Shine on till tomorrow.

Pwned

2008-12-23T21:36:00.002+08:00

My food intake hasn't improved at all. Last Monday was the PisaYFC party at JVC's crib and I ate I do not know how many pieces of siopao, spaghetti (yum yum), cheese sticks, macaroni salad, junk food and Mentos. The party was cool coz we got to do worship and all and have some games like Charades (lol at this part!) and Touch My Body (nothing R-rated in here, k?). Then, Kuya Gab aka "Friend" and I got to catch up a lot and share stories to each other. The party was really fun, as I said a while ago. Around four hours of Magic Sing.. Not so bad for being a Filipino.

Anyway, I went to the dress shop again a while ago (my mom dragged me btw) since my dear mother wanted to have a purse that matches my gown made. I still cannot understand why parents are more excited about the prom. I admit I was pretty stoked about the prom when I was a freshman or a sophomore but now that it's a little over a month away, I'm not that stoked anymore. Thinking about what you're wearing is exciting but finding a way how to get what you're wearing is the problemo. Now that I'm done with the gown and the purse (even if we could buy from the dept store but hey, the dress shop offered it for free), shoes and jewelry up next. Don't care about the make-up and hair bit. I'm gonna chop my hair off after the prom anyway. Can't wait for that.

Anyone here excited for Christmas? Uhm me.. I guess I'm okay. Not that bummed, not that excited either. I suppose this is the first Christmas I'll have without receiving some cash from the other members of the family tree. Oh well, there's a first time for everything. At least I got that jacket I wanted from People Are People. I still feel kinda guilty that the jacket's pricey but when my mom told me to go get what I wanted, I just HAD to take advantage of it. My mom's pretty against expensive stuff unless it's really needed or there's a special occasion for it. I mean, she has a point in disliking expensive stuff but come on, it's Christmas! I don't ask for much (for now since I'm not getting the camera nor the laptop YET).

Let's venture out into some far out topics, shall we?

Taking this out of my daily dosage of DBSK, I finally found out what the freaking hell does MIROTIC mean. I've searched the dictionary and in dictionary.com but, nada. Then when I watched this interview of the Fab 5 (no, not those from Queer eye, k?) on YouTube (it rhymes with YooChun! YooChoob, YooChun!), they stated that Mirotic means maze-like ish kind of structure. Seriously, I don't get it fully but I kinda get the gist. Mirotic is a fusion of English and Korean aka Konglish, and the term was coined from the eternally pretty and beautiful boy who makes me insecure like hell (come on, he's PRETTY!) even if we have different gonads and gender, Kim Jaejoong. Anyway, he said that Mirotic is "miro", which is maze in Korean plus the suffix, -tic. So I guess Mirotic is maze-like, suspense filled, thrilling, exciting? Well, I wouldn't mind being stuck in a maze with DBSK. Hahaha, kidding there. Well, maybe they're trying to relay that the song Mirotic would put your mind in a maze. Gosh, I still don't get it. But hey, the song's cool. Totally danceable and groovable.

No wonder why they got trapped by some girl who's flying in the vid. Jaejoong was tied up to some wall like he was gonna be raped (poor dude), Changmin's drowning in H2O (or given the illusion that he is in such situation), Micky's stuck inside a crystal, Yunho holding something like some cloth (?) and Xiah (my loves, lol) is uhm, in a, shall we call, multiphoton projecting asylum. Okay. Go laugh at my nerd-ness.

Speaking of such, I still don't get why the hell Mirotic is shall I call it, "sexually inclined". The guys look absolutely HOT (and I mean it!) in the vid. The song's groovy and catchy. I think it's more on the lyrics part. "Red ocean" and "crystal". Okay, I so don't get it.

Just a random thought. Why blame DBSK for the "sexually inclined" number and why not the songwriter? Go blame them if they took part in the songwriting instead yo. Seriously. Anyway, back to what I was trying it say.

According to some site, "red ocean" meant a girl's hymen and "crystal" meant the carrier of the Y chromosome, the male sperm. And I think the lyrics were like, "my crystals are going to go through your veins" and stuff. Forgot about the red ocean bit. Anyway. Biologically speaking (nothing harmful in here, k? just stuff every human being must be highly aware of), the sperm does NOT go into the veins of the woman when it enters the woman's body but it goes to her womb. Plus, red ocean is more like describing a girl's menstrual period. Okay, how can you compare an ocean to let's say, human tissue (since that is what a hymen is). An ocean is liquid, human tissue is solid (speaking of the states of matter).

So, how did human tissue become, a red ocean? Unless those who said that the red ocean refers to the female hymen reads Gossip Girl. Quote en quote from what Serena told Nate, "You parted my Red Sea!". I don't really need to explain on that. Really.

Whatever it is, I'd rather hear the song say "I got you under my skin" rather that "I got you under my sky". That doesn't make sense AT ALL.

Did I mention that there was a line that said "I got you under my skin" in Micky's (I think..) rap in the first part of Rising Sun?

Okay, enough about my analysis. Time for bed. Misa de gallo tomorrow morning. Goodnight y'all.

Back on track

2008-12-19T21:09:00.003+08:00

I AM FINALLY BACK AFTER A MONTH AND 1 WEEK.

I was gone primarily because of school work. Everything has been piling up, one requirement after the other. I'm expecting that things will be way more hectic in the 4th quarter since there's Research, English and other things like Prom and my summer internship. I think I'll be an intern at Davao Light, but I have no idea what I'll be doing. Then after summer, senior year. Time flies so fast.

Speaking of prom, I haven't lost weight due to stress. Great. And I attend parties one after the other. Even greater. I plan to have my gown made before the end of the year since in January, a lot of people would be having their gowns made and I wouldn't want my gown to be rushed, right? So at least when I have mine done earlier, there are smaller chances of running into someone with a similar design. I'm still pretty unsure of what my gown's gonna look like. We already have a design but my mom and I decided to alter it a bit so we're gonna go to the dress shop tomorrow. As for my body, blah whatever.

Oh shoot. I didn't get to register for the ILC. Too bad yesterday was the last day for registration that the reg fee is discounted. So I guess I'd be paying 1k already, huh? Ok, I'll just make sure I'll get my a** to Cebu and participate in the ILC. I know God wants me to be there. :)

OMG, YFC Christmas party on Monday! Great, more food since JVC's mom is most likely going to cook spaghetti and everyone knows how good the spaghetti is? Lmao, chow time. I guess I won't be eating breakfast on Monday. Hahahahaha.

What did I eat?

Breakfast - rice, adobo and scrambled eggs
Recess (lol) - Pringles (but I shared with Niña and the other teachers)
Lunch - lechon, rice and lengua (YUMMMM)
Dinner - rice and liempo

Cut. Down. On. The. Kanin.

Btw, like my new layout? I featured Xiah of DBSK (my replacement for Wonbin for the meantime. sorry Binnie! hahahaha) there in the navbar. He's super cute, I know you AGREE!

So that's all for now. Bye.

I'm so tired blah

2008-11-12T21:10:00.002+08:00

Since I'm in dire need to lose the pounds immediately, I'll only blog daily to take note of what I've been eating and all. A lot of people say that listing down what you ate is effective in losing weight. Let's give it a try. Shall we?

Breakfast - Beef and rye bread
Recess - A ham sandwich and Cream-O
Lunch - Beef, red rice and an apple
Recess - Sprite and an apple
Dismissal - Cracklings and an empanada
Dinner - milk, rye bread and porkchop.

OKAY. Cut down on the sweets and softdrinks. And milk only for dinner. Iwas carbs. Okay, byeeee.

Shushushuttterrrrrrrr

2008-11-01T08:02:00.005+08:00

So I've been gone again huh? Ah, the effect of laziness. Boohoo.

The catch is, I've been super duper into photography lately like it's an obsession. I already made two "portfolios" (if you could call those portfolios) and posted it on my Multiply. Also, I joined Fanatic Photographers Society (FPS) which is a photography club so to speak that is based here. Lots of pro photogs there so I can infer that I'm gonna learn lots of stuff about the shutters. And yeah, I've been getting some good feedback on my portfolios and I'm learning a lot. Well, there's still so much to improve on so I'm gonna work on it while I'm still stuck using my cellphone. Hopefully I could get a digicam and a laptop early next year so I could work on a photoshoot, as Hachi suggested. Finding a concept is easy, but finding the model is hard. Hahaha. And yeah, my dad's considering about getting me one of those pro cameras for my graduation gift (actually, I asked my dad. lol) . Of course, I'd start with the basics. And I'm expecting that pro camera if there's extra budget since there are more important things nowadays rather than a camera. Anyway, I'll just wait for that camera to come to me. For now, I'd stick to my cellphone and Photoshop. :)

Did I mention I'm highly addicted to Ugly Betty right now? I'm watching the last few episodes RIGHT NOW. I'm done with Season 1 and now I'm on Season 2. Gaaaah Gio-Betty is way better than Henry-Betty! Can't wait for Season 3 to come out on pirated DVD! =))

So, wanna see my portfolios? :>

ALL THINGS SHINY

ORIENTAL DELIGHT

I'm gonna leave now. Still have 2 lab reports, 1 film review and 2 problem sets to finish. Boo. Belated Happy Halloween. O_O

PS. My knee is still in the same situation. But better than before. Yay. Youth Camp, here I come!

Torn apart

2008-10-28T20:07:00.002+08:00

It's been two days of my "sembreak" and it hasn't been any good at all.

You see, I played badminton quite aggressively last Monday morning after two weeks of being idle. When I play, I do the "split" thing when reaching for the ball. Unfortunately, I did some excessive "splitting" and I ended up injuring my right knee. Okay, I got injured while walking after playing. Anyway, I still managed to eat lunch and walk around in the mall with Joey, Darlene and Danielle (yeah, Darlene's 8 year old sister!). After that, I went home and the pain in my knee started to really get bad when my dad rushed me to change my shorts since he was gonna bring me to the hospital then. Then I started screaming and crying in pain. So I got to the hospital and all and the doctor in the ER said that it could be a torn ligament. As for me, I think it's partially torn. I still could walk properly somehow but I'm just extra careful so as not to errrr.. "dislocate" my femur and shin bone. I only experience pain when I'm going up and down the stairs. So I think I won't be playing badminton for at least two weeks again.. Darn.. I feel like crap when I don't exercise. Oh well, that's life. At least I still got to watch HSM 3 with Hannah and Ate Ren in SM a while ago. HAHAHA.

Did I mention that I haven't started in any of my assignments? As in, ANY? Wow I'm soooo studious. *rolls eyes*

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So I hope my right knee gets well in time for the Youth Camp. I don't wanna go limping here and there you know.

Two days of heaven

2008-10-26T16:56:00.004+08:00

Yeah the Korean costume thing went out well, but I'm not blogging much about that here.. Check out my Multiply for pics. :)

So I'm back after.. 3 days? Spent a freaking night without the internet. Amazing, I spent one night without the internet.. HAHAHA. Anyway, I just got back from the Regional Youth Conference for this year, which was held in PWC. It was AWESOME, I'm serious (but I'd expect the ILC to be MORE awesome). I know some people who were supposed to be there didn't come for some reason which is kinda sad, since they missed out on A LOT of fun. The opening program was lively since we had worship immediately then the program, some dances numbers then the competitions. It was much of a bore during the competitions since we just sat outside the girls' quarters playing Mini Monopoly courtesy of Lavi. Then after that, we proceeded to our workshops. I attended the song writing workshop since it was the one that I'd be most interested in anyway.. I learned that when writing a song, it has to be personal and it's like a prayer. And yeah, don't be shy in expressing. Don't think what others say, it's just you and God. Anyway, after that was the Lord's Day. Pretty much like what the Jews did on Sabbath Day. Pass around the bread, drink wine (in our case, grape juice! lol) and pray. After that, we ate dinner and prepared ourselves for the BEST part of the RYC: PRAISE AND WORSHIP TO THE MAX.

This is my second time to take part in a praise and worship session. The first was in the High School Conference in CAP. Anyway, the first who shared during the session was Kuya Jonathan. He worked as a YFC missionary in the Carribean and he shared his experiences there. He told us that it was hard to convince the youth there to join the worship. Like, he stood on stage singing and clapping and jumping then the kids just stared at him. Pretty much like that. But in the end, the kids he handled finally got hang of the worship bit and joined in the fun. The second who shared was Kuya Flip and he shared to us his life as a teen in YFC. He was a member of YFC but he engaged in premarital sex and he was into drinking alcohol and liquor. But by God's grace, he was saved and he was changed. Also, he told us that in life, there are those "OH MY GOD" moments. But if there are those moments, there are also the "ONLY MY GRACE" moments. It really made me think of what good has God done to me but I never really noticed it or even the simplest luck I had actually possessed a deeper meaning. In my life, I've experience SOOOO MANY OH MY GOD moments. From really random ones to really messed up ones, I have too many to mention and as life passes it's amount increases.

Then the BESTEST part came: WORSHIP. A melancholic mix of upbeat and heartwarming slow songs filled the night with music. I just love the worship part. I don't really care about the other activities. I mainly go to YFC events to join the worship. It's like you and God have your tiny little space in between the crowds and in every passing worship that I attend, the "floating" sensation I feel gets more intense. As usual, I cry during worship since I release all my pain and I lift up all my worries, problems and intentions but this crying session was the most emotional so far. Yeah I won't mention why since it's too personal (no love related things involved, k?) but I felt relieved when I cried since I had my friends around me giving me big warm hugs. So to Che, Mariel (researchmate!), Micah and the other people, thanks for the hugs guys! And yes, I'd be looking forward to another worship session in our Youth Camp. Hope to relieve all the pain, again.

After the worship and finals night was sleeping time. I slept for about an hour only since my back hurt and I couldn't figure out what position was comfortable for me to sleep in. So I got up at around 4am with the other people who were joining the Fun Run. Mariel, Fati, Caith and I went to Lispher Inn to take a bath since Mariel's brother and yaya checked in there and we could use the bathroom. Gaaaah, it felt great to have another warm shower after I don't know how many years. I took a bath first and Mariel took the longest time to take a bath. HAHA. In between, Mariel's yaya told us about when Mariel was a kid and she asked us some stuff. Then after that, we walked back to PWC and assembled in the main venue for the Holy Mass. After the Mass was another session and I didn't really remember what the dude said but I remember was that he made us gather in groups and say a prayer together. As all nerds think alike, us Pisayers gathered in a circle, held hands and prayed fiercely. We prayed that no matter what happens to us whether we have jobs, our own families, our own careers, we're in college and other things, we would always stay together in praising God and glorifying Him. Mariel and I also prayed really really hard so that our research paper would be successful and we could join competitions and the like. Then, another worship session and a bit more crying, then it was all over.

Two days of heaven is over.

So after the RYC, I learned some important life lessons..

- God would always love me even if I suck sometimes. In God's eyes, I'm never a failure.
- Heaven is not a place but it is an unforgettable moment kept in our heart.
- God is gracious. He'd never let us down.
- Praising God is best done with the ones you love!

So to those who were there at the RYC, I LOVE YOU GUYS! I'm really glad we all had a great, great bond. God brought us all together therefore we shall LOVE HIM AND OFFER OUR LIVES TO HIM! Amen? AMEN.

So after the RYC (huhuhu), my parents got my things and we headed to Tito Bong's (aka Ate Ara's dad slash Ma'am Muico's husband) wake. It's pretty sad that Tito Bong died since he was one of the RYC's organizers (that's what I heard) and he really wanted us youth to go there and praise God. He was diagnosed with stage 4 liver cancer and he died 2 months and 5 days after the diagnosis at the age of 52 (woah, he's younger than my dad!). As I recall, I never really knew personally and the only time I saw him was during Ate Ara's graduation last year. Anyway, Ate Ara and I were talking about it and we kinda related since my mom's a cancer survivor and all. Ate Ara told me that she was well prepared for it and she's envious of her dad since he's in heaven with God (which is WAY better than Earth). Tito Bong lived a good life, I agree. Even if I didn't know him personally, I know that he did something amazing to make YFC a tool to make us youth closer to God. :)

After the chit chat about Tito Bong, Ate Ara and I talked about other things like the ILC and how YFC changed her life and what it is like to be an active member and all. We reminisced (naks!) the days back in Carnelian Sarykopa.. Hahaha. Ate Ara also shared to me that improving a bad habit must be done slowly but surely. Drastic changes bring drastic results, negative ones I guess. We also shared some secrets and from there, Ate Ara promised me something for our Youth Camp. Well, I won't keep my expectations high so that I wouldn't be frustrated. And, I'd be looking forward to another chika session with Ate Ara.. We got cut short since my parents already picked me up.

So that concluded my absolutely amazing weekend. Badminton mania during sembreak! And assignments. Blaaaaah.

Ecstatic?

2008-10-23T19:45:00.002+08:00

So I've been gone for five days.. What the hell was up with me.. Hahaha.

I'm still the lazy a** I am, but I think I got worse this time. Just a while ago in Math class, I snoozed the whole time while leaning at the window. Also, I've been forgetting to do my homework and to bring this and that and the like. Sucks right? Oh yeah, I've been more irresponsible. I thought I lost my USB but I just left it at home (hahaha I could sense Ma'am Mendoza wanted to scold me for this.. lol) and I forgot to bring the masking tape for PE (Michael forgot to tell me as well..). My stuff's a mess and highly disorganized. Boooooo.

Fortunately, I got pretty stoked this week since I got a new cellphone (yay!), I finally have a Korean costume (it's not authentic but it pretty much looks like the real thing I guess..), and I have my own Deviantart account.

That's all I've been up to nowadays. I was thinking of making a really long post but then I realized I had to make the Chem labreps. Hahaha!

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RYC ON SATURDAY! <3

Partay pipzzzz

2008-10-18T20:02:00.004+08:00

Today didn't start out well. I kinda "lost" our draft for the RRL with Ma'am Daryl's corrections in it so I had a major panic attack and ended up messing up. After a walk around the village to get some sunlight and burn some fats, I took a bath since the house party was 1pm. So I went McDonalds and met up with Michael there and went to the house. So okay. We were the ones who were only there, with John Ray. While waiting, I was just blabbing like a mad dog until the others came. Then, WE WENT SWIMMING! Actually, I wasn't supposed to swim since I had that terrible wound due to the Sci Camp and my mom won't let me swim. So I told them that I'll just cover it with the waterproof bandages we have (which my dad told me to use.. haha) and I'll just drown my wound in alcohol after swimming. Well, I did drown my wound in alcohol after swimming.. Then Betadine. Okay enough with the wound bit. I'll talk about the swimming part.

THE SWIMMING PART WAS SO FUN. We pretty much discovered who has a crush on who and who ditched this person and what. Ate Tuyor's expression was PRICELESS when she found out who Jennica and RJ liked. HAHAHA. Then Rhoshie shared more stories and everyone (well, almost everyone) in the pool listened to her. I think she told us the story when she was hit by a car one day before her birthday and she said it was the worst birthday ever. She didn't get hurt real bad but it was gloomy that day. Then we teased Ate Therese with Kuya Dax (hahaha bagay baya sila! hahaha) and some freshie who liked her (is it safe to say who?). Oh yeah we also teased Weslene with Kuya Pot (hahaha this is really really hilarious EVER). And Jonah was caught staring at.. someone. HAHAHA. Yeah they didn't find out who my crush was since he's from another school and they don't really mind about that. Well that's a good thing. Lol.

After swimming, we ate spaghetti and cheese sticks then I took a bath since my parents were going to come and get me. So after taking a bath, I took some more pics and then I left. Okay I was the photographer for the day and believe it or not, I only have one pic with me there.. And it's a pic with Jeth and Kuya Dax. Hahaha. Anyway, my parents got me then we went to SM to do the groceries. While Mom was at the grocery, my dad and I went to Smart since Dad had to pay some bills. So, I decided to check out what cellphones I could get for free from my retention. I was expecting that I could get a cellphone with a 5 megapixel camera but naaaah. Instead, I found out that I could get a Sony Ericsson K770i for free. It only has 3.2 megapixels but it's a Cybershot camera in a cellphone. Imagine, A CYBERSHOT IN A CELLPHONE. Gawd, I'd ditch those 5 megapixel Nokia ones! So, I decided to get the K770i but I didn't get it today. I'm still filing my application for the retention and hopefully I could get the phone within the week so I could take some good pics during the RYC. I'll go back to SM tomorrow to give my application form. WOHOO! Did I mention that I saw Ate Kira, Ate Rev, Ate Gem and Ate Irene (Paragons) at SM? Hahaha. :)

Speaking of RYC, I'm excited as hell! Another reason to skip training.. Lol. I'm excited for the worship part. Then after RYC, it's "alternative classes" aka our sembreak. Sheesh. Homework overload. I'm expecting it.

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PICSSSSSSS!

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I'm listening to This Love by Big Bang. I just noticed it, right now. LOL. Goodnight.

Lazy a**

2008-10-17T20:04:00.004+08:00

I've been gone for a couple of days due to stress, fatigue and plain laziness. I still feel lazy to blog though but I'm pushing myself to do so. I have no idea why.

All I did this week was get my a** to school, sleep in class, eat Cream-O like crazy and bum around. I actually have some stuff to do for next week but I'm putting a halt to it first since, AMARILLO HOUSE PARTEII TOMORROW! I'm supposed to do some research for Comsci (BURN) and edit the RRL of our dear Research paper. BUT, since I'm so smart, I forgot to get some references that I needed from Mariel. So I think I'd get to print our research paper by.. Monday night? Hahaha it's due on November 3 but we want to submit it early so we could have our panel defense early as well. I'll try to find time to make it tomorrow and on Sunday.. Hahaha. Oh yeah, I got to see Kuya Jon Villaroya a while ago in school! We talked a lot, actually. Lol!

Since I'm already too lazy to blog, I'm going now. So excited for tomorrow!

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"Magsuot ako ng bikini bukas.. HAHAHAHA!"
"Hahaha sige go!"
"..as if oi!"
"*comes closer to me* Ate Macey, don't let your body be a hindrance to your happiness!"

GAD. I just LOOOOVE Rhoshela Rendon! <3 HAHAHA. I LOVE YOU RHOSHIE!

Blisterage

2008-10-14T19:08:00.002+08:00

While waiting for FT Island's new vid to load in Youtube, I'll just blab here.

I didn't blog yesterday since we had a lab report to do and I wanted to sleep. I'm still exhausted from last week and I often find myself sleeping during class. I know it's not a good thing but I cannot help stopping myself indulge in the pleasure of sleep. Anyway, I still manage to get passing grades so uhm.. I guess it's okay to sleep as of now. HAHAHA. Did I mention that I'm a DL this quarter? Weee I'm so happy.

Speaking of those new school shoes I bought, DAMN. It just gave me two blisters on my feet. And damn my feet hurt. I SWEAR. I think I'll be wearing flats to school tomorrow.. Gaaawd.

Well, I'm leaving now. Coz I need sleep. Bye.

"SWEET" SIXTEEN

2008-10-12T18:09:00.007+08:00

Today. Is. The. Day.

HAPPY SIXTEENTH BIRTHDAY TO MEEEEH. =)) HAPPY BDAY DIN KAY CHOCOPEANUT/IMBAL! HAHA. Si Kim P lang na oi. XD

All I did today was eat, and do a bit of shopping. That's all. And sleep. Hahaha. Gah, I'm so lazy to tell stories. Heard Mass, ate at Marco Polo, bought new school shoes at SM (coz the ones I use are BUSTED), saw Jp in SM, went back home, FINALLY PLAYED SARANGALHEE ON THE PIANO, then went to Victoria to buy clothes.
And now, I wanna mention everyone who greeted me, including those who greeted me in advance!

MOMMY. DADDY. TITA GALOUH. TITA CHIE. TITA DONNA. TITA DEDENG. TITO IKE. TITO NESTY. TITA MILDRED. EPY. NINANG EVELYN. NINONG ANLEX. ATE LEARNI.

HANNAH. ATE RENREN. JOEY. DARLENE. ATE DANICA. KIM P. ANGEL. MICHAEL. NIKKI. KUYA GODFREY. CHE. EULA. GILLEANNE. ISSA. HANI. THERESE. SM. JP. MITCH. KUYA RANDY. MA'AM KRISHNA. JO. DAX. ATE NINS. PEBBLES. EMPEE. HANNA. MAXENE. ISABEL. CARLA. SAKKI. MOIRA. PAZ. SHAR. ANNA. ANDIE. MA'AM SARAH. CAITHLINE.

Sorry if I forgot to mention you. >.<

EWWMYGASH. I am officially SIXTEEN YEARS OLD. =))

Last day of being 15

2008-10-11T20:29:00.004+08:00

Tournament at Holiday. Had lotsa food. Angel and Kim went. Hannah was my partner. Took lots of pics. Ate lots of food. I sweat all the food out (lol). I still lack sleep. I'm so lazy to blog. AND! I got a gift from Ate Renren, Joey and Ate Danica! WOHOO.

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PICSSSSSS.

Here's the trio's gift to me: THE SHIRT! It says OBEY but it if you look at it initially, you'd think it says OBET. Obet's my dad's name so it looks like the shirt says, "OBEY OBET". LOL. =))

OBEY/OBET. :>

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LESS THAN THREE HOURS LEFT.

RAINBOW! RAINBOW!

2008-10-10T21:24:00.011+08:00

I think it's been a week since I last blogged.. The whole week was full for me due to Sci Camp preparations. From costumes to props to EVERYTHING. Michael and I went to NCCC Uyanguren last Sunday to buy stuff. Then Monday.. I saw some of my exam grades and I didn't really care since I was too preoccupied with sewing and stuff. Haha. Tuesday was an adventure for me. Abbey and I went to NCCC Centerpoint to buy some stuff needed for the props. We left school at around 5pm and got back at 6:30pm. Then, I went to Ate Therese's house to make the other props and costumes. I was with Ate Dora, Ate Veyellah, Ate Dazo, Roshella, Karen, Michael and other people. Dinner was fun since Roshella told us a whole lot of crazy stories as in MY GAWD I COULDN'T STOP LAUGHING WHILE EATING. Then, we started making the props in the "tree house" then my dad got me at around 10:30pm. Wednesday was shortened periods and I still found myself preoccupied with making the costumes. By that time, I was done with Aimee's and Che's costume and I started working on Ate Veyellah's. I went to NCCC Mall to uhm buy more cloth and other things, then bought ID cords and had our IDs laminated. It was an adventure since I was "speed shopping" then suddenly the lamination took forever. Geeeez, at least we got the lamination for 20 pesos per ID rather than the 25 pesos that the seniors thought.. Then I got back at school at around 5pm and did more stuff. Had Manong Nick drop me off at Kopi Roti then I ate dinner there then got home at 9pm. I worked on Ate Veyellah's costume until.. 2am? Lol then I slept. Then, Sci Camp came.

DAY ONE.

I won't discuss anything in much detail but here are some highlights of the day:

- I seriously had no idea what to do in our cheering. Hahaha! =)) So, I just followed whatever Lua did and, it kinda worked!
- THE MASCOT PRESENTATION PWNED. I really liked Blasslila's mascot, specifically Kami's costume. It was really, really cute. Hahaha. Our mascots were really lively with the big giraffe head.. XD I found it amusing, much.
- Errr.. Don't remember the discussion bits.. All I remember is that it was about GPS O_O
- The Wheel of Fortune bit wasn't really fortunate when it came to me. I felt sorry for Chris since I kept on yelling and spanking him when I was frustrated when I didn't get the answer. He was my punching bag. HAHAHA. Sorry Chris. XD
- It rained really, really hard that night. We all thought that the night show was going to be cancelled. I think it rained from 3-7pm. Good thing the rain stopped and the show went on!
- Preparation time was like, mayhem. Running to this place and that place. Sewing this and that. Fixing this and that. Put make up on this person and this person. The people started practicing for that dance, and it was good.
- SHOWTIME. HANDS PLAY. SIMPLY MARVELOUS!
- Sayawit. Modra's dance was chilling to the spine. Great choreography. Then Blasslila's dance was well polished and did I mention that the costumes were really nice? Hahaha. Vermelho's dance was Joshua VS Patrick. HAHAHA EMO VS RED FOX. Bezova's dance was unique since there were aliens, with the space ship. Grigio's dance was good as well since they have Oasi's president there. Amarillo's dance stood out for me (I'm not being biased here. haha) since the music was modern with the hiphop songs and the dance steps were a fusion of modern and jazz (?). Also, the singers in the other subcamps portrayed the good side but our singer (GO CHE!) was an evil fairy. HAHAHA. Did I mention that Aimee's dancing with the toes shoes and all made the crowd go O_O? It sure did. Try watching her dance up close. It gives you goosebumps. Also, the evil ones wore masks which made everything more eerie. Kinda like what the Jabbawockeez wear.. Anyway, kudos to the dancers and the crew for a job well done! THE COSTUMES DIDN'T MALFUNCTION! WOHOOOOOOOOO!
- Major vanity after the dance. Period.
- I slept at the girls quarters rather than sleeping outside. Supposedly, Hannah and I were going to sleep in my tent but I was too lazy to set it up. Also, demerits were given to those who weren't with their subcamps so I just went to our quarters instead. It was FUN, I swear. All of us exchanged scary stories to the point that all of us got scared and screamed when Kuya Rey entered the room suddenly to check on us. LOL. Then we shared a lot more stuff which only us Amarillo girls are to know.. XD The funny thing was..

*Ma'am Janeth opens the door*
*All of us pretend to sleep*
"Mga best actress kay mo ba! *laughs*"

Ma'am Janeth did that lots of times and uhm, we ended up sleeping at around 1:30am since we had to get up by 4am to take a bath and get dressed. :)

DAY TWO

- Got up at 4am to take bath. Good thing I was done taking a bath when the water ran out. Hahaha.
- Our wake up call was rock music played by the band from the Seniors. Morning jamzzz!
- Morning exercise led by Sir Mancao. Unfortunately, it didn't make me any thinner. HAHA.
- During breakfast, we had a new cheer! IT'S SO CUUUTE.

AMARILLO HEADCOUNT!
One little two little three Amarillan
Four little five little six Amarillan
Seven little eight little nine Amarillan
Ten Amarillans more!
*then it goes until 53.. haha*

- Had a seminar about space technology. What was cool was that the one conducting the seminar was an astrophysicist.. who was a Jesuit priest as well. Wow.
- AMAZING RACE BLUES. I got pwned at the started of the race. I was running in the cobblestoned pathwalk and it was quite a stampede. Then out of nowhere, I felt someone push me and I fell left side of my butt flat on the rough surface. Got some scratches here and there and a really icky wound on my ankle. Wow to the person who pushed me, thanks for the great advanced birthday gift. Now if you were an Amarillan then I could forgive you. If not and if you were a freshman or a sophomore, BEWARE. I might hunt you down in school. Depends who you are of course.. Wtf I'm nuts. There's no way I could find out who pushed me. Grar. Wait, did I mention that the left side of my butt hurts because of that fall? I have a badminton tournament tomorrow and how am I supposed to run? Wish me luck with that.
- Some stations in the race were ANNOYINGLY FUN. Especially the ones with mud and water. I kinda found the mud part challenging since I had an open wound and when the mud covered my wound, it hurt really really bad. The water part was funny! Hahaha we all had to squat and walk while our eyes were closed.. Only the first person was allowed to have his or her eyes open. But even if it was painful to the thighs, it was really really FUN!
- Took a bath at lunch time then ate.. I found myself sleeping again during the seminar in the afternoon. Like duh, I only slept for two hours and I was tired from all the running. Hahaha.
- CLOSING CEREMONY. All I can say is that Blasslila Corvus got most of the awards thus they were hailed as the best subcamp. Kudos to Blasslila and Kuya Gok! At least Amarillo won the Asean game thing and Kuya Pot won best camper. XD
- Seniors started to get emotional since it was their last Sci Camp. I'll wait for that moment to happen to me next year. Lol.
- Mom got me at school at around 7pm. Went to SM to eat dinner then fetched Dad at Pia's Cafe then went home.

Now, here are the reasons why I love our Sci Camp this year:

- All the hyperactive people went to Amarillo. Hahaha!
- Our leaders let us do our own thing then they appreciate our efforts, which is a good thing.
- UNITY AND LAUGHTER. Period.
- Made friends with other people! Hahaha.
- Merge with Modra Cygnus! MODRAMARILLO! :]
- Bonding moments with the Amarillo girls. I'll miss you all. D:

KUDOS TO MATH SCI FOR THE KICKASS SCI CAMP! WOHOO!

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Pics pics pics!!!

AMARILLO!

Kuya Rey and Airish! XD

Sam (aka Ma'am Mendoza's kid). He's so cute that I just had to place his pic here!

Jeth?

I made that dress..

..and the gray one here. XD

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TWO DAYS TO GO.

Project Runway (?)

2008-10-04T20:03:00.002+08:00

Back from a tiring but productive day. Hahaha.

I got up at around 6am even if I intended to get up at around, 8? Then I ate breakfast then went out for a walk. After walking, hot-oiled my hair, took a bath then set off to Amarillo's meeting at Kuya Dax's house. I went to McDonald's at Damosa since Ate Therese told me that they were there and I was thinking that there were other people from different year levels there. So I came and I noticed that I was the only junior there. Hahaha so awkward. So after that, Ate Weslene, Kuya Dax, Ate Therese and I walked to his house on the other side of the road. When I got there, I saw Michael and mingled with the freshmen namely Jonah, Noree and Aimee. :)

I went there because I'm part of the group that's gonna make the costume and I'm glad that we accomplished something. As a matter of fact, Michael and I are going to NCCC Uyanguren to buy cloth for the costumes. Hopefully I'd be done making the two important costumes by Tuesday night so that I could make final adjustments on Wednesday. Gaaah I'm so excited to make the costume! I'm planning to start tomorrow. Lmao.

After planning, I talked a lot with the Seniors about stuff that they knew, and about stuff that I knew. It's really hard to keep secrets in Pisay since everyone knows everyone. Hahaha I was just really amazed. I bet they were amazed when I told them that I knew what happened to this person when they were in this year and in this section. And I'm pretty sure that they know stuff about my batch as well. That's life, we coexist. In the near future that coexistence could lead to massive camaraderie when we get to college.

We ate lunch there as well and the only thing I ate was rice and menudo. Come on, I hardly eat menudo! The food was really good, and I was full enough to keep my going in badminton training. My dad told me that he'd fetch me by 2pm so I left already.. By the way, Kuya Dax! Thanks for the food! Forgot to thank you a while ago. >.< I got to Holiday and I was Ate Dan, Darlene, Hannah, Topet and the others there. I was talking to them then suddenly Angel came out of nowhere. HAHAHA I just reacted normal (like duh, I see Angel in class everyday.. lol). I bet they were expecting that I'd have an "ATE DANICA" reaction when I saw Angel since it's been a long time since she trained. And yes! Earvin (not Earvin Go) is back in action! Finally someone to fight with.. Hahaha. Kidding, kidding. Training was okay I guess. I think we won in all the games we played.. I'm not sure. I guess I'm too damn lazy to tell stories today.. Tournament next week! And I'd be missing Ramayana practice. T_T Oh well.. At least there's food!

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People responded to my provocative blog entry in Multiply last night.. Yay!

Uh yeah you can't read any of the comments there but generally, it says that I'm not alone in feeling that way and the like. If you're curious what my blog said, here it is:

It's been a long time since I blogged here. I just thought about it after revamping my almost dysfunctional Multiply page.

Junior life. As of now, we have 17 months to go to graduation. Anyone excited?

Guess what. I'm kinda excited.

I just cannot stand my life as a Junior sometimes. It's been an emotional rollecoaster for me ever since classes have started. I don't know if me being emotional is brought about by stress, but it could be a factor. Anyway, I noticed that my social life has been from up there to down there. I haven't been interacting that much with people. I usually choose to sit down and listen to my iPod while staring at nothing. If I do start to interact with people, I usually end up being out of place. I'm pretty sure that I'm out of place since I couldn't relate to the topic or anything. I'm usually left out when it comes to TV shows, music, and other things. I don't usually go out with friends that much since I'm preoccupied with badminton on weekends. I could skip badminton once in a while. The thing is, no one really asks me to come.

I don't blame anyone. I know I am a boring person.

Sometimes I wanna get mad at some people but I can't. Why? The good things they have done to me overshadows my anger towards them. One day I'm mad, the next day I'm okay. It's useless when I'm mad. It doesn't even matter to anyone.

Thing here is, I'm finding it hard to find someone to trust. I "miss" some of my friends who actually go to the same school as I do. As much as I want to tell them everything that's been bothering me and what's going on, I don't because I know it wouldn't make any sense to them. I'm a person with a deranged mind but still is functional. Ironic, I know.

And now my birthday is in nine days, my wish is simple. I wish that all my loved ones would celebrate my birthday with me because they want to, and not because they are obliged to. If you don't want to come, fine then don't even if it hurts me.

Sorry for being emotional. Just had to get it all out of my chest.

I remember my dad telling me that Librans are hard to read. They won't talk to you for several days then they'll suddenly talk to you. I am like that, seriously. I have these days when I don't like talking to some people because I just don't feel like it even if I have nothing against those people. My personality is similar to weighing scales, just like Libra's symbol. I find it hard to weigh the appropriate intensity of my emotions in some situations. To Librans out there, are you like me in that aspect? Just curious..

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EIGHT DAYS LEFT.

Liberte!

2008-10-03T20:25:00.005+08:00

It's weird why I chose to change my layout into a Hello Kitty one. Hay, the memories of my childhood and Happy Meals in McDonald's. Lol.

It feels sooooo nice that exams are finally over. I could stop worrying about passing Statistics or Bio. But I'm expecting that next week will be hectic since the seniors in my subcamp asked me to help out with the costumes of the dancers. That means, I'd be uhm.. sewing clothes. And I'm expecting that our research proposal will be returned to us next week for further revision. Looks like the stress isn't over yet. It's just, lessened and less "pressurized" (wtf?).

Let's talk about the exams.

Statistics was, duh.. Not easy, not hard but I'm not expecting a good grade. I already accept the fact that I suck at Stat and I'm not really bothered by it. Either way, I'm expecting that my grade this quarter will be lower.

English was okay, but time consuming. Not expecting a good grade either.

Comsci was easy, but time consuming as well. After passing my exam paper, it was like WHEW. A jolt of relief up my spine.

I ate lunch at the classroom with Grace and the others and Angel and I prepared for the auditions. The auditions was really entertaining to us. It was supposed to be us crew members who will be in the audition venue but it ended up that more than half of the batch was inside to watch as well. I won't spill important stuff but we chosen the people who will play SOME roles and SOME roles would need callbacks. Hopefully, we would have the complete list of the cast on Wednesday so that we could start practicing already.

Here are some highlights of the audition:

- When the audition for Kaikeyi (the "mean girl" queen.. haha) was being held, the others knelt down infront of the king but Grace stood out since she was the only one who sat on the desk.
- Sam's audition as Mareecha was just, DAMN. Really good. I love his evil laugh! Sent goosebumps down my spine..
- Arvee's absolute joy when she auditioned for Mareecha. To those who watched, you know why. Hahaha I KNOW YOU SAW ARVEE'S FACE THEN! LOL.
- JVC and Joshua's audition as Ravana. JVC was a lot like the Joker (damn why the hell did Heath Ledger die?!) and it was really, really spooky. Joshua has potential, but I bet he was distracted since Jihad and the other dudes were watching outside.
- THE AUDITIONS FOR RAMA. Jesmar did good since he was comfortable acting with Che. Joshua has potential but he was distracted by the other people outside. Alfred's audition was really hilarious since he auditioned as Rama SPEAKING BISAYA.
- The auditions for Sita in general. We required those auditioning to sing then suddenly act crazy. All of them did great. Hahaha Maxine wasn't acting, it was just like uhm.. It's acting natural as she said. I agree! Hahaha. Peace Max. :) But yeah, all of them did great. Fati's was really creative since she said that the song is really original but then she suddenly sang the National Anthem. Wow. Hahaha.
- What Arvee said during Darlene's audition as Mareecha. YOU ALL KNOW WHAT HAPPENED. ;)

Now even if I said some of my opinions here, it doesn't mean that they're the ones most likely to be chosen. I just stated those auditions up there since it just really amused me. Just wait for the final list on Wednesday, hopefully. Ok? Hahaha.

After the auditions, heard the First Friday mass then went to the subcamp meeting. After that, my carpoolmates and I went to Kopi Roti. I still owe Mikko twenty pesos. Waaaah. Anyway, I ate a Kopi Bun and drank Ice Kopi Jelly. What a great way to reward myself after exams.

Did I mention that my final grade in Bio is 1.25? ALLELUIA THANK YOU LORD!!! Anyway.

I got down at Assumption then walked towards Holiday. I got a haircut and I'm pretty glad with my haircut since my hair finally looks neater and not unkempt. Hahaha I look like a five year old with my haircut. Wanna see it?

See? Told ya. But whatever. I'm gonna let my hair grow until prom season. Hope it gets long enough.

I miss being vain. I miss my cellphone that died on me. Nokia hasn't sent any feedback on how my darling cellphone's current status. I hope it gets fixed soon, and I hope that Smart gives nice cellphones for free. 18 MONTHS TOMORROW! Wohoo. I could finally get my retention!

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Nine days left.

And I better learn how to greet people on their birthdays here. So, Happy Birthday to Alfred Abella and Cher Tuazon! :)

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..WHERE THE HELL WILL I GET A FROG SKELETON?! TABANGI BEEEEH.

Chain messaging

2008-10-02T19:23:00.005+08:00

It's my 60th post and it's ten days till my birthday.

My anti-social status has led me to bug a lot of people nowadays. There's SM (who I always ask to ask me some review questions when studying for exams), and Grace (whom I usually eat lunch with at the classroom). I feel kinda bad for always bugging SM if he's done with studying this subject so if in case he's done, he could review me or something (he's a reliable "reviewer", based on experience). So SM, sorry if I keep on bugging ya. As for Grace, we studied next to each other for the Math exam. Good thing I had my iPod on full blast so that JM's voice won't cause vibrations in my delicate eardums. That way, I could concentrate without actually fighting with someone. Who cares if anyone reads this anyway. Hahaha.

The Bio exam was way way easier compared to last quarter. I still don't get why there were kinds of leukocytes included there.. Anyway, I'm not expecting anything amazing.

Filipino was okay I guess.

PE and Health was like, damn. PE had me thinking way more than the Bio exam. Health was okay but PE, yeah sure. I like sports but I'm not a good referee. Boo at me.

Math wasn't hard, you just needed to squeeze some extra juice out of your brain. Had some attacks of mild to medium mental block and I got most of the answers correctly. I'm not expecting a 1.00 in Math anymore.

Got home early and studied for Stat. I kinda bitched around again since some freshman sent a group message and I got real pissed off so I sent a group message back and she just kept on apologizing to me. At least now she's kinda guilty of what she done. No major harm done there but, gawd those group messages are CHAIN LETTERS and highly useless. It's okay to send a GM like, "Powerpoints for Bio here.." and the like. But chain letters? I might chain someone instead. I know it was wrong for me to be brash and rude but I just had enough. I know I disturbed some people (since my YM list is very very unorganized) and I'm really sorry about that. Anyway, Liana already told me that she told some other freshman to stop sending GMs since it's was getting annoying. Thanks Liana! :)

So it's Stat, English and Comsci (BURNNNN) for me tomorrow. Better start with English, NOW. And Ramayana auditions tomorrow. So people involved, be there and be prepared. Hahahaha.

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Ten days. Ten days. Ten days.

Disaccharide

2008-10-01T19:56:00.008+08:00

I'm still on nerd mode but I'm on little break now. So, why not blog?

I was planning on jogging this morning but I ended up not doing so because I was to preoccupied with studying Math and watching Gossip Girl at the same time. How do you study while watching TV? I guess it's similar to studying with chatting with a friend on YM. Only difference is, you gotta look at the TV once in a while then suddenly stop studying when there's a really important scene to watch. Good thing is, my parents didn't really mind me watching TV while studying. Ever since I entered high school, my parents never really cared about my study habits. They do remind me once in a while to start on my Research paper while it's early or to start studying the subjects that I have difficulty with but they never seem to mind about my grades. My parents just tell me all the time that they don't mind whatever grade I get as long I don't regret not studying hard enough, except if I get a substandard grade then that's a different story. And yeah, still got that Singapore thing in my mind. Just wanna give it a shot. Anyway.

I studied Math yesterday afternoon and during the morning today then I studied Bio from around lunch time until 3pm. Then I studied Filipino, PE and Health right after. Then, I bummed around for a while.

Oh, that reminds me. It's October 1 today. Happy Independence Day to China and Happy Hari Raya to the Moslems. Good for them, they have a reason to celebrate and be glad. I don't have any reason to be excited about my birthday, which is in eleven days. It's just like any other day, except that you're another year older and you start to have another reason to worry about premature aging.

Just a random thought. What if they got Leighton Meester to play Bella Swan and Chace Crawford as Edward Cullen in Twilight the movie? I mean, Leighton's a brunette like Bella and Chace could pass for a vampire if someone taught him how to make a scary face like what Robert Pattinson does. Come on, ROBERT PATTINSON SCARED MY MOM WHEN SHE SAW THE TWILIGHT WALLPAPER I HAD ON MY PC. That's how scary he is as Edward Cullen. I just thought it would be kinda cool to have it that way.

Okay back to me being another year older. They say a girl's sixteenth birthday is always sweet. It would be sweet for me if I got to get something for myself. But, the sweetness they mean is the experience. Every birthday I celebrate, I just want my loved ones to be there to make everything perfect. Add a lot of good food then I'm better off. Therefore, my sixteenth birthday will be sweet since as I said before, Ate Renren and I talked Joey into bringing two gallons of ice cream. One for her, one for me.

I hope my birthday this year is naturally sweet (no love life shiz in that ok?). I hope I won't get a dose of aspartame. I WANT SUCROSE.

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One more nonsense group message Freshmen and you're getting it from me (ok I won't be that scandalous). You guys know who you are. Good thing one of you had a good heart to apologize.

Mole fraction

2008-09-30T18:27:00.002+08:00

There is no such word as 'MIROTIC'. So, what does that mean now? Just some made up word? Hahaha. WHO KNOWS. Lemme ask YunHo or JaeJoong.. Okay I am seriously dreaming awake.

*bet no one reads this anyway*

Life is still a bore as usual. I haven't been socializing that much now that it's exam week. I've been on nerd mode ever since Saturday morning and it feels awkward to feel that way even up to now. Well, there aren't any classes tomorrow so that means I have more time to study and sleep. I am supposed to be playing badminton tomorrow but.. I'm staying home to study. We got 4 subjects on Thursday and the subjects are kinda heavy. PEH and Filipino are easy to get through but about what Math and Bio? ESPECIALLY BIO. So much stuff to remember! Then there's Stat on Friday, as well as the Chem lab report. OKAAAY. I need to stay home tomorrow and stay focused. I know I am really grade conscious but I've been this way ever since preschool. My grade consciousness just had been intensified ever since I entered high school. Sheesh.

Now, a run down of the exams.

Physics - Okay, I guess. Way better than last quarter. I am around 95% sure that my answers in the problem solving part are correct. As for the multiply choice, blah. Used up my luck on that.

Socsci - As usual, what I study doesn't really come out. Some do come out, but not all. I'm expecting a minus 15 or more in the exam.

Chem - WOW OH WOW, Chemistry. I think I got more than 20 items correctly in the multiple choice but I just randomly chose my answer for those items that I had no idea about. As for the problem solving bit, I'm pretty sure about some of my answers but even if I have a wrong answer, I hope Ma'am GG gives points for at least trying to answer the problem. At least I'm not alone who feels this way. HAHAHA.

After the exams, I ate lunch with Che and Grace at the classroom then studied a bit for the Math exam on Thursday. Then, took a jeep to SM to meet my dad and went home. Watched some movie called Police Academy (which was really hilarious) with my dad on HBO then watched my Gossip Girl DVD. I'm still stuck at Episode 6 and I want to watch more but I feel lazy. Hahaha. I'll just resume watching after the exams.

Along with that, I plan to get a haircut since my hair's a mess and do some retail therapy. At least go window shopping.

I seriously need to get out more. I'm getting duller and duller with each passing day. *slumps*

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Woah. 12 days till the big ONE SIX. I just plan to spend my birthday with family and friends, and food of course. And if I receive birthday money from my dear aunties, maybe I'd get another pair of brightly colored pants (how about purple.. or green? haha), or maybe change my perfume. Definitely change my perfume. I want Lacoste Dream of Pink since it smells sooooo good. But if I don't have the cash for it, I might as well settle with Victoria's Secret. I plan to buy the small bottle only. Hahaha.

I'm not expecting a lot of birthday greetings on my birthday. I sometimes have this feeling of being neglected and all alone and isolated. Maybe it's because I don't really hang out with people that much anymore. I usually find myself sitting in one corner in deep thought, not interacting with people. Mainly I do that is because I don't really relate with the topic being talked about so I stay away so as not to embarrass myself and not to make myself look "trying hard".

And maybe another reason is that of age difference. I am one year older than my batchmates since I took the 7th grade back in Manila. It's either I am more mature than them, or maybe it's them who's more mature than me. Either way, it's the same. One is more mature than the other. I don't blame my batchmates at all. It's just an observation I made.

And I'm not expecting that I'd be dancing with a guy on my prom night except my assigned partners. Period.

I think my junior year's not gonna be as fun as they said it would be. But, you never know if I'm gonna be surprised or anything.

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I miss talking to Ate Danah, Bell, Hoiching and Zoe. Hope I get to talk to them again soon. :) I miss you guys so bad.

Sandwiches

2008-09-28T20:13:00.007+08:00

Life's a bore, I know. Well, it is if there's exams. But I still manage to have a bit of fun.

Exam season this week and I'm expecting my eyebags to grow bigger and puffier. I think I heard somewhere that eyebags are caused by water retention due to stress but my dad told me it's cholesterol. According to my dear father, his classmate during high school who's now an eye doctor/cosmetologist (kinda like that) told him that eyebags are filled with CHOLESTEROL. I seriously have no idea who to believe now, but I'm more on the water retention bit. Anyway, back to exams.

Physics, Social Science and Chemistry on Tuesday.

Eid on Wednesday so no classes!

Biology, Filipino, PE&Health and Math on Thursday.

Statistics (GRARRRR), English and Computer Science (BURN) on Friday.

So uhm, I won't be blogging until Friday I guess.. Or I'll blog on Wednesday night since I'd be studying the whole day.

Wait, did I just say that I was gonna study?! O_O

I. Cannot. Believe. I. Said. That.

Anyway, all I did today was study and tutor some people online. I also studied yesterday and uhm, played badminton as well. But I managed to finish Physics, Chemistry and Socsci today. I plan to review on those three again tomorrow night then I'd work on Math, Statistics then Bio. I'll just use half of my luck on Comsci.

So uhm, I'm about to print Hannah's research paper and..

hannah torralba: macey!! ok lng saio kung magpaprint kme research? we will pay you kahit magkano and will refill you with bond paper. we are inkless. while i am printerless. ol we need is sum1 to print

macey mapanao: uhm. pila ka page?

macey mapanao: ilagay niyo ako sa acknowledgments niyo ha. yan bayad niyo.

hannah torralba: NO PROB!!

macey mapanao: ilang pages muna? haha

hannah torralba: hindi abot 30 but ilan maprint mo?

macey mapanao: basta less than 30

hannah torralba: ok.w8 lang

hannah torralba: macey! 29 macey mapanao: sige.

hannah torralba: TENX!!!!

hannah torralba: TENX!!!

..therefore I conclude that Pisay students would do anything to pass their research papers on time. At least there's one research paper that has my name on the acknowledgments. WOHOO!

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All For Love is playing in my head over and over again. At least it gives me a sense of hope and peace. <3>

Forever holy is the Lord, King of Glory, King of ALL.

Shizzzzzzz

2008-09-26T19:38:00.002+08:00

So I'm back after a hectic week huh? Feels great to be back in business!

As I have said before, our defense was scheduled on Wednesday. But guess what? We ended up having our defense yesterday. To be honest, I wasn't really that nervous for the defense since I had my thoughts gathered up already but according to SM, it was just like having a consultation with your research adviser. And yeah, it was like a consultation. We first presented our powerpoint with some explanations and then Ma'am Daryl started to ask us some questions and we had to answer them in straight English. Hahaha then Ma'am Daryl started to make some suggestions on how to improve our paper. First was we had to synthesize two of our objectives into one and the other was to maybe uhm, change our method from Voronoi Diagram into the MCLP (it's Maximum Coverage Location Planning?) model, just like what SM's group used. So that means, more stuff to add in the RRL? Hahaha. But Ma'am Daryl told us that the due date of the revised proposal is 5 days after she returns our 1st draft. So far, she hasn't returned our first draft and I'm hoping that we'll have it around Thursday or Wednesday so our due date would be next, next week. That way, my concentration for the exams wouldn't be disrupted.

Did I mention that I was chosen as one of the assistant directors of our Ramayana play with SM? Hahaha. Thanks Angel! :D

Errr. Let's talk about what happened to me on Thursday.

I admit it's partially my fault and absolute stupidity. I left my cellphone (the Sony Ericsson P910) in the gazebo during PE time. Ma'am Pags allowed us to leave early so I did, not realizing I left my cellphone. So after a few hours of hanging around, I suddenly realized that my cellphone was lost during lunch time. Being the paranoid freak I am, I started panicking and I ran to the gazebo in the ABD where I left my cellphone during the last 10 minutes of our lunch break and started to search for it frantically. Unfortunately, I couldn't find it so I went back to the classroom and Sir Harold excused me for being late due to my frantic searching. During Math class, I started to bombard my lost cellphone with text messages to return the cellphone to me using my other phone. After Math was Socsci class and Ma'am Wing allowed me to search for my cellphone while they were having a review for the exam. I asked the guard if he saw my cellphone and he said that he didn't see anything and I also asked the help of Ma'am Debbie. Aside from that, I asked the canteen concessionaires and the students of Proton who were at the ABD but both said that they didn't see my cellphone. My last hope was the janitors but they went downtown to get their paychecks and they would return in about an hour. So while the janitors were gone and I was about to prepare for our defense, I asked Ma'am Debbie to ask the janitors just in case they come back. And yeah, I was crying since I was afraid that my dad would ground me for life if I lost that freaking cellphone. So while waiting for our defense, Nikki came to me and told me that they found my cellphone. I started to jump for joy and the guard came to me and brought me my cellphone. He told me that Sir Joel (the head of maintenance in school) found it. So, I went to Sir Joel and thanked him like crazy and he told me that he found it.. in one of the flower pots beside the gazebo where I left it. And guess what? My cellphone was switched off. Now whoever must have took it was smart enough to hide my cellphone in a flower pot then switch it off so that after classes, he/she could come and take it OR that person really wants to play a joke on my since he/she just hates me to death. Either way, I don't give a damn since all I care about if having my damn cellphone back. Even if I said that I would strangle the person who stole my cellphone to death in the middle of the quadrangle for everyone to see, I think I'd rather not know who did that to my cellphone since I might verbally or physically assault that person in public and make a fool out of myself. So, thank God that my darling cellphone was found. And, lesson learned: NEVER EVER LEAVE YOUR CELLPHONE UNATTENDED. I kinda got scolded by Ma'am Lani and Ma'am Mendoza but, yeah I deserved it real bad. Anyway, I'm just really glad that I have my cellphone back and I hope that whoever is that person who steals things (I'm still not over my 100 pesos!) would get karma-ed. Karma's a bitch, as they say in Gossip Girl (..did they? haha).

ATENEO WON! YAAAAAY! HAHAHAHA. *randomness*

Today was highly hectic for all of us. We had a quiz in Math, Physics and Statistics and a lab exam in Biology. Today is also the due date of one of our Chem lab reports. I'm not expecting a 1.00 this quarter in Math since I have too many mistakes to get a 1.00. Oh well, I guess I have to settle with a freaking 1.25 again even if people tell me it's more than good enough. Come on, I've been stuck with 1.25 for like I do not know how many quarters ever since 2nd year and I have never been close to a 1.00. Now, I'm really close. I computed my grades assuming values and my grade is 1.25. But then if Sir Harold added the 10 points bonus to the quizzes, my final grade would be 95.4%. I need like, 0.1% to make it into a 1.00 since 95.5% is counted as 96%. IT HURTS MAN. Darn, I didn't even get to answer the bonus item in the quiz correctly a while ago, and it was worth EIGHT POINTS. More than what I need. I had a total mental block a while ago, as I always have when we have a quiz in the first subject of the day. I just hope that Sir Harold gives us more bonuses or at least give us a bonus in the exam. Anyway, I better not keep my hopes high so that I won't end up sulking and eating the hurt away. Or I could try my best to make my exam in Math a 1.00 since I know my exercises and homework are 1.00.. WTF I BETTER NOT HOPE TOO MUCH. I don't want to sulk and eat the hurt away. *cringes*

Had a VEP a while ago. Had games, and such. Went to SM right after to do the groceries and went home. Now, I'm too darn tired.

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What the hell did I eat today..

Breakfast - beef and rice
Recess - apples
Lunch - beef and rice
Recess - none
At the mall - shawarma and melon mango shake
Dinner - plums

Diet much? HAHAHA

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TRAINING TOMORROW! And studying. Boohoo. But I'm so excited to train! HAHA.

Molarity and molality

2008-09-23T07:41:00.006+08:00

I was supposed to blog last Saturday, Sunday and yesterday butttttt.. I found myself immersed in school work, stress and attempts in getting a good night's sleep. Then I realized that as long as I wanted to keep my grades up and keep my "social life" running smoothly, I had to give up the sleep. Darn.

I'll just summarize what happened to me while I was gone.

Saturday - I went to Fourplay to watch the tournament there. Hannah wasn't able to come since she was at the beach. All I remember was that Joey and Enzo won out of 3 games, Ate Renren and Ate Ruby won all games so they moved onto the semi-finals, and Topet and EJ won a game. Also, I ate lunch at Edong's with Ate Danica. After that, I went to SM to do the groceries with my dad. Then, home sweet home.

Sunday - Gah, this day was great. After church, we went to Victoria to get some stuff and I randomly found brightly colored pants in the tiangge that were in my size (soooo AMAZING!). I checked them out and woah, they cost PhP 300 ONLY. Even my dad was surprised. HAHA. So, my mom allowed me to get a pair and a matching top (worth PhP 250). Yeah, I got a good bargain so my mom allowed me to get another pair of pants when it's my birthday or on some other day.. Most probably my birthday if and only if I get cash. After Victoria, we went home. I slept then watched like, half of the Ateneo VS La Salle game then went to the laundry, then back home. YEAAAAAH ATENEO WON!!!!!

Monday - Found out that lack of sleep could make a person gain weight more and be more emotional rather then being rational. No wonder why I have those emotional fits. I tend to be really cranky when I'm tired or stressed out. And unfortunately, those moments bring out the bratinella in me. Anyway, we practiced for our defense and I got our powerpoint for the defense from JB. A bit of editing, and we're done. Now all we have to do is PRACTICE, which we will do later.

Now you're wondering why I'm blogging in school eh? Let's see.

We have nothing to do this Comsci period and I most likely have zero time for other things later at night so, I blog right now. Tonight, I plan to practice for our defense on my own, read and reread our proposal over and over again, and maybe start studying for the exam. Exams are next week and my grades are going down. Well, not all grades. I'm doing well in Math and I'm doing my best to make my grade 1.00 this quarter. But, I'm really really expecting that my grade in Statistics, Chemistry, Filipino and Research to go down. That's like, FIVE UNITS downward. Maybe I could maintain my Chem grade if I got a 1.00 in my exam and in my lab reports.. Or if I get a good grade in our bonus quiz in Stat.. Or if I get a good grade in the defense and final research proposal.. As for Filipino, I'm not expecting anything amazing.

I find English easier than Filipino, and I bet a lot of you people would most likely agree with me. I speak Taglish (NOT Tagalog.. it's a dead language to me.. haha) more often than English but I write in English better. And yeah, I find it easier to read in English. Believe it or not, I passed Filipino class back in 1st year and 2nd year without reading Noli and El Fili. I just read those Taglish summaries online and voila, I passed. Reading a page of Twilight or any English book would take me about, 2-3 minutes but it would take me 20 OR MORE minutes to read a single page of Noli or El Fili. I know, I'm Filipino, but I suck at the native tongue. Sorry, sorry. But, I'm not alone! Ha, ha, ha.

Okay, I accidentally corrupted my file that contained my quiz in Comsci. Good thing Sir got to check it already. Whew! *randomness*

Due to my busy schedule, I haven't been taking pictures with my dear cellphone. Well, I did take some pictures but I didn't have the energy to place them here somehow. Oh by the way, my cellphone died. How? I dropped it last Saturday. I always drop my cellphone but it still works. However, my luck ran out this time and when I place the battery back inside my phone, boom. It couldn't read my SIM card. It would function without the SIM card like I could use the camera but, a cellphone is not a cellphone without a SIM card. So, I'm stuck to using my dad's old Nokia 8890 (yeah that tiny silver phone) and my SE P910. Fortunately, I might get a new phone next month (just in time for my birthday!) since my Smart plan could give me a new phone 18 months after getting my current cellphone. I got my Nokia 6288 (the one that died) last April 4, 2007 so.. 18 months after is October. Perfect! I hope they give out a free phone that has a nice camera (meaning more than 2 megapix and the flash works well at night). I'm hoping that they give out those cellphones that have Cybershot cameras so that I don't need to beg for a digicam, even if I want one. Also, it is possible that Smart would give a laptop rather than a cellphone. Cool huh? But, my dad said that laptops are cheaper than cellphones nowadays so he allowed me to get a new cellphone (the free one, of course) and he'd get me a laptop most probably next year. As for the digicam? I really want a Canon DSLR since I'm considering photography as a hobby and I want to take pictures with all the light effects then post it on Deviantart. Dad said that he'll think about it but he told me it's more appropriate if I get a camera when I'm in college so that I could ask my ninong to teach me how to take good pics, since he teaches photography at some university. I just forgot where.. Gaaah, so much for wishful thinking. But of course, my top priority is the free cellphone. Then the laptop (FOR RESEARCH!). Then the camera.

I'm thinking about asking for the camera as my graduation gift.. Hmmmm.. I'll think about it really well before I start having regrets. But, I don't think I'd be having much regrets in getting a camera like a DSLR since just thinking about taking pictures in Manila makes me ecstatic.

Speaking of Manila, my mom asked me if I'd be having a week off during sembreak I MEAN ALTERNATIVE CLASSES since Cebu Pacific has a promo that sells tickets to Manila at a more affordable price. I'm hoping and praying that we'd be having a long break so that I could get my butt back to Manila and scour every single mall there. I already have an itinerary, haha! First off, I'd go to Megamall (MY LOVE!!!), Galleria, Shangrila, Rockwell, Glorietta, Gateway, Trinoma, Serendra, Market Market, Mall of Asia, Greenhills, and Greenbelt. Maybe I'd only buy stuff at Greenhills since I kinda mastered the art of haggling already and I know when it's cheaper to buy. Wtf I'm so excited but I'm not even sure if I'm going back home.

So, that's all I'm gonna rant for now. I don't know when I'm gonna blog next.. Boo.

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I think I'll post one pic.

Just look at what Pisay is doing to me. *points at eyebags*
I'll take it as a sign of honor. HAHA.

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19 days to go before the big one six *ehemehemMY16THBIRTHDAYehemehem*.

I'm not excited. Believe me.

Halata din naman

2008-09-19T19:52:00.000+08:00

I still find myself listening to Westlife over and over again.. Their songs are boyband-ish but not that cheesy like the Backstreet Boys.. So amazing.

Let's summarize what happened today before I rant.

Exercise during Math. Composition again in Filipino. Lesson during Socsci. Quiz during Stat. Lesson during Bio. Absolute boredom while waiting for the acting workshop.

Then the acting workshop came.

I was quite starstruck when I met Ms. Mia Gutierrez since she got to work with Laurice Guillen, Lino Brocka, JOHN LLOYD CRUZ! Hahaha. I got a lot of substantial stuff from the workshop like if you can't act sad, don't force yourself since it's gonna be obvious anyway. We had this really fun exercise about memory recalling and I pretty much made a fool out of myself. We were made to act out as if we were with someone we loved and uhm, I chose Wonbin out of nowhere (hahaha) then suddenly we were made to imagine that that loved one was in a coffin, dead. I tried thinking that Wonbin as in a coffin, lying in there as a dead corpse but then, I didn't feel any sadness or anything. I was like, "Okay he's dead what a loss now what?". Well I tried imagining my mom or my dad or some of my friends inside the coffin but it still won't work. I tried doing that before but that was during my "emo" moments. Apparently during that time, I still had some sugar rush in my system due to the two donuts I ate for this day. So when we were asked on what we felt during that exercise, I just told them that I imagined myself with some Korean superstar and didn't feel even a bit of remorse when he lay inside the coffin. Yeah I chose the wrong person so next time I try to cry, I'd better think of someone close to me.

Anyway, I got down at NCCC after school to meet my mom. My dad fetched us and we went home. I only drank Nesvita for dinner for some weird reason.

My current state right now is that constant cycle of hating myself for no reason. I have a million reasons to hate myself but I just couldn't say what those reasons are because I'm unsure, lost, unstable..? The fibers in my mind are tangled up in a million knots that are hard to untie. Gah, I need some peace of mind.

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UPDATE ON THE RAMAYANA PLAY.

Auditions will be held for the roles of Rama (the male lead), Sita (the female lead), Ravana (the main villain), Hanuman (supporting role) and Lakshamana (supporting role). Those who won't pass the audition would get other supporting roles.

AND! We need some guys to choreograph the fight scenes, and 7 script writers.

Dunno when the auditions will be held. Hopefully there would be time since the defense is next week. Then there's Sci-Camp. Maybe the auditions could be on Thursday next week. Hopefully. Just before exam week. Then practices would start maybe.. After exam week.

Wtf I'm not even the official director. HAHAHA.

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What did I eat today..

Breakfast - bread and 2 donuts
Recess - Apples
Lunch - Shrimps and rice
Recess - NONE.
Merienda - Penoy and kwek kwek
Dinner - Miso soup and Nesvita

Finally no more donuts here. I could cut off the sugar.

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I'm getting a massage tomorrow after watching Topet and Joey play at Fourplay. HAHAHA. Going with Ate Danica, Hannah and the others. :D

I drove all night

2008-09-18T19:52:00.002+08:00

Another brush of good luck for the day!

I almost got late for class today, again. A while ago, when I was in the covered pathwalk on my way to class, the guard called me telling me that I was late but in the end, he let me go. I observed that there were a lot who were already running but, seriously, what's the use in running if you're late? Even if you run, you're still late. It makes no big difference at all. Hahaha anyway, I got dressed for PE and headed to the ABD for class. Good thing I just got there on time! We had the mixed doubles quiz in PE this time and Marvin's my partner. We won the first game against Abbey and Gerwin (I think it was them.. haha) and we lost against Winona and Jesmar. I have no idea what my grade is, but I think it's not that bad.

Chem class was fun. We had 2 lab experiments. One was preparing solutions and the other was something about boiling points and freezing points. The boiling part was easy but making the ice go lower that 0 degrees was HARD. We constantly dumped salt on top of the ice to keep it from freezing. And yes, I got to pass my Chem lab report a while ago. +5 for me! YAAAY!

Health class went by a bit fast. We presented our stress relieving exercise (which was listening to music), and it was really appropriate for that time since a lot were cramming their Math homework. Did you know that listening to soothing music while eating could help in digestion? Lol, I just read it somewhere. Anyway, we discussed about alcoholism during class and I kinda related to this part. Believe it or not, the first time I got "drunk" was when I was 3 years old in Japan. Since then, I started to drink beer and other alcoholic drinks in very small amounts ever since I was around 10 under parental supervision of course. The last time I had a drink was summer last year during my cousin's 13th birthday party (my aunt gave me some ice cold beer and my younger cousins had this face O_O.. lmao). Ever since then, I have been very, very sober. I guess I'd try to invite my dad for a drink. Haha my dad's not into drinking nowadays. I mean, he does drink during social events but he usually drinks in small amounts (like, one glass of whisky). If my dad and I would have a drink, one bottle of beer would do. Maybe we'd share the bottle to keep it safe. I cannot wait till I turn 18! Ah, the beauty of legality.

Had a quiz in Math after that. The quiz was easy, but time consuming. That's all I could say.. Hahaha.

Socsci class was funny since we did our radio drama thing. Angel and I did Martin Luther. I noticed that the guys did Queen Mary, and other women while the girls did Luther, Desiderius Erasmus, etc. I was really amused by JM's portrayal of Queen Mary with the matching evil laugh. And.. I remember Winona and Edsel portraying King Henry VIII and they said, "OMG Anne Boleyn is SO HOT!" "She has a body like a sand timer (or, hourglass)!". Okaaay classmates gone wild yo!

Research was okay? Hahaha. Ma'am Daryl scheduled us already for our defense and we're the first ones on Wednesday next week. I have no idea when my groupmates and I will practice our oral defense but, I do hope everything goes great. HOPEFULLY. My grades in Research are berserk so I need to catch up. I hope that our final proposal gets a good grade so we could at least redeem our grades.

After classes, I bummed around in school, doing nothing. Got down at Assumption from the carpool, got home, ate dinner, and I'm here now.

OOOOOH. I HAVE SOMETHING TO SHARE!

Yesterday, my dad arrived from Manila right? He told me that he saw some really affordable laptops and he's considering on getting me one. But, my dad told me that he's still watching out if there are gonna be new features and all so he told me to wait until next year. Oh sure, it pays to wait! GAAAAH I cannot wait for my laptop.. That is if I'd really get one.

And I finally have a solution to me not having a digicam during my prom. I'd just borrow my dad's cellphone since it has a really good camera and yeah, my dad already allowed me to borrow it. :D Yipeeeee.

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What did I eat today..

Breakfast - Rice and crabstick omelette
Recess - Apples
Lunch - Pork with rice
Recess - Cream-O and apples
Merienda - Kwek kwek and penoy
Dinner - Pesto with goat cheese

I ate a lot. Darn. I feel sluggish.

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Try listening to Westlife when trying to relax. It works. :) ACTING WORKSHOP TOMORROW!

Voltaique

2008-09-17T20:54:00.003+08:00

Finally done with the Chem lab report.. And waiting for dad to come back from the airport.

Today has been a mix of good luck and bad luck for me. I almost got late for school (along with Earv, Alron and Chris), but I got there on time for the Bio lab activity. We had a urinalysis and uhm, it was funny. Marvin "donated" his urine for our experiment and that meant he would clean the test tubes, since it's his pee. Anyway, we were supposed to test if Marvin's pee had hippuric acid crystals, glucose, albumin and bile. After experimenting, Marvin's pee only had a small amount of glucose which meant he's perfectly healthy. AND YES. Ma'am Tenchavez told us that the +5 in lab reports will only be given if EVERYONE IN THE CLASS passes on the due date. It worked for us back in 2nd year, so I hope it works this time. But that policy would be implemented next quarter.. Hahaha.

Filipino is still a struggle for me as ever. I ended up eating during class and yep, my teacher saw me and I think it's gonna pull my class participation grade down. My grades in Filipino right now have been going down the drain, and same goes to most of my classmates. Hopefully, Ma'am Ines would lower the number of items in the quizzes so I still have hopes in maintaining my grade.. I'm expecting that my Research grade will crash like a plane in a corn field.

HAH! Physics was double period so we had an exercise and a bit of discussion. After being spoon fed by Sir Noel for the nth time, I get the answers correctly now. As a matter of fact, I'm getting the hang of it already and all I need to do is to list down all the formulas I need and all the conditions. I just wish that Sir Noel will cut down the items on that 35 point quiz since I got 20/35 (which is one point from passing..) because I didn't have enough time to finish the quiz. Grar, Physics. Hahaha.

Chem made my light up a bit. COMPUTATIONS ARE BACK! And not much concepts anymore. Well, there still are concepts and stuff to explain but computations are back on the road. I asked Ma'am Gigi if she'd give us bonus exercises and quizzes, and I forgot what she said. BUT, I hope she does.

Math never fails to amuse me, as long as it doesn't involve proving stuff using theorems and the like. I thought that proving in Trigonometry was like proving in Geometry but proving in Trigo is kinda like, proving algebraically, which I highly prefer. I haven't done my math homework so.. I'll do it later.

SPEAKING OF MATH. I found out a while ago that I am a candidate for the Math proficiency award in graduation but I was already eliminated because of my stinking 1.75 in Geometry last year. My grade in Math 1 was 1.5, 1.75 in Geom and 1.25 in Algebra. The grades must not go lower than 1.50 so that I could qualify. I know it hurts that I got eliminated BUT, I can't blame myself either. I suck at Geometry, especially the proving bit. I still have hope in Chemistry, Biology, Socsci and English! I STILL DO! I wish.

Anyway, English class was next and we had a quiz on what happened in the story, Tribal Scars. The story was a bit dragging at the start but it began to spark some interest in me when it came near the ending. It was a very good story and the reason for having tribal scars was very realistic. I know some tribes in Africa have tribal scars since they have this ritual for a boy's coming of age where the boy's sisters ask the other older guys to whip them thus causing scars. But in the story, the tribal scars were created so as the Africans wouldn't be captured for slavery (since the Whites rejected the Africans with blemishes on their body). Cool huh? Also, Ma'am Annie showed to the class our drawings on the main highlight of the story. Some were colorful, some were morbid. Aside from that, we were made to write in our learning log on what we would dare to do once we graduate from Pisay. I said that I'd get more ear piercings and I'd get a tattoo, most probably.

I also got to talk to Ma'am Annie about the Ramayana thing. Well, I'm volunteering myself to be the director and Angel wants to help out so, maybe we could be the DIRECTORS. Hahaha someone to share the fun and stress with. Anyway, Angel and I were planning on having a batch meeting concerning this so that we could assign committees for the props, costume, lights, music and dance, etc. Also, we are planning to hold the auditions for the parts in the play. I'm still gonna research on who are the characters in the story. I hope that we have enough batchmates who are willing to act and all. HAHAHA I'M SO EXCITED FOR THE PLAY!

After school, went to SM, bought something at NBS, took a taxi home, did my Chem lab report, took a bath, ate dinner, and now my dad just gave me my dry fit shirt that he bought for me in Manila. YESSSS! Another dry fit shirt! I already have one from Nike, and this new one's from Adidas. Cool, cool. Next up: YONEX! If I have extra cash..

Speaking of cash, I know everyone's heard of the bankruptcy of the Lehman Brothers in the USA. Well, one bank that's affected is BDO and uhm, I keep my savings there. I admit that I kinda have a big amount of savings there so I'm so scared of losing my cash. So, my mom told me that we're gonna get all my cash and we're gonna move it to BPI. Great, so when are we gonna do it? Hopefully, TOMORROW. Or as soon as possible.

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What did I eat today..

Breakfast - Penne
Recess - Apples
Lunch - Adobo with rice and Gatorade
Recess - An apple and cookies
At the mall - a brownie
Dinner - Penne

Shoot. I ate too much. That's the bad effect when our maid forgets to pack some water in my lunch bag. Water, is, a, MUST.

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Time for my Math homework.

Kaleidoscope world

2008-09-16T20:09:00.003+08:00

Everything seems so silent since my dad's in Manila right now. Hahaha.

Started the day with groggy eyes and constant whines. Believe it or not, I slept late again last night. I was expecting that I'd get some good ol sleep but NOPE, not much sleep. I recall asking my mom if I could be absent from school today and she said yes. It's great that my parents allow me to skip school as long as I wanted to ever since I started high school. They must have finally understood how stressful it is to be a student in my alma mater. But you know what, I still end up going to school since skipping school is really hard. Anyway, I bummed around during Comsci..

Did I mention that I saw a picture of bone marrow in Francis Magalona's Multiply (yeah, he's my contact on Multiply!)? Hahaha. Also saw a bag of platelets there as well. I dunno, I just got intrigued with the platelets and bone marrow because of Biology class. By the way, heard Francis M's on chemotherapy. So all I could say is that, I hope that he'll get well soon so he could make some more good music! Lalala kaleidoscope world.. :) Anyway.

Got lucky during the quiz in Socsci.. TOTALLY SUCKED IN THE CHEMISTRY QUIZ.. Had a headache during the Math exercise because of that freaking bonus item, and got giddy during English because of 'em fake zebra stripes.

The SG was a bit more than the usual. Ma'am Annie told us that 10 members of the SG would join an acting workshop this Friday with other members of CAMP and Oasioas. The one who will be teaching us is the actress Mia Gutierrez (she's the one who played John Lloyd Cruz's mom in Tabing Ilog). As for me, I have no idea who the hell she is but from what Ma'am Annie told us about her, she might have been really famous to some other generation. Well, I'm looking forward to the acting workshop! Can't wait to yell at people.. Kidding, kidding.

On the way home, I rode a jeep going to SM since my mom told me to go there. I was with SM and JVC then. I asked SM to help me solve the freaking bonus item in Math and voila, I solved it when I was inside the jeep! I was highly euphoric at that moment so I started laughing like a fool and all. Also, we got to talk about the Ramayana thing. I already placed my bets on who could play Rama, Sita and Hanumman (the monkey god!). Anyway, after that I got down at SM, bought something at NBS, bought a mango avocado shake and went home with my mom and our maid.

Finally got to read the stuff for English and Filipino. Yey, now I blog.

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What did I eat today..

Breakfast - spaghetti
Recess - apples and a cheese sandwich
Lunch - burger steak and red rice
Recess - Cream-O and Cloud 9
Dinner - Penne and the mango avocado shake

Minus the sweets and I'm good to go!

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Dad just called in and he asked this absolutely LAME favor.

"Macey, sabihin mo nga kay Mommy na manood ng Iisa Pa Lamang tapos ikwento niya sa akin yung ano nangyari mamaya.."

Wow. Fathers, are, just, so, unpredictable.

Just a stranger in the bus

2008-09-15T19:46:00.003+08:00

Finally got home from a looooong day in school.

I'm glad to announce to the whole wide world that my dear groupmates and I managed to cram our full research proposal in less than an hour. Hopefully by now Ma'am Daryl's reading our paper.. Hahaha. Now that's over, I could finally have some sleep since I'm over with my Math homework. I guess this sums up my day today, eh?

Oh wait. There's more.

During English class, Ma'am Annie told us that the WHOLE BATCH will present the Indian epic, 'Ramayana' in the 2nd Card Giving Day. I was quite skeptical why 90 people would be involved if the only characters are.. Rama.. Sita.. and the monkey. But Ma'am Annie pointed out that we need a big crew. A big crew means lots of people to make the costumes, props, setting, everything on stage. Angel told me that she wanted to direct the play and I said that I wanted to be in charge of the costumes and make-up (hahaha I usually do the make up on my batchmates that present dances in school.. that includes the guys!). It would be really cool to do the make up on the characters of Ramayana since I get to play with black eyeliner a lot, and I get to be creative and stuff. I plan to try out those make up tricks I see in high fashion magazines. Also, Ma'am Annie said that the guy who will play Rama MUST be dark skinned. So dark skinned male Juniors, get ready!

Also, we had this activity in which we wrote our names in a piece of paper then we'd pass the paper around. Then, people would write what they think of you. Here are some of the comments I got often..

Cheerful
Loves to blog
Stylish (?)

and yes, the ever perpetual..

FAT.

I'm really cool with the fact that people tell me I'm fat (like duh, I've heard it for more than a million times already!). But there are those days when I'm kinda emo then I kinda take things into my chest. Today's one of my semi-emo days due to the lack of sleep. Maybe I could catch up on my sleep tonight. Alleluia.

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I bet more than half of the motherland watched the Pinoy Dream Academy finals night yesterday huh? If you did, did your ears bleed when Laarni sang? Sorry Laarni fans.. Her singing just ticks me off. I'm just one person who doesn't like her singing. So, don't mind me. Anyway.

I WAS TOTALLY ROOTING FOR BUGOY TO WIN BUT THEN, okay. Laarni won. Come on. Bugoy isn't the most handsome dude around but hey, he sings so damn fine and he dances so damn good he deserves to win yo! Laarni screams when she sings. And why oh why did Liezel not reach the top 3?

Hahaha my parents told me something on how Miguel got loads of text votes. I don't watch PDA at all but my parents do so I'm pretty updated. Anyway, to those who know how Miguel got those text votes, it's just lame. To some it might be 'desperate times call for desperate measures', but to me it's just being hands down PATHETIC, if what happened was really true.

Did I mention that people were already yelling 'Miguel' when they were about to announce the 3rd placer? Hahaha. Miguel's good looking and all.. He's got the talent.. But he doesn't have the charisma. For me. Hahaha I'm so biased.

So whatever results came out much to your dismay or the other way around, everything happens for a reason. I'm keeping my big mouth shut now. *zips mouth*

BUGOY'S GONNA BE MORE FAMOUS THAN ANY OF THEM, most likely. I'm placing my bet on that.

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I've been backtracking to the '90's during the weekend. I found myself listening to Joan Osborne's song 'One of Us' over, and over, and over again. I first heard this song when Marie Digby made a cover of it in her Youtube and I listened to it.. The song was already familiar to me so I searched for the video on Youtube and I found it. I saw a lot of comments saying that the song was blasphemous and all but, I don't think it isn't. Maybe it was the choice of words that made it sound blasphemous. Specifically this line..

What if God was one of us?
Just a slob like one of us?

God wasn't really being called a slob. The line was pointing out that, what if some person in the real world who's a slob was just God in disguise? Or what if that homeless man in the street was just God observing the way man lives? Or, what if he was that friend that you've just met? Or maybe he's just the guy whom you sat next to in the jeep.

God created us in His own image, as stated in the book of Genesis. Therefore, God is in each and every one of us. I guess that points it all out.

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What the hell did I take in my tummy today..

Breakfast - crab stick omelette with rice
Recess - a brownie and apples
Lunch - fish with rice
Merienda - juice, kwek kwek and penoy
Dinner - ham sandwiches and a slice of papaya

Errr okay. Better cut down during merienda and dinner. MUST. WORK. OUT.

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If God had a name, what would it be and
Would you call it to His face?

I don't know. You answer it for me!

One of us

2008-09-14T15:22:00.004+08:00

While waiting for my dear researchmates to go online, I'll just blog. I wanna call them up already but, I feel kinda bad for bugging them too much. I was so agitated yesterday that I kept on blabbing on how the hell will I do our research during badminton.

Jann made a really good observation. She said, "Ate Danica's a senior and it looks like she doesn't have any problems. You guys are juniors and you're so full of problems!"

So, so, so true. I owe it all to Pisay. Grrr. Anyway.

Badminton training was okay. Had a good sweat, had laughs with people, played City Bloxx on Joey's cellphone, and told everyone that I'm bringing food on October 11 since it's my birthday on the 12th. You know what's really cool? Kuya Cee-em's gonna celebrate his birthday on October 11. TWICE THE FOOD! Hahaha. I told Ate Renren to tell Kuya Cee-em about me bringing food so we could talk about what to bring. Also, Joey promised that he'd bring two gallons of ice cream for Ate Renren and I. HAHAHA. But duh, I'll share the ice cream. I don't wanna make myself even more bloated than now. After training, Dar, Ate Danica and I went to Kopi Roti to eat and talk more.. And relax. I drank coffee as well since I had an all nighter last night due to Research. Their coffee is just DIVINE. For some reason. Not that bitter, not that sweet. Just perfect for a rainy night.

Got up today, went to church and dressed up again. I don't usually dress up that nice during ordinary days but it's more of a requirement during Sundays. I think I better get used to it already.

Now that I'm home for the rest of the day, I just have to sit here and wait. Patiently.

Research, research, research. Such a blessed curse to my life.

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Found this in my now defunct Multiply blog. I originally got it from Ninong Anlex's Multiply.

Host : Saan ang dream vacation mo?
Girl Contestant : Amangpulo.

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Host : What was the very first gift that you gave to your girlfriend?
Male Contestant : Uhmm...taptoy.
Host : What taptoy?
Male Contestant : Taptoy na teddy bird.

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Host : What's your ideal age for marriage?
Girl : Uhm, uhm, I am not sure....
Host : Hindi, kunwari ikaw, more or less.
Girl : Uhmm... more. (Crowd booing... ) Sige, Sige. Less, less....

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Host : If you had a foreigner friend, where will you bring him to showcase the beauty of the Philippines?

Girl Contestant : Bocaue.
Host : Bocaue. Why Bocaue? There are so many places in the Philippines? Why Bocaue?

Girl : Because it's a magnificent place.
Host : Which part of Bocaue?
Girl : The Bocaue Rice Terraces. (Banawe Kaya Yon!!)

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The contestant, presenting herself, talks into the mic and says, "Hi! I'm Cristine Reyes from Bagiuo...," and then she turns around, walks a little, goes back then yells at the top of her lungs! Then shouts, "CITYYYYYYYY!!!!"

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(From Little Miss Philippines)
Host : Anong gusto mo pag-laki mo?
Girl : Maging lalaki po!

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Host : Who's your favorite author?
Contestant : Danielle Steele
Host : Why Danielle Steele?
Contestant : Because, because...Danielle Steele, I like best.

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Host : How would you like me to address you?
Contestant : My address is Project 8, Quezon City.

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Host : What is your best feature?
Contestant : My graduation feature.

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Host : So tell us, why did join this contest?
Contestant : Me, join this contest, why did I. Thank you!

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Host : What do you want to be after you graduate?
Contestant : I want to be a successful Medicine.

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Host : Hindi ito boob, hindi ito tube. Pero tinatawag itong boobtube. Ano ito?
Contestant : BRA!

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Host : What is you favorite motto?
Contestant : If others can't why, why can't I!

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Host : What would you like to say to foreigners?
Contestant : Please come back.

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(From gay beauty contest)
Host : What is the one thing that symbolizes happiness for you?
Gay contestant : (Stops, thinks and then smiles.) EGGPLANT PO!

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Host : What is your typical day?
Contestant : I think Saturday po!

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(From gay contest)
Host : Ano ang advantage mo sa ibang contestant?
Gay Contestant : I think and believe na bilang isang bading......ano nga po ulit yung question?

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Host : Which part of your body is your best asset?
Contestant : (Believe it or not she answered) Si Melanie Marquez po!

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Host : What is your favorite motto?
Contestant : (After a long pause) I don't have a motto eh. (So the crowd starts helping her out. The crowd starts saying "Time is gold! Time is gold!")

Contestant : I have na po. Chinese gold!

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Host : If you were to describe the color blue to a blind person, how would you do it?"

Contestant : That's a very good question. Keep it up. (Then the girl turns and walks away.)

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Host : So, you're vegetarian, what is your favorite vegetable?
Contestant : I like potatoes, tomatoes, beans and what's that? KALABASH?

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Host : What is your motto?
Contestant : Actor! (Everyone starts laughing.) Aay, actress pala.

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Host : Who is your favorite fictional character?
Girl : JOSE RIZAL! (Crowd starts laughing.)
Host : Who is your favorite hero then?
Girl : Hulk Hogan.

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Host : If you were to become a superhero, what would your power be?
Girl Contestant : Uhmm... a bumble bee!

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Host : What is your edge over the other contestants?
Girl Contestant : My edge.... 23 years old.

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Host : What, in your opinion, is the ideal age for marriage?
Girl : Between 24 and 25!

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Host : How do you see yourself 10 years from now?
Girl : I'll be 28.

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Host : Describe your love one in three words.
Girl : Kahit nga po 1 word, kaya ko.
Host : OK, sige!
Girl : In one word, MY LIFE!

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Host : If you were given any special power, what would it be?
Girl : Power of Attorney!

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Host : So you like reading, who's your favorite author?
Girl : Uhmm, Shakespeare.
Host : What works of Shakespeare?
Girl : Hindi ko po alam eh.
Host : But he's your favorite.
Girl : Eh kasi patay na sya eh.

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Host : What is the biggest problem facing the youth today?
Girl : Drugs.
Host : Why?
Girl : Mahal eh!

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Host : What is the essence of being gay?
Contestant : I'm proud to be gay because what is naked is essential to the eye!

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Host : What makes you blush?
Girl : Blush on!

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Host : What is the essence of a man?
Gay Contestant : Testicles!

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Host : Hey, I heard you almost didn't make it, how did you get here? Did you ride or did you walk?
Gay Contestant : Of course, did you ride. What do you think of me, did you walk?

Ok. Hope that made you laugh. HAHAHA.

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Mariel called me up regarding the progress of the Methodology and JB just went online. Great, that's nice to know. Anyway.

I'm really amazed on how people remember Bible verses and what the verses contain. I mean, the only Bible verse I know by heart is John 3:16 since I always see it on people's shirts, on jeepneys, on signs in the streets, from Values Ed class, whatever print media there is available, etc etc etc.

I know what it contains.

For God so loved the world that He gave us His only son
That whosoever believes in Him shall not perish
But shall have eternal life

See? That's the only verse I know. But after my rant last Friday, Mariel left me a message on my tagboard saying that I'd read the Bible verses that she stated and maybe it might help me. I looked it up on the net (er, my Bible is.. somewhere.. I dunno where it is.. I'll go look for it) and here's what it said.

1 Corinthians 13:7
Bear all things, believe all things, hope all things, endure all things

Matthew 21:22
And whatever things you ask in prayer, believing, you will receive

Such simple phrases hit me hard in the chest. I don't have much to say but I do agree. I think I better keep these Bible verses in mind, just in case I go emo again. So to Mariel, thank you so much! It helped a lot. :)

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Waiting, waiting, waiting. Hope we'd get to pass the proposal tomorrow.

28 DAYS TILL MY 'SWEET' SIXTEEN.
O_O

Blah, rant!

2008-09-12T21:22:00.003+08:00

Blah. I'll just rant tonight.

Ever since the start of my junior year, my social life has been slowly deteriorating. I tend be paranoid at often times even if I know I don't have any reason to be like that. I'm usually alone in school, walking around and daydreaming. I still have friends, but they have their own lives so I don't bother them. I don't like interfering with people's lives and messing them up because of my attachment to friends. Sometimes, I think I need to reach out more but I'm stuck in my own little world. So eventually, I don't get to relate to people that much.

I don't like questioning people close to me but sometimes, I wonder if people value me the way I value them. I wonder if they value me like something that could be easily thrown away and forgotten while I value them more than my earphones or my iPod. My ultimate goal in high school was to find at least one friend who'd stick to me no matter what and I could trust that certain friend so much that I don't need to act like this anymore. Unfortunately, I haven't so far. Imagine. In my whole high school life, I've never gone telebabad. I hardly go malling with friends anymore. I'm just, a mess. I don't want to blame others even if I have a lot of reasons to but I choose not to.

Wanna know the reasons why I find it hard to trust people?

Make it ONE REASON. Judgment. People tend to judge me (well not all people. to those who judge me, you know who you are. don't worry, i have no clue who the heck you are) by the way I act or based on what I share to them. For example, I tell some people that I like this guy and then they watch my every move whenever he's around while I'm paranoid and I think that whatever move I make could be taken against me. That's just a scenario to point things out, okay? But seriously. I wish people would be less judgmental to me. Well not just to me, TO EVERYONE. Hahaha I sound like a hypocrite. *rolls eyes and cringes*

Sorry for acting this way. Don't know if this is just a mood swing or if I'm really stressed out. But whatever the matter is, it's not doing any good to me.

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Good news! My mom noticed that my blouse is getting loose. I'm on the right track!

Breakfast - shrimps and rice
Recess - a slice of banana bread and an apple
Lunch - shrimps with red rice and an apple
Merienda - kwek-kwek, Tomi and juice
Dinner - ham and cheese sandwich

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I have every right to get mad at you but I didn't since all the good things that you've done to me overshadowed my anger. Now, think about what good I've done to you and let's see if you have a reason to get mad at me. This is intended for, I do not know how many people.

Can't wait for the open forum before graduation. I'm expecting a lot of bad stuff that people see in me. But, expect something from me. That depends on who you are, of course.

Buenas noches. I need some self improvement. Think about if you need it too.

Smoked salmon

2008-09-11T20:41:00.003+08:00

Finally done with what-to-dos.

I woke up early to my surprise. So if that is the case, then I'd be expected to wake up late tomorrow.

PE was, blah. I didn't play since I already lost in 2 games so I found myself cramming for the Chem quiz and talking to Ma'am Pags and Katya. Chem was fine since the quiz was moved to Monday and we used the whole 2 periods for our lab activity. Also, the lab report is due Friday next week so I have lots of time to procrastinate and cram. Health was fun since they fed us chocolates! They said it could relieve stress but, could it relieve eyebags and dark circles under the eyes? Hahaha. Also, we took this emotional maturity test and I scored quite good. I mean, I'm not super emotionally mature but I am most of the time. But, I do have to improve on some aspects though. I agree to that since I tend to be childish and I don't like thinking like an adult. I'm a teenager for crying out loud. I need to have fun while I'm at it. In two years, I'd be all alone in Manila for college (hopefully). Anyway, after that was a super long quiz in Math and I hope I get a good score this time. Then we watched this super boring documentary in Socsci. It was Ma'am Wing who told us that it was boring so she pretty much allowed us to sleep if ever we got bored. I slept, I think.. Haha. After that was Research class. We finally had our consultation period with Ma'am Daryl and hopefully by tomorrow, we could finish what we have to finish.

After that, I played some detective game with Niña on Kestle's laptop and played volleyball with Barbie, Abbey, Ritz, Tame and Chelo to kill time. Ah, some exercise. I need it real bad. I don't like that sluggish feeling when I don't get to exercise. Great, Friday tomorrow! Badminton on Saturday!

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This just in. My aunt from Canada called my dad and she said that she's visiting us here from January 20 or 21 up to February 7, and she's bringing my cousins and my other aunt. This is gonna be really fun since the last time I saw my 2 aunts and my cousins was last, 1997? Not sure about that but I'm sure the last time I saw them was my last visit to Canada. I'm really excited since I get to hang out with my cousins and there's only three of us. The other two are siblings and are both 20+ years old. I remember my cousin commenting me on Myspace that she really wants to see me since the last time she saw me, I was 5 years old. So, weird. I wonder if they're gonna recognize me when they see me again.

The weird part? They're gonna leave on my prom night. I don't know what to say next. Lol.

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What the buck did I eat today?

Breakfast - beef with rice
Recess - two apples
Lunch - fish with red rice
Recess - ham sandwich
Merienda - kwek kwek, juice and balut
Dinner - ham and cottage cheese sandwich

I ate a lot today since I was tired. Time to cut off the calories tomorrow, if I could.

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO MY EVER SO HUGGABLE SEATMATE, MICHAEL OSTIQUE!
BELATED HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO MY DEAR RESEARCHMATE, MARIEL DU!
AND, ADVANCED HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO RITZ CAHILOG!

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Listening to Haru Haru by Big Bang. Gaaaah so addicting. Oh well, time to do the Chem worksheet..

Nothing to do

2008-09-10T20:03:00.003+08:00

Right now, I don't know what to do.

I think I've gained better focus today compared to yesterday. Well, I woke up with a pretty bad start and I ended up eating a Kopi Bun for breakfast while on the run. Bio was the usual. Filipino was whack since Ma'am Ines made us sing that poem that we made. We didn't get a good grade but, Angel and I didn't really mind it. Hahaha. The quiz in Physics was real easy. Socsci was interesting since we talked about business stuff and all. Chem was dragging the life out of me. I prefer calculating things rather than the concepts and the like. I don't like talking about laws, principles, stuff like that. But that's reality, we cannot escape it. Math was fun since I thought proving trigo functions involved proving Geometry style. It only required algebraic proof so it was okay. English was, so so. The usual I guess. English speaking rule and all.

After the last class, Ma'am Sarah made us repeat our teacher evaluation for one teacher. I guess I don't need to elaborate on that one though. Then after that, I just hung around the classroom while walling using the pingpong ball. Got to chat with Grace and Ritz as well and I promised to teach them how to play badminton. Hahaha that would be fun! I could make a living out of it. Lmao I'm kidding. Then after school, I rode with the carpool and got down at Assumption.

Now that I'm sitting infront of the PC, I'm having second thoughts on whether to revise my RRL or not. I revised some parts already but I think I'll have to consult Ma'am Daryl first for added guidance. I'm not really confident in making the RRL after getting that 10/20. I admit I didn't have the checklist/guidelines with me so I'm gonna get myself a copy of that and uhm, work on my RRL. Just got to chat with Ma'am Daryl recently and she said that I could consult her tomorrow during Research period. We intend to finish it off by tomorrow since Friday is our VEP. Sometimes I with the VEP is like, optional. I mean, us Juniors NEED to finish our research work. I don't want to spend my weekend thinking about my studies and all. I only have 2 out of 7 days to relax. Or, let's make it 1 day out of 7 since Sunday is cramming day.

So if we intend to do it on Saturday.. Hopefully we'd just be doing the final compilation, the preliminaries, appendices and table of contents. That way, we'd just have to print it. Easy as that. Problem is how to fix the page numbers. Ohmygash.

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I ran into Ma'am Tenchavez a while ago and she asked me why I don't like my name and why I don't like being called 'Mary Clare' or, 'Clare'.

Let me ask you this. Do I look like a 'Clare' to you? The answer is obviously no.

The reason why I was named Mary Clare is because in 1992, the statue of Our Lady of Akita came from Japan and my mom prayed to her for a child. Also, my parents prayed for a child to Saint Clare. Their prayers were answered and boom, they had me. I guess the name 'Mary Clare' is okay as long as people know me as MACEY. I get a lot of comments like, "Mary Clare is a lovely name!" and I'm like, "Yeah but it doesn't suit me". And people make fun of me since the Filipino translation of Mary Clare is Maria Clara, who is like, the perfect Filipina. Prayerful, pretty, comes from a rich family, has a hot boyfriend (I know Crisostomo Ibarra wasn't intended to be 'hot' since he lived during the Spanish era but for exaggeration's sake, he's 'hot'), etc etc etc. I do pray but I don't come from a rich family nor do I have a hot boyfriend. And errr, me ain't pretty. Hahaha. Oh, did I mention that Maria Clara's super ladylike? Wow. I'm, so, far, out.

So people send me text messages like, "Oi Maria Clara.. Naunsa naka diha?", or "Pssst Mary Clare, asa na ka run?". WHATEVER. Call me Mary Clare or I'll hex ya. Nah, I'll just be, cringing.

The only person who can call me Mary Clare is my dad. And he only calls me that when he's angry.

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What did I eat today..

Breakfast - Kopi Bun
Recess - Apple
Socsci period - Brownie
Lunch - Chicken with red rice
Recess - Apple
Dismissal - Juice, balut and Piattos
Dinner - Bread and goat cheese

I WANT MORE APPLES!

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In business, a franchise only makes money in its first few months to make it look like it's making a lot of money. But after that, sales go low. I'll keep that in mind.

WHERE'S MY CASH?!

2008-09-09T20:08:00.003+08:00

All I did today in school was sleep, daydream and make my Chem lab report on the spot. Now, let's discussing some pressing issues.

GADGET BAN

So we had our meeting in the SG a while ago and we got to discuss the guidelines for the gadget ban. There was already a proposal of the mechanics of the gadget ban. Fortunately, there was stuff like gadgets are allowed to be used only during lunch time, dismissal time and beyond and common free period in every year level. I guess this is fair enough since lunch time is cramming time/relaxation time, dismissal is freedom (DUH, haha) and it would be fair to all if gadgets would be allowed to be used during common free time. So to the Sophomores, hope you guys find some common free time. HAHA. Unfortunately, there was stuff like considering a Rubik's cube as a gadget (wtf? this is hilarious) and even our sci cals.

But Darlene pointed out the advantage of no sci cals. No sci cal, no Physics. HAHA so true. For more details, read Angel's blog. I didn't remember much details. Harhar.

STOLEN CASH

In this week, more than PhP 2,000 was stolen from three people. I admit I was one of the three people but I'm glad to say that I had the least amount of cash stolen. I just feel sorry for the other two. Anyway, I don't know if there's a kleptomaniac on the loose or if someone is just so desperate that he/she just gets cash right out of our wallets, that are inside our bags. One of victim's bag actually had a PADLOCK and the thief knew the code and got the money. When that classmate of mine checked her money and she found that it was gone, I checked my wallet and boom, my cash was gone as well. That implies that we got our money stolen at the same freaking time. So, Ma'am Mendoza talked to us after Math class and she's proposing that students from other sections would not be allowed to enter our classroom, and we wouldn't be allowed to do the same to the other classes. I'm starting to get a feeling that someone has been spying on us and "studied" where we kept our money and found the right timing to get it. I'm pretty sure the pesky little thief knows us and he/she has other targets. Hopefully, none.

So to whoever stole my PhP 100 (not really a big amount of cash but it means something!), I hope you get karma-ed soon and give me my cash back. You don't want me to jump on top of you and squish you like a big ripe pimple, do ya?

ALL FOR LOVE

2008-09-07T12:21:00.027+08:00

I remember saying a prayer before I slept last Friday night, asking to guide me in making the right decisions.

I got up and I was still having second thoughts on going to the YFC event. After all, I could just skip the games during training and go straight there. I asked my parents if it was okay with them if I'd go there since my friends that they know would be there. I also shared to my mom worries that I had if I went there. I won't mention what those worries are but all my mom said was give it a try and see for myself.

I got to training and Ate Danica and Hannah were there with me, as well as Enzo and Jann. I saw Topet and Edeline there too but they left since they were going to attend the YFC event. I trained, got sweaty and all, got a good work out and I got dressed and waited for my dad. Ate Danica was supposed to join me but she changed her mind at the last minute so I ended up going there by myself.

When I got to the CAP Auditorium, I saw the freshies outside first then I saw Micah by the place where they sold the tickets. I got my ticket and went inside. The first ones I saw were Michael, Nikki and Gilleanne so I sat near them. Also, the others were surprised that I was there since I told them that I wouldn't go when they invited me to come. By the time I came, the acapella performance of Pisay was already done, unfortunately. I thought I wouldn't catch up with the other performances but I got to watch some band and dance performances. They were all good, but my favorites were the performances by SMAD for the band, and PWC for the dance (Bleeding Love!). The other people I saw there were Joey (who sat with his fellow Marisians) and Paolo (who sat with the people from CDSI). I managed to find Topet since Ate Danica and Hannah asked me to convey a message to him, but I didn't get to.

When the worship proper was about to start, there was an interpretative dance which was about good versus evil (something like that) and some story telling by YFC members from other schools. The story telling/sharing was all about LOVE - love bears all things, love believes all things, loves hopes in all things, and love endures all things.

Love bears all things. A student from UIC (his name is Elixir according to Micah.. cool name!) shared his experience growing up as a loner and a quiet and shy person until one day, his parents told him what if he would change. So, he was enrolled into UIC and he first met a friend during some school celebration and from there he started to get out more and be extroverted. He also shared that his band was looking for a band practice place from 6pm-10pm. I could imagine all the fun that I would be experiencing if that happened to me.

Love believes in all things. Joey's batchmate from SMAD (his name is Mikee, according to Micah) shared his story about his studies, specifically in Chemistry. Before sharing his story, he asked everyone of us who has a hard time in Chemistry. Of course, I raised my hand since I found Chemistry hard during the 3rd and 4th quarter of my sophomore year. Anyway, he shared that he wouldn't listen to Chemistry class and his teacher even reported that to his mom. He also said that it's okay not to worry about Chem that much since it's only for one year (lucky for you dude but for us geeks, its 3 FREAKING YEARS). But eventually he had some realizations of some sort and made things right. I forgot the other details.. Boo at me.

Love hopes in all things. This story was the most errr, sentimental of them all. The one who shared was the current president of YFC in Ateneo (I think her name is, Nica?) and she shared that she did almost everything to make her parents proud. While saying that, she broke down and cried but we cheered her on and told her that she could go on and share her story. She told us that her parents often got mad at her since she didn't have good grades and she wanted to be the YFC president to make her parents proud. Unfortunately, she didn't get to go on since she was crying so the former president of YFC came to her and told us that she saw Nica's struggles ever since she was a freshman. I kinda related to her since my parents would sometimes make me feel worthless when I do something wrong, even if I had good grades.

Love endures in all thing. Micah was the one who shared this time. I was expecting that she would share about enduring Pisay life with all the lab reports, RESEARCH (grar), and maintaining the grades to stay in the school. But before that, Micah asked us, "Who here has a hard time in Biology?". AND DUH, US PISAYERS REACTED WITH MUCH VIGOR AND I RAISED BOTH MY HANDS. Seriously, our Biology now is hard. So many terms, processes, stuff to remember. Gah, info overload. I even remember Ma'am Tenchavez telling us that she always gets feedback to give less difficult quizzes during teacher evaluation. I admit, I wrote that. Hahaha. Anyway, Micah ended up sharing about her older sister who engaged in sex before marriage and she got pregnant. Micah also shared that she and her siblings all helped in taking care of her sister's baby even if times were hard for her sister then.

Then the worship part came. The part that was the reason why I was there. I always ask God to control my life and He led me there for a purpose. I don't really remember all the titles of the songs we sang but I'm sure the first song was entitled 'All For Love'. I kinda got the hang of the song even if I wasn't familiar with it and in the middle of the song, I started to break down and cry. I felt guilty for neglecting God even if he kept on showering blessings upon me. I admit that I only pray if I need something like guidance for the exams, and the like but not just to say thank you for the great stuff I've been receiving like a loving family, crazy friends, good food, top of the line education, generally everything that has greater value than earthly things. So, I just sang at the top of my lungs, praising God, as my tears just rolled down my fat cheek, telling God that the hunger pangs I felt were for him and I didn't care about anyone around me. It's my moment with God, so don't mind me.

The next song was another tear jerker since the lines were something like, 'I am yours o God, take me as I am..'. My tears still kept on flowing but I wasn't alone. A lot of us cried as well. So, we're all in fellowship. Nothing to be ashamed of, eh? I remember the next song was Adonai and it was more upbeat so I just started clapping with the others and jumping and dancing around. But, the last song was the best. ONE WAY. It was the highlight of the night since almost everyone knew the song and all were jumping around pointing to the heavens, to God above us who is watching over.

After the worship, there was a raffle for free registration for the Regional Youth Conference and other things. The ones I knew who won were Micah, Pabs Jr, Lavi and the dude from SMAD who shared during the worship. After that, the winners for the contests were announced. And the winners are..

BAND - University of the Immaculate Conception
DANCE - Philippine Womens College

and last but not the least..

ACAPELLA - Maxine's group. :)

After the program, us Pisayers took a picture all together AND keep on cheering. I started to have a feeling that Pisay was the loudest bunch there. Hahaha. Also, Niña asked me to accompany her to take a pic with Mikee (he was also the drummer of the band of SMAD) maybe because she was amused and all. So, I went with her and I told the Marisians that their performance was really good (their vocalist was like a professional to me). Also, Niña forced me to take a pic with Mikee and another female YFC member that she knew and all. No harm in that right? Brothers and sisters in Christ. :)

So after that, I went outside and I told my dad that we'd be eating dinner and he told me that he'd just get something to eat at Apo View since it was near to Penong's. So before going to Penong's, Kuya Kevin separated us city scholars and dormers. After separating us, he told the dormers just to split into groups and get taxis to go back to the dorm (which was in the other side of the city, by the way) so that they won't get sermoned by their dorm managers and if they were hungry, just pass by a drive thru so it would be easy. And as for us city scholars, we were split on who's going North, and who's going South. After that, Kuya Kevin told us to have a buddy system so that we could watch out for each other while walking in the street since it was already 8:30pm. My buddies were Michael and Alexis. So we just walked to Penong's, and even decided to go to People's Park.

When we got to Penong's, there were a lot of us so we needed a lot of tables. I sat next to Micah, Alexis, Mariel and Chia. I ordered chicken BBQ and buko juice. I got to share a lot of stories with them and someday, I'd like to share my own story to everyone in YFC. Lol. My mom was already texting me to go home already since my dad hadn't eaten dinner yet. So, I hurriedly ate even if I knew my dad was eating a STEAK SANDWICH (that's more than dinner!). Michael and Darlene rode with me on the way home. I dropped Michael somewhere in V. Mapa and I brought Darlene to their home in Buhangin. I got home, and my dad still ate dinner. A meal isn't a meal for him if it doesn't have rice. Woah. Anyway, I was made to sleep early since we would hear mass early the following day. That's why I didn't blog.

I got up this morning, and everything that happened last night seemed like a dream but it was all so real. I felt lighter today (which is ironic since I'm heavy in terms of weight. HAHA) and more at peace. We heard mass at Santa Ana, then went to SM. I ran into Hannah and her mom a couple of times and I went around the mall in my dress. Yeah, I wore a dress. I had no choice. Anyway, after doing the groceries and buying other important stuff, we went home.

And now I blog. Haha.

I shared to my parents my experience last night and, my mom said, "You know what Macey, it's meant for you. God brought you there.". So, so true. My dad also told me that HE WENT INSIDE THE AUDITORIUM AND SAW US THERE. Okay, my dad told me that he just went right inside and they didn't even ask him for a ticket. Wow. But anyway, my dad said that he's impressed with the YFC since he really thought the crowd was decent and well behaved (of course they are!), and it broke his thought that there were a lot of gate crashers there. Now that my parents know what YFC is about, they finally allowed me to participate and be active. Thank God! My dad even said that if our gym in school is done with construction, YFC events could be held there since our gym is big and has a lot of bleachers. So I won't be going to the Provincial Youth Conference since it's exam week but I am going to the Regional Youth Conference and my parents already allowed me to. Damn, God is just amazing. <3>

"To dream that you break something, indicates that changes are ahead for you. You want to change the direction that your life is headed. Alternatively, it suggests that you need to take things slower." - from dreammoods.com

I think there will be a major change in my life. I constantly pray that God would mold me into a better person. And maybe I should take the change slowly, but surely. Slow but sure. Always the best strategy in life. But hey, at least I started to get out of my comfort zone.

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What did I eat today..

Breakfast: Penne
After church: Hamdesal with juice
Lunch: Penne (again.. HAHA)
Merienda: none since I fell asleep
Dinner: Rye bread with goat cheese

Everything happens for a reason. God wants me to change, so let His will be done. <3

2-pi pizza

2008-09-05T19:20:00.016+08:00

Thank the almighty God that it's Friday, for next week will be no sleep for me.. AGAIN. Darn.

I think I woke up kinda late again today. I sleep at 9:30pm and get up at around 5:45am but it still feels like I still lack a lot of sleep. Anyway, what the heck did I do today.. Math! Still fun as usual, for me. Sines and cosines amuse me in a weird way. So odd. Hahaha then we had Socsci instead of Filipino. The activity was fun since we had this speech choir thing and the topic was either the good or bad stuff about the Renaissance or a mix of both the good and bad. As for my group, we made fun of the people back in the Renaissance. Like we said that Leonardo da Vinci plucked Mona Lisa's eyebrows since he wanted to have a salon someday or saying that Michelangelo touched his sculptures private body parts since his sculptures were of nude people. We didn't mean it literally anyway. We just did it for laughs. Good thing is that our teacher had a good laugh as well. Then during Physics, we had this super easy seatwork then in Statistics, my mind just drifted off..

And then Bio came.

BIO WAS FUN! Hahaha. I really liked the combination of sodium hydroxide (lol HYDROXIDE) and phenophthalein. Both chemicals are clear colored but when you mix them, it turns fuschia, hot pink or something like that. It just brought out the ignorance in me and, it's pink yo! Anyway, the lab experiment required us to run around so, Grace and I (since she was my partner) started running around and exercising. So much for trying to lose the fats. Hahaha. After that, the sodium hydroxide and phenophthalein suddenly got spilled onto the table and I had a hard time cleaning it up since it always turned pink and stained the table. Eventually after using a rag instead of tissue, the mess finally got cleaned up. Great, time for the iCons festival thing.

The iCons thing was, okay I guess. It's gonna be featured in TV Patrol Southern Mindanao on Monday night, according to the dude from ABSCBN. What was really fun was the time when I was teasing Ian G and the cameraman from ABSCBN who was behind Ian G was laughing since Ian G said that he/she's gonna be famous. Okay, I won't comment on that. Lmao. And I think they video-ed Sir Ponch was well.. Yes, the Ponch! But I'll be looking our for Ian G.. That would sure be, surprising. After the exhibit thing, they made us watch this film about hackers and everything. It kinda amused me since there are such professions as ethical hackers who are paid to hack into rival companies' databases or files so that the company they're working for can analyze trends in competition, etc etc etc. And yes, hacking has been existent ever since the late 1970's. So, amazing? Hacking could be fun, but I don't really like computer codes so, never mind. I'll just find a hacker and watch him or her hack a system. That would be fun. Lesser brain work. Oh yeah, I got my IQ test results! My IQ is 124 and I'm above average. It's okay I guess. Anyway.

At 3pm, we were allowed to have our first Friday mass at the Quadrangle. I attended mass of course since I know my parents would ask me if I did.. And duh, it's the first Friday. Anyway, the mass wasn't dragging since the homily was really short but meaningful (WHICH IS WAY BETTER THAN THOSE LONG DRAGGING ONES.. I tend to daydream if that's the case..). And the funny thing was the mass celebrant's name was Father Edsel. When we heard that, a lot of us reacted since we have a classmate named EDSEL. Anyway after the mass, I went out early since my carpoolmates and I agreed to buy food at Kopi Roti today. I ate a Kopi bun and Kopi jelly, as usual. I got down at Assumption and walked to Holiday since my dad told me he'd fetch me there.

At Holiday, I got to chat with Kuya Mitch and Kuya Randy first. Kuya Mitch told us that all of us are so caught up with Research since he always sees in our stats in YM that we're stuck with Research after classes. Gaaaah the cons of Research! NO SLEEP. Anyway, I also got to talk to Ate June (the one at the front desk.. haha) and she said that I looked stressed out and all. I also asked her if my eyebags were big and yeah, she said yes. I don't feel offended actually. I just can't really judge if eyebags are big or not since it's the first time I had let's say, "halfway to severe" eyebags. I usually get dark circles in my eyes, but it's due to the lack of sleep. So as of now, I have the dark circles and eyebags. Ah, the mark of a die hard Pisayer. I don't feel bad anyway. Most of us have it, so.. I fit in! Hahaha. And I also got to chat with Ate Cherryl (my former gym trainer during the summer) and I didn't get to finish my story to her since my dad already arrived.

I got home, had penne again for dinner. But this time, pomodoro style! With bacon and olives. Yummmmmmyyyyyy.

So what the hell will I do tomorrow?

Training. Duh. A lot of people have been inviting me to go to the YFC thing tomorrow at the CAP auditorium but I can't. First, I haven't asked permission from my parents to do so. Second, I already promised Hannah that I'd train. I don't want to leave Hannah alone there in training, since the others are attending the YFC thing right? I'm such a good friend. Hahaha. Good thing Che and Darlene pointed out to me to prioritize commitments first and hopefully, there's a next time. I was actually having doubts to go to the YFC event since my ulterior motive was to go there for friendship. But then, I was afraid to go since I might be out of place and all. Che told me to go to the event for God so that it wouldn't be a waste. She's absolutely right. I'm trying to strengthen my relationship with God but sometimes, I end up slacking off. I don't even remember the last time I prayed. Gosh. Then I remember.. My parents spent two to three hours a day just to pray. One hour in the morning, noon and night, each. I'm not the prayer book kind of person. I talk to God as if he's a friend to me. Now that my life is in a whirlwind, I need to talk to Him and I plan to do it before I sleep. I really need to fix my spirituality. Hope God is generous enough to give me time to redeem myself.

Speaking of being afraid that I'd be out of place, I need to get out of my comfort zone. It was actually Darlene and Che who pointed that out to me. They told me that maybe I stay in my comfort zone much more then getting out that's why I feel this way. For some reason, they're right. I always tell myself that I'm a risk taker but after all this time, I'm still playing it safe. I think I'm following my value system way too much than what is expected. I think I need to bend my values a bit. Maybe a bit of alteration with limitation (lol it rhymes!). And maybe, experiences in the past traumatized me, particularly back in grade school. That might have damaged my self esteem and trust in myself partially. I guess I've been too hard on myself huh? Maybe, maybe.

This caused me to have very vivid dreams these past few days. Last night, I dreamt that I was in an amusement park. This morning when I woke up, I read its dream interpretation and here's what it read..

"To see or be in an amusement park in your dream, indicates that you need to set some time for leisure and more enjoyment in your life. Consider how everything in the park is an expression of some aspect of yourself. Alternatively, you may be too easily distracted lately." - from dreammoods.com

I do need enjoyment! School has been killing me slowly. And I am easily distracted nowadays. My mind just shuts down sometimes since it's too exhausted to make wise decisions. And the part to consider how everything in the park is an expression of some aspect of yourself? Makes a lot of sense. Particularly, the amusement park that I was in my dream was Star City. I used to come there every weekend before since we had a store there. Anyway, I remember in my dream that I rode that spinning wheel where you stand and you just hold onto the rail, and there's a thin chain in front of you. You don't have much protection during the ride but you come out as safe as prior to that. Maybe I could compare the ride to my mind right now since it spins around in sheer confusion and it could maybe symbolize my comfort zone? I'm not that protected but I still come out safe. Gosh. I really need to revamp my life right now. And it starts with badminton tomorrow. The leisure bit, at top priority.

Thank God for friends who give constructive advice. They're for keeps. :)

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PICTURES! Finally. After I don't know how many years.

Look at the lovely color..

I know you agree with me!

But look at the mess it could make. Lol.

Randomness: MEET PEGGY! Angel's apple-monkey! *giggles*

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What did I eat for this day..

Breakfast - Pork and white rice
Recess - NONE
Lunch - Pork and red rice
Merienda - Kopi Bun and Kopi Jelly
Dinner - Penne (Pomodoro style) with bacon and olives

Progress? A bit! Haha.

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I have this theory that people who don't have much confidence in themselves are those who are most likely to be jealous in any given situation that yields jealousy. If that's the case, count me in.

I'm planning to get a massage tomorrow night. It's a good thing my dad asks me if I want to have one when he gets a massage. Hope I fall asleep so I won't get too ticklish.

Worldwide access

2008-09-04T19:24:00.003+08:00

The day was odd, somehow.

PE was fun even if I got pwned and lost. I enjoy table tennis a lot, really. I never really expected it to be enjoyable. Hahaha the cool thing is that I get to use strategies in badminton when I play like to place the ball where your opponent is weak. But I admit that I'm not gonna be really good at table tennis. I guess I'll just play it for fun.

Chem was, okay. We had a discussion and a really short lab activity. Health was funny since the stress relieving exercises we had was reflexology. Since I didn't have a partner, Sir Mancao asked me to be his partner since he wanted to be pampered and everything. Yeah, I even told Sir he was spoiled and he just gave me a thumbs up. LOL. After that was Math. I was careless again during the quiz. Minor mental block. I'm still aiming for a 1.00 and not I'm still stuck in 1.25. Gaaaaawd. Then Filipino took place instead of Socsci. The task was hard since we had to compose a poem with this letter ending and everything and you know what, I suck at Filipino. So ironic eh? I find English easier. So Angel and I just thought of whatever, passed the paper and off we went to Research.

Research was, HEAVEN SENT. Ma'am Daryl showed to us her research paper when she was in college and guess what? IT INVOLVED VORONOI DIAGRAMS. Our problem involves Voronoi Diagrams and Ma'am Daryl allowed us to cite her study as part of the related studies portion in our RRL. Cool huh? Also, the research paper had a lot of good references on how to make a Voronoi Diagram. Maybe I could pick up some good stuff there. Finally, I get to fix my darling RRL.

After Research was the continuation of the games in PE. Yeah, I lost again and I'm getting a 2.50 for the 50% of my exam in PE. Surprisingly, it didn't matter that much to me. I just kept on promising to myself that I'd redeem myself next quarter since badminton is our next topic. HALLELUJAH. Ma'am Pags already asked me to do some demos next quarter, and I think she'll be asking Angel and Liana as well.

Then the screening for the Smart Talking contest came. I wasn't that nervous but I guess I kinda overcame my stuttering when I talk in front of judges, panelists, and the like. Waiting time was fun since I just talked to Chris, Ally, called Charles Uy a flirt and I told Jovan he's unlucky to my life since all the contents of my old USB got erased when I saved his Bayani of the Week announcement. Anyway, I got a really good question for the Smart Talking. I think I got something like.. 'Why do you think blogging is a good way to communicate to young people?'. Something like that. I was really enlightened that time since, I AM A BLOGGER. And to cut things short, I think I answered the question adequately but I kinda regret not telling other stuff since I was too excited to talk and everything. Hahaha. Anyway whatever happens, at least they think I'm 'SMART'. Dream on, kid.

AND YES. THE IQ TEST RESULTS ARE AVAILABLE! I GOT MINE ALREADY! HAHAHAHA.

So. What did I eat today?

Breakfast - Pasta.
Recess - None.
Lunch - Porkchop with red rice and Minute Maid
Recess - Big Bang (the candy bar, ok? not the Korean band)
Dismissal - Kwek kwek and piattos, and Pineapple Juice
Dinner - Ginataang hipon with labong and saluyot, and Nesvita.

I seriously, seriously, need to quit eating Kwek kwek and junk food. I already asked my carpoolmates to stop me from doing so since Prom is near and I am in dire need to lose weight. Well not exactly lose weight. I just need to, shed some fats. That's all. And I need exercise. BADLY. I guess I'm starting to be really conscious now since I had an emotional breakdown with my struggle in losing weight. Hahaha. I'm so lame.

Whatever. I just want to wear a really nice gown in the prom. That's why I wanna shed off some fats. I don't care if I look pretty or not (coz, I don't think I'll ever be), or if I win an award. I just want a nice gown. And a good experience. But if I win an award, that's great! I could shove it into the faces of some people. Sweet revenge? Lol. Could be.

So that was I guess, everything for today? NO. I FINISHED BREAKING DAWN ALREADY AFTER 1646514654651465561465464 FREAKING YEARS! YAAAAY!

Eclipse still. :)

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One month and eight days to my sweet sixteen. Someone inject venom into me, please.

Monopoly

2008-09-03T20:27:00.002+08:00

What the hell did I do today..

As usual, I came to school with groggy eyes and walked to class with a pace that of a sleepwalker. School was been eating the life out of me nowadays. I have headaches everyday due to the lack of sleep and rest. I was supposed to be absent today but I thought it was hard to miss out on the lessons so I sacrificed my good ol sleep for some neuron wracking action. We had a quiz in Bio and I was glad that it wasn't as hard as I expected it to be. Then in Filipino, we just had a discussion and I daydreamed since I was bored. Physics was okay, Newtonian laws of motion for the nth time in my life. We had an easy quiz in Socsci, an open quiz in Chem, an exercise in Math and a quiz in English. After that, I ate lunch (we had shortened periods today) and I lazed around after that.

Okay, I didn't laze around. I did research work.

As we all know, the preliminaries are due tomorrow for a 1.00 and I'm done printing it. Yaaaay! I think it reached up to, 10 pages? Hahaha then I played Monopoly in the late afternoon with Jp, Hannah, Angel and Jezreel. It's been a long time since I played Monopoly. I miss playing that bankrupting game. Lmao.

I had penne again for dinner. And I'm waiting for Bell to finish eating dinner so that we could chat again. Yipee. So that was my day today. The usual, day, forever and ever. Amen.

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Shoot. My earphones. *dies*

Tag-a-log

2008-09-02T19:59:00.004+08:00

It's the second day of DACS, and I'm still sulking at the fact that my school isn't joining. Wait, we aren't allowed to join. My school is a PUBLIC SCHOOL, that looks like it's a private one. It's just LOOKS LIKE a private school. Wow. Anyway.

The first half of the day was better than the other half. The English speaking rule isn't followed yet so, I had a lot of time to blab, and blab, and blab. Comsci was yeah, the usual. I find Comsci fun when we do nothing and I have the freedom to surf the net. Unfortunately, we had an exercise so not much fun. After that was Socsci. Socsci is okay actually. The topics don't bore me at all. Then Chem was next. We just solved a few problems, a little discussion and then elective time. Our lesson in Stat today doesn't involve probabilities of this and that given this and that, which is a really good thing. Imagine, I got a perfect score in the first quiz then I failed in the next quiz. Wowwww. So much for good academic performance. But I do accept the fact that I'll never be good in Stat, even if it's way easier than Applied Math. Then Bio was up next and we discussed more about the lymphatic system and we're having a long quiz tomorrow. Well guess what? I haven't studied yet and I intend to do so if and only if I get up early tomorrow. If not, I'll just attempt to cram when I get to school. English was up next and we had more of those word play exercises that just squeezes my brain for some reason. Also, Ma'am Annie gave us an assignment that was like a mathematical equation but it isn't. For me it's like, the formula of a sentence? Lol. Kinda like Math, which was still okay. I'm getting the hang of those sines and cosines already. I hope I could get a 1.00 this quarter in Math. Ha, ha, ha. So much for wishful thinking.

During club time, we discussed about the banning of gadgets since a lot of students have reacted violently to this rule (I ADMIT I AM ONE OF THEM!). Ma'am Annie asked us to brainstorm on what measures to follow if we are to bring gadgets. As for us Juniors, we suggested that:

Gadgets may only be used during break time, free periods, and dismissal
The gadgets will be confiscated if the teacher sees a student using one during class hours, and the gadget may only be claimed if a reflection letter signed by the parents is given. Something like that.
If the plugs in the classrooms will be used for laptops (for Research), the student must ask permission from his/her homeroom adviser.
Cellphones may only be used if parents/guardians are the ones calling or texting.

The bad part? Cellphones are included in the "banned" gadgets. WHY OH WHY?! Darn. Cellphones are vital to a person's existence nowadays. How about those who text in class?! Okay okay, I admit I was one of them specifically during the first week of school but I still don't understand why. I would understand why they'd ban iPods but I don't still get why they would include cellphones. Oh well, that's why the SG was asked to take action. I hope something good comes from this.

Right now, I just ate penne for dinner and I still have stuff to work on. So far, I'm done with my assignment in Filipino and I plan to cram my English assignment tomorrow. Also, I'm almost done with the Bibliography and I plan to do the Table of Contents tomorrow. I still haven't studied for my Bio test tomorrow and I don't intend to since my head hurts, again.

Did I mention that saying 'Tagalog' is a violation in the English Speaking Rule? Sheesh. Let's just all say, 'TAG-A-LOG!" Like tag a log. Lmao. So cornyyyyy.

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People always tell me to always think of what I have inside of me that others don't have whenever I feel bad about myself or insecure. Let's start with one thing about me, that I don't know if the others have.

*thinks hard*

I think I need more time to think. Suggestions anyone?

English imposed

2008-09-01T20:37:00.002+08:00

When all the other school participated in the DACS, what happened today in our darling Pisay? Let's see. Nothing (nothing means the usual).

Today's a Monday so it means there's a flag ceremony, and flag ceremony means I have to get up early. Yeah I got up early, lazed around a bit and finally got myself moving. I got to school on time and my brain still wasn't functioning well. We had a quiz in Physics, and it was quite easy so to speak. Filipino is challenging, as usual since I find it hard to write in Filipino (how ironic). We did nothing in Comsci since Sir Ponch wasn't around. We had a lesson and exercise in Stat. We had another quiz in Chem, something in English and a little bit in Research.

Speaking of English, that new rule imposed about speaking English from 12:40-4:10 from Mondays thru Wednesdays is just, whack. I find it hard to blab and vent out in English, even if I find writing in English way easier. I'm just not that comfortable with speaking English all the time. And yes, the English speaking rule still applies during vacant periods. So, I better shut up now if I can't keep up. Ha, ha, ha.

After class, I was called to the ACR since I was chosen to represent my section for the smart talking thingy in the Communication Arts Fair. I was surprised that I was chosen since I usually talk about nonsense, and I'm just practically loud. The audition proper will be on Thursday.. So I still have time to prepare. Good, good. I need something to place in the yearbook!

After school is always my cranky time. I'm double the crankiness this time since I have a killer headache due to stress, the lack of sleep and the sudden change in weather. Oh yeah, it's the start of the -BER months already! Boohoo. I'm going on the big one six in a month and eleven days. Geez, I'm not even excited.

Oh well. That's all for today. I'm gonna sleep now. Night.

Tinatamad

2008-08-31T17:52:00.004+08:00

How do I start this..

Obviously, today is a Sunday and Sunday is my "lazy day". It means it's that one day in the week that I slack off the most and I just sleep, sleep, and yeah, sleep. Unfortunately, Sundays haven't been that much of a lazy day for me ever since I entered a torture asylum called Pisay. Nah, I'm kidding. Pisay isn't really a torture asylum. It could be when requirements come on after the other or worse, all at the same time. Good thing that we finished our Methodology yesterday and I'm done with my English assignment. So right now, I'm already slacking off. Hahahaha I'm such a sloth.

I bet every guidance counselor in every school says that a teenager's life has three parts - school, social life and sleep. You can't have all three at the same time. You can only have two at a time. In relation to my existence (I don't like using 'life' since its soooo overrated), I have a schedule for this. Errr, here we go.

WHATEVER DAY (except summer vacation, I guess) -- School and social life/sleep (a bit of this two, depending on the situation)

What. A. Nice. Schedule. So. Generic. Much? Ha. Ha. Ha.

Unfortunately this summer vacation, I won't be having much of a social life for 160 hours. Yeah, it's the internship. I could have a social life if I had a batchmate or a friend who would be having his/her internship in the same company as I do but, I think I'm the only one planning to intern in Davao Light. So, I'm planning to work 9 hours a day, six times a week so that in 3 weeks, I'm done and I could finally join badminton training. Initially, my aunt was planning that she'd make me and my mom go to Canada after my internship but I said no since I still had a lot of stuff to do here. I guessed I'd go there when it's my 18th birthday so it would be fun. Teehee.

I'm starting to get a feeling that I'd "cool down" on my academic performance when I'm in college. Is it because high school is already like college to me? Damn I have no idea. Sometimes I even wonder why did I ever enroll in Pisay, aside from the fact that they give stipends. Whatever. As long as I know that I'm 18 months away from graduation, I guess I'll be okay. Alive at least.

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I heard that KC and Richard's movie is really good (as I read from Sam's blog. Hi Sam!). Shall I watch it? Or shall I not watch it? I don't want my cash to go to waste. I think I'd be looking out for Twilight first, then Harry Potter. The reason why I don't want to watch For The First Time is because the trailer didn't convince me. Okay, two kids from two big showbiz dynasties are starring in the film and it's in Greece.. Now what? The trailer for me didn't really showcase the story line, aside from the fact that it's a love story. Well, looks can deceive so I better watch before I jump to conclusions.

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My birthday is one month and twelve days away from today. Gawd, I'm the first one in my batch to celebrate her sweet 16. Seriously, what's the point of coining your 16th birthday as.. SWEET? I don't think my birthday will be sweet. It will be sweet since there's gonna be a cake (hahah sorry I'm so corny). I guess my birthday will be, normal. Complete with family, friends, and food, of course. And yes, I already have a birthday gift proposal to my parents and they approved! I asked them to give me a badminton bag, that's backpack style. Kinda like the RSL ones they sell. So far, my dad already asked the guy who supplies RSL here if they have the color that I want. Yay! I need that bag anyway. The blue bag I use belongs to my dad, but I used it since my dad got injured so he didn't play for I think, 2 or 3 months. I do have another bag but, only my rackets and shuttlecock tubes would fit. Hopefully, I'd get money for my birthday so I could buy myself a dry fit shirt, a pair of shorts (again!), or have my gut and grip changed from gray, to neon blue or yellow. Or even better, I'd buy myself a pair of Havaianas again, or Crocs? I don't knowwww. Well, those plans are still tentative since I'm not even sure that I'm getting cash on my birthday. But hey, at least I'm getting a new bag! *grins cheesily*

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Physics and Chemistry quiz tomorrow. Physics is the first subject tomorrow, and I still don't know the basic facts about the Bose-Einstein condensate and Decompression sickness. Gaaaaah.

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I always, always forget to mention this.

AMARILLO CAMELOPARDALIS
is my subcamp, this year.

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Wanna get me a birthday gift?

GOSSIP GIRL SEASON 1. PIRATED DVD.
^_^

Absent minded

2008-08-30T19:34:00.004+08:00

My brain is shutting down but my body is still working.

I left the house at around 10am to go to SM since my research groupmates and I agreed to meet in SM to work on our methodology. Prior to that, each of us had some parts on the methodology to work on so it would be easier. My task was to do the gathering of data, location and flowchart bit of the metho. Anyway, I met Mariel first at Coffee Dream while waiting for JB but we started working already. In between, I bought iced mocha there and a fish fillet sandwich from Roadhouse (2nd time this week!). Then about an hour later, JB came and he did his share of the work. I'm glad to say that we accomplished a lot of things today and we have hopes in getting a 1.00 in teamwork! HAHAHA. And that completes the genesis of our dear research proposal. Good thing Mariel volunteered to add the "finishing touches" in our metho draft. And, all of us already agreed on what chapter to revise for the final copy. JB's gonna do Chapter 1, I'm gonna do Chapter 2, and Mariel will do Chapter 3. Gah, the RRL and I will meet again. I still have so much stuff to add, it might give me a major headache for, a week? Oh well, that's life in Pisay. Er anyway, after finishing the metho draft, we saw Maxine, Hani and SM and I left for training.

Did I mention that my mom asked me to buy bean sprouts? Geez. My mom always asks me to buy veggies whenever I'm in the mall by myself, or with my friends. First she asked me to buy monggo. The second time she asked me to buy turnips. The third time she asked me to buy, I think it was guavas. WHATEVER. I don't have a choice anyway. Lmao.

So I arrived at Holiday an hour and a half before training. All I remember was eating the other half of my sandwich and, eating peanuts which EJ's mom gave me. Then during training, it was mostly footwork. Footwork's essential but the thing I don't like about it is that I can't "feel my feet" when I'm at it for a long time. It's just, weird. I feel my feet burning as it creates friction in my socks. And it made the muscles in my thighs ache. I guess the footwork bit was okay since Coach Leo told me my footwork was good (which I took as a compliment since I usually hear people tell me that my footwork sucks) but the way I played was HORRIBLE.

I didn't like the way I played today. It's like my mind was on shut down mode and I didn't even think I was in a game or something. Must be the stress, and one of its symptoms is lack of concentration. I do lack concentration since I haven't had a good night's sleep for the past I don't know how many weeks. I'm starting to feel that I'm losing my good momentum in playing badminton. My smashes have undermined, and I am also undermining. I feel so weak and, lost? I seriously need to focus on my game more. The stress is deteriorating my focus. Shizmssss.

So after training, I got dressed, chatted with the others and went home. I ate dinner and now I'm blogging. Wow, I do have a life. *sarcastic*

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I've been feeling introverted for the past few weeks already. I do interact still but, I feel introverted most of the time. I choose to spend time alone and engage in deep thinking. It feels, very, very, very, awkward. And my inferiority complex is overshadowing me again.

I wish there would be even just one day in my entire life that I'd forget every single freaking thing I'm insecure about.

I
JUST
WISH.

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I think I know what I did wrong. *smacks self in the head*

Sandwich

2008-08-28T19:58:00.009+08:00

Where do I start.. Okay. Here I go.

Today was.. Uhm, okay? I guess so. Actually, today was better than yesterday. PE was fun since I got a good score in the test, Chem wasn't as dragging, Health was okay (gah I'm so generic with descriptions.. sorry), Math was interesting, Socsci was funny since the movie we watched showed Richard Gere as a very flirty Lancelot (hahaha no pun intended!), and Research was, GAAAAAAAH.

Imagine, we photocopied 70+++ pages for research ALONE. Hopefully by tomorrow we'll accomplish something for our methodology and Mariel's willing to finalize it since I worked on the RRL. It's a good thing that my groupmates always find a reason not to skip their weekend activities. That way, I get to play badminton! Initially, we were thinking that we'd make our Methodology on Saturday but since Mariel had plans and I have my own plans, we decided with JB that we'd just do it tomorrow. I'm thankful for my groupmates since they really cooperate well and they have the same excuses as I do just to escape Research work. Hahaha GO NFA RICE!

So after school, my dad fetched me and Hannah hitched with me to SM. Han and I stayed in Coffee Dream while eating our fish fillet sandwiches. And yeah, her mom and my parents kept on chatting which was really amusing since they know the same people from far way. Lol! Speaking of fish fillet sandwiches..

It's more PRACTICAL to buy a fish fillet sandwich from Roadhouse rather than buying the fish fillet sandwich value meal in McDonalds. Why? The fish fillet sandwich value meal from McDonalds costs PhP 109, while the one from Roadhouse costs PhP 120. I know the one from Roadhouse is more expensive by 11 bucks but seriously, you wouldn't get much with 11 bucks nowadays. I mean, the one from McDonalds has a drink but the one from Roadhouse has a BIGGER sandwich with lettuce, onions and tomatoes while the one from McDonalds is so tiny and it only has tartar sauce. Plus, the fries that go with the sandwich from Roadhouse? Bigger, tastier, more delicious. I really recommend Roadhouse's food! GO FOR THE SIZZLING POCHERO! Yum yum yum!

So that was my super delicious dinner. Plus nectarines, which makes it even better. I can still taste the nectarine juice in my mouth. Gaaah it still lingers. I WANT MOOOORE.

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I found this one in Sophie Silvestre's multiply account (she's my batchmate in Miriam) and yeah, it intrigued me. I'm more of a Jacob fan but, sure. I'd agree to these statements!

A normal guy would say: “I love you, baby!”
Edward Cullen would say: “You are my life now”

Normal Guy would say: “I think am falling for you”
Edward Cullen would say: “The Lion fell in Love with the Lamb”

Normal Guy would say: “You hair looks like a haystack ….go brush it!”
Edward Cullen would say: "Your hair looks like haystack…but I like it”

A normal guy would pick a random song from a random artist and dedicated to you.
Edward Cullen would sing you a song he wrote for you while playing the piano.

If you died a normal guy would find another.
If you died Edward would kill himself cause life without you isn’t worth living.

"Well, I wasn't going to live without you." He rolled his eyes as if that fact were childishly obvious. "But I wasn't sure how to do it--I knew Emmet and Jasper would never help... so I was thinking maybe i would go to Italy and do something to provoke the Volturi."

As you left the house a normal guy would say: “Bye. See ya!”
As you left the house Edward Cullen would say: “Come back to me love.”

He smiled my favorite smile. "Hurry back to me."
"Always."

As you come back to the house a normal guy would be watching TV and wouldn’t even notice.
As you come back to the house Edward Cullen would be welcoming you by playing the piano with a song just for you.

“I heard the music before I was out of the car. Edward hadn't touched his piano since the night Alice left. Now, as I shut the door, I heard the song morph through a bridge and change into my lullaby. Edward was welcoming me home.”

A normal guy would wait for you to make him breakfast.
Edward Cullen would make you breakfast everyday.

While you were both out for dinner a normal guy wouldn’t keep his eyes of the sexy waitress.
Edward Cullen wouldn’t even notice the waitress was a female.

A normal guy while driving would keep one hand on the wheel and one hand on the radio.
Edward Cullen while driving would keep one hand on the wheel and the other attached to yours.

While far apart in different places a normal guy would say: “I miss you”
While far apart in different place Edward Cullen would say: “It’s like you taken half myself with you”

A normal guy wouldn’t care or notice if you had nightmares.
Edward Cullen would sing until your nightmares went away.

"Do you want me to sing to you? I'll sing all night if it will keep the bad dreams away."

A normal guy does it with everyone.
Edward Cullen only does it with one.

A normal guy buys you flowers and chocolates.
Edward Cullen buys you a car.

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iPods must be allowed during break times and free periods. FIGHT FOR THAT, at least.

Sheesh

2008-08-27T18:51:00.004+08:00

I'm glad to say I endured a day of boredom and emotional instability.

School was the usual. I presented something for Bio. We had a discussion during Filipino, Physics and Socsci, and Chem too. We had a quiz in Math but we watched The Gods Must Be Crazy during English class. It's a really crazy movie. Full of slapstick comedy and exaggeration. I really liked the part where the bushman said that the Caucasian lady was the ugliest thing he'd ever since. HAHA SO HILARIOUS. And I thought that only Asians were depicted as weirdos in movies. No pun intended. But it is a good movie. It's fun to watch when you're having a really bad day.

Speaking of a bad day, I had one of those emotional fits again since something bothered my mind. I am almost sure that someone is pissed at me (hopefully not) right now and I know why but I'll keep that to myself. I know I might have done something offending that I didn't really notice but I don't want to take all the blame this time. I am so sick of sulking and hating myself. I remember some friends telling me before that I'm too nice that's why I tend to be a pushover. I'm trying my best to change that. Whatever I might have done wrong, I'm willing to apologize and settle the misunderstanding but I just hope that that person realizes that I'm not the only one who might have done something wrong. Unless, I really did something wrong then I could fully take the blame..

That's why I always pray to God to teach me to be a better person. I guess this is one of His "teachings". But the banning of iPods in school is NOT INCLUDED okay? I'm still fighting for it to be allowed during free periods and break times.

So that's all I could say for today. I really, really want to sleep now.

For the love of iPods!

2008-08-26T20:00:00.003+08:00

Tired. Need sleep. Gah. Today was normal, I guess. Duh of course it is. Anyway, I'll just rant.

They officially banned iPods in school. Now how does that affect me? Let's see.. Since I'm the kind of person who uses her iPod during exercises in Math, I guess it would be hard for me. A lot of us actually suffered a while ago since we had no iPods to use. It was so, silent. I'm so used to the fact that Michael Jackson music is being played during lunch time on Kristofer's iPod. Why the hell did they ban iPods anyway? Does it have something to do with that social divide thing? Come on. Social divide? Don't tell me some people take it seriously. I hope they don't, since it's all for fun. Anyway, I still think the main reason why the banned iPods and PSPs in school is because it distracts us.

But it doesn't distract me. I'm still not an exception, unfortunately.

And yeah, Mariel's reading my Breaking Dawn now. I'm not even done with the book yet but I let her borrow it since she told me that she'd finish the book tonight and I'd get it back tomorrow. Hahah yeah, Mariel reads fast since she's addicted already. Lmao.

I guess that's my rant for today. I'm so freaking tired I just want to drop and sleep. Geez.

Paningkamot

2008-08-25T19:47:00.003+08:00

I just finished my Bio lab report and it reached 6 pages. Also, I've been listening to the same song over, and over, and over again.

As usual, Mondays with no classes meant playing badminton at Wheels n More with the usual people (you guys know who you are). The ones who were there were Hannah, Ate Danica, Joey, Darlene and Robien. I didn't get to play that well since my elbow hurts real bad (it still does. shizms), and I didn't have a full stomach. Also, I was preoccupied with making my lab report. My dad managed to feed me by buying some V-Cut but I still wasn't full. So after playing, I went to GMall with Hannah, Darlene, Joey and Ate Danica to eat lunch. We ate breaded porkchop (for the nth time. haha) and chocolate eclairs. After lunch, Joey had to leave already since he said he was going to have lunch at his house and he had to study. So the ones who were left to train were I, Hannah, Ate Dan and Darlene. We took a taxi to Holiday and there wasn't anyone in the court. So, we decided to be vain and play with my shutter shades. Hahaha then Dar, Hannah and I did our lab reports SIMULTANEOUSLY in the lobby. I bet people were thinking we were a bunch of nerds. Hahaha.

Training was okay. My elbow still hurt but I managed to train anyway. We had rotation, the M drill then games. I was still making my lab report in between breaks, by the way. After training, we ate and I headed home.

Now that I'm done with my lab report, I could sleep, read Breaking Dawn, do this and that. Whatever.

Speaking of Breaking Dawn, I'm still stuck in Chapter 23 for how many days. I haven't opened the book ever since Saturday since I didn't have any energy left to read at night. I usually fall asleep when I read at night. Lmao. And yeah, I'm still stuck in Chapter 2 of my freaking story. I don't have any time to make it. Maybe I'll work on it more during the sembreak or Christmas break. My goal is to finish it before Christmas break so that Ma'am Annie could critic it before I submit the final copy. Also, my mom told me to join the My SM Story thingy in the newspaper. Come on, they have a cash prize! Hahaha. But yeah, my family has an SM story even dating back about 50 years ago when SM was still a shoe store in Carriedo. My mom told me that my grandma would bring her along to the SM shoe store when my mom was still 8 years old. Yeah yeah, my grandma's a fashionista even until now that she's err, 73 years old? Something like that. Hahaha. My SM story is that my mom brought me to SM Megamall ever since I was an infant. Therefore, I am a total mall rat now. I've been in the mall for the past 5 days. Last Thursday, I was in GMall buying shorts in Adidas. Last Friday I was in SM to watch Pisay the Movie. Last Saturday, I was in GMall walking around with ketchup on my toe. Yesterday, I was in SM and a while ago, I was in GMall again. I guess the love for shoes and being a mall rat is genetic. You think so? You better. Lol.

I'll work on the SM story thing first. Wait, I'll work on my English essay before that. Then that. Then my story. No, no. RESEARCH FIRST! The methodology's due on September 1 (which is 1 week away from now). Better start looking for books on Thiessen polygons already.

School work before anything else. My PhP 5,000 can wait (as if I won already in the SM story thing right? haha dream on Macey!)! Ha, ha, ha.

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Want proof that we made our lab reports? Here!

This one's off topic but, my shutter shades turned white! HAHAHA

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I'll start to take down that I ate, again. If it works for most people, then it better work for me.

Breakfast: Sausage with rice
Snack: V-cut (I didn't eat much, ok?)
Lunch: Breaded porkchop and 3/4 of a chocolate eclair
Merienda: Pancit Luglug
Dinner: Nesvita and apples.

Did I eat a lot today? *clueless*

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Prioritize. Prioritize. Prioritize.
Don't let yourself be too permeable to the sugar rush.
Keep that in mind. *mental note to self*

Overpass

2008-08-23T18:38:00.011+08:00

THIS DAY PWNS! I had soooo muuuuuch fuuuun todaaaaaay! Seriouslyyyyy.

I went to Smash n Drop at around 8:30. I don't really remember what happened after that but I'll just talk about what happened during when Hannah and I played.

1st Game - 31-17. We lost.

We played against two ladies who were maybe in their late 30's or early 40's. They were good actually and they really know where to give the shuttlecock. We lost but it was okay. :)

2nd Game - 31-19. We lost, again.

I'd rather not talk about this one. The ones we played against were good, real good. But again, I'd rather not talk about this one! For more info, ask those who watch since they know what I would want to say here. HAHAHAHAHA.

After the 2nd game, we ate lunch ate Dencia's! The ones who were there was I, Ate Danica, Hannah, Michael, Paolo, Joey, my dad and Ate Dan's mom. We ate lumpiang shanghai, their special torta, pansit and rice. As usual, the food was really really good and affordable. A lot of people ate there a while ago. Anyway after that, we went back to Smash n Drop to play our last game. The fun part.

Last game - 31-24. We lost, AGAIN. But this one was the best one so far!

It was pretty close fight. Coach Leo was there to coach and cheer! Thanks Coach! Hehehe. Yeah the whole cheering squad was there. We lost yeah but it was a good experience. It's just the first tournament that Hannah and I played together and we have more to come. We still got strong bones, ya know. So in those next tournaments, we plan to have videos of us playing taken and we'd post them on Youtube! Hahaha we'll be famous! Get ready to be pwned Charice Pempengco! Okay I'm kidding but really, we're posting it on Youtube. XD

After playing, I got dressed to watch the level D games. I wonder what happened to Topet and EJ when we left (since we are the cheering squad). I hope they won. Gaaah I'm so lazy to talk about this part. But they played well. Really, really, really well. Their games were super exciting to watch. So after watching the games, Michael went to a debut, Paolo went to church, Hannah went home already and Joey, Ate Dan, Darlene and I went to GMall.

We took a jeep and uhm, the jeep passed by the market place so it was stinky and all. We were laughing the whole time since we thought we were already lost but we got to the mall safely anyway.

When we got to the mall, John Lloyd Cruz had a mall show and Ate Dan and I were really ecstatic. Unfortunately, we didn't come close to Lloydie since there were so many people. So we went to Adidas and Nike to check out some stuff, I bought shutter shades for 270 bucks (yay!), and we ran into Ma'am Sheila somewhere (I always run into teachers whenever I'm in GMall! hahaha). Oh yeah, we saw a lot of weird people at the mall too. There were a lot of cross dressing gays who wore sparkly outfits, a guy who had a super duper spiky hairdo, some gothic cosplayers, and then there's us. Ate Dan wore her shutter shades and someone said, "Aba nakashades!" and when I wore mine, I got the same comment as well. But hey, at least I didn't look stupid in a gothic cosplay outifit. I even yelled, "Oi naa lagi nagacosplay diri!". Yeah yeah I'm such a meanie. Anyway, my dad told me to leave the mall at 6 so that I could get home early. Believe it or not, I only had 10 pesos left with me. So, Joey and I decided to take the jeep together since we needed to go home and we just live quite near each other.

The jeep ride was, okay. I just took a taxi when I got to Damosa since I was scared to ride a jeep alone at that kind of hour. So when I got to Damosa, I finally found a taxi and headed home.

Now I'm safely home and I got to clean up, I'm glad that even if we lost, we did gain experience and we had fun. I had a lot of fun since I got to sweat off all the lunch that I ate. Which reminds me, I play best 30 minutes after eating a meal. I remember that I really played bad one time when we were in Wheels n More but then after eating a lot of food, I played better. Surprisingly, I had no stomach pains or anything. Cool huh? So the lesson when playing in a tournament: EAT BEFORE PLAYING. It works for me. Hahaha. WHEELS N MORE ON MONDAY MORNING! WOHOO! XD

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Gah, I'm so lazy to put pics. Sorry.

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YOUTUBE FINALLY HAS THE FULL MV OF AFTER LOVE BY FT ISLAND! LOVE LOVE LOVE!

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Hay, rest time for me now. :) Toodles!

PS. Thanks to Darlene for giving me paper when ketchup was spilled onto my feet [how unlucky of me..]! XD

Survival of the fittest

2008-08-22T20:43:00.002+08:00

I woke up at around 6 today since we were allowed to come to school at 8. I came to school in my uniform but I brought extra clothes. Yeah yeah everyone wore casual clothes and when I changed into my extra clothes, I looked like a fashion emergency and I kept on complaining to Edsel about it. Hey, I didn't choose my clothes wisely. I was in a hurry! Anyway, we just hung out for 2 hours doing nothing since the parents still had meetings. After the meeting, we ate lunch at Rai Rai Ken at SM and I saw Che's parents and Hikaru there. Hahaha then we went to Holiday for training. I was there with Hannah, Ate Danica, Michael and Paolo. Our training was rotation and Kuya Clifford's facial expressions scared Hannah and I. Even if he played alone against Hannah and I, he still won. Well, what can I say? He's really good. But he did train us well. Anyway after that, Hannah and I got dressed since my parents said that they'd fetch us at 4. Apparently, they didn't since my dad got a super duper important phone call from Manila according to my mom so we just took a taxi. Ate Danica and the dudes tagged along so it was a lot of fun. XD

We got to SM and there were already a lot of Pisayers there. Ate Dan and the dudes wanted to watch so we tried looking for free tickets for them. Unfortunately, there weren't any. And Hannah almost lost her ticket but it was a good thing that someone found it and gave it to SM's mom. Whew! So we went inside and watched the movie.

The movie was GREAT. It could really break the "belief" of some that Pisay students are nerds (do I look like a nerd to you, by the way?). What I really loved about the movie was that it really captured the attitudes of a true Pisay student like talking about nerdy stuff and laughing at it, not passing lab reports on time, exaggerating the presentations on Noli and El Fili, etc etc etc. The story was very realistic and, it was good! The math teacher there looked like Ma'am Bacus, Eugene Domingo was a really crazy Physics teacher, and the rest. Sometimes I wondered what my life would be if I wasn't in Pisay. I bet I'd be in a mental hospital since I tried to kill myself already. Geeeeez.

Did I mention that Annicka Dolonius (the girl who played Wena in the movie) was there in school a while ago? Chuck and JVC flirted with her. HAHAHA KIDDING. Nah, they just asked for an autograph. They asked Annicka to sign their research paper that was full of corrections. Lmao. Nice one guys. Igat talaga ang batch natin. Char. =))

Since I have to sleep early, I cut things short. I bet Angel's gonna make a long blog about this. All I can say is that the 400 bucks I payed was worth it. And the dude who played Andy Gallardo in the movie (I think his name is Jonathan Neri) pwns! Even if they think Gammy Lopez (the dude who played Rom; he's Maximo Oliveros' twin!) was better. Kudos to Aureus Solito for the very heartwarming film!

Goodluck to us in the tournament tomorrow. Win or lose, play for the shirt!

Random

2008-08-21T20:34:00.002+08:00

When life throws you donuts, don't eat it.
The sweet bliss of the sugar rush will get to you.
Then it will devour you alive.

Just a random thought. Nothing to share today, sorry.

Phelpsian

2008-08-20T19:25:00.007+08:00

Ah, it feels nice not having anything to worry about for tomorrow.

I don't really recall much of what happened to me today, except that I found my self immersed in the Breaking Dawn fever while listening to my iPod at the same time. Another thing is that a lot of teachers are really curious about Breaking Dawn, and the other Twilight books. I can't blame them since they see me carrying my book while walking (I read while I walk! HAHAHAHA). For example a while ago. I walked past Ma'am Chamee, Ma'am Sarah and Ma'am Lucille when I think it was Ma'am Chamee who stared at my book. And Ma'am Chamee also told me that she reads our blogs and she constantly sees that there's something about the Twilight series in our blogs. Then Ma'am Jearvy joined in the fun and they asked me stuff about the series, which I was glad to entertain of course. So I told them just to read the book and experience the fun and all. XD

Anyway, I'm currently in Chapter 18 of Breaking Dawn. Really, really significant part. I really don't care about spoilers that people tell me since sharing it to other people is different than what is stated in the book. I know what the hell will happen to Edward, Bella and Jacob in BD even if I haven't read the book. Well, I did read the synopsis in Wikipedia (Ma'am Janice did too! hahaha). Darlene actually shared some vital parts in BD and they told me to cover my ears but I didn't since I really don't mind. COME ON. I only read the last few pages of Harry Potter 7 and I already know the ending. Sheesh. I didn't even read the book. Well, I will soon.

Did I mention that I have a waitlist on who's gonna borrow my Twilight saga books next? It's currently at the back of my Statistics notebook. So far, Caith's gonna borrow Twilight, Gilleanne's borrowing New Moon, Ate Danica's borrowing Eclipse, and Liana and Clara will be borrowing my Breaking Dawn. I could seriously run a book rental business. Haha. I remember Ate Renren and Ate Danica calling me a bookstore before. Yeah, I love books. Books are a good investment. So when I have a daughter of my own, I'd name her Isabella Rosalie (wtf right?) and I'd force her to read the Twilight Series. Or if I have a son, I'd name him Edward Jacob (hahaha a bigger wtf). Obsession much? No, I am so not obsessed. *sarcastic*

Did I mention that I saw some Korean dude that looked like Jaejin when I got my copy of Breaking Dawn? Hahaha. I swear I already saw someone who looked like Jonghun.

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GAAAAAAH FT ISLAND'S NEW MV! Wonbin's hair is, flaring. He's so fly that his hair's flaming like the fire in my heart. Okay, did I just say that? Ewww. Hahaha. But still, Wonbin pwns. Jaejin's a good actor like his sister Chaewon, Minhwan doesn't look like a 15 year old, Hongki finally looks like a guy (HALLELUJAH PRAISE THE LORD!) and Jonghun's beefed up. Sweet.

OHMYGAAAAAAAAASH! *dies*

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I lose interest but I come back for more. My aspirations are phelpsian. Hard to reach, impossible to reach. I might die forcing myself to run after my aspirations.

Why I was gone

2008-08-19T20:12:00.003+08:00

The last time I blogged was Saturday. Ironically speaking, weekends are allotted for resting and NOT for doing this and that. Unfortunately, the weekend was hectic. Okay, let's make it the long weekend. I'll just summarized what the freaking hell happened to me when I was gone.

Sunday:

Went to the beach since my mom asked my dad and I to come with her. It was some picnic in some cancer support group that my mom joined (to those who are curious, my mom just finished chemo last january. stage 2C ovarian cancer. she's okay now, fortunately). After that, I went to SM to buy my copy of Breaking Dawn. Then we went home and I forgot what I did next. Hahahaha.

Monday:

FUN FUN FUN! Double the fun actually. I played badminton in the morning with Darlene, Hannah, Jp, Ate Danica, Joey and Robien. Some kid named Iggy Boy (WHO IS EFFING CUTE BTW. RIGHT HANNAH?!?! hahaha) celebrated his 3rd birthday so everyone brought food. My part was to bring adobo and I'm glad they said it tasted good. Dar's mom even threatened me that she won't let me play with them if the adobo didn't taste good (hahaha just for laughs). Lmaaaao. But anyway, I ate quite a lot and I ended up playing with a full stomach. It felt, weird. And after playing, I went to GMall to meet Mariel and JB so that we could do our RRL. So we did our RRL and it was productive, honestly. At least we got somewhere. When they were about to leave the house, Mariel bugged me to go to the mall with them so that we could find references since most of our references were books. But actually, Mariel really wanted to buy a copy of New Moon. See? The Twilight fever has spread like an epidemic. Anyway, I went home after that. By the way, we saw Ma'am Wing and Ma'am Nolasco somewhere near the overpass. Hahahaha. Then I went home, sweet home and finished the RRL like a mad pig. So to Mariel, welcome to the coven! TEAM JACOB PWNS.

Tuesday:

Okay that's today. We gave Ma'am Mendoza her birthday card and some stuff, had a quiz in Math and Bio, passed the RRL (1.00 in time yo!), had a meeting in the SG and I read more Breaking Dawn. I'm currently in Chapter 8 or 9. Hahaha. After that, I got down at Kopi Roti and headed to Victoria to photocopy something.

Okay. That photocopy trip pissed the freaking hell out of me. I first went to Penhaus since it was in the first floor and I was too lazy to walk to Philcopy. So I went there and asked the dude in charge if I could have some pages in my book photocopied. And the dude said, "Books aren't allowed to be photocopied since the machine's lid couldn't close." Aside from the stupidly lame excuse, he was arrogant and rude. I was about to verbally assault him but I changed my mind since I was wearing my school uniform. So instead, I bitched around a bit, turned around and rolled my eyes and I called him an asshole.

The next part was kinda, annoying too. I went to Philcopy and yeah they were close but there were people inside. So I went in and asked if I could have a few pages photocopied. The saleslady said they were closed so I pleaded since I was highly desperate. Then the saleslady turned into an ultimate bitch machine when she asked me how many pages and she was like, "walang labis walang kulang?" in a super mega annoyingly bitchy tone. But yeah, she was nice enough to let me photocopy since it was just around 3 pages.

So to the bitchy saleslady, thanks for allowing me to have my book photocopied. To the dude at Penhaus, I WISH YOU LOSE YOUR JOB YOU F***ING JACKA**!

It sucks that people piss you off when you're already pissed off and tired. Gah, daaaarn.

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Time for homework. I'll write something more substantial when I have something great to share.

Kadayawan Katakawan

2008-08-16T20:26:00.004+08:00

I SUPER DUPER LOVE LOVE LOVE THIS DAY! SO MUCH FUN! XDDDDD

I wasn't supposed to watch the FTC tournament today since Hannah wasn't coming but Ate Danica texted me and she asked me if I was going to watch. Good thing that my dad's friends were playing so I decided to go. So my dad and I went there right after eating breakfast and bringing the laundry to Damosa. Ate Dan wasn't there yet so I chatted with Kuya Randy while watching Joey and Robien's game versus some gays or something. But you know, gays are really good in playing badminton. Hahaha anyway, Ate Dan came in the middle of the game. Unfortunately, Robien and Joey lost sooooo, we decided to eat lunch after that. We ate lunch in Jollibee somewhere in Magsaysay. The funny thing was that we were crossing streets and it was raining so my feet and Ate Dan's got wet and dirty. Good thing I was wearing rubber slippers but Ate Dan's slippers were cloth coated or something so, yeah. We got to Jollibee and I saw Che's mom and we greeted each other. Then we ate lunch then after that, we went back to Smashville. What I love about Smashville is that in the 1st floor, it's like a mini-Greenhills! I MISS GREENHILLS. D: Anywaaaay. Joey and Robien lost in their 2nd game and we rushed out to go to training. It's good that my dad was there to bring us.

We were like 20 minutes late in training and I was really satisfied with my training today, even if we only had one drill. I was surprised that I was using my footwork! Hahaha and my dad was also surprised as well. He said he had "chills" when he saw my doing the drill. After the drill, my dad approached me and said, "Pinch me, I must be dreaming! Were you really running a while ago?!". I was like, "..yeah. Bully!". Hahaha my dad really likes to make fun of me at times. So after the drill, games! Hannah was my partner so that we could practice more. The 1st game was us versus some dude and John, that cute Korean 12 year old! John's really adorable. He was like, "May I join you?" and he said it in a kid kind of way. Awwwww! Hannah agrees that he's cute. We won the game and the next game was Hannah and I versus Joey and Robien. Obviously, the boys won. Bad thing is, Robien's smash scares me. When his smash's direction is to my face, I just bend down in fear. But it was good practice though. Then the next game was Joey and I versus Hannah and Robien. I forgot who won but all I remember that it was a really funny game. We kept on calling Robien WU CHUN, Ate Danica BARBIE XU and Joey DAO MING SHU. Lmao.
It all started when we were on our way back to Smashville and there were a lot of Chinese people along the shops in the street. Ate Danica suddenly said, "Oi mo-agi si Wu Chun!", which was referring to Robien. Then Joey told Ate Dan that she's Barbie Xu and we all agreed that Joey is Dao Ming SHU. And I'm the bodyguard. Hahaha.

Anyway, we ate pancakes after training and we all decided to eat durian at Farmers all out of impulse. It's Kadayawan after all! Come on. So the people who were there are Ate Danica, Darlene, Jp, Hannah, Robien, my dad, Hannah's mom, Jp's dad, Miko and I. The parents were talking about why the prom must go on and I was really amused by the stories that Hannah's mom said about her JS prom. We ate 2 big durians and the great thing was my dad and Hannah's mom paid. ANGEL AND JOEY. YOU SHOULD HAVE BEEN THERE! So, we decided to eat durian again after the Emcor tournament. It's so much fuuuun. Durian is LOVE.

When I got home, NBS called and said they have Breaking Dawn already. ALLELUIA FINALLY!!!!!!!!! I get to read the last part of the Twilight Saga! More werewolf loving for me. Teehee.

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PICS PICS PICS!!! I'm lazy to put captions.. Sorry.

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Badminton is officially a drug to me. I love the adrenaline rush.

PS. I wanna say thanks to Tito Arnold for the Nike shirt! I hope you guys win tomorrow in the championship. My dad's gonna be there to cheer! Hahaha. XD

Nesvitaaaaaaa

2008-08-15T20:07:00.003+08:00

Thank God it's Friday! Finally. Some time to rest and relax. And relaxation means staying up late to blog and work on my story. Ironically, Fridays are supposed to be what I call "cool down" days but if you're someone like me, it isn't. Apparently, we have our RRL drafts to work on and the deadline for a 1.00 is on Tuesday. So far, I got to make around 1/3 of our RRL draft in the Comlab and Mariel and Jb are coming over to my house on Monday to have the other stuff done. It's good that I found some good references online concerning the location theory and the history of the rice crisis in the Philippines (which could make our RRL really, really long. hahaha). So yeah. I'll forget about my RRL for now and work on with my story. Har, har, har.

I didn't get to blog yesterday since I was too busy looking for more references and I had to study Bio. But as usual, I ended up doing the Bio thing right before Bio itself. It's a good thing that I had a lot of time to read a while ago. The down side is I had to carry that super duper heavy book. It's turning me into a hunchback, really. Anyway, it's okay. I only bring it when I need to cram reading assignments.

After class, I went to SM to meet my dad. We went to the grocery and bought some stuff. I went to NBS to see if there was Breaking Dawn already but, NOOO. There ain't any. And then after SM, we passed by Landco to buy some durian. Speaking of durians, it's already Kadayawan! Yaaaaay the durians are getting cheaper! And tomorrow's the FTC cup. So, goodluck to Joey and Robien who will be playing tomorrow. Hahaha. And yeah, I'll be training tomorrow. The tournament's on the 23rd already. Hannah and I really, really need to practice harder.

Now for some good news and bad news.

BAD NEWS: It's possible that we won't be having a prom this year.

Why? It's because each junior has to pay PhP1000. So far, Ma'am Mendoza gave us letters to survey if our parents are willing to pay. As for me, my parents are willing to pay. Ma'am Mendoza also said that if majority of the parents are willing to pay (I HOPE THIS HAPPENS), the Mancom will then decide to have a prom or not. Honestly speaking, I want to go to the prom even if I'm not thin yet and I don't want to wear a gown. Simply for experience. Your high school life is NEVER COMPLETE without your JS Prom. It only happens twice in your life so, cherish it. They said that our prom will be at the grand ballroom of Apo View and I think the food's buffet. Okay, we don't need a buffet since all of us will be dancing anyway. Why don't they just give us like a plate with fries and a burger? I guess that's enough. The prom's ain't about the food anyway. Hahahaha. But I'm keeping my fingers crossed though. GAAAAAH. =))

GOOD NEWS: New earphones! HAHAHAHA.

Now, the one I bought has a case! A better way to take care of my earphones. Hahaha. My dad's betting it will last for only 10 days. Gaaaah I will make it last for 6 months! Lmaaaao.

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Random pics, featuring Michael Ostique! Hahaha. XD

Backliners! Spot me!

Hi grass

Yummy yummy ice cream

The new shutter shades

Lovely sky <3

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I think I better learn how to greet people here on my blog so..

Happy birthday Hanna my dongsaeng! Unnie loves you. <3

Sorry to those whose birthdays have passed and I haven't greeted here. I'll make it up to you, next year. Hehehehehe. Anyway, I'm gonna get to my story writing now! WOHOO!

Selfish

2008-08-13T19:32:00.003+08:00

When was the last time I posted here? Oh okay I remember now.

I think I'll be posting really short posts in few day intervals since I'm so darn busy now. I actually don't have assignments today but I have some research to do. I already found some good references for location distribution and I'm going to look for some references on the population of certain areas in Davao City. I know I'm supposed to be starting on researching now but I'd rather blog first since I'd be too tired to blog if I did my research first. The past few days in school was been draining the life out of me. I am always tired and cranky when I get down from the carpool. And you know what drains me more? This darn computer that I'm working with. It's five years old or something and I don't know, I guess it's gonna crash any minute now. And what's worse? My USB. Only 256MB. How could 5000+++ of my personal files fit in 256MB? Gaaaawwwwd. I hope my PC doesn't crash. I better start praying hard for a laptop soon. I am getting a laptop but I'm positive that I'm gonna get one when I'm in college or something like that. Never mind the digicam. I could stick to my old crappy cellphone for the moment. I NEED A LAPTOP. Or at least a USB with super duper massive memory. The laptop is preferrable, of course. Is anyone out there willing to donate? *begs*

Call me a brat but I'm seriously starting to feel sorry for myself. Don't mind me, please. I have a wretched world of my own. Sorry for ranting. I just don't feel stable today. I really really am sorry.

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I cannot wait to go to college. Then again, I'm half asleep while I'm writing this. I'll get over this when I get some rest.

Productivity

2008-08-11T21:20:00.004+08:00

I'm just gonna make this short because I really, really want to sleep. Hahaha.

So I'm done with my Bio lab report. That's good, at least I could work on Physics tomorrow. My day today was, okay. I almost got late a while ago since we left the village at around 6:20 and got to school at 7:05. After that, the day went on the way it's supposed to be. Ohyeah, I'm officially a DL (director's lister, to those who are non-Pisay that are reading this)! Because of that, my dad agreed to buy me earphones (..again). Also, I got to reserve my copy of Breaking Dawn in NBS already. Clara shared to me a while ago that in Gensan, no one touched the Breaking Dawn books. Seriously..? While here in Davao they're having a race in who reserves first? Darn. Hahaha.

I was pretty productive this evening. I finally finished a rough copy of the prologue of my story as well as Chapter 1. I'm considering on posting it online like in FictionPress or something so that I could get some good constructive criticisms. I heard that people there are good in criticizing literary works. I'd also like absolute strangers to critic my work so that there's no bias.

That's all for now. I better get back to Jacob Black now. I mean, I better get back to reading Eclipse. XD

Kettle Corn

2008-08-10T19:11:00.004+08:00

Today was pretty, blah. I think I didn't get much sleep since I slept at around 10pm and woke up at around 7am. I thought we were going to hear mass at 8 but instead, we ended up hearing mass at 11. After mass, we ate at Villa Margarita for lunch then headed straight for NCCC to watch Zohan. We were supposed to go to SM since I was planning to buy earphones (FINALLY!), reserve my copy of Breaking Dawn, buy pingpong balls for PE and to watch Zohan as well. Anyway, I prefer watching movies at NCCC sometimes since the seats in the movie houses are really comfy compared to the ones in SM. Also, they don't have premiere or deluxe seatings which is more practical, in my opinion. I still remember those days back in Manila when we'd opt to watch movies in cinemas with reserved seating. Gaaah I missed the reserved seatings. You don't need to make your life hard by finding a good seat. And the best part? When you buy food, they serve it to you inside the cinema. All you have to do it give your seat number. As far as I know, they do that in Podium.

Zohan was fun actually. In my opinion, it's quality borders between nothing special to crack (in a good way, of course). It was weird that they included the feud between the Israelis and the Palestinians in the movie, which was unexpected for me. I also wondered why the hell would Rob Schneider hate Adam Sandler in the movie mainly because Adam stole Rob's goat? That was awkward. Anyway, the movie really exaggerated the mannerisms of Middle Eastern people like the disco disco thing and going as far as Zohan using hummus as toothpaste. What I didn't like about the movie was that it showcased a lot of idiomatic inneundo. I mean, there are a lot of movies with idiomatic innuendo (like Meet The Fockers) but in this movie, old ladies and Zohan hit on each other prior to Zohan's marriage to Dalia. Imagine, super old ladies getting sticky with, Zohan. Totally unexpected, again. But regardless of the old ladies and the innuendo in the movie, the movie was a good laugh, especially as long as Fatoush (aka. Phantom) was around with his Muchentuchen. Whatever that is.. Lol.

After the movie, we went to the newsstand near the grocery to buy newspapers and I saw Ma'am Mendoza with her baby, Sam. SAM WAS SO FREAKING CUTE THAT I JUST KEPT ON POKING HIS CHEEKS. Haha. After that, we headed home and I had Nesvita and a sandwich for dinner.

Good news! I already wrote a possible prologue for my story. I also have thoughts on how to start the story and everything. I just need to organize my thoughts more. Maybe I'll write it all down tomorrow when I'm bored in school or something.

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I read this article on rollingstone.com by Erica Futterman entitled 'Dawn of the Undead', which
was about the Twilight Phenomenon in America, specifically the Breaking Dawn concert series. I'll just quote the first paragraph which cracked me up real bad.

"It's a humid August afternoon outside the Nokia Theater in the middle of New York's Times Square, and a hundred girls have already been in line for up to 16 hours. They're holding posters, screaming and wearing T-shirts identifying themselves as members of Team Edward or Team Jacob. Most passersby assume Edward and Jacob are part a band, with one confused father asking his teenage son, "Is Jacob a Jonas brother?""

Fathers, fathers, fathers. They never run out of comments when their daughters obsess over boy bands and the like. My dad was really big on comments when I was into the F4 mania. However, he still hasn't commented on my addiction to werewolves and vampires maybe because they're fictional. My dad already commented on FT Island, by the way. He's been challenging me to read the product labels that are written in Korean because of that. Anyway, my parents also allowed me to have a t-shirt printed that says 'TEAM JACOB' or something like that. I was thinking of having this printed: "Imprinted last New Moon.." in the front; "..by Jacob Black." in the back. Or maybe, "Werewolves over vampires." I saw in PDI that someone wore a shirt with a bitten apple as a design and 'Bite me' was written beneath it. I was thinking of having a pawprint as a design and I'd have 'Imprint me' written under it. Hahahah so much for wishful thinking.

OH YEAH. I have a new layout! Actually I just changed the background, banner and other stuff. Maybe I'll make a new layout soon. I'm still thinking of a design that I could make out of scratch or something. XD

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RANDOM PICS!!! Note: If you're scared of blood, don't look at the other pics, please. I don't want you to faint.

Blood Clotting

Squeezing the life out of me. Geez.

I am a true blue Type A.

Photo taken by Grandpa Mitch

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Tomorrow is Monday and I am still not fully prepare for school. I'm done with 1/3 of my Bio lab report, and I intend to cram my Physics lab report on Tuesday night. That's all for now.

A mythical creature pwned me

2008-08-09T20:01:00.003+08:00

I'm currently experiencing writer's block now. It doesn't feel nice, really.

I have ideas running through my head but it isn't concrete enough to be written in pen and paper. I'm having seconds about passing my story as my English project. Writing a story like what I'm making is tedious work and it takes at least a year to finish and revise it. So, I'm thinking of passing my blog entries starting from October 12 (the day I turn 16, obviously) until the time comes to pass the project. Then maybe as a teaser, I could include fragments of my story, or whatever parts I have compeleted and revised. If I get to finish my story by December or early January, then I'm passing it as my project. But, I'm also considering in taking time in writing my story since hurrying up won't make it really good. I'm trying my best in making this darn story of mine, even if I'm only stuck writing the rising action of the story and the ending. I really, really need a fallback in having a sense of fulfillment in case my research paper doesn't really give me that kind of satisfaction (we're trying our best for it to succeed. RRL, here we come!). So I'll just take one day at a time in writing my story and really, really give my heart into it. I asked Hachi to read some parts that I made and I'm really glad that she liked it. Gaaaah, I know I'll finish this.

I will finish that darn story. I really need to learn how to fulfill the promises I make to myself.

I'll talk about my day today. I got up early since my mom asked me to accompany her when she takes her CT Scan. After that, we went to Paramount to get my blouses and then to NCCC to buy some stuff in the grocery. Then we went home and I went online and joined Twilight Coven PH (Twilight's Philippine Fanbase!). I also made an icon for my avatar using Photoshop and then after that, I left home for training. The people who were there was Angel, Hannah, Darlene, Jp, Jaycon, Paolo, Ate Danica and Joeyboy. I'm glad that Hannah and I got to practice our rotation since we're competing in a tournament in two weeks. After training, my dad and I played a game with Hannah and Kuya Randy. Kuya Randy and my dad were teammates so that Hannah and I could practice more. After that, I got dressed and joined the others in the cafe. I ate some tofu chips and drank C2 while having more chit chat with the people. Did I mention Chia and Che were also there? Hahaha. They went swimming and Che's little bro tagged along. After some chit chat, my dad got dressed after hitting the gym and we went home. I ate dad's special bacon (it's really good!) with rice for dinner and I'm drinking Nesvita to aid my digestion. Meat's hard to digest you know. Do you want me to track it down for ya? Lol. My dad also contacted some companies where I could possible have my internship. It's really weird that my dad knows a lot of people from almost every professional field but it's an advantage to me this time. So far, Mincor already allowed me to intern there. My dad's still contacting BMeg and McSomething, but I really really want to intern in RDL. It's the closest thing I have to cosmetics here. I wanted to intern in Avon but it's in Manila. That's why I wanna take up Chemical Engineering. I want to put up my own cosmetics company, in honor of my darling mother who's fondness of cosmetics (particularly perfumes, body butters and lotions) inspired me to formulate that goal. Another promise to myself. I MUST FULFILL IT!

Now I'm listening to Goodbye by Air Supply. I just loooove this song. I could imagine the part where Edward said goodbye to Bella in New Moon since he was about to leave, and they were in the forest.

I would rather hurt myself
Than to ever make you cry
There's nothing left to say
But... goodbye.

See? The lyrics match that moment! Try imagining that part occur then at the same time that's the background music. Ouuuuch! But it's all good. Air Supply pwns. XD

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I'm having shorter blogs these past two days. I think it's more practical while I'm preoccupied with other things. At least I get to update my blog regularly even if I'm busy or whatever. And I admit that I'm lazy to post pictures this time. I'm giving your browsers a break since a lot of people told me that their browsers lag when they visit my page due to the massive amount of pictures I post. So, I hope your browser doesn't lag now. *grins*

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Jacob Black imprinted on me. And it feels great.
*giggles* Igata oi. T_T

Devotion

2008-08-08T19:53:00.003+08:00

I didn't blog yesterday since I was too engrossed with typing and editing my story for English.

I'm really, really serious about this story. I need to feel a sense of fulfillment, despite the fact that I never ever finished one of those crappy fanfictions I made (that's why I prefer oneshots!). So far, I've written the climax part of the story and I'm currently writing the ending. I couldn't think of what to write in the beginning, the rising action and the denouement of the story. I don't think there will be a denouement in my project. Anyway, I started writing a serious draft yesterday during Math class when we were finished with the exercise. I'm finding it easier to write the parts that I could already imagine and I'll just find a way to make the fragments I make coherent. Also, I need major proofreading since I have problems with my grammar. I'm not really confident about my grammar sometimes, but I still insist on writing in English because it is waaaay easier than writing in Filipino.

Now I'm torn between school work, badminton practice, reading Eclipse and making my story (which I don't consider as school work so that I won't take it with mediocrity). I'm currently in Chapter 10 of Eclipse and I'm thinking of devoting my weekends to lab reports and and reading the book. I could just write my story in school, when I am super duper boooored.

Speaking of lab reports, we have one long one due next week since we did Blood Typing and Clotting Time simultaneously. It was a lot of fun since I got to prove that my blood type is really A. What was funny was Niña said that she's an AB but it turned out to be B when we tested her blood. Same thing happened to Marvin. He said he was an A but in the test results, he was an O. Maybe I'll post some pics next time. I'm going to type what I wrote for my story after this. I'm really putting my heart and soul into it, really.

I will finish the story. I will send a copy to Korea so that the boys of FT Island would read it. After all, my story was inspired from their Japanese song, right? XD

No day but today

2008-08-06T19:37:00.004+08:00

Whew.

I think I woke up quite early today compared to the last few days. I got to school at around 7:10, absolutely unprepared. I only scanned my Bio book, not read and understand it to be perfectly honest. Bio was the first subject and I could feel my brain telling me to drift into a light slumber, since I slept late last night reading New Moon. Thank God I was able to fight my sleepiness. We also had a quiz, and I think I'll flunk that one the same way I did in the first pretest. Anyway, I'm expecting it anyway so I won't feel bad and crap. Filipino was next and, we had this thing with essays. Quite easy. Then we had a lab activity in Physics. I didn't pay much attention since I was too engrossed in finishing New Moon. HAHAHA. No wonder why Winona doesn't want to read the Twilight Series. It's because it's addicting, according to what she observed (observe me and you'll agree with Winona, I sweaaar). It is addicting, simple as that. Anyway, we had Socsci next and I got a freaking 83/100 in the exam. One more point to get a 1.50! Daaarn. I just hate it when my grades are "hanging" on the borderline. It could be an advantage, or not. It's an advantage because a point can change your whole grade. It's not an advantage because you'd be pissed when you find out your grade's hanging. Oh well, life is unfair. Boohoo. Then Chem was up next. I really enjoyed the exercise because the Ion-Electron method of balancing redox reactions is easier than the oxidation number method. It's longer and more time consuming, but getting the right answer has bigger chances. Ma'am Gigi also suggested some good books to me when she found me reading New Moon like a drug addict. She told me to read books by Eric Seagal (did I spell the name right?) since his books were the "in thing" during her time as a high school student in Pisay. I'll go check out the books when I have time. After Chem was lunch and I ate Arroz ala Cubana without eggs and bananas, but with ketchup. After lunch we had Math and we had a new lesson, which was quite easy to understand. We also got to compute our grades and I got a 1.25. I was hoping that I'd get a 1.00 but I didn't since I was like a drunk pimp when I answered one quiz in Math. Anyway, 1.25's okay for me. At least it's good for a 1st quarter grade compared to what I had during the 1st and 2nd year. 2.25 in Math 1, 2.00 in Math 2 and 1.75 in Math 3. See? I could just pull up my grades anyway. After Math was English, and I remember that we had to make an essay based on the picture of the African kid that we saw and we need references. Now, where to find references. I don't know where. Daaarn.

After English was the IQ test. It was okay, and I guessed around 5 items only. Then the meeting about our internship. Ma'am Mendoza informed us to submit 3 possible companies where we could intern. I was thinking of Avon or Nestle in Manila but my parents told me it was better if I had my internship here. So I was thinking of applying in Philippine Eagle but it was too far from our house. So my dad suggested that I'd intern in BMeg (the plant where they make the pig feeds), and my mom suggested that I'd intern in RDL since she's aware of my inclination towards cosmetics. But I was thinking of applying somewhere that a friend would be there, to make things fun. However, we're only to give 3 possible places where we could intern but the teachers will assign us where. Whatever, I'll take my chances. L O L.

After classes, I was really glad that I got to catch up with Gilleanne on what was up with each others' lives. I kept on blabbing on how much I adore Jacob Black and Gilleanne told me what was up with, you know. I'm really glad for her. It feels nice talking to a friend who you haven't been communicating with for quite a long time. So when you find time to talk to each other again, there's so much to talk about. I missed Gill

I got down at Assumption (again) and bought dinner at McDonalds since no one cooked dinner at home. It's been quite a long time since my system digested fast food, so I don't know what will happen to me tomorrow. I love burgers and all but sometimes, I don't want to eat burgers. It feels absolutely weird. So I just ate a chicken sandwich, fries and now I'm drinking Nesvita to "neutralize" all the junk I took in today. I'm still not losing weight so, I guess I won't keep my hopes high.

WARNING: THIS MIGHT CONTAIN SPOILERS, to some.

I AM FINALLY DONE WITH NEW MOON. Now I shall embark on my journey in reading Eclipse. Hahahaha. A lot of people told me that Eclipse was the best book so far, but I read in Angel's blog that Breaking Dawn was the best for her. All I know is that Eclipse was way more exciting than New Moon since New Moon focuses on Bella's depression because Edward's gone and everything then Jacob makes her happy then Jacob and Bella fight in the end of the book. Whatever may happen, I still like Jacob more since he's more, real. Edward's skin is described as ice cold and his chest is described like stone or marble. I remember getting tummy aches when I lie on my stomach in the marble floors we had back in our home in Manila (I'm feeling nostalgic. I miss that big old bungalow..). So I don't think hugging a vampire with ice cold skin will make me feel cozy. Sorry Edward fans.

I also found out that the Twilight books here are cheap because they reprint the books here, most likely in Manila. It's like the official publishers of the books give rights to printing companies here to reprint the books. No wonder why the books are only, 300+ pesos. Maybe that answers why some of the Paulo Coelho books I have are only around, 150-200 pesos? It's just, surprising. It's a good thing anyway since the books are affordable. But, why is Harry Potter 7 still PhP 1450?! I'll only buy it when it's PhP899, like my HP6 book. Hahaha I'm being frugal, yo!

It feels weird not having assignments. It always feel weird, actually. I'm thinking of watching Hangeul Island right now. But no, I'll set Wonbin aside first for Jacob Black. HAHAHA. Fictional characters are fun to crush on because it's you who creates the way he looks, according to what you like. I imagine Jacob with short hair, even if he has long hair in the movie (can't they just alter the hair and make it short? seriouslyyyyyyyy). I imagine Edward, looking like Robert Pattinson. I couldn't think of any face for Edward eh. I knew it was Cedric Diggory who's gonna be a vampire!

From a Quidditch playing wizard, to a blood thirsty vampire. What an evolution.

So right now, I'm gonna start reading Eclipse. And I'll find a way to get hold of National's number so I could call them and get my copy of Breaking Dawn, FAST!

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No pics first. I don't want to lag your computers. XD

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Did you get to read Aldrin's GM? The one where he chatted with Amiel.
Hahaha. No need to speculate. It's not that obvious, really.
*highly sarcastic* lmao.

Heighten each sensation

2008-08-05T20:27:00.000+08:00

Waking up today was better than yesterday, even if my dad had to wake me up. I remember having a body clock programmed to always wake up at 4:30 am even if it was summer vacation. I guess it's different now. I was planning to wake up at 4:00 am to study Bio, and my alarm clock blasted Epik High's song so loud that I woke up. Unfortunately, I changed my mind and drifted back to sleep. An hour and a half later, my dad woke me up telling me that it was already 5:30. Geeeeeez. I need more sleep. Haha.

Just a random thought. I just love waking up then finding out that it's only 2:00am or something. I get a lot of sleep from that situation. I often find myself being sleepy already at around 8:00 pm. Yes, I do blog even if I'm sleepy. It feels nice to chronicle whatever happens in your daily life and after a couple of years, you look back and you laugh at yourself for being highly emotional when you were 16. I even laugh at myself when I think about the time when I threatened to kill myself when I was in the 5th grade because my classmates kept on teasing me (I forgive my classmates anyway, haha. we were pesky kids back then). I even laugh at myself whenever I remember I was such a big freaking F4 fan even if F4 was not that famous here anymore. I still listen to their music once in a while and check how they've been doing but I'm not fangirl crazy as before. I'm done with Taiwanese boybands. I'm going Korean now. *ehemehemFTISLANDehemehem*

Maybe right now I'll start to write in fragments. Don't expect much coherence from me right now. I'll make sure the sentences in each paragraph are coherent but I don't think I'd make my paragraphs coherent. I won't do this all the time, just sometimes. Okay? Sometimes.

I'll start, now.

I seriously wanna slap someone right now. I never got acquainted with being plastic, or so. Maybe I was years back but now, I don't think so. I simply avoid people I don't like and I make sure I only have minimal interaction with them. Anyway, this person is seriously getting on to my nerves. I bet that person's getting into the nerves of others as well.

The loudness is making my sensitive ears bleed. Please don't mind me. I have this little world of my own where I constantly imagine that I'm Bella Swan (BECAUSE OF JACOB BLACK!). And then sometimes, I imagine that I taught the FT Island boys how to defend themselves then their stylists turn them into girls (who's with me? haha). I noticed that I haven't been fangirling that much since I'm too busy with school work and reading the Twilight series. The primary reason why I visit Parad right now is to check on how the site's doing, are there new members, and the like. Also, I leave messages on the Cbox to say hi to the usual people I see there like Ate Nins, Pebbles, Kix and the others. So far, I haven't been seeing Cher (who's busy, I'm sure. okay lang yan pre), Ate Danah (who will be starting her OJT in the hospital this month) and Hachi (who's busy as well). I just wish that Parad would be more active so that when I get my fat a** in Manila for college, I would get to see FT Island without riding a plane for an hour and a half. So now, I'm just hoping and praying that FT Island would come soon. Hahaha. Anyway.

Today was normal. Pretty much the same routine I have in every passing day. I got to see my grade in Stat and I got 1.50. Not bad eh. I'm not expecting much, either. We got to watch some documentary in Socsci about child laborers and Nyka had a "crush" on this kid named Bobbi featured in the docu since the narrator described him as fair skinned and good looking. Seriously? I think the narrator just said that for emphasis. Then after lunch was Bio. I tried to stop myself from sleeping again. I guess I felt sleepy because I had a really good lunch. Math was okay. Freaking bonus quiz. I think I only got one answer correctly.

English was fuuuun, as usual. Jihad was assigned to present something about Africa (since our next topic is African Literature) since he's be blabbing about the fact that he's, well, "black". The cool thing about his presentation was he made his own language and asked JB to be his "translator". I'm pretty sure everyone got a really good laugh at that one, including Ma'am Annie. Anyway, we were also asked to write in a Manila paper our answers to the questions: "What do you want to know about Africa?" and "What have you learned about Africa?". My answer to the 1st question is, 'Are they aware that Fall Out Boy has a music vid featuring them?' and my answer to the 2nd questions is 'Oprah loves Africans'. Also, we were assigned to do some research about African tribes assigned to us. I chose the Maasai, mainly because I recall my dad meeting some of them in a business trip to Kenya years back. Maybe my dad could dish in some info, and maybe some pics. :D

Some quotes from English class!

"Circumcision is for health reasons.."
"..NO! It's for fashion!"

"Women expose their chests."
"They're so cute!"

LOL.

So right now, I'm supposed to do my homework. No random pics this time. I wanna do my homework ASAP so I could read more New Moon, even if I get jelly when Jacob calls Bella 'honey'. Darn.

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I got to watch half of Rent already! Yay! Hahaha.

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I wish I were Bella Swan.
By then, I would be Jacob's 'honey'.
Ewww. Did I just say that?!
Lmao I think I did.

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Homework time. Bye. :)

Soyogi so soggy

2008-08-04T19:29:00.006+08:00

Warning: Spoiler alerts to those who are still reading Twilight, especially to Janyn (she asked me not to spoil anything. haha).

My day started as a blast in the ear. I'd prefer if you don't ask me why. But, everything's okay now. I hope that's enough to convince you not to ask me why.

Mondays determine what my week would be. If I started out okay, the whole week will be ok. If not, chances of not having a good week is high. My day didn't start out right today since I scrambled here at home trying to look for the Bayani of the Week forms. After I found the forms, I hurriedly took a bath, got dressed, and ate breakfast. After eating, I hurriedly got my things and left the house. When I got to Earvin's house, I was glad that I wasn't late compared to the past few days. Also, Earvin gave me a Krispy Kreme since he told me that they had a lot. Sugar keeps me temporarily euphoric which was a good thing because I didn't want to show up in school looking like a drunken little piggy. The theme for today's flag ceremony is frugality- something I am not good at. I could be frugal at times (especially when I bring my own food to school) but I'm not really that frugal since I spend quite an amount of money when I buy books and when I play badminton (500 a month isn't that bad. it's the equipment that makes it costly. when my racket's gut gets busted, i need to buy those Yonex guts to make sure that the gut's really sturdy. talk about being brand conscious but hey, it's more practical than buying cheap guts often, right?). Ahhh spending money on the books. As my mom said, "Spend your money on books. Wait for your relatives to give you a digicam". Sure mom, whatever you say. I have fun reading the books anyway. I'm currently in Chapter 16 of New Moon. XD Anyway.

I got to see my other exam scores. Here's what I got:

Chem - 80/90. One more point to make it 1.25. It hurtssss.

Comsci - 48/60. No comment.

English - 63/70. Reasonable. Not bad. ;)

As for my Research exam, I think I got minus 20 in my partial score. I don't really mind anyway, for some reason. You can't blame me, I studied only an hour before the exam! Procrastinating works for me, really. But the outcome, varies. Hahaha. I'm so defensive, sorry for that. After Research, I found bliss in reading New Moon. I'm starting to be fascinated by the Jacob-Bella team up now. I don't really remember them admitting to each other that they love each other or something. I thought that that part would come up somewhere in the book but I just got shocked when Jacob called Bella 'honey'. Wow. So I guess them being a couple is, implied? Whatever.

Werewolves over vampires.
That's the way to go.

I'm seriously starting to like Jacob over Edward. I mean, I didn't find myself getting all 'kilig' and stuff with Edward (except the fact that Bella says he looks like a god). Jacob really made me 'kilig', seriously. Maybe it was because I knew all along that Edward was a vampire and I just recently knew that Jacob was a werewolf. My mind was stuck to the thought that Jacob was purely human but he was a werewolf. So, I guess that explains why I think Jacob makes me more 'kilig' than Edward. Anyway, I'll just continue reading so that I'll find out what happens next.

After school, I finally got to release whatever I was feeling the carpool. All I needed was a friend to be there and I just had to let it all out. Good thing Che and the others were there to listen and give advice. Thanks guys, I really owe it to all of you. ;) I felt absolutely relieved after being emo and stuff and I got to watch a part of Rent in Jp's iPod! Yay! Hahaha. I'm stopped at the part where Mark and Joanne finally got to see each other for the first time. It would have really sucked for Mark since his girlfriend (Maureen) dumped him for another girl. Poor guy. But hey, that's the story. I have nothing against it. The parts of the movie I've seen were good so far, and I'm sure there's a lot more good stuff in the coming parts that I haven't seen yet.

I got down at Assumption to meet my parents there. After hearing Mass, we headed home and I got to eat dinner. While eating, they reported in the news that they're (who ever THEY are) will give the 1st Filipino olympic gold medalist P15 million and a car. Errrrr, seriously? If I were them, I'd use the money to train the athletes so that there's a bigger chance of getting a gold medal. No offense, but really. Having your name written down in history is waaaay more valuable than 15 million pesos. Don't you agree? Hahaha, I know you do. Kidding. But I prefer if you did. Hahaha.

Now I'm here blogging as if I made money out of blogging. I just wish I had this knack for writing really good and substantial stuff and having it posted online, the newspaper (YES ALLY I ENVY YOU. HAHA) or wherever as long as I could promote my blog (yeah yeah, go laugh if you want to. i AM desperate). I'm supposed to be doing my reading assignment for Bio but, I'll just set it aside for later. Anyway, back to my frustration in writing good stuff. I remember Ma'am Annie telling us about our English project due in January. We could do whatever. We could compile basically any composition that we made. As for me, I really really really want to make a story. I have a plot BUT, I just don't know how to start the story.

I'd probably start writing my story once I've had an overdose of daydreaming. I just don't know when I could fit in some time to daydream. Ha, ha, ha.

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Random pics agaaaaain. ;)

My darling blog! Harhar.

So, green. So, leafy.

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Practice makes permanent. That's one lesson I'd never forget in Values Education.

Back to homework. Pre-test in Bio tomorrow. Wish me luck with my attempt in writing a story!!!

Gang up

2008-08-03T18:04:00.005+08:00

Whew. I just got back home. Hahaha.

Today was, okay I guess. We first went to church this morning then we headed straight to SM for lunch and to watch a movie. We ate lunch at Rai Rai Ken and I ordered rice instead of the usual Hiyashi Ramen for a change. Also, I got to each Jurassic Maki again! It's sooooo goooood. I suggest you try it yourself. ;)

Yummy yummy Jurassic Maki XD

Food all gone.. Hahaha

After eating lunch, we first watched A Very Special Love because my dad said so. I was expecting it to be like some super cheesy chick flick with a twist but it wasn't as bad as I expected it to be. As a matter of fact, I actually enjoyed the movie. For me, the John Lloyd-Sarah was a really good team up for this movie since Sarah is someone new in the movie scene and her role as John Lloyd's assistant really matches her attitude and the way she presents herself to people. John Lloyd was really amazing. He's really good in acting maldito. Hahaha. My mom even pointed out that John Lloyd has this talent for making his eyes full of tears but he stops the tears from falling down. I don't know why it was super amazing but I guess they teach you that kind of stuff when you're under some acting workshop or something. Anyway, I really liked the part where Sarah forced John Lloyd to make the rain stop and John Lloyd did the 'Sun Dance'. It kinda reminded me of an Igorot dancing. Anywaaay, I really recommend this movie. It's really let's say, realistic and light hearted. No wonder why the line was so long when we went out the movie house.

After watching A Very Special Love, we watched The Mummy. It still contains the same elements as the previous Mummy movies. First, you still have mummies coming to life. Second, you still have Jonathan (Evelyn's brother) acting all goofy and scared and stupid. Third, they still shoot the mummies with guns. But this time, Rick and Evelyn's son Alex was all grown up compared to the previous Mummy movie where he was like, 8 years old or something. And yes, this Mummy movie has a lot of fantasy. Watch out for snow monsters, I tell you. But yeah, this movie was pretty good like the other Mummy movies. I just need to watch Dark Knight. I'm such a loserrrrr. T_T

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Random pics? Sure.

CASTOR oil. Haha. Naalala ko si Jasper and Jihad. =))

The trailer of HSM looks nice, haha. Can't wait to see the movie!

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OMG. MY SASSY GIRL'S GONNA HAVE AN AMERICAN REMAKE!

Elisha Cuthbert will star as Chun Hyang and Jesse Bradford will be her leading man. I have nooo idea what My Sassy Girl's story is but people told me it was really good (based on the original, of course). I dunno. I guess I better watch the original one before I watch the American remake for comparison. ;)

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I seriously need a friend to talk to right now.
But sometimes, I don't want to because I don't want to choke someone with my shallow worries.
So to my carpoolmates, sorry for the emotional fits I have sometimes.
I don't understand myself. I lack a peace of mind.
I just need someone to listen to me. At least, pretend to listen.
I hate being like this, but sometimes I just can't stop myself.

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Bye.

PS. Sarah Geronimo acts WAAAAAY BETTER than Kim Chiu. I'm know I'm not a big Sarah fan but I like the way she takes her career - slow but sure. Kim Chiu's fame was instant. Sarah's was kinda instant but not to the point that her face was in every billboard. At least she gave herself some time to bloom. Sorry Kim fans, I just don't like Kim Chiu acting in big movies. Seeing her in My Girl is ENOUGH for me.

Drained

2008-08-02T19:57:00.004+08:00

I woke up today feeling that this day wouldn't be that good. When you're happy, there's always sadness in exchange. Hay, life.

I was glad today that I got to train in badminton again after, 2 weeks? It was only Hannah and I who were there since Darlene went to Nikki's birthday party, Jp was tired and I don't know what happened to Angel. Anyway, we basically did rotations a while ago and Hannah and I already filled up the entry forms for the Emcor Tournament. Kuya Mitch also told us that his good friend committed suicide. It was Topet who actually told us about it but we were so intrigued that we just had to ask Kuya Mitch. According to Kuya Mitch, his friend committed suicide since his girlfriend of 4 years broke up with him or something and the poor dude hung himself. I wonder if he used rope or electrical wire (to those who watched the Mano Po movie where Angel Locsin and Richard Gutierrez where the lead characters, you'd get what I mean). After training, my dad and I left to fetch my mom in the Imperial Hotel. After that, we got the laundry and went home. I had super duper spicy jjamppong (IT'S NOT THE CHEAP LUCKY ME ONES OKAY?) and it's "chili-ness" still lingers on my lips. Hahaha.

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Just this morning, I watched Good Morning America and the cast of Rent was there. I haven't seen Rent yet but I heard it was really good. I even remember my cousin posting something in Myspace that she got to watch Rent in a theatre and Jai Rodriguez (your culture vulture in Queer Eye) was part of the cast. Cool huh? Also, the cast performed Seasons of Love in Good Morning America. I just love love love that song. It makes my heart jump. Hahaha.

I also found some facts about Rent the movie that amazed me.

1. The one who played Maureen in the movie is also the one who played Patrick Dempsey's girlfriend in Enchanted. She's the one who ended up with James Marsden (whose role in Enchanted was the prince who kept on saying cheesy stuff) in Enchanted.

2. The director of Rent the movie is also the director of the first 3 Harry Potter movies. Amazing. =))

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Do you think I'd leave without posting random pics? Hahaha.

That Indian restaurant has really good curry rice whatever you call it.
But don't be fooled by the belly dancer posters ok?
You won't see any dancing, just BELLIES.
I didn't see any belly dancing there whatsoever.
It's just that their belly dancers are, fat for belly dancers. As shown in the picture outside the resto.

It reads:
God the Father's will be done now in the life of President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo and on our nation.
If you wanna look for it, it's in front of the front desk of the Davao Imperial Hotel beside Aldevinco. I ain't joking, yo.

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I'd end this entry with the song that makes my heart jump (yuck ang corny ko, sorry ha), Seasons of Love from the musical, Rent. I'm gonna watch A Very Special Love with my parents tomorrow because my dad said so. YES, my DAD. =))

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You're the last ones I have
Don't fall apart, please.

So the lion fell in love with the lamb

2008-08-01T18:15:00.005+08:00

I'm back here again. Hahahaha.

Today was normal for me. But it felt great today because of the fact that we had nothing to worry about except passing our Research papers on time. It was easy to cram since we all just had to put all our ideas together and what's funny was we had a printer but no bond paper. HAHAHA so I resorted to asking all of the bond paper that Cherry had (Cherry's a freshman, btw) and I promise her that I'll pay her back with bond paper as well. We also got to see our exam grades in some subjects. XD

Math - I got 114/133. I was expecting that I would get like 5 mistakes only but I didn't. OKAAAY FINE FEELER NA PUD MI. Haha.

Bio - I got 80/110. I was expecting a really low grade anyway. At least I passed! Lol.

Filipino - 58/65. One more point and my grade would be 1.25! Daaaarn.

Physics - 31/50. I PASSED YO! HAHAHA. Pasang awaaaa. =))

Statistics - 137/148. If I just got that plus 5, my grade would be 1.25. I didn't have any erasures okay? It's just that Sir Joms said that overlapping letters and numbers count as erasures. Ohwell. Life is always unfair. Harharhar.

Also, that 2.50 I got in Bio? It wasn't in class participation. It was for the assignment. Apparently, we only had one written assignment which was worth 10 points. I got 6/10 and that's 2.50. I thought it was class participation because the heading above the grade said "Assignment/Behavior" and I completely forgot that we had an assignment before. And Ma'am Tenchavez said that science subjects don't have CP. Good, because I fell asleep in Math before too. Just like Bio, Math in my class schedules occurs either as the first subject in the morning or after lunch. First subject and after lunch is sleeping time for me. Hahahaha. Anyway, we got to finish our research papers already during vacant time before lunch, which was a good thing. I'm sure Mariel already got to pass our papers already. Actually, we could pass it next week but the thing is the time that we pass our papers also has a grade. If we passed today, we would get 1.00. The grade for time can really help in pulling up our grades just in case the grade for quality isn't that good. So up next is the review of related literature. Lots of citations and the like. How tiring. Well, we have to do it to pass 3rd year. So I have no choice but to abide. Ha, ha, ha.

After classes, there was a First Friday mass then after that, I rode a jeep with SM, Janyn, Chia and Jp to SM. They were going to watch a movie or go karaoke while I was supposed to pick up my copies of New Moon and Eclipse. When I got to SM, I went to NBS immediately and got my copies. YAAAAAY!!! Hahaha. Unfortunately, I didn't reserve a copy of Breaking Dawn yet since I don't know how much it is. Plus, I don't know if the book's paperbound since I prefer paperbound over hardbound. Anyway, after NBS, I got a fruit shake and got a taxi home.

The taxi ride home was so, FUN. I rode a taxi whose brand was 'Jang Geum', as in Jang Geum Jewel in the Palace. I thought it was a non-aircon taxi but it was an aircon taxi. I didn't go to another taxi since it would be rude to move to another taxi when I was already inside. Anyway, I asked the driver if the owner of the taxi was Korean and he said no and he said that the owner of the taxi just really likes Jewel in the Palace. The taxi driver also shared to me that he likes watching Jumong and other Koreanovelas. Cool huh? I actually shared to him the story of Prince Hours since Artificial Beauty was going to end soon and Prince Hours would take over. He told me that he found the story of Prince Hours fascinating and stuff. Hahaha. Did I mention that he thought I was Korean? Okaaay. I'm used to people asking me if I'm Chinese ever since I was a kid but me looking like a Korean? I'm faaaar out, seriously. Must be the bangs on my head. Lol.

Now that I'm done reading Twilight (and Clara borrowed the book from me as soon as I finished it in school), I'm moving on to New Moon now. I'm gonna start reading as soon as I finish this blog entry. XD

Have you ever thought of having a Filipino version of Twilight? I mean, there's a Filipino version of Kim Sam Soon, My Girl, AND GOSSIP GIRL. I mean, it could be possible but I'm sure that it would be a really hot topic if it did happen. It's either that the people will love it, or hate it. I would prefer seeing KC Concepcion as Bella Swan rather than Serena van der Woodsen for some reason. As for Edward Cullen, I was thinking Jon Avila could be a possible choice. He looks like a vampire to me. If you remember the time when he was still in the PBB house with Will Devaughn, Riza Santos and the others, they had this acting challenge (this was the time when Macoy left the house) where Jon was Victor's grandpa, Riza was Victor's grandma and Will was Victor's grandpa's friend. Riza and Will were having like a secret affair in the story and Jon was jealous so he decided to poison them and he did kill himself in the story as well. In that acting challenge, Jon was dressed and made up like he was a vampire about to kill someone, minus the super sharp fangs. I dunno, there's just something about him that's vampire-ish. Anyway, this is just an opinion of mine. I'm just boooored. Hahaha.

And I did I mention that SNSD's song Kissing You seriously reminds me of Edward and Bella when Bella was in the hospital after being attacked by James? It's so, odd. But I could really imagine Evanescence songs in the soundtrack of the Twilight Series. I don't recall if there was Evanescence in the list, but I'm sure I saw Muse, My Chemical Romance and Dashboard Confessional. Not bad eh. =D

Even Pokemons like Twilight. Harhar. =))

So I'm signing off now. NEW MOON HERE I COME! Can't wait to train tomorrow as well. :)

FREEDOM!

2008-07-31T18:12:00.007+08:00

I AM FINALLY BACK AFTER 969768475857958728978276 YEARS! HAHA. Okay, I've only been gone for almost a week.

It's good to back! Finally I get to blog again. The past days have been filled with excitement, stress, pressure, boredom, happiness, sadness, whatever emotion there is. Generally, the exams wasn't as, let's say, scary as I thought it would be.

Biology - NOSEBLEED. I guess that could sum it all up. But, I passed! 2.00!

Filipino - Similar to the summative quiz, it's just that there's an essay. It wasn't as hard as I expected it to be.

PEH - I'm sure my exam grade in PE will not be higher that 1.50 since my group got a 2.00 in the practical exam. I don't have a knack for kickball, okay? Hahaha. It's fun but I'm really not meant for sports that involves balls like, kickball, basketball, volleyball, and the like. Health was easy. Thank you Sir Mancao!

Math - I LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE THE MATH EXAM. I was expecting that there was proving of the theorem (WHICH I REALLY HATE) but THERE WASN'T. Actually, Sir Harold told me that he mentioned that the provihg part wasn't included in the exams. Okaaaay so I just forgot. =))

Physics - I'M READY TO FAIL. *hands down* The questions would have been easy if I listened to the class discussion. Hahaha. It would have been EASIER if I was gifted in Physics, which I obviously am not. I hope that I pass, but I'm sure that my grade would be less than 38/50. Seriously. =))

English - It was time consuming since we had to write this and that but generally, it was okay. :)

Comsci - I'm sure that I have around, 10 mistakes or more. Harhar.

Research - BLOODY ESSAY. Hahaha. I even had a debate with Ma'am Mendoza regarding the meaning of the sentence if the word 'on' was replaced with 'of'. There is a difference actually and Ma'am Tenchavez pointed it out to me when I asked her something. Anyway, it was okay. It just made my hand hurt after all the writing.

Statistics - I'm glad I got to concentrate well during Statistics (was it because SOMEONE wasn't there? yeah, yeah. that IS the reason!). Sir Joms even taught us how to compute for the standard deviation for ungrouped data using our calculators. WOHOO. The exam was relatively easy. Statistics is waaaaaay easier than Applied Math.

Socsci - I didn't get to study well, seriously. But it wasn't as hard as I expected it to be.

Chemistry - LAST EXAM. I'm sure with most of my answers. Hope I get a good score!

Now the exams are over, I could read Twilight (I FINALLY HAVE A COPY AFTER WAITING FOR LIKE, 2 MONTHS?!) for as long as I want to. Also, I now know the "exam style" of our teachers. Oh yeaaah. I finally have my Bio grade. I got 1.50. I was expecting my grade to be like, 1.75. My quizzes were 1.25, lab reports were 1.00 (thanks for the bonuses for passing on time), lab quizzes were 1.75, exam was 2.00 and my assignment was 2.50. I can't really blame Ma'am Tenchavez for giving me a 2.50 in class participation because I often sleep in her class. Mental note to self: NEVER EVER SLEEP IN BIO CLASS. EVER.

I'm also going to share about what happened last Friday. We had the cooking contest in school for nutrition month. I'm glad to say that we won 3rd place! Yaaaay! We cooked spicy beef, Kamameshi rice, chopsuey, four seasons fruit shake (purely fruit and ice but it tasted like heaven!) and the tropical fruit parfait with chiffon cake. Lithium won 2nd place and Proton won 1st place. At least we won something. Hehehe. Maybe what made us win was the table set up since we had Hello Kitty stuffed toys there. And the Hello Kitty toys were in Japanese costume (you know those ones that they gave when you bought Happy Meals? those ones. haha).

Gaaah it feels sooooooo nice not having to worry about school related things right now (except for Research). My carpoolmates and I decided to eat at Kopi Roti as a "celebration" now that the exams are over. Btw, it's Kopi Roti's 1st anniversary so they have this promo where you have to make 'bunot' a piece of paper and then you have a price! It's either you get a free dental check up (since the owner of Kopi Roti has a dental clinic in the 2nd floor of the building), a tumbler (which Edel got. lucky, lucky you) and 2 small boxes of Colgate. I got the Colgate! Finally I have toothpaste that I could use in school. I recently ran out of toothpaste. Hahaha. Also, we wrote a lot of stuff in their guestbook and Chino even wrote stuff like, "XOXO Gossip Girl" and the address was Upper East Side, Manhattan. I even wrote my address as Forks, Washington under some name I forgot. I think I wrote Isabella Swan or Edward Cullen? Lol. I forgot. I even wrote, "VISIT MY BLOG! http://hydroxide-mash.blogspot.com/ - macey". Hahaha. So much for die hard advertising.

But the coolest part? Back in June, my carpoolmates and I stopped by there and we wrote our name as "Carpool ni Manong Nick" and the address was Pisay SMC. We scanned through the guest book again and we saw beside that entry we placed last month was, "Hi Pisay! - Illumina '06". Cool huh? Some Illumina people saw it! HAHAHA. Ambot oi. I'm just soooo surprised! :) Ohyeah. The milk toast in Kopi Roti is just DIVINE. The toast just melts in your mouth along with the butter and condensed milk. It's just that your throat might hurt if you eat too much. Plus, you're gonna get fat if you eat a lot of that. Imagine a thick piece of toast melting in

warm butter and condensed milk. Imagine all the lipids and carbs in that. One small bite is enough, really. Hahaha.

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Speaking of Twilight, I'm not that 'kilig' with what I'm reading now. Maybe it's because I'm still in the part where Edward and Bella are in some meadow and stuff. Chapter 13, to be exact. Seriously, I think I'm really late in reading Twilight. Breaking Dawn is coming out next week and I'm still halfway through the 1st book. I'M SUCH A LOSERRR. Hahaha. I'm getting my copy of New Moon and Eclipse already tomorrow, and I already asked the lady in NBS in SM to reserve a copy of each for me. And I'm still going to ask my parents if it's okay with them if I also reserve my copy of Breaking Dawn tomorrow. I'm really taking what my mom said with conviction: "Spend your money on books instead, not on a digicam!". Anyway, back to me reading Twilight. Edward scares me, but at the same time I find him really sweet. Bella always gets 'dazed' by Edward. All she thinks is that Edward is like a god or something when they're together. I really hope that Midnight Sun comes out soon. Edward's point of view would be really fun to read since he's trying to stop himself from killing Bella. XD

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More random pics? Sure. :) I'm lazy to put captions. Sorry.

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I recently discovered this band in Pops In Seoul. It's name is Ibadi. Their lead vocalist is Horan of Clazziquai, btw. Anyway, their music is Norah Jones-y in Korean. They did a good cover of Tom's Diner in their live concert but I still don't know how they managed to make a cover of Smells Like Teen Spirit with their genre of music. Anyway, here's their song, "Never Ending Story".

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Before I forget, we're finally done with our Speech Choir in English. We got a 24/25! Same score was Lithium. Calcium got a perfect score, and I admit I was amazed by their performance. It was really well prepared for. :) I also found it cool that one of the canteen concessioners, "Ate Gwaps" as we call her (we call her that since she's pretty. hehe) was reciting the poem. Maybe she memorzied the lines from constantly hearing us reciting it aloud or maybe she learned it back when she was in high school or something. Whatever the reason why she knows it, I just found it cool that she recited the poem when she passed by us. And she recited it with feeling okay?! HAHA. XD

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I'm glad to say I'm done with my own revision of my Chapter 1 in Research. All I have to do is wait for Mariel to go online, which I am doing right now. We'll just put all our ideas together tomorrow and we could finally print it. Good thing Mariel has a laptop and printer in the dorm. :)

That's all for today. I'm gonna go read Twilight now!

I'll be gone until Thursday (?)

2008-07-28T09:29:00.001+08:00

ON HIATUS.

Exams man gud. Hahahaha.

The sky has never been this blue

2008-07-22T19:47:00.003+08:00

Nothing special for today, really. Comsci is the usual (you get what I mean), Socsci was about the Roman Civilization, we had a quiz in Chem, we had a quiz in Stat, we had a quiz in Bio, we did something about coherence in English and we had a quiz in Math. So we had four quizzes for today. I'm expecting that we'll have a quiz in Socsci tomorrow and that there will be the interclass Kickball competition. Yay! Something to watch for tomorrow's vacant period. Wopee. ;D

I read somewhere that one thing that could make you lose weight even more is by listing down what you ate for a day. It helps since you could really take note of what food to avoid and how much you ate. I mean, you really won't remember anything when you just keep on eating, right? Anyway. Here's what I ate for today.

Breakfast: Rice with eggs and breakfast sausages
Recess (morning): 2 packs of Chips Delight cookies (each pack has 2 cookies each)
Lunch: Shrimps and rice (my baon)
Recess (afternoon): same as what I ate during recess in the morning
After dismissal: 9 pieces of kwek and 2 pieces of isaw plus Nova and super crunch
Dinner: Milk and yogurt

OKAAAAY I ATE THAT MUCH? Ewww. I better watch out on what I'm eating. Hahaha. I wish it was summer again. I lose weight during summer since I get to exercise daily and I eat less. I have 7 months until prom season. Kaya pa yan!

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Took random pics again. I really, really better learn how to use blog summaries. According to Nyka, her PC lags when she opens my blog. Actually, my PC lags too. Sorry for the lagging guys. T_T I'll get on to it most likely after the exam. Too many CSS codes. Anyway, nagpakafeeling pro photographer nanaman ako so, here we go.

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I'm gonna sleep early tonight. I'm falling asleep in class again.

Cloud 9

2008-07-21T19:21:00.006+08:00

MONDAY NANAMAAAAAN. Well, everything started out pretty normal. During homeroom time, we discussed on who's gonna join the cooking contest thing on Friday. And I rewrote my Chem lab report. Anyway, we all know I love to cook right? So I volunteered to join. Since there were 7 of us who wanted to join and we only needed 5, there was a votation and unfortunately, I wasn't chosen (coz I'm such a loser. haha). Of course I felt bad but eventually I realized that it was just fair that we would have a votation according to Edsel's democratic rule. Hahaha. After that was Physics. The quiz was really easy. Then after that was Comsci where we had to make 3 more exercises. One is by pair and the two others are individual. Daaaaarn. I intend to do the exercises tomorrow since it's double period and if I don't finish the individual exercises, I guess I'll just do it over the week. What's important is that Angel and I finish the pair exercise. After that was Statistics. The lesson isn't as hard and we got to finish all topics for the first quarter. Yay! Then after that was Filipino. Ma'am Ines made us recite our compositions in front. Luckily, I wasn't called yet and I don't want to be called since my topic is super boring. Even I don't like the topic I used for my composition. The reason why I stuck to that topic was because when we were made to write an example of a body of a composition using the Pamaraang Paangulo, the rising of the price of gas and fares was all I could think of. Before I knew it, that was our final topic. So no matter how boring and lame that topic was, I'm glad I got to stick to it and I got to write something acceptable. Not really good but, acceptable. Hahaha. After that was Lunch. I ate something spicy. Hehehe. After that was Chem and we had more Stoichiometry. Akala ko naman na tuturuan na kami tungkol sa oxidation kaso hindi pa pala. Waaaah. Anyway, bukas ang quiz. Then after that was English. We had an acitivity in English regarding coherence. So, Ma'am Annie gave us sentences and she made us arrange it and it must be COHERENT. Hahaha. Also, she shared to us how crazy the English language is thru a portion of an article that she found online. Ma'am actually gave me her copy. Thanks Ma'am Annie! Ok. Here it is.

Let's face it - English is a crazy language.
There is no egg in eggplant
or ham in hamburger;
neither apple nor pine in pineapple.
English muffins weren't invented in England or French fries in France.
Sweetmeats are candies while sweetbreads, which aren't sweet, are meat.
We take English for granted.
But if we explore its paradoxes,
we find out that quicksand can work slowly,
boxing rings are square,
and a guinea pig is neither from Guinea, nor is it a pig.
And why is it that writers write,
but fingers don't fing,
grocers don't groce,
and hammers don't ham?
If the plural of tooth is teeth,
why isn't the plural of booth beeth?
Doesn't it seem crazy that you can make amends but not one amend?
If you have a bunch of odds and ends and get rid of all but one of them,
what do you call it?
If teachers taught, why didn't preachers praught?
If a vegetarian eats vegetables, what does a humanitarian eat?
Sometimes I think all the English speakers should be committed
to an asylum for the verbally insane.
In what language do people recite at a play and play at a recital?
But it is evident that English was invented by people, not computers,
and it reflects the creativity of the human race (which, of course, isn't a race at all).
That is why, when the stars are out, they are visible,
but when the lights are out, they are invisible.
And when you want to shut down your computer you have to hit start.

I never really thought of that before. Hahaha. And good news! We are going to recite Like The Molave next week which means I have about a week to memorize the whole thing. Yaaaay! Anyway after English was Research. We passed our drafts and Ma'am Daryl told us that whatever she taught to us aside from what we have in our notes will be in the exam. So that means APA style in writing is included as well as the guidelines in making the 1st chapter. Okaaay. I'll prepare myself for anything. HAHAHA.

After Research, I went camwhoring with Czam, Nikki and Gilleanne and Gio was our photographer. Hehehe.

After camwhoring, I went to the Comlab to email the powerpoint presentations that I needed in Comsci and do some research. After that, I went outside to the carpool. I got dropped off at Assumption since my dad was going to fetch me in HGS. From there, I went to GMall to buy stuff in NBS and I took a taxi home. I had milk and Skyflakes for dinner and now I'm torn between sleeping early or watching Hangeul Island on Youtube since we don't have any assignments. My mom told me to start studying but I told her that whatever I study stays longer in mind if I cram. It's true for most of us eh, whether you believe it or not.

And I still cannot believe that I wrote this entry in ALMOST pure English. It is waaaaay easier to express things in Filipino especially when you're pissed off. The words in the native tongue really has this like, "zest" to the words so that word can really describe what you're trying to convey. For example the word, 'hinayupak'. It is used to describe people who act like animals. Just by listening to the word makes me cringe in disgust. Hahaha.

Anywaaay. I'll just post some random pics. Para hindi sayang yung inupload ko sa photobucket. *wide smile*

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OMG OMG OMG. The Eraserheads are having a reunion concert!!!! Unfortunately, you have to be 18 and above to enter. Anna told me you even have to scan your ID to prove that you're 18. And Marlboro is the sponsor. Okaaaay no wonder. But this is good news especially to die hard Eheads fans. I'm not a die hard fan, but I love their music. I even remember having a nightmare what I watched their music video of Maskara. I think I was only 8 years old then. Hahaha. Anyway, I hope this concert will be a success and there will be more reunion concerts in the future. DITO NAMAN SA DAVAO BEH. =))

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So that's basically it for today. Hope your day was good too.

Pierce.
Slice.
Suck.
Inject.

Stop biting me you damn mosquito.

Yoochoob

2008-07-20T18:25:00.005+08:00

I am finally done with ALL my written assignments for this week. That is the draft for Research, the final copy of our composition in Filipino, Chem lab report (I HATE THIS LAB REPORT REALLY) and that thingy sa 1/2 for English. I haven't memorized even half of Like The Molave! Darrrrrn.

Not yet Rizal, not yet; Sleep not in peace
There are a thousand waters to span
There are a thousand mountains to cross
There are a thousand crosses to be borne
Our shoulders are not strong; our sinews have
Grown flaccid with dependence; smug with ease
Under another's wing; Rest not in peace

Okay hanggang diyan pa lang namememorize ko. Nakakatamad talaga. As in, sobra. Ang ayaw ko talaga sa Chem labrep was hindi masyado madali intindihin ang redox reactions (para sa akin ha). I had to consume all my time looking for helpful references sa net but kahit na ok naman ang explanation sa net, wala parin ako naiintindihan. It's easier to learn kung may nagtuturo talaga. So hopefully tomorrow, maituro na sa amin ang redox reactions.

So after finishing all my requirements, I watched Hangeul Island (FT Island's show that was shot during their stay in Japan) on Youtube! Thank God na may English subs na. Matuturuan na din ako ni Wonbin magsalita ng Korean. Hahaha. So far, I only got to watch the 1st two episodes dahil tinatamad na rin ako manood. I actually got to learn two phrases in Korean. One was taught by Hongki and the other was taught by Wonbin. These are:

Sa ja reul ki woo da -- I keep a lion (taught by Hongki)
Woori Yeongwonhi Gachi Hamggeh Haja -- Let's stay together forever (taught by WONBIN)

Wala laaang. Naaliw ako sa tinuro ni Wonbin. Hehehe so very sweet. Sabi pa nga nya sa video to say it to all of your loved ones. Lol. XDDD Tska kanina, I posted a message sa message board ng Pops In Seoul promoting Paradiso. WE SERIOUSLY NEED A LOT OF ADVERTISING. So yun, naisip ko na magpost sa Pops In Seoul message board. Sana mabasa ni VJ Isak on TV ang message! SANA LANG PLEAAAASE. Ate Nins also posted a message. Hehehe. ;D

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Remember Jung Sungha? That 11 yr old Korean kid who's good in playing the guitar? Guess what. He played 'Anak' by Freddie Aguilar and posted it on Youtube (actually, it's his dad who posts the videos on Youtube.. I think). A lot of Filipinos actually commented on the video and they really liked it. Even I liked it. Sungha's rendition of Anak is really captivating. Magaling talaga siya na bata. Kaso nga lang sa video, wala si Sungha mismo na tumutugtog ng gitara tapos ang video is parang seashore lang. Pero sige nalang. Maganda naman yung music eh. Hehehehe. Here's the video if you want proof. XD

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So that's my day today. Monday nanaman bukas at feel ko na malapit na ang exams. Gagawin ko pa ang bagong Bayani of the Week announcement. Hehehe. Babayoooooo.