1. Penguins are birds.

2. Penguins don't fly. Penguins swim.

3. Penguins lay eggs.

4. Most penguin chicks have fluffy feathers.

5. Penguins live in large groups called colonies or rookery.

6.Penguins use their wings like paddles for swimming.

7. Penguins do not live at the North Pole.

8. When a penguin has found its mate, they stay together for the rest of their lives

9. Penguins forage in the ocean for their food, which may be fish, squid, or shrimp-like krill.

10. Most penguins can swim about 15 miles per hour.

11. Penguins keep warm with insulating layers consisting of tightly packed feathers, air, skin, and blubber.

12. Penguins hold their feathers tightly against their bodies to keep warm and fluff them out away from their bodies to cool off.

13. There are at least 18 different species of penguins. There may be as many as 100 million penguins in the world.

14. Though plentiful, penguins are threatened by oil spills, water pollution, and the over harvesting of ocean fish.

15. All penguins live in the Southern Hemisphere. Some live in Antarctica, Coast of South America, South Africa, Galapagos, Southern Australia and New Zealand.

Labels: Addiction, Penguin

BEST. WEEK. EVER.
Last Tuesday, my Mom arrived from Singapore. She's been there for more than six months. I miss her a lot. I'm glad that she's back.

P.S.
She's freakin' skinny.

Labels: Project 831

I had dreamed about a boy.

He first looked at me.. and then I looked him.
After some time,
as I looked upon the faces staring at us,
I looked away.

From then on, I'd never seen the boy's gaze again.

I can still see him from time to time,
but his eyes were far from mine.

As time goes by,
I saw him gazed at me.
The look upon his eyes is telling something
that I merely understand.

He's in a special place,
waiting for someone.
He's with the special people we both know,
they're preparing something special.
As a walked to that special place,
everyone is staring..
everyone is smiling..

As I go through,
I've noticed that someone else is walking beside me.
They are not looking at me,
they're looking at the girl beside me.

I realized that I don't exist in their sight..
I was invisible.

And then I saw the boy,
walking towards me..
walking towards the girl.

He kneel.

The girl cried.

...






































...and I'm in pain.

Labels: Emo-ness, Insanity Strikes, Weirdness

This is a picture of my thumb holding Php500 bills.
It was taken while I was paying for my tuition fees for prelim and midterm. I tried to have a macro shot but I don't know what happened and it turned out to be like this.

Labels: Project 831

I will be updating my site.. I am in the mood to make a new layout for this one and I hope I can finish it as soon as possible. In the mean time, here are some updates:

• My mom will be arriving this Tuesday from Singapore.. I mentioned before that she will be coming back on February but she's quite excited... I think.. Haha! Just kidding. Yung kapalit niya kasi sa trabaho napaaga ng dating, kaya napaaga din yung uwi niya. Thank God! I'm rally excited. I missed her a lot.. too bad, hindi ako kasama sa pagsundo sa kanya. Nasa San Pablo, Laguna kasi ako, duty namin.
  


• I'm loving my scarf. I bought it on Laguna last week. We had our duty there and during that time, their celebrating their fiesta and there were a lot of tiangge all around the place. We saw a stall selling scarves and we, Jaycee and I, check it out. Since it was quite cold, and it's 'buy one, take one'.. splurge some cash.We bought 'one'. One for me and one for her.. I really like it.. perfect for the cold weather.
  


• I have a clean room again. And an organized closet. Hahaha! Dadating na kasi si Mama kaya kailangan malinis.
  

• For my Project 831.. I did some changes to the rules. (It's mine anyway so I can do whatever I want. ) Anyway, I find it hard to choose a photo among the hundreds of photos I have for a week. So I decided that I can post two photos or more as long as its a collage.

That would be all, I should start doing my new layout... Have a nice Sunday everyone.

^{P.S.
The title has nothing to do with me or my entry.. It's just the song playing while I'm typing this.. Hahaha.}

Labels: Updates

I've been seeing lots and lots and lots of photos like this.. and I also want to make my own version.

The book I used for this photo is my drug handbook.

Isn't amazing that simple things, like this book, can actually create these kind of art?!
It's really amazing how imaginative and creative people are. I really like this kind of photos. The ones with heart shapes made from simple things that you can see everywhere.

And this reminds me a line from 'A Walk to Remember':
"I feel wonder and beauty. Joy. Love. I mean, it's -- It's the center of everything."
-Jamie Elizabeth Sullivan

It's like you can see love everywhere.. even on simple things, you just have to feel it.. it's in everything, right?!

Labels: Project 831

I fell in love with my closet.
I've never seen my closet this clean and organized since I entered college. I actually managed to clean it, though it took me a whole day to finish it. Oh well, its an achievement for a procrastinator like me.. I hope it would last until my birthday..
Hahaha.. As if.. Too unrealistic.

Labels: Project 831

I will be starting a project called Project 831, inspired from Project 365.
(actually i got his from Xty)


I will be posting a photo every week ('cause I can't do it on a daily basis ) all through this year. It's something that represents my whole week, or just something that's random: my recent addiction or one of my endless mall trips or my not-so-funny morning face or anything I could come up with... Just one photo a week and that's it.

I'll call it Project 831 because 8-31 is my birthday (that's August 31) and I won't be posting everyday so it won't be 365 days/photos,as it is described on Project 365. Plus I just love that number and I can't think of any good title for this one.

I'm a week behind so I'll be posting my first photo after this entry.
If you feel like joining, feel free to begin whenever you want.

Labels: Project 831

It's 2009 so let me first wave a Happy Happy Happy New Year to everyone.

This may be a little late.. but yeah.. because it's new year it seems that everyone is into those year-end post or year-starter post with their this-is-my-new-years'-resolution entry. I've been wandering about that too, but i can't think of a realistic one. So I might just hop on the year-ender post.

If I can sum up 2008 in one word.. it would be...
Though change is always present on my every day existence, I could say that this year, I had huge changes in my life. I had always been on my safe-zone, I never got into big changes that can influence how the way I live my life. I had always been of my comfort zone for the fear that whenever I hop into something new, I might never know what's in it for me in the future. But then again.. it's something I can't control.

And there goes the changes (and highlights in 2008)...

• I lost my two grandfather, Lolo Matt and Lolo Kosme. My Lolo Matt, father of my father, died last February and Lolo Kosme died last November. I'm already missing Lolo Matt.
  


• I got a chance to meet (or should I say, see) some of the celebrities I really adore.
  Wu Chun. He went here on the Philippines last July to promote "Romantic Princess".KC Concepcion. I saw her last Novermber, when she went to SM Dasma for a mall show.


• My dancing career was once again alive. I got a chance to dance with my blockmates for the Nursing Week. It felt so nostalgic performing in front of a crowd. It felt like highschool.


• For the the first half of the year I think I'm losing grip with some of my friends but later on I managed to get along with them like the way I used to. I think I'm just really busy thinking (stupid things).. I'm so preoccupied with useless things.


• My travel days are hectic. Not real travelling, but I actually had lots of 'gala' last year. Had lots of mall trippings, overnights, and visits to theme parks. Most of this trips are done on the later half of the year.


• A new hair style. I finally got a real new hair style. I cut my hair real short. The shortest haircut I got since preschool. I really love it, it's sooo refreshing.


• My mother went to Singapore. I think, I mean, this is the biggest change that happened last year. This is the first time we got separated to her, a thousand miles away. And for the longest time ever. It's something we really don't expect, I wasn't even planned, though we really know that she is preparing in going abroad it still feels surreal. She went last June. It's a big change for all of us in the family but we managed it well, aside from my father. He's the one who's really against it so it's kinda hard for him to adjust. But now, this February, she's going back here and it's one big family once again.


• Addictions and obsessions occurs N times this year. I lost count. I've been obsessed with lots of things this years. It like this year is my obsession year, I've never had this intense feeling of obsession in years.


• Credit card killer. I've been using my credit card like hell.. Hahaha! But I still have my limit.


• I realized that I don't have any plans of getting married in the future.


• Eating becomes my refuge. And I'm getting "malusog" for every freakin' second.


• I got another ear piercing.


• SUPERFRIENDS. I might say, one of the best things that happened last year.I feel so blessed having them as my friends. We have different personalities but we all clicked. We may look like mean, green, fighting machines, but we're just expressing ourselves in whole, new, different manner. Everytime I'm with them, I'm always laughing and I'm always happy, no dull moments. And we're not just there for good times, as well as the bad times.. I really love them.


• My personality changed.. I don't know how but I just know it changed.

That's it!
That was my year and I am praying for a better year ahead for me, my family, my friends and for everyone.

Labels: Events, Happy-ness, Life Lessons, Photo ops, Up-to-the-minute

[??] Come, Jake.
[@] Slow down!
[??] Hurry up, Jake!
[@] Melanie!
[??] I gotta get home.
[@] My mom's gonna kill me.
(thunder strikes)
[@] Wow, did you see that?
[??] 1,001... 1,002... 1,003...
[@] Well, answer the question!
[??] No!
[@] No, you won't answer or no, you won't marry me?
[??] Jake Perry, I'm 10 years old.
[??] I've got too much to live for.
(thunder strikes again)
[@] Not that way, you dolt!
[@] Come on!
[??] Wow! Cool!
[@] It's hot. Don't touch it.
[@] We'll be safe here.
[??] Say's who?
[@] Everybody.
[@] Lightning never strikes the same place twice.

Labels: Addiction, Movie Marathon, Ultimate Kiligera