QUESTION

Guys and gals,

I need your insights on this...

IF YOU ARE TO SEND MONEY FROM THE U.S. TO THE PHILIPPINES, WILL IT TAKE 10 WORKING DAYS?

Answer please . . .

Thanks!

A NORMAL GUY VS EDWARD CULLEN

Disclaimer: A forwarded message

A normal guy would say: “I love you Baby!”

Edward Cullen would say: “You are my life now.”

Normal Guy would say: “I think I am falling for you.”

Edward Cullen would say: “The Lion fell in Love with the Lamb”

Normal Guy would say: “You hair looks like a haystack; go brush it!”

Edward Cullen would say: “Your hair looks like a haystack but I like it.”

A normal guy would pick a random song from a random artist and dedicate it to you.

Edward Cullen would sing you a song he wrote for you while playing the piano.

If you die, a normal guy would find another.

If you die, Edward would kill himself cause life without you isn’t worth living.

“Well, I wasn’t going to live without you..” He rolled his eyes as if that fact were childishly obvious. “..but I wasn’t sure how to do it. I knew Emmet and Jasper would never help so I was thinking maybe I would go to Italy and do something to provoke the Volturi.”

As you leave the house, a normal guy would say: “Bye, see ya!”

As you leave the house Edward Cullen would say: “Come back to me, love.”

He smiled my favorite smile. “Hurry back to me.”

“Always.”

As you come back to the house, a normal guy would be watching TV and wouldn’t even notice.

As you come back to the house, Edward Cullen would be welcoming you by playing the piano with a song just for you.

“I heard the music before I was out of the car. Edward hadn’t touched his piano since the night Alice left. Now, as I shut the door, I heard the song morph through a bridge and change into my lullaby. Edward was welcoming me home."

A normal guy would wait for you to make him breakfast.

Edward Cullen would make you breakfast everyday.

While you are both out for dinner, a normal guy wouldn’t keep his eyes off the sexy waitress.

Edward Cullen wouldn’t even notice the waitress was a female.

A normal guy, while driving, would keep one hand on the wheel and one hand on the radio.

Edward Cullen, while driving, would keep one hand on the wheel and the other attached to yours.

While far apart in different places, a normal guy would say: “I miss you.”

While far apart in different places, Edward Cullen would say: “It’s like you’ve taken half myself with you”

A normal guy wouldn’t care or notice if you had nightmares.

Edward Cullen would sing until your nightmares went away.

“Do you want me to sing to you? I’ll sing all night if it will keep the bad dreams away.”

A normal guy does it with everyone.

Edward Cullen only does it with one.

A normal guy buys you flowers and chocolates.

Edward Cullen buys you a car.

RANTINGS...

Most people would say I'm good at this department (ranting) but the heck I care. All I want is to let everything out as soon as possible.

So, what is it that I want to rant about? It's about having to do groupwork with an inconsiderate, insensitive, and irresponsible groupmate. Some would say that things would be better off done when you do it alone, at least, when you fail, there's nothing to blame but yourself. Unlike for groupwork, everyone has to be accountable to everybody. If one fails, the tendency is he/she pulls you with him/her. AND THIS THING SUCKS. I mean, come on... everyone is doing their part, and here comes a groupmate, who's not been there since day 1, have all the gutts to shove into our professor's face that he did this and did that and the worse part of it is that he comes to class acting as if he does all the job and we, the rest of the group, are doing nothing.

I love groupworks, really. I mean fine, there's this compromise here and there, but I know that there's more 'fruit' here than when I do things alone. It's just that what he has been doing is really piling up and is getting into my nerves! URGH! Anyway, as much as I want to really rant about this, I'll just console myself with the fact that a peer evaluation will be done towards the end of the semester...

BRAVING THAILAND

Going around Bangkok was not that difficult. Aside from having two types of maps and Tourist Centers around, finding the exact places we wanted and the type of food to dig on was just like a walk-in-the-park (forgive me, I didn't do the planning that's why... LOL)...
Anyway, am posting some of the photos.

The places we visited were:
1. Chao Phraya
2. Standing Buddha
3. Reclining Buddha
4. Floating Market
5. Marble Temple

As for shopping, the Chatuchak market is the best place. Well, talk about 'haggling'. Looks like that skill of mine improved when I went there. LOL!

50 meters high... Standing Buddha

The Grand Palace (view from Chao Phraya)

Jewelry store... very cheap but quality Jewelries are sold here.

Temple made by the First King of Thailand

Temple made by the First King of Thailand

Reclining Buddha

Somewhere near Marble Temple

The Chewy 5 @ Marble Temple...

Peek-a-boo!

Ready to move...

Kainan... dieta in short...

Ang aming tiga-sagwan...

Waiting for the next train going to... MBK...

With the designer himself...

ANGKOR WAT

Okey, the long wait is over. After barely having sleep and with the free massage that I got from the long trip we had, the best was to just see heaven on earth.

As much as I would like to post all of my photos here, I just chose the ones where I am presentable, LOL. Enjoy!

If you plan to go visit this beautiful and magnificent place, here are some tips for you.

1. Bring an umbrella/cap.

2. Bring US Dollars with you (everything that needs to be purchased should be paid in USD)

3. Make sure to have a bottle of water with you. There are a lot of temples to visit and being dehydrated is the lamest thing you'll ever do coz you'd be missing a lot.

4. Though the camera can't picture the real beauty as your eyes would, just make sure to bring it with you. And don't forget your extra batteries.

5. That's all and don't forget yourself.

TOUR DE TOUR

We had the five of us splitted in two groups since the taxi can only accommodate four persons. So from Poipet, we traveled three hours tops to Siam Reap. It was a looonnnggg trip (I mean talk about cutting trips and just the thought of traveling for another three hours was like???)... Anyway, I just consoled myself of the thought that I get to see a treasure at the end of the road.

It was a long journey and of all the days, we get to experience "out-of-our-control" situations. For starters, our taxi tires overheated and we were running 25 kph. Talk about "boredom". We treaded a long, bumpy, dusty, red road. The aircon wasn't even working. Then, when we had the taxi carwashed, guess what? They told us to get off the taxi, then the next thing you know we were forced to buy something from the store where the taxi had been carwashed!!! The faces of L and G can't be painted so I volunteered to be the one to buy on our behalf. A can of Sprite costed 40 Baht!!! There were a lot of detours and the taxi we were on was like speeding in a race track! Well, the never-ending road made me just count posts. Lucky me, I got to count more than a thousand... lol! Well, the trip was worth it.

BRAVING POIPET

Right on time. At 2 am (Thursday, Sept 18, 2008), we hired a cab going to Poipet (where the border is). Using our charms, we were able to hire a cab for B 3,ooo.00 instead of B 4,000.00 (nice way to start our trip eh?)

We were so blessed since our driver was very friendly and polite. The best part was he played english songs.. lol! Having empty stomachs for almost eight hours, we requested him to bring us to Mcdonalds. He offered to bring us to some Thai food stores but we weren't taking the risk, not when we were unsure if our stomachs would be ready.

Same-same?

At 530 am, we were able to reach the border. But the border doesn't open until 7 am. Luckily there was this police station right before the border. We ate some crackers and had bladder break. Thanks to the Filipino instinct, the gurls were able to bring munchies along. Anyway, the policemen were polite to let us stay there for a while before we crossed the border.

Braving the border was not that difficult. Praise God that we had a smooth exit from Thailand to Cambodia. At first, we thought that we will be walking along a narrow road full of beggars and peddlers (as some bloggers put it), but no. The road was clean and I could say that it was an exaggeration.

I have to admit though that we were nervous. I mean, not being sure on what was ahead of us. But praise God we were able to cross the border! I could say the gurls did a good job planning this 'crossing'. L and A - Am proud of you guys!

Sa wakas!!!!!!! nakaya natin ng tayo-tayo lang!!! wuhoo!!!