CAR SHOW AT THE FORT

Dec. 5, 2010 -  Bonifacio Global City Grounds. This was totally accident. I was planning to head out and check out Mercato Centrale for much needed healthy food trip but instead I went to the other side of High Street and found this absolutely awesome car show. I should have went to the Nike side of the building. I'll check out Mercato Centrale this Saturday and thanks to Google Map, I found the exact location.

Here are some of the cars.

My heart stopped when I saw this. This is Nissan Xtrail, my favorite SUV.

And what do you think of this? Trust me it has an awesome interior and has air-condition. Pnoy much?

Watch out for Mercato Centrale post.

TO THE STREETS OF BGC

Dec. 5, 2010 - My flatmate and I decided to check Dimensione at Bonifacio High Street. We heard they are still running their 70% off sale on Addidas and other brands. But Dimensione is a home furnishing shop. So I was more excited on furniture than some sports apparel. I  am a huge Nike guy anyway. Poof! There are still on sale and my flatmate was all over it. 

I checked downstairs and immersed myself with the latest designs in home furnishing. Sofas, beds, kitchen wares, drawers and wine glasses. Plus a whole lotta more. You have to check out the shop at Bonifacio High Street Taguig City.

Check out this very cozy and posh living room furnishings. 

 

You will go gaga on their exquisite and artistic designs.

And this blew my mind. Who does these kind of designs? Outrageously painful in a very very good way. I fell in love with the set.

 

I am happy I found these Christmas gift ideas. Now I have something for my family and friends.

And more.

 

I found this chic mirror and it made me look quite cutter than I used to..LOL

And this wine rack rocked my world. Unbelievable. 

After Dimensione, my flatmate checked the Apple store and decided not to because not only it will give me frustrations but it will also breaks my heart. I lost my precious iTouch and I am dying to get an iPad but I hate looking at it until I can afford it. I sat and found a young couple, maybe it was their first date hence the void between them and the awkwardness of their conversation. I have no intention to eavesdrop but it was so tempting that I pretended not to hear anything..LOL

Check out my shots of Bonifacio High Street.

And someday I will live here.

While on high street, you have to check out MUJI, one stop shop for everything.

Check out these lovely hangers and towel rack.

So exhausted at the end of the day. I forgot about lunch. So I went to Cupcakes by Sonja for a needed sugar fix to get me to the other side of the BGC. Tokyo Tokyo at Market Market. It was a major major dinner dinner and lunch lunch. Ohhh sorry for the repetitive thing I was carried away from Tokyo Tokyo. LOL

 Sumo Remix!

This is how I spent my weekend in the streets of Manila.

ENGINEERS

No land area to compute, no benchmark to establish, stadia rod and engineer’s field work free, Grace, Apol and I had a luscious dinner at Chelsea at Serendra Global City with Ampeng and Harry. It was a typical catching-up dinner since we saw Grace like more than a year ago. We talked about almost everything, from work to flings, from every sale in Metro Manila Grace and I went, coffee, fur coats and not so good work related experiences.

I like being around with my friends in college because it reminds me why I love engineering in the first place.

Until the next spontaneous reunion with you guys. Hope Ariane, Jeffrey, Jonathan and Wilson could join us.

LETTER FOR NO ONE

I opted to write this letter since its still timely – perfect time I guess to say it all before it becomes stale and meaningless, and since I am still single.

First and foremost, we had a good relationship. Probably not the best and ideal but it was good. I thought crossing over from being bestfriends to romantic relationship is overrated.  It wasn’t the case for us. I realized it had so many perks that we totally talked and shared almost everything, from hidden thoughts, nasty secrets to killing someone. The level of comforts was enormous and sometimes scary, but most of the time it was our advantage.

Since I met you, my life changed in so many different ways. There was something about how you inspired me to do things I like. You brought back my love for architectures and maths. You encouraged me to expand my knowledge and discover new adventures. You let me be who I am because you leveled the comforts for me.

Every travel we had brings a lot of memories. Those were my favorite places in the country and I am glad I got you to be part of it. I have the best memories in life with you. Traveling alone again is probably one of the most painful aftermaths of our relationship. I was lucky enough to have revisited the places we’ve been, for me not to hate the place. It was part of my healing.

Amidst all the things happened, we held our grounds. Probably this is what I miss most about you, your sense of unfaltering trust, honesty and the way you comfort me. Things weren’t easy for us, distance and some people around me. If I didn’t say any apologies yet, let me take this post an opportunity to say sorry for all my shits, not that it matters now; I just want to clear everything.

Neither one of us want this. We compromised everything in the beginning and now we are sort of reaping it. Friendship isn’t a possibility or the thought of seeing each other once again. I won’t blame anyone, and probably this is the best thing. I know you are happy now with someone else and I honestly wish good things for both of you. I am happy knowing that you didn’t give up on love. That alone gives so much comfort to me.

I do not wish anything between us. I take life as it is. Maybe it was just that for us. Nothing more. We may never see each other again but you are always remembered. And I hope you do as well. I am happy now to have made this far, soon I will be leaving and take on to my next adventure. I will carry the things I learned from you an d make everything right this time around.

“There is something beautiful in goodbyes. The exquisite pain, the sadness, the void it leaves, and the recovery; the different colors that paint a dark yet wonderful picture. We long for them. And when the picture has faded, we wish to witness its beauty once more.”

HALLOWEEN BLAST Visayan Style

October 29, 2010, Iloilo City – I was so excited that day that I get to see my friends from home after almost 6 months since I started working in Metro Manila. It was my first time too in the city and I was all prepared with my Ilonggo slang – well it is acceptable because of my effort.

I had a blast @ MO2 Smallville

October 30 – Nov. 2, 2010, Boracay Island – Ate, Partied, Bathed, Laughed, Talked, Screamed and Fired Up. 

I will be ready for next Halloween. I'll top my costume next year...lol

TAIL OF THE STORM

Part of being a design engineer is supervising existing facilities of our company. I do meetings and plant inspections. Yesterday, I headed out to Taguig City around 1:00PM. It was raining hence the tail of Typhoon Juan hovering the entire metropolis.

Ortigas Center

 

Cubao Underpass

Porsche Greenhills

EDSA Ortigas

Ford San Juan

EDSA Cubao

Death

“Perhaps they are not stars, but rather openings in heaven where the love of our lost ones pours through and shines down upon us to let us know they are happy.”

October 4, 2010 – I changed my number, from Smart to Globe. I am tired of getting shit texts from people that I don’t know. 

That day was different. 

I had eerie feeling about everything. The sky was in sync with my feelings. It was a gloomy day. It was blurry. I was feeling nauseated. Indeed it was a different kind of day.

Work was smooth and I had deadlines to meet that day. It was normal at work but the weather was still gloomy. I could really sense something wasn’t right or something will happen. I was thinking a lot of things that day. My roommate was still in the Emergency Room and waiting for a type B+ and looking for a blood donor was stale. I was worried. I just lost my iTouch. I was mad. I was having tonsillitis. I was sick.

Feelings were fireworks – different colors, different angles and different flights.

When I got home, everyone was heading out, dressed and cleaned. I asked. They said wake. I asked who. They told me it was my roommate.

I went inside our room. Looked at his bed and was trying to trace his head from the dried sweat that was remnants from that morning he had seizure. I am not good with deaths and I don’t want to entertain emotions. I tried to be blank as possible. I succeed.  

He was Rod. Sensitive and down to earth. Kind and hard headed. A joker and my roommate. I will surely miss our talk nights. Food trips. Glee. Imbistigador.

It took only 4 months to get to know you and it seems, now, I lost a big brother.

I know you smiled when you died because you got what you want before you let go of your last beat. Rest in peace.

LOST

Today, I lost my iTouch 32Gig.

It was snatched from me at Boni MRT Station. It's hard because I have everything there. My e-mails, my contacts, pictures from home and my musics. I can't run without it.

Life taught me another lesson. People can be unforgiving here. They take everything they can, just like that. It will take time to have that gadget again. But soon I will get another or even better.

RUNNING

Lifting weights is never my style. Although I did it for 2 years but that was it. Enough of the weights. Next to Badminton, I love running. I think it is the most basic and most convenient cardio workout out there, plus its free and you can do it anytime you want. I do it almost everyday, 5:30 AM to 6:30 AM before going to work.

Essentials:

1. Proper running shoes - you have to have a good pair of RUNNING shoes. Not basketball shoes, not indoor court shoes, snickers and definitely not slippers. It can cause injuries when you don't use the right kind of shoes. I use Nike Reax.

2. Music essentials - I can't run without music on. I update my playlists from time to time to help me set the mood for running. Trust me, you need to get all the entertainment you get from music because running as early as 5:30 AM can be boring.

My newest playlist:

• California Gurls - Katy Perry ft.Snoop Dog
• Ridin' Solo - Jason Derulo
• Commander - Kelly Rowland ft. David Guetta
• Sexy Bitch - David Guetta ft. Akon
• Party Animal - Akon ft. David Guetta
• Nothin' on You - B.O.B. ft. Bruno Mars
• Billionaire - Travie McCoy
• Just the Way You Are - Bruno Mars
• Dynamite - Taio Cruz
• Club Can't Handle Me - Flo Rida ft. David Guetta
• Jump - Flo Rida ft. Nelly Furtado

And this is my way to my jogging area.

Work on your fitness guys.

PILOTO

I am a writer, or that’s how I think I am. I travel a lot, not that I am rich or anything close. I am just a blue collar worker that saves up for it. This is my obsession and strangers are like a drug to me. They fuel my appetite and my curiosity. They teach me one important thing in life, that I am just an infinitesimal individual in the wide world. My story is extraneous and there are a lot of stories out there that are worth telling the world.

I packed my bags and left home months and months ago. At first it was one of the things that I do without thinking, or you can say it was a spur of the moment. Then I realized that it became an adventure of my life, to sail on to the unknown and start from there. Manila was not totally unknown from me, but the thought of living alone and without a job, it was indeed an unknown.

From here forth, this will be some sort of documentaries of the events and things worth telling here in Manila and my life in general. I am an ordinary person. Ordinary it may seem but I have stories to tell.

So here we go and I hope you keep on following.