of denim jeans and what else? -- shoes

i haven't been blogging as often as i normally do. mostly because i've been glued to the tv watching TLC's jon and kate plus eight, what not to wear ; travel channel's china series and NYC channel's cool in your code, ladidadida.

i managed to break my slacking off in the exercise area. though i cut belly dancing class because i had started a monster load of laundry. but i have more than a month before school starts to whip me up in better shape. i went to a local park in my neighboring town. one round of the park is exactly 1.2 miles. i timed myself. i did one round in 20 minutes and on tuesday, i walked 3.6 miles. yey!
i like the landscape of the park, and instead of annoying me, the health freaks in that park actually motivated me to jog every 5 minutes or so.
i got together with cleo last night, we did some indoor walkathon -- in the mall. tsk tsk tsk.
nuff said.
let's just say that the shoe whore is happy once again.

okay okay, i have to spill a bit.

think patent.
peep toes.
3 inches.
sexay....



;and that's not all virginia...but i'll stop on that trip to the mall for now.

in other news, in the spirit of saving money, i thought of venturing into doing my own toe nails. and my beauty school teacher from the community school fanny and i went to, oh many many years ago must be so proud of me because i can now do a decent french pedi on my own toe-sies. a good skill to learn, french pedi, for a shoe-whore like moi.


doing two weeks worth of laundry made me face the reality that aside from being a shoe addict, i am also a denim jean addict as well. i am currently obsessed with skinny jeans.
never mind that my logs look like sossages. i like 'em.

forever 21 sells some inexpensive skinny jeans for $12.50. they have this nice black and dark blue wash.

but my fave so far is levi's 531 skinny jeans


unfortunately, i again did not listen to my friends' advice to get a pair of jeans that are snug when i try them on for the first time. my friend told me to get a size that lets out the muffin top because most jeans have Lycra or spandex in them anyway and will "expand" sooner or later. long story short, my lovely 531s are a bit big now. so i'm thinking of getting another pair for fall. and how many jeans to i have now, in total?
hmmm, 4 pairs of skinny (2 black, 2 dark blue)
1 pair flared
2 pairs of boot cut, mid rise
1 pair trouser jeans

not bad huh?
sadly, a stricter dress code has been imposed on us teachers starting september so it's bye bye jeans. sigh.

oh gee, lookit the time, it's eleven already and i've camp tomorrow. argh. my bed is littered with clothes again. thank goodness i have a big bed and can do the slide it to the side manuever and turn my back and ignore the mess move.

TGIF.
one more week of camp.
a sunday date.
noo-ni-noo-ni-noo.



p.s.

HOW CAN I FORGET?! THAT PINK PAIR OF NINE WEST SHOES THAT I SET MY EYES ON AS EARLY AS JANUARY?! I GOT IT FOR 65% OFFF. SWEEEEEETTTT!!!!!

just for kicks...

i borrowed some cds from the library
on
how
to
speak
czech.

as if spanish is not difficult enough to learn.
czech is very stingy with vowels.

so far i can say (i wrote the czech phrases phonetically, so don't complain, okay? i'm no spelling bee champien)


dobri den = hello/good day

prominte = excuse me

dyekuyi = thank you

nerozumim cheski = i don't understand czech

ne vim = i don't know.

ye sem filipinka = i am filipina


tee- hee. of course i know a couple of other czech words that slim tells me i am not allowed to say in front of other people.

for now...

on with the czech lessons

noo-ni-noo-ni-noo

guess who's turning five?

it's my favorite car in the whole wide world.....

yup, tomorrow, my automated bestfriend turns five years old.

i will treat him to a nice car wash tomorrow.

and to celebrate, maybe he and i can go to mitsuwa for some green tea ice crean and he can also hang out with his japanese buddies at the supermarket's parking lot.

cheers to my speedy, dependable and super guapo car.

haluvsyah.

the dark knight, monster ice cream and our first hibachi

i got back from a weekend down the shore with slim. a bit sleepy from the drive, but all worth it. the weekend was hot and humid -- very bad hair day so kulot ang buhok ko.

unfortunately, the imax theater has sold out its tix for the dark knight the whole weekend. so Z and i made do with the regular cinema across town.

WHY SO SERIOUS?! i love the joker. he was really crazy-scary. though the movie was a bit long, ledger and oldman's characters made it so worth the length. (i only took a pee break once because i did not want to miss a thing). and oh bo by george, Z did not sleep most of the movie. i was impressed. he probably missed about 5- minutes of the movie, but i can't blame him. i thought the movie was a bit long.

after the movie we went to visit a cold stone creamery shop and had ourselves some icy goodness. the ice cream concoction that i chose was pretty neat, it was called cheesecake fantasy. but i still rank mitsuwa's soft serve green tea ice cream my fave of all time.


we did a round of electronic window shopping at best buy and circuit city. as much as i like to buy clothes, i am also interested in the latest gadgets and gizmos around. of course this penchant for electronics is genetically encoded in the male DNA so Z was pretty much in his playground.

we also went to our first hibachi experience. and i wanna do it again. our chef was very showbiz. the food was delish and although i was not so sold on the idea of dining with strangers, it turned out to be pretty fun in the end.


i still have 2 1/2 weeks of camp, then a couple of weeks of vacation.

noo-ni-noo-ni-noo

and then...

the next thing i know, it's 6:42. and i feel like something huge just rammed against my lower body.

in pain.

gah.

no jogging for me today.

but i am comforted by the fact that i am sore.

this means the trek up da hills is working.

now..

to the batcave!

err, camp, i mean

jane's ass kicking update

background music : play your part by girl talk

i went out with cleo and we trekked up and down my camp area for an hour. man, whatta workout.

i just finished ironing on t-shirt designs for my comic book writing class. we're such dorks.

tomorrow is lesson two of belly dancing.

let's see what time i wake up tomorrow and find out if i can get up and jog for at least halk an hour...

iggy, may the force be with you.

p.s.

OMG, how can i forget?! i think i might've found the perfect graduate program for moi... excited!!!!

jane should kick my ass already

because the past week i've been caught in a rut. i have not been to curves at all, and i only started walking again yesterday.
and i've been waking up late -- 5:30-6:00 in the mornings.


and i've been drinking too much coconut and vanilla flavored iced coffee (no sugar, just milk) from dunkin donuts
and i've been eating their turkey, bacon and cheddar flatbread sandwich for breakfast for the past two work weeks.


and i've been watching too much jon and kate plus 8 on TLC.

and i just got engrossed in a new chick lit book. meg cabot is hilarious.



and i've been eating mangoes 3x a day.

and i love girltalk's new album.

but don't worry, jane packed us a bag of our workout clothes plus MP3 player so i can run and walk up and down

the hills here in camp later in the afternoon.

the hill here in camp is a great workout. not to mention the many steps in camp. stairmaster my eye.

now if only i can get over my fear of meeting lost wild animals in the area.. i should be good.


and if i can get my ass up early in morning to jog in the boardwalk this weekend, i should be good.

and if i can get to drink my soy milk 2x a day and drink carrot juice and my green icky juice instead of anything from dunkin donuts i'll be good.


crap, i gave up smoking and now i'm an iced coffee addict.


i'll get back to you tomorrow morning and see how it goes.

my hips don't lie aka my first ever dance lessons

i am rhythmically challenged. my arms and feet are not friends at all. since a wee urchin i was what you called "matigas ang katawan" (stiff-bodied ; graceless). in many family gatherings where the little kids are forced to do a song/dance number in front of relatives from other cities, i would always do the song number. the evil twins, charry and jocel would always do the dance number. charry and raissa took hawaiian dancing lessons. i took naps. i just can't seem to follow any beat or rhythm. but carry a tune i can.

and so during my teenage years, in dance parties, i would join the other girls who would incubate chairs. or as amy puts it, we "chair danced."
even during my vacation with my high school girlfriends this year i didn't really join them in the dancing. too shy. too awkward.

but i wish i can dance.

i do. at home while i clean up my apartment.
i do dance, in my car.

lately, i've been listening to a lot of upbeat ear candy songs and just go nuts in my living room.

my moves? maybe something similar to an epileptic seizure. or variations of head banging.

and so when the opportunity came to learn a new "skill" i jumped at the idea of learning how to dance.

belly dance.

woo-hoo

i have belly and i wanna dance, so i will belly dance.

armed with my fuschia hip scarf with three layers of bells, i went to the venue and hoped for the best.


man, i had a blast! my teacher is gorgeous, very patient and very very encouraging. there were about 10 ladies in the class and we all had a great time throwing our hips in all directions. waving our hands and turning our heads from side to side. i feel like a pantene girl and sure am glad my hair is long. there's something very sexy about the music and the dance.

wow, ang haba ng hair ko!!!


i can't wait for lesson # 2!

movie date weekend

i have a huge crush on will smith, so when hancock opened last week i made to see it. i spent the 4th of july weekend with Z and i persuaded him to see hancock with me. Z likes documentaries, old western movies and mostly true to life stories so superhero flicks aren't exactly his choice. because i didn't make him see iron man and the hulk, (two movies i have not seen yet) he went with me.

and he slept through most of the movie. poor guy was exhausted from work.

but i was all bug-eyed watching hancock.

tee-hee.

the next day was Z's movie day. we went to whales and dolphins on IMAX 3D.

now i am SO not a marine animal fan.

but, you know, returning the favor, i went with him.

and put on the dorky 3D glasses which would not stay put on my face because i have a non-nose.

i was terrified of the 3D effects, especially when the orcas supposedly came near us.

fortunately, a 3 year old boy' s cries muffled my own little scare-dy cat scream....

we are so watching the dark knight on IMAX.

i wonder which animal kingdom i'll watch on the screen in exchange for this superhero movie date?

birds?