Pimp my tweet.

So last Friday Ali went on pimping out our tweets, and this is my pimping out:

And then I reacted because she didn't include Alexis, but she did include him in the twin's! And the twin reacted too because she didn't get Chente. So Ali did another one...

I loled so much at #theentirevalenciasquad and #sleepdeprived.

And then dear Elena (Nandia) had her own version for me:

I loled so much at 'pretending not to have an Alexis obsession'.

So to them, I'm adorable, innocent (YES I AM!), an angel, sweet and considering. *blushes* Aww thanks girls, I feel loved. :p

My Kickette girls are amazing and I love them so. :)

/EDIT/ Ok, since Nandia wanted me to admit, yes I will admit it, I am finally not pretending anymore. Ktnxbai. :D

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Taiwan - Day 3!

It was so cold that day, at 14-15°C. Clearly I did not bring warmer clothes. (And I partly blame Nandia love for saying that I should go with all the minis and shorts, haha).

This time, we went to Guanghua, another part of Taipei. We tried to look for a church so we could hear mass, but we couldn't find a Catholic one. So we just walked around. There was this pretty neat street market with all these Taiwanese products, so we checked it out. We didn't buy anything though. And then there was this electronics and gadgets district. We went to check out more stuff but still no luck with finding my camera. :( My mom got a really good bargain for a Philips digital photo frame though, it's amazing.

the market in Guanghua

random pic of the faraway Taipei 101

It rained that day! It didn't exactly pour down, it was more of a hard drizzle with really strong winds. And I did not like it one bit because I was freezing already. I like the cold, I really do and I love being out in the wind but not when I am wearing clothing made of thin materials, haha! And the rain and wind just added to the cold.

Anyway, we went to the Taipei City Hall district afterwards. We rode the MRT again (well we always do because the places we go to are pretty far from each other) and I was in the mood for camerawhoring so I got my brother to take some pics. These two are the ones I really liked:


And this one while waiting for our bus going to Taipei 101:
We went to see the Taipei 101, which is the tallest building in the world. It's pretty, but for me, the Petronas Towers in Kuala Lumpur and the Empire State Building and Chrysler Building in New York is far prettier than it. And again, more camerawhoring, haha :)

that is my brother :)
I really liked the walls.

the wind was blowing really hard, my hair kept flying, haha

The mall was amaze though. It reminded me of Siam Paragon in Bangkok. We ate a very late lunch there. Everyone wanted something different so we ate at the food court. I ordered Singapore chicken rice! Haha, I know I should have sampled some other Taiwanese dishes but I was craving so much for it. We also ordered some noodles and soup and some beef dish. Everything was so yummy. And then more of milk tea, yay. I ordered it with what they call magic jelly but in reality it's a kind of coffee flavored jelly.

yummy food!

We didn't go to the observatory anymore because the tickets were a bit pricey and we won't be seeing the sights that well anyway cos it was raining and was fogging up a bit. We went around some more, bought souvenirs and local delicacies, and went to another mall. Shopped for a bit. And just before we were about to leave, I found Coldstone again! Squeeee. I ordered Our Strawberry Blonde which was strawberry ice cream with graham cracker pie crust, caramel sauce, fresh strawberries and whipped topping smooshed together.


And yes, I did have another pic taken. I wanted to have a pic taken at every Coldstone store I went to just because. Ahahaha. I really cannot hold back when it comes to ice cream. And chocolates. Oh well.

Anyway, the tower at night:


We then went back to the hotel and I figured I'd relax with a long bath in the whirlpool jacuzzi which was amazing. I got to watch the United game after, and I was pleased with the result, we won thanks to new kiddo Kiko Macheda. Valencia was also playing that night but they were to play at 3am Taiwan time. I really wanted to watch it but I was dead tired and if I stayed up, I wouldn't be able to last touring around the next day. When I woke up the next morning, I found out that they won, yay :)

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Taiwan - Day 2!

This post is delayed, sorry. But here's day 2 of my trip!

Early morning. We traveled to Yanmingshan National Park by MRT (Mass Rapid Transit) and bus, in the hopes of seeing Cherry Blossoms. Epic fail. My mom thought that they were still in bloom, and I didn't bother checking they were before we left. When we got there, we had to hike 1km going up the top of the mountain to go to our first stop, the Visitor's Center. We had no idea we had to hike to get there, and I was wearing this:

Hiking in a skirt and flip flops. Not cool.

We finally reached the top, only to find out that in order to get around the park, we had to ride another bus and it would be a 2 hour trip. The Cherry Blossoms are gone, we were a week late! And our last hope was the Flower Clock – but they told us that the flowers aren’t in bloom too. That sucked. I wanted to go to the Calla Lily fields and pick some flowers, also the Volcanic reserve and hot springs, but that would mean taking the 2 hour trip and it would take us the whole day. So we decided to skip it. We walked around the area, took pictures then hiked down the mountain. I only picked some to post cos there are too many.

We went back to Shilin station where we ate lunch. We were all so hungry from the hike and everyone was irritable because we couldn’t decide where to eat. I was so picky because the food stalls along the roads looked really messy and I didn’t like what the food looked like. There weren’t any food stalls/restos like the ones we ate at the day before. I voted for Pizza Hut even though I didn’t really wanted to eat there, but it was the only one familiar to us, but we found out that the shop is only for takeout and delivery. Great. More walking and walking and everyone was really irritated at me, lol. I finally decided on this Italian café even if everyone wanted Chinese/Taiwanese cuisine. Good thing they had some Chinese/Taiwanese dishes. I ordered grilled pork and rice. The food was good except for the soup which was really bland.

After lunch, we rode the MRT again and got off at Zhongshan Fuxing station. That was where the huge electronics shop was, forgot what it was called. I failed in my search of a cheap camera! They were even more pricey than here in the Philippines. Boo. We went to Shinkong Mitsukoshi afterwards, a really posh department store. We ate dinner there, a Kopibun for me – it’s a coffee flavored bun with melted butter inside. Heaven. We also sampled this Taiwanese stone cooking cuisine. We ordered some beef dish which was soooo good!

On our way back to the MRT station, I saw a Coldstone shop again! Woooo! This time I ordered Mud Pie Mojo – coffee ice cream with fudge, peanut butter and Oreo cookies smooshed in it. Again, heaven. I’m such a happy girl.

Went to a different night market this time – Huixa Tourist Night Market. This was where all kinds of street and exotic foods were to be found. We didn’t really sample the stuff because we were too full from dinner. And there was stinky tofu smell all over the place! Ugh, we all hated that smell. From its name, it is stinky tofu. According to wiki it’s fermented tofu, marinated in some mixture of milk, veggies and meat, or with dried shrimp, some greens, bamboo shoots, and Chinese herbs. UGH. No way we we’re trying that.

Anyway, we sampled some dried and grilled squid and cuttlefish this time. I did better with my broken Mandarin this time, yay! She asked if we wanted hot sauce with the squid and cuttlefish and we said yes. Big mistake! We did want it spicy, but we had no idea how deadly hot it was. When she let us taste the squid, we immediately told her to hold back on the sauce for the cuttlefish. My mom who has the least tolerance with spicy food gave up with only one bite of the squid. She didn’t even finish a strip. I laughed at her, teasing her how weak she was, but I soon ate my words and gave up after eating around 7 strips of the squid. I just ate the cuttlefish instead. Everyone was so thirsty afterwards, we finished up two cartons of black bubble tea and two bottles of water, and we still wanted more, so we bought bubble milk tea with boba. Yumyum.

We walked around some more, and we saw more exotic food. Snakes and other reptiles! There was this whole row of restaurants on one street and they had snake shows staged. Taking pictures weren’t allowed but I managed to sneak in some shots.

ignore the unknown couple and see the snake instead :p

After much walking, everyone was so tired and we went back to the hotel. My brother and I stopped at the grocery just across and bought some dessert, beer and vodka. We were both too tired to drink when we got back to our room, he slept right away and I just ate dessert before sleeping. Yummy custard! But there weren’t any teaspoons in the room. I was too tired and lazy to ask for one from room service so I just managed to eat it with a stirrer. Lol!

And that ends Day 2.

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Loving it!

On a shopping trip last weekend, I found these little darlings:

Harajuku Lovers perfume by Gwen Stefani! Eeeee! I immediately fell in love with these beauties. I think mentioned here on my blog already how much I loved Gwen and her Harajuku Lovers line. And of course, having seen these babies on the shelves, I had to get one of them. There were five of them: Love, Lil' Angel, G, Music, Baby. I liked all scents except Music. As usual I took a long time deciding on one. I narrowed it down to Love and Lil' Angel. I loved both scents Love was floral, and Lil' Angel was fruity-floral. I kind of liked the Love doll better, but of course, I just had to get Lil' Angel.

screencapped from hlfragrance.com

I absolutely love it. It's so me :p And I got a bonus too! I sweettalked the sales attendant to give me the free watch even if I only bought one bottle (I had to buy two bottles if I wanted to get the watch). Sweet. :)

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I push myself too hard.

I fail at finishing all the entries about my trip. I promise I'll finish it, maybe by the end of the week. I hope. Everything's just so topsy turvy in my world lately, I can't even be online that much anymore! Boo. I just need to blog about the recent things that have been happening.

Uni.
So, I went back to uni already last Wednesday. It was horrible. I had to pay a fine for late enrollment, because I was supposed to pay Tuesday but forgot the check at home. Then I realized that I didn't have any cash with me, so I told the cashier that I'd go back. I went to the ATM machines and when I pulled out my wallet I realized that I didn't have my ATM card with me too. I was panicking, I was already 30 mins late for class and I still haven't paid my tuition fees. I was running around the campus and it was so hot, I was so tired already! So I texted my brother to ask if he had extra cash with him, and he did, thank God. But I had to run to the other side of the campus where his class was to get him. More running, and then finally got the cash, ran back to the cashier to pay. I ran to class after, 45 mins late, only to find out that I was in the wrong room! Turned out that whoever did my schedule printed out the wrong room assignment. So it took me another 15 mins to find my room, and when I did, I was an hour late already. I had no clue what the prof was talking about and shizz. Yeah, that was a great first day back.

The next few days at uni were okay, but I bombed the first quiz we had. Lol. I always do that at the start of the semester. I never know how to study for a quiz/exam (if I even study hahaha) until I know what type of tests the prof gives out.

Ballet.
So, after two months of not training, I went back to ballet. And man it was so hard to get back. I've never really stopped dancing for that long, not even during the times when I was out injured, because during those times I still trained. Yeah I know, I don't listen to my physio and I'll be paying for it in the future. *shrugs* I love dancing, no one can stop me.

And because of the long time of not training, I ended up so frustrated at myself because I couldn't do the usual stuff I do. My muscle resistance and endurance are both way off, I couldn't last through the exercises. And I couldn't do my turns! Turns are actually my forte. Whenever I dance, especially when I do all those turning steps and spins (pirouettes, fouettes, chainees, etc.) and other challenging steps, there is this certain feeling that I get. I can't explain it, but it's such a beautiful feeling.

Given that, I guess you could imagine and understand the frustration I've been feeling. I badly wanted to get back in shape and when I want something, I do everything to get/achieve it. Which is bad for me, really. And with dancing, just like any other sport, pushing yourself too hard would damage the muscles. And that's what I got for pushing myself too hard. I kept working so hard on the exercises, doing them over and over again just so I can improve fast. Again, I didn't listen, and now I've got recurrent leg cramps, several muscle strains all over, my bad (left) ankle is sore again, and my right ankle is hurting too. Yay me.

Work.
Yes, I'm working this summer again. I cracked, even if I said I didn't want to work any more, and despite the fact that I didn't get paid last summer. I just can't keep myself away from my beloved ballet students. But I took a part-time shift this time, only working on Wednesday, Friday and Saturday from 1-6pm with a 30min break. Its tiring, but better than the 8 hour shift I used to have. And also I get to rest because sometimes my task is to only operate the music and take the attendance. Lol.

Life in general.
Too much stuff going wrong. Idek if I'm going to be paid at work. Oh please let them pay me, I hope they don't do a Valencia on me. Also, I'm kind of in a small life crisis right now. I've planned everything out but now I feel kind of lost, its as if I don't really want all this anymore. And ugh, just... So much more going wrong.

So there, that's basically what's happening to my life lately. Not really interesting. Haha. I really need to get out of this rock that I've been living in and see my friends. I've been putting them off lately, must really see them.

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