The quote everyone is talking about.

John Lloyd Cruz and Bea Alonzo's 10th year as the Philippine power loveteam brought about the movie, The Mistress and along with it comes a quote that I have been seeing and hearing everywhere:

Di porket gusto mo, makukuha mo.

The first time you will read or hear it, you'll probably agree with it. For me, though, when I started analyzing it (because I've been seeing and hearing it a lot especially when they were doing their promotional rounds among a lot of ABS-CBN TV shows), I realized that I do not agree with it at all.

I have one simple reason: If you want it THAT much, you'll do ANYTHING to get it and you WILL get it. I know, I know, there will come a point where you realize that it's either (1) not worth it anymore, (2) it's not the right thing to do or (3) it's hurting somebody else but that's exactly my point. You will stop at NOTHING if you really want it. Yes, not even if it's against your ideals. If you're having second thoughts in pursuing it, stopping halfway through pursuing it or hesitating on grabbing the opportunity that's already there, I'm sorry but you don't want it bad enough, no matter what you say.

The excuses that you come up with not attaining a certain goal are the proofs you're looking for that tells you that you do not want something bad enough. When you stop giving excuses, that's when you know you want it for real.

Multiply Flashback: LEGS.

Can we just take a minute and admire my legs back in 2006?

My 18th birthday | September 15, 2006 | Ahlen

Okay. Back to regular programming.

Multiply Flashback: Remix 2006

Taking a break from backing up my Multiply photos MANUALLY because I cannot take the hassle their export tool is giving me that I'd rather download all the photos one by one.

Anyway, this is one of the moments that I felt so proud of myself during college.

Remix 2006 Finals | August 4, 2006 | Teresa Yuchengco Auditorium, De La Salle University Manila campus

I completely forgot that once in my life, I actually danced in front of an audience. I mean legit dance because clubbing doesn't count. Even if I was so bitter GMG didn't accept my application back in college, I am so thankful they asked me to dance with them because that night was one of the nights that I felt most alive in my life.

Let's Move & Let's Love

Agape. Unconditional love. This is the most important form of love that can ever be given to someone and I vow to give this kind of love to random people for the rest of my life.

I've been thinking about how I will actually go about this. After all, it's love that doesn't ask nor expect anything in return... Well, I am a mom and that automatically - for a lack of a better term - counts but I want to do something for other people. Someone I do not know. I know that I can do something that involves a non-profit organization but I want something simpler.

Okay. Here's what I will do: For the remainder of the year, I will pay for at least one person's jeepney/FX/tricycle fare everytime I go out. After all, I've done this a number of times already. I usually do it for the person who has a lot to carry or is with a baby or a grandparent or with a person with disability. Not that I am trying to brag or anything; it's just that I know how it feels like to commute with something or someone in tow.

For next year, I will come up with something better like, probably, share my umbrella to someone who doesn't have one when the rain is pouring or split a cab to someone running late. Unconditional love doesn't have to be grand or expensive. All you have to do is think about how you can help another person without holding it over his/her head like some kind of debt that you can encash any time in the future.

Love and every act of love is universal that it can transcend any barriers and United Colors of Benetton wouldn't have come up with a better concept for their next line of fragrances. Benetton challenges us to go out and make someone feel loved  as they launch their two new fragrances, Let's Move for men and Let's Love for women:


How about you, what act of love would you willingly give to your neighbor? To your loved one? To your friends?

Songs I keep on singing these past few weeks.

1. Dance Again - Jennifer Lopez
2. Take It to the Head - DJ Khaled feat. Chris Brown, Rick Ross, Nicki Minaj and Li'l Wayne
3. Hotdog Song - Mickey Mouse Clubhouse
4. Rescue My Friend - Go Diego Go!
5. Starships - Nicki Minaj
6. Ngiti - Ronnie Liang
7. Team Umizoomi theme song
8. Stand Up Tall on Tippy Toes - Hi5
9. Who's That Girl - Guy Sebastian
10. Elmo's World theme song

Parklean Crew Waterless Carwash Giveaway

This partnership with Parklean Crew Waterless Carwash wouldn't have come in a much better time. Since it's my birthday, here's a giveaway for all of you Makati condominium residents!

The guys over at Parklean and I will be giving away 30 free waterless carwash (yes, waterless!) vouchers that are valid for one month.

Here are the mechanics:

1. Like the Parklean Crew Waterless Carwash Facebook page here.
2. Follow the Parklean Crew Waterless Carwash Twitter page here.
3. Follow this blog via the Google Friend Connect (See side bar for GFC gadget).
4. Tweet this: "Free @ParkleanCrew carwash vouchers for Makati condo residents are being given away at http://aletotski.blogspot.com. http://bit.ly/QlHuf2"
5. Leave a comment in this post with your name, e-mail address, Facebook account name, Twitter account name, GFC name, and tweet link.

Winners will be announced on September 30, 2012 and will be contacted through e-mail.

Note: This carwash giveway is only for Makati condominium residents from Urdantea, Salcedo and Legaspi villages.

This Thought Catalog post deserves to be reposted.

20 Feelings And Situations That Everybody Hates
APR. 4, 2012 By CHRISTOPHER HUDSPETH

1. Seeing a bug, then losing track of it and becoming a paranoid prisoner in your own home.
2. Hearing loud slams and bumps while you’re in the shower and imagining it being some type of killer who you’ll have to fight off, soaking wet and butt naked.
3. Thinking that you’ve found a parking space, but as you turn in you discover that a motorcycle, a Volkswagen Bug, or some other vehicle the size of a Hot Wheels car has already occupied the spot.
4. When a sneeze refuses to come out, causing you to look like a fool with a scrunched up face.
5. Waiting to hear from somebody specific and being bombarded by texts & calls from everyone who isn’t that person.
6. When the week feels like: Moooooooooooooonday, Tuuuuuuuuuuueeeesday, Weeeeeeeeeeeednesday, Thuuuuuuuuuursday, FriSatSun.
7. You scan your surroundings. Nobody is near you. You fart. Within three seconds, somebody comes right into the stinky perimeter that you’ve created.
8. Checking your bank account after a night of intoxicated drink purchases.
9. When you microwave frozen food and it’s scorching hot everywhere but the ice cold middle.
10. When Michael Bay acquires the rights to make a film about a franchise that you previously enjoyed.
11. When somebody makes up lies about you, and defending yourself makes you seem guilty – but not defending yourself seems suspicious as well.
12. Getting paid but knowing in advance that your check will be consumed by bills.
13. Entering a parked car on a scorching hot summer day.
14. When gas prices are higher than your GPA.
15. When someone 20+ feet away holds the door open for you, forcing you to jog toward them.
16. The humbling moment when you realize you’re wrong during an argument.
17. Waking up and only having a few minutes left until the alarm will sound.
18. When you wear a good outfit but don’t run into anybody noteworthy all day.
19. When you have to be a douche and shuffle through the bag to confirm that Taco Bell (or any other fast food joint) got your order correct.
20. The feeling of heartburn, self-hate and bubble guts that comes about 5-10 minutes after consuming Taco Bell (or any other fast food joint).

Source: http://thoughtcatalog.com/2012/20-feelings-and-situations-that-everybody-hates/

(I am putting the actual source because I don't want to seem like a Tito Sotto, that sorry excuse for a senator.)

If I were given the chance to live in another place...

...I would love to live in New York.

The way I look at New York is the way how a probinsyana looks at Manila.

I've read stories of people who actually lives in New York and swears that life there isn't any better but still a part of me wants to live in any part of it. I could work as a bagger or a writer or as an executive assistant, it doesn't matter just as long as I live there.

I'm watching far too much TV shows and reading far too much books that are set in New York...

What's inside my bag?

When my mommy blog was still active, I keep on planning on posting a what's-inside-my-bag blog post because I thought that it was a necessity when it comes to mommy blogs but I also keep on setting it aside until I closed down the blog and didn't get to do it altogether. (I broke a lot of writing rules with that one.)

Now that I don't have to actually spend all my time seeing if Brianna will fall off the bed, I actually am doing it. Here's what's inside of my fulltime-mom-no yaya bag:

Hot guy mugshot.

I got this hot guy mugshot over at the Thought Catalog (and they got it from a Tumblr page called Hot and Busted) and can I just say he's so hot ohmygod. He reminds me of both Chuck Bass and Nate Archibald.

Side note: Gossip Girl is taking so long to start this year...