a Tagalog post...

dapat kahapon pa ako mag-uupdate
kya lang for some reason, wala akong internet
kaya eto ako ngayon
Be prepared for a long post...


Sa wakas, nakaenrol na din ako
6 units nga lang
grabe nakakapagod
Gumising ako ng mga 830 kahapon ng umaga
Uminom ng gatas, nag-toothbrush, naligo, nagbihis
punta ng Mapua
pagdating ko dun
anak ng tinapa, walang tao sa registrar
anung petsa na?!
no choice ako kundi maghintay
biglang kong naisipan na i-check ang ibang departments
pumunta ako sa CHE-CHM dept
tinanong ko kung may offer silang Organic Chemistry this term
yung pang MSE which is 2 units lang, wala
pero may open, pang-CHE, 3 units nga lang
sabi nung secretary pwede daw ako dun
ipa-equivalent course ko na lang daw sa registrar
kaya ayon, binigyan ako ng paper na nakasulat yun
pagbalik ko sa regisrar, wala pa din tao
mga 11 30 na yun, e maglalunch break sila ng 12 noon
nagugutom na ako
buti nalang dumating si Angel at Carl
Yinaya nila ako kumain, syempre sama ako
kumain kami sa Faustina's
first time ko dun
masarap pala pagkain dun
makakain nga ulit sa susunod
pagkatapos nmin kumain, maaga pa
mga 12:30 pa lang ata yun
eh 1 pm pa magbubukas sa registrar
sabi nila tambay na muna ako sa tambayan ng SCA
ka-organization ko nga pala si Angel at Carl pero di na ako active
pagdating namin dun, nandun din yung ibang members
naghihintayan pala sila dahil ppunta silang Tayabas, Quezon para sa leadership training
nakausap ko si Darren na former blockmate ko na naka-LOA (leave of absence) ngaun
pinipilit nila siya sumama
kaya join naman ako, kunwari kasama ako hahaha
pinilit ko din sya pero iitry daw niya, wala sya pera
anyway
tumambay ako dun hanggang mga 1:15
pag-alis ko sa tambayan pumunta ako sa EMSE dept nmin
kinuha ko yung paper para maiopen na yung Mineralogy subject
diretso ng registrar
in an instant, may 3 units na ako, yay!
tapos yung Organic Chemistry naman
kaya lang may kulang pala
dapat may official document na pirmado sa CHE-CHM department na allowed ung pag-equivalent course
kaya bumalik ulit ako sa CHE-CHM para magpapirma
pagbalik ko sa registrar, ok na
inadd na ung subject ko
buti nalang hindi conflict sa schedule
eh di may 6 units na ako
tapos pumunta ako sa IE-EMG dept
tinanong ko kung open na ung Engineering Management
sabi nung secretary, kailangan niya yung list ng students na kukuha nun
eh wala sa akin, na kay Carlo pala
eh di tinext ko sya, tagal magreply
kaya naisip ko sa pasukan nalang yun
pina-finalize ko na schedule ko
tapos nagbayad na ako
weee, tapos na ako magenrol
tamang- tama nagreply na si Carlo
nasa school pala siya, nagkita kami
mukhang kararating lang
tapos nakita pa namin si Kuya Evan at Kuya Allen
kukuha din sila ng EMG kaya pinasulat din namin dun sa list
ipinasa na namin ni Carlo yung list sa IE-EMG dept
kaya lang di pa daw maoopen yun nun day na un
kaya ayun, sa pasukan na talaga yun
anyway, at least, nakaenrol na ako
papasok ako this term
nagtatanong siguro kayo kung bakit 3 subjects lang ang makukuha ko
dahil yun lang ang pwede kong kunin
hay buhay
hirap talaga sa Mapua lalo na sa department namin
bahala na


actually, 2nd time ko na pumunta sa school para magpaenroll
Nung Friday, pumunta na ako school
tapos yung mga offered na subjects this term hindi ko pa pwedeng kunin
suggestion ni Ma'am Fernandez, magpa-change curriculum na ako ng pang batch 2007
oo naman ako
naghintay ako sa school hanggang mga 2 pm
di talaga dumadating registrar namin
kaya sabi ko sa Monday na nga lang
kasama si Kat, pumunta na kami SM Manila para kumain
tamang-tama naman nakasalubong namin si Keziah pabalik ng school
at dahil ang reason kung bakit sya babalik ng school ay kami,
sumama na siya samin sa SM
kumain kami sa KFC
tapos tumambay lang
nagkwentuhan
hinintay namin sina Allan at Shid dahil pag-uusapan yung outing
tapos naglibot kami sa SM
dapat kasi bibili ng laptop si Keziah, eh hindi pa negtetext yung tatay niya
ako naman bumili ng external hard drive at screen protector
kahit papano nabawasan na yung listahan ng mga bibilhin ko
yung hard drive Buffalo ang brand, 3 995 yung 320GB
ang saya ko, bumilis ng konti ang laptop ko dahil nabawasan na ng laman
napapaisip tuloy ako kung maguupgrade pa ako ng RAM
mukhang di na kailangan
mga past 5 pm na, nasa school pa sila Allan
hindi pa kasi dumadating ung prof na hinihintay nila
naghintay pa kami konti
nun medyo madilim na tinext ko na si Allan na uuwi na kami
nag-sorry siya
ok lang yun, enjoy naman eh


sunod na araw ay Sabado
walang magawa, sa bahay lang
after lunch, sabi ng tatay ko maglakad lakad daw ulit kami sa likod ng MOA after dinner
banat naman ako, "San tayo kakain?"
sabi niya sa bahay lang daw pero bumigay din
tumawag siya bandang mga 7 pm
kain daw kami sa Jade Palace
pumunta kasi siya ng office para tapusin yung monthly report niya
umalis kami sa bahay mga past 8 pm
kumain sa Jade Palace
nakakita pa kami ng artista
nandun si Joey Marquez kasama yung anak niyang si Jeremy at yung isang pa niyang anak kay Alma Moreno na hindi ko kilala
pagkatapos kumain, pumunta na kami sa likod ng MOA
Seaside Boulevard ata tawag dun
naglakad lakad lang kami habang nagkwekwentuhan
tapos kumain ng ice cream
pinagpawisan ako kakalakad
ang daming tao
tuwang tuwa ang nanay ko dun sa mga batang nasa loob ng bola
para silang mga hamster hahaha
yung hamster(?) sa Bolt, basta yung nasa loob ng transparent na bola
may ganung palaruan dun
sabagay, nakakatuwa nga naman
after ng family bonding time, umuwi na kami
bagong story naman pagdating namin sa bahay


pagdating namin sa bahay
may pagala galang tuta sa harap ng gate namin
chocolate brown ang kulay
ang cute kaya lang madumi
nakakaawa, baka masagasaan
kay kinuha nalang ng tatay ko
amin nalang daw tutal mukhang wala naman may ari
weee, may pet na ako
pero mas gusto ko pa din rabbit, narealize ko na takot pa din ako sa aso
ginawan siya ng higaan at itinimpla ng gatas
naubos niya yung gatas
sabi ng tatay ko Snickers daw pangalan niya
kung nagtataka kayo kung bakit Snickers, yun ay dahil Snickers ang pangalan ng 2 una naming mga aso although di ko na sila naabutan
si Snickers 1 ay namatay
si Snickers 2 naman bigla nalang daw nawala
so technically, ang tutang ito ay si Snickers 3
magdamag nagpapansin si Snickers 3
ayaw patulugin ang kuya ko
naninibago siguro kaya umiiyak
mga 3 am na ako natulog at nung mga oras na yun ay naririnig ko pa siyang nag-iingay
paggising ko kinabukasan
hala! wala na siya
nakatakas daw
palibhasa sa garahe kasi siya linagay
eh may butas dun sa baba ng gate
natural makakalusot yun dun
sayang talaga
kala ko may pet na ako
pero medyo relieved din ako dahil
RABBIT ANG GUSTO KO!!!
ngayon, balik na ako sa pangungulit sa tatay at kuya ko na bilhan ako ng rabbit
weeeee ^_^


balik na ako ngayon sa anime fandom
ang tagal kong di nakapanood ng anime
nakahabol na ako sa episodes ng Bleach
kaya lang fillers ulit yung mga susunod na episodes
stop uli ako sa Bleach
tinatapos ko naman ngayon idownload ang Gundam 00
last episode na nung Sunday
di ko pinapanood yung mga naunang downloaded episodes
gusto ko kasi dirediretso
natapos ko na panuoring ang Code Geass R2
sabi ko na nga ba may binabalak si Lelouch nung ideclare niya na siya ang bagong emperor ng Britannia
di ako makapaniwalang umiyak ako sa ending
waaaaaaa
naaawa ako kay Lelouch
grabe yung pinagdaanan niya
at least nagkabati at nagkaintindihan sila ni Suzaku
and peace returned sa kanilang lahat
bumalik na ang D Gray Man manga, yay!
ang tagal ng hiatus ng mangaka nun
at si Allen, I think isa talaga siyang Noah
kala niya di siya masasaktan nung sinaksak niya yung sarili niya ng Crown Belt
pero baliktad, may ibang personality ang lumabas with the same manner of speaking ng Millenium Earl
gusto ko na makita next chapter


sa Asian fandom naman wala masyado
pinagpapatuloy ko lang ang pagdownload ng Mago Mago Arashi
gusto ko ang mga shows ng Arashi
pero hindi mga kanta nila
yun lang


siguro nagtataka kayo kung bakit Tagalog ito
wala lang, trip ko lang
hirap mag-english eh
hahahahahahahaha
Ja ne...

Almost Over...

One more final exam
and I'll say bye bye to the 3rd term


I had my finals for Mechanics last Tuseday
after the exam, my prof checked our papers and computed our grades
so after about an hour, the class already knew their standing
my score in the finals was 55/100
and after the computations, I ranked first in the class
my overall grade was 57 %
the passing grade was 60 (although our prof can still lower it down if he wants to)
so technically, I failed
but since I'm first, he said he'll pass me
Yay!
Lady luck is on my side ^_^
I'm happy with just a grade of 3.00
I have one less worry
I hope he decides to pass all 5 of us
but if not, at least give them 7.00 for incomplete so they won't fail
after the exam, there's still 2 hours left of class time
one of my classmates brought his laptop
so we just watch "Kung Fu Panda"
I had so much fun
it was so cute and funny
he never realized that he was adopted
I mean where in the world can you see a swan (?) father and his son is a panda
that's just ridiculous
anyway, it's one of the few animated movies that I liked


I've already accepted that I'll fail analytical chemistry lecture
my first 2 quizzes were really low
and it would be impossible to catch up
just when I've decided that all hope is gone, something really unexpected happened
I received the results of my 3rd quiz last Wednesday and guess what?!
I PASSED!!!
my score was 69/100
My resolve that I'll fail was all crushed (resolved to fail?!what kind of resolve is that?!)
and I was having my last quiz in that subject last Friday
more signs of hope was given to me
there was one problem where the correct final answer was written
I'm not sure if it was a typo or my prof really intended for it to be there
when I first answered it, I got it wrong
then when I was double checking my answers, I realized that I miscalculated that one
I computed the figures again and whoa!!!
I GOT IT CORRECT!!!
my tension is up again
it seems that He wants me to pass
but I don't want to get my hopes up so much
because if I see a 5.00 (failing grade) for that, I'll feel really disappointed and depressed
I don't want to feel that way
well, there's still the finals in Wednesday and I'll study hard for it
I'll do my best!
as for the laboratory counterpart, I'm 100% sure I'll pass
so no problems


Last Friday, I cooked again after a long time
I cooked Carbonara and toasted bread for dinner
it was sooo delicious
(yep, I'm proud of my cooking and baking skills, everything I make is yummy)
even my brother who is not fond of white sauce really liked it
I'm so happy
when I had my birthday party last year, I cooked the spaghetti
and everyone said it was delicious
it was after everyone was finished that I revealed I was the one who cooked it
Ohhh I loved their reaction especially my high school friends
I used to bake on weekly basis
my friends asked me to
they liked my chocolate crinkles
so they asked me to sell them hehehe
but I've been busy with school
that I didn't have time for my hobbies
with the 3 week summer vacation coming
I'll be back on the kitchen


my dad left this noon for Singapore
he went for a business trip and will be gone for a week
I'm so gonna miss him
please come back safe and sound


There's nothing going on in the fandoms
Nothing really interesting
Some random updates:

• Shige and Koyama in Kiseki no Kizuna (haven't watched it)
• I'm watching 1 litre of tears right now because I dreamt about Ryo which I don't remember the details except the beach ( sorry, so random)
• I mentioned in a previous post somthing about TVXQ, since then I haven't watched any of their videos yet (guess, I'm not getting into their fandom)
• Kame looks so good in his hairstyle right now
• I watched Cartoon KAT-TUN episode 100 without subs, I understood about 60%. It was a funny episode
• I've downloaded and watched Arashi no Shukudai-kun where Nagase was the guest. I was laughing so hard last night. I'm also downloading their singles right now. I'm officially entering the Arashi fandom.

That's it for today's post
Ja...

* p.s. I can't believe I slept all afternoon from 12 noon to 4 pm...
that was a first...

Happy day...

I just got home
I'm tired
I'm sleepy
but I had lots of fun
Oh, and I'm excited too!
I'm in a good mood ^_^


I had my practical exam in Analytical Chemistry laboratory this morning
since we can't decide on the order of taking the exam, we drew lots by group
I wanted to got first thought but I can't say it out loud
in the end, I was the last person to take the exam
the pattern of the exam is like this:
we'll go inside the room one by one
we have 10 minutes to finish the 3 stations for the exam
then additional 5 minutes for the computations
after taking the exam, the students stay inside the room until no one's waiting for their turn outside
since I'm last, it means I'll be left alone waiting outside the room
just the thought of that made me lonely
but I wasn't left alone
Mm other friends' who were having their class in the room in front of ours joined me
their teacher hasn't arrived yet so we talked a bit
It raised my spirits
and by the time I was called their teacher still hasn't arrived
while I was doing my exam, my professor and other classmates went back to our usual room
and I was left in the care of the laboratory assistant
it was a plus for me because I was the only student in the exam room so there were no distractions
I was able to concentrate
the first station was about apparatus
there were 10 apparatus and I had to identify them and their uses
the second part was about laboratory set-ups
there were 2 set-ups and I had to point out the mistakes in them
the third part is titration
we had to titrate the acid until it changes color then compute for its molarity
as soon as I finished, I knew I did well
I was able to answer everything within the given time
even in the titration part, the color of my solution was really light pink
I saw the others' work and they're all dark pink, almost fuschia
our professor checked my paper as soon as she received it and guess what I got
I got a 96/100!!!!
I was so happy
it's been a long time since I got a score that high
actually, I did not have any mistakes
I only lack 4 answers for the second part
next week, we'll be having the written exam
so I still have to study for it


after class, I waited for Kat's class to finish
we ate lunch in Chowking
as usual, we watched a movie
we watched "He's just not that into you"
at first, we though of watching Streetfighter: Legend of Chun-Li
but Allan's going to kill us (kakatayin niya kami) so we decided to watch another film and wait for the time that Allan and Shid can join us to watch it
Allan and Shid had their defense for their feasibility studies so they weren't able to come
after the movie, we strolled the mall a bit while waiting for my parents
when we separated, I went to the department store because my parents were there
I bought a new bag then we went home


it was my dad's birthday last Tuesday but he wasn't aound that time
so hasn't treated us yet
we went home to fetch my brother and housekeeper
we ate dinner at Max's Restaurant
we ordered and ate a lot
there's pancit canton, sinigang na tiyan na bangus, camaron rebosado, kare-kare, and a whole chicken
I was so full
For sure, it'll be a while before we eat out like this again
(my dad in stingy)


I watched KAT-TUN's new pv "Rescue"
again, it was so cool just like the "One drop" pv especially Ueda and Jin's dance part
it's so cool that it makes me mad
how about NEWS?!
when are they going to have a pv like that?!
I'm worried that if I continue seeing KAT-TUN like these, I might go back to their fandom


I watched TVXQ's pv "Survivor"
it was ok, I didn't really like it
then I watched their Smap x Smap guesting without english subs
(I was surprised I understood the interview, my mom was eyeing me suspiciously while watching it because there were no subs and yet I was laughing and smiling)
watching their pv gave me realization
TVXQ is the very first asian boyband that I knew
I remember watching them in Show Music Tank in Arirang TV
I think it was U-know and Mickey were the hosts at that time
but I did not bother checking them out
I had no interest in internet that time
and BoA was the only reason why I was watching that show
They sang "Purple Line" in Smap x Smap
so I checked out it's video as well as "Mirotic"
and I seriously liked it
now I'm thinking of downloading their songs
Someone stop me!!!
if this goes on, I might join their fandom
and I don't want to because it takes up so much time
and I am quite busy right now


Hell week officially starts on Monday
it's the last week of the term
I've started my ethics essay and made 3 pages now
still need 1 or 2 more pages
last Friday, I asked one of my classmates in ethics about his essay
he said he asked his friend that is a law student to do the essay for him?!
that is sooo unfair
here I am, racking my empty brain for ideas and worrying myself out that I won't be able to finish it
and there he is asking someone else to do it for him while he sleeps in our class!!!
I hate people like that
I did not talk to him for the rest of the class
(that was in our anal chem class by the way)
but of course, I didn't show how angry I was
as a result, I lost my motivation to do the paper
what's the use of doing something that I know will just get a passing grade while someone will get a higher grade for the same work that he didn't do
it really pissed me off
so for 2 days, I slacked off
but this morning, I asked my other classmates how their paper is going and found out that they haven't even started it yet
knowing that I'm quite ahead of the others made me a bit happy
and now I'm back on track
Ugh, I'm such a simple minded person


I've finished watching "Lunch Queen"
at first, I only watched it because of Yamapi
but as I watch more episodes, I started to enjoy it
the plot is nice and I loved the female lead
it's about family, friendship, but more on romance
not to mention, the food were looks delicious that it made me hungry while watching
right now, I'm watching "Long Love Letter"
it's another Yamapi jdrama but the plot is also good
it's also about friendship and romance


I've downloaded a couple of Tensai!Shimura Doubutsen
Aiba cracks me up so much
I can't believe what I've been missing on the Arashi fandom
I've always liked Arashi
I'm a fan of them as individuals but not their songs
their songs just don't appeal to me


Hey!Say!JUMP! has a new show
How about NEWS?!
I want NEWS to have their own regular show too
I miss my NEWS
Please give them work!!!


Phew, that was a long post
I'm off now to continue my ethics essay
Ja...

Nothing to Say...

I'm tired
I'm sleepy
I'm depressed


I'm 100% sure I will fail analytical chemistry lecture
I got a really really really low score on my 2nd quiz despite studying
that's why I'm so frustrated because I studied really hard
but then I got that kind of score
I think it's impossible to make up for it now
I'm conditioning myself to see a 5.00 (failing grade) in my card by the end of the term
this is going to be my 2nd 5.00 grade
I'm not going to tell my parents
I feel ashamed of myself


I really want to do my college life all over again
Someone please give me a time slip
"Hallelujah Chance"
but of course it's impossible
it's my own fault for choosing Mapua and engineering
I don't have regrets going to that school and studying that program
It's just that I should have done better
before, my aim is just to pass the subject
a 3.00 (passing grade) would satisfy me
but now I want 2.00 and above grades
why?
because when I graduate, I want to have a honor
and it will give me better chances to enroll in the university I want to study for Master's Degree


I wasn't able to go to mass last Ash Wednesday
I will submit my take home quiz in dynamics where all my classmates copied from me so all have the same answers on Tuseday
I have my 3rd quiz on anal chem lecture which I already started studying since Saturday on Wednesday
I have an essay in ethics that I have no idea what to write due on March 14
I only have two weeks to do this
This term is on the 9th week now
There's only 3 more weeks left then summer vacation
I have at least 3 weeks to mourn for my failing grade


If I saw and replied earlier to my brother's text message last Friday,
I already would have a pet rabbit now


She's starting to get on my nerves
she's so KY
and stop calling me "psst"!!!
I have my own name
and it's not "psst"
you don't have to ask every little thing that's going on in this house
it's none of your business
you don't have ask every single thing you need to do
even how much rice you have to cook, you still need to disturb me?!
isn't that the reason why you're here?!
seriously annoying


I've been thinking of what I want to do with my life
and it's stressing me out
when I was a kid, I wanted to be a doctor
but I can't handle blood and syringes so I gave up
watching Code Blue reminded me how great doctors are
I'm on my 4th year in college now
it's too late to change careers
not to mention I still can't handle syringes
so I've thought of an alternative where I can be in medical and engineering field at the same time
and I've found not only one but two possible fields
(actually not only 2 but these are what I'm interested)
They are Biomedical engineering and Biomaterials engineering (I prefer this one better)
I don't think these fields is being offered anywhere in the Philippines
so I looked for other possible universities
I have mentioned before that I want to study my Master's Degree in Japan so obviously I looked for Japanese universities
so far, I have only found 2 who offers them
Tokyo Institute of Technology and University of Tokyo
I can probably get into Tokyo Tech but it's in Yokohama
I prefer to be in Tokyo but with my level, it seems Todai is impossible
and this is what's stressing me out
(this kinda seem pointless right now because I still have to graduate from bachelor's degree)


earlier I asked my brother if I can be a model too
and he said "Oo naman, ikaw lang naman ang ayaw eh"
which roughly translates to "of course you can, it's just you who doesn't want to"
I'm not pretty
I'm not thin
I'm more on the heavy side
but at least, maybe, there's also available job for me out there right?
he's holding a modeling workshop on March 14
maybe I'll attend it
do I still have to apply to him even if he's my brother?


My dad's birthday is on Tuesday
but he won't be around
he's going to Subic tomorrow for a seminar
he'll back on Thursday
I'm gonna miss him


I'll try writing my essay now
Ja ne...

I can't think of a proper title...

Seriously, I don't have anything to write...
Nothing interesting has happened for the past week...
Well, except maybe for some lonely time...

Monday to Friday ended smoothly...
I don't have class on Mondays so I only stayed at home...
Tuesday was the usual 4 and half hour Mechanics lecture class...
I had a quiz on that one...
Wednesday was also quiz day for my Analytical Chemistry class...
Since I don't have class on Thursdays, my mom and I took these opportunity to go out...
We just fixed some bank accounts then ate at McDonalds...
Friday was another torture day...
I had the super boring, super cold (our room was freezing) and super uninteresting 3 hour Analytical Chemistry lecture class...
I totally resent going to that class...
I love the subject but with my professor teaching it, it became boring...
Saturday I had the laboratory equivalent of the subject...
As usual, it's the only time I have fun going to school this term...
I'm the only girl in class but my classmates don't treat me differently...
They even joke with me and we chat about everything while doing our work...
They're even grateful that I'm like the other girls, that they can talk to me about everything...
At first, I was actually expecting them to sort of make fun of me, but it did not turn out that way...
Last Saturday, the topic we talked about was anime especially Bleach and Naruto...
They're surprised that I know EVERYTHING about it...
Even the smallest details...
I'm glad to have been of service ^_^

After my morning, my next class would be at 430 pm so I was expecting to meet my friends...
But it turned out that I won't be seeing them...
Kat mailed me that she she'll be going home to the province so we won't meet...
The same with Kez...
Her class is at 3 pm so she's still at home...
I also mailed Allan but he's still at home too...
So I'm left all alone...
I suddenly felt lonely...
I have a 4 and a half hour break with nothing to do and no one to accompany me...
Just when I decided to got to the mall, eat alone and watch a movie alone to waste time...
I bumped with my other friends and they invited me to eat with them...
They were life savers...
I was saved by them from boredom and loneliness...
They also said that I should just sit in their next class since it's laboratory and their professor is my professor too in my next class...
And so I did...
I also helped them a bit with their work...
I even got to play chess which I lost miserably...
I never knew Dexter was a good chess player...
All I can do is defend my king which I obviously failed...

After classes, my parents picked me up...
Then headed straight at home...

That's all for today...
I have to go back to "Full House" now...
Ja...

It's Valentine's Day...

Minna-san,

Happy Valentine's Day ^_^

Today is heart's day and I don't have a date...Or so I thought...

I started my day with the usual going to school routine...
Woke up early in the morning, ate breakfast, took a bath, changed clothes then off to school...
Since it's Saturday, my parents drove me to school...
I thought I was already late because my cellphone alarm did not go off...
So I was 30 minutes behind schedule...
My class starts at 7 30 and I arrived at 7 45...
Luckily, as soon as I arrived in the 4th floor where my room is, the faculty room door flung open and my professor came out from it...
I made it in time!!! Yatta!!!
So we did the experiment, had a little discussion and our professor let us take home our reports...
She said since it's Valentine's day, we should go home early...
She wants to go home early too because according to her, she still has to do the laundry...
And so we finished early and went home early...
Well, at least THEY went home early...
I still have a class at 4 30 pm so I had to stay behind...

It has been a routine for me and my friends, Kat and Kez, to meet every Saturday and have lunch...
Unfortunately, today, Kez could not come...
Apparently, she has plans with her sibling (really?!)...
So it was only me and Kat...
BUT...
Two of our friends had make up class this morning and they're also in school...
So we waited for them to finish their class and grabbed some lunch in SM Manila...
Those two were Allan and Shid, by the way...
The 4 of us ate at Tokyo Tokyo and had really nice conversations...
I especially enjoyed the American Idol one...hehe
It's been a long time since we went out like that because of our busy schedules...
And I'm really glad we got to do it again...
After lunch, we went to see a movie...
We watched PUSH starring Chris Evans, Dakota Fanning and Camilla Belle...
It was a nice movie...
I really enjoyed it...
It was so packed that it felt like the movie was so long despite it being only 2 hours...
After the movie, we decided to stroll the mall since we don't want to go home yet and my parents hasn't arrived (they're going to pick me up)...
We ate sundae (care of Kat) as we walk around the mall...
After a long and fun day, we separated ways...
Since, we're pass by Shid's place on the way home, he went with us and dropped him at his place...
Kat and Allan also went home...
In case you're wondering why I spend the whole afternoon at the mall, my 430 class got canceled...
A seminar is going on in our seminar room and our professor told us to there...
(my classmate informed me of this through mail)
And since I'm already at the mall, I have no intention of having a 15 minute walk from the mall to school just to attend a seminar that is totally not related to what I'm studying in my program...


Since it's Valentine's day, I teased my dad a bit about eating dinner out...
He complied with my sweet request and we ate at a local restaurant near our home...
The food was really delicious...
I can't wait to eat that I burned my tongue...
Until now, it still kinda hurts...
Me and my parents chatted a bit while waiting for the food...
Which was pretty rare in our family...
We don't really talk to each other much...
My mom even complains that when we're at home, we act like strangers...
We just do what we want and not notice each other...
The only time we really talk is when we eat out...
It's the only bonding our family have...
Oh, it's not the whole family...
It's just the 3 of us...
My two elder brothers don't go with us anymore...
Anyway, I'm glad I got to spend some time with my parents...

Well, today's valentine's day...
I've got nothing planned...
I have no boyfriend which means no date...
But it turns out, I was wrong...
I had two special dates...
One with my friends Kat, Shid and Allan...
And the other one with my beloved parents...
Thank you so much for keeping me happy today ^_^

Now, on to the fandoms...
Lately, I've been so into Yamapi...
Though Tegoshi still remains my ichiban...
Yamapi has moved from an undetermined spot to my niban...
I wonder why he hasn't caught my attention till lately...
Now I've realized how good an actor he is and amusing he is as a person...
I'm feel kinda sad that he doesn't have any new projects yet...
But also happy at the same time that he's getting well deserved rest...

Random updates:

• Boa's New PV "Eien" is sooooooooo cool!!! I'm seriously addicted to the song and the PV...The dance moves are soooooooo cool... I wish I could dance like that...If you haven't seen it, check youtube...
• Boa's US Album cover uncovered...Check it here...Personally, I don't like it...What with the black and white effect...the Music Station performance of "Universe" with M-flo and Crystal Kay is also here...
• I watched Fahrenheit's PV of "Stay With You"...and...they seriously need to improve on their japanese and singing...I don't think they'll survive the entertainment industry with just their looks...
  
• KAT-TUN's "One Drop" PV is out...The song is good and addictive...So is the PV...They all look handsome in black with the luxury cars...
• I've downloaded a bunch of Yamapi clips...thanks to newsfhan...
• Kame's and Massu's drama are going strong...
• I haven't been much in the Show Luo fandom...Until now, I haven't finished Hot Shot because of Yamapi...
• I've finished watching Proposal Daisakusen and Sore wa, totsuzen, arashi no you ni both starring Yamapi...

Ok, this post is getting long...
It's been a long time since I've posted something properly...
Maa, kore dake desu...
Ja ne...

The Day of Change...

OMG, I freaking look lika Toda Erika...Well, at least the hair...I swear I seriously did not intend it to look like hers...But for some reason it became like this...

I've been asking my mom since December to go to the salon with me...I wanted a change so I decide to have my hair colored...But since it's vacation and I won't be going out much, she said it's just a waste and rescheduled our trip for the first week of January, the start of my classes...

Come first week of January...I had problems with my schedule plus my laziness so we weren't able to go...Friday last week (23rd of January), my mom asked me if I wanted to go to the salon...But my brother said to go the next week (which was last Friday, 30th of January) so we could all go together and he'll pay for it...

Come last Friday...For the past month, I have wanted to color my hair for the first time...But I noticed that as it grows longer, the tips are becoming wavy...So I thought maybe I should just have it curled...My mom asked me what I wanted to do with it so I said I want it curled and colored...But she said no...Too much chemicals will ruin my hair...So I just put off the idea of coloring it...Coloring my hair might ruin it more than curling it anyway...So we went to the salon and had it curled...Oh and I also wanted to try having long bangs...So the stylist cut some of my hair up to the level of my mouth...The length of my hair is until half of my back by the way...And then she started putting my hair into curlers...It took about 3 hours to finish...I was so sleepy but fought it...When it was done, it wasn't what I expected...Actually, I was expecting big curls just like Goldilocks'...But for some reason it looks exactly like Toda Erica's hair in Code Blue...Well, I don't hate it...I actually love it...Surprisingly, it suits me...^_^ At least that's what I think...My mom isn't satisfied with it though...She thinks it's not curly enough...As for the bangs, the stylist suggested that shower/chinese bangs suits my curly hair better...So I went for it and had her cut it to the level of my eyes...And here I am having curly hair and shower/chinese bangs...

I went to school this morning feeling excited and confident because of my new hair...I got different comments but I think they all liked it...My first classmate that saw me asked if I did not bathed...I really don't get why he said that...Is it because it looks like I didn't comb my hair???...
I really don't know and I did not bothered to ask (the truth is I didn't comb it, the stylist said not to, to maintain the curls)...One of my classmates said I look pretty...Wow...It's the first time someone actually said that to me (I don't know if he's serious or he's just fooling around, somehow it made me happy either way)...Here are the other comments:

Kat: Koreana ka ba??? (Are you Korean???)
Kat: Bagay naman sayo ah...(It suits you)
Mat: Wow...Kulot...Ayos ah...Bagay sayo...(Wow...Curly...Good...It suits you...)
Kuya Evan (jokingly): Di ka naligo no? (You did not take a bath???...just because I did not comb my hair and it looks shiny doesn't mean I didn't took a bath)
Kuya Allen: Yan na ba ang new look mo ngaun??? (Is that you're new look now???)
Bez Keziah, Toni, Jeck and Shiella: Nagpakulot ko?! (You curled your hair?!)

In short, for the first time in my 20 years, I changed my hairstyle and it seems everyone has accepted it...

This morning I had lab class...Our professor was absent but she left us the experiment to do...It was easy and short so around 10 am, we're already finished...My friend Kat was also finished with her class and since it's still early and my next class is at 430 pm, we went to watch a movie again...This time, we watched Ink Heart...It was a good movie...Almost made me cry when the family was reunited at the end but of course I held back my tears...It would be too embarrassing...After the movie, we went to supermarket to buy something and parted ways...Kat went home and I went back to school for my class...Oh and we went to KFC for lunch before the movie anyway...Just want to tell you...

Real Life Happenings:

• I changed my hairstyle...
• I had my first quiz last Friday in Analytical Chemistry and I know I totally failed...It was hard...The fact that I did not study much didn't made any help...I'll just do better next time...
• I got 84/100 for my first experiment in Analytical Chemistry lab...
• Also had my first quiz in dynamics...It was open notes...Not sure how I did though...
• My eldest brother has a new job...He's in Emerson now and he has nothing else to do but to respond and send e-mails...He sure has a lot of free time at work so he just surfs the net and still gets the same salary as his previous one (he used to work in a call center)...
• In their sports competiton in the company, he won silver for 4 x 50 m relay and bronze for 25 m breastroke in swimming...It looks like after all these years, he's still good at swimming...He was in the varsity swimming team in his university...
• I officially started a food and exercise diary...With my hair done now, I'll definitely lose weight...
  
• My internet connection is still very slow...
• My friend Kat send me the books Ink Heart, Ink Spell and Ink Death...I'll start reading it whenever I feel like reading...
  
• I envy those who have lost of comments on their journal...No one's commenting on mine anymore...I wonder why that is...Am I THAT boring and unlikeable???...I feel lonely...
  

Fandom Updates:

• Boa's first American album will be released on 17th of March...tracklist can be seen here...
• KAT-TUN will be doing a 7 day Tokyo Dome Concert on 15th to 21st of May...
• Koyama's butai "Call" has started...I read his really great there...They're selling the pics Shige took in their New York trip as postcards...
• Yamapi has taken a leave in updating his nikki...
• Show Luo has imitated Yamapi twice...watch it here...and here...
• What going on with Shige???No news about him at all...
• Viiki servers have been down for a couple of days that's why I haven't finished Hot Shot yet...4 episodes to go...
• While waiting for Viiki, I decided to watch Dragon Zakura and I really liked it...I'll finish this first before going back to Hot Shot...I'm on episode 7 now...
• I've watched Code Blue Special...It made me cry...I'm so gonna miss Oba-chan and Kousaku...
  
• Chinen Yuuri reallyy looks like his mom...See it here...

To end this post, I have a very random story from last week...Last Sunday, we went to church and I was wearing white shorts and a checkered orange/green blouse...My brother (second eldest) said that I look like a melon and my dad seconded it...They keep on saying that until we left...So in retailiation, when he went to work wearing a bright orange sort of cloak blouse (sorry for the random description), I told hime he looks like a bubble gum and our housekeeper said he looks like orange flavored candy...hahahahahaha Wow...our family really looks like FOOD...

I'm alive again!!!

Finally, I'm starting to regain proper sleeping time...For the past few months, my sleeping time was all over the place...Even if I have to wake up at 5 am for class, I fell asleep around 3 am...It's been a week since my mom has forced me to sleep early...By 12 midnight, I'm should be in my room, sleeping...At first, I was having a hard time because no matter what I do, I can't seem to fall asleep...Right now, by 11:30 pm, I'm starting to feel sleepy...And by the time, I lie in bed and close my eyes, I immediately fall asleep...I'm really grateful to my mom for these...

It's the second week of the 3rd term...This term I only have 9 units...My schedule has been fixed and I have 3 days off which are Monday, Thursday and Sunday...Tuesdays, I have Mechanics (Dynamics) from 12 to 430 pm, Wednesdays is Analytical Chemistry from 9 to 10:30 am, Fridays is also Analytical Chemistry from 7:30 to 10:30 am and Saturdays, I have 2 subjects which are Analytical Chemistry Lab from 7:30 to 12 nn and Ethics from 4:30 to 7:30 pm...

This morning I had analytical chemistry lecture which was sooo boring...I'm starting to hate it for various reasons...First, the professor is so boring...She's just reading the book...There's not much of explanations...Second, it's so early in the morning...It starts at 7:30 am...That means I have to wake up at 5 am...Third, we're required to bring the book every meeting...And we're talking about an almost 2 inches thick chemistry book...Fourth, because of this book, I'm forced to use a backpack because it's heavy and I'm having a hard time with it when I ride the train...Fifth, some of my classmates are counting on me to answer our homeworks then they'll just copy...Why don't you try doing your own homework for a change?! Lastly, it's torture inside the room...It's so damn cold and I'm freezing...

American Idol has started last Wednesday, 14th of January...The new season (8?) kicked off in Arizona, Phoenix...What I was looking forward to was the new judge, Kara DioGuardi...She's a singer, songwriter and record producer...And has worked with Kelly Clarkson, Celine Dion, Carrie Underwood, Paula Abdul and Britney Spears...On the first day of a audition, she already got head to head with a contestant, popularly known as the Bikini Girl...Bikini Girl sang a rendition of Vision of Love and DioGuardi disapproved of the way the contestant sang it so DioGuardi herself demonstrated how it should be sang with the "swaying"...And Bikini Girl told DioGuardi that her demonstration wasn't any better...That's where the hot head to head started...And I assure you it will continue in the following rounds...Well, Bikini Girl really has the voice and body (not so much of the face, her body's more beautiful than her face), so she was allowed to go to hollywood...Just a bot of advice, "Your demonstration wasn't any better" isn't something you should say to an accomplised singer, songwriter and record producer...

Drama for the week:

Corner with Love (Taiwanese)
Alan Luo as Qin Lang
Barbie Hsu as Yu Xin Lei/Sherry
Dean Fujioka as An Teng Feng/Kaede
Chen Zhi Kai as Yin Shang Dong

Corner with Love is a love story between a rich and pampered girl and an oyster omelette chef who dreams to be an artist...For the first few episodes, the story takes place in Shangai, China...Qin Lang came to Shanghai with the hopes of publishing his drawings...However, he's been conned and is now working as an oyster omelette chef in a small restaurant named Happines 131...Yu Xin Lei is a glittery shining princess (as Qin Lang describes her)...She's a rich, spoiled girl that has everything she could wish for, loving parents, loyal assistant, money, beauty, intelligence and Yin Shang Dong, her rich fiance who loves her very much...Qin Lang and Yu Xin Lei met when Qin Lang rans into Xin Lei's care while delivering...They instantly did not like each other and thought that they'd never meet again...However, Xin Lei decided to learn cooking taiwanes snacks to impress her future mother-in-law so she went to Happiness 131 and was forced (because there's no other option) to hire Qin Lang to teach her how to cook oyster omelettes...Qin Lang reluctantly agrees but helps Xin Lei in the end...Everything leems fine but soon after, Xin Lei's parents go bankrupt, disappeared and left her alone thinking that Shang Dong will take care of her...But Shang Dong's parents won't let him marry Xin Lei and was instead engaged to another heiress...Xin Lei is left nothing but a letter telling her to go to Tawiwan and a key to a house they supposedly own in there...When she arrives in Taiwan, she met Qin Lang and they found out that the house her mentioned by her parents in the letter is owned by Qin Lang's grandma...Despite many discussions and arguments, Qin Lang's grandma allows her to stay as a tenant...And this starts the love story between Xin Lei and Qin Lang...

Corner with love is one of the best love stories I have watched...I rarely see a drama where it's the guy who falls in love with girl first and chases her endlessly...Qin Lang gets his heart broken many times but still stays by Xin Lei's side...He cried a LOT not only because of Xin Lei but also of his parents...The chasing scenes may be repetitive (Qin Lang went home to Taiwan - Xin Lei also went to Taiwan - Xin Lei went back to Shanghai - Qin Lang followed her to Shanghai - They both went back to Taiwan)...But I never got tired of it...I liked how they always miss each other...One scene was when Qin Lang was riding the car to the airport (he's going back to Taiwan) and Xin Lei was looking for him...Xin Lei was on the street and the moment the car passed her, she turned her back on the street and at the same time Qin Lang looked away from the window, so they missed seeing each other...Another was when Xin Lei arrived in Taiwan and passed by the snack stall of Qin Lang's grandma where Qin Lang is helping out...As soon as Xin Lei passed, Qin Lang stood up from washing the dishes and they missed each other again...But the best thing I enjoyed in watching it are the animations...They put sweatdrops and pissed off marks (sorry, I don't know what it's called...It's the thing that's drawn in the head of a character when he's mad just like in anime)...It gives more emphasis or rather a clear view as to what the character is feeling...All in all, I give it a 9.5 out 10 ( because nothing is perfect) ^_^

Random updates:
- Haven't watched Code Blue Sp yet...I can't find a subbed video...
- BoA is releasing a new Japanese single "Eien" on February 18...Looks like her American debut isn't going well...
- A new scary reality show called 13: Fear is Real aired it's first episode in America and I really want to watch it...It looks interesting...Contestants are eliminated by being killed off ( don't know how though)...
- I've been to Tegoshi Yuya fandom, sort of been to Nishikido Ryo fandom and now I'm in Yamashita Tomohisa fandom...Now, who's gonna be next?maybe Shige...
- While I'm in Yamapi fandom, I'm also starting to enter in Taiwanese entertainment fandom...I remember I used to be all over 5566 when I was in high school but I don't find them interesting anymore (rather there's nothing interesting going on around them anymore)...I'm starting to get into Alan Luo fandom (he really reminds me of Yamapi, they kinda look alike) and I find Wu Chun cute...
- I'm watching Hot Shot right now and on the 4th episode...
- Watched Twilight again in the cinema with Kat last Saturday...She likes it so much...Don't know why...As for me, the movie was ok but not great...I still prefer the book...

Going back to watching Hot Shot...
Mata ne...

Went to School for nothing...

I woke up early this morning with the hopes that I'll still be able to add a subject...I woke up at 6 am, proceeded with my morning rituals and went to school...When I arrived in school, I proceeded to the registrar's office and asked if I could still add a subject...Unfortunately, the revision of load is already finished...Urgh...I went to school for nothing...I thought I'll still be able to add it because the subject just opened last Friday and by the time my "supposed to be" classmate mailed, I've already gone home...And last Saturday, no one was in the registrar's office...In the end, nothing came out with my trip to school...It was tiring...I did not even last 10 minutes in school...I did not even got the chance to sit down...As soon as I was rejected by the registrar, I went straight home...

I was supposed to go to SM megamall this afternoon to meet with my childhood friends, Ate Dimple and Ate Grace...However, Ate Grace did not make it to Manila, so it was rescheduled for tomorrow...I hope we'll be able to meet tomorrow...

I'm still in the middle of writing my super duper long New Year's post...Please look forward to it...

Been busy for the past few days...

Here's an update of what's happening in real life so far...

Friday, 19th of December...
I went to school to enroll for the next term...
The offices were only until 5 pm so I wasn't able to finish the process...
I had to go back the next day for the payment...
I was grateful that my friends, Keziah, Kat, Shid and Allan waited for me...
Then we went to SM Manila...
We first checked the cinema, what movies are shown and the time they'll be starting...
We decided to watch "Quarantine" through the time it will be starting which is in an hour and it's only movie playing that none of us have watched yet...
So we bought tickets for the 7:05 pm showing and went to grab lunch/dinner in one in Chowking...
Shid, Allan, Keziah and me ordered the salo-salo set meal while Kat ordered her own food...
We ate a lot...
We were so hungry cause we've been in school since lunch time and none of us ate lunch...
After eating there's still time so we just strolled the mall...
I bought a DVD set of the Harry Potter movies from 1 to 5...
After that, we bought snacks, popcorn and drinks and went to the cinema...
Around 8 pm, Keziah left because she has to go home already...
She did not finished the movie so she missed the ending...
It was a nice movie...
We kept screaming while watching...
This get together is to celebrate Keziah's birthday which was November 19th, Allan's birthday which was December 15th and Kat's upcoming birthday on December 30th...
After the movie, my dad called and said they'll pick me up...
Shid's home is on the way to our home so he went with us...
It's been a long time since me and my friends got together...
I had so much fun and I missed them so much...
After 4 years of being friends with each other, there are things that I realized in our group...
First, enrollment is the only time we really get together on a regular basis...
Second, during this time we ALWAYS end up eating in Chowking (this isn't on purpose)...
Third, all of us loves to watch movies in the cinema...
At least, there are things we ALL enjoy doing together...^_^

Saturday, 20th of December...
After lunch, I went to school with my parents to pay for my enrollment...
I'm an academic half-scholar this term, by the way, which I only have to pay half of my tuition fee...
But I never told my dad...
I have a pretty good reason to keep it from him although I really wanted to tell him...
After I paid, we went to Manila Ocean Park...
There wasn't a lot of people wo decided to enter...
My dad bought the Christmas Package ticket which includes the Glass Bottom Boat Ride and Fish Spa...
There are different kinds of fishes...
It was fun at first but became boring because the fishes became repetitive...
There's not much of variations...
Oh well, at least we were able to enter the facility...
Then we went home to eat dinner...
After dinner, we went to the grocery to buy our weekly supplies and the food for Noche Buena...
At first, I really did not want to go with my parents because I was already tired...
But I got worried because they might buy the wrong ingredients for our Noche Buena in which I'll be the one who will cook and prepare, so I went with them...
Luckily, we were able to buy everything I need...

Sunday, 21st of December...
We attended mass at 3:30 pm...
Our maid is going home to the province for 4 days so we drove her to the bus terminal...
She immediately found a ticket and boarded the bus...
She said she'll come back and I really do hope she comes back...
We're the same age and I like her...
After that we went to the mall, Robinsons Pioneer...
I was supposed to buy my brother an MP3 player but it turned out to be expensive...
So I dropped the idea...
In the end, I wasn't able to buy anything...
We just ate in Old Spahgetti House for dinner...
At least, I came out full from the mall...

Monday (today), 22nd of December...
My mom woke me up because we agreed to go buy gifts for Christmas...
First, we went to the bank to deposit money...
Goint to the salon was also ony my schedule today...
I was planning to get my hair colored and permed but my mom said it will take more than an hour...
Besides, I don't go out much anyway so we rescheduled it on January 2...
After the bank, we went to the mall...
We ate lunch first in Chowking again...
Then, we bought presents for the whole family...
I invited my cousin to spend the Christmas eve with us and they will, so I also bought presents for them...
I'll tell you what I bought for them after Christmas...
When we got home, I wrapped them in gift wrappers and put them under the Christmas tree...
So now, our tree is overflowing with gifts...

Some of the gifts under the Christmas tree

Grades + Birthday + Plans

I finally got my grades...
1.00 in Semiconductor Materials and Processes...
2.00 in Analytical Techniques in Materials and Science Engineering...
1.25 in Principles of Semiconductor Devices...
3.00 in General Chemistry Laboratory 2...
General Average : 1.70

I was so disappointed with my grade in chem lab...
I was actually expecting a high grade...
I even had a 145/150 quiz in that subject and I only got 3.00 which is equivalent to 70% which is the passing grade!!!
I did not expect that our professor gives such low grade...
Almost half of the class failed...
Ugh...I can't get over it...
I wasn't really expecting it...
Where did she get our grades?!

Today is Allan's birthday...
And I planned a celebration for him...
We were supposed to go to Star City but looks like our other friends were not interested...
I already informed them of the plan weeks ago and they said yes...
I was contacting them yesterday to finalize but no one is replying my mails...
In the end, it was cancelled...
I felt really bad...
First, I really want us to get together and have fun...
Second, I want Allan to celebrate his birthday because last year it was only him and Shid when they went to Enchanted Kingdom...
Third, I want to go to Star City with them...
So Allan and me just agreed to watch a movie and eat on enrollment, probably on Friday...
This time, I'll make sure it goes well...

I have 2 weeks ahead of me with nothing to do...
I finished all the Twilight books so now I'll start with Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows...
I'll probably finish it in 3 days...

My mom said that my dad is planning to buy me a Christmas gift...
She said he'll probably buy me the external hard disk I want...
Knowing my dad, I guess it's just all talk...
I'll just have to wait for it...
Also about the trip to Baguio City, I think it won't happen...
I asked him the other day and he gave me a silent treatment...
Translation: It's not happening...

I can't think of anything to say anymore...
So this is it for now...
Ja...

3 down, 1 more to go...

It's almost over...

I had my personal hell last week...
I didn't have class from Monday till Thusday so I was able to finish everything by Friday...
For Friday, I had my last quiz for Chemistry lab, Experiment 10 final report and Portfolio...
For Saturday, I had finals and research for my first subject, Semiconductor Materials and Processes...
As for my subject, Analytical Techniques, I also had my finals, lab report for electrospinning and optical microscopy and exercises for the other techniques...
I'm done with my 3 subjects...
I only have to wait for my grade on Sunday which I hope are all passing grades...
Well, I expect to pass all of them anyway...
I completed all the requirements and I studied hard for my exams...

I still be having my finals for one more subject which is Semiconductor Devices...
I hate that subject...
I don't understand it at all...
I just pretend that I'm listening during lecture but I'm really not...
It's like I'm there physically but absent mentally...
My mind is wandering off somewhere...
But I have no choice...
I have to force myself to study for it maybe by Thursday...
Good luck to me...

Yesterday, we went to church and I was asked to offer during the offertory...
At first, I was in shock...
The ones who offer during the mass are picked randomly so I wasn't expecting it at all...
What was their criteria for picking???
So I proceeded to offer...

Today, we went to mass again...
It's the feast of the Immaculate Concepcion so it's a holy day of obligation...
After the mass, we went to eat dinner and walked home although it's a bit far...
It was nice to have some exercise and I sweat a bit...

So I have a pretty free week ahead of me...
I'll start studying on Thursday...
As for the free days, I guess I'll just look for something to do...

Presentation + Mic-D + Surprise Exam + Starbucks...

2 more weeks and it will all end...

I'm now relieved because I'm finally finished with my presentation...
I was the very first to present...
It went well...
I just have to read the slides anyway...
But there's something that surprised me...
I wasn't nervous at all while presenting...
Rather I was enjoying it...
I'm really bad at public speaking and I really hate it...
But yesterday, I wasn't at all...
The moment my professor said I can start, I immediately stood up and put my power point presentation on the laptop...
Is it because I like the topic I'm presenting?
Is it because there are only 11 people besides me in the class and I'm comfortable with them?
Or is it because I'm improving at speaking?
I don't know if yesterday was just a special case or that feeling will continue even in future presentations...
But I would really like to improve my speaking skills...

My first class ended early...
Our professor was going to be in a panel for thesis proposal defense so we finished around 10 am instead of 12 noon...
It was still early so we decided to stay and watch the defense instead...
I really wanted to watch because I haven't done it before and I wanna know what should be done in thesis defense...
By the time the clock hit 12 noon, we left the room even though the defense is not yet finished and proceeded to our next class...

In our second class, our professor was panicking...
There's only two weeks left for this term and we still have a LOT to cover in our syllabus...
So instead of doing all the experiments we need to do, she just gave us topics to research and cut the number of experiments we'll do...
In the end, she gave us 2 topics each for research and 2 more experiments to do...
The research is due next Saturday and the lab reports on December 6, same day as our Finals...
Matthew and I are already finished with the electrospinning so we just need to analyze the nanofibers we produced in the Mic-D, as well as other materials as part I of that experiment...
We managed to finish it but again overtime...
We needed to repeat the analysis because of some stupid mistakes while using the Mic-D...
We were late for our last class...

For our last class, we had the biggest surprise...
We had our first long exam in which I have no idea...
I totally forgot about it...
I was so caught up with my presentation and the late homework that I forgot about the exam...
So I asked our professor to gave us some time to review...
Good thing, I brought all my lecture notes...
Then our professor said that exam is open notes...
I was so happy...
I thought I'd fail that exam...
So we started answering only to find out it was all essay...
I managed to answer it but I'm not really sure...
I'm not expecting a good score to come out of it...
About the home work, we told him we weren't able to answer it so he extended the deadline to next week...
We finshed aound 730 pm so we were able to go home early...
Or did we???

My parents are still not back so no one's picking me up...
I'm going home by myself...
I've asked Matthew and the others to accompany me to the train station though and they agreed...
However, while we were walking to the gate...
Someone said we should hang out...
Then someone joked about going to Starbucks, I think it was Matthew...
Don-don and Lean were not really up to the idea because they don't have money...
But Matthew insisted since it's rare for me to go with them after class and no one's to pick me up...
And so we went...
Starbucks is a 5 minute walk from our school...
While walking, we were so noisy, chatting, laughing and scaring each other...
(The way to Starbucks was dark)
Christian was very excited about going to Starbucks...
It's only his 2nd time...
We arrived there, ordered our drinks and chatted...
We were laughing the whole time especially when Christian got his drink...
It wasn't his name written in it...
It turned out that when the cashier girl asked for his name, he said "Douglas", not his real name Christian...
He asked us to take photos of him with the name "Douglas" written on his drink...
It seems like he likes that name a lot...
He thinks it's really cool and appeals to girls...
He talked about it for around 15 minutes...
We left Starbucks around 845 pm...
Matthew and Christian walked me to the station...
Well, the bus station Matthew is going is just behind the train station and Christian is also taking the train home...
I arrived home around 945 pm...

I was planning to start reading New Moon last night...
But I found the leaked chapters of Midnight Sun so I decided to read it first...
It's the same story as Twilight...
Just that it's told from Edward's point of view...
I haven't finished it yet so there's nothing to tell...

It's already 9 pm here and my parents haven't arrived yet...
I'm excited to see them again...
I was lonely without them here at home...
And I'm also looking forward to the strawberries ^_^

Could this be day get any better?or worse?

I finished it...
I finished it...
I finished it...

I finished reading Twilight in a day...
I wasn't supposed to finish it yesterday but I couldn't help it...
I was so eager to know what will happen next or how it will end...
So despite having a class ate 730 am and wake up at 5 am, I finished reading it until 2 am...

The story is really nice...
Edward is so sweet and I like Bella's character...
It's not the usual heroine that needs help or saving all the time...
Although Edward always does...
But she's a string girl, not scared of what might happen to her...
I admire those kinds of girls...
Looks strong on the outside, but cares deeply for the one she loves...

My chemistry lab went fine today...
For the first time, I have nothing to complain about except for Valerie's constant shrieking and babbling about Twilight...
The only way to stop her is to threaten her that I will the spoil the ending...
She still has 3 more chapters to read...
It was an individual work so I was able to concentrate on my own...
It was still about identifying cations and same procedure with the mixing chemicals and then centrifuge...
I finished around 113o so I decided to wait for my best friend, Keziah till 12 so that we can go home together...
While waiting, I managed to finish the prologue of my fanfic and start chapter 1...
I'm still not sure if I'll post it here...
I don't have the confidence and courage...
I'll see how it will progress...

Keziah wasn't replying to my mails so I was worried if she left her phone or not yet read it...
So I decided to just wait outside her room...
And as soon as I arrived outside their room, the door opened and she was there, going out of the room...
What a great timing...
How did we do that?
Anyway, we talked about Twilight until we parted...
We planned to watch the movie with our friends on December 1 which is a holiday here so no school and everyone should be able to go...
Now we just have to inform everyone...

I was doing fine today not until I got home...
I opened my email and found that the home work I've been waiting since Tuesday has just arrived...
It was a 5 question problem set and has to be passed tomorrow...
I started to panic...
How am I supposed to finish it?
Not to mention I didn't understand a bit his lectures...
I tried answering it but I was too sleep deprived that my eyes couldn't keep up anymore...
So I took a nap and asked our helper to wake me up at 53o pm...
I woke up by myself at exactly 530, only to find out that my brother is using my laptop again without permission...
I kept it open before I sleep because I was downloading Last friends...
I hate it when my brother does that...
I don't like him touching my things especially my laptop...
I still couldn't get over the fact that my other brother broke my personal computer June last year and I lost all the precious anime that I downloaded...
I hope he buys his own laptop...
Where the hell does he spend his money?
He's already working but he doesn't give his share in the house...
Just a week after his pay day, he's already asking me or my dad to lend him money...
Yeah, that's right...
He's asking me, the student getting allowance from our dad, to LEND him money, the working salary man...
What's up with that???!!!
It makes me mad...

Anyway, back to the home work...
I started working on it again when I woke up...
I managed to answer the first 3 questions and half of the 4th question...
I'm not sure about my answers though...
But I'm guessing it doesn't matter...
As long as you tried and you wrote something, our professor will give points...
Actually, I think I can still work on the last question but I gave up...
I can't think right...
I also forgot about the other home work we had in that subject...
Good thing, Matthew reminded me...
It was a simple research about the application of diodes and transistors...
Copying and Pasting will do the trick for that...
Does it seem like I'm cheating?
I managed to finish everything I have to do, well, excluding the problem set, but I don't care anymore...

I don't want to go to school tomorrow...
I have a lot to do...
I have powerpoint presentation on substrates, role playing as a team leader on the issue of package delamination, nanofiber and mic-d experiment, passing of home works and research paper...
Another reason is that I'm commuting to school tomorrow...
There's no car to give me a ride nor pick me up...
It will be sooo tiring...
But I can't skip school for the same reason...
I'll miss alot...
I'll be fine...
I can do this...
I have to fight the laziness...

My mom was mailing me the whole day...
She was so bored in Baguio City...
She couldn't go out becasue she's not familiar with it and there's really no place to go aside from the mall...
She gave up after lunch and decide to go to the mall all by herself...
She shopped for clothes and stuff...
She couldn't do that here in Manila so I hope she enjoyed it...
Also, she had steak for lunch and dinner and she kept repeating that...
You don't have to keep saying you had steak, okay?
I know that already and I'm already jealous enough...
Today, she met with my childhood friends who were studying there...
They visited my mom in the hotel and had a good chat...
It's been a long time since I saw them and I really miss them...
Tomorrow, my mom is meeting her half-sister who lives there...
They'll be hanging out maybe all day...
Please enjoy yourself, Mom...

To end this post, I'm giving good news...
The best news I had today...
I got the results for the second quiz of my chemistry laboratory...
And guess what I got...
A 145/150...
Yay...I was so happy...
It's been a long time since I got a really high score...
I think I was the highest...
It was more than enought to compensate for my failed experiment last meeting in which I got a score way way below than the passing (27/50)...
But I don't care about that experiment anymore...
I was really really happy to see my hard work paid off...
I couldn't hide happiness and kept smiling the whole class...
Now that I think about it, maybe that's the reason why I didn't get pissed off today...
Well, that's it for today...
Gotta prepare myself for tomorrow...
Ja...

* I forgot to mention my dragon died AGAIN...
I'm giving up taking care of them...
I'm just wasting their lives...
I'm contented now with pichie and ayachan...

Asking me for help in a subject I don't know + Horror Story part 2...

On to the happy and scary(?) post...

After my very exhausting class, I still stayed at school...
I need the signature of our subject chairperson for the LCD projector borrower's application...
Also, Matthew asked for help in his thermodynamics class...
Good thing, my bestfriend Keziah was with me...
The subject chair still has her class and Matthew is stuck in traffic...
So really no choice but to wait...

It's been weeks since me and Keziah saw each other...
We updated what's happening in our lives and had a great time...
I just realized today that the release of News' Color Album and Keziah's birthday is ON THE SAME DAY...
I've been busy lately that I didn't noticed that...
I asked my bez, as what we call each other, what she wants about a few nights ago and she said nothing...
But a little later, she said she wants to watch Twilight...
And so, we're going to treat her in the day we watch it...
Ummm...maybe next week...
It's kinda hard for the group to gather because we have different schedules...
But for my bez' birthday, we'll try our best ^_^
For the baby of the group, we'll make it a happy and enjoyable day...

The other night, I got to talk to Cis and Allan on yahoo messenger...
We haven't seen Cis for ages and we've been looking for him...
Finally, he told us where he is...
He's in their province, Pampanga and he has dropped from school AGAIN!
He is now working on their fishpond...
He wants to go back to school because he realized that working is so hard and staying in the province is TOO boring...
He misses us and the life in the city...
Oh well, Ganbatte ne, Cis...

Back to the main topic, a while later Matthew arrived...
He was asking me to help me with his home work in thermodynamics...
I though it's something that was discussed before in lower chem subjects...
Something about balancing equations...
Balancing chemical equations is easy so I said yes...
But when I saw the other examples, how come there are charged electrons in the equation...
I haven't encountered it in my previous subjects...
I tried understanding it but I can't...
Matthew kept on cheering me that I can do it because I'm good at those things...
But I really can't...
How am I supposed to understand a topic that I have yet to learn and that even the student himself can't understand?!
Oh, Matthew, I'm not that smart...
There are things that I can't do...
Well, at least not yet...Sorry...

I gave him my theories on where the charged electrons come from...
But we eventually gave up...
It's now all up to YOU...
So I just asked him to continue his series of scary stories...
Right in the middle of the story telling, I felt something on my right side...
When I looked, bez was snuggling on me...
She was getting scared...
It was so cute...hahahahaha

The story goes like this...
Warning: It's not that scary at all and there's no punch line or anything...

A woman went on a vacation and checked-in in hotel. On her first night, she can't sleep because she could hear noises from the room beside hers. She could feel the floor shaking like someone's been jumping up and down. The next day, she complained on the front desk about it. But the hotel staff told he that there's no such thing. And so she continued with her vacation. After lunch, she wanted to take a nap so she went to her room. Again, she could hear noises coming from the other side of the wall. Even after asking the hotel staff about it, the noises still continued so she decided to check it out herself. She stood at the front door of the room and listened first. The noises still continued. She found a key hole below the door knob and she peeked inside the room. From the hole, she could see a normal hotel room with bed, tables and everything. There's just one thing that bothered her. She could also see a girl with reddish eyes jumping up and down on the bed. It looks like the girl is having fun playing with the bed and disturbing other people. The woman thought, "they said there's no such thing, how come there's a girl in there?". Then,a room service employee passed by the woman and asked her if there's anything wrong. The woman said that the girl who is staying in that room is disturbing her and she can't rest well. The employee said it's impossible because that room has been locked for years and is not available for use. She decided to just ignore everything and have a nice nap. Come night time, when it's time for a good night's sleep, she can hear noises again. For one last time, she went to the other to check it out. She peeked into the hole and saw nothing but the color red. She just kept looking at it, then noticed that it's moving farther and farther away from the hole. Then, she realized that she's not looking at the color red anymore but a girl's pale face with blood shot red eyes looking straight at her. After that, the woman lost consciousness. She learned the story about that room the next day when she was about to check out. In that room, a girl has been raped and killed. It's also said that the murderers took out her eyeballs and that's the reason for the blood shot red eyes.

*Sorry I suck at writing stories...
Will do better next time...

I fail at getting mad...

I'm sooo tired, hungry and sleepy when I got home around 3 pm...
We did qualitative analysis of Group II and III cations which has a super long procedure...
And we have to do it twice because of the group work then individual work...
My group mates were late so I started on my own...
I had a hard time doing it...
Even when my group mates arrived, I still did it on my own...
They did not helped me...
I was getting frustrated because even after 2 and a half hours, it's still not finished...
And I still have to my individual work which has the same long procedure as the group work...
I finished it aroung 1030 am...
Then, I proceeded with my own work...
I may look calm on the outside but on the inside, I was already panicking...
I have to finish it by 12 noon...
I managed to finish my work by 12 noon but the preliminary data sheet for the group work was not yet done...
I still have to do it because no one in my group cared to write it...
Grrr...So mad, annoyed, irritated and frustrated...
Our group is the only one left in the room and our professor already left...
But she told me to just submit the reports in the faculty room...
While writing the report, Valerie kept on bugging...
She kept asking me if she did the right thing...
HOW AM I SUPPOSED TO KNOW?!
I'm not the one who worked with that unknown solution and the results for each of us are different...
Then, she started mumbling that she has a class at 12 noon and she's already late...
She keeps on telling me to hurry up...
That's when I snapped...
(It's only a mild snap, a small shout)...
I said I'm not yet finished with the GROUP report and is she wants to go, then leave...
I'll just pass everything together...
And then she left...
Another thing that pissed me off is that my other group mate, Evan...
He was the last one to arrive around past 9 am...
He didn't do ANYTHING...
He just sat on his chair chatting with his friend...
He did not help with anything...
And he has the guts to leave first and did not even say anything...
Even though he's way older than us doesn't mean he can do anything he wants and he can push around his underclassmen!!!
He should've at least told me he was already leaving...
I'm really grateful to my other group mates, Elaine and Chris especially Elaine...
They both helped me clean up and waited for me...
I felt guilty for Elaine because she has a class but she stayed and said that she's not attending it so that we can finish everything...
Chris returned the apparatus we borrowed in which my ID was used as collateral...
Two micro test tubes were missing so I won't be able to get my ID...
He was the one who looked for it, mailing our other classmates if they have it or if they
broke them...
In the end, we managed to find it and my ID was returned...

I totally suck at getting mad...
I'm having a hard time expressing my feelings of anger...
I'm sensitive to other people's feelings...
I'm very careful with my words...
I always think before I act...
Even if I'm so pissed off, I put up with it...
Or is it that I'm just scared to be disliked?...
Whenever I do or say something bad, I instantly regret it then take it back...
I don't like hurting other people...
You might say I'm a such a goody...
But that's what I really feel...
I easily forget being mad anyway so there's no need to make it big...
It's better to be hurt...
No one knows anyways...

Ne, is it better to tell what you feel honestly even if it means hurting others or just keep it to yourself and put up with it???

*sighs*
This was supposed to be happy post...
What happened, Barbie?
I'll just do another post about what happened after my class...
Ja...