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simply because this journal is half-crappy D:

i have another lj account, and i might be posting there more. just tell me if you want to keep in touch with that journal. :D

but i'll still be keeping this. just gimme some time to clean up.

Photo taken from shinigamitabris's lovely Junon scans. :3

NEW LAYOUT. Yaaaay!~ Clickie please.

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Because I have a digicam now :3, I was able to get shots and videos of our neighbors' fireworks. I'll upload them in the future. XD

Happy New Year, everyone.

Just wanted to greet everyone "Happy New Year!" in advance.


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[x] Just got home from Ayen's 18th birthday house party. Ayen seems happy with our little surprise for her. I'm glad :D Aww, she got teary-eyed during her 'speech'. Haberdei, Ayen. Love you ;3 (Man, my high school classmates are still as crazy and gossipy and loud as ever. Aaaand, that issue came up again. I thought it wouldn't come up. Thankfully, some people helped brush the talk away. Hahaha. Thanks guys.)

[x] ^ That got me thinking about how I'll be celebrating my 18th birthday. I don't even want a house party. I don't like being the center of attention that way. Besides, my birthday falls on enrollment week. I just want a normal day occupied with lining up for whatever I need to line up for, eating something unhealthy (I bet it'll be pancit canton, siomai, and a bottle of C2) and replying to birthday greetings sent by SMS. I wanna debunk that stupid 18 hype.

[x] Is that pimple under my lip? I've been picking at it and it hurts. Ow. But it's not all red and swollen; just slightly pinkish.

[x] I might actually buy a digicam soon. HOORAY! \o/ Let's pray for the Lord's favor! ^~^

[x] There's a lot of academic stuff to do. The outline for our geography report and the data for my Lingg121 project must be organized tomorrow. :D

[x] I watched The Nativity Story on Christmas Eve, and from that night on I began to appreciate Joseph more. I thought Keisha Castle-Hughes's Mary was kinda solemn, but still, her solemn face is excellent. And OSCAR ISAAC as Joseph is <3.

[x] Plurk is cute, but a hassle to maintain. The deal with karma irritates me. XD And I finally got the dancing banana icon!

[x] Those Japanese web graphic sites are really nifty. I wish I could offer stuff like those too. Pentacom's Stickypaper and Pdiary software are cool too. I just wish I could understand how to use scripts on Stickypaper.

My beat-up high-cut Chucks (Converse sneakers). I bought it from my dormmate's rummage sale a year ago for only 250Php. A pair would normally cost 2000+Php, so I grabbed it right away. :D

One: Schoolwork over the holidays- a linguistic survey thing for Lingg 121 and report preparation for Geog 1.

Two: New SanoMeg one-shot! :D It's the first one I've published in five years. Click HERE to read it!

Three: Learning more and more about Photoshop and icon-making. Experimenting with exclusion layers and color burn right now.

Four: Having trouble with theninja-rpg.com. I FORGOT MY USERNAME AND PASSWORD ALREADY!

...I'm going to:

[x] catch up on sleep.
[x] clean my room.
[x] spend some quiet time with God.
[x] eat as often and as much as I can.
[x] look for clothing pieces I can use for my upcoming kodona outfit.
[x] re-read Because of Winn-Dixie, read Half-Magic and Miss Hickory (no, I am not joining the Twilight hype like some people XD)
[x] visit my cousin and her baby in Pampanga

IWANTANEWLIFE.x_x

Currently doing Lingg130 paper. LAST ONE!

Today was a really tiiiiring day.

My leg muscles feel like they're in tangles.

O________O

And I'm sitting in front of the computer, downloading really kawaii desktop wallpapers from these sites.

How productive. XD (But seriously, the wallpapers are great. Check 'em out!:3)

Stuff to do for This Weekend
[x] ArtStud1: art review (San Pedro monument)
[x] Lingg120: written report
[x] Hapon101: study for first long exam (!)

GAAAAH. I'm deaaaaad.

I look myself in the eye
There's no one there.

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I want to make a video of Rooney's When Did Your Heart Go Missing?. So go download the song somewhere, listen to it, and help me with this project! :D

I'm ballistic about Lifehouse's Make Me Over.

It is only in the privacy of the shower cubicle that I have the courage to sing. But now I'm singing out loud, over and over. That's never happened before and I think that's pretty good proof of how I adore the song. The chorus has been my LSS the past week (it's the only part of the song I remember from the concert ad) but now, Make Me Over is my new official favorite song and LSS.

Had I heard the song before I went to their concert last Saturday (YES I DID!8D), I would have sung at the top of my lungs when they played it.

I don't usually post song lyrics (I don't think I've ever done that, for that matter) but this song just wins me over. Jason Wade is excellent in this song.


Make Me Over
Lifehouse

Wrap my arms
Around your name
Feel your breath
Against my pain
As I breathe out the past is gone

Empty smile
Naked heart
Who I was
Falls apart
When you're here inside of me

Feel till you're numb
Depth perception becoming
The new deaf & dumb

I'm losing myself just to find a place in your mind
In your mind
Changing myself just to stand alone in your eyes
In your eyes... pull me in
Take me out
Make me over

Read the wave
Ride your fears
In this ocean of years
We've been here, swimming on

Take me deep
Till I find
Every corner of your mind
We've been here, swimming on

Touch till you taste
All the time we are wasting
Alone, waiting here

I'm losing myself just to find a place in your mind
In your mind
Changing myself just to stand
Alone in your eyes
Your eyes...
Pull me in
Take me out
Make me over and shout me out loud
Shout me out loud

Important announcement!

I now know how to balance myself on a bike.

Sort of. XD

I taught myself last Thursday using my blockmate Jeva's bike. It happened between 2:30-4:00 pm on the bike lane in front of the Faculty Center in UP Diliman. XDDD I'm still wobbly though, and I haven't learned how to turn yet. Ahaha.

There were two street kids who chanted, "Hindi marunong!" ("[She] doesn't know how [to ride a bike!]" or something to that effect). In my mind, I went, "Oh great. Just what I needed." They kept on bugging me because they wanted to borrow the bike. I started out nice and told them that the bicycle wasn't mine, and that I needed the bike more than they did because I had to learn how to ride it. Later I found myself irritated and telling them to please leave me alone. XDDD

I survived without any open wounds. All that I have is this ugly bruise near my right knee because the pedal kept on hitting it. Oh well. A badge of honor. XD

That's pretty much it. My life's not so hectic compared to the lives of my two best friends (tokwastiks and choco_eclair). Health care courses are really... O_O. I sometimes wish that I was busy, too.

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20 Minutes of Manhood. Do you guys know that I dressed up as a bridegroom last week?

There's this Japanese-inspired air video contest going on, and my blockmates nijiblade and elaineheartsyou decided to join. They chose to do a music video of Yubiwa by Ellegarden.

So they needed two guys and one girl. Now our block only has two boys. Should've been perfect, right? But no, Mr. Rosero is too busy for such things and couldn't be part of the cast. So Kalei volunteers to be Guy No.2, who happens to be the one who Girl marries. XDDD

My being a bridegroom lasted for less than half an hour. My blockmates said I looked gwapo, even more than Guy No.1. XD That's a compliment, truly it is. It feels so good to beat men at their own game. XD

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My English is deteriorating. I think I should start posting in Taglish.

i became a year older two days ago.

T_T

I can't sing Sixteen Going on Seventeen anymore! But it's my namesake's signature song!~ T___T

Then again, my sixteenth year was meaningful, so I don't regret leaving the age of sixteen so much.

I entered a new phase of my life (college), faced a community different from what I grew up in, stuck my first year out (and I plan to stick the next three years out, thankyouverymuch), met some of the best people in the world, learned how it was like to live with 50something other girls in one corridor, survived living on unidentifiable dorm food, encountered God in a way that shook me out of my old cycle, saw His awesome grace and power in many different ways, got to know myself a little better... I wish I could write it all down, but I can't XD.

Seventeen sounds more sophisticated that sixteen does. XD Is it because there's a magazine called Seventeen? Is it because sixteen has a 'sweet' label attached to it? I honestly don't know. O_O But seventeen does sound more sophisticated to me. Maybe because of the number of syllables...? XD

DID YOU KNOW THAT PRINCE CASPIAN OPENED IN THEATERS ON MY BIRTHDAY? ♥

Other things:

(1) I'm enrolled! (I finished enrolling on my birthday. On purpose. XD) I skipped PE this semester because i took it during the summer, and I didn't want to wait in line under the searing heat of the sun on my birthday. Sorry XD
(2) I got into Sampaguita Residence Hall! (HALLELUJAH I HAVE A DORM!) I checked in today and finally found, in the list, two Kalai batchmates who are in Sampa too. My corridor is just like the First Floor Girls in Kalai, dark even in the hot hot hours of noon. O_O But it's a bit dreary. T_T
(3) I went swimming yesterday. In Jed's Island Resort in Calumpit, Bulacan- right on the border of Pampanga. I didn't like the place a lot, but what's important was that I was able to go swimming. It's already June, but it's still summer swimming nonetheless. AND I GOT TANNED :D

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This might be my last post before I go back to being a hermit XD. See you around, lovelies.

I've forgotten what a beautiful movie Anna and the King is. Chow Yun-Fat is... utterly amazing. *A*

AND TOM FELTON PLAYED LOUIE? I didn't know that until today. But I recognized him at once. A good actor, that kid. XD And he worked with Chow Yun-Fat at that tender age. OHMYGULAY. And he saw all those beautiful mountains in Thailand. *A*

I loved the movie the first time I saw it, but I love it even more this time. Jodie Foster and Chow Yun-Fat dancing in the last scene... *A* That was just... heartwarming. *sigh* And I cried when the king's little daughter died. T~T

And let me just repeat how I adore Chow Yun-Fat. I am going to have one of those fangirl fevers (as I did when I first watched Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Phantom of the Opera a few weeks ago. Can you believe it? That's how un-updated I am.)

You know, seeing all those Thai clothes in the movie:

(1) made me wonder how it would be like if we still wore traditional Filipino clothing today. Traditional clothing looks so elegant, don't you think?

(2) made me feel proud of being Asian. I was looking at the clothes of the king's advisers and I was like, "These gentlemen are wearing Thai silk. For everyday use. Wow."

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Anyway, summer classes are over, and summer itself will be over soon. I'm trying to make the most of the remaining days by cleaning up my room and meeting up with friends. XD I haven't gone swimming at all T~T but I have visited my relatives in Pampanga. That's the farthest I've gone this summer XD

Btw, stretching is the best PE class EVER. I had so much fun with you guys :3

Wow wow wow.

Only one and a half weeks to go and summer classes are over.

A few days more, and summer vacation would be over.

ENCOUNTER!

I didn't come home last weekend because I attended the Women's Encounter held by Destiny Ministries International - Manila.

I dunno about other people, but I guess one thing about being raised in a Christian home is that you sometimes tend to take God for granted. You get used to hearing things about God so often but you never really get to appreciate it because you've heard it a million times. I mean, you know God loves you, that He died for you, that He's holy and mighty and awesome, but you never really feel that passionate about it. Well, I didn't.

But the Encounter really opened my eyes... or it gave me eyeglasses, rather. I got saved two years ago on May 12 (which reminds me, my birthday is coming up!) but I haven't really grown in faith that much. The Encounter... it's really something. It makes me excited to wake up everyday. You know how exciting it is when you know someone loves you? In this case, it's not just someone but Someone, and He loves you soooooo much!

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"The deal isn't really about who you are, but whose you are."

One week down. Five more to go!

I can't believe it. To me, this week seemed horribly long. I spent most of my afternoons sleeping. O_O I borrowed Ate Lei's copy of The Alchemist, and after I finished it, I was left extremely bored to the point that I threw a boredom tantrum. XDDDD

Summer classes. I forgot to mention that I'm staying at Kalai again, and I share a room with Tasha in the BA. (BA stands for Boys' Annex, because way back, it was part of the boys' wing. Now it's occupied by girls.) The walls are actually painted. *0*

Chem 1 is going pretty good. We didn't have class for three days because our professor had to go to a seminar, but she finished the scheduled topics for the week (unlike a certain professor I know >.<"). Ma'am Ramos' English is quite good, and I like her sense of humor. But the class can get a bit boring at times because it's so early and we students are still in a post-sleep daze most of the time, so most of my classmates are quiet and don't react/don't notice our professor's jokes. O_O

And have I told you that I got a PE class?! It's not exactly the class I wanted (futsal or Philippine games), but I'm having fun. :D I prerog'd (read: asked the professor personally for permission to be listed, not enlisting online) for it with two new friends, Sunshine and Erin ('Erin' is a girl's name, but my friend Erin is gay). Yes, all we do is pretty much just... stretching, but it's a small class and our professor (who was also my professor in arnis!) is so easy to get along with. We laugh a lot in class. XD And Ma'am Peneyra is teaching us to do that belly wave thing (you know, like what macho dancers do XDDDD).

So yeah. Lately, Lalet (my dormmate) and I have been going to book sales and yearning for those lovely lovely pages. T^T I seriously want to read more of the classics. Hmm. Maybe I should make a reading wishlist? I'll make a separate entry for that. :D

Enough about me. F-list, how's your summer going? :3

I hate being the one to scrape the food bits off the plates after eating. The chore by itself wouldn't really be a big deal. But our container for biodegradable trash is a small, old plastic ice cream tub sitting in a corner on the floor, so you have to squat to throw the food bits in. Then, once you manage to remove the dirty lid with your fingers, that disgusting smell of all sorts of junk come at you. My parents and my sisters probably wonder why I don't speak while throwing the trash. That's because I hold my breath.

Manila Ocean Park.

It wasn't so wonderful that I went crazy over it, but it was pretty fun nonetheless. It was like seeing the pictures in the encyclopedia burst into life. XD The giant crab was, well, gigantic! It was fun to see the real-life Nemo and Dory. (The clown anemones were smaaaall.) The razorfish, those little creatures who swim vertically- they're definitely amusing. AND THE STING RAYS! Did you know that sting rays look so graceful? Or is it just me?

My favorite part was the touching pool. I actually touched sea stars/star fish! I remember that there were chocolate chip sea stars (nice name eh?) and blue sea stars... I forgot the name of the other kind of sea star.

Sweet Lolita. My interest in the lolita fashion is tickled for the first time since i dun remember when.

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I want a Canon A590 IS.

Mmmm.. excuse the ruddy sentences please. My mind's blacking out XDDD

Einstein reunion. Hmmm... I wasn't exactly active but I had fun. Too bad the organizer, Mica, wasn't there. And Sheryl and Hani and Bea were not there T_____T. And you know how some reunions really don't have an organized program? Some were playing on the Capcom arcade thingy, some were in the videoke room, and some were just plain clowning around. We mostly just camwhored because the recreation room was good background material. XD Made me wish for the umpteenth time that I had an SLR.

What else? Going to the Manila Ocean Park OR (if the Ocean Park is packed) the Science Discovery Center @ MoA tomorrow with my mom and eldest sis. Possibly my last "outing" for the summer. Boohoo.

Until then.

ohmygulayican'tbelieveisurvivedonewholeyearinupdiliman

Mush.

To the head-turners of Kalai, my dear floormates: Here's what I have to say- don't explain. XD Because there's no need to describe what the fifty-six of us went through. I absolutely LURVE you, guys. ♥

To the members of N-4, my blockmates: Gah. I had so much fun with all of you. I don't know each and every one of you so well, but it's great that we're a relatively tight bunch. A lot of you are shifting out; that's pretty sad for me, but I respect your decision. See you around ;3

Erm. Starstruck moments.

I saw Ate Jin Joson last March 25. I was running after my Kom2 research partner and there she was, sitting on the floor and drawing something. Aside from the fact that I had to catch somebody XP, Ate Jin looked busy so I didn't bother her. I saw her again, walking down the corridors and looking for something/someone(?), and finally I decided to speak. Our convo went something like this (could you actually consider it a convo?):

Me: ... ... ... Hi Ate Jin!
Ate Jin: *looks surprised and confused* Hi!
Me: Um... cosplayer. (referring to self. Notice how utterly fuzzy my statement is.)
Ate Jin: *nods an "Ooooh, okay" nod*
Me: *does not know what to say, so abruptly ends convo* ... bye!
Ate Jin: Bye!
Me: *runs off nervously*

So there. WHY AM I SO FULL OF SHAME XD I know what you're thinking- it was rude of me to not introduce myself. I'm so sorry. Hiya struck me.

Summer classes.

Subjects I'll be taking:
Chem 1 (because i missed an MST last semester) - 7:00-9:00 AM
(hopefully) two PEs - sometime later in the day

More serious stuff.

As I'm on a struggle to know myself, I'll be asking for testimonials. I just want to know what my F-list thinks about me. My personality, my strengths, weaknesses, anything. Please? Your comments will be greatly appreciated. ^-^

.HIATUS.

Leaving the internet for good for who knows how long. I know I've tried doing this before and it didn't work, but now I'm really going to take a break.

( Reasons? Click here. )