July 16, 2010

Friends. They might be far, but they're still the best.

Thanks to Yankumi, I learned lessons as well. I've finally finished watching Gokusen 1, two more series to go! :)

By the way, this is Sawada Shin. :)

My lessons were a bit boring today, I had two beginners and an intermediate who is "bossy." But I'm still grateful that they've chose me to be their tutor. Oftentimes, I'm wondering wheter they're really learning on this method. Maybe yes, maybe no. In whatever way, I don't really want to know. I'm not born to be a teacher, you know. I'm not even sure what am I born to do.

The curtains were not yet opened. I still have more things to do, to discover, to learn and to experience. I will look forward to that day. I may stumble, I might get hurt, I might get back where I started, but it doesn't matter. As long as I've tried my best to do everything I can, there will be no regrets. :)

Gomen nasai! I was influenced much by Yankumi's idealistic thoughts!

Minna! Ganbatte!

July 15, 2010

Cooking.

I'm not a good cook, but I can do some basics: fried stuff, soup (sinigang), adobo. I know there's more recipes to learn if I will continue living in this lifetime, but that can be learned later.

Earlier, I had a quick trip to High Street: went to the bank and inquired something about the nursing course (which I incidentally forgot). It was raining on my way home but since I had the bike with me, I was at home before I get soaked. I had lots of free time in the afternoon because I only have one class in RareJob (super love love!). I used that spare time to watch gokusen episodes. Oh, Sawada!

There's nothing much, it's just that I finally started practicing for an event. Geez! Everyone around me keeps saying: "You can do it!" but there's a voice inside me saying, "BETTER SAFE THAN SORRY!" meaning, GIVE UP. But I don't want to disappoint mommy. So I have to let go of the fear. I have to face the challenge, shut that voice in my head and perform.

There's still a week to go. I can do this!

July 14, 2010

Let's face it, I'm hotter than you.

So, I guess you know where I got this line. It's from Jacob Black, my one-and-only werewolf crush. :))

I went to Swansea town with friends this day and we had fun. Well, I did. Surprises didn't stop the day before yesterday and I received the best gift ever: Twilight Saga Journals. JunJun made my heart skip a beat when he handed me the "package." I am such a kid. The journals were like barbie dolls in my eyes and I can't take them off the package. Yuan and I took the journals out the cage and flipped over the pages. Damn, it's so beautiful! I wonder how will I be able to write on them without ruining their beauty?

Enough of the journal, let's talk about the movie.

My heart skipped another beat when I saw Jacob's face on the screen. I missed him so much, I just realized. HAHA. To cut my craziness short, the film was good. I think they gave justice to the book. I still don't like the way Stuart act as Bella, though. Alice and Jasper were so cute, Rosalie was so pretty, Victoria and Riley were a good pair, Bree Tanner is such a cutey, Leah Clearwater is *NO COMMENT*

The ambience is awkward, though. I was happy, everyone else is feeling the same, I think, but there is just something, something that doesn't have any connection with me, but I can feel it. Awkwardness, cowardice, fear. They're all present. GRRR! I hate it when people break up!

July 12, 2010

Everyone gets older. No one can escape that.

Though this is the big day for me, I still have to do some "duty." I went to Lem's house to do the babysitting early in the morning. It was chilly so I wore my red jacket, joking inside that I have to wear red because it is my day. When I arrived, her father told me she can't go to school because she has fever. So I just stayed in her room and watched her as I download videos. :)

I can say that this was a long day. From 5.30 in the morning til 11.00pm, I was on the go. We had visitors since 10am, we decorated the living room, cooked some foods, had the balloons inflated, went to Tesco to buy ribbons (and cork board), went to Lem's again to get the food her mom prepared, the likes.

People started coming around 4pm. I got my wardrobe scanned by Yzh, Tita Amy's daughter and she helped me pick what clothes to wear. It was cute. I have to endure the pain caused by heels, though.

We just had fun, literally. I was with people, talking here, saying thank you there, singing this, eating that, taking pictures in a second, then greeting a new guest next ... BUSY! I just can't describe how happy I was today. I was happy not because I'm getting older, I'm happy because these people made effort to celebrate with me. This birthday seems to be the biggest one for me. It's just that everything's new: friends, food, experience. And I got lots of greetings in FB as well. Three of my crushes put some effort in greeting me, what else could I ask for, right?

Gifts were the last thing on my mind, mind you. When I opened them, I was like: Geez! I never thought of having this one, and that one, and this one too! I had Team Jacob bag from Ciela and it was the "outstanding" gift, I can say. I've got perfumes, make-up kits, clothes, photo holder, keychain, bracelet, chocolates and money, note: POUNDS. :))

I've got loads of cards, too.

To end the day, I took my "kulambo" downstairs and I slept with mommy in the living room. We have sleep over friends so we decided that today is a "family day."

July 7, 2010

Work. Work. Work. Eat. Live.

Mommy woke me up so early, cutting me from my dream:

I was talking to Shoti, then I learned that he is my brother, suddenly, pictures of Vero came into my mind. No! I thought, how can he become my brother? Then the scene changed. I was walking with Jana, there was a field in the view, we bought some milk shakes and finished them along the way. We bumped onto Cheri and friends, they were surrounding us, Genie and his thin friend and the other with the bird's nest hair. I was looking intently at Genie, because he didn't change much, and then I saw Cheri, lips pouting like a child, asking for milkshake. Jana said, I have class from 5.30 to 8.30 I can't buy you. Then Cheri pout the lips again, asked for milkshake. I sighed, told Cheri that I'll go and BOOM!

I'm awake.

We had a fast breakfast, I washed up, dressed and I still earned a "sermon" because Mom said I was slow. Fortunately, we arrived in time for the bus, so we didn't wait long. We had some problems in finding the right building, but we made it just in time. I had the interview, showed my passport and after ten minutes, the secretary said I'll just have to wait for a couple of weeks to get the card.

Though it was raining, we still went around Swansea town and bought some stuff. To cut it short, I had my full set of Percy Jacskon series using my money from babysitting. I feel so proud of myself, buying that set which could probably cost around 2500php. But then again, I remember buying Inkdeath at almost 1000php. :))

Hungry as we were, we looked for ChinaChina but luck isn't on our side. The shop was closed. We were forced to eat at McDonald's instead.

After eating, we went to the bus station and waited for 404. But we changed plans and we took 111 instead. So while we were waiting at Gorseinon Bus Station for the 404, I went to the library to get my book (The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner --- Stephanie Meyer).

We reached home around 4. I went straight to my room and started watching Personal Taste. Geez! Lee Min Ho is so so hot, I can't stop watching. :))

July 5, 2010

To work doesn't mean to earn money.

This is my first time to be at any office, sitting on a swivelling chair and doing office works. Thanks to Tita Nicole, I'm practicing my clerical skills. I have answered few calls, typed some documents and downloaded Personal Taste series.

Tita Nicole prepared food for me, too. Today is the first time that I ate sandwich for lunch, coupled with coffee. I've had two cups of coffee today, something that is worth saying a "record."

After "work" I met with Ciela and Kuya Julius. They have brought Butchok and Jessie with them (Ciela's pets), walking the cute dogs on the way. I was with my bike so I was a little ahead of them. When we reached their house, we a movie, ate some, and then we went to our place. I have to go home early because Mommy will use the bike to go to work. She said she doesn't want to walk this time.

Our bonding time did not end, though. We stayed at our place, watching Paranormal Activity, which I think bored us all. We ate dinner together, the four of us. Ciela cooked sunny side up, while I warmed rice on the microwave. This night, I just realized how tall JunJun really is. I envy him for having such height!

Then the night is over.

July 4, 2010

When it's raining and you don't have an umbrella, be cool. Let yourself be soaked with rain water. It's from Heaven, anyways.

I skipped rarejob and going to church with the Baldemors today in turn of joining Mommy to Llanelli for "shopping." Tita Mylene went to fetch us around 12.30. The weather was not that good, it was raining.

First we went to a Filipino shop. I thought we were going to a big supermarket, like Tesco or Asda, but my hopes dropped when I noticed we were heading in a residential-type area. The place was good, though. It reminded me of 7-11 near the dormitory back in Manila, small but mostly all of your needs are there. Of course, most of their goods were Filipino delicacies: buko juice, boy bawang, pancit canton, among others.

While Tita My and Mommy were busy picking stuff they like, I was playing with Lem, Tita My's daughter (she's the one I babysit, too!). She was energetic today. We were walking hand-in-hand, sometimes I carry her, sometimes she tickles me, and sometimes she just blurts out: Ate, I love you! Sweet.

Next stop was at Tesco. Along the way, I was teaching Lem how to play "Penpendesarapen" game. Bad luck for me, she finds it BORING. At Tesco, I pushed the cart for mommy as she filled it with stuff. I noticed she really likes shopping and sure, I'm happy pushing carts for her if not for those people bumping me. Tesco was packed! Though it's raining, these UK people didn't miss their chance to drop by!

Finally we were done shopping. I grabbed some leaflets of easy cook recipes, hoping I can use them someday. I was so tired from the shopping so in our way home, though Lem was asking for a game, I just said I was sleepy and closed my eyes. Thankfully the ride was quick and I was able to take a rest.

Sunday does not end that way, though.

As the clock turned 6, Ciela called me, asking if I was busy. I was reading John Grisham's The Client then, so I said I was not. They were knocking on our door ten minutes after that call. Next thing I know, I was riding a bike, heading to their house. There were four of us, all pedalling our way to Penlan road. That was a tiring ride, mind you! I hate that high slope before the last bend to their house! I never noticed it was that high when we were walking! Riding a bike has its advantage, of course. We reached their house with just the span of roughly 10minutes, compared to that 30minutes when we walk.

They've prepared a movie for us to watch. It was called "Coming Soon." Ciela and I were having our share of screams and Kuya Julius was hiding himself with a pillow, more scared than Ciela and I were, JunJun was the calmest of us four. Kuya Andrew came in just in time to see the credits. He missed all the fun.

By the way, I earned a scratch in my left arm, for an unknown reason. It's not a big deal, but it hurts big time! That was my first cut in UK. haha. Very historical.

We were on our bikes again, going back to 20 Gower View around 10.00pm. They stayed for a while, and that's how my Sunday ended.

July 2, 2010

Sun smiled at us this day, drying our laundry.

I went to the Library again this morning, not that I intended to do so. I had an appointment earlier with Barclays, with my mommy, to open my account. That library moment was just a by-product of the trip.

We rode our bikes again, being careful as ever. I'm wondering when will I go to High Street alone, with a bike? I am scared to ride a bike on my own, like, without my Mom as my navigatior. Whenever I'm riding one, my previous accidents were coming back to my thoughts, like they just happened yesterday.

I easily lose focus while driving, I'm too scared to drive, too much worried about cars that might pass by. But I know how to ride a bike and a motorcycle. I really do. I don't have a license to show, though, but by experience, I can say that I am a rider -- a beginner, maybe even under beginner level, if there is any.

Thirty minutes at the library resulted to three downloaded MVs and irritation in me. I wasn't able to download another episode of Personal Taste (a korean series)! I don't know why the library's connection is like that now. Maybe I'll have to wait until we have our connection at home ... but that's 12 days from now!

My guardians don't have their duty this day so we stayed home, watching Wimbledon in the afternoon and World Cup in the evening. I am so loving Rafael Nadal! He is a good sport, unlike Andy Murray who is really impatient and too proud of himself. Serves him right that Nadal won.

I've been burning movies and mp3s to cds too. Unfortunately, there's some problems with the cds that I've burned. They're not playing with the DVD player. It's okay when you play it at the computer, though. I think I'll have to get another burner. Oh, that will wait until the 13th!

July 1, 2010

No sun-spells today for Gorseinon.

Last night, I slept in my room and I had a dream. I was reading a letter from a friend, I can even recall the precise words but I will not share it to you, in case that person reads this blog. As I was reading her letter--yes, it's a she--my mom called me and said, "there's another package here!" I went to her and grabbed the package, searching for a picture. But the package was empty.

In the real world, my mom is waking me up because I'm running late for my appointment with my GP, the person who will check my health condition and stuff. It's 9.10. My appointment is at 10.10. Being the slow girl that I am, I'm gonna be really late if I will still catch some slack so I got up, ate my breakfast, got myself ready and I'm off. Time check: 9.48am.

Literally, I ran, holding my umbrella and clutching my bag on its place--I never leave home without a bag. Fortunately, I was two minutes earlier! I made it!

This activity reminded me of PGH, those times when I was waiting for my turn, together with my blockmates, blah ... blah ... blah. But PGH slipped out of my mind the moment the doctor/nurse/someone-who-will-check-me smiled and asked, "Alright?" Not that I'm not used with people asking me that question.

After the check-up, I learned that I was two centimeters taller, and a kilo lighter. I can't believe I'm just 45 kilos! My cheek fats were deceiving me! All this time I thought I should lose weight, but NO! It's otherwise.

I went straight to the Library to download videos.

When I was heading back home, I was wondering if I should use my umbrella or not. It's drizzling. I know I have to use my umbrella to keep me dry but I was also aware that I was the only one using umbrella! Everyone else was taking no notice of the drizzle!

As I was waiting for the darkness to invade, I decided to watch New Moon, again. I just find it funny that Eclipse is now showing and I'm here, watching it's prequel instead.

Jacob Black still has his appeal on me. I will never deny that. I just hate how Bella acts! She's lacking emotions here and there, which left me wondering what did the producers see in her. Yeah, she's really pretty, I'll give her that but PLEASE, where's your love to Edward? Where's your affection to Jacob? Where is your delicate side?

ENOUGH.

I ended the day by watching another movie on Five. The Day After Tomorrow. Oh, I love Sam!