Yesterday I found out that:
a) my friend already gave birth
b) my grade school classmate already died

I find the contrast interesting, but ugh, Glenn M passing away's just...

Due to sudden turn of events, I am now a vegetarian. Well, it starts on Thursday, anyway. Chocolates are also a no-no (as well as coffee, pasta, cheese, milk, and anything remotely palatable), hence the picture :/

I was supposed to post a rather long post (picspam!) but hmmm I got distracted. So I'm just going to post a meme (from Lira) instead~

Just leave a comment and I will:

❶ Tell you why I friended you.
➋ Associate you with something - fandom, a song, a color, a photo, a word, etc.
➌ Tell you something I like about you.
➍ Tell you a memory I have of you.
➎ Ask something I've always wanted to ask you.
➏ Tell you my favorite user pic of yours.
➐ In return, you must post this in your LJ.

Oooh our cable's back♥ Gawd I sound like a TV dork XD Ooh and I bought new books again, orz. Curse you BOOKSALE and your year-end sale and amazing selection of books ;___;

Oooh and I made a "mascot" for my college org's event, LIS Congress 2010:


Well, that's the scrapped version, anyway (larger pic here). Uguuh I've never drawn a boy before, I think, so I'm happy with it XD ...Well okay wasn't, really, so I scrapped it at the last minute. Haha

Met up today with Claire and Raine today, whee~♥

Ate at Cafe Iana and mostly interrogated Claire about the boyfriend, ayiee~

Raine and I then headed to SM North to buy box boards (Claire had to go to the library), but they're out of stock in National bookstore :( We decided to eat (again!) sushi, but didn't find any. We ended up loitering at Blushing Cupcakes. The food was...underwhelming :/ Ugh, I mean they're cupcakes. Pretty cupcakes. They just need to be sweet and, I dunno, pretty. I can't even remember what they taste like, but ugggh I should've just bought a Lemon Square cheesecake :/



Oooh, and they gave me gifts♥ the chocolate's from Claire and Raine gave me a small yellow folder with a nekkid shouta filled with stuff♥ Ugh, totes forgot to take pics at Cafe Iana.

Back to work tomorrow! Uggh I really should curb my spending D:

PS it was my birthday this week. I'm now 22. IDK, I was supposed to make a ~birthday post~, but hmm.

Our cable's gone and our phone connection followed suit. Lovely. Of course the latter's probably thanks to our amazing range of neighbors, who might've stolen our phone cables (again). I guess that's the risk of living at one of the seedier parts of QC. Thankfully the phone's back, but caaaable~

I've resorted to watching The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air atm. Madz told me that he has to shun me now ("Eww old show!"), but whatevs. I guess it's not like I watch anything ~meaningful~ with cable. Sure there's Nat Geo and BBC, but ANTM is practically part of my routine. I miss hatin' on Tyra :(
Oh and FMA! That's the only anime I watch regularly, siggghhh.


Yogurt. Mine's the white one; I dunno what it was but it's sour D:

Anyway, today I went to SM North EDSA with friends *u* We ate at Pancake House and then moved to Green Mango for a ~change of view~. That's about it, but it was pretty fun♥

Well, back to work! I've got loads to do, haha. I haven't even made a decent mascot for the LIS Congress yet, eep D: but as my icon says, "the time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time" ;)

First post for '10: New Year's Resolution. Kind of flexible. Kind Of.

• Read 2 books a month
Last year's resolution too. Gone a bit awry 'round Ultimate Hell Month, aka Chapter 4&5 + Thesis revisionssss.

I used to be totally big on reading; I mean I won a Reader of the Century award (ETA: Centennial Reader Award pala. Something to do with 100) in Grade school. I never really thought about it before, but man that was nerdy.

Anyway, reading! I really like reading, though fiction's not so fun anymore (Fantasy & Sci Fi bores me, YA annoys me, ~drama~ gives me nightmares, etc). I think this year I'd try leaning towards nonfiction: A Brief History of Time...and I dunno what else.

• sleep at 10pm
Easy Peasy. Okay, no it's not.

• post photos on facebook within a week after the event the photo was taken
I've gotten 'round this resolution by refusing to take pictures even when people urge me to. Huzzah!
...counterproductive, I know D:

• exercise 15 minutes a day
This is supposed to be "belly dancing," but you can only do so much figure 8s and undulation before you get bored. Sigggh I can't find my Viva Hot Babes belly dancing CD again, I cry cry.

So that's it! Dear self, I expect you to be a belly-dancing, 10pm-sleeping, book-reading uhhh someone until January 4, 2011, okay? okay!

And so this is Christmas the New Year, and what have you done?

I...don't remember much. 2009 is def not my year (first half was depressing, and the second half was just plain boring). I welcomed the year with news that Ma'am Des passed away and will end it knowing that our family was almost part of Baleno 9.

A year's a long stretch of time; I learned how to drive, finished a thesis, held a (part-time) job, found out what it's like to work at a library, finally allowed out of the house at night, learned to belly dance, attended loads of reunions, visited my Grade School alma mater, attended funerals, and, well, graduated college. And most of that's about the second half of '09; the first half was a totally hazy mess.

So 2010. I'm hoping for something totally awesome from you, baybeh♥

I just told The Mom that I'm quitting. Thankfully I found out that The Kid's Math grade improved under my care (wtf Math?) so I can say that me teaching him was not a total disaster. I wasn't able to bully him into reading a book though, tsk tsk.

Aaaand the mom was rather nice about it. Well she was never not nice so I really shouldn't have worried about her reaction. Actually their whole household's nice, though The Kid can be very daunting to work with (I almost cried last week and today haha--huhuhuhu). But he does have his moments, and I really like talking with him during Hekasi time (FFF yeah, someone to talk about North Korea with \o/).

Hooray, my dad's "wag mong hayaang yurakin nila ang iyong dangal" fears were unfounded♥

According to his mom, The Kid's very ~emotional~. I'm not supposed to tell him that it's my last day tomorrow, as he might become depressed during his break. Um WHAT. I doubt he'd miss me; we have had such horrible moments.

On an semi-related note (because my money comes from the tutorials), I'm doing Christmas shopping tomorrow. Or on Thursday, I dunno. I was supposed to save all my earnings for the Hong Kong trip on January, but I doubt that it'll push through. Ah well I don't really mind.

PS Dita von Teese is on the ANTM re-run tomorrow! DvT is a stripper, but when she's wearing clothes she's fab♥ OH and ANTM Season 7 is totes boring.

Today was our graduation pictorial day. Hazel, Hannah, Karen and I met up at the tambayan at 9:00 am, but after some screw-ups (me neglecting to bring money then forgetting to sign up) I wounded up getting my pic taken much later than the three of them.

It's interesting to see everyone dolled up. I helped them a bit with their ~creative shots~ though I'm not sure how helpful I was--Karen ended up as a DOM who's about to raep Hannah (Hannah meanwhile was a geisha. Or an about-to-be-naked kimono-clad woman. IDK), and Hazel was a 50's girl. Her dress was so pretty~

I didn't do a creative shot though. They were a bit surprised about it because they think I'm camwhore-y and "kikay" (was previously "malandi"). Ugh, I'm strapped for cash and I dunno what to wear.

We randomly decided to take a group pic. Problem was we were all out of money. Fortunately Vjay wanted my spot, so he agreed to lend me P350 so we can switch pictorial slots. He wanted to be in our group pic though and we ended up roping in all the LISSA people present with us, haha.

It was totally fun, especially camwhoring (the staff nicely let us use their blue background for camwhoring purposes) and thinking of what to wear. Hannah and I wanted to wear the same dress for the group pic, but she won. Which wasn't much of a loss as I easily found a black sheath dress (It was actually just a top. Hooray for being small) and a string of (plastic) pearls, which I liked better, haha.

So that's it! I almost didn't sign up for grad pictorials , but I'm really glad I did. Looking at my pic wearing the toga makes me feel weird; I guess the fact that I graduated really hasn't sunk in yet.

Today I went to SLIS a bit to ~help~ Karen with her thesis topic, as she was bitten by the Thesis Paranoia yesterday. Which is weird because her topic's already approved for presentation; it's not as if she can change anything at this point.

THEN I noticed that there aren't any classes in the whole School (SLIS is just a freakin' corridor. Just look straight up and you'd see ~everything~). Noey helpfully explained that the whole SLIS faculty is in some conference. And the undergrads don't have LIS classes for the whole week.

So jealous man! I mean a week off?! WHY did this happen after I graduated? ;__;

Hmmm, and my tutorial sessions with The Kid are really long this week. Oh yeah Claret, dump loads of exams to your Grade Schoolers, ohohoho♥

Oh, and one of my friends is pregnant. One of those surprise!panganays, you know? Fortunately she's told a part of our group already. It's been haaard keeping mum about it whenever people ask why she's not hanging out with us anymore (her family forbids her to go out) :( Anyway I think we're going to visit her, if she lets us go to their house.

Oh it's weird that something that bugged me for days is just a mere footnote here in LJ. Oh well, at least another friend and I have already sworn to be totally kickass godmothers, oh yeah♥

Graduate na 'ko *u*

Sa college I mean.

Sa totoo lang matagal na ako'ng "graduate", pero di pa ako sure dati dahil medyo paranoid ako; wala kasi yung LIS 200 (Thesis) grade ko sa CRS. Tapos nung tinanong sa Graduate Assistant ng College Sec namin, sabi niya incomplete daw ako...pero napasa ko na yung thesis ko na dahilan kung ba't ako "incomplete." At alam nila na napasa ko na yun.

Kung naguluhan kayo, well, ako din!

Well sabi din ng adviser ko + Dean namin na keri lang yun pero hindi, hindi mapapanatag ang aking umaapaw na paranoia!

Pero ayun, may grade na ako sa CRS. At wala ako'ng "inc" mark. Oh yeah!

So, graduation. Parang yung feeling kapag 18th birthday mo, ganun yung feeling ng maging isang Octoberian. Yanno, feel mo dapat may fireworks at impromptu musical number ang mga tao sa dinadaanan mong kalye at, IDK, pinapaulanan ka ng buong staff ng College mo ng confetti habang tumatakbo ka patungo sa sunset. Or I dunno, parang magkaka-epiphany ka at pagtungtong ng 18th birthday/Graduation eh magkaka insta-Maturity & Responsibility ka. Pero sa totoo lang, ayun, normal na araw lang siya. At wala naman talagang nagbago sa buhay mo, maliban sa isang super liit na detalye.

Lalo na sa'kin, dahil petiks mode pa lang ako. Parang natapos lang ang isang sem, at summer vacation lang. Ayun, ganun ang pakiramdam.

So ayun, Life Hiatus muna ako. Next year ako ulit gagalaw. Pero sa ngayon, TV, manga, libro, pagtatahi, part-time job, at mga kaibigan lang muna ang inaatupag ko. Bongga!

♥ Party at Rex's tonight, argh. I wanna go, but a few days ago dad bitched about me going out too much (or going to SM too much? He kept changing his mind about what he's mad about). So I chickened out and decided not to go.

♥ Our cable TV got disconnected. My dad's going to subscribe again (eh Sky Cable's not giving us the bills so my parents didn't pay), hooray! Hopefully he doesn't realize that he can live without cable, because I can't.

♥ Watched 500 Days of Summer at Ara's last Thursday. She's heard great reviews about it and I've heard bad ones. It was okay; I liked the scene parallelisms and nonlinear narrative.

♥ Went out with Raine and Yvette too. It was my first time at SM North's Sky Garden. There was this really awesome cake place there. The place is small so you'd be self-conscious if you stay there too long, but mmm, cake *u* I loved the lemon cake thing (both the place and its cakes have really long names) *u* Must drag other friends to that place some time.

♥ AME no Jidai in 7 days! *u* It's my first time going as a customer, ohohoho. Well provided my dad lets me go of course. Anyway...I've no idea what people do during the fair.

♥ Ara said that Dan Brown's latest book is a fun read. I asked if another guy died at the start of the book and if Robert Langdon's paired with yet another hot woman. She said yes on both counts. Oh.

I'll still read it though. Dan Brown's very formulaic and his writing style bothers me a bit, but uguuh, guilty pleasure!

This Friday the 13th is fantastic, haha♥

Let's totally ruin the timeline: YEAAAH ALL MY ORGMATES PASSED THE LIBRARIANSHIP LICENSURE EXAM♥

Yes, capslock is in order, dammit! Ma'am Vyva told us that the results would probably come tomorrow or tonight, but one of 'em got a text message that the results were just posted. We all rushed inside.

Everyone tried to squeeze their way over to 1 computer, haha. There were about 3 more, but they forgot or something. Everyone kept shouting people's names and just generally shouting. Especially when we realized that all the LISSA board-takers passed. Shielski even cried, aww♥

It was like New Year's Eve, sans smoke. People were jumping and shouting and hugging at the same time.

*cough*

ANYWAY, today was UP LISSA's party thingamajig. IDK, it was a mixture of stuff. I think it was a Sem-starter/Induction/Yay-LLE's-over-you-guys! celebration. But it was a party. With lots of great food. Fortunately dad let me go--it was a night party and I just asked permission this afternoon. I fell in love with the barbecue btw. and Hazel's cake.

Oh! And I also saw Randolf after 8 months♥ the boy got a scholarship to Korea and started infecting the whole org with Abracadabra.

The first thing I did was check CRS (no thesis grade yet orz), but Madz kept badgering me about her thesis (it's the first week of school and she doesn't even have LIS 200 yet). Then our Dean came and she badgered Ma'am Vyva too, haha.

The LISSA men cooked all of the grilled food, while Yet and Stoi and Hazel washed the dishes. We ate, married off Laurence and Gigi, inducted the inductees, camwhored, then found out about the Exam results.

So yay, happy Friday the 13th♥

Went to Trinoma today with Ara, since I've been craving all week for Starbucks and Krispy Kreme. Frickin' expensive, argh. We also looked for a gift for her inaanak's christening.Wow, baby clothes are expensive @_@.

It's weird, you know when your group of friends become ~adults~ and get babies and stuff. Do you ask your whole group to become godparents? I mean, what if you have, say, four kids? So your firstborn gets your BFFs, and your last kids get your acquaintances as godparents? AAAND what if you're the second one to have kids in your group--do you still ask you group to be godparents? Wouldn't it be, like, an interbreeding of sorts?

OH and it was Ara's birthday last Sunday, yay! I was supposed to make a really lameass joke concerning the Korean girl group 2NE1 on her Facebook wall, but decided against it. Then today she made the joke.

me: uyyy happy birthday!
ara: yeah, 2NE1 na ako!
me: dapat ilalagay ko yan sa wall mo kaso angkorni eh!
ara: ako nga nagsasabi sa bahay na "I'm ~2NE1~ na"

We also saw this really cool peacock feather headband at a boutique. M-m-moneeeeey. My dad will totally bitch if he sees it but it's so ~pretty~.

No plans for tomorrow. Might head off to UPD for undergrad matters. Or marathon off That 70's Show. Or read The Thief Lord which is assigned to the kid I'm tutoring, but he hates reading so I need to know how to ~introduce~ it to him (he said he snagged his Harry Potter book report off the net, orz). Gah I'm too lazy to function, really.

Today I started my first paying job as a tutor.

Um well it's really just a side-job--my full time job as a bum isn't financially-fulfilling, y'see.

I was really nervous because I know jack shit 'bout what they teach grade school kids these days. Plus I need to totally brush on all the basic subjects.

The kid seemed nice, but quite distracted and obviously super bored with studying. I mean, he doesn't even take down notes from class lectures. He's in Grade 5 and thankfully his Science and Math is still pretty easy. I was quite flustered because I didn't know where to start and I dunno if he really learned anything. GAH I really hate being paranoid.

And I hope he gets a high grade in his quiz tomorrow. Go Kid Go!

Anyway, the family's super rich, and I think the kid's mom's pretty nice (we only talked over the phone). My dad was a bit convinced that they'd maltreat me because they're rich (he watches a lot of telenovelas). The kid's room was twice mine and he has his own iPhone.
------------
This morning I also watched a National Geographic Channel show about time-traveling. It has a lot of theoretical physics and was still hard to understand even in layman's terms. I even dozed off a bit at some point, but Stephen Hawking was super cool!

Physics seems fun, but it makes my head hurt. I mean, it's like theoretical physicists conjure stuff out of thin air and get paid while doing so. And it's like they're so invested in things like super strings and wormholes--things that they just theorized but haven't seen yet. It's like believing in unicorns or something.

Well excuse me for being such a science heathen.
------------
I'm really not used to blogging anymore. Or, I guess, writing/speaking in English? From now on I'd refrain from writing in Pilipino. This and my *cough* old school journal's my only application of English these days.

Halloween is probably my favorite major holiday, mostly because my dad goes to Tarlac and doesn't drag me with him.

Yesterday there was this really long brownout. I spent the night knitting and writing. Both were hard to do, as my only light source were two really small scented candles. But I was bored and was conserving my DSLite's battery.

Lau asked me if I want to take over his sister's previous side-job: tutoring a 5th-grader. This is embarrassing, but IDK if I still know 5th grade anything. And Lau-lau said that the kid's makulit. BUT MONEY~! And side-job while on vacation!

Haven't talked to Lau yet so I don't have much details.

Oh, and I was supposed to make a Happy Halloween! drawing, but meh. The only Halloween-y about it is the girl's pumpkin hair clip. I didn't finish it, but mmm,( here's a screencap. )

Oh and I didn't join NaNoBloPoMo this year. I managed to post every day last year, but I...don't think I can think of something to write for 30 straight days this year.

:< I miss my f-list. I feel like people have been posting less and less. Or maybe abandoned LJ completely =___=.

I miss reading. I don't think I've even read 5 books last year. I've even made a read at least 2 books per month resolution, which went a bit alright 'til August, but gotten awry when I got sick, got busy with acads, got distracted by the typhoon, etc.

So now I've got free time, yay! I've actually finished Ribblestrop and Half Moon this week, and am halfway through this other book I just bought today (Confessions of a Yakuza). I'm trying not to buy another book 'til I'm done with this list.

And by "trying", I meant that I just made that resolution today, but was promptly distracted by a second-hand bookstore.

The Beatles - I bought that 2 years ago and still haven't finished it. Actually I think I'm near-ish the part where they'd go to Germany? I skipped a lot though and finished the part where they've already had a falling-out 'til the ending. Something about the narration bothers me.

In the Name of the Rose - It has priests. And a medieval setting. I don't know why I bought it. Oh yes, there's a version of this book with a really pretty cover.

Galapagos - bought for 20Php. Nuff said.

Dune, Small Gods, and The Jewel in the Crown - Sci-fi, Fantasy, and Historical Fiction. I rarely read those kind of books (sci-fi is a tad depressing, fantasy has this weird narrative, and just the word "historical fiction" sounds boring, sry2say), but I'm trying to ~expand my horizons~ (aka I'm getting sick of YA books/shoujo manga).

So there! My dad told me that I can go out a bit too, and he's even allowed me to go at Lau's birthday party tomorrow. Things are looking up♥

orz I'm kind of bored though =___________=

This has been a really long week for me, ugh.

Fortunately I started it by heckling a friend to go out and eat at ChoKiss with me♥

Next week I'd finally pass my bound thesis. That or I WON'T GRADUATE 'TIL MARCH AHAHAHA.

Everyone else's vacations started but mine (and a few other like-minded individuals...aka those still neck-deep with revisions). Hazel nicely stayed the whole day at SLIS for me yesterday (I was the only one at the whole corridor). And Hannah offered to go with me when I finally take my thesis for binding. Aw.

I bought a few books. I changed my LJ layout and user icons (see RPattz all prettied up *u*). I started Phase 1 of my Spring Cleaning. I bumped into an old friend and got her number (I asked why she didn't treat us after she graduated. Her reply? "uy pumayat ka ah!"). I spend my break times watching TV.

Nothing much is happening. Mostly I sit all day, typing revisions and printing stuff. Which is surprisingly tiring or something, since I'm ready to pass out by 8:00 pm most days.

Meh how boring. Honestly I need to get out more (flat-out get out), ugggh. Yesterday the guys watched G-Force (I think. They were still tossing between The Informant! and that when I left) and I couldn't go because they were going to watch a 5:00 pm show and I was so tiiiired (well, not that my parents would let me if I wasn't), sigh.

SEVEN DAYS OF SHARING

day ❻ a quote

Taken from Calvin and Hobbes, one of my favorite comic strips (well okay, aside from that I only like Foxtrot, Kiko Machine, and BeerKada. "One of my favorite comic strips" isn't saying much):

"I figured that once you grew up, you automatically knew what to do in any given scenario. I don't think I'd been in such a hurry to reach adulthood if I'd known the whole thing was going to be ad-libbed."



Sigh. I used to think that way too :/