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after only about 1 month of usage (using?), my ipod bruce died a somewhat quick and unexpected death last saturday.

i got 'the call' from pocholo during my saturday morning class, and i was so stunned that i was semi-catatonic (haha, drama) when i got back to the classroom. olivia was trying her best to be all sympathetic but she ended up just making me laugh. which was good i guess, considering i needed to distract myself from the thought of losing OVER 50GB OF MUSIC, MOVIES, ETC.

me: miko just called, nasira daw ipod ko
olivia: huh? anong nangyari?
me: bigla nalang daw walang nakikita sa screen, pero you can hear pa the sound through the earphones!
olivia: uyy okay yun ha. parang shuffle na siya. pero malaki yung memory hehehe
me: :S

the problem is with the lcd software, or so apple says. i think im just really malas with gadgets, coz these software glitches always happen to me within the first few months. im always fortunate, however, to be proud owner of gadgets with 1 year warranties so i just sit back, relax (??), and wait for them to come back all new again and disease-free haha.

so, goodbye to 5500++ songs and 200++ videos. i will worry about resurrecting all those files when i actually have my ipod back. goodluck to me and hopefully i find a shorter way around re-downloading eveeeeeerything again

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yahoo for me because i just finished downloading the first episode of Gossip Girl! another yahoo because im getting my ipod back tomorrow! Apple is replacing the whole unit (*tear*) which means he isnt bruce anymore im thinking of calling him 'Tyson' after Tyson Beckford, who has got to be the hottest African-American model there is. i may have a problem defending my name choice to pocholo though

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yesterday was such a long and stressful day, albeit a very productive one. in the morning, i dragged cholo along to mavec where i had to buy extremelyexpensivebutnecessary psychological tests for my thesis. that was an adventure in itself considering we were sorta kinda scavenger hunt-ing (the price being the WHAPS tests!! hahaha) in san francisco del monte WHICHISSONOTNEARSMNORTHLIKETHEGIRLSAIDOVERTHEPHONE after forking over the ridiculous amount for the tests (painfully i might add, considering that couldve gone to a new bag.. or shoes.. or a dress... hay), we rewarded ourselves with lunch at my favorite cheap-but-so-yummy place, mr kabab! then i went back to school for my class with my shawarma breath and survived the afternoon thanks to my amazing public speaking skills (in other words, dinaan ko lang lahat sa bola). why cant all profs give grades solely based on recitations or verbal/oral tests??

in thesis news, hash and i are dyiiiiiing because the company that shall not be named has been so difficult to deal with!! pleasepleaseplease, work with us here.

countdown to defense: 1 month and 6 days. dundununun.

i swear, im giving myself a prize post-thesis. or correction, im asking for one. and it will hopefully be in the form of a spa gift certificate for a massage, or a foot spa, or something along those lines.

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can you believe its gonna be the weekend again?? one more week, babe. here's to enjoying your last few days of 22-dom!

(advanced) happy weekend, friends!

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(the cholo+tums version)

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hello to my (possibly) one and only reader (thats you, tims!) haha oh well, i dont really blog to be read anyway. i mainly do it to vent, and talk some more (coz i cant talk enough, believe me), and yes to pass the time. so... hello!!!

(update!)

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disclaimer to my barkada: dont kill me!! in fairness to us, we were already pretty and only minimally nene-looking back in high school haha. i love you girlies!

(the us 6 version.)

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i DO NOT like the new 90210. or maybe its just that nothing beats brandon, brenda, kelly and the old, classic characters. and the peach pit! haha. oh the shows of the 90s.

speaking of 90s shows, i was watching my favorite angel episode (the one with buffy in it, 'i will remember you') when i realized that my ideal edward cullen would be... david boreanaz. i mean, he already played a very realistic looking vampire on tv, and he has that whole brooding, mysterious aura that edward should have right? hay. i hope the twilight movie's good. i will be so disappointed if it isnt.

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CONFUSEanisms of the day

mom: i'll text you when im in the mall. then come meet me so you can go home with me okay? dont make me wait!
me: okay ma. i'll go meet you as soon as im done with school.
mom: dont be late! make sure youre really there at 3:20.
me: okay okay!

at 3:30.

me: where are you?? are you still at the parlor??

at 4.

me: maaaaa where are you??

at 5.

mom: im here na!
me: where have you been????
mom: oh tita nadine and i had merienda pa after the parlor. but i brought you a sandwich!!!
me: :S

i think she thought the sandwich was gonna be enough to placate me after making me wait for an hour and a half.

and then i was texting all the dazers in my phonebook about whether or not they were interested in buying dwtl lanyards from me, and all these people were replying with 'yes please! save one for me' or 'i'll get one!'. the reply that left me with my mouth hanging open though was.... 'WOW'. as in, ganon talaga. all caps pa. so there i was, trying to figure out how 'wow' could be an answer to 'are you interested in ordering a lanyard?'

oh wow im confused. or confuzzled as elya likes to say

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i've always ALWAYS said that in the end, people get EXACTLY what they deserve. hohum.

okay, this is me trying VERY VERY HARD not to gloat. heehee.

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braces and fat pictures galore. oh the shame.

(the dwtl version.)

so there i was, feeling all excited at the thought of the rain turning into a full-blown storm and not having classes for the next few days..

until i turned on the tv, saw the news, and watched a little girl being recovered from a lake. apparently she was swimming and got carried away by the strong current.

damn.

it really makes you think how shallow we can sometimes get, and for what? one, two days of no classes? sheesh.

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looking back, lunch time yesterday was fun/funny. i realized just how strangely normal our topic of conversation was: kids. or rather, us already wanting kids. haha. cha, soleil and i were going on and on (for about two hours!!) about how we already want to get married, settle down, and start popping out babies. all this while our in-the-flesh, real life mommy olivia was barely paying attention to us and was instead laughing her ass off while watching Gossip Girl.

the conversation was good just coz its nice to be with people who get you. believe me, where i go for college its pretty hard to find people you mesh with.. on an intellectual level. if you know what i mean.

the conversation and the razzles kinda made up for the rain. i said kinda, okay.

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am i the only one who wasnt so amazed with the routines of this year's UAAP cheering competition? okay, so i only got to see 3 schools, but still. ateneo, i have to say, SUPER IMPROVED. im actually surprised they didnt place 3rd, or even 2nd! THE LIFTS WERE SO SO SO GALING. UP was.. UP. i mean, theyre alwaaaaays good. i just wasnt extremely blown away. it wasnt the arm-hair-raising performance they usually come up with.

waaaaah i wanna go back to training

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one cab driver i encountered this week had a picture of his 2 year old daughter propped up in front of his speedometer thingie. it was so cute, the little girl was all primped up, wearing this flower girl-type dress, and with a tiara on her head. made me think how important it is for us to have constant reminders of why we do the things we do and who we do them for.

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episode 2 of GG season 2 cemented my new fascination and love for chuck bass. BLAIR CAN YOU PLEASE JUST PICK HIM???? the whole 'going-behind-nate's-back-to-loan-his-mom-money' was so awwwww. and i used to hate his smirking, sneering face coupled with his extremely eccentric fashion sense. now he actually seems cute! blair-chuck soon pleeeaaaaase. the whole dan-serena hype is getting a bit old.

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(Carolina Herrera plus Diane von Furstenberg. wowowowowowowow.)

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(happy birthday to the chubby-cheeked boy who loves to dance when no one is looking, proudly wears an assumption lanyard to work, is currently obsessed with adidas sneakers, is grumpy when he's awake but starts to smile when i make him lambing and/or tickle him, refuses to believe he's not 'soccer skinny' anymore, and of course, is my one and only!)

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im the saddest person in the world because i missed lipgloss yesterday had to go all the way to the other side of the world (alabang) for our meeting with the designer of our entourage gowns. hooray for rouching/pleats that will help make me look more.. gifted! hooray for getting my way and having my gown cut the way I want it to look! boo to mommy for making us wait after.

the long drive going and coming home was enjoyable for me, just coz i love long drives. thats mainly why i love going out of town! i love stop-overs too, even just at gas station convenience stores or at random colette's branches. FRIENDS, LETS ROAD TRIP SOOOOOOON PLEASE!

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pocholo's 23rd birthday was un-eventful and happy at the same time. hooray for early morning surprises, staying positive even after minor setbacks (waiting for, oh say, 50 minutes haha), family time and time together. i love you my grumpy baby boy with the new shoes that just had to have new laces as well youre so arte with your footwear pocholo, sometimes its frustrating!

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(marc jacobs is a GENIUS.)

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after 12 years (because i remember i watched it in 1996!) of watching clueless, i re-watched it the other night and realized that THEY WERE SMOKING MARIJUANA IN THE PARTY AT THE VALLEY!!!! and that TRAVIS DONATED A BONG TO THE PISMO BEACH DISASTER DRIVE THAT CHER WAS CAPTAIN OF!!!! ohmygod, i wanted to faint when i was watching it and finally realized all these travesties. imagine, i've probably watched it over 100 times (im not even exaggerating) and only understood those parts now!! ree wanted to kill me when i (very excitedly) made her kuwento. sheesh. im so.... clueless sometimes. whhhhhhhy. HAHAHA

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(happy birthday! (september 8-30))

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leya's debut this weekend and i have nothing to wear yet! must.shop.before.the.week.ends.

yes, i know i know, im not supposed to shop this month. BUT this is a special occasion. so i guess, it doesnt count?

weh. excuses, excuses. haha.

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(cholo plus tums equals.. (this is according to pocholo okay!))

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GG episode 3!!! aaaaaah!!! i cant wait to watch iiiiiiit.

do any of you remember the 90s show 'Popular'? fine, fine it wasnt that popular (how ironic that the title didnt really do much for the show's ratings!) BUT it was extremely entertaining. my current cheap thrill is watching episodes of it, ripped from youtube of course. i love Mary Cherry. theres something endearing about airheads who speak in a Southern accent. oh, and Josh Ford is the typical jock/star athlete/quarterback that every highschool girl dreams of. oh, high school.

why must all these shows take place in high school? the only college-based show i can think of is Felicity. why is that?

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today was looooooong and tiiiiiiring. my feet are actually tingling coz they hurt.

a good part of our 2 hour break was spent walking around glorietta, looking for a place to eat. okay, let me rephrase. we were looking for a place to eat, a place we ALL agreed on haha after 45 minutes of choosing a place, changing our minds, finding another place, having olivia throw a tantrum because it was too hot there, walking around some more to see where else we could eat, chancing upon a sale and waiting while hash went shoe-crazy (and we went ballistic too, convincing her to get the bronze, and not the black ones), laughing with soleil because we were the only two that were still sane despite being extremely hungry.. we finally stopped being maarte and just decided on a place. and then we went on pig-out mode, and gossiped about our favorites. fuuuuuun. i love how we end up talking about the funniest things, and how i learn about the latest chismis! the buzz, wednesday edition. complete with scandalous stuff on... yeah, them. whoopeeeee

the afternoon was funny too, just coz we were trying to think of possible money-making ventures for cam. olivia came up with the idea of cam as an avon lady, selling make-up and underwear (cam??!!). joann thought cam would be better as a masseur (masseuse?) complete with *ahem* extra services. mine was way better though, cam starting her own ac-glorietta shuttle service! oh diba. solves all our problems, since that way we'd have free rides to glorietta coz di naman siguro magpapabayad si cam haha.

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(Oscar de la Renta plus Michael Kors.)

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i will now go and watch the latest episode of GG! oh chuck bass, youre one asshole i look forward to seeing watching every week.

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dan-serena, game over. FINAAAAAALLY. sorry but i think the whole storyline revolving around their love story was just too hyped up. besides, blake lively's beauty is getting old. she has great fashion sense though (sans the serena character and the GG show stylist), i'll give her that.

blair, ano ba. i know marcus is a lord and all, but chuck is... chuck. and he's pining for youuuuuu. the whole blackout rendezvous was hot, except having marcus walk in really ruined the moment. couldnt he have walked in waaaay after chuck and blair had gotten together? like around 2 hours after? my new favorite character to hate is nate's sugar mama, but you have to give her credit for looking hot despite being someone's stepmom.

its weird that theyre doing the whole nate-vanessa loveteam especially since if you read the book, imagining that nate and vanessa really do get together is.. gross. coz the nate in the book series is hot and perpetually stoned while vanessa is.. bald. and a non-conformist who wears combat boots and doesnt wear bras. so yeah, kinda hard to imagine!

sorry for the useless entry. nothing blog-worthy has been happening to me, save for a few thesis roadblocks (that i dont particularly want to talk about). here's to hoping i have an eventful but relaxing weekend. one more day to go!

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i cant believe i dragged myself out of bed yesterday for a one hour class in the morning that we werent even supposed to have but had to come to school for, coz of a very important announcement or whatever. an announcement that, in my opinion, couldve easily just been relayed through text or email. AND THEN the cherry on top of the fabulous cake was that i rushed back to school for my 2pm class THAT THE PROFESSOR DIDNT COME IN FOR. so hi, what a double waste of time.

although if i didnt drag myself out of bed, i wouldnt have been able to go shopping for something to wear tonight, and i wouldnt have had that lunch date with cholo, and i wouldnt have fulfilled my mrs. fields double fudge brownie craving (that i've had for like two weeks now, mind you), plus i wouldnt have gotten my new, pretty watch thank you baby!

all the great things just seem to cancel out the bad ones, dont they?

p.s. happy 50th month to us today, pocholo i love you!

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(drooldrooldrool.)

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i woke up in the middle of the night to read tessa's cryptic text that had me all excited, just coz i thought she had boy-related kuwento that would have me all squealing kilig, like i always get when i read her 'Tums!' messages. yes we have the kind of friendship where one-word text messages mean a whole lot more, and we know right away what the other person wants to say even with just a limited number of words. turns out, she just saw a 'man' (okay okay, boy) from her past who has apparently gained TWENTY POUNDS since she last saw him. weh, di nga?

oh yes, i can so relate, the prom feels like a million, zillion years ago.

okay, i exaggerate. it was what 5, 6 years ago?

i said it once, and i'll say it again. THANK GOD FOR EVOLUTION! (see prom pictures for further proof)

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leya's debut tonight! im so excited that i'm gonna be seeing my true light 7 kids and damn, do i need a night out.

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leya's debut last night was fun i got the chance to humor my mother and let her attack me with rollers, her make-up kit, and her accesorizing skills. i got to spend another saturday night with the grumpy boy i hardly see during the week. the best part of the night though was that i got to see my kids (some of the ac girls plus elya), and catch up with them a bit.

the program and the videos were so awww that i kept turning to cholo and saying 'i want a debut too!', which is kinda stupid considering i already had one and that was how many years ago already. so i was concocting this plan to have a debut next year, on my 23rd birthday, and cholo was just rolling his eyes at my suggestions. oh well.

it was also a blast touring polo and seeing how different it is already. i remember going there a lot during grade school, for swimming parties or meriendas with friends. most of the time, i'd be there after school with gigi while we waited for her dad or for her mom. also, there was a time that my ballet school was there so i spent countless saturday mornings walking around in my leotard and tights, bumping into batchmates just because polo was always overrun with assumption girls.

so there we were, walking by the pool and hearing the distant-but-still-super-loud-so-it-seemed-like-it-was-right-beside-us music coming from the debut, and we were getting all senti thinking about how it was when we were walking alone together over four years ago (haha) at someone else's debut, and you know what? it was so cheesy that it was extremely sweet too.

what a great, great night. whee for nights like this!

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my mom, camille, and i had lunch and went around greenhills today and as much as i wanted to go all shop-crazy, my stomach was complaining bitterly because i totally binged during lunch. yes i realize i've been gaining weight steadily over the past couple of weeks, and im ready to accept the fact that i have to stop before i turn into.. something scary. i was looking at the pictures from last night and IM SO FREAKING FAT (and not in a melodramatic, fishing way, i mean like I REALLY GAINED WEIGHT HAHA) that all i can do is laugh about it.

thank god for things like fast metabolism and dancing. hi, i want my old body back!

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its gonna be a pretty busy week, considering D-Day (Defense Day!!!!!) is in less than 3 weeks. i am so not ready to face reality, i just want to stay in my little unaffected, easygoing, life-is-fine-and-dandy, bubble.

of course, i also want to get this all over with so yeah. better start moving.

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heeeeey i just realized that i miss my barkada tons i need a night out with my girlies! september get-together soon pleaaaaaaaase.

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on the superficial and shallow side..

(i want her legs!)

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okay, that's ONE weight off my shoulders. daaaaaaaaamn im so glad that things are FINALLY moving along. i swear, the stress was killing me!

now to start on the alternative work for i/o psych. ohumhicanipleasebitchabouthowlittletimeihavetofinishthis????

whhhhhyyyyy.

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if this boy becomes a myx vj..

i promise i will never watch anything else but myx ever again!!!!!

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i brat attacked today and that was enough to last the whole week, i swear. stop the drama, you dont want no drama. hahaha.

my mom's gonna be gone this weekend! hooray for being parent-less for two days!

im lusting after this gray argyle sweater thats so not worth the price its being sold for. good thing october's coming up real soon, and i get to go off my retail-diet and shop again!

im currently looking for a new book to read, i feel like my brain's been turning to mush lately. any suggestions? and no, nothing psychology or thesis-related please. i need deserve a break, dammit!

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the work i was stressing-slash-bitching about took all of 20 minutes to finish.

thank You, Jess.

so really, today was all about lounging around, watching charmed on Velvet and catching up on people's lives via multiply. i love how my Tuesdays can sometimes be so therapeutic.

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its been a busy week, and i think its only gonna get busier.

here's to hoping i dont have a nervous breakdown hahaha.

and that i dont start fighting people, or projecting my frustrations on them, or going nuts, or worse, slacking off.

and yes, i definitely deserve a celebration after all this is over. and an extra-huge shopping spree. okay? okay!

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reading Timmy's entry made me feel all days-nostalgic and left me super, duper craving for a dwtl weekend. its so weird that about 4 months have passed since i last set foot in my favorite weekend venue (ydwtl32 @ xavier haha).

back when i first started staffing, i vividly remember how every saturday was spent in the youth council room of CTK. that was back when i was only 15 years old, had no social life (or maybe just a little, hello i was about to start third year and what really happens at that age??), the beloved pink couch was still alive, most of ctk batch 1 was still active, and we REALLY worked during powwows. as in, career mode complete with committee meetings and art-attack-lightbulbs-going-off-in-our-heads, all in preparation for the coming batches. my partner-in-crime back then was rizzy and as i said, every single saturday was spent together.

the fun part about it was, we all got really close coz it was just the older staffers and us batch 1 people. and after every 9am-5pm powwow (IM NOT EVEN KIDDING, IT WAS REALLY THAT LONG), we'd go out to watch a movie, or have dinner and drink in eastwood, or basta we'd just do something and hang out. that was every single saturday night of my junior year. and even when ctk02 came along, and then ctk03, and probably up until batch 6, we were all super close. and let me reiterate, career mode talaga during powwows haha everyone was a super staffer, and we were all close to each other.

anyway what im trying to say is that, back then we'd have 3-4 batches a year (and that was only for ctk). then truelight came along, and we got more chances to staff which was great. the onset of college made everything complicated though, people stopped going and it became harder to really commit to being there, and life just became a whole lot busier.

i want a weekend soon. i think i really need it too. its so hard to stay focused and to worry about school-related things when at the back of my mind i keep thinking about how there's just something and Someone missing. i guess what im trying to say is that, as much as i miss days, and staffing, and everything that goes along with it, i miss Him more. im desperately in need of D time, i want to feel that high again, and most of all, i just want to be there with Him.

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one of the things i love most about going to college in the same school i've been in since i was 5, aside from the imminent loyalty award im getting at graduation (haha), is that everyone and everything is familiar to me. sure people have come and gone, and not everything has stayed the same thanks to renovations our highway-robbery-tuition-fees have paid for, but still. there's still a sense of home that i associate with being in assumption.

today, a college professor approached me and said that i used to be her student! the funny thing is, i've seen her around and she seemed sooooo familiar. i just really couldnt place who she was, and from where i've seen her before. here's the clincher: not only was she my past teacher, SHE WAS MY PREP CLASS ADVISER. im not even kidding. and when i asked how she recognized me, she said that i still look the same! 

one day i will look through my old albums and find my prep class picture. sheesh, i dont understand how i could still look the same, even after 16 years! haha