Sunday, December 24, 2006

although it's been said many times, many ways...

merry christmas to you!!!^_^ i feel quite guilty that i wasn't able to give gifts to my friends except for those whom i've picked for Kris Kringles. well, i don't have that much money these days and no time to make crafts for them because of our finals during the 2nd week. at least i got to give gifts to my parents, two brothers, and enzo. after, nadamoolah left. a mere hundred bill in my wallet.

one kris kringle that i particularly enjoyed and looked forward to was the one with our Batch Assembly officers. i picked poor, poor lorraine. her disappointment during meetings after seeing what her mommy(me) prepared for her delighted me every week.

i gave lorraine something....
naughty: an old Dorm Daze dvd
sweet: 1/2 kilo of sugar
slimy or sticky: 1 plastic of okra
useful: dulcolax(spelling?), biogesic, immodium
long and hard: labanos
soft: cotton balls

...while others got chocolates, belts, beauty stuff, sumans, etc. nyahahaha! pero mejo bumawi ako sa final gift..i hope.

well, well, xmas break update:

Christmas dinner with BA. less than half came but it was fun just the same. karyl asked me to host a game and i did Pinoy Henyo and of course, anlabo ng pinahulaan ko, with statements and words like: "tinga," "Lance Tan," and "Panget ba ako?" wala lang. gusto ko lang sila pahirapan. hehe! thanks, pat, for your amazing roof top!


itsh not bastos...we just like fruits! >:)
more pictures in yoe's multiply.


Sr-C Christmas "party". as always, venue was good old Town(ATC). the whole thing was arranged by dana, of course. she and arlene even prepared xmas cards for each of us, for everyone to write their xmas messages on. really brilliant. we went to alex' place after and did whatever. poker, videoke, inom ng onti.. overall, twas a very mems-able evening. ^_^ missed you, guys. for those who didn't come, well, you missed us. hahah! pics: [x] [x]

blogskinning. it's a good boredom-buster. i signed up in blogskins and submitted some past layouts. i'm still not an expert but it's so fulfilling to see that my works are being downloaded. not as much as others do, but at least one means a lot. i've much to learn and explore. my latest layout's background image is on the right(click here to enlarge). share lang. ^_^

it's 10:30 pm and sooo nearing Christmas! kain nanaman. omg. i have to go to the gym on the 26th. and on 27. 28..blaaach!!! Merry Christmas again y'all!

Tuesday, December 19, 2006

creative juices

i'm done with 30 shirts, now my mom's requesting for 10 more. no prob. here are the pictures:



nakakapagod rin pala! it's harder to print on dark shirts...you have to apply the paint with more force and repetitions. i need more practice with shirt-printing and perhaps new screens. mine are clogged and for some friggin reason, my stripper solution doesn't seem to be able do its purpose of removing photo-emulsion from the screen.

i made myself an "i heart stat" shirt a few months ago and have been wearing it to school. my blockmates actually wanted their own and ordered from me but i can't find black baby tees! my friends are too darn thin. wah! my shirt was actually for men, but my mom used her "creative juices" to make it fit me well. she even cut the sleeves, sewed them back and put messy stitches on the back to have the grunged People are People look.




i've been nagging my mom to buy an electric sewing machine since she knows how to sew and has a lot of ideas. if we get one, then she can make our own clothes and i'll print on them! money = saved. then if we can cater to other clothing orders, well, niiiice. money = mine!!!

okay, speaking of shirts. i have a few ideas in mind-- well, not in mind, in soft-copy --that i would like to have for myself. i did drafts in photoshop and perhaps if i can get the new blank screens i need then i can start preparing the patterns and make them.


it says I'M NOT BORED. but the "i'm not" should be really small and yellow. that one's intentional.


this i made during one really good day.


just an idea for an advocacy project. but it's not feasible because it will definitely cost a lot. so anyway, for it's sake, please, do SAVE TREES and ALWAYS RECYCLE!


last. i just wanted a big-eyed girl with luscious lips on my shirt.


well, well, well... it's 6 days before Christmas, 11 days 'til i'm 19, and 13 days till 2007! (did i count correctly? whatever) did you have a good year? i sure did! excited for the next? hell, yeah!

i even made my own 2007 calendar inspired by the song Seasons of Love. the image is too small but the real thing was printed on an A3 poster paper and rests in my room, waiting to be used.


want one? drop a line! ^_^ (i accept cash, check, or anything edible) lol.


oh. i already have my 2nd term grades and as expected, i didn't make it to the 3.4-GPA cut for the 1st honors DL. pero DL parin and that's a relief! 3.5 sa lahat except physics (2.5) pero that's sooo better than my projected grade! i thought i would get 1 in physics and 3 for matrix theory and theory of interest so now i'm super thankful that my profs gave me more. nakabawi pala ako sa finals dun. my stathe performance disappointed me a bit, though. 88 lang finals so yeah, asa pa sa 4.0.

sometimes it's good to be contented. good for yourself, that is. good for mood. but for me, i'd rather be pressured. through the years i've realized that i do better when i start hating myself for not trying to be my best. and i'm hating myself now for Stat kasi mababa finals ko when i could've read the instructions more carefully and would've seen the need to include the cummulative distribution functions in my answers! (huhu nasa scratch paper ko lang eh...) that's a lot of deductions. crap. too late...and what college students always say: bawi next term!

Monday, December 18, 2006

while making money

wattuupp?!!! lol. new layout again. but it still doesn't look good with IE, or maybe with other screen resolutions too. i'll fix it later when i get back from RnP's xmas bonding session.

i printed shirts for my dad's workers before lunch this morning. still not done. he promised to give me P20 per shirt, so it's 600 for 30! a bit cheap if you ask me, but they provided the materials anyway.

it's 2pm, havta go!
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8:52pm:

thanks for the book, al! i hope you read maxim mag..haha! geez, ang bigat sa tyan ng soju. it's a korean drink that leah let us try. we finished three bottles while playing a couple of card games. fuuuunnn!!

so how's the xmas break? i went to kat's debut last saturday..kat looked stunning and the food was suuper! there was this acoustic band too and my blockmates asked me to sing. and i never say no to singing. well, almost never. anyway, i sang "especially for you." cheers to kat and jick!♥

oh my gawd. in alex' words, it's D-day tomorrow. for the first time in my college, aka grade-conscious years, i am fearing the fact that i can fail a subject. ugh, physics, why do you have to be partnered with palisoc?! good luck to us tomorrow. one thing to look forward to is chowing down james' cheesecake.

13 shirts to go and i'll get my money! off to moolah-making mode... xiao!
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10:00pm:

something that doesn't happen very frequently just did. i was bloghopping and stumbled upon arnel's page and as usual, heard "gitara" by parokya (the default tune in his site's music player). then for some reason, the music was loud--loud enough that my laptop couldn't possibly be making the sound. and then ayun! at the exact moment, yun din pala tinutugtog sa Princess Hours. as in sabay na sabay. weird. hehe.

Saturday, December 16, 2006

it's not me, it's Saturday.

do you ever feel like saying something and then out of reasons that are obviously unfavorable to you, you can't seem to find the right words? and then after, just right after that opportunity to muster the courage to speak, all the thoughts and emotions and just about the most appropriate statements come rushing back. that's oddly how i'm feeling now. yes, at 8 o'clock in morning. and i actually thought i would have a good day. maybe that's why i'm blogging now. guess i wanted to see these emotions in black and white-- before the feeling escapes me. because really, feelings have perfected the art of fading away even if you don't want them to. but this time, i hate it and would give everything to make it go away.

i feel stupid. from now on, i should have my own reservations. not that i'm someone with that much experience on feeling rather down, but here's a tip: don't feel like anyone else, as in not another soul, is obliged or is responsible for making you feel happy. they're simply actors in our own stories. from troy bolton's words, "you are the playmaker." feeling happy is not something that others do for you, but something that you make yourself feel after someone else has done something good. we are the ones accountable for our emotions.

remember how i said that thoughts and words come back to you after the actual chance of saying it? perhaps it's fate. otherwise, had i not bottled up my thoughts a long time ago, i would have lived a different life. and i'm happy with how i am now. this time, this "happy" feeling... well i'm hoping that it doesn't fade.

wow, i'm actually contradicting myself. i started with saying how we are accountable, and then now fate is. but whatever is, things we say, or in my case, don't say, can affect us greatly in ways we may or may not notice.

there. i'm not sure if i'm making sense anymore. whatever. i inflicted this upon myself.

Friday, December 15, 2006

well hello, Christmas!

alas, the week is OVER. no more late-night theorem-analyses. pathetic. so, updates on the happenings in my uber ordinary life:

xmas parties, xmas dinners, and more xmas meals. it has no end. i thought after finals i'd get to lay off on sweets but noooo, ang daming temptations. Rotary Club of Las Pinas had its xmas party last night and my parents dragged me with them. really, really good food. and not surprisingly, my dad volunteered me to sing a number. i actually brought a minus 1 cassette tape (as instructed by my mom) but apparently, these days' sound systems don't have such "old school" tape decks. i just sang "If I Believe" by Patti Austin from the videoke equipment provided.


Schedule for the week
Dec 15: Batch Assembly Christmas dinner
Dec 16: debut
Dec 17: Gawad Kalinga in the morning, Christening in the afternoon, debut at night.
Dec 19: aaack!!! Course Card day!!!
Dec 20: please...gym day na sana to....
Dec 21: Christmas dinner with Sr-C. when and where, we don't know yet.


geek quote. kuya norman forwarded this message, which i found quite funny...
"we are on the same plane... but sadly, we would never meet" -parallel lines. o di ba? pwede mag emote sa math! =D

...and which i forwarded to sam and got this yet-again-geeky reply:

sam: sa non-eucledian math, pwede mag-meet ang parallel lines.

to no surprise, i don't friggin know that.

finals. well, it's a good thing that compared to our quizzes, the final exams were a bit easier.

one tree hill 4 epi 10. yey! my download's done just now! nood muna ko...

Monday, December 11, 2006

takas lang

i'm not supposed to be blogging right now since it will probably eat very precious minutes that are meant for studying, but screw it. freedom awaits me on december 13th. pero puyat days before that and i have--although against my will--loaded myself with sinful sweets to at least up my adrenaline.

btw, james! para sayo ung pic sa right. hahaha! malas naman aral ng aral sa bday. tsktsk! also, belated haberdey to elcid(10th) and marco(8th)!

2 finals down, 3 to go! we're planning a study group tomorrow for physics but still haven't decided on the venue. syet. i need at least a 2.0 para dL parin!! i used to like physics... badtrip to!!

that's it. time to do some solvy solvy. eww.

Thursday, December 07, 2006

when it comes to being lucky, i'm cursed

byebye, 1st honor dean's list... all thanks to physics and probably a bit of all my other subjects. we took our last Stathe quiz this morning for more than 2 hours. alas, a start of a bad day. it's not that something really unfavorable happened, i'm just not feeling too chirpy.

ang dami kong...
why wouldn't anyone...
i need...

syet. wala akong masabing pwede dito. labo ng lahat. labo ko.

Current tune: The First Cut is the Deepest - Sheryl Crow

...but if you want i'll try to...

Wednesday, December 06, 2006

the world has come between us...

this game is adddiiiicccttiiingg and at the same time--unfortunately--veers my attention from Stathe1. my mom has the same game in her O2 mini and she's still playing with it as i type this. adeek na. try it!

here's a screenshot:

the goal is to clear the path and move other cars so that the yellow/orange one can go to the red exit. requires logic and patience... actually, i remember going to ATC (at Hobbes) and playing the real thing (not virtual). mom had said i could use the credit card to buy it pero yoko na...800 bucks for a puzzle game?
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today's my first time to go to school and back home twice. and it was quite heavy, financially speaking. my bad, though. i photocopied liselle's stat notes for our quiz and i friggin brought home her notebook! i was relaxing on my bed--kakatae nga lang eh--when she texted and out of guilt and shame, i rode the bus again to school to give it back.

lesson learned: copy notes. completely.

i do have notes, except that at times, my body clock does not permit it. due to unfavorable circumstances, i sometimes arrive at 9am for my 8am Stat class. i didn't have problems going to school as early as 6 during the general elections last school year, but for some reason, 8:00am has this weird force that seems to repel me. yak! this is so physics. haha! enough.

bottomline: i hate 8am classes.

show me the money! really, i need some cash... pang exchange gifts. ang dami eh, halos lahat worth P200 dapat. my block's gift-giving is this thursday and i haven't thought of anything yet. not that my recipient is that hard to please. the thing is, i have 2 days to friggin come up with 200 pesos. omigash! batch assembly kris kringle rin pala sa thurs... hmm.. something long & hard... that's not too difficult. ;p

my brother can be a future lawyer. young as he is (8), he has his principles and arguments--although not all the time correct:

(mom scolding jerick)
mom: jerick, bata ka pa. wag ka sagot ng sagot. sumunod ka nalang sa mga sinasabi namin.
jerick: edi para na kong robot nun?

now that's philosophy right there! debate on free will... haha!

Current tune: Breakfast at Tiffany's - The Wallflowers version

...our lives have come between us...

Monday, December 04, 2006

i dare you...

harsh day, mentally, with three quizzes that require analytical patience. take it from vinci. he has pretty much ranted about it in his blog.

my mom wasn't as patient as i had expected when i tried teaching her how to use photoshop. i'm not sure if my explanations were effective, seeing how she donned the things-weren't-this-complicated-during-my-time look when i started talking about layers and opacities. oh well.

while studying last night and going online at the same time, enzo amused me with his
super corny hirits:
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enzo: uy..baka kelangan natin magpapicture
rach: wrong send
enzo: d a..
rach: huh?
enzo: sayu yan
rach: for what?
enzo: para madevelop tayo
rach: amfuts
rach: hahahahha
_ _ _
enzo: pinaglihi ka ba sa keyboard?
rach: indi, bkt?
enzo: kc type kita
_ _ _
enzo: sa tae pinaglihi ka?
rach: baket?
enzo: d kc kita mapigilan?
rach: waaah
_ _ _
enzo: bka sa flinstones may relasyon ka?
rach: ?
enzo: coz..u make my bed-rock
enzo: nyek!
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that simply made my day. hahah!

[warning: malicious content]
here are some GIFs that i've stored in my good old nokia that you might find disturbing, but i'll post them anyway. hihi.








sagwa ba? haha
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what's with the food these days? or perhaps lifestyle? tita Susana Pichay, my vocal coach and a professional singer before Cory's days, told me how small her waistline was before she got pregnant. my mom's also used to be only 23. hmm who else..one of my stat profs, plus more middle-aged women i know whom i wouldn't have imagined to be sexy back then, but were. now, but now! eto ako nagpapakahirap mag-gym! haha! but really, i think it has something to do with the food. (ayaw pa talaga tanggapin eh no?) i mean, there are more junk foods these days. more hotdogs. more fast food chains. more money! i need to live in a world with less temptations.
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marco surprised me with some questions just now:

marco: oi
rach: oi
marco: bat d mo na kasama si enzo sa mga pic?
marco: status ba
marco: pati puro emo

oookaaay...eto pa:

marco: sino na ba bagong lalaki mo

parang ewan. haha!
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btw, here's a new layout! inspired by the well-thought, moving, and perhaps the best episode of one tree hill so far: Some You Give Away.

...to move like today never happened before.

Saturday, December 02, 2006

so don't delay, act now...

i lost my entry last night... haba na eh, bobita ko tlga.
taken from stick's blog:

1. How tall are you barefoot?
- 5ft. yes, not 4'9". haha!


2. Have you ever been unfaithful in a relationship?
- i think i cheated on James Lafferty once, so screw me


3. Do you own a gun?
- i will and i should but i can't


4. If you had a mental disorder, what would it be?
- does insomnia count?


5. How many letters are in your crush's name?
- 5

6. What do you think of hotdogs?
- a lot of unwanted edible stuff

7. What's your favorite Christmas song?
- i forgot the title but it was played in "Catch Me If You Can" while leo was looking at her mom--i think--from outside the window

8. What do you prefer to drink in the morning?
- hot chocolate, but im more into water now..no sweet. ^_^


9. Do you do push-ups?
- yes


10. Have you ever done ecstasy?
- nope


11. Do you have a boyfriend/girlfriend?
- yep


12. Do you like the rain?
- a little amount, yes.

13. Do you own a knife?
- it's a family knife


14. What do you smell like?
- after bath or after gym?

15. Do you have ADD?
- hopefully none

17. Name 3 thoughts at this exact moment.
- theoint quiz
- matrix theory quiz
- the fray

18. Name the last 3 things you have bought?
- 3-lbs dumbell, magazine, jamaican pie


19. Name five drinks you regularly drink, in order most to least.
- water (yes, about 4 glasses a day na ko! malapit na sa 8)
- milk
- Yakult
- (N/A)
- (N/A)

20. What time did you wake up today?
- 8:45 am


21. Can you spell?
- abslutelee.


22. Current worry?
- secret. it's in my head.


23. Current hate?
- physics


24. Favorite place to be?
- gym (for now)


25. Least favorite place to be?
- SJ 406 (physics class)

26. Where would you like to go?
- town, and watch happy feet


27. Do you own slippers?
- yep


28. Where do you think you'll be in 10 yrs?
- in Paris, shopping with all my MONEY!!!


29. Do you burn or tan?
- tan


30. Yellow or blue?
- blue


31. Would you be a pirate?
- given the chance? hell yeah! but not for good

32. Last time your cell rang?
- last thursday?


33. What songs do you sing in the shower?
- songs i try to compose


34. What did you fear was going to get you at night as a child?
- none


35. What's in your pockets right now?
- i don't have pockets now


36. Last thing that made you laugh?
- Jerick's hirit


37. Best bed sheets you had as a child?
- snoopy sheets!


38. Worst injury you've ever had?
- twisted my arm while on rollerblades. it's still not aligned now


39. you're in love with whom?
- enzo


40. How many TVs do you have in your house?
- 5


41. Who is your loudest friend?
- i have a lot of loud friends. but right now, i'm thinking my roomie ~ eto sagot ni monique.. i think she meant camille. sya na rin akin. haha!


42. Who is your most silent friend?
- paola!


43. Does someone have a crush on you?
- none, i guess


44. Do you wish on stars?
- just last weekend


45. What is your favorite book?
- Harry Potter parin


46. What song did you last hear?
- "How to Save a Life" by The Fray


48. What song do you want played at your funeral?
- "Tears in Heaven" by Eric Clapton and Will Jennings


49. What were you doing 12AM last night??
- chatting with Vinci


50. What was the first thing you thought of when you woke up?
- what's for breakfast?

...you might as well be walkin' on the sun