currently listening to: let's just fall in love again - jason castro

this morning, i woke up at around 7 because i needed to be at school by 8 AM. or so i thought. inna texted me that i needed to get to school at that time to turn over the payment for the senior's night photos to mrs. sacdalan. as i groggily looked at the time on my cellphone, i decided, it just wasn't worth the loss of sleep. so i buried my nose on my pillow once more and told my mom (who had come to make sure i was up) to come back at 8 instead so i can get to school by 9. after asking me about the sudden change of plans (which i answered with a grunt and an "eh, ganon eh") she left me in peace.

i got to school at around 9:10 and found a few of my classmates hanging out in front of our classroom. the teachers weren't around yet, apparently.

i saw sam and asked her to come with me to complain to ms. martha about the error in my OS gift. the note inside (signed by the principal) held someone else's name and that bothered my mom terribly. ms. martha was in the middle of a meeting or something so we had to wait a while. when the meeting was done and she was walking over to us, i realized the total stupidity of what i was about to ask her to do for me. i managed to stutter my complain and she totally got on the phone immediately to fix the mess. she sent me to the library where the note will be replaced. that was so nice of her. she truly is one of the nicest people i have ever met. the kind of person who is always happy to see you and the person who will listen and try to help you out as best as she can. she's a keeper, that one! i dropped the book off at the library and they told me to come back next week to get it since they still have to get the note re-printed and re-signed. they actually seemed apologetic about it and when i told my mom that, she was thoroughly pleased. see, we argued about it the night before. me, saying that it was ridiculous and we should just let is slide. and her, saying that the gift didn't mean anything if it wasn't my name on the note. geez. she told me to go to my adviser first (i highly doubted that my adviser would really do anything about it. the possibility that she would just scoff at me and my concern was high.) and then to the office of the principal if that didn't work. thank heavens for ms. martha. huge burden off my shoulders. i'm gonna claim it on monday since i have to be at school anyway for the usherette rehearsal for the undergrad's recognition day.

so i finally get to the classroom and my adviser immediately asks for the list of those people who haven't paid for the senior's night photos yet. i'm glad she was left in charge of that one. makes so much sense too. i hang for a bit with my classmates and then the card distribution began. i gotta be honest. not happy with my grades. especially trigo. friggin' 85! how am i supposed to survive college math with that? and eco was bad news too. 3 points lower! really, sir? so unfair. okay. maybe i did get low scores on the LQs but, c'mon! i recited so much more! pshh. maybe it's better to be good on paper than on the recitation thing. hmmm. definitely better to be good on paper. or else, strike a balance between the two. music and physics both decreased by a point. and the rest, i must say, is good news! on the comments part, it said:

really? that doesn't sound much like me. but i guess i'll take it.

i ordered form 137 for college without really knowing what it's for. apparently i needed another form, 138 this time. goodness. we're not robots you know! you can name the thing! i went home and started the routine that scares me most because i fear it's what i'll do all summer. eat, computer, tv, eat. i even baked these effin' butterscotch brownies! arghhhh! help! friends! classmates! invite me to all the gatherings! please! save me from boredom and all those fattening food!

a'ight. bye for now.

stitch 'n bitch!

currently listening to: makes me happy - drake bell

the last day of summer has finally arrived. i am pleased to say that i have been spending this day productively (until now, anyway). went to mass with the fam, had lunch, shopped at national bookstore for some last-minute school stuff, and had a haircut.

i'm not super happy about my haircut. actually, it's not really a haircut. it's more of a trim. i'm not pleased with it cause it seems (to me) like a total waste of money. i mean, i had a haircut barely three months ago. bit extravagant, no? oh, well. no use crying over spilled milk. but i still feel super bad about it.

in other news, i still have no idea what to bring tomorrow to school. you'd think i would know by now, after the dozen first days i've gone through. i called up a friend to ask what she would bring and she answered, "a few notebooks, my wallet, a big filler, and coloring materials". makes sense, right? i'll just copy what she's doing.

she already knows who her class adviser is. (drum roll please) ms. tsaby! i didn't really think she'd be following us into the fourth year. other recurring teachers are mrs. blanco, ms. ilano, and mrs. miranda. i bet there are more surprises in store for me tomorrow. i can't wait.

song of the moment: I'M NOT GONNA TEACH YOUR BOYFRIEND HOW TO DANCE WITH YOU by the BLACK KIDS :)

ahhh, so long sweet summer.

disclaimer: there is a part of me that likes to take vain photos. it's coming out now.

i got a new haircut!

how does it manage to look like my last haircut?


at least it's better than my hair for the past week:


also, my braces come off on Monday.


i had it on for 11 months. sigh.

you've been in bed too long if your blanket is stuck on your brackets when you wake up.
i'm so glad i can sleep until it's noon.

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!

today is may 12 which means its my sister's birthday! HAPPY BIRTHDAY! she's in gen san right nw to visit a friend of hers who invited her over. i already called her on her cell to greet her this afternoon. she seems to be doing fine and having the time of her life. tomorrow is mother's day. the second sunday of may. i don't really have anything special for mom because i don't have the necessary funds to go all out. so i'll just have to go with the traditional yet heartwarming present...a card. i hope she likes it. haha.

i got back from puerto thursday night. it was really fun. we swam on the beach a lot, ate a lot and got to know each other better. this is addressed to my cousins. i am definitely more comfortable with them. we joke around a lot. its cool that i'm finally talking to them. and i thought kuya jay was the only one they'll ever be talking to.

we got a dvd-rom. the reason? i wanted to play sims life stories so badly. its fun but it takes up a lot of memory space. i'm really enjoying it. i have also finished the 1st and 2nd season of entourage. there's a whole lot of swearing and things that aren't exactly PG-13 but its very entertaining. i just fast forward when things get a little R-rated. i still feel terribly guilty when i watch those things and i just know that if anyone was around, they'd tell me to stop watching immediately. but the thing is, no one is around. cel is the only one i have for company and she doesn't tell me off. XD.

i'm slightly sad about the fact that fall out boy kicked off their tour tah-day. i hate the fact that other people will get to see them and i can't! stupid honda civic tour! and what's more depressing is the fact that they end the tour on july 2. my birthday! actually, because of the time difference, it will be on july 3. but who cares? i still won't get to see them. and by the time i do, i'm guessing that i will be so over them. this is insane because i know that they can come to the philippines. i know for sure that lady sovereign has a lesser chance of coming here because i don't think she's that popular with the locals. oh well. ghodda jump!

hello world! i'm back with an all new chapter of this amazing record of my life. i haven't posted in a while. probably because i don't enjoy blogging as much as i used to. no doubt about it, there are a lot of interesting things going on in my life but i just didn't feel the need to write about it as i normally would have. so, what has been going on in my life?

well, my violin lessons have started. i go to this class with 3 other people. 2 girls and a boy. we're all pretty much the same age. all of us are complete beginners. even if i might have had a bit of a headstart. but they don't know about that. XD. also, i am also into cross stitching. my pattern is, drum roll please, a violin. haha. i have one track mind, no? i'm nearly a quarter of the way finished. not much, haha. what else am i up to? that's about it.

i also watch a lot of TV shows. i've seen ugly betty, entourage, heroes, lost, house md, among others. weird, huh? ahhh...not really. i plan to take badminton lessons. that's why i got new shoes. how horrible am i? i feel really guilty about it. but what's done is done. i'm also interested in taking those power memory classes. the kid on the advertisement said that before he took those classes, he didn't believe he could be a valedictorian, but now he is. pretty convincing ad, don't you think? so what's going on with the other people around me?my mom is busy as usual. dad is in calapan right now. ate heny just quit her job at pecabar but she has already applied and got accepted at a new lawfirm. i can't really delve into the details coz that's her career. kuya jay has review sessions coz his board exam is only a month away. we're all glad he's studying. ate ida just got back from puerto. she went with her friends. she is my TV buddy. what she watches, i also watch. can i help it if i think she's really cool? ysabel is also taking lessons in UP for piano. she also has this AHEAD thing to improve her already undefeated math skills. daryll is busy with her guitar lessons with the QB. that's about it. i got you updated on most aspects of my life.

i don't think i've mentioned this yet but I LOVE FALL OUT BOY! their songs are awesome! you remember lady sovereign? i was her biggest fan until i found out everything there is to know about her. so my obssession subsided. i stopped visiting her youtube pages because i've already seen everything there. i stopped going to her website because i already know all about it. i fear that the same thing will happen to my obssession with fall out boy. i already know all about them. so my interest is waning. i don't want that to happen but i feel that it will eventually. i just have to keep holding onto it until a new obssession comes my way. its sad, really. :(

so, news. channel 22 is no longer MTV. MTV got moved to channel 57 while 22 became DZMM TeleRadyo. the booth where they do all the talking is now televised. how useless is that? its meant for radio. so radio is where it should stay! its not meant to be televised, f'gosh sakes! in other news, i really wanna change my layout. i don't like this one anymore but i can't find anything i like. hopefully someone out there makes a skin that is perfect for me. ok. enough for now. i'll post again soon, i hope. =)

its been a while since i last posted. last month to be exact. haha. basically because there's been nothing to write about. i have a boring life. another reason is because my family and i went to baguio for the holy week. yes, the whole family. there has been so much stress on my part because i just want the whole family to go but mom and kuya jay threatened to not go. ahh well. everything turned out great. we went sightseeing, ate loads of food, took 3 naps a day, and ate more food. oh yeah, we bought loads of stuff too. i got two more new shirts. haha. i luv shirts! we stayed at baguio pines garden villas. it was a'ight. we had two rooms, living and dining space, and a kitchen. there was cable tv too. haha. can't do without the tv. =) we took tons of pictures everywhere we went because we have an awesome new camera. its olympus and its just so kewl. what else? summer classes are starting soon. ahhh. i'm taking violin lessons just coz i'm the only one who is. but i like it. i really wanna learn but i don't think i'm gonna be part of an orchestra or anything.