journey-ing through the ages

well, the batangas outing was cancelled, i think. or, they changed it to a tagaytay 5-day trip to bea andaya's house. well at least there's still a class outing. but i do hope they push through with a batangas beach thing. i was really looking forward to the previous one, and i was preparing already! haha. owel. i guess it is better when we're complete and all.

we're going to enchanted kingdom tomorrow! i can still remember when i came there with my classmates when we were grade 6. that was a great day. the rio grande rapids was a new ride, and so we were lucky enough to try it out. i was the one who didn't want to get wet, and all of them wanted to get wet. in other words, ako lang yung baduy. lol. but i ended up being the MOST wet out of all of them T_T. by the end of the day, i was the water-attractor, while they were the water resistant people. haha. i miss that day. anyway, we tried the ride again a year or so back, that time with my family. my dad was the one that got super wet that time =)). we're really a water magnet family, i guess =)). so, we're going there again tomorrow. i saw a sign in slex yesterday saying that enchanted kingdom was on its' 10th year in operation. i wonder if they put special thingies to the place to celebrate it? hopefully they did. oh, we're going there (my family), because my dad's company has its' annual excursion (spl) and every employee's family is invited, as usual. yehey. it's been a while since i went to ek for a foundation day of ayala. i'm excited.

in 2 days, we'll be off to boracay. this will probably be my last blog before we go for a 5-day vacation, so i'm trying to accomplish everything in the computer before i go. lol. yeah, so anyway, boracay. i haven't been there yet, so this would be my first time. i'm scared of planes, so this would be another test for my guts =)). it's like that every time i ride on a plane. owel. but i'm looking forward to going to boracay. i can swim again! yehey. the only thing i'm not looking forward to, along with the plane ride, is myself being there. lol. i'm beginning to be too conscious about my body. it sucks. T_T. haha. probably, when i get there, i'll strip off my shirt a second before i jump to the water =)). lol. eek. i'm too fat. owel. anyway, we're off to boracay! whoo. gusto niyo pasalubong? tell me.

yesterday was my dad's birthday. he's 45! lol. anyway, at 12 am that day, i was still watching american idol in star world while updating my contact list in my phone. yes, i have my sim back! yehey. you could text/call/whatever me at my old number. yehey. i'm currently addicted to the phone. i want the softwares i got from the internet to be on my phone. waah. if only i had the bluetooth dongle. crap. i don't have money for it! T_T. noo. oh, i almost convinced my dad to buy it last night, only to see that the store was closed =)). owel, better luck next week when we come back from boracay. anyway, yes, yesterday was my dad's birthday. in the morning, i and my siblings, along with my mom, lola, driver, and maid (lol), went to alabang. since my lola was going to my tito's house, my mom went to citibank, as usual. we went to my tito's house in bf, and it was my cousin's birthday, so we went inside their house. we played the ps2 (mainly tekken 5 and devil may cry), and what was supposed to be 5 minutes of fun turned into an hour T_T. lol. we ate and hanged out there for a while, until finally my mom scolded us for not picking her up because she was late for work and we had to go. lol. we went to citibank again to pick her up, then proceeded on in our proper course, to go to school for our ids and uniforms. we got our id pictures taken and paid for the uniforms, and were quickly off to town because my mom was late for work. haha. we were dropped off 30 minutes before atc opened, so i just texted people, went to mercury drug and waited in the heat. finally, 11 came, and we went inside. i had no luck trying to find a cheap wireless connection to the pc from the phone, so there went my chances. we ate lunch at kfc and hurried off to see the movie guess who, while my lola went to sandara's movie. lol. so there, we watched guess who, and i liked it. i'll give it an 8.5/10. we shopped for a while after that, and i got to buy bob ong's "bakit baliktad magbasa ng libro ang mga pilipino," finally. now i have lots of books to read at home. yehey. at 4:30, we went to my mom's office, waited a while, then went to sm makati. there we bought a lot of clothes, since it was sale. apparently my mom was very excited at the prospect of buying sub-200 peso clothes for us. haha. we bought a lot of school clothes, and a few street clothes for my siblings. after the mini shopping spree, we went to greenbelt for dinner at bubba gump. i missed that place, and was glad we went there again. we ordered tons of stuff, mostly meat, and i got bloated T_T. we won the contest and got a free raspberry-vanilla ice cream as a reward. the chocolate chip sundae was amazing, yum. i loved eating there again.

after eating, we went out to powerbooks live!. i discovered that it was a 2-storey place. lol. it was the first time we actually went inside the store (including my dad), and so we were amazed. all this time i thought it was just a small place with a cafe in it. haha. anyway, buying a "wrinkle in time" was cancelled, since i realized it was already 9 and stores were closing. but all efforts to reach the bluetooth place were put out when we saw that it was closed. owel. haha. my dad received a ton of cakes for his birthday. so much that our entire refrigerator is packed. i think there are 10 cakes inside the ref right now. lol. plus there's still popcorn for us to eat, hooray.

constantine's out of american idol!?!?!?!?! yes. this was my reaction yesterday when friends told me about it. T_T. my favorite is gone. and that's with a lot of controversy. some people said that the phone line that constantine had wasn't functioning that night, which led to him being voted out. crap, this is impossible! WHY!? and scott was in the top 3?! how?! omg. i hate this. i hope they have an announcement next week that they're putting constantine back. waah. i ended up not watching the replay last night. his song "this is how you remind me" haunted me throughout the night, while trying to sleep. T_T

here are some random things. star wars is coming out! woohoo! the saga would finally be complete! i could finally buy the box set of ALL movies, probably later this year. yehey. dream come true! i'm so excited to watch the movie, though i wouldn't be able to any time soon since we're going to boracay and all. has this ever happened to you: you wait so long for a subscription you have had for a long time, and it doesn't arrive in your doorstep for months. then suddenly, one day, they deliver you 6 issues of the subscription in one delivery. T_T. well, that's what happened to our reader's digest subscription. i was wondering why we weren't getting new issues of reader's digest and i was rereading some of the previous issues. they all came to us this monday, issues from november last year until april of this year. weird. can't we complain to those delivery people? haha. anyway, at least i'll have tons of life's like that, as kids see it, and all in a days work to read. yehey. oh, there's this spoof site that the owner claims to be a pope benedict XVI site. it's another one of those truthseeker stuff, but this one's in blogger. the difference is, this one has a positive effect on you, since it doesn't say "you will all go to hell" all the time. lol. in fact, i've laughed at some entries, since they offered good ideas. one's the pimp my ride series from mtv being changed to pope my ride, where they could apply the pope mobile's features to the cars =)). anyway, you could view the site at http://askthepope.blogspot.com. found the link to that site from jam's comment box, =)). lastly, try gizoogle.com. apply it to this site if you want, you'll get laughs =)). ok, anyway, bye all! see you next week! =)

here are some surveys i took out of boredom a couple of days ago:

How Your Attitude Ranks

Your Attitude is Better than 45% of the Population If you scored... 80-100: You've got a winner attitude. You're always optimistic and cheery. Your personality will get you far in life. 60-79: You have a good attitude. While a realist, you do see the positive side of most things. People love to be around you. 40 - 59: You have a positive attitude... somtimes. You prefer to see the world through clear glasses, not rose colored ones. 20 - 39: You have an average attitude. You take the good and bad in life as they come. Though sometimes you could use a little more good. 0-19: You have a negative attitude. You tend to see the dark side of every situation. Free ice cream? No thanks, it will just make you fat!

How's Your Attitude?

You Are 19 Years Old

19 Under 12: You are a kid at heart. You still have an optimistic life view - and you look at the world with awe. 13-19: You are a teenager at heart. You question authority and are still trying to find your place in this world. 20-29: You are a twentysomething at heart. You feel excited about what's to come... love, work, and new experiences. 30-39: You are a thirtysomething at heart. You've had a taste of success and true love, but you want more! 40+: You are a mature adult. You've been through most of the ups and downs of life already. Now you get to sit back and relax.

What Age Do You Act?

You Are 80% Left Brained, 20% Right Brained

The left side of your brain controls verbal ability, attention to detail, and reasoning. Left brained people are good at communication and persuading others. If you're left brained, you are likely good at math and logic. Your left brain prefers dogs, reading, and quiet. The right side of your brain is all about creativity and flexibility. Daring and intuitive, right brained people see the world in their unique way. If you're right brained, you likely have a talent for creative writing and art. Your right brain prefers day dreaming, philosophy, and sports.

Are You Right or Left Brained?

the past will never go away

so yeah. even if you try your best to forget your past, if it had been turbulent or depressing, it always returns. memories always return, whether you like them to or not. sometimes, we find the past in the form of items like your previous toys, testpapers, or letters. sometimes, it comes in the form of words. whatever forms they take, they always seem to come back at an opportune time. well, i got the opportunity to see through someone's past, which also involved myself. i saw pepe's past 2 nights ago, and lots of memories surged through my brain. last year was really an eventful one, and because of school, i forgot many events that happened. with pepe's past, i got a lot of information back. it was nice remembering those things again, even if they're clouded by depression. those were the times where i started being depressed - i think. but oh well, that's over with. i'm thankful i got the chance to see that again. it was actually fun to see that again. anyway, i posted this because of this promise:
dragon_flip24 (12:14:30 AM): promise me something
jlysport (12:14:34 AM): yep?
dragon_flip24 (12:14:37 AM): the next time you blog
dragon_flip24 (12:14:40 AM): you blog about this conversation
jlysport (12:14:40 AM): what?
jlysport (12:14:42 AM): LOL
jlysport (12:14:43 AM): sure

i haven't been productive the past 2 days so i don't have topics to blog about. i've been stuck at home, glued to the chair for 2 days, staring at either the tv or the computer. apart from this, i have a blinding headache. i think i got it from staring too much at these appliances. it's getting tough to look at the screen while i'm typing this right now. anyway, all i've been doing with the pc is chatting, listening to the power rangers theme over and over (lol), and transferring my old blogs to a blogger site. oh, yeah, you could now see my old blogs. there's a link on the sidebar. i blogged so differently then. i actually got the inspiration for that from pepe. so, there, i now have a place to store them in the web.

fifa 2005 is the new game we've been playing rigorously. after one day of re-playing it after months of storage, we got addicted as usual. i spent the whole night playing that, which led to my temples hurting so much. argh. so now i want to lie down in bed and sleep again. whee. i'm going to cut this blog short in a while.

before going to bed last night, i tried out my bluetooth thingy. it worked with my dad, yehey. i used my sister's sim for my phone to work. now my phone's battery is dead, so i have to charge it. but there's no quick need, since i still don't have the sim. whee, i'm getting a little impatient with the sim card, haha. i hope i get it soon. the free tones i got from the stall i got the phone from are really funny. i keep on playing them over and over to annoy my siblings. lol.

my parents have given us chores to do everyday. it's a direct order from them so we can't disobey it. T_T. so anyway, everything's okay except for playing the piano. i never really liked playing the piano, because i always get frustrated while trying to practice a song. my fingers are just not adept to connecting fast enough with my brain. i end up playing a song so slow and with so many mistakes, that i give up. i was never really good at playing music anyway. i spent 6 years practicing the piano, with not much passion, and i never really got the hang of it. at the same time, i keep on getting low grades in music because of my abyssmal flute playing skills. again, i have a hard time reading the notes fast enough and finding the right keys with my fingers. T_T. i guess my fingers are just meant for the keyboard.

i end this up with a survey i got from annal's blogsite. i'm going to die at 73? hmm. that's a pretty ok age to die i guess.

You Will Die at Age 73

73 You're pretty average when it comes to how you live... And how you'll die as well.

What Age Will You Die?

likes and dislikes

it's been an eventful 2 days since i last posted here. yesterday was one of the busiest days this summer. even though it was mentally and physically tiring, i'm happy because at least i got what i wanted.

we started saturday by going to the hospital in quezon city. this was the hospital where my mom gave birth to all of us 3, her kids. yesterday, it was the hospital that contained my lolo, who had a problem with something in his body. anyway, we went to capitol hospital at around 10 am, and upon arriving, i was quickly reminded of a recent event in the same place. the same lolo was there about 2 years ago, when he had a stroke, the 3rd of his life. at that time, we were very scared, as everything was looking bad. yesterday, however, was a different story. we weren't as panicky nor were we that scared of seeing our grandfather. thankfully, he was alright, with no major problems. i never like any family member to go to a hospital because of an affliction, it's just sad. everyone gets saddened and scared. i have disliked hospitals ever since i was 3, the first time i was ever confined in one after my birth. since then, i have had a phobia of hospitals, especially with the "hospital smells". lol. i usually get paranoid when coming to hospitals, so..haha. anyway, we visited our lolo and were preparing for his release from the hospital. the doctors were very demanding of their payments though. T_T. overall, 5 days in the hospital and several check-ups cost our family 60,000 pesos. but in the end, it was ok, at least our lolo was fine. for lunch, we went to teriyaki boy. my brother was reluctant at first and said that he wouldn't want to eat anything, but in the end, he was one of the people who ate the most. haha. i ate tempura and california maki for the first time, i think (bea, johann, and sarah - congratulate me! lol). i'm stupid when it comes to japanese cuisine. after that, my parents went back to the hospital to get our grandfather released while i and my siblings went to my lola's house in quezon city. i and jaren played basketball in the mini-court again, lol. it's really fun destroying the ring since it's so low. you feel almost invincible to little kids. haha. after an hour, my parents arrived in the house with my lolo. we spent a few hours there, watching one of the three ninjas movies, which i loved so much when i was young.

we left our grandparents' house at around 4, and ventured to town. whoo. my dad and i went to cd-r king to purchase cds. we bought a hundred new ones, yehey. i can finally burn cds again. we then went to the phone place at the 2nd floor. we haggled for hours, and compared phones, until my parents finally agreed and bought me a phone (well, hati kami sa bayad, but oh well). i ended up having a nokia 6600, same as rodneys', although i'm still not sure whether i made the right decision of picking it over the k700i. i guess not, but at least i have a phone now. whee. i can text again! well, almost. i still don't have a sim card, lol. my tita's supposed to pick it up at any globe shop since the line's named to her. i hope i get the sim soon, so i could start updating and putting all sorts of stuff to my phone. haha. i'm extremely excited. after buying the phone, we went to north park to eat dinner. i was too bloated from teriyaki boy to eat a lot, so i ended up eating almost nothing. i did, however, drink 2 glasses of their fresh lemonade. lastly, before going home, we went to powerbooks, where i luckily bought on sale "the rule of four". yehey. last friday, powerbooks had it out of stock. my mom tried to give me another reservation confirmation slip for harry potter 6, since i lost everything in my wallet before. the lady told us that we had to have a valid id, something which i didn't have - they were all in the wallet. haha. so on tuesday, i'll make another trip to powerbooks to show them my PASSPORT. lol. i'll also go to school along with my siblings for our id pics and uniforms. my sister has her volleyball practice again T_T. haha.

today, we had mass at 10 am, then went to paseo de santa rosa to wait while my dad was having a haircut. this turned out to be a lucky break for me. we went inside speedo and browsed for things. my sister told me something that my crush had on before. she said she saw this person wear this in school. lol. anyway, i was supposed to buy shorts, the xenith goggles, and slippers there, but it didn't push through. i ended up buying something else. shoes! whoo. after a long time searching for the exact shoe in town in dismay, i almost gave up on my quest to find it. i was actually going to resort to buying it over the internet, but luckily, i found them a while ago in the nike park outlet store. yehey. they arrived just 2 days ago. jordan XIX, you're mine! haha. so you see, these 2 days have been one of the happiest materialistic days of my life! i don't get to buy stuff often, because of my parents' closed pockets. so you could just imagine what i feel right now. ecstatic might be close.

my family talked about oil prices while in the car a while ago. they said that in other countries, such as the united states, or places in europe, oil prices are double of what they are here in the philippines. if we only had the proper wages here in our country, there's actually nothing to complain about. but of course, the relative prices of oil here as compared to the wages are staggering. travelling 50 km going to makati and another 50 going back to our house has its' toll on our family lifestyle. gasoline prices take up a HUGE amount of our monthly budget. scary.

no one has the same likes. people have different tastes, even if they're family members. to one, someone might look gorgeous, but to another, the same person might look ugly. haha. my friends have different tastes in terms of women's prettiness, shoes, music, and basically everything in the world. me and my parents, even my siblings have difference of opinion about shoes. this was proven a while ago, while we were debating on what shoes to buy my brother, who's having his birthday in less than a month. you can never please anyone forever, even in giving gifts, thinking that you have actually given the person something he/she likes. it's impossible. but there's always the power of compromise. in relationships, surely there would be conflicts of interests. the only way of sustaining the love in the relationship is when the couple know how to deal with each other and change their habits to suit their other half's. that's the miracle of love. so ok, i don't really know how i wrote this. anlabo, it has no connection whatsoever to the first sentence of the paragraph. now this is how to get a failing grade in topic sentences =))

anyway, i'm watching f1 now. this cable is still dumb. star sports doesn't have commentators' audio?! gahd. the only thing i'm hearing is the sound of the shrieking engines of the cars. but then again, at least i'm able to watch it. go kimi! HE GOT POLE! WHOOO!!!! tc everyone =)

*oh btw, just an edit, i'm now watching the pope's inagural mass. wow. there's a gold book. ang galing! oh, it's the book of gospels pala. i want one of those, lol. the scene is so..holy. i'm looking forward to his homily. he doesn't look so scary anymore. hehe.

rollercoaster

life is a rollercoaster. how many times have i heard that before? countless. life gives us so many challenges to go through, if you think about it, life shouldn't be boring. there are lots of things to do and to experience. but sometimes, don't you think that God's tests go over the line? you think you have a great life, and you're doing everything for the service of God, and yet something terrible happens. it's like a major bump in the road, or an airpocket that causes severe turbulence that leads to peril. you just can't control yourself from asking God why these things happen to you. this is just a reflection on my past experiences, and a realization due to recent events. sometimes it's just hard to accept that this turn in your life was the worst you've ever experienced, and you wonder if you could ever go again in the long road that is life. i guess we just have to have faith in God and believe that he has everything under control, he keeps our loved ones with Him, and he knows what's best for us.

the class outing's finally confirmed. or at least, i think it is. gliza and monique did their best to coordinate and plan the outing, and they talked with the people in different resorts, checking out the amenities, schedules, and availability, and i have to thank them for that. thanks for all the hard work you've continuously given to our class, even if the school year's over already. anyway, the trip's pushing through on may 26, in balai resort in batangas. i'm excited already! though i definitely have to lose weight before that date. lol. anyway, here's the invitation, made by gliza. go gliza!


i watched american idol, wrestlemania, lost, and other tv shows yesterday, as part of my usual busy tv day. allow me to comment. i'm really amazed that anwar had the lowest number of votes in a.i. he was one of my proposed top 5 finalists along with carrie, constantine, vonzell, and bo. too bad he isn't there anymore. i hope my favorites actually go to the final 4. they deserve to be there. i watched lost again yesterday, both in the pc and in tv. (btw, i still love f.r.i.e.n.d.s. okay? hehe.) the volume was poor in the computer, so hearing it from the tv is obviously much better. i liked the episode yesterday more than the previous one. lalang. lastly, wrestlemania 21 wasn't as good as wrestlemania 20 for me. i wasn't really excited, and i caught only glimpses of matches because my parents were forcing me to change channels often. they were watching american idol at the same time. i liked the batista-triple h match, the shawn michaels-kurt angle match, and the match where edge won. they were the only good matches for me. overall i'd rate that wrestlemania an 8/10 for effort.

we went to school earlier today. we were already enrolled, so we figured that paying for the books would be easy. but along the way, confusion was evident between all of us, including my mom who said it was going to be easy (so she didn't come anymore). it turns out, we needed the o.r. of the tuition fees to do some stuff, so we didn't accomplish everything. after a lot of disputes, we finally got over the book problem and went to the uniform section. but this was not before people saw my stupid haircut. lol. oh, i saw alfred, elaine, and binky there..so, yeah, they were the ones who saw T_T. alfred gave me an opportunity for comparison on phones. thanks. anyway, we went to the uniforms and got polos and pants. again, confusion. i think we were a little too noisy so the lady got confused and so problems arose. oh well. we'll be going back to school tomorrow for the id pics and uniforms, since we didn't have enough money and were forced to just reserve the clothes.

afterwards, we went to town. we ate lunch in kfc at 11:15, and then proceeded to powerbooks since it was too early for the movies. i ended up buying "ang alamat ng gubat" by bob ong because i remember bea's blog talking about it. lol. it was just 100 after all. "the rule of four", the book that i was supposed to buy, wasn't available. oh, i was supposed to apply for a powerbooks discount card, and was in the middle of filling up the form when the lady asked me for an i.d. i remembered that my wallet was gone and that all my ids came along with it, so, as you could expect, she just told me to accomplish it at home and give it next time. lol. afterwards, we bought the tickets for "the wedding date", which my siblings wanted to watch desperately T_T. after a bit of timezone, we watched. the movie was okay, i'd give it an 8/10. it wasn't really my mood to be emotional and mushy though, so i wasn't really affected. after the movie, me and my brother went to timezone again while my sister and maid bought ingredients for my sister to bake cookies. i checked out shoes from nike as well. hopefully i'd be able to buy when it's still sale. oh, before we went home, i found out that pcx is a good store to buy essential needs from. lol. i expect to be back there soon.

my sister's cookies were delicious. i had a lot a while ago. lately i've been addicted to chocolate. my dad, coming home from a business trip, brought us a whole pack of toblerone. it's chocolates galore here at home, so i expect to be gaining pounds again. whee. owel, it's summer anyway. tomorrow, i'll be going back to school in the morning, and then go to town to probably (*crosses fingers*) get a new phone. i'll be getting my old number back, yehey! thank God. oh, i hope to buy shoes and the like tomorrow as well. btw, just a thought, have you ever reminisced your childhood favorite tv shows? asha gave me a copy of the power rangers theme song earlier, and i ended up singing along to the song. i still memorize the lyrics! =)). weird.

let's all pray for margie madrigal's family. may she and her family receive the Lord's grace and guidance.

isa nanamang pagpapahayag ni hulian (di ka pa ba bored?)

yeah, like the title said, aren't you tired of me ranting yet? sorry if you are, i have nothing else to do here at home, so i might as well just write right? it's the only thing keeping my study habits in tact right now. i don't even know if i could still write, and right now i'm figuring that i can't, since that's what happens to me every summer. but it's all nice, at least it's a break from school. btw, thanks to jam for the title =)) it's filipino! lalang. so anyway, if you're bored already, sorry again. haha. oh no, candy shop just played again in mtv =)). everytime i hear it i get lss from it T_T. sad.

habemus papam. we have a new pope. a new pope for the roman catholic church was elected at around midnight earlier this morning, based from what i heard in cnn and from my other friends. sadly, i have no phone to receive or send messages to spread the word. hopefully i'll get a phone this weekend though, so hooray! anyway, back to topic. the late pope john paul II finally has a successor in the form of cardinal joseph ratzinger, now known and called as pope benedict XVI. why did he take this name? well, according to what i heard, he wanted to continue what the previous pope benedict did and probably do even better. but i'm not really sure. hmm. so yeah, i just missed the live event happening last night, as i slept at 11:30. too bad. but the power of replay is really nice, right? i think i got 10 replays of the pope being announced to the thousands in st. peter's square and to the whole world. i'd like to thank cnn and bbc for being my channel to the news. i've learned a lot about the roman catholic church, it's history, and it's modern problems that i never knew before due to the channels. modern technology really is a big help. anyway, so the pope's german, another european pope. i wonder when the tradition would finally change, when a non-european pope reigns. i hope the new pope makes peace with all nations and tries to communicate with everyone in the world, all religions, and all people who have concerns. i hope he could stabilize the world and be firm in his decisions. as for those people (esp americans and western europeans) who want immediate change and are disappointed at the election of such a pope, a very conservative one at that, i hope they could understand that change is hard and the pope does what he does for the best. he has strong theological beliefs and i think we should respect that. and of course, before we critisize someone, shouldn't we first see what he will do? that's just my opinion. hopefully, the pope visits the philippines. oh, i saw some philippine flags a while ago while the new pope was being announced. go go go! lol. LONG LIVE THE POPE!

there are about 1 and a half months of summer left. right now, it's packing up with loads of activities. on april 23, my family's going to enchanted kingdom! yehey. it's a company outing thing of my dad, so yeah. whee. when may 1 comes, we'll be going to boracay. i myself haven't been there yet, but i'm sure it's going to be a great experience. then there's this class outing thing on may 20 or 21. i'm almost sure i could go, and i'm really excited about it. we still haven't decided on the place we're going to, but i'm pretty sure it's in batangas. beach! whoo. i want to see sophomore c together again, even for the last time. drama =)). summer's going to be more hectic as the days pass by, i just know it.

many people are going to other countries for vacation this year. rodney said that he saw snow this year. i'm just wondering why i haven't seen snow in the united states. grr. it's always a week before we arrive that the snow stops. T_T. it's annoying actually. i want to experience snow! haha. i hope i do next time we go to a different country. oh, and about the smell of the air there, i also wonder why that is. i read it from rodney's blog earlier, and i have had the same question in mind for years. the phrase "amoy states" is really true. i wonder what causes the different smells in different countries. hmm. research!

i have to go back to school for my uniforms and stuff. just this morning, i learned that i have to get a school id. it's not just a privelege for me, it's a neccessity. it's not like i have an old school id to use. they all got stolen from THAT day. oh well. so it's another adventure ahead. i don't know what'll happen when i get photographed while other people are looking at me. scary thought.

there are some disadvantages of living here in cavite. i mean, the place is great and all, and i love my house, but if it only were closer to manila. haha. first of all, due to its' placement, so far from manila, few people could actually come here. i rarely have my friends around, as opposed to alabang where i could just hold a party any day. next, i can't call anyone for long periods of time. i used to have the luxury of 'telebabad' when i was in alabang, but now, no. it gets boring at times due to the lack of civilization roaming around. it's like dead city. haha. now, i could only call in times of emergency from schoolwork, or just in times of desperation, when i have to talk to someone. but that has limits in time too. then there's the problem of going to places. it's not like before, where we could just go out for 30 minutes and go to town, or dress up for a gimmick already 10 minutes late. now you have to be always early, and you have to spend enormous amounts of time traveling. lastly, the cable tv. lol. it's shallow, but the reception here is dumb. we lack channels, and they hang up all the time due to satellite feed problems. i really wish we had another cable network. haha. anyway, at least there are also advantages to these things. i'm able to be more punctual, to be thrifty, to be appreciative of time and gasoline =)). i also figured out that you don't need to spend every night talking with friends over the phone, though that's still nice. haha. weee. in the end, i'm thankful i live where i live.

lastly, addiction to the nba has gotten me weird. now i spend my day playing the nba live 2005 game. it's another one of those streaks in my life where i spend too much time on one thing. obsession, that's what it is. lol. all the lost episode downloads are complete! haha. i just couldn't find episodes 10, 16, and 17 from the net. too bad. it's time for a marathon! whoo. goodbye all =)

endings are beginnings too

after all the anticipation and anxiety clouding me over the past few weeks, i finally know my section. i'm going to be in junior-e next school year. my classmates are:
ambrocio, andaya, arquero, aurelio, ballesteros, bautista k, benasa, borromeo, castro, de castro, de los santos, diosana, espina, fong, garcia s, ginete, giron, gonzales d, leal, lim, limchoc, macalintal, manikan, mendoza j, mondelo, nieva, ocampo, ong, orandain, paronda, pattugalan, quinio, rocha, salas, salvan, sembrano, tabuena, ysmael, zara
so anyway, yeah. that's my new class. it's still early, but i'm already thinking about what the year has in store for me and my class. i'm excited and nervous at the same time about how our class is going to be. also, i hope i could actually bring myself to make more friends there. it's been a while. haha. and i've never been good at social stuff so, it's going to be a difficult road ahead. i read elaine's blog earlier and i think i'm kind of in the same state as her. i'm a shy and insecure type of person so it's quite hard for me to try and socialize with different people i don't know. i hope i don't turn back to my old self of being the QUIETEST in class. anyway, the good side is, it's going to be a nice experience to make new friends again and to be in a stranger-filled environment, considering that i've been living in an all-too-redundant bubble ever since grade 4. so, that's it. hello junior year. i'll miss all my honor section classmates though. yfc and lsyc ok? hehe. and also lunch times. yehey.

anyway, i'm still addicted to lost. very addicted. right now, i've finished downloading 11 episodes. and a while ago, while looking through some sites, i found out that they're releasing a dvd version of lost. whoo. it's a 6 or 7 disc thing which they're going to sell on september i think. they estimate it's going to cost around $60 so i have to start saving up. lol. also, while boredom slipped into me this afternoon, i found some fanfics concerning lost so i read them. haha. that practically took 2 hours off my afternoon. i don't really know what's gotten into me these days. i'm so addicted to the television. right now i'm also addicted to air crash investigation shown in national geographic. i love it when they analyze how things happen and stuff, though i hate it when the plane actually crashes and people die. so anyway, i'll be watching that again tomorrow night. whee. tv addiction. it's bad for you. lol.

a while ago, i decided to push through with watching videotapes of us when we were young, specifically the one where we had a vacation in the states last 2000. funny, it seems as though it was just yesterday when we last went there. our voices sounded funny as hell. mine was like a girl's voice. haha. my brother's was even worse. lol. it was good seeing myself again, doing crazy things in front of the video camera. my brother even stripped his clothes in front of the video camera, and if i want to blackmail him in the future, i've got just the thing to use. haha. bad kuya. i think i'll be watching more of those tomorrow or on wednesday, when i have time.

earlier this morning i cleaned my room. i fixed the stuff in my bags and the things lying around. it's amazing how many papers from school are actually scattered around my room thinking it's only been 1 1/2 years since we moved here. and yes, i've only cleaned my school things now, 1 month after the school year ended. lol. sorry, my laziness caught up to me. and of course, i got the usual colds right after cleaning dirty things. i ended up throwing a lot of garbage. oh, and while rummaging all over my room, i found things that reminded me of my previous section. see, i was cleaning about 20 minutes after i had learned of my new section. it dawned on me that we'd never be fully together again, so that was another reflective moment. i've had a lot of those since the end of the school year, and i expect to have more in the months to come. oh well.

lastly, the conclave is going to start in a while, i think. or maybe they started already. personally, i think the new pope should be coming from africa or south america. it would be sending the message of expansion of catholicism to all countries. it's pretty symbolic if that happens. as for my other comments, i think it's best i reserve it to myself for now. i'll be watching cnn again over the next few days to see who the next pope is going to be. may God be with all the cardinals as they make their decision.

*wow, this is my shortest blog for april. lol. i'm running out of things to say i guess.

sharing..

we get a lot viruses from file sharing. i've experienced this myself, in fact, i've experienced it a lot before. but sometimes you just cant avoid the joys of downloading from the net. these past few days, i've been bored a lot at home, and i think a little bit too anxious about the classlists going out on monday. anyway, after watching lost last thursday, the last of my regular tv shows ended so i was again stuck at home with nothing to do. the following day, i chatted with sam and she told me stuff about the future episodes of lost. then, suddenly, i was struck with an idea. so i first researched for the episodes and stuff on sites, and then i searched for some episodes to be downloaded over kazaa lite. so, that's basically the story of my past few days. the computer has been on non-stop just downloading episodes from some sources. haha. right now the computer's finished 5 episodes, and there are still 9 to go i think. hmm. i hope they finish soon though, because it's getting hard to go and browse sites with a very slow connection. lol. so anyway, there. that's basically what's been happening. i am again drawn to the wonders of downloading. i just hope viruses don't start infiltrating our pc again.

ever tried watching your kid videos? those videos you took on vacations and stuff? haha. well i can tell you that it's very fun. i used to watch them all the time, when we had free time. i was supposed to watch them again last friday but i ran out of time. probably, i'll be doing that later on. it's really nice watching yourself as a young person, doing crazy things you wouldn't imagine doing in a public place now that you're older and your mind knows all the rules on proper decorum already. you should try it, lol.

some people know their sections already. in fact, gliza's blogger site has a full classlist of her section already. as i read it, the first thing that struck my mind was that they had great dancers. lol. lalang. anyway, good for them, they know their sections already. i'm still stuck at home dreaming bad dreams about the upcoming school year. actually, if i look back at these dreams of mine concerning the school year, i just can't help but laugh at myself. i think i'm too anxious about what section i'm going to be in. well, maybe it's normal. haha. anyway, hopefully i have a good class. tomorrow will be the day when i'll finally know what section i'm in. all the nights predicting would finally be over. yehey.

my sister's cooking class is over. i thought it was a class which had those 10 sessions or something, but as it turns out, it was just a 2-day thing. lol. well, at least she brought home some pastries for us to eat. they were delicious. we were supposed to make some more but then the ingredients were not present in our grocery store. too bad we didn't buy yesterday when we had the chance in alabang. oh well.

yesterday we went to the dentist again. i hadn't been to the dentist before yesterday for a long time. i was enjoying my freedom from teeth pain. lol. yesterday was inevitable though. i had my teeth all tied up again. yehey. so now, i'm feeling pain and it's getting hard to eat once again. hopefully my teeth would be normal soon. anyway, after that , we went to acc to check on summer programs. we checked on the badminton courts and got the details. then i remembered about golf. i used to play it with my dad, and me and my siblings used to take a clinic there. with tiger woods win last week, i was again inspired to play golf or even just practice it. it's been a while since i last held a club. haha. so as for summer programs, i still haven't decided. i have to decide fast though, since there isn't much summer season left.

town was the destination after acc. we went shopping since it was sale in most stores. i ended up buying 2 pairs of pants from levis. whoo. that solves my problem on jeans. now my problem is getting new shoes and clothes. i didn't find any shoe i liked yesterday, so i didn't buy any, even if my mom was pleading for me to due to the 40% discount on some shoes. haha. lastly, we (my brother and i) went to timezone while waiting for my mom and sister to finish shopping. we spent over an hour there with 150 pesos. amazing we lasted that long. my mom and sister took so long to finish. i eventually got bored of the place, and was held to watching people fight each other on the tekken 5 arcade game. i tried to play that game once, but my combos from the ps2 didn't work consistently enough. i lost to devil jin while using jin. lol. i guess i'm staying with the ps2 version.

false alarms?

hey. well as i start this post, the time is 5:41 pm on my computer screen. my mom called me up an hour and a half ago warning me of an apparent earthquake that would hit manila. when i asked her where the warning came from and who told her that, she said that text messages were spreading the "upcoming" earthquake. she told me to take care of my brother and pray if the earthquake occurs. so we got down for merienda (me and my brother), ate yakisoba, and watched american idol until 5, while anxiously waiting for the 'quake. the time passed by, and nothing happened. i gotta ask, who made up the message anyway? T_T. it seems to be a false alarm, or even a stupid prank by some weirdo who's bored. anyway, 45 minutes have passed now and nothing's happened. so hopefully, there is no earthquake at all and we'd all be safe.

anyway, i've been thinking of my section next school year. when i was younger, i was always drawn to section E, for it has been my section for 4 years, 3 before the hac, and 1 as part of one. i'm getting the feeling that i'm going to section e once again this year. lol. well, whatever it is, i hope some of my former classmates stay with me so that i know some members of my new class at least. hehe. i'm looking to go to school on monday to see the classlists. this is great, i'm finally excited about knowing who my classmates are again. that hasn't been the case in a while. haha.

tv marathon. again. this has been my ultimate hobby at home along with staying on the computer's chair. i watched the amazing race yesterday, and i was happy after the show. rob and amber were still first! yehey. i also watched american idol yesterday, and of course a while ago while waiting for the "earthquake to happen." i have to say congratulations to constantine and carrie. lol. they're still my favorites, and they're still alive. yehey. lost appears a little bit later on, so i have another show to look forward to tonight. as for the rest of the time spent at home these days, neopets is there. i'm not into caring for my pets anymore and stuff, lol. for me, it's all about battling nowadays. there's this upcoming war so i'm doing my best to be best equipped and ready for that. haay. stupid life huh? haha. oh, i watched happy gilmore a while ago too. it was my favorite movie before, and is still one of my top movies. i don't know, it just seems to make me laugh everytime i see it. probably it's because of my love for golf and hockey, and also because i like adam sandler as an actor. hehe. it's great that i don't have glasses yet even though i'm stressing my eyes every single day of the year in front of the tv and the computer. thank God.

i'm still thinking of how i'm going to earn money to buy a phone when it's summer time. i've asked my mom if i could do some office work for her for a price, but i don't think she has anything for me, except an 8-hour job with her in her office with a minimum wage as payment T_T. i personally don't want to sweat myself out and have a premature burnout this early on in the year. i have enough of those in school already. haha. so right now, i'm pretty much forced to just conserve every bit of peso remaining in my wallet, and forced to eat close to nothing in the first 2 months of the year to gain the right amount for the phone. i won't be getting any allowance from my parents during the 2 months, just so i could get the proper amount. whee. fun. time to be thrifty.

the problem about the saving thing is that i'm planning to have a so-called "mini shopping spree" this summer. i'm running out of shirts and pants and basically every type of apparel, all because of my laziness to shop. i'm not the shopping type of guy. lol. my mom and sister often get frustrated because of me telling them to stop shopping and opting to go home instead. haha. but now i really need to buy all sorts of clothing materials. it's time for a new set of clothes and new pairs of shoes. jordan XIX here i come- hopefully. oh, i also need to shop for books to keep me off boredom this summer. i've gotten suggestions on what books to read this summer and
so far, here they are:

• a wrinkle in time


• the 5 people you meet in heaven*


• tuesdays with morrie*


• noli me tangere*


• the umbrella man


• the rule of four


• the alchemist*


• 100 years of soltitude


• veronica decides to die

now the ones with asterisks, i have already. lol. time for some shopping.

my sister is currently attending cooking lessons in makati. haha. she already has a summer thing. good for her. hopefully she'll cook for us after the sessions are over. and hopefully, we don't get poisoned. lol.

lastly, rodney's going to the u.s. tomorrow. bye rodney! don't forget our pasalubong! lol joke. remember to check your mail or to chat on monday ok? i'll try to take pictures of every section and send them to you! ahahaha. anyway, goodbye everyone.

what's the connection, honestly?

hi again. another 3 days of not blogging and things have been piling up in my brain again. it's time for another release of information. lol. as i said, my cousin's birthday party was held last sunday, and it was amusing. i had a few "long time-firsts" these past few days, as i finally got out of the house to see some familiar places i haven't been to or some things i haven't done in a while.

last sunday, we went to alabang for mass for the first time in a year i think. it was great finally going back to st. james for a mass. i miss that place so much, as do i miss my former village of 8 years. yes, we did get to spend mass there again, and yes, i was able to relieve the great moments i had there in the past (the salubongs, the christmas masses, the every sunday masses, and everything else), but the sad part was we didn't even get a seat. we arrived late, as usual, due to human errors on our family's part. as a result, we arrived 10 minutes late, and to a cramped church. we just stood at the back for the entirety of the mass. that was kind of sad, but of course just the familiar atmosphere of being part of the mass was great for me. it was as if i was back in my home. hehe. oh, then we went to town to do some chores and eat lunch in china star. lol. i didn't want to eat there, but my mom forced me into it. so we ate, and i eventually got full up and i eventually admitted to liking the food served ahaha. i also browsed through some phones and found the most sensible buy, the nokia 6600. my mom said we'd discuss it when my dad returns 2 weeks from now.

well anyway, my cousin's party eventually pushed through at 3 pm that same day, but not before a little of an adventure in the streets trying to find the place. lol. after a bit of shouting with my mom on arguing about the location of the place, we got to the place with little worries. lol. the funny thing about the party was, instead of the party having the usual prince and royalty tunes as the mini-debut started, they played those filipino novelty songs ever so loud in the small room. hahaha. weird djs, those there. it was fun watching kids i didn't know by name or face at all (they were relatives of my dad's sister-in-law) dance around to the tune of the novelty songs. i practically couldn't understand anything i was reading in the page of the da vinci code. anyway, the party went, with the 7 roses (with my brother being part of it, lol, i couldn't believe he danced with my cousin =)) ), 7 wishes, and 7 gifts. we ate, they had a magic show and a lot of games, and basically, that was it. it was nice seeing those relatives of mine actually fund up for a party like that for their daughter, with their condition and all. i'm amazed.

i've been reading books along with the usual watching of television lately. well, i've been reading A book, and that is the da vinci code. i'd finished it this morning, re-reading the book after i forgot all about it in a years' span. it was nice reading it again, and remembering why i liked the plot so much. haha. anyway, i bought the alchemist last sunday because of claims of my classmates and friends that it was a great book to read. i started with the 1st page a while ago, but then i was in rodney's house, so you couldn't expect me to be understanding a lot of words as i was reading. i mean, it's rodney's house. what do you expect? haha. after i read the alchemist, i'll try reading the 5 people you meet in heaven book as well as the tuesdays with morrie book i've been excited to read ever since the school year. i guess after reading all of these, i'd be a better man inside? lol. i hope.

this summer has still been inactive for me, as i haven't gone out enough and done enough to call it a productive one. my days have been spent with me either using the internet and chatting, or watching tv, or just playing with the ps2 when my brother's conveniently using the computer, using the gba emulator. hahaha. i've been addicted to watching the outcome of the nba season, and watching f.r.i.e.n.d.s. nonstop. i've also formulated a schedule of tv shows i should watch. that's how stupid and pathetic my summer has been. it's been totally passive, with me learning practically nothing. they say watching tv makes your brain turn for the worse, and if that's true, then bad things are happening to me. lol. oh, i've lately watched the last round of the masters' tournament too (the golf one). haha. i used to love watching and playing golf, back in the tiger era, when he was winning everything. i loved golf so much then. but then recently, i've stopped watching due to disappointment on my favorite player and inspiration not winning. but he's back! yes he is! my love for golf has come back now that tiger woods won the masters' title last monday. he's number 1 in the world once again! woohoo! in other news, i've decided to concentrate more on neopets again. lol. at least, i'll be training my favorite pet. it's another thing to do once i sit in the computer's chair, rather than just hop around blogs all day long in vain. haha. oh, i think i'd be taking badminton lessons. but that's just what i think. i'm actually not sure of my mom's plans. i think she wants me to take karate or something- and i don't like that. lol. oh well. my sister already has a summer thing - cooking. she had her first session today. seemed fun for her.

i went to rodney's a while ago. as usual, i arrived too early for him to wake up. haha. he was still asleep when i arrived, so i let him take a bath while i tried to make the tekken 5 ps2 game to work on his malfunctioning ps2 console. sadly, our 2 hour bid for it to work failed miserably. so much for playing ps2 games all day. haha. we never did get to badminton either, as it was either too hot, or we were too busy with watching movies or using phones to distract ourselves from the movies we were trying to watch. lol. we ended up just watching those tv commercials about products in other countries (ehem thailand, korea, china, japan) which have outrageous claims on healing and/or better aesthetic effects on the body. it was funny how they dubbed their voices and how the people in the screens looked as if they were being adobe photoshopp-ed. haha. it seems weird that the country actually approves of these products being sold on the market. does it really work? i don't personally think so. but it gives us great laughs anyway, so what the heck. lol. i honestly don't get the connection on one of the products, the handy roller. it was a product you use on your skin to make you lose weight. weirdly though, in the background, jlo's song "love don't cost a thing" was playing. ahahaha. it was really funny. anyway, as we ate lunch, we talked about novelty songs, which led to all of us singing them (eg. ibigay mo na by jessa zaragoza) haha. rodney eventually downloaded some of these songs like chupeta and the aegis song. LOL. other things we did in rodney's were to watch the grudge (american version) which was not scary at all, so we used our phones and tested ringtones while the movie was playing. haha. and we also watched another movie, although we finished it in 30 minutes, due to all the fast forwards. haha. lastly, we ate yellow cab pizza for merienda and then i had to go. i never did see allie and her surprise. what was it?

i think i have a little bit of a phone crisis. i'm thinking of whether getting the sony ericsson k700i phone or the nokia 6600 phone. the nokia's older, but i'm leaning towards buying it simply because of it being a nokia phone. i'm used to nokia, and i can't see myself parting from the brand anytime soon. i'm still not sure though, and it's up to my dad for the final decision as to paying for half the expenses on the phone. at any rate, i'll be losing money. haha.

*oh btw, do you know that BILLY CRAWFORD sang the pokemon theme song? it says so on my "pokemon: the first movie" soundtrack i had ever since i was 10. i think it's the only original cd i PERSONALLY bought. haha. weird, what a small world.

memories and dreams in my small world

before it was officially announced, i didn't really care, probably because i never expected it to actually happen. as it was announced to the world using the sheet of paper, i never really grasped what was actually going to happen. i thought to myself, it's okay, i'm going to be happy in another place anyway, and it's not as if things are going to be all that different. plus, i thought of all the advantages the new rule would give us. but now, as i contemplate and reflect on the events that happened yesterday, i feel a sudden surge of sadness reverberating all over my body, and the sense of foreboding on the things to happen during the next few months. not having the high average class anymore totally changes my perspective of my next 2 years in high school. before, i thought that i could spend the next 2 years just like the previous happy hac's that came and graduated before us. they were happy, and they had this strong bond as they spent their final year togehter and graduated. there were tons of pictures, and a lot of albums filled with long term memories, from where they first started being friends all those years before. now i fear that i'm going to miss those things now that there is no more hac. i don't know, maybe all those dreams i had before could still happen with my new classmates in the future, but i just don't see the same emotions present there than in my dreams. i still remember all those years before, when i met my classmates in 4d for the first time. and through all those years, the core of that group was there, and we had a whole lot of memories together. we won contests, we went through difficult school work, both using teamwork, and of course, we also had our difficult times. i remember a lot of moments when we were together, often working together until night trying to finish projects, or just going out as friends to places to enjoy each others' company. i'm certainly going to miss all those moments with them, and the dreams that i have had with them, graduating together and stuff. i guess you just don't get what you dream of all the time.

report card distribution was yesterday. i wasn't surprised about my grades because they were all on the slips before i got out of school anyway. they were pretty much the same. we also got the rest of our class pictures yesterday. it was fun seeing my class once again, together. the crazy pics were funny as hell, haha. anyway, after going to school, we went to my mom's office and just hanged around starbucks for an hour while waiting for my mom to finish her meeting. i started reading the da vinci code again yesterday while waiting, and had a choco frap and oreo cheescake, yummy. then, we went to chowking for lunch and picked up my dad from his work. we then travelled to subic in the afternoon, for my mom's office outing. as we arrived in whiterock, we checked-in the hotel. i was the first to use the television in the room, and quickly turned the channel to cnn to watch the pope's funeral. it was a remarkable event, where tons of people went to see the pope for one last time and offer their last respects to him. i wish i could've been there. anyway, despite a lot of pleas from my mom to go to dinner, i finished the funeral. hehe. dinner came, and we were surrounded by a lot of ricoh employees. after eating, my dad and my siblings including me just strolled around the resort, and just viewed the stars up above while watching the soft movements of the water in the sea. we went to the room soon thereafter, and just watched tv until we finally slept at around 12 midnight. this morning, we went out to the beach and swam. it was the first time i got to be in a beach again in a year, and it was a great feeling. then we went to the swimming pool with the rocks in it. lol. basically, that was our experience in subic. we lacked time to do anything else, like beach volleyball, table tennis, or jetskiing. too bad. well, at least i got to swim again! yay.

my family has travelled together a lot of times before. we've had a lot of vacation trips to different places. i can still remember all those trips when i was young, when i cried as i fell to the rocky and slippery, wet ground in villa escudero, when my hair was taken by the monkey's hand and pulled in palawan, when i got chicken pox in puerto azul, and lots more. it's always nice to reminisce on these moments in your life where you had fun together. i even remember my previous subic trips. they were a lot-because our usual places of visit during summer are tagaytay, baguio and, subic. almost every year, we come back to subic and go to the yacht club, where we would swim in the night and pretend that the rocks were "crocodile swamp", filled with crocodiles just waiting to pounce on you. lol. i remember my wild imagination, as i often ran in the united states and pretended to be a wrestler fighting invisible characters, and running to the video cam while jumping and dancing wildly in front of it. lol. if you had just seen the videos. anyway, i love the times when our family would get together and spend time together, considering their work. they're busy in their work all the time, and we're busy in our school work pretty much most of the year. in fact, over the past couple of years, the demands of high school have taken their toll on our relationship. i haven't been able to come with them when they go to some places, due to the tons and tons of homework we're being pummelled with. i miss those times where my parents would say a day before a trip, "we're going to *insert place here* tomorrow" and no one would argue. now, it's not like that anymore. everyone has to confirm if they're available and if they don't have other things to prioritize. hmm, that was just a thought of mine.

so anyway, my dad's going to europe and america over the next couple of weeks. he's going tomorrow, at 7 am. he's going to be leaving the house at 4:30 i think. it's his annual trip there. he's going to visit that guy in spain they call "lolo". haha. it's pretty sad that he has to work everyday, and has little time for any "vacation-ing". but anyway, even though he's going to be tired for sure because of work and the plane rides, he's lucky he gets to visit all those places every year. it's like a yearly trip around the world. lucky him. haha.

having no cellphone is starting to become a burden for me. my list of phone numbers is obviously gone, so i'm clueless right now as to some of the people's numbers that i didn't get the chance to store in the computer. T_T. it's getting hard to tell people things too. i have to use my parents' phones just to tell people something. haha. but anyway, i'm learning to live with it and so far, nothing bad has happened to me without a phone. i just hope they help me get a phone soon. haha. in other news, my cousin's 7th birthday party is tomorrow. you know how parents value their kids' 7th birthday right? haha. well, tomorrow, they'll be doing just that to their daughter. the party's theme is about princesses and princes, and the whole kingdom thing. haha. they even gave out invitations that said "we invite you to the princess' party on april 10th at bla bla bla. from the king and queen." hahaha. it even went as far as having 7 roses and 7 um..somethings. lol. it was sort of funny, actually. well anyway, i'm sure it's going to be a special day for my cousin tomorrow. i wonder what i would do during that event though. maybe just eat. lol.

btw, it's phim's (pepe's brother) birthday tomorrow. lol. greet him a happy birthday. haha. happy birthday phim!

paranoia

hello again. i'm just posting right now because i've realized that i would not be online probably until sunday or something. that's because i'm going out of the house again, finally. i wasn't able to go anywhere from monday until now, spanning the events of the lsyc retreat, the tagaytay outing, and some other various events. i would want to go to the next tagaytay meeting though. bea, could i join the 2nd batch? hehe. so anyway, i've been stuck at home all this time once again, so imagine what i've been doing to pass the time by.

the television has been my favorite tool to get out of boredom these days. sometimes the computer and being online just does not suffice your boredom. that's because over the past few days, practically no one has been online, with everyone of my supposed-to-be chatmates going to other places as i've mentioned earlier. with nothing to do with the computer after blog hopping, checking out news articles, checking out some sites featuring f1, nba, and neopets, i resort to the television. lately my addictions have been to stick to the nba games on tv, watch american idol and the amazing race every week, and most recently watching the tv series lost on axn. of course, my week-long activity of watching cnn for updates on the events in vatican hasn't stopped. in fact, i'm watching cnn right now. lol. there come times where there are no good shows on tv, and i am forced to watch dvd's or use the play station 2. i've been watching f.r.i.e.n.d.s. dvds nonstop the past few days, and in fact, the past few weeks. what can i say? it's my favorite tv show of all time. haha. as for the ps2, i'm still playing nfsu2 and trying desperately to finish it as soon as possible so i could move on to finishing it. haha, i've been desperate to finish these games, for they're all just borrowed from different people. i don't have these games in actuality, even though i've wanted them for so long. that's because there is no store nearby which sells ps2 games. in relation to this, i also have no new music in my pc lately, for i've been too lazy to download them. haha, i don't want anymore viruses in my computer now that rodney has swept my incredifind one.

so anyway, nikko smith (spl) just got out of american idol today. he got the least number of votes. but as they said, everybody left has surely got a record contract anyway because of their talent, so being eliminated now isn't that bad. you got the experience of your lifetime, and at the same time, you got a record contract. isn't that just grand? in the amazing race, meanwhile, rob and amber are still there. in fact, they're in first place yet again. it just amazes me how their craft and wit, plus a lot of luck has brought them this far into the race. i wonder where they get all that luck though. haha. anyway, i watched MY first episode of lost a while ago, and i agree with my classmates and some of my friends in saying that it is a great series. i expect to be including it in my weekly tv schedule, as well as csi new york. i never really got excited over csi before, but now that it's summer, i got a chance to watch csi new york yesterday, and i liked it. my classmates are once again true, it is a great series with which you could learn a lot from. so there's my tv addiction right there for you guys.

this summer, i think i'd be taking badminton lessons again along with my siblings out in la salle canlubang. it's near our place and stuff. the lessons start april 18 i think. this is good since i could stretch my muscles again and not just grow and grow, making my weight problem worse. haha. oh, and we're going to subic tomorrow. we're going to white rock i think, where we'll spend the night. i hope to at least see a glimpse of the ilc though, as some of my classmates would be there. i know it isn't likely, but still, anything's possible. at last, i'll be in a beach again. it's been a long while since i last swam with those jellyfishes and swam in salty water. lol. i miss that feeling, especially when i saw our family photo albums when my classmates came over. it made me nostalgic about my experiences as a young kid.

tomorrow's the pope's funeral. sadly, i don't think i would be able to see the actual event since i'd probably be on the road to subic at the time. but anyway, like gliza said, everything's not the same without him. i never imagined the pope to die while i was still alive, so this is an entirely weird feeling engulfing me. but God has his plan, and i thank God for everything that has happened, be it good or bad. may the pope's soul rest in peace in heaven. we'll miss you.

paranoia. every summer because of boredom, i start to hallucinate and think of weird things happening to me. about 6 or 7 summers before, i loved to read reader's digest. i read about all these diseases that you could get, and the bad effects it had on people. then i thought that i had gotten these diseases. because of me being paranoid, i had myself go to the doctor, had ecg testing, blood testing, and all these other tests to confirm if i was still a healthy boy. you see, i get paranoid easily, even when i'm in school, and it often leads to trouble. now when times when your mind is idle, like summer, my mind easily thinks of outrageous stuff happening to me, like the people who stole my stuff coming to my house, people i love getting injured, and stuff lingering in my head. it's really annoying because it makes me very panicky and it makes me have more stress leading to more pimples. lol. i just wish it wouldn't be like this for long. let the paranoia go away. whee.

tomorrow is report card distribution day. i had previously much anticipated that moment in time, where i would finally receive my card and see my grades, but much of that hype has gone away now that summer is in full blast. still, i hope to see good grades on that sheet of paper tomorrow. *crosses fingers*. oh, but there are other things to be concerned about tomorrow, as far as i'm concerned. i just had a haircut a while ago, following my parents' advice to change my hairstyle. it's on its' transitional phase, which means that it's not good yet (at all). aaah, i hope it isn't that bad that my classmates and/or friends would laugh at me once they see it tomorrow. lol. but i guess there would only be a few people in school by the time i'm there since i'd be arriving at 8 sharp. haha.

we could never be perfect, but we just have to move on despite our impurities and imperfections. they should never be a reason for us to give up our dreams.
-revised statement of scott savol, american idol 4 finalist

perfection

hi. it's been a while since i last blogged (forgive me for this is going to be a long blog), mainly due to my busy schedule over the past few days. anyway, i'm back to blogging now that there is little to do at home once more. as a matter of fact, i'm currently watching my men in black vcd because of boredom. hahaha. i've always liked watching these scifi/fantasy movies, i don't know why.

well anyway, life without a phone has been a good experience. it has taught me that there are more important things in life than having a phone at your constant beckoned call everyday, all day. you don't need a phone to have fun in life, and you could contact your friends through other ways. even though it is great having a cellphone to use for questions or to chat with others, and it is handy when you go out, i have learned to live without one. it's been okay actually. i get to see the world in a new light. haha. well of course i still want a new phone, i mean, i don't want to be stuck in a mall having a hard time of contacting someone. hehe. i don't know when i'll be getting a new one though, i haven't asked my parents since i don't think they'd approve me buying one anyway. i'm hoping of getting one soon though, hehe. for now, i'm content with chatting and having a FEW phone conversations.

april 1. also called april fools day. i had a laugh upon reading pepe's blog who did an april fools joke. lol. oh, neopets also did one, though it convinced few. they removed the joke hours later though, probably due to people complaining on the chat boards. haha. anyway, i picked up my classmates from mount mcdo in town at 7:45 (i was a bit late since i got addicted to need for speed 2 in the play station. lol) and was relieved to see classmates there. it's a little traumatizing coming back to the same place where you got robbed 2 days before. ahaha. anyway, all of them (alfred, francis, mark, dom, jebi, johann) except rodney were there. rodney arrived minutes later with his starex. we left town at around 8:10 and travelled (parang ang layo eh) to my house. upon arriving, the first thing we did was to play the ps2. ahaha. we played tekken 5 for a while and used the pc to chat, check sites out, and view some *ehem* folders. oh, rodney downloaded me some programs to remove ads and other bad shit from my computer. hooray, the stupid incredifind virus thing is gone! finally. we then played billiards and other things at home, then ate lunch. we played basketball in the afternoon, with only rodney and alfred staying at home. rodney practiced his tekken moves. ahaha. we stayed in the court for 3 hours, meeting this guy named chino while playing. at first, i was apprehensive again, since i just got mugged days before for talking with people i don't know. good thing we didn't get robbed this time. lol. anyway, basketball was fun. i got to move my muscles once again. we came home at around 6 and ate merienda. we talked about the series in axn, lost, which i want to watch now that i've learned it has an exciting and mysterious plot. the rest of the day was spent just playing ps2 again, and watching tv. some of us, including me, watched friends, while the others played monopoly. after about an hour, we came to the sleeping room and watched scary movie 1 and 2. hehe. the monopoly game ended, but sleeping became a problem. we began to just talk about weird things and that got us awake until 2-2:30 am until we finally were able to shut down our system.

april 2. we woke up early, and rodney didn't puke! lol. yehey. we ate breakfast, and then played tekken again. the other guys then swam in the pool, while i waited for the others to arrive from town. they (michael, chio, gliza, isaw, bea, binky, manda, jackie, sarah) arrived at around 9 am that day, and i with michael joined the other guys in the pool while the girls played billiards. after swimming, we took a bath and the girls with chio played cranium. we ate lunch together with michael playing the piano. haha. the girls with some of the guys played monopoly while we went to the court again to play basketball and badminton. it was nice to get to play with dom in badminton, even though we (johann and i) were of course, beaten badly. haha. when we got home, we took a bath and then i and johann played table tennis. as the night came, we watched bbc intently, as videos from vatican city were shown, and they were updating the condition of the pope. we talked about many things, the most noticeable being the conversation about the pope. then we played billiards while some played badminton on the street, and some sang using the magic sing. it was fun hearing them sing, lol. btw, on the billiards game, my brother jaren actually beat us twice. =)). luck or skill? i still say luck. ahaha.

as you all know by now, his holiness Pope John Paul II passed away yesterday, April 4, 2005. he was a great pope, not only because he was very spiritual indeed, not because he was charismatic and a great linguist, but because of his humongous effort to erradicate communism in his homeland, and to bridge the gap between different religions. i have been watching cnn for 2 days straight, and i have been touched by his greatness. it's a shame i never got to meet the pope, never seeing him here in the philippines nor having the chance to go to vatican city. from the stories i have heard from different people that actually met him, just his presence changed their lives forever. he had a great influence on history's events over the past quarter of a century. he was the pope during the times of great improvements in technology, and he flourished through this, often coming up with ways to reach out to people better. he was a great servant of God, and is now with the Creator. all i ask is that we all pray for him. thank you for everything, Pope John Paul II.

anyway, today i think nearly half of my former class (sophomore-c) went to the lsyc retreat. my other classmates, meanwhile, went to bea andaya's house in tagaytay. i didn't come to tagaytay today, so i'm pretty much alone on the internet. no one has been online as far as i know, except sam, rodney, and steph. this is until april 6, so um..im stuck at home basically. i will be spending my time just watching tv (most likely cnn and the pope) and using the ps2. to all my former classmates, i hope you have fun in your trips! enjoy. =)

lately i've been addicted to the play station again. due to boredom, i've spent my time just playing new games. tekken 5 was lent to me by johann, and we played it over the weekend, so i've become really interested in the game. lol. i want to finish the game as soon as possible so what do you expect? hehe. oh, also, mark forgot to get his need for speed underground 2 again here, so i'm spending time with that game too. it's nice to get to have your own car, even if it is only imaginary, and do whatever you want with it, often using different parts to modify and strengthen the look and feel of your car. well, that's actually my summer so far. still no summer activity, though i think i'd be taking badminton in la salle canlubang nearby. hehe.

i've been watching a lot of tv over the summer. lately, i've been sticking to american idol and the amazing race. as for american idol, i'm glad that my favorite is still there. go carrie underwood! (spl? ahaha) and constantine. whee. rob and amber are still in the amazing race so go them! hehe. yesterday, i watched formula 1 in bahrain. the race was great, with many cars retiring because of problems mainly due to the extreme heat offered by the desert track. i'm happy that michelin was great yesterday, making the top 8 all michelin drivers. as for my favorite, kimi raikkonen, he got 3rd place! go mclaren! and pedro de la rosa, filling in for montoya, got 5th! he excited me from the get-go. it was a great race all in all, and i'm happy i got to watch it.

perfection is an impossibility for us humans. no one is perfect in this world. all of us have our blemishes, and everything has flaws, but we could make the most of our nice qualities, and live the most out of our lives. this is what pope john paul II did in his life. he was tireless in his efforts to revive the spirit of the catholics in the world, to remind them of their faiths, and to be an inspiration for all christians. i wish everyone would be like that. in relation to perfection, a formula 1 car always strives to be near perfect, to win races and win championships. they want to be as close to being perfect as possible. things in life are just like that. our goal is to be as near perfect as possible, or in other words, to be as similar as God as possible. i admire those who do this in their lives. in a lighter note, SHE is as near perfect as i could ever imagine. haha. anyway, take care everyone.