Saturday’s List
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Laundry done! And when I say done, I mean the whole nine yards. Washed, dried, folded and put away. Yay Me! -
Kitchen is clean and organized. Remnants of Thanksgiving mess are gone.
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Legos from the daughter’s room have been put in buckets. The floor is actually clear, and her tea table is organize. I’m praying it would stay that way until tomorrow.
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Toy Story 3 makes me cry no matter how many times I’ve seen it.
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Free weekend of Starz and Encore channels is dedicated to Wesley Snipes movies. I’ve watched The Fan, Blade II, and Passenger 57 in the past 3 days.
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Hubby and I are working our way through the series of No Ordinary Family.
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My children are bugging me about Christmas decorations.
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I will take my Christmas decorations out tomorrow.
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There’s going to be a lot of moving furniture, books, dusting and sweeping in between while decorating my house for Christmas.
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I am secretly hoping that Hubby puts the Christmas lights outside but with work and school, he might not have the patience to do it. Plus, we’re spending Christmas in New York so….
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YES, we’re going to New York for Christmas. I am sooooo excited. We’re going to look around for houses while we’re there just to get an idea.
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And for vanity’s sake, I took a picture of myself on Thanksgiving Day coz I curled my hair, Haha!
Daddy’s Girl, Always
No, this isn’t about my daughter. This is about me and my relationship with my own Father. We really have a confusing yet loving relationship. I love him and I know that despite distance, disagreements in the past, and long gaps of no communication, he loves me. Things were resolved the other night without us even talking about resolving it. We talked just like old times. He and I are always OK. Even when I was really young and he was told of my supposed rebellious ways. Like he would get mad at me, chastised me even but I’ve always been his Princess. The best way I could explain it is that I’m not the typical “good” Filipina daughter. Whatever that means, really. It’s just hard to explain. Interestingly enough, I got this side of me from my Mother which I’m very proud of. I respect, accept and tolerate people but I have the tendency to let people know when I don’t agree. Something my traditional Filipino family can’t fathom. Hence, my black sheep reputation in the family, haha. This affected my relationship with my father throughout my growing up years. Sometimes I think about how I never entered california rehabs during those times.
Personally, that makes me a good daughter but of course some disagreed and they’ve influenced my Father on that aspect.
But like I said, that’s how our relationship rolls. The other night pretty much squashed everything away. Well I hope so anyway. I was able to listen to him and laugh at some of his comments. I’ve even ignored some without being irritated. I was just genuinely uberly-happy that he and I were having a conversation.
At the end of the conversation I told him I love him and he said he loves me too and that’s all that matters.
Thanks, I think……..
Because of Facebook, people from my past are popping up every 3 days, requesting to be added in Friend’s list. Truth be told, sometimes I have to dig deeper in my brain to remember who some of the people are. There’s one the other day whom after I accepted his request, sent me a message that made me smirk and roll my eyes at the same time. By the way, I sort of remember who he is.. LOL. Anyhooo, he said I still look pretty even after having 2 kids.
REALLY?? Interestingly enough, he’s a Filipino. I don’t want to open a can of worms but some Filipinos have the tendency to say comments like that. Yah know, complimentary comments with a touch of condescend and unintentional insult. Don’t even get me started on the weight topic… Errrmmmm…
So I decided to make a comparison. Before marriage and after 2 children.
Something Weird About Me
I’m really not into cell phones. That would flabbergast some people but there goes my secret, heh. If I want to call someone, I’d use the home phone or just e-mail or like everybody else, leave a wall message on Facebook, haha. I don’t even carry one right now. The ones I had were pretty much for emergency purposes. I used them for texting some people, but mostly my Husband. I’m just really not into it I guess. I wouldn’t know what’s in a blackberry playbook, let alone know what it is. To each it’s own, right? But I sure would love an iPad. Totally different things but that’s how I roll. 
This PINAY Would Kick Your ASS, And Be Proud Of It!
So I have this Filipino Showbiz blog which gets almost 5k views a day. FilipinasInShowbiz.com is my guilty pleasure. I used to be a snooty bitch about Pinoy Showbiz years ago until a celebrity named Marian Rivera came into my life. I liked a few Filipino celebrities before but I wasn’t as informed or dedicated to it until 2008 when I created the FilipinasInShowbiz.com as my outlet for anything that’s Marian Rivera. So of course I have a Twitter account (PinaysInShowbiz) for it as part of promotion and other things that’s related to social networking when running a blog.
In the middle of all the twittering going on about the Manny Pacquiao fight against Antonio Margarito, I checked the “Mentions” part of the Twitter account coz the dashboard was moving too fast and I wanted to make sure I didn’t miss any mentions from my 1400 followers. Imagine my surprise when I saw a tweet from a twitter named Jazz2Slick.
@PinaysInShowbiz nobody cares about that crap just stick with the pacquiao and margarito tweet all we wanna hear about is pacquiao
My first reaction was, who the hell is this guy telling me what not to Tweet about. Hellloooo? First of all the Twitter account name is PINAYSINSHOWBIZ. Did he really expect me to tweet ONLY the Pacquiao-Margarito fight? Besides, why the hell is he following me? And why is he reading my tweets if he only cares to read about the Pacquiao fight? So I replied to him.
@jazz2slick Excuse Me?? Don’t tell me what I should tweet abt. Don’t follow me then.. Ass!
His reply:
@PinaysInShowbiz i’m not following you my dear.
OK, so he’s not following me. So how in the world was he able to read my Tweets? I ‘m not following him and the only way I was able to read his “mention” of my Twitter is when I checked the “mentions” section.
@jazz2slick Well I’m not following you either.. Who The Fuck are you telling me not to tweet abt certain things coz you only care about the Manny Pacquiao tweets.. I’m sure Twitter is loaded with it already so why bother read my tweets? Hellllleerrr!
And he came back with this:
@PinaysInShowbiz is this how you pinays are? All cursing and stuff? Nice one to represent your country. i got no time to fight with you bye
Now that really pissed me off. Who the heck is this guy, seriously? What, a Pinay can’t cuss? Way to represent a country? So coz I cussed at him for being an ass, rude and stupid for not thinking about the name of the Twitter account, I’m not representing my country in a nice way?.. Puhlleaazzeee.
@jazz2slick LOL.. Puhhlleeasseee.. This Pinay will kick your ass and proud of it. So get used to it. And Yes, go, dumbass!
I am proud to be a PINAY. A PINAY who can defend herself and not let some male chauvinistic pig tell her what to do, EVER. The Twitter account is called PINAYSINSHOWBIZ, that means I will be tweeting about what’s going on in showbiz. That’s what I was doing yesterday. There was an award show, celebrity sightings, celebrity news, and mentions of the fight.
How was I supposed to represent the Philippines which I haven’t lived in for years? Was I supposed to apologize to him for twitting about celebrity news and not about Pacquiao? Was I supposed to say “Yes Sir, and you are right?” And of course, he went for the typical elitist crap that some Pinoys utter when confronted by a strong individual, a woman at that.
@PinaysInShowbiz great breeding right there
Some Pinoys are so obsessed with putting distinctions among themselves by introducing the “breeding” word in an argument to prove that they’re better than everyone else. I guess a Filipina like me who says strong words and would point out what an asshole he is has no “breeding.” An ignorant and typical defense from pa-sosyal wannabes who think they’re the shiznits because they speak trying-hard conyo-English.
@jazz2slick whatever.. LOL.. typical!
So yeah, while Pacquiao was beating Margarito to a bloody pulp, I was also in a fighting mode on Twitter with this dickhead who came out of nowhere telling me what to do in a social network where practically the whole world population was talking about the Pacquiao fight. Like it was such a sin for a twitter account called PinaysInShowbiz to tweet about what it was created for in the first place. Maybe I reacted angrily, but I stand by my words. I am a PINAY who can kick his ass and Proud of it. If that’s not a good PINAY representation of the Philippines then that’s their problem, not mine! And if calling out his stupidity instead of bowing my head and acquiesce to his request speaks of my “breeding” then I am proud to be in that class of “breeding.”
He messed with the wrong PINAY.
It’s Boots Season, YAY!
I don’t want to think about Lipofuze coz it’s Fall & Winter season so that means there will be layers of cover ups like chic coats, sweaters and scarves. It’s also the season for Boots. I love wearing my knee-high boots and ankle boots for Fall. Thankfully, we don’t get much snow or any at all here in North Carolina so I can go out confidently in my heeled boots without busting my behind from the snow.
I love wearing my boots with dresses, skirts and jeans. The other day, I actually tucked my jeans inside a knee-high black pair of boots. I loved it. My exercises are paying off, woohoo. I didn’t take a picture of that oufit but here are a few Fall Looks from last year that showcases my Fall boots.
Brown blazer over white tank top, brown floral prink skirt, brown tights, brown buckled wedge knww-high boots with red Sasha tote and long beaded necklace.
1st Look: grey bolero over black top, purple & black patterned skirt and black knee-high boots. 2nd Look: Levi’s denim blazer over brown v-neck dress, brown knee-high boots, with Sasha tote and beaded necklace.
1st Look: multi-color tiered top with denim skirt and booties. 2nd Look: plaid shirt dress and black knee-high boots.
Yes, I’m vain and I love Fashion and I love Boots . You can read more of my fashion ramblings at StyleandFlair.com.
PMS Time
Now that I’ve been working out regularly, my body won’t tell me if I’m about to have my monthly visitor. Like I’ve said before, Insanity has somehow helped my cramp problems. However, I’ve learned to detect when the time of the month is coming. The good ‘ol moods. I get frustrated and irritated so easily. My face starts to break out too so my trusted acne product is definitely being put to good use. I don’t mind coz it only last me 2 days. I had a mask the other day which amused my 4 yr old daughter. She wouldn’t stop smiling and looking at my crackling face, hehe.
Red or Black?
It’s official, I need to dye my hair again. Last time I did it was back in May. I confess that one of the reasons I dye my hair these days is to cover up the white hair that are stubbornly popping up. They’re mostly in the crown and bangs areas too. The last time I dyed my hair I used light auburn which turned my hair slightly red. I liked it.
I’ve learned that when I’m stressed out, I either need to dye my hair or use adult acne treatment. Since I’ve been good in using the latter, my face is fine. The hair however needs to be dealt with. I can’t decide which color I want this time though. Maintain the red or do black again?
I’m leaning on black since it’s Fall/Winter season. But I’m not sure yet. Ayayay Inday!!
