Thursday, May 31, 2007

i'll tell you why i friended you

betti

1. Tell you why I friended you.

i guess it was because we had a lot of common friends. i first got to know your sister Dianne because of kat and IRC. hahaha those were the days. we also had our "best-friend past" with kat. :P we also had this MUTUAL UNDERSTANDING with things. haha i remember one time we just looked at each other and you blurted out "gets kita ishi. haha parehas tayo". haha that happens a lot. AND, we were both Ateneo fans, so i guess that helped. it's also fun to "beat up" KUYA. bwahaha >:)

2. Associate you with a song / movie.

Choco banana-nanana na choco banana-nana. and i'll punch when you munch. choco banana crunch! we love it! WAHAHA. should i even expound? :P

3. Tell a random fact about you.

you love writing and you love criticizing other literary works. :) you also love discovery/ natl geo just like i do. :) you're so good in computer that i can't help but to feel jealous. especially in photoshop :P you also know about my past. *wink* you're my partner whenever we have kulto gimiks. and oh yeah, bembol roc! :))

4. Tell a first memory about you.

it was our first kulto gimik. you were wearing an adida shirt and we had our picture taken in picturecard! we also watched a UAAP game together! haha :P and oh yeah, our divisoria talks :P
5. Associate you with an animal / fruit.

bee? hmmmm haha :D



kookie

1. Tell you why I friended you.

hmm we were classmates back in 1st yr and our class numbers were close. i guess i just couldn't help but befriend you since you were very friendly. :) you also always had a smile on your face so you looked very approachable. we were also groupmates in most projects, so we got pretty close.i also remember one time, it was family day. and we were the only ones awake, so we spent the family day together! haha we even called each other new bestfriend! haha :P


2. Associate you with a song / movie.
the promise by chicosci
coz you were my beloved ghost and here i'll wait for you to sing and we will have eternity to keep haunting me
this wine through my veins
these gifts we take...

haha groupiee days! haha go chicosci! go mong :D

3. Tell a random fact about you.
your name is carmina, which i sometimes forget. :P i just got so used to calling you kookie :) your lola owns Betty's and you have a cousin who i always call Sheldon even though his name isn't Sheldon. haha :P you have a very cool camera that takes great pictures :D we both love mais and isaw! :D and we both adore mong :D

4. Tell a first memory about you.
it's not the first, but i think it's the best one ever. we watched the ON THE ROCKS concert in ateneo just so we can watch chicosci play. bonding rin sa tutor. :D

5. Associate you with an animal / fruit.
pear? haha don't know why. just thought of it :P ahhh! dog! coz when we were still in 1st yr, you would always hug coco :)

miranda
1. Tell you why I friended you.
coz we were stuck with each other the whole summer! haha what more can i do but make the most out of it right?! haha it was only last summer that we became close, but now, we're best bloomie buddies already! haha AHEAD days...:P and SEP! you were my hero! if it weren't for you, i would have been a loner! haha :P you always made me wait though! everytime! haha :P all summer all i could think of was Rafa and Karl! geesh :l and you made me appear that i was the one stalking them! hahaha :P

2. Associate you with a song / movie.
Fergielicious! duhhhhh haha :P for a whole quarter, i heard you singing this every morning, every period, everyday! you even printed out the lyrics just so others can sing with you. :P

and oh yeah!!!
La Bamba and surfin USA!!!! remember the best bloomfields gig ever?! that was so insane! we had the time of our lives! we danced our legs off! hahaha :P

3. Tell a random fact about you.
You crush me. hahaha kidding :)) you love the 60's especially the beatles. you have a keychain dog named glitters and a girl keychain that we named grape during grad practice. :P you HATE pink just the way you hate pepe. hahaha :P kidding! you always scream in my ear and would even whack my arm while you're at it. you're very torpe. :P you love johnny depp and twiggy.(you even have a twiggy shirt). you plan to bring me with you whenever you want to do stalking duties. >:) you also love dutch mill just like me :P and oh yeah, we're best bloomie buddies! :D

4. Tell a first memory about you.
we were in the 2nd grade then. i was seated in front of you when your seatmate broke your pink crayon. you cried and told her that you had a hard time trying not to break your crayons and told her that she broke it like she didn't even care. i comforted you and told you that you could just sharpen it. :P
5. Associate you with an animal / fruit.
strawberries! :D most of your things have strawberry prints in them. your cellphone charm, your wallet, your clip, almost everything!

raffy
1. Tell you why I friended you.
kasi baliw ka. :P haha :)) you never failed to make iii2 and iv2 laugh and you would always have this super funny snicker after every hirit :P getting high with thinner was also fun in Visual arts. haaay. those were the days. free period! kain at tawa lang! sige lang! tapos panay lait kay valencia! tapos kalikod lang pala natin! haha the best yun :)) having paint fights were also very entertaining. ;P

2. Associate you with a song / movie.
We will rock you by Queen. coz raffy, you rock my world. TAE =)) seriously, you always had this rock star vibe, and i mean that in a good way. it's nice how you can all be crazy and serious at the right time.

3. Tell a random fact about you.
your artworks are remarkable. they have this certain thing that screams RAFFY all over it! :D you like guys who are not prim and proper. you like them a bit disheveled. rockstar \m/ you are game for anything. you also live next to chocolate factory and gateway. AND if given the chance, you would have dropped the classes Religion and TLE. :P

4. Tell a first memory about you.
haha you told Mrs Dacutan that you wanted a change and that your nickname was ELLA! :))

we were printing shirts when the squegee full of paint fell on our arms! haha our first paint mishap :P tapos nagpupunasan tayo ng pintura sa mga braso ng ibang tao. :P

5. Associate you with an animal / fruit.
hmm saging? e kasi nung nag-underground tayo, kumain ata tayo ng saging sa may carinderia. hahaha :))

-may 2007-

Rocky's best birthday :)

just watched the Bloomfields again the other day. it was Rocky's bday. :D haha

ya know what? i may seem like this psycho obssessed fan girl, but i texted Rocky :) midnight :P hey! i REALLY didn't plan it okay? i just realized that it was already midnight after i watched american pie 2. and i happen to have his number. so why not greet him right? so i did :D and HE REPLIED! :D hahaha :D

me: happy happy bday rocky! :D
rocky: thanks! :) see u in eastwood! :O

wiii :D i was super thrilled that day. i was so excited! since when could i celebrate my bday with my ii2 friends AND watch the bloomfields? :D also co-celebrated it with arra and may. AND ROCKY too ;)

had lunch at pancake house. there was a fly in kay's carbonara. so we didn't pay for it anymore. haha. but they gave her a complimentary one! hahaha. i wonder if it had flies too? :P played at powerstation. wiii :D karaoke! you know, i really don't get them anymore. what happened to my ii2? they're not as barubal anymore. :( the karaoke room was different from the one in timezone e. it wasn't secluded. heck, it had full glass windows. last time was more fun. we really sang our hearts off. and danced our legs off.

jet is a KJ. he wouldn't even get up and dance. so there we were! about 5 out of 11 of us got up and danced while singing. people outside were staring at us. HAHAHA. but who cares? hahaha! keng was so funny! she was all crazy with her imaginary guitar. haha :P OH CARME, ASAAN KA?!

watched Pirates of the caribbean at world's end. i was just soo darn confused. :P i mean, the plot was so complicated that i couldn't differentiate the good guys from the bad ones. i mean hello?! keng, kay, and i were discussing the movie after, hoping that we could understand it more! hmmm....i wonder if they have some sort of SPARKNOTES for Pirates. coz i swear, couldn't understand the movie! what more for people who haven't watched the other 2 movies? poor them. but i still like keira, okay? hahaha :X

may, mark, jet, ate glads, mimi, and keng went home after the movie.

while arra, kay, and josel stayed with me and miranda to watch the bloomfields. :D

you may be thinking that i'm still all giddy and fan-girly. but i'm not. i actually felt sad after watching them. they played in the tent and not in fuente circle. :( meaning, they were on stage and not on a "stage" that looked more like a platform to me. we couldn't get close to them as before since there were tables and chairs right in front of the stage. and miranda and i took the liberty of not paying 2oo pesos for a chair! and there were soooo many girls! as in! it was like the crowd tripled compared to before. :( i know this is selfish, but i liked it better when we had them for ourselves coz they really pay attention to us! heck, they even talk to us! AND they dance with us! uhuh :D jayjay even asked our names before :D and he remembered me too.

last wednesday was different. they were too many girls to get close with them. haaay :(

but this is sooo funny! miranda and us guys met up in mcdo then went to teriyaki boy to go to the restroom. then we were surprised to see the BOYS inside! ahhhh! i swear, i couldn't look at them! i was just shocked. haha :P as we passed by their table, they were kinda looking at us. so OHMAYGALLY. hahaha. then we headed to the restroom, which only had one cubicle! so we waited outside and tried to eavesdrop by their conversation. hahaha :P THEN! it was so funny coz we were telling ourselves that the boys should go there so that we could say hi. THEN! they did! HAHAHA. first was jayjay. i think we said hi. but i guess we were too dumbstruck to do something! hahaha! then i told them "sana si rocky rin." then he did came after jayjay left! wahaha. he kissed miranda (fyi: they're cousins. but miranda is also torpe.) and just smiled at us. hahaha. lakan and rocky went inside the single bathroom at the same time! hahaha. and you boys say that only girls go to the bathroom in groups? :P

after that, the gig started. wii :D rocky's cake was cute. :D superman! haha :P they even gave us a slice. i also bought a new red bloomie shirt. :D

as usual, miranda and i made a fool out of ourselves. we were the only ones dancing! hahaha :P and yeah, we were in front. first row. should you even be surprised? they also gave out Rocky ID laces. :D

the gig was fun. but they kinda looked lost, if you ask me. they look tired. maybe because classes have already started. jayjay and rocky looked especially tired. that's what you get for studying in la salle. you're classes start early! for the 1st time, they committed mistakes. i mean it's okay, it's just new.

AND OH YEAH!!!!!!!!! they remembered ME again! jayjay, pepe, and louie remembered ME! wiii :D when i had my picture taken with each of them, they asked me

wiii :D

pepe: hey, you were the one in marikina right?
me: yeah, i was the one dancing.
pepe: haha yeah. thank you ah.

louie: you were the one in riverbanks right?
me: yeah. wow. you remember me?
louie: yeah. of course. :D

wiii :D

hahahaha. and we were lucky that we were in pepe's side. (usually we're in jayjay's) and sooooo-----what do you expect from miranda? she practically broke my eardrums from all the screaming! blimey 0.o hahaha. you know, you guys might actually think that miranda is all quiet and stuff , but she's not! i tell you! and she's not all sugar and spice. gawd, her hands can whack my arms real hard. mehn. :P
she actually whacked me in front of louie. and louie kinda looked surprised haha :P

anyway, there were a lot of theresians. younger and older than we were.

the gig was fun but i still wish that they weren't this popular. i like having them for ourselves. bwahaha >:)

-may 2007-


just saw the list of my blockmates in the ateneo2011 multiply account. wahhh i don't know anybody! no theresian. :( boohoo. isa lang "kilala" ko e. dba raffy?


don't worry raffy. ;)


-may 2007-

Monday, May 28, 2007

more more more

Leave a comment here and I'll--
1. Tell you why I friended you.
2. Associate you with a song / movie.
3. Tell a random fact about you.
4. Tell a first memory about you.
5. Associate you with an animal / fruit.
6. Ask something I've always wanted to know about you.7. In return, you must spread this disease post this in your own LJ/ blog.

wiii got this naman from sandra's blog. :D
but since sandra already did mine, i'll do hers na rin! (did that sound too conyo? pls no haha )


Sandra
1. Tell you why I friended you.
coz you were my classmate? haha :P i don't know if you even remember this but, in one of the "introduce-yourself" stuff in our 3rd yr, you said that you also liked the 60's. haha. you even mentioned a girl that you idolized or whatever. wala lang, i was intrigued. pero teka muna, ikaw naman yun dba? haha.
and i found you really pretty before pa. tihee. :P heck, i even considered naming my first baby girl Alessandra coz i really liked your name! NYAHAHA

2. Associate you with a song / movie.
coach carter. should i even say more? hahaha :P

3. Tell a random fact about you.
you love me. bow. hahaha kidding! :)) you have this cool cloth that you wore during the dramatic monologue and i told you "sandra, ang sarap mong ilagay sa microwave". and you just laughed and asked why. then i said " e kasi mukhang aluminum foil ung suot mo e. WAHAHA :P" you also have a very cool tin lunch box that i secretly wanna steal (hindi na secret ngayon). nyahaha >:) you also got to kick a guy's *ehem ehem. hmm i wonder how painful that was. WAHAHA. naku.

4. Tell a first memory about you.
hmm... i think we were still in grade 5 then. it was during leadership training. you were wearing a white long-sleeved hoodie and you were talking to jacque at that time. BUT- the best memory ever is hearing you say this:
THROW THE CHAMPIONSHIP INTO THE WASTE BASKET IV-2 COZ IT'S NOT YOURS! BASURA!

TIGASAN NIYO IYANG MGA KAMAY NIYO SA CAPOEIRA DANCE STEP NA IYAN!

AWW YOU DOLLS ARE SO CUTE! (ehem ehem :D)

SABAW!!! IIISHII INAANTOK PA AKO. (i get this a lot. haha :P)

and remember how we used to do a "sacred" ateneo chant to wish us good luck for the acet? HAHAHA. nakakumpol pa tayo at parang kulto!

5. Associate you with an animal / fruit.
cat? e kasi naalala ko dati suot mong shirt nung underground practice may print na pusa! hahaha tapos gusto ko pa tanungin sa iyo kung saan mo nabili kaso medyo nasa martial law state ka pa nun e. WAHAHA :D

-may 2007-

chemistry you say?

WHAT MAJOR IS RIGHT FOR YOU?
You scored as a Biology/Chemistry/Geology
You should strongly consider majoring (or minoring) in Biology, Chemistry, Geology, or related majors (e.g., Biochemistry, Environmental Science, Forestry, Fisheries and Wildlife, Genetics, Marine Biology, Zoology).

It is possible that the best major for you is your 2nd, 3rd, or even 5th listed category, so be sure to consider ALL majors in your OTHER high scoring categories (below). You may score high in a category you didnt think you would--it is possible that a great major for you is something you once dismissed as not for you. The right major for you will be something 1) you love and enjoy and 2) are really great at it.

Consider adding a minor or double majoring to make yourself standout and to combine your interests. Please post your results in your myspace/blog/journal.
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-may 2007-

Sunday, May 27, 2007

new whatevers

shit mehn. just visited my previous blogs in LJ and xanga. geesh. i couldn't take all the ka-jologan! hahaha. it was so old schooool! okay, just don't mind my old entries okay? apparently, i wasn't thinking right. HAHAHA.that was so 4 years ago. blech. :P


anyway, i finally painted my floor mat/guard! now, my room really looks like the 60's! or whatever. i just knew that i had to paint the "floor" coz it just used to be clear and bare.



it's not much, but hey! i worked hard on it haha :D just so if you're wondering, that thing is huge! i think it's the largest thing i've painted by myself haha. i applied acrylic emulsion all over so i was kinda high after. my gosh. hahaha! it's like 6 cartolinas put together! haha

i also found a few stuff that made me reminisce about my childhood days






2nd yr bandfest picture


this was where my beloved stuffed toys used to be. :( i had to sacrifice the space for my reference books and notebooks.. but i made the space a little more interesting by putting these. the middle one is a tin beatles lunch box and the one on the right is the tin lunch box i painted. :) and oh, that's the disco ball on top. :P


my vandalized radio. haha!




the nameplate i painted.



look closely. i painted my windows. haha. it's nothing grand, but i still find it cute.




the tin lunch box i painted. in this picture, i haven't applied acrylic emulsion yet.



the glass bottle i painted. pardon my poor stained glass painting! i'm still a beginner! :P


-may 2007-

rainy gig pictures ;)

rocky baby :D


pepe

as you can see, it was raining.


rocky :X
ang funny nilang sumayaw nila jayjay and louie! dumudulas dulas sa stage kasi basa! hahaha




-may 2007-

rain can sometimes be good to me ;)

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! SHIT MEHNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

haha. is it obvious that i'm still not over what happened yesterday? hahaha. okay, okay. it may not be something too grand or super great, but hey, i'm still happy about yesterday!

:x. :X. :x.

yup! i watched the Bloomfields yesterday in a bpi event of mom. i was with the usual. arra, megan, and kay. i actually expected that i wouldn't be able to go anymore since i was feeling sickly due to my 2 shots the night before. but i guess, God answered my prayers! yay! :D

we left at around 530 pm and were very much worried because it was already raining! and mom told me that it was an outdoor event and they only had a few tents. plus, the audience space had no tent! it was bare! eep! anyway, we all had individual umbrellas. thank goodness! :D

we spent about like 10 minutes standing in the rain, doing nothing, when the bloomfields arrived! wiiii! :X :D at first, we were the only ones in front of the stage along with a few others. but after about 2 songs, i took the liberty of being a true blue bloomie and went IN FRONT. as in REALLY IN FRONT while the others were a bit farther than i was. this time, i was front of pepe, and not jayjay. awww too bad for miranda. don't worry bloomie buddy, bawi tayo sa 30! :)

as soon as they sang my fave beatles song (get back), i gamely swayed and danced. and yes, i had an umbrella in hand sa lagay na iyon ah. at siyempre, nagmukha rin pala akong tanga, FYI. ako lang sumasayaw e. ang corny kasi ng mga kasama ko. sabi ko "sayaw tayo!". and i guess they thought i was just joking since they gave me weird looks and just laughed at me! oh whatever! if you won't dance with me, i'll dance alone! AND I DID! I REALLY DID. nagmukha ngang tanga talaga. naku kung wala lang si patrod tsaka si joyce, tinodo ko na yun. medyo nahiya naman ako e. haha :D

but this is the BEST PART!!
when they sang "let's twist again", i couldn't help myself! i danced and "twisted"! HAHAHA! Pepe looked at me and winked. he was also laughing! he even pointed at me and said "uy, okay toh ah" (in the mic). and he didn't do that just once! he took notice of me about 3-4 times! promise, i'm not joking or being feeling! and you know how pepe looks at you, it's as if you're the only girl in the world? and you could just melt! ahhhh :X now, if only rocky did that to me, that would've been a different story. i would have collapsed in an instant if rocky did that to me haha!

naku, miranda. sayang. just to make it clear, i don't like like pepe ok? nakakatuwa lang siya. and i really don't fancy guys who are already married. haha sorry. nyahaha :P

promise, ask kay, arra, and megan! pepe kept on looking at me coz apparently, i was the only one really dancing (or more like looking stupid). lalo na when he was really staring, tinodo ko ung sayaw ko! and kay even shouted "go ishi!" HAHAHA. good times.

THEN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
when we followed them "backstage", there were a lot other girls in front of me. as in tipong natatakpan na nila kalahati ng mukha ko? then jayjay looked at me, then waved and said HI!!!

JAYJAY and PEPE remembered me!

jayjay waved at me! as in me alone!

AHHH. ewan ko na lang kung talagang feeling ako at talagang tumingin siya sa may likod at nagkataon pa nandun ako. tapos halos natatakpan na ako ng mga babae sa harapan. tapos tumingin pa siya sa may likod kung nasaan ako, tapos dun pa siya nag-hi? e pwede naman siya maghi sa mga girls sa harap a. e hindi e. halos di na nga ako kita, talagang sumilip pa siya tapos NAG HI!!!

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! he remembers me!!! :D :D for guys who don't know, jayjay introduced himself (complete with "hi, im jayjay.what's your name" and shaking of hands! that was when we were the only guys left backstage after their gig. then we talked a bit. and oh yeah, we introduced ourselves (using our names, fyi) HAHA)

AHHHHHH :D hahaha. :X

and when pepe saw me, he asked me:
pepe: hi. :D you were the one dancing in front di ba?
me: yeah. haha :D
pepe: haha galing ah. thank you. that was fun.

okayyyy. natanga naman ako after. :P arrrgh! even with rocky! i was too bangag! i should've told him that miranda said hi and that i'll see him next gig at eastwood (30). then i also should've told him advance happy bday! nyargh! rar. ang torpe ko talaga!

and oh yeah, IT NEVER STOPPED RAINING!!!!!!!!!!!!!! as in we were all there standing and freezing with umbrellas! my clothes were really wet.WAHAHA.

rocky: grabe guys, bilib talaga ako sa inyo. ngayon lang talaga nangyari na umuulan sa gig tapos ang daming tao sa harapan.

but, of course, rocky, i was there e! i was the one who was so game that i practically made a fool out of myself by starting the dance mood. =))

and my shoes got soaked! it's such a suicide for girls to wear brand-new shoes in the rain! yeah! the shoes i wore were brand-new! and they got soaked! as in may swimming pool sa loob ng sapatos ko. oh my poor, poor, pretty shoes :((

Oh well, anything for the boys. :D

can't wait for the next gig. :D it's rocky's bday! wiii :D and i'm going to be with ii2. :D it's also going to be my bday celebration :D i'm just going to treat them to lunch in eastwood since i really don't have time anymore! my sched is going to be filled up by next week.

and don't worry miranda, we'll have a blast on wednesday! :D i miss you!

off i go!

-may 2007-

Friday, May 25, 2007

i'm such a tomboy

i'm so excited to watch Pirates of the Caribbean at World's End!

can you even guess who i'm rooting for?

johnny depp?

nah. too old and gaudy. sorry miranda. haha.

orlando bloom?

nah. he has sharp features. but he's still hot :P

keira knightley?

you got that right! i sooo crush her! haha oo na. tomboy na ako. but she's too hot to ignore! AHHHH :X promise, i'm not kidding. i really like her.

she's soo pretty. :D i just wanna kiss her. (insert guilty face here)

okay, that's enough tomboy-ing for now. :P


-may 2007-

60's :D

just bought the summer platinum collection :D wiii :D it has 3 CDs in it, it was such a steal! :P i think they only sell this is the Phils. woohoo then! :P

i soo love the beach boys. it's like there's a sudden burst of summer fun and sunshine in the room whenever i play their songs. i just get whisked away and feel free again. :D i can nearly smell the beachy air and melting ice cream cones. :D

oo na. OA na ako. but who cares?

you know, there's really something about me that makes me think that i was supposedly born during the 60's. i just so looove thier music back then. don't get me wrong, the music now is great, but i really do prefer the music back then.

do you guys know motown? no? hanggang beatles lang ata alam niyo e. their music was the same time with the beatles. 60's. but they feature the different side of the 60's. the black(afro-american) side. the dance-y side. the soul side of the 60's. haha, oo na. oldie na ako. wala lang. i saw myself so 60's-ish when i attended the swingin 60's party of tito dennis. i knew most of the songs and couldn't help but dance! promise, i was like playing name that tune! i even beat mom and dad!

first stanza pa lang alam ko na.

i love the 60's. :D i also love their clothes! haha uber kewl. and i just love the vinyl records! i also love dad's kwentos of him being the king of the dance floor and how he used to organize all the parties back then. complete with hand calligraphy and medley tunes. ;)

i also love their hair! mom would always tell me how dolled up she would get whenever she went to parties. she was the ultimate fashionista. awww :D


too bad i can't go back into time.


-may 2007-

artsy fartsy hormones

this is weird. it's like other people who i don't get to talk to anymore are doing the same stuff as i am! hmm...i'm wondering. maybe we have the same percentage of raging hormones right now which amplified our inner ambitions? weh jologs. haha. well most of the blogs i read had the phrases
" fixed up my kalat"
"redesigning my room"
" did artworks"
"i miss stc"


is it just me, or are we just really doing and thinking the same things at the same time? without even talking to each other?

hmm...must be the hormones i guess.

haha kidding. :P

maybe changing the look of our rooms just really reflects our inner desires for change. and for better self-expression of artistic perspectives? our cravings and appetite to let loose and just be creative?


thanks guys.

now, i'm even more motivated to do more artsy stuff. i'm thinking of painting my floor. HAHA crazy much?! i'm also thinking of fully painting my windows and maybe create my own curtain. HAHA.

oh yeah, i miss Visual. i miss getting all messy. promise, i was reminiscing all the headaches and mischap highs of VA as i rummaged through my old and "painty" 4th yr school uniforms.

this marks art. :D

this marks another week of pure neckaches and paint-drenched clothes. ;)


-may 2007-

i'm a bit woozy right now. i think it's because of the 2 shots i got a while ago. :( boohoo. i got 2! imagine that! haha.

also had the medical thingy filled up by tita diday.

mehn. mr arms hurt. and i may even have a fever later this evening. i do hope it goes away by tomorrow though. i want to go the BPI event in riverbanks coz the bloomfields will be there! :D haha yeah i know i could just watch them in eastwood every wednesday, but i can't help it! i can't get enough of them! i'm such a weirdo that everytime i enter a music store (which is always), i pick up their album and stare at the cover! haha as if there would be something new in their album every time i pick it up anyway. HAHAHA

e ganyan talaga pag fan girl. :P

yuck haha. but i would prefer to not call myself one. it's bad for the image. haha :D

i'm excited about tomorrow. im with the usual guys. arra,kay, and megan. casuals aren't allowed so it's secured.

yay im gonna see rocky again. wiii :D

oh yeah, the other day, we went to the makati malls. yeah, all of it. starting from SM makati up to Greenbelt 1 baby! haha i know what you're thinking- "WHY?! and HOW?!" haha the answer's easy.

mom had to go to the office early morning and we had no other transpo option, so we took the bait and left at 8 am! ack,i know. early huh?

most of the stores were still closed and the only cheap eating place was McDO! yeah,good old mcdo. as much as i always say that i despise Mcdo coz of it's unjust serving of weird organisms and chemicals, i can still say that they're really dependable. especially when there's no other good food places left. in our case, McDO was the only food chain open, so we had no choice. haha. oh well.

o yeah, we walked the whole thing! so, we were really hungry by the time we arrived at mcdo. :P

headed to greenbelt 3 to buy tickets but it was still closed. good thing timezone was open! waaaaah!!!! it was my dream come true! there was no people in timezone! as in zeroo! so00000000000000000000------we finally played the games we didn't dare play in public in fear of embrassment. HAHAHA wooohoo!!!

it REALLY IS FUN when you're the only people in timezone. it REALLY does pay to be early! kay and i were able to play "unlimited" time crisis II (yeah. i still like II better than III). also went racing. wiiii :P

and air hockey!!! my fave! we actually cheated and made the standard 2-player game into a 4-player one. we just simply got 2 more "hitters" or whatever you call it from the other console.

played basketball. yay. my team always wins. :P

but the best part was when we did karaoke!!!! AS IN!!!! NAGWALA KAMIIIII!!!!!!!!!!!!! we sang(more like shouted) like there was no tomorrow! it was superrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr funnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn !!!!!!! :D

tell me what you want what you really really want. i wanna i wanna wanna zig ziga-------

he was a boy she was a girl. can i make it any more obvious? -----he was skater boy she said seeya later boy----(sk8ter boi by avril lavigne. imagine us jumping ium and down like there's no tomorrow!)

there's nothing i don't know why----(papercut by linkin park. imagine us screaming the rap parts! )

chiksilog....ako ay nahulog sige na naloko alam ko na sikreto mo---kaya pala ang galing mo sa espada si malditaaaa ay lalaki pala--- (chiksilog by kamikazee. eto, feel na feel ko pagkanta dito e. complete with dance steps and sappy emotions!:D )

wouldn't it be nice if we were older then we wouldn't wait so long--(wouldn't it be nice by the beach boys. just love the song)

since you been gone---! (by kelly clarkson .yea talon!)

doobidoo biddobiddo---eto na -eto na---ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh (doo bidoo by kamikazee. yea complete with dance moves yan! haha)

backstreet boys all right!

marami pa kaming kinanta e. nakalimutan ko na.

the best ung narda!!!! AS IN!!!!!! hahaha sooobrang sigaw talaga. para kasing tanga. kala namin nanggago ung katabi naming room na nakikisabay sa pagkanta kaya sobra kaming nagwala. un pala recorded ung boses. nye. soobra talaga. sumakit nga lalamunana ko e.

anyway,


bought tickets for shrek 3 and treated lunch at Di Marks.

i liked the movie. it's cute. :D i heart puss in boots! :D

had a HARRY POTTER 7 reserved! haha, paranoid? i'm excited already! i wanna read it ! aww can't i just cheat and kidnap JK rowling and ask the HP 7 book as ransom? haha kidding.

toodles for now! :P

-may 2007-

Thursday, May 24, 2007

more improvements

i'm on my way to really improve things. :)

just bought a new computer table a while a go. yay finally! after forever! seriously, after all my techno life! this is gonna be my 1st computer table. the old ones aren't actually computer tables. actually, the 1st one is. i think, it's the 1st ever design of a computer table! since at that time, they didn't realize that putting the monitor above eye level STRAINS your eyes! mehn. plus, the material was so sturdy that i think, it's older than me.
so, goodbye old computer table.
i will not miss you and my strained eyes. :P

HELLO new computer table! it's so classy coz it's made out of glass! it caught my eye since it was unique and suits the interiors of the sala. yay. :D

the down side? i still have to assemble it. :P

i'll do that tomorrow.

and

tomorrow, i'm gonna start solving a puzzle that my dad and i bought a few years back. i think it has 500 pieces. it has a koi design. i think. if not, i can always resort myself into solving my HAgrid puzzle. HAHA bakit ba ha?

oh yeah, i forgot. i have to get a medical exam with tita diday for ateneo. waah. i swear. one reason that made me decide to not study in UST is that. for all of you who don't know, tita diday is my pedia. which means, everytime i go to her, (and UST) i feel sick or i have a booster shot. waaah! i'm such a baby. but recalling UST in a pedia room's view isn't very inviting. it makes me all nervous and sick.

and i have to endure all of that together with embarassment. technically, i shouldn't be embarassed since i'm still below 18 for me to go to a pedia but i can't help it! all my "companions" there are babies! what's worse, i can't even fit in the examining bed! haha.


-may 2007-

techno diet?

hey ho! it's been a while, i tell you. i think i survived a whole week without getting near this pesky computer of mine! whatta success! so in one way or another, i went through a techno diet! yay! okay okay, i know a week isn't that much, but hello? for the past 5 years of my life, this computer made me dependent and lazy! the only exercise i got was when i would stand up and push the power button of the printer. wooow.

so, there. be happy for me! nowadays, not using the computer in a couple of days seem impossible and unbelievable. well, at least for me i guess.

so, what DID i do these past few days anyway?

oh, nothing.

i have a NEW ROOM, that's all.

HAHA. kidding.

but it does kinda look new though. and yes! i have finally cleared all my abubot and stc clutter in my room. i don't trip over stuff anymore! you have to commend me on that! since, before, you could hardly see the floor. okay, that's a bit exagerrated. :P but needless to say, my room used to be super messy and stuffy. i was too lazy to sort out my stuff and make ligpit over my high school stuff that i've seen a mouse running around my room.

and yeah, i've finally fixed my art stuff. they're organized---imagine that! my high school stuff were mostly given to aira-my very cute couusin. (hey cuz!) and the rest were introduced to the trash bin.

i can't believe it! my room is FINALLY CLEAN. and i tell you, cleaning it was far from easy. and did i mention that i used at least 6 garbage bags?! HAHA. told you i had a lot of grabage in my room! just imagine scratch papers dating back to when i was in 1st yr! hahaha. tipong mga hand outs ng mga short stories? hahaha. and quiz papers! my gally. looking over my scores felt good. and bad for some. (esp 2nd yr) haha.

my study table is finally cleared up and not cluttered with books and papers. my shelves now boast a display of NASA scale models and astronauts. :D

BUT-
i had to give up my old stuffed toys to make room for my books and notebooks. putting them away made my heart break. i swear. i even had to close my eyes while i was putting them in a bag. i said goodbye to most of them. :( but some of them will be back on a different shelf. they'll just take a bath. ;) wink wink*

and oh! i can finally say that i did something productive this summer! i made some "artworks". yay, finally!
here are some of what i already did:
i painted my window with glass paint.
i ditched my foamies artworks and replaced my nameplate with a hand-painted porcelain one. i also photo-emulsioned my alarm clock.
i painted my radio a 60's/psychedelic design. it's soo hippie. :D
i painted my tin lunch box.
i painted an old glass bottle into a stained-glass vase/pencil case.


AND
i organized all my art stuff into drawers.
i cleared my drawers.
i ditched my old uniforms. ((and will replace them with new "uniforms" (wink*) divisoria here i come!)
i have a DISCO BALL IN MY ROOM. :D now, beat that! haha. :P

my next projects?
create a warhol-like poster to complete the 60's vibe.
clear out old bath stuff like gels and shampoos.
paint my medicine cabinet.
donate my old shoes and clothes. (i'm half-way)
remove grime-from-adhesives from my door.
find a lava lamp.
find a place to stick my totempole back-drop.
arrange my last batch of stuffed toys.
make Coco a new house!

and oh-find a scent for my room.

i'll try to post some pics.

off i go! :D


-may 2007-

Wednesday, May 16, 2007

haha yeah, i'm back to posting regular entries again. yeah, i'm glued to this pc again! hmmm... maybe i should also go on a techno diet, right miranda?

e wala e. pati si miranda di nakaya.

i saw her online just a few minutes after seeing her techno diet commitment post on her blog.

gosh.

summer's gonna end real soon, and i haven't done anything productive yet! shit. what's new anyway?

what happened to my "learn japanese during summer" promise?

damn mehn.

i am currently inspired and somewhat ashamed of myself after reading and viewing some blogs and artwork.

i just realized that my deviantart has nothing in it. as in zero. :O i'm such a loser!

i'm actually really ashamed to admit this, but it's the truth. i haven't really developed as an artist at all. i haven't outgrown my "mukhang ginawa ng artistic grade-schooler" and my "maganda ung gawa niya kasi maganda ung materials na ginamit niya" thingy.

hopefully, i would evolve some time soon. i bought a lot of new stuff in michael's (fyi: michael's = US arts & crafts store) and i'm excited to try new methods. maybe now, i can make stained glass art. :)

i'm currently painting my white tin lunch box (but imma use it as a bag. yeah i know. weird.). i do hope it comes out okay. :)

off i go!


-may 2007-

OH MY GALLY.

only now have i realized that i only have less a month to bum around! shit mehn.

2 summers ago, i disntinctively remember posting a status msg in ym saying "i hate summer. i wanna go to school".

GAGA.

yeah, WHAT WAS I THINKING?

at sino lang ba ang may ayaw ng summer?

haha nerd. :-B

GAGA. :P

it's as if it was only yesterday that i started complaining how the summer has been so dragging and boring only after the week of graduation.

waah. i wanna go out. i wanna dance ang go wild again. i wanna laugh out REAL LOUD again. i miss jumping around and feeling bangag.

and yeah, i'm guilty. sometimes, i secretly love the pressure of school work.

WAAAH i'm dying to get out. i wanna relive my crazy side again. nyahaha :P

HELP ME.


-may 2007-

daily rantings

it's been 2 days already since i arrived from the states and i'm still jet lag. :( the other day, i woke up at 4 pm! talk about being pooped.

yesterday i was so jet lag that i was able to sleep at 530 am already! mehn. that was my 1st serious jet lag thing.

good thing that i was showing signs of adjustment this morning. i woke up at 5 am for pete's sake! it felt like a school day and everybody was shocked to see me actually awake and eating breakfast. hahaha :D

just got the ORSEM letter this morning and realized that i have a whole day orientaion on june 8. yup, my birthday! haha this would be fun. :P at least nobody there would know that it's actually my bday. hassle pa coz june 8 is also the management night so i have to stay up to 7 pm! oh well, sanayan lang yan.

oh well, my bday is not going to be "grand" like it used to be. to tell ya the truth, i'd just rather spend my bdays at home or spend it as any regular day. maybe i just don't like all the attention. and i hate the fact that i have to add one to my age.

i'm really nervous. i don't want to go to college yet. i'm not yet ready. it also doesn't help that JGSOM has the widest number of valedictorians, salus, and honors. and what do i got? i'm definitely not one of the choices above. mehn, AYOKO NA.

i have this weird feeling that if i had enrolled in another school like DLSU/UST/UA&P perse, i would have been more excited. maybe because i know that i won't have a hard time there compared to ateneo. maybe this ego of mine refuses to be squished by smarties. hay.

my skin is in its worst state right now. maybe it's due to my irregular sleeping patterns. my skin is breaking out real bad. :((


-may 2007-


and oh yeah, my pic was posted at the gmask site already! http://www.gmask.com.ph/galleria_customers_page.php yesss model :))
i miss my hair. :( i just realized that short hair isn't really for me. my cheeks appear larger than usual and my body looks lanky! i may have looked nice when i got out of the salon, but after a few days, it was just a catastrophe.


i miss my longer hair. can't i just glue back my hair?

-may 2007-

Tuesday, May 15, 2007

US trip 2007

Now where do I start? Hmm…blogging a series of 18 days isn’t easy. :P plus, it doesn’t help that each day was jam-packed with exciting things.

To start off, I had fun. And yeah, I’m on the road of overcoming my fear of riding planes. :D
Brace yourselves guys! This may be my longest entry EVER. Hahaha :D

April 25
I had a hard time sleeping. I guess I was too excited? Haha I think I was able to sleep at around 11 pm already, which was bad since I had to wake up at 2 am the following morning. We got upgraded to 1st class! Well not all 4 us. Only ate and I were upgraded. The flight was fully booked so we thought that the chances of being upgraded to 1st class was far from possible.

The guy in the check-in counter even “chased” us just to give us new boarding tickets. CREDITS to the client of ate in northwest.

It was obvious that my sister and I were so fascinated with the 1st class area that we kept on pressing different buttons! Hahaha :D it was soooo cool! The chair was huge compared to the economy ones. There was enough leg room for two more chairs and there was even a massager option in our chairs! Hahaha J you can also recline your seat up to 180 degrees! Which is incomparable to the 100 degree possibility with the economy class J you can even lengthen the foot rest or have your pillow inflated! Hahaha :D I had my OWN tv screen where I could choose from a wide range of movies, games, music, etcetera! Is it obvious that I was too pysched to get my hands into the controls that I didn’t sleep at all?! Hahaha J the food was delish and didn’t had that usual yucky taste that plane food have. And the food was served in glassware. And not the disposable plastic ones. J was it obvious that I was so happy that I finished all my food?

All I can say is that it was classy. Classy mehn.

Well at least only up to Nagoya, japan. We weren’t upgraded anymore since the seats we had in 1st class were already booked.

Oh well. How I wished to be upgraded to 1st class going to Detroit instead of japan. The flight to Detroit would weigh more since it was 11 hours. While the flight to japan was only 4 hours. Oh well. I wasn’t able to sleep. For about 11 hours, I only got about 2 hours sleep. Yeah. And that’s already when I drank a pill that would make me feel woozy. It also didn’t help that it was so turbulent that I wanted to hurl. We also didn’t have aisle or window seats. Bummer.

After 11(which took forever) dreadful hours, we had to face immigration and customs. They weren’t nice at all. And very narrow-minded, if you ask me. It was new to me that I had to press my finger into this red screen for security reasons. last time I went to the US, I just remembered standing behind this yellow line.

The customs people were a lot more accommodating. It was such a blessing since they didn’t inspect our baggages anymore for declaration since they were too happy to realize that we overdeclared the money and not underdeclared it. J

I think the customs lady thought I was an 11 yr old since when we told her that we were going to Disneyworld and the Smithsonian, she talked to me as if I was a little girl. She gave me this expression of forced amusement that I used to see in grown-ups when I was still a little girl.

Good thing they didn’t check our bags anymore! we almost missed our Orlando flight! The doors were about to be closed when we arrived. Now I remember Detroit. The Detroit airport is HUGE! They have trains to bring you to terminals.

it was a 2 hour flight and the lady beside me kept on laughing while watching nick cannon on her portable dvd player. Good for her.

Anyway, arriving in the Orlando airport was surreal. We made it! wipee! Now all I thought about were happy thoughts of Disneyworld :D I was so tired but I couldn’t resist the sights. I kept on looking at everything! But the first thing I did was to breathe US air. There’s really something I love about the air there. J it smells good mehn. hahaha J

Checked in at the Hilton hotel. Ate and I shared the room 936. and mom and dad at room 990. hmm…about the Hilton hotel, I expected too much. I tell you, the Hilton hotel wasn’t that grand as I expected. It didn’t even looked like a 5-star hotel to me. And if it weren’t the sign Hilton, I wouldn’t even know that this was actually THE Hilton hotel. Our hotels here in Manila are even nicer. The interiors weren’t that impressive and weren’t classy. The lobby ceiling wasn’t that high at all and the rooms kinda looked like standard hotel rooms. It didn’t look like a suite or anything.

But what I did I find impressive was their line of free toiletries. It was branded. Crabtree and evelyn. :D and they even had mouthwash. Hahaha :D my sister and I started hoarding the stuff and were happy to find new sets everyday. :D

Gosh, I was so tired that I quickly took a bath and slept. We were supposed to go to downtown Disney but I told them I was too tired. So we ordered room service instead. Spaghetti and meatballs. Gosh, the serving was soooo big, considering that it was part of a kiddie meal! Hahaha.

April 26

The next day, we got the tickets at Epcot. Only ate and I went since mom and dad rested. It was amazing! Epcot is my favorite Disney theme park. :D haha they were all surprised hear me say this since my old time fave was magic kingdom. I guess I kinda outgrown it already. Epcot is where you can travel in about 11 countries (Canada, UK, Norway, Germany, italy, japan, china, france, morocco, and US) ! going from one country to another only takes about a 5-minute walk. The architectures were amazing. For each country, they would have a miniature version of a famous landmark. And in the stores, they would have native items. Like for france, they have an Eiffel tower and would sell perfume and artistic stuff.

I even got an epcot passport and had it stamped per country. Ate was too embarrassed to even fall in line. So every time, I had to bare the humiliation of having 2 passports signed along with kids half my size. It’s even worse when they ask my age!

April 27
NASA baby! Gosh, I’m such a nerd. I love everything space! I EVEN BOUGHT 3 SCALE MODELS TO PROVE IT. when I was a kid, I always dreamt of being an astronaut. It just seemed soo cool. It was just so nice to go back to the place where my first dream developed.

Apollo 11. the imax movies were superb! :D

April 28
MGM studios. Cool backdrops. But the stunt show was soooo great! As in! cars splitting into two?! Extreme stunts while driving backwards? Well that’s only how it looks, but the driver is driving forward, only the chassis is inverted. :D I’ll post pics. Mgm was a bit of a drag. Kinda a waste of money, actually. It’s kinda small.

April 29
Went to church mary, queen of the universe. How I wish Filipinos could be a lot more like Americans. And I’m not saying this because I have a colonial mentality. Regardless of race and culture, Filipinos should learn how to be more courteous and polite. I mean, hello? During communion, Filipinos would usually race down the aisle. And in public areas, Filipinos usually bump each other just to get by and would not even say sorry or excuse me when they hit somebody. Filipinos don’t even bother saying welcome when you say thank you. Americans, on the other hand are so conscious of space that they say excuse me and even apologize when they come close to you accidentally. And I mean, a meter apart, they still say “excuse me”. They always say welcome when you thank them and would often offer a hand even when you don’t ask help from them. I’m not saying all Filipinos are rude. It’s just sometimes depressing to realize that we have a lot of uneducated people here in our country.

And oh yeah, in the US, you can walk barefoot on the road without having to worry about stepping on another person’s saliva.

Anyway, after going to mass, we went to magic kingdom. And o yeah, kuya david and ate were already with us. pirates of the carribean :D it made me more excited about the new movie. It was a blast!

I finally got to ride space mountain and even wanted to ride a couple more times. Haha it was fun screaming at the top of my lungs. Hahaha :D

It’s a small world. Gosh, there was only one Filipina doll and it looked out of place pa! it was beside Hawaii and Switzerland. Right, DUH.

Rode Winnie the pooh. :P
Bought a scratch and sniff chocolate shirt. Yum :D

I just realized that ate is a bigger chicken than I am. Her palms were soaking wet after. Nyahaha. She wouldn’t even accompany me in thunder mountain! Only kuya david and ate anne were willing to. It was fun even though it was cold (it was night already). Watched the parade 2 times. And I think dad enjoyed more than I did. Haha. And oh yeah, I visited minnie’s house again. :D I think they changed the seat cover. Hahaha.

April 30

Epcot again. Ate at the electric umbrella and got fast passes to test track. It’s a ride where you ride a car that undergoes crash tests. Tihee :D I forced dad and ate marissa to go hahaha. :D dad and ate were already having 2nd thoughts about riding. Hahaha :D

One of my fave rides is mission space! It’s so much fun. It’s a simulated space ride where you go to mars. We chose the less intense training since mom was with us. it was sooooo REAL. And I mean it really did! I really did feel my face stretch. Hahaha. And I felt weightless. And it was hard moving because there was a certain force that pushes my arms backward. Slow-mooooo. I was the pilot! Hahaha. Dad was the enginner. And ate was the commander. Gosh. It really makes me wonder how they were able to make that ride. It was so amazing and REAL! :D the advanced training was so cool! As in you’re like in NASA and you’re controlling the space ships! It was soo cool! It was just like in the movies.:)

Went to living with the land, nemo &friends (it was sooo cute and real! They mixed the animated dory(surgeon fish) & nemo (clownfish) with real fish. It was so incredible!

Watched Illuminations-fireworks. I got to use the fireworks option in my cam. :D

May 1
Animal kingdom

Watched it’s tough to be a bug. Cool :D they even had a real stink spray when a bug farted. Hahaha. And the cockroaches “poked” my back. Ate at restaurantosaurus. (mcdo). And tried to get a fastpass for safari but it was too late. After walking under the scorching sun for 20 minutes, we found out that all the fastpasses for safari were distributed already. Ate and I just laughed over our frustration. HAHA.


Went back to ride EXPEDITION EVEREST!!!! That’s my favorite ride ever!!! Ate marissa was showing signs of chickening out but I talked her into it. J

TRIVIA: there really is such a thing of a yeti university, and a YETI! A professor established the university because he proved that there was really such thing as a yeti. There was even a cast of the yeti’s footprint. And there were also authentic pictures of the yeti found in a deserted campsite!

Hanep ung ride. You ride this crazy train which goes through uphills and drops until you finally find a torn track and are about to fall through a cliff when the train goes backwards. And I tell you, that feeling is intense! All I could do was scream! Hahaha! Then you meet this mad yeti who drops you. Hahaha. I rode that for 3 times! I even had a thumbs-up pose in one of the pictures! Hahaha. After that, I felt so dizzy that I had a swagger to my walk.

Also rode the primeval whirl. Crazy mehn. :P

Watched nemo the musical. It was cute.:D

Finally rode the safari and felt the beauty of Africa. I felt I was reliving my ultimate dream – to be a biologist in Africa. :D I adore animals and the African savanna. :D

Rode the train to rafiki’s and went to the affection section. Cute goats J one tried to chew my dress!

May 2
Went online. Gosh, the internet there is a robbery! 20 cents per minute. You load the money and a card comes out. You insert the card into the computer and it unlocks itself. And when the time’s up, it suddenly spits out your card and the pc locks itself. My gosh. Ate and I were trying to locate a michael’s store nearby. And I tell you, it wasn’t easy, especially that their addresses are all numbers of boulevards or something!

Just stayed at the hotel since ate and kuya david weren’t feeling well. Ordered room service and watched “because I said so”. Gosh, the movie was horrible! It was like a pinoy movie where the girl falls for the “good” and “kawawa” guy. The ending was even more dreadful! When mandy and the guy kissed, all the other people started making out. Even old grannies. Ewww. It was soo cheesy and not well thought-off.

Went to downtown Disney and watched cirque du soleil. La Nouba. :D it was so amazing! Too bad we couldn’t take any photography of any kind. L it was just soooooo amazing! It’s like a circus minus the trecheary to animals.

Ate at PLANET HOLLYWOOD baby! We felt like superstars! Apparently, the card that was given to us by the hotel was actually a VIP card. :D nyahaha.

May 3
Went online for 5 minutes! Haha J just peeped in ym. J then we went to shop at Michael’s!!!!!!!!!!!! ahhhhh dream come true!!! :D for those of you who don’t know Michael’s, it’s an ARTS AND CRAFTS store. You name it, they got it. as in super! You could leave me there for a whole day!!!! I could get crazy in there :P

They had a sale so yay for me :D their acrylic paints were sold for only 50 cents!!!! I mean hello? Here, it’s sold for about a hundred plus!! Their stamps were also in sale. All 50 cents. My golly. 0_o I also got interested with their glass mosaic line and stained glass section. Wipeee :D

Ate lunch and went back to the hotel to catch the shuttle to Lake Buena Vista outlets. Gosh!!!! You know, I love Divisoria and all, but when US brands have sales, they practically give their stuff to you! Imagine this. Nine West shoes. Usually 5,000 php here, right? But when you use a 50% coupon, it’s such a steal! Plus, if it’s already on sale, you have an additional less 20% !!!!! ate’s shoes were only 20$!! It used to be 60$. Old navy and gap stuff are so cool. Their cute flip flops are just like 150 php! and that’s not even with the coupon!! I was even surprised to see my bill because it was so low! Haha turns out, there were additional discounts!!! Waaa :D

I felt so independent and lady-like. I was finally shopping ON MY OWN. We all went to separate directions since we only had 2 hrs to shop. Haha it was so much fun. The wind blowing my hair. My shopping bags swaying in sync. Hahaha. Kulang na lang paparazzi! J)

Went to claire’s but I didn’t fancy anything. I guess I kinda outgrown it already. Not like before, I used to go gaga whenever I enter a claire’s store. So I admit, I was a lot more kikay back then. now, I’m more subtle. I’d rather spend for nice clothes than accessories. ;)


May 4

Transferred to ANIMAL KINGDOM LODGE. It’s an African savanna. I really felt like I was in Africa. The interiors mehn were very impressive. Giraffes and ostriches were just below our room balcony. The bed was uncomfy though. Not like in Hilton. I stayed in the upper deck, and I guess going down takes practice. :P

Went to Epcot again and ate at the electric umbrella (yes, again!). got a fast pass for mission space and rode the Intense training.(orange!) ate was even hesitant to accompany me. Haha. Grabe. It was SO INTENSE! I felt like barfing! A guy even threw up! Good thing they had those barf bags inside. But it was fun.

Ate at THE LAND. Went to Canada to have our passports stamped. :Dwipee J
Watched the French 180 degrees film again. Gosh, I wanna go there. I do hope our Europe trip will push through next yr. :D

Rode test track again, but I was alone. :P haha the American girls started screaming after I screamed haha. :D
Did the laundry until 2 am. I guess we were a bit anxious about doing the laundry after that Australia incident. (note: soap suds overflowed all over the floor of the apartment!)
Fortunately, this time we got the laundry right. :D

May 5
Went to Disney Quest. It felt like being in an arcade! But you don’t have to pay. :D cool. :D but their games were a bit old school. Some seem like it was created using turbo pascal! Hahaha. There was this fun ride called astro blaster. It’s like a bumper car but you get to vacuum up dodge balls and launch them to your opponent. When it hits them, they spin for about 15 seconds! Cool huh?

Rode a water taxi and hopped from resort to resort. Grand Floridian & Polynesian resort. Headed for magic kingdom and rode the haunted mansion. Ate dinner at casey’s and watched the parade before going home.

May 6
It was a good day to head for the water parks. It was sooo freaking HOT! Manila may be warm, but it isn’t burning hot! Manila is humid, while US isn’t so it really burns skin!
Went to tyohoon lagoon first. Rode the storm slides, Keelhaul falls, and mayday falls! I tell you, splash island will seem like a baby slide after you ride these! Intense :D the crush n’ gusher was my favorite!!!! It’s a water coaster that lauches you to uphill climbs and drops! It’s like no other water slide!!! And we rode all 3! Coconut plunger, banana blaster, and pineapple crusher! My fave is the coconut plunger! it was sooo steep! Hahaha :D you ride in a donut-like floater, so don’t worry. :D

Headed for blizzard beach. :D rode the snow stormers! It’s a switchback slalom-style mat slide. It’s like a riding a sled! Also rode toboggan racers. Intense. :D high drops mehn. :D and guess what? They have this ride called the SUMMIT PLUMMET!! It’s a 120 FOOT VERTICAL FREE_FALLLING BODY SLIDE. Most intense ever. But I didn’t ride it coz the line was so looong. And oh yeah, I swan in the wave pool. Again, it was intense! The Fontana waves will seem like a ripple next to the waves there! As in their waves may be at least 10 feet tall! And it wipes you out just like that! Hahaha :D

Also rode cross country creek. That made me have this tan right now.

It rained hard so we went back to the hotel.

May 7

Flight to Washington DC and was picked up by kuya Joey. Headed to Delaware, which was a 3 hr drive! It was nice seeing billy & julianne again. How bad I wanted to play with them like I used to. Ack, I hate this adult thing going on. Why can’t I be the same age as they are? It would be more fun.

Went to michael’s again. Yay :D

May 8
Went to the Washington memorial and the Capitol. :D also saw the department of justice, the old post office, and the white house!!! :D which was kinda bad since we were stuck in traffic since the president had to come through! Rar. Haha. But at least I got that “close” to the president. Haha.

Checked in at the Harrington Hotel. My gosh. It really is an OLD hotel. It was built on 1917!! Plus, the bathrooms were creepy! It looked like as if it was the kind of bathrooms used during the World War! It looked like a chamber cell and I could envision Natzis.

Hahaha. I didn’t even locked the bathroom door in fear of being locked in! hahaha. :D

But the location is incomparable!!! It was in the center of anything!!! We just walked a few blocks to get to the white house, Lincoln memorial, Smithsonian museums, and the spy museum!

May 9
Smithsonian museums :D I couldn’t believe that admission was free! Believe me, the place was so impressive! It’s very educational and interesting too! I was even more impressed with the Smithsonian air and space museum compared to NASA! They have a lot of spaceships and documented the 1st ever plane made by the Wright brothers. Mom and dad were too tired to roam around so I was again going around the place like this geekazoid, reading and trying to comprehend everything that I see. Grabe, you wouldn’t believe how amazing that place is if you haven’t been there yet. And it’s free! Some English guy donated his riches to DC without even seeing how the US looked like. Mehn.

Also went to the Smithsonian natural museum. The fossils were so amazing! You wouldn’t believe how much fossils they have actually collected! They had a T-rex, triceratops, pterodactyl, long-neck, tortoise, primeval fish, and a whole lot MORE! As in! this only made more inspired in pursuing my dream of being a biologist. Too bad I’m stuck with management. L

The day was bitin so we came back the next day. :D

May 10
Smithsonian natural museum again. :D
I saw the hope diamond! Gawd it was HUGE! It’s the biggest and rarest diamond in the whole wide world! And it is also believed to have a curse. Hmm..it used to be bigger but was stolen and cut and was only donated it to the museum. The gallery was filled with the biggest and rarest gems I have ever seen! The biggest topaz-emerald-ruby. You name it! grabe talaga. You’d actually think they’re fake since they’re soo big!!! And they have a lot of gems, so it makes you wonder why people would donate these stuff to a museum.

SPY MUSEUM BABY!!!! OHEMGEE! So there really such a thing as an umbrella gun, a micro-dot camera, a lipstick gun!, a shoe tape recorder, nail guns, camera sunglasses, invisible ink, codes (using belts and letters), necktie cameras, and MANY MORE!!! It’s sooo cool! At the start, you are asked to memorize a series of information.
Example:
You are an undercover spy:
Name: jane meyer
Age: 13
Residence: USAbirthplace: sweetwater, Tenn.
Destination: duplin, Ireland
Purpose: vacation
Duration: 7 days
Occupation: student

After that, you enter a briefing/training room and then there are computers where you are to be interrogated by an immigrations officer. There’s even a suspicion meter! When you get something wrong, you might get arrested for being a spy! Fortunately, I got all the info right and proceeded with my 2nd mission.

Mission: go to the national museum of Ireland
Purpose: know about Vikings
Meet : forgot the name! haha

And you’ll be interrogated again at the end of the tour.

It was very educational, and the museum was sprawling! From the outside it looked small! There were A LOT of galleries and real devices used as spying devices during the World War! And there are a lot of interactive devices too. :D kewl :-B too bad I couldn’t take any kind of photography. L

May 11
Aww our last day! We went to the zoo and for the first time, commuted! Usually we just walk..but here we took the subway! Gosh. I think the last time I ever rode the subway was about 8 yrs ago!!! Yeah, in new york. The subway “cave: or whatever you call it was huge! The escalator ride itself already made me nauseous of the height! I’m guessing it’s about more than 100 ft deep. Duh. Maybe even 200.

The Smithsonian zoo was nice. Very clean and well-maintained considering that the admission is free. We first saw the pandas. :D ahhhh ishipanda. :P Tai shan’s sooo cute! He likes to run a lot, which is weird for a panda! Hahaha and the dad was sleeping in his den the whole time we were there. It was as if he wanted to tell us “I’m trying to sleep here! Leave me alone!” awww :D

I have a stuffed toy of tai shan by the way. He sleeps with me every night. :D

Went to Georgetown and ate at Bet & Jerry’s! yeah, the famous ice cream place! And it was soo sulit since we had 2 coupons of buy one take one ice cream. :D wipee. I got the strawberry cheesecake. Yeah, forever strawberry. It tasted heavenly. But haagen dazs is still my fave.


Strolled for a while with mom. Georgetown is so nice! It’s like you’re in the old days! Their shops are like 50’s style.

Went to this shop called urban outfitters. I like their stuff there. It’s so spunky and colorful. But the price aint! A blouse for 48$?!!! Puhleassse! I bet Divisoria has those kind of clothes.

I ended up going to barnes & noble, which is weird since there’s a branch in front of our hotel! Haha. Didn’t buy anything and went to the union station to eat dinner, look around, and went home.

Passed by the barnes & noble bookstore near our hotel and was surprised to see shelves of manga!!!!! I was soo excited! Too bad they didn’t have kashimashi or ouran! Which is weird since there’s kahimashi 1 being sold in Virgin music store. They had a lot of fruit baskets manga. I was even tempted to buy one but I guess I would only get bitin since ther are more than 10 series, and I’m only going to buy one?! Hahaha :P I guess I got too overwhelmed with their selection that I didn’t buy any. Nyahaha :P

Dinner at Harry’s. shit ang dami kong kinain. As in I even asked for the leftovers of mom and ate! Hahaha :P

May 11
Woke up at around 545 am. Showered and finished my packing before eating breakfast. The flight was about 11 I think. 1 hr flight to Detroit, a 13 hr flight to Nagoya, japan, and another 4 hr flight to manila.

Shuccks. I think I only had a sum of 3 hrs sleep from the whole 18 hr travel time! And to think, I already drank a sleeping pill. Mehn.

It’s good to be back home. Even though I still despise the rudeness of most Filipinos, it still feels great to be back home. J

Arrived here at around 12 mn. I was soo tried that I woke up at 4 pm the next day! Ack haha. :P

Byers for now. I do hope that you didn’t get bored reading my entry. And if you read from start to end, wow, congratulations! :D

-may 2007-