| 1. | Kristine |   |
Noun. Kristines are typically strange girls who force people to write definitions about them on Urban Dictionary. Their interests include youtubing, writing stories in first person, and creating endless layouts. They frequently move in herds and take impossibly long showers in the morning, forcing their cohabitants to resort to using the nearby river to cleanse themselves. Bystander 1: Oh em gee.. is that a Kristine you're talking to? Bystander 2: Absolutely, you can tell from the way she takes new pictures every 5 minutes or so. | ||
Monday, September 15, 2008
What my name means
Sunday, September 14, 2008
One sweet day
I left the entire page blank except for this entry. I just wanted to take a moment and remember my brother Andrew.
Happy birthday little brother. I know you're in a happier place now and I look forward to seeing you again someday.
We love you and still miss you.
Saturday, September 13, 2008
Wednesday, September 10, 2008
Text blast -where are you?
Sana lang magpa-dressdown naman..
The fabric of my slacks clung to my legs because half of it was soaked from the heavy downpour. It doesn't help that it was literally raining under my umbrella since it was too wet to repel any more rain while waiting for the bus ride home.. Since the weather was the same way last night before I left for work, I decided to wear my Happy Feet sandals thinking they'd be tough enough for heavy rains and probable semi-baha and I was right. Except that my feet and calf muscles hurt from controlling the way I walked lest I slipped and fell on my butt or facedown..
Commuter experience in this kind of downpour (tantamount to storm signal 2-3 and there's no suspension of work because that NEVER happens) becomes more than a challenge. You also have to strategize how you can hop on the next bus, fold your umbrella in the process of jumping on the actual semi-moving bus, squeeze your way to the SRO(standing room only) space just so you can get home, get loose change from your bag while holding your wet umbrella, protect other commuters from having your wet things smack them in the face by keeping your distance (in an SRO area this is virtually impossible) and keeping your balance as the traffic moves along.
"Sinong may kotse? Pasabay!" This is the last thing I heard before leaving the office today. That was Agatha.
Tuesday, September 09, 2008
week 2
Day 1 of week 2 is over and I'd like to think I screwed things a little less this time.. haha. Time to hit the sack though.. Goodnight everyone.
Monday, September 08, 2008
Are you a groupie?
The long weekend gave me a chance to organize. In the process, I found notebook after notebook of make-shift journals I've written the last decade or so chronicling all my teenage angst, adventures groupie moments and everything else in between. And so on this entry, I'd like to commemorate the bands/artists I've followed (in the world of groupies, you might as well say "stalked")
August 30, 2007
Venue: Folk Arts Theater
Band: Boyzone
People present: Me, Pat, Alma, Shalimar, Brian and Sydney
June 26, 1998
Venue: Araneta Coliseum
Band: The Moffatts
People present: Me, Pat, Borjie and Lara
April 30, 1999
Venue: SM Megamall
Band: Kavana
People present: Me and Pat
October 24, 1999
Venue: Folk Arts Theater
Band: The Moffatts
People present: Me, Pat, Honey, Stephanie, Jenny, Lara, Borjie, Kris and Wina
]
May 10, 2000
December 10, 2000
Venue: Folk Arts Theater
Band: The Moffatts
People present: Me, Pat, Borjie, Lara, Kyle, Anne, Raymond, Nina and Rare
March 12, 2004
Venue: CCP Complex (Open Grounds)
Band: Incubus
People present: Me, Revy and Lyza
May 24, 2004
Tuesday, September 02, 2008
for the lack of something to blog about..
It's been a very long weekend, thank God for Labor Day. I did not stay overnight at NAC because I had plans to do some cleaning and bill pay chores but of course I never came around to doing any of those because I felt a fever coming up yesterday and just watched tons of House Season 4 episodes after downing 3 kinds of meds to (hopefully) pre-empt a possible flu that might lead me to skipping work tonight. Kinda worked though, I don't feel as bad as yesterday anymore.
So I'm babbling again with really nothing else to say except the next two weeks will probably be the longest in my life.
So I'm babbling again with really nothing else to say except the next two weeks will probably be the longest in my life.
survey time...
SEVEN THINGS IN YOUR ROOM:
1. Tv
2. 2 PCs
3. Bed
4. DVD collection + DVD player
5. Bookshelf
6. Cabinet
7. PS2
TOP SEVEN THINGS YOU SAY MOST:
1. t*ng**a
2. pakshet
3. di nga?
4. weh?
5. break daw! (sabay takbo sa pantry)
6. no way!
7. anooooooo?
SEVEN THINGS YOU CAN'T LIVE A DAY WITHOUT:
1. FOOD
2. music
3. internet
4. seeing my family
5. sleeping at least 4 hours
6. cellphone
7. praying
SEVEN OTHER THINGS:
Do You:
1. Do you smoke? not anymore
2. Send short messages? hindi na mashado.. tinatamad akong magtext
3. Read the newspaper? i try to read kahit Sunday paper lang..
4. Pray? lagi.
5. Study? i know i should, pero i just start with something i end up leaving..
6. like window shopping? mostly when payday is coming up
7. Wish on stars? used to..
Have you ever:
1. gone for a date? yes
2. travel alone? if you consider daily commute, then yes.
3. swam in the dark? night swimming? yes.
4. gone to a party? yeah, i kinda started early.. haha
5. Ran away from home? not really
6. felt depressed? sometimes
7. felt lonely? not lately
SEVEN THINGS IN LAST 24 HOURS: have you...
1. Wondered? i wonder ALL THE TIME. haha.
2. Sang? yes, i sang with Dave earlier..
3. Been kissed? yes
4. Felt stupid? hell yeah.. especially when i started at AWWC.. fgeeling ko ang tanga ko kase ang dami kong di nagegetz.. i think i'm getting better though.
5. Talked to an ex? ah oo pero di ko na maalala kung kelan..
6. Missed someone? unfortunately i do miss someone right now.
7. Hugged someone? yes, everyday.Ü
1. Tv
2. 2 PCs
3. Bed
4. DVD collection + DVD player
5. Bookshelf
6. Cabinet
7. PS2
TOP SEVEN THINGS YOU SAY MOST:
1. t*ng**a
2. pakshet
3. di nga?
4. weh?
5. break daw! (sabay takbo sa pantry)
6. no way!
7. anooooooo?
SEVEN THINGS YOU CAN'T LIVE A DAY WITHOUT:
1. FOOD
2. music
3. internet
4. seeing my family
5. sleeping at least 4 hours
6. cellphone
7. praying
SEVEN OTHER THINGS:
Do You:
1. Do you smoke? not anymore
2. Send short messages? hindi na mashado.. tinatamad akong magtext
3. Read the newspaper? i try to read kahit Sunday paper lang..
4. Pray? lagi.
5. Study? i know i should, pero i just start with something i end up leaving..
6. like window shopping? mostly when payday is coming up
7. Wish on stars? used to..
Have you ever:
1. gone for a date? yes
2. travel alone? if you consider daily commute, then yes.
3. swam in the dark? night swimming? yes.
4. gone to a party? yeah, i kinda started early.. haha
5. Ran away from home? not really
6. felt depressed? sometimes
7. felt lonely? not lately
SEVEN THINGS IN LAST 24 HOURS: have you...
1. Wondered? i wonder ALL THE TIME. haha.
2. Sang? yes, i sang with Dave earlier..
3. Been kissed? yes
4. Felt stupid? hell yeah.. especially when i started at AWWC.. fgeeling ko ang tanga ko kase ang dami kong di nagegetz.. i think i'm getting better though.
5. Talked to an ex? ah oo pero di ko na maalala kung kelan..
6. Missed someone? unfortunately i do miss someone right now.
7. Hugged someone? yes, everyday.Ü
Monday, September 01, 2008
A modern-day Flickr fairy tale
This is interesting..
It is a beautiful photo, that will be clear to anyone. But for the members of the Flickr community, it is so much more. It is a fairy tale come true.
Once upon a time, two people found their way to the photo-sharing website Flickr.com.
Fate
Call it fate—24-year-old designer and photographer Aaron Nace and 17-year-old student and part-time waitress Rosie Hardy found each other’s photos on the same day. Rosie’s friend Natalie showed her Aaron’s 365 Days Project self-portraits. “I was so so so impressed and made a mental note to add him as a contact when I got home,” Rosie said.
She didn’t know it yet but Aaron had already found her then. “Upon seeing her images I just had to send her a message, it was like we had the same brain,” Aaron said. And when Rosie got home, she discovered that Aaron had posted a comment on one of her photos and he had added her as a Flickr contact. “I was over the moon!” she said.
They clicked instantly.
Rosie loved Aaron’s playful sense of humor, the way he laughed at himself and how he wasn’t afraid to look silly. “I loved all his expressions and simultaneously loved how he could produce shots full of darkness and raw emotion—something I find incredibly captivating in photography,” she said.
Aaron thought Rosie had an amazing mind. “She has a special way of seeing the world and it all comes out in her photographs. No one can deny she is very special,” he said. There was just one problem though: Aaron lived in Chapel Hill in North Carolina, USA, while Rosie was from Buxton, Derbyshire, England. But Aaron and Rosie didn’t let the distance get in the way.
The two started exchanging Flickrmails. Aaron said, “It became obvious quickly that we got along very well. We started writing to each other three times a day.”
“I asked him what our first date would be like. He then went on to write the first of many adventure episodes we write to each other,” Rosie said.
Writing adventures
Through their written adventures, even before meeting each other, Aaron and Rosie had “swum to the bottom of the ocean, dragged a giant singing clam to the shoreline and been abducted by small hairy men, swung through a jungle and jumped off cliffs to be taken by birds to huge rock towers with big yellow superslides, dressed in Batman and French maid costumes (Aaron was the maid, Rosie said) and defeated evil, built their own house filled with monsters, flown to make-believe lands of legomen in a spaceship and risked our lives to save each other.”
Writing those adventures meant a lot to Rosie. “Writing those stories and writing about each other’s characters before we knew the other person really proved how alike we were. His imagination completely captivated me from the start—all I wanted was to be inside his mind.”
Aaron felt the same way. “Somewhere through our adventure I was positive this was the girl I wanted to be with. The first time we spoke on the phone was the most amazing feeling i have ever had in my life. and every day since has been more amazing,” he said.
The two started chatting on Gmail and exchanging YouTube videos. Then Aaron started calling Rosie every night through Skype and they exchanged text messages all the time. “We talked for at least three hours a night and it is not uncommon for us to fall asleep on the phone together,” Aaron said.
Blooming romance
They first exchanged “I love you’s” during a Gmail chat. “I felt it was time to just jump out on a limb and I wrote I love you. It took her a second to respond, but she said I love you in return. I smiled for days,” Aaron said.
Rosie added, “I’d never told a guy I loved him before, so it was pretty big for me.”
Their romance bloomed before the eyes of the Flickr community. Soon, they were posting photos that were veiled love letters. Rosie uploaded an image of herself in a box with the caption, “Please Mr. Postman, Could you do me a favor? There’s somewhere I want to be.” Meanwhile Aaron made bold declarations of love with his images.
They also started working on a series of photographs which they called Collaboration Sundays, photos that were shot individually and edited to make it appear as if they were together. Aaron soon announced that he was flying to see Rosie. “I knew from the second I first saw her photos that I would meet this girl, providing she didn’t think I was a total loser. Buying a plane ticket was something I didn’t even think twice about,” he said. Countless people online waited with bated breath for that day.
Face to face
It finally happened a couple of weeks ago. Three months after they first met online, Rosie and Aaron finally saw each other face to face.
Rosie talked about that day. “I was incredibly nervous! Me, my mum and my dad drove to Manchester Airport to pick him up and I was shaking like a leaf! Not because I doubted who I was about to meet, but because I felt like I needed him in my life so badly and I couldn’t bare to lose him. Obviously people look different in real life to how they do in their photos, so there was always that small thought in my mind that he would be disappointed in me. Luckily, he wasn’t at all!”
Aaron added, “It was amazing, I was nervous, but I was pretty sure everything would work out, within minutes it was like we have been around each other for a lifetime.” Aaron will stay with Rosie in England for 17 days. They’re trying to do everything they can together—go to an amusement park, visit a zoo, watch shows, go kayaking, explore the country side, have a picnic and watch movies.
Rosie believes that they’ve made the best memories doing regular things, like “making breakfast together and having him chase me round the kitchen, waiting for a train at 11 p.m. and deciding to slowdance on the platform, going on an ice cream hunt in the middle of the night and walking through the town singing Disney songs at the tops of our voices!”
Aaron said, “We also have spent plenty of time just staring at each other in disbelief that all this is real.” And together, they take lots of photos. Aaron and Rosie are very creative on their own and together they are even more so. They are currently in the middle of a self-portrait project featuring the seven deadly sins. The images they produce are surreal, occasionally creepy but always beautiful.
Everything
When asked what they love about each other, they had the same answer—everything.
Rosie said, “Everything. His silly faces in the morning, his silly accent, his silly crazy mind. I love how he not only accepts me for who I am, but loves me for it and inspires me to be a better person. I love how he sees me without makeup, hair a mess and still tells me he thinks I am the most beautiful girl in the world. I love how he makes positive out of everything, and thrives off his bad experiences. I love his honesty, his compassion and his thirst for life. I love how he is crazy to live and crazy to love.”
“If you’ve met her you wouldn’t be asking this question,” Aaron said. “Everything. She is the most amazing person I have ever and will ever meet. Period.”
Worldwide support
The Flickr community continues to watch their story unfold, every photo they post is received with so much warmth. Aaron and Rosie have been amazed at the support people online have shown them. Aaron said, “It’s really amazing. It is hard to believe at times that so many people support us. Some have even said we have renewed their belief of love, I can’t think of a bigger honor. It really feels as though the whole world is cheering us on, how could everything not be perfect with support like that?”
Rosie said, “It’s outstanding. Incredible. The way other people have come together has really proved that love can overcome everything—age, 4500 miles, online relationships—not us. We have proved that we can overcome it as a couple, but the way people have reacted has shown that anybody at all can. And for that reason, these people have changed my attitudes about love and life, most definitely for the better.” Their own families have been giving them the same kind of encouragement.
Supportive parents
Rosie’s parents feel as passionate about Aaron. “Age-gap wise, they were completely fine with it,” Rosie said. “My parents are 13 years apart. Aaron made them videos to introduce himself to them and they saw his photos all the time and saw how happy he made me. Of course, they were happy for us. Now that they met him, they adore him! My mum loves talking to him and my dad has told him that he wants his wardrobe.”
Plans
“Now that I am here, I never want to leave,” Aaron said. Although the two will be saying temporary goodbyes soon, they are busy making plans for the future.
“We’re planning on getting me through college this year and onto university next year,” Rosie said, “then he’ll come here to live with me and we’ll get engaged at some point then. After I’ve finished uni, we’re planning on moving back to the US and setting up a business, and setting up a home—so marriage will be on the cards then.”
“The wedding will come within a year of our engagement, and we plan on getting engaged when we can live together. Hopefully everything will happen as we dream it will,” Aaron said.
One thing’s for sure—this is going to be one story they can tell their grandkids over and over again.
Visit Aaron and Rosie on Flickr: www.flickr.com/aknacer and www.flickr.com/rosie_hardy.
A modern-day Flickr fairy tale
By Pam Pastor
Philippine Daily Inquirer
Last updated 16:37:00 08/04/2008
MANILA, Philippines—It is an unforgettable image—a couple on a bed in a soft embrace, wrapped in glowing fairy lights.
By Pam Pastor
Philippine Daily Inquirer
Last updated 16:37:00 08/04/2008
MANILA, Philippines—It is an unforgettable image—a couple on a bed in a soft embrace, wrapped in glowing fairy lights.
It is a beautiful photo, that will be clear to anyone. But for the members of the Flickr community, it is so much more. It is a fairy tale come true.
Once upon a time, two people found their way to the photo-sharing website Flickr.com.
Fate
Call it fate—24-year-old designer and photographer Aaron Nace and 17-year-old student and part-time waitress Rosie Hardy found each other’s photos on the same day. Rosie’s friend Natalie showed her Aaron’s 365 Days Project self-portraits. “I was so so so impressed and made a mental note to add him as a contact when I got home,” Rosie said.
She didn’t know it yet but Aaron had already found her then. “Upon seeing her images I just had to send her a message, it was like we had the same brain,” Aaron said. And when Rosie got home, she discovered that Aaron had posted a comment on one of her photos and he had added her as a Flickr contact. “I was over the moon!” she said.
They clicked instantly.
Rosie loved Aaron’s playful sense of humor, the way he laughed at himself and how he wasn’t afraid to look silly. “I loved all his expressions and simultaneously loved how he could produce shots full of darkness and raw emotion—something I find incredibly captivating in photography,” she said.
Aaron thought Rosie had an amazing mind. “She has a special way of seeing the world and it all comes out in her photographs. No one can deny she is very special,” he said. There was just one problem though: Aaron lived in Chapel Hill in North Carolina, USA, while Rosie was from Buxton, Derbyshire, England. But Aaron and Rosie didn’t let the distance get in the way.
The two started exchanging Flickrmails. Aaron said, “It became obvious quickly that we got along very well. We started writing to each other three times a day.”
“I asked him what our first date would be like. He then went on to write the first of many adventure episodes we write to each other,” Rosie said.
Writing adventures
Through their written adventures, even before meeting each other, Aaron and Rosie had “swum to the bottom of the ocean, dragged a giant singing clam to the shoreline and been abducted by small hairy men, swung through a jungle and jumped off cliffs to be taken by birds to huge rock towers with big yellow superslides, dressed in Batman and French maid costumes (Aaron was the maid, Rosie said) and defeated evil, built their own house filled with monsters, flown to make-believe lands of legomen in a spaceship and risked our lives to save each other.”
Writing those adventures meant a lot to Rosie. “Writing those stories and writing about each other’s characters before we knew the other person really proved how alike we were. His imagination completely captivated me from the start—all I wanted was to be inside his mind.”
Aaron felt the same way. “Somewhere through our adventure I was positive this was the girl I wanted to be with. The first time we spoke on the phone was the most amazing feeling i have ever had in my life. and every day since has been more amazing,” he said.
The two started chatting on Gmail and exchanging YouTube videos. Then Aaron started calling Rosie every night through Skype and they exchanged text messages all the time. “We talked for at least three hours a night and it is not uncommon for us to fall asleep on the phone together,” Aaron said.
Blooming romance
They first exchanged “I love you’s” during a Gmail chat. “I felt it was time to just jump out on a limb and I wrote I love you. It took her a second to respond, but she said I love you in return. I smiled for days,” Aaron said.
Rosie added, “I’d never told a guy I loved him before, so it was pretty big for me.”
Their romance bloomed before the eyes of the Flickr community. Soon, they were posting photos that were veiled love letters. Rosie uploaded an image of herself in a box with the caption, “Please Mr. Postman, Could you do me a favor? There’s somewhere I want to be.” Meanwhile Aaron made bold declarations of love with his images.
They also started working on a series of photographs which they called Collaboration Sundays, photos that were shot individually and edited to make it appear as if they were together. Aaron soon announced that he was flying to see Rosie. “I knew from the second I first saw her photos that I would meet this girl, providing she didn’t think I was a total loser. Buying a plane ticket was something I didn’t even think twice about,” he said. Countless people online waited with bated breath for that day.
Face to face
It finally happened a couple of weeks ago. Three months after they first met online, Rosie and Aaron finally saw each other face to face.
Rosie talked about that day. “I was incredibly nervous! Me, my mum and my dad drove to Manchester Airport to pick him up and I was shaking like a leaf! Not because I doubted who I was about to meet, but because I felt like I needed him in my life so badly and I couldn’t bare to lose him. Obviously people look different in real life to how they do in their photos, so there was always that small thought in my mind that he would be disappointed in me. Luckily, he wasn’t at all!”
Aaron added, “It was amazing, I was nervous, but I was pretty sure everything would work out, within minutes it was like we have been around each other for a lifetime.” Aaron will stay with Rosie in England for 17 days. They’re trying to do everything they can together—go to an amusement park, visit a zoo, watch shows, go kayaking, explore the country side, have a picnic and watch movies.
Rosie believes that they’ve made the best memories doing regular things, like “making breakfast together and having him chase me round the kitchen, waiting for a train at 11 p.m. and deciding to slowdance on the platform, going on an ice cream hunt in the middle of the night and walking through the town singing Disney songs at the tops of our voices!”
Aaron said, “We also have spent plenty of time just staring at each other in disbelief that all this is real.” And together, they take lots of photos. Aaron and Rosie are very creative on their own and together they are even more so. They are currently in the middle of a self-portrait project featuring the seven deadly sins. The images they produce are surreal, occasionally creepy but always beautiful.
Everything
When asked what they love about each other, they had the same answer—everything.
Rosie said, “Everything. His silly faces in the morning, his silly accent, his silly crazy mind. I love how he not only accepts me for who I am, but loves me for it and inspires me to be a better person. I love how he sees me without makeup, hair a mess and still tells me he thinks I am the most beautiful girl in the world. I love how he makes positive out of everything, and thrives off his bad experiences. I love his honesty, his compassion and his thirst for life. I love how he is crazy to live and crazy to love.”
“If you’ve met her you wouldn’t be asking this question,” Aaron said. “Everything. She is the most amazing person I have ever and will ever meet. Period.”
Worldwide support
The Flickr community continues to watch their story unfold, every photo they post is received with so much warmth. Aaron and Rosie have been amazed at the support people online have shown them. Aaron said, “It’s really amazing. It is hard to believe at times that so many people support us. Some have even said we have renewed their belief of love, I can’t think of a bigger honor. It really feels as though the whole world is cheering us on, how could everything not be perfect with support like that?”
Rosie said, “It’s outstanding. Incredible. The way other people have come together has really proved that love can overcome everything—age, 4500 miles, online relationships—not us. We have proved that we can overcome it as a couple, but the way people have reacted has shown that anybody at all can. And for that reason, these people have changed my attitudes about love and life, most definitely for the better.” Their own families have been giving them the same kind of encouragement.
Supportive parents
Aaron’s parents have been very supportive. “My parents are absolutely in love with Rosie, I am pretty sure they would kill me if I didn’t marry her,” Aaron said.
Rosie’s parents feel as passionate about Aaron. “Age-gap wise, they were completely fine with it,” Rosie said. “My parents are 13 years apart. Aaron made them videos to introduce himself to them and they saw his photos all the time and saw how happy he made me. Of course, they were happy for us. Now that they met him, they adore him! My mum loves talking to him and my dad has told him that he wants his wardrobe.”
Plans
“Now that I am here, I never want to leave,” Aaron said. Although the two will be saying temporary goodbyes soon, they are busy making plans for the future.
“We’re planning on getting me through college this year and onto university next year,” Rosie said, “then he’ll come here to live with me and we’ll get engaged at some point then. After I’ve finished uni, we’re planning on moving back to the US and setting up a business, and setting up a home—so marriage will be on the cards then.”
“The wedding will come within a year of our engagement, and we plan on getting engaged when we can live together. Hopefully everything will happen as we dream it will,” Aaron said.
One thing’s for sure—this is going to be one story they can tell their grandkids over and over again.
Visit Aaron and Rosie on Flickr: www.flickr.com/aknacer and www.flickr.com/rosie_hardy.