the perils of

Sendong

2012-01-08T21:52:00.000+08:00

It's weird to be writing again after the tragedy that was Typhoon Sendong. My Auntie Lilit and my cousin Alex died in the flash flood; they were two of the thousands of lives taken away by the typhoon. And now I don't really know how to proceed. Maybe here's how. December 17 I found out about the typhoon through Facebook, of all things. I called up my mom, and even though it was about 5 AM,

blood donation infographics

2011-12-13T23:13:00.002+08:00

My friend Mariel asked me to make a poster containing blood facts for Bloody Heal (a play on "bloody hell," if you didn't notice), the Health Sciences Society blood drive. It was a really bad four days for me, what with my laptop and its perpetual lagging, but here's what I have to show for it. Copied from http://iamhealthsci.org: See you on Dec.14-16 at the Colayvo Pavilion.Know more about

watching movies

2011-12-01T20:04:00.000+08:00

Quick post, since I've got a quiz to study for that's five chapters long. I've been watching a lot of films lately that I've actually been able to sit through. I must add that this is quite an accomplishment for me, since I've never really been able to finish films. Sometimes I space out and miss some important bit of story. Sometimes I just get bored and stop watching. I know, I suck. Here is

Photoshop

2011-11-19T17:03:00.002+08:00

Yay! Things are finally happening in my life again. Monday For my PE (swimming) we had a diagnostic test to see how many strokes we could swim. The diagnosis was done individually, so most of the period was spent waiting for my turn with the teacher. It was pretty awkward in the beginning, since it was the first meeting in which we would actually get to swim (the previous one was spent on

Sunday

2011-11-13T14:37:00.003+08:00

I don't have anything interesting to write about today so here's a gif that I made for LFC, and for the love of Big Fish. You know, sometimes, so little happens in my life that I wonder if it's even my life I'm living in, or someone else's. Someone more exciting, more entertaining, and with more depth than me. I wonder whether I really am the main character of The Aimee Show. For all I know, I

bullet point Saturdays

2011-11-12T20:03:00.001+08:00

NSTP re-orientation at eight in the morning with the entire Health Sci batch! :) And Lafi! n_n Went around the photocopying places in Ateneo to get readings for stuff. GRAHHH photocopying is so frustrating, and I'm not even the one doing the actual copying. Lunch with Jeth, Jules, and Cheryl in the caf. Jules actually opened up a little of himself to us today. Checked out a unit in Berkeley. It

dorms and Dogz

2011-11-10T23:11:00.001+08:00

This morning was rather... uneventful. My first (and only) class of the day was at 1:30, so I was free to spend the morning tagging along with Rap as he went about fussing over his ID picture. We went to the libe and bumped into Jules. Serendipity! The three of us then had lunch at JSEC. (Tip: Get the Dynasty Meal from the Great Stall of China! You won't find a better deal in Ateneo!)

fancy chocolate!

2011-11-10T00:06:00.001+08:00

Arrived early for P.E. class this morning with just the best surprise ever waiting for me at Manang's. Thank you Tita Tet! :D At 10:00 I went down to the swimming pool behind the covered courts. It's a very very lovely location for a pool, tucked away where the school becomes a forest. There were only nine of us in my class. Amazing. The last time I was in a class that tiny was for Chinese in

S05E01 - "First Day of Classes"

2011-11-08T21:21:00.001+08:00

I did some mental counting in my head and I decided that if each semester I've spent in Ateneo were a whole TV series season, then this one will have been my fifth, and today will have counted as Episode 1. But I should probably cut back on the TV series analogies. My life isn't nearly as interesting as Christine Campbell's. (That may or may not be a good thing. I don't know.) Woke

trivial things

2011-11-07T20:38:00.000+08:00

Before I start talking about... uh, whatever it is I was planning to talk about, here are some pictures that I should've blogged about sooner: "IT IS DANGEROUS TO GO ALONE! TAKE ONE OF THESE!" This was taped to the huge periodic table of elements outside a classroom in Schmitt in Ateneo. At first I thought it was a Zelda reference, but after looking it up just now I'm not so sure about that. It

really short posts

2011-10-30T19:07:00.001+08:00

Hi. I know it's sem break and I have absolutely no excuse for my absence online, but I wanted my "official" sem break post to be one with pictures from all the awesome stuff my blockmates and I did after the finals. So far not a lot have been uploaded, so I won't talk about that for now (but if you're really that interested in those events, give Rap's blog a visit). Sem break isn't as

Musikero

2011-10-02T16:15:00.002+08:00

IT'S HERE! It's finally here! It's that Sem-Ender promo vid that Rap, Jules, Dino and I made! Go check it out (and have a look-see at the original too: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a2iZ0nlpgkM&feature=related). ALSO: "MUSIKERO presents OPM Night" Last Friday evening, Cheryl and I performed for Musikero's Open Mic Night at the Aerie! We called ourselves "Wine Bottles" (a reference to this

being busy

2011-09-27T08:06:00.001+08:00

So I told myself that I'd keep writing in this despite all the work I have for school, BUT IT WAS AN EMPTY PROMISE. Sorry. Allow me to explain. I've been doing editing work for the Health Sciences Society, as well as for a new YouTube channel that will (hopefully) be updated weekly. (Click to go to our latest episode.) (EDIT. THAT'S A WRONG LINK! CLICK HERE FOR REAL!) HEALTH SCI MAJORS!

Vigan

2011-09-11T17:31:00.001+08:00

(Warning: post contains many, many pictures. Click to enlarge any of them.) I'M BACK! :D My posts are getting less and less frequent, I know. WELL WHAT DO YOU EXPECT. I do have a life outside the Internet, you know (just kidding. I really don't.). Anyway, I had one of the nastiest Chemistry tests of my life last night. One of the worst feelings in the world is not knowing the answer to a

religion, and possibly oversleeping

2011-08-27T01:39:00.000+08:00

Why am I not asleep yet? It's 12:30 AM on THE first Saturday of the school year I'm going home. And NSTP (I think that stands for National Service Training Program) will kill me when I have to wake up later at 6. What is up with NSTP anyway? The whole system is crazy. We're allowed only 9 hours of cuts, and already I've got 4 hours worth of cuts because I was late twenty minutes for the first

ASMPH

2011-08-24T12:52:00.001+08:00

Can you spot me in a sea of tired future doctors? (click to enlarge) Went to ASMPH last Saturday after a tiring NSTP session at Gawad Kalinga in Caloocan. Did you know some political figure has the slogan, "Tigilan ang KALOKOHAN, aasenso ang CALOOCAN!"? Anyway, ASMPH is so beautiful. Top-notch laboratory equipment. Quality faculty members. Only the freshest of corpses for the anatomy lab.

hiatus

2011-08-23T21:00:00.001+08:00

Haven't posted in a while. I haven't been in the mood to write anyway, since I've been devoting most of my creative juices to a super secret film project that I really hope will be done by next week. Oh God. I'm scared. I hope we win.

dreams

2011-08-12T00:30:00.001+08:00

I realize how strange it is that I never actually wrote about the things I wanted out of life in this blog. I guess it's because up until I saw this video, I never really thought about it. I was always so certain of my future as a doctor, as an oncologist, but seeing how I'll still be stuck in med school while people like those guys in the video are off travelling and seeing sights and meeting

half-baked posts

2011-08-06T23:47:00.000+08:00

Here's a story for you. It's a rather self-centered one at that, but maybe you could derive some amusement out of it, because in this story (as in many others), I am a freak, and people do love their freaks. So it's a story about my eyes. The thing about my eyes is that they are the color of the ocean after a storm. KIDDING! Like most other Filipinas and Filipinos, my eyes are the color of the

parties

2011-07-21T22:46:00.000+08:00

Before I start to rant any further, please take a minute and a half to watch this awesome Fiamma Fresh Fridays trailer made by the awesome production team of Loyola Film Circle using "over 4,500 shots" (I'm assuming that they're talking about "shots" as in, pictures). Go watch. Fiamma Fresh Fridays Teaser from miguel gutierrez on Vimeo. I love the video. I love the soundtrack. I

blogging when you have a post lab report due in four hours

2011-07-19T13:59:00.001+08:00

How's this for frequent updating, huh? :D Okay, yes, I have something better to do at the moment (a post-lab report which is due in five hours) but I figured I'd take a break from... whatever it was I was doing before I wrote this (procrastinating) to update my blog. (If I am putting off procrastinating does that mean I'm doing work, or slacking off even more?) Not much has happened since my

blogging as procrastination

2011-07-17T18:10:00.000+08:00

Goodness. Why do I always get the urge to write at the most inconvenient of times? (Tonight's answer: I just wanna put off reading the Sociology and Anthropology handouts.) Anyway, I just got back from the LFC Doc & Pub Committee General Assembly. There was so much sushi. Too bad my chopstick control is sub-par. u_u Today for Bio we spent an entire hour watching a documentary called Endangered

having so much work to do

2011-07-07T21:46:00.001+08:00

Being a sophomore entitles you to one thing: the right to bully freshmen. Yes. You heard me. If you are a second year student, you have all the right in the world to look down at those in the lower batch, and scoff at them, and mock them, and make them feel inferior to you. Go ahead, Sophomore. You've earned it. I am, of course, kidding. Nobody has a right to bully anyone. Except

first few days of school

2011-06-26T18:34:00.001+08:00

Man oh man it's been six days since my last update, which wasn't even a real update. Anyway check out these pictures that I totally neglected to upload! Look at that. Look at all those awesome pins I collected from the events I went to! They're from the Health Sci Society, Loyola Film Circle, Gabay, and the SOSE Sanggu. Sad thing is, apparently I forgot to take them down from the inside of my

updating just for the sake of updating

2011-06-20T01:46:00.001+08:00

What am I doing still up at 1:38 AM on a Sunday night? Watching videos of chinchillas on YouTube, that's what. Chinchillas rock. I've got a lot of things to write about so I definitely do not have a shortage of stories to tell right now. However, I am running quite low on brain capacity, so I think it would be wisest to tell you these stories another time (maybe later on, before I study for

hong kong and freshmen

2011-06-13T02:18:00.001+08:00

Prat Avenue. Our hotel was right across the lingerie bar that didn't make it to this photo. Just got back from Hong Kong. Woohoo! It was the first time I've ever actually been anywhere outside the Philippines, and what an awesome first time it was. I don't wanna go into the details right now, because a lot of what happened was stuff I doubt you'd be interested in (but if you are interested in

being eighteen

2011-06-05T03:54:00.002+08:00

1:47 AM. My body clock has conked out and probably my grammar and coherence are gone as well. Maybe this is why majority of my blog posts are strange and nonsensical - because they were written at one in the morning. Does this make me a morning person now? Lolsies! (Kidding. I never say losies. Ever. I swear. Please believe me. Please. Please?) All lameness aside, so much has happened since I

some pictures of summer

2011-05-22T14:58:00.003+08:00

I guess you can tell by the frequency of my posts that I have quite a lot of spare time on my hands now. And I just found out that I got exempted from my Psych finals! Woohoo! Now I have even more time to kill before my flight home next Thursday. I wish I didn't have to wait. I wish I could go home tomorrow. After all, I don't need to stick around for finals week anymore. I really miss home. And

idle time

2011-05-19T18:43:00.001+08:00

Tuesday Woke up to one of the nicest "good morning" messages ever (mainly because it involved me not having to walk to school). Breakfast at Cervini caf! Cheese hotdog and an egg with a nice cup of hepatitis to go n_n Psych fourth long test @_@ THE LAST FIL CLASS I WILL EVER HAVE FOR THE REST OF MY LIFE OMG (Kids, take Ma'am Miclat-Janssen for Fil 14. She's a one-of-a-kind teacher,

the last few days of summer (class)

2011-05-18T00:38:00.003+08:00

Hi! It's been a while. I've been pretty busy. You see... Last SaturdayI attended a meeting led by the Council of Organizations of the Ateneo (literally the "org of orgs") re: RecWeek details. (RecWeek is short for Recruitment Week (I think). It's the period of time in which you get to sign up for the different orgs. [Here's last year's RecWeek!]). It was the first time (in college) I'd ever

change

2011-05-12T19:48:00.000+08:00

I like to think that I'm rather open to changes. As a kid I had always thought of myself as adventurous. Look back on things, however, I realize that I wasn't quite as daring or audacious as I would've liked myself to be. For instance I remember how strongly I protested when my mom gave me chocolate milk that was a brand other than my favorite (it was Sustagen. My old favorite, that is).

2 I

2011-05-06T21:09:00.000+08:00

a floor plan of my new room (things not really drawn to scale). click to embiggen

looking in the mirror

2011-04-30T16:02:00.001+08:00

I just watched the "Born This Way" episode of Glee and cried buckets. In the ending number, each glee club member wore a shirt that said what they hated most about themselves, and then I got to thinking that it must have taken a lot of the actors themselves to appear on television with these insecurities printed out for everyone to see (like Lea Michele, who wore a shirt that said "NOSE").

JULES' BIRTHDAY

2011-04-28T01:20:00.000+08:00

IT'S 12:57 AM ON APRIL 28TH! YOU ALL KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS RIIIIIIIIIIIIIIGHT I'll tell you later. What I will tell you now is what I've been up to lately, which is, of course, all I ever talk about on my blog (hooray for self-centeredness!). Monday Arrived in Manila in time for my first class of the day! Tuesday For the first time in ages I slept properly (i.e. went to bed at 9:30 [after doing

thoughts and feelings

2011-04-22T18:39:00.001+08:00

Sad: This.Sadder: The person who said "MY LIFE. :>"Saddest: That this got 39, 299 notes. I'd like to believe that the greater portion of the population of teenage girls (maybe the girls who aren't on tumblr) have a lot more on their minds than the pressing issues mentioned in the graphic. What a depressing world we would be living in if this was all we ever thought about eh. I remember what

summer updates

2011-04-20T08:53:00.000+08:00

Sorry about not writing as much. I haven't been updating the Folio either, even though Cheryl, Jeth, and Sir Unsay have been doing wonderful, wonderful things on the site. Anyway. Friday-Sunday I had a formation seminar (formsem) with the Loyola Film Circle (who shall henceforth be referred to as LFC)! Wooooo! We went to a resort in Calamba, Laguna. We talked about the org and I

first of summer

2011-04-12T21:03:00.001+08:00

See the title? It's a song by Urbandub that I like! It's not a song I want playing over and over on my playlist or anything, but it's one of those songs you have resesrved for special occasions. I listen to it when I am nostalgic and I think about little moments in high school. Now I sound like my dad. Anyway, I thought of this song today because... Well, it's the first day of

the day before summer classes start

2011-04-11T13:52:00.001+08:00

Look how vain I've become. You can now Like my blog on Facebook, but it's not a fan page or anything. Ooh, technology. Anyway, I had an awesome weekend. Saturday marked my parents' sweetheart anniversary, so we went out to celebrate by eating at Butcher's Best! If the name of the place doesn't sound all that romantic, that's because it isn't. It's always full of people, and there isn't a lot

nail polish

2011-04-07T16:32:00.000+08:00

Guess who just got punished for wanting to get a little girly. Earlier I found this nice little bottle of glittery, electric blue nail polish lying around in the room, and without thinking I smoothed it on my fingernails. For minutes afterwards I thought the effect looked pretty cool, but then it just started to looked really gross and unnatural. So I soaked a cotton in what acetone we had

start of the second season

2011-04-05T17:16:00.003+08:00

Guess what just happened on my blog yesterday! ABSOLUTELY NOTHING! Sooooo let's all just pretend I posted this a day earlier and say HAPPY FIRST ANNIVERSARY TO MY BLOG! Woohoo! *cue self-congratulating little dance* \:D/ Just a recap of the minimal activity that's been going on here: Last post, I asked you what song you would like playing at your season finale if your life were a TV show. I

a delayed season finale

2011-03-31T01:14:00.001+08:00

Hello blogdom! I'm back, after a long, lazy hiatus. Finals week was crazy, but you don't really need to know about the gory details of my Math and Chemistry exams. However, this might be more interesting to you: Dear friends, may I present to you Eng/Lit M02, my English block, with our teacher, the elusive Mr. Max Pulan. This was taken after our rendition of Nick Joaquin's, "

coffee

2011-03-23T01:33:00.000+08:00

Lesson learned: drinking coffee the night before a 7:30 exam = bad idea. I can't sleep na hinuon. Yeah. Little bits of Bisaya have been finding their way into my conversations lately. "It's like this man gud." Maybe it's because I've been thinking so much in Bisaya ever since I wrote my paper about language last Saturday. You heard me. I actually did some work over the weekend,

writing bad poems instead of good ones

2011-03-20T12:59:00.003+08:00

I got really vain and decided to look up my name on Google, and I found this very sweet and very old entry from my schoolmate Sandy's blog: You know why I couldn't study tonight? I was too eager to surf the net and search for Aimee Capinpuyan's blog - I've heard she's sensational! I did try to review my skills in Math Proficiency but when I got to question number 16 or so I gave up and just

Chemistry

2011-03-16T07:06:00.001+08:00

Short post, since I'm taking a break from cramming Chem things that are "not useful in everyday lives" (our teacher's words, not mine) to write and to breathe and mostly to distract myself from the fact that if I wanted to get an A on this test, I should've spent four of my past Saturdays in the library, reading the crumbly old Chem books that our teacher so loves to peruse. Nobody

summer plans

2011-03-13T19:01:00.000+08:00

I found out yesterday from Alessi that our last exam is on the 23rd! (Yeah, I haven't gotten around to checking the March calendar yet.) My flight's on the 26th (with Gerard!), so that gives me three extra days of ~COMPLETE IDLENESS~ woohoo. So anyway. I'm really excited to go home. It's just two weeks though, and after that, TWO MONTHS of summer classes. Which means I'll have to fly all the way

not counting the reasons i should stay

2011-03-12T22:31:00.001+08:00

Right now, I can feel only two things: disappointment and exhaustion. I'm disappointed in myself for not having worked harder, and I'm exhausted because... I'm working harder to make up for my laziness? Nah. If I were, then I wouldn't be blogging right now. My forehead would be resting on a Chemistry book instead of parallel a laptop screen. Anyway, I cannot sleep until I update this thang, so

perils

2011-03-11T19:50:00.000+08:00

There was a tsunami in Japan today. Tsunamis are expected to hit other countries later today as well. I was at rehearsals for our Lit play earlier when I heard the news. My friend asked me, "Hey Aimee, what province are you from again?" "Cagayan de Oro," I replied. He consulted his laptop and then turned to me with a grim face and said, "Cagayan's on the list of provinces expected to be hit by a

free tiemz!

2011-03-09T23:19:00.000+08:00

WOW. I haven't posted it two weeks! That must be a personal best. Or a personal worst. I'm too lazy to check. Anyway! On with the show, eh. TWO WEEKS AGO... HEALTH SCI NIGHT! Me, Rap, and Jules in the foreground, while Issa (drums) is somewhere in the shadows. :)) Our vocalist Miah isn't in this picture. We played "You Give Love a Bad Name", and we sounded all right (you know, for a first). At

BEING REALLY EXCITED

2011-02-25T16:30:00.000+08:00

I HAVEN'T BEEN THIS EXCITED FOR A WEEKEND SINCE... Well, since the first weekend I went home. Which was some time in July. Later, my family's flying to Manila just to see me! AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH I CANNOT WAIT OH MY GOSH. And then there's Health Sci Night. And the band thing. And my God my heart is pounding with excitement. I CANNOT WAAAAAAIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIT

unproductivity

2011-02-22T21:46:00.000+08:00

I've got a ton of things to work on tonight, but thanks to my short attention span and my inability to commit myself to doing one task at a time, I shall blog! Hooray for unproductivity! Just a quick narration of the day's events (because I can practically hear my partner for my Filipino paper drumming his fingers on his table in impatience). I stayed up late working on a comic

debuts

2011-02-20T20:32:00.002+08:00

Last Friday was my high school classmate Jenica's eighteenth birthday! She's the first person in our class to ever have a debut. You can imagine how sad it was for Jason, Karen, Michael, Joseph and I to have to miss out on the celebration because of class (and expensive plane tickets), so we shot a video for her as a surprise to make up for it. Yeah, it's that "friend's video" I've been talking

wanting to do one thing but then chickening out and doing another thing

2011-02-19T21:26:00.000+08:00

I'm back! Now, where did I leave off? Oh yeah. Wednesday I stayed up until 4 AM, thanks to the annoying errors in Adobe Premiere that kept popping up whenever I tried to export the file as a .avi. If there's one thing I learned from my previous experience editing videos, it's that if something can go wrong, it WILL go wrong. (And in hindsight, everything I had expected to fail did actually

post V-day blogging

2011-02-15T17:55:00.001+08:00

I'm writing from the libe right now, and this will be a short one since I'm just killing the time until I get my lab notebook back from... uh, being duplicated. Valentine's Day was yesterday, and I spent most of it with my beloved block. We had a picnic over at Cervini Field. There was delicious food (gummi bears! lime-flavored nachos! Alessi's wonderful chocolate wafers!) and beautiful music.

time management

2011-02-13T13:33:00.002+08:00

Oh boy. I've got a lot of things on my plate this week. And, thanks to my amazing time-management skillz, I am devoting an unhealthy amount of time and energy into the least important thing on my To-Do list: making a video for a friend. Gahhh. I've got a four-page paper on Philippine signs due tomorrow. And then there's secret practice. And then a Fil paper about Maximo Oliveros.

going places (literally)

2011-02-07T20:29:00.005+08:00

Super long weekend! Woohoo! A lot of my dormer friends actually went home. While I would've jumped on the first plane back to CDO had I the opportunity (and the great amount of strength that jumping on planes requires), the weekend in Manila wasn't too bad. Saturday On an impulse, I paid a visit to Cafe Xocolat, the inconspicuous little shop right across Box O' Rice, a few

tikoy and books

2011-02-03T20:06:00.002+08:00

Happy Chinese New Year everyone! :D It feels weird having done nothing especially Chinese today, other than eating yummy tikoy courtesy of the amazing Tin (who, by the way, would make a totally awesome sophomore Executive Officer for SOSE)! I remember last year, Kong Hua School (my alma mater) went all-out for Chinese New Year. There were free dumplings, egg rolls, and tikoy! Red-and-gold

the Bagong Silang XX-posure trip

2011-01-30T15:52:00.003+08:00

Yesterday, Block XX had its required INTACT (Introduction to Ateneo Culture) exposure trip to Bagong Silang, the largest barangay in the Philippines. Because we're Health Sci majors, yesterday was only the first of numerous visits we're going to be paying to Bagong Silang as part of a five-year partnership with Gawad Kalinga aimed at improving the health system in the barangay. Our

earning 10 points for Ravenclaw

2011-01-27T23:05:00.001+08:00

It's been such a lazy week. Just a quick recap of all the events that have transpired: Sunday, Jan 23 I told myself I'd get to watching (from start to end) the movies my friends have been so kind to give me copies of. So I watched Tokyo Godfathers and Black Swan. I thought both movies were genius (don't I feel like AC now). Lesson learned: In the future, it is best to have friends

posts that are bitin

2011-01-22T14:53:00.000+08:00

I was reading Rap's blog (<--- that is a link, go click it) and I was reminded of a conversation that I had with him and Jules yesterday, on the way to Ken Afford. See, there was supposed to be this huge street party over at the Ateneo dorms, but it was raining buckets so we ended up not going. The dormers, however, made the most of it by tossing away their umbrellas and partying in the rain.

a normal day

2011-01-21T23:40:00.001+08:00

I really haven't been in the mood to write lately. I don't know if it's some brain chemistry thing associated with the weather (they say cold weather causes a chemical imbalance in the brain, making people sadder), but I've just lost the urge to type out the entire proceedings of my day for all the strangers on the Internetz to see. However, upon the prodding of certain friends (hi, Rap and Andy)

that awkward moment when you don't know which college to pick

2011-01-18T10:37:00.000+08:00

Hello, incoming freshman who visited my blog thinking that this post would be about the 2011-2012 ACET results! (You're partly correct in thinking that anyway, so give yourself a pat on the back!) It looks like you're at that junction in your senior life where all the entrance exam results of any Philippine college that matters have been released, and you find yourself in a happy, confused

the night before the ACET results

2011-01-14T23:27:00.000+08:00

The weekend's here at last. It's been a really tough week. Bahh, how generic-sounding. I'm not satisfied with anything I've been writing lately. I think I might be going into blogging hibernation. It happens at least five times a year, when I somehow lose the urge to write. Anyway. Tonight, I actually read a book. :O I feel a lot smartyer lolzzzzzzzz Kidding. Tonight was quiet night for me and

untimeliness

2011-01-14T13:23:00.002+08:00

I know that there's a million better things I could be doing right now instead of blogging (on a Friday afternoon prior to two huge exams at that), but my writing impulses have been coming few and far in between lately, so I just thought that once the moment I felt like writing arrived, I would seize it. And now, despite my unpreparedness for my two exams, I'm writing. . . . Then

new layout

2011-01-06T19:58:00.002+08:00

I thought my blog was getting a bit boring, so I decided to shake things up a bit by changing the layout. What do you think? I personally enjoy the darkness and the simplicity of my new theme. Check out the classy white border around the header, reminiscent of the Renaissance period. The picture of the Grim Reaper sitting atop a pile of skulls is also a nice touch, don't you think? It is

another night before another flight

2011-01-03T19:02:00.000+08:00

Hello, dear reader! This is me attempting to make conversation with you! *smiles and waves Hi!* So... *cough* Uh... *awkward pause* How have you been? *polite smile* :) Me? Oh, nothing much. *small chuckle* Internetz. Food. You know, the usual! *shrugs* *weird silence* Okay. *shifty eyes* Well, talk to you later then! *forced smile* *waves Bye!* . . . Sorry. I'm procrastinating. Please allow me

pre-pizza party pensiveness

2011-01-02T01:41:00.000+08:00

Hello, my five readers. I swear I've got a New Year's post in my Drafts box just waiting to be published, but I thought that tonight I'd defer from that; something else came up that I want to write about. I'm going to be seeing my high school classmates later (pizza party at my house! U jelly, Block XX?), and by "later", I mean after I finish writing this, getting some sleep, cleaning the house,

To-Do for 2011

2010-12-31T01:20:00.000+08:00

Oh, 2010. You went by so quickly. You filled up so many diary pages. So many things happened. And so many people came into my life. And I shall miss you. Without further ado, here is my to-do list for 2011: Things to do: Asian poses with Larz! (hello, summer of 2010) Check out the block of cement near Shell, Katipunan where a crazy guy writes social commentaries every day FINALLY SIGN MYSELF

Christmas

2010-12-28T02:15:00.003+08:00

According to my laptop clock, it's 1:08 in the morning, and here I am, online and sprawled out on the bed in this very awkward and highly uncomfortable position, writing a blog entry and balancing my laptop when I should be asleep and dreaming about nice things that are preferably unicorns. Run-on sentences are becoming my thing. 2010's coming to a close. I would like to make a

the gang

2010-12-22T21:17:00.001+08:00

Rejoice, blogdom, for our friend Jason has rejoined us tonight! (Click this to go to his blog!) He wrote this really long(-winded) blog entry about how his year went, and I most especially liked the paragraph in which he says lovely things about me. Hahahaha! Pasted below is the portion of his post in which he describes me and our other wonderful friends. You need not read it (you probably don't

the night before my flight

2010-12-22T20:13:00.000+08:00

blog. blog. blog. blog. blog. blog. blog is to me as;sklrj;klsdffasdjksfdkl; Jessica says I should CAPITALIZE the first letter of every sentence. And I'm like, "Why...?" This culture of blogging escapes me. As I look around at the table, I notice the feeling of superiority that accompanies typing on a laptop while everyone else does other dumb stuff. Whatever it is they're doing. Absolutely

the last weekend in Manila, 2010 edition

2010-12-19T20:55:00.000+08:00

I have done absolutely nothing today. I repeat. NOTHING. Nothing productive, that is, except maybe tidying the room up a bit. My things are no longer invading my roommates' desk spaces, and all the dust bunnies I've been nursing since the start of the sem have been set freeeee. What am I still doing in my now dustless dorm room when it's so close to Christmas and I should be at home with my

dormitoryana

2010-12-13T20:23:00.001+08:00

So this was the scene earlier in the dorm. Architect de Guzman, the man who founded Dormitoryana, passed away last Saturday. Today, a Mass was held for him right in the dorm lobby. I never knew the guy personally, but he must have been a lovely person to have created such a wonderful home for us probinsyana (and city) girls. I love my dorm. I know what I said about it being a terrible place to

atheism

2010-12-12T22:10:00.003+08:00

So I was scrolling through the posts on my Tumblr dashboard, happily eating some coffee caramel ice cream (detail relevant), when all of a sudden I see this:"People who don't believe that God exists are worse than Evil. Even Satan himself knows that there is God." So I guess that atheists are evil, subhuman creatures now because they have views that are different from our own. Wow. Your

friday night incoherence

2010-12-11T00:56:00.002+08:00

The following events are the main constituents of my day: Cram-wrote the introduction and conclusion of the first draft of my research paper today. :| It sucks so much it puts black holes to shame. Attended a Gawad Kalinga talk for Health Sci majors with most of the block. I know now that I made the right choice in choosing Health Sci and in coming to Ateneo. And, hey. Is it me, or did the

2010-12-11T00:05:00.001+08:00

Thank you so much dear God for my family and my friends. They make me so happy, I just love all of them to bits. All of them. Thank you.

Under the Stars

2010-12-04T10:12:00.000+08:00

Okay, last night was one of the best nights of the year. SRSLY. I'm still a bit hungover from the awesomeness of last night (and this morning) and I'm too lazy to write coherent paragraphs. So instead, I will resort to the greatest thing ever invented in writing: bullet points! Oh, but before I do, I guess I should take the time out to explain about Under the Stars for the benefit of the

finishing a novel

2010-11-30T00:01:00.002+08:00

Guess what. I'VE FINISHED MY NOVEL, THAT'S WHAT! (Evidenced by the full green bar on the right side of your screen. 101%! Hahaha!) Here's what the inside of my head is like right now: IMAGINARY INTERVIEWER:I heard you finished your novel in under a month. That's impressive! ME: Thank you so much! I put a lot of effort into it. CONAN O'BRIEN:Tell us again what your novel's about. ME:Um... It has

Twillight is BETTER than Harry Potter!!1!!@

2010-11-25T19:14:00.001+08:00

OMG guys stop saying that HP is better than Twilight lol u so dumb lolz~ u bettre juz stop it rofl So guys hears my resons y Twillight is more bettre dan HP,,,, pls enjoy reading and share it w/ ur freinds lol~ ~*EdwArD CuLLeN*~ is teh BeST bf ever,,,,, his so HOT!~~!!!1~! And he loves' Bella more than everything. See how he ~*wAtChEs~* her go 2 sleep every nite,,,, omg so freakin' CuTe :))))))))

random MS Paint thing of the day

2010-11-21T18:40:00.001+08:00

If I had to pick a book genre I'd have to stick to writing for the rest of my life, I'd definitely pick children's literature over anything else, because in a kid's book, anything can happen. Dogs can talk, trees have faces, and Harry Potter is real. That drawing you see above is the result of a little experimentation with the new features of MS Paint, and of course a little extra time. (Halfway

SATURDAY FAIL

2010-11-20T20:48:00.005+08:00

I forgot the PAWS volunteer orientation was today. Instead of signing myself up and learning the ropes around the Animal Rehabilitation Center, I spent the whole day in my dorm, playing Pokemon Leaf Green on a GameBoy emulator. And to think that this was the day I'd been looking forward to since classes started! :| alsdfj aslf jas; zas a[sklf as; Looks like I'll have to wait until next year

random sad pictures of the day, and a long back story

2010-11-14T10:59:00.001+08:00

#1: Lolwhut. Chick lit is a real genre now?. . .#2: My guitar of five years finally bit the dust today. I have no idea why, but when I picked it up this morning from its usual place behind the mirror, its bridge was already snapped off and the strings dangling out of place. Aasdfkj asolfjwoijsld; sakj fw;. My mom says I can buy a new one here in Manila, but I'll go take it to a repair shop

friends from home

2010-11-13T23:38:00.004+08:00

Hello, blogdom. I've just returned from a nice little "dinner" with Raul, who was a year ahead of me in high school and is now a year ahead of me in Ateneo. We talked about some really weird things, and I had a nice time, and I totally did not just accept his invitation to go out because I have trouble saying no to people. Hahaha! Thanks Raul! Last night, I also went out with two of the nicest

Random Picture of a Capo of the Day

2010-11-12T13:21:00.000+08:00

Chekitawt. I realized today that I forgot my guitar capo at home (a capo is something you clamp on to the neck of your guitar to increase the pitch), and so I decided to use what my friend Marc Paul taught me many years back - resourcefulness! My makeshift capo is comprised of a pen, a hair scrunchie, and some tissue to tighten the "capo". And in case you were wondering why I am posting this

language barriers, and second sem

2010-11-10T17:50:00.001+08:00

Three days into the second semester and so far, so good! I haven't even stopped writing my novel. Yet. There's a research paper due two weeks from now :| Our English and Lit professor is still Mr. Max Pulan, only this time, we're taking English 101 and Lit 14. Level ups! Yayz! Speaking of profs, our Filipino teacher is Mr. Alywnn Javier - the author of Sa Victory Liner, the poem that Ren and I

going back to Manila

2010-11-06T16:59:00.002+08:00

My plane leaves tomorrow at 6 AM. Reasons why this makes me sad: I hate waking up early. Hate it hate it hate it so much. I don't want to go back to Manila. I don't want to leave home. Again. I don't want to leave home, ever. I'll miss my family. Reasons why this makes me happy:My mom bought me some nice clothes I can wear to the airport, which I guess is pretty cool.

BEING LAME

2010-11-04T20:39:00.004+08:00

Potential covers for my novel. Yes, they all suck, but hey. I'm a writer (daw), not a graphic artist. Title is tentative. Tentative title sucks. I hope I don't stop writing when school starts. If you ask me what my novel's about, I will laugh and say "I don't know, really," because that is the truth - I HAVE NO FREAKING IDEA WHERE MY STORY IS GOING. *~trolololololololololololo~*

LFC stuff

2010-11-03T18:59:00.000+08:00

Huge news. Ate Fel from the Loyola Film Circle actually asked me to be the project head for the next Kapelikula (<-- click that link to see how the last one went)! To be honest, it was the moment I'd been looking forward to ever since I heard of the LFC in the first place. Not exactly heading Kapelikula, but at least taking charge of an LFC project. Any LFC project. That's the dream. But because

Halloween

2010-10-31T21:56:00.001+08:00

Happy Halloween! :D I got a haircut today, and I now resemble Mulan... back when she was pretending to be a man. Well, whatever. I drew a cartoon just to show you (below), but if you really REALLY wanna be scared, click this link for the actual comparison picture.Okay. Happy Halloween, everyone :)

Halloween eve eve

2010-10-30T22:18:00.001+08:00

So it's the night of October 30, which means I've exactly one week of sem break left to enjoy in Cagayan de Oro before it's off to Manila again for school. I've done nothing productive at all these past two weeks, and actually I don't intend to in the next week. But you know what? I've got absolutely no regrets. My thinking is that the unproductivity of my sem break will compensate for all

schedule, and amazing news

2010-10-29T19:01:00.001+08:00

So today was enlistment for freshmen. I got fencing as my PE! Not bad, I think, considering I was in the last batch, and people from the last batch hardly ever get any good PE's. So, anyway, onto the good news: My mom called the BPI Foundation earlier and told them what my QPI was, and they said that it passes their requirements for my scholarship! In other words, I still have my scholarship,

the r-word

2010-10-27T13:48:00.003+08:00

As you may or may not know, the Special Olympics are coming up. In connection with this, the good people behind http://www.r-word.org/ are campaigning for people to stop using the word "retarded" as a derogatory remark in our everyday conversations. Ditto what Burt Hummel said in that episode of Glee - the one where Finn calls Kurt an F-word. Please go check out http://www.r-word.org/ and

doing nothing

2010-10-25T22:11:00.001+08:00

I'm too lazy to write anything coherent right now, so enjoy stare at this picture I randomly pulled from my "Block XX" folder: (click to enlarge!) . . .I really miss my block! :'( Above is one of my favorite pictures of us, taken by Ate Pia (I think) at the first general assembly we ever attended - the Health Sciences Society's High! I love it because we all look so happy and crazy and loony

sem break so far

2010-10-22T00:46:00.003+08:00

I guess that I should be updating this blog more often, now that it's sem break and all, and the Internet connection at home is a bajillion times faster than the lame SmartBro plug-in I use in Manila. But the thing is, there's nothing much going on in my life right now that anybody would really want to hear about. For example, would you really be interested in knowing that for my first week home

sem ender

2010-10-18T16:06:00.000+08:00

O HAI GAIZ! :D I'm home na pohwz! And I'm also too lazy to write anything. So, here are pictures from last Friday and last Saturday :D Left to right: Daryll, Me, Larz, Jason, Sean. Picture taken by Dahra, whose condo this was taken in! (Sorry we didn't get a good picture of you D: ) UBE Sem-ender night at Katips Grill! Check out our awesome superhero masks. I'd always wanted to do this light

exploration

2010-10-16T11:45:00.000+08:00

Friday (which was yesterday) marked the beginning of sem break for me. Officially, though, my last test of the sem ended at 7:30 on Thursday night, so I guess you could say my sem break started then, but I had been too depressed from English work to do anything besides curl up in front of my laptop and eat chocolate. Yesterday, however, I woke up feeling quite chipper. I had made

last friday of the sem

2010-10-08T21:44:00.001+08:00

I'd always counted on my cellphone to wake me up every morning by playing some Manila radio station at precisely 6:30 AM, but for four days this week I found myself scrambling out of bed around 7:15. Rather than pin the blame on my phone's not going off, I have a feeling that I just sleep through the radio alarm when it comes on. That would explain why, when I was dreaming once about

the bonfire

2010-10-04T14:53:00.003+08:00

I'm pretty sure that all the other universities have gotten tired of us congratulating ourselves about the 3-peat, what with all the "Sorry, FEU" fanpages and online hype about the bonfire. But we can't help it. We're a proud bunch. Make that a proud, and extremely happy bunch, because last night, we got a huge bonfire, and today, we have NO CLASSZ POHWZ!!! At around 6 PM I ate dinner at

brands

2010-10-02T15:28:00.001+08:00

Okay, one last post, and then I'll stop using up a perfectly good Saturday afternoon browsing the Internet to go hunch over a notebook and a calculator and solve logarithmic functions instead. Something's just been really bugging me lately. I was surfing through Facebook when I stumbled upon this site. http://freestylenecklaces.multiply.com/photos/album/15/Freestyle_Necklaces_15th_Set_SOLD_OUT

3-Peat

2010-10-02T11:22:00.001+08:00

My Countdown Countdown SEM BREAK'S COMING!!! Can you tell by the huge and gay countdown timer at the top of this post? It's only TWO WEEKS AWAY!!! Goodbye Manila and hellooooo SUBIC! (please) In other news, ATENEO WINS! It's a three-peat! I'd never paid much attention to UAAP games before, but when you're studying in Ateneo, you just can't help but embrace the sports culture. The campus

anti-hell week

2010-09-24T15:30:00.001+08:00

This week has been very kind to me. *knocks on wood and hopes to not jinx it* I actually got an A on last week's long test in Math! :D I will not even elaborate on how happy it makes me because a certain blockmate of mine is probably reading this right now and scowling at his/her monitor in a display of freudenschade. So instead, I'll tell you a few other reasons why this week is awesome. On