Being in the starting line itself is indeed a big achievement already for athletes. How much more is reaching the finish line?

The day before, I was out of town to Batangas to accompany my family in inspecting the house that they'd be moving to next month. A hot and whole day was already exhausting. But silly me, I insisted on working out for less than 45 minutes in the gym to do my chest exercises. Tell me about resting before the day of race. Yeah!

When I got to bed that Saturday night, my heart and mind was filled with fear and excitement. I recall that I'd get dreams of the race, about finishing and backing out. When I got up in the morning, I was even psyching myself to not show up in the race. But not sleeping up was not a reason enough for me. I had pancit canton and a bread to fuel a 600m swim and 5km run.

Plunging in the pool with more than 30 swimmers instantly gave me a vertigo. I stood at the corner and waited for my head to calm. It did. There were waves and kicking. Indeed, the water was unfriendly to a beginner like me. I can't paddle. I can't breathe right. I kick a lot. Where have all those skills that I've practice gone? In my wave, I think I was the 3rd to 5th from the last finisher.

I was glad the 3 rounds of 200m (composed of a zigzag of 25meter laps) was over. 5kilometers of run under the sun was ahead of me after I tied my shoe laces and put on my race bib through an improvised belt.

I didn't notice that I have drank a lot of water in the pool. But anyway, I thought I wouldn't go dehydrated fast so I don't have to pause and get water! But just as I thought it'll all be faster, I was wrong. I had to pull down my zip to make breathing much easier. Flaunting my abs was only secondary reason. LOL.

As I have kicked a lot during the swim, my legs were already a bit sore and tired when I started my run. But it was a good thing that I was able to pick up on my pace. I managed to outrun quite a number of people. That's just one of the greatest things I love about running.

The following are my official record:

Swim 00:15:09	Transition 00:01:34	Run 00:26:56	Total 00:4:39

Today, I have set my goals for my next Aquathlon and my next running race. But first, I have to grab a lace lock for a faster transition. Tomorrow and in the next days, I'll wake up earlier, train harder so I'll be more prepared for the next race!

Rooster Outlook for 2009
(All of these sound awesome. Hope I'll be a believer soon.)

Rooster
1909, 1921, 1933, 1945, 1957, 1969, 1981, 1993, 2005

Rooster Overview
Get ready for an outstanding year. Aside from the Snake, the Rooster has the best prospects in the year of the Ox. This is the kind of year you have been waiting for, as everything seems to go your way. You have been diligently working towards some long term goals that finally come together this year. Your relations are felt at new levels, as you find a sense of satisfaction that you may not have experienced in a long time. Things you may have thought not possible will become a reality for you in this positive year.

Rooster Rating
72% (10 favorable and 2 neutral months)

Rooster Career
Determination and diligence are two key aspects that put the Rooster over the top this year. 2009 is a year that you should promote yourself: Your ideas and your talents will be highly regarded and you will be recognized for past and present efforts. Give it your best this year and seize any opportunity that presents itself. This year will certainly be a landmark for years to come, as you will remember it as one of your most productive times in your life.

Rooster Relationships
Domestic matters will fare well for the Rooster this year. You will find comfort in the support and encouragement of family members and friends alike. Seek advice from your seniors, as they may provide information that opens doors to areas that are not known. The social life for the Rooster is a busy schedule. You will enjoy the company of others in many social functions and parties. Romance is highly favorable for the unattached Rooster, so flaunt your feathers.

Rooster Health
Health issues are minor for the Rooster this year. Though exercise and diet are not an issue, you may have a problem maintaining the discipline of a steady routine. Take the time to get the exercise you need and everything should work out fine for you. Being somewhat of a risk taker, you may want to try something new that holds your interests. Consider surfing or parasailing to indulge your fancy.

Rooster Wealth
This a great year financially for the Rooster. If you have any available funds, you may want to reinvest it in your work. This could prove to be highly favorable and you will reap the benefits in your return. One key issue is your spending habits. Make sure you don't spend the money before it is in the bank or this could pose a problem with your budget. Receive professional advice for any large investments in areas that you are unfamiliar.

Rooster Outlook for 2009
(All of these sound awesome. Hope I'll be a believer.)

Rooster
1909, 1921, 1933, 1945, 1957, 1969, 1981, 1993, 2005

Rooster Overview
Get ready for an outstanding year. Aside from the Snake, the Rooster has the best prospects in the year of the Ox. This is the kind of year you have been waiting for, as everything seems to go your way. You have been diligently working towards some long term goals that finally come together this year. Your relations are felt at new levels, as you find a sense of satisfaction that you may not have experienced in a long time. Things you may have thought not possible will become a reality for you in this positive year.

Rooster Rating
72% (10 favorable and 2 neutral months)

Rooster Career
Determination and diligence are two key aspects that put the Rooster over the top this year. 2009 is a year that you should promote yourself: Your ideas and your talents will be highly regarded and you will be recognized for past and present efforts. Give it your best this year and seize any opportunity that presents itself. This year will certainly be a landmark for years to come, as you will remember it as one of your most productive times in your life.

Rooster Relationships
Domestic matters will fare well for the Rooster this year. You will find comfort in the support and encouragement of family members and friends alike. Seek advice from your seniors, as they may provide information that opens doors to areas that are not known. The social life for the Rooster is a busy schedule. You will enjoy the company of others in many social functions and parties. Romance is highly favorable for the unattached Rooster, so flaunt your feathers.

Rooster Health
Health issues are minor for the Rooster this year. Though exercise and diet are not an issue, you may have a problem maintaining the discipline of a steady routine. Take the time to get the exercise you need and everything should work out fine for you. Being somewhat of a risk taker, you may want to try something new that holds your interests. Consider surfing or parasailing to indulge your fancy.

Rooster Wealth
This a great year financially for the Rooster. If you have any available funds, you may want to reinvest it in your work. This could prove to be highly favorable and you will reap the benefits in your return. One key issue is your spending habits. Make sure you don't spend the money before it is in the bank or this could pose a problem with your budget. Receive professional advice for any large investments in areas that you are unfamiliar.

There might have just been too much blood pumped up in my face when I read what he had to say. I was, for the very first time, shrinking for what I have said and for what I have been replied with.

Maybe he just had a different meaning to the word "love". Maybe for me it's just too shallow and too easy to say. Perhaps to him, it's entirely different.
Perhaps, perhaps, perhaps.

For a time in my life I had never thought I'd cross seas just to see someone, to be with him all day long, hold him at night as if there's no tomorrow, and kiss him first thing in the morning when he wakes up, enjoy holding his hands while watching tv, prepare dinner for him, and even fix the bed for him. I went to cleaning his house, washing the dishes, going to the grocery to pick some ingredient to my dishes, to trimming his hand and toe nails. Haven't I been so much of a house-wife? Or better yet, a domestic buddy. I enjoyed every moment. To me, that was more than me... it was my very language of love.

Maybe I just fell, as well as fall so easily. So swiftly but nonetheless genuinely and passionately. Still, I could not understand why he'd refuse to believe that I've fallen so deeply in love with him. So deeply that I can't help it. Sounds so literary, but I felt as if I was a fool to have rushed in.

I was the boy who loved him.
But probably, he was just a man who slept with me.

I had spent most of my adult years hating my father.

I smiled when I realized that the upscale resto where Presie Dennis brought for dinner us last Sunday in Tagaytay has the same name as my father's. Contrary to that sumptuous long meal that we had, I would abhor dinners at home with my father around. I remember that there were times the had to shout at me just to order me to do something while in the middle of my supper. My father was irrational.

There were memories of mornings where I was crying and my father would tell me I'd rather not go to school anymore. A part of that constant memory was that my English teacher in grade one would ask me why my eyes were both red. I'd tell her, "...because my dad doesn't want me to go to school."
My father didn't finish school, and he could be a nagger.

There were 5 boys and 2 girls in the family. My brothers and I would often play tricks with each other. Often would we laugh with each other. My dad hated laughers. He said that if someone is very happy, later on he'll be very sad and crying. True enough, my brothers and I would be crying at the end because our dad would hit us with his leather belt or a dos por dos (a 2 inch x 2 inch x something inch piece of wood). But he'd do that all because we were laughing.
My father had a heavy hand.

When my very first nephew was staying at our house in Tondo, he became my father's instant favorite. Even if Brylle, my nephew, would be very stubborn, and naughty (well, he's a kid), my father wouldn't hit him. If the kid cries, my father would put the blame on me. Even if it's not my fault. So sometimes, I'd pick on the kid, make him cry and he'd go to sleep so easily! LOL. A part of that, I've been jealous of the fact that my father wouldn't have the same disiplinary action on the kid compared to us. There was one time that my nephew accidentally fell on my dumbells as he try to immitate my karate moves. I was simply lying on the floor doing my crunches after doing some dumbell curls. So you know it, my nephew got uber big bumps (bukol) on his forehead. My father was about to punch me when I curled my body and posed for a defense. He yelled at me saying "so you're going to fight back?" I think I already had my brown belt then. I could easily beat up anyone with that built, age, and strength of my father. But I would never do. Neither would I fight back.
My father is violent and impulsive.

My dad hated when we had to iron our clothes. He'd say, "you'd wrinkle your clothes anyway, so why iron it?" When I reached high school I would answer back "you'd soil your clothes anyway, why wash it?" He'd yell back, "pilosopo!"
My father had a different way of thinking.

Blah Blah Blah...

OK, my dad was irrational, a nagger, violent, impulsive, and completely indespicable (and sorts and sorts). But I've lived with it anyway. He's still my dad. But I'd admit for years that I separated from my parents, I never talked to my dad. Except when I really had to. Only last year have I've finally embraced total forgiveness and understanding have I learned to start the speaking terms with him. If I can forgive other people, how much more shouldn't I forgive my dad for somehow damaging my ego and steem while I was growing up. I've grown fine anyway.

Today, I am still dreaming of that bike that I'm going to use for training and for the Half Ironman in August. I woke up to a message from a friend who's already back in Germany. He said I can use his Motobecane that he couldn't bring back to his country. I have no idea if that suits racing. But I had to take any chance because I have no means to buy a new bike in two or four months! Another friend from New Zealand is looking into sending me his road bike. He said he has been using it for long rides and it serves him well. But how much would it cost him to send it (and me to receive it)?

Just as this friend from New Zealand was sending his messages, I recalled that my father has a racing bike. I can't remember if it is branded or if it was only assembled. All I can remember is that my oldest brother had placed a Shimano sticker on it when he would still ride with it to Luneta. That's practically the reason why my father had to dismantle the whole thing and to forbade everyone from riding the bike.

Way back when my dad just came back from Saudi, I was like 6 years old then. He would bring me out early in the morning on his bike. I'd remember that sitting on the body of the bike would deaden my glute and legs. After a while, I'd only realize that one of my slippers is already missing. Every Saturday morning, my dad would ride his bike (sometimes with me, sometimes by himself) and buy me a green apple. He only buys one green apple only for me. Never for my other siblings. I've loved my father way back. I would even get called "buntot" (tail) because I always go where my father goes.

Every morning on my way to the gym I would have green apples for pre-workout meal. They say apples would help you combat sleepiness in the morning. To be honest, for a while I have seen James Bond in me with all what I've been eating. But I guess, starting tomorrow, I'd be remembering my dad when I have those green apples by the start of my day.

Going back to my conversation with the Kiwi guy...
So the image of that chopped body of the racing bike instantly flashed on my mind! I'm going to borrow my father's bike. I know he would not refuse. I'm already a big boy, so I guess he'd let me use his bike.
My dad is over protective, with his things, and his family.

I just texted my sister to tell my dad that I'm going to join a Half Ironman on August and I'll be needing his bike and I'm willing to get it fixed. I'm getting it this Thursday.
Maybe then, he'll be proud of me (if not more).
Maybe then, I'll have more conversations with my him when I finally ride his own bike.

Maybe, there's more of me that I have inherited from my dad - more than I would realize.

I've decided to stop dating Professor that's why I AM joining Half Ironman in CamSur on August2009!

Oh well, I felt really sad that I had to tell him that I have to stop going out with him. When he said "I don't even know if I can maintain a relationship here in Manila," last Friday night, I just suddenly froze on my seat. I couldn't say a word. Then I asked myself, "what the hell am I doing on this date?"

I was scared. I thought I wouldn't never ever be. I liked him. For the very first time, I had an athlete for a date, someone intelligent and sensible, strong and well built, and a gentleman. But for some odd situations, I don't seem to get the right signals. He never responded to my flirting. Does Professor really liked me at all?

Anyway, I just needed to write about it. Moreover, to keep my momentum up, I have to put up a good plan for this year. No other way but to train for Half Ironman!

OK, anyone who could lend me a bike?

It's been a while since my last post. The holiday blues had brought me to my long daytime sleeps (if not entire-daytime sleeps) and sleepless nights! But anyway...

My new year started with something really new. Yeah, a Monday date seemed a very very different idea. I guess I finally made a way around a very busy schedule and resetting my body clock. Normally, I wouldn't have gone out of my way meeting someone for the first time. Work, gym, and my sports were all enough to fuel my day.

As much as I want to honor his request to keep it out of my publication, I can't help but blog about it. I've started to see someone, someone serious and probably (hopefully, with my fingers crossed) a relationship-material one. Nothing's official yet (since it's all to early to get to something). But one thing I know, I've waited 4 years to find the most suitable one. If this one's the Mr. Right, I'm willing to spend as much time.
If he's not, I'll keep counting the years.
Anyway, I'd really just pick a pooch when I turn 30 and still single. :-)

Life sometimes is just like your room with all the lights off.
Yet warm souls will always brighten your world.
Just like the candles that friends light
on your very special day.
You close your eyes.
Make a wish.
Blow.
After the silence,
Everybody shouts and sings.
Then there's light, laughter, hugs, and kisses.
After that, it's alright to get drunk or sing out of tune.

it's
your party...
it's your BIRTHDAY!

thank you
for being one of the
candles in my
cake.
i wish you all the best.

1. If you don't love the person, don't show any interest so he falls for you.
2. Don't let go of something that you can't afford to be in somebody else' hands.
3. Don't grab it it if you know that you'll just drop it afterwards.
4. Don't grab it if you know you're already holding something else.
5. It's like elevator, don't push yourself if there's no more room for you. While there's the stairs that you keep on overlooking.
6. If you'll just wait for someone to flirt with you, nothing's going to happen. You have to flirt too!
7. If you love someone and but doesn't love you back, just let it be. Who knows in the coming days if you'd stop loving that person. He has just stopped loving you first.
8. Breakup if you're no longer happy. There's no other remedy for fools but initiative.
9. If he doesn't love you back, don't complain since there are other people who loves you though you don't love them back. Amanos!
10. If you have two guys at the same time, choose the 2nd guy. You wouldn't be looking for a 2nd guy if you really love the 1st one.
11. Not just because you frequently chat, talk on the phone, go out together, exchange sms doesn't mean he likes you and you would end up together. There's just some people who are naturally friendly, sweet, flirt, or just want to make you fall for nothing.
12. Don't rush on for a lover. In three, five, ten years, your standards and your standards are going to change. You will realize that it isn't right to choose a partner just because he looks hot or sexy, or makes you horny all the time. What's inside the person is still much more important than anything else. As time goes by, those those pretty faces would look like your ShoPao from 711. Just believe.
    
13. Sometimes (if not most of the times) even if you're the one scheduled, you still have to wait. It's because you may not be the priority.
14. It's difficult to play a role in someone's life. Most especially if you're not the hero that he picked up.
15. Do you know the distance between two persons when they turn their backs on each other? They have to travel around the circumference of the earth just to face that same person behind your back.
16. It's better to fail from trying to get something than to fail out of doing nothing.
17. Not everything that you can comprehend are true. Not everything that you can't comprehend are lies.
18. If you love someone who you shouldn't and you get hurt, don't blame your heart. Your heart beats to supply blood to your entire body. If you know anatomy and you would blame your hypothalamus that controls your emotions, you're still wrong! Why? For God sake! Don't blame your organs for all your rantings. You'd only be happy if you'd learn that it's not your heart, brain, liver, or intestine who's to blame for whatever happens to you, but it's all you instead!
19. Let go of those things that would only hurt you even if they make you happy. Don't wait for the day that it's only pain that you'd feel, and that your joy has left you.
20. Use your heart to take care of your loved ones. Use your head to take care of yourself.
21. Love is like a manhole... it's scary to fall... and if you do, it's either by accident, or you're just too blonde.

(English translation to follow.)

1. Kung hindi mo mahal ang isang tao, wag ka nang magpakita ng motibo para mahalin ka nya.
2. Huwag mong bitawan ang bagay na hindi mo kayang makitang hawak ng iba.
3. Huwag mong hawakan kung alam mong bibitawan mo lang.
4. Huwag na huwag ka hahawak kapag alam mong may hawak ka na.
5. Parang elevator lang yan eh, bakit mo pagsisiksikan yung sarili mo kung walang pwesto para sa 'yo. Eh meron naman hagdan, ayaw mo lang pansinin.
6. Kung maghihintay ka nang lalandi sayo, walang mangyayari sa buhay mo. Dapat lumandi ka din.
7. Pag may mahal ka at ayaw sa 'yo, hayaan mo. Malay mo sa mga susunod na araw ayaw mo na din sa kanya, naunahan ka lang.
8. Hiwalayan na kung di ka na masaya. Walang gamot sa tanga kundi pagkukusa.
9. Pag hindi ka mahal ng mahal mo wag ka magreklamo. Kasi may mga tao rin na di mo mahal pero mahal ka.. Kaya quits lang.
10. Kung dalawa ang mahal mo, piliin mo yung pangalawa. Kasi hindi ka naman magmamahal ng iba kung mahal mo talaga yung una.
11. Hindi porke't madalas mong ka-chat, kausap sa telepono, kasama sa mga lakad o ka-text ng wantusawa eh may gusto sayo at magkakatuluyan kayo. Meron lang talagang mga taong sadyang friendly, sweet, flirt, malandi, pa-fall o paasa.
12. Huwag magmadali sa babae o lalaki. Tatlo, lima, sampung taon, mag-iiba ang pamantayan mo at maiisip mong hindi pala tamang pumili ng kapareha dahil lang maganda o nakakalibog ito. Totoong mas mahalaga ang kalooban ng tao higit sa anuman. Sa paglipas ng panahon, maging ang mga crush ng bayan nagmumukha ding pandesal, maniwala ka.
13. Minsan kahit ikaw ang nakaschedule, kailangan mo pa rin maghintay, kasi hindi ikaw ang priority.
14. Mahirap pumapel sa buhay ng tao. Lalo na kung hindi ikaw yung bida sa script na pinili nya.
15. Alam mo ba kung gaano kalayo ang pagitan ng dalawang tao pag nagtalikuran na sila? Kailangan mong libutin ang buong mundo para lang makaharap ulit ang taong tinalikuran mo.
16. Mas mabuting mabigo sa paggawa ng isang bagay kesa magtagumpay sa paggawa ng wala.
17. Hindi lahat ng kaya mong intindihin ay katotohan, at hindi lahat ng hindi mo kayang intindihin ay kasinungalingan.
18. Kung nagmahal ka ng taong di dapat at nasaktan ka, wag mong sisihin ang puso mo. Tumitibok lng yan para mag-supply ng dugo sa katawan mo. Ngayon, kung magaling ka sa anatomy at ang sisisihin mo naman ay ang hypothalamus mo na kumokontrol ng emotions mo, mali ka pa rin! Bakit? Utang na loob! Wag mong isisi sa body organs mo ang mga sama ng loob mo sa buhay! Tandaan mo: magiging masaya ka lang kung matututo kang tanggapin na hindi ang puso, utak, atay o bituka mo ang may kasalanan sa lahat ng nangyari sayo, kundi IKAW mismo!
19. Pakawalan mo yung mga bagay na nakakasakit sa iyo kahit na pinasasaya ka nito. Wag mong hintayin ang araw na sakit na lang ang nararamdaman mo at iniwan ka na ng kasiyahan mo.
20. Gamitin ang puso para alagaan ang mga taong malalapit sa iyo. Gamitin ang utak para alagaan ang sarili mo.
21. Ang pag-ibig parang imburnal...nakakatakot mahulog...at kapag nahulog ka, it's either by accident or talagang tanga ka. 

While I'm still thinking of the right lines to describe my first full-marathon experience I will let this image speak for it.For more details click on this link: http://www.runpix.info/sin08/42/finord.php?LastName=bernardo&lan=&aset=0

We had so much fun in a shoot for Sports Unlimited with Dianne Castillejo yesterday in Army Wellness Center. She wanted to play with us, and which such how could we decline?

Present are Rhoy, Dennis, Chock, Sam, Marlyn, Belle, Marge, and PUCH Buddies Connie, Kelvin, and Me!

The feature Sports Unlimited episode shall be aired in ABS-CBN on Nov29.

Underwater Hockey, What?
 
If you think hockey is complicated enough to be played in land, or on ice, think again. Try it underwater!
 
Like your ordinary land hockey, you need two teams of six. Composed of three forwards (offensive players), and three backs (defensive players), each team tries to push a puck (like that of ice hockey’s) using a short stick (about 30cm) to their opponent’s goal. Either black or white, the stick determines a player’s squad. Game happens at the bottom of a 6-feet deep pool.
 
Players are on their swimwear (take note, trunks and swimsuit – not shorts, nor boardshorts!). A pair of snorkel and diving mask help the individual dive down, or stay afloat on the surface without having to lift his/her head and remain at tuned with the game. While the fins help to maneuver and thrust forward within the outlandish realm. No scuba is used.
 
So you might say, this is a new sport in the Philippines . Actually, you are wrong. Underwater hockey (say it again, Underwater Hockey, not Water Polo) has been around since 80’s. The veterans, or “vests” as we call them have put up the Philippine Underwater Hockey Confederation (PUHC). This club is the one responsible for promoting this sport in the country. To pass on the heritage of this unique game, a hockey school is opened at least once a year to interested parties since 2002. I, a graduate of this school year’s batch, am a proud member of the national team.
 
Just as you may ask, is Underwater Hockey really a sport? It is actually played in countries like Australia , New Zealand , USA , Canada , Italy , and South Africa . Be informed that last year, Team Philippines swept all categories in the 1 st Asian Underwater Hockey Championships held in Singapore . This year, while defending the crown, Philippines is hosting the 2nd Asian Underwater Hockey Championships in Army Wellness Center Pool this coming November 21, 22, 23. Participating countries are Philippines , Japan , and Singapore.
 
As a part of PUHC, and Philippine Underwater Hockey School 2008, and the national team, I’d like to invite everyone to witness the games this coming weekend. Moreover, if you think this sport has a particular appeal to you, standby for the next Intro Class on December. Check out our official website for further details and announcement: http://www.puhc.com.ph .
 
Until then, see you in the water!
 

Aray! ("Ouch" in English.)

If I hadn't been so prudent while running along 5th Street last night then I wouldn't have tripped with jogging in the spotty sidewalk. Mind you, the sidewalk was too dark I that I didn't notice I was stepping on some broken rocks over mud. My left ankle hurt a bit.

So after an hour and 45minutes outdoor run, I came back to office and immediately looked for ice and a brim. My beaten soles and ankles have finally met the highly anticipated cold compress. I couldn't afford to injure my limbs if I were to join the upcoming Asian Underwater Hockey Championships on Nov21-23, and the Singapore Marathon on Dec7.

Now my left knee has the most pain, however, it is bearable. I would only feel it aching whenever I get up from a lying position.

The picture above is far from how I tripped down last night. It happened sidewards. As everyone expects, it happened gracefully. Hahaha. I managed to get back to balance and started running immediately as if nothing happened. But no matter how good an actor I can be, I can't afford to get the same disaster ever again.

Do you know anyone who ran last Oct 11 in Adidas King of the Road who had some tummy ache after drinking the supplied water from the race?

I was informed that there were people who had some tummy problems after drinking the water fetched from large drums to plastic cups via dippers (in tagalog, tabo). I got concerned when I got this info because I had an aching tummy after the run which lasted for five days. I was even blaming the whey protein supplement that I was taking with all the melamine scare.

Next time I run, I will have to bring my own water. It's not good to have some stomach ache while having pains in the limbs after the race. Well, it's never good to have some at all.

Ang lalaking guwapo, matalino, mabait, macho, magino ay pawang

guni-guni lamang!


- Nicole Liyala

I just came back from my short gym workout, and my mind is just in the swirl of different images and stories. Some of these are:

• breaking in my new Asics Kayano-14. I know that my brandnew pair is still a little stiff for my foot and there's so much adjustment that my leg has to make after shifting from the thin and ultra-lightweight New Balance pair. Less than two months for the big 42k race!
• the Singapore Standard Chartered on Dec 5.
• how and when to train for the 42k!
  
• meeting James Bond in KL, in Singapore Marathon, and driving back to KL.
• Underwater Hockey Championship 2, in November. There's lots of training to do so I won't bring shame to the team.
• Halloween costume. Since my ever fun queer friends already have decided what I am suppose to wear on our Malate night, I have no choice but to look for the best design and materials for my killer-attire. I don't think I can divulge the theme that we've come up.
• My office deliverables on October 21! Just too much work to get them done!
• My tummy ache! Seemingly it's a stomach or muscle spasm. But who am I to say?
• Spanish Bread arriving on Saturday night. I'm expected to be in a dinner with him.
  
• Clyde's birthday dinner on Saturday night. He's going to kill me if I ditch his party for Spanish Bread.
• Consi's birthday on Sunday in Green Meadows. She might take me out of her wedding guest list if I don't show my shinny head.
  
• Spanish Werewolf getting hotter. There might be some time to sneak out before Saturday night!
• It's all games in AFP tonight!
• My mom's sopas. I guess I have to go to the pantry as soon as I get this thing posted.