What People Don’t Say About Mondays

19 May, 2013
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Googly Gooeys What People Don't Say About Mondays "I don't get it. Why do people have the Monday blues?" "Oh Monday! I'm so glad you're here! I've been waiting for you all week!" "Ahh...nothing beats the feeling of waking up early on a Monday morning!" "I love Mondays! TGIM! Somebody should make #TGIM trend!" "Why don't people show some appreciation for the most misunderstood & least loved day of the week?"

Every Friday, you’ll see your social networking feeds being deluged with lines like, “I love Fridays!” “Hooray! It’s Friday!” or “Hello Friday!”.  Why don’t people actually ever greet Mondays?   If the days of the week were in one school, Friday would be the pop kid and Monday will be the awkward outcast suffering from low self-esteem having self-pity for breakfast.  *I should actually add ‘personifying lifeless things’ to my list of hobbies*  Then again, asking why no one loves Mondays is like asking why people walk instead of float or swim on l’air.

More than 12 hours from now, it’ll be another start of the week and around 8 hours from now, as soon as the sun sets, everyone will have to start to say good bye to the weekend again!  However, what is life without contrasts? *Since when did we get philosophical anyway?* We always have to thank boring sleepy Mondays for its existence, otherwise, crazy Fridays won’t be as crazy (even if it means it’s just you, your phone & Candy Crush Saga…and yes, it’ll be crazy because after spending days and days getting stuck in one level, you’ll finally be able to move on to the next) and happy weekends meant for oversleeping won’t be as precious if it didn’t have something like a miserable Monday to compare it with ;)

XOXO,

Tipsy ❤

P.S. Don’t forget to follow the Googly Gooeys on Twittah, InstagWam, Facebook & Tumblaahhh ;)

P.P.S. More comics about the days of the week here:
How I Wake Up on Weekends vs. Weekdays
Mondays Seems So Far Away
Mixing Up Dates
Mondays vs. Fridays
Must Love Mondays

Social Networking Detox & Our Weekend at Mt. Pulag

16 May, 2013
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Googly Gooeys Social Networking Detox Which of these can you do? Don't take & upload any picture of your food. "Really? But it's an urban ritual!" Don't put any hashtag on your Instagram entry. "Huh? B-b-b-but..." Don't live tweet what's happening & just enjoy the moment "Ooh...let me live tweet that I won't be live tweeting from now on." Respond to an emergency instead of tweeting about it. "Ugh! Tough choice! Should I run & hide or post the alien's pic first?" Take a picture of something without styling it first. "Let's put some pens here so that I'll look like I'm really writing!" Don't check any of your likes, comments, notifications & mentions for a day or two. "What is life without the internet?" Try not to worry about how people will react to your post. "Should I post this pic or edit it some more?" Try not to be obsessed about your profile pic. "None of these two thousand photos is good enough." Talk to real people instead of just chatting with them. "Sigh...Do I really have to do this?" Spend some quiet time without having to worry about what the rest of the world is up to.

Hello! We’re back from a weekend we spent otudoors!  It was a long 5-hour drive, 5-hour commute plus a 5-hour trek to our camping site but it was all worth it! :)  We rarely had a phone signal during the weekend and we didn’t have a decent internet connection either (Gahh..talk about priorities).  I actually thought I could upload a picture via Instagram when I reached the summit (which was 2 hours away from our camping site) but no-ho-ho-ho.  The weekend was in essence a social networking detox session.  I think it was an effective one because when I got back to the city, I was partly feeling grumpy & cynical: I started questioning why we’re all so obsessed with online life here and why I always have to spend hours and hours every week taking care of these two fictional pink & blue characters.  A part of me still wishes I could live here:

04 Vegetable Garden2

Above: Vegetable gardens!

 We’re actually grateful that our guide was polite enough not to chuckle when we say things like, “Oh my! So, that’s how a potato plant looks like!!!”  I feel so embarrassed for having consumed sacks & sacks of potato in my life not even knowing where they came from or whow they even look like before they’re harvested. Oops.

05 House with Wood

Local Houses

I actually wanted to stay here longer so that I could take more pictures of the local life.  This place is so blessed with clean cool air with the scent of Pine trees!  Mt. Pulag is Luzon’s highest peak which makes it the second highest in the Philippines.  We were literally above the clouds and while everyone was suffering from the scorching heat of the sun back in Manila, we had to layer up and pretend it was winter time in another country! :)

06 Mushrooms

Shrooms! (Oh! I’m so creative with my captions.)

This was the part of the hike where I was surrounded with trees & plants.  I showed this picture to

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