The waiting begins…

Oh! Look at those eye bags! Hihihihi! 🙂

Here’s my post-board exam shot! Haggard ba?! Di ba andale?! 😀

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For home is love, and love is always home. – Ariel, The Little Mermaid Series

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I Just Wanna Go Home!

I may be surrounded by a million people, I still feel all alone and I just wanna go home! Oh, I miss you, you know! – Michael Bublé, Home

It’s really true that there’s no place like home! And it’s been a while since I last went home and I just wanna go home. I’ve been missing faces, short conversations, non-sense sibling quarrels,  and I just wanna go home! I am fine, maybe I am just a little homesick, and I just badly wanna go home! I know, I have to practice being alone, for sooner or later I’ll have to leave home, but right now, I just wanna go home!

 

One more day… And I’m coming home! 🙂

Enter the Water Dragon!

It’s the time of the year when people wearing red filled the streets, well, I ain’t talking of Valentine’s Day, but of Chinese New Year!

What kind of year will 2012 be?   Many expect 2012 to bring about the end of the world, perhaps because they mistakenly think of Mayan or Hindu cosmologies as linear rather than cyclical. From a Feng Shui standpoint 2012, the year of the Yang Water Dragon, brings many possibilities for good fortune.

As what I’ve known, we don’t have an ounce or a bit of Chinese blood running in our veins, yet every Chinese New Year, our family celebrates it and at some times, put some lucky charms in our home to attract good fortune! Well, there’s no harm in trying, right?! 🙂

This year, since we’re away at home, my sister and I decided to go to Binondo (Chinatown) with our tito (father’s side) and his family to welcome the Water Dragon.

I was so amazed with all the crowds, the colors, the charms being sold at the bangketa, the smell of the foods, the line of people in tikoy and hopia selling shops, the Chinese culture, everything, and at the same time very cautious for pickpockets!

“Lucky charms po, mga boss?”

“Panabit sa pinto? Pampaswerte?’

After strolling around Binondo, we decided to eat at a Chinese resto in Ongpin courtesy of Tito Roger. Luckily, we found a seat, for there are tons of people in that resto that time. Oooh! And I must say, the foods: HEAVEN!

“Ituro mo, iluluto ko!”

All red! With my Tito Roger’s family!

Yang chow fried rice.

Buttered chicken.

Calamares.

Beef with brocolli.

Chop suey.

Pancit, pampahaba ng buhay!

Bloated and satisfied! While walking our way home, we’re lucky enough to witness a lion dance. So, here’s my video of it!

I hope that in this year of the water dragon, we’ll be all lucky in every aspects of our life! And, happiness to each and everyone!

HAPPY CHINESE NEW YEAR EVERYONE!
GONG XI FA CAI! 🙂

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Someday, I will be a beautiful butterfly, and then everything will be better. – Heimlich, A Bug’s Life

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