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Saturday, January 31, 2004
 
currently listening to: "newborn" by elbow, acoustic version

currently doing: chatting with mia through ym

i haven't studied yet for anything (so what's new). but, i already printed out a copy of the bill of rights and i swear, i tried to read it earlier.

we had the purpose driven life session awhile ago at angela's house. i think they invited around 30+ people, but only 4 of us came (including angela's aunt and uncle) plus pastor mark and his wife. well, i think the size of our group had its advantages, since it made the sharing more intimate and personal. one thing i like about attending prayer meetings is that it always makes me feel light and refreshed afterwards. it makes me feel good to share or discuss my faith with others and get to know them personally in the process.

after the session, neil and i ate dessert at coffee bean and tea leaf, talked about personal issues for the past days.. i bought 'angels and demons' by dan brown. i was supposed to get 'the da vinci code' by the same author, since i got an e-mail from 'a different bookstore' that the book was already available, but when i got there, they told me that the distributor called up at 2 pm awhile ago and withheld the sale of the book, since the international launch would be on march 1. but they already had a stock in the store, and they were actually able to sell several copies yesterday. i was just a few hours late. argh. i also bought book 6 of the a series of unfortunate events.

anyway, due to the insistent demand of her mother (hehe), i'm posting sofia's pic here. i also took a picture of her framed photo, which is placed on top of our table along with my other nephew/nieces' pictures. the only one who doesn't have a photo displayed yet is toby.



this is sofia's picture, next to bianca's (circa 2000, i think, when she was still quiet and innocent)



aawwww...

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i finally found my john mayer cd's! (room for squares and heavier things) they've been lost for how many months now, until bombee handed them over to me earlier and told me that he found them in the honda. i don't remember putting it there.. i probably placed it there during the time the crv was being fixed in the shop.

currently listening to: 'no such thing' from john mayer's first album. which reminds me of college life a lot.

as expected, i wasn't able to wake up early this morning, so missed the hi lo aero class in moro. i might go to the gym later after i attend the purpose driven life growth group.

now, i have to study for next week. and also start memorizing the whole bill of rights for consti :P

 
  law school blues and other things
another week is over, and i'm getting closer and closer every day to SUMMER VACATION. and when that day comes, i'm going to keep all my law books and cases out of sight, pack my bags and fly off to the states to recuperate and just get away from everything.

the week has been a bit stressful so far. stress #1: i was unexpectedly called again sometime this week in consti 2, barely 15 minutes before the bell rang. sir sison recognized my last name and asked me if i had any relatives who graduated from the college. apparently, i had two relatives who did, one of which was my dad and the other i haven't met yet. unfortunately for me both of them were exemplary students, because the teachers have high expectations of me since i come from the same family tree. argh. well, i guess they're badly disappointed with my poor recitations. 'just goes to show that there's something terribly wrong with their admission process at present. 'might as well change my last name since having my current surname works to my disadvantage most of the time. stress #2: the legal prof midterms, which i'm glad is over. if a 2 unit class midterm exam stresses me out so much, i don't know what would become of me on the day of the bar exams. if i ever reach that point. harhar. stress #3: some personal problems re. my own insecurities which i never got over.

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more self analysis...

i remember back when i was in college (wow, 'sounded like it happened ages ago) we studied something in psych about cognitive dissonance, that if a person cannot reconcile a particular personal belief and reality, she would either change her perception to fit reality or change reality to fit her belief or integrate both (i'm not really sure with what i'm saying, i'll have to check the social psych book later). i think i have a big problem regarding this area - i'm the kind of person who tries to change reality so that it would fit my perception or belief. which is bad, because it means that instead of accepting the reality that bad things happen all around me and that i need to adjust to certain undesirable things in my life, i just change reality by blocking out anything that would wreak havoc to my current state of peace or contentment, no matter how seemingly difficult and inimical it may be, and i get to lose important things or important people in the process. in the end, i don't really end up being close to anyone. maybe that explains why i don't have a permanent bestfriend... and why i don't really grow in every sense of the word. (sorry if i'm not making sense again)

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by the way, i just got home. my blockmates, grace, chi and oggs and i watched brother bear at robinson's metro east right after our midterms in legal profession. it was nice, but a bit disappointing. i was probably expecting a movie with the same standard as finding nemo. anyway, as expected, there were a lot of kids in the theater, some too young to even understand the plot. (we had a kid with us also - oggs. hehe! jk) in other words, it was chaotic. some toddlers behind us were actually kicking our seats. and for some strange reason, a piece of food flew off from somewhere behind me and found its way to my hair. argh. and the parents behind us were laughing throughout the movie, actually translating the dialogues into tagalog and describing every scene as if we couldn't figure out the jokes for ourselves. lesson? never watch disney movies on weekends.

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anyway, i might go to the gym early tomorrow morning, if i gather enough energy to get up from my bed. i just realized last week that going to aero is fun and really forces me to work out. tessa, my new "gym buddy" (hehe) and i joined the pilates and hi lo classes the past week. pilates was ok, but we had an embarrassing first day in hi lo since we were the only first timers there, and the instructor didn't teach us the steps. so we were practically moving in different directions while the rest of the class was dancing uniformly together to the music. i hope i could join an aero class again next week, or probably tomorrow.

okay, 'have to sleep now.

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Friday, January 30, 2004
 
song in my head: the latest song by nickelback (is it "someday"?), especially this part: someday, somehow.. we're gonna make it alright but not right now..

we're having the legal profession midterms at 5 pm later, and i'm not yet even done studying. i wasn't actually in the mood to study last night, thanks to my very bad sleeping habits. and maybe i'm just thinking about a lot of things i shouldn't be thinking about right now.

most of the time, i wish i'm a lot stronger, a lot prettier, a lot smarter, a lot confident, and a lot more sociable. i try, but i always end up being the cynical, neurotic, insecure, narcoleptic and self-absorbed kind of person that i am. i forgot to mention undisciplined and stupid.

anyway, i need to study now. pardon the angsty entries lately.

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Wednesday, January 28, 2004
 
angst, angst and more angst

i always complain about my dad always having a one-track mind. i just realized lately that i have the tendency to think like that also. (ooh, psych.) actually, i believe i have the same mentality. i always have a laid out set of plans for everything in my life, and if things don't turn out the way i expected them to be, or if people don't follow the script i have mentally made for them, i go ballistic. things always have to be organized and fixed and there's no room for spontaneity. anything in my life that defies that "script" will have to go. i realized that this might be the reason why i'm probably not that happy with my life in UP law right now, or why i skipped my prom back in third year high school. i might be not that contented now because for how many months i've always envisioned myself going to ateneo law, walking through the ateneo halls, being classmates with people i saw or met during the ateneo entrance exam, dressing up in business attire and hanging out at power plant. i never saw myself walking by the sunken garden, buying isaw ever so often or attending the lantern parade (which, by the way, i never did through my stay in UP). and so, i'm inclined towards being unhappy and discontented with my life. i always have this thought at the back of my mind that 'if i were in ateneo, maybe.. so and so" and i blame every unhappiness on the fact that i didn't follow the main plan. about the prom, well, the real reason why i didn't attend the prom was not because i was anti-social or i didn't want to stare at mushy couples all around me - i actually wanted to go. the thing was, i wanted my prom to be perfect. if i was going to have a date, i wanted to be with someone special, someone who likes me as much as i like him, someone who makes me feel like a princess and not just some guy somebody else set me up with. i know it was too idealistic, but it's either that or nothing. and since i didn't have a special someone back then, then i'd rather have nothing at all.

if sometimes (or most of the time) i'm dificult to understand, it might me because of all the unrealized goals that i have, or the 'possible lives' that i never lived. it's because of all the big and small glitches in my life that shouldn't be there but are nevertheless there, haunting me or derailing me from the proper way i should live, like supposedly forgotten ex-friends or ex-whoevers who have hurt me in the past. if they didn't live up to my expectations before, then i can't do anything about it. i have no choice but to push them away. i don't forgive because i can't. i try, but i just can't. if i say i wanted a good bestfriend who has the same wavelength as i do and can laugh with me through all my troubled moments, that's what i'll get, nothing more, nothing less. if i wanted to have a boyfriend who is loyal to me our whole lives, who won't leave and then come back to me because gee, he changed his mind and realized he was wrong in the past after he has done an irreversible wrong, then that's what i'm going to wait for. it's either that, or nothing at all. if i can't have the best, i'd settle for nothing. i'd just rather be alone then (given the dismal male shortage everywhere and the inclination of males towards those with physically appealing attributes obviously pushing me out of the picture as a prospect to anyone).

i know my principles are all messed up and i'm sure this would have great repurcussions on every aspect of my life, but that's the way i am. sometimes, it works to my advantage in the sense that it gives me a goal or at least a proper direction. it gives me an idea on what my limitations are, on what i can or cannot do. but of course it has its drawbacks. aside from the fact that i don't want to take risks and always do everything safely, it makes me lose important people or things in my life.

but that's the way i am.

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Sunday, January 25, 2004
  punta fuego
punta fuego

as usual, i'm procrastinating again. it's almost monday, i've barely started with my readings for legal profession tomorrow, yet i'm still here, in front of the computer, uploading pics and updating my blog. i hope i'll stay awake the whole night to finish all my readings for the week. like that's even possible. so, here's what happened yesterday..

yesterday, neil and i went to punta fuego with his barkada. cary came with us on our way there. surprisingly, there was no traffic. we left 711, edsa (near quezon ave., by neil's place) at around 5:50, and we were already in south superhighway in less than an hour. we stopped by tagaytay for a quick breakfast. we were supposed to eat at leslie's, but they were only serving breakfast meals which weren't really worth it, so we just decided to eat at pancake house. we couldn't enjoy the view because there wasn't any - the fog was covering it. we could barely see taal volcano and the surrounding islands. anyway, we proceeded to punta fuego, almost got lost but found our way there. we spent the rest of the morning lounging in the cottage, i took pics as always, cary and i played ps2 (it was the first time i did. mwehe), neil and i explored the place, took pics again, and shamelessly had someone else take our picture. hehe. we had lunch in the afternoon by the beach, took more pics, walked off what we ate by the dock then decided to go back to where the double infinity pool was (or eternity pool, accdg. to cary hehe). the others went swimming, but i didn't because i can't (it's my 4th day. :P). neil and i just sat by the pool. we walked around sunset cove, where the shore was really rocky. too bad we didn't witness the sun set, it was too cloudy. we decided to go back indoors after a few hours, when it began to drizzle. 'stayed inside the room and fattened myself up with junk food and coke. it was fun and relaxing, even if we only got to stay there for just one day (the others stayed for three days and two nights). i think it was actually the first time i ever went out of town with neil's barkada. all the other times neil invited me to go out of town with them, i didn't even bother asking my parents for permission because i knew they wouldn't allow me to go. well, i just realized i should've at least tried then. anyway, i'm glad i was able to go this time. i hope i'll be allowed to go next time.


punta fuego

clockwise: carol, pax, jackie, miko, chris, james, fel, kim, dino, neil, me, cary and pao

punta

this one was taken by cary. hehe

double

neil and me by the double infinity pool. it is named 'infinity pool' because it gives the impression that the pool is connected to the beach, as it looks in the picture. but actually, the pool is elevated, it's just that the divider doesn't look obvious from this point.

me

just me

group


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Friday, January 23, 2004
  megalomaniac
...is the new song by incubus. i didn't actually like it the first time i heard it, but it grew on me like how their first song, 'redefine', did. i heard they were coming to manila, but big time rock concerts don't push through in this country 80% of the time, so i'm doubting their arrival. but if it does push through, it would be a sin not to watch it.

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i had my first session of pilates awhile ago in moro, by the way, with tessa. it turned out ok. it was relaxing, the mood more enhanced by the enya songs playing in the background. and i think i prefer aero classes over gym because in aero classes, i'm more motivated to work out. i often cheat when using the treadmill. or any other facility. hehe. i wish we could do it again next week. i'm planning on joining the aero kickboxing class.

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i'm finally going to punta fuego tomorrow! after much pleading and bargaining with my parents.. i'm leaving early tomorrow with neil and cary, that's why i need to study now (i'm planning not to sleep the whole night. but that plan never gets actualized anyway), i don't think i'll have the time tomorrow to read. the change in environment would hopefully do me some good. and i hope i'll be able to take a lot of pics there.

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by the way, i've updated my lomohome. check out the colorsplash page.

 
Thursday, January 22, 2004
 

i'm fine now, a bit more level-headed. which is good. i still hate law school. like i always did. but some of my blockmates who are similarly situated (read: they were also forced to take up law) made me realize once again that the only way out is to get kicked out, and i don't think i'll be able to take that. so i'd better stick with it until it's all over. also, my dad and i are still not in speaking terms. but, we never were anyway, so i guess everything's normal.

anyway, on the lighter side of things.. i already have a colorsplash flash!! i only decided to buy one yesterday, during class. i just felt so exhausted the whole day that i figured i needed something to uplift my spirits. so neil accompanied me to ufo (where they sold really nice artsy stuff. neil got a comic book for 35 pesos. mwehehe), then we ate at oody's tomas morato. we had the thai soup again and pad thai. the pad thai was good also. there goes my diet. but who cares... i went to the gym awhile ago, anyway. that made up for it. hehe.

so, these are some of the pics we took yesterday. i've been taking pics since i got the camera. i even brought it to school and took pics of everyone. hehe.



here's my lomo with the colorsplash. looks nice, doesn't it.



neil and me in blue



yellow neil. if you're wondering why his face is a blur, i forgot to change the distance settings, stupid me.



red



us, in yellow this time



me!

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Tuesday, January 20, 2004
  ARGH

there's a dfiference between authoritarian and authoritative parents. authoritarianism = dictatorship. authoritative parents actually listen. and i don't think it's very difficult to decide which category my parents fall under. i'm not really a bad daughter, i've graduated college, i conceded to go through this damn law school, i've never gotten drunk or smoked, i've never done anything illegal or immoral that might upset my parents' principles, so i don't understand why in the world would they be so paranoid about me screwing up my life. and they don't even listen to me when i'm assuring them that i'm actually an obedient daughter. they don't want to hear anything from me at all. they only stick to their principles from the triassic period, listen to themselves, don't respect the uniqueness or individuality of their children, and have this outrageous principle that parents are always right. bullcrap. newsflash, parents are NOT always right. everyone makes mistakes. sometimes, or most of the time, people have to listen to others. there's such a thing as compromise. i don't get why i can't even go through a normal conversation with my parents. we never went beyond the objective conversation stage (i.e., can you pass the rice? or, gosh, did you see how ugly *insert person's name* is?). i don't think they even know me at all. and they even try to rationalize by giving all sorts of justifications, trying to cover up the real reason that they don't trust me. such malicious minds.

and yeah, i still HATE law school. like what i said yesterday, i want to get this law school thing over and done with. so i could be free from the clutches of dictatorship. if i had a choice, i'd get out of it now. but then again, i need to eat.

song on the radio: 'bulakbol' by cambio

anyway, thanks to my brother for listening. apparently, our situations are not that different.

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  ARGH
i HATE law school.

i just hate it whenever i'm caught off guard when i'm called for recit in class. i'm not usually that inattentive, but due to my stroke of bad luck, i'm always called whenever i'm not listening to the class discussion, like when i'm doing something else or my mind just unconsciously wanders off somewhere else.

i was called for recit in oblicon awhile ago, and during that time, i was talking to mia. neither of us actually heard sir call me. my classmates had to get my attention because i was called to discuss a case. i even had to look for the case and digest because i didn't prepare it in front of me. incidentally, our teacher was my father's brod in frat (i hate frats), and whenever i recite in his class, he would insert comments about my dad, so everyone practically knows in class that they're close friends. i mentioned something about a contract in the case being agreed upon by the parties in 1961, and he goes on to ask if my dad was in pol sci during that time. i told him i wasn't sure (or i think i just shrugged my shoulders or shook my head or something), and he goes, "of course, you weren't born then yet. you were just a glimmer in his eyes back then."

whole class cracks up.

and i'll bet that same glimmer in his eyes prompted him to send one of his children to UP law school and go through the same torture he has gone through.

i'm still wondering why i had to pass the UP law entrance exam. sure, for a while i had bragging rights but after sometime, it's turning into a burden. getting in UP law school would mean i have to be as smart as my dad, and i just hate the pressure. and i don't know why it had to be me

specifically. everyone knows that all my older siblings are far more intelligent than i am, they could've carried this great responsibility more maturely. i'm just a free spirited individual who would rather take pictures, work on websites, draw or do something else related to communications than read cases, care about the news or memorize laws.

but of course, i have to stick to the law school track because i need to have a stable profession and do something about social justice.

i just want to get it done and over with law school and pass the bar so i could do whatever i want with my life already.

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Sunday, January 18, 2004
  on cooking and cramming..
i'm cramming again tonight, as always. and i'm procrastinating again by updating my blog.

anyway, i'm proud to say that today, i did something substantial: i learned how to cook. neil and i cooked (well actually, i more of just assisted him as much as i could) fried misono and tofu. i've posted all the pics in our blog.



now this is not something you see everyday

i was reading through neil's tofu book, and i was inspired to be a little more creative with my diet. but first, i have to resume my diet. the only problem is i don't always have the luxury of time to prepare my own meals. i don't even have time to fix my room or organize my cases in neat piles. and i don't even know how to cook other dishes yet. hehe.


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these are some pictures of my cute nephews from the states, benjo and toby.



at benjo's 6th birthday party in school (benjo's the one on the right)



aawww..toby and a huge teddy bear

they're brothers, but they look entirely different.. just like patti and bianca.

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  another day at greenbelt
i just arrived home at around 1:20 am. i think that's a few minutes earlier than the time i arrived yesterday. hehe. my parents are already questioning my studying habits, saying that i'm not behaving like a proper law student. if they only knew how some of my blockmates actually study. they would probably find it hard to believe that there are students who have worse habits than i do.

anyway, today we watched kill bill, and it's a pretty good art film. it was filled with gore, complete with decapitations and blood spraying all over the place, there were humorous quips throughout the movie, and the sounds and visuals were great. in a way, the plot reminded me of keka, with the girl seeking revenge for the death of her significant other. but this one has more element of unpredictability and spunk. i'm looking forward to the continuation this year.

neil, penny and i ate at recipes. the food was great again, and yes, i ate a lot again. hehe. to hell with my diet. i'll start again next week. after the movie, we stayed for a short while at coffee bean and tea leaf with ivan, di and vinci, talked about life, took pictures, drank coffee and tea. there were a lot of people in greenbelt, as expected. there were even ex-ateneans. and some high schoolers in their formal outfits who came straight from the prom.




me and penny by the cinemas, while waiting for di (who was late, as always. hehe!) and ivan



me, penny and vinci



neil, me and penny. we had nothing better to do while waiting, so we just took turns taking pictures of each other.



da boys: neil, ivan and vinci



guess who belongs to the cultural minority in this picture? hehe



chinatown :D



me and neil. why do i have dark eyebags when i spend more time sleeping than doing anything else???

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  some pics at home...



i was supposed to take a candid shot of bubbles, but as usual, she noticed that i was going to take a picture of her, and she approached me. she's camera shy.



bubbles again. look how fat she is.



bubbles again, up close.



mama always wants me to take a picture of her

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Saturday, January 17, 2004
  in the middle of the weekend...
random thoughts...

today's benjo's birthday! it's still too early to call them up in the states, though, so we'll probably just call them tonight.

i'm leaving in a while to watch KILL BILL with my neil, penny, di, ivan and vinci at greenbelt. i've been hearing good reviews about it, so i'm excited to watch it already.

i haven't read anything school related yet, except for a few cases i tried to read this morning. i guess i'm going to cram again tomorrow.. this is hopeless..

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last night, we watched "kalintura", the cersa variety show at cervini in ateneo with kris, weki, jenny and james. somehow i still feel like i'm in college. the whole night, i tried to find familiar faces, but everyone else was just unrecognizable (as expected). we saw cesar though, and some graduates from the dorm. there were a lot of bands, although we only got to watch a few since we had to go home early. the whole program started late. at least we were able to watch sugarfree. i just love this band.

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before going to the concert, we had a family dinner at tito fred and tita amy's place. i think they arranged a little something for papa to celebrate his being elected rotary governor for 2005. i didn't take pictures, but kris did. i'll ask her to upload them when she has the time.

anyway, some of papa's law school blockmates were there, and for some strange reason, they all look alike. and they look like our current teachers in law school. they're all old and respectable to the point of being intimidating. although i don't think they had any intention to look that way. papa introduced me to them and declared that i'm also from UP law school. i must've looked stupid looking back at them, wearing a bright yellow spongebob t-shirt and a silly grin on my face.

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i never realized how stupid i am when it comes to building websites until i encountered movable type, xhtml, etc etc in other people's websites. i was thinking about purchasing my own space in the net, and probably even a domain name so i could easily update my blog and album. i thought that my limited knowledge of html would suffice. and boy was i wrong. i realized that i have to know scripts, languages and whatever, and i don't know when i'll squeeze all of those in between reading all my law books and cases. hay. damn law school getting in the way of my interests. i knew i should've taken up comm. it would've been more fun. but then again, i wouldn't have any future. i'll probably cut down on my sleep time. i spend more time snoozing than studying anyway.

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got this nice journal from 'a different bookstore' in eastwood, libis (it has become my favorite place lately). notice the unread cases behind it. there were a lot of nice designs, but i think this one suits me more in terms of color. and i'm hoping the quote would have a subliminal effect on me.



more journals in this site: quotable cards.com

time to log off now. more cases to read. =P

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Tuesday, January 13, 2004
  i love getting packages
especially if it comes in an old navy plastic bag. :-D

today, we got the package sent by my siblings who live in the states. manang leiya got me a nice 3/4 shirt and a skirt (my 3rd short skirt which i don't know when i'll use).

this is papa & mama. they insisted that i show the pics to my sister, so here it is.


this is bianca looking unusually nice and sweet (hehe)


the 3/4 shirt and skirt.


this is me wearing the shirt and skirt. mwehe.

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  my school life so far
i came home more than an hour ago from school. actually, i was from the gym. our class was cancelled again. not that i'm complaining, i just feel that everything's too lax right now, and i'm sure the load will be terribly heavy in the upcoming hell weeks. we've been getting free cuts for the past days, and we haven't actually done anything substantial since the year started.

this has been my school life so far:

jan. 5, monday: we watched the rainmaker for legal prof. just like how we used to do back in grade school. no recit or anything.

jan. 6, tuesday: we had crim. oh yeah, i was called. pfft. :bag: i was babbling again the whole time, but i would like to justify it by saying he was asking really confusing questions.

we had oblicon in the afternoon, but our teacher sensed that our brains were still in vacation mode, so he dismissed us an hour early.

jan. 7, wednesday: we had free cut in two subjects, so we went to school for our 8 am class. our teacher arrived late, just to announce that he won't be holding class.

it was mama's bday, by the way, so we had a small celebration here at home. i'll post the pics soon.

jan. 8, thursday: no classes due to some faculty event

jan. 9, friday: we had free cut in crim. then, we found out that our consti teacher called off the first class as well. our crim teacher claimed that he wasn't holding class because he wanted us to attend a talk by the president of the country, gma, who, apparently, was coming to UP that afternoon. but being, the good students that we are, we just decided to watch... the lord of the rings, return of the king! i guess we'd rather watch real hobbits than fake ones... *heehee*

while we were waiting for chi and grace in my car in front of world topps, i saw joan, and she looked all harrassed 'cause she wasn't done with her paper yet for class in ateneo law school and she was looking for a net cafe where she could type it. no wonder students there are all losing weight while we're all getting fat in UP. we're doomed.

so anyway, we proceeded to eastwood to watch the 11:30 am showing of lotr. we got good seats.

jan. 12, monday: we had a class

jan. 13, tuesday: today. we didn't have both classes.

and today, i'm procrastinating again, just like i do every single day. i'll study a little later.

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updates for the first two weeks of 2004:

it's not like things will immediately take a turn for the better just because of the new year, right? right. or i'm just rationalizing.

here are some random pics. this is my bed, which looks more like it is owned by a nice, six year old girl rather than a cynical, but nice, twenty one year old law student..



this is my study table, where i attempt to study but end up falling asleep every time. notice the pink post-its, where i write the rules in the canon law which i haven't memorized yet.



these were taken earlier today, in ateneo. i just got nostalgic on my way to the gym, so i took a picture of the place with my cell.





this one was taken by neil last week, at bizu, where we spent almost 500 bucks on dessert and a salad. it was supposed to be a candid shot.



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Monday, January 12, 2004
  happy thoughts

sad thought:

this morning,we received terrible news: 'gayuma', the restaurant near katipunan, burned down. it's the cafe that serves the best desserts (pavlova, b.t.s., apple pie..). it's one of the places where my college blockmates and i frequently hung out before. jenny and i would even go there before straight from philo class (which would end at 9 am), and since it won't be open till 10, we would just wait outside in my car and talk about life. sometimes we would stay there for hours and order just one slice of cake. i sure do hope they would rebuild the whole place..

anyway, these are some pics of us in gayuma, during happier times. (hehe.)



this is inside gayuma, complete with the lights and curtains to add to the dream-like atmosphere



this is me


this is self-incriminating..





this is di, without any idea that her picture will be posted on the net. hehehe.



pat



pat drinking the visayan chocolate drink



pat satisfied hehe



weki



weki scooping in a mouthful of 'ring of desire'..



no more hot chocolate..



or ring of desire..



or moussaka..

just for the record, we weren't responsible for the fire in any way.

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Saturday, January 03, 2004
  happy new year!
random thoughts..

now that the new year celebration is over, i have no more excuse to binge. in other words, i have to start seriously with my diet. because my pants don't fit me anymore. agh.

our new year's celebration was ok, although we didn't have games like we used to for the past years. also, my sister and her family arrived past 1 am already, so it was actually just me, my parents, the househelps and neil, who spent new year's eve at our house for the first time, who were here at 12. we didn't have any fireworks, except for a few lousy fountains and baby rockets mama probably bought from the market a few days before, so we just watched the really nice, enchanted kingdom-quality fireworks displays of the neighbors. that beats having to set it up on our own. i think there were also fewer fireworks displays this year.

the day before, there was this street party in our neighborhood. the turnout was unexpectedly overwhelming. the hosts made it turn out into a bashing session from punchline. hehe. even one of the singers was actually funny. i went there with my family. 'also met up with margie and pops.

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just when i thought nothing could be worse than the ketchup song, bayani comes up with 'ocho ocho', the sexbomb dancers come up with 'spagheti (whatever the spelling is) song', the masculados come up with 'lagot ka' and the viva hotbabes released this similarly irritating song. but i'm particularly irked with the ocho ocho song. all the kids actually know the steps. my nieces even bought an album of it, which includes a song by mahal ranting about her ex-husband who apparently left her for his gay manager. AGH.

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as i always say, time flies. lately, i've been watching our videos taken in ateneo back when we were in 4th year college, and i still can't believe that it's been a year since those blissful days and that a lot of things have already transpired since then. somehow, a part of me is still living in that particular era in my life, a part of me still holds on to it and refuses to accept the fact that i'm out of my comfort zone that is ateneo, that i'm in UP law school, exhausted and unsatisfied with my surroundings...

it's also been a year since i've started blogging.

currently listening to: 'strange and beautiful' by aqualung, aka the psycho song

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