Itchy Itchy

Itchy... awfully itchy!

While still floating to Never Never Land at 9am (considering i went to bed at past 5), i hit the shower immediately because of these!

Hey hey, i know my thighs are big and there's nothing i can do about those. But that's not what am pointing at, ok? It's the damn helluva itchy allergies i got! Ghahh, physiology's punishment to me. I get these itchy pricks all over my body everytime i drink waaaay waaaaayyy too much alcohol. It even gets worse if

Too much alcohol + Seafoods = keekai Dissaster!

But the worst scenario was when I was rushed to the hospital in Bangkok because of a very very baaaad case of allergies. I could still hear my constant WHINING and A's laughs when the nurse was inserting the dextrose needle on me and mind you i didn't made the task easy for her. So after 3 nights and 2 hell days in the hospital, i was advised by the doctor not to drink alcohol and eat seafoods anymore. But of course i objected and then he heeded and told me to choose one: Alcohol or seafood? As i couldn't have both at the same time. Obviously, the choice isn't that difficult.

Anyway, last night was my and my dad's birthday bash! We had it in my dad's backyard which is actually the official watering hole for every occassion or even for no occasion at all. Thanks to my generous kuya, he made this possible. As an unwritten rule, no one is allowed to go home until you are puking drunk. Well of course, true to our unwritten rule everyone was indeed puking drunk.... except me! Well, i drank my fair share of vodka at the girls' table and my shots of colt when we joined the guys. My mum and Joan's mum was hit sooo bad they were very dizzy with just a couple of vodka shots. Hahaha
Too many thoughts, too many happenings... i'll just let the pictures tell you all these. :)

Serendipidous

Chiarroscuro (light and shade)

Surreal (dreamy)

u remembered Keekai?

Tight hugs and wet kisses for those who remembered.

Thanks a bunch! Keekai luvs ya'll!

Keekai's favorite pair

Hay-yay-yay....

I've been asleep the whole day today. Wonder why I am so tired.. not lazy but tired. Isn't it obvious at the pic?? Well, probably because the whole day of my yesterday was spent with a head draining exam and rows of interview... but it has been outrageously fun as I was with my older brother and we've never missed seeing the funny side of everything and everybody. Ah, the joys of having siblings!

So anyway, i was wearing these new pair of shoes A and I got at Central Chidlom and after the long day my feet got blisters. I've been constantly whining how my feet hurt and secretly wishing if only i could wear some other pair than this! Then i remembered my favorite pair. They have been with me for almost i think 10 friggin long years now! Imagine that.

My mum bought my chucks when i was in sophomore high. We both bought a pair of converse shoes at that time. Since then, my chucks has been my favorite pair for the longest time as everytime i go at my brother's and my friends' gig i have those on. I especially love digging with those at the mosh pit. Dang, i miss those days. It's been really a while since i've been to a punk gig here in the Philippines. Last i remember was me and Jay went somewhere in QC (couldn't remember actually the place). I watched him kicked everyone's bootie with those drums!

Jay has been my friend since the 6th grade (actually my crush hehehe) and we lost track of one another in high school. I went to another school and went back to our school and then... well the rest is history. So finally a couple of years back, he managed to find me and since then we never lost touch even when i went to Bangkok and all. Thanks to the wonders of the internet! Man, I couldn't believe he kept this picture of us until now. This was us when we finally saw eachother again i think 2 years ago. We were drunk and we were punks. Miss you, dude! Ugag ka tal'ga, ampf, u bit me on my cheeks and on my arms but still i miss u more.

Going back to my chucks, last i was seen wearing those was when i attended the Bangkok 100 pipers rock concert. So when me and my dad were roaming Rockwell last weekend, i had this crazy idea to ask him to do a paint job for me. He got totally ecstatic when i told him to experiment on my chucks and he told me to give the pair to him so that he can work on those. So a couple of days back, i went to his house and gave the pair. In less than an hour, he gave those back to me with a make-over! Aww, my sweets! Aren't those a kick-ass?

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Clumsy me... clumsy keekai. Baaaad keekai, baaad.

Imagine, 2 phones in exactly 12 months. Both lcds are broken because you are friggin' clumsy... cluuuuuumssssyyy!

So there. Argh, headache. Splitting headache.






Next, watched Tristan + Isolde with 2 drop-dead gorgeous males... my gramps and dad. Nice, ain't it? But this caught my attention:

Silent Hill, West Viriginia
A town with many secrets...
30 years ago, something happened there.

Wanna watch this NOW! I'll psych myself for Da Vinci Code later.

Why i got so friggin dark??

Okay... okay... i'm dark! I know so dont stress it out, puhleez! These are the reasons why ok?

1. Thailand is friggin' hot to begin with
2. I went to Koh Larn (Larn Island) baked in the sun without much of a sunblock in my one-piece swim wear
3. I went to Crocodile farm and the Ancient City and its a freakin' oven in these places

Here are proofs:


















But my summer doesn't stop here... still have a month and a half to go and a thousand and one places to explore here!

KeEkAi's adventures and oddventures is still on.

Good Friday, Good Keekai

Visita Iglesia tuwing Semana Santa sa Las Pinas
Visiting of Churches during Lenten Season in Las Pinas

A very old ritual/ tradition in the Philippines every Maundy Thursday or Good Friday to commerate Jesus' passion on the cross and to practice penitence.

Am writing this adventure (i consider this as one of mine... so bugger off) because in my 24 years of celebrating or going through lent... this is my first to do this and i have a feeling i will be doing this whenever and if ever I happen to be in the Philippines in time for the lenten season (as my gramma suggest). This might be KeEkAi's way of penitence.... but then again, we will see....

So there. After getting off the phone at past 03.00 i hit the bed but was soooo restless and couldn't contain my thoughts. I was twisting, turning on my bed...couldn't seem to find the perfect spot to sleep. Next thing i knew the alarm was bleeping away so i opened the lights. What the hell is wrong with this piece of crap... it's only 04.30! So... i went back to bed (mentally noting never ever to trust that darn clock). Just lying down... and thinking... thinking... thinking... thinking... sh*t, better take a bath then as it's already 05.30 and my brother's picking me up at 06.30. And so, i hit the showers and dress up.

Killing time, waiting for my brother's would-be and should-be wake up call, i checked my mails (with of course my little brother continuously annoying me with "Ate, on ku lang ragna ko") and done other stuffs loading myself as well with some yet-to-be-ripe banana (hmmm... hoping i could last the whole morning with just that and water). So here i am before i face the day... so darn bangenge!


Nah, i can go through the day like this for as long as i have with me my ever trusted new shades... no one will ever know. True to their words, my sister-in-law, Joan, picked me up at exactly 06.30. She said she came from jogging... Yeah, right! Jo! Jogging! ha-ha!

Walking from our house which is just 5-minute walk (and 15-minute walk chinkey phase) to their's and my dad's house (as they are neighbors), we stopped by to buy pan de sal. On the next store, we saw my nephew, Wesley, and my brother buying congee/pasta soup--both of them just got out of the bed! And then we walked together.

Waiting for them to prepare and dress-up, i waited for my brother to finish cooking cornedbeef with scrambled eggs and fried rice, i gulp on some glasses of coke. Sooo thirsty! Of course, played with my nephew who still look like this!

Argh, homm mak mak! Couldn't resist the aroma as my stomach started to protest with just the banana and coke inside, I started stuffing it with real breakfast. At 08.00, we were off to pick up Nanay.

At Manuela, while waiting for them to come out, I decided to...

While my nephew taking photos of this and this...

So when everyone is aboard (around a little before 09.00) , off we go. The thing with doing visita iglesia is that you have a 3pm deadline. My gramma said its the time when Christ died. Period. So there goes the explanation. But for me, i think it's practically before traffic builds-up as, i think, there are a lot of church activities starting at 3pm such as mass and what-have-you religious rituals after The Death. With that in mind, we decided to just visit churches within Las Pinas and do a double station of the cross in every church we go. Originally, there should be 14 churches; one station of the cross each church. But as we started late and there's the so-called 3pm deadline, we set off to 7 churches; double station on each.

First stop: Christ the King Parish

Second: St. Michael

Third: Good Shepherd

Fourth: Verdant Church

Fifth: Church in BF

Sixth: Nature's Church

Ahh, this is how it should be done: Pray whatever it is on the visita iglesia way of the cross book. So I lead and so we did to every church we've been to.

After several churches, I am in the brink of surrendering!! Ghahhh! Am beat, am thirsty, am actually dehydrated (self-nourishing using my saliva), my feet hurt, my skin burned, my face is oily and my hair is a mess! But guess who remained vigilant?

Nanay for still having the will and energy to go through all these; and Wesley for still having the guts to face everyone despite of his awfully big BUKOL (me trying not to love as hard now) on his forehead.

Well, Wesley's bump is another story: We were on the Sixth Church and we were looking for the 12th station (which turned out to be the altar itself as it commemorates the crucifixion). He was amused by the other kids who are practicing the Allelujah Dance for the Easter Celebration. He was actually doing his "Warren Peace" (from Sky High) impersonation but then the next thing we knew he probably stumbled and hit face first. Anyway, after the twelfth station, we set ourselves to the last church which is near Macapagal Avenue. We are also bound to meet Tita Carolle, Tito Blinks and Huggie there.

The Final Stop: Shrine of Jesus the Way, the Truth and the Light

Now minding my attire (with of course a constant bickering from my brother and gramma since the first church), I saw these posted outside the church walls. Nonetheless we didn't mind and still went in. We are afterall not the only one breaking the rules you know!


So we finished. Mission completed and it's only lunch time. We had a nice lunch at a chinese restaurant at Blue Wave. Oh btw, SM Mall of Asia which is due to open on sometime third week of May this year will cater to the middle class. It looks so promising, actually as I saw Starbucks there and some nice stores, too.

Got home around 2pm and started writing this thoughts. Now, it's finished... had to shut this thingy down, hit the showers and snooooooooze! For the nth time, I promise to play badminton first thing tomorrow.

So here I am now after all these:

need this face say more???

Note: My apologies to the bad pictures and the forgotten church names.

Promises Fulfilled: Looking back to bangkok

A: "So this is how it feels like to ride an elephant..."
Me: "Yeah, isn't it kewl? Told you am not leaving Thailand 'til I see you ride one of these! As I promised."



Photos shot at Crocodile Farm, Samuk Prakan, Thailand; 06 April 2006

Well, apart from A's elephant ride, when I again moved back to Bangkok, I have promised myself a couple of things that I should never miss doing before I head back home. Now looking back, I have indeed fulfilled most of those promise which includes:

1. Date/s with anyone who is not a Filipino
2. A Thai gik (which was actually the first on my list... given it a lotta thought and i figure it was time i tried different Asian cuisine)
3. An island beach trip, well originally to Phi Phi or anywhere in Andaman but I settled with Koh Lan. For sure will be back for an Andaman Adventure!
4.

Lemme go back to this later... had to hit the shower

another day left... sawadee ka, krungthep!

So tired... no sensical thoughts coming.

Counting the last day 'til i finally come home after being away for half a year. Just the last friday... just one last day.