I would rather end up with someone who sees through the beauty of words, not necessarily, exactly the way I do, but for the basic parts, the fundamentals. For example, the beauty and grandeur of the words: "I love you."

DEAR KID IN POWERBOOKS

I want to let you know (but I really don't know how) that you are one of the reasons why I had a joyful day. I regret that I didn't say hi because I didn't want to disturb or annoy you. So, I just took a picture of you (that, I do not regret). I'm glad you're so hooked with the book that you didn't hear the shutter sound. But seriously, thank you.

I hope you finished reading Iron Man.

CURRENTLY

Watching The Simpsons like a boss! :-D

JUST READ: SYLVIA PLATH'S THE BELL JAR

"To the person in the bell jar,
blank and stopped as a dead baby, the world itself is the bad dream."
-Esther Greenwood

Thanks to Frauee for lending me the book. Reading this shortly before college days are over. 

Yeah, I'm a late-bloomer type of a reader. Better late than never. :-) 

/edit

So, I'm done reading the book and honestly crammed to get it done so that I could return it to the lender yesterday.

I kinda like the shorts from the Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams (also by Plath) more than The Bell Jar. 

 Score: 

WE ARE THE CHILDREN OF UNENDING GRACE

The UST@400 Baccalaureate Celebration, 25 March 2011

Define happiness. 
When you try to put everything into words, you'll definitely ran out and get lost.  

What a blessed day that was for the UST Quadricentennial batch. :-) 

/foto credits to Frau, DJ and JC. Nipped em, guys, and compiled. :-p 

Q016

My daddy always said that if the good Lord can take the time to care for something as small as a baby sparrow nesting in a tree, then surely He could take the time to listen to a little girl in Ringgold, Georgia. So every night before I went to bed I got down my knees and begged the Lord to find me a way out of this town. And every morning, I woke up in the same old place. 

                                              Looking For Salvation at The Dairy Queen | Susan Gilmore

I think it's clear why I'm still here. This place is not done with me yet. 

THE NEWEST GLEE MEMBER IS HERE

Click foto to enlarge. Hehe ;-) 

As I was doing a feature article for our music magazine (Specialized Writing finals)...

3:AM-- off to bed now. Tomorrow is another day for WERK, WERK, WERK!

RUGRATS

Me and my brother Pao | Before going to the clan's Christmas party,
we stopped over a flower shop in Tagaytay to buy lola some flowers and pots.
Yeah, we were left inside the SUV. Thus, this. 

STRAIGHT UP

Yes, this space badly needs real updates. I've been such a busy bee lately (yessir, even on a Christmas break) due to thesis. :-)

Well anyways, since I'm already here, I'll just tell you about how I was while I'm out of here:

1. As to what I've said, my partner and I are currently taking care of the last 2 chapters of our thesis. And with that being said, it has been my daily grind to go to The National Library to gather data or to stay somewhere (usually in Starbucks) for at least four hours to tally the results from our coding sheets OR to do both. So, I usually leave the house at 7:30a.m. and go back at 9/10p.m. It is quite tedious, but I am keeping my hopes up that by the grace of God, we will be able to finish it on time (2nd deadline, I mean, on January 8).

2. I already got my Starbucks 2011 planner last Monday (20 December-- 5 days earlier than my deadline). Huzzah! :-)

3. My daily Cavite-Manila-and-back trips are being spent up very well on reading. :-) Last week, I finished reading Ann Brashares' My Name is Memory in three rounds.

I will post some quotes here, I promise. :-)

3. Just finished reading On Love by Alain de Botton. Man, love philosophized?? Whoa. I am so short of time, seriously, to do a review of it, but anyways, what I can say about On Love is that I saw myself switching to each and every character's personality all throughout the book.

Another thing: You better watch out on going to airports especially when you're single and available. Hahaha! 'cause you might fall in love with a lady named Chloe. ;-)

I'm giving it 4 stars. Please spare some time to read it. :-)

This is one of my favorite lines:

"Every fall into love involves the triumph of hope over self-knowledge. We fall in love hoping we won't find in another what we know is in ourselves, all the cowardice, weakness, laziness, dishonesty, compromise, and stupidity. We throw a cordon of love around the chosen one and decide that everything within it will somehow be free of our faults. We locate inside another a perfection that eludes us within ourselves, and through our union with the beloved hope to maintain (against the evidence of all self-knowledge) a precarious faith in our species." 

4. I had a very merry Christmas with the fambam! We had so much fun time with my ever-so-loved Lola Chol and the rest of the Pineda folks. Sublime!

5. Today, is the 27th of December, a national holiday. That means, we will have another day of break in thesis work and I will start on reading Harper Lee's To Kill A Mockingbird.

So, off I go and will write on till next time! Ciao!

/pardon this entry

I KNOW I WILL NEVER BE

... as awesome in cooking as my daddy.
Kekekeke :-p

Who says you can't treat yourself on a Home-Alone Friday? :-)

Grilled pork and honey BBQ fries 

And this is one among the many things that I can't do in the dormitory. :-)

39 DAYS TO GO

Promise you will be

Nobody else's little Christmas tree

I'll make you sparkle, just you wait and see.

This is part of today's roster of activities: assembling/putting up the Christmas tree we bought at Designer Blooms-Alabang last Sunday. The old tree's already in its retirement age so we had to look for a new one. :-)

By the way, we had it arranged by some designers from where we purchased it (part of the scheme). And they arrived for service ahead of time! I dint get to talk with them a lot and helped (I really wanna!) but the lady in black said that we'll see her next year. LOL. Anyways...

I'm so excited for Christmas!

How about you?

OH WELL

This is one of the days in my life that doesn't wanna end.

So far, I'm good with some natural tendencies.

Why?

1. Church went great and lovely. We learned lots of stuff and I'm blessed to be blessed! :-)
We learned about the 3 principles of parenthood. Here are my notes for the morning service:

2. The globe spun for the Pacquiao-Margarito Match.

Look what have you done with the people, Pacman!
LOL to the people in ATC who desperately wished for the Pay-Per-View.

Anyways, Congraaaaaaaaats, Pacqs! :-)

3.THIS!

 Current read: The second installment of The Hunger Games series.
Gameface: ON!

4. CAFFEINE OVERDOSE.

Or maybe, just enough to keep me awake for the best number of hours. LOL. I feel so great right now. Can you feel? LOL.

Anyways, this is just a quick update, ya'll. Bounce! 

FIRST DAY, SECOND SEMESTER

Get a pair that's tailored for floods

Old folks talk a lot. This is one I ought to love.

The clock ticked slow.

First class for the opening of the second semester was Media Ethics and Libel Law. You can practically feel something fierce with the subject name itself- something that might get you into serious trouble in the near future. I was actually expecting a terror professor to handle this subject--I was actually expecting my Philippine Government Constitution professor way back my freshman year, not saying that I was actually a cliffhanger all the way through. Define trauma.

But it seems to work out in a way contrary from what I am expecting. For this subject, I will have Ms. Alice Colet Villadolid. She shares she's the careful type of person. I suppose she is, and she will with regards to her grading system. I can see she's nice. Oh, please? I will strive the hardest for this. Despite all my pet peeves in memorization.

Today:

• It rained so hard that I have to brave Dapitan's streets and get drenched. Umbrella seemed to be invisible. I even went to school in flip flops
• Pigged out with my roommates at Wok, Dapitan. We even made a lame Vlog. For our eyes only.
• Got the wifi back. Yaay! 
• Currently watching: Iron Man ;-) Okay, late bloomer. But, better late than never. 
• Will be pulling out an all-nighter. 

Just a foto with bad exposure. My notes earlier. :-))

I AM THINKING ABOUT...

1. pitching my favourite quotes here. And when I do that, for sure, it would be A LOT. And most of them will be cross-posts from my alternative blog. I will place them under the "words that strangers put in my mouth" tag.

2. not going out of the house tomorrow. I want to spend my last day of semester break at home. Will be packing up also. Dorm life is coming back soon.

3. doing my Christmas wishlist. Hohoho! :-p

4. DL-ing more tracks for new mixtapes. But 4shared.com's being laaaaaaame these days! I hate it. Where else can I DL?

5. Ustetika :'-( Am I gonna push through? November 11 is coming real fast!

6. the wifi in our dormitory. Is it fixed now? I'm gonna be pissed if not. Oh, please.

7. our thesis. We can do it, right? Please balieve that we can. Just before USTe's Paskuhan. 'cause I want to have a decent Christmas break! Looooord, please?

8. our church's choir preparation for the Christmas presentation. 5 more Sunday rehearsals to goooooooo!
Lezzdodizzz! Hallelujah Chorus, please be kind to us.

9. catching up with a lot of people that I badly miss. Nangungulilaaaaaa!

10. the SB '11 planner. I'll start collecting sticks this week. I promise I will get more hot drinks than frappes. For the sake of my diet, okay? :-)) Whip cream break.

11. The Helium Party. It's something about letting go. And my friend and I will do it at the bay, real soon. Will do a separate post about it. Prolly on the 3rd or 4th week of this month.

12. my grades for this upcoming sem. I will break both of my legs for this last hurrah! I will try to love the unloveables! Hahaha!

13. more books to read! Yeah, despite all the loads that will soon come my way. :-) I will always find time to read a book every month, at least. This is one of my favorite escapes. So please, let me.

14. one particular person. No fail these past few days.


15. living healthy. Hahaha! I'm serious!

16. Ugh! I have lots of things in my mind awhile ago and I forgot about some of them! I hate my memory.

THE GAME IS ON

I've never been the one who's up-to-date with books. What I mean to say is that, it is unusual for me to get a newly released book that's still hot on the tracks. Unless if it's a tray of Krispy Kreme doughnuts. Ha!

As far as I know, Suzanne Collins's The Hunger Games (first book of the trilogy) was released on the year 2008 and I was never aware of it since last August *kill me now* when Mockingjay (third book) became the talk of the town. 

I've read a lot of good reviews about the book and how the story interests me. 

So after all those Googling and stuff, I decided to get myself a copy this morning before going to National Lib for thesis and even asked one of my friends to buy his own (on this same day LOL) so that we can both read the series and race till Mockingjay. 

And this is my lunch:

The Tuna Thing from BreadTalk (I forgot the name, sarreh. I skipped Floss today LOL);
Oishi Smart C+ Pomelo ;
the new buddy next to Chbosky's (which I finished reading last week)
and what made me the happiest is Hall and Oates's You Make My Dreams (from 500 DoF OST) that was played

One good way to feed your appetite ;-)

Stark once said he can fly after testing the suit's capabilities. 

Then, Sir, I have to tell you this: You're flight is my desire. 

POLES TO SLEEP DEPRIVATION

May I be that "doubleshot" that you got
lest I be not;

When I always get in the way of your slumber 
and wakefulness
I come fully or it will lead to emptiness.

-Deniece

I WANT THS FOR MY LIVING ROOM

And I tell you, it is more than just a cosmic significance. I can feel Autumn.

WHO WOULD HAVE THOUGHT...

... that you'll gonna make my day with your upright post? 


So I am friggen early to roam around the comforts of the intarweb not to mention that I only had 2 hours of sleep since I tried to stay up for 2 reasons: First, because I had to coordinate with our layout artist for today's submission of our Filipino Journalism final requirement, give the necessary guidelines, fillers, and other finishing touches for the tabloid (No judgments. It is 101% wholesome! LOL) and second, simply because I talked with someone who's 12 hours behind PH time. Both reasons must be accepted simply because. LOL! So anyways, my lack of sleep isn't the issue here (I was a bit sidetracked, sorry). So...


I usually spend 70% of my time reading blogs over the web when I get the luxury of time to do so (meaning, not when I have to work for a school-related stuff/requirement). So what happened earlier was, I got lost to this lady's profile and have read the most seamless post that made my morning and left me saying amen to that. To conceal her identity and the one she's talking about in that post, I won't be blabbing it in here. But seriously, it was hella funny! (Are you annoyed when I said that I don't wanna blab it here? :-p)


Well anyways, I would just like to thank you, woman, for speaking also in my behalf (though you're unconscious about me thanking you right now) with regards to what I feel towards that person you were talking about. And I can fully agree to what you said most especially on that thing "for the record." I know we're not close, you even once wished me to vanish, right? You didn't even want to see me on those corridors. Neither did I, but it can't be helped during those times. Okay, this issue betwixt us was so last year that I even have to thank you right now. For this. For the guts to tell the world about the dude. iLaff! :-)) And oh, I'm so right on time for addressing this thing to you. Hoho. 


And to you, Very Dude, I wish you all the best. ;-)  


Okay now, time to bounce, I have to prep-up and head to school to beat the 5p.m. deadline for the said requirement. 
See ya! ;-)