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!

i woke up today at about 11:30. normal waking hour. ate ida told me that we will leave for greenhills after lunch so i should take a shower now if i ever want to. so i did. ok, this is too detailed. we went to the mall with dad and did an errand for mom. we just shopped around for a bit (mostly ate ida). she got new iPod earphones, an iPod movie downloader, 2 new tops, a pair of jeans, and a perfume from bench/. she sure spent a lot that day.

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.