| lessons from ate |
[Sep. 5th, 2004|09:37 pm] |
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| | midnight at the oasis - maria maulder | ] |
I think having siblings is great because you learn a lot more when there are more people under your roof and in your life. You learn how to communicate better (or just louder). You learn how to share. You learn that the world doesn't revolve around just you alone. You learn all those fundamental things, like how to argue, make up, cover for each other, and love one another.
Here are just some things I would like to share with my younger sister (and will probably share with my own kids in the future), who is an avid reader of this blog:
1. Calculus and Algebra may be irrelevant subjects to you, and you will never need to use them in the Real World...unless you want to become a Math teacher or a scientist or an astronaut (i highly doubt it though). But for heavens sake, just at least try to pass them to the best of your abilities.
2. Keep track of your monthly you-know-what, and always, ALWAYS have a pad in your bag. Just in case.
3. Romeo and Juliet was a great play and makes for a good story. But there is no such thing as 14 year old star-crossed lovers in the 21st century.
4. Always call home if you're going to be late. It's not what you're doing that has mom and dad worried. It's them not knowing what the hell you're doing that does.
5. Zits are a part of life. That's why God invented Clearasil and Proactive.
6. You will NEVER understand boys. So quit trying and just try to live with them.
7. Reading will benefit you more than watching TV. Trust me, having a prodigious vocabulary is a helluva lot more useful than you will ever know.
8. Laugh every day. At anything.
9. Have at least 1 best friend you can trust for the rest of your life--someone who knows, understands, and accepts you for who you really are. And if you have any more than that, consider yourself extremely lucky.
10. Find a passion. For anything. Whether its collecting bottle caps or building model airplanes or painting or playing sports. Figure out what you love and enjoy doing, because if you love it at fifteen, chances are you'll love it at fifty. Having a passion "whittles the world down to a more manageable size" (The Orchid Thief), and this is something I truly believe in.
11. Money can be lost as easily as it is made. Take it seriously when you're earning your own, but not TOO seriously. It's really not everything.
12. There are no shortcuts for anything in life: not work, not relationships, not ANYTHING really worth having and keeping.
13. It's okay to feel lost and like you don't belong at times. It happens to everyone, regardless of who you are. I'm sure at times Madonna feels like she's from another planet.
14. The only thing in life that is constant is change. Things will always change, people and places will change, friends and lovers will come and go. But the only thing you can REALLY be damn sure of is yourself, and if you know yourself well enough and love yourself well enough, you can weather any storm and face any challenge.
15. Screwing up is a part of life. Screw up big, screw up small--doesn't matter. Learn from them, and more importantly, learn to forgive yourself. If not, it will weigh you down like an invisible load you don't know you're carrying.
16. Whatever happens, you can always come back to your family.
I'm not saying we'll NEVER fight (duh, that's like saying we'll never eat McDo or I'll never love again), I AM saying with absolute certainty, we'll never have a fight that'll result in total hatred for each other. |
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| moving |
[Aug. 19th, 2004|01:37 pm] |
closing this account down. transferring to the url below.
will add you all. add me too.
www.livejournal.com/users/annalific |
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| dlcc |
[Aug. 19th, 2004|07:42 am] |
won both rounds, i'm quite content.
thanks to jill and pao for being the best dela costa teammates ever. :)
yun lang nga, my cough has gotten worse. my voice is practically gone. eesh... |
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| huwaw |
[Aug. 14th, 2004|11:04 am] |
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| | sleep all day - jason mraz | ] |
to the people who constantly bug me about not updating, eto na.
i am tired. no, stressed. there's been too much work the past week and tons more this week. lumalabas na ulit and obsessive-compulsive nerdy side ko. looking forward to the week of the 21st. i'll be free again. :)
fil midterm on tuesday. mamatay na sana yung teacher ko.
i am now block v's block rep. and contrary to jerome's post, hindi ako bitchy because i was asserting myself as block rep. i was just really tired by that time. side note - although it's somewhat impossible, sana panalo si jon-d.
jess and i are such fuck ups. haha. dedicated kasi kami. :) i wonder if we're pushing through with plans of watching bench's understatement show on wednesday...
i love r14! the best english block ever. even if the movie we had to watch sucked big time, the company was great. :) iggy, jolie, anne, treena, gela, carlo, berto, abe and micole - i can say, with PASSION, that you guys are the best. amoresperros na to on monday. :)
i love yan. she found my id! and here i was, frantically looking for it all over the place. she saved me a hundred bucks.
watching the ateneo game on sunday. come to think of it, i've only missed one game this season...thanks to my dad. dedicated alumnus talaga. present sa lahat ng game.
i wanna watch a cinderella story. only for chad michael murray, though. :D
ads training is okay. nothing special or fab about it yet.
berto,even if you'll prolly never read this, thanks for being such a sweetie all the time. :)
gab, thanks for being the coolest cousin ever! i love you.
inna, belated happy birthday. if ever you get to read this, the philsci kids say they miss you. :)
i'm so random...i hate it. |
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| thank you. |
[Aug. 6th, 2004|09:44 pm] |
this one's for you.
thank you for making me feel loved, for making me smile genuine smiles. thank you for giving me the warmest, sincerest, most love-filled hugs. life is now so much more meaningful. you are such a wonderful person. i'm so glad i met you.
i swear...people who don't know you are missing out on half of their lives.:) |
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| what a wonderful weekend |
[Aug. 1st, 2004|02:01 pm] |
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| | fallen - lauren wood | ] |
sunday's not yet over, but i doubt i'll have time to update later today.
ads training was okay. saw john which was fun. he's one of the coolest people ever. tas bonding with james and cris after training.
thanks to the wonderful people who were game enough to go out spontaneuosly friday night. i loved every minute of it. you made me feel loved, sobra.
tin's wedding saturday morning was fun. one more cousin married off. family fun is the best. cait and cambie looked so adorable.
more family fun during the ateneo-adamson game. as usual, i was with my whole angkan. it was one for the books. galing talaga ng ateneo! i kinda felt icky lang nga since i didn't have time to take off my make-up after the wedding. i just changed my clothes na lang since we went straight to philsports after the reception. saw tons of people i know. jessica and janina, tita maryjo and tito dan, mayen, tita tessie and tito danny, tita anna, tita vicky and tito joe, migs and reggie, joey, louie and gabby, aissa, jet and angel, robby, billy and ian, cla, claude and cla, chris and paolo.
had dinner with my family last night. i felt like such a pig yesterday.
mass early morning today. tas we ate breakfast at tito vic's since it's his birthday. the best din talaga kumain in that house (halata na favorite ko dun. twice mentioned na in my lj). it was breakfast, but we had alimango, sugpo, panga and all other sorts of wonderful seafood. plus tons of the staple breakfast food like tapa and tocino. and there was barbeque pa nga i think eh. may dessert pa. pigout ulit! i am so so so so fat.
all that's left to do is to study for the math test and do advanced reading for some subjects. nothing heavy. and prolly go accompany my mom or dad somewhere. so happy. :)
how exactly do you tell someone na you miss him/her when hindi naman dapat since that person is always around, you see each other and talk to each other often? labo...oh well... |
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| an ode to nice guys |
[Jul. 29th, 2004|05:16 pm] |
This is a tribute to the nice guys. The nice guys that finish last, that never become more than friends</a>, that endure hours of whining and bitching about what assholes guys are, while disproving the very point. This is dedicated to those guys who always provide a shoulder to lean on but restrain themselves to tentative hugs, those guys who hold open doors and give reassuring pats on the back and sit patiently outside the changing room at department stores. This is in honor of the guys that obligingly reiterate how cute/beautiful/smart/funny/sexy their female friends are at the appropriate moment, because they know most girls need that litany of support. This is in honor of the guys with open minds, with laid-back attitudes, with honest concern. This is in honor of the guys who respect a girl’s every facet, from her privacy to her theology to her clothing style.
This is for the guys who escort their drunk, bewildered female friends back from parties and never take advantage once they’re at her door, for the guys who accompany girls to bars as buffers against the rest of the creepy male population, for the guys who know a girl is fishing for compliments but give them out anyway, for the guys who always play by the rules in a game where the rules favor cheaters, for the guys who are accredited as boyfriend material but somehow don’t end up being boyfriends, for all the nice guys who are overlooked, underestimated, and unappreciated, for all the nice guys who are manipulated, misled, and unjustly abandoned, this is for you.
This is for that time she left 40 urgent messages on your cell phone, and when you called her back, she spent three hours painstakingly dissecting two sentences her boyfriend said to her over dinner. And even though you thought her boyfriend was a chump and a jerk, you assured her that it was all ok and she shouldn’t worry about it. This is for that time she interrupted the best killing spree you’d ever orchestrated in GTA3 to rant about a rumor that romantically linked her and the guy she thinks is the most repulsive person in the world. And even though you thought it was immature and you had nothing against the guy, you paused the game for two hours and helped her concoct a counter-rumor to spread around the floor. This is also for that time she didn’t have a date, so after numerous vows that there was nothing “serious” between the two of you, she dragged you to a party where you knew nobody, the beer was awful, and she flirted shamelessly with you, justifying each fit of reckless teasing by announcing to everyone: “oh, but we’re just friends!” And even though you were invited purely as a symbolic warm body for her ego, you went anyways. Because you’re nice like that.
The nice guys don’t often get credit where credit is due. And perhaps more disturbing, the nice guys don’t seem to get laid as often as they should. And I wish I could logically explain this trend, but I can’t. From what I have observed on campus and what I have learned from talking to friends and at other schools, the only conclusion I can form is that many girls are just illogical, manipulative bitches. Many of them claim they just want to date a nice guy, but when presented with such a specimen, they say irrational, confusing things such as “oh, he’s too nice to date” or “he would be a good boyfriend but he’s not for me” or “he already puts up with so much from me, I couldn’t possibly ask him out!” or the most frustrating of all: “no, it would ruin our friendship.” Yet, they continue to lament the lack of datable men in the world, and they expect their too-nice-to-date male friends to sympathize and apologize for the men that are jerks. Sorry, guys, girls like that are beyond my ability to fathom. I can’t figure out why the connection breaks down between what they say (I want a nice guy!) and what they do (I’m going to sleep with this complete ass now!). But one thing I can do, is say that the nice-guy-finishes-last phenomenon doesn’t last forever. There are definitely many girls who grow out of that train of thought and realize they should be dating the nice guys, not taking them for granted. The tricky part is finding those girls, and even trickier, finding the ones that are single.
So, until those girls are found, I propose a toast to all the nice guys. You know who you are, and I know you’re sick of hearing yourself described as ubiquitously nice. But the truth of the matter is, the world needs your patience in the department store, your holding open of doors, your party escorting services, your propensity to be a sucker for a pretty smile. For all the crazy, inane, absurd things you tolerate, for all the situations where you are the faceless, nameless hero, my accolades, my acknowledgement, and my gratitude go out to you. You do have credibility in this society, and your well deserved vindication is coming. |
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| oh yeah! |
[Jul. 29th, 2004|06:27 am] |
who's the bitch who currently has an A standing in math,lit and english? :)
happy happy. my nerdiness did not go to waste. i'm so friggin happy.
guidance test, though some people claim it to be hellish, was fun. prolly because i was in an airconditioned room. and who's the bitch who dragged several of her friends into the room? ;) gino, roy, joby, cholo, francis - you guys owe me.
the past week's been a blur. ang daming ginagawa. funny since i'm not stressed naman. i've just been so random. and i've had so many questions on my head unanswered. i may just be turning into some psycho freak. |
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| oh my god... |
[Jul. 26th, 2004|06:33 am] |
just got word from juan.
my worst fear last night came true...it's an acl tear for fonacier.
he's out for the entire season. it'll take at least 6 months for his knee to heal.
it's kinda unfathomable to think he won't be able to play. grade 3 palang sila ni juan basketball na laman ng puso niya. hay...buhay talaga.
please do pray for him. even if you're not a blue eagle fan. |
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| hmmm... |
[Jul. 25th, 2004|08:08 pm] |
i now know what i really want. it's a greater sense of freedom. malabo,but to the people who i've been telling about all the shit happening in my life recently, gets nyo to.
sulit yung mga cut ko, both sa guidance and ads. i was able to process things and really put them into perspective. my life is tons clearer.
thank you kids for the day. you may not have made it to the finals, but it's prolly not just time yet. i'm still so proud of all of you. what's moreimpt is that you all learned a lot from lite.
ateneo won! but i'm worried about what happened to larry. last week lang i saw him with juan tas now he might not be even to play for the rest of the season. if it's acl, possible na he might not be able to play for the rest of his life. juan looked devastated. ngayon pa to nangyari. it's the first time he's been injured seriously in the 14 years they've known each other. nakakaawa.
do pray for him please.
gah...i hate randomness.
i want a greater sense of freedom.
i need a greater sense of freedom |
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| adventures and misadventures |
[Jul. 15th, 2004|10:37 pm] |
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long day, but a great one. parang well worth it yung pagod.
started the day doing the fil project for salazar's class. had a nice time walking around ateneo with val and omi taking pictures of "traditional ateneo". thanks to the a boys who were kind enough to pose for us and let us take pictures in thier classroom. haha...misadventures of lying on concrete to take a shot, being super kapal to the guards, manongs and other people, grumpy guards telling us not to do certain things, walking sa soccer field sa high school for the bukid pic, having high schoolers looking at us (parang napakaforeign namin), contorting bodies to get the perfect angle, laughing it all off all throughout the walk and much more. i definitely enjoyed my morning.
math was fun. math lab rocks. :)
fil was also nice. kahit paakyat ng kostka i was telling val 'sana may nakasulat ulit sa board na mahuhuli ng dating si g. salazar tas wag na siya magpakita.' then right at that point salazar appears in front of us. kakahiya. i understood what i was reading for the first time. and tama yung mga answers ko to all his qustions. i actually enjoyed myself in salazar's presence today.
after fil, i went with raj to his ads thing which went quite well. tas fun asking raj certain quetsions and discussing with mahar certain people's orientations. raj, priceless yung bigla ka na lang tumawa.
went to the covcourts after. waited for val who was having pe. tas parang everywhere raj and i went kanina, biglang nagpapakita si leloy, para siyang nagwawarp. raj was so incoherent while wewre there. nakakatawa kasama. grabe ang effect sa kanya ng -----------. i kept on laughing the entire time, trying to explain and reexplain stuff to him.
physics GA was some sort of reaffirmation that i'm in the right course. tama si raj, i found myself in some sort of niche. we all looked stupid doing our math chant. stupid but fun.
good luck to the other people doing the public speaking test tom.
i'm tired but i feel like making kwento. i'm glad i'm done with all the work for tom.
off to call someone and bug the hell out of him/her. |
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| survey ng 'tenista |
[Jul. 12th, 2004|04:29 pm] |
1.ANO STUDENT NUMBER MO?
042854. wala naman ata kayong mapapala kung malaman niyo to eh.
2.NAKAPASA KA BA OR WAITLISTED?
accepted.
3.PANO MO NALAMAN ANG ACET RESULT?
was in my senior retreat in tagaytay. jess texted me.
4.FIRST CHOICE MO BA ANG Ateneo?
yeah
5.ALAM MO BA ANG ACET score MO?
not yet. sa intact daw we'll find out.
6.ANO ANG FIRST CHOICE MO NA COURSE?:
bs applied physics with applied computer systems
7.SECOND CHOICE?:
not sure. basta another double degree one.
8.ANO COURSE MO NGAUN?:
physics/acs
9.MAY PLANO KA MGSHIFT:?
hmmm...thinking about it. prolly won't though.
10.CHINITO/CHINITA KA BA?:
far from it.
11.TAGA ATENEO HIGH?
malamang hindi. philsci ako.
12.NAGENJOY KA BA SA ORSEM?:
yep.
13.SAANG GATE KA PUMASOK NUNG FIRST DAY?:
gate 2. everyday i enter the campus through gate 2.
14.NAKAPAGDORM KA NA BA?:
nope
15.NAGKA-F KA NA BA?:
nope.
16. NAGKA-A?:
no grades yet, but sa paperwork, quizzes and other stuff yeah.
17.HIGHEST GRADE:
we'll soon find out.
18.LOWEST:
ditto for this question
19.WORST EXPERIENCE SA AdMU:
mob-ing
20.LAGI KA BANG UMAATEND NG KLASE?:
of course. no cuts yet, late wala.
21.ANONG ORG MO?
STOA.
22.MAY SCHOLARSHIP KA BA?:
yup
23.ILANG UNITS NA NAIPASA MO?:
wala pa.
24.NANGANGARAP KA BA NA MAGLAUDE?:
haha...yeah.
25.KELAN KA GAGRADUATE?:
2008. tas i'll graduate again in 2009.
26.FAVE TEACHER:
hmmm...no one has stricken me as a "wow" teacher yet.
27.WORST TEACHER:
mr. salazar. hands down.
28.FAVE SUBJECT:
the easy ones...cad, workshop, lit and eng. pe's quite fun too.
29.WORST SUBJECT:
filipino.
30.FAVE LANDMARK SA AdMU:
faura bench
31.BUILDING?:
faura. dahil sa benches.
32.FAVE KAINAN:
anywhere. as long as the food's good.
34.ESTUDYANTE BA ANG BINABAYAD MO SA JEEP:
don't commute
35.LAGI KA BA SA RIZAL LIB:
hmm...sometimes lang.
36.NAGPUNTA KA BA SA INFIRMARY NUNG MINSANG MAGKASAKIT KA?
yeah. to get medicine for dysmenorrhoea
37.MAY CRUSH KA BA SA CAMPUS?:
maybe...maybe not. if you know m well enough, then you'd know the answer to this question.
38.BF/GF?:
wala ngayon.
39.MAY BALAK KA BA MG-MS, PHD?:
pwede. but i reallt want to minor in global politics if i don't shift out. we'll see.
40.ANU-ANO ANG MGA na-PE MO?
taekwondo
41.KAMUSTA NAMAN ANG BLOCK NYO?:
fun!
42.NAKAPANOOD KA NA BA NG GRADUATION?:
nope.
43.MEMORIZE MO BA ANG ALMA MATER SONG?
of course.
44.MEMORIZE MO BA ANG FABILIOH?
yup
45.E ANG HALIKINU?
yes
46.E ANG BLUE EAGLE SPELLING?
oo.
47.MEMBER KA BA NG TEAM ATENEO?
hindi
48.CNO PABORITO MONG UAAP BASKETBALL PLAYER?
biased answer - si larry. palagi kasi nandito sa bahay kasama ng pinsan ko. pero magaling din si jc intal and magnum membrere.
49. NAKAPERFECT KA NA BA NG EXAM?:
quiz, yes.
50.ANO AYAW MO SA HELL WEEK:?
haven't gone through hell week in admu
51.DITO KA BA NATUTO UMINOM NG BEER OR ALAK, MANIGARILYO?:
no.
52.DITO KA BA NADEVIRGINIZE?:
nadevirginize sa pagsakay ng trike - oo.
53.ANO GUSTO MO SA SKUL NATIN?:
the trees, the people. madami pang iba.
54.ANO AYAW MO?
filipino class. and the fact that it's always so hot
55.BUMILI KA NA BA SA A-SHOP?
for myself no. but for my dad yeah.
56.MAGANDA BA ID PIC MO?
ok lang. normal.
57.MAY GINAWA KA NA BANG ILLEGAL SA LOOB NG CAMPUS?
nope.
58.NAKABILI KA NA BA NG GAMIT SA NATIONAL KATIPS?
i've been going tothat specific natio branch for as long as i can remember.
59.NAGSTARBUCKS KA NA BA SA KATIPS?
sinong atenista ang hindi pa? |
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| halikinu! |
[Jul. 12th, 2004|04:19 pm] |
we won!
bwahaha...i'm happy, and everyone else is happy. nothing beats watching a uaap game live and wining, especially against la salle.
funny in araneta, i was with my family, plus cousins and titos pa. tas parang ang dami kong nakitang kakilala doon. monique, carlo, trina, wendel, pat, cel, dans, kate, reggie, the other reggie, migs, issa, jolo, mao, brian, tito joe and tita vicky were also there. tita anna was there with gabby, louie and joey. and a whole lot of other people pa. actually all of us in the family saw a lot of people we know there. halatang pamilyang puno ng atenista. pays off na rin na ganun since you get good seats. :)
halikinu radio later. the whole household is already looking forward to it. i wonder if it's a sustainable venture.
i'm so not looking forward to tomorrow's math long test. all of you guys, pray for me, i'll be delayed an entire sem if i don't pass tomorrow's lt. gah... |
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| huwaw |
[Jul. 10th, 2004|07:08 pm] |
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| | if i ain't got you - alicia keys | ] |
today was a great day, one of the best even. i saw people i haven't seen for the longest time and got to debate with juanch again (and this is where i get sentimental).
i'm proud of my philsci kids. they were really attentive (sans anton and juanch). it' been hard training them, hellish sometimes...but parang today it all seemed to pay off. they were giving arguments that were so galing for newbies and they found the loopholes in the set-up given during the exercise. plus kahit boring daw yung lecture, they were still very attentive. now i'm actually looking forward to training them again.
debating with juanch was classic. i miss my partner. i miss high school debating. the two of us have been through so much that it's super hard to let go. it's really different when you form a bond with your partner. the relationship extends to more than just debating. junach hasnot only been my debate partner but also my conscience, best friend, taga-karga ng stuff, shrink and more rolled into one. pero kakaiba din yung case namin ni juanchi since we're relatives (but we only found out nung partners na kami), kaya nga according to inna "great debating runs in the family." winning the national championship sealed it. to this day, we still remember our "glorious days", eureka's and hellish rounds. tas wow, mas magaling pa siya ngayon than last year. kahit hindi nagttrain gumagaling. and nicolo said that my manner's improved. i'm happy. it's what jess and i have talked about fixing when training starts this year.
it was even better since i saw A LOT of people who i haven't seen for the longest time. theresa, claire, aaron, mandy (the honorary philsci member), adrian, bert, jen, gica, carlo, dani, steph, peep, kyle, carlo felizardo, nicolo and miko. fun pa eating lunch with debaters. except that they kept me from studying.
yun nga, i didn't get to study much since miko was practically taking my books away from me and i eventually helped out glenn. and then miko made me debate (PM pa). and as much as i try to hide/deny it, oo na, favorite ko talaga OG.
so now in lieu of going out on a saturday night, i'm stuck at home studying. yuck, self-confessed nerd. but yeah, that's how college life works. it's not all parties and night-outs. far from it actually.
anyhow...
on a side note, i love the song i'm listening to. berto got it stuck on my head. but it's really nice. brings out the romantic, sappy me. |
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[Jul. 7th, 2004|07:34 pm] |
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| | you and i both - jason mraz | ] |
now that i've gotten a certain incident out of my system, i'm back to normal. thank you to the people who patiently listened to me rant, laugh and make kwento about stuff (read: yan and raj. val too).
i've been busy. i'm enjoying it. i just don't really look forward to training the newbies. ang gulo, hirap, nakakapagod. they seem to have regressed from try-outs. praying for a miracle to happen.
nakakatawa kanina. we always see raj dancing. kanina naman he saw us doing foundation form 1 in teak. si glenn also saw me in my teak uniform. it was fun kanina. madali lang to learn the steps. i'm halfway to a yellow belt. :)
val, thank you for taking care of me today. really appreciated it. i owe you. :D
my sister's being a bitch and i'm bitchy too. gah...i hate her. |
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[Jul. 5th, 2004|04:32 pm] |
i want to make kwento...but i can't. rather, i swore to myself that i wouldn't mention that topic ever here on lj. haay...
sheesh...i have so much emotions running through me right now.
happy happy...i saw dianne and issa today. okay na yung couple ofminutes of girltalk with them. hindi na ako deprived offemale presence.
block v, i promise to tell you about it tom. first thing in the morning pa. raj,i will be my giddy girl self. although i won't be giddy. i dunno really how i'll be feeling. laboooo....
val, hope you're feeling better. :)
eeesh...randomness again. |
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