4:51 PM
December 31, 2004
Wala lang...
I have a Sims 2 family and for some reason or another, their situation got completely out of hand. Along with starvation, lack of environment, comfort, hygiene, fun and energy, they all have no social points either. ^^; As a result I have a ton of social bunnies romping around my house, with a couple of them making out, another pair beating each other up... It was an unusual sight. ^_^;
My Li**n relatives have beautiful cars. *shining eyes* My 2nd cousin Raymond (age:19) drives his own Rav-4, but what is most remarkable is their parent's cars. Their parents have a 2-seater convertible mazda, a type 3 BMW, and our personal favorite, an really cute Mini Cooper. ^_^ All brand new!!! I don't really love cars, but when I saw that Mini Cooper, I (everyone of us actually) instanly fell in love, so to speak. ^_^; It was so cute! My cousin Rob was so amazed that he almost hugged the car itself. ^_^; He said he couldn't help himself, and that he really was "nanggigigil" with it. ^________^ It WAS cute. Lucky them. I admit that they're probably one of the most blessed branch of our clan. I can't even imagine having a fourth hand model of ANY of their parent's cars, EVER! 0_0
And Stacy, about getting drunk, (since I noticed that you really seem to want to do this) kwentuhan kita! ^_^ This is a pretty funny story, i think. ^_^ Just one tip, it'll probably be really embarassing to go to confession and have to admit that you got drunk... terrible... ^^;
4:47 PM
Reunion Reflections on Lifetimes
We had our Reyes Reunion today. (Coincidence, but Tracy had a family reunion today too! ^_^) We had to cut our time with our cousins short because my Evil Aunt, who I'll hide under the name M, decided to make problems for everybody. She lives alone with my grandparents after my cousin's family moved out, and she's been terrorizing them ever since. Anyway, I'll give you a picture of tonight's scenario: The reunion was in Alabang. My grandparents were all ready to go home. Upon getting ready to board my aunts car, she got it in her head that both her parents weren't allowed to ride in her car. -__- And how, of course, will they go home? They were really tired and they felt cold cause we were having the reunion in a very open and very windy garage. She drove of, not caring how her parents will get to their shared house. Just Plain Horrible... >_<>_< And my lola is such a nice person. T_T Even Rob once commented that he rarely hears her laugh anymore, at least ever since my Uncle and his family, Tita Sandy, C, K, A, and J left. u_u Such a sad life... it reminded me of this particular fairy tale I once read in one of Cara's books.
There was once a young girl with a loving father and happy life. One day she came acros an old woman who asked her: Would you like to have good fortune now and bad luck later in life, or bad fortune now and good luck later? The young girl picked the latter and her entire life instantly fell apart. Her father died, they lost all their possesions, she was sold to some old hag to slavery, etc. Terribe life. For years she lived in misery. One day however, as she was walking to fetch something for the hag, a handsome prince spotted her and they got married. She then had a home even better than her first one and people who loved her. She died a happy life, after living most of her life in terrible sadness.
I think my gradma got the opposite deal... T___T She lived like a princess as a young girl, well almost. ^^; She was her father's favorite among her siblings, she REALLY excelled in any musical instrument she tried. She was a talented dancer, horseback rider, skater(!!!) and singer. She was incredibly pretty, and had a ton of suitors. She was much loved and she seemed to have it all... now her life seems so miserable even I feel sorry just thinking about it. u_u
I've always wondered as a kid what I would have picked had I been given the choice. I must admit this was one fairy tale that really stuck to my head. ^_^ Anyway, as I watch my grandma's story and compared it to how the fairy tale ended, I would have to say I'd rather end up like the fairy tale. ^_^ But then again, we aren't really given much of a choice on such things. Like Bea of IV-1 used to say: pie of luck *winks at V and S* You know what I mean. ^_^;
8:45 PM
December 29, 2004
Advanced Happy New Year guys... In case I don't get to blog anytime before Jan. 3, the day when school starts. T-T I have a lot to do you see, and a reunion to attend... T-T
11:58 PM
December 28, 2004
I was tempted by the survey I saw in Vigile's blog, cause I was planning the exact same thing just minutes ago.. ^_^ You see, my aunt gave me this book and it contains some stuff like top 3 lists, etc. I thought i would answer it for my blog, then I saw Vigile already had something similar to it, so I'll just work with this. ^_^
THREE NAMES YOU GO BY:
1. Genina
2. Gen
3. Gen-gen... yes I know it's original... -_-
THREE SCREEN NAMES YOU HAVE HAD:
1. Genesis
2. Azure Fakir
3. Celeste
THREE THINGS YOU LIKE ABOUT YOURSELF:
1. I have this unbelievable tendency not to quit... (at times I don't like this. ^_^)
2. My Cheerfulness, albeit my pessimism. ^_^
3. I dunno... u_u
THREE THINGS YOU DON'T LIKE ABOUT YOURSELF:
1. my tendency to say 'I don't know', etc.
2. my frequent tendency to be mean
3. laziness
THREE PARTS OF YOUR HERITAGE: (i don't know how to answer this, I'll just copy vigile)
1. FILIPINO!!! (woohooo!!! \^_^/)
2. spanish?
3. wala na ata... ^_^
THREE THINGS THAT SCARE YOU:
1. eternal damnation
2. death (mine or anyone I care for) through violent means like rape or torture
3. physical, emotional, & psychological torture. (pretty much sums up all things horrible)
THREE OF YOUR EVERYDAY ESSENTIALS:
1. watch
2. clothes
3. a comb...?
THREE THINGS YOU ARE WEARING RIGHT NOW:
1. my watch
2. clothes
3. my chucks
THREE OF YOUR FAVORITE BANDS OR MUSICAL ARTISTS:
1. none
2. I don't even have a favorite singer
3. Let alone a favorite song... 0_o
THREE OF YOUR FAVORITE SONGS:
1. none 2. I don't even have a favorite singer
3. ...let alone a favorite band
THREE NEW THINGS YOU WANT TO TRY IN THE NEXT 12 MONTHS:
1. learning html ^_^
2. driving (finally!)
3. playng a really beautiful piano piece?
THREE THINGS YOU WANT IN A RELATIONSHIP:
1. trust
2. honesty
3. understanding
TWO TRUTHS AND A LIE: (no particular order)
1. I wrote the poem. -__-
2. I have this great drive to win
3. I'm always ready to play tibia
THREE PHYSICAL THINGS ABOUT THE OPPOSITE SEX (or same) THAT APPEAL TO YOU:
1. eyes
2. shape of face
3. general pleasantness of ALL his features together
THREE THINGS YOU JUST CAN'T DO:
1. Deliberately throw away any of my priced possesions...? I dunno!
2. Kill people? Imagine... 0_0 I could damn my soul for a thing that will eventually happen
3. turn back time... or tell the future. No matter how hard I try... ^_^;
THREE OF YOUR FAVORITE HOBBIES:
1. really... doing nothing. ^_^ As they say: 'Moment'
2. watching TV
3. using the internet
THREE THINGS YOU WANT TO DO REALLY BADLY RIGHT NOW:
1. to watch Saiyuki Reloaded. ^_^
2. to finish all my homeworks and responsibilities
3. to find the lowlife cellphone snatcher and make him pay!!! >_<>_<"
11:05 PM
I found this part most interesting, therefore, I gave it time and twisted it a little:
TWO TRUTHS AND A LIE: (no particular order)
1. I wrote the poem. -__-
2. I have this great drive to win
3. I'm always ready to play tibia
TWO LIES AND A TRUTH: (no particular order)
1. I made the poem -__-
2. I have this great drive to succeed
3. I'm always willing to play tibia
Review your synonyms and figure out which is which... ^_^ i wouldn't bother with it to much though. ^_^;
3:24 PM
So Damn IRRESPONSIBLE!!
Gah!! I haven't been doing anything for school!!! X_x I'm so ashamed. At the start of the vacation, I made a list of things I have to do, like finally reading my 5 Chapters in the Econ book, write my Eng 1 reaction paper, get a head start on my Eng 11 readings, work on Optics' dares, etc. Also to level up in this online RPG, play FF VII, or even Suikoden 2 on my humble PS, but NOOooOOoo.... I didn't do anything at all!! X_x *dies* And I only have a few days till school starts, and I'll be quite busy in the next few days as well... T_____T Gaahh... I'm so ashamed.. *sob*
BTW, Animax is going to air Saiyuki Reloaded and Saiyuki Reloaded Gunlock!!! YEAH!!! ^________^ And I watched Galaxy Angels Z last night, gahh!! It was really freaky to hear Forte with a Man's voice. -__- Wrong dubbing really CAN ruin an anime... to an extent. First it was girl's voices on men, now it's the other way around?!? What's wrong with Animax?!? 0_o I hope they don't make Saiyuki be too horrible... >_<
I'm watching Hack Legend of the Twilight Bracelet while waiting to connect right now. I feel just like Shugo with regards to "you-know-what-RPG game" and leveling up. T-T So sad... This is the episode that everyone he's with is already high-level, and they're trying to help him level up, only to end up opening a trap treasure chest and downleveling to the base level. He was so annoyed he logged of... T_T
5:21 PM
December 26, 2004
Christmas woes and wows...
On the 23rd, I finished wrapping the last of my gifts, and spent all night burning bianca's CD. Slept at 3 am for it!!! All because our stupid printer had to be installed thrice. And my computer decided it was proper to go have a LOT of hangs and errors and non-responsive programs. GAAAAAAAAAH!!! X_x I had to restart my computer in the middle of tyoing all 26 song titles. CRAP!!! Thank goodness for rescued files. >_<> On the 24th, we went to confession in the morning, where I spotted a kid who looked exactly like Kame of Kat-tun! Imagine! He had a semi-kal haircut, which only proves that he does look like Kame, features-wise and not because his hair reminded us of Kame. He even resembles Kame sideview! He was about 3 feet tall and rather Kawaii. Even Bianca noted the resemblance without my mentioning it. And Bianca hasn't seen Kat-tun for a while. So for her to actually think of Kame upon seeing the kid, he must resemble the guy a lot. And he looked like he was gonna burst into tears cause everyone had to wait in such a LOOOoooOOng line to confess. ^_______^; Poor kid. The Sartes went off to stay at their father's side's family, leaving us all alone in our house. Which was alright, cause we were busy planning our Noche Buena and Simbang Gabi... until dinner time came and my mom fell sick with flu and suddenly, we weren't hearing Mass anymore, nor will we have Noche Buena. ;_; Sad... Luckily, I called up my Grandma on my father's side and after making several inadequate (as my mom commented... ^_^;) preparations, we had a very tasty Noche Buena with mini ensaymadas with grated queso de bola on them, egg tart which tasted somewhat like croissant shells with leche flan inside, tasty dinner rolls, fiesta ham, really fudgy and delicious brownies, etc... Good meal. :D My aunt also updated us of the new developments in Subic. There's actually a live fire shooting range there! Perhaps my dad will allow me to shoot during Holy Week. ^_^; The irony... tsk, tsk... ok, maybe before holy week then? Afterwards, Bernice remembered that we didn't take a single picture that night, so in our pajamas, we took pictures of ourselves to remind us of our 2004 Christmas Eve. ^_____^ *narcistic*
On the 25th, we all woke up early and finally opened our presents. I wonder why Christmas morning is always the COLDEST morning of the season. *shrugs* Maybe its just me though... Cause I only wake up early on Christmas morning. ^^; While making some sly comments about 'Santa', we opened our presents, which I note with much pleasure did not include much clothing. ^_^ I wonder why parents love to give such things for Christmas. It's not like we don't have access to such things on regular days. Anyway, I recieved a miniature (as big in area(lxw) as a cd case?) wooden piano (kawaii!! ~doesn't work though ^^;) while my sisters recieved a model of their respective instruments, among a few other things. My sisters gave me a bracelet from SM north, the funny thing being that I came upon them while they were paying for it in the cashier. ^_____^; They had to pretend it was for France when I ignorantly examined it. ^__^ After gift opening, we had to take of to meet the family of my dad's brother. There we had a Christmas lunch reminiscent of a Thanksgiving dinner. They did always serve the most interesting food and give the most interesting gifts. ^_^ They gave our family a ton of gifts, including a chocolate brick (literally a brick!) and some photo paper to print our own pictures from the digi cam, among others. We had Turkey with gravy and cranberry sauce, corn on a cob, 3 kinds of pumpkin pie (sponge cake, cheese cake, and plain, applepie-like pie), mashed potato and sparkling champange for lunch. ^___^ Another aunt, Tita Olive, called from LA, cause she was informed that my grandma would come for lunch, and since my grandma stays in Subic, it was the only time to get hold of her. ^^; This aunt is coming home from the States you see, to attend the Clan's reunion, and we were to spend part of this get-together planning the reunion. *sleeps* Too bad I got sick on that day as well... Imagine! Sick on Christmas day!! I spent most of the get-together sitting (almost sleeping) in their couch. -__- Tsk, tsk... when we got home, I quickly fell asleep on my bed, UNTIL my mom shook me awake cause we kids had a call from the States!!! My cousins called!!! TuT It was nice to hear from them, and it's our first Christmas without them, so we were really thinking about them. Nice Christmas surprise neh? After talking for about an hour... and I wonder how anyone can afford to call from the US and make the call last for 30 minutes. ^^; *kuripot* I think they have prepaid, cause all calls had to extend for 30 minutes, but not exceed it. ^^;
On Christmas night, we went to De Guia, met up with the Sartes again, ate a richly satisfying steak, paella and kare-kare dinner. Our cousins called again, and the Sartes and my Gradma was finally able to talk to them. Touching. ^___^ We also made our Cousin's fanfic much more elaborate, involving innate powers, boundless wisdom of the ages, mixed blood lines, elementals, etc. Fun! ^_^
When we finally got home, complete with the Sartes kids and their car, ^_^ we let France open her mountains of presents in our house, which her brothers were shocked to see, cause they previously opened their mountain of gifts on Christmas eve... So France has 2 mountains, and officially the most gifts among all of us. ^_^ I don't mind. France is the most thoughtful anyway.
Me and my sisters were sort of sick by this time. ^_^; BTW...
Have you ever opened a gift only to see something you've always wanted but never expected to have? *Shrieks* France is SOO thoughtful!! I didn't expect she'd give me such a nice gift. *ties ribbons into newly erected france admiration shrine... JOKE! She's might kill me. ^_^;* I was unsuspectingly ripping apart the wrapper and when i saw a glimpse of what it contained, I almost hugged france. ^_^ Almost is good, cause I don't usually hug people unless my momentum causes an almost hug to be a real hug, as once happened with VIgile, or if the person hugs me and I'm supposed to hug back. ^_^; And serously, I've been wanting this mystery gift for some time now, to the point of almost agreeing to spend part of my birthday money on it. ^___^ And you guys know how stingy I am. You guys will probably think I'm being silly and frivolous if you find out what this is. *embarrassed* WHATEVER!!
So with this I end my blog entry:
Fave Gift of Christmas 2004: France's gift of ???
Best Compliment of Christmas 2004: (I bet you didn't expect this here. XD) That my gift was my sister Bianca's FAVORITE Christmas 2004 gift! *proud*
Biggest Christmas Woe of 2004: My family was sick. -___- And that can't be much fun...
- Biggest Christmas Wow of 2004:The Food! And the gifts both given and recieved! (Though gifts were much fewer than all the previous years, it's still is a Wow!) ^_^
Thank goodness I can rest today, tomorrow's aother reunion, and another on the 30th. ;_; BTw, Cara, sorry we got cut off during our chat today. We had a split-second brownout. ;_;
Wow... I really have this tendency to write long entries... O_o;
1:06 AM
December 22, 2004
Christmas season...
The feeling of Christmas Spirit comes and goes, but every now and then, I am reminded of it much more strongly than at other times... especially when i encounter some of the things only Christmas brings... like the nice carols and delicious food!!!
Fave Christmas Songs: (in no particular order)
1. Oh Holy Night
2. Carol of the Bells (I feel the Christmas Spirit whenever i hear this song. So happy. ^_^)
3. Have yourself a Merry little Christmas
4. The Christmas Song
5. and a bunch of Other Christmas songs written in Filipino (
including, but not only, Noche Buena and Pasko na Sinta ko). ^_^ I dunno why, but I find them some of the most moving, even though I don't remember their titles. :D
Fave Christmas Food: (again in no particular order)
1. Queso De Bola!!!! (YAy!!)
2. Fiesta Ham (of course...)
3. Baked Spaghetti with melted queso de bola on top. It's SO good, but we only have it on Christmas.
4. Kakanin (like bibingka and puto bungbong(?))
5. Hot Chocolate :') Saya...
6. Sweets (tnx
V for the idea) ~ and we always have these cause my lola is a great cook and my dad usually receives lots of cake and other food items during Christmas. ^^;
It's the first Christmas of the Certeza's without my Uncle's family around. My cousins and I will miss
C,
K, A, and J, and it might be a rather sad Christmas in my grandmother's lonely house. I hope not. But given the general feeling of loneliness and sadness in De Guia, all due to a certain
letter me and my cousins don't really appreciate too much, I pressume it will be that way. u_U How sad, but I hope it won't be. For the sake of my grandparents.
I like the cold weather during Christmas time. :D I also like the bustling activity during this season, like the coming out of bibingka vendors in UP, the happy Tiangge's all over the place, the Carols, the extravagant decors (especially the nice Filipino parols), as well as the general air of happiness. I also like the gifts, and the buying of gifts, I like the long days without school and the fun times with friends and family. I LOVE CHRISTMAS! :D
Anyway, hope YOU guys have a wonderful Christmas!!! :D :D :D :D
[BTW, this is my blog's 50th post! So I wanna wish it Happy Anniversary! ^_^]
11:51 PM
December 21, 2004
Cold wind blows...
...because I am at fault with both Sig and Vigile for not waking up on time... tsk, tsk...
...while Vigile and I went to watch Abandon tonight. It was interesting. The bands played mostly nice original Filipino songs, which felt rather fulfilling and satisfying. :D I missed my class' Christmas party for this, but it for -0.25 for my final English grade, so it was worth it, in its own way. It was, afterall, indeed entertaining. We also stopped by Stacy's before the concert, and she fed us generous slices of very delicious, homemade apple pie. I wish I was as good as Stacy when it comes to cooking. I'd like to be able to cook our family's specialty, Sansrival. u_u Too bad I can't. Sad, sad, sad fate...
...because I have something to confess to both Sig and Vigile. I'm really sorry, but I lied about the poem that used to be on top of my blog. I was just too ashamed and embarrassed to admit it in person. But yeah, I did write it. And I'm sorry I pretended it wasn't me. T-T I feel bad about it. u_u
...and I'm also getting rather frustrated with T-b-a. No, that was an understatement, VERY FRUSTRATED actually. Almost to the point of screaming. >_<
...cause some stuck-up, stupid guy in the amazing race was so horible to his partner. Jonathan and Victoria. Jonathan is just plain horrible and stupid. He dropped his very heavy mountian climbing bag half way through some run, and his partner had to pick it up and run the entire way with two humongous bags with her. She was already crying from the strain and pressure, and here he comes shoving her and cussing at her just because they missed second place by a few seconds. He was so horrible, shoving and screaming at his already crying partner, that the host himself had to tell him to go talk to her. In the next episode, he's ordering her around, telling her that she's just a woman and that she should just shut up. Crap. Some guys are just no good... >_<
9:34 PM
December 20, 2004
Sadly, I have realized that indeed the Season's Spirit has run dry... I don't feel it's Christmas right now, save for the time when I declared my vacation open AND when Bianca declared that we should dig up our playstation and start using it again... *smiles* an old remnant of our past vacations. It brought back old times, and it felt very Christmas-sy. ^_^ But then it was gone again. u_u Sad... I noticed for the past years that it has actually become less and less every year. u_u So sad... But I'm sure it will come around...
1:06 PM
Rest... and High School friends...
Two days ago, Dec 18, my Kada of very happy High School friends once again celebrated our annual Christmas party. We played Dance Rev (Diet mode! XD), watched DVDs, played the PS2, and most of all, pigged out on so much FOOD! ^_^ The rest of the gang also met Vigile's very pudgy and chubby puppy *toot*, whose name will not be revealed until Sig can guess it. -_- Anyway, due to certain conflicts, I had to leave a little bit early, but thanks guys for the gifts and/or food and/or just coming. :D I was glad to see you all again!! Especially selda! :D and we have a new set of studio pics. \^u^/ SAYA! Sorry selda nauwi ko shirt mo... which also means: nauwi mo ang favorite shirt ni Sig. u_u Sorry Sig... Wanna go out on a gimmick sometime soon? We can straighten this mess out, if ever. ^_^; We even watched a special music video-ish presentation by Tracy. :D paano kaya nya nagawa iyon? Anyway, I wish I took more pics. Guys! Gimmick naman tayo! Its for the sake of Selda's and Sig's t-shirts and the distribution of studio pics! C'mon! Write on the tag board or something!! XD
And yesterday, we visited my lola and then a wake for the father of my mother's high school friend, and then the birthday party of the son of yet another of my mother's high school friends. -_- This guy, Matthew, is a UPian, and I learned a lot of good things about UP from him. :) See, he's graduating physch, but still wants to take up Econ. Layo noh? Why? (Listen to this Stacy and other possible shifters...^_^) Econ is, apparently, a center of excellence in UP, and in no other college in the Philippines! It is, supposedly, the best in its league in Asia, (imagine... 0_0) and thus, is a good choice to shift into. :D But note, Econ is not the only Center of Excellence in UP, in fact, UP has a lot of 'em. Including Eng, etc. (Which was mentioned because he had an EEE friend sitting on the table) I honestly don't know about CBA, cause he didn't know i was from that college, thus, he didn't mention it out of the blue. BUT, from what I've heard in my long and fortified eavesdropping career (^_^;), UP has (i think) the highest rate of passing the CPA than any other school/college/university. ^_^ Yosh! And this guy is from our high and knowledgeable Student Council, so he must know what he is talking about. It was also brought up that some (if not most) companies abroad only recongnize the school UP among Philippine schools... I was really pleased. :D
Well, today is my day of rest. After 2 consecutive (would have been 4 if i had opted to go to some other people's parties, like Mandi's -_-) I'm finally able to rest and play Tibia and install what i need to install and happily, later curl up and start reading the many novels pilling up for me to read. Right now, I'm caught between 4, Angels and Demons, Series of Unfortunate Events, Munting Prinsipe, and this other book... hmm... forgot the title. But anyway, now that I've mentioned it, I'm also caught in the middle of reading Lestat,(had to stop because of 1st sem college), Cry to the Heavens (had to stop because it was getting me depressed, though the story is in its own way, really nice), Abnkkbsnplako (?) by Bob Ong (had to stop cause Bernice took it), Harry Potter 5 and so many others that I think I'm gonna go crazy! I had to stop reading some when school started you see, then i started reading others, then had to stop for one reason or another, and they all just pilled up! But i serously intend to read them all, they're just too many! My fault, I know. U_U I consulted my English teacher about it, apparently i have a short attention span, which also explains why I take so slow when I read. -_- I'm going through them one-by-one though... Slowly but efficiently... X_x
Anyway, no troubles, must rest-rest-rest!!! ^_^ And I'm feeling rather happy right now cause my mom bought me a bar of Smores!! ^_^ I've been wanting to try it for sometime, and Bernice, who went with my mom to the grocery while I was sleeping, must have suggested she buy one for me, her bottomless-pit-food-vacuum sister. ^_^ Thank You! I've also been feeling the great liberty of vacation, having been able to use the privelege of sleeping as long as i want to. ^_^ SAYA!
11:23 AM
December 18, 2004
Table Party
YAY!!! Its our annual Christmas Party once again! :) But this time its a come in white party, para wintery pa rin tayo at terno-terno para cute sa picture. ^_^ Too bad hindi na namin nahiram ang video-ke thingy ni cK kahit nandito na si Stacy at Tracy! X Sorry guys for the late notice. Magulo kasi mga schedule natin eh.. but I must admit that the confusion last night was all my fault. But I'm glad its been resolved and everyone *i hope* can come. :) Cause I wanna see Selda too!! I last saw her May of this year? I think? And I got her a nice gift that i hope she likes. Actually, on the day my cellphone was stolen, I decided to go "splurge" my entire allowance on buying gifts for people i know, especially you guys, cause I like buying gifts. ^_^ It feels fulfilling and nice to find something you think the person will really like. :D *And I really really hope you do like these gifts..* Cause as much as i like gift buying, I don't really know if I'm good at it. For all I know i keep on buying you guys gifts that you don't really like. *SHAME~* But i appreciate your thank you's anyway. ^_^
So anyway, let's have a good time later, ok? I dunno if we'll be baking, or what DVDs we'll watch or how we'll get to the picture taking place, and Vigile is suggesting we change venues next year, but for now, let's just think of it as our happy reunion with one another during Tracy's last true vacation... ;_; ... er... maybe that's too sad... uhm.. 2nd reunion of MANY more in the future? Better. :)
BTW: I beat Vince 5 times in SOul Calibur 2!!! Yosh!! (Although he beat me 11 times. X( *shame*) :D And i was Cloud again yesterday and Sephiroth and I were friends. ^_^; Sig's house is so full of adventure. ^_^ Lalala~
2:49 PM
December 17, 2004
And so Chirstmas Vacation ends with one hell of a day...
Econ class was fun. :D Remember this day cause you'll probably never hear me say anything similar to this ever again about any of my Major subjects. We sang ourselves crazy for most of the period. Even the teaching fellows had to go dance around like a bunch of delirious lunatics for it. ^_^ Mrs. Monsod was so pleased. Everyone was. It was so silly, no one felt the need to feel humiliated that we were singing off key, with incorrect lyrics, sometimes with wierd dances and cartwheels all over the place. It was fun. :D And most especially funny. XD
Didn't watch the Oblation run. Too disgusting for me. -_-
We (Bong, vigile and I) went to carolling practice in this BA org, got complemented for our *special* rendition of 'Oh Holy Night' and spent a few hours just hanging around, jamming, whatever. :D I realized that my talent lies not in singing, but in blending my voice so that it sounds somewhat like the people next to me, in other words, hiding my voice. -_- But it was (in its own way) fun nonetheless. In fact, we seemed so vigilant about learnng to sing the second voice that upon learning that we, as well as the girl in pink ^_^, were unavailable for carolling on the set date, the carolling troupe simply decided to cancel the carolling and make it a bonding/gimmick day. Their treat. ^_^ Hmm... this made me reflect a lot. Especially on how differently they treat their apps. (Compared to UP---) They treat apps like precious babies.0_0 Not in an insulting sense, of course. They were actually appaled that some of us, Arnold the Guitarist and someone else (?) were helping the mems take out the trash. So much so that the president was telling her VPs to do it for them instead. ^_^ They're incredibly nice. And amusing. ^_^ And apparently much better than JMA, according to some friends who are currently apps for the said org. -_- I have yet to make my judgement, since in all likelihood, I'll might be a member of this Org in the future. -_-
We (same people above) also met a very talented stuffed toy pig named
Rustica. ^_^ Funny... ^_^
I was unable to do something VERY important yesterday... tsk, tsk...
Lantern parade... a beautiful and glorious UP tradition. I'm so glad i brought a camera. :D I now sincerely make a pledge to go and watch the lantern parade every year of my college life, (especially the Fine Arts Lanterns) and as such, take a camera with me everytime as well. :D IT WAS SO AMAZING!! (Sorry, first timer here. Never before seen such cool projects in my life. :D) And no matter that I was unable to watch the lantern parade performances, I'm was happy enough to accidentaly stuble onto the fine arts lantern instead. Don't wanna explain it per detail, I'll just say that good luck+ a hungry stomach + a great deal of laziness to stop me from walking to quezon hall + good timing were great aspects of my accidentally being caught in the fine arts part of the parade. :D The other college lantern were okay too... Especially the BA lantern,
I think it'll win! ^u^ I took pics but i won't upload it just yet... cause i don't know how to and i have yet to find time to figure it out. Cause I'm the only one who would ever possibly do such a thing, now that i think about it. -_- Anyway, the Fine Arts lanterns were so beautiful, and i was pleased to see that their theme was Filipino. :D (Philippine monsters and other folklore, i think.) I can't believe Anton said it wasn't too nice. (I wanna kick him, but then again, he IS from Fine Arts, maybe for them it wasn't as good as all the years before... u_u). Anyway, next year, I'll invite ou guys. :)
Fakir died twice again last night. T_T Seriously, if this goes on, I'll either quit this Online RPG or make a new character and play in Rooke again. >< Here's the satistics since I've moved to main:
No. of times Fakir logged in: 2
No. of times Fakir dies:4
Serously not good... and someone *coughcough* assured me that it would be easy to level up since this person found new monsters which were easy to kill, with high exp. So despite all my thoughts on how a lvl.7 character could not possibly survive killing monsters designed for high-lvl characters, I was convinced by *cough* to give out my password. And Fakir died twice. -_- Not mad. Just Bitter. And VERY Discouraged.
Attended the UPRPT Christmas Party. # of beer bottles consumed: 0 ^_^ Yosh!!!I'm determined to win this. joke... ^_^ And i think someone in the team needs to give Eric a new bottle opener. The entire night seemed to have been enough to destroy his brand new one... I'll mention it to someone... Anyway, I had so much fun with my batchmates, as Des said, we haven't laughed so much together for some time. And rarely are we complete. u_u Cass and Kelvin weren't around, but we were happy together, forcing "discipline" unto ourselves as we were fixing the tasty food before the alumni arrive. When they did arrive, most of our fun ended, since we all had to run around and attend to stuff like buying more ice, looking for trash bags etc. We couldn't really help ourselves to the food, but it was a good thing we had 'discipline' while fixing the food early on. ^_^ But that's probably how it is at first. We're still kind of uncomfortable with some alumni (with some particularly more than the others), and i think the youngest ('04) batch really gets stuck with a lot of work. Oh well... I was glad to see some alumni though, like Marge's "Best Friend" Aries (who jokingly called Carl 'Boyfriend' XD XD) Anyway,
thanks batchmates! You made life in the party a lot less complicated! ^_^
Height... hmm... my teammates saw Bernice and were happily and jokingly commenting about my unfortunate fate of being the eldest and the shortest in my family.-_-
BTW, I alsi realized that i no longer have Winamp...
sayang ung skins ko!
Anyway, I cut this as short as possible, since I'm gonna head to Sig's house in a while to
be Cloud again.
^_^ YOSH!!! (I'm kinda afraid to go look at my watch cause I'm probably late.
Patawad Sig!!!!!!!!!
And being thus affected by my almost flunking an
English 1 DIAGNOSTIC test(!!!) I have begun (began) (?0_0?) to notice that I often use phrases intead of sentences in some parts of my entries. I'd like to say sorry for that. And if you guys notice any spelling errors (although I found out that I'm better at spelling than most in my class! ^_^ *proud*) please tell me so I can correct it. u_u
Especially you Sig! I don't know anyone who's anywhere near your league of English genius! (Except the so-called English Demi-god Sr. Fermin...) Not even your own English teacher!!! Or David Eddings the Author! 0o0 Imagine! 0o0
Anyway, must learn to prioritize... must shut off computer and attend to what I should be doing... like walking to Sig the Geat English Master's (I'm an Aprentice of this Great! :D) house! XD
And thus I declare
MY Christmas vacation officially OPEN!!
Paalam!!
1:09 AM
December 16, 2004
Nov 15, 2004
Our computer has officially been fixed... thank goodness! It really got infected (again) by a terrible virus, and I'm so furious at bianca cause she downloaded so many things (among them a bunch of virus-carrying programs) yet she didn't download an anti-virus program as i requested. ><><>Kahit screen saver walang patawad! ><>
T_T So anyway, must try to go and download these programs again... and of course, using my internet card and time, though they use the fonts and Y!M and MSN as often as I do, they're much to occupied with other thing. ><
BTW, Stacy! Vigile, Bong and I joined an org called Optics remember? You know what, small world, but the girl who owned the house that we used in our acquaintance party is in a band with your ate she know you din! :) We were so pleased. :) Her name is Rice..? Anyway, it was party time today (2consecutive parties in a row) and last day of school tomorrow! :D
Barkada gathering/ Crishtmas party is on the...? but it's on for sure! RPT Christmas party is tomorrow night, so is the Lantern Parade. BA lantern is a Carnival while Econ lantern is a Gypsy Tent. Come watch!! :D
This is what happens when you join more than 5 VERY active yahoo groups and your computer gets busted enough for you not to be able to check your account for some time: 400 (flat ^_^) messages! X(
Oblation run na rin bukas... naku dapat layuan ang A.S. Tsk...tsk...
11:51 PM
December 13, 2004
I'm so mad right now! I was unable to publish the post above because my computer is so faulty. I think it has a virus AND a worm, among other serious defects. For one thing i can't even enter MSN messenger anymore because it can't detect my internet connection! Then i can't access any of my accounts, even my yahoo mail... no matter if i happen to get to log-in in Y!M, which happens quite rarely. Plus every webpage I try to open "Cannot be found". ><
Convo:
Vigile Fabella: elo
gen: i was logged out of msn again... T_T
gen: but my computer seems to be getting worse by the Minute...
gen: can't even answer the poll to ask for 2 tickets. T_T
Vigile Fabella: pls resend your blog entry
gen: it doesn't want to get sent. Error... "failed sending"
Vigile Fabella: T-T msn?
gen: i was logged out of msn by my own computer's faulty internet connection, now i can't re-log-in. T_T
gen: i hate this day!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Vigile Fabella: bakit?!
gen: Aside from the phone, etc. I lost pa my internet card pa kanina, and i was having a fit because my computer automatically changes the phone number, the user and the pasword to something WEIRD, thus, nobody can use the internet without retyping it everytime. thus no internet card=no internet. Thank goodness i found it!
Vigile Fabella: T-T yeah. the day does suck
gen: everything is going wrong.
gen: my stupid computer doesn't even want to follow commands and navigate to other pages without letting me wait 10 minutes. >< (actually about 20 long annoying seconds) and i can't even post my blog entry, nor can i check my chikka account for replies to an invitation i sent last saturday!!! ><
10:42 PM
And they say 13 isn't really an unlucky number...
It's really quite sad that the first entry that i'm gonna post for my blog after a long time, and for a new lay-out at that, one which i myself helped created, after such a long wait, my very first blog lay-out change, that the first entry i am to post is mad, sad and bad one. T-T MY PHONE GOT STOLEN!!! Yes, my newly-repaired camera-phone 7650 was stolen today along with its expensive original new battery and my recently reloaded SIM card with about php200(?) still in it. T_______T It didn't register at first, but when realization finally dawned, i was SOOO greatly horrified. The last time my phone got stolen from me was the start of first year high school. My 3210. After which, i lived for about more than a year without a phone. That was possible then, i doubt it is now. :( Right now I'm even supposed to be texting some UPRPT people about our christmas party. And being of the Secretariat committee, i'm assigned with a lot of texting jobs. D**n!!! I lost a lot with the theft of my phone. T_T I lost what was left of it's memory after all the phone messages were erased, the remnants of which was consisted of PRECIOUS pictures that I've saved since i owned my phone, my entire phonebook, some applications I've downloaded from globe costing php30 each, and the last of my text messages that survived because i had copies of it in my phone and my sim (like stacy's graduation text to the Tatlo, Kimmy's quotes that she sent me when i was really down [you know when] and a hell lot more... T__T) I felt really crushed. I know i've said this before due to the loss of my phone's memory, but this. is. SO MUCH WORSE!! X( My entire phone! Which is actually even more expensive than bianca's brand new 3650! Huhuhu... I also died twice in this online game I'm currently hooked on, and thus, I've lost two consectutive character levels. And i lost my precious weapon, my bow, and about 50 arrows. Which is terrible cause I can't really afford a bow, despite my character's supposed vocation, i only even had one because some really nice guy game it to me. T_T And i lost it cause i died. T_T Plus, today, as i was splurging my entire allowance on gifts to take my mind of these problems, i came across a little gun keychain (metal, with a moving trigger, etc.) that actually shoots. The girl in the store demonstrated it for me, and it really pops with a small fiery blow! (it was so cool with the small explosion and the gunpowder.) It was so nice... And it was reasonable too. So i decided to buy one for myself, just one nice thing for myself that day, is that too much to ask? Apparently so, becaaue of all those guns in display, I happened to pick out a DAMAGED one. >< MALAS!!
On the brighter side, however, i have a new sim card and a new phone number that you can use to contact me with. I will be reunited with an old, trusty and unappealing (to thieves..-_-) cellphone (which this household keeps as a spare), and this is a relief compared to the last theft in my life. -_- I also met Tagpi and Rabbu (?), vigile's very cute puppies! ^^
Another, slightly brighter side of today is the change in my blog's lay-out (finally!!!). And believe me, it was practically dying for it. -_- Even Stacy and Vigile were too sick of the old one to even visit it. But oh well... that's all in the past. :) My new lay-out is inspired by Christmas (obviously) and it reminded me of a certain Sestina (kind of poem) that is entitled something like this: "A Sestina writen in a Cold Land... etc.... There is no word for Snow in my Language." Cause we (obviously again), being in a tropical land as we are, never see or experience winter, save if you go out of the country. (Note: BUt actually there is a Filipino word for it: Niyebe. ^^) But anyway, nice thought.
I'd like to thank stacy and vigile again for the great encouragement, instruction and, finally, polishing of this new lay-out. If stacy had not taken the time to explain and demo somethings for me, even though she was clearly too tired for it (she couldn't even click some buttons well cause of her weariness), I would never have started to make this version. Then vigile helped me with the codes, etc. And for this, my two trio mates have a special corner on my sidebar, the picture being a link to their own extraordinarily wonderfully styled blogs. ^_^ SALAMAT!!!
