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goodbye, 2006...

hello, 2007!

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every new year, i come up with a list of "must-do" things for the year. for the past few years, i've done most of the things on my list so for this year, im hoping i get to do ALL

to do in 2007:

__skate in the Mall of Asia rink
__get my driver's license (i've been putting this off for the past three years!)
__learn how to drive (same)
__commute to Divisoria (haha, just so i can say that i ACTUALLY commuted)
__go back to Bora (May!)
__Dean's list
__dance classes (in either Powerdance or Steps)
__try Antonio's in tagaytay
__Tennessee Walker in Manila Bay!
__go around Intramuros

**to be continued, i cant think of any more but i know there are still A LOT of things i want to do!

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waking up to a new year is weird. nice, but weird

and seeing my phone with 23 new messages was so heart-warming

yummy left-overs, drinking soda for brunch, and gorging on dessert was an over-all assurance that yes, this year is gonna be another FOOD-FILLED YEAR. get ready for tums to turn into a blimp! haha

i was watching cnn at around noon, and they were showing the new year's eve celebrations in new york and in other countries galing how the holidays really bring everyone together, despite what each of their beliefs or race may be.

im just lazing around now, but tonight we'll be going to mass. also, im having dinner at cholo's house for their Jacobe new year's dinner cant wait!

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on a more serious (and somber, haha) note, school's starting in 2 days. tomorrow is the LAST DAY of the christmas break. whoooooaaaaa...

who's looking forward to classes again? to the papers, homework, projects and quizzes, not to mention the coming midterms? to the same old profs and their rules, to the boring lectures, to the tiring all-nighters, and to the monotony of having to review and study?

NOT ME. obviously

my only consolation is that summer is gonna be here sooooooon. and with the way time flies, the next 12 weeks (yup, i counted) will be over before i know it.

and then i'll be free again! vacation, here i come.. yippeee

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i was so sad waking up this morning, knowing that it would be my last day to wake up late on a non-school, vacation day

haha, and then i got a text from maj saying that we wont be having class tomorrow since our interviewing techniques professor lost her voice so i'll only have to go to school from 1 to 4pm! yippee

last night was fun yummy food (and the sangria!) and yummy dessert, plus i got to meet more of cholo's relatives on the Jacobe side. okay, so it was nerve-wracking with all his balikbayan cousins grilling and interrogating me, but it was still fun their questions were the best! from the gasgas na "how did you meet?", to the funny "what's your theme song?" to the super nakaka put on the spot "how many kids do you want to have?" haha, saya 

ended the night doing arabesques and developes for wilford and kuya jay (haha, dont ask), and my baby and i got to talk at home pa after good start of the year. cant wait for more nights (and days) like yesterday.

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havent updated in... a while, mainly because its been my midterms week. but, FINALLY, hell week is over! and i can bum around and go online again haha cholo put me on an internet ban for the whole week, just so i can avoid any, and all, distractions..

didnt really have a difficult time with any of my subjects, and i didnt have to pull a single all-nighter too. lucky, me

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hahahaha, this is the funniest i was watching the news around four days ago, and they were interviewing some up and coming filipino teen star who was trying soooo hard to seem... hip.

"hindi ako sumusunod sa uso. recently, bumili ako ng madaming pink na damit, kasi yun daw yung color of the year."

wow, there are just too many wrong things about this statement. so, hindi siya sumusunod sa uso but she still blew her money on pink stuff... and im sorry, but wasnt pink the color of the year like two years ago pa? hija naman, ininterview ka na nga, you didnt take pa the opportunity to make a good impression on everyone watching. granted, you were memorable, just not in the most.. ideal way.

i swear, the news isnt informative anymore. its entertaining, yes. but we dont exactly watch the news to be entertained, now do we?

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it was paula's debut last saturday at the bamboo lounge in fort, but before that we went to cafeteria first to have dinner saw a lot of people (which was understandable since it was a saturday night), enzo and ryan were there since they had a party at cuisine (and yes, the celebrant went to us pa to invite us to go to her party!) and i also saw bea, one of my acollege23 kids 

after, we went na to bamboo lounge. it was a pretty eventful night, considering there were a lot of drunk kids (yes, they were mostly underage), and some drama was involved too. the ateneo results had come out earlier that day, so most of the povedans were a bit.. on the 'lets-get-drunk-and-vent-since-we-didnt-get-in' side.

had a lot of fun though, even if we felt a bit.. old. haha.

after, we were supposed to go to embassy but there was just WAY TOO many people. we then went to greenbelt, but since it was already past 3am, nothing much was happening na din. so we just stayed in starbucks and talked.

went home past 4, but still passed by valle 6 to visit macky, chris and santi who were nag-iinuman in the clubhouse parking lot. in the dark. haha with their ua&p friends.. didnt stay long there though, we were probably there a total of 5 minutes

got home at around 5am waaaaaaaay past my curfew. good thing my mom was FAST ASLEEP and i got away with it! haha galing!

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prom season is upon us again!  (well at least for the high school crowd, that is) i miss dressing up and getting all excited to go to formals... why arent there proms/balls in college? hrmph. it would be nice if there were haha. that way, we could recreate the magic of prom/ball... with a MUCH BETTER date (and dress, come to think of it..)

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on a more serious note, something sad happened this past week  tito ej litton, gel's dad, passed away last sunday when i got the text, i was so shocked and i just felt so down. gel and i used to be best friends back in grade school, and i grew up in their house (i practically lived there!), and i used to go out all the time with her family. i remember we even used to go to strumm's in el pueblo all the time, since her dad would be working..

i visited the wake with my mom and mikko last monday, and seeing gel's siblings and cousins and her mom especially, made me feel bad. i think i know what they must be going through, since we went through that too..

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its a Friday night, and im booooooored (and stuck at home, i might add). yup, when i can be out. we were actually supposed to go with sina mikko to the Temple event tonight  (open bar.....)

but no, those plans fell through. partly because cholo's duty this month falls on the night shift. poor baby has to be in the hospital from 10pm to 6am thrice a week. wawa...

so yup, im here online again. friendster and multiply stalking haha thank Jess i dont have nstp tomorrow so i can sleeeeeep in :D

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i was reading the newspapers this morning, and saw an article about the latest Apple gadget, the iPhone. wow, they actually did it. Apple finally released their pambato to all the Nokia phones. the article even mentioned how Nokia shares dropped, just by the release of the iPhone. wow small drawback though, the phone doesnt have a camera! so even if they release it here, i dont think i'll be interested.. but it does feature an iPod incorporated in it, so im sure a lot of people will be clamoring for it soon

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these past few days have been all about me EATING and pigging out again maybe its the weather? i've also noticed its been cold eh... okay, there's absolutely no connection whatsoever, but i digress

we recently tried this restaurant in the fort strip, trio, since we heard it was good. turns out, it is. i mean, nothing SUPER great but for the price and the ambience and everything, it was okay

also, we've had strawberries at home so i've been pigging out on that. literally. and i dont like to eat it with cream or confectioner's sugar, i just eat it with plain white sugar. HEAPS and HEAPS of sugar, actually. hello, diabetes? hehe...

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my sister recently got the COMPLETE set of charmed dvds, all eight seasons and we've been watching it non-stop. haha im so sick of prue, piper and phoebe. and yes, because of school, im still stuck in the third season. prue's not even dead yet! and wala pa si paige haha....

i remember the time when charmed was so uso! i was what, grade six or grade seven back then? whoa... who's old??? haha, and the other uso shows back then were dawson's creek, popular and buffy.. speaking of buffy, angel used to be MY BIGGEST CRUSH. haha, the stuff grade school fantasies were made of

anyway, after having re-watched roughly twenty episodes of charmed, i've come to the conclusion that media really does focus on shallow things. yup, theyre off vanquishing evil and offing the bad guys, but theyre always so scantily dressed. i mean, just in one episode, they have about six changes of clothes, and the episode only usually revolves around one or two days. and, their clothes almost always have to be short, skimpy, backless, sheer, or tight. how do they fight evil off wearing that?

thats why its called television, i guess. no one said it was a reality show or anything

speaking of tv, the other night i got to watch this really interesting movie starring ewan macgregor and scarlett johannsen, entitled the island. wow, galing plot. usually, movies nowadays all have the SAME STORIES, and theyre all so predictable. this movie was different go and watch it if you havent yet! its really galing, promise

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speaking of movies, we watched the film 'tatarin' for my english class, since we've been taking up nick joaquin novels (and tatarin is based on summer solstice). can i just say i REALLY dont enjoy Filipino movies? some are okay, but most are just so disappointing. maybe it was also the story itself that made the movie unbearable, but i was just so bored while watching.

and yes, i was very much scandalized upon seeing rica peralejo's breasts. eeeew, gross.

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WHO'S EXCITED FOR THE AYALA SALE?? the 70% off, two-week sale??

tums, of course :D

its such a perfect time to go bikini-shopping! especially since summer is, oh i dont know, around only 10 weeks away??!!

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utang weekend update since im too tired, and have to go to sleep soon since my 8am class tomorrow is not cut-table....

had a good two days though and best thing that came out of this weekend? one word. KATE. cholo's kenzo equivalent

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one thing i've learned in life is that, when you do bad things to other people, karma bites you in the ass. HARD.

like when you're a really crappy 'friend', when you intentionally do things to hurt people, when you're jealous of others' happiness, and when you go around badmouthing everyone, chances are ...

your love life'll be screwed up like ANYTHING, people smirk just hearing your name, you'll get uglier (and fatter haha take that), and you'll achieve no success whatsoever in school, work, etc.

dont worry, this isnt anyone you guys know or maybe you do.. haha. its just someone who's been REALLY super pissing me off these past couple of years. (oh my gosh, it HAS been years!) someone who wont leave me alone, who wont stop opening his big fat mouth.

i do believe in karma though, and him? he's getting it.  A LOT OF IT, actually. revenge is sweet after all

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by some weird (but great) twist of fate, both my classes tomorrow were cancelled by the professors so im class-free for three days! yeay for tums this means i only have two days of classes for this week, last monday and this friday..... yippee!!

can you say charmed marathon? haha :D hopefully i wont be couch potato-ing as much as i think i will be though.. i need to go out!

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cholo's kate is bee-yoo-ti-ful... and the camera is really, REALLY nice.. maybe even better than kenzo's.. boo...

watch me camwhore with his phone now! haha the perks of having a boy friend who lets me get away with A LOT of things..

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i've been craving sbarro for the loooooooongest time and thankfully, i got to have a really yummy ziti merienda yesterday with my baby i swear, thats one of my favorite dishes in the world...

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i had pretty good week, considering i only had two days of classes. nyahahaha... :D thats what you call a mini-vacay! haha

add to that the fact that i dont have class again TOMORROW, and so im free to bum until tuesday yippee yippee yippee for tumsy!

was able to go to Poveda Days friday night, which was good considering im on serious dwtl weekend withdrawal. didnt get to do the work that i was originally supposed to do for Friday night, so Karla and I were assigned to do something else (ehem truelight 5 friday night memories!). on a more moderate level though. dbtl is a loving community haha

yesterday naman, met up with Trix and Cas for our very first *tada* true light 7 core meeting yihee... haha. got to do a lot, fixed committees, etc. c'mon xavier, cooperate naman! so we can finalize EVERYTHING na...

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thought today was gonna be a bad day, considering cholo and i had a pseudo-fight kanina. well..... i was wrong. coz my boyfriend just happens to be the most patient guy in the WHOLE WORLD.

after fighting over the phone, i took a nap just to calm myself down. then i woke up coz he was calling over and over again. haha, turns out that he went to my house to talk to me and fix things sweetie talaga. so yeah, of course we made up and now we're okay perfect again

and the kitkat hazelnut and mcdo merienda helped a lot in our patching things up hehehe basta food talaga!

30 months and still strong. thanks, Jess.

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i was looking at my multiply contact's post, an album of some gimmick-slash-party, and it was so weird coz i realized just how detached i've been from their particular group.

so yeah, i do see them mostly everyday, talk to them frequently and have even spent quality time with some of them but really, we have absolutely nothing in common. or should i say, I dont have anything at all in common with them.

and maybe thats why i dont go out of my way to really spend time with them (as a group, at least). because lets face it, im NOTHING like them, i dont like doing the things they like doing, and yes, we dont even have the same... gender preferences.

haha. so thats that.

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Girl's Confession

[x] I'm not easy.
[x] I do wear make up --- sometimes. parties, usually. haha
[x] When I walk by mirrors, I can't help but look.
[x] I wear toe nail polish.
[x] I have cried at a movie theater.
[ ] I've purposely talked to a guy my boyfriend didn't like. --- eh di lagot yung guy kay pocholo! 
[ ] I love chocolate covered pretzels
[x] Getting a flower makes me smile, especially for no reason. --- ALWAYS.
[ ] I've wrecked a car.
[x] I can't put mascara on without opening my mouth.
[x] I'd do (almost) anything for a special guy --- basta ikaw, baby
[x] I love cuddling. --- SUPER! :D
[ ] I think Johnny Depp is hot in Pirates.
[ ] I've gotten a detention.
[ ] I've gotten suspended
[x] I love to laugh.
[ ] I like rock.
[ ] I like rap.
[ ] I like techno when at parties
[x] I carry a purse.
[ ] I've been called a party girl.
[x] I did own a Spice Girls CD  --- ahem... tape. dahil yun pa uso nun.
[x] I did own a Britney Spears CD.  --- ditto.
[ ] Football isn't boring.
[x] I love athletic boys --- my soccer player cholo
[ ] I love skater boys.
[ ] I love ghetto boys.
[ ] I love emo boys.
[x] Sweet guys are better than hot guys.
[ ] I've been called a tease.
[x] Lip balm is better than lipstick.
[ ] I can't leave the house without makeup.
[ ] I'm a bitch. Deal with it.
[ ] I play video games, even when there are other people around.
[x] My friends are the best, and they're VERY important to me.
[x] I can be crazy....
[x] I really want to be with a certain someone right now. --- <3
[ ] I smoke way too much
[ ] I have a tattoo or I want one

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50 most romantic things to do with your boy friend (or girl friend)

1. Watch the sunset together.
2. Whisper to each other.
3. Cook for each other.
4. Walk in the rain.
5. Hold hands
6. Buy gifts for each other.
7. Roses.
8. Find out their favorite cologne/perfume and wear it every time you're together.
9. Go for a long walk down the beach at midnight.
10. Write poetry for each other.
11. Hugs are the universal medicine.
12. Say I love you, only when you mean it and make sure they know you mean it.
13. Give random gifts of flowers/candy/poetry etc.
14. Tell her that she's the only girl you ever want. Don't lie!
15. Spend every second possible together.
16. Look into each other's eyes.
17. Very lightly push up her chin, look into her eyes, tell her you love her, and kiss her lightly.
18. When in public, only flirt with each other.
19. Put love notes in their pockets when they aren't looking.
20. Buy her a ring.
21. Sing to each other.
22. Always hold her around her hips/sides.
23. Take her to dinner and do the dinner for two deal.
24. eat Spaghetti like the dogs in Lady and the Tramp.
25. Hold her hand, stare into her eyes, kiss her hand and then put it over your heart.
26. Dance together.
27. Let her fall asleep with her head in your lap.
28. Do cute things like write I love you in a note so that they have to look in a mirror to read it.
29. Make excuses to call them every 5 minutes.
30. Even if you are really busy doing something, go out of your way to call and say I love you.
31. Call from your vacation spot to tell them you were thinking about them.
32. Remember your dreams and tell her about them.
34. Tell each other your most sacred secrets/fears.
35. Be Prince Charming to her parents.
36. Brush her hair out of her face for her.
37. Hang out with his/her friends.
38. Go to church/pray/worship together.
39. Take her to see a romantic movie and remember the parts she liked.
40. Learn from each other and don't make the same mistake twice.
41. Describe the joy you feel just to be with him/her.
42. Make sacrifices for each other.
43. Really love each other, or don't stay together.
44. Let there never be a second during any given day that you aren't thinking about them, and make sure they know it.
45. Love yourself before you love anyone else.
46. Learn to say sweet things in foreign languages.
47. Dedicate songs to them on the radio.
48. Fall asleep on the phone with each other.
49. Stand up for them when someone talks trash.
50. Never forget the kiss goodnight and always remember to say, "Sweet dreams."

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so, that time has come again. the distribution of college entrance exam results, the last of which is usually UP's.

its so weird coz i remember exactly how frustrating it was back in fourth year. to be waiting, and hoping, and praying, and obsessing, and rationalizing. and when the results did come out.... talk about MAJOR Jess time and soul-searching. two wait-list outcomes DIDN'T exactly make for a happy tums. plus, i was so pissed at myself for being all kampante and only taking TWO (yup, count them. only TWO) entrance tests.

but, that's all in the past. what was meant to happen, definitely happened. and yeah, there are some regrets and disappointments but over-all, im happy. with everything that's happened, im happy and more importantly, i'm content

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today was fun. haha. and i thought it was gonna be boring.

too tired to elaborate, but bottom line? conversations with college friends are love. its the best, i swear. these past three years, i've had more love-dissection, relationship-nitpicking, friend-examination and taboo-topic-tell-alls (complete with all the gory details!) discussions than i've EVER had in my entire life.

and the best part is, we all talk like we've known each other OUR WHOLE LIVES.

friends are love.

haha, today's conversation was classic. half the time we were cringing over cell phone pictures *ahem ahem scandal anyone?* , and the other half? we were discussing about our boys' exes (in my case, thankfully i didnt have anything to share since pocholo didnt have anyone before me haha)

thank Jess for friends. and for conversations that leave you with a painful tummy (from all the laughing). 

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JOB FAIR tomorrow. ugh. watch tums NOT get excited over the whole interview process thingie. and we have to be in corporate attire. i hate closed shoes. well, the formal kind at least haha.

plus this whole applying and interviewing event is scaring the sh*t out of me, seeing as how my whole future is flashing before my eyes.. (parang baliktad noh? dont you usually see your whole LIFE pass before your eyes?) im beginning to realize just HOW NEAR graduation is, how pretty soon we REALLY will be working and earning and .. living life in the real world.

ugh. tums is not a happy college junior.

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today's job fair taught me A WHOLE LOT. believe me. i thought the whole applying and interviewing process was gonna be a cinch (especially the interviewing part!) but .. i was wrong. dead wrong, actually.

aside from all the obvious valuable lessons we were supposed to learn and gain from today, i also learned that..

• people will ALWAYS try to get ahead whenever possible.

we were told to be at the megatrade hall at 10am today, since the job fair would be from 10 to 6. with ALL the people that were there at the entrance, lined up and everything.. i knew something was bound to happen. people were sure to be all bastos and come late, meet up with their friends, and make SINGIT sa line. if that wasnt bad enough, they would make singit in large groups. ugh. trin and i were getting pissed but really, what could we do? make a scene?

for their rudeness, i hope their interviews went as crappy as possible. haha, karma's a bitch. hope they get theirs.

• life's little inconveniences teach you to be very patient. very, VERY, patient.

the job fair was probably the most tiring experience i've had in my whole college life. REALLY.  we were made to line up, switch lines, wait,  line up again, register, line up for our career cards, wait yet again, and then line up for interviews with the companies. seriously, i've never experienced as much LINES as i did today.  it was like times a hundred of lining up for the ateneo entrance exam permits on the deadline day.. thats how bad it was.

i cant count the times i was itching to leave the line, and just come back at a later time or tomorrow. i was so frustrated and tired and pissed off. and the lines didnt seem to be moving, and the people in charge of the job fair seemed like complete idiots considering how disorganized everything was.

luckily my patience lasted long enough for me to get through the day, and i gained new friends from the whole waiting-in-line process. theres nothing like a common hatred for something (the long lines, waiting, the job fair organizers, etc) to unite people haha

• preparing for something doesnt really guarantee that you'll ace it 100%.

i can honestly say that i wasnt nervous AT ALL to be interviewed today. i mean, this is something i consider myself to be good at, and i knew i'd totally breeze through the whole thing.

i didnt bomb or anything, but i felt like i couldve given better answers and that i couldve sold myself more. it sucks because the questions they asked were SO FREAKING EASY. they were the staple interview questions actually. i encountered questions like:  'where do you see yourself five years from now?' , 'what are your strengths?' and 'why do you want to work for us?' .

but i feel like i didnt answer them the best way i knew/know how

everyone says you totally blank when youre nervous, and that you lose your cool and get all flustered. i was so close to that. and im the type of person who NEVER gets flustered when on an interview, or during an oral exam, or even when im being asked something by someone in authority.

never be too confident. over-confidence can kill you, i swear.

• in life as in the dance, grace glides on blistered feet. LITERALLY.

i curse my shoes. because i chose to wear painful (but pretty) shoes, i ended up with aching, sore feet that still hurt until now.

standing up the whole morning and waiting in line, definitely didnt help my situation.

and because i thought it would be dumb to bring my Havs to change into, i had to drag myself to the SM department store to buy flipflops. flip flops i will now use for the house, just so im reminded EVERY SINGLE DAY that comfort should always be a priority. and that just because shoes are pretty, doesnt mean they'll be a joy to live/walk/run in.

• at the end of the day, no matter how tough it's been, the one who loves you the most will be there, just waiting for you.

cholo's duty last night was from 10pm to 6am this morning, but he still dragged himself out of bed to meet me for lunch today aside from his pagkapuyat and all, he had to deal with my crankiness (from waiting in line) and my incessant ranting (due to my painful feet).

i was snapping at him and everything, (and yes, i admit i was being a total brat) and he still managed to make me lambing and all. i was also panicking over my resumes so he found a way to have it printed and he stuck my pictures pa on all of them. then we had lunch in sbarro, and i know he suggested we eat there just so i'd perk up and be good mood again. then, he waited while i had my interview and he had a drink waiting pa for me after coz he knew i'd be thirsty and tired.

that's LOVE right there and i know, ten, twenty, thirty+++ years from now, at the end of the day, i'll have the same guy waiting for me ready to hear my kuwentos, and to offer me a massage and he'll basically just be THERE yeah, i lucked out super. i love you baby