Happy 2008!

Coming soon... the video of the countdown and fireworks display in Eastwood.
Here's a low quality video, taken using my Samsung D900i phone of what happened. I guess just search www.youtube.com for a higher quality video...

My first attempt of a video blog :-D

Merry Christmas

It's not really the gifts nor the food nor the Christmas decors that make us feel the Christmas spirit... It's celebrating Christ's birth and knowing how the world changed when he first came to us. It's also renewing ourselves and changing our life for the better.

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By the way, I made a "Christmas" chicken adobo for the first time and it tasted great! Thanks to the online recipe of Food Network plus of course I made some modifications (included brown sugar and pineapple chunks). Yummy!

http://www.foodnetwork.com/food/recipes/recipe/0,1977,FOOD_9936_21152,00.html

My New Laptop

Intel Core 2 Duo! 14.1 " WXGA TFT...DVD-R/RW...Wifi...Card Reader...free bag and 1GB flash drive.. and within my budget =)

Some dreams do come true! So, I'll keep on dreaming some more... =D

Lazy Weekend

After the 2-hour-after-shift-badminton last Saturday, here's what I did Saturday afternoon and whole Sunday,

• Ate lunch at Next Door (aka North Park), the usual...spicy squid, sweet and sour pork, yang chow rice, and siomai plus 500ml of Coke Light (I'm on a diet, hehehe).
• Went home and had a DVD marathon of CSI: Las Vegas
• Slept 8 hours
• Woke up
• Bought 10 big pan de sal, 2 ube Spanish bread and soya milk from Pan de Manila for breakfast
• Watched some more CSI, while eating in bed
• Ordered Jollibee, 1 pc Chicken Joy, macaroni soup, palabok and Coke
• Watched pirated dvds, License to Wed and Blind Dating, while eating in bed
• Went to church to attend mass
• Ate ice cream with banana and KBL soup at Chicken Inasal in Metrowalk
• Drank milk
• Watched One Tree Hill (corny TV series, Dawson's Creek wannabe, even the adults act like teenagers, and everybody is somebody's ex)

Do I really wanna live my life like this? Swine reflex? a couch potato? a life of lethargy?

Sometimes maybe... ;-D

To all the Hopeless Optimists out there...

I really thought I was the one who coined the phrase "hopeless optimist." I guess I was wrong. I searched Google and found out that there were a lot of bloggers using that phrase, too. Let me be the one to define it though,

hopeless optimist n. a person who has an incurable habit of looking at the bright side of every desperate situation.

I really think I'm an authentic hopeless optimist :-)
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Tweaking

Still in the process of tweaking my blog...trying to reinvent it...but I don't seem to have the patience, the passion, the inspiration to do this anymore. Blame it on the gloomy weather.

My Prayer

God grant me

the serenity to accept the things I cannot change,
courage to change the things I can,
and the wisdom to know the difference.