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More rants!
12:43 PM December 15, 2007

Turns out the loss of my driver's license this time around came with a consequence worse than I expected. As it turns out, the plans to get us driving by December had been put in motion already. My dad hired a professional driver to accompany us as we drive around, the first step to allowing us to drive alone in the wild and dangerous streets of Metro Manila. Grr.. The driver is coming this Monday, and my dad reckons that he'll be gone by the time I'm able to get my driver's license back, given the arrangements for the affidavits of loss, etc.

And to add more salt into this already painful life, it turns out that my stolen Form 5 is required to get a new UP ID. How the hell..?

And I spent last Thursday night in an all-nighter in Burger King with my good friends Bong and Vigile. It's been quite some time since I've spent as much quality time with them, so I don't mind that I had to go back home first and get the books I had to study. *mumbles again about rotten luck* We stayed there till morning, the second time I've ever stayed up all night outside of my house to study. But because of this all-nighter, I was unable to meet the Ventures ' deadliest deadline and hence, the short story I've been slaving over wasn't included in the issue. Haay... Well, I guess in a way it isn't so bad, since I wasn't all that confident about the article anyway. I'll post it here under the heading A Cold Christmas.

Also, writing the short story made me realize that I'm really really rusty at writing. So rusty, I seem to have lost the "flair" entirely. Which of course only made me want to polish up on my writing and write more. ^^ Deja vu anyone? Does this seem reminiscent of my photoshop entry? XD

And as I've been telling Bong and Vigile, my lola has started staying with us. Supposedly, it's only a temporary arrangement, but everyone is starting to sense that this will be longer than originally expected. And of course, given the small size of our house, my lola had to occupy Bern's room. It sort of reminded me of how Sarah Jessica Parker's character took the sister's room in Family Stone. Of course the sister was furious. -_- And this lola doesn't even remember my name. Like it was below her to remember her grandchild's name when she remembers the names of relatives like the wife of the first cousin of her husband. -_- She refers to me as "si kwan." or "si ano." Very endearing, really. And once, when my mom told her that she had a meeting and couldn't drive her around:

Lola:"O sige. Maglalakad nalang ako. Kung mamatay, edi mamatay."
Mom: "I'm sorry. If you want, I can drive you to that place, but I can't wait on you cause I have to leave for a really meeting."
Lola: "Hindi... Maglalakad nalang ako. Kung mamatay, edi mamatay."

She always, always seems to thrive under a blanket of pity. -_-I'm sorry, but I'm not the only one who sees it that way.

But on the lighter side of things, my accounting exam was moved to next year! Yeah! I actually heard a Gloria/Alleluia song in my head when I heard the news. ^^ Seriously.

come fly ~ gen