An elderly lady called for me the moment I stepped out of the tricycle and asked what I would be registering. I'm surprised coz I don't know her and why would she automatically assume I'm registering something? Well.. must be my uniform. :-)

After the little surprise but a nice icebreaker, I went inside the Land Transportation Office and read the bulletin on application for Licensing. It said, Step 1, Window 3 for requirement validation (but didnt' list what the requirement(s) is/are). Uh-oh... minus point. The personnel at window 3 asked for my birth certificate, walked away from the window and I had wait for I guess 5 minutes before she returned. Must have been her toilet break. When she returned, she gave me an application form and asked me for P20. Uhmm.... well.. uhmm... gee! that was for the license jacket. I didn't know. Thanks for the info. (oh.. by the way, the license doesn't fit inside the jacket, so what's this for again?)

After paying and filling the form, I submitted it and was told to sit down and wait. No available chair so I decided to just lean on the table near the transaction windows. And I noticed (felt!) how hot it was inside the office. So, with the heat and sweat - the long wait continuous...

After around 20 minutes, Window 6 (that's for data capturing) called and I was asked to stand still and look at the camera, after which I signed on the electronic sign pad/thingy then proceeded to Window 1, which is the Director's Office, for approval of my application and thought it was fairly quick. :-) Good point now. Negating the two demerits they got earlier.

From the Director's Office, (who didn't say where to next - that's why they have the bulletin, silly!) I went to Window 4 (as the good man ahead of me instructed) and again, was told to sit and wait. Good thing there's now available seat. All's well. After a while of waiting, my name was called again this time to pay for the license fee (P127.50) and then told to sit and wait to be called again.

So I waited and at last... when my name was called, there was my student permit being handed to me. yey!

Whew! generally..it was faster than i thought. :-)

June - not only is it the month of weddings but also the month for our Pili Festival and City Fiesta celebration. Lots of activities going on everyday. Wish I took pictures of the ones I saw or went to but as usual - same old forgetful me. Well, yep.. ok... I admit I was also busy with someon-... something else. *winks*

There's Search for Miss Sorsogon, band shows here and there, street dancing, oldies' day out, Beer Plaza and a lot more. There are also stalls/booths of different agencies and groups built on the capitol kiosk and lots of people from around the city and nearby municipalities came to buy, look around, relax and make the most of the holidays.

I was one of them regular visitors of the park/kiosk as me and my friends hand out there. There are many nice native products that, if I wasn't on a tight budget, I would have bought loads.

The few things I wasn't able to resist are:


Left is a bouquet of dried flowers and twigs carefully handcrafted by mothers during their livelihood trainings, placed in a vase
of commendable workmanship. The vase is made of halved pili kernels, patiently painted with rustic gold and glued together to create this intricate design. Right is a similarly dried flower but of smaller size and simpler design.

Clays of different sizes and designs were also all over the place. This simple medium-sized clay lamp have star-shaped holes to let the glowing yellow light out. Lit in the darkness of my room, it helps my mind wonder and imagine of places and people far away.


We also went to the Beer Plaza held at the Rompeolas with two bands (supposedly from Manila, but I'm just not so sure) keeping the people entertained.

Neither me nor my friend,Fatima drink (unless "forced" to) so we just had cali which comes free with the tickets (3 beer for 1 ticket). It's but natural for Filipino entrepreneurs to make the most of the situation but P3 for 1 piece of fishball? wow! that's too much! For such supposedly shrewd businessmen, I wonder why it's still taking us very slowly to get there.

Good thing that we weren't that hungry and just wanted something to nibble while listening to the band play.

It's been a while since I've been to band shows so I was excited. They were good, although not in the rock-on-head-bang-girls-screaming kind of good but still overall good.

The second group was an R&B/HipHop which the guys on our table didn't really like. They played upbeat, dance-and-sweat-your-booty-off-the-seat songs which at first kept the crowd silent and sort of caught off guard after the hotel-california-finale of the first band. But after a while, they were grooving and singing along especially when the group did love songs.

We weren't able to finish the second set of the show coz I had to go home early. I heard though, that the girls from the Hip Hop group took off their tops towards the end of the show. Well, that's one thing we missed but I'm sure didn't regret. hehe

The fiesta day itself was an activity-filled day. Bought a brand new motorbike (which I'm going to discuss in detail in the following post), went to my friend Fati's house and ate a lot and showed my butterfly tattoo the whole day!

I forgot to mention that among the new things I had was a henna tattoo of a butterfly in my right shoulderblade area, which is rarely seen coz I wear uniform to work so I took the holiday opportunity to show it off. I was wearing a halter top and tied my hair in a pigtail.

It's starting to fade now and pretty soon it will just be a memory of my "wild" days. lol! wild? yeah, right.

New Finds, Good Finds. Some will fade, others will last.

One good thing is for sure - the memory will last forever...

(that is if I don't get alzheimer) :D

I've never really "played" guitar before but I've learned how to read chords using a smaller and simpler string instrument - the ukelele.

It was a requirement for Grade VI music to play during the flag ceremony every day.

Always had it in my mind since then to take it a notch higher and play the real thing - the guitar. Long story short, there was always something else more important than a guitar so I wasn't able to buy until recently, as a graduation gift for my sister. Music is one of the things we share.


At first it was relearning the chords, then strumming properly. Two days of playing and my fingers are sore. I can feel callus starting to form. Pretty soon it was painful to press the strings to get the chords properly and make it sound even remotely nice.

I practised playing easy ones like Back for Good by Take That. I played it over and over until I was ready for a performance.



I still have a lot to learn. I'm not yet good but I'm a step closer.

Practice makes perfect.

We'll see about that. :-)