:D

FAMILIAR?

RIGHT. IT'S NO LESS THAN DAVAO'S BUKO SALAD. :p

If there is one dessert I would never lose appetite eating, it's Buko Salad (actually, they're a number! Hahaha). I like how sweet and good it tastes. Apparently, I like everything about Buko. I love its juice--everyone around me knows this. I love its meat, especially when it's soft and slimy? Haha.

BUKO SALAD Store

There is this one place in Davao where Buko Salad is served best. Actually, it's just a booth found in malls, usually at the food court.

And yesterday, I had the chance to visit the mall and, hmm, have buko salad (buko + fresh fruits). :D

More pics:

Buko Salad as served (before mixing)

Buko Salad Monster (A.K.A Peaches/Me-Anne)

ADD-ON:

(MOTHER and CHILD de DAVAO) Hahahaha

CONFUSED.

When something goes wrong in a conversation, either it's caused by sheer misinterpretation or someone is lying.

I hate lies, especially BIG LIES. But before I continue ranting here, let me define my kind of 'BIG LIES'.

When I say BIG, I mean LIFE-Threatening. Like when you tell your nanny you missed to bring your project to school (but you actually didn't) and since you have no other way of having her leave your side, you send her back to your house where you 'left' the ghost project.

SO why am I saying this now? It's because someone is asking me to do him a favor and, hmm, tell such a big, big lie.

I hate it. I don't think I am going to do it especially since I know it's not at all reasonable for me to be an accomplice of his rotten activity.

I want to have my own place soon. I want to be alone and carefree. :)

HARASSED.

I am generally a jolly person. People around me take me as someone who hardly gets angry and is always acceptive of almost everything--even of nasty things.

BUT I AM NOT. I too have the capacity to feel harassed.

Something bad happened this afternoon. It's not really degrading. But it was sort of harassing I wanted to kill someone. Haha.

DISAPPOINTMENT

I felt so bad last night that brownout transpired all over the place. It was very frustrating especially because it happened in the middle of my discussion of one of my favorite students. :(

The bright side though was that I was able to sleep early. :D And I realised I actually miss it--having enough sleep. Since I started working in RareJob, I hardly had enough sleep. I dont know but I wake up early when I sleep late. Argh.

ANYWAY, I don't want any brownout anymore. Definitely not when I am working. Huhu. But yeah, like what most of us say, IT CANNOT BE HELPED! :p

HAPPY-NESS.

Thank you for your advice. I try to write more deep description, but I am not sure ahhh

[8:28:28 PM] RareJob:Me-Anne: haha. don't be too hard on yourself, kei. you can do it.
[8:28:38 PM] RareJob:Me-Anne: and by the way, i think you have greatly improved. :D

Thanks^^ Maybe because of your good lessens and the members of British Council.
I am sorry that I write by monday because I have to go out tomorrow and I do not have enough time to make new topic. I try to write new topic of decription and essay (2 essays for monday). ^^

Thank you :) See you next monday^^


a conversation with one of my students. :D

RELAXING

I want to live in the mountains. There is something among the trees and pure clay ground that makes me happy. Everything is around them.

My father, together with my brothers, invited me to pay visit to my grandmother today. I already went there two days ago but since there was nothing to do in the morning, I tagged along. And I am happy I did.

I love the mountains, the simple life. I miss its fresh air and soft ground. Sometime soon I will take a leave to spend days with my grandmother and cousins in the mountains. Can hardly wait. Grrr.

DESIRE.

Desire is the mother of all sadness. -Gautama Buddha


Even when I do not have everything anyone can ever have, I believe I have everything that I want to have. YET, I still yearn for more.

I have a cool mother who lets me do whatever I please, a supportive father who provides me with all his best, very good friends who are always by my side, a very loving someone who overfeeds me emotionally and many other little things that make me LUCKY.

Yes, despite the flaws I have, I consider myself one lucky earthling. I may not have the normal family other children have, at least I have my mom and dad. I may not have a lot of money to spend on material things, at least I have enough to survive until I receive my next pay. I live a simple life and I am happy with it. But sometimes, I feel envious. I hate the feeling. I am in good shape and that should be enough, right?

Oh well, I am not sick anymore. One good thing. Thanks, God. The best!

UNHAPPY.

I am generally a happy person. I always laugh things out. I failed a subject? Haha! I scrapped my knee? Haha! BUT I CANT DEFINITELY LAUGH AT A TORTURED BODY. Yes, I feel tortured. I just hate my fever and all the other pains that come with it.

I want to have a break. I want to go to the mountains and stay there for a week or until I am totally back to normal. BUT I CANT AFFORD TO DO THAT. Sam and Ruth will be devastated. Plus, I doubt they will allow. My Japanese students will wonder. I might lose them, too. No way.

So the solution? SLEEP ALL DAY TOMORROW. As in ALL DAY.

I love what I do. I love to play with the kids, to talk with my patient students, and to feel useful. SO PLEASE, cure me. :D

60TH BIRTHDAY

I wonder how it would be like when I turn 60. Would I be healthy and kicking? Or fat and slouching? AAAAAAAAAAAH. I don't really want to imagine! HAHA.

My mother's aunt (which makes her my grandmother) turns 60 today. She does not have enough money to hold a party so my mom told everyone in the clan about it. And like they always do, they planned for a surprise party.

At 7PM, everyone gathered in her house with either cake, some dish, softdrinks or whatever each and one of us would surely enjoy.

She looked happy. Everyone did.

(SOMETHING IS WRONG WITH MY WRITING. DANG DANG.)

GOING OUT.

I must have been very busy these past few days that I have forgotten to go out. I mean, I haven't visited the mall or checked any new restaurant. I have been staying home and feeling sick. Hmm.

I feel worse. My fever is back and now with cough and cold to match. Great, eh? I might not be in the best physical condition right now but I really have this urge of going out. This is probably what I would like to call the Sunday Syndrome.

It's the beginning of the week, anyway. I have all the rights to welcome it, correct? :D

TODAY

I woke p at six in the morning when I set my alarm at 6:30. It always happens. I always wake up earlier than I set. GRRR.

Anyway, I felt better when I got up today. Although I am still a little dizzy, I think I do not have fever anymore. :D Bad thing though, I have cold. ARGH.

So, yeah. I had tutorial classes in Rarejob from 8-11AM. Another tutorial with Sam and Ruth at 2-5PM and one more Raejob tutorial tonight at 8-12. Whew.

I am not a very busy person when you observe me from afar. But when you live inside me, be one of my cells, you will probably find yourself panicking. :P

GETTING ILL.

I've tried to prepare for everything--my tutoring notes, tutoring materials, activities for Sam and Ruth, financial sources for building the house and other near future expenses (monetary and not). But there is one exception I haven't thought of being prepared about--getting sick.

Just recently, I talked to Angeli (the friend I'm staying with) about how healthy I am and how very rarely I get sick. Her husband East has this viral infection, which has been with him for almost a week now. But we--Angeli and I--remain in good physical condition.

But when I woke up this morning, BOOM, I felt a little dizzy as soon as I tried to get up. My joints were also troubled--aching. I felt my muscles where in pain, too. A few hours later and the pains were still there, I announced about officially being sick.

Right now as I am typing this, my throat is itchy due to cough and my body is aching due to this slight fever, which I am keeping my fingers crossed won't worsen. I have a lot to do and I cannot afford to be very sick.

I might start exercising tomorrow. Not to mention I bought three kinds of fruits today (to start some healthy living :P)

=)

I DON'T WANT TO EXPLAIN ABOUT THE PICTURE BUT I WILL, ANYWAY. HAHA.

Well, for those who do not know yet, I am now living with Anggiee. I think it has been a month already since I moved in. And if you want to ask how I've been...well, I've been pretty fine.

As for the picture, I took it today while I was heating my meal inside the microwave oven. Anggiee and her family decided they would spend the night at her mom's house, which leaves me alone for two days and a night. Hopefully, they will be back today unless they decide to stay for another night.

So, how's my life after the university years? BOOMBASTIC. Haha. I feel free and at the same time responsible. I mean, now I realise there's really no one on Earth that should be responsible for me and my needs but myself.

My stay here will end in a month or so. I do not plan to make this my permanent place. Somewhere out there, a small house is being built for me and my mom. I'll post pics of the construction whenever I get to visit.

Lastly, I am very happy today. (I think though that this article is not very coherent and I just keep blah-ing here. Haha!)

MATA NE?

I am writing a blog again. I have to write because someone is reading. :)

I am supposed to feel bad right now because prior to this, I had a bad encounter with one of my students in RareJob. The case was so helpless but the attitude of the student was understandable because he is probably old and technology is not his thing. BUT STILL, he should be considerate to me, too, right? :P

Anyway, I am okay now. Someone was too nice to keep reminding me to shrug it off. I should not be very bitter about it, right? :D

This is all for now. I will be posting again tomorrow night and the night after that. ;)

BABY.:)