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*who would have thought that after so many months of dormancy, this blog will come back to life again?
-yes, ladies and gentlemen. i’m back blogging. there have been so blog-worthy happenings in my life the past few days that i decided to resurrect this blog after a relatively long episode of extinction. i just hope i can maintain it in the next few weeks. i really do.

it’s really nice to have the internet back in shape again.

it’s frustrating when it gets f**ked up and your life is on the line.

yeah. the internet has that power over life and death now. haha.

when the internet goes nuts, it can make you go nuts too.

let’s just pray taiwan won’t be shaken by some earthquake anymore.

I really dunno why Friendster blogging has become so f**ked up that you can not resize your font anymore. And im dealing with this blog in HTML format that I dunno how to manage it anymore. It’s been two years since I had my last HTML lessons that I can’t remember how to do it now. Damn.

Irrelevant thought:
Yul won survivor: cook islands. Yeng won PDA. Yehey. I’m really good at betting now.

I remember posting a happy blog entry about my Christmas in UP last year. Things are different now, though. There were fewer reasons to be merry.

‘Bittersweet’ probably is the best word to describe the way I feel. Actually, this blog enrty was supposed to be entitled ‘bittersweet UP Christmas,’ but when I checked Bikoy’s site a while ago, his entries about yesterday’s events bore the same title. What a coincidence.

Just goes to show that I share the same sentiments with most of the UP students. My day started out rough, thanks to the traffic jam at the University Avenue, and to Sir de Dios’ insisting to have class amidst everybody being in Christmas mode. After class, I dropped by AS to witness the annual Oblation Run. I still maintain my position last year that the Oblation Run was such a bore. It was even much boring this year. Only a few frat men ran, and they failed to get their message across. Their frat flag was even bigger than the protest statements they were holding. Sad that the people were more interested in seeing naked men running around than the statements they were making.

The UP admin was the one who virtually spoiled my UP Christmas. It cancelled the Lantern Parade on the day itself. wtf? It was due, according them, to security threats. Whatever.

But we, UP students, cannot be stopped. We still held some sort of "rebel" Lantern Parade, spearheaded by the College of Fine Arts. Our college joined the said parade. I, for my part, enthusiastically joined the cheering and waving of the stars and white cloth with the rest of my college. It was a "making the most of what we have" way of making myself happy.

After hanging out with my orgmates in the parade, I went to the CMC booth to meet with Kral and Ken. While walking, we met other fellow FFBs, and shared what turned out to be a crazy night together. Highlights were the African Music concert in front of Music, tambay near Law, ethnic streetdancing with Kontra Gapi, and of course, our mini-show at the AS Steps. Here are some photos, courtesy of bonyang26.multiply.com:

unaware tonigz, lost theok, horny 3stamb, kral and erli, korean me

one band meets the other (cereal number and seawater soup)

im on fire

ffbs+ henry sa may law

It’s exactly a month before Christmas and I’m a bit worried. I’m about to reach “broke status” when it comes to my savings the past few weeks, and my ATM is not a bit well too. It’s this time of the year when you get involved into so much exchange gifts you don’t realize you don’t have the money to buy gifts anymore. Add to these the many things I have to pay before Christmas time including the org jacket, my share in the laptop payment and the water supply in the dormitory. Geez. Lord help me.

I should be hating Christmas. You see, I’m the kuripot type. I’m not so much into giving gifts to people, except, of course, when I get involved in different exchange gifts stuff. I make it a point that I have at least a hundred pesos by midweek from my allowance. My strategy is that I leave the hundred at home so I won’t be able to spend it. Aside from that, I really keep my budget real tight during school days, opting for the cheaper food houses (i.e. Lutong Bahay) during lunch breaks and dinner. I also refrain from buying in-between meals. I know it’s a bit exage, but I make it a point that I reward myself whenever I have a lot of savings during a particular week through treating myself to some iced white choco-mocha espresso from Starbucks (love the caffeine and sugar overload) or fine dining in Katips resto (I recently dined at Kitaro with the org’s dinner group – kimmy, eli, con, ter, flau – and had a lot of time. And a lot money spent too. Haha). I was right when I told Ter and Con that night who my counterpart in the TV show “Let’s Go!” is. It’s Mike—the brainy, Scrooge-y, alaskador guy.

Well, talking about being alaskador, I think I went overboard the past week, especially last Friday. I feel that I pissed off Patty big time when I started dissing Gian’s (from Philippine Idol) “Bakit Pa Ba?” performance after the org’s GA, and then went on last Friday afternoon. It was just my opinion, but I think I should’ve shut my mouth up. Patty’s really crazy (uhmm… well, that’s an understatement) over the dude and I should’ve not spoiled her extremely-happy-mood-coz-of-Gian that day. Lesson learned.

Going back, Christmas is also the time of the year when everyone gains a lot of weight because of Noche Buena overeating. Call me metrosexual, extremely vain, bading, diet-conscious or whatever, but I just hate gaining weight. I hate getting my stomach really big even more. I dunno why. Maybe it’s just that I already went through that obesity stage in my life that I don’t want to cross the same river twice again. I’ve been eating just wheat bread and low fat milk for breakfast (and even lunch) the past few days just to cut off the weight I gained due too so much bumming during the sem break. I even went jogging with Con and Ter Friday morning to get myself some badly needed exercise. And here comes Christmas with the promise of so much food to eat and so much fats to take in. Geez. I should really be hating Christmas.

But why would I? Christmas is simply the happiest season of the year. Budget and diet be damned. I’m celebrating the Yuletide season in the best way I can.

woke up to the tune of ‘dreaming with a broken heart’ the other day.

cho brothers gone in the race.

can’t separate a dream from reality.

an irritating song is playing over the radio.

brad’s voted out. so as jenny. no more pinoy castaways.

frustrated over econ. just cant understand graphs.

my stomach’s definitely bigger.

haven’t done my advertising homework.

yeng’s nominated.

sad. good night.

geez. second year, second sem. im not getting any younger.

this sem, i promised myself im gonna use the ‘julianne technique’ to improve myself. it came from a piece of advice my high school classmate, julianne, gave me way back HS days. she told me to do everything as soon as you can. kung magbigay ng assignment ang prof, gawin mo right after niya ibigay. tipong ganun. ‘no day but today’ idea. (very ‘rent’)

it’s quite effective, i think. i get to make the most out of my time, tapos mas mahabang oras para makapag-relax. the technique gives me more time for sleep at night. good for me.

speaking of sleep, im just bothered by my bed sa dorm, it’s screechy. im worried it might fall off soon. nyahaha. i dont want to find myself sa floor one of these days. sana gawin na ng mga yakal repair people.

my subjects this sem are better than last sem’s. ive got comm140 with sir varona hu is so pope-ish. hehe. he likes us to tell so much personal stories. ganun daw talaga. to train us to be better communicators.

ive got streetdance for PE this sem. very not me. it requires some outfit. im planning to buy a new pair of rubber shoeses and shorts para dito. for more lang.

i enjoy my literature class most. dami ko kasing natutunan. it makes me think deeply too.

my advertising class is always fun. si ma’am tessa ba naman ulit ang prof e. at star ako sa class. kilala na kasi ako ni ma’am. good for me.

econ100.1 is B-O-R-I-N-G. ive slept twice during discussion classes. kapag graphs na ang pinag-uusapan, matutulog na lang ako. hindi ko ma-absorb e. *booboo*

news reporting is exciting. and challenging too. nako. journ na journ na ako.

my film prof hasnt shown up still. maybe he’s busy directing his indie film. i dunno.

sa totoo lang, wala ako sa mood mag-blog… tama na. survivor na.

my mom, my dad, my elder brother and i went to the mall last wednesday after i checked out of my dorm to buy a gift for a debut we are to attend this sunday. It was past 2 and we haven’t had our lunch so we decided to dine at the SM Foodcourt before we start our gift hunt.

I ordered some sizzling squid coz my doctor has told me to avoid eating beef, pork and other hard to chew stuff since i’ve got a tendency to dislocate my jaw. My right jaw has been hurting bad the past few days dahil nga raw my jaw joint is not positioned well, for a bizarre reason. It clicks when I open my mouth (you know, lumalagutok). Ouch. But I’ve been taking medicine to remedy it, and i hope it gets well. I don’t want i locked jaw anytime soon.

Going back to the mall story, I and my mom were sitting by the table waiting for my kuya and dad to bring the food there when my mom asked me to buy some fries. She said she was craving for it. I then went to buy some in that store where they offer free dips for fries. I picked the garlic wasabe sauce because it sounded good, then went back to my mom with the fries and the dip. We were munching on the fries when my mom commented "Ano ba ‘tong dip mo? Lasang tipaklong." I told her it was garlic wasabe sauce, admitted that it didn’t taste good, and jokingly asked her, "Anong lasang tipaklong? Bakit, nakatikim ka na ba nu’n?" She seriously answered a "yes", and even went on to say "Masarap kaya ‘yun." The food on my mouth always went out when I laughed real hard upon that. My brother, who just arrived, was also laughing sooo much about the fact that my mom has tried to munch on some grasshoppers. My mom explained that the thing tastes good when fried, and said it was common for them in Nueva Ecija to eat those jumping stuff. I still can’t get over the fact that a revelation has been made, and was already full before I halved my meal, thanks to so much laughter (I was actually in tears because of laughing so much).

I just love my mom. She is sooooo darn real. And funny for that matter. So if you want some grasshopper sauce too, go find that fries store which offers garlic wasabe sauce.

*RandOm musings:

- I’ve watched a lot of movies the past few days, and "The Pianist" was the best. Adrien Brody was so good an actor in that film. "The Silence of the Lamb’s" Hannibal Lecter gave me creeps. I have also seen "Munich" and "The Wedding Crashers." The former was a long film. But I love the flashback-while-having-sex scene towards its end. Spielberg sure is artistic.

- My Asian Tribe in Survivor has been reduced into 4, with Cao Boi voted off. He should have shut up. Jenny’s not in a good position too, and might be voted off on the next ep (she’s filipina, FYI). I’m counting on Yul and Becky to win.

- Geez. i am so sick of the "Boom Ta-rat" song from Willie Revillame. O God. It makes me really sick. *dance number included

- Fergie is hot. Yeng of PDA is hot. Dr Meredith Grey is hot. Gosh. So much hotties.

- Got all 18 units through CRS. Woooooooooohooooooo! PE too. Got lucky this time. Thank God.

It’s raining outside. This is my return blog. It just sucks that it’s sad.

I’m quite devastated now. I messed up with my journalism exam. I missed a movie I’ve been dying to see. It’s the first time I felt jealousy (or did I?). And just like Abby, I’m a miserable, penniless pig.

Ok. I’ll deal with these one by one. My journ exam? I think I didn’t do good in it. I didn’t know how to define libel, press conference and one-on-one interview. And I’m an aspiring journalist. Damn it. I also think I messed up with the news report we were asked to write. I dunno if it’s just me. I was really scrambling to write a decent news story. And we were asked to give some background info about it. Man. To start with, I didn’t know how to organize the whole thing, then here comes my professor telling us to provide background info? I’m headed to doom.

Next, I met Kral, Harold and Nikki on my way to the shopping center. Then Kral told me something (it’s for all you guys to find out). I dunno if I should take the thing seriously, but damn, was I jealous? Nakakaasar. It’s the first time I seriously felt that feeling. That’s why I’m not sure about it. Kasi naman si Kral. Hehe.

Anyway, I walked them to their dorm. I was checking on their bulletin board when I saw the screenings in the UP Film Center for this month. I felt really down when I saw that "In the Mood for Love" was already shown. Yesterday. I just missed it. I really suck at timing. Well, I’m not sure why I want to see that movie. I just have a feeling it’s good (and Con says its good).

Lastly, like Abby (my orgmate), I’ve just turned into a miserable, penniless pig. Why miserable? This whole blog says its all. Why penniless? It’s sembreak and I have to say bye-bye to my weekly allowance. Why pig? Geez. I think I gained a lot of weight during the past few days when I did nothing but lay around in our house. My god. I should shape up.

But there are some things I can smile about. I got a 1 in PolSci14, I finished the requirements in PanPil17, and THIS SEM IS OVER. I am so done with it. Yeah. Crying over spilt milk can do nothing, but it can at least lighten up what I feel.

The rain outside has stopped. Maybe this is a good sign. I can’t wait for next sem.

PS. I’m currently addicted to Qing He of Meteor Garden. I know. The show is sooooo ancient. But I had fun watching its DVDs during my short vacation, and I just like watching Qing He. He is so ME.

nyahaha. hi kenver.

- I got a new haircut last tuesday. I told the hairstylist i wanted a certain hairdo, but he didnt follow what i told him. anyway, im quite satisfied naman with what he did with my hair. but my dormmates say i look like my roommate, kuya alan, because of my hairstyle. i dunno. siguro nga.
- speaking of roommates, i had this kwentuhan spree with my roommates last night. we were telling stories to each other until 3 in the morning. goodness. and the stories were just freakin non-sense stuff, ranging from pokemons to maskman. geez. but it was a fun thing. it was certainly a new experience to have all four of us speaking up. it was a rare opportunity you know.
- one thing leads to another, they say. because of the kwentuhan galore we had last night, i woke up sooooo late for my first class today. it was an 8:30 to 10 class, and i woke up at about 9:30. damn it. but the funny thing about this is, i still went to classes. Haha. it was a new experience going to classes just to catch its last few minutes. actually, bawal na un according to university rules. but our professor in that class is so kind. she even let me sign on the attendance sheet. lusot. but that’s the last time ill do that. swear. (although fun experience sya. haha.)
- also today, my org, UP-MCO, organized this alternative classroom learning experience (acle) on an i-witness docu, "lukayo". it was so much a success. we had a pretty good number of people who attended, the program went fine, and to top it all, we had big time speakers. there was howie severino, the person who did the docu himself, our former dean, dr. tiongson, and a national artist for dance, sir ramon obusan. I was really starstruck when i had the chance to get really near sir howie and sir obusan. waaaaaah. haha. i suddenly became a howie severino fan. sir, you became one of the reasons why i still and will continue to stay dedicated to my chosen craft: journalism. you really inspired me. naks.
- may bagong batch ng apps ang org namin. they name themselves "bennu". it’s  egyptian daw for phoenix. they just had their medyo sablay na batch proj and pres kahapon. i think they’re a pretty nice batch naman, except for some people i dont necessarily like. I like steph, barry and meg most. i promise i wont give them a hard time sa kanilang  final interview. lagot sa akin yung isa sa kanila. whahaha.
- i suddenly find a classmate and a person close to me really attractive.  hmmm.  change of heart, they say.
- anyway, un lang. hi to patty. thanks for dropping by my blog. yge.