There are two days I would like to look forward to:

1) To wake up one day and realize, ‘hey, today is the day I’m getting married’

and

2) To wake up one day and see my husband beside me and realize that I’m already married

Shallow, I know. But a girl can dream can’t she?

I can’t wait to get a Starbucks Philippines planner!

Starbucks Philippines just launched their yearly planner project yesterday. I saw pictures through my friends’ various blog pages, and I can’t wait to finally hold the 2010 planner in my hands.

I’ve had the 2006, 2007, 2008 and the 2009 one. I can’t bare to throw them away after the year is over because all the memories I have of that year are all embedded into my planners. XD

My blog entry on my Starbucks planners.

I really can’t wait! Stickers, here I come!

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Other Starbucks2010-related entries:

Fran Haw

Brian Ong

Anton Diaz (Our Awesome Planet)

I had almost forgotten, it has been more than ONE YEAR since I’ve had this blog. Made this new account on October 24, but only began writing in it November 1.

Time flies by so hurriedly doesn’t it?

Happy One Year ++ for my blog.

I’m 21 now.

I probably should change my post header, but I want to sport a new and neater hairstyle before I do that. Also, things are just so whacked out with the weather and other things. Birthday was awesome, but I need a heck load more of inspiration to finish the new (and last) semester. Not saying that the life that’s before me now is just smooth sailing or rough waters. A little of both, it seems to me that I’m always in the middle.

For some reason, being 21 feels a little different today than 2 days ago. Maybe its a mental sensation, being 20 and being 21. It could be all in my mind, but it could be a different sensation, like a feeling that one takes on another role in the world.

To graduate. I want to achieve this goal. China, you’ll be here someday. I look forward to the time when I’ll be studying in China and improving myself. It’s still a few months (or years) away, but I’m slowly getting there.

Slowly but surely.

2 days till I have to prepare my schedule for the new semester.

4 days till you know what.

7 days till my younger brother leaves for China for the next 6 weeks to study.

4 months and 6 days till the end of my last semester in college.

Hm, just some things I’ve been thinking about recently~

Kindly note, the following entry is of the author’s personal opinion.

On the way home tonight, I heard Erap on the radio acknowledging his candidacy for the 2010 presidential elections. (FYI for those from abroad, Joseph “Erap” Estrada was the 13th President of the Philippines who was ousted a couple of years back because of a corruption case. He was replaced by the current president – Gloria Macapagal Arroyo [GMA] – who was his Vice-President then and who ran for re-election and won after Erap’s term ended) Basically, he was saying a lot of what I believed to be jibberish. He was stating in Tagalog (if I had understood correctly), how he was deprived of his family, friends and the people while he was imprisoned. I mean, come on, you don’t expect to be in the luxury of all your friends and family if you’re accused of a crime and deemed guilty for it. And it was not only the Court of Law who had deemed him guilty, the people went against him during the Second People Power Revolution as well. Erap was lucky enough that due to health conditions, he was under house arrest and not rotting in some crummy jail cell somewhere in Muntinlupa. If someone else had been guilty of his crime, they’d be in Muntinlupa or worse, but him being the former president, he was given special treatment.

What got me thinking was how come this former president, who was ousted from his position because of a serious crime, is deciding to run again for the same position – the highest position in the land. I understand how a lot of people “change” after they realize their mistake, or if we give him the benefit of the doubt, he wants to redeem himself – who was wronged in the eyes of the people. But come on, common sense dictates that you don’t run for the same position from which you were ousted, or more logically speaking, the highest position in the land. No offense, but it’s just plain wrong. If you want to redeem yourself, you run for a different position, not for presidency. Maybe a smaller position, like Mayor or something like that, but not ruler of the friggin country.

What aggravates me even more is how a lot of people are being supportive. I read a few weeks back somewhere that a lot of people are voting for him due to pity. That’s plain wrong. You vote for your president out of pity?! What kind of sick world would that be based on? Even if you feel pity for someone, think logically! In the end, if you vote for the wrong person, the one who should be pitied is the entire country which will suffer from the mistake of the people.

I don’t know if Erap is allowed to run, though he says that people from legal fields have said he’s allowed to do so. More so, is he allowed to take the position?! Shouldn’t there be a law in the constitution that dictates that if you oust someone because of a serious crime, said person should not be allowed to run for any position, and in our case, not the presidency.

Where is the world coming to?

Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. The country should learn from its mistake and not go wasting good votes on people who have already had their chance in the past.

Plus, the whole reason Erap is probably running is because he was pardoned by GMA. It’s kind of ironic really. Erap gets ousted and during the 2nd People Power Revolution, he gets replaced by GMA. GMA finishes Erap’s term and runs for re-election and wins. Nearing the end of her term (more or less), she decides to pardon the former president for his crime.

I wonder where the heck the Philippines is heading for.

Sleeping soon, I need to go to COMELEC tomorrow to register for Voters Registration. I know, I’ve put it off this long. I hope I wake up and get to City Hall early enough. Please, don’t let there be long lines tomorrow~

ANNUAL BIRTHDAY WISHLIST 2009

• Anything with crosses and skulls, accessories most especially
• Books! I’d love romance novels, or Pride and Prejudice sequel books ( I have Mr Darcy Presents his bride, and Mr Darcy takes a wife). I like any fictional books though~
• Anything Japan/China/Taiwan/Korea related.
• Taiwanese Drama (Romance-Comedy) dvd’s (with English subs please)
• Unique/Creative notebooks/pens/anythings~
• Boots or Scarves~ (Size 6/36)
• Kerropi-related anything
• Anything that you think I’d like
• MANGA (not mangga/mango, mind you)
• Anime figures!
• Super creative usb like the ones over here
• Food, like peanuts, or chocolates, or whatnot~
• Money to go shopping >w<

Haha, that’s pretty much it. I’m so predictable, I ask for the same things every year~ XD

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“Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn’t it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up. You build up all these defenses, you build up a whole suit of armor, so that nothing can hurt you, then one stupid person, no different from any other stupid person, wanders into your stupid life…You give them a piece of you. They didn’t ask for it. They did something dumb one day, like kiss you or smile at you, and then your life isn’t your own anymore. Love takes hostages. It gets inside you. It eats you out and leaves you crying in the darkness, so simple a phrase like ‘maybe we should be just friends’ turns into a glass splinter working its way into your heart. It hurts. Not just in the imagination. Not just in the mind. It’s a soul-hurt, a real gets-inside-you-and-rips-you-apart pain.”

- Neil Gaiman