High School Never Ends

bye2 onion headHey guys! I met my high school friends yesterday to celebrate Wash’s 17th birthday! It was really great seeing them again. We shared our college tales and laughed like old times. Being with them makes me feel like I’m still in high school. We watched Man of Steel too! It wasn’t as good as I expected from the trailer and the loads of advertisement being shown for it. The scenes were quite messy and the dialogue was plain. Nothing stood out except for the CGI, I guess.

Anyway, I’m really happy! happy onion headI love them lots, and I can’t wait for Petreen’s birthday celebration on (pending) July 6! Weeee♥

Some of them are developing vomit habits for some unknown reason. I guess they’re adjusting to the college stress? Eating problems maybe? Hope they get well soon, though. dong onion head

On a different note, our table reunion might be moved to the 29th since a friend of ours will have some college activity to attend to on the 22nd. Also, we will be able to watch Monsters University if we go with the 29th! victory onion head

Since we moved the date, however, this means that I have no excuse not to go to the seminar in my dad’s office. The speaker will be the same one who spoke during the meeting last May, so I’m not looking forward to it. The reason for this second gathering is because last time, we were separated into two groups, and each group had a task to accomplish. After a month, we will have to present our analysis and explain it in front of the rest of them (aka this Saturday).

I mentioned something above about disliking the speaker, right? Well, perhaps it has something to do with age because they feel that being older equates to being wiser. I, on the other hand, beg to differ. He should learn to step down from his high horse and adapt to the modern lifestyle and terminologies. He keeps on repeating how the new generation uses a lot of jargon and other fancy terms for things that could be simplified. Although this may contain some truth in it, I think that people sometimes prefer using these jargon and terms so they could communicate with others more efficiently. It’s like saying “why use aqua blue when you can just say blue?”

For an art student like me, each color is important. You can’t just say you used blue to color the sky. There are several shades evident in coloring to add depth. If you were to stick to his logic of simplifying everything, you’d end up with a mess. eaten alive onion head

In addition, his overall message has no uniqueness to it. It’s similar to all the other speeches I’ve heard in the other talks I’ve attended. With the abundance of quotes and articles in the internet, it isn’t hard to read something that will generally give the same idea as them. What I think is important, therefore, is the way the speaker is able to send that lesson to his audience…and honestly, I don’t think he has that impact. He’s too focused on his central idea of what he thinks is best that he fails to realize the concept of change. Although he speaks of change, he does not adapt this. True, he may be a professional with the diploma, certificate, approval seal, or whatever has been given to him, but just as he said, those are simply titles. Those titles do not measure your ability. He can’t act superior because he has a teaching degree. He should share his message in a way that shows sincerity in helping the second generation–not for the sake of letting them know how smart he is or how much he knows about the company.

Okay, I’m losing track of this entry’s main purpose. beg onion headI might blog about fathers day some other time. Whoops.

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Opened Windows

angel2 onion headTadaahh! I’m using new emoticons now. ♥

Good evening, readers! It’s been a long time since I blogged. My week wasn’t very hectic, but nevertheless, I was tired most of the time. It’s been raining heavily recently (poor sky has been crying), and just last Thursday, a river sprung in front of my school where dry land used to be.

Okay, I’m talking about the really deep floods.

Anyway, I just had my make-up class this afternoon, and I found out that I have another take-home quiz for philits. It includes making a comic strip…gah.

I just finished writing the speech for my team mate for our poligov debate this upcoming Monday, and I have yet to write my own. It has to be at least 3 minutes long, so I’m really too lazy and not motivated to do it. Did I mention I’m uninterested to do it too? Speaking of poligov, we also have a project that’s due on Wednesday. Thankfully, I have some cool group mates who have done their part, so I just have to assemble the thing by tomorrow night.  dead onion head Also, I’m glad that I didn’t procrastinate ’cause some of my friends haven’t started on the reaction paper regarding the short story “Children of the City” and they haven’t done the two homework for filipino class. Weee~♥

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I got to meet some high school friends/batch mates today as well! Although a lot of them weren’t my close friends, it was still nice to chill with them again.

Regarding this matter, I actually have something to rant. It started raining heavily around 4pm to 5pm and for some reason, my phone’s signal disappeared. I had no bars at all! bird onion headDesperate to go home already, I tried calling home as soon as I got even one bar of signal. I didn’t trust calling cellphones too ’cause it was possible that the other phones had no connections as well. After answering my call, I told our house helper to phone our driver and tell him to go to the place where I got dropped off. Apparently, they didn’t tell my driver very well, so it took a long time for him to get there. When he did, however, he didn’t stop the car! He just continued driving off, so in the spur of the moment, I rushed out and ran after the car. wait onion head The pavements were wet from the rain, so I had that second thought of “what if I fall omg no”. Overall, it wasn’t a great thing to experience.

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Opened Windows refer to being open to new things. I believe that I am slowly learning how to cope with different people and under different occasions. This is the second half of the year, so I’d like to make the most of it! (Haha lame. Honestly though, I wrote “opened windows” ’cause I’m beside a window right now. Plus, I hate opened windows because I can smell the sewage and feel the humidity)

My 18th birthday is coming up in a few months and I’m really worried about it. I don’t know how I’ll celebrate or how I’ll make it memorable. There are a couple of people I’m planning on inviting as well, but then there’s no point to it ’cause they might feel out of place in the company of my high school/initial group of friends.confused onion headMaybe it might be better if I just have a small dinner for my little circle of friends…

Oh, well. That’s 3 months from now. I really wish my schedule for the second term won’t be bad, ’cause it might get in the way of my plans.

Speaking of plans, I have so many plans right now. Today, I originally had a dentist appointment, but it has been moved to the 28th (next next Friday). I had a make up class, though and I met up with friends; therefore, today was still busy. My Saturday tomorrow will be spent celebrating Wash’s birthday while on Sunday, naturally, I’ll be in church then probably a mall after. For Monday to Thursday, I have school. If my professor can’t find another vacant schedule, I might end up having another make up class next Friday (cries). Although this is still not official, there are plans for another table reunion next Saturday. Then repeat everything!silence onion headBusyyyy.

That’s it for this post! I think I’ve blabbed a little too much. Good night, guys!

P.S. I think my grammar is deteriorating.

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Staring at the Ceiling

Okay, my thoughts are still a bit messed up. Partially, it might be because I’m tired from being out ’til midnight yesterday, and partially, it might also be because of blehs. crazy monkey 161

Anyway, I keep playing Lauren Aquilina’s songs on my iPhone so now it’s playing in my head on loop.

Wonder by Lauren Aquilina

It’s a beautiful song!♥ Although it sounds a bit sad if you listen into it, her voice is so angelic. crazy monkey 065It makes you want to sway along with the music.

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In other news, I met up with Tweedledee again yesterday after school. It’s been a while since we last saw each other, so it was really great to see her. crazy monkey 069 We watched the last full showing of Hangover 3 too! Actually, I’ve never watched the first two films to the trilogy since they never interested me before. When I went in the cinema to watch this, I had really high expectations. Thirty minutes into the film, however, my eyes could hardly open themselves already. I was so sleepy that I think I hardly understood the plot. It’s either I was too tired to laugh or I just didn’t find some of the scenes funny at all. crazy monkey 067

I still had fun, though! It felt good to spend time with Tweedledee. That’s a check off our bucket list too. (watching the last full showing of a movie)

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Today, on the other hand, was very unproductive. I did one of my homework, but the rest are still in my to-do pile. Gaah. Feeling too lazy and overwhelmed by everything. The sky is now crying with me, but my tear ducts are as dry as the Sahara desert. Yay.

Maybe I’ll try to sleep earlier today since I have to wake up tomorrow and have myself checked in the hospital. Nothing is wrong with me, though. Just something I have to do, haha. I’m going to my dad’s office in the afternoon too. I guess my Saturday’s booked–as always.

Bleh, I need to occupy myself with something.

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Gray Hearts

What’s up, guys? crazy monkey 028My very lame and unrelated-to-the-content-of-this-post title is from the color and design of my nails. //shot

I did nail art again! ♥ It’s Totoro from Hayao Miyazaki and Studio Ghibli’s film.

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It’s been a while since I painted my nails. Haha! The ones on my right hand are ugly though. They got smudged and bleh.

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Ahem. As for today, it started out fine. My dad and I went to church, had lunch, and afterwards, we went to watch Fast and Furious 6. It’s a pretty good movie! For someone who dislikes most action movies, it’s a good compliment. Although I enjoyed it for the most part, I did feel sleepy halfway through the film ’cause it was too packed with action and hardly any dialogue I could clearly understand. Plus, The seats in the cinema were terrible. It wasn’t elevated much so the screen was almost zoomed in on our faces. crazy monkey 143

I’m a little sick too. crazy monkey 012 I’ve got the sniffles and the coughs. For past few days, I’ve regularly drank lemon tea at night before bed. It soothes the aching throat. ♥

Anyway, here comes the things that rained on my happy Sunday:

1. Our Corwrit lab prof keeps changing her mind. First she agreed to have our make-up class on Thursday, but then she said that there would be no available rooms by then so she told us to pick between Wednesday and Friday. Then it finally settled on Friday (even though it sucks since other than this, we have no classes on Fridays). Now she goes on to tell us that she “might” move it to June 14, the next Friday, instead. WHAT.

2. She texts like she didn’t learn proper English. A few of her text messages included these spellings: “rfrng” “insyd” “rums” (referring, inside, rooms)

3. My printer is crap. It’s been broken for quite a while since the paper always gets jammed.

4. My dad won’t change the printer despite already buying a new one because “it’s not his job to change it” and “it’s not his job to call the person to change it”

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Hope tomorrow won’t be hectic. I dislike Mondays.

Side note: I’m thinking of changing my emoticons now since I do it every half a year. Maybe to this one: happy onion head?

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Sing Out, Sing Out!

If you wanna sing out, sing out! If you wanna be free, be free! ♫

crazy monkey 157Hey guys! I just watched Harold and Maude today! It was a bit disturbing because of the age gap, but the relationship those two had was beautiful. ♥ Perhaps I’ll find time to write a review on it. My writing ability is getting rusty. Forgive me, babies. ;3;

Anyway, I apologize for not blogging.

Here’s a post to make up for the lack of updates. Since it’s June 1, this is a fresh start again! Time sure flies to think that it’s almost half the year already. College life is finally sinking in, and I’m glad that I’m going through this with my blockmates. Most of them are really cool people! Just last Thursday, we had this thing called “Hipster Thursday” wherein we came in class dressed like hipsters. It’s a thing we’ll do for our Thursdays apparently. Next will be “Prom Thursday” hahaha. crazy monkey 108

For the academics, I’m terrified to get my results for our poligov quiz this Monday. I hope I pass…crazy monkey 085 I got some mistakes on our gepsych quiz too. Thankfully, my philits one was a perfect score! My homework are getting good results too, so I’m safe there. The number of assignments aren’t stacking up as I expected from the first week’s hectic activities, so that’s another bright side of things. Yay!

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I’ve been working on an artwork too! It’s supposedly Sun and Moon, but ’cause I’m too lazy to color Sun, I cropped out Moon first and did this. crazy monkey 068Wooo:

I think it’s quite pretty! I would have redone the lineart because it’s from a pen+paper drawing which I just took a picture of and cleaned in Photoshop, but I thought it would be okay. Haha! I think I’ll submit this for the org application too since it’s my most recent drawing.

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In other news, I’m listening to songs again! Right now, I’m really loving Ballad of Mona Lisa by P!ATD and King by Lauren Aquilina. The latter one is relaxing and simply beautiful!♥

I’ll try to write more blog posts, I promise! For the mean time, I’m very active on Twitter. Snippets of my life are regularly posted. Woop.

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Barely Breathing

So guess what, guys? I met my friends again yesterday before the Unite (freshmen party)! ♥

Although I only spent around two hours with them, it was still a lot of fun! ♥ Definitely missed them! crazy monkey 077

As for the Unite, I arrived at the venue half an hour early, so I got to meet up with some of my blockmates. We went to the booths and grabbed some freebies such as glow sticks, sticker tattoos, mini LED lights, etc. At the strike of 6pm, the party started and they threw colored powder at us. Now I understand why the flyer said “get ready to get colored”. My white shirt turned orange. The powder also colored my skin. Thankfully, I wasn’t as rainbow as my friends, haha! crazy monkey 148 It was very loud and the crowd kept cheering. Honestly, I dislike rowdy places, but I guess it also depends on who you’re with and what you’re doing. My blockmates started a conggo line, and it grew longer after random freshmen joined in. It was funny.

We left the place around 8pm to have dinner at the mall beside it. There, we spent around two more hours just talking, and taking crazy pictures.

I got home around 10:30pm. With the time used to freshen up and all, time flied by fast. I was too tired to remember exactly what time I slept. Gaah. Sadly, I couldn’t sleep in the next morning (which is today), because I have to meet up with the yearbook committee. The pastor will treat us to lunch for our hard work! ♥ Hihi. Anyway, I got to meet up with Wash and Petreen again, and we decided to see Epic !

To sum it up, Epic was epic. crazy monkey 156 The movie was really adorable. I liked it! Unfortunately, I felt that the ending didn’t do the whole film any justice. It left us hanging.

Anyway, that was a nice afternoon to spend before dawning back to the reality of quizzes and homework. I answered our Philits take-home quiz earlier this evening and just finished my Filip11 assignment. I AM FREE. crazy monkey 175 Hallelujah!

Well, time for some shut eye. Have to wake up early for church tomorrow! I guess I’ll try to review Poligov too…

Side note: MY PRINTER IS MALFUNCTIONING. OTL

Side note #2: I still am trying to adjust to college life.

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Soup

\( * 3 * )> Good evening, peeps. I haven’t blogged in a long while and I’ll just make this a quick one. Ever since college started last Monday, everything has been so hectic. I’ve only had three days so far and tomorrow will be my fourth, but we’ve had too much homework already. I gave too much effort for the first politics and government (poligov) homework that it’s not worth it. The most effort I’ve done after that is for corporate writing (corwrit). We had to write a critical analysis paper on an article the professor gave us.

Everything else is just too crazy monkey 143. Yeah, I’m lost for words.

As for my blockmates ( my classmates for the first 2 semesters), they’re really friendly and open to each other. We already created a Facebook group for our class, and it’s constantly getting random posts. A while ago, actually, I was already laughing in front of my computer screen because I couldn’t hold it in. Everyone’s just high. crazy monkey 186

In other news, my calves are cramping so much. Our classes are all based on the 9th floor and with the exception of arriving in the morning, all my other travels to go to the cafeteria and other parts of the building, I take the stairs. Being the slob that I am, I am not used to walking–more so with going up and down the stair cases. Despite my aching calves, however, I am trying to force myself to ignore it.

MIND OVER BODY!

I’m so glad we have no classes on Friday, but sadly, I have to attend this freshmen party…I don’t want to but I /have/ to. Before graduation, I must attend at least 5 school events. With my orientation last May 15 being one, this one could count as two. (/ u 3 u)/ I can’t take it anymore. //dies.

Tomorrow, fortunately, our corwrit class is cancelled! We’ll have free period! Since our lunch break is after corwrit and that’s out of the way, we have 9:30am to 1pm free from anything! ♥

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On a different note:

I drew my friends! ♥ They’re the ones from the entry I made last May 14.

I have no further topic to discuss. Perhaps my next blog post will be ages away unless I’m free this weekend.

crazy monkey 191My brain is all soupy at the moment. I wasn’t even able to watch Star Trek last Sunday ’cause my dad had plans.

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