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Archives for January 2012

Thank You, Internet

January 31, 2012

Whoever said that technology is evil probably doesn’t have family thousands of miles away.

I happen to have tons of loved ones living in another country, and technology is oftentimes the only thing that connects me to them. My father worked in Italy for almost a decade and he lived with my mother’s siblings. My father decided last year to stay in the Philippines for good but more of my relatives are moving to Italy. My grandparents went to Italy last week. Though they’re coming back in March, some of my cousins who will go there in the next few months are staying there for good.

I sometimes think that only my sister and I will be the ones left in the Philippines. We both want to stay here, and when people asked us before why we didn’t move to Italy with our father, we just shrugged our shoulder. I just really don’t see any point in going there right now. Maybe for vacation, but not to stay there. I do not have the heart to leave the country, not yet, anyway. But I really think it’ll be nice to visit my cousins!

I digress. I digress, too much.

Anyway, Facebook, for a couple of months now, has the video call function and my cousins are using it all the time. It was only this weekend that I tried it by myself, though! I just used to go to my lola’s house whenever a video call is going on. It’s always such a riot! When we do videocalls, we don’t just talk to one person. Sometimes we end up talking to all the family members over there! Like this last sunday, my tita’s house was full of people. Oldies (heh) and youngsters alike hogged a little screentime. [Read more…]

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The Family Portrait

January 21, 2012

Two years ago, my family decided to do something different for Christmas. Instead of just staying at home and facing visitors, we headed to the mall and watched a movie. We also decided to have our picture taken in a studio because we never tried it before!

Here’s a picture from two years ago:

We take pretty cute wacky shots!  My father’s definitely a killer when it comes to wacky poses. Heh. I don’t have a soft copy of our photos for 2010, though. Too bad, I actually think those are the best ones!

For 2011, we took the photo on New Year’s Eve! I barely had rest that time but we had no other time to do it. I seriously don’t feel too pretty these days, and Alex said I look either sad or tired in most photos. I noticed that, too! But nevertheless, I wouldn’t dare skip on our yearly studio pic. When viewing the photos, we realized that our formal ones are too stiff! I don’t know. We don’t really project or anything. We’ve been doing this yearly and we still don’t know our best angles. Heh. I definitely think we take better candid shots.

I don’t have much to say so here’s our heavily photoshopped photos.

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KPOPCON 3

January 14, 2012

What’s a better way to end the year but by celebrating being a fangirl?

Every KPOPCON, I plan on attending but there’s always something stopping me. It’s usually just because I didn’t feel like a big enough fan to join the festivities. But for the last KPOPCON, I decided that I wanted to buy some merchandise so there was nothing stopping me. (I actually wanted to buy a lot of things but it didn’t occur me that I would need TONS of money to buy everything. Yeah. </3)

I’m so glad I went! I was supposed to go back to Laguna that day and I didn’t really have anyone to go with. Alie wasn’t sure if she could make it, but I told myself that instances like this rarely happens. Besides, I was high on fangirl spirit at that time because of We Got Married. Heh.

Going to Ortigas was quite an adventure since I hadn’t been there by myself. It was quite scary but the KPOPCON FB page provided directions so I followed my heart (and my friends’ instructions) and prayed that I wouldn’t get lost. When I arrived at Megamall, I asked the guards for directions on how to reach Megatent. Apparently, I looked like a fangirl that other fangirls approached me! I guess I gave off a vibe or something. Hee. I made two friends that day, Jen and Louise! They were the ones who approached me in megamall. We went to Megatent together because they also didn’t know the way. Heh.

Do fangirls have this certain aura? Even the FX drivers know at first sight that we were on our way to KPOPCON. When we entered the FX, it was already filled with other fans. I am easily amused by things like this.

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The Year I Won’t Stop Trying

January 8, 2012

I’ve been a quitter for too long. It’s about time I stop.

Let’s just say that 2012 will be the year that I will live to the fullest and hope I won’t die from doing too much. I’ve always been so nonchalant towards everything. But this year, I promise to care and to interact more. To live more.

If the world will truly end on Dec. 21 of this year (I doubt it, though!), then I promise to stop spending too much time indoors. I just promise to stop holding back and to start giving more. More everything. Heh. I’ve been living far too long within my comfort zone. I’ve already mentioned here how even palm reading got a tad too boring for me. Apparently, even my palm agrees that my life is too smooth-smailing. I blame it on the fact that I rarely encounter anything challenging or unusual, though.

If life wouldn’t give me an adventure, then I will chase after it. I will go far and wide just to have a taste of a life on edge. Come on, I want to feel infinite, too!

I don’t even know what to call these things I plan on doing. Goals, maybe? I don’t know. All I know is that these are the things I really, really want to do this year. I realized that posting my plans online makes me commit to it more. [Read more…]

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11 Obsessions of 2011

January 1, 2012

Back in college, I lied low from fangirl-ing to focus more on school (oh really) and my social life. But once I got out of school, I went back to the one thing I’m good at: obsessing! I’m a certified fangirl and I think everyone knows that already. I think 2011 was the year that I learned how to obsess over other things besides Korean boybands.

It had been such a good year for my obsessions that it would be a pity to not write about the things I obsessed over. I know I have a bunch of other things to write but this cannot wait. While my emotions are still running high, I present to you the things I went gaga for last year. I’ll start from the bottom to build up some suspense. Heh. [Read more…]

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Hello, I'm Janey. I'm a fangirl, a bookworm, a dreamer and a wannabe writer. I'm a couch potato and a traveler rolled into one.
This is my lame attempt to be a travel blogger, but honestly, this is just an archive of my daily reality.


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