Archive for December, 2006

‘Twas the night after Christmas

Tuesday, December 26th, 2006

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.

Anyway, it’s a day after Christmas. Yesterday has been so busy. I and my family went to the Misa de Aguinaldo at our parish church, where I and my kuya served as lectors. After the mass, we had the traditional Noche Buena with most of our relatives from the father side. It was real fun, specially with our cousins all over the house. I ate just a bit, coz I was already full being the “taster” when the food items were being cooked. I enjoyed being the “taster”. I’d be happy if there’s really a job such as that. It’s always a treat being able to taste a little of every food to be served.

I was, for the most part, asleep on Christmas morning. I stayed up until 2 in the morning watching One Tree Hill DVDs, that’s why. You can’t blame me. The series is really addictive. I used to love Brooke, but she became bitchier as the episodes progressed. I’ve always loved Keith cuz he’s so kind. Love the steaming scenes too, courtesy of Brooke. Haha.

Ok. Enough of my One Tree Hill musings. We went to my mother’s province, Nueva Ecija, to visit our relatives there. I am not a big fan of going there, but I went with the whole family anyway. Everybody ate the food we brought there (pininyahang manok), and it was really noisy in my grandma’s house. The hubbub and the long trip made me really tired, so I just settled into reading Steinbeck’s “The Grapes of Wrath” in one of those papags in the house, and eventually fell asleep. And by the way, we got stranded in Gapan City for about half an hour due to a flat tire. Haayyy.

We went back to Bulacan today. I just slept all day because the return trip was also tiring.Okay. This day was boring. Haha.

It’s just amazing how “Boom Tarat” has become the official theme song of this year’s Christmas. GeeZ. I’m simply irritated by that song. I just hate it. Grrr. (”Tuloy na tuloy pa rin ang Pasko” is a far second, courtesy of the ABS-CBN SID).

Gain weight galore this season. Omygod. I better exercise.

Christmas this year was happy, as always. I did the most sleeping on Christmas this year, though. Hehe.

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

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my (spoileD) UP ChristmAs

Saturday, December 16th, 2006

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

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