i will be leaving tomorrow morning for Changmai, Thailand. Spending New Years Day. Another reason to celebate.

some awards to be given out!!! (ok..not real awards..just my personal choice)

top songs for the year
1) Best of you : Foo Fighters
2) Stars : Switchfoot
3) Why does it always rain on me? : Travis
4) We belong together : Mariah Carey aka Mimi
5) Looking as you are : Embrace
6) In the Crossfire : Starsailor
7) What you waiting for? : Gwen Stefani
8) Low : Coldplay
9) Honest Mistake : The Bravery
10) Unconditional : The Bravery

top bands for the year
1) Foo Fighters
2) Coldplay
3) Radiohead
4) Athlete
5) Keane

top performers
1) Mariah Caery
2) Gwen Stefani
3) Gorillaz
4) Moby
5) Destiny's Child

best newcomers
1) The Bravery
2) James Blunt
3) Robert Post
4) Amerie
5) Joi (omg, is this a chinese singer!!!??)

best albums (that i bought)
1) Foo Fighters
2) Coldplay
3) Moby
4) Robert Post
5) The Bravery

Spcial Category: Best Band Ever (their songs i can't get enough and won't get sick of)
Radiohead!!!!
giving songs like Paranoid Android, Fake Plastic Tree, Just (you do it to yourself) and Creep.


whoohoo.
thats all. i think..
so have a good, productive and fulfilling year ahead of you.

some recent pictures.

A few words for a few days.
fri(23 dec)eve of eve.
at evening, good christmas dinner cooked up by cousins and desert by my family. presents exchange later has me lmao. chocolate fondule with fresh fruits. majical.
sat(24 dec)eve.
late afternoon till evening in church for children's pagent and mass for christmas. after a good dinner, return to church for mid-night mass, but end up sitting around. fun. get back home late.
sun(25 dec) christmas.
morning mass and then go for prata brunch with family. another good dinner. 4th turkey eaten so far.


more pictures of events soon. This one is from Taize.

Super. Market

As i stroll down the isle of the the frozen food at a local super market, i hunt stealthily for turkey. it is the turkey season. besides a group of overly-peped up cheerleaders singing carols out of tune, there is nothing standing in my way, the turkey is mine!

i stir gently the banket of condensed air that so willingly protects the chilled products, it reminds me of a hurricane about to annihilate a costal town. i laugh to myself. i lay my hands on the frigid featherless fowl, it is dumbfounded wih fear, i can see it in its cadaverous eyes.

i deftly lift the turkey and place it under my armpit. placing my other hand in front of me and fanning my plam, i make an expeditive exit, nimbly displaying my hopping skills as i avoid the civil servants that tail me. i have breached out of the compounds of the super market. i lift my hands victoriously into the air and wave them tauntingly, thus expressing my silent success.

i am unaware that as i raise my arms, the turkey drops ungracefully onto the burgeoning grass.

on friday night we stay over at the church and the whole next day is spent singing and in the night caroling at different venues. and this morning was spent singing at mass and at practice and at another practice in the afternoon. life is good.

a picture of me unnecessarily holding the umbrella and flying away and my sister jumping like a monkey. cool eh!

pictures from top: garden in tazie, effiel tower in paris is being squashed

hello. the trip to italy and france was intresting. rome is like walking in an ancient museum. assisi had beautiful senery and churches, there was hail there. florence was also pretty cool, many museums too. venice was rainy and touristy, but the glass making was impressive. tazie was my favorite part of the trip. its a place just off lyon, in france, near the border of switzerland. paris is so crowded and most people smoke, but unique anyways. blahblahblah, blahblahblah.

oh wait!!! did i mention i went to the vatican city? it was amazing. st Peter's basilica is huge, and we got to see the Pope say the first vespers of the avent.

(pictures, from top: basilica pillars in vatican city, ruins in rome,scenery of assisi from hotel room, sunset in venice(blur shot on purpose)
time or pictures!! more in next post.