My Cup of Tea

Got to see Helen and Pinky last Monday, it's been a long time since our last meeting so I was very excited to be with them once again. It felt great!You know the feeling when you're able to see good old friends and had this really nice, comfortable conversation over food, relaxing, laughing and giggling, talking with what happened in the past, it's really relieving and liberating! Some of my closest colleagues back then, Helen and Pinky. Photo by Kathy Dacanay Had a good time one cozy evening at Sushi Dito. Photo by Kathy Dacanay Pinky and Helen are my former colleagues in the university, but unlike Helen whom I have a constant communication and whom I regularly meet when she takes a vacation from UAE, Pinky is some sort of a missing buddy hehe! I did not see her in over six years, so last Monday was a huge bonding, catching up with the lost time. Pinky is one of my closest colleagues in the late 1990s and early 2000s, we would go out frequently with other...

I always begin my day with a cup of green tea or lemon juice, it makes my spirit float, it calms my mind. The soft morning air that often greets me in the street on my way to the office assures me that life in this present state is so fascinating and alluring..peaceful...relaxing and carefree. But lately, my morning no longer reflects the same degree of serenity. Somewhere beyond this quiet existence, lays a deep longing for a different life, a more meaningful one. Everytime I wake up and grab my towel, I felt this disconcerting pattern of confusion and worries and concerns rambling inside my system. I often take a deep, laboured a hard breath and wonder what I am missing, what's on the other side of the fence? Suddenly, this comfortable, peaceful environment that I am embracing for such a long time is no longer a peaceful haven. Suddenly I am craving for some spice in my life, a good balance of challenges and triumph, risks and courage, success and lessons to be learned, som...

My mind felt like a "push-over" nowadays, trying to drag me into a direction where I am very anxious to live with.  But this burning intention to get away, to move out, to search my fate, is increasing everyday that I felt I would be missing a huge part of my life if I would just let it go. Time is slipping so fast and yet I felt like my life is a complete mess, forever stuck in one corner, so I came up with this very difficult decision to "risk" my comfortable lifestyle. I realized I had wasted so many years already, missing opportunities because of my fear to take risks, I was too busy keeping myself safe that I forgot there’s a terrific life out there that needs to be explored. So now I cannot afford to let another day pass without figuring out what makes life so exciting and extraordinary on the other side of the road. The terrible idea of being thrown out, or being hurt, or being humiliated, or being rejected no longer terrifies me. I am str...

Getting an NBI Clearance is a total agony. For the past years this theory sounds like a myth, until one day when I had experienced it personally. Oh hell!Why concerned officials allowed this crap system to continue? Why they cannot provide a good logical solution to improve the service and make the process easier and comfortable to the public? In Davao City, in order for you to be given an application, you need to go to the NBI office as early as 3:00 in the morning, is this what they call a public service? I went there at 7:00 in the morning only to be disappointed when people told me that the application forms were distributed at early dawn and that it already reached the limit so the distribution was stopped at 4:00 in the morning. The lady was referring to the limit of applicants entertained in a day. Oh God!Is this what the Philippine government trying to promote in the 21st century? It is completely rude, why the NBI personnel tolerated this kind of system? What on e...

Okay. I am a bit silly now adays haha! Why on earth my appetite in watching TV series cannot be stopped? Sooooo totally hooked with ROSWELL and LEGEND OF THE SEEKER! These series are really awesome and inspiring. My obsession towards ROSWELL started in 2000, that was 13 years ago, I never thought my teenage fascination towards cute teen flicks is still there but when I re-watched it, yeaaaah it feels like I am in my late teens again hahaha! Or maybe I never stopped dreaming someone like MAX EVANS to sweep off my feet :-D So why I am so obsessed with Roswell?  Max Evans is so blindingly handsome and gorgeous. His devotion to Liz is soooooooo sweet and awesome! I dreamed to meet someone like Max Evans hahaha! The story of Roswell is so fantastic and entertaining. Yeahhh truly inspiring, the love story of Max and Liz is something I always dreamed of! I am always fascinated with the star-crossed lovers theme. The thrill of watching science fiction flick is mixed w...

I am a big movie buff! Though my favorite genres are fantasy adventure, horror and science fiction under the backdrop of romance, I can adjust my appetite in films depending on the plot and concept, comedy, animated and mainstream drama also delight me.  There are three technical merits I often look in a film to satisfy my cravings: screenplay, cinematography and production design. In the span of two decades, I'd already watched more than 100 movies, some are boring and annoying  (I wondered why they made it into a motion picture in the first place) others are really good and worth recommending.  Although there are really beautiful movies out there which have been consistently included in the list of Greatest Movies of all time surveys by several critics and institutions worldwide, I cannot list them down here because I have not watch them yet thus cannot share the experience, so I will stick to the movies I already watched :-D Here are my favorite 20...

Felt drowsy..tired and motionless..oh God my eyes are about to fall...and it's only 10 in the morning!!! Not sure what triggers this boredom. Is it the sleepless nights or the thoughts of what's coming ahead? Since gaining a complete freedom of doing-what-I wanted-to-do sort of thing after passing the comprehensive exam in my masteral, I spent every night watching series and movies on DVD. My obsession at the moment is tripping down memory lane with  Legend of the Seeker and Roswell.  Sounds pretty crazy but all I did each night is re-watched each episode of the series. I became addicted with Roswell in 2000 when I grew tired with the uninspiring storyline of soap operas in local TV, so I switched channels to look for some exciting shows until I landed on Roswell. Unfortunately, I only watched the two seasons because I went home to Surigao in the last part of 2002 in fact I did not finish the whole season 2. So I had this very remorseful feeling of not being able to c...