SHOES!

When I left Manila, Jammi received several pairs of my hand me downs simply because she's the only one I know who would fit in them. Now after having a looooong, hilarious chat with her, I find out she's been reliving my past with her own recent shenanigans. Seriously, and I told her this, I can't believe how alike we are. It's freakishly insane! Well, except for the part na OC ako at burara siya, hahahaha! It's been a looong time since I met a friend who's managed to challenge my inner slut. Whee!

You people who keep telling me you miss me, I MISS ALL YOUR CRAZY ASSES TOO YOU KNOW. If ever Manila is my destiny, then you all better be prepared to gain some weight! Because we are eating the sh!t out of the city! You people make me feel both flattered and humbled. You guys are the BEST! It's okay to feel selfishly happy if I go back Jamm...I know what you mean. I know you all want me to make it here in NY, and if ever I don't, at least I know going back won't be so bad. You people make everything okay. There won't be the same amount of hot men though, but what the hell. Hahahaha!

Honestly Jamm, and I will not say this again so relish this moment and save this post. Everytime I think of the year and a half blip in Manila that cost me my marriage, I tell myself I had to come back because otherwise, I wouldn't have met you. Yes, there, I said it. The cheesiest crap I will ever tell you. I said it. It's true though. You are one of the (actually the only one I can think of at the top of my head right now) only new friends I've met only for a short time that I cannot imagine living without. It's odd noh? You mentioned it in your blog too. I just HAD to meet you. It HAD to happen. So there, you would definitely be in my list of things to not regret going back to Manila for. Ugh. Enough of this. I can feel my emotional constipation coming back.

Niki, Bea, Grace, Paul...wag na kayo magpapansin (Niki lalo ka na). Alam naman natin lahat na hindi din tayo ganito noon bago ako umalis ng bansa. Kayo na siguro ang number one sa listahan ko. Osha, natatae na ko sa sinasabi ko dito. Eww...

Mine wasn't mind-numbingly exciting as you would think seeing that I was in New York and all. I guess I'm getting too old for the whole "YEEEAAAAHHHH!!!! PARTEEEYYY IN NEW YORK CITY BITCHEZZZ!" Haha. So I decided to dress up a little bit and went out as a hippie after getting the idea from Leng's multiply. It was nothing fancy. I wore my thrift store dress from Vegas, put a scarf on my head and wore my frilly suede boots. I walked around with Omar trick or treating around the houses and commercial establishments in Astoria. It was great that stores join in the fun and gave away free goodies. We got free pizza from the pizza place, cookies and cupcakes from the bakeries and I heard McDonalds was giving away free cheesburgers too. Omar got fortune cookies from the Chinese restaurant! hahaha!

Skullzor says "Peace Out!"

They dropped me off at the subway station around 7:30pm and I headed to the Village to check out the Halloween Parade. I think the highlight of my night was riding the subway (specially going home, more on that later) because I rode with an assortment of characters. Going into the city I rode with a fellow hippie chick, devil and she-devil, a bee, (where's) Waldo, catwoman, a witch and another group of cats. Did I mention these were all adults?

I got off at 4th st in Washington Square park and was greeted with a whole crowd of people trying to exit. We all had to go through this long tiled tunnel leading out to the street. That moment reminded me of a scene from Schindler's List where the Natzis stuff this room full of naked jews then they turned the turned the acid showers on which killed everyone in the room. I started imagining nozzles coming out of the corners and killing us all. Haha...yeah, yeah, bad joke. Pfft.

I could hear the music blaring from outside. Sixth Ave was teeming with people and police officers were positioned on every corner trying to direct the human traffic. I was supposed to meet my friends at 6th and Waverly but when I got there I saw that they were on the other side of the street but seeing that the parade was going on, it was impossible for me to cross. Good thing one of Baby's friends, Fervic, also got on the wrong side and saw me walking around. He got me a good spot for taking photos but my cheapo lens failed to capture any good night shots. The parade was exactly like the Gay Pride Parade except for the fact that the crowds were in costume too. I can't count how many of them men dressed up as the Joker, there were so many of them I felt like I was in Gotham City.

The way V was dancing made me laugh so hard because I was imagining Hugo Weaving underneath the mask.

Left stormtrooper: Where did you park the star destroyer?
Right stormtrooper: It's hovering above Brooklyn's atmosphere.
I have a speeder bike that will take us to transport.
Dude behind Left ST: Dude, that flag is so gay.

Grandma struggling to work the digital camera.

This girl took my photo so I took hers. I saw my image on her LCD and she took a better one of me, though.

As the parade wound down, Fervic got a call from the others to meet up for dinner at Canal St. We rode the subway down to Chinatown and walked several blocks to Wonton Garden.

Baby and JP

I've known this lady since I was 12.
She was my first friend when I transferred schools.
ang ganda ng buhok ko dito, haha

Fervic and Bing

Charles and Tere

Ryan and Fervic
halata bang ako lang kumareer ng halloween?

More photos from last night here.

We parted ways going home after dinner and I started my exhausting two hour (it felt longer) trip home. On a normal day, it usually takes me about 30 minutes to commute to/from the city. I needed to take the N or W train to Ditmars so I stood on the designated N area, two platforms down and waited. After about 30 minutes and three Q trains passed by, I started to wonder when my train was coming. Then I saw a sign detailing service changes for the N train starting midnight of Nov. 1. I glanced at my watch and saw it was close to midnight so I went back up to the platform I passed by on the way down and waited with the rest of the costumed crowd. Soon, the 4 train came and everybody gets on it, leaving me alone on the empty platform...at midnight. I sort of freaked out and walked to the ticket counter and asked the guy where the N train stopped. He directed me to go back down from where I originally came from and walk all the way to the back of the platform. I did as he instructed and saw that at the end of where I was standing earlier, I had to go up a flight of stairs, turn and walk through a small tunnel, and go down again. There I saw a buffet of characters who obviously knew about the service changes. My train finally came and it was sardine-packed with an assortment of people dressed in their best halloween garb. I rode beside an irish pirate, a mermaid, Jessica Rabbit, Batman, a slutty nurse, catwoman, a gingerbread man and a black guy with long purplish green tentacles coming out of his jumpsuit. He was insterting his tentacles in jessica rabbit's bag and running them on people's legs (including mine) while the pirate yelled pirate lines in his thick irish accent for everyone's amusement.

By the time I got to my stop, it was another long wait for the bus to come. It was a little past 1am and it had gotten windy and cold. Good thing I had leg warmers. I was too tired to post anything when I got home and passed out...but not before taking this photo.

Next holiday...my birthday!

*On another note,
Just saw my image stats on pbase and saw that the photo with the most number of hits was this. Hahaha! Niki ayus ka ah!

I told him to give me a scary face and I got this blank expression, haha!
Also, all I had was shimmery black make-up so he's all sparkly today.

Omar woke me up this morning to do his make-up. There's a Halloween party in school and he'll be in his Skullzor attire until tonight's trick or treating. I was actually torn between walking him around collecting candies and going with Baby and her friends to the village, I'm guessing, to see the Manhattan Halloween Parade. Depending how long Omar wants to go around, I may be able to do both. I just didn't have the heart to tell Omar and I can't take him around as promised so I will do it and zip out to the city and meet up with friends. I sure hope the subway is friendly to commuters tonight. I can only imagine most people decked out in their halloween garb and scaring commuters and pedestrians. God knows I don't have the heart to withstand being scared at night.

Yesterday, I took one of the cars out and did my favorite chore...LAUNDRY! Haha! A big bag of sheets and comforters have been sitting in the back of the truck since I got here so I decided to do them already. I wanted to get beer since I ran out of Stella so I tried to drive to the supermarket but I got lost. I decided to get a slice a pizza before heading home when I saw there was a smaller grocery beside the pizza place. They didn't have stella, so I got ingredients I needed to make my own version of Bona's Breakfast Fruit Yoghurt Muesli! My version is better of course with an addition of fresh strawberries and blueberries. I had one this morning and I am so full since it turned out to be twice the size of Bona's.

The CW seems to be running out of ideas for tv shows. First, they do 90210, now they plan on doing a remake of this...

After seeing this, I just realized how Grant Show could very well pass for Viggo Mortensen. I wonder if he ever auditioned for Aragorn?

Grace, Sasha and Niki's turn...

(there was something wrong with my original embed..here it is again)

I'm starting to feel jealous that I don't have my own photos to edit. The only prints I have of mine were the ones taken in 2004-05 and we all know I no longer look like I used to.

Off topic...
Some people are taking Halloween a little too seriously. I almost had a heart attack while walking the dogs earlier this evening. On my way back to the apartment, I saw a woman waiting by the door of the apartment building. She was standing in a dark shaded area, had her back to me and she had a dog with her too. As I got closer to the door, she turned around and I almost screamed. She was wearing a very realistic Joker mask. (Bea, Paul, Niki: Naalala niyo yung expression ko nung nanood tayo ng El Orfanato? GANUN) I was so stunned that all I muttered was a faint "Heeey..." The lady laughed and waited for me to open the door then she went up ahead and I saw that she stayed at the apartment next to ours. They were the ones who set up a lit pumpkin head and a grim reaper by the side of their door that also startled me and Tita Chon the first time we saw it. Geeez....

Continuing my faux make-up frenzy...Scanned some prints of old photos I took from TPC and re-edited using new techniques I've learned since. Being unemployed affords me the time for research and new learning. I have a lot more to finish before I upload everything in Pbase. Each photo takes me about an hour. The one of Ella and Bea took a bit longer.

Click for a slightly larger view.

The original version of this can be seen here.

Bea, you look nice with lashes. You should start wearing faux lashes!