People are better than no people.

I just realized earlier today, in the middle of a hot afternoon (our office AC wasn't working. FAIL.), that it's my first summer without a vacation. Sure, we had summer classes in college, but we still had our 2-week breaks before and after. And I was jobless for three months last year.

I also just realized that because I'm so busy with work, there are summer-y things I might not be able to do anymore. Like watch the first run of Idol on TV at 6pm. (Well, not if I can help it. I ninja-ed out of the office today at 5:30. LOL.)

Anyway, my point is..

AI8 Top 13 Performance Night.

( You totally knew this was coming. )

OH MY LORD.

Brothers & Sisters. 3x16-17. !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!.

Lay down all your cards, why don't you?

And it's not even the season finale yet!

Good TV. Good times.

Couldn't decide if Grey's Anatomy 5x12 was amazing or disturbing, but nevertheless, wow.
I'm starting to like Izzie again. Here's hoping that her (annoyingly) crazy days are (finally) over. I'm also hoping T.R. stays, just for old times' sake. Writers are also doing a good job at making Owen & Cristina the anti-MerDer, IMO.

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One minute it's winter and then suddenly -- *SUMMER*. Wala man lang transition, mahderfahder.

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I miss having friends I can actually see. Keeping my fingers crossed that lunch will push through. Heaven knows it's the only thing I'm looking forward to today.

Here's to another year of laughing, learning, and leveling up.

To infinity and beyond!

(I know, I know, I'm a day late haha)

OH MY GOD, YOU ROCK.

Yup.

I am overcome with emotion.

Dear Lord, no words can describe how overwhelmed I am by Your kindness. NO. WORDS!

Well, except for "thank You", and uh...

MERRY CHRISTMAS

(Was supposed to post this last night, but I never got to finish the entry)

So I really thought I was gonna spend the entire evening just laughing the incident off. People from work were even surprised that I was coping with it rather well. And at some point, I too was convinced that I wasn't gonna be affected one bit.

Until I talked to my Achi Joyce over the phone and realized that Kyle's gift was inside the luggage as well.
Until the night became silent and I started looking for my external hard drive for music.
Until the caffeine started to lose its effect.

It's not even about the clothes nor the shoes nor the vanity bag (haha). I believe I'm mature and man enough to let go of such luxuries. I was also able to convince myself that the business cards and the work notebook weren't that important, anyway.
Why, I've even started to accept the fact that there's a chance I won't be seeing my trusty 'ol point-and-shoot ever again.
What hit me the most was the fact that all of my family, R2, and work memories were saved into the external hard drive. Never mind the TV episodes, never mind the mp3s, never mind the games. I'm just saddened that some of those ultra-rare moments caught on cam might already be lost forever.

To top things off, the depression that's starting to creep into me is probably a result of the guilt I'm feeling - guilt from feeling bad during the most wonderful time of the year. I know it's just a natural reaction for anyone to feel down after what happened, and I'm sure it's totally fine w/ Jesus Christ; but when you zoom out to look at the bigger picture, this is just some shallow shit.

I guess that's His will, then. Maybe I've been too caught up with the material blessings that He decided to simplify my life a bit. Perhaps the consecutive "ups" in my life have made me arrogant. Ok, that was probably too harsh. I dunno, I think God just wanted me to really get a feel of what Christmas should be about? 

So I've realized that no, I won't allow myself to not be fine. Sure, tears are still welling up from my eyes, but life has to go on.
Christmas has to go on.
I've waited 364 nights for this, so no, I won't allow my favorite moment of the year to be ruined just like that. I'm gonna spare you the some-people-don't-even-have-food-on-their-tables spiel, but just on a final note, I seriously think I still have a lot more to be thankful for at the end of the day.

I'm home. I'm with my family. I'm communicating with my friends via cellphone and the net. In the absence of material belongings, I've somehow learned to focus on what matters most.

Merry Christmas everyone. You guys rock.

I was feeling rather reflective on the plane earlier this afternoon, and I was debating with myself on what to write about the minute I step into Zamboanga. None of those thoughts however, involve me typing:

HOLYMOTHERF... MY LUGGAGE IS MISSING!!!

Toiletries (!), all my favorite clothes, all my favorite shoes, camera, and worst of all, my external hard drive containing uh, everything? I skipped the mourning part and went straight into looking for the silver lining, which is: At least it wasn't my laptop. Haha

My YM status currently says "believes God thinks he's too materialistic. My frigging luggage is missing!  ".
I'm laughing now, but I'm pretty sure I'll cry my eyes out later once the shock wears off. I'll just wait for my parents to hit the sack.

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I'm still midway through the episode, but I just had to post my thoughts. I don't know if I'm just tired, but MAN, this episode is pathetic! It's still pretty decent actually, but it does not seem to be matching up to the first 8 so far. "You need to forgive yourself" my ass!

That being said, I'm officially a Syl Gabriel/Elle shipper. WOOT!

(Reposting from last night)


Will not sleep until I post how amazingly awesome this day has been for me.

( Since pictures are worth a thousand words )

Loving:
.. the lack of MerDer interaction.
.. the somewhat Izzie/Denny-centric episode.
.. the Erica/Izzie friction.
.. Alex's bouquet of corpses.
.. the Callie sorta standing up for Izzie part.
.. Derek's "I need you to have sex with Cristina Yang" to Mark.
.. Bailey's "each one of these people was somebody's somebody" dialogue.
.. Cristina & Owen's moment in the on-call room.

So yeah, I enjoyed this week's Grey's Anatomy very much. I'm actually very very pleased that this season's storyline has improved greatly. The show might never have that Season 1 spice again, and Erica Hahn & Owen Hunt will obviously be nowhere near Addison Montogomery & Preston Burke, but I seriously feel that Season 5 is on its way to being as good as Season 2.

Hmm. I wonder what this season's "major event" is gonna be?

P.S.
I think this was Shonda Rhimes' in-your-face-here-you-go-now-STFU-and-go-accept-your-nomination-the-next-time script for Katherine Heigl. Hahaha