Sunday, June 28, 2009

I'm trying my best to be as studious as possible for the past weeks. And I guess I'm about 60% of it. Where the 40% went is probably the testing-the-waters stage.

Watched Transformers yesterday. I reserved seats via sureseats.com and was surprised to see that almost half of the seats were already taken. We got the first screening which was 1130 but was in G4 by 1030 to claim the tickets. The guy in front of me reserved more than 10 tickets! And I thought I was kinda paranoid. The movie was about 3 hours but I never got bored. And holy crap Megan Fox is simply the hottest woman in the planet. I swear, I was scanning her body from head to toe - I felt like I was a guy. But really, how can someone look so divine and just perfect? I just knew it when I first fancied her in Transformers that she'd make it big. I was in absolute disbelief that some people didn't find her that attractive during that time.

And I'm actually wishing that the rumor that Megan Fox being a man is true. So that I'll still have some sort of chance to be Mrs Megan Fox. Or not. Hahaha okay this entry is so weird and maybe disturbing for you. But can you blame me? And I thought Nicole of PCD was hot...

Anyhoo, enough of that. I have a paper and some serious studying to do.

Friday, June 26, 2009

Tribute to Michael Jackson

I played his songs in my ipod when I went to school today.

Rest in peace Michael Jackson. I actually grew fond of you when I first heard your Jackson 5 songs. But of course, I'm a big fan of your songs especially "Thriller" and "The way you make me feel". But who would have known that the person behind the cute lil voice would turn into the King of Pop?

If only you just kept all of your melanin and your nose. Just maybe...things would have been better. But no worries, past is indeed past and you were even in the process of making your big comeback. But then, a thing called cardiac arrest took you away.

We all hope you're in a better place Michael. Maybe it is really time that you get a lot of rest. The media and plainly everyone just wouldn't give you your peace.

PS
Sales will probably rocket - he's one of those people who generates unbelievable value after death.

Thursday, June 25, 2009

Love always remains

Let me share to you this favorite song of mine from MGMT. I never get tired of listening to this song.

It reminds me of eye-squinting sunny summer days and some slow mo skip rope scenario. Well that's what comes to mind when I hear it. The melody is actually quite sad but that's why I love it. It dips me into melancholy without being too emo.

The video is not really an official one, just try listening to it.

After having only about 4 hours of sleep and 5 classes that start at 730 am, I am pooped. Good thing my Fridays are very light. I only have one class. But isn't it even more difficult? This might make me lax a bit as opposed if my Wednesdays were to be quite loose.

Suspension due to swine flu: AGS & HS check. Suspension due to bad weather: another AGS & HS check. Well at least I don't have to worry what Deped had to say about forgetting about the sembreak. All my plans will be ruined if the sembreak disappears. My practicum..my euro study tour... :S

Anyhoo, I'm off to do my Experimental Psy paper.

Saturday, June 20, 2009

goodbye

I know it's been years already. But I just can't help it. That person was the first.

It's like when that person leaves, a high school memory leaves with that certain someone as well.

I once wished that I could die and be with that someone forever.

I'd definitely give up forever to touch you...

If only that "time" lasted forever.

Laugh if you must, but I'm dead serious. I may say it doesn't matter anymore. But it does. Or not. I'm really not sure. I'm back to my vulnerable and gawky childish self when I deal with this situation.

And when everything is else is broken..

Thursday, June 18, 2009

It's starting.

Most of my classes have barely anyone I know or someone I can honestly say's a friend.

It is kind of sad and boring isn't it? It was bound to happen anyway.

But yeah, it's training.

random rants

I know when I'm adjusting okay when I start eating out of enjoyment and not from necessity.

Yum yum choco pie :)

My profs for my 3 subjects are self-quarantined. I rushed to my 730 class - waking up at 5 am and then running through the overpass and getting all wet from the windy rain just to reach the WRONG classroom and then finally realizing that my class was postponed until next week. Swine flu shit.

And oh, from what I've heard; there are numerous confirmed cases for swine flu in the Loyola Schools already. They just don't announce it. So yeah, good job.

You just gotta love the weather that apparently has mood swings. That and the traffic in Katipunan every single day. I am completely at a loss why the traffic got so bad lately. I mean, traffic wasn't exactly pleasant last semester, but hello. Bad traffic is an understatement. 7 lanes going into 2?! What is wrong with the world.

Tuesday, June 16, 2009

whyyyy

What is it with me and today and everything going haywire. Did I eat something cursed? Or did I step on some magical creature?

Today was just hell okay.

Sometimes it makes me wonder whether I have a mild case of being bipolar.

Sometimes I just havta cry to let some of it make their way down my cheeks. I've developed this habit of doing it in the bathroom and in pitch darkness. There's just something about darkness that makes me feel so alone yet assured that for that brief moment, I am my own universe and that nothing else matters.

It's a mild symptom of existentialism - I'm theorizing.

P.S.
Thank you so much Raffy dearest for today. You made it more bearable. You gave me a smooth start. Except it kinda got bad towards the end. Haha.

I shall crash more often, be ready. :D

Monday, June 15, 2009

thank you :)

You know, simple sweet gestures can really make me all jelly. And I'm not talking about those romantic lines.

Aww, the power of friendship throughout the years will always make me wonder if I could ever find such special people like you girls in my lifetime.

It's really in the teensy details, isn't it?

Now if only college was just a bit more like high school, everything would be more bearable and fun. But oh well, it is training.

Sunday, June 14, 2009

YA!


Check out my mega sched! 3 hr breaks on wednesdays I shall conquer you! And oh my, labs will be rather exciting!

Maybe the last minute changing of the schedule of the advance japanese class may be a blessing in disguise after all. Maybe it's a way of telling me that my load is pretty heavy enough for me to socialize with a bunch of kanji characters and japanese sentence constructions.

My Ateneo school year GAME FACE IS ON!

Yosh!

Saturday, June 13, 2009

Bora 2009

This year's been definitely different. I think this is a sign that I'm getting old - birthdays aren't as nearly as fun as before. I feel...isolated too in a sense.

Guess what? I spent my bday in school with Mr Bench waiting for 5 hours for the Psy Head to arrive. Oh well. This might as well be my training for you know...

I don't want to sound like a brat but I'm just facing the facts. I may say that's it's no big but I just know that deep inside it really hurts.

OKAY I am not making sense again haha.

Nevertheless, thank you so much for all the sweet people who greeted me, blogged about me, or just texted. :) It really made me smile.

I actually scheduled my Bora trip after my bday because I didn't want to spend it there again like last year. Don't get me wrong Sandra, I super had fun last year! That was definitely the most unique (ok redundant much) bday ever. But it's still different when you're actually in your hometown.

Sooo anyhoo, here are some some snapshots of Bora:


Took the first flight to Caticlan which is 530 in the morning! At least I was able to get some nice shots of the sunrise from the plane. It actually looks brighter in person, I just lowered the exposure to highlight the sun shining against the water.
That's a henna tattoo on my back okay. I really love the design - a fairy butterfly. :) It's not a bra strap, ok? Some people are just plain blind and silly haha.

Sunsets in Bora are just amazing. My legs hurt from trying to get the best shot of it. I was standing for about an hour with my whole Nikon bag. How romantic. Haha


I just had to take a picture of myself. I was alone anyway haha.
Doesn't this remind you of the Beach Boys album cover?
Parasailing was amazing! That's me waving. Ate was too chicken to even let go of the harness. I was already flapping my arms like a bird because I really wanted to know how it feels to fly. It was so surreal - it's definitely going to the highlights of my life folder. We were 200-300 ft above sea level and I could see everything!

Ate: Ah, ganito pala feeling ng kite.


Come night time, we just walked around the beach for about 2 hours. Fire zipping is wicked, isn't it?!

Friday, June 5, 2009

Schedulesssss

Ok. Can I just say that I'm soooooo stressed right now? I've been hearing complaints about everyone's schedule or that aisis has once again failed us in providing the decent quality of the servers.

Yes, I also experienced the internet glitches when I enlisted. I was panicking and cursing 20 minutes before my scheduled enlistment because Firefox and Safari kept telling me that the server timed out. Usually it just says that a random number scheme is being implimented so I can't log in yet. But yesterday, the aisis site just didn't work at all. Well at least until about 10:01 am. It was really funny actually. People were ym-ing, calling, and plainly bombarding me with questions of my schedule and such. Bea's case is even funnier. She's in Pampanga and kept Internet cafe hoping because she thought that the internet was the one that didn't work well. Hahaha. She even called a couple of times.

Fuck the rule that Psy students are only allowed to a maximum of 17 units this semester. Trust me, if you think you experienced hell during enrollment - just look at my case. I had to continually call different departments so that I could enlist in my Psy 102.2 class because there were 4 classes restricted for 2nd yr students only. Only one class was open for all year levels. And guess what? There were 0 slots left. But I just clicked anyway since the other classes had -3 in them so I thought I could just enlist. K. Wrong move. Clicking each subject took forever to load sooooo my other classes which had the profs that I really really REALLY like had 0 slots already by the time I confirmed my enlistment. And I was soooo happy when I saw 4 slots in Dy's class (fyi, he's the no. 1 choice for philo). I thought that when I presses "enlist", I was already enlisted in that class. Okay di pa pala.

I had to repeat the whole enlisting process thrice because the server kept on restarting and my enlisted classes would all be gone. So by the time that I confirmed my enlistment, my chosen classes were full already. I ended up in NONE of the classes that I originally planned weeks before. Hahaha. And so all that research about the profs didn't pay off to well after all.

The psy dept told me to just loadrev so that I could add my Psy 102.2.

K. Not end of my story yet.

I talked to Mr. Calasanz, ADAA about my overloading issue and he said I had to get an endorsement from my department if I wanted to overload 2 units. Since I want to overload 5 units for the double majoring, another 3 for Advanced Japanese, he told me that I had to get the endorsement of my department and the IS department (since that will be my second degree). Sooo that means I have to get the double majoring approved first before applying for the overloading of 5 units. (Trivia: Sir Calasanz is the only Atenean that was given an A+ in the card. And by Fr. Ferriols (a legend) to boot. And that's Philosophy, btw.) I was really anxious about talking to him buttt he seems to be a really nice guy. And, after the interview, I asked him if he knew my uncle. When I said my uncle's name, he burst into cheery laughter! They were close friends back in Lourdes and even in Ateneo. :p He also remembers my Dad rin pala. Sir is funny, he laughs all the time.

Another thing I had to fix over the past few days:
The rescheduling of my practicum so that I could go to the European study tour next summer. I had to talk to the Psy chair. And she approved! Yay! But it's still tentative though. She will still have to discuss how it will be done since the practicum has a class with it. But as far as she's concerned, there's no problem.

So so sum up the things that I had and have to fix:
Calling numerous departments and convincing them to grant my requests
Get permission for the practicum to be taken during the sembreak
Ask the Modern Languages department about the study tour details - some aisis stuff
Get endorsement from department about overloading
Get endorsement from psy dept and IS dept for double majoring
Fix the double majoring before classes start
Loadrev Psy 102.2 and JSP 104

K. That's about it. Yesterday, I just had to stop and just gather my thoughts for 20 minutes because I had so much to do. The procedures and all that. It gets mixed up.

Andddd it looks like I'll have to do most of it on June 8 since I'll be leaving for Bora on the 9th. So yay happy bday to me. Please please Lord. I ask this as a birthday present. Please let all these push through smoothly.

Monday, June 1, 2009

redbox bday

Co-celebrated my birthday with Arra and Aca the other day. And the attendance is impressive too! We were ten in Redbox.

I bet we sing lousier than a dog. (Do dogs even sing? That's the point) Our howls are probably louder and more annoying than your neighbor's mutt. But nobody beats our energy for it.The hats - credits to Tiki. The staff was pretty much surprised to see 'em pointy hats, they even wanted to have some! The food was refillable but leftovers means doublecharged so we pretty much just gobbled half of the plates. I was stuffing rice in my mouth without any ulam - it was hilarious! It was 3 hours of endless screaming, jumping, eating, and savoring the smell of other people's athlete's foot. The carpet reeked! Hahaha.

Nonetheless, I had so much fun. I missed everyone. We should do this more often.