Brain Dominance

As soon as I woke up today, I switched on my laptop and checked emails right away. While doing so, in my mind, I've been trying to organize myself with my daily to-dos ( e.g. go out, work, cook for my honey's dinner, lunch, take a bath, exercise/sit-ups, clean the pad, and etc.). Work should come last thinking it will consume about 16 hours of my day which may start later at 3 pm. It's 11:07 am right now. I don't have any plans of posting to blog today except when I took a free online test which would determine whether I am a left or right-brainer. Tickle offerred an option to post my results to blogger. The test lasted for about 5 minutes. And the result:

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Balanced Brain (no clear dominance)

A balanced score means you are able to draw on the strengths of both the right and left hemispheres of your brain, depending upon a given situation.

When you need to explain a complicated process to someone, or plan a detailed vacation, the left hemisphere of your brain, which is responsible for your ability to solve problems logically, might kick in. But if you were critiquing an art opening or coming up with an original way to file papers, the right side of your brain, which is responsible for noticing subtle details in things, might take over.

While many people have clearly dominant left- or right-brained tendencies, you are able to draw on skills from both hemispheres of your brain. This rare combination makes you a very creative and flexible thinker.

The down side to having a more “balanced brain” is that you may sometimes feel paralyzed by indecision when the two hemispheres of your brain are competing to solve a problem in their own unique ways. You may also find career choices difficult due to your proficiency in several different areas.


As mentioned above, you will benefit from using both right and left brain tools.

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Hmmm... Kaya pala madalas ako lito at tuliro. Hehehe.

What makes it strange is that i took up tests similar to this before, some time in college and maybe when I started working for the real world. Yet it gave me different results. Sometimes left is dominant, sometimes right, and sometimes balanced (or simply abnormal and imbalanced. hehehe). I don't know. Thinking aloud, Does being sweet means you are a right-brainer? Hahaha! I think I am becoming so sweet, more and more lately so it might mean I am a right-brainer sometimes. May kinalaman ba yun? But I tend to be cold when I get so busy. Maybe having no clear dominance explains it more. ayt?



Related Links:

http://www.web-us.com/brain/braindominance.htm
http://ed.swau.edu/England/handouts/right_left_brain_dominance_test.pdf

and the one i took today:

http://web.tickle.com/tests/brain/index_main.jsp

Try them! :)

You got it all

There was a day... just recently when some people around me thought that for some reasons it wasn't ordinary. Well, maybe it really wasn't because at the back of my mind, a song plays and simply tells what i would like to say whenever Rey gets the thinking of...#@^&*!#@*&!!! - oh well! Hehehe.



My brain has its built-in MP3 player! And got a lot of meaningful, right on the spot lyrics too.

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I, i was a game he would play
He brought the clouds to my day
Then like a ray of light
You came my way one night
Just one look and i knew
You would make everything clear
Make all the clouds disappear
Put all your fears to rest
Who do i love the best?
Don't you know, don't you know

You got it all over him
You got me over him
Honey it's true
There's just you
You must have been heaven sent
Hearing me call you went
Out on a limb
And you're all that he's not
Just look what i got
Cause you got it all
Over him

No, don't let him worry you so
Once i met you i let go
Oh you can surely see
You're so much more to me
Just one look and i knew
You would make everything clear
Make all the clouds disappear
You're better than all the rest
Who do i love the best
Don't you know, don't you know

You got it all over him
You got me over him
Honey it's true
There's just you
You must have been heaven sent
Hearing me call you went
Out on a limb
And you're all that he's not
Just look what i got
Cause you got it all
All over him
(you got it all over him, you got me over him)
Honey it's true there's just you
You must have been heaven sent
Hearing me call you went
Out on a limb
And you're all that he's not
Just look what i got
Cause you got it all
All over him






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Changes in my life

I was not so happy being lonely living without you
So I prayed so hard for your love in my heart I needed you
Then I looked up in the sky and I`m thinking why oh why,
These are all the many changes in my life

After all the caring and the laughter, no one is like you
I am not a preacher with a sermon, I`m so in love with you
`Cause to live without your love like the sun that shines above
Is the magic of the changes in my life

And I`ll never forget your love
You and I we were meant to be
Sweet as rain falling from the sky
You and I
These are all the many changes in my life

Listen to these words I want to give you on our love so true
Don`t forget I love you and I need you, I`ll always be with you
So just looked up in the sky and you'll find out why oh why
These are all the many changes in my life

And I`ll never forget your love
You and I we were meant to be
Sweet as rain falling from the sky
You and I
These are all the many changes
These are all the many changes
These are all the many changes in my life

And I`ll never forget your love
You and I we were meant to be
Sweet as rain falling from the sky
You and I

These are all the many changes
These are all the many changes
These are all the many changes in my life...

(What more can I say?)

It sucks to be me

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PRINCETON
What do you do with a B.A. in English?
What is my life going to be?
Four years of college
and plenty of knowledge
have earned me
this useless degree.
I can't pay the bills yet,
'cause I have no skills yet.
The world is a big
scary place...
But somehow I can't shake
the feeling I might make
a difference
to the human race!

(spoken)

KATE MONSTER
Morning, Brian!

BRIAN
Hi, Kate Monster.

KATE MONSTER
How's life?

BRIAN
Disappointing!

KATE MONSTER
What's the matter?

BRIAN
The catering company laid me off.

KATE MONSTER
Oh, I'm sorry!

BRIAN
Me too! I mean, look at me! I'm ten years out of college, and I
always thought --

KATE MONSTER
What?

BRIAN
No, it sounds stupid.

KATE MONSTER
Aww, come on!

(sung)

BRIAN
When I was little I thought I would be...

KATE MONSTER
What?

BRIAN
A big comedian on late night t.v.
But now I'm thirty-two and as you can see
I'm not.

KATE MONSTER
Nope!

BRIAN
Oh well,
it sucks to be me.

KATE MONSTER
Nooooo.

BRIAN
It sucks to be me.

KATE MONSTER
No!

BRIAN
It sucks to be broke and unemployed
and turning thirty-three.
It sucks to be me.

KATE MONSTER
Oh, you think your life sucks?

BRIAN
I think so.

KATE MONSTER
Your problems aren't so bad!
I'm kinda pretty, and pretty damn smart.

BRIAN
You are.

KATE MONSTER
Thanks!
I like romantic things like music and art.
And as you know I have a gigantic heart.
So why, don't I have a boyfriend?
Fuck! It sucks to be me!

BRIAN
Me too.

KATE MONSTER
It sucks to be me.

BRIAN
It sucks to be me.
It sucks to be Brian...

KATE MONSTER
And Kate...

BRIAN
To not have a job!

KATE MONSTER
To not have a date!

BOTH
It sucks to be me.

(spoken)

BRIAN
Hey, Rod, Nicky, can you settle something for us?
Do you have a second?

ROD
Ah, certainly.

KATE MONSTER
Whose life sucks more? Brian's or mine?

(sung)

NICKY AND ROD
Ours!

ROD
We live together.

NICKY
We're as close as people can get.

ROD
We've been the best of buddies...

NICKY
Ever since the day we met.

ROD
So he knows lots of ways to make me really upset.
Oh, every day is an aggravation.

NICKY
Come on, that's an exaggeration!

ROD
You leave your clothes out.
You put your feet on my chair.

NICKY
Oh yeah? You do such anal things
like ironing your underwear.

ROD
You make that very small apartment we share
a hell.

NICKY
So do you.
That's why I'm in hell too!

ROD
It sucks to be me!

NICKY
No, it sucks to be me!

KATE MONSTER
It sucks to be me!

BRIAN
It sucks to be me!

ALL
Is there anybody here it doesn't suck to be?
It sucks to be me!

CHRISTMAS EVE
Why you all so happy?

NICKY
Because our lives suck!

CHRISTMAS EVE
Your lives suck?
I hearing you correctly? Ha!
I coming to this country for opportunities.
Tried to work in Korean deli,
but I am Japanese.
But with hard work I earn two Master's Degrees
in social work!
And now I a therapist!
But I have no clients!

(smacking Brian)

And I have an
unemployed fiance!
And we have lots
of bills to pay!
It suck to be me!
It suck to be me!
I say it
Sucka-sucka-sucka-sucka-
sucka-sucka-sucka-sucka-
sucka-sucka-sucka-sucka-
suck!
It suck to be me.

(spoken)

PRINCETON
Excuse me?

BRIAN
Hey there.

PRINCETON
Sorry to bother you, but I'm looking for a place to live.

CHRISTMAS EVE
Why you looking all the way out here?

PRINCETON
Well, I started at Avenue A, but so far everything is out
of my price range. But this neighborhood looks a lot cheaper!
Oh, and look -- a "For Rent" sign!

BRIAN
You need to talk to the superintendent. Let me get him.

PRINCETON
Great, thanks!

BRIAN
Yo, GARY!

GARY COLEMAN
I'm comin'! I'm comin'!

PRINCETON
Oh my God! It's Gary Coleman!

GARY COLEMAN
Yes I am!

(sung)

I'm Gary Coleman
from TV's Diff'rent Strokes
I made a lotta money
that got stolen by my folks!
Now I'm broke and
I'm the butt of everyone's jokes,
but I'm here --
the superintendent!
On Avenue Q --

ALL
It sucks to be you.

KATE MONSTER
You win!

ALL
It sucks to be you.

BRIAN
I feel better now!

GARY COLEMAN
Try having people stopping you to ask you
"What you talkin' 'bout, Willis?"
It gets old.

ALL
It sucks to be you.
On Avenue Q.
(sucks to be me)
On Avenue Q.
(sucks to be you)
On Avenue Q.
(sucks to be us)
But not when
we're together.
We're together
here on Avenue Q!
We live on Avenue Q!
Our friends do too!
'Til our dreams come true,
we live on Avenue Q!

PRINCETON
This is real life!

ALL
We live on Avenue Q!

NICKY
You're gonna love it.

ALL
We live on Avenue Q!

GARY COLEMAN
Here's your keys!

ALL
Welcome to Avenue Q!

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and another version:

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Cool eh!

They aren't the original cast but they did pretty good in this musical. Some foul words omitted though.

Sometimes, it also sucks to be me!

Two less lonely people in the world

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Looking back...

Here goes a song:

I was down my dreams were wearing thin
When you're lost where do you begin?
My heart always seemed to drift from day to day
Looking for the love that never came my way

Then you smiled and I reached out to you
I could tell you were lonely too
One look then it all began for you and me
The moment that we touched I knew that there would be

(I really don't know the exact time when all these felt and happened. It wasn't even the time we first kissed, surely, it was before that.)

Two less lonely people in the world
And it's gonna be fine
Out of all the people in the world
I just can't believe you're mine
In my life where everything was wrong
Something finally went right
Now there's two less lonely people
In the world
tonight

Just to think what I might have missed
Looking back how did I exist
I dreamed, still I never thought I'd come this far
But miracles come true, I know cause here we are

Tonight I fell in love with you
And all the things I never knew
Seemed to come to me somehow
Baby, love is here and now there's

(Hmmmm.... why should it always happen at night. tonight, tonight, and blah blah blah? not really. hehe. )

-Air Supply

Grow old with you

I wanna make you smile whenever you're sad
Carry you around when your arthritis is bad
All I wanna do is grow old with you

I'll get your medicine when your tummy aches
Build you a fire if the furnace breaks
Oh it could be so nice, growing old with you

I'll miss you
Ill kiss you
Give you my coat when you are cold (kumot instead)

I'll need you
I'll feed you (yup, tumaba nga ako e! hehehe.)
Even let ya hold the remote control

So let me do the dishes in our kitchen sink (ako naman nagluluto eh.)
Put you to bed if you've had too much to drink (I'm so bad sometimes...)
I could be the man who grows old with you (yes you are!)
I wanna grow old with you (same here...)

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Wala lang... I liked it. Nakakarelate! :)

A piece of post-it note...

Ten minutes ago, I just found something for me placed somewhere at the bathroom. Guess what?

Here's a photograph:

it really painted a smile on my face.

Got it while the culprit's at office for work. Hehe. The culprit was my bestfriend who's fresh from a settled LQ (lovers' quarrel) with me. My manic Monday just turned out to be one of my best Mondays.

Just Another Manic Monday

The week begins...

This day I started using iGoogle. I put on iGoogle gadgets that i find fun and useful and just when I found this "To-do-list" gadget... I realized: It's just another manic Monday.

I used to say, "Too many things to do, too little time". It is really frustrating when I ended up a day finishing nothing. It happens when I'm so damn bored and uneasy. "Too many things to do, to0 little time, not a motivation". Bad! Not this week please.

First thing to eat this day is the "breakfast and lunch" in one. I woke up early but did not eat breakfast. I rarely eat breakfast talaga. And guess what?

I was so hungry for this meal today. Rice is newly cooked as well as favorite Tender Juicy Cheesedogs... I grabbed it and ayun Napaso ang Esophagus ko! Ouch, I was like dying. Grrrr... Sabi nang mainit pa ang kanin e. How clumsy!

Oh well. Wattastart. Hehe. Wala lang. It was good after all. Pampagulat sa natutulala at natutulirong ako! Hay... Later, at 5 pm, real work begins.

And see just what my Horoscope for today says:

Sagittarius: Although it's a back-to-work day for many, you want the weekend to continue. Unfortunately, it's likely that you have too much to do, even before adding recreational activities to your hectic calendar. In this same situation others might cancel a social engagement, but not you. Somehow you can find the time and energy to fit it all in. Nevertheless, remember that you cannot burn the candle at both ends. Don't wait until it's too late; stop and get some much-needed rest.

Yay... exactly. I am really planning for some recreational activities talaga this week... Sana matuloy.

"When the going gets tough, the tough gets going..."

Just wishing myself a good luck!

(Grabbing a coke... and Gulp. Gulp. Gulp.)

To the city life again!

I missed Manila just a little when I spent the holidays in Sorsogon. I missed the apartment I used to live too.

Hmmm... Looking back, I can’t believe I have stayed here in this pad for more than a year now. Wow! Since I came in Manila, I have been a nomadic working class citizen. I have stayed to and rented different apartments. First in Eusebio Bliss (Pasig), Scout Reyes (Quezon City), then back to Eusebio Bliss, then Estela Mariz/Doña Juana Subdivision (Rosario Pasig), few days in Project 8 (Quezon City). You won’t imagine how tiring it was to move in and move out (with all my junks). A lot of stories go with them too. There are so many things worth remembering… A lot of things changed me. A lot of things were made known. All those pads, I lived with some of my friends from The Lewis College. Yet time came when I decided to move alone and “move on” to my own pad, right here – Rotonda, Pasig. Some good friends paid visits and slept over, relatives too, and even classmates from high school. This is the first pad where I stayed for more than a year. (cut!)

Now here I go again – city life. Just looking down from an aerial view, you will see big difference between arriving to Bicol and arriving to Manila. While seeing that, I was also talking to Rey about what “first things” to do now that we’re back, what things are here and not in Bicol.

First thing that popped to my hungry mind (stomach rather) – El Pollo Loco. We just love the chicken with those tostillas and crushed tomatoes. I wish there was a franchise in Sorosogon. That same day we arrived, there we had a date.

We planned (or maybe I only planned) to go to Mall of Asia and buy my pair of slim Havaianas. It actually makes me feel guilty spending much on just pambahay slippers. Hahaha.

Watch National Treasure: Book of Secrets on big screen. This was just accomplished yesterday. The movie was as great as Part 1. Galing! It's 3.7 out of 5. I love movies like this.

Clean up all mess at the pad.

Shop.

and…

Work. Yeah right.

What’s here that made us go back?

There are more IT opportunities here than anywhere in Philippines. We get to find companies that offer higher rates to IT, web development, or programming services. And surely, here our jobs wait for us – lalo na kay Rey because he just transferred to a new good one.

Here, we become more mature deciding for ourselves. We become more independent. And really, right here, we learn more of life, we were challenged.

A lot of restaurants to choose from, different cuisines!

Bigger malls.

More things to buy and choose from.

Powerbooks.

Theatres.

What else? Aside from I and Rey having more time together here than in Bicol, maybe it is because of all other things material.

Thinking about it, there is really no problem with me going back to Bicol. I could maintain my same job there, doing it home based and maybe I’ll just go to Manila if something calls. But as said, mas maraming opportunities dito. One day, I might catch a bigger one then I could buy a car right away! Ayeah!

The biggest reason of my staying here is no other than my bestfriend. Yeee… Wala kasi s’ya taga luto, taga laba, at taga linis ng bahay. Hahaha!And syempre lungkot rin ako pag di ko sya nakikita.

What I hate here is traffic plus the wasted time of going there from here. I just get so much headache. I will choose to stay most of the time at home na lang nga and pasyal lang on weekends.


Well, I can go back to Sorsogon anytime I want. Cool.
For now, it is better to stay here in Manila. Somehow.

There is one more thing we plan to do. Move again to a new pad. I don’t know when but it should be soon. We need a bigger one and somewhere safe of course. Recommendations will be appreciated. Thanks.

When Another Page Has Turned

2006 was bitter.

"I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing."
-- Agatha Christie

2007 was sweet.

When another page has turned,

• I was at Rey's place - Daraga, Albay. There weren't much fireworks unlike in Pasig or Manila pero ok lang.
• I was wearing new shirt, same jeans, and a borrowed pair of slim Havaianas from my Tita.
• I had a New Hairstyle. Kikay.
• I slept 50% of the day. Hehehe.
• I ate too much na parang hindi ako nabubusog.
• I prepared another late Christmas present for a special someone.

Ano pa ba??? Hmmmm. It wasn’t much. Parang I was so tired that 31^st of December 2007 pa lang. Tired of what? - Maybe because of more than 1-hour biyahe from Sorsogon to Daraga. Well, I don’t know what else pero masaya.

It was after January 1 when we went to Bacon Beach Resort. I missed the seawater. I think it has been 3 years ago I haven’t touched this beauty. But I did not swim too much. Even if I had a sunblock… yoko nga. I know mangingitim na naman ako. Besides, kainis ang alon. Takot ko na lang pumunta sa mas malalim. I was even warning Rey not to go far or else I will follow him and he knew I don’t know how to swim. Simply blackmail. Wehehe! My sisters, brothers, cousins (especially little cute cousin Nikki) really enjoyed kahit sa seashores lang sila. The food was great too. Ang dami ko naman nakain lalo na yung Bicol Express and Inihaw na Fishda. Then I walked on seashores, sat on a cottage, nakipaghabulan kay Rey (who was a bit KJ, kesyo masakit daw sa paa ang buhangin and blah blah blah, if I know hindi nya lang carry ang kanyang taba!), nagmunimuni rin with walang kamatayang assurance kay better half na love na love ko sya (nagdrama-rama sa beach pa), and absorbed the nature. We had no choice but to enjoy that day because few days na lang back to work na naman. (will put some of our videos here soon)

Anyway, someday soon we will have longer treats and happenings like this. Hopefully, Bora, Miami, Bali! Yeah right! Daydreaming…

So it is year 2008 now. This year …

1. I will work harder but I will not let my work suck the life right out of me.
2. I will SAVE! Yeah… save money for future plans! Gusto ko talaga bumili ng Honda CRV or Mazda 6 soon. Hehehe.
3. I will constantly spray some Baygon sa bahay and stay away from those bottles of coke and beer na binabahayan ng mga kaibigang lamok. One more Dengue is fatal to me. I suffered so much last year and the thought that nurses will inject needle then get blood from me over and over again kills me. Huhuhu. NO!!!!!!!! At ayoko rin nakikita umiiyak bebe ko kasi he cares and worries so much. So from now on, I will take care of myself. But please don’t take Coke away from me ha… I promise to eat enough before enjoying the real thing. I’ll even drink milk every morning. Just please don’t take away this big part of my life.
   
   
   
4. I have got no plans (yet) of getting out of country to work. Ok na ako dito sa Pinas. Maybe if I have enough funds, time and guilt of spending too much won’t strike me, I’ll have some tours na lang. Yeeha! Kelangan ko rumaket (but see no.1)! Besides, I’m such a loner. Baka di ko kayanin sa ibang bansa. Even if Rey will be with me, Iba pa rin ang Pinas. So going out of country should mean leisure or pasyal lang for us, not job. But if there will be good and worthy opportunities…………I might give it a second thought.
5. I will try gym and shape up. Lately, I’ve been eating much and it looks like I am gaining weight and losing shape.
6. I hope my never ending battle with pimples to END!
7. I will be silent at most times.
8. I will keep my apartment clean and gleaming. Yeeeeeee…
9. I will try my best to go to Church every Sunday. In fairness, I improved a lot last year.
10. I will have more time to read God’s word.
11. I will love my baby more and more and will make him always happy. :)
12. I will doubt less.
13. I will believe.
14. I will give more.

"If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness, and fears."

-- Glenn Clark

15. I will be less childish. (in reality lang ha: I cannot be so much mature kasi bata pa naman talaga ako, so my being childish finds an excuse here.)
16. I will study and learn more of IT.

"You must learn day by day, year by year, to broaden your horizon. The more things you love, the more you are interested in, the more you enjoy, the more you are indignant about, the more you have left when anything happens."
-- Ethel Barrymore

17. I will continue to appreciate and be thankful for what I have now. Contentment is not about getting what you want but being satisfied with what you have. I may not get all the riches I desire now, a very high-end laptop, an expensive house, or the Mazda 6 but not getting them won’t make me less happy with life.

"Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has many—not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some."
-- Charles Dickens

18. I will try hard not to think too much.
    
19. I will live life out loud.

"Far away in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see the beauty, believe in them and try to follow where they lead."
-- Louisa May Alcott

Hmmm… Sumeryoso na yata…

Breaking up is hard to do!

I like this oldie. I love the beat. I enjoy the song.
I guess lovers can relate when they are in same situation.

(No, not us, please... hehehe. Well, in case, I already got a song to sing for my baby.)

Oops, this one posted here is Makisig's version. I like Carpenter's and Neil Sedaka's too but this is the only one i got complete from imeem. It's cute anyway. Ayt?

There have been several versions of this already, some I know are with:

• Carpenters
• Neil Sedaka
• Partridge Family
• Makisig and the Dudes (from Philippines)
• Gloria Estefan
• Sofia
• Shanana
  
• my brothers and sisters too (on videoke)
  

and the lyrics:

Don´t take your love away from me
Don´t you leave my heart in misery
´Cause if you go, then I´ll be blue
Breakin´ up is hard to do

Remember when you held me tight
And you kissed me all through the night
Think of all that we´ve been through
And breakin´ up is hard to do

They say that breakin´ up is hard to do
Now I know, I know that it´s true
Don´t say that this is the end
Instead of breakin´ up
I wish that we were makin´ up again

I beg of you, don´t say goodbye
Can´t we give our love another try
Come on baby, let´s start a new
Breakin´ up is hard to do

My Hunk With A JBoss Tee

It’s really not easy to give a gift to someone who can buy almost anything he wants. Maybe this is one of the reasons why it took me so long to give my baby a Christmas present.

Rey likes collectibles related to Java programming or anything IT. I knew long before that he wanted a JBoss tshirt but didn’t have the time to look for one and you really cannot just find it easily on stores here in Philippines. I doubt if there's at least one. I don't understand why such a craving for this but that’s where I got the idea.

First, I downloaded a logo of this certain open source technology called JBoss. And then put it on a tshirt template. Then I photoshopped just a little and got this layout:

It wasn’t easy to look for a tshirt print shop. Lalo na dito sa Sorsogon. Grrrr. They really won’t do the printing job if it does not reach the minimum number of tshirts for each design. I wanted it especially rubberized pa naman. I asked for Mom’s help to look for someone who will be willing to do this for any price they will want. Luckily, we found one and price is kinda reasonable. We went through long negotiations though. Hehe.

Front Logo Design

Back design

When I got it nicely printed, I also wrote some lovie notes for my baby to make the thoughts count more. All together as my gift, I happily gave it to him early the following day.

January 2 was very late but better late than nothing. Before that he never knew how busy I was secretly preparing this. Hehe. I don't know if he really had an idea this is what I'm going to give him. Hay… At last. Natapos rin. By the way, I gave him 3 pieces and also I gave myself just one, my size ('di yata pwede n wala akong copy). Surprised with that, Rey, even if he looks bagong gising and messy, excitedly wore the shirt and made me immediately take pictures of him. Duh! And here is my hunk with the JBoss tee:

Yeah, looking good. That white tee is an original Hanes one baby! sotyal! Hahaha.

Huy Bhe! pagupit ka na po kasi.