I'm baaaaack!

Miami was awesome. Took pictures but not too much because we were to busy enjoying the moment, heh. Anywho, I'll upload pictures to my flickr! and post some of them on my next blog entry. I'm taking a quick five minutes off from work, can't take it anymore! I've only been gone for two business days and the amount of work that accumulated is ridiculous *blech*.

I turned 29 yesterday, yikes! (It'll take me a while to keep saying 29 now haha!)
So yeah, another year added and I am very thankful and blessed for having such a great family and wonderful people around me. Thank you Lord!

Of course we kicked off my birthday celebration with the Miami vacation (will get details on that on the next post). Got back Saturday and wow JFK is freakin ridic. We already landed and was just waiting to get out but we were stranded there for like 30 minutes or so. Then waiting for the luggage was another 30 minutes wasted. Vacation was great but as soon as you smell the NYC air, you get back aggravated and stressed. So anyway, my mom gave me and my aunt a lil birthday party Sunday (28th) after our church service. My cousin and aunt from CT stopped by as well as my other relatives around Queens. Made plans to go on vacation with him and my brother, they both want to go to the westcoast LOL. I have mixed feelings about it but I'll go, whatever. BF came Sunday night to greet me happy birthday before midnight. Aww so sweet LOL, handed me his present. He fooled me big time saying he's giving me a MAC gift card. I swear when he told me that like a week before we're leaving for Miami I have the "WTF look" on my face. Like - "really? are you serious?" LMAO. I don't really care what he gets me, it's the thought that counts. Anyway, I was off yesterday for my birthday and my BFF wanna go out for lunch or whatever but I was feeling mad lazy and tired soooo... I stayed in bed all day! It was great though! Then my parents and brother picked me up to take me out to dinner. We went to East Manor, which is five minute drive from me. The food wasn't as good as how it was when we went there for my dad's birthday last year. But whatever, I enjoyed my time with my family.

Okay, that wasn't a five minute post LOL. Gotta go back to work now :(

PS: My face is breaking out due to sun or sea water or both! And it's peeling too. Bummer! I didn't get too dark though, which is good. But I had a nice color now, not pale anymore, w00t!

The moment that I step outside
So many reasons
For me to run and hide
I can't do the little things I hold so dear
'Cause it's all those little things
That I fear - No Doubt

BTW, thanks for all the birthday greetings via email, text, twitter, facebook, etc. You guys rock!

He got me this cute Tiffany bracelet, I love it! Thanks babe.
(A lot of people say I have a skinny wrist, and I agree LOL)

Hiatus

I'll be gone for a few days to enjoy my mini-vacation. Wish it was a week long but I'm saving up my vacation days for DC, the bay area, Chi-town, Hawaii, the Philippines and Spain. Sometimes I feel like I should be laying in bed "resting" because I "wasn't feeling too well" but I manage to man up and drag my ass to work (making smart choices to use my vaca day).

An example is today, instead of taking a day off from work I decided to take an early evening flight just so I can go to work today, work through lunch so when I leave early I'm only an hour undertime. WIN! Though yesterday I was talking to my BFF Oz who works for Delta trying to figure out if he can give me a "hook-up" and switch my flight to an earlier one. He said I have to pay an extra $200 and that is if there are extra seats. Umm no, thanks. No hookup then LOL. So yeah I'm stucked with my ticket. But anyway, it should be fun. Hopefully we'll get a good weather when we get there. My co-worker who was just down there in Miami a few weeks ago was telling me they had flood LOL. I was watching the video she took and it was indeed, FLOOD. Something I have experienced back when I still used to live in Manila. When we get flood there, it wasn't just an inch or two, it was more than 12 inches. I remember on my 19th birthday and I was in 3rd year college and my school was in Taft Ave., and boy it was crazy. One of my classmates had to carry me to the car so my feet don't get wet. Now I'm trying to remember who it was LOL.

Last night I started on this project at work and hopefully when I get back to work on Tuesday, I can continue the phase two. So umm yeah, I'm gonna get back to this.

Ugh! I wish I had put some Disney soundtracks to my iPod, to keep me busy for a 3+ hour flight tonight :(

On the other note, I'm taking my DSLR and point and shoot cameras so expect pictures next week! :)


A whole new world
That's where we'll be
A thrilling chase
A wondrous place
For you and me - Aladdin & Princess Jasmine

Poppin pills

So I have this killer headache yesterday, I don't know why. I usually get headaches when I'm hungry LOL or super exhausted. It was neither of the two because we had Father's Day lunch after church and I wasn't exhausted cuz I was well rested (though I went out Saturday night despite having fever).

My friends say I think too much, funny because I agree that I do think way too much. I ask a lot of questions too. So maybe that's what caused me headache too. You know they say- kids ask a lot of questions because they seek answer? Well I am like that, in a way LOL. It's safe to ask rather than assume, correct?

I'm off to meet my bro for lunch. See ya.

I'm most likely to edit this post later.

Breathe Me

Ouch I have lost myself again
Lost myself and I am nowhere to be found,
Yeah I think that I might break
I've lost myself again and I feel unsafe - Sia

100th post!

To celebrate my 100th post... Haha!

8 things I look forward to:
1. Miami trip
2. San Francisco trip
3. Hawaii trip
4. DC-Baltimore trip
5. My 29th birthday (eek!)
6. 2 weeks Philippines vacation!
7. Go back to school
8. My lawsuit to be over

8 things I did yesterday:
1. Shopping
2. Work
3. Paranoia kicks (like someone said)
4. Work
5. Eat
6. Shower
7. More work
8. Oh yeah, sex lmao

8 things I wish I could do:
1. Go back to school
2. Retire
3. Shopping to the max
4. Travel around the world
5. Get a puppy
6. Shopping again
7. Make my loved ones happy
8. Speak multiple languages (other than English, Ilonggo and Tagalog)

Yes, I'm pretty selfish like that.

Rain...

Rain, rain go away. Is NY the new Seatle?

I swear, rainy and gloomy days takes me to a depressing mood. FML.

How do you trust people when you've been bruised from your past, multiple times? Where do you start? Better yet, how do you start picking up the pieces?

Wow, just listened to The Carpenters' Rainy Days and Mondays. It ain't Monday but that's exactly how I am feeling right now.


Talkin' to myself and feelin' old
Sometimes I'd like to quit
Nothing ever seems to fit
Hangin' around
Nothing to do but frown
Rainy Days and Mondays always get me down.

What I've got they used to call the blues
Nothin' is really wrong
Feelin' like I don't belong
Walkin' around
Some kind of lonely clown
Rainy Days and Mondays always get me down.

Funny but it seems I always wind up here with you
Nice to know somebody loves me
Funny but it seems that it's the only thing to do
Run and find the one who loves me.

What I feel has come and gone before
No need to talk it out
We know what it's all about
Hangin' around
Nothing to do but frown
Rainy Days and Mondays always get me down.

- The Carpenters

Drinks & happy hours

Aight, I'm done with J-O-B but trying to kill time waiting for him so we can go to this spot around my job for a Mojito (or two LOL). Those who know me too well know that I'm a lightweight. Haha, I can't believe I just admitted that. I've never been wasted, ever. Though many have tried but failed miserably LOL. My limit is about 3 cocktails in a span of 2-3 hours, sad I know. But like I always say, I'm a cheap date. I remember one of my friends texted me while he was on a date. He was like "damn Joyce this girl had 4 drinks tonight! And I only got 1!" At least none of the people I've dated can complain about paying too much when they take me out haha! My only recollection of having too much drink was this one night at a friends' apartment in Astoria - we were drinking beer and gin. I don't know how much I had but all I can remember is my friend dropping me off and he was close to carrying me LOL. All my friends can drink. Really. And whenever I drink, I get all red. I was told it's called the "Asian rush". It's funny, but I'm dead ass serious too.

I'm more of a lounge-bar type. I rarely do clubs. And yeah, 2 drinks max for me. Hahaha!

Where is this guy? We gotta be at the bar before 7 to catch the happy hour! LOL.

Aight, I'm out!

Let's go to sleep in Paris,
and wake up in Tokyo.
Have a dream in New Orleans,
Fall in love in Chicago - Lupe Fiasco

Fave day

Thursdays are my favorite day, because the day after is Friday (I know, I'm strange like that LOL). And since I'm off on Fridays, technically today (Wednesday) is my Thursday, makes sense? Hahaha!

Sometimes I have a lot of stuff going on that I wanted to write about, though I hold it back due to personal reasons. I'm not the type that air out shit of everybody, that's not a good look. However, this is my blog and I live in the country where the First Amendment of the US Constitution (aka freedom of speech) is highly valued, or so they say. So yeah, I'm not gonna be a bitch and talk about other people in my blog space just because I do not like what they do, their lifestyle or simply because I just don't like them. I might post a rant here and there because it's therapeutic (damn, it took me 5 minutes to think of that word, I need to write more often!) though.

Hate to do this, but I must cut this short. Gotta to go back to my J-O-B (just other bullshit).


J: Do you want anything? Hurry.
D: Why are you rushing me?
J: No I'm not.
D: Yes you are. Is that the Asian in you?
J: LOL. Maybe.


And in this crazy life, and through this crazy times
It's you, it's you, you make me sing
You're every line, you're every word
You're everything - Michael Buble