Bed Times

I wasn't able to share that we had to get rid of Honey's twin-size bed because we need a bigger one for both of us. When I arrived, we had to do move some things out of his room to give way for my things. When we achieved the space that we wanted, we decided we had to sleep on the floor for two nights just so we could move freely during our sleep, and I had to share this, we like it on the floor! Basically what we did was to pile up the available comforters so as to have a sound and comfortable good night sleep. The following day, we got an Ikea Malm queen size bed frame! Just perfect. The bed was lovely. Before we knew it, we had to rearrange things again!

This is the first time that I got overly excited with bedspreads. This is not me! Somehow the instinct to care for things at home took over me, and it was automatic. Way back in the Philippines I recall I had once picked a polka dot bed set for me and my mom. I was crazy about polka dots that it was like every pattern I wanted for my bag, shoes, clothes, and the what not! I remember I left my favorite polka dot hanky at home.

Honey and I did a little shopping three days before thanksgiving, and decided to get a gold bedspread for starters. I so wanted to get that red satin bed set, it is just both so devilish and romantic! I want to get us a bedspread with shades of green or shades of blue. I also wanted to repaint our room, change the carpet, change the lights and a lot more! I have a lot of things that I'd like to do around here.

Right now, I am just updating my blog. So this is the Honeyfied life already. Still getting used to the weather and it seems that it will still be months that we have to use three sets of comforters! Now I'm thinking we should get an orange comforter!

Today...

...is officially my 1st week being here in america! Today is Honey's dayoff too so we got time to get me some winter clothes and see Harry Potter.

Its funny how time flies in here, i'm quite amazed because it is not usually like this when you dont have that much to do... But in here though, the interval between morning, noon, and night is not that lazy.

I just finished watching my recap of Imortal via youtube while waiting for the laundry to finish. Lying down, cold feet, cold feet... Literally!

The Honeyfied Habitat

I am completing my 3^rd day in America; officially I'm by my Honey's side already at long last! Something isn't right though, it isn't supposed to be this silent! It is supposed to be a noisy world for me! Just this afternoon I heard a prospect friend barked and I'd say I'm glad there is a dog sitting in its comfort right there in the neighbor's backyard.

First things first, I need to proclaim I STILL LOVE THE PHILIPPINES! Oh how I am missing Mr. Sun. I haven't done much around here yet because I think the weather could kill me! It doesn't get this cold in Davao, and worse, I have to expect the weather will become unbearable in the next days! Here comes the reincarnation of the kandingon in a foreign land. This is my survival phase!

I’m on my way…

I recall thru a song… parang kelan lang… Charing! 22 hours more and I'm going to see Honey again! This time, unlimited na!

Here comes November!

Five days to go and I'll be on my way to honeyfication! Yesterday I was able to completely free myself from bondage and I'm loving the feel of FREEDOM!

Prepared or not prepared, I'm leaving soon. =)

Meet Callie Maggotbone

This is the woman that caused my Honey's testosterone level to decide that I should get a pencil-styled skirt like the one she's wearing above. I went searching for video clips just so I could get a glimpse of this Callie who has been Honey's bukambibig for quite some time. I was so excited as I thought I could see an extraordinary corporate attire... to my dismay! Gosh! Haha! Okay okay... so, Honey was telling me to get me a skirt like Callie's okay... and I'm kinda convincing myself since this afternoon if this kind of skirt will be put in future use at all. Let me dream tonight. I will have an answer to myself tomorrow.

The skirt is still part of the preparation for the infinite getaway by the way. =)

Getting Ready!

In preparation for my infinite getaway with my Honey, I had to prepare big time for my mom. The preparation includes a laptop and a speedy reliable internet connection so I and my mom could still communicate everyday if she wants to. Honey has been very supportive with this preparation; he knows very well that this is the very first time that I'm going to live away that is half the world away from my mom. Since birth, it has always been me and my mom sharing the bed together (the sanest explanation why I can't sleep alone), and my mom needs time to get used to living the next days without her precious she devil daughter. For the most part she has to get used to the silence, to sleeping alone in our room, and to the unsolicited slavery. She has no master to serve now – in the physical sense; however, it is time for her eyes thru her lenses to get used to rendering her sermon in front of the computer screen – in a virtual sense! Yeah, what my mom would really miss is someone who she can vent her angst to. Haha!

So here I am, testing the net connection that was installed thru the help of my cousin's boyfriend, in fairness: the signal is satisfactory. For the last hour I already taught my mom the following techie things:

1. How to turn on the computer;
   
2. How to properly log off thru shut down;
   

I've created her Yahoo ID, so the learning also includes:

1. How to sign in to Yahoo Messenger;
   
2. How to look for my name and start sending me messages
   

So far, all that came out from her mouth were… kalisud ba aning computer!

GOD PLEASE GIVE ME A POSITIVE ENERGY is my spiritual cry.

I can do this!

Visa is here!!!

At last! What a relief! After days of tracking my package online via Air21 and after days of encountering "tracking number not found", visa is here at last! I have all the right in the world to keep on repeating the word at last because it is just too overwhelming! Honey is already on the go go to schedule my flight!

I was approved on October 8, and seven days after on October 15 (less than 10 working days as was contained in the Air21 notice) I got my visa. I have to share it here that I almost went paranoid when I found out about Air21's useless online tracking tool. I guess I have the right to say it was useless because it was not functional at all when I had to track my package. I asked some friends whom I met at St. Lukes, and they too got the same feedback about the courier's online tracker. It is good however, that to compensate for the online tracker, Air 21 used SMS to inform us to prepare the things necessary to retrieve the visa pack upon delivery --- and they sent me the SMS the day before delivery. At least. They also sent me the very last confirmation message that I, Catherine Lorin received my visa on this date and at this time.

For all of you who are maybe at the moment are slowly becoming uneasy while waiting for your visa to arrive, just keep your cool. I guess it is just better if you follow whats written on the notice, to not schedule travel arrangements, and to not resign from your current jobs until you receive your visa. Why I almost went paranoid is because I resigned 3 days after I was approved, and 4 days before my visa was delivered. Mine might just be a case of overpowering good luck and might not work the same with the rest. Nevertheless, have the guts and the instinct of good luck to guide you all girl friends. ;)

Sent Honey a copy of my passport today. Counting the days to close in on my way to Honey's habitat, and just thinking about it really makes my remaining moments here sooooo damn precious! There's a lot more to prepare, and more than you could ever imagine! Aja!

4th day: AWAITING MY VISA PACK

I spoke to Honey today. Told him about the tracking number Air21 gave me to track the whereabouts of my visa. Unfortunately though, this is the third time since the day after I was approved that I tried to track for my package and still the system only renders me a "tracking number not found". Hala! Ayaw jud ko binuangi diha! Naka resign na baya ko kahapon!!!

US Fiancé Visa Approved!

October 8, 2010 at exactly 8:20 am was one pivotal point for us lovebirds! After 14 months of long wait, the US Consular Officer approved my visa! What's sweet about the whole thing is, the entire wait from my high school until yesterday was all worth it! A month more to go and we are ending our long distance love affair already! In no time, I'm truly going to be honeyfied forever! At last!

Filing for a K1 (Fiancé Visa) Petition: The very first time is very important

As I mentioned, three months after Honey filed a K1 petition on my behalf, it was denied. What went wrong was, we overlooked some of the most important instructions and just sent Forms I-129F (Petition for Alien Fiancé) and G-325A (Biographic Information) along with the filing fee of $455 to USCIS. Brayt.

When Honey filed for a K1 petition the first time, he did not seek legal advice. Honey was too confident not to consult a legal counsel as he thought the filing process for the K1 petition is the same and as easy as when he filed for his US citizenship. Honey actually asked me to download the forms from the USCIS webpage, and also the instructions form so we could review our work together. After he filled up the forms, he read it to me to confirm that the information we provided were correct. We both were confident we did the forms very well and sent it to the USCIS address found at the instructions form, and waited 3 months for the notice that our application was denied. =( The moment was really heartbreaking. That was the first time I saw Honey so confused and was almost teary-eyed. Good thing he was here in the Philippines during that time the petition was denied so we shared the bad news.

The reason we were denied: insufficient documents. I forgot the exact words the USCIS used but it was the lack of documents and/or evidences to establish that I and the petitioner have a relationship. The instructions form said it in a not so outright manner that we thought the evidence will be asked from us by the USCIS after they confirm our application. We didn't think twice that we need to send the evidences along with our application forms so neither of us was prepared to hear the bad news as we were both too excited the moment we filed the petition. My friend Suzzette told me and Honey that our case was denied due to inadvertence or simply put, katangahan. We went to an Attorney (not an Attorney who specialized in Immigration) to seek help in filing for an appeal to reopen the case. After we were denied, the USCIS sent us an instruction on what to do next, and picking the wrong Attorney caused us to follow just what the USCIS told us to do. I will be discussing more of this in my next posts.

So here's a very important tip for those who are filing for K1 Petition for the very first time, especially if you don't have an Immigration Attorney to assist you in the filing: Send a completed Form I-129F and Form G-325A along with the filing fee plus the evidences that the petitioner and the recipient have a relationship. The evidences may be in the form of photos (photos with dates are most helpful, but labeled photos are just fine too), letters, emails, a copy of the petitioner's passport showing entry to the Philippines within the last 2 years and others that you may deem necessary to prove your existing relationship. I believe if you follow this tip, nothing could go wrong; the worst that you could encounter is a minor delay to your application especially when the USCIS will require additional evidence. So, it is always best to send USCIS all the evidences that you could provide to avoid delay. In our case however, we were super delayed, due to some other factors that I will be discussing in my next posts.

Our Evil Names

Nothing to do. I went to Blogthings to search for whatever substance is there in whatever form and I bumped into a survey What's Your Evil Name.There's nothing much to fill-in but just your name and gender and tada! Your evil name in less than two minutes! Intrigued? Try it now!

My real name is Catherine, and my evil name is Belinda Aiyana
Honey's real name is Rendel, and his evil name is Remington Chernobog

I like how my evil name sounds, but Honey's evil name does not sound appropriate at all! Sounds like a real psycho killer! Haha! Go to Blogthings to find out your evil name now! Have fun!

The K1 Visa Petition: How it came to be

The first time I heard about fiancé visa was from my previous country manager and that was during the early 2008. Me and Honey at that time was in the love zone already, still fresh – pero long distance lagi. I haven't really thought about the fiancé visa that much; all I know was there's a possibility for a petition if Honey and I survive the long distance relationship, but I didn't expect it was sooner.

When Honey was about to go back to the US from his first vacation here in 2008, he said he will immediately file for American Citizenship when he gets back so he can work on my petition. The petitioner should be an American citizen first to be eligible to file for a K1 petition, so Honey had to work his ass hard and prayed for too much patience I bet as he had to work from scratch. At first I thought he'd just file for a petition for me because he was moved a lot to the major major level when he saw me crying for the last two days before his departure date, haha! As I recall, I really felt the world was closing in on me that time and it was unusually harder to breathe, and I witnessed how Honey's heart went out for the cry baby those last two days. The moment he applied for US citizenship was the commencement of what seemed to be a very very very long wait just so I could be there with him. The time table for the US citizenship application till the moment Honey had his oath taking was approximately 3-5 months. It was on March 2009 that he officially became a naturalized American citizen, and a month after he filed for K1 Visa petition on my behalf. I was even hesitant to agree to file the petition on April 2009 as I needed some time to prepare my Mom emotionally, so Honey gave me until May and filed the K1 petition at the USCIS. Too much excitement at that time, but too much overlooked essentials also. On August 2009, during Honey's vacation here in the Philippines, we received an email that the K1 petition was denied due to insufficient documents. Why were we denied on the first try? I'll share on my next post. Still have work to do. =)

HoneyFied’s New Look! Again.

Finally! After hours and hours of trying to figure out what header size would fit, I now publish the n^th HoneyFied new look! Tell you what, the 692 pixels x 168 compression did not work for me, I don't know if the template design is a factor.

The reason why I changed the look is simply because I'm bored with the previous template, plus, I always thought of black background as the most powerful element in web design. Another thing, I did away with the navigation bar! Now I hope my readers couldn't see nothing anymore to click away from here haha! Aside of course from my Amazon banners, brilliant, excellent! Let this blog make some money Oh Lord!

So, I was redesigning this blog since 2pm and I just finished the whole thing just before dinner.

Another important note, during my online date with Honey this afternoon, I told him I was redesigning my blog theme and he said something like who cares about your blog?!!! Tell you what? Here, take a look:

A visitor from San Jose California? Not so surprising.

Date! Date! Date!

Woot! Woot! At last! =)

The best part is, the nuisances from home are away! Kaya, mabuhay!

Wanted: 1 night only roommate!

Since my K1 petition has been approved, Honey and I, especially Honey went too busy with the preparations. We had to schedule and reschedule my embassy appointment due to some considerations in health and in proper timing. I had my medical exam at St. Lukes on Monday and Tuesday and I am bound for my embassy interview on the 8^th.

I have this fear of sleeping alone in wherever; Honey was too considerate to allow me an escort in the person of my everydearest mom. The problem however is that I cannot find a reasonable airline ticket price for both of us for just an overnight stay! That is why I am in need of a roommate! Haha! Seriously though, I hope my brother's show will be postponed on the 7^th… praying hard and crossing my fingers =)

By the way, I retrieved a helpful copy of St. Lukes medical exam flowchart. I'll post it here soon as I have time.

Another HoneyFIED Evidence

Tsktsk... okay, I'm posting this because I'm pretty confident the content of this screenshot will not be understood by too many. Praise God Almighty it was written in our native dialect!

So, in Facebook, one my of my highschool friends recalled one particular event that I was never really proud of and posted comments below our photo. To share:


I'm rendering the gist of these comment thread however where Joy was just saying one particular thing that Rendel was head over heels crazy in love with me since our highschool. That's all. Ahaha!

My boring weekend =(

No weekend date via Skype =(reasons? Enough and acceptable reasons that are reasons enough, hehe, in fairness!. On Saturday (yesterday), it was my sort of monthly disease combined with Sun IDD electronic load failure, the Sun IDD lately only works if you buy the prepaid IDD card. On Sunday (which is actually today), I got a terrible toothache so Honey eventually just let me be and gave me time to dose off, but this was just timely as Honey is all sore from football and household cleaning. No date but we were able to text-chat thru Yahoo.

Here comes tonight and I feel that my weekend went so dull. So dull, silent, and so bloody boring.

This afternoon after taking a nap I played a little plants vs. zombies and finally got my gold sunflower trophy! I saw my ongoing crochet project and put my hands into work for like an hour. Did some press and fold chore and then into blogging.

Still, a boring weekend =(

My number 1

My number 1 not just in my heart, but also in my phonebook. Haha! I know you should be thinking, how corny could I get???



Number 2&3 is my one and only legal sibling
Number 4 is my one and only legal mom
Number 5 is my one and only bestfriend whom I don't talk to often =)

Current ringtone: Honey Honey by ABBA (replaced Honey's hearty laugh)
I should be posting Honey's hearty laugh just that I still have to figure out how to convert the audio file. Soon soon.

Doodling his name in a brown folder =)

The comment was from our highschool valedictorian, real name is Dunhill Bilog. I remember he was one of my highschool high springboard.

***A screenshot from facebook mobile.

Tong-its!

Tongits is a popular Filipino rummy card game. Originating in the northern Philippines, the game was brought to the United States in the mid-90's and was quickly adopted on college campuses. It offered a new alternative to long time favorites pusoy dos and spades.

Anyone familiar with other rummy games such as Gin Rummy or Mah Jhong can easily learn to play Tongits. It is a fun, fast moving game. It encourages players to work together but in the end it's winner takes all.

At Honey's house in the old town or city of Panabo, people are always busy with Tong-its. Almost everybody knows the game, from kids to oldies. Nanay Minyang (Honey's Grandmom) is the known Tong-its leader, it is her past time and she likes it very very much. In fact, she keeps a stack of cards in her room and gave me one to play with... ahmmm technically she did not give it to me but she just lent it to me and Honey so we could have something to play with during our spare time, and I just forgot to give it back so I claimed the cards are mine now. Haha, the reason why maybe Nanay Minyang cried when I last saw her last week haha!

So Tong-its... We played a lot of Tong-its this year. Me and Honey took turns in winning this game but lately, Honey oftentimes surfaced as the winner... but that doesn't mean he is that good, he was just lucky at times ;)

Fan's Day Picture Taking Session Part 2

Let me eat durian!

Eeewwwww! I could never forget Honey's disgust when he smelled durian some hundred days ago. The look on his face? Gosh it was priceless. He even shooed me out of the room because I was eating the heavenly durian, the ignorance I could very well relate to my Philo 101 lesson The Allegory of the Cave ;)

This year though, a few days before he was to go back to the States, he opened his eyes to the truth and tried durian the native variety. A day after, he was looking for it already, and from then on, there was never a day without the durian. He likes it at night, and I wonder why... It is the Puyat variety that suits his taste buds, and I admit, I think I'm liking the Puyat now and i'm actually craving for one big durian fruit the Puyat variety! I'm getting myself one later.

This post has to go because Honey just told me this morning he craves for Puyat as well. The below commemorative photos are my beloved... ;0

Durian! Durian! Durian! I wish I could bring him some...

I have a story or two

… and I could share them best with photos. Bluetooth bluetooth why the hell are you not cooperating???

So I am Honeyfied until the 30th

So Honey went on an emergency leave to attend Papa Efren's funeral. Today, Honey officially completes his 1^st month of stay here in Davao. I'm telling myself this early not to put drama on the last 3days! Whatever… the petition was approved already yippppppeeee! It won't be long until Honey and I will be together again, and this time, I can feel reality in my very bones! I think I am changing my blogger address to http://www.honeyfiedforever.blogspot.com soon ;)

Goodbye Honey’s Dad

I thought I could be having a father at last, too bad. Honey's dad died on the 18^th of July – the day before they were about to go back to the States – due to post surgery complications. The guy was cool I should say, humorous, stubborn and enjoyed booze =)

I only had less than 10 encounters with Papa Efren but somehow I will miss him too – I'm glad we were given these few encounters to get to know each other. I had a dream and I'm naming one of our future children Efren – only if it'd be a boy haha! So Papa Efren, wherever you are, peaceful journey, and until we meet again…

The Commemorative Photossss!

I mean photoshopped photossss ;)

Anytime tomorrow I'll post a link to Honey's online store... I'm just not sure how to search for his ebay yet *^*

News!

Hurray!

A lot of positive energy is driving at our direction and I'd say time is ticking out!

My Honey's currently folding his stuff right now and I should be receiving his call after an hour of his personal ceremony is over. He is currently reading a book about affiliate marketing and he said he was amazed how fast he reads nowadays, uhmmmm… actually, I should say, I'm amazed too myself. My Honey's a sucker for new learnings and everything that involves business and making money, and I am the glamorous and proud P.A. *^* Aside from the new reading material, Honey's been learning the basics of photoshop for his online store. 20% of my morning was spent on tutoring Honey some photoshop basics, but it was unfortunate to find out he is using cs5 and I am only familiar with pse7's navigation that the tutorial unexpectedly ended. He played with cs5 until he is off from work and its remarkable how he did his first photoshopped photo! I am waiting for his email, it came to me just now that I might as well post that commemorative photo here for purposes of first and last documentation.

Just this Friday, Honey's dad underwent a major tummy operation while on vacation here in Davao :( He is already recuperating and everybody's praying for the better to happen soon. Vacation extended! The more I spend time talking and getting to know his dad while performing my royal duties; I discovered a past-time and a special quality that is very much alike with Honey which I believe is only attributable to what we call genetic composition, but only to certain extent though o-O Both of them spend soooo much time watching TV before going to sleep! The other, which I call special quality I have to keep to myself first as I really don't have a plan on my mind yet on how to express it perfectly in writing haha!

30 minutes is over and I hope Honey's midway to his ceremony/ceremonies now…

Snack time.

The first time is the hardest

Always.

Talking about Honey's ebay and real estate business progress today, the above title was quoted.

This post is all about this post's title only. As much as I'd like to take you further to a rather interesting juice of this statement, I guess Id rather leave everything unsaid. ;)

Two dates passed by unattended as far as I could recall, but since tomorrow's a holiday at my end, we are going to have a date!

Making Babies!

…that wouldn't take 9 months.

Yesterday I thought of trying online photo generator, regardless of the accuracy, to have an idea what our future baby will look like. I tried www.makemebabies.com and www.morphthing.com but to my dismay though, they keep on rendering ugly babies! Like I really gave these two sites 3-5 tries before I finally gave up! These sites don't deliver a 90% accurate image at all. I made sure I submitted a very good looking-frontal photo of me and Honey and yet they keep on giving us a Chinese-like smiling but ugly-looking baby to my horror!!!

I am quite confident of my genes and Honey as well, but somehow I couldn't get that dreadful image of that baby out of my head.

The Latest Lifeline

Since Honey bought a new phone, we discovered a new phone app that we could use as an alternative to our long-distance love solution. This newly-discovered phone app is called Fring, and whats great about this is that it lets me be Honeyfied for free, so long as there is a net connection! I recommend Fring and I should say it is way way better compared to other VOIP phone apps.

Last night I already gathered screenshots of the Fring call details in preparation ^*^

I'd Say My Honey's Mr. Desperado...

9 photos with Danica Patrick? What an attempt! ;)











Honey went to the Nascar Race this morning and first thing when he woke up I guess he read my text message - a request to take photos. I didn't expect he'd send me almost a hundred photos for a one day affair - and 9 of those photos as seen above, well... an attempt as I said haha!

This post should supposedly be entitled "Serendipity or Desperado?" as was agreed, but I figured its clear he was really Mr. Desperado ... Don't you think so? Honey's just lucky its not Kylie on that ad. *^*

It was Full Moon

Full Moon
as defined by Kara is a monthly phenomenon which occurrence is normally caused by nature but occasionally is triggered by the elements of the Power Rangers and/or Bertud ng Putik. For those of you who are not familiar with what I'm saying – I might be disclosing the story soon ;) SOON.

Two days ago, a hot-tempered me vented all the irrelevant anger out to my innocent Honey over the phone. Poor poor Honey. I knew it was Full Moon but Honey didn't have any idea. The she devil sent a text message to the royal highness asking for his understanding and all *^* - but still I found out Honey didn't get enough sleep because of my tantrums again. Guilty.

That was not considered LQ though.

Anger management session perhaps?

Dot dot dot – only for record purposes.

There shouldn't be a next time!

I'm cutting my horns off!

Happy Birthday Honey!

He WAS Beautiful

See that? Such a vintage photo huh? That's my Honey 11 years ago! I didn't know he had a hair this long if not for Honey's mom who told me about this last weekend. It was his hair that originally got me, I was hurt when I found out Honey's keeping this photo from me, haha! Nah not really, actually, Honey, accordingly just didn't want to hurt my feelings that he was once beautiful. Look at those curls!!! I want to have the same curls! The curls was just effortless... I'll have this photo printed and bring it to the salon and have it copied on my hair! I just hope Mr. Moon could copy the curls...

Totally…

I am still Honeyfied!

Honey's been left there alone and it's his birthday next week! I was telling him I'm so sad for him he will not have anybody there to celebrate it with but he says who cares? ß That's actually my Honey's tagline, which gives me an idea... Hey honey! How about "REDS Global – Who Cares???" haha! So you.

Went to the airport today to see Honey's parents, and now I am thinking, what could be some of the royal duties that I should be performing? I know I should be performing some royal duties, but then again, thinking about it now, I'd rather keep it to myself and not tell Honey about this or I should be hearing the crunchy who cares??? I brought his mom her siopao request by the way – that should be kinda like our Step 1 of 100 while they are on vacation.

I am still getting used to riding this faulty elevator to and fro our newly-rented office – makes me think of college, only that those elevator in college got Mr & Miss Operator hehe.

Thinking thinking of a birthday gift… Hmmmmm….

Call Me!

Lyrics | Blondie lyrics - Call Me lyrics

The latest song from Honey... Have to practice this one!

It was 2 years advanced =)

Just two hours ago, I went scavenging in my treasure box for Honey's letters and other Honeyfied donations for the UCSIS evidence. I found a letter dated October 26, 1999 where Honey wrote something like me telling him kinda like a promise to maintain our communication and get it on until we were 26 years old. The crystal ball was two years late, destiny claimed it when we were 24. =)

He wants to tell me he loves me in different languages

Sweet? You bet! The sweetest in the world!

I'm currently reviewing the documented chats me and Honey had early 2008, and I recall it was during the month of March that he would tell me "I love you" in different weird languages! Yeah… He's got at least maybe a hundred of those I love you words that I couldn't find in the internet and I was wondering if he was just kidding me or what. I love you expressed, for instance:

• Le melon
  
• Je waylluy chuba
  
• Wawa
  
• Nimitzlaco'tla
  
• Shi ingolth-a … and a lot more!
  

Definitely the weird I love you words went scarce especially when he started to share he picked the huttese language or the language from Star Wars or from the Lord of the Rings. Nevertheless, he still remains sweet to this very day.

I had fun with those words really, and again, I'm really glad I had it all documented in the first place. Priceless. =)

Who's Hotter? Cast Your Votes NOW!!!

I would like to prove to the world that my Honey is way way hotter than Victoria's Beck!

So this doesn't give you an option to just leave this post without casting your vote =)

Now who's hotter in a suit? Is it Beck or My Honey?
	Rendel Starks (My Honey)
	David Beckham
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Rendel Starks


















David Beckham
















I am proving to the world now that nobody's got nothing on my Honey! =)

The Endearments

Honey and I started calling each other by our nicks. Normal. It was later on during our textmate-days that I still called him Bong, and he called me Kara but out of the blue sometimes called me My Baby or My Darling or Sweety. One pretender couldn't deny the fact of these old time pull-offs because I had it documented. It is weird how I kept our old time text messages in my phone!

Anyway, we ended up with the Honey-Baby endearments. Honey for Honey - Baby for me. When i feel super super inlove to the max tho I call Honey, My Darling Sweetheart.

It was when we were in the love-zone already that I somehow became conscious of the endearments. I mean, well as far as I am concerned, I wanted something that is not cheesy, I wanted something sweet and really endearing. The endearment was my important pivotal point as never ever yet in history did I ever use it to a person, or never ever yet did I give value to an endearment before, never EVER until I was Honeyfied.

Last weekend I asked Honey how he ended up calling me Baby. He said, he just wants to call me his baby. I, on the other hand decided with the Honey because Honey is sweet like honey, and I like the song Honey Honey and I like the sound of H-O-N-E-Y. Honestly, if its others calling me baby I could kill them. I never liked Baby until Honey and I was uncomfortable with the Baby until Honey.

For the two of us, each only has a Honey and a Baby. For our future kids, Honey will have to think of something to call them hehe. When I get old, Honey has to call me Seasoned Baby - I guess. =)

A minute before lunch…

…and I'm thinking when both of us decided on the endearments. I was scanning for the documented chats and I found out we were using the endearments since February 2008. Now I'm just hoping I could find that very exact date for record purposes hehe =)

HoneyFIED Update Lately

April is almost over! Whoaaaaa!!! I felt I have to at least give an update on what's happening between us lovebirds =)

I've had it with my Bluetooth dongle, can't pair it with my handsfree and therefore would not work in Skype. The Honeyfied weekend dates were off for like 6 sessions because of this technicality. After uninstalling-reinstalling again and again, I finally gave up and decided I'll use IDD. Just this weekend we decided to use the Skype video service complimented by my almost sufficient IDD credits – is what you call resourcefulness amid half-the-world distance. Have to. The magic jack is not working that well too lately. The daily conversations in Yahoo IM and/or SMS continue nevertheless so at least I don't have to right to crumple.

I haven't been doing Barn Buddy and Social City in Facebook that much but Honey's been maintaining our businesses there. I checked the Barn yesterday and found out there's a girly-looking cow right behind the chicken, and honestly I do not know if that was really a cow but looks like a cow to me and that's what matters haha! The toolbar has been unlocked too and now we got permit to buy Kiwi crops.

Honey is busy with his second job as the VP of some sort, and he is doing well. He got to visit someone big too to help us speed up our appeal – I just hope this someone big proves to be a megalomaniac otherwise it won't make a difference. Me on the other hand am still obsessed with my crochet and is tangled doing my second green skirt, have to show it off once it's all done. I've had the opportunity to regain my spot in the Friday night group with my party friends. Honey's been out with his long-lost friends this month too – that is if he is telling the truth haha!

There goes my April update. I will just keep this page updated from time to time, maybe once a week next time. Ciao!

...another farm PET!

A pet goat? How does that sound? Haha!



A new acquisition today... at least! We've leveled-up too! Can't wait to get that tiger...

Latest Farm Resident

Honey bought another resident, and this time though, I very well know what it's called ;)



It's a spotted pig! Hurray!

My Fourth Year High School Rendel Moments..

This only proves I am so free from the cramming echoes this afternoon. Okay, from where I left it off in relation to Honeyfied history…

My fourth year high school came, I had nothing much to expect aside from graduating with decent grades. I got used from the idea of moving my life forward and be a little proper. I decided to get Rendel out of my head for a while, his absence in the campus was too much help at that time. It was during those times that I tried to get serious with the male populace posing as nuisance to my existence. Sure today I say I love Honey's love letters – all because they are exceptional and made by Honey. During my last year in high school, I so casually got cards and letters which only made me wrinkle my forehead! Nevertheless, I experienced for the first time how to accommodate the specie from the opposite sex in a close encounter. I tried to be nice. I tried to get the essence of having them accommodated in the first place. To this date I am very sure that none of those guys would say I was nice at all.

I remember 3 events where Rendel showed up. I was 15 years old, too much confined to ideals and had fears of the unknown.

The first encounter, as I recall was the preparation for the school Foundation Day. Being a close friend of the class president and a member of the working committee, we decided to work on our props overnight at Grace's house. Grace was our only classmate at that time who volunteered her house as a venue for the props preparation. Grace's sister was at that time the girlfriend of Rendel's cousin too. Too much affiliation really tsktsktsk… The scenario: It was dark and we were busy painting the tomb (props only) when Rendel showed up with his twin cousin Angela. I for one wasn't expecting that one, I thought he was in a land far far away, but then there he was standing before my very twinkling eyes! Yes, twinkling eyes and worse, I felt the hotness in my cheeks and my insides trembling for excitement I wanted to jump with joy but I couldn't! That was just one of the moments in my life that I'd rather die because of shame. Right now I am trying to recall how that night ended, but I guess what really happened was I pretended to be busy that the moment didn't sink in my head until the time Rendel left. Whew!

The second encounter, as I recall, was during the 3^rd day of the Foundation Day. I didn't know Rendel's intention at that time but nevertheless from what I can remember, we spent time talking in the DBC room with the band conductor. At that time I remember I was composed already, wasn't stammering and all that. I can't remember how long we stayed there with Sir Nestor, but I can recall the topic were horror stories. It was during this particular encounter that Glenn took photos of us in the band room, which later he will use as his indispensable tools to get close with me. The moment ended and it was time to say bye.

The third encounter, as I recall was during one school day, late in the afternoon after class was dismissed, I saw Rendel at the shed outside the campus and I think he dropped by to get his school papers. If my memory serves my right, we agreed for him to visit me at home later that night. I waited for him that night but I was not really doing any preparations at all. It was raining, I was frying something when he arrived. The scenario: I remember my late lola was there in the living room sitting in front of her sewing machine, my lolo was watching tv, my aunt and my little cousins were there too while my mom stayed in the kitchen when I received my visitor, not to discount the raindrops from the old ceiling! That house was built by my lolo in the early 1950's, really ancestral, but I guess we just both didn't mind it all. Nothing much really happened, but that was the first and the last time that I received Rendel at our old home. He was telling me he would go with his family to Cebu again and would be very busy processing their migration papers. I think we talked about "US" – which now I find really amusing especially when i recall the way I behaved! It's fortunate to this day Honey can fabricate stories about this encounter, my memory is somehow old now and some pieces are already missing... But anyway, like I said, I was young, I was too much confined to ideals and had fears of the unknown. That night, Rendel and I agreed to keep the line open and exchanged details. That was the first time in the whole of 3 years that we held hands for a little while, and then we bid goodbye.

This is already a very long post and I don't intend to keep my Honey reading, you still have to read some materials in preparation for REDS, and by the way Honey, that book you put in the bathroom is really nice! ;) I'm writing the rest of the untold stories soon ;)

These days…

What's been happening lately:

• Honey eventually liked that Super City Tycoon game in Facebook and he ended up adding 1 more real estate game called Social City. The conjugal Facebook account is currently being run by Honey since I don't quite know how to steal a moment checking on our business enterprise. Sounds real huh? I am always online though.
  
• Next, we've missed a lot of dates via Skype. The reason is attributable to the rotating brownouts happening in my end, and my slow internet connection AS USUAL. I was thinking, how did we ever manage our previous dates using the very same internet modem? Does the modem need an upgrade perhaps? Or is it high-time I get serious with Globelines… Mmm… I know my options very well and I know once I get Globelines, I wont be able to maximize my subscription L
  
• Another, I was able to store IDD cards in preparation for the mishap – just this noon I realized I ran out of them already. How unfortunate.
  
• Honey's been very serious with REDS Global and a lot of things associated with its inception. He's been missing football until today.
  
• I am taking a little break out of blogging. Too occupied with my crochet stuff.
  
• I got those big hooks Honey sent me.
  
• Lastly, I have something to look forward to again. Awaiting WOOL YARNS, which reminds me I'll have to email my sponsor the links. Stay put Honeyhoney.
  

The Newest Cover-UP

I could only blame myself for Honey's exceptional wit and talent!

Lately, he would just easily insert this song (below) as an excuse or an alibi…

Nothin' On You lyrics found at elyricsworld.com

It is amazing and amusing how Honey manages to get away with it all! Outwits me all the time...

Our Farm Lately...

From a simple bare farm and now here it is...

I remember it was 7 months ago when we started planting tomatoes, then corn, then pepper, then strawberries... and so on and so forth until we leveled-up big time and was allowed to plant coconuts - the highest-earning crop!

Sure we do tend to our farm on a daily basis - more than five times a day at that!

We are looking forward to earn the signs of progress which proved to make us far way ahead from our beloved neighbors... thus, came the pets which started from the hard-earned dog, the chicken we rented but ended up staying there to date, then came the pig, the cow, the sheep, the duck,the horse, and the other one with horns ( i don't know what it's called ;) ), and the latest... the cute panda just sitting beside our dog's rampage! The dog is just so busy with its fashion show, since ever!

Nice! Seems to be a lot of improvement lately... Honeyfied Business is doing good!

HoneyFIED Vacuum

It has been 5 days since I felt this freaking tummy discomfort. Two online dates with my Honey were postponed. We don't miss the phone conversations though but I haven't had a sight of him for long and it feels like it's been years since I last saw his face. (*-*) Cheesy.

I always believed I am the person who's got very low tolerance to pain, but now I'm rethinking it. What if I am right and those 2 doctors gave me a wrong diagnosis?! Gosh I'm freaking feeling sick and PARANOID already. This isn't nice. I can't imagine lying on the operating table, a male doctor and male nurses probably touching me! I can't imagine the scar afterwards! To my rescue is Honey telling me if EVER I get an operation, its not yet the end of the world Baby!

Yesterday, I went to another doctor (my very first encounter with her) for another round of checkup. I informed Honey about it and he was just cool laughing himself out loud from the inside in the other line! Fine. He actually pointed out I was like the echo of my freaking paranoid mom. I didn't give it a thought, not once, that I took after my mom's paranoia, HELL NO! Mine is on a sweet moderate level because I share it with Honey, my vacuum for keeps. So… back to my story, yesterday, I felt that the world is literally moving around me, I felt light-headed and dizzy. I forced to squeeze my guts off to drive 6 kilometers from the office to the clinic. I did it, not quite exceptional but I made it! Had a talk with the doctor, informed her that I'm feeling this and that in here and there. She read my tests, I wasn't convinced; I wanted another round of test… went to the laboratory to have another CBC. I gave honey a call right after the nurse took some of my precious reds – I didn't even notice the needle! Honey was just Haha! Hehe! Hahahahahahaha! Goodness! So I was freaking, I felt like crying, and here goes his haha-hehe. I couldn't contain it anymore, I was teary eyed but I was already laughing with him. Sweet. I went home after the reading of my 2^nd CBC, I was pacified.

I'd like to bug Honey again today just that he's in a homebuying workshop at the moment. Maybe later. I need a dose of his haha-hehe, don't want to miss it!

My Eyes Adored You

Just the song? Okay then, just the song... Honey rendered a beautiful song over the phone just that it was in past tense... Why ADORE(D)? Pwede adore lang?

Haha! The argument has been closed already and that was two days ago, he gave me another song in the next day ALL FOR HONEY's GLORy age-en. Just want to share...



... and here's Honey's new fave band singing/screaming...

On to my 3rd Year Highschool

On to another school year… here I rant!

I knew that I would not be seeing Rendel again, at least in the campus. Maybe I was informed by whomever or I just heard the news that he went to Cebu. I was saddened of course. It was during my 3^rd year in high school that I was beginning to notice the ADHD guys and get annoyed by them. I started receiving love letters from the early weeks of my 2^nd year and it went on until my 3^rd year… and most were swallowed by the trash bin. It was like all those ADHD guys wanted to have my picture in their wallets! Gosh! I could never really imagine how they saw me back in those years because for all I know I really looked like the female immature version of the Lion King!

Anyway… I missed a lot of things that concerns Rendel and I think it's fair to say that Rendel missed a lot of things that concerns me as well haha! We had something left in mid-air, so unfortunate. I was really dreaming of something romantic during those years so his absence was really close to regrettable. My hormones went crazy I couldn't even exactly tell you how I felt during those times. Too empty without a sight of my highschool high. The kilig moments suddenly died… and then there was silence.

A lot of events went by, School Foundation, United Nations, Christmas Party, Valetines… One day, he visited the campus and it was like a holler to all my girl classmates, and to me of course! The room was filled with jumping, screaming at the top of their voices due to utmost excitement! Mas excited pa sila nako! I couldn't recall what season of the school year was that, but I can recall very well a very kilig scenario! A close encounter certified kilig moment! He was coming out of that old canteen, approached me, asked me to hold out my hand, and put 3 pieces of chocolate candies! Mura ko'g ma collapse jud! What a moment indeed! That was the highlight of my 3^rd year that involved Rendel. I kept those chocolate wrappers actually… ;)

Summer 1998

I have a bestfriend, we call her TongTong. TongTong had an idling keyboard at home which she wanted to use only that she didn't know how to hit the notes. She decided all of a sudden to enroll in the piano school. She asked me to go with her when she enrolled, and asked me to be with her during her 1 hour a day classes. I took the invitation GLADLY and WITH A WIDE SMILE and you may wonder why… WHY because she enrolled in a home-based piano school in a subdivision the same road passing by Rendel's house! So I was like, sure no problem!

When I said yes to my bestfriend, I was filled with the excitement of maybe seeing Rendel occasionally. To the best of my luck though, I saw Rendel almost everyday of my life during that summer, playing basketball with the people around his uncle's shop! What a perfect continuation to my lofty kilig moments! Me and my bestfriend would sit at the back of the passenger tricycle so I could have a long-lasting good view of Rendel without being noticed! That was so simple back then, a good sight was all I needed!

Almost half of my summer was substantially fed, thanks to God for giving me a bestfriend who was fervent to learn playing the piano! Sure I really had a fun and exciting vacation! Dot dot dot… then came another school year.

…and then it was the end of the school year…

The field trip high moments went by and suddenly it was the end of the school year already. The chance of sighting Rendel around was becoming lesser; he was nowhere to be found during those times. Everybody was busy accomplishing the clearance forms and I was waiting for the day he'd come to the annex campus to have the head teacher sign his form. I'd know it when he is around anyway. Thou shall not discount the earth shattering uproar his presence would bring to my classmates, haha! I saw a glimpse of him on the very last day of school. I heard he was going away already. I overheard he told someone he'd include me in his luggage so he could bring me with him. That was it. The end.

The Field Trip Story

I will fast-track the story so we can be at present already!

Okay… We had an educational field trip for all 2^nd-year students of our Biology class sometime on February 1998. I can't recall if the field trip was before or after Valentine's Day… but anyway… When the teacher announced there's going to be a field trip I was like… Oh my God Oh My God! Is Rendel going and are we going to be on the same bus??? ;) I was too excited that I asked the teacher for the transportation arrangement right then and there. I was saddened by the arrangement per class, but fortunately though for me, that was already better that Rendel was on another bus because I really needed a break in-between site destination to compose myself and bring me back to present. I could never imagine though how noisy the bus would be had we been together in the same bus! So anyway, the night before the trip I really thought of something to wear so I could go unnoticed and ta-dah!!! I decided to wear a cap! Haha! That was really baduy thinking about it now…

Mmm… the itinerary went: 1) Crocodile Farm, 2) GAP Farms, 3)Philippine Eagle, 4) Malagos Garden…

Needless to say of course that in every destination my eyes were restless for the usual scanning mode… Oh where was he, who's group of students was he with, what's the color of his bag or the color of his shoes so I could spot him easily. I remember during the last stop, I used my compact powder mirror to scan around! Like he was really the star of my beautiful eyes! Like I could never really calm down and be at peace. I was shy, I was excited, and a mix of a lot of different unexplainable emotions a teenager could feel being in the same situation.

It was maybe three or four years ago when Honey and I talked about the field trip thru text… (We were textmates for some time – I'll tell the story when I'm done with all the past untold stories PROMISE!) We somehow agreed that when he gets to come home, we'd visit those places again. I waited in vain for too long until 2008 came and he had his vacation. We were already in the love-zone that time when we visited the places where we had our 2^nd year field trip. ;)

More of the untold old stories soon...

Kara Rendel Starks Facebook Relationship Status

Out of sheer nothing, I went to revolutionize our relationship status from engaged-to-married. Guess what? We got a thread of reactions from our facebook addict neighbors, haha! Grrrrrrrreeeeaaaaaat! Love it! One crazy and out of the blue experimental ordeal. Sooooo me by the way.

Today is Wednesday, and it’s Cold…

It is during times like this that it's best to laze-off, lie in bed, stare at nothingness, be drowned in the silence of the morning, noon, and night. Gossssshhhhhh! How I wish I could just do my favorite passion in life. It is in times like this too that I get to feel the missing-you feeling the most. It is raining for the whole day in here, Honey told me it was raining there too – we are tuned in to the same weather channel ;) We talked about it a little today. Good enough. Cold feet cold feet… and humming…

 

Being with the DBC Part 2

Since my early years, I have recognized the gift of how to get what I want by using my devilish charms. I used my being with the DBC to my advantage – just to see Rendel at the main campus. Fortunately, I was friends with the DBC moderator, and every time he called for a group practice, I would with all of my devilish powers convince him to have the band practice at the main campus. I would tell the moderator things like, we could have a better formation Sir if we would have the practice at the main campus… though of course my very reason was to feed my eyes with a nice view. I remember, it was during my history class that I secretly went out of the classroom (which was a mortal sin when you are under Diego Matao) and went to the band room just to confirm if we were pushing thru with our practice at the main campus. I wasn't able to contain my excitement and not too obvious at that, so when I went back to my class, Diego Matao was there by the veranda, huge and towering and told me… "Aba madrama… balik sa upuan!!!" Haha! The crazy things I did during my high school.

More of My High School High-Being with the Drum and Bugle Corps Part 1

I was part of the drum and bugle corps during my high school and I was in since my 2^nd year, that was school year 1997-1998 to be precise. Our school had 2 campuses; I stayed at the annex campus while Rendel was at the main campus. That was not really a very conducive set-up for my high school kilig moments, but nevertheless I got the high. On Mondays, the flag ceremony was held at the main campus, it was like a week starter as we get to hear announcements from the Head Teacher, the School Principal, and the School Superintendent. During Mondays too, I was with the school band and played Lupang Hinirang and the Alma Mater Song, we played beside the stage so I really had a good view of the students lined up in their respective rows! It was every Mondays too after the United Nations event that my eyes went scanning for the row where Rendel was. I don't recall seeing him during the flag ceremonies though, maybe because he always came late ;) But I recall the feeling of excitement; I recall the feeling of looking forward to each and every Monday of that school year just to catch a glimpse of my high school high.

Bookmarks for Honey

I made these myself! Could you believe how lucky my Honey is for having a crafty girlfriend? Well he was actually expecting I did him a sweater,haha! My Honey aside from being lucky has got some extreme imagination like nothing in the world. My delayed Christmas gift, he got these just today or may I say tonight? He got it when he got home from work ;) That's a nice job dear courier, 3-4 days indeed. Perfect.