POSTED AT 03:05 PM

tums

people should realize that when you post things on your online journal, other people actually read them.

practice a bit of discretion and courtesy naman. if youre gonna bash or bad-mouth a certain group, oh say.. like DAYS, make sure you dont name the group outright. youre not just attacking a certain group of people, youre attacking everyone who's part of it. i honestly dont understand what reasons you may have for hating days, but hey, its your journal. go ahead and write what you want. i honestly expected better lang from you.

and it just keeps on coming, doesnt it?
POSTED AT 03:21 PM

tums

a few minutes after i read whatever prompted me to write my previous entry, aba! i read naman a comment! same topic, different person.

grabe... from people you dont expect talaga eh.

im so disappointed ... and here i was, SUPER confident in the people who i thought were the most committed.

mid-saturday update.
POSTED AT 11:01 AM

tums

one of bilog's favorite expressions is, "makapal ang mukha pag nahihiya".

i totally agree.

here was my sister's reply to the thing i mentioned in my previous journal entry.

"what images and issues are you talking about? its very disheartening, if not disturbing, to read this especially coming from the most recent rector. i hope you know that a lot of people have already read this and without meaning to, maraming na-disappoint sa sinabi mo. basta ikaw means a lot more than that sana to you."

*******

 

had to go to school this morning for the Open House. yup, waking up early on a Saturday morning is a b*tch. but hey, we dont have class naman on Monday so who am I to complain right?

 

what was annoying lang was that I didnt get much sleep last night so it was really hard to get myself out of bed this morning. stayed up really late with my baby, working on my board for the Psych exhibit. aaaaahhhh... hassle talaga. but it was fun, and to be honest, i didnt do much. i colored for the most part and pocholo did everything else yeay, i love having an artistic boyfriend hehehe...

*******

 

when I got to school this morning, I passed by the chapel like I always do. and i saw the cutest thing a cat was SITTING (as iin nakaupo) on the pew and he wasnt doing anything, just looking toward the altar. and i thought to myself 'if I visit the chapel every morning to say good morning to Jess, malamang this cat does too!" haha cutie talaga, it was a reminder to me that Jess really touches everyone's life, no matter how small.

 

*******

 

truelight 6's first powwow is in a couple of hours! yippee, im excited na. human bingo, anyone? haha

sunday funday haha :)
POSTED AT 05:57 PM

tums

woke up this morning feeling suuuuuuper tired and reeeeeeally sleepy but still had to pull myself out of bed to go to mass.

yesterday afternoon/night was fun went to mary the queen at around 1:20 for the truelight 6 powwow and pretty soon, people started coming na din. or should i say, a few people started coming. not alot came which was abit disappointing but its a busy time for most of us so we totally understood. we were thankful though to and for those who came

after the powwow, we stayed for awhile and just made kuwento which was fun coz i missed the truelight-ers ALOT. then, we dropped chakai off and timmy dropped carmi, cholo and i at greenhills. after going around for awhile, we stopped to eat and because i was super craving for shawarma, we went to this place near shoppesville plus. but no... they dont serve it na pala there! so we had to settle for tacos and quesadillas and pasta... which was good naman, so buti nalang

then we walked around abit more.. and looked for my beautiful pink bag.

it wasnt there anymore. sold out na.

lesson learned: when you see something you like, BUY IT NA!!! because it wont be around forever. and especially if its an item that you dream, fantasize, and obsess about... i super regret not buying it when i saw it the first time.

anyway, after greenhills we went home. Mikko organized a dinner for the Faith. boys and since there was so much food (and not alot of boys haha), we decided to eat narin at home yummy food and lots of beer (we didnt drink though) and ingay boys ... and lots of quality time with my baby yippee!!

and thats why i woke up tired this morning good kind of tired though...

then today, went to mass and then walked around Shang with mommy and camille. Sundays are the best, arent they?

no classes for me tomorrow!!! yessssss... no expe psych and no PE!!!! hahaha...

POSTED AT 12:21 AM

tums

i heard my first christmas carol today

thats how fast time flies. pretty soon, summer will be here!

yup, time to bring out the bikinis, flipflops and boardshorts <3

and its back to school again for me tomorrow. darn....
POSTED AT 06:48 PM

tums

what a relaxing, stress-free monday.

thank You, Jess

watched The Devil wears Prada this afternoon at Promenade and it was cute they got about 40% of the actual story of the book but as far as movies-made-from-books go, it was entertaining. and the clothes.... *drool* and the bags.. *more drool* and the shoes!!! i love, love, LOVED the shoes i wanna be Andrea hahaha (of course, minus the bitchy boss and the bad hair and the curly boyfriend)

i also bought a new shrug from Kamiseta. yeay, Tums is one happy shopaholic I wanted the Betty loves Archie shirt, but the cut was so wrong for me... V-neck tops and I dont really go well together. if they only had it in a tank or something else...

Im seriously considering having a pair of glasses made. something squarish and black to wear for the house... my contacts have been a major pain lately, and i cant even wear them the whole day coz my eyes get tired and red and teary... poor me

back to reality again tomorrow, and i have one report and one project due. time to stop procrastinating and get to work!

******

smile, everyone 

its wednesday, im in love
POSTED AT 08:40 AM

tums

wednesdays are usually free for me.... but today, i have to go to school to film our english video... darn..... :S

oh well on the bright side, i still have this whole morning to rest and lazzzzzzzzeeee around :D hehehehe

last night was so much fun! cholo, timmy and i helped camille with her first big event as an organizer. the event was a benefit at the manila penninsula (yihee, bigtime.. ) for this ecological society to raise P2,000,000 for the NSTP program. basically, the event was cocktails for businessmen.

we were there as early as 2pm to set-up for the 5-9pm event. i love manila pen its classically pretty and old.. there are alot of other nicer hotels though.

we were all spiffy-looking but pocholo was the best, i swear. baby, ang guapo mo...... i got so kilig when i saw you haha. three years since i met you, and you're still my crush!

didnt really run around that much, we were basically stationed at the 'registration'/ guest book table. we saw everyone enter and there were the usual rude, rich people but there were also nice ones that made us smile.

the foooooood- yum yum yum yum yum yum yum. can anyone say, three rounds at the buffet table? haha :D lasagna, california maki, salmon, yummy canapes, beef tenderloin skewers (the sosy version of barbecue haha), and other yummy little finger food. heaven. i love manila pen now

while we were seated at our table in front of the conservatory, this foreigner kept walking past us. he walked past our table around 60 times (no joke). we were a little creeped out by him because he was doing this the whole night and then, just when we were getting ready to leave, he approached me and timmy and asked us to type a message on his cell for him! turns out he's Hebrew and he doesnt know how to text (and to speak) that much English.

i have a new crush!! and he's gay but he's sooooo cute, he's the manager of Pen who I got to meet (through cholo-- bridge??!) because he's Kuya Jay's friend pala... he's sooooooooo guapo, i swear. but again, he's gay.

had a fun (and tiring) night. aside from the wine, the yummy food, the great atmosphere and ambience and all our funny little bloopers, i just really had a good time with the people i love <3 camille, timmypoo and of course, my pocholo miguel

corny-slash-keso moment of the night:

 'i will love you, till they take my heart away..' :D

mcdo apple pies used to be much bigger.... right?
POSTED AT 07:33 PM

tums

my 'supposed-to-be-free-but-had-to-do-my-project-in-school' wednesday didnt turn out to be as bad as i thought still got to sleep this morning, and i didnt really have to stay long in school coz our video was pretty fast to shoot. thank You, Jess

the shoot went okay, in fact it was super fun to do. talk about laugh trip, when kc made a minor (ok, major) blooper, we were all laughing and pretty soon we had to cut because we were all naiiyak na sa katatawa.

cholo picked me up after, and we had a really quick mcdonalds merienda.

>>side kuwento: i read somewhere that if you eat too much french fries, your palate/taste buds become impaired and vegetables taste bland. good thing im not really a fries person.

anyway, we were walking in glorietta and we found out that there was part that was on fire!! the part of glorietta 2, near all the children's clothing stores and landmark, etc. *tear* my second home is destroyed... haha, kidding. i heard on the news that they were able to put it out naman agad and no one was hurt so buti nalang.

im drooling over a new bikini in surf world... its brown and blue and its reversible!!! the other side is printed, with blue and white stripes. I WANT IT...... aaaah!!! and even though its expensive, paying big bucks for it is practical, considering its almost like having two bikinis right? :D plus the brand is good naman..

and then cholo goes, 'do you want it for Christmas?' and selfish Tums goes, 'no, i want it now!' haha... talk about being a spoiled brat

why is is raining? :(
POSTED AT 05:47 PM

tums

i had a pretty okay thursday. school in the morning was kinda hectic.. has anyone noticed that septembers are usually loaded with group work, and projects, and special assignments? or is it just me? anyway, i was so tired that i slept as soon as i got home. hehe, nap time for little Tums

expe psych quiz tomorrow... and im already cramming like hell. i hate how im so powerless when it comes to statistics and things related to it. argh....

is it the weekend ALREADY? :D wowowowowowow.... and Pocholo's birthday is in 5 days!!! yippeeee

tums loves fridays :)
POSTED AT 08:20 PM

tums

my friday was tiring. stressful. sweaty (uhhh, eewww...). surprising. sweet.

PE had me running around, chasing after a shuttlecock, sweating like crazy.. all for a good grade. damn. i played three games of three sets each and won only one game. how pathetic is that? haha, i even offered to choreograph a dance nalang for the prof.. he refused, badminton nga naman kasi yung subject diba? :D oh well, i tried.

after that exagsuperduperfreaking tiring class, i got the coolest surprise. my cholo texted me, inviting me to lunch since his afternoon classes were cancelled this has been the first Friday in a really long time that we've had the chance to eat and go around on a school (Fri)day.

i love my baby aside from our lunch together, he also waited for my 2 to 4:30 pm class to end so he could bring me home! poor cholo had to walk around glorietta since there was nowhere else he could stay yeay, i love my booboo

***********

i went around Debenhams for a second time, just to see if there was anything worth buying. and i found really cool shades a bit pricey but theyre good quality and they look good on me... haha. i still miss the old U though.. thank Jess for the Shangri-la branch.

its my baby's birthday week!
POSTED AT 06:24 PM

tums

its the end of another great weekend im happy that i always seem to find enough reasons to keep a smile on my face the entire week. yup, despite school stress and daily hassles. life is goo-o-o-od :D

yesterday, i went to mary the queen and spent the afternoon again there (for the second week in a row haha) for the truelight 6 participants' orientation. trix and i didnt sit with them though, we had other things to do and we fixed and got alot of things done. less than two months till the weekend and there's still so much to be done.. kakayanin

after beating the heat (hasnt the weather been so schizo lately?) and drinking taho (dont ask. pocholo has weird cravings), we left and went back home for the dinner at the clubhouse.

for once, i wasnt on the set-up committee hooray! i got to kick back and just relax and cholo and i just bummed on the couch, and went back and forth to the clubhouse bringing the garlic bread and eating the yummy yummy macaroni. the garlic bread was sooooo sooooo good... we ate around 6 each just walking to and from the clubhouse to deliver it haha

my contacts started bothering me again so had to take it out in the middle of the night. blind Tums was walking around tripping over things haha kidding, hindi naman.. and cholo was so enthralled by the contacts, he made a dome out of it and took it home (huh?). yeah, i thought that too.

so, that was my saturday. sunday entry coming up in a bit

ENZO et al.
POSTED AT 06:35 PM

tums

i just ended a two year and six months relationship.

yup, i finally replaced my phone

we've been together through graduation, three summers, countless parties and debuts and dozens of days batches. he's been with me to tagaytay, laguna, antipolo, batangas and boracay.

we've also had our low points but we've managed to get through them. we've survived two memory crashes, one memory card corruption and we've even been separated for about a week and a half.

but he's served me well and its time to let him go.

i love my new phone haha cant wait to super camwhore with him.

cholo's jealous. he came over and i wasnt making him pansin coz all my attention was focused on enzo heehee

of kenzo. red eyes. and self-declared holidays :D
POSTED AT 06:09 PM

tums

today was celine abello day.

in other words, hindi ako pumasok haha ...

in my defense, i only had a one-hour class today and that class was PE .. now tell me, was it sayang for me not to have gone to school? i dont think so

so today, i just spent time playing with Kenzo (yup, i changed his name from Enzo to Kenzo.. dont ask) and resting my eyes. tums was blind the whole day! *cheers* and her eyes were red and swollen for no reason *boos* oh well. guess its time to finally go see the doctor.

******

i was able to catch the replay of the uaap cheerdance competition last night. i really miss the days when we would watch it live at araneta.. *tear* anyway, i wasnt able to see the routines of adamson and feu, but i caught the rest. wow made me miss dancing and cheerleading.. there's nothing like the fear you get from being lifted and asked to do extensions up there haha

i loved up and ust's routines <3 galing talaga super.. i'd have to say ust's though was perfect from start to finish. and they really deserved to win. their extensions were exag and their lifts were really good.

i liked the dancing of babble though they remind me alot of hardcourt, traditional and classy all the way. plus, their lifts are getting alot better. usually, they stick to the safe and gasgas lifts. im so proud of ekay!! galing and camile labog was the prettiest cheerleader, cool.

******

havent been able to upload any recent pictures because some of it are saved in the memory card and are with cholo and the rest are on Kenzo and i still havent figured out how to upload via USB cable (naks, high tech na..) lets hope this weekend, i'll finally be ganahan to upload

******

speaking of this weekend, my mom's leaving for a 3-day retreat and so us kids are home alone! party, anyone?

long update because i have alot of kuwento. :)
POSTED AT 10:03 AM

tums

another wednesday, another day to sleep in note to self though: STUDY!!! no more excuses, Tums! haha :D

my baby celebrated his 21st birthday yesterday. to everyone who greeted, texted, and sent their messages for his surprise: THANK YOU SO MUCH!

we didnt get to go out or anything, since we both had school and he had duty, so we decided to postpone the celebration to this weekend. a weekend-long birthday pig-out feast actually, haha im so excited for Heat! i cant wait, i can practically taste allllllll the food...

so pocholo, now that youre 21, no more spongebob and batman watching k? and we have to limit you dragging me to toystores to look at model cars/ batmobiles/ little boy action figures and toys.

****

forgot to make this kuwento (and yes, i have a lot of forgotten kuwento, hence the title). i got an out-of-the-blue, middle-of-the-night text last week that just made me happy

"Thank you so much for everything. im glad you're my mom. wouldnt have it any other way.. i love you mommy!Ü"

-Ryan

awww it was so sweet, and i was super touched. i love, love, LOVE my ctk08 kids. and my acollege23 kids. they always make me smile, especially when they randomly text and just let me know they remember and thought of me. jowee does this alot, and kim too. for my acollege kids naman, camille and maj are the most thoughtful

its so funny because sometimes people dont get why we're so close. or even why my kids call me 'mommy' and i call them 'my kids'. i cant count how many times my blockmates have asked me why maj and maricar call me mommy.. its even harder to explain because there are certain days-things you cant talk about, and how exactly can you describe how three days brings a bunch of people closer together?

all i know is, the bond we shared for that one weekend was something that can never be replaced. galing talaga, eh i love how my relationship with all of them got even stronger after the batch ended. i love that they run to me when they have problems. and that they feel the need to tell me, even the most babaw kuwento.

what makes it even more bittersweet is that, my own rector and rectora (nope, my batchmates and i never called them 'daddy' and 'mommy'), dont even make paramdam to us. they dont remember birthdays, we hardly see them, and when we do, its like we're just acquaintances. they dont text us, not even just to make us kamusta. parang, we didnt share anything AT ALL.

oh well. thats one thing i missed out on, having a days mommy/daddy. maybe thats why im trying really hard with my own kids, i dont want them to feel the same way i do.

on second thought, i do have the best Days surrogate mommy. Alex, Cholo's rectora she's the best, and she calls us 'anak'. aww, and she's super sweet... thank Jess cholo got her for a mom.

****

a few days ago, i took the AC shuttle going to glorietta. and to my dismay, a few highschoolers rode as well.

oh my god. can you say, arte?!?! i was cringing the entire time they were talking and they were so loud and ugh.

when i was making kuwento to cholo what happened, i told him how ironic it was that i got to see and witness that. because it made me realize that back in highschool, i was exactly the same. the girls who rode the shuttle with me, the girls who talked all conyo and didnt know where the shuttle was going (because it was their first time to ride it and they probably never commuted a day in their life), the girls who spoke in straight English and didnt converse in Tagalog... that was me. operative word is : was. thank God i outgrew that. thank God for college because now i speak in Tagalog, understand it, ride the shuttle, and am less sheltered than I used to be.

hearing them talk though made me feel nostalgic. high school really, was the best. and high school friends were even better i loved high school but you have to move on and college is great, in its own way.

****

went to powerplant yesterday and camille and i were just looking around... and aura athletica has bling havs that cost more than P2000! but they're so pretty.... i want the brown ones with the big heart its definitely too much though so boo.... i dont think i'll be getting them

****

congratulate me, i've finally learned how to transfer my pictures from Kenzo to my computer! USB rocks haha and you too, Nokia PC suite. im so excited, i want to transfer everything! haha

pissed because i already wrote an entry for today.. and i accidentally deleted it :(
POSTED AT 10:01 PM

tums

not a typical thursday for me, considering i had class in the afternoon which doesnt usually happen.. my only consolation is that tomorrow, i get to go home SUPER early because my expe psych class was this afternoon instead of tomorrow yippee, Tums gets to bum sleep more haha

 

 

it was a pretty good day, didnt stress that much and all my classes seemed to pass by in a blur. to rewind, my day started off really well. I heard ‘Burn’ on the radio on my way to school and it just put a smile on my face something about that song makes me think of Calatagan, which makes me think of the summer of 2004, which reminds me of how cholo was just making pa-cute to me that time and how kilig it was when he was courting me.. not that its not kilig anymore now, its just that the early stages of love are different the kilig is different, and the pa-cute factor is so strong haha reminiscing about our first few months always makes me feel happy

 

 

*******

 

 

i was in the chapel and the highschool-ers passed, all decked out in their gala uniforms. oh my gooooood… i remember those days. our once-a-month, required white dresses, and the itchy lace collars, and the white stockings and shoes.. and how every month, one of my kabarkadas (or gulp, me) would forget to wear/bring their gala and would have to sit at the back with the rest of the delinquents in red plaid. and how we’d always find a way to blame christine for not texting us to remind us. :D ah, the good old highschool days..

my doozy of a weekend update :)
POSTED AT 05:59 PM

tums

this weekend has been THE ABSOLUTE BEST haha, i havent had this much quality time with my cholo in a long time.. it was just so great to be free of school stress and deadlines and work, and just be as carefree and mallrat-ish as we used to be.

*friday*

because i didnt have expe psych, i had the whole afternoon off. i love free cuts friday also kicked off our parent-less weekend, mommy left for tagaytay and camille and i were so ready to do all the 'bawal' things in the house. kidding, hindi naman illegal, immoral things haha.. just mababaw things we cant usually do when cecilia is around.. like turn on the air-con 24/7 and eat in our rooms infront of the tv   stuff like that

cholo was gonna have dinner with me at home and i had to wait superrrr tagal coz he came from the faith. basketball training with mikko. yes naman, my baby's the *ahem* assistant coach. yezzzuh. you go, boy. haha   and instead of waiting and eating dinner with me, he and mikko passed by mcdo and ate there! kayo nalang kaya?! haha, kidding

we (or rather,  i)  had a nice, peaceful, RELAXING, yummy (and free) dinner and just talked about our plans for the next two days.

*saturday*

 

woke up early and woke up pocholo so he could jog. okay, this is really sad, he wanted to jog para magutom daw for heat. haha, sinulit talaga yung lunch!

then we went to shang and just walked around until 11:45, then we went to the hotel for our 12noon lunch reservation.

i havent been to edsa shang in years and it was great to see that it hasnt changed THAT much. and when we entered heat, the drool glands kicked in. we were around 10 minutes early for the buffet so we just sat down and prepared ourselves. tip to anyone who's planning to eat there anytime soon: DONT ORDER DRINKS!! one can of coke costs 120 bucks PLUS tax.. yup, highway robbery.

 

anyway, the buffet was SO worth it. we ate like we hadn't seen food in months. we went back 8 (or was it 9?) times and literally attacked the maki, the PIZZA!!! and of course, the dessert *droooooool* nothing can prepare you for the dozens of different kinds of cakes, the ice cream, the crepes, the dark AND white chocolate fountains, and all the other yummy sweet stuff the dessert bar has. HEAVEN. especially for chocoholics. we made sulit the buffet all right, in fact with the way cholo was eating, im surprised they didnt kick us out

the pizza was really good. just making kuwento about it now is making me hungry.. baby, circles naman next time? hehe

after 2 hours of stuffing our faces like there was no tomorrow, we went back to Shang and bought tickets to John Tucker must die. funny, funny movie go see it! its your typical highschool movie, with a not-so-predictable ending. and Ashanti is in the movie! and John Tucker is the gardener from desperate housewives

mushy moment:

during the movie, there was this one scene where John Tucker, in an attempt to prove to the girl (and to everyone around them) that he was really in love with her, takes off his watch and puts it on the girl. and then he says, "im whipped!"

after that scene, out of nowhere cholo lets go of my hand, takes off his bulky watch and puts it on my wrist. and he says, "im whipped!"

okay, it may not sound sweet but it was for me. in fact, it was the one perfect kilig moment of my day. i loved the fact that it was so cheesy and still, it made me feel so loved. and yup, im whipped too

after the movie, we just walked around and window-shopped. we didnt see anyone we knew (boo..) and we went home before dinner. then for the second night in a row, cholo ate at home again. yippee!

*sunday*

my sunday started off really, really great because cholo and i went to mass together. aside from days masses, this is the first time in around 3 months that we've gone to mass together, just the two of us, since i usually go with my family.

i love going to mass with my baby and i was so happy when, during communion, they sang two memorable days songs and one of them was 'how lovely is your dwelling place'. that song ALWAYS gives me goosebumps.

after mass, we went to greenhills to... go shopping!!! shopping and being with my baby are my top two favorite things to do and... WE BOUGHT MY PINK AND SILVER BAG!! yup, the bag i've been obsessing about and thought i'd lost forever.. is finally sitting in my closet thanks so much baby! i really, super love it.. and I named her haha her name's Sasha coz she's pretty and pink and cute (okay, im making no sense at all)

then we went shirt-shopping for my booboo. shopping for guys is always difficult.. and there are so little options! i mean, its so hard to come by shirts that actually look good. they either look fake, or too tight, or too gay, or too hip-hop/baggy. FINALLY, we were able to find decent ones that look good on pocholo and we bought a couple of them. oh yeah, plus guy shirts are so much more expensive than tops for girls! why is that? with the money we used for one shirt of cholo's, i can buy a pair of jeans or a skirt na! hmm... maybe it has something to do with the fact that more fabric is used? i have no idea..

we had a REALLY BIG lunch after, at theater mall, and its funny coz you would think we'd still be busog from heat.. but no. with our appetites, walang effect haha then we went home to pasig.

i love going home to cholo's family compound. there are so many people, and so many friendly faces, and they're all so welcoming and fun and funny. and cholo's lola (mommy) is the sweetest. since she was resting, we went to her room to greet her and when i kissed her, she gave me the biggest hug awwww... i dont have any living grandparents and that one hug reminded me so much of my own lola who used to live with us. i love mommy, she's so sweet

we just relaxed and watched tv with cholo's parents and sisters and it was so nice just bumming and spending time together. then we watched princess diaries 2 on dvd with the kids and kessa. and then we had turon! i love it, im so glad i finally got to try it now i can see why its cholo's favorite. 

i really had a great, great weekend what made it even more special, aside from all the things we did and all the places we went to, was just spending almost two whole days with my baby walang sawaan talaga eh, i love that we can spend as much time with each other, and then when we part ways, we miss each other na kaagad. heehee, mush.

*********

heard the acet was this weekend too. and it made me remember my own acet experience three years ago..

because i was the one who lived the closest to ateneo, i was also the one who submitted mine, loi’s and bianca’s ateneo applications. and yes, being the procrastinator that i am (i was even more of one nga back then), i submitted our applications on the date it was due. yup. talk about major booboo. and predictably, the lines were long, the heat was unbearable, and i was bored out of my wits. good thing i made friends with a girl in line who was from upis. haha, i don’t even remember her name now..

anyway, the lucky (and good) thing about submitting your applications together with your friends is you’ll most likely be given the same test date and more or less, the same (or near) testing rooms. bianx and i were given the same room, loi wasn’t with us but we all had the same testing date and time. so we planned to go to ateneo all together on the day of our test which was a saturday.

on the day of the acet, i woke up early (malamang) and waited for loi and bianx to pick me up in our old house in white plains. and yes, i remember this clearly, LOI WAS LATE. as usual, because she always is. and bianx and i were super panicking coz we thought we were all gonna be late, but thank Jess we made it there on time.

so obviously, none of us ended up in ateneo. being wait-listed sucks because i was halfway there and all but in retrospect, maybe there are some things that just aren’t meant for certain people. my life would’ve been very different, had i gone to another school aside from ac, but then again i wouldn’t change anything. life right now is going great and yes, im loving it

DEADlines. ugh. school stress sucks!
POSTED AT 07:55 PM

tums

i wont be having written finals but at the rate my professors are going with regards to their giving out requirements, i think i'd rather study for tests...

ugh. STRESS talaga. and HASSLE.

can you believe even PE is killing me? our requirement for finals is to play against each classmate and to record it on an index card. and okay, i totally suck against my classmates who apparently are varsity-material but are too tamad to join. i've concluded that badminton is evil because i dont usually curse, but super napapamura ako while playing. daym. talk about sineseryoso hehehe

i've finally, FINALLY completely memorized my Rizal poem. yeahboi, pat on the back! believe me, it definitely WASNT EASY but when you're aiming for a 1.5 or higher, you'll do anything including isolating yourself in a library carrel and reading aloud (knowing full well that you sound like a complete idiot).

we had our english speech group presentation today and we totally rocked  i love my groupmates, we did so well. and as usual, tums improvised and everything was literally adlib. but it went well naman and the prof even congratulated me after, so yeah. i guess my final grade's going up :D

i have one day to rest. not to bum though, because i still have so much to do, and so much to study for. sembreak, where art thou? i cant wait till i can sleep in everyday and not worry about anything school-related.

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an entry's never complete without a mention of the cutest boy alive i love you baby, i miss you!!!!

 

three more HELL WEEKS and then.. first sem will FINALLY be over...
POSTED AT 03:20 PM

tums

yesterday, i literally broke down in tears because of stress. i dont really know what happened, out of nowhere i just started crying to cholo. i guess i just realized how much work i still have to do, and how little a time i have left to finish it all.

thank Jess my cholo was there aside from just holding me and letting me cry it all out, he helped me devise a schedule of things to do and which stuff to prioritize first, etc. thanks baby

i refuse to let my deadlines and requirements take over my life. no way am i letting that happen.

hooray for fridays! :)
POSTED AT 06:22 PM

tums

there's just so much in life to be thanful for. and the galing thing about Jess is, he doesnt just give you one good reason to enjoy the day, he gives you LOTS.

..........

my friday was great because..

*i realized that sometimes, first impressions DONT last. there's a certain person i always regarded as uncouth and rude and i got to talk to her during PE class and it turns out that she's really nice. and she's warm and friendly, so not like what i originally thought her to be.

*i got my bi-weekly ultimate workout c/o my PE badminton class. so what if i suck? im 1000% sure i can dance circles around those who are galing at badminton. im just thankful for the class because it supplies me with much-needed endorphins to start my weekend right natural highs are the best

*i got to relax and read magazines in the lib. lotsa informative stuff i wouldve missed out on, had i not decided to pass the time there. things like: upcoming movies, showbiz chismis (local and foreign) and current events. yeaaaaahhh....

*my expe psych class wasnt as long as it usually is. we only met for two hours and 30minutes of that were spent waiting for the prof. the rest of the time was spent participating in elaine and louise's, and karen and irene's experiments

*angge and i had a looooooong chismis/bonding/love advice discussion haha, we talked about cholo, about her boyfriend, about illegal relationships, lqs, and lotsa other things.

*my baby picked me up! and we bought shawarma, donuts and drinks before going home. i dont know when i started liking shawarma but now, im super addicted

*spent the afternoon-early evening at home, with my pocholo. 26 months, 2 days and mushyness all around i loved my day, and my baby completed it and made it ten times greater :D

..........

this weekend, i plan to rest. not the entire time though, still have other things to do and ugh there's school stuff of course.

there's something about the words 'ceasar go-go' that make me wanna get up and dance :)
POSTED AT 11:14 PM

tums

saturday spent again with my baby yippee!

my morning was spent *ahem* studying bumming and wasting precious time (that yes, couldve been spent studying), watching tv and surfing the net. ahehehe. okay, so i procrastinated YET again.

had lunch with cholo. Mcdo quarter pounders are the shiznit.. heehee i dont get to eat at Mcdonalds as much as i used to, and i have a certain love for their spaghetti. i have absolutely no idea why. i just do. same with their hot fudge sundaes. yum yum yummy :D

after lunch, mr. tight shirt (mikko) drove us to mary the queen for the powwow. argh, as usual, we were displaced. i hate meeting at mary the queen coz we never have our own space. we're always forced to share it with another group. and, the place is soooo hot. oh well. bil nga diba?

the powwow went well. karla wasnt able to go but we still got alot done. i had to give the parents' orientation which was abit nerve-wracking because i always feel like one wrong thing i say could mean the parent not wanting his/her kid to join days anymore. it was really nice to see a marked improvement in staffers attendance though.. hehe. thanks for coming guys! i missed the other people alot and it was great just seeing everyone again, especially after a long time.

after the powwow, camille, cholo and i passed by ash creek before going home and we bought yakisoba! one word: craving ... hehe even though i know full well that yakisoba is chock-full of msg, it still doesnt stop me from eating it. i used to eat it around once a week, passing by sanlo park just to buy. now though, i only eat it once in a while because i found out it can actually decrease and impair your brain cells .. so there. we also bought chocolate and had a mini pig-out session at home.

yeay, i loved the foodtrips, camwhoring sessions and bonding moments that went on today i cant wait for sembreak when i'll REALLY have nothing left to think and worry about.. nothing school-related that is. ugh, the next two weeks will still be hell and then.. SEMBREAK! finally..

anyone know how many more weeks till summer vacation?

 

sunday kuwento.
POSTED AT 03:42 PM

tums

yesterday, we went all the way to calamba, laguna - just to take pictures of rizal's house for my rizal class. yup, talk about major effort for a minor subject. ugh :S

it was fun though a-d-v-e-n-t-u-r-e!! haha :D it took us about 1 hour and a half to get there, and that was minus the traffic because it was a sunday. who knew that rizal's house was all the way at the end of laguna? picture this, we traveled all the way to the end of the highway, AND THEN had to travel for about 20 more minutes. yup, THAT FAR.

and here's the clincher, when we got there, we found out that.... it was closed. apparently mondays AND SUNDAYS are their clean-up days. and to my professor, who swore up and down that rizal shrine was only closed on MONDAYS ... thank you so much. youre the best talaga..

so, with a heavy heart (haha, drama), i was all set to go home. i knew, super knew that cholo was ready to say, "you shouldve double checked kasi".. i was abit annoyed at myself as well, imagine we traveled all that way for nothing? well, not really nothing, i did get the pictures i needed. (okay, so they were pictures of me standing outside, which i guess dont really count)

you have to admire my mom. she's the ultimate example of someone, who literally, ALWAYS GETS HER WAY. no matter what. cecilia is the best person to bring anywhere haha she had rizal shrine opened for us. no kidding. it was closed to the rest of the world (este, the philippines), but we got to go in. and look around. and take pictures in the museum, even when the 'no picture taking' sign was nakabandera everywhere. yup, thats my mom. haha, no one can say no to her.

after camwhoring (abit coz i was medyo nahihiya pa haha), we left calamba and headed home. we stopped by the grocery and shopped for awhile, and then we went to north park kopitiam for lunch. yum yum yum yum chinese food.

had a good sunday. had a good, albeit hell, week life is goooooood.

monday kuwento.
POSTED AT 03:55 PM

tums

two entries, all in one day yippee yippee! hehe, weird tums...

as usual, my monday started with my oh-so-favorite, always-looked-forward-to, never-dreaded, PE CLASS. badminton and i are like this *crosses fingers* yup yup, i sweated, and ran around, and chased after shuttlecocks, and almost died (haha, no naman) yet again.

one more meeting. 5 more people to play against. i can do this. tums is athletic. okay, im so not. i hate competitive sports that require you to sweat. and run around. i've said it once, and i'll say it again. I AM MADE FOR ARTISTIC, NON-CONTACT SPORTS. such as dancing, cheerleading, gymnastics and figure skating. NOT badminton. or basketball. or anything else that requires you to face off against someone/another team and run around chasing after something. NO WAY.

haha, talk about being high maintenance

after PE, i didnt have class anymore! yup, no expe psych coz she gave us the time to do our experiments. and since maricar and i are meeting tomorrow, i spent my free time to continue my rizal roadtripping. the route for today was paco park- luneta park- and fort santiago.

ugh, did you guys know that those places are virtually in the middle of nowhere? and that i dont know squat about manila and manila bay and roxas boulevard and all those other places?

finally finished my rizal requirements. Thanks, Jess only thing left is the El Fili group presentation.

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we're all set for bora! haha, march 23 to 29, 2007! bikini shopping, here i come!!!

work work work.
POSTED AT 09:47 PM

tums

working on my English speech.

mental block. ugh. and im running out of synonyms and thoughts and coherent sentences.

and after i've finished writing this, i still have to memorize it. goody.

im so excited.

NOT.

pRoCrAsTiNaTiNg!!!
POSTED AT 09:54 PM

tums

did you guys know that...

-an Ateneo high school student died while taking the ACET? he just slumped down in his seat and the proctor went to check on him, and apparently, he got a heart attack. woah. how sad

and on a lighter note..

-Lemony Snicket's (sp?) name isnt really Lemony Snicket! its something really normal.

-there's a waterproof iPod case that you can take scuba diving with you! yes, you too can dive WHILE listening to your favorite songs haha, how weird.

AND

-Ashlee Simpson is reported to be super obsessed with plastic surgery, having her face operated on a number of times now.

*yup, im procrastinating BIG TIME.*

day of stress.
POSTED AT 06:58 PM

tums

so today was a restful day.

NOT.

haha it wasnt THAT stressful naman or anything.. i mean i've had worse days. i just felt like each class i had, i either had to submit something, present something or take a test. yeah, relaxing noh?

and yes, thank Jess, im finally done with my Rizal poem! yeah.... and not one mistake *bows* thank you, thank you.. finally! no more memorizing and reviewing and cursing Rizal for making such a long, complicated poem... hehe

so, my much-awaited for and much-appreciated Wednesday rest day tomorrow will be used for our Theo finals. that sucks but oh well. better to get it over with tomorrow than to meet on a weekend right?

im back! ;)
POSTED AT 11:55 PM

tums

FINALLY!!!!! after three long days of not having electricity, i can finally, FINALLY enjoy going online, watching tv, not having to fan myself to sleep, and charging my cell phone!!!! aaaaaah, im so happy, its totally pathetic! hehehe

this has been the longest 3 days i've EVER experienced in my whole life. LITERALLY. every second was the absolute worst, and this is coming from me, the most-of-the-time optimist. the 'let's always look on the bright side!' girl... daym. im just so happy that i can fall asleep tonight in my cool room with my nightlight. no more leaving my flashlight on (yes, at 20 years old, im STILL afraid of the dark)

the typhoon really did a lot of damage. in the few hours that it hit our country, it left behind so much destruction; fallen trees and so many wrecked buildings and houses. add to that the hassle of not having electricity and youve got yourself a state of calamity, exactly what gma declared (yes, one of the few things she actually got right).

havent updated since tuesday night so here's what's been happening to me these past few days:

wednesday

got abit pissed because our theo group project meeting got cancelled last minute. and its annoying because now, we barely have time to do it, considering the due date is already next week. but oh well, i got to rest and spend time with my cholo. little did i know that my wednesday would turn out to be the first day of my five-day long weekend...

right before going to bed, i got about a million (ok, hindi naman, mga 10 lang maximum hehe..) texts about the cancellation of classes for thursday. yippee, tums was happy of course haha i always am, especially when it has to do with no classes announcements

thursday

didnt really think that the storm would be that bad or anything.. i was actually wondering why classes were suspended when it didnt seem like the storm was gonna be strong ..

whoa. guess i was wrong.. the wind was extremely strong, the rain was coming in like anything.. and lampposts were breaking in our village. we dont really have enough trees here so luckily, nothing fell naman, but a tree in our backyard was bending and swaying precariously.

and then the worst possible thing happened. nawalan ng electricity... and i remember thinking that it would just be the usual brown-out, the ones that would only last for about 30 minutes, an hour at the most. uh, yeah. try 3 days ...

this is the funniest thing. thursday night, cholo's house already had electricity! so while we were all sweating and dying (figuratively, of course), he was enjoying all the comforts. daya...

friday

okay so by friday, both my cell phones' batteries were close to empty. i was also super stressed out because my defense for my expe psych finals is on monday and i havent typed/made/printed a single thing. so, out of sheer desperation (and also because i wanted to get out of the house and go somewhere cold), i went to galle.

aaaaaah, galle was cold. and crowded with people who had the same idea, but still. it was better than staying at home, sweating. i typed at i-manila AND charged my phone at the same time, and i was so happy haha and cholo was there to keep me company so i was happier, of course

after we went to pick up mommy at shang and what a change of atmosphere! shang was hot, and the air-con wasnt turned on, and there were only a few stores open. ALSO, the escalators werent functioning! not all anyway... so yeah, we had to climb and walk abit which sucked... we also had to wait for a while because cecilia was shopping and enjoying the sales.

saturday

for some strange reason, my phone didnt fully charge and i was left with only four bars when i woke up. i super panicked, thinking that the worst-case scenario would be that we wouldnt have electricity till monday and that i wouldnt be able to use my phone.. so i offered to bring fudge to his vet in rockwell and i charged my phone there haha, the perks of having an expensive vet is that for sure, they ALWAYS have electricity

after the vet, cholo dropped me home and then we waited for mommy to come home with our food for lunch... but she got home super late coz she decided to have her nails done (yes, of all days...) and since we had a 2pm meeting at the clubhouse for truelight6, we went there without eating

got to eat really fast though, and cholo brought me his tita's super  duper YUMMY homemade baked ziti aaaaaaahh, life is good and my day was complete just because of that hehe

thank you to everyone who came to the powwow! yes, it was hot and sticky and uncomfortable but we got alot done. and with just one more month before the batch, its about time that things finally get moving, especially with the committees. so thank you, guys!

after the truelight-ers left, the yuppies started arriving. music practice and meeting by candlelight was fun so was the catered dinner...

and then a few minutes after i got home... the lights (and everything else) came back on!!! i love you Meralco people... i literally started jumping up and down, and SCREAMING.. so sad. its just funny that you start appreciating something as simple as ELECTRICITY, just because you went without it for three days.

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so that was my past four days in one entry. im not looking forward to going back to school on monday, especially since my work is double now, because of the two days of no classes. ugh. oh well, two weeks to go and im free! im definitely, super looking forward to my much-needed sembreak.