Feminist Freya

It’s turon’s birthday today… YEY!

Anyway, we were walking in a mall and there was a couple a few steps ahead of us. It seemed like they were having a fight while walking… and to confirm my suspicion I saw the girl kinda slap the guy… (haha! Sorry I like to be well informed of what’s happening in my surroundings). Moving on, it came as a shock but if you think about it, it is acceptable... But to my horror, the guy hit the girl in the face! Then the girl slapped him again, then the guy hit him again!!! This happened a couple of times more, until the girl gave in and let the guy drape his arm around her. We passed by a comfort room and the girl made a beeline for it and when she turned I saw that she was already crying… =(

I was really bothered by the scene that we had just witnessed. I mean, we see it in the movies a lot, but when you see it in real life… I cannot believe what I was seeing, I am absolutely, 100% sure that when they do get married (if they are not yet in fact married) she will be a battered wife. I cannot think of a valid enough reason for him to hit her in the face… several times… in public! What an a@#hole! In my mind, I was thinking of ways to tell him off and humiliate him for what he was doing. After maybe an hour of more walking, turon noticed that I was still bothered… yeah for some reason, what we saw awoken the feminist/activist side of me. I felt pity for that girl… I mean I’m sure that since they are a couple, that she loves that guy. We come to a point that we get so involved that we just can’t reason with our hearts. How can you stop loving a guy because he hit you?

It is quite easy to say that as modern day women, we won’t let anybody especially men to step all over us, but when you put love as a factor, all reason seem to fly out of the window. Yes, we all come to a point when we get fed up with all that but even so, we accept pain first before we leave. *sigh*

I was thinking to myself that I won’t let that happen to me. EVER! But I can never be so sure. The easiest thing that we can do is to hope that we choose the right boyfriend or husband or partner and even hope more that they don’t have a mind as small as a fly to do such a thing.

*** these are MY thoughts and opinions…

which one are you?

I’ve been meaning to write a post for quite sometime now, but I’m actually really busy at work. I’m assigned to handle a new project and I must say quite amazed at myself that I was able to really focus on it. (hehehe) There are still a lot of things to do for that project, but me being able to do something from scratch in such a short period of time is an accomplishment enough in itself, which makes all the busy-ness worthwhile. Additionally, Cel and Jam and I have been quite busy planning our team’s tagaytay trip… yeah its fun to do, but it really takes up quite a huge amount of effort and time. Another thing that I must mention here… I just made a huge decision regarding my career path just a few days ago. Everyone in our team knows that I am one of the many people that's really very anxious to move to another team/role… but with the changes that has happened and are still happening to our team, I’ve been getting second thoughts. Hence, the decision to stay. A very busy and eventful week I must say.

Moving on, the thing that I've been wanting to blog about is something that I/our team has experienced a few weeks back. Problems and challenges are a big part of our lives, be it a problem with relationships, work, personal and many, many more. It is not how many times a person faces a problem that is important but it is how he/she handles or faces it.

Which makes me wonder, does the way we handle a problem somewhat defines our character?

Some people when faced with a problem, become even stronger and tougher. They stick to what is is right and fight fairly and honestly. Some people on the other hand, fight fire with fire... an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth. Lastly, some other people, they just give up. Make some kind of lame-ass excuse then just vanish from the face of the earth.

I would like to think that I belong to the first group… how about you?

hermione

I’m amazed at just how much she has grown.

extended weekend!

Who said Mondays are toxic? Apparently that is not applicable to us! Hehehe! We even found turon’s long lost son! What do you know??? Mwahness to my girls! I had fun! Next time we will beat them!

more than meets the eye

I never thought that I would be interested in a movie about robots! But there we were, last Saturday, we watched Transformers… and I loved, loved, loved, loved, loved it! hehehehe! After the movie I kept asking turon about the names of the robots… I guess I bugged him so much that he told me to look it up in wikipedia already! Nyahahaha! So, this is the result of my research:

The first five are the AUTOBOTS

Optimus Prime – Peterbilt 18-wheeler Truck

Bumblebee – Chevrolet Camaro

Jazz – Pontiac Solstice

Ironhide – GMC Toppick 6500 pick-up truck

Rachet – Search and Rescue Hummer H2


Then there are the DECEPTICONS


Megatron – Cybertronian jet

Starscream – Lockheed Martin F-22 Raptor

Blackout – Sikorsky MH53 Pave Low II

Frenzy – Boombox

Barricade – Saleen 5281 Ford Mustang police car


Oh well, that’s enough boy stuff for me. We watched the movie at Trinoma, on the reclining seats (aka Lazy Boy) 250 per person. It’s kinda hidden, so when you buy your tickets you have to ask for the reclining seats first from the ticket person… (err… whatever they are called). It was okay, only thing though is that, the seats smelled like it just came out of the cabinet. Ehehe. I guess that’s because they are still new. So anyway, watch the movie! I enjoyed it so much that i even forgot about all the things that I'm supposed to do at work! Hehehehe!

whining! whining!

I feel like an old person right now… LITERALLY! My whole body is aching, if I have to rate it, I’d say it’s an 8 out of 10! I have to hold on to something when I have to sit down and the thing that old people do when they try to pick up something from the floor (they hold on to their knee)? I do it! So when something falls off the ground, lucky if I get to pick it up. hehehe. Also, I feel like I have to walk with a cane when going up and down the stairs, lucky for me it rained today (used it as my cane)… heehee… I know, I know I’m whining! Hay naku! Sabi nga ni turon, I MUST LOVE PAIN!

P.S. I hate you Jack!

Woohoo! Yeehoo!

If I could escape
And recreate a place that's my own world
And I could be your favorite girl (forever)
Perfectly together
Tell me boy now wouldn't that be sweet?


If I could be sweet
I know I've been a real bad girl (I'll try to change)
I didn't mean for you to get hurt (whatsoever)
We can make it better
Tell me boy wouldn't that be sweet?