i spent the whole day yesterday at greenbelt [again], this time with trina and janus, who i haven't seen since last year [when we went to school to get the yearbook]. i was only supposed to meet trina for the incubus tickets [weki got us row 20 tickets!! so i had to sell my 2 extra tickets again], but we decided to invite janus also and turned it into a mini-reunion. essentially, we're still the same old persons, except that they both have jobs now in advertising [which i really envy. i'll bet it's far more exciting than the black and white world of law :p] and janus developed a liking for F4. we gorged ourselves at 'recipes' while indulging each other on the latest gossip about our ex-blockmates. hehe. we went to powerbooks, where we tried to look for janus' article in the december issue of the men's magazine, manual, but they didn't have back issues anymore. i bought the cutest bible i've ever seen [aside from the precious moments bible i bought before] - it was the whole new testament in magazine format. angela [our host for the purpose driven life prayer sessions] had one before, and i wanted to get one also, but i didn't know it was still available until i saw a copy in power books. janus desperately tried to tear it away from me and was urging me to buy zsazsa zaturnah [a new local gay comic book] instead. hehe. neil picked me up later on, and we ate at max brenner with trina. janus had to leave because she had to shop for dvd's in quiapo. in max branner, each of us ate a piece of chocolate that was less than 1 cm x 1 cm, and it cost us 50 pesos per piece. a whole bar of cadbury chocolate would've satisfied me more and would've cost me less. or better yet, a whole pack of choc nut.

we went to med city to visit jenny, she's been confined there for around three days already. james was there also. too bad weki and penny already left.

neil and i watched the "hangad" benefit concert at meralco theater later that evening, the one joy invited us to watch. she and her sister are members of the catholic group, and they were going to perform that evening. it was the first time neil and i stepped foot on meralco theater, so we didn't actually know where to go. after asking a few guards where it was, we finally reached the building where the theater was located. when we got in, there was a long line leading to the theater entrance. we were supposed to line up until i saw, at the end of the line, professor te, my current teacher in crim 2! i don't know what he was doing there. i honestly don't like seeing or talking to any of our professors outside the classroom. it's bad enough that i have to greet them when i see them along the corridors in school, it's even worse that i have to see them outside of malcolm hall. i just don't have enough guts like my other blockmates to come up to a teacher and strike a normal conversation, as if he/she isn't making your life miserable. what made it more difficult was the fact that i had bad recits in his class [i have bad recits in every class :p], and i just felt that i'm so small compared to him [figuratively, obviously hehehe]. and what are we going to talk about anyway?? and so, i let someone else go ahead in the line, but sir still saw me, so i just politely smiled and waved at him and that was it. he was talking to some friends anyway, so i don't think he noticed that i was trying to evade him.

neil and i enjoyed the whole show, although it started and ended late a bit late than expected. it was probably the first time i heard mass songs performed in a different, more pop-ish light. joy and her sister had solo numbers, by the way. neil and i were tempted to cheer for them but we were at the balcony, at the back of the theater, so it would've been pointless since they wouldn't hear us anyway. from our point of view, there were times when we couldn't even tell which one was joy. hehe. oh well. we met up with joy and mitch afterwards, who were with their friends/family.

i tried to drink coffee the whole night to keep me awake [i had to study for crim and legal prof], but it didn't work again. argh. i don't know what will keep me from falling asleep.

i have to log out in a while to [what else?] study. anyway, here are some happy links: (hehe)

• william hung from american idol
  
  i don't religiously watch american idol, but i was able to watch this one. he's soo funny.
  
• we love the iraqi information minister
  
• we love arnold schwarzenegger [from the makers of the iraqi information minister site]
  

pics from the past week: