BRIDESMAIDS AND BESTFRIENDS

My beautiful sisters and bridesmaids ----------> <3 PAKACHAK

***Note: We shot these photos in the middle of a Callanta COLD WAR. (Love love to the ever-talented Dianna Jeraldine Capco and Rayms Fabul for capturing me with these wonderful girls... despite the chill. =)

That day, we all just had to accept the fact that Mika was a bitch and Roni was a douche. HAHAHAHAHA!!!

THE E.N.D.

In the end -- and it will end -- your life will seem to have sped by like a fleeting dream. Much of your story will be the age-old but ever joyful human experience: romance, family, satisfying work, and happy completion. I wish you a great fountain of successes. You will also be provided with all the failures and tragedies necessary to deepen and widen your soul -- sufficient, I hope, to make you wise and forgiving of all human frailties. I pray that these necessary troubles will never long crush your optimism nor your love for this magical life.

The greatest danger before you is this: you live in an age when people would package and standardize your life for you -- steal it from you and sell it back to you at a price. That price is very high.

You have already been selected for this program. You have its credit cards and designer labels already expensively around you. In the months ahead, you will find yourselves working long hours, too exhausted for community life or even good friendships -- too compromised to take a stand against the abuses of the system you serve. A great treadmill has been devised for you, and its operators do not care much if it wears you out or kills you. A system is in place to steal your life from you, if you will let it. Don't let it.

Read, study, meditate and think for yourself. Let your most serious education now commence, if it has not already done so. Refine and hold your own values, and pay the high price necessary to live those values. Decide what is important to you, and hold your ground against all temptations and tortures. From the pink granite of your own values, build a fortress against the world's ethical compromises, or you will soon be among those dead of eye who stand next to you in elevators but who are not alive. Don't let them steal your life. This is the only warning you will receive.

I wish (part 2)

In this episode...

Bride Wars. (Hahahahaha!)

Ok so maybe it's not easy for sisters to have their weddings only months apart and to compare notes and not try to step on toes or outdo or outshine the other as well as come up with something unique and different whilst avoiding biting off the other's style, motif, theme, whatever.

So as a loving sister to my younger sister... let me make this clear:

She will have her GREEK-inspired theme. She will be the goddess... and we will be her lesser nymphs and muses.

And since she called dibs, I am happily going to settle for the previously posted Famosa wedding dress as a bridesmaid dress... in purple. =)

.....

Fortunately, this mix-up finally compelled me to find a more fitting theme for my wedding (taking into consideration practicality, comfort, cost, etc. etc.). But since that won't happen til next year and I don't want to set anything in stone just yet, I'll just call dibs on OLD HOLLYWOOD (maybe a mix of the 40s, 50s,60s,70s)... and see where I go from there. I just like so many little things from each of the eras that it's hard to decide let alone choose just one overglorified theme. But I'm having fun with it. I mean, I guess I was just overwhelmed with all the excitement of this and this and that, picking out colors and googling wedding dresses and attending wedding expos. But all of that really doesn't matter considering... I AM GETTING MARRIED. In two weeks.

In front of my family and his family and very few close friends...

After 500days, I finally get my intimate romantic wedding... and reassure my daddy that his "favorite second," his "pakachak" is in good hands.

Ergo...

I'll worry about the real deal church wedding plans in October... exactly one year before our scheduled Oct. 26, 2012 date.

All this crazy unnecessary planning is stressing me out. Shoot. I should just worry about making money.

But I did google a potential (halston) dress (something I chose calmly and objectively)


Totally rockable, yeah?



Coming soon:

The Bachelorette Party.

Let's see what my little sister has in store for her ate. =P

I wish...

I go to Barcelona... and they give me this wedding dress...

For free...

                                                            Famosa


I just recently went from wanting to look like a Disney princess to a Greek goddess. I mean, it was either "Belle" or "Aphrodite." Though my first dress was really just as beautiful...


I'm just afraid I'll look short and frumpy in it (not to mention the amount of money and cloth it would take).

*sigh*

Maybe I can write Pronovias a letter? Yeah. I'll do that. Or maybe I should just go to Spain. Been wanting to do that for quite some time now.

Click here for more beautiful wedding gowns.

Little Boy Big Boy

Instead of going out Saturday night, Pao and I decided to stay in and veg... and I found myself watching the Pinoy Box Office channel until 2am because of this:





I didn't get to finish the entire movie but man was I enlightened! (Pao refused to watch with me even though he did mention wanting to watch "I Love You, Man" AGAIN - the first time, his eyes were closed for most of the movie)

Little Boy Big Boy... because there is happiness in every boy within.

Makes me wish I were in an indie film. =P

Click here for full review (cuz it's frikkin' hilarious)

PSYCHE'S VALENTINE'S REACTION

BACK AND FORTH

Next year, I will remember to take a leave of absence on Valentine's day so Pao and I can take a road trip to UP Los Banos and show him how we Feb. Fair in the boonies.

I am deeply saddened that I cannot go this year... or that I haven't gone in several years.

Maybe I'm just overreacting. Then again, I was at La Salle (Main) yesterday FOR THE FIRST TIME for an event... took the LRT FOR THE FIRST TIME just to get there... and only figured out yesterday that La Salle University was just across the street from CSB.

Made me miss my own alma mater... even though apparently, UP is helluh corny now, unlike back in MY day when you can just light up pretty much anywhere and drink just beside your class. (Why I found that to be the highlight of college, I do not know)

So yeah, next year. Feb. Fair. It is on.

Moving along...

I have to remember to alter my taffeta dresses this weekend. They've become too long for my taste.

Also...

I'm leaving for China next Tuesday for an HP event (it's a good thing my passport hasn't expired =). I hope to score a couple of rare Star Wars Mighty Muggs when I'm there (now I'm not really into the toys themselves... Hell, I don't care much about overpriced toys THAT YOU CAN'T PLAY WITH --- I mean how can it be a "toy" if you just display it???? --- but ever since I gave Pao a Mighty Muggs Luke Skywalker, Asajj Ventress, and C-3PO to add to his collection last Christmas... I figured I'd help him collect the entire Star Wars Mighty Muggs cast... for the sheer "project" of it. (So if anyone wants to hook a girl up... HOOK A GIRL UP.)

And...

I need to buy a dress... for our wedding. A nice, simple one to commemorate the occasion. =P Maybe I can buy one in China.

And this post is beginning to sound really trivial but whatever. These are just things I need to do.

Besides, I don't wanna get too caught up in the BIGGER, MORE IMPORTANT and SOCIALLY RELEVANT things of everyday.

I just wanna party.

'Cause it's Friday...
and I'm ready to sing
Pick my girls
and hit the party scene
Tonight, oh it's alright
So get up and let this funky mellow groove
get you in the mood
'cause you know it's alright... (been singing that hook since this morning)