Summer Classes

So yeah, my visitors are starting to deplete. And I will not wonder anymore if in the coming weeks, Google Analytics would report to me that the number of my visitors will plunge to two-year low. And that’s because of the shortage of new blog entries here and I haven’t returned comments lately. Yeah, I know, it’s my fault. But then, I was too busy. Busy with school work (refer to the post below), reading books, relaxing, and most of all… preparing for my summer classes.

Yeah, you read that right, I have summer classes. So I can’t say that I’m an incoming junior… just yet. Actually, I was in school yesterday to enroll myself for the summer classes. Good thing, I didn’t have to spend the whole day there (the last time I enrolled, I spent the whole day in school, it was totally a waste of time). I got there very early and I finished everything I had to do in just a couple of hours or even less. I was the ninth student to finish the enrollment process. Yeah, the early bird catches the early worm!

So now, this summer, instead of going to beaches, have an adventure somewhere in the country, or just be a bum here in my scorching room surfing the Internet, reading a nice read and follow the latest development on the rice shortage in the country, I will be in school, stressing my self. Also, this could also mean that I’ll not be able to go to iBlog4. I cannot really believe this. I’m already tired of thinking about school work. I still haven’t had a decent rest. And in just a few days, hell will dominate my world again. The worst thing is that I’ll be in school five times a week, from morning to afternoon. My schedule really sucks. Come on, Satan, please, spare me! I just hope that I will survive the summer heat.

There are so many things that I want to do but my two-week vacation is almost over. I guess, I have to postpone them. One of the things that I really want to do is to revamp this blog. I’ve mentioned in my Twitter account that I’ll change the theme of this site and everything. But I’m really not in the mood to make a new one. I already know how will my next layout should look like but I’m really lazy to do that now. I guess, for the mean time, I will change the banner of this current theme and hopefully, I will also find a good background image that I can use.

Lately, I’ve also started reading books again (I’m trying to read at least 20 books this year). So far, I have already read three books this year. Seventeen to go! (Sorry, I haven’t updated my “Books” page) But I’m not sure if I’ll get to my target as for sure, I’ll be tremendously busy for the rest of the year my college life. Right now, I’m reading “Atonement” by Ian McEwan. I’m enjoying it but there were parts where I felt bored. And oh, just before I move on, I want to say to Briony (a character from the book) that you’re stupid and you took it all wrong!

Last Sunday, we went to Quezon City and we visited two malls. Lol. I still don’t get it how TriNoma became a triangular mall and SM North Edsa’s The Block never failed to make me awe me with its magnificent structure (see the photos that I took in The Block below). For nine straight hours, we were in the malls that I mentioned and by the time we were going home, I really felt exhausted. Actually, that was my family’s so-called outing this summer. But I still hope that after my summer classes, we’ll go out of town and have a real excursion. That day, I bought three books: “Interpreter of Maladies” by Jhumpa Lahiri1, “The Yiddish Policemen’s Union” by Michael Chabon (finally, I’ve got a copy of this book), Yann Martel’s “Life of Pi” and Story Philippines’ latest edition which I confirmed that it’s not a magazine for children (read “Isabel Jimeno’s Price” by Jonathan Jimena Siason to know what I mean).

I guess, that’s all for tonight. Oh, I forgot to mention that I didn’t fail in any of my subjects. As a matter of fact, my grades are really okay. I have the chance that I’ll be a college scholar next school year. Dunno if I should be happy with that. We are just really required to attend the summer classes. I really don’t have any choice, unless I want not to graduate in time.

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  1. She’s got a new book called Unaccustomed Earth but I’ll just wait for the paperback edition of it. []

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Big Surprises

Last Sunday, I and my family had another unplanned trip. This time, we went to Subic where we had some fun in the beach. I miss Subic so much, I think it has been seven years since we last went there (and about four years since I last went to a beach). Here are some photos from our recent trip to Subic.

Subic

Summer

Let's go to the Beach!

And of course, I want you to meet Snidget.

Vistah!

Yep, that’s Snidget, my brand new notebook. It’s a Compaq Presario V3324TU Notebook PC (click the link to see the specifications).

I got the name Snidget from the book Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them by JK Rowling under the pen name Newt Scamander. It’s a magical creature that can fly fast. Before, the Snidget was used in the game of Quidditch.

As you can have seen in the picture, my laptop’s operating system is Windows Vista, and hey, Vista rocks! I like some of the new features like the sidebar (which can be found in your desktop). I’m not sure if other computers have it, but my notebook has a feature called voice recognition. I can simply say what I want to type! Isn’t that cool?

Now, are you wondering how I got this laptop? My father decided to buy me this notebook so that I’ll stick with the course that I took the previous academic year. I just hope I made the right decision.

Nevertheless, I’m enjoying my brand new laptop. It’s already one day old and I’ve already installed lots of programs that I use like Mozilla Firefox (plus the add-ons and plugins), Yahoo! Messenger, and Xampp.

Argh! I don’t have Microsoft Office! I badly need that application. Now, I’m wondering how much is the license of that application…

Yeah, this is another lame post.

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Stinks and Sells

Sorry, I neglected this blog for the past four days. I wasn’t visiting it much within that period. Why? I got some problems with my PC and I troubleshooted it alone. Thank God it’s normally working again. And oh, I got addicted to O2Jam. Haha.

So lets go to the topic. Back in high school, in our official publication, the Chimes, we have this write-up in our features section called “Ins and Outs.” I was one of those few people who contributed in that item. You might think that doing it is easy, but I tell you, thinking of what is “in” and what is “out” can be really time consuming.

And since my life is not that interesting lately because I’m just stuck at home (okay, I’m not saying that I’m bored) and I miss doing “Ins and Outs,” I’m gonna do one… my own version. And I’m calling it “Stinks and Sells.”

Dora the Explorer (negrang lakwatsera) stinks
Dora the Exploited1 (negrang GRO) sells?! Eek! Yeah, she sells her body.
Political ads stink
Makisig’s Lucky Me ad sells
Yahoo! stinks?
Google sells!
Summer sells
But because of the hot weather, I take my word back, it stinks!
School will stink forever
Rejoice for vacation sells!
O2Jam sells
But Audition sells better
“Pichay, itanim sa senado” stinks
“Pichay, itanim sa semento” sells
Amazing Race All-Stars really sells
But I still don’t know which team I’ll root for
Harry Potter sells
But does nude Daniel Radcliffe sells either?
Spams and spoiled hams2 stink
Hams sell
Ball pen stinks
Mechanical Pencil sells
Dial-up connection3 sells
But DSL4 sells even more
Maria Flordeluna stinks
Will Rounin sell or stink?
Robinson stinks
SM5 sells
WP 2.1.3 will stink soon
WP 2.2 will for sure sell

I want this to go on, but I’ve ran out of things to include in here. Oh, well, I’m off to read your blogs.

  1. It was one of my high school classmates who created this. []
  2. Spam comments from legitimate users []
  3. As long as the pages that I want to view load in a reasonable amount of time, it’s tolerable to me []
  4. I’m just waiting for the activation of my DSL. Thank you, God! []
  5. They’re constructing another annex in SM City Pampanga. It’s the third annex. []

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Past times

My summer’s getting boring as days slowly passes by. Obviously, there’s nothing remarkable in my life lately to blog about. Well, except for the things you’ll read below. Half of the summer’s already gone, and soon, my college life will officially start.

In the light of this boring summer holidays, I was too desperate to find a good read. It’s been a while since I last read a book with a good plot. I’ve been searching the internet for an interesting book and scanning the shelves of NBS for ages. Mind you, I’m a bit choosy on what book to read. If I don’t like the book, I’ll just keep it in our shelves here at home. I don’t like those books of Paulo Coelho and the likes… I don’t like his style. And as much as possible I only buy those international bestseller books and/or written by a respected author. While searching the internet for good books, I found this interesting title: “Miracle in the Andes”, a true-to-life story of a survivor from a plane crash. It’s not yet released so I have to find other suitable books for me. Well, I saw an interesting book after days and days of scanning the dusty (only a little) books on NBS . The book’s called “Bee Season”… it’s about a child who does not have any talents at all but during her fifth grade, she was able to discover a new talent — spelling. Actually, I already saw that book ages ago but I was not reading the synopsis of the book until yesterday. Well, I can somehow relate to the protagonist so I decided to buy it.

But what I really want to read is a love story that has nothing to do with married couples, widowers, a divorcee and the likes. It just makes me go “yuck” and “eeew” when I read novels like that. I want something like “A Walk to Remember”, well, except for the girl dying. Can you recommend me a good one?

Another way I found out to fight boredom is to watch TV. No, I’m not speaking of the teleseryes, asianovelas or PBB. I’m currently enjoying (once again) NGC’s programs like:

The Gospel of Judas. I already watched it and I don’t believe it. The NGS’s claiming that the codex they are holding is authentic. Yeah, I can say that the codex was written ages ago. I don’t question the steps that the NGS did to authenticate the codex if it’s from the ancient world or not. But what’s flooding my mind is if those accounts written in that codex are correct and accurate. What if that gospel was written by a person who really loathes Christianity so there can be chaos to uprise after discovering it.

Be the Creature’s (literally) a funny show. Those two hosts are really stupid. Lol. They’re mimicking whatever the animals that they were featuring did. And if I’m not mistaken, they even tried eating the food that the animals they’re featuring are feeding on in one of their episodes. Lol. Gross.

Lastly, Air Crash Investigation’s the best. I really like it. Even though I watch it, I have not inquired aviophobia or the fear of flying. Well, at least, I already know a little about the things that might happen during a plane disaster.

PS: It looks like that our PBB housemates’s favorite past time is crying. Lol. A lot of them had already shed buckets of tears. Lol. And I might as well develop a Ephebiphobia because of them. Lol! I can’t help but laugh at them. No offense to PBB fanatics out there!

And yes, new layout.

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