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Santorini Island, Greece. my dream place. one of the reasons why I have to get rich. to be able to go there and experience what Lena (alexis bledel's role in the motion picture the sisterhood of the travelling pants- oh yeah! I put all the blaming to her) has experienced when she visited her grand pop in the beautiful island santorini. Romance...

two years ago, my heart was nailed to this place after watching that chick flick about life, love and friendship. I fell inlove with Santorini, I fell inlove with it's architecture and culture, (and I have to go there alone... I told myself). I don't know, there's just something about that place that changed my perspective in travelling. or am I just being one of the millions of the hopeless romantics out there wishing to experience one summer fling in greece just like what Lena has experienced? I have to go there...

P.S.

now that someone has owned my heart, maybe I'll just rearrange my plans. go there and experience everything beautiful with my boyfriend! wishful thinking... Y

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my idea of heaven 2

I love sunrise and sunsets... took this using my cellphone while driving home. I did some editing too.




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Let me take you down, 'cos I'm going to Strawberry Fields
Nothing is real, and nothing to get hungabout
Strawberry Fields forever...
Strawberry Fields forever ...
Strawberry Fields forever ...

john lenon & paul mccartney

- anything strawberry and the beatles.

photo: from deviantart.

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O+ kana pung downy humotan kaayo xa ana... lupigan pa ang victoria's secret...


O-> aw humot man pud nang downy...



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so there goes my dull unpolished nail smeared with the violet indelible ink early this morning. smudged up but proud to have exercised my right to vote and chose the people which I think are deserving for the positions. I'm keeping my fingers cross... hoping for "change" (nangandoy pa intawon ko na naa pay pag-asa ang pilipinas...)

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across panguil bay

location: landing, kolambugan lanao del norte.
wish I could go back to this magical place*



labels: self-timer.
I did some editing and enhancing also.
http://www.mai80.deviantart.com/


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*: tsk. tsk.


>: halu


*: hehe. halu pud...musta plingplong? musta zion...akong inaanak?


>: dako nah ntawn... arte, maldita, paraygun og gwpa...kinder 1 na xa

zion n' jong-jong

I'll raise my glass to jong2x who's been a father and forced himself to be an "ilaw" too. zion asa na ang play.do hatag nako nimo? ampingi ha... hinatag raba to ninong auggie nako. ;p agoi...basin hurot na para french fries adto....

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tHe hAndwRitTen pOst

my right hand ached from writting this hand written post that parisukat's been asking me to do... I was tagged. pasensya sa akong gisuwat... y sense ang uban... but these really are the top 3 things that I'm addicted to. ;)


so now I'm tagging auggie- the effortless, pamcong, van-the lonely princess and the corteses to do this post. sweet!




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thinking... day dreaming... looking at the slow moving tick of the wall clock... darn! 5:30 pm is still 2 hours away... 120 minutes more to go and I'll be off to the tennis court... with my bf and friends... I need to practice...


sketching random thoughts on the brown paperbag

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pin-up*

labels: photo manipulation. took this

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went ukay2x haunting last week with my mom and my aunt in Tubod (fiesta's fast approaching) ...and guess what I found! an excellent entry for http://www.himantayon.com/

posted! tnx!




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salamat!

Ai: hi mai. I have something for you. check out my site. tks. was on my cbox when I was checking for updates, eager what it was, I double clicked her name and went to her site. I scanned her white blog page to find what could be that "something" she was talking about, I love surprises..teehee! and so I saw my name right at the bottom of her recent post...

haha! I got an award... an it's so overwhelming! the thought itself that someone you barely knew likes your blog is really flattering. thanks muchos ai! hmmm... now it's my turn to pass this award to akosikai, and to the fabulous men sigbin, parisukat, kemi, and auggie the effortless. para sad ni ninyo... ur blogs rock!

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Y


m: beh...sa tanan nimong nauyab, akoi pinaka maldita?



t: oo... kaw jud... super bt nahan au ko nimo and i really lov u...

m: hehehe... ge kilig ko..haha...ahak! nindota oi...hehe...

(my bf texted after he forwarded this message: naa pajud ni nako na msg noh...ako jud ni ge save..nahan ko balik2x ug basa)


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It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves - in finding themselves.

~ Gide, Andre. french writer (1869-1951)



- one of my fave spots in the world. landing, kolambugan lanao del norte. tog! thank you for this shot...




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the greatest encounter*

my first encounter with the huge pawikans in misamis occidental... I never really thought I could swim with them... I have no spare clothes, but what the hell... pawikan na gud na noh...this may only happen once in my lifetime so I just dived right in without even thinking twice...

brought a disposable underwater cam along with me on my second visit... and sadly my last encounter with them... because the third time I went there, they were all gone... they were freed...Ü

- you can read more about this in my older posts...

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my bestfriend auggie buang and I...

~ found this in an old scrapbook. a picture of the best 9-yr-old memory... the good old days... and the best friendship.

I miss my bestfriend...

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tennis commercial

tubod fiesta

my butt hurts from sitting watching tennis games the whole day... it's my favorite pastime. you see tennis here in Lanao del Norte is more than just the usual tennis games, tennis here is money... tennis here is betting. like "sabong" it also has cristos or mga masyador (siete dyes! tres dos!). tennis with money is what we call "commercial" and it happens every weekend...every town fiestas and every turns; and being a a rising star is never too late in a tennis commercial... you can become a celebrity if "maayo ka mo duwa ug kung sige ka'g salida"... everybody will know you, ask about you and will bet on you... from 100 pesos -80,000 pesos (that's the biggest bet I heard). someone just lose 20,000 pesos this afternoon. you see, I go to tennis commercials almost every weekends and when there are special events like fiestas... I also play if there is a good pair... and the best thing about it is being popular... every tennis player know you even politicians know you. almost everyone is your friend... mura namog classmates... kun wala ka, pangitaon ka... murag absent sa klase. it's nice being here in lanao... tennis here is a phenomenon, even basketball courts had turned tennis courts... basketball players here became tennis players. everybody here loves tennis... and it's all for the fame and fortune.

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akosikai's message at my cbox at the right corner of my blog page was the first thing I noticed when I opened my blog. she was telling me to read kemi's tag at her cbox. curious, I went straight to her page to see what it was (by the way, akosikai's blogpage is one of my fave hang-outs... I like reading her posts... she's really good at writing everything... idol kaayo. suya ko because I get nosebleeds whenever I write something. hehe...paets y sense akong mga gipang suwat). anyway, I saw kemi's tag... and it really made my day. thanks kai n kemi...bukad gud akong ilong!hehe! \m/

ehem...ako na! si assassin within! hehe!

- ayaw nalang gud mog palag kun nanhambug ko ha...ang mopalag insecure! hehehe!



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my idea of heaven *1

- took this shot at sundown after playing tennis. scenes like this takes all my tiredness away.

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huwat ma nars*

chen-chen and I while waiting for our turn to pay the final exam dues...

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it was mom's birthday yesterday, and because I only have 20 pesos left (yes, I'm so br0ke and I have no job) I just gave her a pink bell flower that I have picked outside our doorway and greeted her "happy birthday my" with a kiss. I helped her clean the table after dinner (niuli na ang maid kay until 6pm ra xa) and swept the floor... it's the only thing I could offer her for her special day. tsk...tsk...poor poor me...

happy birthday my! love u! Y

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after filling up 6 blue books yesterday, first semester finally came to an end. woohoo! and the best part was van.van and lani treated us with sinugbang baboy, sinugbang panga and kinilaw at nid's payag2x (which is an alimangohan) near seawall... lamias kaon oi!!! salamat! went home at around 10pm, I had to...

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*

falling star

where are you?

I need to ask

I have to...

fall now

light and speed

for someone here

badly needs to wish...*

- while waiting for shobe to give me answers on test II, I wrote wrote this... teehee!

labels: blank bluebook

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labels: photo manipulation. my artistic brain kinda like doing something digital tonight.

photographed by: my bestfriend auggie (he took this shot of me when we went to bohol last febuary)

text: evening sun by bliss.
www.mai80.deviantart.com

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july flyby

sketched using panda ballpen by sigbin (check more of his works at www.sigbin.com) . thanks bai dan for allowing me to post one of your works... I really like this one. Ü




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~Le trato~

took pictures of my bf yesterday, saving it for the boring days like now... so I manipulated these shots... I sooooo love it! ahak! nasuya na hinoon ko... ;p




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grade 4

found this from an old shoebox ...teehee! classic!

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simple things...

had a little misunderstanding with my boyfriend hours ago... he called... we talked... but it didn't made me feel better, still I was on my "naglood-mode" mood, so I left my phone on my bed and took a bath... I knew he'd text... (hoping for sweet sorrys and ILUs ... call me korny or whatever you wanna say... I admit. I am a hopeless romantic person, I think girls are...diba?)... but I never really expected to receive 75 new messages on my cellphone... it has 3 "im so sorry messages" and 72 "mis u beh... labshu" messages displayed infront of the cute rabbit pink background. awwww....it was the sweetest! lanay mai2x oi! bugto panty! amaw ka behhhhhhh!!! buang kaaaaaaaa!!!

keri yo kuntigo! Y

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himantayon entry : posted

chen: mai na post na imong entry sa himantayon...
ako: bitaw? heeeeeee! ganahan ko!
chen: gibutang jud straight from lanao del norte...

wohoo! mabawa nakog kalipay oi... hehehe. I'm glad my entry passed himantayon's standards (as what himantayons said "kun kapasar sa standards ni himan"). more power www.himantayon.com...Ü




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baruto-baruto is the bisaya term for little boats or toy boats we used to play when we were kids... it's usually made out of paper which I could recall is mostly from the gray paper we had ripped off from the grade 1 pad (for scribbling our ABCs) with red and blue lines adding color to our paper boats. we used to be so happy and innocent then, and the only thing we think about was how to make good paper boats that won't easily sink in the water when soaked. I really miss those days...

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Love is a disease no one wants to get rid of... those who catch it never try to get better, and those who suffer do not wish to be cured...

~ Coelho, P. (b.1947) brazilian writer

photographed: gotats
editing done by me...

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dear tristan

Dear Tristan,

You'd probably be surprised by this one..
it's not that i missed you, i really don't..
As a matter of fact,i don't even think about you
anymore which really is a surprise since i've
been thinkin' of you as often as men think of sex and basketball..
but that was a year ago..

hey, it's your birthday today, so asa man ang tagay ani?..
You think i already forgot?
Why should i? I know how special the day is for you..
Can you still remember what happened exactly the same day
a year ago?

At exactly 12:01,i called you up since i wanted
to be the first to greet you on your candle&cakes day..
I wanted to invite you for dinner,i already have plans
of what we gonna do,even took a oneday leave at work
so we can have the night all to ourselves without me
worrying that i still have this 1AM shift..
Good thing my supervisor allowed me
to have that day off at work while im in my probationary period..
All's set, perfect..

I was expecting a groggy answer over the phone
but surprisingly, i heard a girl's voice..
"Hello?"
"Who in earth is this gurl?",i told myself..
I can't remember what were the exact words said..
"Si Jen ni, uyab ni Tristan,ikaw?" or something like it...
I can vaguely recall what occured days after..
All i know is that i ended up giving you
a very tight hug.. yes.. a hug..which is really my weakness by the way..

"Nailad nasad nako si Kai,ingon sila brayt siya,
sayon ra kaayo diay patuyokon,hahhahah", your SMS read,sent
to your friend who later confessed to me over SioMai sa may USC-MAin..
so pathetic..

3 months after and it was the same story everytime the
calendar turns 23rd.. MOnthsaries without you..
3 months in a row..
and i can't take it anymore..
i have to let you go..
or did you just wait for me to tell you that everything's over?

No, im not bitter..
It's a karmic world anyway..
And im super H-A-P-P-Y with my TruLab na..

By the way, saw you ganiha when the KMK bus stopped near your place
while unloading some passengers.. playin' with Kikay, your
sister's daughter.. But then again, i knew you were lying then..
She is your daughter..

Kai


- thank you akosikai for letting me post one of your write ups. i really like this one. idol.Ü*


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just a few weeks ago, i posted a picture of a heart-formed cotton (which was the first object i saw on the floor when I woke up). i dont know if it's some what kind of a coincidence because this morning i saw a heart shape object lying on the floor again... this time it's a yellow rubberband reminding me for a special day (call me korny...bahala na! it's our 2nd monthsary...hehe). I'm not making it up...maybe I just got a doze of love in my artistic brain...ultimo lastiko ge tripan hehe! pero heart jud porma... i was lucky i was able to take a picture of it before myska, our german shepherd deformed it with her paws. tsk!

Y... wa lang. just spent the occassion playing tennis the whole cloudy afternoon til 8pm. took advantage of the tennis weather, ate drumstick (pobre tawon kaayo), kaon lechon ug pasayan dri sa house for dinner.

love u amaw!*

here's the pic. you judge it for yourself...diba heart?? ;p

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SMS

mai mai> bangaa...

moi moi> tsk. tsk. tsk.

mai mai> trabaho ka ron?

moi moi> unya pa... ahak! pwde balik skuyla tc...mas maau pa to kita g.byran para mg.binuang


*moi corominas. akong migo na palahubog na choy kaayo. pero bagong buhay namn day ni xa ron...3x a week nalang daw xa inum... ambot kaha bsin whole day pud...haha!


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