These two, my gahd.

Monica: I’m still not done not wanting to talk to you. 

Chandler: Just tell me what I need to do to make things right. 

Monica: What? 

Chandler: Well, that’s what we do. You know, I, I mess up and then you tell me how to fix it and then I do and then, you know, you think I’m all cute again. 

Monica: Really? I’m really tired of being your relationship tutor. You’re gonna have to figure this one out for yourself… You know what? If you’re too afraid to be in a real relationship, then don’t be in one.

YES I'M WATCHING THE SERIES AGAIN OKAY! DON'T JUDGE ME. I'M NOT FEELING 100% OKAY LATELY SO I NEED THIS.

Anyway, I've been really relating to these two since the first time I watched the series but I realized just now that I'm more of a Chandler than a Monica especially in my current relationship. Which is quite absurd considering I'm the one who hasn't been single for more than 6 months since I first started dating.

Day 16. #100HappyDaysV2.0

Today was a pretty good day but the highlights of today are these #MakeupTransformation posts by my dear crazy friends. They went (kinda) all out with the transformation because there was a prize for the best #MakeupTransformation post from one of our friends. I wanted to join in the fun just for the prize (Kindle!!!) but I'm having a hard time thinking who the end photo would be. Effort talagang pagisipan! Any suggestions?

I'm watching way too much Friends.

How do I achieve this hair (minus the hair color, of course, because I definitely can't pull off blonde hair)?! Someone tell me please!!!

PS. I'm more of a Monica but Jennifer Aniston is gorgeous.

2013 in photos

New Year's Day/Exchange gifts | Tejada Banner Residence, Sucat | January 1, 2013

BonoSoc Tagaytay Getaway | Cruz Jestra Residence, Tagaytay | January 12, 2013

LR19 Get-Together | Krocodile Grille/Capriciossa Greenbelt, Makati | January 16, 2013

Jasmine Kate's First Birthday | Fun Ranch Tiendesitas, Ortigas | February 3, 2013

Brianna's Second Birthday | Tejada Ahlen Residence, Pasig | February 5, 2013

Kat's 25st Birthday Celebration | Beers Paradise, Makati | February 16, 2013

Job's Seventh Birthday | Mercedes Village, Pasig | February 24, 2013

Good Friday | Manila Ocean Park, Manila | March 29, 2013

Get-together at Lola Purita's Wake | La Funeraria Paz, Manila Memorial Park, Sucat | April 6, 2013

Welcome Home, Enzo Party | Declaro BF Residence, Paranaque | April 7, 2013

National Geographic Earth Day Run | Fort Bonifacio | April 28, 2013

Father's Break from the Seminary | Tejada Ahlen Residence, Pasig | May 11, 2013

Mother's Day Weekend | Pansol, Laguna | May 11-12, 2013

Mama's 51st Birthday | Richmonde Hotel, Ortigas | May 17, 2013

Tatay's 80th Birthday | Fortezza Party Place, Novaliches | May 18, 2013

Brianna's Second Christian Birthday | Tejada Ahlen Residence, Pasig | May 28, 2013

DLSU-AdMU Benefit Game | Mall of Asia Arena, Manila | June 2, 2013

Enzo's Christening | Our Lady of Peace Parish, Sucat | June 15, 2013

Tatay's 50th Birthday Celebration | Subic Freeport Zone, Olongapo | June 29-30, 2013

Tatay's 50th Birthday Dinner | Claw Daddy, Shangri-La Mall, Mandaluyong | July 2, 2013

Declaro Kids' Recital | 19 East, Paranaque | July 7, 2013

Trip to Ark Avilon Zoo | Ark Avilon Zoo Tiendesitas, Ortigas | August 12, 2013

Oplan Balik-Alindog Kick-off | Declaro BF Residence, Paranaque | September 2, 2013

LR19 Invades the South | NLOS, BF Paranaque | September 6, 2013

Birthday Celebration with LH Friends | Tejada Ahlen Residence, Pasig | September 13, 2013

Birthday Salubong | Tides, Pasig | September 14, 2013

Rich's 25th Birthday Celebration | Santos Tagaytay Residence, Tagaytay | September 28, 2013

JaButch Engagement Party | Orola Better Living Residence, Bicutan | October 11, 2013

Nanay's 79th Birthday | Serrano Capri Residence, Novaliches | October 15, 2013

Ren's 25th Birthday Celebration | Panganiban Casa Residence, Sucat | October 19, 2013

Trick or Treat | Tiendesitas, Ortigas | October 26, 2013

Declaro Kids' Recital | Bowler Bar, Makati | October 26, 2013

Mega Style Series | Prive, Fort Bonifacio | October 29, 2013

Undas 2013 | Fontana Leisure Parks, Clark, Pampanga | November 2-3, 2013

Niko and Janelle Birthday Celebration | Orola Better Living Residence, Bicutan | November 9, 2013

Ghetto Night | Tejada Ahlen Residence, Pasig | November 25, 2013

Jan's 19th Birthday Celebration | Tagaytay City | December 7-8, 2013

Welcome Home, Apple Inuman | Tejada Ahlen Residence, Pasig | December 13, 2013

LH Batch 2001 Christmas Party | Santos Valley 1 Residence, Sucat | December 20, 2013

Nanay's Wake | La Funeraria de Novaliches, Novaliches | December 24-28, 2013

Nanay's Libing | Holy Cross Memorial Park, Novaliches | December 29, 2013

(After posting all these here, I realized that I don't take that much photos anymore. There are a lot of things I've done this year that aren't in this post but I guess that's what Twitter and this blog is for. Happy New Year!)

It feels good to have someone support you.

Ever since the break-up, I've been feeling like Ted here whenever people get all supportive of my actions and decisions. I know most of my friends have been there for me in the whole ordeal that is my latest relationship - and I am most certainly grateful for the support and love, friends - but for the most part, I've been focusing on all the things I've been told that I was doing wrong instead of my friends and family, cheering me on.
Now all I feel is that I am being appreciated and supported in everything - literally, EVERYTHING - I do. I think it helps that I don't just rush into things anymore and that I consult other wiser people before I make decisions now. But yeah, this support thing feels damn good. You just know that people actually believe in what you have to offer.
Side note: I can't find an existing photo from Tumblr with that quote so I had to make one. I don't know what font is being used by those Tumblr kids for the quotes so the one I used from Pixlr Express should be enough for now.

I am blessed.

Here's one proof of how awesome my friends are.

Special shoutout to all of my friends who I have a similar conversation with either on Viber or in person that I haven't screencapped (?!) 'cause 1) Viber conversations tend to go on and on and on and get all jumbled up because it's free and 2) well, I can't screencap face-to-face conversations. Haha!

Anyway, thank you, Lord and Universe, for blessing me with awesome sets of friends who got my back and appreciate me for the rowdy, foul-mouthed tomboy that I am.

Sepanx.

(I know I hate that term but it accurately captures how I feel right now. What're you gonna do about it?)

I've been with my South friends again last weekend for the 3rd weekend in a row and all I can think about is how it'd be so much easier for everyone if I lived there. It's just such a hassle for everyone!

• One of my friends always picks me up somewhere: Ayala, Bicutan exit, Santana Grove, wherever!
• One of my friends has always been the designated driver to take me home safely, no matter what time it is, whether or not he has alcohol in his body and whether or not he's had any sleep prior to taking me home at 5 in the freakin' morning, after having spent the entire 24 hours running errands and drinking.
• Two of my friends accompany the designated driver, making sure he won't fall asleep while driving (they pass by C5 which is so dangerous at night, doesn't matter if the driver is drunk or not).

I always tell them that it's easier to just let me commute my way home than have them all go through the hassle of taking me home within 24 hours but they tell me they want me to be safe. It's the sweetest thing anyone could ever tell me but at the same time, I can't help but feel guilty. It's just so much to go through for a friend.

I feel really good whenever I'm with them, though. They spoil me rotten. Feels nice to be treated that way for a change.

Good.

If you told me last month that there are actual nice guys who wouldn't take advantage of a poor girl with huge self-esteem issues, I wouldn't have believed you.

Enter actual Mr. Nice Guy-who-I've-known-for-most-of-my-life-but-just-got-to-hung-out-with-these-past-few-months.

Mind. Effin. Blown.

Seriously.

Last weekend's Murtaugh List additions

• Drink without eating dinner
• 2 consecutive tequila shots after finishing a liter of Jack Daniels
• 2 whole packs of cigarette in a day
• Sleeping the whole damn day after a drinking session
• Puking bile without wincing
• Watch the UAAP Finals while nursing a massive hangover
• Sleeping on the gutter while my friends take photos
• Have someone carry me from the gutter to the bed/sofa (but I'm really thankful he did because I can't even bring myself to sit up when he asked me to)
• Remember what the hell happened after those kinds of drunken nights

Great friends are great.

Here's a list of how my grade school friends spoiled me rotten over the weekend.

• They were supposed to pick me up from Pasig then head to Tagaytay last Saturday. They're all from Paranaque.
• When I convinced them that I'd just meet up with them in Bicutan, one of them picked me up from the bus station, armed with an extra umbrella, because I forgot to bring mine.
• Same friend allowed me to smoke in his car because I told him I wanted to. Windows were closed because the rain was so strong. He is not a smoker.
• I called shotgun and no one disagreed with me, even that one friend who has polio and preferred sitting up front.
• They let me play hiphop music in the car the entire trip to Tagaytay. They all listen to party/dance music exclusively.
• They let me choose which of their hoodies I wanted to use.
• My friend who owns the house in Tagaytay asked us which bottle we wanted to open first. I said Jack. He gave us Jack.
• He also allowed me to play hiphop music in their house, even with all the adults there.
• One of our friends was supposed to head back home at 12mn because he had a basketball game the next day. He's a varsity player. He stayed because I asked him to.
• I told them it'd be great to have coffee - tea, in my case - first before we headed back to Manila the next day because I didn't want to go home yet. We went to that new Starbucks place there.
• They let me sit up front again.
• They brought me home to Pasig. We all didn't sleep the night before and they were all so sleepy...well, except the driver, though, because he took a nap early Sunday morning.

Very funny, Universe.

So, the Universe decided to throw something in this already weird mix of emotions I am having just in time for the last day of September. This surprise is good, too. Not as good as this one but good enough to make me more confused than I already am.

Not that I'm complaining, Universe, but these types of things really mess up my head, I probably will have to set-up a new blog for it...but I'm not gonna because I don't think whatever's going on in here is going to progress in any way.

Good thing about this, though, is that I didn't think of him the entire weekend.

Buddy system.

Disclaimer: My whiny, annoying, clingy alter ego is taking over this blog post.

You have been warned.

The buddy system has been introduced to me way back in preschool, when we were required to walk side-by-side someone while we paraded on school grounds in our costumes.

When I got into grade school, the concept was still there, mainly for field trips so we won't get lost and it'd be easier for the teacher to count the class inside the bus.

High school came and the buddy system is all about finding someone to cut classes with you, someone to share her soggy fries with you and someone to sit with you on the ramp while you both waited for your sundo at around 8 in the evening.

The college buddy system is somewhat the same as the high school buddy system except in college, you smoke your lungs out in Agno, drink unlimited shakers of that red alcoholic drink in Green Place, follow the "love of your life" all over campus (and the vicinity surrounding it) and wait in line for tickets for the La Salle - Ateneo games in the Yuchengco lobby at 7 in the freakin' morning even if it means you both don't make it to your 8 and 9am classes. (AHHH SERIOUSLY THE BEST YEARS OF MY LIFE!)

Then came work. You find someone you can share your (rebellious) thoughts regarding your company with, someone you can trust to cover for you when you are late/absent/going undertime and someone you can bully into smoking downstairs and come back 2 hours after.

And then I decided to work from home... I still need someone to accompany me everywhere but there's no one here but my daughter and our kasambahay most of the time and obviously, they can't go to, say, Frankie's for a bottle - or two - of beer at 3 o'clock in the afternoon. Which really sucks, especially when my period is coming up because my emotions are just all over the place and I just want my brain to shut down.

Here's why I am making a big deal out of this: I have 2 tickets for the special screening of Runner Runner in Shang tomorrow night (Again, thanks, Nuffnang Philippines and Globe!), a beer festival in Eastwood on Friday where Rico Blanco, Ely Buendia and a whole lot of musicians are gonna play and no one to enjoy them with. I know these are small things that I shouldn't be worrying about but I have my period and I'm usually overly dramatic when it's my time of the month.

Anyway, I know what the solution to this problem is: Friends. Simple, I know, but you have to understand that I don't really have that one friend who I can bring wherever I want to go, whenever I want to. That sounds selfish, I know, but that's what I want. A buddy who I can call up at weird hours and do weird (non-sexual) stuff with as long as my requests are reasonable (yeah, I'm not that selfish). I'll do the same for him/her, too, of course...

Good god, who'd want to spend time with me, right? Ugh.

I can only hope...

Monica: Why would you do that?
Chandler: Because you shouldn't be with him. You should be with me.
Monica: Really?
Chandler: Yeah. When you were talking about Roger, that was killing me. Look. Things like last night, they don't just happen, you know. At least, not to me. Now, with the other two women...in the morning, you know, I would just lie there and I couldn't wait to just go hangout with my friends but with you, I was, you know, already with a friend.
Monica: Chandler...
Chandler: And I know you prolly don't wanna go out with me, you know, that I make too many jokes and I've never been in a serious relationship and I guess I'm not technically a "doctor"...

Friends Season 6 Episode 16 - The One That Could Have Been (2) 

Birthday Weekend

I was in a different place 2 weekends ago, thus the birthday request (solely related to him) to the universe in this post. I didn't really fully understand how lucky I am because I was so into the whole idea of us finally happening (and falling apart, all in less than one week and without him knowing anything...yes, that's possible) until my birthday weekend happened.

September 13-14, 2013 | Tejada Residence, Pasig | Photo from Angel

September 14-15, 2013 | Tides Bar and Grill, Pasig | Photo from Beth

Yes, this weekend definitely topped that weekend. This birthday weekend made me realize that whatever it is I lack in attracting quality men, I make up for attracting understanding and supportive friends.