Last Saturday afternoon, a good friend and an officemate of mine went to Legarda, Manila to have my very first tattoo, I've always wanted to have one. Deciding on what design I'm having is what really prolonged the experience. I haven't taken a picture of it yet, but I will post it here soon!

We met in the office at 1PM and head to Manila for the session, was I scared? I don't think so, excited and anxious at the same time I think would best describe what I felt at that time. So we got there after an hour or less I think, made a few adjustments with the size of our designs and the session started.

I'm not really sure if I have a high treshold for pain, or I was just expecting that it will be really painful, but It's really not! It is painful but it's tolerable, the pain didn't bother me at all. I think it took the artist an hour and a half to finish my tattoo and another an hour for my friend's. It was an experience to say the least.

If what my parents would say when they learned that I got a tattoo, I don't really know, but that's a different story to tell!

Some friends tried to talk me out of it, they said that I might regret having one in the future, but I always satisfy my curiosity, that's me! And guess what, no regrets of whatsoever! I am really damn happy that I got one! Will post it here soon!

I've recently pursuaded myself in working out again after 3 years of not lifting weights. Today is the start of my 2nd week. Woohoo!

So far, so good! I'm feeling energetic and light again. I've been strict with my diet for the past 8 months and I've never been happy with the results. I think I am now in my ideal body weight and all I need to do in the gym is to tone and condition my muscles. I never really like big and buffed muscles, I like it lean and toned. But as we all know beauty has a price to pay and by that, it means that I've been starving for the past 8 months and now you can include the waking up early in the morning to be able to tire yourself by lifting weights and running in treadmills before reporting to work.

So much for beauty right? But like what I have heard from a friend, "kailangan mong mag gym para hindi ka mawala sa market!" Haha! Right he is, sometimes this community tends to be really superficial, so thanks to all the fitness centers for the dumbels and bench presses and the treadmills, I'll be up for grabs soon!

There's this text message that goes:

Love usually just hits us like a bullet, at first we can't feel it,

then,

Bang!

we bleed....

You see, I d0n't believe it, I always thought that Love will come to us slowly, it's like it will start to tickle you and you'd smile, and tickle you some more then you'd start to laugh until you can't stop from laughing, and then you'd start to cry because of laughing so hard, until the tickling stops.

Just like in relationships, those who can hurt us and make us cry are the relationships that made us laugh and made us really happy, then when the realtionship ends, the laughing and crying ends too...

But eventually, you'd meet someone again who'd tickle you, but hopefully tickle you just enough that you don't have to cry because of laughing so hard...

“Do you want me to run that kite for you?”

His Adam’s apple rose and fell as he swallowed. The wind lifted his hair. I thought I saw him nod.

“For you, a thousand times over,” I heard myself say.

Then I turned and ran.

It was only a smile, nothing more. It didn’t make everything alright. It didn’t make anything all right. Only a smile. A tiny thing. A leaf in the woods, shaking in the wake of a startled bird’s flight.

But I’ll take it. With open arms. Because when springs comes, it melts the snow one flake at a time, and maybe I just witnessed the first flake melting.

I ran. A grown man running with a swarm of screaming children. But I didn’t care. I ran with the wind blowing in my face, and a smile as wide as the Valley of Panjsher on my lips.

I ran.


I've been catching up with my reading lately and a colleague of mine introduced me this book. The excerpt above was from that book and this particular part amongst others gave me goosebumps.

The book to me, was a story of friendship, betrayal, loyalty, second chances and maybe even redemption. A story of how being trutful can really change a lot. How a single lie can change somebody's life.

Set in Afghanistan, the book tackles family and friendship between Amir and Hassan and how social differences mattered at the time. How one cannot challenge the norms dictated by the society they live in and how a kite tournament changed it all.

I will not critique the book nor challenge it, I will merely say that I had the best time reading it and that I would recommend it to everyone.

"The Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini was definitely a good read!

Maybe, you are HEARING but not really listening,

Maybe, you were really oblivious

Maybe, you really took me FOR granted

after all the things that has happened

Maybe, I was TOO HARD on you

Maybe, I was trying too hard

Maybe, I was just EXPECTING too much

Maybe, I became really unreasonable

all the little things, all the SMALL stuffs

maybe I was always expecting something in return

Maybe, MAYBE and just Maybe....

I don't want to ride the wind anymore,

I'm tired.

I don't want it to just take me anywhere it wants me to be,

I've already tried that and I'm tired.

I want to be able to feel the warm beach sand under my feet.

Feel the sun's heat against my skin.

I want to feel the earth,

stand on it,

run on it again.

I've been floating aimlessly for quite awhile now,

and I'm tired.

I want to be grounded again...

I'm tired!

35 days to go and counting!

35 more sunrise and sunsets and I will set my foot on one of the cleanest and most orderly city in this planet.

Late last year when I decided to join my friends in their trip to Bangkok, Thailand, I promised myself to visit at least 2 countries in a year. More of a personal quest to know and get acquainted with different cultures, see different sites and be awed in wonders other than the Filipinos can offer. Many thanks to Cebu Pacific for seat sale, flying now is more affordable.

Since I only filed for a 5-day vacation leave, I will be visiting Singapore for 2 days and will pass by Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia and spend 2 days there as well. Not much I know, but at least I will be able to go and explore other territories.

First time to travel outside the country alone, and I'm getting more anxious on what's in store for me in this trip. I'm very eager to try this backpacking experience, if this will be a good thing for me, I don't know yet, but I'm optimistic that this experience will be very rewarding for me.

Getting more excited by the day!