currently listening to: hot mess - cobra starship

i haven't posted a real post in such a long time so i promised myself i wouldn't do anything on the computer until i do. so here goes.

upcat experience - what can i say? it isn't even over yet. there's still the results part which won't come until february 2010. i'll comment about it then. it's too soon to tell how i feel about the whole thing. obviously, i really don't want to have evidence of my thoughts when the results don't turn out like i want them to. risky business.

mrs. cory aquino's passing - check out the pinoy tumblrs out there. i pretty much share their sentiments. as a matter of fact, i share the general population's sentiments. no futher explanation needed.

TLE cooking - it was really fun and it was the first time i was totally at ease in the cooking room. i had a lot of fun with my groupmates. ms. paragas said that our pork steak was delicious. however, when she gave us our grade earlier today, we only got a 93. hmph. so much for having a "masarap" dish. i was really expecting that we'd get a 95 or something.

saturday classes - it was the first time, in a long time, that i got to school really early. that is attributed to the absence of the grade school busmates. the day consisted of 3 periods of economics and a whole lot of other things. it really didn't feel like a half day. what with the amount of info we had to take in.

exams - can't comment on this yet either since not all of the results are out yet. i generally felt good about most of it. which probably means i'm just setting myself up for disappointment.

acet application - my mom submitted my acet app last week. i feel really bad that i put it off for such a long time. the essay was the only thing holding me back. this just goes to show that one of the most effective motivators is time pressure. my sister and my mom read the essay and commented and edited. gawd. i hope they read it now. i poured my heart and soul into that thing. yeah, that's right.

birthday celebration - celebrated it yesterday with the group. just the same old thing at yellow cab. watched the big bang theory with sam over at her place. good sitcom. if i ever get a chance to celebrate halloween, i will totally wear the doppler effect for a costume. but only if there are judges and a prize. haha!

anyway, i hope you're caught up with my life now. it's pretty boring and pretty sad. oh yeah, we had our computer exam earlier today. i think i got everthing done. best exam evaaaarr!

btw, i totally need to change this layout. everyone's on tumblr now. blogger forever! haha!

everybody's who's online in ym is doing their book report. i'm proud to say i'm finished with mine. excellent work, i must say. the drawings suck but that's coz i'm no artist. advice to those people in ym still doind their homework...sign out! you'll never get done if you constantly check the status messages of everyone else online.

i still have to practice my song for the music project tomorrow. i got the lyrics down and the melody is down pat. the only problem is the singing and playing part. why on earth am i such a talentless bum? people constantly ask me what i would do in a talent show...and i smile and say nothing. good god! i need to find a talent. god! how can you have overlooked me? anyway, singing is easy enough. i actually wouldn't be worried at all if not for the playing the piano part. do we really have to do it both hands? if not, then i'm totally set.

i am such a materialistic person. i want so many things at this moment. it really makes me wish i have tons of money that i can do whatever i want with. i want to win the lottery by buying just one ticket. gawd. it's never gonna happen is it?

i hate being with the debate team. it really doesn't matter if they kick me out. i'm not having fun. it used to be but it's just a farce now. i learned a lot though. thanks.

school is almost over. nooooooooooooooooooo!

udpate:
current food addiction: snyder's of hanover
recent movies seen: jumper and the spiderwick chronicles (all in one day with my dad at gateway)
recent accomplishments: finished book report
recent failures: math long test, music project
newest friend: bien from the stc-marist interaction (he's a professional ice skater...what does that say about him?)
recent fights: none
newest purchase: puma hoodie
new favorite band: jonas brothers
new crush: nick jonas
favorite song: just friends

ugh...still have to read the effing kangkong

volleyball
i spent the last two afternoons practicing volleyball. my arms went red. but my cheeks were even redder. it doesn't feel very good to know that you're not good at something. especially when you're forced to do it. if you know what i mean. my classmates were very helpful. especially sam, micah, and lek who were really patient and willing to teach me. it means a lot. i still suck but it's really good to have supportive and encouraging friends. we have phys ed on monday and we're supposed to play volleyball. it's a friendly competition but that doesn't mean it's informal. i'm pretty sure it's graded. my arms went very close to falling off this afternoon. hopefully i can pass pe this quarter.

outstanding

"fourth quarter is the most important quarter of the year. serving it up gary's way!" - me

the grades are about to be given out. good god. i really hope i make it into the list. if i don't, then i have absolutely nothing going for me. gotta be fantastic for the fourth quarter. can't mess around no more. haha.


palihan
we went to binangonan, rizal today for our exposure trip. it was kinda like lakbay kalikasan but it just wasn't as fun. i had a great time on the bus. daryll became my seatmate. it was fun. when we finally got to the fishing village, it was what could be expected. smelling of fish, fishnets everywhere, water everywhere. bettina's group took our host family so we had to go look for another one. it had me stressed for a while but it turned out okay in the end. the woman was really nice and understanding. unfortunately, she knew nothing about fishing. all i got was that she wanted to buy a boat (that is all their own) in the future. good luck to you. i was really hesitant about eating there because the are smelled of wet dog. i managed. haha. the trip back home was really eventful. i got to experiment with belay's and daryll's hair. it was all me. i made them look good. too bad they didn't have the creativity to do the same for me. the mindless dolts.

dentist
my mom finally had my tooth checked out. turns out it was impacted. that means its fully grown inside my gums but it won't come out because the tooth beside it is blocking its exit. i need braces and surgery to be able to correct it. grrreat. also, i have really bad gingivitis.

that's it for now. gonna watch wheel of fortune (pinoy edition).

today is the start of the mission month. which also signals the prayer month. yes, its october. i need to find a rosary right about now. anyway, the whole homeroom period was devoted to standing up and praying the rosary. i couldn't complain. it's for God, and Mama Mary. after that, we immediately had our english period. quiz about the exile of rama and the lion-makers. had 3 mistakes. darn. maybe i could still get a high score if i perfect the essay part. i sure wish i do. filipino was more of florante and laura and more forced recitation. math was hard as hell. i hate solving age problems. whatever happened to communication and just asking people how old they are? i suck at math. music came next. i was a bit nervous, considering i am the second one to take the practical exam. it wasn't so bad. i got 97%. not bad. considering i just made that melody 10 hours prior to the exam. pe was less than fruitful. i sure hope we get everything together. i doubt we'll win. everybody doubts we'll win at this rate. good luck to us, though. double science was extra difficult because we had to do it in the CAI room. i'm beginning to dislike CAI room for its inflexibility. then again, it is made or exercise purposes, not class discussions. there's the MPR for that. talk about flexibility. i kinda regret not joining idea 1 anymore. my classmates expected me to be there. oh well, there are tons of other competitions left. maybe i can come to some of them? i dunno.

i've been on my toes for most of the week because new things just keep popping up that i don't exactly know about. it wasn't that hard keeping up but it hasn't been easy (cough*computer*cough). the week is over so let me recap the highlights. on tuesday was the giving of papers. i am an os. yay for me! evryone was kinda expecting someone else to make it into the list and didn't even consider me a possible contender. that kinda sucked but i have something to show for it now. i do hope it continues. it would be horrible if it didn't. preparations are being made for idea 1 already. really? no break? i'm not that keen on going since it is two weeks before the exams...the ideal time to start studying. i won't miss it though since it happens over the weekend. sigh. i want to go but i feel that i'm not nearly good enough to be competing with those people. with circumstances like mine, good lord. i'll be having people over for tomorrow coz i'm part of the decorations committee in the parent-daughter bonding thing. its supposed to be fun. hopefully i can sort out my room in time. it looks like I lives there. which is true, but not good. we'll also be making a movie with pictures of us with our dads. i have quite a few but i don't look smashing in some of them. i've narrowed it down to two. but i'm leaning more on picture A because in picture B, i'm holding a knife...so..hey...i'm slicing vegetables. i cook with my dad, awesome! i am expecting guests so i need to tidy up, gotta go! so many more stories to tell, so little want.

hi blog! i know i've been dormant for (what i feel is) more than a few decades. accept my apology because i simply have no time in the world left to post in this blog. between debate training, homework, late mang anton, there is no time left! let me just speed this up.
july 2 - my birthday! we had a family dinner consisting of dad's famous meatloaf, spaghetti, cake and other delicious things...which i cannot remember.
july 4 - 1st PALIHAN. we didn't do much. just played games to...uhh...encourage team building
july 7 - birthday party! we had our neoprints, bowling, movie and dinner! fun, fun, fun! forget the hole it put in my mom's pocket. bowling is fun if you're winning, it sucks if you don't hit a single pin. the neoprints are cool! i'll be sure to scan them soon! the movie was great. a bit anti-climatic but still awesome. shi labeouf seems to be getting hawtter.
july 8 - saw live free or die hard with my dad, kuya jay and ate ida. definitely a dick flick. but it was cool. the techno speak was a bit confusing. my dad said it needed more action. yeah dad, i bet it does.
july 10 - kuya jay's birthday! we had another family dinner consisting of pansit, lengua, etc. debate training extended until 6:00 and i had dad pick me up. super chaos! in the end, aimee ended up hitching a ride with us, we had to pick up ate ida at jolibee araneta, we had to buy pansit for kuya jay (his request), adn we had to go through all this in a storm! happy birthday kuya jay! have a good one!
july 11 - i had to skip debate training for this one (tuesdays & wednesdays) because i want to watch harry potter and the order of the pheonix at gateway. ate heny got me tickets. i had to finish all of my homework and leave at 6 to beat the traffic. we made it on time, thank god, and i got to watch it! yay! it was great but it wasn't non-reader friendly. those who haven't read the book might be a bit confuzzled.
july 14- integ seminar at ateneo. seminar on debating. it was beyond boring because i already knew everything. waste of my 50 bucks. had fun with kate though. enjoyed sir alvin's debate stories. had a mountain dew float at KFC. do not try it, its 'orrible!
july 18 - pre-selling of fall out boy tickets. gawd! i need to get my grimy fingers on them...pronto! fall out boy concert is on september 21!!! ahhh! can't wait!!! my dream has come true! my prayer has been answered! thank you, oh, thank you!
july 20 - today! not much has happened. belay is still at home with 'lagnat'. get well soon! she's been absent for 3 days. count how many quizes she's missed. haha. stuck with daryll -- cheesy fries-less. sad. tomorrow is the deathly hallows release! OMG! i finally get to read the ending of a saga! i'm part of history! must get my hands on that book...and quite possibly a box :)

just a quick rundown of what's been going on in this cursed life of mine.

on june 11, i forgot to mention that we went to see ocean's thirteen at the gateway cinemas. the popcorn was awesome...oh, so was the movie. it was the first ocean's movie i've seen so i had to read the plot of the previous movies to be able to understand what the hell is going on. i read it on wikipedia, by the way. just sharing :)

on june 12, can you believe it? we had school! that was the first time that there was school on june 12th. that's probably the reason why very few people attended the yearly celebrations. their fault, their loss, their problem.

june 13th, ate ida went back to school, more homework, just the usual school stuff.

june 14th! my last day as the secretary of (then I-4) II-4! how can it end so soon? i was a secretary for 3 consecutive years f'gosh sakes! how can i just leave it without me feeling so empty?

june 15th! election day. halecx got voted for chairperson, sam g. for vp, arianne (ack!) for secretary, kaisel for treasurer, and ysabel for YPMO. bettina and carmina got picked as PALIHAN representatives. to be totally honest, i think arianne doesn't deserve to be the secretary. she just won because she's the popular one. i really think lourdes or even micah deserves to be class secretary more than her. okay, i'll be totally honest, i feel that i should still be secretary. who can handle it better that i can? i have responsibilities and i still managed to be an OS. good luck, arianne. i want to see your report card for the previous year. let's see if you can juggle both school and being a secretary. harumph! as a consolation prize, i got to be the OFFICIAL REPLY SLIP COLLECTER with daryll. ugh. that sucks major ass. its amusing, to be sure, but that doesn't get you in the leadership camp now, does it? yes, darling, i'm very bitter.

daryll also bailed on our plans to do the computer powerpoint her in my house. her mom didn't let her go which i think is complete and utter bogus. sure, daryll is all math whiz and everything, but the girl cannot make a good presentation. or write one. snap. i cooled off and we played badminton. it was fun. i think i'm a natural. a real natural at failing. but with more practice, i bet i'll be better than my sister. haha. i really wanna change my layout now. i'm just not feeling it. dang. i hate june the 15th!

june 6--the first day of school. i barely got forty winks in. in my head, i was thinking 'finally, some shut eye. just as that thought entered my head, my alarm went off at 5:00 am. i was like, 'wtf?'. so that day being the first day, i got up and blindly made my way to the bathroom. i wasn't quite used to the morning rituals that i had mastered just months ago. so i kept asking myself, 'what's next?'. i got to school and, as instructed, ysabel was right there waiting for me. haha. we got in tons of laughs the whole day. so it was fun.

the next few days were horrible. i had a huge pimple on my forehead that i am sure everyone could see. what's worse was, it was picture day on tuesday so that just made the situation worse. on the third day we had our year level orientation. i hope i get my reciting skills back tomorrow. i think ysabel, sam and a few others got a few points ahead of me. i'm very confused about certain situations. do i run for class officer? i really don't want to be anything else but the secretary. that's the only position i feel sure i can do. i am also very confused about the SEG i'm gonna join. debate looks like fun but i don't want to be all alone in there. among all the scary fourth years. nothing else really interests me. please, god. help me decide.

i've been listening to magic 89.9 during the evenings. listening to sexy time. i know that it is not exactly GP but its the radio so everything is mostly in blankets. fall out boy is merely a dream for me. sighhhhh. hung out with daryll and ysabel last saturday. just watched harry potter 1. did i already write about that? i think so. gawd, i am so forgetful. just before school began i had a sudden urge to learn about HTML. i could have done that during summer. but nooooooo. it had to ignite when i was just turning my back on the computer. just like most things. i have to go now. not really but i want to go now. even though i could sit here and write for hours on end. (arl) don't mind that. i want to make sounds. sometimes i want to say a letter so badly that i make up sounds to satisfy that craving. weird, i know. but that's just me i guess. i just listened to amy winehouse's song 'rehab'. its addicting.

i haven't posted in a little over a week. mainly because i've been busy (ehem) and the internet was shot. we got cut off because dad forgot to pay it (he's getting old). smartbro said that it would we back in 24 hours after payment. so dad paid for it and we tore ourselves away from the internet for a while...not the computer though. remember, there are other things to do in the computer that go online. after almost 3 days, hallelujah, the internet is once again up and running!

ever since my last post, what have i been up to? well, i went to enchanted kingdom on the 20th with my canadian cousins and my two sisters. it was so much fun! we went on every ride except those rides for kids only with a height limit and the swan ride. and i mean every ride. for the first time, i rode the space shuttle! can you believe? my back hurt like crazy afterward especially the nape part but it was all right. i kept my eyes closed throughout the ride and my head bowed down which probably caused my aching back. i didn't exactly know what to do since it was my first time on the ride so i'm taking down notes to improve my next ride on the space shuttle.

on the 22nd, i sent in a text message to kelly at magic 89.9. on the first text, i just wrote "can you please play thnks fr th mmrs by fall out boy? thanks! -andrea". and so i waited around for her to play the song and mention my name on air. well, she didn't play the song but she did greet me. she just sort of said my name in passing along with the other people who texted in. that was cool but that just didn't cut it for me. so itexted again. this time i texted "can you please play with love by hilary duff? any chance you'll be giving away harry potter tickets in the near future? will you please greet my best friends ysabel, daryll, and sam? thanks ms. kelly -claire". i made myself sound like an 8 year old because it seems like kelly likes kids. well, she did greet me and my friends, addressed the question of the harry potter tickets and told me that with love was no longer in the play list but she will try to find it. her words (as i remember them) were: got a message from claire asking with love by hilary duff, that's not in the cards anymore but i'll try to find it for you. will we be giving away harry potter tickets anytime soon? well if we had harry potter tickets i'll be keeping them for myself! (laugh) claire wants to greet her best friends ysabel, daryll and sam. oh, no worries, claire." so that's the story of my radio message from kelly!

on the 23rd and the 24th was the idol finale! they both "did their thing" and was really impressive. i liked what simon (or was it randy) said: its a battle between the singer and the superstar so we can't really tell. well, JORDIN WON! i was kinda rooting for her but i really like blake. i just hope that blake will be more successful. i dunno. i want jordin to win but i want blake to succeed. i hope the latter part comes true because the former already did. also on the 24th was my violin lessons. it was only for an hour so i didn't feel like i learned anything but i'll be coming back on the 31st with vengeance for my poor performance on this day. i just have to perfect #9 and 8. so to do that...i have to practice. i haven't been doing that..hehe

on the 25th was Yan-Yan's birthday. we just had a big homemade dinner for her and they went to a comedy club after. i couldn't go because there was bound to be some dirty jokes. pshh..as if. when they got home (about 2 o'clock) they didn't look that satisfied. turns out they went to Zirkoh and there was more singing than joke-telling. too bad. they should have gone to punchline...not Zirkoh. on the 26th they took off to go to tagaytay highlands. kuya jay didn't come with them. i wouldn't have taken his place because i'll just feel awkward. and the fact that i was only a sub didn't exactly entice me. i was supposed to go in the event that kuya jay couldn't come but they didn't wake me up. i bet mom had something to do with it >.<

on the 27th my dad and i went to san simon, pampanga to check out a car that he was getting tricked out as a funeral service car. it was the benz that we used to drive around. shame. and the van that we are now driving around has now been turned into yet another funeral car. i think dad is showing me the ropes coz he wants me to take over the funeral business. ack! no way in hell! after that, we went to TriNoma. the new mall near SM north edsa. its huge and so beautiful. its an ayala mall after all. about half the stores remain unopened but so many people are already checking it out. that mall is officially my new favorite mall. so there.

today, the 28th, i went back to STC to get the rest of the stuff i need for school. i also drove around with my dad to find those dang acrylic plastic sheets that just can't be found. it took us about 3 hours to find it. thank gawd it wasn't a minute more or i would have gone spoiled brat on my dad and made us go home. nahhh...i would never do that. not after he just bought me Php2000 shoes. got it at hush puppies in trinoma :) hihihihi...haven't told mom about it yet. she'll freak! so now i have 2 days to perfect my violin skills. i hope i do get it done. so many events just keep popping up. so many things to do, so little time...have i mentioned school starts on the 6th?????