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An icy birthday treat: Disney Princesses

August 2nd, 2009

So who’s a bigger Disney fan than I?

Sure, all the stories are sugary sweet and unrealistically happily-ever-after. But I grew up with hand-me-down magazines with the Epcot Center often shown on the front page and articles about Herbie (the car) and stories about Mouseketeer fun!

I never owned Mickey mouse ears nor went on fancy trips to the Magic Kingdom. We never went to see Disney on Ice in Araneta. But… I loved the animated movies. Soooooooo much, that when I was old enough to watch the movies, my first entry to a cinema was to see Pinocchio. My oldest cousin (from whom those hand-me-down magazines came from) brought me to Quad 1 (now the demolished Glorietta 1), I was hardly starting school then.

But we never had the copies of videos at home, I did not have any Disney toys. No storybooks. There was no money for any of those. Everytime I was brought to visit my cousin, in her company I was able to watch the videos in her home, play with her dolls, and read her books. I would burn those images and stories in my head, for as I said, I did not have anything Disney that was tangible in our own house.

So when we went to see Disney on Ice at the Acer Arena, Sydney Olympic Park today, I hope you understand how a “dream-realised” moment it was. The music started, and Tinkerbell came out, and I was almost crying with delight. Every new routine from the different flicks kept me giggling inside with joy. The ending was more perfect than the little princess inside me expected.

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I can safely say I was the happiest (if not the oldest) kid in that arena.

thanks and twitpics

August 5th, 2008

THANKS

Ajay’s currently in a call with his peeps from work (for almost an hour now). I’m able to sneak in a blog post to say THANK YOU to all you lovely people for sending me your birthday greetings. It’s delightful to get messages in all these different ways. SMS, email, facebook, friendster, gtalk, yahoo, phone, voicemail. I liken this delight to the feeling after finding money in pant pockets or between the leaves of a book. Especially friendster (which I opened out of boredom), I was pleasantly surprised to find a bunch of people had flooded my inbox, and a handful on the comment area of the profile page. So lovely to get bday greetings. Thank you all!

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Though I have to say, not one single card through the post this time!! Tsk, tsk… what was once conventional has just bitten the dust for me, officially. I still used to receive postcards up until last year (Ajay’s cards from early this year don’t count). Or maybe I’m not as good a correspondence?

TWITPICS

Hey guys, check out what we’ve been microblogging in twitter! (AJ blogged about our twitter websites in an earlier post). I think I have a fair few twits the past days, and here is the link to some quick pictures we take on the spot when we twit: http://twitpic.com/photos/penreyes. I’ll be doing this more often coz it’s just so much easier now!