last time i blogged...

the rocks beneath the ocean (at shore) - so clear and clean (c2!)

mom, shoti ford, and me on the buggy kart trail around the island. :)

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been a while since i last blogged.

last time i blogged, i was not this brown, or should i say red :) hahahaha :) i've been called names like eunigra, nognog, swelato (swelling tomato), and tomato :) i had not went to subic yet and enjoyed the view grande island provided. :) i had not yet experienced the thrill in riding a banana boat (though we specifically asked that we not be tipped over in the middle of the ocean) and in driving a buggy kart :) it was really fun. i was with mom and little sister, uncle and aunt, and two of my cousins. :) it was nice to just sit down on the shore and try to skip stones with lynford. :) hahaha :) he was soooo cute! :) all of us got really red when we came back to manila. :)

last time i blogged, i had not met up with michael (emcee) to arrange some things for ama's upcoming birthday. achi rowena, achi, and me went to the philippine plaza hotel last sunday (right after i came back from subic) to get some suggestions and ideas from michael. he was nice and accomodating, letting us enter and sit down in a wedding reception of someone we don't know :) hahahaha :) but we got some good ideas from him. after that, the three of us went to harbour square to collect our thoughts. :)

last time i blogged, i was still the production manager of "the birds." i was still under the wing of our chairperson. now i'm not. :) hahahaha :) though she threatened to fail our thesis and not let us graduate, i'm still happy i have a load off my shoulders. is it even right for a faculty to threaten students that way? is it even right to curse students face-to-face (e.g. f*ck off!!! before i throw my bag to your face! and what the f*ck do you think you're doing?") and we are supposed to come from a school of class. it seems as if our parents pay our tuition to let us be cursed at. tsk tsk. wrong move for that person. because honestly, my patience is running out. she is already on our nerves. hahahaha :)

sentimentality.

(IMAGINE. 2006. SOUND DESIGN class)


was just looking at some of my friends' friendster pages a while ago. they had a lot of pictures telling what they've been up to these past few years. funny how friendster works - it's able to tell you how someone is or what s/he's been up to through a few testimonials and pictures.

it also brought me back to the past years. some friends have went abroad, some are planning to, some are still studying, some are about to graduate, some still keep in touch, while others have cut the connection. it's nice to see how different we've all become - how mature we are and how different are lives are now - but sad to know that we find out these differences through electronic pages and not through live communication (phone, face-to-face) means.

passed by the page of the person i, once upon a time, considered to be my "angel in disguise." chatted with him a few days ago. but he had to prepare for a statistics exam so didn't chat that long. it was nice getting the chance to chat with him again, even if it was by means of the internet. he's changed. he's become a person who is now my own "familiar stranger." i know that he's still the guy who i knew back in elementary - some changes here and there, but i know that he's still the same. or at least i hope that he's still the same. because if he has grown up and if he has become a different person, it is then that he will be a complete stranger to me, without any sign of familiarity.

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a month or so is left before the doors of the school will be closed. but no doors will be closed upon those who have to rehearse for "the birds" who live in cloudcockooland. it is a curse that we are all happy to be in. a web i am somehow happy to be caught in. this production is a chance to prove myself that i am worthy. it is a challenge for me to accept. but it is also a curse that will not be broken until it is executed. it will follow me and haunt me until the day i welcome guests into the theater. until then, i will not rest in peace.

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i miss my high school friends. i miss having laughs with them. i miss catching up with their lives. i miss asking the question, "what do you want to be when you grow up?" because i know that we are in that stage of growing up already. i miss playing hide-and-seek and ice-water with them. jackstones, mi pao, and chinese garter are three of the things we grew up with. i miss them. i miss time. i miss time spent with them.

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college is about to end. time is so fast. i don't know if i'll be able to graduate on time or not. i really hope i do. time is such a precious thing. money is wasted because of time (or is it the other way around).

but college... is a very precious thing for me. the people i met in college. it'll be a waste if i didn't meet them in my time here on earth. i love college. i love my friends.

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sentiments are precious. emotions are precious. tears are precious. TIME is precious.

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happy birthday to rocki ng! ( ' o ' )V

midterm week and after.

midterm week. hell week. i was practically on the verge of giving up. if you had pushed me off a cliff that week, i'd have rolled down without hesitation.

LRT incident: tuesday morning. was supposed to wear my corporate attire for the thesis proposal defense. was wishing with all my might that the car would be available and i'd have a ride to school, the laptop bag being part of my attire. and as all wishes, my wish didn't come true. i had to ride the train. as i was going to the girls' cabin, i guy spat on the LRT platform. yuck! he totally spat on the floor, and his spit was just a few centimeters away from my pant leg. YUCK! totally gross. eww...

SHOE INCIDENT: still tuesday and still the day of my thesis defense/presentation. to match my corporate attire, i wore my ever-so-loved boots. i wore the pair ever since the days of 'the importance of being earnest.' my thesis class was done. we decided to hang out at rug's to chill out, esp. to cool our minds. i fell asleep for an hour or two.. and when i woke up, my shoe greeted me with its mouth wide open. talk about being unlucky. =<>

ANOTHER LRT INCIDENT: nowadays, i hate the train and i don't know why. commuting, to me, seems so cruel. esp. when there are tons of people wanting to have a seat. the one thing that i enjoy when i ride the train, though, is that i can admire the different kinds of people i see everyday. however, it's funny when people catch you staring at them. there was this girl in black who kept on looking at me from head to toe, judging my choice of fashion (which is a flat zero) i suppose. i looked at her and she never looked at my direction again. :) but karma strikes fast. a girl in a fully designed white shirt came in the train and i couldn't take my eyes off her shirt. she looked at me and i never looked her way again. :) hahahahaha :) but really, it's nice to see how different people deal with each other. :)

least my thesis proposal presentation is over. whew! and thank God for postponing the show dates of 'the birds.' :) i might not strangle myself just yet. :) hahahaha :)

achi's gonna graduate in a few weeks already. yay!!! :) happy graduation to my achi :) love her lots lots lots!!! :) weee! :)