Oh my God hi!!! Its been so long. My blog is now 4 years old and it makes me feel sad that i wasn't able to update it much recently. :( Last 2010, I only had 2 posts :s I just don't have the time to share some thoughts anymore. :( Its frustrating REALLY!

Don't know when i'll be coming back but Im pretty sure I won't let go of blogging. I won't. And i never will. Its my hidden hobby to write. I can't think much of what happened. There's a LOT of wonderful things out there. A lot of something. And a lot of other things too that makes me forget this crib.

Its not dead. Again, IT NEVER WILL.
I'll come back. Soon. i promise.

:)

The Philippines is in a state wherein changes are the only form of hope that each and every striving Filipino holds into. Positive changes that is. In times like this, where poverty and corruption prevails, a good change will be the last armour for a better country. Recently, the people have decided who will be the one to start this change. For it is the people who have the power, the democracy to appoint the righteous leader that will build a stronger foundation and uplift once again the country that has been ruled by selfishness.

It’s just days since the newly elected leaders have been inaugurated and officially held to position. I was a little bit excited to see how the whole process goes since I was still a kid when the last inauguration took place some 9 years ago. It was already covered on television when I woke up. There we’re a lot of people as expected. A huge ocean of yellow people. The support was really there. Banners, yellow shirts, streamers, everything. It was like everyone was into it. I was amazed with the traditions that came along the so called “passing of power”. I didn’t know that the upcoming president comes to Malacanang and sort of fetch the leaving president. It was amusing to see President Noynoy waiting downstairs for former President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo to come down. As I see it, it looks like their going to be married. Hence, it is said that its tradition. Then they have to ride the same presidential car together. That’s the first tradition I learned. Next is that the leaving president which is PGMA should pass the whole path of the AFP soldier’s lane and that she has to be given a 21 gun salute. Afterwards, she has to leave and use her own car as part of tradition also. The last tradition that I have learedn is that the incoming president should render his inaugural speech at exactly 12noon. That’s a lot of new learnings.

As the program progresses, I was having goose bumps seeing hundreds of people in yellow showing their Laban signs. The famous L hand sign that came from former president Corazon Aquino. Its like seeing the people unite as one. But the best observation I had was that there are no protesters or whatsoever throughout the whole place. Now that’s really something. Usually when a new leader was about to be appointed there’s already a group of cons or anti’s to the upcoming administration. But for this inauguration ceremony, there’s no sign of contradictions and violence. Everyone was like approving and willing to be part of the changes for a better Philippines. Its gives a good feeling to see the people agree in one legacy. People who are willing to listen and give chance to the new leaders. Its heartwarming to know that there’s still hope and prosperity that awaits our country.

Yay! 50 days to go and its Christmas!!! So little time, so many things to do. Its barely 2 months before the year ends. My planner is starting to meet its last page. Its been a year that I started using a planner. Its a good thing to start with though and now im glad that its also meeting its main purpose -for me to see all the things that i did throughout the year. This is why I finally got myself a planner. Not to only plan things, but to record it as well. I want to remember every joyful moment that had passed in my life, and maybe the sorrows too.

If typhoons could only be killed. I'd be the first one to pull the trigger and shoot Ondoy. The hell with this storm had done buzzillion worth of damage to our country. Many lives were lost and houses we're destroyed. But it feels good also seeing your fellowmen unite at times like this. I feel so proud being a Filipino. Celebrities, local people, politicians, students, everyone did their fair share of help. From simple clothes doantion up to million worth of pledges. Its amazing how people from all over the world helps and contributes in their own little way. I too wanted to help so badly. I want to volunteer too and do those repacking stuff. But i can't. Good thing there's this piece of technology on the web called Twitter. I got to post stuff on how people can extend their help. Retweet and retweet.


Now let me repost this blog from Bianca Gonzales. This might help those who wanted to help. Please do help thePhilippines. You can help save lives. :)

LOCATION BREAKDOWN FOR VOLUNTEERS AND DONATIONS FOR VICTIMS OF TYPHOON ONDOY.

QUEZON CITY.

- go to ateneo de manila university, katipunan avenue, and proceed to the college covered courts to volunteer. shifts are in three hour cycles. you can go as early as 6AM but it goes on the whole day.

- please bring packed/cooked food to 12 Denmark, Loyola Grand Villas, QC, and help @patriciahizon whose group was the only one helping the victims in tumana today.

- TULONG BAYAN, to volunteer, just go to Balay Expo Center in Cubao, Edsa cor McArthur, 8AM onwards. contact (02) 9137122 and look for Mary, May or Cam

- donations accepted in MIRIAM COLLEGE insa office.

- donations also accepted in UP DILIMAN student council office at vinzons hall.

- for the GMA Kapuso Foundation, you can drop your donations at Samar St. cor GMA Network drive, QC. Behind GMA complex. Beside Malayan Bank. Tel # 9284299, 9289351, 9827777.

- for those who want to volunteer for sagip kapamilya: call 4132667/4160387, or go to #13 examiner st., west triangle, QC

- the other address for sagip kapamilya is sct. bayoran corner tomas morato. look for Girlie Aragon or Jet at 0916-7227806 or 0929-5348176

- this is the REAL SAGIP KAPAMILYA ACCOUNT for your donations: banco de oro #56 300 20111 under abs-cbn foundation. to all those spreading fake accounts, please naman..



MANILA:

- DLSU along taft avenue will be accepting any and all kinds of donations starting 830AM.

- csb alumni also accepting donations at 9/f dls-csb school of design and arts building, along pablo ocampo street, vito cruz.

- UST is also accepting your donations, proceed to the Tan Yan Kee Student Center.

- donations can be dropped off at victory church in malate, call 5221212 or visit the victory website.



PASIG:

- MEGATENT, Meralco Ave, Ortigas beside Renaissance: need more volunteers and donations! Very big space! Open 24 hrs til Friday!

- according to @margaga, poveda school (beside galleria) opens 9AM tomorrow and is open to all volunteers and any kind of donations.

- according to @angel21kawaii, CFC Center in Ortigas is receiving donations in cash or in kind. Call (02)7270682-87 or 09195359036.

- donations can be dropped off at victory church in ortigas, contact 6311212 or visit the victory website.




MANDALUYONG:

- GAWAD KALINGA is accepting volunteers and donations, base is RFM gym in pioneer. Contact Raul Dizon 09178888109 and Felice Caringal 09178888304. for other GK sites you can help out, check out this blog.



MAKATI:

- White Space in Pasong Tamo ext. / Chino Roces is in need of volunteers to pack goods

- you can drop of your donations at Assumption College, San Lorenzo Village, Makati

- you can drop off your donations at the following stores in rockwell powerplant mall: aranaz, luca, greyone social.



TAGUIG or FORT area:

- donations can be dropped off at victory church in the fort, you can call 8171212 or visit the victory website.

- you can drop off your donations in embassy superclub in the fort.



PASAY:

- @elizabacud shares that Manila Doctors College will also be accepting donations. Bring anything that can help at Speech Lab., Macapagal Blvd, PasayCity



SAN JUAN:

- La Salle Greenhills, Xavier School, and ICA (right beside Xavier) are also accepting donations. Xavier will be accepting goods till 12midnight.



FAIRVIEW area:

- Help needed in Fairview and Novaliches. Please send clothes, food, water, meds & blankets to the Divine Savior Parish in North Fairview.



SOUTH (alabang, las pinas, paranaque):

- drop donations or volunteer at DE LA SALLE ZOBEL. Contact Ms. Angie Brazan at the Social Action Office 0917-8597602

- you can drop donations at the ATC concierge, call 8422782 or 7721860

- san beda alabang in alabang hills village is also accepting donations

- you can help pack donations 10AM at st. james church, ayala alabang village

- you may volunteer at Red Cross Alabang - ATC along Zapote Road fronting National Bookstore call 8097131 for info

- CFC center in Las Pinas City is accepting donations. it is near Verdant and in front of the construction of SM Center Las Pinas. Contact 09174493154 / 8460809

- There are two new drop-off points for relief goods. Recipients will be various areas, including flooded Parañaque & Muntinlupa areas. You can get in touch with Jeff Tagle (09178875824) and Katrina Villareal (09175298332) respectively for details.



BAGUIO:

- donations can be dropped off at the ABSCBN Baguio Office

- donations are also accepted at the Baguio Convention Center Executive Room from 10am til 4pm starting tomorrow til Friday. Volunteers are urged to come.

- Organizing a soup kitchen. Baguio donating vegetables to arrive via Victory Liner. Contact Dave at 09178396179.



BULACAN:

- RedCross bulacan accepts donations. It is located in Malolos Bulacan, near bulacan capitol :)



CAGAYAN:

- send your donations to the kkp office in xavier university, ATENEO DE CAGAYAN.



CAVITE:

- DLSU-Dasmarinas is also accepting donations, pls proceed to the 2nd floor of SBC Building



BATANGAS:

- DE LA SALLE LIPA is now accepting your donations, drop off point is at the college lobby.



CEBU:

- details on how you can donate are on noelle's blog or the living for a cause blog.



DUMAGUETE and NEGROS area:

- People here in Dumaguete or in Negros Oriental can send their donations to Silliman University. contact @princessngaako on twitter for more details.



BACOLOD:

- For your donations, drop off center is at the Coliseum in the University of St. La Salle. 435-3857

- CAFE BREIZH wil be a drop off center for donations. text 09193651101 for details.



DAVAO:

- ATENEO DE DAVAO is accepting in kind donations for ondoy. drop off at the samahan office in jacinto campus.

- BANTAY BATA 163 davao located at matina,davao city is also a drop off point for any in-kind donations.



ZAMBOANGA:

- ATENEO DE ZAMBOANGA is accepting donations. You may bring them to the SACSI office. Look for Alma Curesma, 991-0871, loc 2224 or 2225.



for PETS in need of aid:

- @kimmydeleon is announcing that PARC is open for animals. Click this site for info of PAWS for helping from the flood. for the official website of paws, click here



for those in SINGAPORE:

- dropoff for relief goods is @ airfreight lucky plaza #03-09. can call 62351011, they are open up to 7pm.

- pinoys are mobilizing and gathering donations, visit this forum for more details.



for those in SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA:

- you can deliver relief goods to 303/5 Stromboli Strait, Homebush Bay 2127. you can also contact through twitter at @allorange if you want to arrange for a pick up in the city



for those in CANADA:

- TORONTO - pinoys are spearheading efforts to help, visit this website for details.

- WINNIPEG - the Philippine Community Centre of Manitoba here in Winnipeg Canada started to raise money for the victims today



for those based in BELGIUM:

- from @SayChiz, they can contact Shiera Catalan at +32485328811 if they want to donate goods for typhoon relief



for anyone in the UNITED STATES:

- you can call the ABS-CBN US Helpline at 1-800-5272820 to know how you can help

- also, you can donate through the kapuso foundation site.

- with your credit card, donate via the the abs-cbn foundation.

- CALIFORNIA - Island Pacific Supermarket is gathering donations to be shipped to the Philippines

- NEW YORK - NYC Disaster Relief drop off center @ Pandayan Center 406 W40th St. Between 9th and 10th Aves. NY, NY 10018 or 212.564.6057.

- NEW JERSEY - NJ drop off Sinugba Cafe or Casa Victoria or (201)621-3156 -Yves Nibungco



for anyone else ABROAD who wants to help:

- you can donate through the paypal account link on this site.

- the official website of the PHILIPPINE RED CROSS has a complete listing of how you can donate to them.

- the ayala foundation is also accepting your donations through their website.

- you can donate through the kapuso foundation site.

- you can use your credit card to donate via the the abs-cbn foundation.

- donate rice through the UN's World Food Programme through their official website.



OTHER FORMS OF HELP FOR YOU:

NEED TO SEND YOUR DONATIONS? Mail & More, FedEx & Air21 outlets are now accepting donations. For locations please call 8794789 or log to their official website.

PAL IS OFFERING FREE AIRLIFT FOR DONATIONS. for details, click on the pal website.

TO REPORT MISSING LOVED ONES OR AREAS IN NEED OF HELP: call the SAGIP KAPAMILYA HOTLINES at 4110011, 4110012, 4110013.

HOTLINES FOR MISSING PERSONS:
marikina - 09209389914
qc - 09216555262
pasig - 09189356318
cainta - 09175606241.

DATABASE OF ONDOY VICTIMS AND EVACUATION CENTERS: click on the ateneotaskforceondoy website.

FOR CAR TOWING NEEDS: HONDA and NISSAN offer free towing! call 09228504452, 09224452242, and 09228997959.

DONATIONS ON WHEELS!! if you have donations to give but no means to transport, contact 09189791229, 09177974098, 09326991794. don't worry guys, this is not a scam! its by friends of @jiggycruz!

WANT TO OFFER YOUR MEDICAL SERVICES? please submit your name and contact details to Dr. V. Gisbert 0917-8922807 and Dr. J. Sinon at 0917-5261345

CREDITS to MS. BIANCA GONZALES FOR THESE INFOS. :)

I never thought that a single mosquito bite would cause such pain and trouble. Oh no! who would know that Dengue is that powerful? Boohoo!! TRAITOR!!! One moment you're okey and the next you're not. I really hate it!!!!! It made me missed an exam. I got dehydrated and had to be in the hospital for five freakin days!!!!! I really died of boredome!!!!!!!! And what's more irritating is that school is almost over. It's hard to cope. It's hard running after the professors. Everything's out of place! It ruined my life. I had to make extra effort to get it back!!!! I hate it!!!!! I was like being imprisoned for days!!!! My veins are like exploding already. I got 14 shots. I hate it!! I don't want this to happen again. I will die for sure if it does. I swear!!!

Okey...so where do i start. Wow!! it feels like the first time again. There' s lots of things on my mind right now. Many things have happened since i posted my last blog (which happens to be last summer -outdated much?) I've been away from blogging since forever! Boo!! Blame it all on that Facebook thing. It tooked most of my time on the web actually. Although school craps always comes first when it comes to reasons on 'why-am-i-so-busy-lately' thing.


Sooooooooo.....my mind are full of things to share and they keep on comin like mad. Soooooo i think i'll just kinda put it in an enumerative sort of way. :)

ONE.
ONE TEAM KAPAMILYA



I started to have this 'amnesia' thing on blogging when i started working at ABS-CBN Broadcasting Network as an intern last summer. So i think this should really be the very first reason that kept me busy because as much as i enjoyed the priviledges of being part of Team Kapamilya (The studios, tapings, celebrities, glamours, confidential infos, shows, everything!) It has its own downside also. I had very little time for leisure bec of our full-hectic schedule. But all in all, I had sooo much fun and i would forever remember everything that Team Kapamilya had shared with me. :)

TWO.
SENIOR YEAR DILEMMAS




If i would be given one wish, i'd definitely wish for a one month vacation somewhere far with no electricity at all!!! Seriously, all this non-stop circuit thing really makes me tired. It's like when you feel that you are always tired even if you already rested for hours and like you wanna live at the massage parlor already just to have a soothing massage every freakin day! That's how tiring my life is at the moment. Good thing i have friends that kept me happy and relaxed a bit.

THREE.
FACEBOOK. FARMTOWN. FACEBOOK. FARMTOWN
The main course!! >:D< You see, even before every friggin human being got addicted on Facebook, i was one of the firsts who had it while everyone was still on Friendster. And man, i was online and playing almost everyday! Kill me!! I just can't get enough of Facebook's apps. AND!!!! FARMTOWN is absolutely no. 1 :))



Sooooooooo...these i think is enough reasons that kept me busy bee busy. There are a lot of things still, but i swear. These are so majority already. I wanted Papersnippets to be updated always that's why i pray that they give me more time for little things such as this blog :)

The bitterest thing that i got from having a summer obligation (freaking internship!) is missin out the 'Pahiyas' Festival and our town's very own 'Mayohan' sa Tayabas. Its actually very very fun. Especially the Pahiyas. The colorful houses. The sidewalk finds. The street events. The foods. The crowd. EVERYTHING. Too bad i didn't able to enjoy it! :( Not even a single glance of the parties and event every night. Bugger! I remembered last year when we we're there, along with my friends. It was sooo fun! oh yeah, that's another thing to be sorry about. You see, in this time of year is the only time that i get to see my good ol' friends. We go there together and just hang around. And this year it didn't happen. Ass hell miss them :(

Anyway, being such a loser .. boo! i might as well share with you guys some photos of the recent Pahiyas festival. Enjoy!

When i was young i thought that being on television is so cool. People love you and adore you. That's just like WOW! You're rich, beautiful and glamorous, well actually every wonderful adjective can be used to describe them. Whenever a celebrity comes to our town or have a show in the mall, the crowd gets wild. Shrieking girls and whistling guys are always present. -i always hate these scenes. It's like they'd die if they just touched the hands of these celeb people or if they got waved at. I always wondered of how they live their lives. But of course i know that like anyone else, they're just normal people who eats, laugh and even pee. It's just that, when you're a typical probinsyana (country girl) who lives far from the metro, and sees these people very seldom, maybe you'd also think of them as those 'very-hard-to-reach persons'.

However, as expected, this perspective of mine changed as i studied and lived in the Metro. Especially when i used to be always at ABS-CBN compound (the Philippines no. 1 TV station). These almost perfect people in our eyes who are being shrieked at and patronized at the malls in the provinces are just merely normal people here in the city. They wandered and shop at malls and people just ignore them. At ABSCBN vicinity, they we're not like celebrities at all. You can see them walking in shorts and simple tees. Eating, chatting and living peacefully. Nobody even yells with excitement along with their presence. And as for me, being part of these people's world. Okey don't think to much. I didn't entered the glitz and glamour world like them. What i mean of being a part of their world is being an intern in their beloved station. Anyway, anyhow i got used in seeing them like bumping to an ordinary person. And yes. i do get starstrucked most of the times still, but seeing them often, there's no much shock factor anymore. Come on. We are people and they too are people. They have families and dogs. They pray and run. They get sick and get bruises. They're not gods and goddessess for God's sake. They are again PEOPLE.
So when i see a very proud celebrity in our province' malls or town events i can't help but shake my head. They act so famous and yabang (boastful) yet they are nothing in the city. HAHA!

-just a thought from someone who now moves inside the world of Glitz and Glamour. :))