I'm in heat!

It was a hot hot hot day as we traveled for s-e-v-e-n grueling hours under the scorching sun just to get to Isabela. I thought I'd die of heat stroke! My goodness! No amount of staying in a sauna could measure up to the heat this summer! The picture above? That was what we had to go through to get to our gargantuan home up north. But once there, our God-awful road trip was forgotten as we took long baths and nestled in our own rooms to have our well deserved rest. Hay sarap...

Happy Birthday

Happy Birthday Daddy!

I love you!

More and more birthdays to come! I'm so blessed to have a father like you!

Vanity and Vampires

I took a picture of my dresser. I liked how it looked. My phone, my Disney villain picture frame, my cranberry scented aromatherapy set, candles and my jewelry tree where most of my favorites can be found (I stash my seldomly worn accessories in a box under my bed) I like my room. I like how my father designed it. Though I guess he never really expected that I needed a lot - and I mean a lot of tall and wide cabinets, a walk in closet wouldn't even suffice so I just hoarded more of my things in the other room's closets. As of the time being, I am still decorating and redecorating my room - with thick white cloths.

Why?

Simply because I need my room to be dark as night even if it's only 1:00pm. My beloved partner currently works in a callcenter. Does that explain everything? Well, you might even wonder why the hell do I use white thick cloths, it's because my windows are different. I never wanted those darn blinds that seems to gather nothing but dust - of which I am allergic to. I love curtains but not in my room. I opted to go for capiz on my windows. No, it's not the kind you see in old houses in the province where you tend to push with all your might the heavy wood/capiz windows to see the outside world.

My customized capiz are red and white in color which of course matches my cranberry room. It hangs on the windows which serves as the curtain. I love it best when the wind blows because it makes those sounds that are uniquely from capiz when it moves and touch each other. Like chimes, only it's different than the common chimes you hear with metal against metal clanging kind of thing.

Anyway, it's been over two months now since I last saw and heard my capiz at work and I feel like a vampire. My room is so dark you need to turn the lights on even if it's broad daylight outside. I can't go out of the house without my shades on and I definitely cannot stand the heat outside. I actually like staying in my "red coffin"

Who cares if my windows are no longer telltale signs of time in the outside world? Who cares if I don't get to see sunlight anymore? At least I know that the next time I'll be under the sun, it's because I'm wearing my Victoria's Secret swim wear and that my feet are touching the sand on the beach. I get to share my room with my vampire of a partner wrapped in a warm embrace, wake up to have have a meal at God knows what time, watch movies, talk, lounge, have baths together and - I think I should stop now! wink wink.

Isn't that heaven? What more can I ask for?

A surprised siopao!

This has got to be the cutest passport picture I have ever seen!

This is how she looks like on her passport picture:

Baby Kaitlin got so surprised with the camera's flash that her picture turned out like this! Makes me want to bite my little niece's chubby cheeks!

GwEn gwen GWEN gWeN

One boring day, as I was surfing the net I came across a webpage wherein it gives your name a whole new meaning. It was actually funny. Here's what happened to my name:

This is soooooooooooooo true!

* Wink Wink *

Okay, if they say so!

Picture perfect

For some reason I find myself in this dark emptiness that engulfs the entirety of me. It hinders me from functioning even for a while. Everything I do seems meaningless, like a dead end towards nothingness. I can't cry. I don't feel like it. I don't think it would even make a difference if I did. I don't want to talk with anybody. What will I tell them? Nothing. I want silence and yet I don't.

Ancestral House

So this is what's been keeping my daddy busy:

It's been over three months now and this gigantual edifice is still not finished. This is our ancestral house in Santiago Isabela. No, it is not a bigger "Pinoy Big Brother House" nor was it ever inspired by the said abode.

But of course, before the house became like this, I'll show you its evolution.

This is how it all began, my father decided to not only renovate the house rather have it actually brought down to rumbles so he can rebuild an entire new one.

This is how the front of the house looked like two months ago.

THE skylight in progress which everyone is crazy about.
It covers the entire second floor from front to back. It gives divine lighting to the entire floor as it gives that happy sunshiny feeling to anyone who's there. On the said floor would be the Japanese-themed garden complete with falls and plants.


View from the back.


Front view.


The main door which isn't finished yet.


This is the living room area with a lanai option leading to the garden.

The house is still not finished. My last count was 10 rooms and 5 toilet and baths, spacious garden which my grandfather is planning to decorate himself, 7-8 car garage, and a basketball/badminton court. When asked, my dad is still not sure if that would be the final count. Oh well, it's sure to be a great place for family reunions! Anybody wanna play hide and seek with me?