The Geek of Anything [sticky post]

Hey there! This is Mariel, and some people know me as the random "mayey" of Multiply and the crazy, always flailing, perverted Arashi fangirl "mayey87" of Livejournal. I used to keep a food blog more than a year ago, too, but I abandoned it.

So what's with the new blog? Aside from being a nurse one month into unemployment, and being bored to hell, I just miss blogging so much. Much has also been happening in my life lately, that I just have to write (or rant or brag) about the experiences. Besides, I miss that girl mayey from Multiply who used to talk about a lot of things from the most trivial to the most far out. I remember her talking about her charger being eaten by a rat. LOL. She used to be really bitchy and funny and totally random at best, and I want her be sort of resurrected from the dead. She kept a blog about absolutely the most random things in her personal life for years, until Multiply turned into an online shopping site. She got sick of it, and died. That girl was me. And still is, only with a new screen name, and a new home. So, get ready for a few more years of randomosity!

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The Geek Territory. Sounds cool (at least for me) and, well, geeky! The alternate username was GeekOfAnything. But why? I consider myself a geek in some levels. Like I can be too interested in technology (and can roll like the FBI in social sites), read and write CSS, type 45 words per minute, or that my favorite TV show is The Big Bang Theory. I laugh at smart jokes, and read a lot of books, including sci-fi. I squeal at the thought of another Johnny Depp-Tim Burton tandem, and find Helena Bonham Carter hella hot. I google my own name, and see the first few pages with links to my other online accounts. Try it for yourself. Type "Mariel Antonette Juarez", and you'll see. Haha. The reasons why I'm a geek goes on.

Some people find the word "geek" derogatory, but I don't. I find it cool. Geeks know a lot of things "normal" people don't. Like, how many people type HTML codes when writing a blog, instead of clicking buttons like normal people do? And yeah, geeks have a life, too. I AM GEEK AND PROUD. LOL

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I will update this blog as much as I can, and mostly I'll talk about travel, food, movies and books. I'll keep you posted! :D

The Nomad's Journal Part 3 (The Interim Period)

Part 1 I Part 2 I Part 2.5

Part 3: The Interim Period

If my life was sex, after all the excitement in the previous months, this should have been the plateau phase. Only, I probably would have never orgasmed, even if it was. 

Snakes and Ladders

It was around September, a few days after our Baguio trip, when I finally decided it was time to go back to Negros. By this time, I have already passed the board exam, and I had to go to Iloilo to process my license, anyway. I thought maybe my life was in Negros, after all. Maybe I was searching for what I really wanted in all the wrong places. It was time to say goodbye to the fun, carefree life, and start pondering on the more realistic stuff.

"It was like a game of snakes and ladders -- I got to the tallest ladder, climb up, moved on a few squares only to land on a snake's mouth taking me back where I started."