hmm. 5 months (or nearly). seems a really long time, huh? will we ever really catch up with each other, my dear blog if i make this one a novel? uh-uh. i really dont know the answer to that. what i do know was i somehow got the itch to write again out of the blue. it has been more than four months since i made my last entry and so much happened since then. the last time we saw each other, i had one helluva swollen face and neck, thanks to that damn parotitis that made my dream vacation in boracay a nightmare; nearly wrecked my brains out for a week over an incident that seemed to cry "rape!" to one of my senses ( i was just hearing the sounds in the other room) and promised to write about it with all the splendor of a full-detailed account but failed cuz the issue just died down and i somehow got back to living my life again. and how i lived! away from the limelight and scrutinizing eyes of the soulcast community for more than four months i felt like just one of the regular guys! hehehe. but well, celebrity beckons again, so... here i am. :)

its 12 noon here in my favorite internet cafe. i just came from a 3 hour sweat fest at the country's premier university where i brisk-walked and jogged alongside other mr and miss bikini hopefuls who dream of strutting their stuff in the beach catwalks this summer season. whew! never seen the UP's academic oval so full of joggers! i sortof started this walking-jogging thing last week. i have been kinda gaining weight lately and i promised to take drastic measure to contain the situation. hehehe. with drastic i mean a day by day schedule of activities to do so that come may 1, i would have regained my body's former glory. may 1 is the start of our (me and dee) four-day vacation with the volleybelles (dee's group of gay volleyball players) in bolinao. bolinao is pangasinan's hard to reach, end-of-the-line town that just oozes with nature's beauty. i've been there twice myself and i must say if you're not the boracay-partypoop type of person and would just really want to commune with nature and all its offerings, then bolinao is for you. as i was saying i'm kinda really sweating it out for this coming tour. hehehe. yoga, ab workouts (tho, god, my abs are far from "firm and formed" huhuhu!), and brisk-walking kinda took the spotlight starting last week. i have decided to cancel my gym membership late last year for practicality reasons. i know the exercises, the execution, the dancesteps for "what a feeling" is etched in my memory from all those dance classes i've attended in the gym. so what the hell, you might think i'm bitchin about? well i've been complacent.. too complacent in the last four months that i did not really put much effort into sweating it out on a regular basis. its easy to exchange exercising for two or three episodes worth of heroes in front of the tube, a bowl-full of ice cream on hand. hehehe. i guess its when the bulges show that we come to appreciate the urgency of going to a gym that periodically increase its fees-- to really sweat it out and maximize its use--so you get your money's worth as you get fit along the way. sigh.. but i dont have the money to burn!! so here i am goin to UP whenever i can to have a free treadmill session, running  the length of its main thoroughfare, the famed academic oval.

dee celebrated his birthday last march 27. i couldnt think of the single perfect gift i could give him at the moment so i took him to dinner. it was simple, nothing spectacular but being near each other was enough to make it special. i spent the weekend with him: watching his games with the volleybelles, meeting some of the couples there ; havin dinner with our friends and watching movies after those dinners ; also got to meet his family again when he hosted a lunch last sunday and it was great. the sisters and the aunt know of our status as a couple and seems happy for us. his dad seem a nice person and would probably welcome me with open arms as son-in-law had he known of us but its the mother i dread. hehehe. not really dread as in trembling and dreadful but more of apprehensive how shed take all of this. mothers as we all know are number one protectors of their sons. and dee took a lot from her ways. especially being mataray. hehehe. whats the english word for that? heheheh. well. thats something to research on. his mom's bein mataray is so fabled (the impression i usually get from his anecdotes about his mom) that i usually fumble and stumble whenever i meet her. i really have no intention of hurting dee's feelings in that case there wont be anything to be protective about so why be afraid of her? i dunno. i guess its just me then. oh well.