and I had Kahlua Butter Cake and Guinumis (coconutty goodness). When it was time to leave, we parted ways. I wanted to buy siomai near the UP Shopping Center. It felt so nostalgic just walking inside SC. The atmosphere is so… so very much like UP. The scent of photocopy powder mixed with hair treatment, food and what not. I bought a big cone of ice cream (which is now P25… when I was studying it was only P20. Because I was thinking of fond memories of the 20-peso cones that I used to have before, I forgot to ask the Manong Ice Cream not to put cheese ice cream. I hate cheese ice cream.

Going home, I walked to the direction of the Vanguard building but I passed through the track oval. They put some cement paths there… before it was always just dust or mud. They probably noticed that a lot of people walk through that path a lot. People make shortcuts all the time in UP.

I watched as the sun slowly set… and thinking to myself… DAMN I should have brought my camera. I didn’t bring one because I didn’t bring a bag. I stuffed everything I wanted to bring in my pockets.

Walking along that path reminded me of my university years… when I didn’t need to look for the best weight loss diet pills because I was always walking and had some form of exercise. After I graduated and got a job that was so sedentary, I started getting larger and, well, the rest is history… I guess.

The footbridges got moved by the way… and they’re now GREEN. … an ugly shade of GREEN. It’s so disgustingly GREEN. Don’t get me wrong. I LOVE GREEN! It’s my favorite color… but somehow… the pink and blue combination looked prettier. *barfs in a corner*

I got home just in time for dinner although I was full from eating ice cream and siomai and cake and guinumis…

Cleaning? The hell I’d clean. I was too tired already. I stayed up though. Reading Hana-Kimi manga.

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Mama came to my room last night complaining about Papa because she couldn’t use the computer that they bought with her Bingo winnings. So I told her that we could have the macbook repaired. It’s going to cost about $100 probably, but it beats buying a new laptop.

Coincidentally, Yu told me to buy a Lenovo because it’s nice. But I don’t really have any intentions of buying a new laptop. I have a netbook and a really nice desktop PC, although the netbook is with my brother at the moment. And the main reason? I don’t have that kind of money to spend splurging on laptops even if I wanted one.

Well… if ever that I did have that money, I think I’d want a Sony VAIO because it’s really pretty and chic. Or even just the Sony VAIO P. That one’s really nice.

Enough daydreaming. Time go to back to cleaning. ~_~

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*singing Hikki’s Travelling song*

The wheels are turning! Yu’s set to arrive on March 24 and we’re going to Hong Kong mid-April. Thinking of all the travelling I’m planning, I wonder if I should at least get some life insurance or something. I think for flights there’s instant travel insurance (I’ll have to double-check)…

What are the current local life insurance rates anyway? Has anyone got an idea? Not that I’m going to get one right away. I’ll check with my bank too. I think they had this thing about having life insurance if you have a certain kind of bank account.

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