seize the day, but first i have to sleep... somehow i feel that i've wasted most of my life doing nothing (except complaining about life) instead of exploring different interests and pursuits. as an effect of which, i'm trying to take every possible opportunity that comes my way and squeeze in every activity i can take part in in my limited time, while i'm still young and i still have the energy and resources to do what i want. it's weird, because when i was in late grade school/high school, a time when i still had plenty of time on my hands and i supposedly still had the enthusiasm to try new things, i always felt that getting into a new sport or interest was "too late", that i should've started when i was younger. now i realize it's never too late to learn anything, and i'm not anymore going to let age or whatever limitation hinder me from doing new things. my history is already tainted with a lot of 'should'ves' and 'would'ves' that i wouldn't want to add to those regrets anymore.

point is, there are just a lot of things i want to do right now:

• join photography class: trina sent me an e-mail regarding a basic photography class on march 6, 13 and 20. we're supposed to bring an SLR camera. since i don't have one, i don't think i'll be able to enroll in this class. besides, deadline for payment is tomorrow, and i haven't decided yet.
  
• enroll in power memory: it's this place in katipunan that offers a memory workshop to enhance one's memory [hence, the name] and teach memory techniques to its students.
  
• have a part-time job where i can apply my psych skills: weki told me about her pretty lax job under sir gochangco. i already asked her if they could accommodate me.
  
• be active in church: actually i go to church every sunday and we have a regular growth group, but i don't think that's enough.
  
• buy my own domain and be proficient in html/xhtml or whatever scripts there are
  
• go to the gym regularly and even try dancing: dancing has been one of my worst areas, but i'm willing to fix it now.
  

and yeah, there's still law school. hehe. i don't know why i still have time to think about this when i have a growing pile of cases to study. another problem is, how will i balance all these when i have a very bad sleeping problem [i.e., i have to sleep 6-8 hours a night. this isn't normal for a law student like me]??

* * *it's election time in UP, and i haven't decided yet who to vote for. i was quite surprised what a big deal it is there as compared to ateneo. in UP, they actually have equal allotted spaces for campaign ads for each candidate, they have party lists [alyansa, stand-up], candidates actively campaign in every class, they give out general programs of action to establish their credentials, and classes even make declarations of support for certain candidates. competition is tough, to the point that conflicts sometimes ensue, like when supporters of particular candidates tear down the campaign ads of other candidates. back in ateneo, there's less politics and more indifference on the part of the students [some don't even vote]. the fact that fraternities/sororities are inexistent in ateneo may contribute to that fact. and back in ateneo, somehow we were pretty certain on who to vote for and we could even predict who would win. i guess for the first time i really have to weigh the pros and cons of each candidate and think about what each one can do for the school.

* * *

something to be happy about: last wednesday [when we didn't have classes because of the edsa anniversary], i bought new albums of two artists on the opposite ends of the music spectrum: norah jones' "feels like home" and incubus' "a crow left of the murder". let's just say i like diversity in music, but no, i am not going to listen to that 'pamela 1' song that has been irritating me for weeks now. anyway, i bought the cd's because i vow not to buy pirated cd's anymore to help the music industry [*naks*], and downloading in kazaa has been such a hassle that i've uninstalled the whole program from my computer already. so now i have no choice but to buy original albums, which is far better since the cd's don't skip and they even have extras like vcd's or lyrics [which i need because i sing the songs while i'm driving hehe]. i've been hearing norah jones' song, "sunrise" at the gym and on the radio that i just wanted to buy the whole album [tsk tsk, the power of media]. as regards the incubus album, i want to listen to their new album so i would be able to appreciate their concert more on march 12. besides, it's supposed to be a tour to promote their new album, so they're surely going to play songs from that. i hope they will still play songs from 'morning view', though. i want to see them play 'wish you were here' live.

ok, got to get back to studying criminal law.

Labels: law school, music

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  this has got to be the weirdest (yet inspring) e-mail i've ever received i just checked my e-mail, and found this in my inbox:

Subject: an answer

To: lianner00@yahoo.com

Have you ever told yourself that you weren't good enough? That you just weren't smart enough, tough enough, or pretty enough? Do you ever feel like you just don't have what it takes to make it, that you don't have anything to offer the world, or that you don't deserve to be loved or respected by anyone?

There's someone you might like to meet. His name is Gideon, and if ever there was someone who sold himself short, it was Gideon. When God came to him with a command -- nothing less than to deliver the nation of Israel from its oppressors -- Gideon's reaction was, "Who, me?" Surely God had the wrong person. Gideon was the least important person in his family, and his clan was the weakest in its tribe. In short, Gideon was a nobody. There were plenty of other stronger, braver, better-looking people God could have chosen. So why would He choose the lowly Gideon?

Not even God's continual reassurances that Gideon was the right person for the job were enough to convince Gideon. He asked for all sorts of signs and miracles to prove that God meant what He said. Only after repeated miracles did Gideon accept God's chosen role for him - and he went on to become one of Israel's greatest leaders.

What about you? Do you believe that God loves you and can use you, no matter what you or others think about you? The Bible says that you are "fearfully and wonderfully made" -- specially created by a loving Father to be a unique person with your own strengths and abilities. The God who knew you before you left your mother's womb has a special purpose in mind for you (Psalm 139:13-14). Don't sell yourself short -- like Gideon did -- when God calls upon you to face a challenge. He knows that you can handle it with His help. And wouldn't your Heavenly Father know best?

God listens.

Heaven hears.

ok. that was freaky. it's especially apt since i've been questioning lately why in the world i am in law school when i'm not as smart as my blockmates, i'm not good at public speaking, i suck at debates, and there are probably a thousand other people who should've gotten my slot in UP law, yet, i'm there. i've also been questioning this since i read in PDL that i should be in a field i really like and that suits my personality. another reason why this e-mail is relevant: if you know me well enough, it wouldn't be difficult to make out that i am very insecure about myself, especially with my looks. eerily, the last chapter i read in the PDL is about each of us being uniquely shaped to serve God. and then i get this e-mail. and the subject is even "an answer", as if i've been waiting for it my whole life. the thing is, i didn't even sign up for this site, and it isn't from GCF or any church that i know of. and i don't even use this e-mail much, usually i use my other account at edsamail, so i don't know why the message was sent to my ahoo mail. anyway, i'm extending a big thanks to whoever sent it. it's such a beautiful message. i hope you're also blessed when you read it.

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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:

me and neil at shangri-la last wednesday.we ate at cibo.

more pics in our site.

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  a free cut in oblicon makes a whole world of difference it's grace's birthday today!

while we were having our first subject this morning (crim), we were distracted by a whole group of students from the adjacent classroom shouting and screaming their lungs out as if they all won a million bucks. we found out later on that no, they didn't win a million bucks, but they got something better - they didn't have oblicon that morning. consequently, we didn't have that class as well in the afternoon, since we both had the same teacher. and yes, we were also shouting and screaming in our classroom as if we're off the hook for the rest of the sem already and not just for two hours. if you've been through two hours of oblicon, you would perfectly understand what i mean. maybe our teacher's character contributes a lot to the drabness of the subject. it's just that in oblicon, our brains become idle for two hours, and it's enough to drain anyone's energy for the whole day. it's just too terrible to describe in words. hehe.

i was glad the class was called off, since i needed time to prepare for the legal theory report we're having tomorrow. i don't know if it's just my incompetence, but i couldn't understand david lyon's article on instrumentalism, like he would spontaneously jump from one topic to another whenever he wants to [as if anyone cares]. anyway, i'm lucky enough to have gotten the same article i discussed before [but i'm discussing a different part], so i shouldn't be complaining. other reasons why i wasn't in the mood to have class [aside from my usual everyday excuse that i'm just too lazy to go to school] is the fact that 1.) i have a stiff neck and 2.) i have dysmenorrhea. i literally have to turn my whole body whenever someone calls me, because i couldn't bend my head 90 degrees to the left or to the right without hurting myself.

since we didn't have class, grace treated us (chi, ogs, jen, mia, daisy, nico and me) to a veneto pizzeria. it has become our semi-official favorite restaurant [for one thing, the food's great there, the place is convenient enough to go to, and the prices are reasonable]. we spent the next two hours devouring the pizzas and pastas and the cake we gave grace [which i chose, which looks like neil's gift to me last valentine's. i got the idea from neil. hehe] and talking about people and reminiscing about funny things that happened in the past.

and now, i'm here at home. i just woke up from a refreshing 1 hour nap and it's back to work for me. by the way, yesterday, i just realized the wonders of drinking coffee. i recently bought this choco raspberry flavored coffee [which we used to sell in our booth for winlaw last week], and i tried it last night. i had two cups after dinner. later on, i realized that i couldn't sleep because of it. it actually kept me awake until around 2 in the morning. i woke up at 5 am, and i studied the whole time until 8 am without falling asleep. i felt a bit woozy the whole time, though, but the important thing was, the coffee kept me from sleeping, and i actually accomplished something academically related. i'm going to take in coffee again tonight to prove my theory. and if ever it works again, i hope this would help increase my study time.

i already got the pictures from peyups, the ones we had at the UP fair. and here are the idiotic poses:

back: james, jenny, kris, neil

front: pat, me, weki

the autistic pose. i think james beat jenny's all time best autistic pose. hehe

Labels: harkadah, law school

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  entry the second for v-day '04 i woke up early this morning to the sound of patti's voice, asking me to help her make valentine greeting cards. i thought she was only going to print one for her mom and dad, when i overheard her telling bianca that she was going to print one for mama and papa also. the next thing i knew, she was making another one for ate anna, bianca's yaya and for her yaya [and was mine too], manang lina. when i asked her how many more she was going to print, she said she was making 4 more. inside my head, i was thinking, what does she need all those cards for??, but being the nice and encouraging aunt that i am [hwehe], i just helped her out with the rest. so we already made one for manang lina, another for manang weng, for ate ruby and ate gemma. who are you going to give the last one for?. i asked her albeit a bit irritably. it's for you, she replied. and i felt a twinge of guilt because i didn't get her or anyone else anything for valentine's day [except for the bag of cheetos i got neil which i incidentally gave earlier, which, i don't think would count as a valentine's gift because i would've given it anyway even if it wasn't valentine's day]. maybe i'll get the kids something nice this week to make up for my negligence. like those brother bear happy meal toys at mcdo.

speaking of my nieces, this is a picture of bianca and her costume in their play. as i've mentioned in one of my previous entries, her role is, 'kampon ni banas'. one of those evil minions of some entity or creature. i'm predicting she's going to carry her role really well. hehe.

* * *

neil and i went to greenbelt [after the PDL prayer meeting]. for more pics, click here.

at CBTL, greenbelt

neil gave me this cake for valentine's. i was tempted not to eat it and immortalize its cuteness on my study table for the rest of my life. i changed my mind, and i [very] carefully sliced it, attempting to preserve its aesthetics, and ate a teeny portion of it.

  ¶ 11:40 PM 0 comments links to this post  

  happy valentine's day to all of you out there who care enough to celebrate it

another week's over.

i just came home awhile ago from joy's birthday party. i was with margie, grace and jonel. once again i realized that we're all getting old and that i'll also be celebrating my 22nd birthday in a few months. notwithstanding our age, talking about 80's movies, grade school and high school teachers, "gospy" (the casper wannabe in "gospel" comics back in grade school. hehehe) and kajologans still take up most of our time together. and it's great. sometimes it's just nice to laugh at shallow things and reminisce in the process. in that way, we get to laugh as heartiliy as we did back in high school, without noticing how much things have changed and how fast time flies.

some pics from the party:

grace, joy, margie and me (argh i look fat)

me, jonel and joy

mitch and joy

* * *

we went to the UP fair last wednesday, by the way. it was actually my first time to go to a UP fair. unlike other people, i'm not such a UP person (i.e., i don't frequent UP to eat isaw, or to eat at the beach house, or to just hang out by the sunken garden [definitely not on ungodly hours], or attend the fair or the lantern parade), but since i'm officially a UP-an [?? how are people from UP called?], i guess it wouldn't hurt to join university events every once in a while. and so i decided to buy a ticket to the wednesday fair primarily for that reason, and also because i want to support some of my blockmates whose sorority is sponsoring the show and because it seems like a pretty good deal (the bands in the lineup all seemed great, and i felt it was worth the price). well, i didn't regret going to the UP fair, because i had a great time. it was worth more than the 80 bucks i paid for the ticket. too bad we weren't able to watch the other good bands, since they performed late. i was there with neil, kris, pat, weki, jenny and james. we just spent the night talking, strolling around, shooting plastic ducks or throwing darts at balloons and winning prizes which would've cost us less if we just bought them at the sari sari store [but we still had fun hehe], and eating [a lot! considering neil and i even ate at encomium before going there]. pat and weki rode the octopus. i didn't ride with them since i easily get dizzy with those things. i didn't want to ruin my mood for the evening. then, we had our studio pics taken at peyups. the groups next in line were probably cursing us outside the booth already since we took up about 30 minutes just trying to come up with the perfect pose. we were disappointed when we found out we couldn't do the "left-right pose" [hehehe], so it took us quite a while to think of another one. we ended up with a formal pic and an autistic look one [go figure]. it's been a long time since we did one of those idiotic poses [i think it was back in tagaytay and baguio with the harkadah]. i'll post the pics when they're ready.

* * *
5 most overused love songs [my top 5 list for the day]

1. it might be you: i admit, i used to like this song. but when peachy and wacks used this as their theme song in t.g.i.s. [which i admittedly used to watch religiously also], i just had to draw a line there. it's as overused as the pet name "babe" or "baby". icky.
   
2. i love you more than you'll ever know
   
3. love is all that matters
   
4. on the wings of love
   
5. love moves in mysterious ways
   

  ¶ 1:44 AM  

  well, it didn't turn out so bad after all. actually, all i did the whole time yesterday at SM was to stand by the booth and give away flyers, talk to my schoolmates, eat free food and have our picture taken. only about 4 or 5 people actually approached the booth and asked about adoption, and the social workers were the ones who did all the work. besides, they know the process better than we do.

i stayed there from 1 pm to 4. neil and i went there together, but while i was at the booth, he was just strolling around the mall. i got to talk to some schoolmates i haven't seen before. and i realized that there are a lot of people from UP law school who live in fairview. it's such a remote place that i don't think anyone else would even consider living here.

at sm fairview, with other law students, social workers, and the dswd undersecretary

also at sm. me and a social worker.

roch, me and joel. the picture's blurry. ask neil why. hehehe jk!

anyway, it's already past 8 pm and i haven't done the diagram for oblicon yet. actually, i haven't studied yet except for some cases in oblicon i read awhile ago while we were at the Winlaw booth selling coffee (choco raspberry flavor), flowers and bracelets for almost 4 hours. as applicants, we're required to spend at least 3 hours at the booth. i was supposed to start with my diet today, but due to my exhausting day, i decided to eat at napoli pizzeria with neil. we had a whole plate of pesto pasta with eggplant and clubhouse pizza. argh. i feel so guilty bingeing on so much food.

for pics, click here.

i wasn't able to update any top 5 lists for the past 2 entries, so i'm going to do one now:
top 5 alternative celebrations for valentine's day

1. single awareness day: i think there are more single young men and women (yours truly included) out there than those in a relationship, so let's just dedicate this day for them. or for us.
   
2. T.I.I.S.: t*** i*** i'm single day. i've heard this before, i just forgot where. a more angsty version of single awareness day.
   
3. april fool's day: what's the difference?
   
4. labor day: it would make valentine's a whole lot happier. no classes, no need to go out for valentine's day and be stuck in terrible traffic or worry so much about getting a date because everyone else (which is not in reality true) has one.
   
5. spongebob squarepants day: this would definitely make anyone a whole lot happier. instead of wearing red, let's all wear shirts with a spongebob logo. i guess i'll do that this saturday.
   

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  ¶ 8:44 PM 0 comments links to this post  

  just a shout out: happy birthday to jonel and claudette! so what if they don't read my blog. hehe.

i don't know what in the world possessed me to volunteer, upon ma'm beth's request, to man one of the booths for the adoption awareness week. i'm supposed to sit at the booth, right in the middle of the mall (specifically sm fairview. although it's hard to imagine anyone there would actually approach us) and answer questions regarding laws/decrees on adoption and adoption processes. we took up adoption in persons last sem, but thanks to my poor memory, i don't remember the lesson that much anymore. i'm halfway through reading the "rules on adoption" to refresh my memory, but i don't think it would suffice. especially after nico told me that while they were manning the booth in alabang town center awhile ago, a suspicious couple approached the booth and asked them a few things that would qualify as questions for the bar exam. more suspicious was the fact that the guy was carrying a copy of the question. AGH. i don't want to be interrogated, i just wanted to help. i don't think it's necessary for the school to send its minions just to make sure the students reviewed. i hope the social workers and my schoolmates would do all the talking. i'll just keep myself busy by taking pictures.

* * *

neil's barkada just came out with a new blog. hehe. speaking of which, i was with them last thursday, when we watched dan's film/thesis in ateneo. tessa was with me. we went there straight from the aero session. we weren't able to see the entire thing, since we arrived late, but we were able to finish two short films. well, they're funny. i guess that's the best word to describe them. hehe. i had fun watching them. and it made me miss all those times we had video presentations in some of our classes back in college.

anyway, the films were shown in escaler. i think it has been almost a year since i last stepped foot on that room. it wasn't until last thursday when i realized how impressive escaler hall actually looked. it's heaven compared to malcolm theater (in law school), which always smells musty like an old cabinet, which has deformed tables and very dim lights and a dilapidated ceiling and a tattered red wall to wall carpet. it looks like it hasn't been cleaned, much less renovated, since marcos studied there. i hope someday a kindred soul would agree to have it renovated. i'm sure every student who would benefit from that would kiss the donor from head to toe.

after the films, we ate at kamirori, cary's treat (since it was his birthday last jan. 19). all i can say is, food tastes better when it's free. hehe. needless to say, neil and i ate again.

* * *

by the way, neil and i traded our row 46 tickets to row 33 tickets!! we're seated further to the right though, but at least i'll be 13 rows closer to the stage. i hope we'll get a better view. well, i hope, first of all, that the concert pushes through.

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  ¶ 10:49 PM 0 comments links to this post  

  reminiscing... last night, we had the block C reunion/despedida party for sarah (our blockmate who migrated to australia back when we were in second year college), who's visiting the country for a few weeks. it was held at dencio's in power plant, same place where we had the last harkadah reunion last december. neil and i arrived there early (around 7:20). i left school past 6:30 already, right after the WINlaw (our org, women in law) G.A., and there was no traffic, which is a rarity on a friday night. when we reached power plant, there was no one there yet, so we just reserved a table first and went around the place. i felt so underdressed in my basic gray shirt, jeans, white sporty jacket and my ever dependable black flip flops. it's just that everyone was so dressed up and made up like they came straight from a fashion mag. anyway, soon enough, weki and val arrived, followed by pat, jonsi, julie, anya and sarah. chuck and krisden (who i haven't seen for the longest time) arrived later on. neil and i shortly left after consuming a plate of pork sisig, garlic mushrooms and oriental chicken (there goes my diet again). i had to go home early for several reasons, one of which is my mom told me to. i've been going out a lot lately that i feel guilty about it already.

it was good to see everyone else after so long. more than feeling nostalgic, however, it felt different being with them. don't get me wrong, i was more than happy to see them. it's just that being with them reminded me of our first year days, and made me remember some things that have been buried in my memory all these years. maybe i just realized that, being with the harkadah (meaning: me, jenny, di, weki, pat, joan and penny) for too long, i've forgotten that before we got together, there were actually different factions within the block, that we practically belonged to different barkadas before and it was after some people left or moved away that we became consolidated into one group. maybe i was just overwhelmed by the fact that a lot of things have changed since college started. another reason that accounted for that feeling was probably the fact that jenny and di weren't there (jenny had work until 9 pm, while di was sick). i just missed them since they were the people i was closest with back in first year, especially jenny who i became acquainted with since orsem.

anyway, i hope one of these days we could get together again like we did last night, especially now that some of them are moving to the US soon to study/work.

this is one of our pictures last night:

standing: chuck, krisden, jonsi, pat, (some unknown person in the background), me, penny and neil

seated: wex, anya, sarah, val, julie

at power plant

me and neil at power plant

pat, anya and sarah

sarah, val, julie

these are some of our pictures back in first year college:

hehe, crazy

someday, when i have nothing better to do, i'll post all the pics we had back in first year.

thinking aloud: i just found out that i have uploaded the UAAP victory party pictures in the block website! i thought they got deleted before along with other files when my computer crashed.

Labels: ateneo, harkadah

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  my new favorite song tidal wave by longwave

take me down in a tidal wave
take me down when im wired
the hardest thing you ever gave away
is the hardest thing to keep
i am everything you wanted
i am everything you wanted
i am everything you need
take me back to the other place
take me back when im alone
i can see all the little things that once could make me whole
i am everything you wanted
i am everything you wanted
i am everything you need
but i can feel it again
i am everything you wanted
i am everthing you need
give me the colors of a different light
give me the colors grey and blue
everything you ever hoped to be is when the colors bleed
i am everything you wanted
i am everything you wanted
i am everything you wanted
everything you wanted
everything you wanted
everything you wanted

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these are two tickets to the INCUBUS CONCERT on march 12, 2004!! i finally got them awhile ago, after neil and i paid for them in sm north. weki actually reserved five tickets in the 2038 pesos section, but i don't think they're still getting their tickets since pat and the others wanted to sit in the 992 pesos section. [ i honestly feel like such a brat insisting that i want to sit in front, but i already asked my mom for 2 thou, and besides, i don't think there are any more decent seats available in the 992 section. i think all the seats there are taken, and the people have to stand up to watch. and opportunities like this come once in a lifetime, and i'm not going to let it pass ] anyway, we asked the lady there if there are other tickets availabe, and she told us that there are 2 tickets in row 26, which was 20 rows in front of the seats weki reserved (row 46). we hesitated to get them, since we had to consult weki first, so we called her. by the time we got back to the counter, the seats were already taken. ARGH. just our luck. well, i guess 46 rows from brandon boyd isn't so bad. it's not as if he's going to look like a tiny speck from where we will be seated. and it's an open field anyway, so i'll bet people would be moving around the place the whole time, so i guess it wouldn't be that difficult to move closer to the stage. and i remember watching silverchair back in 3rd year high school, we were pretty far from the stage but we still had a great time anyhow. i can't wait to watch it!! i've always loved incubus eversince i first heard 'counterfeit countdown' on NU, during their gothic/dark era when they still sported the 'rage-against-the-machine' look. i even used "^iNcUbUs" as my handle in irc during those days when i was addicted to chat. (and that was around 6 years ago) i just hope our very considerate teachers would not schedule an examination on that day or the day after that.

by the way, mia told me she heard that coldplay's going to have a concert here as well this march. we seriously doubt it though, since we haven't heard about it from any form of media. but i really hope they would come. this time, i'll reserve early and get the best seats.

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i've been meaning to update my blog since last sunday, but i didn't have time, not because i was studying the whole week, but because i would rather sleep than turn on the pc. and i realized that i've been spending too much time in front of the computer last week, and it's actually straining my eyes. i haven't been studying much because i was already called for recit in all subjects, and two of my teachers exhaust all students first in recit before doing another round. i won't be called again until everyone else has recited already, so i can actually predict when i'll be called. it has its disadvantages though - i'm not motivated anymore to study. good luck to me on finals week.

anyway, this is what i've done for the past week:

feb. 1, sunday: after going to church, neil and i ate at burgoo.

barbecue chicken. it was gooood.

neil had his head shaved again! it really shines! hehehe!! jk neil! :)

patti made fondue (yes, the recipe is also from the overused "sabrina's cookbook"). it was good. 'have to postpone diet again to next week. or whenever it would be possible.

by the way, the starstruck (of gma, channel 7) results came out on the same day. click here for the article. (i'm jolog. so sue me. hehehe) i wasn't able to watch it, but my blockmates were talking about it the whole day last monday, so i found out that jennylyn and mark won over yasmien and rainier. actually, i haven't been faithfully watching the whole series. i was just able to watch the very first epsiode, and a few of the next episodes unlike my blockmates. nevertheless, i'm as happy with the results as they are, because like them, i find yasmien and rainier irksome. yasmien looks a bit like bea alonzo while rainier is trying too hard to look like an F4 member.

(for the benefit of the doubt: starstruck is a reality tv show in channel 7, much like the defunct show "star search" in the states. the show became so popular here that even my dad watches it. i think he even watched the last episode last sunday and was even talking the results over with my mom. mwehe.)

feb. 2, monday: i was called for legal profession. it was already the 3rd time i was called in that class. after that class, the "maitim and budhi gang" (hehe. me, grace, chi, mia, nico, oggs, jenn and daisy) pigged out at a veneto pizzeria, along visayas ave. after that, i went to the gym for aero. again, i couldn't follow the steps much (blame it on my inflexible body), but at least i didn't look like a total idiot like i did the last time. tessa couldn't make it, so i didn't have a gym buddy that time. hehe. anyway, after going to the gym, i gained back whatever fat i lost, since neil and i ate a whole plate of sisig at ken afford with james, miko and pao. yes, i think i'm an honorary guy. hehe. i even eat like one. argh.

this is a picture in school, taken with nico's digital cam. but this was taken last week, before crim.

feb. 3, tuesday: not too eventful, except that my brain almost rotted for the whole two hours of oblicon. we were all staring at space, not particularly paying attention to the lecture (to use nico's metaphor, it was like being in a state of coma). to amuse ourselves, we turn on the bluetooth connection in our phones and send each other whatever messages. mitch (who was in front) even takes a picture of our professor and sends it to everyone else. or we ring each other's phones. or we bring food and eat throughout the period just to stay awake. or we pass notes. the whole set-up reminds me so much of high school. i think regression is one of the fatal effects of law school on our psychological makeup.

feb. 4. today: my brain was stagnant for 4 hours this time (consti and oblicon). and our professors even extended the class periods, thinking that it would do us good. oh well. in oblicon, i was called again, but it wasn't a graded recit. i was just mumbling the answer in my seat, and it probably caught the professor's attention so he called me. at least it kept me awake for at least 5 minutes. after class, we just got the incubus tickets and ate again at oody's, tomas morato.

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anyway, it's already "love month", and in view of valentine's day, i would post a top-5 list of anything that has to do with love in each of my entries for the whole month. so, today, this is my top 5 list:

my top 5 best love songs

1. drowning in your eyes by ephraim lewis: this is an old song (came out in the early 90's, i think). and i heard it from my brother and brother-in-law's collections, so it must be really old. (hehe, kidding) actually, it doesn't sound much like a love song. it sounds like something that can be added to a chill-out project cd. it's just so relaxing and soothing.
   
2. love song for no one by john mayer: a song which i'm sure a lot of us can relate to, especially people like us who don't have a significant other yet. although it sounds really desperate and too hopeless romantic, i still think it's cute.
   
3. strange and beautiful by aqualung: hehe, this isn't actually a love song. we even named it the psycho song since it sounds so desperate (even more desperate than john mayer's love song for no one) to the point of being pathetic. not to mention insane. to prove my point, here's the lyrics: "i'll put a spell on you.. you'll fall asleep.. 'cause i'll put a spell on you.. and when i wake you i'll be the first thing you'll see.. and you'll realize that you love me.."
   
4. shiver by coldplay: i just love coldplay. again, this is a song on unrequited love (i'll always be waiting for you.. so i look in your direction but you pay me no attention but you know how much i need you but you never even see me..)
   
5. i miss you by incubus: this is relevant, since incubus is coming to the philippines. hehe. not too cheezy or mushy but still gets the message across.
   

ok, that's it. before someone accuses me of becoming too involved in celebrating valentine's day.

Labels: family, law school, music, random, vday

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