The misery of it all

All our pc's are down. Crashed. Dead.

Extremely, irrevocably, dead.

But not that I'm bawling about it. It's just... sad. I dunno. It's a good thing that most of my important files were somehow saved online. I was trying to remember what files I had of value a day ago, when that occurred to me. Weird, but I'm thankful for it.

Anyway, I still have to do my Asian Map project. CURSES on that one!!! My wicked drawing skillz have no effect whatsoever to the betterment of the project. It is one very sad and very ugly map. Yup, that's me talking. Very ugly thing... *mutters darkly*

Speaking of skillz, congrats to Kuya Luis for his driving skillz. Bet your mom doesn't wanna ride with ya. Skillz that kill. Hoho. :D
Anyway, I think I got too caught up in perfecting chibi techniques that I sorta forgot how to draw in the normal way. Horror of horrors. I just found out when I tried drawing decently on bond paper. And now I'm at a loss. I'm looking at previous drawings and wondering how the hell I did them in the first place. Memory loss, argh.

The cuteness factor in the chibi department is really maxing out, which I'm glad about. Still, I have to regain my talent in the other departments. Sigh.

Oh yeah, just to give me ideas, requests are welcome, I guess. Though if I get too frustrated about it, you can bet that I'm not going to show it to you ever.


I'm just so itching to watch Charlie and the Chocolate Factory!!! Ah, Johnny Depp!!! Haha, papatayin ako ni Angel kung mabasa niya to. Lol.

Not another double post!

Looks like I accidentally hit Enter before I actually typed in something to post.

Explains the double post. I'll fix that, so no need to badger me, ifever.

And yes, I'm much calmer now.

Elistism and Contempt

Florante at Laura sucked.

And everyone else who watched it with us are effing idiots.

Appalling. Disgusting. Cheap. Pitiful.

I can think of a dozen more to describe their behavior. Absolutely actrocious. These people came from other *cough public cough*schools, who I guess, were also taking up Florante at Laura, including our batch. What's more, the play was done in OUR theatre. OUR beloved Assumpta theatre, so clean and nice and new. And what do they do?!? They begrime it with their very uneducated reactions. When we say CLAP, just CLAP, dammit! No wolf-whistles, no screams, no cheap stuff. And NO SCREAMING when the lights dim! For pete's sake! Gawd, I can't believe they're actually the future of our country. If we still have that thing existing.

Ugh.

How low can we go?

This is a CULTURAL presentation. And they were going wild on the fake kissing parts. Immature. Ang babaw.

I couldn't concentrate on the play. For one thing, they were talking in deep, fast Tagalog. Ang for another, I kept getting distracted. There were a group of people who kept doing a popping sound in their mouths. And it echoed all around the theatre. Stupid stupid stupid idiots, who only thought of making themselves a fool. Yeah, amuse me.

Unfortunately, you don't.

The irritation amounted to fury, and by the time the play ended (which was... blah.), I was shaking with rage. My knees threatened to buckle and trip me, so I had to control myself. I was in a very bad mood by the time I got to the classroom, only to go back down one floor for the FinCom meeting. To top off an annoying day, Mapple had to tell us we had to do something "of major importance". And out came the Pondo ng Pinoy bottles. What ho! We counted the darned things.

I got an 85 in Algeb. Not bad. Not bad at all. Ms. Jose is very generous with the points. She just gives you one point less than full marks on a problem for effort, even with the most incorrect answers. With Ms. Parinas, all we used to get was one point for effort.

So.

We finally discover our advantages.


I'm off to do homework. I hope we do a review on Florante at Laura. I'll be sure to give it something SCATHING. *evil laugh

Poh-tay-toh mornings

We had Lab first thing in the morning. We got the potatoes we were experimenting on a week before from wherever we put them.

And the stink was hell.

On my way out the door, I passed the open cupboard installed on the side of the board. Waves of nasty smelling stink hit me smack on the nose and clung there-- nearly gagged. If Dungbombs existed, most probably it would smell like those.
I feel sorry for the people who put them in their lockers.

Tsk tsk.

If that wasn't bad enough, we also had to get our two bean setups. Ten beans were placed in two cups, one only filled with one-eighth of water, the other cup half. I didn't wait and see what evil surprise it had for my nostrils. I simply covered up my nose with my handkerchief, got the darned things and held if away from me as far away as possible.

Note to self: Never ever get any organic thing, wet, one-week old and decaying, without a gas mask. Better yet, don't play with things that are bound to smell evil once you're done with it.

Anyway, Sir Mark was absent. Hallelujah! I wasn't able to do the Hay Infusion. Dreading to do it. It smells awful. Sort of reminds me of the LPC stuff I did last year. Eargh, plants. They're definitely disagreeable once they decay.

We had English right after. Did rather badly in a quiz-- well, my standards say so anyway. I don't know. Maybe it's the teachers. I wish I had all of my first-year teachers back. Especially Ms. Abarquez. Now English isn't my favorite subject anymore-- nothing is.
Algeb sucks. I won't be surprised if I failed. All the more reason to clamor for Remedial Math with Ms. Parinas. At least she's competitive.

I got two test results back today, Filipino and Business Math. Filipino was an average 89%. I lost 5 points to carelessness. Sucks. I don't think I have any future in Filipino-- not that I'm looking for one anyway. BM was slightly better: 46/50. I wasn't able to do the last problem correctly, since I was absent when they took that up, but not bad. So I can add. Good. I thought I was getting dumber in Math. Must be just Algeb, I suppose. No it's not Algeb, it's the teacher.

Misery, misery. Boo-hoo.

We're watching Florante at Laura tomorrow. All students have completely paid. Yep, special mention goes to my Assistant Tresurer, Carla. Good work on that one.

I'm still trying to devise a way in which I can keep accurate track of the payments for the Biotrip. I think I'll start off a new format on August. I've already revised my list twice. Third is tiring.

I really like doing nothing.

I really like doing nothing.

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I really like doing nothing.

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Yup, still like doing nothing.

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Halata bang bored?

I don't want to go to school. I wish free days and weekends could go on FOREVER.

My Bio paper beckons. Sad thing...

@$#&%^*$#&$%! GYAH!

I hate playing The Parent Game.

My goal: get their permission.
My enemy: my mom.
My strategy: NONE.

I do realize that I have to concoct a better strategy than NONE. Gawd, I hate it. Why am I so stumped whenever I ask? I am rendered speechless, nababara ako. I guess, out of the goodness in me and the upbringing of my parents and the idea of their wrath if I tell lies, I hesitate in deceiving them. No point really in that. But I do manage to wriggle in shady half-truths, and this being the foundation of my strategic lies, it's bound to crumble one way or another. So I don't take that, as much as possible.
Truth shall set me free... though I think that only works on the GOOD truth, which is almost nonexistent these days. The AWFUL truth... yeah, that one's pretty rampant.
What's with all the questions anyway?!? FUN HAS NO DEFINITE PURPOSE! To define it would limit it, put it in a box till it shrivels and dies away. It's happening right now as I write, as one of you knows. NO FUN. NO LIFE. And when I want to have fun, I have to drag the WHOLE family bandwagon along.
Zoom in on thought bubble:
(Giddyup horsey, time to round up the old biddies! YEEhaw!)

>.< Gah.

Anyway, stuff I have to do today (or within the week):

-Do Hay Infusion (tom)
-Study for AP test (tom)
-Study for English quiz (tom)
-Do Bio IP Proposal (due Friday)
-Do AP project (due next Monday)
-Plan Filipino presentation (due on one of the meetings)
-Organize Algebra stuff
-Practice Chinese Fan Dance in PE (*cringe*)
-August 5: Gaiman interview on Hanging Out on MTV

That's all I can remember. Hope I didn't miss anything out. >.<

My beloved sketchbook

Haha, baka senti toh.

"With my sketchbook nearing its end, I can't help but stroll down Memory Lane..." Crap, if I have to start my entry with THAT I'd rather not at all.

Erase all senti-sappy stuff, and let me begin.

I wanted to give my sketchie a fitting eulogy, but since I'm not burying it six feet under, what's the --- teka, Dino's online!

*grins*

I'll continue this next time.

Backtrack

Because of lack of time, it is only now that I am able to chronicle my activities during the past week. I start on

Monday.

I didn't go to school because I wasn't feeling too well because of my cold. I was actually weighing the consequences of this absence, but since my conscience wasn't yapping, I stayed at home.

Ah, bliss. I really like doing nothing.

But true to my word, I didn't use the pc or the internet. Just a bit of TV. I mean, c'mon. What do you expect me to do with all that energy?


Tuesday.

Went to school.

Endured it.

Tired.


Wednesday.

I stuck through until Filipino, because we had a test. But as soon as it was finished, I ran off to the Clinic.
My sore throat was hell to the point of distraction. It was worse than having my period.

Sucks.

Didn't miss too much of my afternoon subjects. Filipino came before Lunch, and after that was Algebra and Homeroom. Nothing to miss, really. Though I went to the Clinic partly because I didn't do my homework in Algeb-- not that I could've done it in Lunch with the sore throat and all.

Algebra distributed by Miss Jose to II-5 is equal to Misery.


Thursday.

It was tempting to stay at home. Absenting yourself can be very appealing if you get used to it.

We did the Chinese Fan Dance in PE. I'd rather WATCH one of those than do it, thanks. Still, it was for our Prac Test, so no arguments about that.

Shuffling steps, while leaning to one side alternately per count. And then jump a little, then bow, knees bending. Straighten knees, un-bow head. Yada yada yada. My groupmates are extremely enjoying themselves.
At least someone's happy.


Friday.

Not late for the Assembly. YESH!

Did really bad in Algebra test. Suckers. Brenda na talaga toh. As in Brain Damage. I do not foresee a bright Algebraic future ahead.

Debate is getting more interesting. Our OH provided us with information regarding some of the year's activities. Lots of things. Yay!

Doing something I like is the next best thing to doing nothing just the way I like it.

We've got a seminar tomorrow in Ateneo regarding Debate. Interesting stuff

Hum drum

Well what do ya know? The Sulating Pormal turned out quite well. I'll post it sometime later, since I've already recopied it about three times and I'm not eager to do that again.

I don't wanna go to school!

I'm wearing my new pair of glasses right now, and I'm still adjusting to it. It seems fine, though everything's kinda... weirdly warped. Not in a blatant, obvious way. But in a subtle, sneaky way. The kind of thing that disturbs you. It's the feeling that you get when there's an itch on your nose but you can't scratch it cause you don't know exactly where it's itching.

It looks better on me, though, but it sucks to have to go through with this "adjusting period" and blah.

Ack, I've got a lot of homework piled up on me. Specifically that Filipino thing. Sulating Pormal blah blah. I hate those things, particularly when we have to write on stuff I don't usually care about, cause most of the time the topic is SO gasgas na. (Yack, taglish ober der. *flinch* >.<) Like those Environmental issues blah. They drive you to the point of insanity. It's hard to be original on that, and that's what exactly what I want to be. But most often though you end up rephrasing the rephrased. Trashy stuff you'd hate to hear all over again, especially not one after the other in an oratorical contest.

Anyway, our topic for this one is: Ang Kaluwalhatian ng Diyos ay ang Mundo

Something like that.

Er, I think I got it backwards. It's: Ang Mundo ay ang Kaluwalhatian ng Diyos.

There.

Gah, though it's not something on environmental issues (and we're bound to write something on that in the coming days-- AS ALWAYS), it touches on that, though I have to find a way to speak praise and worship and all that stuff in Filipino.

Gyargyargyargyargyargyar *gnashes teeth and tears hair*.

Lots of tests this week. Lots of homework too. Lots of payments, lots of collections. It's SOOOO hard being the class treasurer. Darn them.
July 29- Submission of Investigatory Project proposal
Aug 5- Neil Gaiman interview on Hanging Out on MTV

Ulyanin na talaga ako, cause I only remember two important dates. Ngyarngyarngyarngyar.

If I just didn't love myself too much (which is something that will never change, though I'm not an extreme narcissist), I'd just give everything up and flunk. Tinatamad na ko, cause I've got no more motivation. I think my life's falling to pieces, but my extraordinary calm (which scares me) makes me think that it's actually my indifference to things. It worries me now.

Hai.

Life.

So complicated

Friday thoughts (written on a Saturday morning)

Half Blood Prince is today!
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We had clubs again yesterday. Debate was more bearable at least. They made me the Assistant Treasurer.

Nooooo! >.<

I mean, I'm already feeling miserable about being a Treasurer in class. Haha, kasi nauulyanin ako. And if I don't keep my things in order, I'm bound to get confused with the payments and all. Sucks at times.

I already redid my class list about two times. Sucks to smell like money. Not a very nice smell, I tell ya. Tapos yang barya pa! Hay naku...

Well anyway, back to Debate.

We had the Trust Fall and the Trust Lift. Anak ng patatas! I thought it was a bit too premature for that... but we did it anyway. Thank God sinalo naman ako. Haha, ansama. The Trust Fall-Trust Lift thing kinda helps. Makes you feel better.

Haha, effective!

We're still thinking about the jackets. But I hope we'll push through with that. Cause that's ANGAS POWER and BRAGGING RIGHTS combined! HAH!

Yehey!

And for the Trainer (or is it trainor?), he's a 4th year Pol Sci student from Ateneo and still quite nameless. That's about all the information they'd give us. You'd think they'll start with the name...

Oh well.

We haven't met him yet. I think we'd have to go to Ateneo for the sessions and blah blah blah.
Basta sila bahala dun.

I have to go practice the piano. Teacher gave me "Autumn Leaves" for the recital, which is on January. The score looks VERY daunting. >.<

Eargh.

And ah know itz gunna beee... a luffly deiiiii!!!

I can't browse the comments cause our browser sucks.

May mas bubulok pa ba sa browser namin?!?

Anyhoo, I woke up in the middle of the night, wondering why everything was so quiet and the Security Gate was closed. Checked my phone.
2:17 am!!! Gack!

>.<

I again: shirked my chores, overslept, did not do my homework and did not study for the Bio test. I've got two quizzes too.

My siblings are getting pretty mad at me on the 'shirking my chores' thing. I dunno how I do it. Minsan ang galing nga e. Haha, manipulative... shhhhh... baka gayahin ako sa technique. Lol.

I originally planned to just "nap", cause I wasn't able to get enough sleep the night before. Just 5 hours actually. I usually sleep for about 7 and a half hours. The amazing thing about my body clock is, if ever I get a chance to sleep, it sorta fills up the empty space on the previous "energy bar" (er, just a graphic presentation... but you get me, right?) before filling up another one. Sometimes it goes the other way around. I think I slept at around 6 in the evening. When I woke up at 2am, that gave me 8 hours. Add to that roughly 3 more hours, to fill up the previous day's bar (5:30's the wake up time) and I'm fully charged.
The recovery costs me quite a lot though. It's a hassle trying to catch up because you overslept.

I didn't know how I did in my Bio test. What the hell was a peptide?!? Eargh... must-study-harder!!!

HAI.

School life.

I'm so uninspired by my teachers. Our English teacher keeps JOKING. I mean, I like her as a person, but as a teacher, no thanks. And then Algebra... aaaah!!! The misery of it all... And then there's Health, AK and THE. I can't differentiate the teachers cause they bore me so much. Blah.

In spite all these, I love my class so much. I get pretty exasperated by their questions sometimes, but I guess I've gotten used to it.



Leadership Training on Friday. ACK.

Unhappy.

I'm having second thoughts about Debate. But I can't back out now. We just had our first club meeting a while ago.

I'm missing Cartooning. Really missing it. Their number has dwindled to around 15. Debate ballooned to twice that. Gyah. I hate crowds. Why do I always belong to the crowded clubs?

Dear God, please oh please show me a way to change my club!!!

If not... then, misery, come on over.

Sana man lang may jacket kami. Consuelo de bobo.

Now I'm one unhappy blogger. Tapos hindi ko pa makikita si Neil Gaiman. I wanna bawl right now. Yan na nga lang yung consolacion eh... Ang sama ng weekend ko.

Weekend... ano pang silbi niyan kung sira rin plano mo?

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Oh yeah, I've made five rules about posting comments.

1. Walang kokontra.

2. Opinions are welcome. Just not on how things should go according to how YOU think it should.

3. MY turf should be respected.

4. Kung may kwento ka, why not?

5. Walang kokontra.

Rule three is to be strictly followed.

I'm not targeting anyone (just in case someone out there is paranoid).

I guess some of these things can be bent. I haven't thought of them REALLY hard (consequences, etc). Just be nice. Phrase your stuff nicely and I'm fine with that.

Thankies.

Kat

Kapag Feeling Chinese

Here's two lines from Melinda and Zarah's conversation. Haha, parang kinarir na ung Confucius presentation.

Melinda: Zars chonke mu ni shon shi loh? ku ha mo kow isA? nyoknyoknyoknyoknyok

Zarah: Isaw Melinda! Chign hei fat choi ni bu yao sis bum bahhh perky sucks PANK'D. labo :)) Tama bang ipagkalat na naka-zero ako sa Lab? :)) Si Missy rin kaya...yak, pinagkalat rin. :))

...

After ten perky minutes...

Haha, Zarah is DEFINITELY the Princess of Perky. Cause she hates it. Labo, haha. Kaya tuloy un ung pang-asar ni Sher kay Zarah. And now the whole class goes like "Hey perky!" Lol. The look on Zarah's face is so funny.

Perky, perky, perky...

Ahhh, Friday tomorrow. Isang linggo nang nagdaan mula nang pumasok ang isang ibon sa classroom at nauntog sa pader habang palabas.

Isang linggo na mula sinubukan ko ang screening sa Debate.

Isang linggo na mula kami'y nahuli sa HS Assembly. Huhuhu...

Isang linggo na mula kami'y nag-TAEbo at napagod.


Well, buhay naman ung ibon, pasado ako sa Debate, wala na akong magagawa tungkol sa Assembly at pagod parin ako dahil sa Taebo.

Friday.

Bukas na.

Saturday.

Pagkatapos nun.

My two favorite days. Every week. Haaay, ansarap mabuhay.

Friday. Results ng PubCom. I wouldn't be surprised if I didn't pass. Gah, it went to terribly... I can't believe I'm capable of Stupid Answers! Oh no! I'm morphing into Everybody Else!!!

Well kidding aside, I wasn't really nervous about it. But I wasn't thinking about it either. My mind was wandering, and before I knew it, we were ushered in to take the screening. First instruction: State your name and what specific thing you hate most in the category they'll give you.

Example: PASTA
Name-spaghetti

They told me: Restaurant.

And I was already panicking at that time!!! Cause it was like I just got to earth!!! And the first thing that popped to my mind when they said "restaurant" was...

PIOLO PASCUAL!!!

OF ALL THINGS DAMMIT! I had to connect it somehow... And I had to connect it with Max's!!! AAAAAH!!!

"Er, Tina Max's"

Second question: If you were to interview somebody who already died, who would it be and why?

My mind scrambled around for the perfect candidate. And it settled on our female bayani, Tandang Sora. Unfortunately, I couldn't remember her name. But I had to answer somehow! So I put together bayani+hero+female = DARNA!!!

"I would pick Darna..." Leche, it then occurred to me that Darna was a FICTIONAL character, never lived and never died. I tried the next best thing.

"I would pick the original creator of Darna..." and right in the middle of my explanation, I suddenly had to stop and ask in surprise

"Wait...

Is he dead yet???"

AAAAAAH!!!! NOO!!!

Damn. That was a miserable interview. But I didn't embarrass myself. Just thought it was funny, but I regretted things very much. You wouldn't believe me, but the screening for Debate was MUCH MUCH easier, compared to the PubCom screening. You had to be spontaneous. And well... I'm combustible, but not spontaneous. At least not that much.

Sigh.

I wish they asked me how to make M&M's. I could've answered that

Actually posting this in school, CAI room.

Shhhhhh...

Ano ba naman!

Inay ko po! Ba't ba stressed nga ako, pero hindi naman ako pumapayat?!? Isa lang ung ebidensya ng stress, nasa noo ko pa! Hay naku. Ewan ko ba, hindi mawala-wala tong pimple na toh. Baka pigsa na. Sana hindi naman. Ang hassle nito. Kung simple lang ang buhay, siguro walang pimples dahil walang pollution. O kaya nama'y kahit pisilin mo ung pesteng pimple, walang marka.

Wala nanaman akong magawa, kaya eto, tumitingin ng movies. I watched War of the Worlds yesterday. I won't critique it, but I liked it, regardless of other people's opinions. The advantage in watching a sci-fi movie is that there is only a slim chance that the thing presented might be true, so your imagination can't plague you.

Haaay, I really love going to the movies. I love the trailers too. I'm pretty excited about Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, at sobrang saya panoorin niyan kasi si Johnny Depp si Willy Wonka. Ohoho! *drools*
I'm not usually fond of "dirty old men" (haha, loko namin kay Angel), pero siguro nahawa na ko dahil maraming may gusto kay Depp.

Hahaha, minsan ang sarap mabuhay! Sana makabili pa ko ng Coraline, bago mag Saturday. O kung hindi man, sinong pwede magpahiram ng digicam para mapicturan man lang si Neil Gaiman? Heehee, Ate Kit's planning to stalk him on all of his sessions. Waaaah, I wish I was old enough to do EVERYTHING I want! Huhuhu...

Grumbles...

*looks at post title*

Hm... well I was feeling pretty snappish a while ago. Though I already got some sleep so I'm feeling happier right now. No point in pursuing rotten feelings.

So anyway, today is fine. It would be better if I'm spending it the way I want, but I'm happy with this day.

We first celebrated Mass this morning. Mom was threatening to make us go to another one if we're late. Blah blah. Nothing new there. We always wake up at around 8, get ready for about thirty minutes or so, and we're done. Sakto. 8:30 ang Mass.

We went to Lola immediately after and had lunch there. As usual, busog. Why is EVERYTHING in our culture centered on food? And then Tito Boy's birthday cake was brought out to be shared (he couldn't bring it to the States). Upon opening, Kuya Francis went "Gyah!" when he saw it. Had to laugh at that. It was the first time he saw the thing and if you know what a Kink Cake is, you'd know why he reacted that way.

It was... I don't know what to call it. Maybe obscene, maybe hilarious. I'd personally describe it as the latter. Aha! I know. It's a rated PG-13 cake. Haha.
It was a woman's body, from the breasts down to the pubic hair. What's more, there was this man dangling from one of the breasts.
Taking a piece was a challenge. I had to study it, to see exactly WHERE I could slice a piece off without getting a chunk of the, er, things. I finally decided on the side. Whew.

I had piano lessons immediately right after. Teacher asked me to play Chopin. AGAIN?!?!? I thought we were done with that!!! But I did it anyway.
I'm thinking of buying a metronome. Sigh... I actually want to buy and do a lot of things this month.

-Go to a movie
-Watch a play (Beauty and the Beast?)
-Go to Neil Gaiman's book signing
-Buy one of his books (oops, I should do this BEFORE the book signing)
-Go to Avilon Zoo
-Buy more art stuff

Need money, money, money...