Sorry the picture sucks, but it seems to be the best I can do at the moment. Welcome to the new Milka bar (well new to me anyway) that is the Choco Swing model. It is very delicious. My first taste or two of it was definitely a Don´t Get Me Started moment. My Tia Carmen had said that she had only seen it at the supermarket by the beach house so while I was there, as a compromise to the caloric intake they would entail, I ran to the supermarket from the house to buy some more to take back to the city, so that Tine wouldn´t have to wait until we go to the beach to try it in case I couldn´t find it in the city. And seeing as how I was at the beach and it was hot and I had to run back like 4 km to the house, it motivated me to run faster so that they wouldn´t melt in the sun! Haha. And then we had to find the especially designed El Corte Ingles shopping bag to transport goods that need refridgeration so that they wouldn´t melt on the three hour drive back to the city. All so that Tine could be guaranteed a taste of them immediately after her arrival. Isn´t that sweet of me?! Tine - there are four bars of it waiting for you in the refridgerator... UPDATE: Make that three bars waiting for you in the refridgerator. Oopsies!! KEKEKE!! *does a twirly dance* haha!
Friday, August 8, 2008
¿A Sign of the Times?
I had a fun late night out with my cousins yesterday. Mucho borrachandoing, i.e. drinking and great conversation on comparing lifestyles, thought processes, life situations, etc. It was a great exercise for my psyche and helped me have perspective of things, so that my psyche can be the best that it can be. So maybe that helps to explain my strange dream. The funniest part though, I thought, and what I wanted to offer up here for social commentary, was that I dreamt that I was going to pay for my gas or something and then all of a sudden I was surprised with the news that I won some contest for a free tank of gas! And I was very excited. Haha! Well, I guess it´s worth being excited about, seeing as how I don´t really win stuff often and a tank of gas is worth about $80 for me. Honestly, even I love getting into my psyche to see the intricacies and subtelties of its functioning. It´s like a Nobel Prize Winner for Literature in there sometimes.
Thursday, August 7, 2008
You know you are only part Spanish when...
You know you are only part Spanish when... the ´tan´you were so proud of cultivating during your four days spent at the beach (see previous entry) is still a paste-y shade of white or a bright red when you go out with your cousins back in the city. Not only do you know you are only part Spanish when this happens, but you wonder how the heck you are part Filipino with family members who are darker than night (see previous Pete entry and www.tinelovesyou.blogspot.com).
Labels:
Don't get me started,
Family,
Globe-Trotting,
Pete
You know you are Spanish when...
You know you are Spanish when... you get to your family´s beach house and the highest SPF sunscreen they have is SPF 8 (with most of them being 2´s and 4´s) and then when watching the news before a day of sunbathing, they are doing a spot on sunbathing and interviewing people on what they do for sunbathing and one young girl they interview says that she puts on olive oil with perfume on her body, the bottle of which she then holds up for the camera as proof and then (to the best of your Spanish-speaking/understanding abilities) the news piece just has a brief statement to the effect of sun exposure being linked to cancer.
P.S. Tine - you might want to bring your own sunscreen.
P.S. Tine - you might want to bring your own sunscreen.
Labels:
Do get me started,
Family,
Globe-Trotting
Saturday, August 2, 2008
This is just adios, it's not good-bye
That is a quote from the beautiful song, Spanish Eyes (I think that's what its called), as performed by Julio Iglesias and... I dunno, Kenny Loggins? Chakha Khan? I can't make out the voice, but its a very unique one. I was listening to my Julio Iglesias mix CD to get ready for my trip. Most of you faithful readers should know by now that I am off for a luxurious vacay to Espagne y Francia. <-- This is a subtle word tease for you language buffs, because I wrote "Spain" in French and "France" in Spanish. Do you love it? It's all about the little details.
Anyway, this post will have to be limited to text, because I am using the computer at the airport lounge-sies and I don't think I can save images to this compie. Well, at present time I am waiting at JFK for my flight to... Barcelonsies! And I'm trying to think of some witty story I can post on here, but the pressure is killing me!! You'll have to forgive me for this turning into a boring recount of daily events, but rest-assured, I do have some posts in the works that will be more worthy for the glances of your beautiful Spanish eyes.
Ok, first of all, I forgot my camera, which is sad. BUT, luckily, the exotic Filipina woman whose friendship with me dates back to the days that she still didn't know how to tie her shoes (I would tie them for her sometimes - I think?!), will be joining me in Espagne in a week so that kind biatch is going to stop by my mom's house to pick it up before she comes.
Secondly, after a fun night of partying to celebrate burthday's, bar exam terminations, and bon voyages, I had yet to pack for my 8 a.m. flight when my mother, thankfully, came into my room at 5 a.m. to ask me if I had packed yet, to which I slowly thought in my alcohol'ed fuzzy head... oh crap. So, luckily, I was able to pack, shower, and make myself vomit within an hours time. What an accomplishment?! Especially if you know me and you know how much I hate packing. Maybe I should do that more often and just pack in a frenzy so I wouldn't sit there planning outfits and stressing out.
Thirdly, some annoying girl was on her celly talking for literally at least 4 minutes about how she saw a celebrity at the airport. She said how now her life feels complete and how she knew all the people around her (i.e. me and some uglies sitting across from me at the other computer stations) thought she was weird (which I didn't up until the fact that I realized she was leaving someone a message and talking so loudly). Anyway, by celebrity, at first I thought she was referring to me and felt embarassed, yet willing to put up with it. But, I guess the celebrity she saw turned out to be Blake Lively from Gossip Girls. And I guess she looks just as good in person! I don't really watch that show, but maybe some of you do, so I thought I'd pass on that info, which you can do what you wish with.
Thirdly, subpart A: Hi Lani, I'm at JFK for the next hour, do you want to come down from Manhattan to hang out?
Fourthly, here is the next annoying person I encounterd on my trip. The minute I sit down in my seat, I hear the two people across the aisle from me who had just met each other start chatty cathying it up and this continues for what I presume as most of the flight. Luckily, I fell asleep because I was exhausted, so I didn't have to listen to them blabber on. It was definitely a don't get me started moment, especially since my noise-cancelling earphone are not really working well anymore, and I forgot them anyway. Don't even get me started! So to this, I pose these question to you, valued readers and world-renowned jet-setters: What type of airplane neighbor are you? Do you talk to the person sitting next to you? What do you do if they start talking to you but you aren't feeling it? Do you put your headphones on immediately when you sit down and avert all eyes? Or does it depend on the neighbor and whether are not you are interested and having them get you started? As for me, most of you can probably guess, I generally avert my eyes and attempt to make no contact. Sometimes if I'm feeling friendly, I will start a convo when we're maybe 5 minutes to landing, you know, just for kicks. Because to me, the risk of starting to talk to someone who just won't shut up for a long flight greatly outweighs the benefit of making a new friend. I hope the person sitting next to me on the flight to Barcelonies is a young stylish person and not a weird middle-aged man playing sudoku and laughing to himself, like on my flight to JFK. Then maybe I will talk to them. Maybe Blake Lively will be my flight neighbor... you just never know do you. One time I was on a flight back from Tokyo and I discovered that Lauryn Hill was on my flight. Another time I saw Kim Kardashian and her ass at the airport. After all, you're nothing unless you're talked about... Gossip Girls.
UPDATE: I forgot to mention that the guy next to me for SD-->JFK used orange juice in his cereal. I kept glancing over to make sure my eyes didn´t deceive me and then I also thought, well maybe it changed colors because the cereal had like dyed color sugars etc. in it, but it was just Crispex, so I don´t think so. ¿ñç€?¡ <-- I just wanted to put those because its fun that the keyboards here have those letters on them.
Anyway, this post will have to be limited to text, because I am using the computer at the airport lounge-sies and I don't think I can save images to this compie. Well, at present time I am waiting at JFK for my flight to... Barcelonsies! And I'm trying to think of some witty story I can post on here, but the pressure is killing me!! You'll have to forgive me for this turning into a boring recount of daily events, but rest-assured, I do have some posts in the works that will be more worthy for the glances of your beautiful Spanish eyes.
Ok, first of all, I forgot my camera, which is sad. BUT, luckily, the exotic Filipina woman whose friendship with me dates back to the days that she still didn't know how to tie her shoes (I would tie them for her sometimes - I think?!), will be joining me in Espagne in a week so that kind biatch is going to stop by my mom's house to pick it up before she comes.
Secondly, after a fun night of partying to celebrate burthday's, bar exam terminations, and bon voyages, I had yet to pack for my 8 a.m. flight when my mother, thankfully, came into my room at 5 a.m. to ask me if I had packed yet, to which I slowly thought in my alcohol'ed fuzzy head... oh crap. So, luckily, I was able to pack, shower, and make myself vomit within an hours time. What an accomplishment?! Especially if you know me and you know how much I hate packing. Maybe I should do that more often and just pack in a frenzy so I wouldn't sit there planning outfits and stressing out.
Thirdly, some annoying girl was on her celly talking for literally at least 4 minutes about how she saw a celebrity at the airport. She said how now her life feels complete and how she knew all the people around her (i.e. me and some uglies sitting across from me at the other computer stations) thought she was weird (which I didn't up until the fact that I realized she was leaving someone a message and talking so loudly). Anyway, by celebrity, at first I thought she was referring to me and felt embarassed, yet willing to put up with it. But, I guess the celebrity she saw turned out to be Blake Lively from Gossip Girls. And I guess she looks just as good in person! I don't really watch that show, but maybe some of you do, so I thought I'd pass on that info, which you can do what you wish with.
Thirdly, subpart A: Hi Lani, I'm at JFK for the next hour, do you want to come down from Manhattan to hang out?
Fourthly, here is the next annoying person I encounterd on my trip. The minute I sit down in my seat, I hear the two people across the aisle from me who had just met each other start chatty cathying it up and this continues for what I presume as most of the flight. Luckily, I fell asleep because I was exhausted, so I didn't have to listen to them blabber on. It was definitely a don't get me started moment, especially since my noise-cancelling earphone are not really working well anymore, and I forgot them anyway. Don't even get me started! So to this, I pose these question to you, valued readers and world-renowned jet-setters: What type of airplane neighbor are you? Do you talk to the person sitting next to you? What do you do if they start talking to you but you aren't feeling it? Do you put your headphones on immediately when you sit down and avert all eyes? Or does it depend on the neighbor and whether are not you are interested and having them get you started? As for me, most of you can probably guess, I generally avert my eyes and attempt to make no contact. Sometimes if I'm feeling friendly, I will start a convo when we're maybe 5 minutes to landing, you know, just for kicks. Because to me, the risk of starting to talk to someone who just won't shut up for a long flight greatly outweighs the benefit of making a new friend. I hope the person sitting next to me on the flight to Barcelonies is a young stylish person and not a weird middle-aged man playing sudoku and laughing to himself, like on my flight to JFK. Then maybe I will talk to them. Maybe Blake Lively will be my flight neighbor... you just never know do you. One time I was on a flight back from Tokyo and I discovered that Lauryn Hill was on my flight. Another time I saw Kim Kardashian and her ass at the airport. After all, you're nothing unless you're talked about... Gossip Girls.
UPDATE: I forgot to mention that the guy next to me for SD-->JFK used orange juice in his cereal. I kept glancing over to make sure my eyes didn´t deceive me and then I also thought, well maybe it changed colors because the cereal had like dyed color sugars etc. in it, but it was just Crispex, so I don´t think so. ¿ñç€?¡ <-- I just wanted to put those because its fun that the keyboards here have those letters on them.
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