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woke up super early today. super early considering it's a saturday. i was so excited to go to the movies with D. but...plans change so we'll do it tomorrow.

thanks to this little falling through, my mom and i had another bonding session. our first this year. it wasn't so bad. except that i got teary-eyed. i'll allow that since this is like the first time all over again.

if you don't know what i'm talking about...it's probably better that way.

i just watched the 2006 version of The Girl Who Leapt Through Time. i learned about it when i was browsing through another person's blog. so off i went to watch it. it's pretty good. very funny at times. the ending was kinda disappointing though. i guess i'm just used to having a feel-good happy ending all the time.

back to the old regime. g'night.

it didn't take long to get organized. finally, everyone just dropped their various concerns and let loose. we hung out at daryll's house. getting there was very annoying. manila is so congested with traffic. and i had the bad luck of having a driver who is so calm and not at all hurried even if i was shooting him my most evil glares. needless to say, i got there and the good times began. belay, daryll, and i took a tricycle to their house from mcdo retiro (which is under renovation at the moment. mcdo, not their house).

everything was going normally, but an addition to our group was daryll's brother, darwin. he's very much like daryll, only in the 'little brother' form. he ended up joining us with playing around in the computer, playing cards, listening to the jonas brothers, and making cookies. if i were in his place, i would have seriously stayed upstairs and i would not have joined in the affairs of my older sister. i guess that's the difference between their sibling-to-sibling relationship and mine.

daryll ordered pizza and we pigged out. we also made cookies. darwin called them the 'mutant cookies. or was it 'mutilated'? i forget. definitely something to that effect. the cookies were good. i would say that they were definitely undercooked, but it still tasted fabulous.

we also played lots of 'Super Text Twist'. daryll was really good at guessing the longest word...

***WHAT? Ashlee Simpson and Pete Wentz are engaged! officially! i can't believe it! i didn't think they were the marrying type. somehow, i still see ashlee simpson as a teenager. i guess i missed the fact that she's 22 now. wow. this is news to me.***

ok, back to MY life. we reached up to level 40 with 120,000++ points. we rule at that game. mostly daryll, but it's really a group effort :D we also watched lots of daryll's "movies" made with Windows Movie Maker. she's really taking that stuff seriously. belay and i also got a pretty good idea of how much daryll likes the jonas brothers. she's downloaded virtually all of the songs the jonas brothers ever made. she even has a little backstory for every song. total addict. probably more than me when i was addicted to fall out boy. we layed lots of card games with their bow wow cards. i lost a lot so that just goes to show how terrible i am at cards.

it was fun day. i love that i got to see the two of them again. it's been too long, dahhlings.

next up: belay's house!

we're gonna leave for puerto prinsesa tomorrow. by 'we', i mean my parents, me, and my brother. i pray that we will have fun, because there is no such guarantee. puerto prinsesa is in palawan. we will be flying in from manila. emphasize 'flying in'. we hardly go on trips that require us to get on a plane. we're more of the roadtrip kind. i haven't packed properly yet. which reminds me. i packed my whole closet because we'll be staying there for a week. a week. that's too long to go with only your parents and brother around. i'm not excited at all, to be honest. it should be fine. it should be fine. i hope it will be fine.

yesterday, i hung out with B at the mall. just the two of us. it was so weird. it was just the two of us. i felt eerie about the sudden freedom we were given. i remember ashley tisdale. on one of the commercials on the disney channel, she was asked: when was the first time you ever felt grown up? she said 'when it was just me and my bestfriend at the mall. all alone.' yesterday, i didn't exactly feel all grown up. it was fun. we just walked around the mall and tried to decide what to do. my feet ached from all the walking so i didn't enjoy it as much as i should have. at about 5, we went back to B's hotel room. haha. that sounds a bit wrong. we watched juno on her mom's laptop. we were enjoying watching it until the laptop ran out of battery. we called daryll up in her home. turns out the hotel charges the guests for phone calls. it's Php 19/minute. how crazy is that? we didn't even realize how much a call costs until my mom asked. so we ended up just watching tv and dancing and singing along whenever a JB song came on. we also played hide and seek. B is terrible at it. the first time i was the 'it'. she didn't hide fast enough. the next time around, i hid behind the curtains. i heard B opening the closet doors. she even came close to finding me. but sadly, she didn't. when she still didn't find me, she just gave up and let me keep on hiding. i realizd she wasn't looking for me anymore so i came out. let it be known that B sucks at hide and seek.

i just went to my derma again today. had another stupid facial. it hurt like crazy. i don't ever wanna have a facial again. there are spots where she got the pus out and they left a mark. how am i supposed to enjoy my reco tomorrow knowing i have an ugly face? i pray to gawd that these pimples will vanish forever! also, please help me decide if i want to join the nashdc or not. i need guidance!!!!

i finally changed my blogskin. i've spent so many hours browsing through www.blogskins.com and i can't find a good one. thank i goodness i found this one. i really like it. i should be studying for my exams but i don't know where to start. maybe i can now that my blog is looking good? we'll see.

in other news, i had my facial yesterday. my first facial. it hurt like hell but when i touched my face when i got home, it felt smooth. weird feeling. at least for me who no longer remembers what it feels like to have clear skin. my derma said she took out most of the pus but there are still a lot left. great. my brother, however, has other ideas. he told me to wash my face with papaya soap and use magic skin powder. he says that the derma doesn't work. his pimples are gone now. but i'm not about to veer away from what my mom wants me to do. she's very controlling nowadays. humph.

we (daryll and I) pranked belay today. we told her i was absent from school. it was elaborately done and i think know she ended up being pissed off at us. i can totally understand where she's coming from. hey, i've been there too. ciara seemed to be sensitive enough not to rub it in my face how much fin they were having in school but the happiness in her voice made me miserable. misery loves company. at least mine does. i'm sure belay's misery is the same (?). isn't it enough that you're totally disconnected from school life...and then your friends decide to be biotches and pull pranks on you. tsk. tsk. haha. i'm writing this for her benefit. but it is true. great. one more thing to worry about. one more pimple on my face.

practical exams are ever looming over my head. btw, classes are cancelled tomorrow for all high school and college students. the only reason i can come up with as to why high school students have the day off is because there are some 15-year old first years out there...i dunno. i think this spells bad news because the quizzes that were supposed to be tomorrow were moved to monday.

speaking of monday, we will have our music practical, pe practical, bio long quiz, etcetera etcetera. dang. more pimples on my face. not to mention tuesday's jam-packed schedule. sigh. my music project is total crap. why can't i have the writing skills of pete wentz? no. bad example. why can't i have the writing skills of a modern-day shakespeare? the PE dance is so confusing. not to mention the fact that we're only in figure 2. thank you PE teachers. i will say no more for fear of getting expelled.

extra news on the practical exam, since we don't have classes tomorrow, the schedule's all fudged up. we now have exams on monday th 13th. that means no weekend of rest, but more studying for math and filipino. honestly! who wished for this? certainly not me. i expected to spend that weekend watching ra-ta-too-ee and the simpsons movie.

in other news, i will have another "bonding session" with my mazha. i want to forget what we're gonna do. i know its gonna be painful. not just psychological pain from embarrassment, but actual, physical pain. argh. and its supposed to be for my benefit.

aigh't bye! ;))