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Sunday, January 01, 2006

New Year Cram Sessions

This is a very short - and I mean short post. Much is needed to be done other than posting (there are a lot of assignments and projects) and I need to finish them in one day flat. So I did some (or maybe few, because I only studied the 3 Student Times and will review Advanced Biology afterwards) today and will continue tomorrow, or the third day of January. Since it is the New Year - welcome to a crammer world.

For the past five days before I was not present within the walls of my dear sweet home. I (almost) lived at Cavite - at my cousin. I always enjoyed being there (since the only barkada of mine in the Gatdula lineage within my age was there, so I know I enjoyed the stay) and we did some stuff to kill time.

When I first came to Cavite I went to SM Molino to look for a fabric shop. I needed the cloth badly for my project on embroidery. However I did not found any shop, so I went up a floor and played Dance Maniax by myself. But because there were so many tokens inserted before I came, I danced out late in the night. So I came to the rendezvous point late.

My parents were waiting for me (I guess so) in Cavite. But when I went there late (why? Go figure) my parents already left, so I was obliged to sleep at Addas I, where my two aunts and a cousin of mine live.

I saw a John Grisham book there called the Summons. Since I was not yet sleepy, I read the book. As much as I wanted to finish it right there in one sitting (I expected to be finished by five in the morning), but my aunt came and said that I should sleep.

Waking up the next day, I was told by my aunt to decide whether I would stay there alone or go to my other aunt. I preferred to go away, since it was pretty lonely up there alone.

I went to my other aunt and had some chitchat. I then sent a message to my cousin and asked if I could visit (note the word visit here). He said yes.

I went there and had a lot of things to do and talk about. I rediscovered Ragnarok again (they are still playing the game).

We played DoTA (Descent of The Ancients) for the first time. It was so much fun! You need not build a community; you need only create a hero of your choice and wham! Attack in stead. I discovered that Sentinels are better to use than Scourges.

I went to SM Molino with my two cousins. They were planning to play PRO at Netopia, however there was a problem. The Netopia there did not have an Internet connection. Dismayed, we went to Quantum (they had one there) and we bought tokens.

I did more than 700 combos in Dance Maniax 2nd Mix there. I did Mind Parasite, Meaning of Life and In My Dreams. It was broken by a wrong note in Baila Baila though. Aww.

When night came, my cousins that I was with earlier played basketball. My other cousin (the youngest within the three of them) and I played with a firecracker than pops under contact of force, such as when to throw it hard on the road or step on it. We battled by throwing it in immediate areas near my cousin and we ran as sparks flew beneath us.

We slept on the carpet for the night. I was fine with that, because there was an electric fan and pillows.

The next day we did some old stuff, like playing PVP in Ragnarok. I read again my compendium of puzzles and trivia there. We roamed around the village a little while, and bit a few chocolate.

We went to Greenhills for some shopping. It was the last day of the Pyro Olympics, so we expected traffic on the way back to Cavite. While at Greenhills we split up to two groups, one group of me and my 2 cousins, and the other of my other girl cousin with her brother and his girlfriend. We had to explore the tiangge to search for quality yet cheap clothes and accessories. We searched two out of the four existing malls (the fifth is still under construction). We also played DoTA there at Netopia and nearly reached the closing time.

We ate at McDonalds with loads of gravy, rice and fries. We were dead hungry (it was already 9 PM and we had not eaten snacks except for some chips and Pringles on the way there) and we took a lot of time digesting, because it was already nearing 9:30, and the Pyro Olympics would end at 10. So instead of going there in haste and come about watching a blank and black sky, we decided to try the night market. Ooh, more shopping.

When we went to Bay Walk, we had some drinks in the Grill something which had a karaoke night, which allowed people to sing there, in high and flat voices or whatsoever. As we watched the okray show (the criticisms there was harsh and funny), I sipped my watermelon shake. We then decide to go for the road.

We encountered the traffic caused about the firework contest. From Roxas Boulevard to the Petron Station at Macapagal, it took us two gruelling hours in a car that was running out of gas and needed to turn off the air conditioning. It was like a creepy sauna in there. It was so late in the night too.

We came to the house at 3 in the morning. After some chitchat we slept again on the carpet, exhausted.

I wondered why the water bottle of the guinea pigs (which my cousins owned) remained full despite of the guinea pigs coming about for water. We discovered that the water bottle was not dripping out water and the guinea pigs were dehydrated for days! When my cousin fixed the tube the guinea pigs went to the water bottle and drank water like crazy.

I tried out some purple rice given by a neighbour. It was purple. It was sweet, and it was purple. At any case, it was, and will be, purple.

I came home readying for the New Year.

It was all that I could write for now.

Ciao~

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