i posted an entry before about exit, my friends [ claudette & randi ]'s store. they recently moved to a more visible location, in xavierville ave. plus, claudette's family also opened a cafe located in the first floor of the same building, rafa's deli and cafe. anyway, this is the exact address: unit C, 10 xavierville ave. loyola hts. qc. (near jp laurel gate of xavierville). do drop by sometime :D

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i was on the verge of cursing pldt for letting me down when my internet account wouldn't connect since wednesday last week. 'turned out someone just accidentally unplugged some seemingly insignificant piece of contraption from the phone unit. now i can connect to the net again and i've never been happier. hehe.

the past week was quite eventful; at least more eventful than the usual state of things. that's why this entry is going to be pixel heavy [ sorry for that ]. anyway, the complete set of pictures are here.

the nego midterms

of course that tops my list for the most exciting events of the week. haha. and i would just shut up about the exam for fear of expulsion from the college [ my prof has a blog too and chances are, he knows i've linked his site. hehe ].

post-midterms binge

we ate at heaven and eggs for dinner. it was the first time in weeks all 8 of us went out together. we ate a lot, as always. good comfort food. we took a lot of pics because it took a long time before the food arrived.

3 hours of nego and 1.5 hours of tax -> bad combination.

yiheee bestfriends



sorry chi, i know you're going to kill me now for this. hehe

thursday at dish

we went to the sigma rho/lsg event last thursday at dish, abs-cbn. none of my law school blockmates attempted to go [ except of course for oggs who sold us the tickets ], so i went with pat, joan and penny. we ate at cibo first, did some "star gazing" [ haha jologs talaga ] and since penny was there, we didn't go home disappointed. [ i always see actors/actresses whenever i'm with penny. hmm... ]. we watched some bands until our eyes gave out [ second hand smoke from yosi + aircon = strained watery eyes ]. we ate dessert afterwards at some nearby coffee shop.

friday in manila

i know i've grown tired of ms. freshman after two years, but that didn't stop me from watching "lady med", the ms. freshman counterpart for UP med students. [ yes, i chose to watch that over rockestra ] we were invited by vinci. unlike in UP law, they do the contest by batch, so the whole student body gets to participate, not just the freshmen. so there was literally a whole batallion of students cheering for every candidate. it has essentially the same concept, but for some reason, it was entirely different from the UP law set up - for one, their contestants are comparably less bastos [ i haven't decided yet if that's a good or bad thing hehe ]. and everyone was just enthusiastic, rooting for his/her candidate. it was like watching a uaap game, each batch made up [ or ripped off ] cheers, they were all waving their color coordinated banners/balloons. it was crazy. the contestant from vinci's batch [ batch 2008 ] won. it's the 3rd consecutive year that someone from their batch won first place.

o di ba, ang gaganda nila. the winner' [ aka "kirara" ] is the one on the left

and then we went on with our "manila tour" with vinci as the tour guide. i haven't been there for a long time [ last time was when we went to the senate, which wasn't really exciting, was it. and papa's induction ball ]. we were supposed to go to the bayview [?]promenade, the one near the future mall of asia [ which was really huge. it was the first time i've been to the construction site ], but we were only allowed to stay for a few minutes because it was already closed. we proceeded to blue wave, some eastwood-like place complete with the restaurants and a stage up front. we pigged out at icebergs, 'talked about life as always and then watched kitchie nadal in concert.

vinci, wex, pat, penny and me

the soapdish mtv

i helped out a bit at the shoot for mtv of the new soapdish song, "tensionado" [ i swear, i can't get the song out of my head the whole day today. buti na lang i like the songs by soapdish, esp. the first single. i wouldn't want to know the aftermath if i was forced to help out in a salbakuta video ], directed by quark h., with dan and tetz. i mainly helped out neil as the p.a., so that makes me the p.a.a. [ production assistant assistant? ]. and they also used our condo as the setting for the second to the last scene. it was surreal having all the lights and a whole band playing inside the miniscule unit. we've always tried to stretch the limits of that condo eversince. the guard actually went upstairs twice, the first time when they told us not to loiter, use the units in the hall and leave our stuff lying on the floor, and the second time when they heard shouting/fighting and china crashing on the floor [ it was part of the fighting couple scene ]. exciting. bwehe.

at little tokyo, the first location. some pussy ket is tormenting the little fishies.



fidel and vanna after the "fight scene"



lianne and neil before, during and after the "fight scene" [ hehehe as triumph would say, "i kiiiiiid..." :D ]

i didn't realize it was a psycho-couple video until i saw the fake blood and the gory, bruise-effect make up. you wouldn't think it's something realistic, with the couple almost tearing each other to bits and then making up as if nothing happened in the end. the freaky thing is, i can relate with the insanity. "tensionado"'s definitely another song to add to my life soundtrack. hehe.




i was supposed to email this to fidel, but since i don't know his add., i just hope he finds his way to my blog





i just had to post this pic and let the whole world wide web know: i can't believe that ugly painting behind soapdish is getting more tv exposure than i am. hehehe. gawd. we always referred to it as "george of the jungle" [ and by that i'm referring to some person back in college. heehee i'm so eval. ]

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oh wow. this is definitely going to be great. i read about it in the paper this morning. but i don't know if i'm watching though [ i'm too lazy to buy tickets or even inquire about them or ask anyone to go with me ].

ROCKESTRA august 19, 2005. 8 pm. Folk arts theater!
feat. cambio imago sandwich silentsanctuary sugarfree
twistedhalo with the manila symphony orchestra!!!

tickets are available at all ticketworld outlets.
major national bookstores. robinsons dept. stores
(galleria ermita cavite pampanga). tower records
(makati alabang). greenbelt1 cinema ticketbooth. ccp
ticket booth.

nego midterms in 4 days. hwehehehe...

i know, i don't have that much "luck" to start with [ all my college friends could attest to that ], but for the past week, i've been having a series of circumstances worthy enough to be called "luck". cases in point: 1.) i was called in two subjects for cases that i've read or at least know enough to recite properly, without the professor, sensing my fear, trying to intimidate me with his demeaning comments. 2.) i was supposed to skip art class yesterday since i didn't have time to study for PIL, and i found out the night before that it was cancelled 3.) i was craving for breaded chicken the other day, and i came home, unsuspecting that there is such a dish on our dinner plate 4.) i witnessed a display of karmic justice which i wouldn't dare disclose online [ bwaha ]. plus, some other good things that have happened that do not really fall under the lucky category, but are nice nonetheless. i know these are shallow things, but it's really nice for things to fall in the right place every once in a while. in my life, these instances rarely happen, so every time they do, well, thank god.

but of course, all good things come to an end. i pretty much enjoyed the whiff of good luck though [ if only there is such a thing as felix felicis ]. earlier today, i was called for IPL, which i haven't studied in a while [ it was assigned weeks ago, and i never reviewed it ]. i'm guessing i got a low grade, based on my teacher's reactions and the moments of awkward silence right after she gives a question. and then, during lunch, i parked my car on the island in katipunan while we ate at world chicken. as soon as we got out, some mmda person placed a ticket on the windshield since we were 'illegally parked'. [ damn you stupid bisayan manong who made it appear that it's ok to park there. he claimed he told me not to park on the island, but i swear, he never did, he even assisted us as we were going to the resto. and i couldn't really understand his explanation 'cause he was speaking in bisaya ]. i couldn't run after the mmda person and try to explain to him that i was parked there because of someone else's idiotic act, because my license is expired. he might just ask for it, and didn't want to risk it. GRR. now i have to pay for P200 at the bank. on the bright side, at least they didn't ask for my license. that would've put me in greater trouble.

lastly, it took me such a long time to connect the dsl. this is the first time it happened, though. i even thought, given the trail of bad luck [ plus the principle that "all things happen in threes" ], that the internet would be out for sometime and we would need to have connection repaired. good thing it's working now.

just to make me feel better awhile ago, i skipped succession [ heehee ] with jen, chi and oggs to watch bewitched at eastwood. just for the record, that was my second cut this sem ever, and i don't think i would have the guts to cut again. i feel too guilty for not studying in most of my subjects. and we have a midterm exam next week, so i really need to take things seriously this time. :P

Labels: law school, random, rant

i've been spending the last two weeks like a happy go lucky college girl [ much like how was my life was 3, 4 years ago ]. i've been staying overnight at the condo again with pat, penny and wex, we indulge ourselves on food trips [ although the selections now are healthier, which is a good thing ], i don't study anymore [ well not in the same degree as i used to anyway. my performance just went downhill after the first sem, first year of law school, when i still made personal digests for every case. i don't know why, i just somehow lost motivation. and i really could not understand the concepts. gawd. taxation. negotiable instruments. wheee. :P and i should be studying more now since we have more complex subjects :p ], and most importantly, we have resumed our insane photoshoots which i'm going to post in the following paragraphs. hay i really miss college so much..

last friday night [ since we didn't have tax for the 2nd consecutive week because of the upcat ] we watched charlie and the chocolate factory at the shangri-la with penny, pat, wex and vinci. we first had dinner at green tomato also in the same area. i enjoyed the movie; 'made me want to divulge a pack of s'mores right after watching. i also liked the boy who played charlie - he has the same charm as daniel radcliffe in the first harry potter movie. if only a good heart would be enough to get you through life in the real world.. hee..

these are some of our pictures [ buti nga walang left right eh hehe. all taken by weki ]

i know i've sworn off friendster forever [ or until the time i'm ready to put up an account again ], but i'm loving this new program i've recently discovered, multiply.com, which is a little bit like friendster [ with the contacts and network ] but much better, since it's customized for file sharing. it enables users to upload an unlimited number of pictures, and the more important thing is, they can retain the quality of the pics; they don't automatically resize them. also, i can upload my playlist [ the actual mp3's ] in my account, which can be downloaded by others. and this is all the more convenient for me because i have faster internet connection. yay! more reasons not to study. hehe. [ just to make me feel better, i have a whole stack of PIL cases right in front of me, begging to be read ]. anywy, i'll be uploading all my pics there, since i don't use my snapfish [ since it's not public ], flickr [ it only stores a limited no. of pics ] and ofoto [ my sister tells me she can't view some of the pictures there ] photo accounts anymore.

i should be studying now. hehe. sige na nga, i'll start working on my goal to become a superstudent. yeah right. :P

Labels: harkadah

i realized it doesn't really take much to make me happy..

a good playlist and a dsl connection will do. as you might guess, i'm accessing the internet now through a pldt dsl server, which was installed a few hours ago. woohoo! i know most of you probably have had broadband connection since whenever, but this is a leap for this stone age computer. of course the first thing i did after i connected to the internet was to open the limewire program and stare in awe as the computer downloads almost 50 kb of mp3 music per second. i know this will derail me more from my studies, but then again what doesn't? hehe. joke.

well, speaking of studying, i don't think any amount of studying would improve my recitations ever, [ i don't really speak well in public, for one ] especially when the professors seem to blame me for every bad supreme court decision/law. [ no sir, i did not pen that decision. :p ] i didn't even notice there was something wrong with them in the first place. i guess i'm just not programmed to question what the authorities say; i pretty much take in everything and believe in it. i just don't know how to think out of the box.

ANYWAY..

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[ sorry for the short, brainless entries lately. hehe. ]

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