I can’t help myself… I need to blog this…. sorry to my friends.. I dont mean to make you my guinea pigs

Last night was tito Gerry and tita Beth’s 25th wedding anniversary (aka Johara’s parents). Congratulations to them!!! I always say that things like those call for a celebration as not everybody is lucky to reach that point in their relationship.

This makes you think about relationships. The different kinds that exist out there, the different labels and people’s attitude toward them. I look at my friends and I realize, we are all different…

Case number 1, The Perfect Couple: Michiko, in a happy, healthy relationship for years with Galvin. Ideal couple, they complement each other and they almost look alike at times. Enough said, I guess this is self explanatory, I’m very happy for them, I can’t imagine them not ending up with each other. BTW, she picked out a charm from the cake saying: “you’ll marry soon”

Case number 2, The Power of Love: Giselle and Carlo. Little, miss-good girl meets Mr not-so-good boy. This college scholar, former-school-teacher gets into a relationship with Mr artistic fratman. They fall in love and poof. You think all is history, wait til Mr not-so-good boy gets back to his not-so-good ways. They have a terrible, terrible break up. but somewhere along the way, love finds its way and brings this couple back. It’s been more than a year since their breakup and these two looks like they’re going a long way more. Nice save!
Note: she didn’t get to pick a charm from the cake, she left early.

Case number 3, The “Un-relationship”: Johara and Marlon. Now these two, have been dating exclusively for as looong as I could remember, but they choose “not to fall under any categorical relationship labels”. They’re not “a couple” nor “MU” but as long as they can understand each other, then they’re fine. It’s been like this for about 8 years now and it will be for many years to come. (ok Gracee, don’t argue, let them be!)
Her cake charm: with a gasp she read: “you’ll be happy as a single maid”
- i say, of course not! you don’t fall under that label either!

Case number 4, The Love-hate relationship: Gracee has been going out with Michael for 10 months now. I wouldn’t say they had the perfect beginning, but they are doing fine. Except that she dates Puerto Ricans behind his back and he hacks her email and multiply account!!!! (i hope he’s not reading this now - - again!) bwahaha. She tells him that she’s going out with the girls. He says: sometimes I think you enjoy their company more than mine. She says yes, of course. But nevertheless, I know somewhere there, they’re very happy.
Her cake charm: “you’ll marry your best friend”

So anyway, to the party, I brought RJ (or JR) along. I knew the girls will be bringing their boyfriends, I’ll be the lone single star yet again. I’m the only single person in the group — ( here in the Philippines, paging Cappy in Canada! ), which brings me to my final case:

Case number 5, The Companionship: FYI, RJ and I go a loooong way back in Highschool, we met at a common friend’s (Joey… as in Joey ni Anna E) party. I was his date during his gradball in LSGH, we talked for hours on the phone, we dated several times during the 7 years we’ve known each other… BUT, we were never romantic, always platonic.

Maybe it was alcohol washing over her, but Johara, out of nowhere blurts out: “hey, kayo ba?” … like there was a big lump on our throats, we laughed it off. Hello?! No way, we’re good friends. Johara asks again: “C’mon, don’t tell me “it’s for companionship” again. You’ve used that excuse since Highschool” It’s not an excuse, FYI, it was reasoning.

Michiko asks later, what do you like about Chach? Hmmm, I dunno, but he’s nice.
Johara asks, do you think he’s the one? When he comes back in October, buys me a condo at McKinley Hill, I’ll answer that question.

My mom tells me, maybe something’s wrong with me, why am I still single. I tell her, I haven’t met the one who deserves me.. naks! He will come in time (in a ducati or maybe on a surfboard). I’m not vulnerable anymore, I’ve grown a callous heart. I’m very independent and complete. I think a man is a “bonus” in life. If you get it then yey, if not, then maybe next month. I’m happy where I am, enjoying the company of my “companions” until I meet Mr Right.

So just to drive my point home, it doesn’t really matter what your stand is in a relationship, you may be happy, happily fighting, or not in a relationship at all, as long as you are contented, then you’re on the right track.

As a 24th birthday gift to myself, I indulged again with my favorite past time… to travel. I had this in planning for about 3 months (middle of May-Aug). It will be a week-long getaway with my best friend of 10 years, Gracee … to cosmopolitan KL, Malaysia and fantastical Bali, Indonesia.

Gracee and me on the plane:

The newly opened Terminal 3 airport in Manila:

In June, I meet the most wonderful guy in the hotel where I work for, his name is Charles. Charles is a wonderful guy, he was only staying in Manila for 4 days and we spent the last three days of it together. Apparently, he is assigned to work in KL - where I am supposed to spend a few days of vacation. If that was not fate working our way, I don’t know what is.

So we stay in touch until the day I arrive in KL.

It’s so funny, we talked Sunday night, I told him that we are leaving Tuesday night, and we are arriving a little past midnight. He calls me on Tuesday, 0145H and asks me where I was. I told him that I was still at home … and he waited up for us on a work night.

We arrived on Wednesday past midnight, he met us at the hotel lobby of the Ascott - just right across the Petronas - and we just talked for a while before we went to bed. He needed to go early that morning.

We said our good byes that morning before he went to work, we were supposed to fly out to Bali that afternoon and be back the following week. That morning, we went to the Suria KLCC Starbucks - our favorite coffee place - to have breakfast.

Me at Starbucks with my treasure pot pie and hot choco:

I am collecting Starbucks city mugs so I give this a look. It’s so delicious, they had this pastry “Treasure Pie”, it’s chicken in vol au vent pastry and it was terrific. We don’t have that in Starbucks Manila. I wish they could’ve made them here as well, it could easily be my favorite. I was also delighted to see the MAC store there, another one of my favorite stores.

We left the hotel just before lunch and we flew to Bali. We had 6 magnificent days at the Hyatt Bali in Sanur and the Grand Hyatt in Nusa Dua, we fly back to KL the following week. We arrived at about lunch time and ate our lunch at the KL Airport. Being tired from the flight, Gracee and I spent the afternoon resting and we waited for Charles to pick us up for dinner. It was my first time to see the Petronas all lit up at night and it was just so spectacular, my camera didn’t do justice to the actual magnificence.

After freshening up, he took us to the Bodega in the Pavilion where we had a lovely dinner with my favorite Calamari.. yummy!

With Gracee and Charles at the Bodega

After dinner, we had some cocktails in the Concorde where we met his good friend Eric (who was going to visit Manila the following week) and we had a good night together, all four of us.

The following day, he had to leave early again, so Gracee and I wandered off to the Menara Tower, the 4th tallest tower in the whole world. It offers a pretty good 360 degree view of the city of KL.

We went back to the hotel after strolling the mall once again and waited for Charles to take us out for dinner. We dined at a lovely restaurant, together with Eric and my fraternity brother, Third (who was visiting KL from Singapore). We ate at the Apartment, a very good restaurant with contemporary, domestic interiors.

L-R: Eric, Gracee, Third, Me and Charles (a.k.a Chach)

It was a short and sweet vacation in KL, but I had the time of my life. Charles said he’ll be back here by October with Eric, and I can’t wait to show them around the beautiful beaches here.

Sanriotown Travel the World Event: http://blog.hellokitty.com/traveltheworld

… i come down with a flu. i didn’t think that a little rainshower and an airconditioned ride home will bring me down.

i slept in pajamas last night, can you believe it? it was sooooo cold and nothing was turned on, even the windows were closed. i need a hug!!!!  it’s just a boring, gray day…

it’s nice that my mom called  and checked on me, she asked how i was and i just all giddy about our trip to KL and Bali. I’m so thrilled and she’s excited for me too.

good thing i had time to rest all morning, think, read and surf the whole afternoon and look at the pretty things i saw…

this is the Eye on Malaysia, its a 60m ferriswheel and is a bit outside the Kuala Lumpur City Center (KLCC)… each gondola is airconditioned and some even has its own mini bar… you can see the petronas tower… wow… it’s so heartwarming! They also have nightly laser light show or fireworks display.

But wait there’s more…

This is the Menara KL Tower, it’s a short distance from the Petronas Towers and is right inside the KLCC … (hmmm… very near where we are going to be living while there)

Some people say the view here is even better than the viewing deck on the 40th floor of the Petronas. They even have a revolving restaurant atop the tower… huwaw… I read the price is not too steep also –much like a regular hotel buffet rate.

Isn’t the view simply romantic?!  If I plan things right, we might be able to squeeze this in as well.

I’m super duper thrilled, KL has never been this more exciting to me than ever.

This is so cute… i’m 23 turning 24 but i don’t feel like outgrowing hello kitty anytime soon

i’ll love hellokitty till i have little girls of my own

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