Ironic!

Life just seems to so darn ironic sometimes...

• Whenever I have an appointment and I have to be somewhere for a specific time, I always feel as though public transit hatches this elaborate plan to make me late. Either the buses will be late or it will be driven by a driver who is moving at 40 kph (a person on rollerblades would probably be faster!). As if the slow moving buses aren’t enough of a nuisance already, there seems to always be someone getting off at EVERY ‘effin stop. So my usual bus ride of 10-15 minutes ends up taking twice as long! The trains will suddenly malfunction or some mechanical failure occurs and I’m stuck in a train in the middle of a tunnel. AND every person surrounding me seems to be moving at a much slower pace! There’s always someone either blocking my way or suddenly stopping at the top of the escalators as soon as they get off. Absolutely annoying.



• I always have plenty of change. In fact, too much that I find myself occasionally moving them to a different coin purse because they don’t fit in my wallet anymore. BUT ironically, the one time I actually need change is the one time I don’t have even a single penny with me.



• When I need a dress, a pair of jeans or shoes and I have the cash to spend, I can never find anything nice in the mall. When I don’t need it or when I don’t have the cash to spend, they’re everywhere… left, right and center.



• The one person I hope I don’t have to sit next to on the bus ironically chooses to sit beside me despite the many empty chairs.



• We have central heat in our condo which means that it is up to the super to turn on the heat during the cold months and turn it off during summer. Guess what? He keeps it off during the cool months and decides to turn it on as soon as the temperature warms up.



• When my calendar at work isn’t too hectic, none of our clients want training. They don’t even call or email. It’s just dead silent. BUT when I am swamped and my calendar is full and I barely have time to do anything, every client will call to ask for training or have some stupid question.



• We had a warm, sunny and beautiful summer. Too bad the weather was perfect during the weekdays when we had to be at work, trapped at our desks. But that’s not what’s ironic about it… the irony is that as soon as the weekend comes, it starts raining and it keeps raining until the weekend is over.

Christmas so soon already.

I happened to visit Jen’s page today and noticed that she had put on a countdown to Christmas widget. It said “71 days ‘till Christmas” and I thought to myself, “Really? Christmas is just 71 days away?”

Wow, time flies.

Personally, I find Christmas to be a bigger event in the Philippines than it is here in Canada. I think I’ve posted about this before, saying that it might be due to the fact that Canada is more diverse than the Philippines and not everyone here celebrates Christmas. I remember that back in the Philippines, as soon as the “ber” months arrive, Christmas songs and décor and lights start appearing everywhere. Filipinos truly are Christmas Fanatics. It’s the one event of the year (aside from Holy Week and New Year’s Eve) that the entire country makes preparations for so early on. We tend to put so much effort into making Christmas a truly memorable and fun occasion.

I miss celebrating Christmas in the Philippines. I swear you can almost smell it in the air back home. I miss Ryan Cayabyab and Jose Marie Chan’s Christmas carols and I miss driving through the Ayala Center admiring all the Christmas lights and décor. I miss watching Fireworks and I miss puto bongbong (did I spell it right?). I even miss the carolers constantly ringing our doorbell. Meron pang nandadaya na same group naman pero paisa-isang kumakatok sa gate para makarami sa pamasko. Di naman kumakanta!

I miss the exchange gifts and the family reunions and the Christmas parties. The Philippines may be a third world country but we sure know how to celebrate Christmas!

Twilight Movie New Trailer!

A new trailer for the upcoming Twilight movie has just been released. View it here.

I have to say it’s the best trailer yet and I am really anxious to see the movie. I almost died at the part where Bella and Edward kiss. I admit, I go bananas for the silliest of reasons.

Change of Plans.

Since Steve and I got engaged in May, we’ve spent a lot of time researching venues, invitations, florists, make-up artists, and favors. We had already ordered my wedding dress and the bridesmaid dress and have also put a down payment for the invitations and all we had to do was book our venue.

Then, we changed our minds.

We are now going to have a destination wedding instead. Crazy, right?

So that means that all that time we spent on looking and visiting venues was ultimately for nothing. The color scheme I’ve decided on and based the color of our bridesmaid’s dress on is also pointless. I could have easily gotten away with a blue or green color scheme but the venue we had originally wouldn’t have worked with it.

Thankfully, we haven’t printed the invitations yet so we can still change or design and wording and thankfully we haven’t booked anything else yet. I can still pull off the color scheme and we can still use the bridesmaid’s dress we ordered.

We are now looking at all-inclusive resorts in Mexico and Dominican Republic as our wedding venue. After spending the past few weeks looking at Trip Advisor and different travel agencies, we’ve narrowed it down to the top three resorts we like. Our first choice is in Punta Cana, Dominican Republic while our second and third choices are located in the Riviera Maya, Mexico. Now we just have to find the best rate we can get and work with the resort’s wedding coordinator to reserve the date.

There are so many details to still work on like the date of departure, the group rates, how to lock down prices for our guests coming from the states, and what information to include in the invitations and so on.

We know that not a lot of people will be able to make it because it costs a lot and that’s understandable. It’s just that we prefer to be married this way and have a blast with our guests, whoever can make it. We had a lot of reservations about having the wedding here in Canada but now that we’ve decided to go for a destination wedding, it just feels right.

Cheesy.

Is it just me or do celebs say the cheesiest and (sometimes) stupidest thing you’ve ever heard? Every time I glance at the gossip page of a newspaper or a website, I often grimace at the things that people say like “my love for (so and so) is so evolved and profound…” or “it’s like my heart is stretching…” or “it’s been great… he’s so awesome… it’s just been really, really fun… and we just love each other so much…”

Oh please. Normal people don’t say stuff like that. And even if some of us did utter a phrase or two that was as corny as that, we’d be made fun of in one way or another. It would come back to haunt us one day.

No wonder gossip magazines make fun of these people... they're just asking for it!