friends don't get any special-er than this

superfriends are the best!

bagal kasi magupload nitong mga to eh. :P

Toldja I'm a Star :P

When I was seven, my very first best friend Marie and I took on a project for the pre-school we went to. The Learning Tree is where most of my happy childhood memories were built and where gifts were nourished.

I do not remember how it all started just that days after our senior kindergarten graduation, I was told to listen to a series of tapes with recorded music, learn the words that came with the melody, and meet Marie every so often to practice.

Then came the days when we had to go to a recording studio (a super feat for pre-schoolers who recently transferred to the 'big school') to sing and 'play' and sing some more. I remember thinking we were like Celine Dion (whom I did not know back then) in their video of Beauty and the Beast, singing to a hanging microphone with headsets on.

We even had an album launch. :)

On its first release, the albums were on cassette tapes. Gimme a break. It was 1992. Then after selling like, I dunno, a whole lot of copies, it is only but right to produce a CD version. So yes, Marie and I are like, platinum record holders. LOL. Of course, Teacher Francie gets props for being the mastermind in all these. :)


(Btw, did you know that she collaborated with the Megastar Sharon Cuneta in the latter's children's album? And that Miel went to the Learning Tree, which means the Megastar's daughter sang our songs, hahaha. Funny thought.)

Later, the grown ups will tell us that we liked holding hands on the way to the studio, at play, or simply to talk. Pang-Hallmark moment lang talaga. :)

You hafta squint a little better and zoom in to see our names, and recognize our faces. I'm second from the left, Marie's the pretty girl with long hair. :)

Anyway, those are the best days, weeks, months I can ever remember. One, because I got to share it with my best friend. Two, because we bonded over music. Three, hullo, we're recording artists. Four, we were probably the most spoiled first graders ever. Five, because Teacher Francie took us to all these expensive restaurants (that I thought was 'common' for most people, yun pala something I cannot afford as a grown up, LOL) and because she is such a darling.

I truly thank God for the experience for it has made a lot of things uber cool in all my years on this earth. And I absolutely praise Him for the beautiful, long-standing friendship Marie and I have. And music, I thank God for music. :)

Tiger's Day Out

Tiger went to the groomer's today. It's her second time there actually but it's the first time I was around. Her hair has gotten all grown and tangled so I decided to have them sheared off.

It was a struggle to bring her out of the house but she seemed to have enjoyed the scenery. I put on her leash so she could at least exercise her legs but no, when I put her down she just stared at me didn't move. She wouldn't walk outside so I carried her all the way. Such a diva.

And so there she was, being all squirmy when all her hair fell off from the razor.

She got an all-around cleaning that took about an hour (such a long time for a wittle puppy) and all the other clients gushed at how cute she was, asking me her name and age and stuff dog owners tend to ask. I answered what I could, being a newbie and all. But I'm so darned proud that they were all sweet to my Tiger and remarking how cute she was.

Heehee. She had been well-behaved at one point and really paid attention to what was being done to her. Such a cutie, noh?

Across the Pet House was my old school, TLT, and I went there to get a copy of our album. The children at the courtyard stopped playing to gather around me and Tiger, asking for a turn to hold and carry her. Once upon a time, I was that kid, going up to a lady to ask for her dog. Talk about role reversals.

My baby looks like a sheep now. And acts like one, too. She seems to be enjoying her new do, and vitamins and food.

happiness!

wedding bells and dreameries...
(talagang kailangan i-connect?)

happy anniversary pastor dave and tita nory! <3
happy get tog TG!
happy shopping, dreameries.

yay. <3

a dream is a wish

There has been a lot going on but there are lull times, too. I blame the lack of wifi in our office for my cyber silence and karma suicide. And when I do get valuable internet time, I end up being too swamped with senselessness that I fail to keep my thoughts in order. I thank twitter and plurk for accepting the one-liners I cannot, for the life of me, put together in a coherent/cohesive entry.

It amazes me how I get everything (or most things) I want. My joys are simple, really. It is even more astounding that despite of me, I get divinely spoiled. I'd like to think that God spoils me. Emphasis on think. I like the thought. :)

If I should begin telling you about the great things that happened between this blog and the last, I would not know where or how to start.

Here's one thing though. In college, when I would go up to Baguio early Monday mornings and pass by the Timog fly-over, I'd look out the window and tell the GMA tower that someday, I will work there. And here I am, three years later.

Believe you me, dreams do come true. :)