CAT's and the simplicity of life..

oblivious that she was being eyed upon..

Gotcha....
(photo taken by: fallenrhainnes)

well, there's nothing rough and tough here, 


it's just the simplicity of living and the spontaneity and vivacity of life the cat has 


therefore, it goes, though ordinary yet a stress and worry - free existence....

SWIM YOUR STRESS AWAY

STRESS in it's simpliest definition is something that affects a person in a negative way and it takes toll in our daily lives. Therefore, to avoid becoming worn out with the daily stressors one has to know how to balance all aspect of life and manage the irritating. 


as for me, i make sure that i had time to get away from the distressing familiarity... and SWIMMING  is one of my way to release anxiety, tension, anger, frustrations and all such negatives which my physiologic being has acquired.  


Last night, albeit cold, raining and with storm signal number 2 of typhoon Juaning, i and my co-workers sneaked out in the four corners of our cubes and made a hideaway at Chateau Leonor, located at Carig, Tuguegarao City, it's an awesome place, good ambiance and so close to nature, though i haven't got the chance to make a good photo shoot of the place, because aside from a not so good weather condition, it's almost twilight at the time when we get there. ('ll just schedule my next visit here soon, for the good shots)..

my undying peace sign and killer smile for a pose...

trying to do the breast stroke.. (as if i knew... hihi)

a cheers for the inimitable sudden sneak out...(prompted by yours truly) 

after an hour dip, here i go ...

renewed and ready to get stressed again... 

..ready to get stressed again, ha ha! that's life anyway, A CYCLE, therefore, another get rid of your stress event is coming my way soon.. .

coffee for the gloomy

WHAT MAKES IT HARD TO GET BY

THIS GLOOMY DAY

 AND AWAY

IS THE THOUGHT THAT EACH MORNING

 when I wake up,  

I want to see your face lying next to mine,

look straight in your eyes,

 touch your cheeks,

and hold your hand,

then, everything would feels okey

when we had our cup of coffee …

me, pink L, my pen and coffee to ease the gloomy...

take my hand...

"...because i cannot promise you the moon, the sun, the earth and heaven, so you're leavin'? 

 and because i cannot paint rainbows on your horizons, you wanted to change directions?... 

 if i can't take your hands, then would you take mine?" --Fallenrhainnes   

what the heart knows..

LOVE is being felt..

A PERSON cannot dictate HIS heart what to feel nor HE could speaks what is not being felt ...

YOUR HEART knows what to do, contrary to what you do know... -Fallenrhainnes

KEEPING MY JOURNEY

"..there it may seem an endless steer, but it doesn't matter for as long as there is a freeway, i'll carry on the journey..." - Fallenrhainnes

FROM FILMORE TO STARBUCKS @JUPITER--ANOTHER KEEP ON WALKIN' MODE

TALE OF STARBUCKS HERE AND THERE (part 5)

(if you were reading this, please find time to read prior blogs related to this posts ) 

FORGIVE ME  for i couldn't find any of the file photos i've saved as proof that i've been to STARBUCKS JUPITER, i've been scanning all my files in my external drive, hoping to find it stored in some of the hidden files or maybe saved it somewhere else, but to no avail. oh well, pardon me for that and for keeping you wait this long to finally publish this chapter of the story.  .. 


here's how's the tale goes...


earlier, when i looked at the Starbucks Planner and read about STARBUCKS JUPITER, i even joked Crescendo with words like "STARBUCKS having branch at the outer space?" that's because, i haven't known JUPITER ST. in MAKATI CITY yet.


now, you'll be asking, how did i get there and what significant this story has? 


oh well, it wasn't really in the plan to get there yet, however, time calls the right timing to visit the place is at hand, since i'll be doing some business at MAKATI, then i thought why not take the chance of going on a double purpose (recalling what boss told me on taking chances or hitting two birds in one stone so TAKE IT, TAKE THAT or MISS IT!). and the next thing i knew i'm on my way...


in recollection, it was on the 12th of May this year when my friend "Zerline" asked me to be her reliever for two-days at her work at  FILMORE, MAKATI  while she's out of town attending some convention of a sort. 


so, i took the offer not for the money but as to taking chances of the  experience i'll get in this job for this is my very first time to record and try they're so called job after five, while the other share of the reason in accepting this part-time job is to return favors she had for me in one time or another. 


it was my first time goin' to FILMORE though, so i asked  "Zerline" to provide me the direction  going to the clinic where she worked as OFW evaluator,  and after working on the first day, gay crescendo fetched me at the clinic with a map taken from google  as to where Starbucks Jupiter can be hounded.   


it's six in the afternoon, and from Filmore St., we walked heading AYALA AVENUE and kept on walkin' up to BEL-AIR, MAKATI, to the left, to the right and it's seven thirty in the evening and JUPITER at last, on our way to the store, we came to pass traffic lights, crossroads, big buildings, hotels, towers, cars, jeepneys,  good garbs, ties and trousers, buses, horns, noisy dispatchers, security guards, street vendor, pollution, smoke, dust, dirt, sweat, foreigner, worker, couples, lovers, the sympathetic and the apathetic, the cynics and the pessimists, we've seen all that, and wondered how lives differ from one another? buddy and i had an academic debate on that plus a peck on the cheeks, then it became a shared thought.... (for the resolve here's a coffee cheers! =))

for the love of coffee..

whew!, that was quite a walk,  for it was another more than two-kilometers of distance we walked but unlike the "keep on walking mode at Starbucks, Camp John Hay," there were no chilly or windy weather in MAKATI, dehydrated almost, i'm just glad i wore flat shoes that day, so my feet didn't complained of over walked, it's just my leg muscles that cramps...but it doesn't matter anyway, for as long as there is a freeway, i will ramble... LOL  !     




LEARNED VIRTUE:  TAKE CHANCES, take every opportunity that comes along as it may only knock once, never let it slips away, SEIZE EVERY MOMENT because this is your only time, HERE AND NOW...and regrets no way, because you're on to a HAPPY JOURNEY!




p.s.
i promise once i'll find the still shots at Jupiter, i'll post and update this chapter of the story. meantime, i just took a snapshot on the leaf of the planner where i recorded the date of my visit to each store. 

located at Ground Level, Yupangco Bldg.
Jupiter St. cor. N. Garcia St., Bel-Air Village, Makati City

thank you... and please watch out for more.....

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**** i just have to highlight the place i've been for a more evident recording****


1.6750 = Ayala Avenue, Makati City
2.Cebu Ayala = Cebu CIty
3.Camp john hay = Baguio City == APRIL FOOLS DAY
4.Lipa = Lipa City, Batangas
5. Solenad = Sta. Rosa City, Laguna==HOLY  THURSDAY
6.Boracay = Boracay
7.Corinthian Hills = Quezon City
8.Katipunan = Quezon City
9.Intramuros = Manila
10.SM Sky Garden = Northedsa, Quezon City
11.Bacolod = Bacolod City
12.Jupiter = Makati City == MY VERY FIRST TIME TO GO ON MOONLIGHTING
13.Tagaytay = Tagaytay City
14.32nd and 7th = Global City, Makati City

PAGKAING PINOY (FILIPINO FOOD)

HAVING PROBLEM WHAT TO SERVE FOR DINNER? well, worry no more, cause here's a pal suggestion to delight your hungry tummy, this is so easy to prepare, economical and indeed an appetizing filipino food.

if you want something like this, call me...
if i am available, i'll prepare it for you...LOL

satiate your hunger...

we must admit that with our busy schedules on works, sports, friends, travels, funs, parties and the likes, we sometimes forgot how a home-cook food tastes, and somehow we also miss how to be a homebody and get in touch with our kitchen wares and set up a one-time meal for everyone in your home. 

blended with that thought plus a ravenous and wandering soulmate, the idea of cooking suddenly popped into my mind..and without second thought i run down to the grocery store and made a mental note on what to buy and how to prepare it (please see photos for the output)...

with my sweat all over (as an added ingredients),
surely they'll love this... 

ready one, two...  the boodle begins...

don't tell your conscience how much you eat today
and forget your diet, just this time.... 

sure, these photos won't speak enough to know how the food tastes for which it made us oblivious to notice  that we almost run out of rice.I'm looking forward for a more meal like that, though (giggles)....  =))


if this story made you starve on the other hand, please forgive me for that and be kind to yourself, do her a favor, maybe you could try this one.... 

meal plan: rice, fried tilapya, grilled eggplant mixed with tomatoes, onions, pepper, calamansi, vinegar, a pinch of salt, and "bagoong" with pepper (for the sauce) and  banana (as shown in the picture).


..and before i forgot, touch of love is also added to make a lasting flavor......


 HAPPY EATING ! 

cant smile without you

i'm feelin' blue,
and it's because of you
i'm letting you go
but please take me with you
because baby, i just can't smile without you....

i feel sad when you're sad, i feel glad when you're glad...
and baby, I just can't SMILE without YOU..

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Ah

You know I can't smile without you

I can't smile without you

I can't laugh, and I can't sleep

I don't even talk to people I meet

And I feel sad when you're sad

I feel glad when you're glad

And you must know what I'm goin' thru

I just can't smile, without you

You came along just like a song

You brightened my day

Who'd believe you were part of a dream

That only seemed light years away

And you know I can't smile without you

I can't smile without you

And you must know what I'm goin' thru

I just can't smile, without you

Some people say the happiness wave

Is somethin' that's hard to find

Into the new leavin' the old behind me

And I feel sad when you're sad

I feel glad when you're glad

And you must know what I'm goin' thru

I just can't smile, without you

Into the new, leaving the old behind me

And I feel sad when you're sad

I feel glad when you're glad

And you must know what I'm goin' thru

I just can't smile, without you

You must know what I'm goin' thru

I just can't smile, without you

STARBUCKS and ME going back to SOLENAD

TALE OF STARBUCKS HERE AND THERE (part 4)

(if you were reading this, please find time to read previously related posts) 

it is located at Solenad, Nuvali, Sta. Rosa, Tagaytay road corner,
nuvali Blvd, Nuvali, Sta. Rosa, Laguna, Philippines

(photolink:  http://food.clickthecity.com/b/ig2cb49)

it's not because i've been to Starbucks - Solenad then, then i won't include it in this year's hunt of Starbucks 14 stores. well, you got that wrong, because i did came back, and since this is my second time here, there wasn't much hassle in my travel, but just the risk that it's close to midnight yet we're still on gallivant at STARBUCKS, SOLENAD, NUVALI, STA. ROSA, LAGUNA. which was quite far when conveyed by a tricycle from a good friend's lair, "Aiza" at  BALIBAGO, STA. ROSA and where i and myself spent the holyweek.  

..gabb, aiza and me and .. a bit tired and sleepy
yet on the go for the storyline...

...finding time to talk the talk we'd never talked..

a snapshot before we finally left
 (sorry for the poor picture quality, camera's battery is dead)

LEARNED VIRTUE: "VALUE" your relationship with others  and keep it "TIGHT",  bond and do odd yet funny things together, illuminate life and keep it light so that while you're in pursue with your destiny you are in a HAPPY JOURNEY!      

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EXTRA:

the still shot of my visit @ Starbucks, Solenad the first time and again it's my post birthday treat early June last year with a dear friend "Mami Haze", from here we did some fish feeding and boat riding for the fun.

  

...because seXy KM said try frapp!

fish feeding and SB venti on hand...lol

..going for the boating, still with SB venti..

enjoy your ride....

P.s. 

watch out for my next starbucks quest story..

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**** i just have to highlight the place i've been for a more evident recording****


1.6750 = Ayala Avenue, Makati City
2.Cebu Ayala = Cebu CIty
3.Camp john hay = Baguio City == APRIL FOOLS DAY
4.Lipa = Lipa City, Batangas
5. Solenad = Sta. Rosa City, Laguna==HOLY  THURSDAY
6.Boracay = Boracay
7.Corinthian Hills = Quezon City
8.Katipunan = Quezon City
9.Intramuros = Manila
10.SM Sky Garden = Northedsa, Quezon City
11.Bacolod = Bacolod City
12.Jupiter = Makati City
13.Tagaytay = Tagaytay City
14.32nd and 7th = Global City, Makati City

"Don't Give Up On Us Baby" {lyrics} by David Soul and music video

...i was on my leisure afternoon at the mondojuice, alimall, yesterday and tried their hot banana buzz tea, this time trying something new to my taste, to crack the monotony of the being "no-one-else" but me. 


...perplexed to resign with the fervor of a dreamer, this song suddenly played in the air as if giving me a clue....

..to live just by the day!

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Don't give up on us, baby

Don't make the wrong seem right

The future isn't just one night

It's written in the moonlight

Painted on the stars

We can't change ours

Don't give up on us, baby

We're still worth one more try

I know we put a last one by

Just for a rainy evening

When maybe stars are few

Don't give up on us, I know

We can still come through

I really lost my head last night

You've got a right to start believing

There's still a little love left, even so

Don't give up on us, baby

Lord knows we've come this far

Can't we stay the way we are?

The angel and the dreamer

Who sometimes plays a fool

Don't give up on us, I know
we can still come through 

Don't give up on us, baby
Don't give up on us, baby

TEACH THE CHILDREN WELL

yesterday, i took my easy afternoon sitted at dairy queens lounge,alimall, cubao, and find time to read Mitch Albom's "for one more day" (now on page 107), and at the same time enjoying my diary queen blizzard (mango and cream-o mix) when, i got distracted by a lady's strident to i guess a three year old kid and maybe his son, near the exit door of the mall, even the other consumers has turned their heads up to see what the noise was all about, while i am seeing directly the duo, what fret me much is that the lady didn't only raised her voice to the kid but hit him thrice as well, venting her anger to the little boy's lanky body and innocent face, as if the kid could figure out what his flaws was all about. (no matter what's the fuss, the lady should at least manage to control her anger, much more that she is in a public place and she's so pretty aware that she is being watched, however, i cannot blame her for that, could've been that she got problem in managing her anger)



In as much as i want to meddle with them, i held back, as i see it's their family that has in control with the matter. Could have been my weak points that i hadn't done any in the situation, but this i want to share to not only mothers but also to fathers, guardians and the likes who rears and raise a child to:



take good care of their children - so they would know how to care when they grow up,

don't hurt them - so they won't be fierce when they're old,

feed, nurture and nourish them well - so they become lively in their growing years,

talk to them - so they would learn to listen,

listen to them - so they would know how to talkplay with them and give them time

tell them good and beautiful stories before they sleep or lull them to sleep - so they'll feel at peace when their unconscious,

treat them equally - so they know how to be fair

allow them to explore but be sure to guide them

respect them - so they would be



teach them good deeds and good things - so they'll be good

teach them and teach them well - so they may lead the way

and most of all GIVE THEM A HAPPY CHILDHOOD so in this lifetime they would have a HAPPY JOURNEY!

STARBUCKS AND ME AT CAMP JOHN HAY, BAGUIO CITY

TALE OF STARBUCKS HERE AND THERE (part 3)

(if you were reading this, please trail back to the first parts) 

it is located towards the golf club pass the nearby export depot
and  Carlo's pizza. in between Cantinetta and waffle's place

..so very True, if you're guess is CAMP JOHN HAY, BAGUIO CITY - this has been the first store i'd been out of the 14 featured branches in the Starbucks 2011 Planner, and true too, that, going there wasn't easy for a first timer like me, with no idea as to where the place can be found, therefore, i had a lot of mis-turns and mis-steps in an about one hour of hike from the entrance of Camp John Hay to the coffee shop. it is an undulated more than two (2) kilometers expanse. And thanks for the chilly weather in Baguio, it spared me from dehydration.

What's so special with this trudge, is that, it's happening on APRIL FOOLS DAY, and because i am a FOOL i made myself a blot here at CAMP JOHN HAY, STARBUCKS.

  

Enjoying the long walk

it's such a long way up to my destination but i
even manage to pose for an emo mode in a while

it seems like an endless walk and almost at the verge of losing hope in finding starbucks, so i took another stop-over in here, got some rest and asked if  starbucks does exists in the woods?

the lady i've asked told me to just keep walkin'
and enjoy the journey, you're  almost there..(she's right 1.5km more up and hilly and in an awesome pace and i'm there)

whew! after an hour of leisure walking with slip - ups and doubts as to 
what road to head on , finally @ cottage 661

what a blissful place to spend an idle afternoon, chat nonchalantly and,
take time to get in touch with the inner you... 

and to my surprise! here's a perk for this visit.. this is a free taste to a product they are about to launch, and i'm so sorry, i forgot what was it..weeh! =)
 i can say, This quest is recorded to be more than extraordinary aside from it is being the first to find in the trace, there is more  in the core of being here. (and for those who would ask why, i say: go, see and feel it yourself...)

...and don't ever forget to take a memorabilia with you,
for the recollection of memoirs, LATER...  

...and again for the record, I JUST HAD THE MOST UNFORGETTABLE APRIL FOOLS IN THE 32 YEARS of my being.

 LEARNED VIRTUE : "PERSEVERANCE" yes, i've almost abandoned the mission if not of my insistence, that, indeed, there is Starbucks out of this woods, chum too is hopeless and petulant of my idea in finding starbucks here. DETERMINATION AND POSSIBILITIES too can aid you to satiate your endeavor to a HAPPY JOURNEY!

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whew! indeed, a journey....guess again the next destination..?
there's more in  store, so please keep on reading....

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**** i just have to highlight the place i've been for a more evident recording****

1.6750 = Ayala Avenue, Makati City
2.Cebu Ayala = Cebu CIty
3.Camp john hay = Baguio City == APRIL FOOLS DAY
4.Lipa = Lipa City, Batangas
5. Solenad = Sta. Rosa City, Laguna
6.Boracay = Boracay
7.Corinthian Hills = Quezon City
8.Katipunan = Quezon City
9.Intramuros = Manila
10.SM Sky Garden = Northedsa, Quezon City
11.Bacolod = Bacolod City
12.Jupiter = Makati City
13.Tagaytay = Tagaytay City
14.32nd and 7th = Global City, Makati City