Friday's Feast #8

Chicken Crepe at George's Cafe (Burwood)

Appetizer

How are you today?

I feel great! I had a good day at work. I had dinner at a Japanese resto and dessert at Lindt Cafe with newfound friends. Witnessed a fireworks display in Darling Harbour (it was spectacular!). Talked to hubby as soon as I got home.

Soup

Name 3 television shows you watch on a regular basis.

I don't like watching TV shows on a regular basis as I hate waiting on commercials. I just wait for the season to end, then watch the series on DVD.

Salad

What's the scariest weather situation you've experienced?

I remember when I was in college when the Philippines experienced one of the strongest typhoon to hit the country. I watched in fear as the wind uprooted all the trees in our backyard lawn and blew the neighbor's roof off their house.

Main Course

If you could wake up tomorrow morning in another country, where would you want to be?

Dubai, in the arms of my hubby.

Dessert

What do you usually wear to sleep?

Pajamas, sweat pants, comfortable shirts.

Shoutouts and Other What-Nots

I now have Facebook...if you are my friend, indulge me and add me up (if you do have one). Just search for Ibyang Sanchez.

This is what you call peer pressure...this time from Aussie workmates. Am I bored or what?

-o0o0o-

Long weekend starts tomorrow...Yeehay!!!!

Friday dinner with new friends. Saturday bonding with relatives. Sunday morning badminton, lunch at Bahay Kubo, birthday dinner of cousin Ina. Monday no work!!!! Sleep in and rest!!!! Opps!!! In between, i have to work on the TY cards.

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This morning while inside the bus going to work, I heard a song that made my tears well up:

THE DISTANCE by Evan and Jaron

The sky has lost it's color
The sun has turned to grey
At least that's how it feels to me
Whenever you're away
I crawl up in the corner
As I watch the minutes pass
Each one brings me closer to
The time you're comin' back

I can't take the distance
I can't take the miles
I can't take the time until I next see you smile
I can't take the distance
And I'm not ashamed
That with every breath I take I'm callin' your name

But I can't take the distance

I still believe my feelings
But sometimes I feel too much
I make believe you're close to me
But it ain't close enough
Not nearly close enough

I can't take the distance
I can't take the miles
I can't take the time until I next see you smile
I can't take the distance
And I'm not ashamed
That with every breath I take I'm callin your name

I brave fire and I brave rain
To be by your side I'd do anything
I can't take the distance

I will go the distance
I will go the miles
That's how much you mean to me

'Cause I can't take the distance
I can't take these miles
I can't take the time until I next see you smile
I can't take the distance
And I'm not ashamed
That with every breath I take I'm calling your name
I can't take the distance

It's hard to remember
As long as you're away
When I find solace
There's only one YOU.

Being Proactive While Waiting

Due to the forgetting-our-monthsary brouhaha last week, I've decided to be proactive about things again. Since Saturday, I'm trying to shake off my being-in-denial phase. I'm perfectly aware that it's already the last week of September--pinagalitan ko na nga talaga ang sarili ko dahil heller naman, end of September na eh in denial pa rin ako. At na-realize ko lang na kung tuloy-tuloy ang pagdi-deny ko ay baka naman makalimutan ko na malapit na ang Pasko at hindi ako maging ready para sa gift giving during Christmas.

So this is what Chris and I planned to do while waiting for his visa (of course dapat kasama si husband, alangan namang ako lang hehehe):

Work on our Thank You Cards and send them before Christmas. The etiquette of giving out the TY Cards should be a month after the wedding. Obviously, we're very late, but then we do have a valid reason. Ang gusto ko kasi ganito, when we give out the TY Cards, we'll include a photo of us HERE in Sydney and our new home address IN Sydney is stated there. Sort of like telling our beloved guests that we have settled down in Sydney, that they can send snail mails to us via our home address. O diba, ang ganda sana ng idea ko? BUT it's not happening coz with or without THAT photo, I'm really gonna send out the TY Cards already coz my cousins' vacationing in the Phils this November and they're gonna bring it with them. My mom will be the one to send the TY cards to our wedding guests in Phils. As for my idea, it won't be put to waste, we still plan to do that but we just don't know when.

Work on choosing the photos for the wedding album and songs for the video. Yes, until now, our photographer/videographer team is still waiting for us to submit the photos we like for the wedding album. Target date of doing this is really October (assuming Chris is already here in Sydney) but again, we're still not together so we have to do this thing apart. It would've been fun doing this together. I've asked Chris to take charge on this one since he's the artist between the two us.

Since the start of September, I never questioned God on why we haven't been approved yet. Asking God "why?" is something I can't do because he has been so good to us. Sa totoo lang, minsan nahihiya na akong humingi sa kanya kasi feeling ko ang dami na nyang blessings sa amin. I know there is a reason why this is taking awhile and I know it is something good. Instead of asking why, my question has always been "Is there anything else you need for us to do before you let us be together?" Everyday, that is my question. I try to be very sensitive of signs lately because He might be telling me (us) something that we need to do first before seeing each other.

So far, based on our schedule, these TY Cards and the photos and video are the things we need to do. I realized we need to this now because when we're together and settling down into our home, we'd be very busy and it might be harder to find time to do this post wedding activities. Other than these things, there's nothing much I can think of that we should do while waiting. If there is anything more that needs to be done, I'm sure God will lead us to it.

With October coming in and with things to accomplish at hand, a new hope arises in me--I'm feeling much better compared to what I was feeling the last four weeks. As long as there are tasks to accomplish, I really come to life, I feel more alive. No more denial stage for me. I'm back to reality now!

Results of Being In Denial

We forgot to greet each other on our monthsary this September!!!! Tsk tsk tsk...very bad.

When I woke up last Saturday morning and look at the date on my computer, it read September 22, 2007, and I said "Wow, it's the 22nd day of the month again, in four months, it'll be my birthday again". Then all of sudden I remembered, "Shit! Monthsary namin last Thursday!"

When hubby and I talked that night, I told him, "Uy, may kasalanan tayo....we forgot our monthsary." He was shocked as I was. He immediately apologized and I did too. We were apologizing at each other and at the same time we were apologizing to the date itself (gets?).

Honestly, monthsarries were never a big thing to us, but we just like honoring OUR day by greeting each other. Sometimes, we give each other a greeting card, sometimes we don't. There's no hard rules. Basta greeting lang, happy na kami.

Anyway, I totally understand why we forgot.

In my case, I was (and I still am a bit) in denial that it's already September. Until now, I still haven't fully accepted that our plans did not materialize. Based on our timeline, we visualized that we'd be together for his birthday already---and that he'd even celebrate his birthday HERE in Sydney. Ganun ang plano. BUT (the biggest BUT of all) we haven't received his visa approval yet :( We never thought the application would take this long. By the end of August, super duper in denial talaga ako, na parang ayoko mag-Spring season, na ayokong mag-September muna. I really wanted us to be together for his birthday. Sa totoo lang, sa sobrang in denial ko, muntik ko pang makalimutang makapag-send ng birthday card sa kanya. Ayan tuloy, late na nyang na-receive. Kalokohan ko kasi. Lutang talaga ang utak ko. So basically, sa pagdi-deny ko, parang iniraos ko lang ang birthday nya. The message I wrote for his birthday here in my blog was one of the most painful blog entries I've ever written. I was crying while writing that. Celebrating Chris' birthday was a struggle for me that's why i forgot the monthsary, and Chris knows this.

As for Chris' side of the story, he forgot because of his birthday and he really has tons of work right now which i truly understand. Plus, I know he also thinks about his visa approval alot coz we're really disappointed that our plans are getting delayed.

Eto pa pala, Chris called me on Thursday morning (which was the day of the monthsary) just to say hello and good morning to me. One of his habits is that when he wakes up in the middle of the night for no reason(it's called "naalimpungatan"), he'd call me. We were able to talk BUT we didn't have any idea what date it was. We really can't believe it. Technically, we talked on our monthsary but we really forgot to greet each other.

Hayyy buhay...hope it never happens again.