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Prince J and the dragon named Ryanne

Hi guys because love is on the air I decided to blog all about love until Valentines Day, hope you enjoy our story it is not yet finished though. Don’t know if we are going to finish it, Pookie bear got the idea of composing a story when he know I love to write love story, so he started it and the blue paragraphs was written by me, we wrote this when we are not yet married I don’t know what happened why I was not able to write the next paragraph so I wrote the continuation tonight. As far as I remember both of us became so busy working on our wedding detail especially me making our own invitations, working for the reception and etc.,
It was a beautiful, sunny morning. There was a slight breeze and the scent of flowers filled the air. As Ryanne ( ) slept blissfully, nothing but the sweet song of birds could be heard in the meadow adjacent to her house. At 9:00 the alarm went off and it was time for Ryanne to start her day. She tried to shake off that feeling of fatigue that we all have in the morning. For eventhough she looked like she slept blissfully, she was tormented by a recurring dream, some would even say a nightmare, of her being turned into a dragon by the evil and dastardly Prince J.  Yes, he just had one letter in his name, but he was so evil, that’s all he needed. Anymore, and he would have been super-evil. Anyway, back to our story. Ryanne got out of bed and walked to the window. What a beautiful morning she thought.
At Fort Santiago
She sighs after reminiscing something on the past. She never thought things will be like this. How she hated to be alone, to face all the blank walls on her room. How many times she did ask her self, why she feel so selfless? After Prince J, turned her to a dragon something magical occurs, she is not the Ryanne she always knows. She is not like this before, she never feels selfless before, she can return home without trouble but it was yesterday. She had her deep sigh again. A strange feeling is torturing her If there’s only one who can understand her thoughts, her mere dreams and nightmares.
How many times she got her bad dreams, running nowhere in the middle of the long cold night, looking for the pair of eyes she seen somewhere in her life journey. If she could only see again that pair of eyes who makes her to feel selfless but Prince J really annoyed her, his evil deeds makes her to shiver from fear. She wants to fight back…but she can’t.  She is a prisoner of her own feelings…   
She painfully moves out from the window. This is another day of humiliations… How she wishes Prince J make her a dragon forever….
At Bahay Tsinoy
But this was not to be her fate….her destiny was down a different path. She just didn’t realize it yet. Ryanne prepared for the day ahead of her, always thinking, always wondering. Would she be alone forever, never knowing what it was like to be loved, never knowing the sweet taste of a loved one’s kiss, never gazing into someone’s eyes and being lost in that gaze for what seemed like a lifetime……but she shook off these feelings and went about her tasks.
After Ryanne returned home from a long day of labouring, she sat down to a quiet and peaceful meal with her family. Her father looked at her with happiness, while her mother gazed upon her knowing that she had raised a beautiful, sweet, kind, loving, caring, intelligent and funny daughter. But little did they know how Ryanne was tormented by feelings of loneliness and constant dreams of being turned into a dragon by the evil Prince J. Once dinner was over and Ryanne helped her mother clear the table, she retired to her bedroom, hoping and praying that her nightmares involving Prince J would not give her another sleepless night. As she lay her head on the pillow and sleep closed in on her, her mind filled with that horrible dream. She struggled to wake up, to escape from her nightmare, but it was not to be. She was trapped, and she didn’t know how to get out.
At last she’s awake, she thought she won’t wake up anymore. As she returned to reality a decision was made, she will hug her delusions and mere dreams. She will not going to regret to be a dragon for ever just to be with Prince J. He loves him so much no matter how evil he is, she sneak outside the house with a heart full of love. She doesn’t know the way to his kingdom but her heart will lead the way…

When love sailed

As I am looking for a travel photo of mine in my Friendster account I have stumbled on this scanned document, this is the longest poem I have written when I am still in college, I submitted this in a literary contest in our school paper and it won as first place or “Unang Karangalang Banggit” as what it is written after the poem.  Never received a prize from this contest but since then I became a contributor of our school paper I’ve never tried to join or take an exam to be part of the school paper because every time new staff is needed either I am nervous to take an exam, we have a class or we have no class and I am at home. You know the typical life of a family saving for another day, so no class, no allowance and no fare to town.

Anyway because it is almost Valentines day I am sharing this poem, my life, my crush,  my infatuation and rejection. I thought I have encoded it long time ago but I can’t find a soft copy of it.

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Nothing to blog so have a cone…

Feel very tired today, I’ve done a general cleaning and did two loads of laundry plus we undo the pipe in the bathroom sink like a plumber, it looks like unplugged water does not goes down easily it was so slow.  Just so lucky that there’s no gym tonight so I am not that dead tired but still I need to go out to buy a bottle of olive oil.
I have nothing to blog folks aside from I am busy from house hold chores and tweaking another blog template as of tonight, going to sleep in a minute. So while dropping by here in my blog here’s a  cone of ice cream to entertain you don’t lick it too much, please think of my other visitors okay? Left them some cone…teheee..joke2. Happy Thursday, its already Thursday here eh.,

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Kimchi and Rice

Hi folks how’s life going? I feel like neurotic here as Pookie bear says I cannot stop my hand from scratching my head, he is already planning to tie my two hands so I cannot reach my head. Lol, I don’t know when I feel bored and nothing to do I make myself busy. 
Anyway let’s don’t talk gross about flakes and etc., our apartment today is stinking, stink likes pork. I have fried this ham look a like pork. This is my meal today, so I am not going to wonder why there’s one big pimple in my forehead I have been eating oily foods these past few days.

Anyway here’s rice and kimchi to complete the meal, it looks like Pookie bear and I is really playing “bahay-bahayan” our plates, glass and bowl are plastics except for fork and spoon. Hehe
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Health Benefits of a Squash

I have been busy yesterday tweaking the template of my travel blog, and later afternoon yesterday I have found out I don’t have enough time to do all my task online, Pookie bear class schedule changed for one week so we went to the gym a little late and  we came home from gym almost eight in the evening. I thought I will still have enough time to do all my task online but I am wrong.
Anyway as what I have said on my last post, I am having problem with my eyes that cause headache so I have think of eating squash. Lol, I just saute it with meat.

Do you know that squash has two main categories of squash are winter squash and summer squash,  winter squash is a low-calorie, good source of complex vegetable carbohydrates and dietary fiber
 
Squash is an excellent source of vitamin A, a great source of vitamin C potassium, dietary fiber and manganese, and a good source of folate, omega 3 fatty acids, vitamin B1 (thiamin), copper, tryptophan, vitamin B6 (pyridoxine), vitamin B3 (niacin) and vitamin B5 (pantothenic acid).

It is also a source of niacin, iron and beta carotene. Usually, the darker the skin is, the higher the beta carotene content.

Ramada Seoul: Garden Buffet “Ciel Garden”

As what I have said on my previous blogwe had a dinner in a buffet restaurant in Seoul last Friday evening. Garden Buffet ‘Ciel Garden’  is on third floor of Ramada Seoul  located in Samsung-dong, Kangnam-ku, Seoul. The restaurant opens at six o’clock in the evening we are thirty minutes early so we waited together with other locals, we are the first one who went inside as we are the first one who came.

Anyway here’s my first plate shrimps, sushi and sashimi. Yum!

Second plate, smoked salmons, bun with different cheese, shrimps and different type of salads

Third plate, shrimps, sashimi, steaks, meat, chicken and a lot of sea foods.
Fourth plate desserts, blueberry cheese cake, fruit tarts, chocolate cakes and etc.,
Finally the last one, ice cream yoghurt, strawberry and the other flavor I don’t know. Lol
Picture before going home

They also have crabs and a lot more menus but I cannot eat them anymore my stomach is very very full. No more place for another plate, when we got home it feels so hard to breath having a big stomach. I did not even ate all food in my third plate, you will see it small but there’s a lot of food below the shrimps. I did not finish my steak so Pookie did it for me.Take out of Baskin Robbins at the bus terminal, Pookie bear was not able to eat ice cream because we are running out of time. We spend two hours inside the restaurant with non-stop eating, they are having a 20% discount.

Buffet cost
Lunch 33,600 / Dinner 41,600  (per person and tax not included)
Converted in USD – $29.82 and $36.92 respectively.
Below are the photos promoting their event, 20% discount, are you going to say No to this?

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Eating in a Buffet Restaurant

Just got home from Seoul few minutes ago. This is the dinner I am talking on my scheduled blog published this afternoon. We left here around three o’clock arrived home around ten o’clock in the evening, I wonder if this is our advanced Valentine dinner (hehe). Anyway we have buffet meal….all you can eat steak, sushi, sashimi crab, cakes, ice creams and numerous other dishes. I feel very full and my stomach gonna explode in a minute Pookie bear still had take-out of Baskin’ Robbins in the terminal he was not able to eat ice cream in the restaurant because it is getting late we need to catch bus to go home.
Anyway I did not wear the  violet clothes, instead I wore a pants and black Natasha blouse “Crescent” and the gold Natasha sandals “Mesmerized”. Darn it seems my feet are now bigger because it hurts, cannot even walk good. As far as I noticed I am the only one wearing an open sandals while all of the ladies are wearing winter boots.

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My modeling stint

I think every woman wants to be a model and I am one of those, toinks! Here’s some funny photos on my modeling stint last night, I almost got the job but when the director saw my two bunny teeth in the front he runs fast as he can. He-he-he, Joke only. Actually Pookie bear had told me I need to wear something formal if we are going to Seoul to eat into a buffet restaurant because it is inside a luxury hotel. I have no formal clothes, all of my clothes are maong pants, blouses and t-shirts. 
I have found these violet “graduation” gown on my clothes, I called it graduation gown because we bought it around March 2009 where most of the students are looking for the clothes to wear and this type of clothes became popular.  My mother told me to buy it so I have a formal clothes if ever Pookie bear and I will be invited to a party, so far we did not go to any party yet.
So yeah I found this violet gown and I modeled it to him if it is okay. Instead of liking it, he disagree “Walk like a lady!” Sorry dear, I thought I am still in a rubber shoes, so I walked again like walking in a flat form and he said “It’s okay”. But when he saw how I sit in the floor he exclaimed a BIG  BIG NO ,  I just said an excuse that I am not going to do it outside, its okay to do it here because I am at home. What did I do? Well I just sit like I am wearing a pants. He-he Anyway if you don’t know, I am like Ate Vi “star for all seasons” I can be a guy sometimes and I could be a lady too. Just to bad I am a fatty cow now..
Just want to take my sponsors, my box of junk, box for chocolates and jar of my candies for making this photo shoot possible. In short for being a “patungan” of my camera while being set on a timer. He-he

Lunar New Year Dinner

Happy Lunar New Year everyone! I had a very busy day yesterday night preparing for our dinner, Pookie bear and I went out to look for something to eat, we headed to “Sawadee” what we believed a Thai Restaurant but when we reached the place we are right it is Thai  but it is not a restaurant  it is a massage center at the second floor of Korean restaurants. 
It looks like most of the establishments are closed for the Lunar New Year so we just wander around the city until we reached Baskin’ Robbins, I feel like eating ice cream so I went inside while Pookie bear decided to wait outside because he said he don’t want any, it went perfectly but not upon taking it out. The young guy asked me something which I cannot understand and in the end when he picked something inside the bucket “he is talking ice” if I want to put ice on my take-out bag.
After having my ice cream we walked again and Pookie bear decided to take out box of pizza at Pizza School unfortunately it is closed so we decided to head on to Kim’s Mart where we bought some dumplings, meat and carbonated milk.
I have soaked the meat on soy sauce, lazy lime, garlic, black pepper and onions and then fried it. It looks yummy right?

Then fried the kimchi dumplings too. It is kind of spicy because of the kimchi even it has a meat.

That’s how we celebrate Lunar New Year last night, eating these foods while watching horror movie  Psych 9, as the dessert we ate the ice cream from Baskin’ Robbins and my bag of M & M’s Chocolate. It’s a simple but happy Lunar New Year dinner

My visit to Seoul today

My self timer photo in Itaewon, thanks to the stairs.
I went to Seoul today to meet my cousin, I did not catch the one o’clock but so no choice but to got the 1:30 bus ride to Seoul. Out of my expectation the moment we enter the city its traffic, buses and cars are not moving,  the other passengers are already getting bored and they went to the driver to ask if they can just walk probably also had commitment and they are getting late. I don’t understand what they are talking but base on their movements it looks like the driver wouldn’t like the idea of letting his passengers wander in the street, maybe he is thinking he is going to be responsible if his passengers meet an accident, so we moved slowly and after few minutes the driver tell something I could not understand it again but when I saw the other passengers moving out the bus I followed. The driver is instructing something I just walk and follow the other passengers and that’s how I found that what the driver is talking about “just walk straight into the subway”. As I went into underpass I really can’t hold my pee that I’ve been holding since we enter Seoul. So I was relieved when I found a comfort room sign. I was almost lost looking for the subway station because the underpass I’ve get in was also a large shopping center below the bus terminal, so I have made my way into the group of shoppers and hurriedly load my card, as I am going down for the train I’ve seen a pay phone. So I tried dialing my cousin’s number but my coin just keep on falling in the change compartment. Running out of time because it is already three o’clock I have told my cousin we have to meet between two and three o’clock in the afternoon.
Just so lucky when I went down there’s a train going to where am I going, I get out the train walking/running I transferred to Yaksu. I also found a pay phone and I tried to dial again, it is ringing but after it  a Korean operator is saying something and my time is  running so probably its a leave a message scheme. Feeling worried I board another train to Itaewon, I just had the feeling that my cousin had already left. When I reached Itaewon I run so fast to the exit and look for a pay phone. There I have dialed and your guess is right as mine, she already left thinking I am not going to show, because when I reached our meeting place it is almost one hour after three o’clock. 
So what I am going to do then, I just came and I am also going home, it feels like I just wasted money to step in Itaewon, feeling anxious what to do I went out to Itaewon and had a short walk and take some photos then return to the subway and to the bus terminal where I came from. 
On the subway station near the terminal I went inside the newly open store I have first saw when I arrived but due to running out of time I didn’t went in, so I have a lot of free time right at the time so I shopped for some stuffs. It is going to be another blog. 
Traffic going to Seoul
To cut the story short I bought my bus ticket,  then buy some present for Pookie bear. I didn’t got the five o’clock bus, so have to wait twenty minutes for the next bus other passengers are getting confused because there’s 5:20 and there’s 5:30. The bus is almost full when a guy who checks if the bus is full or not  came to our seat (I have seatmate a Korean lass) he is showing another half of a ticket to me so I showed him my ticket he was surprised like something so he asked my seatmate and that’s where they found out my seatmate has 5:30 time on his ticket, maybe he is also number 28 and maybe he also thought I am a dork stealing his seat. Lol! Anyway I think the Korean man checked the tickets and found out there’s 5:30 time on it that’s why he came to us. 
So we left the terminal and my seat mate is already a young lady, as it is expected it’s traffic so we are informed we are going to have a detour to avoid traffic but it seems most vehicles thought the same thing so we are still stuck in traffic, our one hour bus trip became two hours and few minutes. It looks like people are going home for Chinese New Year, and enjoy the long weekend. It is going to be holiday here starting tomorrow. It’s a long weekend, Pookie bear is thinking to go to Seoul on weekend and had a buffet. There will be a grand opening of a restaurant in Itaewon, that serves sushi and international food. It is going to be a party..
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