Hello! Daylight Saving Time tonight and we have an hour of extra sleep. Yay! Yes! Yes! hahaha.

Ehh… Wala ako masabi.

Ooh, I want to share Marit Larsen’s new single If A Song Could Get Me You from the album The Chase. I’m excited because I thoroughly enjoyed her first one, Under The Surface. Ms. Larsen used to be one half of Norwegian pop duo M2M and she started her solo career in 2005. I’m glad that she did because I love her pop/folk music, very refreshing and original. I also find it impressive that she plays an assortment of instruments (guitar, piano, etc) and she writes her own songs. There’s also a sense of honesty from her music, almost like you can see her personality through them. ML is also as cute as a button hehehe. Here she is singing unplugged at a public market.

So I wish you all good night and enjoy the rest of the weekend. I’m off to watch A Very Special Love hihihi. Nandun kasi si John Lloyd, I liked him very much in that movie with Bea…uhhh title…One More Chance, I think. Can I just say Filipino movies are so bad with titles. They’re always named after songs, which make them indistinct and corny (sorry but true hehehe).

I hate Saturday nights. Bakit? Kasi parang tinetest ang self control ko. Pero ngayong gabi I’m putting my foot down and I’m not doing whatever it is that I’m thinking of doing. Sabi ko sa kanya, “Maging masungit ka na lang kasi sa akin para mas madali.” Syempre, tinawanan lang ako. Aisshhh. Stop stop stop.

Ito po ako at nagba-blog na lang at nagsesenti sa mga opm songs hehehe. Kelangan ko talaga mag-aral kasi may exam ako sa Lunes pero pahinga muna kasi galing lang sa biyahe. Alam ko na talaga dati na…

reading on the bus + empty stomach = hilo

…pero wala pa ring kadala-dala. Maya ulit ako review. Nagkakaroon na nga ako ng left-sided chest pains kakabasa ata tungkol sa heart. Sabi ko kanina sa dinner, “Magkaka-heart attack yata ako.” Tinawanan lang ako ng Papa ko. Parang lahat ng tao ngayon tinatawanan na lang ako. Ewan ko ba.

Simula ng pumasok ako sa nursing school nakaramdam na ako ng -
1. tingling sa paa, frequent urinations - kala ko may diabetes ako at nakakaranas na ako ng neuro- and nephropathy. Guilty ako kasi ang lala ng sweet tooth ko. Pero ngayon bihira na ako kumain ng chocolate. Promise.

2. nahihirapan ako lumunok - feeling ko may esophageal cancer ako, takot ako kasi mabilis daw mamatay.

3. iniisip ko nga kung may fracture ako sa shin kasi sumasakit minsan.

4. shortness of breath and palpitations - for various reasons, depende sa nangyayari, like anxiety, panic, nervousness, stress.

5. naisip ko nga na baka nastretch na masyado ang bituka ko kaya malaki ang tiyan ko (katakawan hehehe) kasi may napanuod ako sa TV about a museum ng weird medical stuff na may lalaki na may ganung condition. I don’t know if the previous sentence even makes sense.

6. Minsan isang gabi akala ko may scabies (aka galis) ako sa kaliwang kilay hehehe. Kasi sabi mas nararamdam siya sa gabi na parang gumagapang sa ilalim ng balat kasi nakaburrow sa ilalim ng balat yung mga scabies tapos sa gabi sila nangitngitlog. Pag kinakamot ko nawawala tapos bumabalik tapos ilang beses ako naghilamos ayaw pa rin umalis. Hanggang nakalimutan ko na lang siguro nawala na din.

Dahil pala sa scabies na yan may nalaman akong mga bagong word etymologies:

Nitpicking - To be concerned with or find fault with insignificant details.
Di ba yung anak ng mga lice ang tawag nits eh di kapag nagtatanggal ka ng mga lisa di ba attention to small details talaga yun hehehe. Thus the word nitpicking. Makes sense. This is according to wikipedia, if I remember correctly.

Cooties - body louse
Webster.com etymology: perhaps modification of Malay kutu (pwede din Tagalog kuto hehehe)

Bago ko po tapusin ang aking post na walang direksiyon, walang totoong topic, at wala sa ayos. Kanta muna tayo ng If You Asked Me To, MYMP version. Love the song. Galing ni Juris.

Gracey, I think na-post mo na to dati. Pagaya na lang

by: Mandy Moore

Drove to your house in the hills
Where I wanted to be
The lights were all on
And I knew you were waiting for me
And that road became familiar
Like the mystery shape of your heart

CHORUS
And I know you loved me in your way
I’m looking forward to looking back on these days
And I’m fine but I’m not okay
I’m looking forward to looking back on these days

The fog in the morning clouded the world that we knew
It was almost enough being lonely and living for you
And the rain came to our window
And I wish I could have stayed

CHORUS

Let it go
Let it go sunshine
Now you know
Now you know its time
Its time

You were asleep while I gathered my things in the dark
The burns on my fingers were all that was left of the spark
Didn’t want to wake you
Cause I knew I couldn’t say

CHORUS

I’m looking forward to looking back on these days

I was watching (kind of) A Walk To Remember yesterday and Only Hope started playing and I just had to stop what I was doing and listened. I’ve seen the movie before but I guess I wasn’t paying much attention to the soundtrack so I missed this. I liked Mandy Moore’s version of Only Hope but the original by Switchfoot had me this time; I couldn’t stop listening to it. The instrumental (is that what you call it?) is beautiful and the voice of a man is more natural for the song.

I also love Switchfoot’s Dare You To Move. When you’re at rock-bottom it helps to have something that pushes you up without the pretensions of understanding and the process of justifying yourself. It gets tiring and sometimes you just have to be alone with your thoughts. I learned that I don’t owe anyone. I only owe myself.

I dare you to move
I dare you to move
I dare you to lift yourself up off the floor
I dare you to move
I dare you to move
Like today never happened
Today never happened before

The tension is here
Between who you are and who you could be
Between how it is and how it should be

Teka. Seryoso much? hahaha. If you feel like listening, I have the 2 songs in our music corner. Enjoy

These songs are from my college days in the Philippines…

1) …save Somewhere in Between by Lifehouse which I only heard sometime last month. I looked it up and Wikipedia says it was released on 2001 hmmm. Late lang ako.

2) Iris by Goo Goo Dolls. Remember City of Angels? Love the song and the movie.

3) My Sacrifice by Creed. This one is personal, in more ways than one.

4) Creep by Radiohead. A song that’s just impossible to miss and not to like.

5) Blurry by Puddle of Mudd. I used to just casually listen to this one but I heard it at work earlier and found a new appreciation for it.

Everything’s so blurry
Everyone’s so fake
And everybody’s empty
And everything is so messed up
Preoccupied without you
I cannot live at all
My whole world surrounds you
I stumble then I crawl…