come on astra!

life's pretty good! astra is now my favorite internet cafe! hahaha e kasi ganun ulit, cute yung kuya. pero hindi lang yon! malamig pa! oha. hahahaha they're going to transfer locations soon and i don't mind since they're transfering somewhere nearer our dorm hahaha and they're going to make membership cards already! i'm gonna have one soon! hahahaha okok.

we had our first LTS1 meeting awhile ago.. 4-7pm. i must say it's a very promising sem for our section. it's really fun. it's like the comic relief of my suicidal life. >_>

whew. it's mannie's 18th birthday yesterday!

BELATED HAPPY BIRTHDAY MANNIE!!!!

yehey! we've been bestfriends since grade 2!!!! :)

meme?

tagged by rica :)

What makes your blog unique?
the URL

When did you start blogging?
i moved to blogger july 4, 2004 but i started blogging may 2004

Is this your first meme?
no

What do you hope to accomplish with your blog?
i just want this to be a creative outlet

What are your feelings on the "blog popularity" issue?
of course i want a million hits! but i value layout more than popularity.. hehe

What's your favorite childhood memory?
my grade one teacher jokingly said to me and my crush that we should get married already coz we're so noisy

If you were stranded on a deserted island what three things would you want to have with you?
food, clothes, and a knife to get me through the wilderness

Are you a spiritual person?
i believe so

What is the weirdest thing that ever happened to you?
a series of dejavus, the same scene happened to me thrice and that's weird >_>

What is your best quality?
i'm pretty nice
to animals

What is your worst quality?
i can be really selfish a times

to kill a death god

i'm back to watching death note! yey! so while i'm doing a mini marathon (coz i don't have all day... have to go back to elbi.. >_>) i'm also surfing the net and doing stuff i always do like bloghopping, friendster profile hopping, a little bit of stalking, picture grabbing, account checking, mailbox cleaning and all those junk. heck, i barely have time to play online games!!! but you see, if by next week we get to use broadband already then everything i do in the world wide web will be a breeze!

i can download death note episodes 20-35 (or whatever's more recent), burn it on a CD and go marathon-ing all day!! i'm so excited! i can finally, FINALLY watch my favorite series without the hassle of a slow internet connection!! i can download everything! but of course i have to be extra cautious of those ill-natured bugs pestering the motherboard. >_>

grrr. and now my desire of acquiring my OWN laptop is becoming unbearable! i need to have a laptop already!!!! gosh, i have so many files on this laptop! and to add to that, my dad also has his share of the mountainous bulk of files and folders. and we don't have a high-end processor. i'm afraid this unit will crash down. >_>

okok. mom cut off our allowance. BIG DEAL? YEAH OF COURSE! aside from Fridays, that's another thing keeping me from going AWOL and becoming an OSY! >_> but then there's a good side of it, the 1/4 of our usual allowance that she's cutting off (effective now) will be accumulated and put in the bank to prevent us from spending it. yeah, it's for my own good. my savings hardly ever grew since the last time i deposited money in it. hehehe

kk, death note mode for now! :)

how to download streaming videos

:) yey! finally!!! to start this off, i'll define what streaming video is. you watch it on youtube, google video, ifilm, metacafe... blah blah. ok. gets? so those are streaming videos, videos that you can readily watch as it is being delivered to you. the difference of streaming media to non-streaming media is that with non-streaming media, you first have to download the file completely before you can view it. an example of this would be mp3s we download from the net and zipped files. clear?

so yeah, to download streaming videos, or simply put... for you to save your favorite youtube videos on your hard-disk.... do this

1. first and foremost: secure an FLV (flash video) player because the video you're going to translate into downloadable format and download will be saved with a file extension of .flv

>>> you can download a free FLV Player HERE

2. open youtube (or any streaming video site you know) and load your preferred video

3. open http://www.keepvid.com and there you'll see a field where you must type the URL of the page where the video plays. actually, all the other necessary directions can be found on that site. JUST make sure that the video you're planning to download has loaded COMPLETELY on youtube (or any other) before you type in its URL

4. and voila! keepvid will take care of the rest. which means that once you've submitted the URL on the text field, keepvid will generate a DOWNLOAD LINK where you can finally download the video as an .flv file and save it on your harddisk.

waaah. it's very easy... for those who have highspeed internet connection. :\ naaah. i don't have that... for now... but we'll see... hehehe

anyhow. as of late, keepvid is the only site i know who offers such services but i'm sure there are lots of them already, i'm just not well-aware of them. :)

NOTE: sadly, you can only download streaming videos as FLV files. if you want to convert it to mp3 or any other type of media, you have to secure a separate converter for that...

yey! alright. that's it.

questions? clarifications? anything you find incomprehensible or vague? you can ask me on this one if you don't understand it. ^_^;;

THANKS A BUNCH TO KEEPVID and to my dormmate who shared this info to me. :)

whaaaaat?!

i can't wait for next week! BROADBAND HERE I COME!!! omaygad! daddy, I LOVE YOU BIG TIME!!! lol hehehe. he just applied for a broadband internet connection... actually i prefer wifi or dsl better because you don't have to install a lot of chorvaness in your house and configure your PC to this or that... but then broadband is fine!! anything faster than 46.6 kbps is definitely fine with me!

mehn. i can't wait to finish saving for my own laptop. >_>

aw mehn! our lab instructor informed us on our first meeting that the average passing rate of chem32 students every semester is just 30%! dangit!!

and my goal?
OF COURSE I NEED TO BE PART OF THAT 30%!!!! no matter what happens! i need to pass chem32!!!

let's get ready to rumble!!!!

i don't wanna miss a thing

wow. i'm really excited for friday to come! yeah! as in! it's my only motivation in life! especially now that i know i'm gonna rot here in los banos for the next 5 years courting textbook authors and sitting on the front row of my terror professors. most of my dormmates agree that i'm taking a very risky, not to mention 'suicidal' workload, because i'm taking 4 hard subjects in one semester. that's physics 3 (mechanics and heat), chem 32 (quantitative inorganic analysis), chem 40 (basic organic chemistry) and math 36 (mathematical analysis 1 - that's calculus). i also have two more subjects but i guess they're not as hard since it's just LTS1 and speechcom. i dunno, pray for me? i'm scared as hell too! there's a very high mortality rate in chem32, i might not pass it! and heck we haven't even started our formal lessons and i'm already tireeeeeddd! 6 fucking laboratory hours! i could just die right there! hehe. ok, i can do this! aja! aja!

hey. jindarat kanchana (my favorite v-league player, remember?) is taking lots of referrer hits to this blog! haha, thanks to google! and to my older blog post where i mentioned her. wow. she's getting really popular! and it sucks BIG TIME that i can't watch the finals on NBN because i have classes by then! grrr..

if i evaluate this blog based on search engine trends, the highest search keyword that led people to open this page would be 'jindarat kanchana'... and i'm sad to say i cannot supply you with information that you're probably expecting. all you can get from this blog regarding her would be my never ending compliments. why, i like her a lot! i don't know much about her, really. all i know is that she played for lasalle last year and now she's playing for ateneo with an injured leg. but then, everybody knows that. >_> i give her my best wishes though!!! keep on rocking the court! XD i'll always be your number 1 fan! lol

haaay. i still have to study so goodbye for now. :D

oh, would you believe? i actually met the nerd-of-my-dreams awhile ago! but then he's not my crush. my god, he's still in HIGHSCHOOL! hahaha. just like how i imagined, he's wearing THICK BLACK PLASTIC-RIMMED GLASSES, tall, skinny, cute, his uniform is tucked-in, and his pants are up-high! no braces though, aww. lol. but he's fine the way he is. though i cannot 100% assure myself that he's a nerd, geek or some sort of a dork... i'm glad i met someone like him.. for real! i love nerds! and no, i didn't acquaint with him, i just passed him by the sidewalk. :}

:)

COME ON FRIDAAAAAAAAAYYYY!!!!

first day of school -_-;;

it was boring, except that i get to meet my friends. mehn, it's just the fiiiirrsst day! i'm not really expecting for anything to happen. anyhow, the dorm is good as usual, lots of new dorm mates! yey! now that's fun! and there's vynne (pronounced vain, a new dormer) who watches yuri on her laptop and is excited about watching gravitation as well! i've been waiting for a new friend like that! seriously, ever since i started college, I'VE NEVER MET A FRIEND WHO IS A YAOI ENTHUSIAST LIKE ME! and it's hard trying to influence people who are used to heterosexual pairs, they might actually think i'm a freak. which is true, but i'm still under self-denial. thank you.

oh, and you know what... i have a friend who is also my classmate in one of my subjects and i sort of hate it. >_> i'm a really bad friend. i'm trying to act cold actually. well, it's just that... naiilang ako sa kanya. >_> and to think i called him my friend. o.O wow, i must be the queen of tupperwares. but come on, it didn't start like that! because if i started out not liking him in the first place then i wouldn't have befriended him at all (and i wouldn't have given him my number. my bad), but you see, as i get to know him... the more i trying to avoid him. ugggh. there's something with his err, approach that turns me off... as a friend. i mean, we're not even close!

forget it.

so. NO CLASSES TOMORROW! why? it's Laguna Day, and at the same time Rizal's Birthday. i didn't know it was his birthday! i never cared actually. thanks to him, i'm spending the whole day at the dorm! a perfect moment to draaaaaaaw!

and theeeen. i checked my stats again and found a referrer from google searching for something... about mike. >_>

my reaction? MADAMI NAMANG MIKE SA MUNDO AH! i shouldn't get paranoid! besides, it wasn't specified whether it's mike this or mike that or mike who works here or mike who doesn't work at all. whatever. i'm too paranoid. i just don't want him to know i've mentioned him in a lot of my entries already and that he's my ex-crush and all that junk. in short...

i don't want him to know i WAS crazy about him.

why can't i just close this topic?

good idea. case closed.

huling hirit!

mehn. i had a great day! we just came back from MoA. today, philamlife (where my parents work) celebrates its 60th year anniversary and they held a concert for it at the music hall of SM mall of asia.

oryt. actually, everything that happened today MADE MY DAY! yeah so just bear with me as i enumerate them (in random order). lol

1. usually, MoA means mike right? TODAY MARKS THE END OF IT. i'm not crushing over him anymore! lol. i went to starbucks to buy a tumbler. he opened the door for me and even assisted me in picking the right tumbler. you see, i was about to pick the green one but he said blue looks better so i took his advice. :) i went to the counter and paid for it and that's when i realized that all my assumptions are wrong. why? because the guy behind the cash register (a different guy this time) is equally friendly. yeah, and it just dawned on me that it must be their SOP to sort of interview their customers and act really friendly... just like when i first met mike. the new guy, being as friendly as ever asked me if i'm gonna give the tumbler as a gift. i said no then he asked me if i'm gonna use it at school. i said yes. then he asked me my school. i answered UP los banos. and there goes the flattery blah blah blah. he thinks i'm so intelligent because i study in UP but then he hasn't seen my class cards. my shameful class cards.

okay okay. so when i went for the exit the guard asked me for my course. so i answered him and he let me out. why do i need to get asked first before he i can go out? huuuuh?

and being the stubborn hyperacidic girl that i am... after settling awhile outside... i realized i can't let this day pass without coffee gracing my tongue. and so i drank coffee, making sure that i have an antacid with me in case i eat a lot this day... :) and you know what, when i got to the counter, the new guy greeted me hello while he's still taking orders for the customer ahead of me. and also, mike prepared my drink! he.he.he.

haha. now that i know that people there are just plain friendly and homey with their customers, there must be no room for assumptions anymore. and besides, who the hell am i to think that way? >.< it's not like i'm pretty or something.. >_>

but yeah, that made my day. :)

for numbers 2 and 3

2. i bought a new bag! hehe it's just a simple brown curduroy body bag and i used the 250 peso gift check philam gave us to purchase it... so i only have to add a small amount of money for it. :) i also bought a lip gloss from the body shop. i actually like the gloss of the expensive ones better but i figured it right to just use a born lippy because it's cheaper and scented. hehehe

and lastly...

3. THE FREE CONCERT! mehn in was GREAAAATTT! the artists who came were, tuesday vargas (host), the philippine idol finalists, THE COMPANY!!! and APO hiking society. mehn, i love THE COMPANY!!!! they sang really well and their acapellas just knock me off my seat!!! they did a freakin great job and all of them are all-out! no dull moment! they sang songs ranging from the 60's to the new millenium and it was really nice. then from time to time the philippine idol finalists come on stage. i like them too. the two guys are really good looking.^_^;; oh yeah and of course the finale perfomer would be the APO hiking society. what can i say? their attires are so shining shimmering splendid! and their voice is just great! more laudable than what i hear on TV. i just love their sweet serenades! i love old music..... :D

sucks because before The Company starts to perform, our camera went low-bat. grrr. >_>

celebrity overload: while eating in mcdo we also spotted this small stage outside where people are setting up for a mini mall-tour of the movie Angels. hehe, i saw valerie concepcion (she's so pretty!) and aiza marquez and some other actors and actresses that i know by face but not by name. :)

haaaaay. oh no, pasukan na naman. >.<