your 'buying power' and what it means

an hour before my AC24 class today, i decided to go to EMall to buy postcards for my penpals and to wala lang just roam around and have a little bit of walking exercise hehe. the postcards were too expensive so i thought id get them later this week. but i did buy a pair of dangling earrings worth P20.00. each earring has a red and a black bead hanging on 2 strings of silver metal and looked as ordinary as can be. there is no special occasion or reason why i bought the pair. but im afraid though if my subconscious urged me to buy them for the sake of well, buying. (and also maybe, just maybe, these could be charmed pieces. why, it's intuition telling you to have it. maybe it has a magic spell like blusang itim hehe)
two days ago, my sister asked me to buy her her Rica's (yes, Rica Peralejo) Deepest Secret Calamansi Whitening Soap which i agreed to at once since EMall is near the university and i like going around and examining the products at watson's. (even if only to check the expiration dates of the beauty care products hehe)
some of the soap bars were on sale that day, some going on buy 1 take 1. ivory soap went for buy 1 take 2 (well, i think, coz of the packaging) and another soap went buy 2 get one free liquid hand sanitizer. marketing is such a creative field. anyway, i dont know what gripped me (maybe ang mga kamay ni Hilda hehe) but i went out the store with 6 bars of soap and 2 pocket tissues. no, i dont smell that bad! i just cant stop myself, the fact maybe that they were on sale made me imagine that im getting a bargain price. i thought of returning back two bars of soap but it was too late since the cashier was ready to scan the items when my senses came back to me. hehe now all in all i have five bars of soap for myself, two green papaya, 1 cream bar, 1 green papaya-cucumber and one pineapple with papaya which i am using now. daghana flavor sa sabon oi!
there was one time when i went to GTabs and bought stickers because i felt like i had to. now our refrigerator has stickers because i ran out of ideas on where to put them on. i remember how once i bought a 3d wall decoration, it was small like a medium sized photo frame. everyone in the house laughed at me because of it. i think it's lost now. there was also this dress from ukay2x that i kept hidden because i know my mother will ask me why i bought it. (and still wonder why after i answer)
could these buying on impulse be symptoms of what experts call obssessive compulsive disorder? it's ok if i have the ocd as long as ive super powers like Elektra. but maybe im just another case of a woman lost in the world of consumerism charr. or wala lang. ana lang jud na siya. ang life. haay.

my room is filled with unnecessary stuff and lots of excess baggage? hehe luckily, we are now on waste management techniques in our ac33 class and so maybe i might pick up some tips and apply it in my lovely life. i am doing a process map for this PLS case study and im not sure if it's right. but i have to pass it tomorrow but wait right now is tomorrow already. hehe 2:01am. (the title should have been 'my buying power and what it says about me'. this page after all is all about me, me, moi, ako! ako! lagi na lang ako!! sa math, ako. sa science, ako. kasi ako lang din naman ang nag enroll eh..hehe)

sitemeter

i think my sitemeter's broken. it's supposed to get info on where the visitors of the blog are from. but when i visit my blog, it registers Benguet, Philippines instead of Cebu City, Philippines. hmmm. and it's not supposed to open when one clicks on the sitemeter icon. the stats arent supposed to be seen by anyone except me. well i really dont care but still. so i do care just a little bit hehe. why am i in benguet when im really in Cebu? that's being in two places at the same time.. cool. :)

pirates

i just love johnny depp. he's so funny and smooth in his latest movie. i went to watch pirates of the caribbean today with stephen. (too bad he can't laugh with me. maybe he didnt like the movie or maybe the comedy didn't get through him.)
i liked the part where the three lead actors had a three way swordfight on a big wood wheel rolling down from uphill. that was really funny and exciting. also that part when captain jack sprayed pepper on himself. oh and also that when he looked like a fruit kebab hehe. oh and.
i wouldnt mind being one of captain jack sparrow's crew even though he's such a selfish character. between capt jack and capt david?'s, the literally heartless captain, shipcrew to join, id no doubt choose capt jack. who would want to have tuna fish for crewmates, and weird humans with shark heads or coral faces. lol. or get slashed behind as punishment. or be ally with that giant foul-breathed octopus.
i wonder if there still exists pirates with real pirate costumes and talking bird sidekicks. i know some pirates here. theyre in the sidewalks selling pirates of the caribbean.hehe in dvd and vcd format. check 'em out :-)
we have our very own pirate here in Cebu 4 centuries ago. the first Philippine national hero, Lapu Lapu was actually a pirate by profession. yeah. at least that's what sir blix said. his job is to grab goods from merchants bound for the ports in Cebu. rajah humabon, then ruler of Cebu, was one of those affected by Lapu Lapu's habit so when the spaniards came, he alllied with Mr. Magellan to fight off his fellow visayan. and history tells us that the foreign conqueror wasnt very lucky that day. that was a long long long time ago.
now a different kind of piracy exists not just in cebu but in other parts of the world too. in most parts i guess with media players and people/market. almost anything can be pirated, films, clothes, accessories, intellectual rights, labor..anything,everything.

*ive to go back to sleep.

day one

i googled for cebu-based environmental organizations one day and found an interesting group called oneocean.org . the site has a gallery showing photos of corals, bright colored fishes, the state of the coastal areas in the country and a lot more. there is even an illustrated story of a little coastal community called away. it's right here.. http://oneocean.org/gallery/away_in_the_bay/slide01.html

the site also features poetry about the environment..here's one that i liked.

DAY ONE
By Eduardo T. Ortega

All the coral reefs
and forests were gone
and the seas were poisoned
by the land.

so, the Earth Spirit
lowered the continents
and let the waters
cleanse the earth.

and afterwards,
He asked the Water Spirit,
how do you want
the new kinds to be?

the Water Spirit pondered
for a thousand years and said:

make the corals black or gray.
place no rainbowsbelow the sea.
put the reefs back
in the deepest places --
divided from the fishes.

and the Earth Spirit
made them so.
and afterwards,

He asked the Land Spirit,
how do you want
the new land to be?

after a million years
the Land Spirit spoke:

raise Atlantis but keep
the other continents
below the sea.
return all animals
and plants but wait
seven billion years
before returning man.

and the land was made so
with all kinds but man.
and the Spirit was pleased.
and they rested
seven billion years.

day one.

how sorry mother nature must be. :(

everytime

one of those songs that get stuck in the head..

Notice me, take my hand
Why are we strangers when
Our love is strong
Why carry on without me

And everytime I try to fly,
I fall Without my wings, I feel so small
I guess I need you, baby
And everytime I see you in my dreams
I see your face, it's haunting me
I guess I need you, baby

I make believe that you are here
It's the only way I see clear
What have I done
You seem to move on easy

I may have made it rain
Please forgive me
My weakness caused you pain
And this song's my sorry

At night I pray
That soon your face will fade away
And everytime I try to fly,
I fall Without my wings, I feel so small
I guess I need you, baby
And everytime I see you in my dreams
I see your face, you're haunting me
I guess I need you, baby
:)

bon voyage kabilin boys

today is the end of our kabilin hunting days.
how sad..no more excitement in school. no more bright shining faces to look forward to. hehe no more reasons to wake up early.
i think it's annoying that we can only have crushes and not boyfriends. and we're getting old!! we (barkada) are not super models but we're no hags either. well it's a choice and a good choice too. who needs the heartache anyway.
no more angry messages on this blog starting now. now na! now na talaga! hehe.

on fire

im so angry. ive never felt this much anger. and its such a waste of energy and gives me emotional stress. im being subjected to extreme emotional abuse. arrrggh *&@#>!!