Update - A Quickie

I know I haven't been updating, and that's because I've been away for a while, visiting my cousin. I still am away actually, but I'm at an internet cafe. I'll explain more when I get home home home to my sexy iMac. Plus I'll upload photos (Steph's request). Here's a quickie though-

-I'm in Iloilo. Actually, a little town called Barotac (45 mins away from Iloilo). Been here 3 weeks now.
-Met my cousin Nick's kid, who's my Godson. He's awesome, but violent sometimes (in a funny way).
-Went to an island called Boracay, for the 2nd time in 4 years. Wuz sweet. It's a party place that foreigners and Filipinos who live in the city like to visit. There's always people there, it's awesome. I actually a group of people from Toronto there which wuz nice.
-I surprise visited my grandaunt and she didn't recognize me until my cousin told her who I was. You have to know, she's pretty old... and still deafening (we knocked on her door for quite a while, and we could see her standing, watching TV, not hearing us.) She wuz crazy happy to see me. We have a scheduled lunch with her tomorrow.
-Nick's wife, Connie is so cool to talk to. She has a lot to say. She said she sees me as her little brother.
- I miss my iMac. And my brother and sister. And Mom. And Dad. Hi Dad.
-I'm charging my iPod named Nancy, cuz she died earlier today.
-I think I'm going back to Manila on Friday.

See ya later!

Back On Here

Well, I decided I should start posting again. There've been quite a few changes in my life since my last post. I actually started working on a post a few weeks ago, but it ended up just being a draft. If I remember right, it had something to do with lots of pictures.

Here's a list of things that happened so far:

- I helped the relatives I lived with in Edmonton move house.
- My transition into the new year wuzn't very pleasant. I spent it in a bathroom puking my guts out for an hour. I don't think anyone really knows about that.
- I met new people just by working in another department at Superstore.
- I got into a relationship with someone I met from work, but unfortunately that ended after about 3 weeks because I had to leave the country.
- During my last week in Canada, I must have downloaded over 100 movies because I knew how crap the internet in the Philippines is.
- I am now in the Philippines. I don't like it here. I don't feel like I belong here.
- I am now 22 years and 2 days old.
- I spend a lot of time with my sister Carla when she's not in school.
- I started calling Carla by different variations of her name - Carls, Carlsberg, Carlton, Carlita..
- Since I got here, I've had cravings for porky food.
- I worked out with Carls the other day at this place called Celebrity. It's a private sporty place we're members at. That wuz the first time I worked out in 3 years.
- Usually my uncle drives our car, but when we reach the neighborhood coming home, he lets me drive. It's quite a pleasure.

And that's pretty much it. I miss the snow, the nice weather, the people, the freedom.. back "home" I guess I could call it, considering I pretty much established what was a good life there for myself.

Anyway, that's it for now. I have a feeling this blog's gonna start getting more personal from now on, considering how ponderous I've been since I got here. We'll see.

Peace, world.

P.S. I just watched The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. It was really good.

Snowboarding

So I went snowboarding (for the first time ever, and I'd bought awesome snow pants, goggles, gloves, and a face mask before that at Sportchek) with Chad, Megan, and her boyfriend Simon today at Snow Valley. We got there 2 hours before it closed, so it wuz free. Yes, the last 2 hours are free til 9pm. I rented boots, a snowboard and a helmet. It wuz pretty fun. I wasn't bad at all. Megan said I'm a natural. But I fell on my tailbone once and on my butt a handful of times... and come to think of it, I fell face forward a few times too. I got better for sure. Simon wuz teaching me and Chad a little bit in the beginning. I wuzn't too good at turning right though. After falling on my tailbone, I decided not to go up that hill anymore and just went up this small hill to practice turning. I got better. Megan said I can go snowboarding with them when they go on weekends, to this other place.
When we left, I realized that I didn't have my phone and my camera (I didn't take any pics though) so we went back and they had it at the lost and found.
After all that, we tiiiredly ate food at... uh.. *forgets what the place is called*. It wuz yum.

I have work tomorrow and my excuse not to do heavy lifting is that I have a hurty tailbone.

Karma é Real

So... because it's been a while since I posted a music video... here goes a song from early high school:



Mmm.. updates:
- I got a new free phone from Fido. Yes, thanks to Fido dollars. I got it because my other phone wuz dying and it's pretty messed up now. Somehow it's been through a lot.
- I got a new job assignment at work. I'm supposed to be working in the home/leisure department starting tomorrow. I have to work on Christmas trees too, handing them out to customers and stuff, which means I have to work out in the cold. Thank God I don't have to be outside all the time though and I can still work in the dairy department (my working buddies said they'd miss me if I was gonna be working home/leisure all the time haha).
- I hadn't gotten my paycheck because apparently they thought my visa wuz expired. I got that all sorted out today though. I should be getting paid from now on ^^
- Lamb Of God and Metallica are coming on the 7th. I wish I could go... if I only knew some cool metalheads!

Werkum

Work today wuz pretty cool. Prolly the most interesting day so far. It consisted of hyperdorkum drumming on flattened cardboard boxes in front of the incinerator with Chad, writing little messages on the cardboard before throwing them in the incinerator, standing around talking about random things, watching people throw things at the wall and the ceiling, wiping diarrhea-looking pudding off of my shoe and the floor (haha gross), and other things I forget right now. Yeah it wuz all cool until everybody left and I wuz the only one in my department because Raoul came late. I had to put the milk out by myself! And it took a lot of heavy lifting. That wore me out after a while. And since there wuz no milk out for a while after everyone left, customers kept asking me to bring them milk "do you have 2%? i want four" "please can you give me two 3%" and I had to do that while I wuz clearing out the milk crates, which takes a while cuz there's too many. Toooo many (four 4 litre milk jugs fit in one crate).
Anyway, I'm pretty tired and I could sleep now. But I won't, because it's only 9:16pm and I only have to wake up at 7 or so and if I sleep now, I'll wake up at 3am or something and that's too early.
Ahhh.

Worky Work

So I started working last week Sunday at the Superstore. My partner in crime's name is Courtnea. We're stocking buddies in the dairy and juice section. We get things done pretty quickly. She's really cool. She's 26 and she's from here. She's gets really sarcastic, and a lot of the time she beats me to it. We usually just laugh at random things (and ponder about how much cream cheese people consume and have discussions about juices that are too healthy for you). She wuz telling me about how she worked in a nursing home once and this old Asian used to tell her, "Can you get me Minimade?" Minute Maid. And I imitated the lady how I thought she might have said it, with the accent and all that and Courtnea found it amusing haha. Courtnea laughs quite a lot. Sometimes I don't even know what she's laughing at!
Anyway, so last week I worked from Sunday to Thursday. Each day I started at 7am and finished at either 2 or 3pm. We had a lot to do because on Saturday night before work, there wuz a fire outside the Superstore, where the paper towels and toilet paper I think were being kept. Some kids apparently did it. So that night, all the workers had to be evacuated, and we were left with mountainous piles of work to do the following days. Oh yeah, I work with a South African guy too. I told him I'm from Mozambique and he was really friendly. It's cool to know there's someone from Africa here.
This week though I only worked 2 days because they cut off people's hours. I found out today that Courtnea and I had it the worst. I worked a total of 8 hours this week. I was going to work on Tuesday though, but I was sick. It was a holiday and I was going to get paid 16 an hour! Stupid sore throat. Anyway, I might work on Friday since Dylan said he'd talk to our supervisor and see if he can free up hours. Ah I like all the people I work with at Superstore. It's great. So far I know 2 people I work with who are exactly my age - Chad and Megan. I'm guessing Dylan might be 21 too, but I'm not sure.
Anywho, I worked at the movie theatre too, but I quit today (which turned out to be an easy doing). I only worked 2 days last week and I wasn't given any working days this week. I didn't like it so much because everyone wuz so young (16+, and they all thought I wuz 17) and people were on me all the time... and the computer system wuz a headache! And I guess I just don't like serving people at all, ever since working at the pizzeria... And on top of it all, I was only getting paid $8.75 an hour. But yeah, it wasn't as chill as I thought it would be. The Superstore wins!
Hmmm I guess that's it! I'm still sick and yeah.
If anyone feels like watching an indie movie.. a really sweet and funny indie movie, I highly recommend Kabluey. It's pretty cute and not cheesy at all. I found out about it randomly, searching for newly released DVDs on the internet, and this one popped up (it wuz the cool sounding title), so I downloaded it, not knowing what to expect. I really liked it. Amazingly enough, it was written, directed, and produced by the main actor, Scott Prendergast. Now go watch it and tell me what you think!

For Tamara's Enjoyment

So... because someone wanted to know... here are -

My Top 5 Hottehs:
in almost no particular order

Eva Mendes
With eyes like those? How can you not die for this woman? XP She has a hot shmile (oh those dimples) and yummy lips haha. She always seems to look gorgeous and you gotta love her tan... and her hair... Oh yeah she's fun in All About The Benjamins and Hitch, and almost too hot in We Own The Night. And of course she's the only reason anyone really wanted to watch that terrible terrible movie, Ghost Rider.

Scarlett Johansson
Becaaaause she's a versatile actress and she's got gorgeous eyes, juuuuicy lips, and she can pull off being blonde and brunnette whenever she pleases. She's prolly the shweetest blonde I know of haha. Oh and she plays awesome characters in movies. You can't forget her awesome punkyness in The Perfect Score and she wuz definitely great in Lost In Translation, which is one of my favorite movies. Oh and yes she's a very talented singer too. She has an album out ^^ and it's no poppy stuff. I forget whose songs she covers though. Tim knows.

Angelina Jolie
Ooooo Ms. Jolie! Yup. You gotta love her good looks and crazy side... and well.. of course that craziness all changed now but she's still preeeeetty and hot. Yeah she went through that waify period but whoa she got it all back fast, hmm? Ah drop-dead gawjus with mad talent (how many awards has she gotten?). I still have to watch A Mighty Heart and see how that went. Oh yeah, if she's ever going to adopt new kids, I want her to adopt me too considering how much she loves those Asians XD

Michelle Monaghan
I don't know. She seems fun and nuts XD I immediately liked her after watching Kiss Kiss Bang Bang and yeah she wuz in Mission Impossible 3 too but that wasn't as awesome I think. Hmm seems like I got more of a thing for brunettes at this point.

Brody Dalle (originally I had Mary-Louise Parker in this slot, but then I remembered Brody)
She wuz the lead singer and guitarist of now broken up punk band The Distillers (finally, someone who's not an actress!). Sure she's got that distinct husky voice but she's a cute and a gorgeous babe. Yeah I guess I do have a thing for punked out girls too and I'm pretty sure she's naturally blonde XP It wuz actually hard to decide which pic of her to put up so I decided to put up a few because she tends to look different in every photo (gotta love those eyes in the first pic). Hmm.. Is it just me or does she have some Angelina Jolie qualities about her?

Well, that's that..