blog anniversary

blog anniversary today!!!

i have plans of changing my template too but i can't work without frontpage so the new template would be delayed until i figure out how to work html using notepad. i'm not that skilled, you know...

exactly a year ago, i wrote about how i despised sembreaks, how they kill me with boredom and how they make me too idle. that was a year ago. a year since, i find myself still on sembreak and still bored to death yet thankful nonetheless that i don't have to go to school for a couple of weeks. i mean, it's better this way. i won't have to get my ass off the bed every morning. i won't have to run a flight of stairs to make it to class. i won't have to beat traffic lights to get to class. i won't have to come up with such lame excuses why i came late for class. i won't have to think of where to eat for lunch. i won't have to do anything but waste time and just be my usual lazy self.

almost only a week left before we resume typical school routine. i'm planning on spending the remaining days of happiness on something worthwhile.

1) go to Pangasinan for my aunt's 65th birthday celeb and for halloween na rin. we'll be leaving on sunday. it should be a blast and a helluva good time spent with relatives and adorable nephews and nieces. i'm giving them a bit of halloween scare. can't wait.

2) finish the scrapbook i'm working on. it should be finished by friday. i'm feeling kinda crafty today and my creative juices can't wait to pour out of my nutshell. it should be a nice project. i'm working on high school and college pictures. nostalgia... nostalgia...

3) i know this would be too passe but i made testimonials to some friends on (ahem ahem) friendster. those were long over due but they deserve it. while i was at it, i spent some time reading mine. testimonials can be really uplifting, no matter how baduy or corny or out-dated they may seem now. life is so much easier with testimonials.

4) added some yahoo id's of friends on YM. just to keep the lines of communication open...

5) i'm currently reading a Nancy Drew book. i've had Nancy Drew books since i could remember but i never really read them. it took me this long to finally start reading Nancy Drew. guess, i was too hooked with Sweet Valley then. SV seems so crappy snd superficial now. i think we all go through that "Sweet Valley" stage in our lives when everything's just so bubblegummy (props to Sed for that wonderful adjective). and then we move forth to a stage called "adolescence" and teenager-ism when all the angst sink in. yeah!

6) wadelse? hmm.. stalking some people... bwahaha :D friendster is the perfect stalking tool pare! ;) teenage girl, teenage girl :P

so there you go... i'm really excited about my scrapbook but i'm afraid i'm still short on pictures. wish i could have a printing galore and have all my digital images printed out. there's just too many. :(

wait. photo shops are accepting digital images now, right? wonder how much that would cost...

happy birthday bloggy!!!

never knew i would get this hooked

stressed tress

stressed tress

my locks are in an all time low right now. looked more horrible and wildly disarrayed than usual. ironically enough, it has never been this long, ever. it's dry and tangled all over and i'm in serious need of a hair make over... fairy godmother of hair, help me!

mom heard me whining and came to the rescue. she may not be fairy godmother but she's mother all right. although her ways are yes, questionable even for weird old me, i was made to comply for fear that questioning her methods would be too much for me to handle.

and then, she went on and on about how her hair was long and thick back in the days when she was younger and how her mother (my grandmommy, god bless her soul!) would bathe her hair in coconut milk which was exactly what she did with mine. weird, i know!

after having your hair all covered in gata, you let it stand for about an hour or so and then you rinse it with your fave shampoo. you would really have to rinse it well so you won't get too much oil on your locks and you won't end up looking like you have been dipped on grease. your hair should be shiny and well-moisturized by then.

experts (read as: mother) say the effect would be good for around two days and i wonder if the smell was included in that. the stink of coconut milk would really stick to your hair even after vigorous shampooing.
and i'm not really sure if you should be taking beauty advice from moi! haha :D

a reunion, a wedding and a sucky menu :p

a reunion, a wedding and a sucky menu :p

i can't believe i missed curie reunion for that stupid wedding. the ceremony was in japanese, the food sucked big time (japanese... yuck!) and although there were a lot of familiar faces around, mostly neighbors, i didn't really know any single one of them, except my mom whom i was with that night.

but what really ticked me off was the menu. seriously, i was only in it for the food and the food sucked. i mean, i didn't know anyone there. and i couldn't care less if the groom wanted to marry someone Madam Auring-ish. weno naman ang pakialam ko ano? close ba kami? HINDI. and i guess, wala rin naman silang pakialam kung nandun ako o wala. so i was pretty much... no make that, really, in there for the food. haha. professional P-G na 'to!

and did i say the food sucked? with names i can't even pronounce and arrangements which you'd think were hot off the cook book. the menu was really, really long. about 6 to 7 "entrees" (is that what you call them? feel free to correct me :D )were served. and i'm not really that keen on fine dining. i mean, i still have trouble with all the utensils. and besides, i hate that formal crap. actually, ok sana kung masarap yung food but no! there was this food, japanese i think, it looked real good pero kung gaano siya kaganda, ganun naman kapangit yung lasa. raw salmon and some other fish yeeekkk... nakaka-frustrate nga eh kasi maski yung dessert e hindi masarap. choco-orange parfait something. yung choco part lang yung kinain ko. grrr... kainis. and all the other kids have this kiddie meal (chicken, spaghetti and ice cream) which looked and, i guess, tasted better than adult food. sana yun na lang ang sinerve sa kin. baka umuwi pa akong nakangiti...

even the darn cookies weren't good!
i'll live my whole life hating five star hotels and fine dining restaurants because of that...

actually, i never really liked any of the stuff :D

iced crush

iced crush

you might think this is ultra cheeezy and to tell you quite frankly i never imagined myself saying this, but i am anyway so, live with it.

having a crush is one of the nicest if not the nicest feeling in the world. the natural high is just incredible. everything is incredible. i won't trade it for anything. okay, so maybe not really ANYTHING... that coveted mp3 player would be nice. haha. but still crushing on someone is like the icing on the cake, the cherry on the top, the spice of life... (wherever did that come from?)

it's high school all over again. and i still have vivid memories of racing heartbeats, hot flushed cheeks and dreamy stares everytime i see "him" walk across the quadrangle. suddenly, everything seems to be in slow motion and once again i am transported to cloud cuckoo land. typical high school girl crush if you ask me.
now that i'm more "mature" , it's not any different. the characters definitely have changed but the story's just the same. as always, i still get all tachycardiac and dreamy and stuff. i still can't get that stupid smile off my face everytime i sortuv see/imagine "him". the excitement of it all just takes my breath away. shallow yet totally elating...

ahhh alas! i'm a teenage girl once more. (i'm a girl! wtf. i almost forgot.)

crush ko si _____ :D

never felt better...

went to

went to
osang's dad's wake today. originally, the girls and i were supposed to meet at school but i cancelled after letting them wait for quite a while. i still had to run some things and my mom asked me to meet her at the mall. finally, i did go.
while aboard the jeep at España, i was lucky to see some friends who apparently were also going to the wake so i went down the jeep to go with them. besides, i didn't really want to ride the jeep. i felt metro manila pollution clogging my skin pores. it's so stressful. and yeh, i'd rather go with company, of course. :)
turned out, i didn't know the place and i could get lost if i did go there alone. anyway, we walked from quezon ave to the funeral place thinking it wasn't too far but hell it was! you know how lazy i am. i'm not used to walking distances and i'm not even used to walking. i'm that lazy, i know!
after finally reaching funeraria paz, my hair was in wild disarray, my bladder had to go and i was totally thirsty i even felt my throat go dry. a glass of hydrogen dioxide and a trip to the girl's room after, i felt better.
i don't really know the protocol (if there's such a thing) when going to wakes. i grew up thinking it's a place where people play cards while munching on your standard biskwit at kape. i don't know how i did but i finally mustered the courage to look at the dead man's face. usually, i won't do that, i'm too scared. like i would imagine the dead suddenly open their eyes or that they would squint or that moisture would form on the coffin glass. creepy.
anyway, there's a certain peacefulness when you look at them lying there. it's radiating almost infectious. when you die (depending on how you lived your life), body and soul separate and become two distinct peaceful entities. in time the body wears away but the soul lives on forever.



'nuf said... off to play Need For Speed yahoooo!

random angst

random angst

ugggh hassle! siyet tlaga. punyeta. eto yung mga panahon na gusto mo na lang mag-vanish into thin air. parang nag-conspire ang buong uniberso para bigyan ka ng sakit ng ulo. badtrip.

- nangangati ang buong katawan ko at sa di malamang kadahilanan napupuno ng mga pulang marka na mukhang pantal pero hindi naman. nakakahigh blood!

- may isang nilalang na maaring naka-infiltrate na netong kuta ko. hindi ako sigurado pero malakas ang kutob ko. arrgh. shit yun. ang lawak naman ng internet. kumbakit kelangan pang mapadpad dito... kundi ba naman uminit ang ulo mo.

- gusto ko ng bumalik sa pagiging invisible... >poof!<

- at biglang tumugtog ang With a Smile ng Eheads, mas uminit ang ulo ko. yeh ryt. with a smile mo mukha mo!

if this ain't laugh trip i don't know what is!

if this ain't laugh trip i don't know what is!

i was going through some dusty old handouts when i came across a magical stationery pad that made me laugh so hard i got all gassy afterwards...written in front, in big bold letters are the words:

"You made me realize, that all I want...Is to be with you!"

standard stationery crap if you know what i mean. i'm pretty sure you remember Tsukuba (TM) from your statio swapping days back in elementary. printed on the stationery was a drawing of a boy and a girl sitting on the grass surrounded by flowers, holding hands while their pet dog lay down nearby. same old, same old. i'm not quite sure where that piece of junk hailed from.

i went through the first few pages of the pad and written were quotations about luuuuuv. boy was it cheesy! and then there were songs, ultra cheesy! and then the best part(drum roll please...) poems galore! ultragalactic-major-beyond-your-wildest-dreams mush mush mush.

but it left me laughing my ass off. man this is hilarious. let me share you one poem straight from the stationery: (unedited version, comments are in smaller sizes and unitalicized)

Knowing those person,

Knowing who really them,

Knowing those things that was interesting!

Oh gosh isn't it funny?

You are interested to these person

You want to know them more!

Like a mirror

you've seen a lot

but you don't deserve!

You want to find those things that was

new in your life

Like a fuckin shit feather!

And a bitch monkey whose so

innocent

But if you think...

If you ask them

Did they do the same?

Did they feel the same?
You're just playing a damn shit

into the mirror

Knowing those reasons why?

now tell me this isn't funny... :D writer is still unknown. like a fuckin shit feather!

wretched sembreak!

wretched sembreak

and to think i have only been on it for two days! i'm frikkin' bored. bored like hell. i mean you should try staying at home, alone on a weekday and you'd go nuts. gaawwd... all the stuff that could come into your mind could definitely drive you out of your wits. and sometimes, i think i could even hear myself think. and maybe run out of things i could think of.

the tv and me? we're getting closer by the minute. rebuilding and reinforcing old bonds which were weakened by the semester that had gone by. i'm discovering and rediscovering programs and i think i'm falling deep-hard-face-down-flat-on-the-ground for nick. not nick carter, silly! i already had my share of him back in grade school. nyahahaha. am talking about nickelodeon. juts about the greatest channel ever (yeh yeh we don't have etc or disney or discovery. don't rub it in!).

there's this new show on whacked airing every friday on nick, Girls in Love. i know it sounds like some lame old chinovela or something but it's waaaaaaaaaayy better. it's some kinda Lizzie McGuire-ish with people talking with that crisp English accent. it's cool. probably because I can totally relate with Ellie, the bida girl and the perfect mix of teenage angst and everything else. and my, my the English boys are soooo cute. i'm telling you if they're not cute, i don't know what is. >:)

so anyway, there's this other show, Drake and Josh. it's kinda corny but wtf i adore Drake Bell!

"i heart drake"

Imagine

currently listening to: a perfect circle's remake of a John Lennon song on Launch™

astig 'to. hate to call it a "revival" but they sure did justify that J.L. hit.

Imagine

Imagine there's no heaven

I'ts easy if you try

No hell below us

Above us only sky

Imagine all the people

Living for today

Imagine theres no countries

It isn't hard to do

Nothing to kill or die for

No religion too

Imagine all the people

Living life in peace

You may say

I'm a dreamer

But I'm not the only one

I hope someday you will join us

And the world will live as one

Imagine all the people

Sharing all the world

You may say I'm a dreamer

But I'm not the only one

I hope someday you will join us

And the world will live as one

Imagine no possesions

I wonder if you can

No need for greed or hunger

A brotherhood of man

Imagine all the people

Sharing all the world

You may say I'm a dreamer

But I'm not the only one

I hope someday you will join us

And the world will live as one

and i thought it was over

but no! i'm taking the finals on microbiology! gaawwwd. after all that exposure (to pathogens) and effort... well, okay maybe there wasn' t too much effort involved... but still, i'm taking the frikkin' finals!

maybe it's ego. maybe i was just expecting too much. or maybe God is sending me a message. and there i was, actually thinking i could work my magic yet one more time.

ikaw kasi natulog ka nanaman, diba may exam?

tangna kasalanan ko ba?!

my fave hobby

had one whole day wasted. i found myself sitting in silence, staring in blank space, doing absolutely nothing. and i swear, that was the greatest feeling ever. for years i've searched forthings i enjoy doing, like some hobby or something. now i know. doing nothing would be the greatest pleasure. now i know, i have confirmed, i'm the laziest person i know.

just bragging about

my 89 on that last biochem exam. i'm ecstatic. don't know how i pulled that one off. hoorah. you see, no matter how cliche this may sound, there's a rainbow after the storm (well... not always. but, hell, it's just a figure of speech). and now i'm too happy to study for my pathophys exam. raaayyyyyt. and i actually thought about rainbows?!

corregidor galore

must see pare.

"to corregidor. rule #1: never let the camera see you're sea sick"

"first pic sa corregidor. ang init!"

"amazing... we're like flying. kahit sa picture lang."

"bilis, bilis baka abutin tayo ng alon."

"batuhan"

"batukan"

"the green, the blue, the sky over you"

"view hidden behind the clouds or perhaps poor film exposure"

"where's wally?"

"suicide cliff: ironic huh?"

"suicide from another viewpoint"