Seeing You At Last

Well i thought the days would fly by so fast. Sometimes they did, sometimes they didn't.

Am just glad Amen's back. Finally!

Day 1

After moments with Stanley the most beautiful cat in the world, and a warm welcome from family,we decide to bond immediately.

Almost. He had to bond with his crew first before they left.

And bond they did. Over bowling and beers. The afternoon wreaked of alcohol and shoe lockers, coupled with the deafening sound of strikes and pins knocked over. The emerging winners came from the team opposing Amen's. But the prize, the surprise--is that they endured the 7-month long project unscathed and in high spirits.

After which, Amen and i meet with more "survivors" over a dinner down south, and head back north for pizza with his friends.

The Bowling team that Survived :)

Day 2

Finally, we're out by ourselves and head to somewhere aquatic! The days of relaxation begin with a trip to the nearby shops. A toy store catches our attention, and i am super happee to see toys and thingies i like!

Toytrippin'

The nearby museum presents us with penguins, polar bears, and creatures from the antartic. Amen explores as he cools down with chilled taro, and i wonder around taking snapshots.

                                 We felt like explorers.

              Amen with his new jack black 'do.

 We cap the night off with a sensual and super relaxing rubdown. Didn't get the slimy dead skin-eating fish spa cos i started freaking out midway. But i was so relaxed. The room (with a view) was a welcome retreat too!

                               Life Aquatic.

      Complimentary Darth Vader toys?..NOT!haha.

                                See the Sea.

Day 3

After a filling breakfast and funny family guy episodes, we decide to be typical mallrats.

Finally get to watch the Amazing Spiderman movie, carbo-load on Japanese, ice cream, and sub sandwiches,

and wear out our feet wandering around suburban utopia.

                    Amen and a giant tater.

                         Quik! Like a Bunny!

The weekend was perfect! i thought it was.

Exhausted, Amen drifts off to a deep slumber. Monday morning, we both wake up back to welcome the world, our real world, but both knowing we're here now at last.

Amen before he turns into a butterfly!

July 12th, 2012. After almost seven months...

..Amen's back!!

Angela + Stanley (both looking lux in bowties) head to the airport. An hour late, Amen's plane lands safely. Amen almost misses us. We almost miss him. SO MUCH has changed, but these changes, hopefully, we won't regret. Hehe.

Before we head home, Stanley gets some shots. Quite frantic, he decides to hide under the bed for the rest of the nite. Poor thing. Yet he still manages to be his naughty self in the morning.

Quaint dinner with Amen's family. So many things to say, so little time.

We're just all too excited to hev him back!

*****

Waiting by the airport with Stanley

Amen's back!!

So glad to hev you back!

Close your eyes, close your door you don't have to worry any more..

Shut the light, shut the shade you don't have to be afraid..

Kick your shoes off, do not fear bring that bottle over here..

I'll be your baby tonite.

You feeling a lil Irish?

I'm living a lot more now.

*****

Did I tell you how divinely and utterly happy I am? 

With each passing day, I come to realize how truly lucky I am. It may not hev been easy, may hev been a bumpy road, but a well worth bumpy road at that! And there's no turning back now. This is where I should be, this is where I want to be. With Amen.

And I'm looking forward to being with Amen always.

My life is different now. It got better.

The best thing I know is to do exactly what you wish for. 

*****

pucker up

*****

I think that when God created us creatures and gave us lips, He had Amen + Angela in mind. Hehe.

Here are 9 really amazing kisses from the movies.

And the kiss that makes it to the Top 10?

I want nothing more than this.

*****

We're sleepy and all we want to do is dream.

After we finish a lot of work, we get off with a much needed sleep. Closely beside one another as we stare at each other with eyes closed shut and our cat Stanley in the bottom of our feet.

Stanley's long nap when he was still named Stella

Bunny getting some Z's

Because being bored is pretentious.

Its rather funny that I tried writing lots but a lot criticize that action speaks louder than words and kinda ironic to write 10 lines or 2 in a discipline of visual narrative that I plan to succeed.

Stan jumping over the moon but too fat to lift himself up

Took a picture of You while she's trying to take a picture of herself
and a picture of Audrey Hepburn which is barely visible in both pictures

Me listening to my boss and behind a barely
visible picture of the person I adore and the cat who annoys

and finally a tighter shot of a picture that is the supposed
focus of this post.

How do you like them Apples?

Stan model

Doodle

sneaky little bunny.

every moment is a chance to turn your life around

GAAAAAAAAAAAAYYYYYYYYY :)

Scarborough Fair

It has been a month since I made the most stupid decision of my life(one that involves scoring it big)

I'm now here on an island full of strangers(who oddly enough half of them knows someone I know)

6 hours away(depending on the weather conditions) from the woman I wanna be with for the rest of my life.

Not hear to whine of sadness, but more of to tell a tale of passion, as you see we have survived a month of this predicament of being away from each other(well not really as sometimes we meet up because honestly we can't really spend a second without being together). It might sound not really a big deal for most people but this is a big deal for us, cause we are the type of clingy lovers(hence the blog). Filled with paranoia and loneliness we battled through every minute of longing but we both know that

WE CAN DO THIS!! 

cause we just loved each other too much, and we see this(mostly me) as a test of our mettle of how committed we are and to tell you honestly we're just plainly addicted to each other.

After this has ended I promise her I will never leave her side again and we will be together

till the end of the world

PANCAKES

why pancakes? because i want pancakes. haha. this is fun.

*****

*****

for always.

The Batangas Quickie

Angela had a quik trip to Batangas. It was fun, the water was so refreshing, the food at the resort was yummy, and the experience was memorable.

But Angela was missing Amen. "That's not right", Angela said. And she went home as fast as she could.

Well, there were delays and all, but still, it was her every intention to get back to Amen right away.

  *From top right: the lovely beach + cave / my old + tired feet / Stanley (cause he has to be part of each post) / me on a hammock / the person i missed the most

because fastfood is too mainstream

In the season of losing weight, which comes after the season of gaining it (read: months of january til march), people start kicking out transfat in their systems, and begin indulging themselves in copious amounts of fiber and greens, and inhumane hours without end on a running spree or trip to the gym. Not that there's anything wrong with it.

But "you and me" both know, we just can't be like that. We like to eat and eat some more.

NOMNOMNOM.

That sound, which is aptly used to name a small restaurant along Tomas Morato in QC with a tight-knight following (of mostly artsy types) devotes itself to really delicious food which bear no resemblance to junk. food. It's an all-you-can-eat buffet of food we all can eat. Why? Because everything's satisfying but not lethal.

Take for instance, their fish and chips. It's typical bar grub, but it was likeable. I liked it a lot. Probably cos I'm a seafood and tater fanatic, so this works for me, but I'd like to think it was good because it wasn't greasy and didn't overwhelm me like what any beer match typically does.

Now, the enchilada. Amen and I loved this one. The tortilla was soft and the cheese oozed out of it in a really, really seductive way. It almost felt like a sin eating it. Hehe. This filled me up real good. I wanted to eat some more, but my almost defeated tummy, didn't want to pass out on the next thing we ordered: the pizza.

It was a "Talong and Lasting Love" pizza. Haha. The name, loosely based on the cheesy "A Long and Lasting Love" song, was, in fact, cheesy. And the talong (eggplant / aubergine / madapple), was grilled well. It wasn't bitter or raw, and it's flavor blended well with the tangy tomato sauce. yum! Would hev wanted the dough to be thinner. It was too "homemade by a 3rd grader"-like because it was too thick, like the person who rolled it out was too tired to flatten the surface more. Or maybe they really just weren't going for the thin kind. Hehe.

Everything, we washed down with cold Pilsen, and the night, which started out right, was made even better.

Nomnomnom Happy Food does make you happy. And we're coming back for more.

              *From top left clockwise: "Talong and Lasting Love" pizza / what we ordered + bottle of chili oil for Amen /  Amen in his shining glory / Stan watching his back / "rabbitgirl" / fish + chips / closeup of what we ordered/ top shot of the pizza

how we spend our days, how we spend our lives

for angela.

for amen. haha.

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let's find some place beautiful to get lost.

a cat named stanley

december 1st of 2011. we found stanley.

who we thought at that time, could be called stella. but was in fact male. closeted male. haha.

and i am forever grateful. cos stanley keeps us happee.

he eats and plays a lot, sleeps a lot, too. but he plays and eats more.

and even in the dark, his big bright eyes can be spotted. they're both alluring and yet somewhat frightening, cos you know he's up to something. hehe.

that's our stanley.

don't forget to eat your lunch and make some trouble.

so we sat down for some burgers. and i had time to do origami.

the clean interiors, which amen finds "midget-friendly", are a welcoming note

that adds to the charm of sango.

and the milkshakes weren't bad too.

i chose to hev a fish burger, and i had no regrets at all.

amen carbo-loaded yet again, with a yakiniku rice burger, and

it seems like he didn't hev any regrets either.

the food choices at sango are not too heavy on the palette, but are filling.

price is fairly justifiable, and orders come in fast + fresh.

not too crazy about these, but the "manga" on display

(i know amen will correct me on that term), plus the j-pop videos

played on screen, add to sango's flair.

nuff said. bow down to your master.

*from top left, clockwise: unwrapped burger, yakiniku rice burger, amen + milkshake + man in background, amen's very empty plate, fishburger + fries, low-ceiling, angela's profile + origami dogs, welcoming staff

* angela + amen