honeybuns

actually, 2 days ago :P

at exactly 12 midnight last october 27 (technically, it was october 28 already), after 17 hours in school (yes, you read it right. 17. SEVENTEEN), my 1st sem in my 3rd year in law school has officially ended.

YEHEY!

not that there's a lot to rejoice about....

let me sum up my 1st semester in one word:

SUCKY.

so i guess having mock trials as my last finals was something to make such a bleak semester seem brighter.

a mock trial as a final exam was a pretty nice experience... i mean it was pretty nerve-wracking... i started law school with the idea of being more of a research-based lawyer.... meaning no litigation work, no "objection, your honor!" kinda thing... so i was pretty thrown off by an oral final examination that was all about litigating and "arguing" with the opposing counsel...

but it turned out okay... after 6 hours of waiting for our turn to come, more than 2 hours of moot court seemed pretty short... shout out to my team mates arianne, kaye, fifi and patch for doing a super job... and i'll forever be indebted to our two witnesses noel and rob for giving up their sunday night and whole monday just to be the two extremely handsome and tall witnesses our case required...

fun, fun october 27 day (except maybe for the 17hours in school thing. with 5 groups and more than 2 hours per group, it was a LONG day)...

anyway, my end of sem resolution is when i survive this first semester (nov4 is the judgment day), i promise to

1. buy a rules of court codal
2. study. as in STUDY.


hohoho, as usual pray for me guys.

I AM NOT A SIZE 7.... just because people my height have size 7 feet does not mean i'm also a size 7.... in fact i'm a size 6.... so please stop assuming i'm a size 7!!!


moving on....

i'm selling a copy of twilight for 300 pesos... it's new but a little rough on the edges (literally)... haven't read it yet, but my mom bought a copy in the airport a few hours after my brother gave me one... so now i'm selling one ^_^

yesterday, i finished reading the sequel to twilight.... it wasn't so bad... actually, i enjoyed reading it.... not so much cheesiness (probably because when edward reappeared, the book was almost halfway done....).....

hmmmm, it kinda reminded me of harry potter book 2, i felt like i read a filler.... a good filler, mind you, but a filler nonetheless... although thinking back, book 2 wasn't really a filler FILLER because it turned out that the apex of the story was connected to the subsequent books.... so maybe that's what stephenie meyer did in new moon....

anyway, my elementary classmates and i had a reunion of sorts in promenade, greenhills last may 29... i brought along some pictures, and my friend hana took a picture of the pictures i brought, one of which was this:



can you guess which one i am? keke this was taken i think in kindergarten... in my old school, JASMS, we don't usually change sections, so if you've been classmates since nursery, then you're basically stuck with each other until 6th grade kekeke.... the person i'm with is rachelle, one of my closest friends in my earlier years.... unfortunately, she wasn't able to come to our little gathering....

here we are now:


(clockwise from top left: hannah, miel, me, hana, bert, sarah, jason, phine, and jezrel)


(from left: hana, sarah, me, miel, jason and jezrel)


hana, sarah and me ^_^ sugar plum group (yucky, i can't believe i'm divulging our barkada name :P our other two groupies, lovely and rachelle couldn't come)

two days later (may 31), my high school classmates (techno people) had a reunion of our own to celebrate 10 years of friendship (and mayhem :P)...


(clockwise from far left: rachelle, jihan, kat-kat, andrea (seated), ploplo, phillip (seated), lyka, me, divine, mai and dianne)


(from left: lyka, me, mp (being all gooey and sweet :P) and melissa)


(clockwise from left: jessen, me, jihan, kat-kat, melissa, andrea, divine, dianne, rj and mai)

thanks to lyka for uploading her pics!!! ^_^

well, that's all... will post some pictures again since my net is being all friendly and fast on me kekeke ^_^

i was too preoccupied to take notice of them....

so i've just read twilight... so i loved it.... so i googled it....

and what do i find?

that it's actually followed by 3 more books.... the last one still to be released... and a movie's in the works (or is it finished already?)....

what's bothering me is that i've known about twilight since last year and i haven't really paid much attention to it.... blame it on law school and the fact that no one's actually lent me a copy (until now).... but my law friends have been hinting about it to me since i can't remember when.... poor poor loser me.....

about the movie.... errrr.... is it just me or are the cast really not that good looking..... well, at least not good looking enough for me to be dazzled by them... anyway's excited about the movie...

and a new book... wow... i was thinking of buying twilight  asap, but since there happens to be a new book coming out .... i'm contemplating on whether i should wait for its release and then buy the whole series in one go.... or do a piece meal thing.... is two months too long a wait?

wow, i haven't posted for a long time.... time flew by so fast that before i knew it, it's already been 31 weeks since i wrote anything in here....

will not bore anyone with a recap of the last 31 weeks of my life... most parts of it i have already buried deep down in my (very)subconscious (is there i a word?).... suppression is best if you're living a fish bowl existence....

but moving on....  i just finished reading twilight  by stephenie meyer..... and i must say..... it was like reading roswell..... small town.... high school... normal girl who happens to be saved through impossible means by a not so human guy.... who happens to be drop dead gorgeous.... girl falls in love with guy.... who also happens to have fallen in love with her even before she did.... guy's secret is revealed.... and girl has entered a whole new world, with danger and romance lurking (and even hunting)....

the book certainly brought me back to my early teen years, when i was obsessed with buffy and roswell.... while some kids enjoyed watching dawson's creek (i want to hurl just thinking about that series), i favored something more on the occult side... i guess that's why twilight appealed to me.... the supernatural, vampires and forbidden love rock!!!

the book was a little cheesy though.... once they started being physically gooey with each other, the pick-up line-like statements started coming in.... one such statement that particularly made me stop reading to just laugh away all the corniness that the line evoked was: "Bring on the shackles - I'm your prisoner." i know, i know, it doesn't seem to be that cheesy, but if you read the context (it's on page 302 of the book, upper left part - i memorized the area of the page where i read it kekeke), it so very is (yucky, that sounded so wrong and non-english)....

anyhoo, cheesiness aside i really loved the book... i'll probably buy my own copy when i go to a bookstore next time.... the only thing that bothered me was when the lead girl, bella, started nagging edward (i am sooo going to name my son after him) about turning her into one of them.... i was mentally screaming that if edward turned bella into a vampire, that that would ruin the book for me FOREVER..... i almost had a heart attack when bella was badly hurt and near death (or so it seemed) or when she was with edward at their prom.... i thought that if she did become a vampire at the end of the book, then that would have been the most cliche non-ending in the entire universe (of course i'm exaggerating)....

so there.... twilight.... i'm going to read new moon in a while... after the euphoria of reading twilight has disappeared (or at least faded)....

THINGS I'M CURRENTLY ADDICTED TO:

1. double-breasted pea coats (i'm on a buying frenzy even though the only thing i want to wear in this weather is a wifebeater and shorts!!)
2. the color RED
3. mister donut bavarian donuts
4. roswell (just finished rewatching the first two seasons.... the third one kinda sucked so i didn't want to torment myself by bothering with it)
5. american idol season 7 (david cook!!!!)
6. sophie kinsella's can you keep a secret? (i think i've read it thrice already.... this summer alone)
7. bette midler songs (i'm watching her live perfs in youtube, and i dunno what started it... maybe it was her the rose song? and did you guys know that that song was actually part of a soundtrack of a movie of the same name which she starred in, and which was loosely based on the life of janis joplin, who i don't really know, but will probably research on later (meaning tonight)?)
8. stephenie meyer's twilight ^_^ i think this is going to be my next harry potter :P

Gosh, it feels like forever since i wrote in here... been really busy....

It's my 2nd day of "freedom"... no cases to read, no codal provisions to memorize... it's so liberating the minute i stepped out of my property law prof's office after an oral exam... although i DID NOT do well on that exam, just the fact that that was my last test made me grin from ear to ear...

But i guess time flies when you're having fun... some grades are out and i just have to say... it's a happy moment when you surpass your low expectations, but it's another thing to have your low expections turn into reality... i guess that's why i'm so disappointed right now... just goes to show that even if you say grades don't matter, they still do... especially if it means staying in school or flunking out....

i'm dreading getting the rest of my grades T_T



Pray for me please...

i haven't had a good long cry in awhile, so it must have really strained my eyes when I did so yesterday... until now, my eyes are still smarting... and everytime i think of the reason why i cried, i feel like crying all over again... i'm actually relieved of what had happened, but it doesn't really stop me from shedding more tears about it... i dunno why i'm being highly emotional... i'm way past adolescence... but i guess everything feels like a strain now... i'm not saying i'm not happy... but there's just something niggling at me... and thinking too much is not helping...

since my net has the suckiest connection (ever!), i'm just going to comment on the comments here, along with added thoughts i have (which conveniently popped out after i'd already logged out and closed my lappy)...

- i missed hogwarts during the first part of the book.... it always seemed that EVERYTHING happened in hogwarts... good thing the finale was set there....

- and what the hell happened to harry and quidditch? i missed quidditch here... and harry didn't even fly a broomstick during the whole story...

- and speaking of hogwarts, i'm really curious if harry, ron and hermione graduated... did they put in another year in hogwarts, or did they accept their drop-out status since they're already famous anyway?... (at least harry is... and hermione's got brains so she wouldn't have a problem looking for a job, i'm not so sure about ron though...)

- and i must say, voldermort's really not such a formidable villain here... i mean, he's killed a lot of GREAT wizards, and then a 17 year old kills him? i feel insulted for those GREAT wizards who died in his hands...

- hmmm.... and i never really got the power of the deathly hollows... is it suppose to make you not die? or is it suppose to make you master (of) death? is there a difference? hmmmm.....

okay, moving on to comments for comments (mine is in maroon):

from leechunsa:
No Gab, he took off his glasses because Goyle could see well ^^ It affects you so, cause remember Barty Crouch Jr. had full use of Moody's revolving eyeball, and if he could see well as Barty Jr, then he wouldn't have to use that one well would he? :)

hmmm, maybe i'm just thinking from the 2nd movie's perspective... if you check movie 2 (which i am sure you very well have)... harry had to wear his glasses when he was goyle... that's why i got confused.... keke i'm actually too lazy to verify this from the book itself... oh well, i'm sure you'll be able to know ^_^
 
AHH, All of you wanting Harry to be alone I hate you. LOL! I bet everyone just went, "I bet Angel died of happiness in this one" hahaha, well I did. SO WUT. LOL! I think that JK didn't put in much RHr happiness cause you know, Hr isn't like that, she's more of secretive when it comes to personal life, I dunno, and Ron's not very touchy either. But heyy come on, they got 2 kids, what more to ask for? HAHAHAHA. You needed details on how they actually made them? HAHAHAHAHAHHAHA.

dear, i don't think ron's "not very touchy"... he almost ate off his ex-gf's head while they were (always) snogging in book 6... and what's with ron always putting his arm around hermione?!?!!? keke ron... not very touchy? i don't think so....

and I remembered you Gab when WONWON went, "If you're not in Gryffindor, we'll disinherit you," said Ron, "but no pressure." HAHAHAHA. It's the NO PRESSURE part. HAHAHAHA. So you. I would've thought this is why you love Ron so much, he reflects you so. HAHAHAHA <33

hehe i'm touched... enough said ^_^

But I'm glad at least you aren't soooooooooooooooooo disappointed, it's still in top 3. I was actually scared you wouldn't like it. I love the book like that, I want everyone to at least like it :)

the only book i hated was book 5... all because it felt too angsty for me... sorta like when you're reading it... it kinda sucks all of your cheerfulness from you (think dementors)... that's why i don't like to read it again...

PS. I did the LJ cut XD

what's an LJ cut? never mind... thanks ^_^

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From: snarkathon
Date: Jul. 24th, 2007 01:03 am (local)
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Christ on a cracker, did you not just HATE that crapilogue? It was so twee, so precious, I started to vomit butterflies and rainbows. SO TWEE. Ugh.

hehe i just love how you said "crapilogue"... i didn't even read "READ" it the first time... scanning it was painful enough... i was thinking... "what the hell?!?!?! i didn't know this was a fairytale!!" it's like saying "...and they lived happily ever after." at the end.  gaaaahhhh!!!! i wanted to hurl your laptop (which i couldn't, for obvious reasons :P).

It just felt so tacked-on. I would have been so much happier if JKR revealed tidbits about their careers, the way they dealt with their loss (George, most especially, because losing a twin is akin to losing a limb), the way they rebuilt their lives. But what did we get? Albus Severus? Scorpius?! Oh, JKR, you are now forbidden to name anyone.

keke i feel you.... the ending was really, really.... can't say the word.... i actually felt cheated because we've all been so well-acquainted with all the characters (and not just the 3 musketeers)... and ms. rowling gives us 2 couples with children!?!?!? oh my gosh... and the names!!!

i think ms. rowling has a fascination for flowers... lily? petunia? rose?!? rose was the last straw... i could hear the titianic sinking in the background...

and ALBUS SEVERUS!??!? can't it have been severus james? or maybe albus james? why didn't she just give one name for each child, and maybe let ginny have another baby with the name severus (with no albus)?!?!

and i feel bad about george... i wonder how he's doing now that fred's gone... who'd he share his magical games and tricks ideas with?... and it's twice painful since they're twins... i really appreciated it when somebody said to me, "why wasn't percy the one who got killed instead?!!?"

And Jesus, fuck, way to commit character assassination! What the hell was up with Remus and Tonks? Can you say "marriage of convenience?" And then they get killed off with nary a moment of heroism?

keke i love how you swear.. i actually downplayed all of the bad things i wanted to say about the book, lest i would seem ungrateful to the author... but alas, the flood gates have been opened so i am not holding back!!!!

i know!!! f*ck!!! it's like another harry potter's been born (except someone wasn't trying to kill him).... what's up with jk and orphaned wizards? (harry, neville (who's technically not orphaned but since his parents will never ever become uncrazy, it's the same thing, right?), and now ted (who's snogging someone named victoire... what kind of a name is that for a girl!?!?))...

and i would have appreciated it if remus and tonks' deaths were explained... at least we saw how fred died... but those 2... they were just in a pile with the rest of the bodies... even peter the rat had a more vivid death scene...

hoho, and speaking of peter the rat... don't you find it sad how all of james' friends died in the end? and they didn't just die... they were all killed!!! talk about being cursed...

There were just so many things I did not like about the book, but I found just as many things that were pure awesome.
1. NEVILLE AS A BADASS RESISTANCE LEADER. Come on, he kicked ass.

man, how proud i am of neville. i remember when he was just a kid who couldn't even walk or talk properly, and was always bullied... now he has the force, man!! (sorry for getting star warsy....)
 
2. Kreacher cooking steak and kidney pie/hitting Dung with a saucepan/leading the house elves, armed with kitchen implements.

i love kreacher!!! he's the man , ehem, i mean elf!!!!! speaking of elves.... why did dobby die!!!!?!?!?! it's not enough that hedwig died, but dobby had to as well!!! why did harry's non-human friends have to die!?!?

3. 'Ear, 'ear.

not sure about this one... is this the same as 'Arry?

5. "I don't think you're a waste of space."

haha dudley is sooo stupid...

too stupid i think.... maybe he has mental disorder (as in a clinical one....)

6. "He must have known you would always want to come back."

awwwww...... senti moment!!! that was really sweet... i loved how they hugged each other after what happened with the locket and the sword... it's always touching to see two boys (men?) hugging... in a non-gay, we're best friends kind of way (not that i have anything against the gay type ^_^)

7. Potterwatch.

waaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhh!!!! i almost forgot this one!!! loved it!!!! keke especially all of fred's comments (awww... fred!! T_T)...

some quotables:

"... And now let's move to news concerning the wizard who is proving just as elusive as Harry Potter. We like to refer to him as the Chief Death Eater.."

"... For instance, this new idea that You-Know-Who can kill people with a single glance from his eyes. That's a basilisk, listeners. One simple test: Check whether the thing that's glaring at you has two legs. If it has, it's safe to look into its eyes, although if it really is You-Know-Who, that's still likely to be the last thing you ever do."

"Well, who wouldn't want a nice little holiday after all the hard work he's been putting in?"

"... but the fact remains he can move faster than Severus Snape confronted with shampoo when he wants to, so don't count on him being a long away away if you're planning to take any risks."


9. And my favorite moment of all: "NOT MY DAUGHTER, YOU BITCH!" (Clearly, you do not mess with mama bear)

keke i love cat fights.... i thought molly weasley would actually growl at bellatrix...

Wow, instead of studying for property, sumulat ako ng comment sa lj mo. I fail at life.

hehe i think it's called priorities :P don't worry friend.. nakalimutan ko rin ang property dahil kay hp. hayop siya :P

And, this is so OC, but the grammar-Nazi in my head kept hitting me across the face with an anvil: I would have been so much happier if JKR HAD revealed tidbits about their careers, the way they dealt with their loss (George, most especially, because losing a twin is akin to losing a limb), the way they rebuilt their lives. But what did we get? Albus Severus? Scorpius?! Oh, JKR, you are now forbidden to name anyone.

oh my gosh when i read your comment, i suddenly had an OC attack... i reread what i posted and edited away!!! keke i don't usually reread what i've already written... lest i find it too crappy for words :P...

just finished book 7!! (and for those who didn't get it, then i suggest you should go out of your houses more often :P)


p.s. my ranking of hp books (1 being most favorite)

1. book 4 ( i read the last few chapters 7 times, and i cried each time... almost the same way i cry over "love story" (erich segal) every time i read it again)
2. book 3 (i know a lot of people's fave is book 3... but its ending was too painful for me that it kinda ruined the book for me)...
3. book 7 (i could have put this as second, but i guess i felt more "magic" in book 3 than i did with book 7...)
4. book 1 (this one started it all for me... after reading the first 4 books one after the other... i got to a point where i started doubting when i was actually born (my birthday's on the 30th, harry's is on the 31st... keke)
5. book 6
6. book 2
7. book 5 (i just can't bring myself to read this again.. i dunno why... but i felt anger and angst all throughout this book... which is why i love the 5th movie, cos it was totally lighter!!!)

ranking of hp movies released so far...

1. 3rd (cuaron, you're the man!!! i don't care if you changed a lot of details from the book... but the film was so great to watch!!! the scenematography was breathtaking!!!)
2. 5th (my gosh, this movie saved the book for me.. thank goodness he's doing the 6th one... love the top view angles... and the zoom-out transitions... i didn't even notice how choppy the film editing was...)
3. 2nd (if it weren't for the 5th movie, this would have been 2nd place... great mix of adventure and book details... for me, this has the nearest semblance to the book in terms of details)
4. 4th (if i didn't love the book i would have made this last on my list... it was so anti-climactic (using the non-word again... i better look for it in the dictionary one of these days) after watching the 3rd one...)
5. 1st (my gosh, this was painful to watch... kinda boring... but this was the first book... and i guess the excitement of seeing harry potter in the flesh (or at least on the silver screen) makes this movie watchable... (maybe i should have put this above movie 4? :P))

it's been almost a month of nonstop school for me... this sem's a complete energy drainer since we have classes from monday til saturday... sunday's actually included because that's the time for studying for you MONDAY class..

it's a vicious, vicious cycle...

and i'm not really doing well...

i dunno, i'm just not coping...

i've been called for almost all my classes... and each time i recite, i don't...

recite, i mean...

not as intelligently or as clearly as i should...

it's like stupidity's oozing from me... and if i go any further (in reciting)... i might just drown (in my stupidity)...

maybe i'm just tired... or maybe it's the relief that i "survived" first year of law school that's taking a toll on me... all that stress... and now my brain's not functioning anymore...

i feel really weird... i can't concentrate on anything... i can't study... i try but my recits don't reflect whatever i absorbed in all those cases i read...

or maybe they just reflect how unfit i am to be where i am now...

i dunno...

i'm confused...

and i wanna binge myself with food!!!

arrrgggghhhh!!!

i can't even put into words all i want to say here...

T_______________T

kekeke this week has been one hell of a crazy one...

it seems that our law grades are out and man oh man i feel so bad... i wish i was in the philippines right now just so i could talk to everyone... (maybe i'll save a post just for this)...

anyways, my friend jamie (who's been living in virginia) visited me for 5 days in new jersey... we had already planned on going to new york (we had tickets for les miserables), and to six flags great adventure...

anyways, we did go to all of these places... i'm actually not too keen on writing a lot because these past 2 days have been really sad (what with the grades and all)... so i'll just put random pictures... maybe next time i post something it'll be more orderly ^_^


this is in pier village in new jersey.. it's a newly built commercial area which has nice restos and shops... you can even go swimming (although it'll cost you 5 dollars)


me with my lola, tito rocky, tita myra, and my cousins - raphaella and miguel


our first ride was in log flume - it's a water ride, the same thing as log jam at enchanted kingdom... the only difference is that this ride hurt like hell because it seemed like it was stopping and creaking... my arms got sore.. keke good thing i didn't really get wet cos jamie was the one sitting in front keke.. notice how wet she is kekeke


jamie and i before the dolphin show... actually before we watched the show, we went on a cool ride.. el toro.. i think it's the longest wooden rollaercoaster (maybe) in the world... keke the cool part about it is that as we were walking to the line, 2 guys asked us if we wanted tp use their flash pass for that particular ride (a flash pass is a card that let's you cut in line.. so it's super effective if there's a long queue..) because they had 5 passes, and the 3 others they were with weren't there yet and they didn't want to waste their passes... so duh!! of course we agreed and saved ourselves more than an hour of waiting in line kekekeke!


i haven't really watched a dolphin show (or if i had, i was too young to remember it), so i was surprised that the dolphin show turned out to be a sorta play... the first animal out is squid, a super duper cute seal (why he's named squid i'll never know)... anyway, he was like the assistant to the assistant of the captain of the ship in the show... i want a seal!!


keke the dolphins were really cute!!! keke i was a little sad because my camera had such a slow response time that i couldn't really catch up with what the dolphins were doing, by the time they jumped in mid-air i had only caught them splashing back into the water... boo..


with pepe le pue (i don't really know how to spell his name), and daffy duck kekeke


tiger show curtain!!!


bengal tiger!! (he's name's kingda ka!!) i want one!!!!!!!!!


a white bengal tiger.. it's actually an albino bengal tiger ekekek


mr. albino bengal tiger playing with a ball (cute! cute! cute!)


entrance to kingda ka, the fastest rollercoaster (i think) in the world...




kingda ka's loop (yup, it IS vertical)

keke to be continued!!!

have to go out!!

WAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!

I'M SO EXCITED I WANNA PEE!!!!


finally, a japanese station has finally decided to do a series of the manga yamada taro...

and guess who's starring?

yefyefyef!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


an ARASHI member!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

NINO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


WAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!

the best part?

sho's also gonna be in the cast!!!!!!!!!!!!

WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


just thinking about it makes me wanna pee!!!! (i'll do that after i finish typing ekekek)

anyway, i was suddenly reminded of f4 because taiwan did a series of yamada taro... it was f*cking funny (sorry for the expletives... i'm just too happy).... vic zhou really gave the character life... and ken was also there...

good thing sho's not going to play nino's father....


that would be...

0_o

huhuhuhuhu, yef my nose is bleeding....

i've never really had a bloody nose, but now i'm having one everyday...

my nose is running like a faucet...

and my eyes feel like someone had put mint on them....


waaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhh!!!! i don't feel good!!!!

kekek but i did finish "confessions of a shopaholic"....

the ending was okay... i mean it was better than th middle or the first part...

i kind of had to "rest" in between reading certain parts because of frustration at becky...

i mean, some of the situations are really... ^$#@(^!$#(^...

or maybe i'm not much of a shopaholic that's why i can't sympathize...

but the last 100 pages kinda made up for all the long shopping sprees rebecca had...

hmmmmmm.... i guess i'm a little disappointed at the book...

i know some of the parts there should be witty and funny... but it kinda left me dry.... so i dunno... not as entertaining as i would expect it to be...

although i wanna read the next installment (it's like soap operas... you hate watching them but you end up craving for more... demmit)...

kekeke but i'm hoping "the devil wears prada" will be better.... i want witty, sarcastic humor to make me laugh!!!!

hope everyone's enjoying their summer!!!! ^_^

another post (kekekeke i just love high speed internet)...

a few days after we arrived in new jersey, i went to my law friend kaye's house in maryland... actually, she and her parents picked me up from new jersey on their way to atlantic city (they had come from new york)... and then i went with them to atlantic city...



boardwoalk window shopping with kaye


trying to smile despite the cold


presenting... ATLANTIC OCEAN!!!!


korean-american war memorial...


help! i've been injured!!!


the wild wild west


emo-ing along boardwalk (actually we were just looking at a rodent stuck in the display window...

we went mini-golfing the day after we arrived in maryland... it was a pretty hot and sunny day (too hot and sunny... i got a shirt mark and a knee mark after we played...)... it was about 18 miles from where kaye lived... but it was worth it since they had a play all day promo for only $4!!! keke we would have liked to play the whole day... but alas!!!! it was way too hot...


posing for the cam


in front of the mini-golf shop


in front of kaye's house with tita rina, kaye's mom

i super enjoyed visiting them!!! i even ate crabs (which i don't eat)... and they were really good!!! keke, tita rina told me that maryland is famous for their crabs.. good thing i ate some... ^_^

keke it was so cold for me before that i just couldn't bring myself to type anything...

anyway, it's not so cold anymore (i can now feel my fingers), so i can actually type decently...

i'm in canada already... it's actually colder here than in new jersey, but it's pretty bearable... just have to wear light jackets or heavy tops... my cousins' place actually reminds me of an area in cali i visited.. i think it's near daly city... a slightly industrial area with cozy houses, where everything is accessible... it's a contrast from the area in new jersey where my other cousins live... it's pretty suburban, and you need a car to go anywhere...

not had much shopping done... unlike in new jersey, canada has clothes taxes, so it's more expensive (although i wasn't able to do a lot shopping in nj as well because of it's non-accessibility to commercial areas)... oh well...

keke my grandma and i flew northwest from the philippines... i was a little disappointed because i was really rooting for kor air, just to breathe korean air (kekeke)... but alas, we couldn't make any confirmations for said airline...

anyway, all was not lost because we stopped over in nagoya, japan... i haven't been there (we usually stopped over in narita) so it was a new experience... since my grandma needed a wheelchair, we had a porter with us to assist her... keke a young, japanese guy who was always smiling (i was also smiling, after all, it's only courtesy to smile at someone who's smiling at you right?)... anyway, he asks me how old i was (i think he was just curious about my age kekeke).. so i say 21... and he's like "ahhh.." (still smiling)... so i go (out of courtesy keke)... "so how old are you?"... and he says "20..." and i'm like "ahhh, really? wow, i'm older than you..." and an image of dbsg flashes before me and i'm thinking: "i'm so old that people who look as old as i am are younger than me..." BIG FAT BOO...

of course, this convo was in english, we made small talk but it was hard because of the language barrier (i had to make a few sign languages)... and i didn't really want to tell him i understand a little japanese... i mean, it's one thing to understand a language, and another thing to speak it... once people know you understand, they talk to you in that language... and all you can understand is the first word... huhuhu...

anyways, age really is a strange thing... my grandma and i were sitting in between two people, and a bob marley look-alike was sitting beside me... the first thing he asks me is.. "are you married in the philippines?" and i'm like "no, of course not! i'm too young to be married!".. and he says, "ah okay, i couldn't tell"...turns out he just came from the philippines to visit his filipina girlfriend's parents, so maybe he saw one too many young looking people who's actually older than they look...

plus he mistook my rosary ring to be a wedding band (hello!!! am i married to Jesus!??!)... anyway, after that very awkward moment, we managed to talk about more normal things.. actually we talked about a LOT of things (i guess that's what happens when you have a 14hour flight)... from his love life (whirlwind romance with her filipina australia-based gf), to his work and passion (work: a paralegal in new york, passion: photography - he actually extended his stay in the philippines because he found a lot of photo work there.. he's done a couple of philippine daily inquirer magazine covers.. the first one was published in april 15(i think) with a theme of new graduates...), and another one coming out this may (or maybe it already came out); he mostly does people, rather than landscape.. although he does a mean landscape photo... he showed me some of his work (that's how long the trip was))... and even to where he originally came from (he's from grenada (not sure of the spelling), it's near jamaica... somewhere along the carribeans.. hence the bob marley look)...

it was pretty interesting to meet new people when you travel.. i mean, you get to know about complete strangers' lives... very, very interesting... keke...

some people have also mistook my age as 16 (even going down to 15!)... i was playing badminton with my 6 and 9 year old cousins when their neighbor (who i think is between 12-15... i can never tell with caucasians...) suddenly came out and started playing with us... anyway, my tita called me inside the house afterwards.. and a few minutes later my 9 year old cousin also went inside the house... and she told me that her neighbor thought i was only 16 years old... hmmmm.... i dunno whether to be happy because i look 5 years younger, or to be sad because i might look too undeveloped to look like someone who's older than 16...

anyway, this has been a long post... i have some more stories and pictures, but i'll save that for the next post...

ciao!!!

miss you (guys) like crazy!!!

*runs to a corner and cries her guts out*


waaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!

i've always told myself that if ever one of my star crushies got married, i would not mind it AT ALL...

but takaC's marriage really bothered me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

waaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!

junjin, aiba....

don't get married!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

NOT YET!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

let me marry someone else first then get married....

or maybe just marry me....

that would be the best option...


kekekekekkeke

(i'll probably be totally embarrassed to read this again after posting it...oh well ^_^)

a day like this makes me want to just end it all...

but with all the time, effort, and money that's already been put in...

it's hard to...

but i want to...

So Why Do I Want To Turn Back Time?

rhans tagged me... keke and she told me i just need to write down 5 things people don't usually know about me...

keke this is kinda hard...

1. i have stage fright... well, not really stage fright... i mean, you can make me sing and dance in a chorus in front of a lot of people, but i can't do monologues or declamations, or act by myself. i just simply... shut up...

2. i have a thing for balance... i mean when someone steps on my right foot, my left foot has to be stepped on too, just so they'd be even... i prefer carrying my books, readings, and other heavy stuff in a backpack because i like my shoulders to carry an "even" load.

3. i have a short memory... i think i might have been a goldfish in my previous life... keke seriously, i tend to forget things easily... especially details... i'm not very good with remembering details... that's why i'm not good at explaining things...

4. i used to be very particular with the "feel" of things. i'm very particular with fabrics... i used to not wear rubber slippers because i didn't like how it felt against the soles of my feet. i only wore bedroom slippers with fur... i even had a flat pillow for my feet so that when i sat on the floor i'd sit on it... i didn't even like sleeping in mats, not because it was hard, but because i didn't like the "feel" of it...

5. i have a birthmark on the left side of my belly button... and i have another somewhere at the side of my back.

alraytie!!! finished... i tag all my friends to do this!!!! fun fun fun!!!

keke, whenever i think about this experience, i just have to giggle and roll my eyes...

because this is the first time i have ever been star struck to the bone...

i was soooo giddy, i was almost jumping...

anyway, last december 23, i was in tagaytay with my cousins. there was a smart party there, and since we were already in the area, we went there...

kekeke, we first went to starbucks for fraps (i tried the gingerbread one... and it sucked... why do i always forget that ginger in gingerbread actually IS ginger, the spice?!?!?!)...

anyway, after that we went to the smart event, where i saw and heard dennis trillo singing (man, that guy can actually sing... and he's cute, too!)...

we got kinda bored so we kinda just walked around the place...

and then we saw champ (the lead singer of hale) with his other bandmates and some girls...

kekeke and i was totally, TOTALLY spazzing... i couldn't believe it...

actually, i'm not really a hale fan... in fact, the only song of theirs that i know is the first one they released... and i can't even remember the title...

even so, it had been my ULTIMATE dream that when i see him in person, i would go up to him and ask for a picture or something...

so there... when we saw him go inside starbucks, in we went as well...

i was a little uncomfortable going inside starbucks just to ask him to take a picture with us, so i bought my cousin a php70 waffle (which was a PEGI branded one and which would have probably cost half as much anywhere BUT in starbucks...)

while we were lining up, my two cousins and i debated which one would approach... ehehe even though i was the oldest, i finally convinced my cousin, carlo that he should be the one to do the honor since he was a guy (i know, i know, it doesn't make any sense, but since i was the oldest... kekeke)

so he approached champ and asked him if my cousin and i could take a picture with him so he said sure...

so i (almost) hopped towards him...

him: i'm gonna take a picture with you guys under one condition.
me: okay, sure! what is it?
him: you gotta watch us play later okay?
me: (almost hyperventilating) sure sure!!! thank you! thank you!

so my cousin, carlo, took a pic of me and my cousin, trisha, with champ...

me: sorry, sorry

i actually apologized as we were taking the pic!!!! i felt kinda bad because we were invading his private space... is that weird?

so there...

kekeke



p.s. we did watch them perform... they were the last ones who did... and against wind and rain (and cold)... we watched, and screamed... (and i felt guilty... because i didn't know what they were singing...)


from left: carlo, trisha, and me :)