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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Room of requirements

Posted on May 25, 2006 at 8:47 pm | 11 Comments
Filed under Bulky Books • Random Realities • School Sabotage

Got inspired of Tammy’s latest entry…

The Room of Requirements is a room in Harry Potter’s world where it can turn into any room — cupboard, rest room, bedroom, name it!

I can say that the Room of Requirements is just like our library in my previous school: it can be the perfect place to study, do some research about your project, read the bestselling books written by various authors, know the latest issues in our society or talk with your friends, know the latest hearsays around the school, make it a studio and take your pictures here and there and it can even be a good place to do some practice for a play, or even play Scrablle and Chess!

Every time we had to go to the library (the whole class) to do some research about something, we rush to the library. We don’t even care if we’re on a line! Once we’re there we get all the books (that has something to do with our topic) that we can. We don’t even care if we get the same titles. After which we start to skim the pages of the stinking old books. Alas, we only get little information that’s why we end up copying each other’s work. There are some computers with internet access that are available but we don’t use them because we don’t want to spend money. Haha.

During my second to the last year in that school, our library was the superb place to know the latest rumors circulating the campus because there were vandalisms in the carrels. There were rumors written in the carrels that some teachers in our school are um, well, I don’t want to tell it which I believe is true and two freshmen students who made a miracle (in Tagalog, himala, I don’t know if you’ll get this). It’s really funny that these kinds of rumors were circulating in our school during my stay there.

Some of my classmates go to the library during our break times (recess and lunch time, both thirty minutes each) not to borrow a book — and not also to eat — but to abuse the resources, I mean, it’s a good place to stay because it has air-conditioning units. And due to their boredom they made our library a studio. Yes, they were taking pictures (and even videos) using their camera phones. Good thing, the librarians did not notice them doing so.

It was also used as a dressing room during a large presentation in our school. I even coincidentally went there during that day when our small library turned into a dressing room. The actors and actresses were doing their finishing touches and everybody was rushing.

It was also the same room used by the Peer Counselors Club during their meeting. And speaking of this club, the officers of the Peer Counselors Club were the ones who put the library back into its original state when a book hunt contest was held there during the book week celebration. I was neither an officer nor a member anymore at that time but since all of the officers of the said club were my classmates I decided to help them. What a big mess!

I’ll miss our library. The library that can turn to any room that you like…

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