eto na....eto na....wa!

10 fears with the coming board exams:

10. that i get to leave my notice of admission at home on the day of the exam.
09. maputol at maubos ang pencil kaka sharpen.
08. masira ang sharpener ko.
07. maubos ang ink ng ball pen.
06. that my uniform does not fit me anymore.
05. that i have a hard time looking for my classroom.
04. na walang electric fan or good ventillation ang classroom or that i get to sit next to someone who has body odor.
03. that i don't get to remember anything that i studied or memorized.
02. that i over sleep on the morning of the exam.
and my greatest fear...
01. that i suffer from diarrhea on the day of the exam!

friends and relatives, this is it. limang tulog na lang, board exam na. please remember me in your prayers. if you guys could pray for me on saturday and sunday morning that would really be great. i know that i am working hard to prepare for the exams. i don't think i have studied this much sa buong buhay ko,haha! sabi nga nila, "do your best and God will do the rest". i know that God will guide me and give me knowledge on the day of the exam but just the same please pray for me and for all those taking the exam on the said days. i heard 90,000 daw kmi....BLOCKBUSTER pala if the rumors are true.

thanks so much in advance. i will be back after sunday and life will be back to normal by then.

jewelries

i have a secret love affair with jewelries. most of those i have though were given by my parents and i have managed to buy a few pieces also. my dad would usually give us gold jewelry on special occasions. love jewelries since they would complete an outfit. i can't go out of the house without my necklace and earrings. jewelries are also very good investment as the value does not depreciate.

i have a new point and shoot digital camera. my mom went to grace batch `82 reunion over the weekend at makati shangri-la. she won a digital camera sa raffle and she gave it to me. woohoo. i have not used my nikon cool pix for some time now because yung lagayan ng battery nabasag. i'm still planning to have it fixed but for now, i'm happy with my new camera. no more borrowing. i just have to buy a memory card for it.

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my current food addiction is lucky me jiampong. yummy!

truck accident

one of toto's driver got into a semi truck accident. the driver didn't see a car coming. no one got hurt, thank God. with what recently happened to sen saguisag and wife, truck accidents are really scary. especially with truck accidents, it's very rare that no one get hurt. accident's like this are really a hassle but no one really wanted for it to happen. thank God also for insurance since accidents are unexpected expenses as well.

hawaii

one of my very good friends from my previous work is now living in hawaii. her husband is a US soldier and is currently assigned in hawaii. when she went home for a vacation, i saw their pictures and hawaii is a beautiful place! hawaii is one of the places on my list of place's to go too. mashy and pashy who are planning to go back to the states early next year are planning to stay for a week in hawaii. my friend says they will not have a problem of a place to stay at since their are a lot of Hawaii bed and breakfast with reasonable room rates. i will definitely need to visit bryan and jing in hawaii!

saw this posted at the kikay website. i wonder if it works. i have had my eyelashes permed once and it turned out to be ok. it lasted for more than one month. after, i bought the watson's heated eyelash curler. it was not that effective though. the permed eyelashes looked way better. i wonder if this lashwand would provide me with the same results. guy's are really lucky, because they don't even bother having to worry about thing's like curled eyelashes. hay!

wicked

my friend ayette was having major problems on how to get Wicked tickets. she with her husband and kids are spending christmas in LA and her kids were bugging her into watching wicked. she's stressed already with the boards plus her kids were also stressing her into watching the play. i immediately told her of just getting her tickets online and have it sent to her best friends house in LA. problem solved!

adult diapers

when my wowo got sick, my aunt in the states would send my wowo's medical supplies which included adult diapers. i remember balikbayan boxes from the states filled with diapers. when i had my clinical rotation at a geriatric unit, diapers were heaven sent! it really made our work so much easier. at least we just needed to make sure our patients are wearing their diapers and pray that they don't do anything other than peeing and we would have a worry free day. thank God for diapers!

boracay day 3

we didn't really do much on our third day in boracay. we had breakfast, we went shopping for pasalubong, went back to the hotel and then left the island at 1 in the afternoon.

check-out of the hotel was at 11am but they gave us late check-out until 1pm. our flight back to manila was at 4pm but we decided to just have our lunch at a restaurant near the airport. good thing we decided on doing so because we found a shop near the airport that was selling piyaya. not just you ordinary piyaya but a flavored one. pineapple, mango and strawberry. sarap!










for photos of our last day in boracay, click here.

mortgage life insurance

i was chatting with my cousin earlier and she mentioned that she recently bought a mortgage life insurance. it was the first time i heard of such so i had to ask her to tell me about it. she bought a condominium unit which is set to be completed in 2009. she is still paying for the said property and will pay for it for the next 15 years. the mortgage life insurance is to pay off her home mortgage if she was to die unexpectedly. i was at first shocked but later on realized she did the right thing. she says that just in case anything happens to her she would at least be assured no one gets burdened by her home mortgage. i never realized such insurances are already being offered. weird but it does make sense.

vacation home

my high school friend who works as a nurse in the US has recently bought a property. she didn't just buy a house, she bought a vacation home Orlando property. she has been working for 3 years now, all hard work! she has finally seen the fruits of her labor. she said that it's not really a good time to buy a property in the states but she still decided on buying one since she was given a really good deal. i wonder on when i could buy my own house?

mailing lists

i used to work in the field of marketing. we get a big bulk of our clients through our Mailing List. we send out mails once a month and we just need to wait about a week then we start receiving calls and queries already. it has been a very effective marketing tool for us and the response we get is really overwhelming. next to word of mouth, this is the next best thing. the cost is not that high but the return is really good. it saves us time too since we get to cover a lot of prospects in a very short time.

marimar...aww!

i miss marimar. hahaha! my sister who recently went back to the states sent an email to provide her with update as to what happened to marimar. sad to say, i have only watched one episode since you left. that episode was the where marimar and sergio got back together and then broke up again after a few minutes. bad trip! teehee.

i have 8 opps to do. i have not visited my friends blog. i have emails to reply too. i need to make a trip to the salon for a pedicure. i have to make sure my uniform still fits. i have pictures from my cousin to download and upload to multiply. i have so many things i want and need to do but at the same time im sooo tired already and i will need to call it a day. i will do my opps tomorrow ( i promise to finish them all because opps means money). i can't wait for the board exams to finish. i need my life back!

gold!

i can't believe the bank interest rates for savings account. super low. no wonder people starting to look for other investments that will yield a higher interest or earning.

a classmate of mine who opted for early retirement from their company to be able to concentrate with nursing school invested his retirement money into something different. i first actually thought she was joking when she told me that she bought some gold bullions. she got the idea from her chinese sister-in-law. honestly, i think it is a really cool investment. gold, many say is the best form of money and is one of the best ways to preserve one’s wealth and purchasing power. Gold bullion is a indeed unique investment. not only unique but come to think of it a really good one too.

second home

i have recently found a second home...starbucks.

i got so tired of studying at home. i get tempted to watch tv, sleep, or go online. since sunday, i have been going to starbucks ( walking distance from my house) and stay there and i actually get to study. i buy myself coffee and that would be good na for 6 to 7 hours. teehee. i have found my own quiet space at starbucks banawe already. i only have 9 more days after today till the boards (shocks, 9 na lang!).

do some early shopping for your christmas wardrobe!

my cousin just came back from a trip with lots of goodies for sale. visit the raketera's website. click here.

i only have one more weekend left before the board exams. im doomed. im dead.

it's panic mode time. craming time ( to be honest, i am more effective pag cramming!)

it's just so weird. back in august, it felt like i had a lot of time to study pa but now that's it's only TWO freaking weeks before the exam...i feel like, i want to just get sick and not take the exam. teehee.

credit card

i first had a credit card when i started working. it was tough. credit cards spelled temptation. especially during the first month that i had my first credit card, i went shopping. shopping for things i later realized i didn't even need. after getting my first bill though, i so wanted to cut my credit card in half. i later on learned to control myself and use my credit card wisely.
banks are now offering Credit Cards For College Students. my aunt who is at LA actually got one for my cousin who is studying in san francisco. since my cousin is leaving alone and is far from the family, my aunt got him the credit card for emergency purposes. you'll never know when you'll need one.

forever young S4E8

from grey's anatomy:
Meredith:
"There comes a point in your life when you're officially an adult. Suddenly, you're old enough to vote, drink, and engage in other adult activities. Suddenly, people expect you to be repsonsible, serious... a grown up. We get taller, we get older. But do we ever really grow up?
In some ways we grow up. We have families, we get married, divorced, but for the most part, we still have the same problems that we did when we were fifteen. No matter how much we grow taller, grow older, we are still forever stumbling, forever wondering, forever young."