Catching Up

Posted on November 25, 2007 at 11:30 am | 18 Comments
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Sixteen days after my last update, at last, I have a new entry! Sorry for the unannounced hiatus. My blog went to hibernation because of school work. Only three weeks have passed since the second semester had started and I’m already tired. It seems that my professors’ favorite pastime is to give their students loads of assignments, researches, projects, reports and tests. So many deadlines, procrastination is my best friend. My only consolation is that I have a better schedule now, by dusk, I’m already home (except for Tuesdays) and I’ve got loads of break time (two and a half hours of break every Tuesdays and Thursdays and another extra hour every Tuesdays).

Yesterday, I had to go to the mall to get my invitation for the debut party that I’m going to attend on the very first day of December. The debutant is a grade school friend. Yeah, that’s how long I’ve known her. Some of my grade school friends (most are also my high school friends) were there to get their invitations. I didn’t expect that most of us are invited because we haven’t got in touch with her all these years, and if there is, only a little. The biggest surprise of all surprises is that the guy who we constantly linked with the debutant during our grade school days is also invited.

We’ve talked about so many things. We talked about the photo of the debutant in her invitation, we reacted that the photo was Photoshopped. And as my friends really love rumors (actually, most are facts but we still call them rumors), I knew that Friend A is now dating Previous Schoolmate-slash-Previous Classmate A (who’s studying aeronautics) again, Friend C had to stop studying, Friend D is now wearing braces whereas Friend E would have his braces removed sometime this week, Friend F shifted to another course, Friend G lost weight (whom I didn’t recognize until Friend D told me her name), Friend H’s suitor four years ago will be back here in the Philippines soon (he’s somewhere in North America right now, and from what I’ve heard, he’s in the military), and Previous Schoolmate B fathered a child. Ah, time flies so fast, and so many things happen in just a snap. I really miss my friends. I miss laughing hard just because of a small thing that others would not recognize as laughable. Laughing with my grade and high school friends is really different from laughing with my college friends.

As for me, aside from the fact that I’m busy with school, one of my blockmates had wet my clothes last Thursday (long story, and I don’t want to elaborate it), I’m reading “The Thirteenth Tale” by Diane Setterfield, enjoying my Statistics class, my Internet connection is not working (I’m on dial-up right now), Google Reader reports that I have 175 blog posts to read, hating my Literature subject because of my professor who talks very slow (we just finished the introduction), opened a new blog (I’ll be giving the link to a few selected ones), my cellphone started to show signs and symptoms that it’s going to die pretty soon, managed to lost my umbrella in school, and I now strongly believe that the weather reports here in the Philippines are not accurate.

Well, we spent our time mostly in talking (and laughing), we wanted to catch up with our latest experiences, and we’re craving to fill up the spaces that are still missing. But we had to stop because it was getting dark, one of us had other things to attend, while the others wanted to watch “One More Chance.” And because I don’t like watching Filipino movies (I think I have only seen three Filipino movies in the big screen during my 17 years of existence here on earth), I decided to go home1. I would rather pick a boring English movie than watch a corny Filipino flick.

I just hope during the debut of my friend, more spaces would be filled, that we’ll laugh so hard that we would look like rocking chairs, and we could plan an overnight party sometime during our Christmas vacation.

And if you’ve been following me in Twitter, you might perfectly know that one of my college friends is also inviting me to her debut party on the last day of November. Hell, two debut parties in two consecutive days! Euri says that I should attend both because debut parties = free food but debut parties = clothes + gifts to buy. And as of the moment, Christian = broke. Eek!

  1. Corny na kung corny pero corny talaga. Magulo ba? Sorry, pero nakokornihan at nababaduyan talaga ako sa mga Filipino movies, no offense [↩]

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Wanna Party?

Posted on March 13, 2007 at 6:31 pm | 13 Comments
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FinaleWala Lang...Mga GRO...

Those were three of the pictures that were taken last Sunday1.

I just can’t believe that with all of the multitude of things that we have to do in school, my blockmate had still her debut party last Sunday. And on Saturday, I have to attend yet another debut party! Until now, I’m still lacking some hours of sleep because of the said party that I attended last Sunday.

Here is a list of all the things that I need to do:

  • A baby thesis for Filipino
  • A portfolio for English
  • A book review (Sophie’s World) for Philosophy
  • A reaction paper for Zoology (lecture)
  • A project (frog bones) for Zoology (laboratory)
  • A term paper for CF (Theology)

I might as well call for a hiatus because of these. I’m already tired. School is killing me lately. And as what my high school friend had commented about college, it is fatal! But then, as I love procrastinating, expect me to update this blog during my so-called hiatus.

And I reckon, this is the right time to de-lurk this blog2. So to everybody who reads this blog but has not left a mark in this site, make your presence known! I’ll be glad to meet you! And yes, spam comments from legitimate users3 are welcomed.

Sorry for this lame post.

  1. I’m not in those pictures, BTW [↩]
  2. A credit is due to Shari. She’s the first one to do this. [↩]
  3. You know what I mean. Haha [↩]

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Faulty Schedule

Posted on January 22, 2007 at 1:32 pm | 9 Comments
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Last Saturday, almost 12 hours of my precious time was wasted because of a faulty schedule. Instead of dedicating most of that time in doing dignityAKO.info, a members only site for my high school classmates, I was in school waiting for nothingness which made me end up spending the rest of that almost 12 hours in the mall.

So let me tell you how my Saturday was ruined by our NSTP instructor.

I was invited in the debut party of one of my high school classmates. No, it was not the elegant type of party where one has to go in a formal attire. The set up was this: go to Fontana Leisure Park at Clark Field, Pampanga and spend an almost sleepless night there. It’s very practical isn’t? The good part was that we had really a great time. A day before that, one or two of my blockmates asked him if we would have classes since the 2nd year nursing students in our university took NAT. Our instructor’s answer was yes.

But during the night before the day this unlucky incident happened, I had a doubt if our professor would stick with his word as he was absent the week before. Yes, you read that right, our teacher is skiving his classes with us! It’s not just my time that will be wasted if I would go to school and find out that he skived us again but also money, effort, and energy! So I did my schedule.

So the next day, after texting all of my blockmates in my phone book without any reply from them if we have classes, I decided to go to school with all the things that I needed during the overnight stay at Fontana. Boom! We did not even see our instructor’s shadow! He was nowhere to be seen. Out of boredom, I and my blockmates decided to play in our room but that’s another story.

After an hour or so, we decided to go as we were dead sure that our professor won’t see us. So I texted all of my high school friends if they were already in SM City Clark even though the meeting time is at 5:00pm (which turned out to be 8:30pm due to the Filipino time). And guess what… one of them decided to play a prank on me! She said that she’s already in the mall. So, I went there — call me stupid if you want. I was texting and texting and texting that person and she was not replying! After thirty minutes of waiting for her to reply while I was looking for a good book at National Bookstore, I ended up with a conclusion that it was a prank. That’s the silliest prank ever played on me. To make matters worse, until now, that person who played a prank on me have not yet replied whatsoever. I’m waiting for her message that says something like “Oh, I’m so sorry for that silly prank. I hope you’re not mad at me.” But it looks like that person has no intention to do so.

At kinarir ko na ang aking pag-iisa.

I ate alone at my favorite fast food, Tokyo Tokyo. I also ended up watching — believe it or not — KKK out of nothing to do.By the time the movie had ended, my classmates were not yet there so I scanned the books at the bookstore again. Luckily, I was able to find a copy of Young Blood3 and the Prestige. I even had the chance to read them before my friends had arrived.

When we arrived at Fontana, I was surprised to see that we were already complete. I suppose, they arrived there with their own wheels or they were fetched earlier as it’s impossible to get to Fontana without your own wheels, unless you have money to get there in a cab. It’s very ironic that I was the first to get into the meeting place and arrive last in the place where we had the party.

So what we did? Basically, we had fun! We even played go fish with some variations. And during the course of playing it, one of my classmates shouted “Punyeta ka! Punyeta ka!” The problem was that there were some older people in the living room by that time so they were shocked, particularly the mother of the debutant. And the rest of us? We were all laughing. Someone even commented “Oi! Wala ka sa dorm!”.

We decided to sleep at around 3:00am. And as the villa was crowded, I had to sleep in a table. Yes, in a table at the living room.

I’m so glad that I was able to spend some time again with my high school classmates. I really missed them so much. Once again, I was able to laugh hard freely. I’m glad that I was able to unleash my stress. Not like now in college, I can’t laugh as how I used to. Laughing now is a chore. I’m hoping that during the vacation somebody will invite me and my high school classmates for an overnight again.

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