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[Apr. 19th, 2012|01:27 am] |
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( 'When did cuts get ugly?', other questions, and some answers. )
Alrighty! This is where the mandatory entry that announces I won't be home for the next three weeks begins (I'll be back on the 12th). Once again, we're off to the blessed land called the United States of America. GOD BLESS AMERICA, HEY!
My sister's graduating from FCI so we're heading to New York first. We're going to Oklahoma (then driving to Texas?) for a few days after that to visit Auntie Olive which I've disliked ever since they brought it up because I'm going to be missing shows I would've wanted to go to (Guns N Hoses' first show ever which I seriously would've been allowed to attend since I'd be 21 already, and Charlene Kaye's Animal Love release show) and I assume it's going to be a bit boring. If they live in or if we're going to Tulsa, I'd be a little bit amused because insert Chandler Bing/Friends reference here. Another thing I'm not totally happy about is that we're going back to New York after that, because mom wants to spend her birthday with Achie since the latter will still be interning therefore not coming home with us just yet. Oh, the money spent. And, LA's the usual last leg with no real plans.
I'm not as excited for this trip as I was from the one six months ago because honestly that wasn't too far back and it's all still fresh to me but we'll see. I guess whatever happens will happen and maybe the tables will turn on my predetermined boredom. Hopefully, that'll last my entire stay.
... I will always hate everything about the planes though.
PS. If you're from Tumblr, it says semi-hiatus because I installed the Missing e extension on my dad's laptop so I'll be going on it when I can in order to minimalize the backlog I'll have to deal with when I get home. Awww yeaaah! |
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[Apr. 16th, 2012|02:32 am] |
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I'm hoping this is the last backtrack/catch-up entry I write in a while even if I haven't been doing much and staying up late. I'm still my lazy self when it comes to updating or doing anything. I'm on some high level of summer bumming. I'm actually bored already but I've been managing, I guess.
I read four books in four days. Namely and respectively, Lullaby by Chuck Palahniuk and the Hunger Games series by Suzanne Collins. You know, just one after the other. It's the fastest and most I've done in that amount of time. It probably has nothing to do with my reading skillz (yeah, with a z) and their improvement from all the readings I had to deal with last sem but more of the fact that they were so easy to get sucked into. They were very good reads. So good that I had to finish them before taking a bath and kept going through them till the sun came up and the birds chirped which are usually signs that tell me "you're seriously still going to sleep?" or "good luck waking up!"
Obviously I went for my stack of unread Palahniuk's first but I went for the Hunger Games right after because I wanted to see what all the fuss was about and I wanted to watch the movie but not go into it blindly. Needless to say, I'm very much thankful for my curiousity and the peer pressure that even led me to watch the movie two times in a row and call several Fully Booked stores just to find the box set since I read them from pdf files. Unfortunately, I don't have one yet since they've all been sold out but we ordered one from the States so no worries there. Side note: because of my crazy reading of the Hunger Games, I got the sniffles and cough. Totally worth it though.
I was thinking of beginning Game of Thrones but since the second season recently started, I'm going to hold out on that and get into it when most of my current shows are on their summer hiatuses since I won't have a lot to watch. Same goes for Doctor Who but only from the 9th Doctor onwards. Besides the already mentioned, I have four other recommended shows to try out and thinking about them is exhausting. I'm serious when I say this because being in a fandom is not easy.
From the tweets I've been seeing on my timeline, people are interning and going back to school for the summer sem. Then, there's me being dumb, melting in my room in oddly comfortable women's boy briefs. But, hey, I have a reason to wake up early on Wednesdays because Glee's back with no more hiatuses for the rest of the season and most of the original cast's going to graduate which will lead me to a new point of depression, yay!
So, I'm at a loss of things to talk about right now because I don't think there's anything else I need to take note of. I'm also a bit distracted because I finally found a free download so I'm listening to the amazingness of the Space Tour CD, and I'm thinking about watching the awesomeness of Holy Musical B@man again while I wait for the torrent of the iCarly episode with One Direction to finish. You're judging me, I can hear you.
About the new liking for One Direction I found over the weekend, I'm blaming their constant presence on my dashboard, the SNL episode they performed in, DailyGrace's Sexy Friday video, and mostly Liam Payne's everything. I listened to What Makes You Beautiful for three days straight, I watched most of their videos on their YouTube-VEVO channel, and I went through the rest of the album a while ago... and now I really want a Liam doll.
Okay, I'm done. |
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[Mar. 31st, 2012|03:09 pm] |
The last three or so weeks of the last semester of third year were basically consumed by everything Marketing and thesis. No surprise. We had to finish the paper work, and prepare to go through a mock defense, a final defense, and a presentation. Marketing didn't go so well because our group got the lowest grade from the whole batch but our section's scores were also the lowest from the rest of the classes. I think that says something about our prof and not the students. Thesis went well; didn't ace it but it was very good considering the fact that Senior C was dropped out of the class for overcutting which was my biggest nightmare come true. I still had a mini-paper, a Philo oral, a radio drama, and two final exams which weren't much when you set them beside the two major requirements.
I guess the last academic related thing I can bring up's my grades. I got like every grade except for an F, a D, and a B so I'm pretty happy with that. My QPI's at its highest by both semester and year. Hopefully it'll keep going up.
Other things that happened during those weeks: Ahia Chris and Achie Candice's wedding which was pretty big. I only attended the reception where I got to sit with my cousins instead of my original table with some strangers. I learned that I can talk to them now and apparently we make beso with each other (and I honestly hate making beso with people in my age range or getting kissed by the way younger ones). Maybe I should put in the Top Chef night we had since Paul was here for the aforementioned and he cooked an excellent dinner. Congrats to him on his season 9 win! We also adopted a dog. Well, he kind of walked into our gate and stayed. He's either a Pekingese or a Shih Tzu who's already a bit trained so mom doesn't have a problem with him being inside and spoiling him.
Once the break began, I obviously went for catching up on movies specifically Marvel superhero ones. I did X-Men: First Class, Thor, and Captain America in one night, well night to morning, but it got me excited for the Avengers movie so there's that. Because of that actually, dad set up the Xtreamer and the tv from the kitchen in my room where I've been watching episodes. My Little Pony is great on it, just saying.
I went out a couple times. First for Enrique's birthday which I didn't want to go to but I hadn't seen the Spoons in a while and I wanted to see Jessie. I spent my stay there with the Xavierians of ACE, eating pizza, and avoiding the smell of Antonio Banderas. Ken's reasoning to see the Spoons was sort of pointless because none of them were even there yet when I left. The next night was Anjo's birthday which was my first bar experience. It wasn't any different than drinking with people in a house but it was new to me just because. The morning after was my arranged ARPT spring cleaning which was productive and fun except for the lizard that was almost thrown at me.
There was a team sleep over in some new recruit's house that happened after that but I couldn't go because I got weather allergies. Speaking of which, my health was taken down a level... I don't know if I should say health in general but I'm still going to talk about it anyway. A couple of days before the wedding and the final Marketing defense, both events demanding I wear a skirt, I tripped in Faura. It was one of the worst trips I've had because the people who hang out by the stairs saw everything, none of them cared to help, I said "FUCK!" out loud, I ripped the knee of one of my favorite pairs of jeans, I scraped my right knee and I bruised the other. During finals week, my stomach and my back were both aching which made me uncomfortable and unable to do stuff. At first I thought it was gas pains but then it ended being constipation (I'm only going to say this here because no one reads this but I swear you never want to put a suppository up your own butt twice. It's horrific). Well, that was the reason for the stomach ache. After a urinalysis, we found that the back ache was from UTI and I'm taking medicine right now.
Welp. |
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[Feb. 29th, 2012|10:22 pm] |
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Coming back to doing school work after the Christmas break was not pretty since they had to do with this semester's two major requirements. Can we begin with Marketing? Two points: first, I can't blame anyone for my laziness towards this subject and this project, so oops; and second, even though it was my proposal that was approved, I did ask the group if they really wanted to push through with it because it is honest to God bloody (or "madugo"). But we seem to be powering through it so at least it's working out. ( And, the other requirement needs to go under a cut because I have A LOT to say about it. )
In relation to all of that's under the cut, thinking that my 'free Mondays' schedule could finally be used to indulge in the awards season, there was always something coming up either Marketing or thesis related. I'm still waiting for the time I get to watch something live. That is, if I wake up.
I finally got to do my JEEP. I was a customer service person for the first day then a bagger for the last two in Shopwise Libis. It wasn't exactly new to me compared to other people only because I'm no stranger to the whole supermarket background. Being a bagger was more worthwhile because you were actually doing something instead of just doing an announcement every ten minutes. The only thing that turned me off with bagging were the creepers. One was that security guy who kept helping me and asking me questions. None of the others were being helped, okay, and I can and know how to bag groceries so I got creeper vibes. Second was with these two guy customers lining up at another cashier who I noticed kept staring at me so I made it a point to not make eye contact and look the other way. I got mistaken a lot for not being an employee too because I don't look it, like "Oh, I was wondering why you were taking my groceries," "Are you the owner?," and "Do you have a credit card already, ma'am?" Extra from a woman who knew it was for school: "Are you from La Salle?"
Family-related: Achie Bambi and Ahia Terence were here! I haven't seen Ahia Terence in nine years and I missed him so much. He's older and bigger but he still gives the best hugs. I didn't expect to see them and their significant others as much but it surprised me how much we did. A lot of other relatives from the US have rolled in. It's been a Qui invasion but it's nice having Auntie Lulu and Uncle Cesar stay with us. The house isn't as boring.
Yeah, I'm going to talk about fandom life in a few words in order not to make this any longer: Sherlock is awesome. I'm stupid for not watching it sooner. Matt Bomer is Cooper Anderson aka Blaine's big brother and there's going to be an episode called Big Brother meaning it's Blaine-centered. You know how Kristen Bell has sloth meltdowns? I have Anderson brother meltdowns.
Oooh, I have a big girl phone now! He's a Samsung Galaxy Nexus and I named him Ponty after J. Pierrepont Finch from How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying. It's been about a month since I got it so I'm still a bit Android illiterate but I'm learning. Swarley went nuts one night: had to restore it from back up which didn't really work because all my games restarted and I lost all my notes. The games weren't important but my 2011 travel notes were. That's why I haven't been able to finish my November entry. I'm going to attempt to reconstruct them through pictures and tweets when we get back from our next trip. It'll be tedious but it's better than editing this thesis. |
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[Jan. 1st, 2012|03:19 am] |
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20-fuckin'-12.
We had an early dinner with the Ty's in Choi Garden then headed to the Fongs' place to spend the last of 2011. We watched a David Foster concert in their home theater and moved outside to eat, to watch the fireworks, and to wait for the new year on the roof. Auntie Marian told me to "Wish on the brightest star because it works!" as if I were a child (I was the youngest though). I smiled and maybe even laughed at the idea.
Fifteen minutes before midnight, I caught myself searching for one. Ten minutes, I found one amidst the fireworks. Five, it didn't seem funny anymore.
This past year, I call it my year of seclusion but, was an improvement from the one before. It wasn't bad, it wasn't good. It was alright. And, I guess if people think it's worth making resolutions (which aren't my thing), it's probably worth making wishes too.
Whether it's in family, friends, school, love, and even fandom (love and fandom can coincide; he's called Darren Criss, Universe), I wished for happiness. I don't really know why but that's the first thing I thought of. Maybe I've accumulated too many personal disappointments from the last two years that it's more that I can take?... Anyway, I added a little more to it by wishing that I would never give up hope. Ever.
One minute left and I teared up as I looked at my star but made sure no one around me could tell. I sucked up whatever I was feeling till I got home, till I got to my room so I could put it all down here, and cry it all out in the middle of my bed and in the tiny corner of my bathroom.
But, there. I've blogged ALL the feelings and I'm done. So here's to a hopefully happy new year. |
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