Home After Six Months

I've been feeling a little homesick lately. Banff is super nice, quiet and all but this girl just needs a little of that city air, see the cherry blossoms and eat lots of Asian food. haha!

Crazy what cravings does to oneself, I bought a Greyhound ticket to Vancouver last Saturday for my three days off. And I swear I just had the longest bus ride in my entire life. Thirteen painful hours!!

Anyway my mom and younger brother picked me up from the station. I missed them so much that the moment I saw my brother I yelled out his name and ran towards them. Haha

It would've been such a heartfelt reunion but no, my brother had to ruin the moment by saying "Ate, anong nangyari sayo bakit ang pangit mo na" (Older Sister, what happened to you, why did you become so ugly) Oh dear! I guess were home now.

I took a walk around the neighborhood and I was so happy that even though I missed the full bloom I still got to see the last of the Yaezakura. So many pretty flowers around, if only I had more than three days I would've gone to the Van Dusen Botanical Garden! Would be nice to see those Golden Chain Trees in bloom too!

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A Letter To My Thirteen Year Old Self

How's Emjay doing?

I know this is kinda creepy but I'm writing from the future - heya! I'm you only a bit older :D

Just thought Id leave you a couple of advice and hopefully they'll save you some pain..

I'm doing really well if you're wondering. You finally got the much awaited letter from Hogwarts.
So you're somewhere in the Rocky Mountains, in a castle and you got two lovely deer as pets.
LOL kidding aside, yes you will be moving to the Rockies and yes you will work for a castle - a 5 star hotel that is (and yes it  really resemble Hogwarts) and you will have to make some delightful desserts so there goes all the magic you've learned from Culinary school and work! Didn't you say you wanted to be a Chef? *wink*

And if that doesn't sound enticing enough, should I tell you that you were part of a reality show last year! -click-

See! we turned out pretty wicked! which is what this letter is mostly about. I know you've been feeling down lately so here are some things that I want you to keep in mind. :)

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Sunday Morning

So yeah. Where do we even begin..

Lately I keep on telling myself that I should start blogging again. I got so much pictures and plenty of stories and adventures waiting to be told.

The old blog just doesn't appeal to me any longer. I guess I'm kinda done with this cute cutesy image and I wanna start anew. I realized how difficult it was to find the perfect blog address, how come almost everything's taken - ugh! just not fair! Imagine what it'd be like in the future, usernames would be so freaking long-ggnajsfjasggwhjd6353871 (something like that maybe)

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