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As last Sunday night ended and a new week started, the weather looked great (no rain!). Work was hectic again which is what I like instead of boring myself (like now – yea, I’m weird, we all know that already). I was starting to feel that it would be a great week ahead. We even started the week with dinner out which we don’t usually do on a weekday and had a nice night…until we went home that night. As I walked in the door, I noticed that the Christmas tree was gone! And so were the garlands hanging around the apartment! Ok, I didn’t mind that, I guess Christmas is really over. Since the room still feels different, I looked around to what else she did, and it seems that not only did she take down the Christmas decors, she also packed her stuff!!! All the picture frames that used to hang on our wall were gone! She’s all packed except for her clothes!! Now this I minded! Why couldn’t she have started packing a week before she would leave?? Grrrrr… That night, it suddenly hit me that she’ll be going home mid-February and it’s only a few weeks away. But I guess I can’t really sulk for long so I did what I always do when something like this happens. Got up from the fall, brush away the dirt then put on a brave front to face whatever comes.
What came was David back from 
) and there were free finger foods there (yummy!). While we were in Malone’s, I received a text message from a wayward friend that she was in Zapatas for the ladies night. So Sunny and I caught up with her there, shared a taxi with Jay (sales manager) to go there coz he lives near Zapatas and was gonna go home. Got a free ride and got free drinks (frozen Margaritas – blech) at Zapatas…. It’s great being a girl!
Wonder what else lies ahead... this is officially my last blog as a 22..... 
Life goes on, and it’s only gonna make me strong
Its a fact, once you get on board say goodbye cuz you can’t go back (LeAnn Rimes)
This is my song for the week. The day seemed gloomy last Tuesday, the future seemed gloomier. Everything and everyone seemed to irritate me. I was a grouch to everybody, aggravated by every little thing although I still have enough manners to control my urge to push the people who are pushing me in the bus. Even the weather didn’t agree with me since it rained all week! But as always, I don’t stay on a bad mood for long and as the day progressed, I found the reason for it. I don’t know if my bad mood caused it or it was because of it that I was a grouch all day, but by night time I had a slight fever. I would’ve gone to bed once I got home but when I entered through the door of the apartment, I found food waiting for me at the table. Elaine’s cooking!! She followed some recipes she found online of the foods she wanted to eat. I was her guinea pig trying out the foods she made, and it was good! (I'd pay her to stay and be my cook!) After dinner and a few Sex and The City episodes later, I was fast asleep.
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Foods she made Tuesday, Thursday and Friday respectively... yummy! |
The next day seemed a bit brighter. I would’ve taken a sick leave coz I was still feeling a bit tired but since the BSB concert was that night, my conscience won’t let me be absent for work and go out later that night. I’m weird that way. Besides that, the only reason I wanted to stay home is so I can sleep all day but since it was almost the weekend, I decided to wait til then to have a sleep-a-thon. I should’ve known I won’t be able to do that! The BSB concert was really fun. The concert wasn’t sold out since there were a lot of empty seats so we were able to move to a better seat and only moved once when the owners of the seats arrived to other empty seats. They were so late that they shouldn’t have came and made us move hehehehe.. Afterwards, since we were already out anyways, we decided to go to Zapata’s since it was ladies night every Wednesday. Wasn’t there long though coz I was feeling a bit tired and had work the next day too. I had a sore throat the next day.
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Concert |
Now it’s the weekend and I still haven’t had my sleep-a-thon. The sore throat’s gone but instead I have a cough. It’s the second night in a row that I have woken up in the middle of the night and had a hard time going back to sleep because of this non-stop coughing. Don’t hold anything that I just wrote against me since it is too early in the morning to blog so I probably am not yet thinking straight yet. Since I couldn’t sleep, I decided to just tire myself out until I conk out hence the blogging. (There’s really not much to do this early in the morning!). Although my week started out bad, along the way it turned out to be not so bad. Like the song, no matter how bad a day is, life goes on and maybe tomorrow the sun would shine or better still maybe it would snow! Snow, snow, and more snow until its knee deep. Ok, it’s wishful thinking but who knows what tomorrow will bring?
Yesterday, we helped a friend move to her new apartment. We moved some stuff from her Aunt's friends apartment (things they are giving her since they are leaving) to the apartment she's gonna move from and also moved her stuff from her apartment down to the car (no elevators and on the 3rd floor) then after stuffing them all in the van, more moving at the new apartment. From the front of the apartment building to the front of the elevators then into the elevators, back out of the elevators after arriving on her floor and from there up one flight of stairs (the elevator doesn’t reach her floor) into her new apartment. Whew! Tiring isn't it? Just thinking of it is making me tired.
I think the exercise did me good although I probably lost only one pound and gained it back dinner time by eating pizza at home and having a drinking session afterwards while watching DVD.
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Her old building with me trying to sell some of her stuff (sssh.. she doesn't know I sold some of her clothes |
Since our weekdays are usually so mundane, weekends, if we're not feeling lazy, are the only times when we can do something fun usually it involves eating at some nice restaurants. Today was a bit different than most saturdays because our day started with something special, then came the eating, the frustration, the massage, new look, and ending it with more eating. A few minutes after I woke up this morning, the doorbell rang, and there was the guy holding the thing that made us so excited. Two tickets to the Backstreet Boys concert this coming Wednesday!!!! It might seem stupid to some, or tacky to others but to us, it's something new, something we've never done before, and who knows when we'll see another BSB concert again! Need to listen to BSB songs again to refresh my memory coz I can't seem to remember their songs... heheh
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2 Backstreet Boys Tickets!! |
Then we ate lunch (our usualy store brought foods) and after went to our favorite French place for dessert! Afterward came the frustrating part. Turns out my supposed to be roommate for the next six months, Martina, wanted to find an apartment closer to her school so Irhymbox-1.0/cheeky.gif" /> told her I'll look at the apartment she saw a few days ago. But it seems that we misunderstood each other and it turned out that she hasn't seen any apartment, instead we're gonna look at some. It's like September all over again when I arrived in Shanghai and Elaine and I were looking at apartments to live in. The apartments that the property agents were showing us today and the ones that we saw before were still the same, old, ugly and dirty! It sure made me appreciate my apartment now! And there's absolutely nothing around her school too!!! At least here, there's a lot of busses going to shopping areas or good foods 
and I think I'll just stay here in this same apartment and hope that Martina would live here with me.. if not, find new roommates.. isn't that just so frustrating? We also went to get a haircut and I love the massage they gave after shampooing our hair! I felt like falling asleep in the chair. I like the people there, they're nice to talk to.. Chinese people might not have good manners and might seem dirty, but they're really friendly. Then of course afterwards, we had dinner at Papa John's.. a pizza place, which was just beside the saloon we went too. Good food! Now, we're here in the apartment, just sitting, too full from dinner to sleep, listening to music from Elaine's ipod.
Something funny happened to me the other day. As I was in the elevator on my way down to go to work, I noticed the old lady beside me looking at me. So I did what I usually do when I'm in a good mood, I smiled at her. Turns out there was something in my hair, or so I thought, coz she was pointing at it. So I touched my hair to get whatever it was she was pointing at, when suddenly she reached out her hand and... ouch!.... she was holding a white hair.. not just any white hair.. it was one of MY treasured white hair! Then, she held it out as if she was holding a prize, and as I was still feeling a bit shocked that a total stranger would actually pluck one of my hair when not even my family will do that coz I'll be giving them my evil eye if they did, I just looked at the white hair, looked back at her, smiled (I was still in a good mood) and nodded. She still didn't let it go though, turns out she wanted to give it to me. So I took it from her and I think I also said thank you, and dropped it on the floor while thinking goodbye white hair, hello more white hair... *sigh* Ok, stop laughing already!
I'm sooo happy! Jeremy, the other boss, just asked me to his office a few minutes ago to talk to me. He asked me what my plans/goals are and why I came to China.. of course I was a bit surprise and I don't really have any answer.. I'm just taking this one day at a time
so I haven't really thought about it yet. Then he told me if I have any questions or wants something, I should tell them coz they don't want me to feel unsatisfied and leave or something like that. So I did the one thing I've wanted to do since last week but haven't yet coz I've been waiting for Michael (the big boss) to return. I asked him if I can take a week or two off in Apri to go home! He said he'll talk with Michael about it and that I won't get paid (I know that) but it might be alright. Ok, so the verdict isn't there yet, and April is still 3 months away, but I am soooo excited! BORACAY!! Here I come! I really, really hope I can go home for the holy week hehehe.. I'm already excited.. makes not going home this Chinese New Year worth it..
Here are some pictures:
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Christmas In Shanghai |
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Elaine's gift to me Christmas heheh.. and Elaine's dad opening the soda's at the bottom so it won't ruin the cans... |
Just last weekend, Elaine and I went on a boat ride.. coz we didn't have anything better to do after having lunch at our favorite crepe place.. yummy... The boat crosses from the Puxi side (where I live and where most of the entertainment is) to the Pudong side and back.. It's only 2rmb too.. so very cheap.. then in Pudong, we just walked around a mall.. really didn't have anything better to do...
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Boat Ride |
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The popcorn guy.. don't know if it's clean or not.. but we've been in China too long to care |
So, what do you think of the new template? hahahah.. nothing much changed... maybe next time when I have more time.. Anyone wants to go to Boracay with me?
DVDs: Golden Girls! Season 1-3! hehehe.. and Sex and the City (Elaine's) all Season!.. it's DVD marathon at our apartment
Hmmm.. this is getting to be a habit... bloggin at work i mean hehe.. just been kinda tired when I get home lately that I don't want to use the computer anymore (after all day staring at the computer at work!). And I'm feeling kinda bored at work so I figured might as well...ssshhh! Not yet sure if I have Internet at home already or not! oh well...
My new year's resolution is to walk to and fro work and I added another one (only in my mind!) that I won't eat chocolates anymore! But nature seems to be against me. Last night, I was able to follow through with my resolution.. I walked home! Took me about 20 minutes of kinda fast walk to arrive at the apartment, and it was raining too, but just light rain so it was ok. But this morning, not only did I woke up late, it was raining again! (or maybe still!) So, I wasn't able to walk to work. Then when I got to work, it seems that one of our colleague is back from her trip and gave us chocolates! So of course, I took one... So since I wasn't able to go through with my resolutions, I was thinking of making tomorrow my new year and start over again... but then again, it might rain... I'll just revise my resolutions to this: walk to and fro work if I feel like it and it's not raining (dapat lng!), and not to BUY chocolates (I'll eat if someone would offer me some..... um, anyone??.. dove lng a!) Not really much of a new year resolutions noh? heheh
My sister emailed me pictures from Christmas... this is a picture from Christmas at home.. after midnight snacks at our grandma's house, we usually wait until after midnight to go home so we can open gifts... I'm the one who took the picture! (I wish!) hehehe Dhia needs a haircut!! and why are they all wearing red except my dad? My gifts are still there, under the tree.. unopened... but just in the picture coz Elaine's parents brought with them my presents! Got a book from my sis and Don, a denim jacket from my brothers (which I think is a bit big.. they must think I'm that fat already!) and a bag from my parents.
Little Mikah on her way to our house in Bacolod... She's soo big already!!
What a way to end a year and to start another one.... Just slept throught it .... Didn't hear a lot of fireworks this new year, didn't miss it at all! Ok, I guess I'm a scrooge but only for new year mornings.. if that's even considered.. but having your sleep disturbed by loud "BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!" that just won't stop and on one of the few days in a year that I can actually sleep til late is really irritating especially since we usually sleep late the night before. My dad would be one of those people who would be lighting up those noisy fireworks early in the morning along with the other people on our street. They would be taking turns too until they finish all their fireworks while I'll be up in my room covering my ears and trying to go back to sleep. What I did miss is how we'd end our year. My dad buys a lot of cool fireworks every year and we'd light it on our roof deck a few hours before midnight and some noisy fireworks that we'd have on midnight to celebrate the new year, then of course comes the midnight snacks....yummy!
Elaine's parents came over to celebrate new year with her, they're really nice and talkative (elaine's mom!) and wow, can they eat! Theirs is a food trip! They eat breakfast, lunch, dinner, a few snacks in between and would still be eating when we get back to the apartment!! We'd also be drinking sodas while watching DVD at the apartment coz Elaine's dad collects coke cans so we needed to drink them all so he can take the empty cans home. All in all, it's been fun. They're on their way home now and I hope my parents will pay them back for all the foods they bought for me.
New year's resolutions: I wasn't going to make one this year since I never stick to them anyways... who does? But I figured, why not?... I might as well try if I can do it... So far I only got one and that is to walk to and fro work (30mins walk) everyday... started doing it this morning but woke up a bit late and didn't want to start the new year by being late to work so... Will start tomorrow! 
Hmmm.. I'll have to think some more... heheh
Ok, I'm doing this at work.. no Internet at the apartment yet... don't know why since I already paid the bill last week.. so, gonna go back to work.. Can't wait til lunch!! Heard we're having pizza! Our ayi's on vacation this week and won't be back til Friday I think, so unless someone's gonna cook, it'll be delivery til she comes back... yippeeee!
Pictures next time....
