bury me in this dress

Ladies and gentlemuhns, I am still shocked that some people recommended me to be a part of Globe’s Digital Tribe for Luzon. Not that I’m complaining but WHY? I mean, I don’t have many followers especially compared to the other 9 who won.

Hay! Men! Ang Blog ng Tunay na Lalake
Good Times Manila
Byahilo.com
The Marocharim Experiment
Dessert Comes First
Chuvaness.com
The D Spot
Azrael’s Merryland

I’m thinking that the award is a mistake but I’m not going to give back my award and the Tattoo internet kit I won. Ha!

I is bonafide bloggar nao

read the fine print

The awarding was done during the Philippine Blog Awards last Friday night, my first time to ever attend the PBA. I had no intention of going until Melo Villareal informed me about my award. Good thing I did come because the free food was grrreat. I also got to meet more bloggers. Yay!

dementia and billycoy (with Micamyx in the bg)

technogra and dementia (wif Jayvee in the background)

Please to nominate me next year but not for photoblog cos I keep on forgetting to take phowtows. Seriously, thank you very much for the award. Thanks to PBA and Globe and congratulations to the winners of PBA!

P.S.
Keep on donating and volunteering. The victims of the Pepeng and Ondoy badly need our help.

P.P.S.
Hang pogeh ni Billycoy

P.P.P.S.
Sabi ni Helga kamukha ni Noy si Technogra

P.P.P.P.S.
Pers lady status by 2010!

I subscribe to the 4ad newsletter and every month, the record label holds a contest for its subscribers. When I checked the newsletter the other day, I received a pleasant surprise.

March issue

I won the contest I entered last February!

Feb issue

I have no idea what “super jewel CD boxes” means but I’m so happy that I won! I hope nobody in Philpost steals my prize!!!

the loot

Spending all that money for Vivienne Westwood stuff was a good move because my blog post about it won me the Shopaholic contest sponsored by nuffnang. I wasn’t the top winner but I’m in the top 10. I got a couple of Shopaholic goodies which I gave to my sister except for the notepad which I can use for work. I also won me 2 tickets for the premiere of the movie…except that I didn’t know about it and Nuffnang gave the prize on the same night of the premiere. *sigh* So I watched it alone. Good thing I enjoyed the movie. It’s a no-brainer but still entertaining.

My Halloween for this year was fun. I had a Medusa costume made. The dress was a big fat failure but the head dress is a winner. The costume is expensive but I don’t care anymore.

Jenny was with me and we had dinner at my uncle’s Figaro franchise in High Street. It was a good meal and even better because it was for free. A couple of my relatives were there, checking out the people and me in costume. I just let them be. Why deprive them of any fun, right?

jenny and me

Jenny and I finally went to Eternal Death Wake a bit past 9pm. Mag:net was packed and we weren’t able to get a table so we just sat on some speakers. The bands could only perform 3 songs each because of the long line-up. We rocked to Scarlet Tears which I am a fan of and Jenny is a convert now. When the noisier goth bands were on stage, we headed outside to smoke and chatter. We met some new people which was neat. I was complaining how the place was so packed and the heat was killing me. I told Jenny we’ll go home already (this was only around 10pm) but when we went down, I talked to Pola and Katrina and then decided to go with them to Cubao-X.

Pola and dementia

me and katrina

me and a drunk luigi

dott with my head piece

Pola and her boyfriend decided not to go to Cubao-X anymore so we dropped them off near Farmer’s Mart. There wasn’t much people in Cubao-X when we got there but we saw old UP college pals at Mogwai and they asked us to join them.

marla, dementia, lyle, and monra

dementia and jun

ianco with my snakes

Pola surprised us by arriving sans boyfriend but it was already late when she got there and we were about to go home. I didn’t get to hang out with Katrina and company because I was busy catching up with college friends. Sorry, Katrina. Jenny and I left around 2:30am because I needed to prepare for my out-of-town trip.

katrina, sam, ayn, jiggy, and me

I had a lot of fun at Cubao-X. It was more fun that Eternal Death Wake actually and I’m glad I went there. This year’s Halloween was a blast and I’m so glad I went out unlike last year.

The photos in this post were taken either by Katrina or Jenny. I couldn’t take photos because of my lashes.

I have a new Plurk theme now! Big thanks to big bad baddie for the Wicked Witch of Oz theme I requested! For awhile he scared me that he’ll make me a Wild Wild West theme. Ugh Wil Smith. So for this, I give him my bunny dance!

I went to the 12th Hot Air Balloon Fiesta last Sunday with Phoebe, Jef, Egg, Mark, Patrick, Anthon, Loreyn, Jet, Kate, and our driver Arman. Got sunburned and drained but twas worth it all even if I have to spend a day recuperating. I didn’t have any sleep the night before because my friends came over early and we left at 3am. I wanted to kick them out but it was already too late. Hehe. Click the photo below to get to the album.

I just found out that I was included for week 2 (“bloggers”) and that I’ll receive a gift. I wonder what the gift is. Anyway, thanks to pinoytwitter for picking me. I do tend to twit a lot when I’m awake and online.

P.S.

If you want to add me to twitter, my addy is twitter.com/dementia

I was expecting my birthday yesterday to end crappy but it was totally the opposite. My staff threw me a surprise party at the office complete with embarrassing photo montage. I was really surprised and mom was so convincing. I went down to the 15th floor office and just blurted out “Bakit madilim dito?” but it never occurred to me that they were cooking up something the whole day. The thing that made it 100 times better is the fact that Bishie (you remember him?) was there and by the end of the night he dedicated songs to me, got my cellphone and email addy, had our photos taken, held both my hands at some point, and had me singing an awful duet with him (there was videoke). Well, booze was flowing and although I was perfectly sober, I doubt any of those counted since he was tipsy. Still, I was thrilled cos he’s so darn cute. I guess I can declare yesterday as one of my best birthdays. I’ll be celebrating again on Thursday night and I hope it’s just as thrilling

I had a short vacation last November 2 to 3 with my family and some relatives.

On the morning of Nov. 2, we visited the graves of dead relations in Binan, Laguna. After that, we had lunch at Rose and Grace in Sta. Rosa. My relatives love eating there cos the food is cheap. I’m tired of Rose and Grace. The food is so-so. After lunch, we went straight to Tagaytay Highlands.

I haven’t been there for more than a year. I thought that there would be something new and interesting there but there isn’t.  Oh, well there’s free wifi there but I left my laptop in the van so I wasn’t able to surf. I just used my sister’s Sony Ericsson P1i (it has WLAN), so I was able to twit some messages.

Around 2PM, we checked into our cottage rooms in Camp Highlands. There’s A/C and cable tv so that’s good. I slept until 5 PM then prepped for dinner.

Dinner was at the Tagaytay Steakhouse. I’ve tried it before but I read a lot of rave reviews about the Steakhouse so I wanted to try again. Maybe I just missed something. I ordered the rib eye but I didn’t like it much. I guess I’m not really into steaks. After dinner, we went to the entrance to wait for the driver. I noticed a familiar face. I was thinking that the guy looks like Ken Zhu of F4. So when the driver arrived, I asked my relatives if the guy was Ken Zhu and mom said it was him. I declared that I want to have a picture him but the van was already moving. I told the driver to go back but when we got to the entrance, Ken was getting in ride. Boo! I wanted a photo with him

We went to Starbucks (blech) but the place was packed. We also went to Figaro but it was full as well. It was no use so we just headed back to Highlands.

Back there, we dropped off my aunt at Belleview then the rest of us headed to Cottage Grove. I was tired and grumpy so I just went to our room and showered. I also watched some tv while snacking. When my sister was complaining about the sound cos she couldn’t sleep, I pulled out my laptop and watched Dexter. I slept around 4am.

I woke up early the next day. I think 7:30 am. I ate a quick breakfast then showered and dressed up. There was nothing much to do so I packed up my belongings. Around 10am, my sister woke up so I finally got to watch tv. We all checked out around 12pm.

I thought we would be having lunch in Highlands. I was looking forward to Highlands Bistro. But mom said that some of my relatives were in a hurry to go back to Manila. That made me grumpier. I didn’t partake when they had drive through  Jollibee food.

I think we got home at 2pm. I played with my cats and slept for hours after that.

See, it was really a short vacation and I didn’t enjoy it much especially since I’ve been since since November 1.

I finally got my doll, an Amos doll from Dollmore. I picked him up from the EMS office in Pasay. I was so worried on the way there because of the customs horror stories I read. I had to wait for more than an hour before customs inspected him and it was so hot there. Their office burned down Tueday last week and luckily my Yasu got here Wednesday. Anyway, when it was my turn, the EMS guy told me that someone got a similar doll recently. I got worried because he might know how much the doll cost me but he was nice. He called the inspector who just declared the doll as a figurine. Lucky! He told me to pay 35 pesos. That’s it. To think that I was so worried about the taxes. I documented how I opened the package and how I dressed him up. You can check them out here. I received a lot of freebies but I think his boots are too big.