august 23, 2007... my cfo experience...

just want to share my CFO seminar experience... i attended the seminar as a requirement for the renewal of my passport... i went to CFO website to check on the time schedule for the seminars... and ive decided to attend the 1:30pm session.. http://www.cfo.gov.ph/.

in the CFO website i found the nearest place for me to get the seminar from... since im from quezon city, ive chosen SMEF-COW which is located in Araneta Avenue Cubao.. its infront of PSBA school and along St. Bridget School, and just beside the katipunan LRT station... both near Katipunan area ( where ateneo, miriam, and UP are nearby located ) this is their website... http://www.smef-cow-phil.org/ (location so easy to find)i got there 20 minutes before 1:30pm last august 23...

as soon as u enter the good shepherd convent gate, there's no way that you'd missed their building since its just behind the gate, its the first thing that you'd see as u enter the gate... i hurriedly went inside and they let me filled-out some forms (had my ID's and old passport photocopied) and paid 250.00 pesos.. then, after filling out the forms (make sure u know ur husband's address, phone numbers, educational attainment, job and all that), they asked me to stand infront of the webcam to take my picture for the certificate that will be given later on.... then after that... went upstairs to watch a film showing about domestic violence... took maybe around 15to 20 minutes, then had a 30 minute discussion afterwards...

then... after that session, they asked us to go to the respective rooms (depends on the country youre going) to have the seminar proper... group discussion about american culture, adjustments, visa's and everything that you need to tackle moving to the US... then the one on one session follows....during the one on one... they asked how we met... how long have we been dating before marriage... if he's divorced, what are the reasons... even asked a copy of divorce decree.. good thing i brought it with me... the counselor is very accomodating... a little bit strict but, she jokes around once in a while....then, after that she will give u ur information sheet that u filled out earlier and give it downstairs to the lobby... their they will give you your blue certificate...

then you have to photocopy the certificate, and go to the CFO office just behind their building... in the CFO office, you will have to give your photocopy of blue certificate, copy of your visa (if you already have your visa), your passport and your payment 400.00 pesos... then you have to wait til they give your passport back together with your receipt and your green/yellow certificate and will be asked to sign their logbook... for me they said that a photocopy of that certificate is what i need for the DFA requirement... and that i have to go back when i already have my visa so they can put the sticker in my passport!!!! (that is the most important thing!!) i just have to show my certificates... fill out another form from the SMEF-COW and give it to CFO, and a copy of my visa!!!! that was it!! finished the same day at around 5pm...

was so hungry after, so better come with full tummy for the entire session!we were around 10-15 people at the film showing, and trimmed down to 7 in the seminar proper... they can accomodate so much more than that, so no need for appointments... just be there on time!!!

the seminar is very informative, im sure you'd pick up some tips from them when it comes to luggages, what to bring and not, how much weight and dimensions...and so many other things!good luck to you all!!! God bless you!!

Our Very Funny Wedding Day!!!

July 05, 2007, Thursday… 11:00am
Quezon City Memorial Circle

"LOVE is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing;

a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished"

~Goethe~

Our journey was never easy…like most of us here… it all started in a very unexpected, yet so ordinary way… yes, we may find acquaintances and even a start of a very lasting friendship online, but a few brave ones would go on for the lasting tying the knot kind of relationship…. Yes, like what you guys did! We tied the knot…

After 2 years and 5 months of getting to know each other, hi hello’s , my likes and dislikes, unstoppable imissyou’s and iloveyou’s, we tied the knot!! Yes! We did!!

That day when he came back to the Philippines after a year of our first meeting… We both know that this is the moment we’re waiting for.. this is it!!!he always say… YOU’RE IT!! We are in it! We prepared all the necessary papers needed for our civil wedding, the very next day he landed, after catching up with lost times of not being together of course (wink)… it was all worth the wait… but you know how it feels when you haven’t been with your love for the longest time…. ITS NEVER ENOUGH!!! Hahahhaha… yeah, was never enough!

July 05, 2007 – woke up early morning… got ready… butterflies in our stomach… we went straight to MAX’s resto in Quezon city circle ( to have the wedding and reception at the same time… so no need to go anywhere!! ) we waited for our ninong’s and ninang’s (witnesses) and the minister… one by one they came… and so the ceremony began…say I do’s… the funny part in that wedding was…. LOL… we were caught off guard.. we know that it’s a very very simple way of saying I do’s…. and we never expected that the minister would ask us say our own VOWS to each other… we were like looking at each other laughing… giggling… so I started…i told him my love.. my care till death do us part.. even remember saying that made everyone laugh…. “NO DIVORCE OK?!” hahahha… and the witnesses were saying at the background!! Oh yeah Go grace!!! No divorce!! My husband was laughing, I know he was just trying not to blurt the LMAO kind…but at least so happy to see him smiling J…. He was never really prepared for the vow… he doesn’t like being caught off guard.. all I can remember him saying is that “I love you sooooo much… and will always be there to take care of you…”awwwwwe…. So short yet touched my heart in a very special special way….

Well… the main blooper of our wedding was when the minister stopped in the middle of the ceremony just to say…. “Ahhhmmmm…. I just want to tell you that there’s another 5000.00 pesos fee for the paper works…” (what the heck??? I was like in shocked!! My husband was so afraid to say NO thinking that the minister will stop the ceremony… geeeeeeeez… if only looks could kill.,.. man… that minister is sooooooo dead…anyways… after paying him another 1500.00 which was the agreed payment at first… we paid 4000.00 again.. geeeeez.. we had bargained for a thousand less) that was a total ripped-off!!!

But at the end of it all!!!! We’re married! And that’s all that matters… we paid max’s around 4thousand… so much food… even had doggy bags.. J only 10 attended our wedding but its all worth it.. pictures were taken (of course!!! Very important… proofs remember???) well… enjoy some of the pictures below… and may our love story inspire you guys out there who are in the same boat as we are...

More to come… wedding was just the beginning of our married life… and now we are… Husband and Wife….

“Love Never Fails”

our engagement day....

isnt she lovely??? thats the ring!! yes guys its my engagement ring!! my stinky whitie gave it to me the very first day we have met in person... May 20, 2006... around 6am when we got back to the hotel after i picked him up at the airport!!! as soon as we got his things settled, there!!!! my whitie, as impatient as he was when it comes to surprises!!! handed me this small box... and telling me... its been a long time that i have been wanting to give you this... you know that i have proposed a long time ago online...but to make that online proposal a reality and legal.... here's my love... its a 1.5 Karat Princess Cut 3 stoned diamond ring with baggets... exactly this picture on here... from KAY JEWELERS..... Kay always has this ad.... "Every Kiss Begins With Kay!!!" Indeed!!!! kiss it was.... and even more than that.... never imagined in my entire life that i would be receiving such a beautiful sweet lasting proof of proposal like this one! never in my life expected that id be falling inlove with the perfect man who would give me such importance, care, love and diamonds!! hahhahahaha... it is truly a girl's bestfriend!!! he gave me this small white box.. and opening the small white box comes this small black velvet box.... and opening this black velvet box comes this beautiful white gold diamond ring!!! olah!! surprise surprise!!! (baby, yes you asked me how many stones i want!!! but i never expected you'd make payments for something so precious as this one... im ok with just you here with me... but this is soooo beautiful, so unexpected.... thank you... YES BABE!!!!! id truly marry you with all of my heart and soul in any courthouse you choose!! - hahahahhahaha... yes its a courthouse.. because we are planning to renew vows in someplace romantic and where everyone can witness!)

the 21 days he spent in manila starting that day was all worth it!!! it was the beginning of something so precious.. so special... so fun... and so lasting... we never wanted to waste any of our time together getting around manila because we wanted to just have fun with each other, enjoying each other... just the two of us.... 21 days wasnt enough.... its not enough to spend time together as we miss each other sooooooo much, and we just wanted to hold and cuddle each other so tight... and never will let go.....

but ofcourse... it was just 21 days of being physically together... but its definitely not the end...

next plans..... wedding day!!!!!!

the Ups and Downs of my LongDistance Love Affair...

the ups and downs of having a long distance love affair...

butterflies in my stomach whenever i hear his name... the kilig factor of mobile alerts from yahoo messenger... the constant staring of my mobile fone screen waiting for his calls and texts... the pile of prepaid globe cards in my wallet... the bumpy red marks on my bum for long hours of chat in cafe's (before when i dont have smart bro at home yet... :))having signs and symptoms of carpal tunnel syndrome for long typing hours... the sweet lasting euphoria after long sessions of chats, reading looooong "novel" emails, opening adorable fun e-cards... the much awaited snail mails, cards, flowers, and packages even if you already know what's in it, still, it feels like you're going to be surprised with whatever is sent, just by knowing the mere fact that its from him :))...oh yeah and offline messages too.... never felt that the day starts right without it, he got me so used to it... so sweeet...

absence they said makes the heart grow wonder... LoL... yeah but there's also this saying that says it makes it grow fonder! hay naku! syempre, it goes fonder! the absence for me made me miss him more... its addictive... i just want him to be there whenever i crave for him... (as in crave... like craving for a good bar of candy!! its like i need my sugar rush!! hehehehehe) sometimes i even find myself staring at the yahoo screen, waiting for that sooo familiar sound - 'ding' whenever someone gets online...those bold letters in my contact list are under my watchlist and was sooo abused!... never a glimpse should i let that pass... it was crazy, never imagined it can be soooo sooooo addictive!! addictive, but ive only felt that for him... i hate people disturbing me whenever i talk to him... like every minute is so precious, para akong "gaga" di makausap pag sya na ka chat ko! sobra!

there was this time in our relationship when he's nowhere to be reached...a few months with just hi and hello's.... was busy at the hospital, he was busy with work... (til he explained things lately... the full story why he was out of post! hmp!) and then after a year of talking and "dating online" i said i wanted to let go na... coz i feel that he doesnt have time for me anymore... and that i have to move on.. ( ang lola mo nagdrama!! i cant just wait for him online all the time and all i see is his id in BOLD but not talking to me... and all the reasons blah blah blah...-->> which is later on in our relationship he made me understand...) then that time, that was around february 2006!!! he changed, like a 360 degree turn around! i cant believed it!... i was the one trying to run away now and he's the one chasing me... humaba ang hair ko!!hahahahaha... [so i guess guys sometimes need this one time big time knocked on their head to make them realized that they're about to lose something so special... hehehehehe] so going back, he gave me so much time, attention, longer emails, calls, voice chats, and all that you can think of! guess he loves me too :)) march of that year he started planning of coming over for our engagement! wow! yes!!!! finally he's coming over!!! (the detailed story on next blog regarding our first meeting in person... can feel butterflies again... kilig naman me..)

in short, we've fallen deeply inlove... we've wanted more than just chatmates or "online daters", and made the real dating a reality... from then on.... we were lovers... we were in a relationship... a relationship that me myself and him dont believe existed...but we are in it... and it's so real...

then i asked him why fly so far when he can just have an easy relationship back home...

and he said... "i never had a hard time being with someone back home, this one you've given me is different... and i wont fly half across the world just to have fun, have sex, or have a one heck of a good time, because im not rich to do all that, and i cant afford it... but ive fallen in love with you so much, that i can never think of myself being with anybody else... but you..." aaaaaaawwwwwe....shoot meeeeeeeeeee.... id be dropped dead by now! harharhar!!! was so high!!!! ooooh yeahh!!! hell yeah!!! higher than the feeling of passing the PT Board Exams last 2001... now i know how it feels like being a GURL... lol...of course im a girl, HAhAHA.... i mean a girly girl with the prince charming and all that stuff....

- - xoxo - -

May 20, 2006 Saturday morning - PAL Terminal 2!!! wow! he came just to give me this ring... a 1.5 karat princess cut 3 stoned with baggets KAY (every kiss begins with KAY!!! hahahaha so true!!) diamond ring!!! OH MY GOSH!!!!....

to be continued....

reminiscin'.... the first time we met...

going back to the days when i first met him... sigh... (february 2005)


i never expected that i will find this very loving, handsome, sweet, funny, responsible young man from yahoo chatroom!!! whoooaaa! yup you're right! there's this one lost among the mostly (not all... dont quote me...) perv tot tot.. crowd!why was i there in the first place??? there's what you call RocKy timeS in a relationship... mostly if you're dealing with something "long distance" as they call it... been with this guy (an indian and im a filipina) for more than 2 years...was separated by work... to make the long story short, it was a great love but faltered... so there i was, online waiting for my RockY bf to get on... time passed by and i was bored... ive never been to those chatrooms before, never really know how to used it, just remembered how my cousin said that you can find people to talk to in chatrooms...was bored and the kind of chikadora that i am, i got curious and started to figure out how can i find someone to talk to with sense... (its always easier for me to open up with someone i dont know... better that way, at least they wont judge you for who you are and what have you done in the past... they'd talk to you in a very objective manner... which is a good thing... ) ok... so there i was!!! my chatroom expedition! got to Kentucky chatroom... (dont ask me how i got there!) with the mouse clicking and pointing and clicking, there!!!! oooops!! a message popped out in my screen....

hi... howre you...
i said hello back...
and it all began...

it was light, fun, and very interesting conversation... he was bored at work... i was bored waiting for my ex... we became friends... we just had our exchanges of LOL's and LMAO... and click... it was movie in the making!!! yup friends!! we've chatted like crazy, we felt so at ease talking just like that and we felt like we have known each other for a long time.... after 3 months of chatting and texting, and take note.. no WEBCAMS, no VOICE... then guess who dropped the bomb?? (ofcourse.. the ex was DONE and over with!) then he asked.... " are we dating?!@!? " oooooooooooooooooooooh my... naloka ang lola mo!! i almost fell from my seat... and texted back.. " what do you think? " hahhahahaha :)) felt this connection between us... i have never expected that im going to fall under the category of "online daters", but yeah!! proud to say! i AM... lol... yes... we started dating, have fallen in love once again..... and then with the growing bills on cafe lounge chats... guess what happened when ive first seen him on cam after many months of correspondence... hahahahaha.. this time i fell hard on the floor... he is soooooooooooooooo CUTE, HandSOme... GUWAPO, Young with Beautiful BLUE EYED whitie... hahahhaha, yeah thats how i call him... my whitie... it was like WOW!! youre making my heart melt with tears... (Over Ha!!) But, yeah... ive fallen for someone sooooooo POGI without even knowing how POGI he really is looks wise...was like winning a one million lotto ticket...

online dating can be sooooooo hard... it begins with honesty and trust.. i have never really known this person, but ive been very honest with him from the very first time that we've chatted... i wasnt expecting anything or the same honesty in return, but it just came out naturally... if you are sincere with who you really are and what you say you are... it can be contagious... the other person will feel the same way, and treat you with the right attitude you deserve to be treated with...

this is just the beginning of our journey... more to come... many things that had happened... many things needed to put down into writing...

until then....

simple best things

Reminiscin'

some of the simple best things ive done in life...
itching, scratching...
giving my most sincere smile (even to strangers)...
receiving the sweetest sincere smile back (even from strangers)...
giving a warm tight embrace...
receiving the same warm tight embrace...
laughing my hearts out...
sitting quiet with friends...
receiving a compliment from a stranger, from friends unexpectedly...
giving compliments to strangers, friends...
giving voluntarily to the needy...
satisfying my craving...
eating a whole bar of chocolate...
eating in a big bowl of ice cream...
playing & laughin in the rain (imiss the most)...
tickling & being tickled...
sleeping...
kissing...
cuddling...
listening to reggae & dancing along...
dancing to oblivion...
singing like no one's around...

loving endlessly...

being loved back...

lying in a hammock under coco trees in the beach...
watching raindrops sitting beside a glass window with a cup of choco...
watching the sunset...
walking along the beach on a sunset, barefooted...
reading a good book...
praying solemnly, enriching my spirit...
pampering myself...

shopping, splurging like there's no tomorrow with friends...
travelling to some place new, exploring alone, being lost & asking directions (was funny)...
eating out with friends...
pigging out once in a while...
eating 2 family sized pan pizza with tintin til we throw up...
cooking, experimenting, baking, letting people judge em...
giving directions to lost strangers...
assisting an oldie crossing the street, getting down the jeep...
critisizing a friend knowing they wont mind, rather love u more...
drinking til morning, drinking without eating, til throwing up green weird stuffs, getting drunk and being cared for by friends around (funny) and getting scolded in the morning...
sleeping over to friends house...
sneaking out of the dorm to be out with friends...
watching & listening to live bands while out with friends...
going out of the country...
getting caught by police due to a kiss in cheek (funny) in an arab country (was the scariest of my life though!)...
being inlove...
takin a cold shower in one hot sweaty summer day...
eating green mangoes with spicy shrimp paste or spicy fish bagoong with vinegar under the mango tree...
minutes/hours after knowing that i passed the boards! (PT/RN)...
posing, smiling, just being silly in front of all kinds of camera's...
reminiscing...
more to come as i journey thru life...

my first entree....

" Books are judged by their covers... and now... by their BlOGGS!" it doesnt make sense.. lol.. let me take you for a ride instead...

my first entree... going on bare.. before you can create a blog... you have to have something full of sense in mind... before you can create an audience, you dont have to be extraordinary, but at least entertaining... before fellow bloggers can learn from you... you have to post blogs of real happenings... this isnt just A diary... its the persona in meee that most of the people around me doesnt know of... sharing wont necessarily mean that you'll get something out of me... but hoping at least, would help you in any possible way... the way its helping me... geeeeeeez... dying to get out of this skin... :)) to my baby... iloveyou so much... this is for you!!! to my friends! hoping to keep in touch with you all!!

enjoy my bloggs... like the way im enjoying yours!!

peace ;P