Schmuck's Birthday Surprise

Yesterday was schmuck's birthday, and i cooked up a little surprise for the birthday boy. Luckily i'm off every Saturday and since he's at work, i'm free to plan and prepare the surprise.

So i first went to the grocery and bought all the stuff i'll be needing, then i headed to his flat and prepared everything before he comes home from work. So i cleaned up the house first, did his laundry, decorated the place, and prepared the dinner. Here are some pictures:

I filled his place with balloons, candles and rose petals. I also placed three roses and some more petals in his welcome rug. His reaction when he entered the room was overwhelming, i'll never forget that smile and that glow in his eyes.

Let me brag a little (sorry i can't help it hehe): for dinner we had mushroom soup first, then for the main course i prepared country fried steak with milk gravy and mashed potatoes, plus some baby carrots and corn as side dish. And what else is perfect with steak? Chilean read wine!

For dessert: tiramisu! I asked him to make a wish first before blowing the candles. Funny how he just stood there, eyes closed, concentrating hard on his wish. I took him like 30 seconds before he opened his eyes again, dami namang wish nun...

Goofing around after dinner hehe..

It turned out to be a happy birthday after all... Sabi nya, hehe.

I'm so vain! Ha! Women!

Yesterday, I realized how more than a year of no vacation and days of lack of sleep had affected my system. I saw how my hair started falling out and how split ends started invading my crowning glory. My usually manageable hair seems hard to control and my face started breaking out. I started having those cluster headaches and not to mention how my legs hurt lately. That was when i decided i needed a break..

So i called the salon and booked myself for 2hours of total relaxation. I got there at about 6pm. I took the package w/c includes hot oil and hair conditioning (for my falling hair), facial (for the breakouts and blackheads), and some manicure and pedicure (for my unshapely and disgusting nails). I also threw in a haircut to remove those split ends, and they gave me foot massage for free to ease my leg pains.

So by 630pm i was in the facial room, i was lying comfortably while my face was under a steamer, one lady is doing my manicure and the other my pedicure and foot massage. I was lulled to sleep by the relaxing ambience of the place as enya's voice drifts by the background. I was woken up when they started extracting my face. It's funny how i know i have low pain tolerance, yet i was able to endure the pain of pricking and extracting. Ah! Women and what they endure to achieve beauty!

I was thinking that the whole package will take only 2hours, so i still have ample time to do my long-forgotten laundry, but apparently they enjoyed giving the facial and my incessant blabbering that the facial itself took 2hours. No regrets whatsoever as i enjoyed applying makeup this morning for i believe that a good makeup lies on a smooth canvas, every artist knows that! Bwahaha!

After that, i was then treated to a haircut, hotoil and hairconditioning. There i was, contentedly sipping vanilla black tea which they had provided while i watch Bellydancing 101 at the monitor, as my hair gets processed under the steamer. So all in all, the supposedly two hour package took 4 1/2 hours. I went home feeling relaxed, fresh and pretty!

I told schmucky all about this salon experience and his reaction range from: "Well you deserve to be pampered" to "Women!" hehe. Well, i'm not like this most of the time anyways, my kikay mode only comes once in a blue moon. I was kidding him that i did it as i was jealous that he treated himself to a pair of Giorgio Armani eyeglass frames for his birthday that decided to treat myself too. (Vain!)

Funny how he told me to surprise him on his birthday. Hello? How the hell will he be surprised knowing that he asked for a surprise? He even said that he wants me to cook him a surprise dinner! Well the only surprise left there will be what i'll be cooking him, w/c is funny as he asked me to cook him some local Kapampangan dish i know. Ano ba yan! Surprise pa ba yun? Katawa!

I bought him a book for his bday which i gave in advance and i was reading at the moment haha.. What else can i get him other than his anticipated surprise? Hehe.

Scaring myself to death...

Everynight this past week, it's the same scenario for me: I'll read "The Historian"(i'm half way now), read until i'm too scared to go on, turned off the lights, contemplate on the possibility of a vampire getting inside my room (as my balcony doors doesn't have locks, but come to think of it, even if it does have locks what protection can it give me against something that can disguise itself as smoke?) and watch the shadows in the dark until my system shut down on its own.

Why do i still go on reading something that scares the wits out of me? Dunno actually, but i get satisfaction out of it. I remember reading Stephen King's "The Shining" in broad daylight, with people around me and yet i'm still terrified with it.

It's just odd that despite my love for horror/suspense novels, i never liked horror movies. I still prefer that subtle yet genuine scare that these books give me than that in-your-face "boo" that most movies give. With my books, i'm inside the characters' world... i can see what they can see, even the remotest gory detail, i can hear the sounds, from that silent whimpher to that deafening scream, but what scares me most is when i can smell the character's fears, when i can smell that pungent smell of decaying flesh and blood, or that intermingling scent of sweat and mud, as if i myself is there, experiencing it...

It's amazing how i can actually smell the dampness of a labyrinth or the mustiness of a tomb, how i can taste the salt in the air, or sense the movements in the dark. I can actually feel the hairs at the back of my neck standing as if i'm being followed or observed. I can hear all that activity in that busy Turkish street, i can hear merchants calling, i can smell the rich aroma of burning incense. Sometimes, i stop reading when the cries and shrieks of the helpless victims are too much for me.

Tonight, i'll be back in Vlad's world again. I can't wait to smell the old world mustiness again, and hear the terrifying cries of the gypsies... Maybe i should put some garlic by my bedside tonight (i already have a crucufix under my pillow).

Is Dumbledore really dead?

I saw this link at apoltree's blog, checked it out and actually got me thinking... Is DD really dead?

I dunno, the site didn't really convinced me yet but it kinda increased my doubts.

I'll just have to wait for book 7 then..

PC Gaming, Schmuck's sis, and other things..

I used to play PC games back home, but eversince i got here, i wasn't able to get back to it, as first, i don't have a PC here and second, they don't have it in pirated here hehe, so it's kinda expensive.

But recently, a friend left me his PC, and as we still don't know when he'll be back, he said i can use it for the meantime. So the other day, schmuck and I bought CivilizationIII and Sims2 hehe..

Why Civ3 and Sims2? I can only play games wherein i can use the mouse for basic controls and movements, plus i only play turn-based games. Dunno, maybe my motor skills are too slow to use the keyboard for controls, or my hand-eye coordination is poor. Haha, plus with turn-based games i don't get "taranta" when enemies are attacking, hehe. I can still remember how i used to get disoriented when i "tried" playing warcraft and battlerealms and see various places in my signalling red meaning i'm being attacked. And how i always die playing role playing games as i can't move my fingers fast enough to make the character run, jump, crouch whatever. So i ended up playing what i call "games for the fainthearted" haha. Or i play them but arrange the settings for it not to have enemies haha! where's the fun in that? Well, i get satisfaction with just building my own kingdom hehe..

But once i was able to finish an RPG game, but i imported a strong character so no matter how many enemies attack, i still survive wehehe.. What a cheater! Hehe!

I love Sims a lot. I used to have all the expansion packs back in my old PC at home. But i was already here when they launched Sims2 so its my first time to play it, and yeah i spent more than an hour already just customizing my character hehe.

Schmuck's also excited about it, i bet he'll be spending most of his after officehours time at my place now. It's okay, I still have "the historian" to keep me busy while he play, i still believe that my love for Vlad's (Dracula) is far greater that any PC game around hehe..

But i'm at cheatcc.com now, you know why haha!

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Funny how lately I want to do so many things at the same time hehe, i'm catching up on books na i still haven't finished reading, then i'm learning HTML pa, then PC games pa to keep me occupied, and lately i have decided to refresh my Spanish. Why? You just never know, i might go there one of these days hehe.

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Little wolf's (schmuck's younger sis) blog entry made me smile this morning hehe. I haven't met her yet (or any of his siblings for that matter), it's only their mom that i've met. I've heard a lot of kwento from schmuck about his sibs and i really want to get to know them someday. Growing up as an only child and forever wishing for a sibling, i would love to have people that i can consider as my siblings too (hopefully it'll end up that way hehe). I was kinda worried at first on how they will react once they found out that i am only slightly older than their youngest sib. But schmuck says it's ok, he keeps on reassuring me that his sibs will like me and will be protective of me once they get to know me (i'm keeping my fingers crossed hehe). And nga pala, i might meet his parents this eid as they might spend the ramadan holidays here.