goooood morning!

i'm trying to get a fraction of my 'holy week workload' done by starting our hum1 paper. haaay, it's always hard to start a composition. i'm not even sure if i'm getting the right ideas, i hope my groupmates won't hate me for it. i'm planning to finish it by tomorrow so that i could just ask a groupmate to edit and print it for us. i'm also planning not to attend hum1 on monday, but knowing me... i guess i couldn't afford to waste our remaining meetings. and besides, i've just committed a lot of absences in my other subjects. haaay

i'm not yet sleepy! maybe because i got a lot of sleep this afternoon. hehe, also we had a mini bible study awhile ago. just the usual, me, terai, mommy and daddy. :) we discussed a lot of things... my parents are trying to relive that old family tradition of conducting family bible studies at least once a week because they don't want us drawing farther from the Lord.

haaay, He's been so generous with me lately that i couldn't ask for more of his grace. so far, despite my still sinking academic standing, He still manages to supply me with a lot of enthusiasm and positivity. i think it's really rare for someone to keep the positive vibes flowing amidst the threatening adversity. woooohooo. i like the feeling of being happy and care-free and laid-back! yeeah.

or maybe, i am just someone who doesn't really care about getting As. i guess, i'm part of the academically indifferent pack. :) but hey, it's not that we like failing, or enjoy having our names posted on the bulletin for guidance counseling... we just want to pass. that's all, the higher the better, but we keep our standards low, in case anything goes wayward then there's no one to blame. we'll just keep on living, knowing we did what's right.

by the way, for those who are looking for an effective flv to avi/mpeg converter... try Freez (just search in google or wherever), it's a freeware!!! yeah, you can adjust the settings to widen the resolution but i guess it's better by default so that the quality will remain as is. well, there really isn't an easy way to fix the quality of the vid especially if it's already bad when took it raw. :)

hmmm...
now we're looking for a dorm to stay just for the summer classes. apparently, the apartments we inquired on won't be vacated till the first sem so we have to look for another place if we don't want to end up being grilled this summer.

oh, by grace.

hello thursday

i boarded the bus last night at around 6 and i came home at around 1130. >____>;; grrrr... super traffic sa cubao.

hay ang daming factors eh...

...the bus i'm on who still went to the side of the street where PUBs are supposed to load passengers (because it usually takes a lifetime to get out of that lane)

...the provincial buses who take off every minute and scream 'give way! give way!' ay nakakainis...

...also the mob of people flooding each terminal... sometimes they just get on your nerves to see them crossing the street from all directions...

 

but then, it all boils down to this sacred season.

hello, i'm not catholic. normally, i shouldn't give a damn... like now, but out of respect and also out of this obligatory sense that i should glorify this season because our country is a catholic nation... ok, i would set aside the irrate feeling i almost catered last night.

 

eh kagabi naman na yun eh, so tapos na.

 

honestly, it didn't really irritate me that much, maybe because i'm too tired to waste energy on whining (there isn't anyone to belch out my anger anyway. i was alone), or maybe because i'm in a sorta good mood that day because i was able to download the whole 22 tracks of the original Hana Kimi OST plus 2 additional tracks (the opening and ending theme). hehehe

 

ang nakakainis lang talaga... masyadong mausok. feeling ko i could just die of carbon dioxide poisoning (C monoxide na rin)... naka ordinary bus lang kasi ako eh. i thought, like the usual, i could marvel on the cool night air... but no. hahaha

 

pero ok lang talaga. nag-gagalit galitan lang ako. hehehe

 

heeeey!

natuloy ang aming house/apt scouting yesterday.

we were able to inquire in 2 apartments... though we'll still continue looking for more this monday... yun. we looked in manuela and villegas apts near st. therese chapel... ok yung manuela! gusto ko lang ulit sya makita para maimagine ko kung pano ko ii-interior yung natatanging kwarto to fit 4 of us. o.O

 

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this laptop has just been reformatted.

grabe. i thought i'd lost my files already. buti na lang nagback-up si daddy! dapat lang, SOP yun!!

 

sige, at dahil mas mabilis na sya ngayon... pwede na maglaro! yeheeey!

 

uhm, sige sige... papers muna. >___>;;

 

wow, tambak!

ang dami ko palang gagawin this holy weekend. hahahaha

aral. aral. aral.
mostly, yun. daming exam eh...

tapos may mga papers din.
apat ang kailangan ko ma-accomplish this weekend!
♠ 3 sa hum1 - actually groupwork yung dalawa pero nagvolunteer na lang ako na gawin. ewan ko ba... ang tagal namin nagmeet volunteer lng pala kailangan. hindi, actually masyado lang kaming nadistract sa internet. hahahaha nagdala kasi ng laptop si christian eh... tapos may wifi... edi may youtube hahahaha >___>; masaya naman... :)uhm, hindi ako naninisi ha. hehe

may bago akong game! haha monopoly! galing din kay christian... salamat salamat. dream game yun ng ate ko. bwahaha.

waaah, gusto ko pa ng maraming games!

♠ reaction paper sa hist2 - UTANG NA LOOB AYOKO MAG FINALS!!! tambak ang kailang aralin kung sakali... kaya nga dinadaan ko na lang sa mga reaction papers eh (may incentive kasi) kaso bunga ng katamaran... ni-isa wala pa kong napasang rxn paper sa kanya. hello, ayoko umulit ng GE subject ha. kasi, SWEAR, pag nagfinals ako... masisingko ako. pramis.

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hmmm... katatapos lang ng 4th lecture exam namin sa MCB1 kanina... thankful ako kasi WALANG ESSAY!!! yahooooo! matching type, multiple choice chaka true or false lang. ayos na rin yun diba? hehehe and to think na the night before lang ako nagsimula mag-aral.. like 12 mn? pero di rin eh, nakatulog ako... nagising ako ng 4am... e naalimpungatan lang ako nun kaya nakatulog ako hanggang 8!!!!

ang yabang ko kasi.. kala ko maiksi lang yung coverage kasi dalawang handouts lang yun... eh ang kapal pala. nyahahaha... exam starts at 10... so mega cramming na ito.

wala. walang akong magawa. super ayoko aralin yun eh. so binasa ko na lang yung buong handouts tapos nag underline ng mga keywords... tapos yun. tulog ulit. eh ano ba, matakaw talaga ako sa tulog.

buti na lang walang pasok sa hum... pero may klase ako ng 230 eh (dapat wala kasi halfday daw ngayon)... dahil dyan, di ako papasok dun. hehe

currently: watching Hana Kimi and downloading its OST
ang ganda ng OST nilaaaaaa!!! :D :D

AT MAMAYA,
maghahanap na kami ng prospective apartment/bahay na malilipatan.
excited na ko.

hana kimi japan!

what?!
i'd rather have ABS-CBN dub Hana Kimi japan but nooooo, they're left with the taiwanese version instead.

actually, because i can't wait for the 24th (pilot of HK japan on GMA) and also because i don't think i can tolerate GMA's preposterous dubbing, i decided to just watch it online via streaming media.

i know this is going to steal a lot of my err, proposed study time, but..

there should be no buts.
T.T

i know i should study.

but...but...
i can't just quit watching Hana Kimi right now.
sorry.
>_____>;

please pray for the betterment of my grades and to the success of our apartment/house scouting this wednesday.

nothing relevant to do

listening to: love today - mika

 

sometimes (uhh, more often than not) i find myself going online without anything relevant to do (like research and papers and stuff). nothing, i just want to browse and browse and browse. check my blog (and not always write something), my counter stats, my devart account, my friendster account (ocassionaly)... i also do a lot of blog hopping and mp3 files scouting.

 

i'm not always doing something productive. and for the record, i don't think i've ever felt the fulfillment of being a productive college student since i started. it's all about being a bum, procastinating on studies, and staying up late doing whatnots.

 

aaaayyyyy!!!

ayoko na...

for a change... mag-aral kaya ako?

 

may exam pa ko e.

 

hello new officers :)

we just elected our new set of officers last night. :) yey. cheers to the new AChES governance. :)

we started at around 8 and ended 10 hours afterwards. i didn't expect it to be thaaaaat long. whew. anyhow, i wasn't able to sleep that time so when i came back to the dorm, i slept immediately. in fact, i just woke up. haaay.

i don't know what else to share. hehehe

we're supposed to do some house/apartment scouting later... haaay. i can't stand it in the dorm. wahahaha

dalisay? la ville?
ugggh. wherever.

hey, something's up.

sorry, it's nothing... really.

maybe next time. :/

cheers to a more mature UP

BAGONG KRISTO: it was... long and hard to grasp. and to think we have to produce a paper on it for hum1. grrr... >___>; well, some parts were funny and most of them are unintended comic reliefs brought about by the script's inconsistent use of the 'medieval' filipino language. no, i'm not belittling (sp?) the script...

at one point it actually inspired me to write in filipino because the language is so striking and moving.

while watching the play i realized something about our university's evident silence regarding social issues. i think we're starting to learn and lean more on our rational sides... on deliberating issues using an indirect way, a silent propaganda.

most of the plays we (i mean our campus) produce right now are, if not, indicating an obscured political statement. most of the story lines are effective allegories of our current social condition. i find this very creative.

our official campus newspaper is being published more often this season unlike last year, and the articles are an example that we haven't really lost our voice.

contemporary writers are dwelling much on dissiminating literature that speaks of a thesis statement in an unsightly manner that only critical thinkers can grasp.

that is just sooo UPian.

so, our decreasing participation on rallies does not imply our growing indifference to our nation's desperate plea for salvation from our chaotic democratic regime. instead, we focus on enlightening people by helping them enlighten themselves through media and other forms of art that are not biased, but at the same time suggests that you take our side.

uhh, weird. i can't explain it fully. i'm tired. but i really really have this feeling that this (whatever it is we're going through right now) will lead to a more mature UP.

a UP that doesn't ALWAYS rally here and there. a UP that doesn't provoke violence among the authority.

i dream of a more err, silent-but-not-really-silent UP. a UP that can speak its voice not just in rallies but in valid forms of art and literature where everyone can participate and take part in a workshop for self-evaluation. i want a UP that can speak its mind in allegorical texts, in plays... you know. i enjoy thought provoking sessions, i fancy deciphering double-meanings and symbolisms in media. and it's even more enjoyable if you suddenly come across a production with an unsuspecting political undertone! ang galing nun diba...
wahehehe

no need to get me... i can't even state my point clearly wahaha.

tahimik akong tao e... yung di ko kayang sabihin... either isusulat ko na lang or idodrowing... swerte nung mga makakagets ng aking mga ulterior motives!

on the other hand...

MCB1 practical exam: nevermind this! hahaha i failed! as in my score is very looooow. but i don't really mind. >_____>; bwahaaha. nakaka-mental block! i was supposed to do spread and pour plating in 4 minutes and this is what i've done so far...

- i disinfected the table (a reminder everyone should adhere to) but then it only gave me one point, the rest was a screw up -- this is the only thing i did right!
- i inserted the green sucker on a 1ml pipet. it should be blue. ;p i even made a helpful mnemonic on it beforehand, B1 which- stands for blue sucker is for 1ml pipet. tsk.
- i drew out 1ml of the inoculum (should be 0.1 only), then figuring that my plate doesn't have a medium yet, i pipeted (??) it back to the tube, and filled the plate with agar (wrong moooove! i actually didn't notice that there's already a petri dish with a hardened medium on it), then i withdrew the inoculum again... using the same pipet (another wrong moooove!) - shouldn't be re-used, especially that i put it down on the table already.
- okok... there are just toooo many mistakes to mention! i won't bother spilling them all out. bwahaha i wasn't able to finish the test you know, like everyone else. and there were just 4 people who passed in our lab section. hehe ok lang. our teacher even said she already scaled it down! wtde? even so... i still hope to pass this subject. hehe

CHEM40 practical exam: it's ok. at least it's not ONE ON ONE like the abovementioned test. wahehe, my sample was relatively easy! it smelled like rugby, but i couldn't have guessed the fuctional group right away with just that. in fact, i only had one confirmatory test (halogenation: reaction with bromine) and the rest are just solubility tests... in short, i only had to right a single reaction! yesss!!!! and i got the unknown compound right!!! yehey! it's an alkyl benzene! wooooh! last sem, my sample was a non-methyl ketone... i also got it right...uhhh...yey.