the circle of life

i'm currently buried under severe pressure and stress from homework but what the heck. i have to blog about this. =))

since the last time i blogged, so many things have happened. but i'll only get into the important ones. first of, my sister tried out for gap. yes, gap. i waited for her to finish her tryouts tuesday and thursday. sadly though, when the list was posted, her name wasn't in it. sayang. ah well, i'm sure she'll get lots of chances to dance anyway. plus, she's already a volleyball player.

as i said, i'm buried under homework right now. the 2 making me worried the most are the t.h.e. hw and the art project. see, i'm really bad in art. if there was 1 subject i would want to scrap out of MY curriculum, it would be art. i was never good at it, and it shows in our genes. i couldn't even get my mom or dad to draw me a tree when i was young. nakakatawa nga nung wednesday eh, my classmates were laughing at me kasi daw top 1 ako pero mas maganda pa yung sa kanila. which was actually very true. lol. i loved their armatures, they were great. i don't know what to do now, as i have no wire yet. so i'm scared. perhaps the only consolation i could get is that our teacher is very generous when it comes to grades. just work hard and follow everything she says, and you get a good grade. hopefully that's what happens to me this school year. this is where i miss my hac classmates the most, when i'm put in a difficult situation.

in our english period last friday, we had a quiz. i had a good score, but that's not the point. the week ended in a high note, as sir noy sang. it was great. the class was all rowdy and we were all so noisy. this is what i like about not being in the hac, perhaps the only thing that's keeping me from going insane from schoolwork. they never seem to cease to make you laugh because of their countless hirits. i've been labelled bad boy #2, ahaha. grabe sila sa classroom, putek. i wonder what would have happened to me if i wasn't in the honor's class for 6 years. hmm. anyway, masaya nga yung english, even though we didn't get to do the hot seat part with our cds. oh, my burnt cd had a mixture of tracks that i liked, which up until now i can't decide on what i like the most from. i put in one track i really loved and that made my childhood great. "circle of life" makes me peaceful and serene up until now. it makes me reinkindle my childhood and remember the times i didn't have to worry about school work at all. sure, my grades were lower back then and i didn't really focus on friends (i'm more of a personal type of person), but at least i had fun. the lion king is my favorite cartoon movie of all time, and i don't think it will ever cease to make me happy.

we went to town last friday. after a short dinner at china star (of which i didn't have money to pay), we watched "monster-in-law". i had to borrow money from johann because i really had 0 in my pocket. the no allowance policy which i continue on following is really hurting me. i've been broke for 2 weeks now, and i can't see myself continuing to eat normally for another 4 weeks with no allowance to pay for my phone. anyway, the movie was fine. i wasn't really myself at that time though. after a few more hours, we left.

yesterday was one of the best days of my life. even though i woke up with a slight fever, i was looking forward to the day with eyes that you only see from a little boy opening his birthday gifts. it was our parents' wedding anniversary, and they brought us along with them to celebrate it. ok, so the day started when we got dressed to go to alabang. we got to take home our new chevrolet venture, yay. the people that were supposed to buy our trooper were not that ecstatic about our trooper though. kasi naman, when we said we had the 2002 trooper, i think they expected the car to have a sunroof, which sadly enough, we didn't have. the 2002 sun-roof version wasn't released for 3 months after we bought ours. T_T. so yeah, i'll advertise here. lol. we're selling the car, to anyone who would be interested. =)) anyway, i love the new car. BUCKET SEATS. yehey. we bought go nuts donuts to cap it all off. another thing to celebrate.

after getting the new car, we drove to market! market! to eat lunch and meet our dad. see, our dad had practiced gun shooting in the morning. =)) i still can't believe his stories that he nailed the targets using the armalite and pistols. LOL. anyway, it was an office event, so all his bosses and officemates were there. yeah. so we met him in chowking at lunch time, as i advised all of them not to eat much in preparation for the big dinner. we shopped for a while, (i got to buy a new headset with microphone) and then headed to greenbelt 3 to watch "war of the worlds". after a few minutes of timezone, and getting the last 5 seats together right in front of the theater, we entered. funnily enough, all of their previews were about horror films. =)) one was exceptionally funny. you think it's a comedy movie, and then it suddenly changes into a horror film right on the end. i believe its' title is "red eye". anyway, the movie was okay, as it had great special effects and you were tensed the whole time up until the end. but then i didn't get the ending much, as did most of the crowd. it was based from the novel of h.g. wells, so i imagined myself 100 years ago, and what my mindset about the world would be. i think that the movie is kind of old fashioned, and it's based more on the mentality of people 100 years ago, when we didn't know much about the world. (spoiler: i can't really imagine aliens being that stupid.)

after dinner, finally it was time to eat in circles, or so we thought. when we arrived in shang hotel, the place was fully booked. we had to wait for over an hour just to enter the place. but it was worth it. i saw the chocolate fountain, and ate the chocolate stuff. lol. in the end though, the restaurant won over us. we didn't eat much, as after 1 serving of a plate full of food and a chocolate packed dessert, i couldn't go on. i felt liked puking on the next bite. =)) the waitress even said that we ate too little. haha. circles=1, ysmael family=0. that, my parents said, was their present to me for my accomplishments last year. i was okay with it, as i got what i wanted. (except for the weight, as i gained 3.5 pounds) =)) it was a happy moment, finally being there.

as we came back to the car, we visited music one and i got to persuade my parents to buy a hale cd and a batman and robin dvd. i was really interested in buying the dvd because i didn't remember watching it before and it had huge stars such as alicia silverstone, george clooney, uma thurman, and arnold schwarzenegger. i'm bent on watching it while i'm studying for our filipino and geometry long tests. woohoo. yesterday was great.

ok, so this ends this happy blog. i've just seen the f1 commercial and realized that the race isn't in canada (which i thought it was), and it's actually in great britain T_T. i could watch it later on! yehey. lastly, go andy roddick! lol. hopefully he beats federer later on.

sige goodbye. see you all in school =)