moving on

i know we've been thru a lot... but sometimes, we just need to move on. you will always be special to me... it had been a great 3 years plus of sharing my thoughts with you but i really just need some space.

hehe drama ba?

friends, im officially moving to mrskendz.wordpress.com.

kendznilui.blogspot.com will still be alive - too much memory to delete it :( anyway, my old posts have been imported to wordpress so tuloy tuloy pa din ang ligaya.

i moved because i wanted more themes / layouts that blogger just cant seem to support.

please keep visiting my blog! :)

Happy New Year everybody!!!

I hope everybody had a great time during the New Year. I sure did :) Aside from the sumptuous meal that my mom cooked for us (a little too much i think)



I was also able to:

1. read some books (5 books in 4 days) (If you are a huge Harry Potter and Greek Mythology fan, I recommend that you read the Percy Jackson series by Rick Riordan. It's awesome! :D Actually, it's a children's book but who cares?!)

2. worked out (3 out of 5 days)

But I guess the pigging out during the New Year didn't help with my weight loss goal. I actually gained some pounds. I asked my PT not to weigh me last Saturday as I am 100% sure that I gained and I didn't want it to affect my work out for that day. But having said that, I'm still trying to be optimistic with my weight loss goal. I will lose weight. I will I will I will :D

I promised myself I will do more cardio workout for the whole month of January. I guess one of the reason I'm not losing weight is that I do more weight training than cardio. I need to change that a bit... I also need to cut back on my calories and carbs. Sigh it will be a tough month ahead.

So what did you get for New Year? My best New Year's gift is probably my new LV zippy wallet c/o my Dad :) Yup for the first time, my Dad gave me money to buy an LV wallet. Happy me :D



What's your New Year's resolution? Me? I don't have any... I keep breaking them anyway hehe.

Happy New Year everybody!!! Hope 2010 will bring greater things for everybody! :D

Avatar

Finally, was able to watch Avatar after three days of planning. (first day - lui got stuck in traffic, 2nd day - tickets were sold out)



Anyway, I guess most of you know by now how amazing(!!!) the movie is! :) I guess you really have to watch it at IMAX or the 3D version to appreciate it. It was so damn cool! I loved it. Although the storyline was a bit cliche, I loved all the effects!!!

Oh, he is one very happy guy:

good morning...

Ano daw manong? hehe. I saw this sign on the cab that I rode going to the office this morning... Medyo sumakit ulo ko sa message! :)




I mean, there's nothing wrong with incorrect grammar now and then... But hello, if you are going to post something for your customers to see, you might as well MAKE SURE that the grammar and spelling is correct. Hehe... Two cents ko lang.

Side note: I am so glad I have my Canon S90 na. I can bring it with me everyday, everywhere and take snapshots for my blog.

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i am so freakin' BORED.

work is absolutely on a stand still. i did enjoy the first few days of "freedom"

but after almost a week - i am bored out of my wits! :( i've already ran out of websites to visit. and i have a few more work days before new year! any suggestions?

okay im gonna stop complaining now.

not so good week

well, it was my birthday last week. and i did get to celebrate with my family so on that side, im pretty happy.

i was also able to submit my first audit report to my boss last week so that's done and now im a bit more "relaxed". nothing much to do at work until the new year comes.

now for the not sooo good vibes:

i had my weigh in yesterday. sadly, my weight didn't move down but up a bit :( 0.80 lbs to be precise. i guess it's my fault because i only went to the gym once last week :( this week has to be better!!! my PT made me pay for the .80lbs yesterday. i never worked out as hard as I did yesterday. yeesh. i was breathless. pathetic.

i had a great night last friday partying and celebrating my first ADB department christmas party. it was a blast. people went all out with their costumes and it was a totally relaxed and fun atmosphere!

but it got ruined when i had to wait for 2 and a half hours to get home... i waited for a cab near ADB but not one taxi stopped and to make matters worse, it was drizzling and i was carrying LOADS of stuff with me:( i didn't dare take the mrt because i was wearing my fairy dress (on hindsight, i should have changed clothes before i left the party! grrr). i started waiting at 10pm at ADB Megamall exit and ended up at Guadix exit by 11:30 (thought it will be easier to catch a cab there but not really). even manong guard helped me hail a cab but we're both unsuccessful. :( good thing my hubby came to the rescue. albeit a bit late... he was still there to pick me up at around 12:30am. sigh what a night.

i decided right there and then that I WILL LEARN HOW TO DRIVE ASAP. i don't want to be stuck somewhere again!

no more parties on a Friday until I learn how to drive! hmph.

THE birthday gift

lui gave me the BEST birthday gift ever! :)

background: i have always been conscious about my face - i used to have a lot of pimples and it took me countless products to finally find the products that work well for me. i am extra conscious about the dark eye circles and eyebags. i don't know where i got it but it has always bothered me - it just never goes away!

last month, i noticed that i was starting to get wrinkles around my eye area - laugh lines for some... and i started complaining to lui. he kept trying to appease me and say that i wasn't very evident but i was going on and on about it. hehe.

then one day, i asked lui to accompany me to Rustan's so that I can check the prices of La Mer here in Philippines. (I discovered La Mer before our wedding but only started using it months ago after hearing some great feedback from my Indo friend. it is a great product but price is a little too steep).

so i was there asking and the sales lady told me that i will be able to save some bucks if i buy the "collections". when i asked the price, i nearly fainted. but i wanted it. but it was expensive. ouch!

it was a surprise when lui suddenly told the sales lady that we were going to get it. i was like "we are?!" and he said that it was going to be my bday / xmas / anniv gift. (ganun cya kamahal!!!) i wassss sooo happy i could have kissed him right there and then! which i think i did hahaha...

anyway, here's my bday gift from my one and only pa-b:

kainan na! :)

first of all, thank you once again to those who greeted me yesterday (may it be in multiply, FB or friendsters). super thanks!

last night the "yee" family was here:

dinner buffet with sushi, sashimi and grill (like korean grill).

the food was so-so but the company was great! :)

did i eat much? of course!!! it was my birthday what do you expect?! hahaha...

my mrt experience

last friday, i went to megamall to catch the 6:15pm body jam class... honestly, i haven't been to the gym the whole week because i was anxious of going home late and frightened that i wont be able to get a cab home.

but i forcefully motivated (is there such a thing?) myself to hit the gym and told myself to worry about my ride home afterwards.

fast forward to 8pm - i tried to get a cab for almost 30 minutes but to no avail (as expected). sooooo i decided to brave the mrt going home. *gulp*

so here are some thoughts i had when i took the mrt home for the first time in more than 6 years:
1. where is that damn escalator? - have you been to the ortigas mrt? have you been up the stairs! the stairs hmm what can i say? i think saying that it was high is an UNDERSTATEMENT!!! i was puffing and fuming when i finally reached the top! buti na lang i was still wearing my rubber shoes. if not, my feet would have already cried "foul!".

2. what's with people and with moving to the end of the cabin? - i noticed that people congregated in the middle of the cabin near the door EVENTHOUGH THERE WERE ENOUGH SPACE TO FIT AT LEAST 5 PEOPLE IN THE FARTHER SIDE OF THE CABIN!!! getting into the cabin was really really a challenge! i basically had to push and shove people away just to get in! it doesnt help when a *chubby* girl has to go in with a HUGE gym bag!!!

3. what do you need the holders / handles for? - it was so packed inside the cabin that i barely moved from the same spot at all! i wasnt holding on to anything but it really didnt make a difference :) you can use other people's body as barricade hehe. thank God mababango ang pinoy di tulad sa singapore! thank God for that talaga! :D

in fairness, i arrived in magallenes station in 10-15mins time :) where my loving husband picked me up and took me on a jeepney ride back home. hahaha commuter tlaga kung commuter ang drama ko :D

all in all it was a very enlightening experience :p will i do it again? definitely... i still have 80 pesos on my mrt pass :)

Light Residences

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CATS with Lea Salonga

I am a HUGE fan! I am her number 1 fan!!!

I watched MULAN the nth time and I still get goosebumps when I hear her sing "Reflection". I really really love her!!! :)

So you can just imagine the excitement I felt when I found out that she is going to perform the lead role in CATS here in MANILA!!! Good thing I didn't watch the play in Singapore. Good move hehe.

Tickets are now available at ticket world!

See you there :D

the biggest loser

hopefully will be me! :p

i had my first weigh-in at fitness first last saturday and i weighed an outstanding and shocking 139.6lbs! p*tang *na!!!! i think this is the heaviest i have been in my ENTIRE LIFE. i think even in high school i didn't weigh this much! huhuhu... and to think i already lost some of the weight that i gained from china! ahuhuhu...

anyway, as i have briefly mentioned in my previous blog, i am now trying to lose weight - seriously. my initial goal is to get my "wedding weight" which i think is the leanest and slimmest i have been.

i have joined fitness first manila and already got a personal trainer and a nutritionist to help me lose weight the right way... good thing is that personal trainer and nutritionist rates are way way cheaper here in manila than in singapore!

so what is my "diet plan"? basically i have to monitor my food intake - i have to jot down all the food that i eat everyday and my nutritionist (cathy) will check my list every sunday. we'll also have a weigh-in every sunday to see if i lost weight or if i *gulp* gained more weight.

my personal trainer (sherwin) is in charge of basically making sure that I will be crawling back to the locker room after every session! lol. we had two "free" sessions last weekend and my body hurt like hell for a few days after that! but actually, i gave sherwin the go signal to torture me lol all for the name of losing weight. :p i actually showed him one of our wedding pictures and he said "ma'am anong nangyari sayo". wahhh.. lol gusto atang masapak!

i also committed on hitting the gym at least 3 times a week (although cathy would prefer if i go EVERYDAY! my gulay. hehe) we'll see how this goes. hopefully by next week, i would have lost 3 lbs (cathy's goal not mine. haha.)

alright. ill keep you guys updated.

current weight: 139.6lbs
goal weight: 116lbs
lbs to go: 24lbs *omg*

wish me lucks!

mrs kendz is back in town :D

literally... hehe.

im back in manila for exactly one month. i still encounter people looking shocked and ready to scream my head off when they hear that i came back to philippines from singapore. i.dont.care. i wanted to be here so now im here :)

people do ask me how im settling back in manila and all i can say is "it's all good!" hihi. honestly, there was no adjustment period. it really feels like i never left philippines for four years! :D it was an easy transition - everything just felt right into place :)

so what have i been up to? well, the whole family went on a tour of china for 2 weeks. it was great and tiring at the same time. ill save that kwento for another blog.

i have also started working at Asian Development Bank. so far, everything has been nothing short of GREAT :) 2 weeks in and im happy and i know i made the right decision :)

went back to gym (well, trying to go back to gym) and im also playing bowling with my cousins often. so hopefully, ill be able to get back to shape in no time! :D (have to get rid of the singapore weight i gained hehe). i also hired a nutritionist and personal trainer to help me do that... hehe. we'll see how it goes.

oh oh and one more thing! I HAVE WRINKLES. my ghad. have to lather on the creme de la mer as much as i can haha... bday is around the corner and cant wait to celebrate with family again! :D

got my first pay! woot.

oki till the next blog. ill be blogging more now. sooooo stay tuned! :D

war at home article - wtf!!! (read on...)

The War at Home
By Chip Tsao

The Russians sank a Hong Kong freighter last month, killing the seven Chinese seamen onboard. We can live with that-—Lenin and Stalin were once the ideological mentors of all Chinese people. The Japanese planted a flag on Diàoyú Island. That's no big problem-—we Hong Kong Chinese love Japanese cartoons, Hello Kitty, and shopping in Shinjuku, let alone our round-the-clock obsession with karaoke.

But hold on-—even the Filipinos? Manila has just claimed sovereignty over the scattered rocks in the South China Sea called the Spratly Islands, complete with a blatant threat from its congress to send gunboats to the South China Sea to defend the islands from China if necessary. This is beyond reproach. The reason: There are more than 130,000 Filipina maids working as HK$3,580-a-month cheap labor in Hong Kong. As a nation of servants, you don't flex your muscles at your master, from whom you earn most of your bread and butter.

As a patriotic Chinese man, the news has made my blood boil. I summoned Louisa, my domestic assistant who holds a degree in international politics from the University of Manila, hung a map on the wall, and gave her a harsh lecture. I sternly warned her that if she wants her wages increased next year, she had better tell everyone of her compatriots in Statue Square on Sunday that the entirety of the Spratly Islands belongs to China.



Grimly, I told her that if war breaks out between the Philippines and China, I would have to end her employment and send her straight home, because I would not risk the crime of treason for sponsoring an enemy of the state by paying her to wash my toilet and clean my windows 16 hours a day. With that money, she would pay taxes to her Government, and they would fund a navy to invade our motherland and deeply hurt my feelings.

Oh yes. The Government of the Philippines would certainly be wrong if they think we Chinese are prepared to swallow their insult and sit back and lose a Falkland Islands War in the Far East. They may have Barack Obama and the hawkish American military behind them, but we have a hostage in each of our homes in the Mid-Levels or higher. Some of my friends told me they have already declared a state of emergency at home. Their maids have been made to shout 'China, Madam/Sir' loudly whenever they hear the word "Spratly". They say the indoctrination is working as wonderfully as when we used to shout, "Long live Chairman Mao!" at the sight of a portrait of our Great Leader during the Cultural Revolution. I’m not sure if that's going a bit too far, at least for the time being.

kahit na di mo to mababasa...

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MAMA! :D

mama is the coolest mom eveeeehhhh. hahaha sino pa bang mom ang pupuntang HK disneyland for chicken wings? haha yep thats my mom. mana ata ako sa kanya lol. takaw din. hehe

im always thankful for my mom kasi she always let us have the finer things in life - which i am grateful for. laging branded lol... ganun kasi si mama. no brand - no quality lol. she was may fashion consultant before and she would always buy me clothes from topshop, kamiseta, kashieca etc. o diva? :D haha sosyal si mama.

basta happy birthday mom! :D lovee yaahhh see yah next week! :D

one-eyed jack

hayyyy naku tlaga katangahan ko tlaga kagabi.

went to yoga class last night and hit the shower right after. as i was hanging my towels, natamaan yung mata ko ng towel and i knew immediately that my contact lens was gone!!!

argh and i was in the shower room na!!!! i wanted to cry. i knew the possibility of finding my contacts is really really slim. meron kasi sa sahig yung parang butas butas na plastic (ano tawag dun?). i kept thinking "how am i supposed to go home with one eye!?"

for those who know me well, you'll know that i am as good as blind without my contacts... so you can just imagine the dilemma i was in!!! i mean, i wouldnt have a problem if i lost it at home (touch wood) coz i can ask my mom to have a new set made from phils and send to me and i can wear glasses to work everday. but the real problem was - how to get home?!

eventually i had to squat, kneel and basically made kapa to the floor (yuckyyyyyy). i kept looking for almost 5 mins ata and i really really wanted to cry na... finally i gave up. i stood up and started dusting my hands and lo and behold, it's there! somehow, it stuck to my hand when i knelt and felt the floor (i think)

hay tlaga. so i washed it very carefully and for a long time with hot water (i hope i dont get any eye infections).

grabe tlaga last night. argh.

coldplay concert

okay, im not really prepared to blog about this just yet - i was going to wait for lui's photos and videos to be uploaded before i blog.

BUT was listening to Magic89.9 on the net and "Viva La Vida" played and omg, i kid you not, i got goosebumps and all the wonderful memories of the concert just came rushing in!!!

omg it was fanstastic! it is the GREATEST and most AMAZING concert i've been to... i was lucky enough to watch the corrs, mandy moore and maroon 5 but this concert just tops it all!!!

from the yellow balloons that came out during the song, the mexican wave, the costumes, the production, the confetti and most especially the live feed. grabe... i think if they render the entire live feed, they can immediately sell it na as DVD - it was that amazing. even the live feed was extremely thougth of! galing tlaga! super audience participation pa! there was one point where they moved from the stage to the audience area (as in audience no bars in between) and we were soo green with envy... wahhhhhhh... will post videos soon so you'll know what im talking about :)

lui and i loved every moment of it. to think we didnt know most of the songs ha. just the really popular ones. but we loved it sulit talaga!

pa-b happy, ma-b happy that pa-b loved his 'magsyota' anniversary gift!!! :D

will post pics and videos soon!

budget budget

mitchie and i was talking about budgeting and saving up for our ultimate goals. she sent me a copy of the budget template that she uses.

i used it and really really tried to be as realistic as possible (what's the purpose of a budget if you wont be able to follow it anyway?)

anywayzzz, based on the result of the computation, if you combine my salary and lui' salary and minus all expenses. we can actually save approx $1500+++ per month!!! wtf! where does all that money go? huhuhu and that's on top of the 1500 monthly amortization that we need to pay!! meaning dapat net savings e nasa 3000+++ !!!! whhhaaaattttt huhuhuhu. but i dont save much every month. huhuhu

im blaming my credit cards. sh*t im throwing those cards away!!!! huhuhuhu... :(

buono bread

discovered this thru mama benz - i swear mas marami pang alam si mama benz na masarap kainin dito sa singapore kesa sa akin! lol.

at first, i didn't understand what the craze is about. it's just bread for heaven' sake! and it's $19 per loaf!!! what?!!!!!!!

but i guess you have to try it to appreciate it :) they give out samples in takashimaya and it was really really nice. ended up buying one loaf for myself and buying some for mama benz (besos!). you can taste the great blend of bread and margarine in every bite. yummy tlaga!!! and it's not a small loaf... i swear my hand got tired of bringing two loaves! it was sooo heavy!

argh there goes my 'diet' hahaha. i oath to not to take more than two slices in a day... 1 for bfast and 1 for merienda lang dapat! haha i wish i can keep to that. yummy tlaga... even lui liked it. if not for the steep price, lui would have loved it! :D

so sg peeps, head on down to takashimaya and try it. :)

blogger's block

whats wrong with me?

i have so many things that i want to write about but i just can't seem to start writing!!!

wahhh... am i getting so lazy that i can't even start my brain's engine for a measly blog? huhuhuhu...

wala lang... siguro if i start writing ill start losing weight? hahhaha. nangarap.

i will blog again. i will lose weight too!

coming up: coldplay...