Ahuhuhu! Di ko alam kung ano'ng dapat gamitin na expression. Basta masaya ako dahil may bagong scanlated chapter ang Akuma to Love Song ♥ Uguuuh, paborito ko siyang manga (shoujo or not)~ Pero grabe ambagal niyang ma-scanlate. Actually, bumibilis na nga eh. Sana di to maging parang Kimi wa Petto na Hi Hello medyo deadz na ang scanlation (pero may person na ang ginawa'y ini-scanlate yung Kimi wa Petto gamit yung Tokyopop version. Kaso vol. 6 lang at 7 ata ang manga na meron siya? at Vol. 1 at 10 lang ang meron ako T_T).

Ayun, maganda ang Akuma to Love Song (The Devil and Her Love Song daw ibig sabihin nun). PROMISE, di siya tungkol sa isang babae na ninakawan ng first kiss! o sa babae na trinatratong basura ng lalake ~pero mahal pa rin niya~! o sa...ummmm...student-teacher relationship! or...or...grabe nauubusan na ko ng shoujo plotlines @_@

Ayun, maganda siya. As in tinext ko pa si Meme na basahin yun dati, pagkatapos ko mabasa yung unang chapter ata? Ahuhuhuhu!

"charm c lau lau 2. pumunta ka na dito sa tambayan ang dami dala ni sir na costume. pg d ka pmunta galit n aq sau."

So my aspirations for Grade Consciousnessdom were dashed when Laurence used emotional blackmail to make me go to UP LISSA's photoshoot. I think I'm romanticizing studying a bit; I was imagining myself poring over books the whole day and stuff at the Eng'g Lib II.

( blahblahblah about Eng'g Lib II )

Anyway, the shoot. It was really fun! I wasn't supposed to go there so I was so not ready; I was even wearing my basahan ensemble, or the clothes I only wear when I'm not supposed to see people I know. Cate, one of the apps, lent me a green shirt for the green shoot, and Jen lent me this blouse thing for the creative shot.

Because of this shoot, I found out that I know how to use make-up, and apply it really quick (oh, thanks to Jean for the make-up!). I looked loli daw (actually the word used was "mukhang bata"). I'm not really sure what I was dressed up as; Jen was a fairy, Marj was a demonyita, Jean was a beauty queen, and Karen was...some random magical girl.

Sir Igor was the photographer, as usual. Ivy was sort of his 2nd-in-command, with her new DSLR. We kind of ran out of time, boo! For someone who just went there because of a threat, I had loads of fun~

1322: Humphrey de Bohun, 4th Earl of Hereford was fatally speared through the anus by a pikeman hidden under the bridge during the Battle of Boroughbridge.

-from Wikipedia's list of unusual deaths

I dunno. That made me snigger.

I've been very irritable lately. Sorry to everyone I've been snarky to :< I'm trying to emulate the "oh I'm so gentle and nice~" image but I can't. It's hard to assume the role of a gentle and nice person when all you want to do is wring some people's necks.

Oh, and I'm broke right now. Spending a lot on food (and that Umberto Eco book, though as I've already said, STEPHEN HAWKINGS BOOKS AT AS WALK, WAIT FOR ME) does NOT help matters. I wanna ask for a raise, but I don't know how much to ask. Plus my reasoning-with-people skills are practically non-existent :/ My daily allowance has been the same since 2002 (P100) BTW.

Off to Eng'g Lib II tomorrow.I've never been there; I asked Claire how to go there weeks ago, though. Hmmm, thesis. I need to talk to someone about it :|

PS! I've got a new layout. I used to love the skies, back when I had the time to just Look Up.

Just wasted practically all my allowance today, and I don't think I even ate lunch.
P100 - payment to Bunhua
P10 - cornik to entertain me enough at LIS 199 to not make me doze off
P180 - In the Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco

Ron said that other people said that Eco's boring. I really hate it when the New York Times say stuff like "stunning" or "riveting" at oh-mai-gawd-this-shit-is-boring books. Well, I hope it's not boring.

And and and, I really want to spend my money by going to purikura with friends (yes, I will have money for next week...or when we'll do it). Or eating at Chokiss with other friends. or something. Then I realized, after I shelled a hundred and eighty bucks for the Eco book, that Yvette lent me her Speculative Fiction readings so I've got loads of short stories to finish. Nuuu~

I dunno why, but I've got this feeling that I've got to hoard books. Actually I wanna buy Stephen Hawking books. So please don't buy his books at AS Walk; I'm saving up for him *o*)/

Oh, and our net connection's dodgy at best, so better text me if you need something or some info D:

PS!
turuan niyo ko ng "lamasan kami" song! as in lamas niya, lamas ako, lamasan kamiii~ kasi nalilimutan ko langi. please? yay!

Hi Guys! May itatanong lang ako:

May alam ba kayong mga anime na ang setting ay sa future? halimbawa, "Astroboy". "Future" siya nung ginawa ni Osamu Tezuka (2003 "pinanganak" si Astroboy di ba?). Ok lang yung tapos na yung "future" na iyon (hal. malabo nang mangyari ang "Evangelion" dahil nung 1999 nagka-2nd impact...tama ba?), pero ok din yung mga "Future" na di pa natin naaabot.

Ayan, salamat sa inyong mga tulong!

AT! sa mga AME members:
Hi guys! Sa Biyernes na po ang deadline ng Kami to Ki articles. Shemps tatanggap pa kami ng articles after that, pero sana po agahan natin ang pag-sumite ng articles para makapag-ayos ang layout person of the month. Salamat!

[edit] wala bang masayang future? parang anglungkot ng buhay ng mga tao sa taong 20XX eh =___=

Ate a relatively large amount of muscovado sugar for lunch today, which was fortunate because it actually ended my under-the-weather feeling these past few days. Hooray for sugar rush; I feel happy now. I think I'm subscribing to the theory that moods and feelings are due to chemicals in the body.

So hooray! And muscovado sugar is ♥. I must stock my room with them. And eat them for lunch. Because I think this isn't going to be an easy year for me. But then, which sem is easy?

Oh and Yvette. Pabasa ng thesis mo pag tapos mo, k? :D Children's/YA Lit, whee~ pahiramin kita ng ibang YA books ko, kaso ang sappy nila. Hehe. At, umm, babasahin ko na yung mga readings na pinahiram mo sakin pagtapos ng midterms ko sa isang subject. Hehe.

I'm now going to the path of workaholicism. Well, until the sugar rush wears off. Ta-ta!

Nais kong pumunta sa Sta. Ana, Quiapo. Sabi ng aking napaka-streetwise na prof sa LIS 131, yun daw ang mecca ng mga *ahem* gadgets na di pa nakikita sa mainstream market. ohohoho, gusto ko ng ebook reader♥

Ngunit, ang problema ko ay di pa ko nakakapuntang Quiapo. Sa tingin ko, mamahalin ko ang Quiapo, KUNG makakapunta ako dun T_T Di rin alam ng aking Ina kung nasaan ang kalyeng Sta. Ana. Si Ara naman, di alam pumunta ng Quiapo ng walang kasama. at, medyo mahina ang aking sense of direction kaya di ako makakapunta dun mag-isa.

Tapos, anggastos-gastos ko ngayon D: parang masyado akong nahuhumaling sa retail therapy, na hindi mainam para sa aking budget. Katulad kanina, bumili ako ng chocolate cappuccino ata yun? sa may Cordillera Coffee.

Lasa siyang Milo shake. Only loads more expensive =___=.

At gusto ko ng ultraportable laptop. tuwing dinadala ko sa school ang laptop ko, sumasakit ang braso ko the next day D: Kaya kahit na magda-dalawang taon na ang aking minamahal na laptop ay wala pang sampung beses ko siyang nadala sa school (plus, parang sira ang wi-fi niya, kaya parang nawala ang 85% perk ng pagkaladkad ng laptop sa school).

At gusto kong mag-Orienteering. Natuwa ako sa description ni Arbebe. OH YEAH BAYBEH! Kaso baka wala na kong kasabay; lahat ng kaibigan ko (sa LIS) tapos nang mag-PE DDD: tapos si Ashley, ang aking matalik na kaibigan, naka-5 na atang PE dahil gusto lang niya. So lonely!

At. Gusto kong mag-ipon ng pera para may pang-lakwatcha ako sa Sem Break! at pambili ng mga libro. at ng gadgets, kung mapupunta man akong Sta. Ana.

At isa pang Sta. Ana: maraming salamat sa aking homie kay Tiantian/Tiansu/Simba, dahil tuturuan niya ko ng programming at pinahiram niya ko ng Java book niya ^o^)/ hay, parang mood swing lang ang thesis ko; minsan pwede, minsan hindi O:

Fuck. So new girl over at Naruto is showing outward and very evident signs of liking Shikamaru. No unresolved sexual tensions and dynamic conversations like with Temari and no friend-vibes like with Ino. lalala obvious bias is obvious~

Shikamaru. WHY.

I dunno. She's a minor hindrance, but! as I said, there's no one else showing evident interest in Shikamaru but her. The others are just...fan speculation as of now (no matter how obvious ShikaTem is), so ARGH.

And, yes, I'm so affected by this that it's annoying =___=.

The art of losing isn't hard to master;
so many things seem filled with the intent
to be lost that their loss is no disaster.

Lose something everyday. Accept the fluster
of lost door keys, the hour badly spent.
The art of losing isn't hard to master.

Then practice losing further, losing faster:
places and names, and where it was you meant
to travel. None of these will bring disaster.

I lost my mother's watch. And look! my last, or
next-to-last, of three loved houses went.
The art of losing isn't hard to master.

I lost two cities, lovely ones. And, vaster,
some realms I owned, two rivers, a continent.
I miss them, but it wasn't a disaster.

--Even losing you (the joking voice, a gesture
I love) I shan't have lied. It's evident
the art of losing's not too hard to master
though it may look like (Write it!) like disaster.

-Elizabeth Bishop

Guh, so much rain~ I've been so used to it being argh-I'm-fried sunny in the mornings and surprise!rainfall in the late afternoons, but it's been cold all day and the only logical thing to do today is to sleep, it seems.

*looks over Modern Systems Analysis and Design book* why hallo thar, thick book with small fonts which has six chapters that I'm supposed to have read (and re-read twice) by Tuesday morning. I don't get you. And You're supposed to be one of the easier-to-understand books about the subject of SAD (Ironic, having the word "Modern" in the title. The book's 12 years old). I Think I'm Doomed.

And. I want to spend the day tomorrow at the SLIS Library to browse through other people's theses. But the rain doesn't seem to agree to my plans. Gah, I hope Frank (the typhoon) leaves tomorrow...then come back on Tuesday *slaps self* I meant, GTFO the Philippines, Frank.

oh and because Useless knowledge is useful (yay paradox):
♥a Muppets fan hostaged someone at a radio station so he could demand to hear Kermit the frog sing. This was in 1996, so I guess people then did not know about the magic that is Limewire.

♥a 12-year-old girl successfully sued her father from grounding her

♥ The youngest confirmed mother in medical history is named Lina Medina, who gave birth when she was 5 years, 7 months old. Her son thought they were siblings until he was, like, ten. And she never told anyone who the dad is.

Hey friends~ (and even non-friends *waves*) I'mma ask you a question, 'k?


_{what is this?}

Nope, not a trick question. Yes, I do not know what that random rectangular metallic box that's been sitting in our kitchen since my 18th birthday is. I've used it to bake Pillsbury One-Step Chocolate Chip Cookies before, though. But the cookies burned and I thought that cooking it using a pan is oodles easier.

In other news, the internet is boring me. I want to read stuff again. And by "reading", I don't mean my F-list's updates or multiply contacts' updates.

I want books. Tangible ones. Argh, I wish books don't cost so much; sometimes I just go to Fully Booked to drool at books, and lament at how most of the books I like cost about 2 months' worth of allowance >_<.

OR I want to learn something. Like how to sew or do a coptic bind (book-binding) or do charms using polymer clay or...or...a lot of stuff.

Argh. It's raining again. Our house is about an hour's walk from UPD, so it's prolly raining there too. I wonder how SLIS' roof's doing? Fortunately, we're not connected with the Main Library's wires, so the First and Second Floor of the Gonzales Hall's functioning normally.

But well, there goes SLIS' IT Track down the drain. I don't really like moving at the proposed SLIS building's site (I think it's near the old OUR? or, is it the old OUR?) because it's super far from...anywhere relevant (most especially to the Main Lib), but you know.

I like rainy days, I really do. But not when it's flooding my School >_<.

The School of Library and Information Studies' servers drowned today. Drowned by rain water, I meant. Thank goodness one of our IT profs was in the Computer Lab at the moment the rain flowed in, so not too much damage was done. By "not too much", I meant, "yay, the Main Library wasn't caught on fire due to exploding circuits!" Or whatever explodes in tech stuff. When we got inside the Comp Lab, there was something in the air that already smelt like burnt something, though.

When we went home late this afternoon, the remaining profs (some already went home) were huddled near the stairs, and everyone looked...bleak.

And when we attempted to go home, the jeeps were refusing to stop for passengers. We just walked to Iglesia ni Cristo. Still dunno what happened.

This day's sucky, all-in-all.
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Salamat kay Keto, na sumama sa'kin kaninang umaga (at pinagtawanan ako), kay Tian-tian na inutusan ko, kay Lani na medyo inistorbo ko >_<, kay Kat L. na pinagbilinan ko, kay Amado na sinamahan din ako, kay Airis na tumulong sa pag-aayos nung renewal chorvalets ng mga tao, at shemps, kina Yvette at Raine na magrerenew na ♥
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Tomorrow's my day off. I daclared it to be my Day Off. Nope, I fucking refuse to be dragged to school tomorrow. My college is soggy, my room's a mess, my pre-thesis seems funner than both my orgs at the moment, and the only thing that fueled me the whole day is a really big cup of badly-made coffee.

It's the second day of the official schoolyear and it already feels like an emotional Hell Week.

♥UP SLIS Title Search: Thank You, whoever made this. have you tried scouring for theses' titles before? Argh. The thesis databases are stored on those archaic comps that're near (or beside) OPAC comps at your local college libraries. You'd get to hang of it eventually, but it's not very user-friendly. So yay, me!

I also tried looking at my profs' theses. I find it weird that their theses are connected to what they're doing now (like Sir Ric [who's on study leave but we kind of hope he never comes back], whose thesis involves the Vargas Museum. He used to be its curator), but I guess it's what their tracks are, so that's where they headed.
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Last night, my Firefox suddenly acted up. I can't get in any website because firefox automatically stops the page from loading T_T Good thing it went back to normal today.

Anyway, in a fit of panic yesterday, I downloaded and installed Firefox 3 (thanks to Opera, my web browser of choice in high school up to last year). Bah. Most of my add-ons aren't compatible with it. Scratch that; NONE of my apps are compatible with it. Good bye, handy dandy del.i.cio.us tag. Bye, irc. Bye, FTP. bye, megaupload cheat. Basically The only thing I like in Firefox now are my bookmarks; my Opera bookmarks aren't updated.

Is it possible to downgrade my firefox? Because I really want Firefox 2 back =___=.

PS. Classes on Tuesday. yay for two 3-hour classes on the same day. I remembered taking Econ 11 for 3 hours straight and most days I wanted to jump out the nearest window (of course, UPEEP is only one storey; I'mma flee for freedom~). Well, Prof. Kempis is old and tottery, so maybe *that* contributed to the bore factor.

FINALLY started marathoning Grey's anaotmy (dibidi copy thanks to Karen, who may or may not be my blockmate next schoolyear).

Honestly, I can't stop watching--not that it's so good it's addicting (well, it is good), but it reduced my arms and legs to jelly and I can't leave to do other stuff =___= I just got over the nails episode so I got to eat dinner. I almost rolled at the stairs though, dammit. Jelly legs, I tell you.

I'm currently resisting the urge to read plot synopses and character info off Wikipedia. For some reason, I always go, "fuck this shit" when I'm watching a series and go to THE great source-provider. Luckily I don't get the wiki entry about Busou Renkin (which I'm supposed to be watching too) so I haven't been spoiled with that series yet. YAY!

Speaking of anime, this really annoying anime at Animax ended! w00t! I fucking hate that stupid fucking show. Maybe it's the character design? They all look fat and neck-less. Or maybe because it's ~*harem*~ and the stupid protagonist doesn't do anything (as in, "wheee I've got lolis and shit in my house! aside from that there's nothing special about me! at ALL!"). Oh well, it ended~ I hope they don't replay it~!

Classes start in two weeks. I'mma miss holing up in my parents' room watching cable TV =_____=.

Amy Winehouse looks worse =___=.

On the bright side of things, I learned how drugs can make your face all gross and scabby! *o*)/ It's either by burning your face with the pipe (WHAT) or hallucinating that bugs and insects are crawling on your legs and face. Totally far out, mehn.

See, you could learn a lot of stuff from your favorite artists ^_^. Yep, even though they're crack whores.

I still like her tho.

Oh, and I like a band now ^_^ They're called FreshlyGround, and I've got no clue about music so I don't know what genre they belong to (wikipedia says that they "incorporate elements of traditional South African music , blues and jazz, as well as features of indie rock". Whatever that means). But they're really nice to listen to and Pot Belly's music video's cute ^o^)/

And I don't think any of them are on crack or anything. Just clearing it out.

My mom cleaned my electric fan AND sweeped my room =___= sorry for making her do all my work >_<. I usually clean my room myself, okay? My room looks clean and fit for human habitation now though. Yay!

Anyway. Impromptu Chokiss Date with Raine/megane_penguin. Actually, It's a chicken kiev/mashed potato date, but we also ordered cake, so.

Guh, Prune Cake♥. Everyone else sort of squirm when I tell them that I like it, but it's great~ just remembering it makes my heart flutter and all that doki-doki crap conventionally seen in shoujo manga. Only of course I go *kyaaa~* over food instead of some demigod-like bishie (who has a dark, secret past. and an ex-girlfriend.and I'm digressing) in this scenario.

We saw Sasa too, and she was doing some reading...for her thesis. Such diligence. Unlike someone I know, who skipped the whole hang-out-at-the-lib-to-browse-through-old-theses plan because the she was too lazy to have her ID validated >_>. But you know, just thinking of climbing up to LIS can make anyone tired =___=.

We also dropped by the tambayan a bit and the Tambayan complex was so...green. And mosquito-infested, dammit. I managed to kill one that was busily sucking blood out of my thigh >___<.

And after this week it's already enrollment time. I haven't been bored yet this summer and they spring this up to me. Two weeks from now it's class time too. Guh. I sort of miss LIS and all of its aircon'd goodness, but I like our house loads better. We've got cable TV.

Like napoleones at Roli's. I've been having a hard time eating it since I've had braces, but what the heck.

Anyway. Yesterday my parents both went out of town; my mom was all, "haiz gaiz I'mma leave y'all k?" at us when she got home from work last Thursday (she went to Mindoro) and dad went to Zamboanga, I think. Or Zambales. Or whas it Olongapo? Well, whatever, the point is I didn't have parental supervision yesterday.

So I dragged Ashley B to SM North. But we went home early, so I needed to do ~*something else*~ to celebrate not having parents at home. So I...stayed up late! Watching Disney Channel! Huzzah! It's, like, the worst form of rebellion...evarrr.

Anyway. I caught this really nice show (random note: I really suck at adjectives. "nice show"?! I meant astig. What's astig in English anyway?) on Disney yesterday this morning. It's an Aussie show called Mortified ♥ problem is, it's shown at 2:00 am, it doesn't have replays (I checked at telebisyon.net), the only TV in our house that's got cable is in my parents' room, it's not torrented, and the DVD's at Amazon costs about $32. *sniff* goodbye, Taylor and Hector.

Oh, and this afternoon I watched House. The scene where the patient's eye popped out (literally. maybe the term should be "oozed out"? well, it popped and oozed) was el grosso. Meh, I'm sticking with Disney Channel.

Ugh, sorry for ignoring the past memes where I've been tagged. Anyway, saw this meme at Karissa's blog.

Rules:
-go to Google images
-search up your answer
-pick one image from the first page
-and post

( here be the image-heavy meme. forgot about the pick-one-image-from-the-first-page part, but meh )
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Well, that took a long time >_>. Ugh, my head's been pounding quite a bit since I woke up from my nap =___= ack. and my teeth hurt too, with the adjustments. It's so hard to keep up with normal conversations at this state DX Which is maybe why this took a few hours D:

And Karen got accepted in Psych. dunno if she'll shift, but I told her that we'll stop talking to her if she shifts and I'm not pressuring her (and she said: di ko nga ramdam yung pressure Charm. di talaga!).

Oh, and I've got new glasses. Yay! my old one's lens is being held up by glue gun >_<

PS kala ko dati gangsta si Timbaland. on loop ang Apologize niya sa'kin ngayon.