Thinking About It..

Why is there a lack of loft apartments in Hong Kong? Given the small space, this is a great way to create one!

 

Another Restaurant to miss

http://www.contis.ph/

 

Farewell to Crystal Springs

My brother has sent me reminiscin'.

Mom was telling me the other day that my brother wanted to go to Crystal Springs Resort in Calamba, Laguna last weekend, only to find out that the resort has been closed down for 5 years already. It's quite a shame, really. In one of those moments that I think of home and travel, I go back to early childhood days when my parents would take us out almost every year to Crystal Springs and some other resorts in Southern Luzon.

All decked out in summer gear, the help would prepare lunch and we'd fill the 28-seater mocha brown colored Mitsubishi Rosa. We'd go and pick up my uncle's family and grandma, then we'd head out. Some years we'd have a guest or two.

It had 7 pools - 4 warm, 2 cold and 1 super hot if I remember correctly. That particular area of Laguna is known for its hot springs so hot spring resorts weren't uncommon. I just don't know why my family chose to stick to that one, but I guess familiarity gives you a certain comfort.

It had a big parking lot, and you need to walk up the stairs, pay your entrance fee and go to your assigned cottage. We'd change, and I'd have my handful of flaoties, ready to jump into the nice warm water. Little caterpillars falling from trees and leaves falling occasionally are part of the deal but it really never deters us from having a good time. All you had to was swim away from the creepy crawlies and everything is alright. Starting with the warm pools, it brings you to the cold ones. You can go up and try the slides. The set-up was quaint if I may call it that. We usually end with the hot water pool and go for a shower, ready to go home smelling like chlorine.

For some reason, I still remember what their brochure looks like and now that I think about it, there were quite a lot of memories made there.

Tried looking online for a pic and found this one (thank you google), since I don't have our old pictures from Manila here in HK.
Goodbye Crystal Springs. It was a good run.

Long Weekend

List of things I want to finish (or to force myself to finish)

 

- THAT laundrybag full of handwashing

- read at least 1 book

- uphold all prior commitments

- watch Avatar & Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief

- again, that laundrybag full of ironing

 

*urk*gag*

 

A Prayer :)

My Will

DC Talk

I'm setting the stage for the things I love
And I'm now the man I once couldn't be
Nothing on earth could now ever move me
I now have the will and the strength a man needs

It's my will, and I'm not moving
Cause if it's Your will, then nothing can shake me
It's my will, to bow and praise You
I now have the will to praise my God

Complexity haunts me for I am two men
Entrenched in a battle that I'll never win
My discipline fails me, my knowledge it fools me
But You are my shelter, all the strength that I need

It's my will, and I'm not moving
Cause if it's Your will, then nothing can shake me
It's my will, to bow and praise You
I now have the will to praise my God

I'm learning to give up the rights to myself
The bits and the pieces I've gathered as wealth
Could never compare to the joy that You bring me
The peace that You show me is the strength that I need

It's my will, and I'm not moving
Cause if it's Your will, then nothing can shake me
It's my will, to bow and praise You
I now have the will to praise my God

We've got to be children of peace
Don't you know we've got to be children of peace
(repeat chorus & bridge simultaneously 3x)

It's Your will, It's Your will [4x]

wake up

Kailan pa ba ko gigising?

 

gah

you know what i miss? bursting with JOY. all of a sudden today seemed to be such a big stuffed up ball of cholesterol in my heart. i feel soooo drained without doing anything. *choke*choke*puke!*blech*

again, i miss bursting with JOY.

Beginnings and Endings .. (yet again)

About 2 years ago, I posted this quote, popularized by the graphic novel Sandman (by Neil Gaiman)

 

"Can't say I've ever been too fond of beginnings myself.
Messy little things. give me a good ending anytime.
You know where you are with an ending."

- The Kindly Ones, Book 9,
Neil Gaiman's Sandman-

 

And today I come across this song. Life is full of beginnings and endings. 

Curtains have to fall, after every show.

Sometimes, the comfort of living is sometimes knowing that things will end.

:)

 

The End

by:  McFly

Kicking off is the hardest part
Nothing's certain at the start
Letting go, so something can begin
Figure out how to get a life
Leave tomorrow, live tonight
Gotta throw, throw your heart right in

Cause we all fall down

Everybody knows the end
When the curtain hits the floor
Everybody knows the end
Don't wanna get there wishing
that you'd given more
It's not over, till it's over
So how do we begin?
When everybody knows the end

I need to live with nothing fixed
Don't tell me what's gonna happen next
I'm alright, I like the way this feels
Leave behind all the things I miss
The next stop isn't where you think it is
Cause tonight I'm riding off the rails

Cause we all fall down

Everybody knows the end
When the curtain hits the floor
Everybody knows the end
Don't wanna get there wishing
that you'd given more
It's not over, till it's over
So how do we begin?
When everybody knows..

The end is were you hope you never say
"I coulda done it better"
I'm gonna keeps what counts
& throw away what doesn't really matter
& I wanna die (& I wanna die)
On the highest high (On the highest high)

It's not over (it's not over)
till it's over
I wanna stay here forever

Cause we all fall down

Everybody knows the end
When the curtain hits the floor
Everybody knows the end
Don't wanna get there wishing
that you'd given more
It's not over, till it's over
So how do we begin?
When everybody knows the end

Everybody knows the end
Everybody knows the end

>_>

Hay.

 

10 weeks?! OMG

And I'm leaving soon.  And it's something that's unavoidable.  Mother, a month ago, when I was deciding whether or not to take a step and look for a job in Hong Kong defined my remaining time in her sermon as: "Just count how many weekends you spend lazing around and that's how many weeks you have left to be responsible and shape up in Hong Kong."  Weekends.  The two days in a week that we savor so much.  The days that we get the rest and the days where I spend it lazing around the house. 

 

What's next?  Waking up a bit, I've started looking around for opportunities, but nothing's quite fully opened up yet.  As of now, I officially have 10 weekends to go.  Sh*t, that's not much is it?  That's 2 and 1/2 months and everyone knows that runs by pretty quick. 

 

Is it time to close the Hong Kong book?  Or do I write on?

 

What is there to go back to in Manila?  I don't know really.  There MUST be something, right?

Test Blog via Email

It works? or not?

 

apples & fairy tales

-and at your most vulnerable moment, you just want to reach out, and ask for your own poisoned apple.-
-hoping, that beyond that, someone will come along and wake you up with a kiss.-
-just like in those fairy tales.-

Sleepless

It's back to sleepless nights for me once again. Just before I want to doze off, an unwanted, unimportant thought for the moment comes zoning into my brain and it starts working overtime. Last night, it was 'diving'. I was going to go out of my mind. I needed sleep. I was tired and all I could think of was that I haven't been under water for almost 2 years. It's a sort of fear I guess. The other night, I don't know what it was, but it was twice as bothersome as well.. Ugh. I gotta stop eating late at night. Bah