long time no bloooog

draft from 9/30/2011

// since typhoon Pedring hit us, we've lost electricity for almost 4 days now. elec's still out so i just borrowed daddy's laptop to blog heheheehe

// still no luck with OJT.

// started re-reading All American Girl by Meg Cabot and realized how dumb it really is. but it served its purpose, it got me into books which is a huge favor! reading it now, the only thing i find interesting is the inclusion of art in it. somehow i think art classes won't necessarily cripple your creative freedom by bounding you to rules and all. it's actually needed if you really want to stick to being a non-conformist. how would you know you're being deviant if you don't know what the convention is? anyhow. other than that, it kept me rolling my eyes thinking how superficial and shallow teenage flicks are. and to think i considered this my favorite book? it's like looking back at your childhood crush 10 years after and wondering in fits of laughter how you even came to like the person. that. half-way done but yeah. i'll be bearing it. the lack of electricity helped me catch up on my reading list.

// it ardy october. bills payment time! and i thought i should be working by now. argh.

Y4IT 2011

yesterday, I came with 11 others to the 9th Philippine Youth Congress in Information Technology. i super thank the school for sending us here. it's pretty unaffordable on our own so yeaaah, great sponsors! hahaha

keith, lica, michelle, karla, kevin

kj, edlaine, jen, patrick

 yeah yeah yeah. blah blah blah. and of course, the best part: TINY CACTUS!

they're the best thing about Y4IT day 5

yeah srsly! and in between the seminar, i met with my friends to foodtrip yet agaaaain at JP Laurel! yeyyy
entry soon! hehe

uhm.

i realized i'm totally at fault here. for bringing things to this point where it's difficult to drop off. for being a slave of my feelings and tradition at the same time, and not knowing which one i should obey first. for falling too soon and agreeing too early, just because i was threatened and pressured. at this point, can i still quit and forget everything? and just bring it all back 8 months after? for the sake of what? my parent's trust that i have already been mishandling ever since i gave in? i don't know. i guess not. ako na lang naman pala problema e. isang matinding paalam kasabay ng pagtanggap na hindi ko natupad yung pangako ko sa mga magulang ko. na katulad lang ako ng ibang kolehiyala na sarili lang ang iniisip, madaling mahulog, madaling makuha, at hindi marunong makinig. nadidisappoint ako sa sarili ko.

Unlimited Coffee and Cake for 150 from Cravings and The Coffee Beanery

This entry is supposed to be for September 11, 2011

After being featured on Jessica Soho last night, terai and i swore we had to try this out, and we did! Bwahahahaha! I did a bit of research and discovered that along with Cravings, The Coffee Beanery (TCB) also offers the same promo (prolly cos the pastry concessionaire is the same). Soooo, the promo is avaiable on the following branches and is running until December 2011:

Cravings Center Katipunan
CCA Kitchen Cravings Eastwood
Cravings Festival
Cravings Tomas Morato
TCB West Avenue
TCB Shangrila




We tried it out at TCB West Ave since it's Sunday and it's only walking distance from the church. From my research, they only offer 3-4 cakes for their unlimited promo. When we got there, there were 5 cakes on display but only 3 cakes are available: Choco Caramel Cake, Devil's Food Cake and Ube Sansrival Cake. The 2 other cakes were Carrot cake and Double Chocolate cake. For unlimited coffee, they offer three variants: Brewed coffee, Iced coffee and Cafe Americano. You can choose all of them hehehehe

And because terai and i kind of promised so make the most out of our 150 pesos, we tried everything. Uhm, I did! I forgot what she drank but we both had 7 slices of cake each and I tried all three coffees.

First slice, choco caramel cake

See? it's sooo freakin thinly sliced I wonder if it could stand upright. >:| I was disappointed when i was served this but then again, who cares about the serving? as long as it's unlimited I could get as much as I want! bwahahahaha and besides, it's a freakin dessert, small servings are acceptable hehe. Btw, this is my favorite!

Second slice, Devil's food cake

Terai's favorite!

Third slice, Ube Sansrival

Okay, we just made that name up, dunno how they call it there but it's ube and the base is sansrival so that's Ube Sansrival. K. Ah, we didn't like this. Hehehehe Maybe because we're starting to get really stuffed with the cake and coffee. But it's good! hahahaha

Fourth slice - another choco caramel for me! >:D

Our 5th slice should be choco caramel again (were kindof trying to finish the entire cake so they'd bring down the carrot cake haha) but it's ardy finished so they brought down a new cake. I was hoping it would be Carrot cake but they brought us Double Chocolate instead. At this point, I was starting to get a headache and terai is still busy reading Eleven Minutes by Paulo Coelho.

So there, the fifth slice goes to... Double chocolate!

yummynessssss >XD

HAHAHA in between the cakes we also tried their unli coffee,

Coffee 1, Brewed coffee

Pretty cool, not too strong, just yer regular brewed coffee >;)

Coffee 2, Iced coffee

I was thinking it's kindofa latte but no. It's just iced brewed coffee. not much difference. just. yknow. iced. hehehe and we enjoyed pouring creamer on it! lookit the effect! >8D

Coffee 3, Cafe Americano
Ah this, couldn't tell the difference between brewed coffee. I guess it's slightly stronger. no really. i don't know. hahahaha

Back to the cakes...
6th slice - back to Devil's Food Cake

at this point terai and i were really stuffed. my headache has gone worse and i could totally throw up anytime but bwahahahaha when we saw the other table being served CARROT CAKE, we were like, KUYAAA IS THE CARROT CAKE AVAILABLE FOR UNLI ALREADY?! >;D and because the nice kuya said yes...

7th slice goes to the most anticipated CARROT CAAAAAKE

what's new with the serving size?

i really wanted to try this out cos it looked good on display plus carrot cakes are topped with cream cheese or whatever cheesy icing they have and i love cheesy cakes... or something... hahaha... BUT you see, if i was in a better mood (no headache and not on the verge of barfing), i would've enjoyed this more! hehehehe but it's really good. it's like fruitcake without alcohol, topped with cream cheese or something. hahaha

so. yeahhhhh.

we're gluttons over eat-all-you-cans, i wouldn't even say it's worth my 150 (or terai's 150 to be exact cos she treated me bwahehehe) cos i have a tendency to really stuff myself like crazy just to experience the WHOOOLE THING. never mind barfing like an anorexic afterwards as long as i'm full, ooor as long as i could say it's worth 150 (which in the end is not. at all).

in this case, we were able to try all 5 cakes naman so. i'm still happy about the experience! BWAHAHAHAHA

sooo. GO TRY IT OUT! the cakes are really good, i'm no pastry connoisseur here, i'm simply someone who loves sweets. can't drop quality reviews about the cakes cos for me they're all good! if it's bad, i'd tell you guys it's bad... no other adjectives cos i'm no good at describing food hahaha. anyhow! just believe me when i say it's good! maybe i just went too berserk over the coffee that's why i got stuffed easily but it's really cool to have tried this out!

PS: Red Ribbon, please have the same promo! >:D

LJpink

First of all, NEW LAYOUT! Still on the crappy side cos i wasn't able to fix those badass margins. nakaka-OC yung alignment HAHAHAHA and and and! the slideshow up there, it's not supposed to be like that by default. if you'd do me the honor, on the slideshow kindly click on the gear icon (that will bring you to the Settings) and check the 'Fancy Slidedow Effects' along with 'Crossfade Transitions' and 'Pan Images'. close it and yeaaahhh, that's the effect i want you guys to see by default. apparently, DeviantArt has been so conservative with their embed code, i don't know where to edit stuff like that. hahahaha

Sooooo, what's new? aside from the layout... the blog address also changed. i mean, i told you i changed my email so i also created a different blog. anyhow, the address remains YANBIROG.CO.NR so yeah. haha all my previous entries since way way back like 2004 have been imported here.

Thing is! As usual! the Search box doesn't weave through imported entries so it's kinda useless for now. hahahaha

What else, what else. hmmm
is the jump break working?
orayt. >:)

good morning?

this week was full of crap. i don't know! everything that has happened since wednesday is major bullcrap.
my grades went down.
quit OJT to find something new.
applied everywhere and realized i'm wasting so much money for this.
enrolled and got overly pissed off with their new policy.

oh well, tears are in for me this september. >:| i don't know why. perhaps the only good thing that balances all of this is jec! for me he's a breather and.... oryt i'm trying not to be cheesy cos i'm saving it for next year so yeah. i'll stop the jec-talk here bwahaha. because of him i could say life is still good. God still loves me. >:D

yesterday, or last friday cos technically it's ardy sunday. i had a mini chika-slash-pep talk with jigger, the CBS secretary who's doing so much work and initative for the team. i owe him so much because i feel like i'm not doing anything at all. he should be president, not me, seriously... if for the amount of work he initiates for the student council. and you know what, i told him that. that i feel sorry for being useless and all. >XO hahaha it was cool talking to him, he lifted my spirits a bit! HAHA mega nega kasi ako, no amount of pep talk could probably lift me up from my depression. ako lang talaga.ewan. basta. i appreciate him!

btw, i dreamt of him one time. in my dream, i was packing my things. i had two back packs, mine and jec's. then he carried one of them. i don't remember which but he was waiting for me ekek and took the bag to help. the end!

i also remember dreaming about francis magalona. in my dream, i had a major crush on him and blah. i don't remember na! i should've written this earlier when it's still a bit intact in my memory. henako.

earlier was so fun! my cousins and nieces and nephews were here for mamay's death anniv. >:D >:D kapagod ampotek. aaaah, i actually consider my nieces and nephews as my cousins, and my cousins as my titos and titas because of the age gap. my cousins are all twice older, and their children are nearer my age so daryugow. >:)

i'm not sleepy though i'm very tired! >XO ewan ko ba.

terai and i are planning on trying Craving's unlimited coffee and cake for P150 tomorrow!!! i read a bad review about it knina lang e so... tsk nakakainis tuloy. takam na takam pa naman kami! sana magpa-ganun din yung RED RIBBON!!! gusto ko ng canteana cheescake. argggh chaka choco banana cake! huhuhu gutom na ko! >XO

Good mornight!

the plunge

everything from here on is downhill! i knew it would eat me alive, the amount of load i so boastfully accepted. see now? nasa huli talaga ang pagsisisi. let's just hope i don't get myself into a mess with the higher-ups with the remaining months i have to endure at school. stop me, Lord. stop me. i'm always complaining! but fuck the system. really, fuck the system. it's probably only because i'm at the bottom that i get to point my finger at people and blame them for my demise. i know i have no one else to blame but myself... for getting entangled in so many things at once: icon, cbs, studies, love... it screwed me. and it screwed me real good. not to mention that i probably didn't even act like a decent president. hi pride.

but come on, i totally have no idea how to cheer myself up. i've been awfully depressed since i saw my grades and every day, it gets worse. i dun even know why. it just gets worse! too much nega vibes. and it doesn't help that i'm back to 0 hours with my OJT since i quit fandom hahaha. anyhow. i've shelled out so much money just applying for jobs. i just want to get somewhere near and with allowance LOL.

oh btw. when i posted this, "it's easy to fall in love when you have nothing to lose" on fb, i didn't mean it the romantic way. i meant it the other way around. it's hard for me to decide on this because so much will be affected. which is why i envy those who could love with no limits. but i wonder about the kind of lives they live and kindof concluded that, oh that explains it. kindof but not quite. hehe

hey. i told myself not to engage in trouble because this year is so crucial for me but awhile ago i was so freaking enraged. i almost cried. seriously. why? they suddenly abolished SPECIAL CLASSES and replaced it with something exponentially more expensive. immediately and without prior notice at that. i dunno. i bet the heads weren't even briefed properly about it. on what grounds is it legal to implement a policy amendment IMMEDIATELY like, after a trimester? can't it wait a schoolyear? where were the announcements? sorry but this is bullcrap. i am so affected, even if i'm least likely to suffer about this. thing is, loads of hopeful graduates will not be able to march this coming may just because they cannot afford to enroll in a class that requires them to pay 15 times more. someone shed some light on this issue. pero wait, trabaho ko yata to e.

sana man lang may student dialogue or student representation na nagaganap every time may iaammend silang major policy sa palakaran ng administrasyon. eto nanaman ako. puro reklamo sa blog. yoko mabadshot sa taas eh, may mga pangarap pa ko. >:|