my mind wanders... on a thought of a green sunset

Sunday, April 30, 2006

If Symptoms Persist, Insult Your Doctor

[galing kay raphael... pra sumaya ako... hehe thnx!!!]

>Laughter is the best medicine... so dont overdosed it...
>Ang taong nagigipit...sa bumbay kumakapit
>Pag may usok...may nag-iihaw
>Dont judge the book by its cover... if u are not a judge or else you>will cover the book!
>Ang taong naglalakad nang matulin... may utang.
>No guts, no glory... no ID, no entry
>Birds of the same feather that prays together... stays together.
>Kapag may sinuksok at walang madukot, may nandukot
>Ang buhay ay parang bato, it's hard
>Walang matigas na tinapay sa gutom na tao
>Ang taong di marunong lumingon sa kanyang pinanggalingan .... ay maystiff neck.
>Birds of the same feather make a good feather duster.
>Kapag may tiyaga, may nilaga.
>Kapag may taga, may tahi.
>Huli man daw at magaling, undertime pa rin.

my mind fleeted at :10:15 pm ;

per'chocolate!

I didn’t have much to do. I then remembered “an idle mind is the devil’s workshop…” and well, I needed to do something to expunge this boredom.

That’s why I’m back to writing posts again.

Instead of being abstemious because I’m trying to be fit, I am currently indulging on Nutella, one of France’s finest bread spreads. From the makers of Fererro Rocher, Nutella is simply the melted form of the said chocolate without the actual nuts (it is just flavoured hazelnut)

I love chocolate.

We had a jar sent by my aunt from France. In fact, every family in the maternal side were given. The pistachios were long gone - they lasted only about an hour in the household.

Melted chocolate flowing from crackers, white bread, cookies, pancakes, spoons and human fingers - imagine that happening almost everyday to a 825-gram jar with a 10% gratuit (my aunt taught me this word - it means ‘free’) of melted Fererro in hazelnut flavour.

However just one spoonful of this saccharine sin spells calories. I mean food calories (1 food cal = 1 kcal = 1000 calories = enough to sustain a strenuous activity for half an hour). Speaking of strenuous activities, does lying down in bed, watching tv, sleeping and reading mean anything strenuous?

Since May 1 is a holiday, where the proletariat class could enjoy a day-off reduced in their taxes, our review is moved Thursday, so badminton was moved on Thursday, and I needed to play to burn off spoonfuls of those chocolate.

If we ever have vanilla ice cream, I’d know what to do.

Ciao~

my mind fleeted at :4:55 pm ;

Saturday, April 29, 2006

SH*T! [variables s times h multiplied to t factorial...]

Dahil na-bad trip na ako sa post ko kung saan kapag ilalagay ko na yung nasabing post e umuurong ang sidebar ko pababa... (Copy paste kasi un sa word e... )

Nagsusulat ako ngayon na umaandar ang oras at internet card.

Medyo na-iincline na ako sa math. Sa wakas! Dati kasi name-mental block ako sa Math. AT least ngayon marunong na ako mag-square sa utak.

Thursday. Pagkatapos ng review namin with Ms. Tina and Ms. Rose (ang galing ni Ms. Tina!!! parang si Ms. Rivera teacher namin, mas makulit version...) ay naglunch kami sa McDo DLSU branch.

Before that...
Si Ms. Tina ay ang aming English teacher at nagtuturo siya ng basic English. Balik elementary. Wee.

Example ng S-LV-C sentence (according to Ms. Tina)
He is hot.
[Tawa siya.. Tawa din kami...]

[Sabay bura... at sulat ng panibagong word...]

He is wonderful.

[Tawa na namin kami...]

Recitation... Examples ng Adjectives...:
[walang umiimik...]

[wala talagang may balak mag recite....]

Ms. Tina: Can't you think of something??? That's easy. You're looking at me, right???

[tawa kami sa sinulat niya...]

Pretty, quiet....

[At marami pang katatawanan sa klase niya.. kaso di ko na maalala.]

Si Ms. Rose, ok lang. Same old same old.

~

Balik sa lunch sa McDo. Puro chicken fillets lang kinain namin. Di natuloy yung diet plan namin ni pH kasi dapat salad lang kakainin namin. [on DIET kami!!! wahehe.]

Mabilis naman kaming natapos. Kaso ang tagal namin bago naka-alis... kasi inuna ni Aby ang girl talk with Yani bago ang kanyang nalusaw na coke float. Hehe hinintay namin sila.

At dahil magiging all-men's badminton play na naman kami... Pinilit namin si CM na sumama. Di sya makapag decide. Sabi ko humingi sya ng sign. Kapag nalaglagan siya ng dahon sa ulo sasama siya.

[sabay kuha naman ako ng dahon at ibinagsak sa ulo niya...]

[ay sh*t! nag-miss!!!!]

[pulot]

[ibagsak ulit]

[yessss!!!!]

At sumama si CM.

Pagdating sa badminton city, nagpalit na kami at napahiram si pH ng phone sa iba dahil hindi namin ma-contact si Niño. 3 lang kasi kami e.

sabi ko kay CM para kaming nasa loob ng microwave sa loob ng badminton city. I was oh-so-dead wrong. hindi pala microwave. para kaming nasa isang blacksmith furnace. Grabe ang init!!!

At una magkakampi kami ni CM versus pH. At dahil magaling mag-smash si pH e medyo nakakalito minsan kung saan at sino ang titira.

Dumating si Niño at naglaro din. This is the hard part. Kapag pH vs. niño, para kayong sumabak sa giyera nila pero di ka makakagalaw masyado. Naramdaman yun ni CM. Kaya madalas pinapasa ko sa kanya yung shuttlecock kaso yung mga tira ko napupunta kay niño.

At napagod si pH at Niño, naglaro kami ni CM, at ang saya, kasi ang tagal nung rally namin. weeeeee....

after badminton city, all fresh and ready to go na kami, kaso nagpumilit si pH ng bonding time sa sm. napilit niya kami at ng mcdo kami. natikam ko yung taro pie for the first time. hehe.

~

nagcheck ako atm.

usual... walang pera... maintaining balance lang.

hehe...

at umuwi na kami ni CM kahit na nagyayaya si pH ng billiards na medyop nakaka guilty tanggihan kasi madalang lang si pH humiling. kaso wala talaga akong pera at ayoko malagpasan ang tsubasa chronicles... sorry talaga!!!!

at sa bahay... puro tv lang muna. napanood ko na ung last holiday, {proof} at origins of the da vinci code sa wakas!!!! ngayon lang ako medyo na-tipuhan ang dvd marathon. hehe...

hehe... nood muna ng alice academy. kahit napanood ko na.

ciao~

my mind fleeted at :1:41 pm ;

Tuesday, April 25, 2006

Proficiency

Whooo... The first Nucleus review class made me feel sleepy all along. The proctors said we go there at 7, but they were just allowing time for students to find their sections, and knowing that we are Filipinos, they assume almost a lot would be late.

They are quite right, except for the few who went early, sleepless and panicky. I qualified for both descriptions, and found some other few people who were just too obedient.

You'd hate to follow instructions like that.

The sections were posted at the walls near the rooms. I was on Room 303 (a combination of Mascians and other students fro other schools). There few people I were familiar with, and mostly all of the people I knew concentrated on Rooms 302 and 301 (they were all Mascians).

We went on the classroom, at first strictly following the seat numbers. When a proctor came and said that for the time being we could sit anywhere... Pause.

Then scramble, like gremlins on a storm.

I sat next to Blessie Perez, a good friend of mine during the Second Year, and talked first about the room. It was a relief we had an aircon and a ceiling fan. We also have retractable walls. Imagine 1 big room, divided into three by folding dividers. From a room the other rooms wouyld look like a mental ward. The room had very thin black curtains. It was confusing whether they designed this room to be a classroom or a mental ward.

After about 10 minutes of the former conversation we jumped into anime. And the long talk went whoooooo..... Time passed us so......... slow.

It was nearly half past 8 when a tacher came. Her name was Ms. Frisco, and she was a UP Graduate, part-time teacher and a Mascian. (Go Masci!!!) She taught us General Science, and even had the time to make everyone introduce themselves.

Ms. Frisco explains well, however she was like Ms. Lazaro, who deviates from the subject and tells already topics a mile away from the subject, however in a much kinder way.

We had our modules, a binded collection of deadly questions, which were mismatched. Double pages missing pages, inversed pages... We had all kinds of pages. Nucleus should have their modules copied in a professional copier (the proctor said that UP students filed our modules).

Our next subject was general arithmetic. Our teacher, whom said we call her Miss Rose (I feel like an elementary student again!!!) was a bit like a common teacher. Quite strict and quite good. However the module blew almost all Mascians off because we hadn't gone far, like permutation and combination. One student there was a Math whiz; he knew his factorials well.

Sh*t!

[That reads sh times t factorial.]

Although the proctor (who kept appearing like a ghost in every room) told us that we were to be dismissed at 1, we got lucky. Miss Rose had a class at Diliman, so we could get a drift early.

The lunch people were Bea, Janica, CM, Aby, Anna, pH and me.

We were hungry, and we were deciding where to eat, and Philippe suggested the place named Wow! (he saw the sign while walking) with the menu of dried... hair. Wow! is a hair salon.

We went to Jollibee, and found an evacuation site on progress. We tried jaywalking twice and went to Wendy's again.

When everyone has ordered, we got one paper-lined tray filled with fries and ketchup placed on tissue paper. Everyone had their own burger, so the fries would be shared throughout.

Lunch was fun. We pictured CM in his nerdest form. He wore Aby's glasses, got two Nucleus modules and adjusted his jaw so his tooth would show. With his braces he was oh-so-nerdy. Bea went rambling about her former classmate, Frederico (don't know the spelling), who was in PBB. Bea said that Frederico teased her for a year when she was still at CSA, but since he was an Agustinian, she still had the flair for moral support.

After a good lunch, Janica went back to Nucleus for her diagnostic exam. We rode the LRT and CM went down on Pedro Gil Station because he had something to buy. The rest went to Badminton City and I checked my ATM account at SM.

I watched the four of them play (Niño didn't came, so they were exact for a doubles play) for about 20 minutes. I also left, because I was sleepy and I was going to watch Sweet Dreams at 4.

Whooo.. I'm tired. Ciao~

my mind fleeted at :9:04 pm ;

Monday, April 24, 2006

[Tsubasa no Ushiro ni Uta o]

These are the songs behind the wings.

1st Opening Theme of Tsubasa Chronicles
Blaze
by Kitano Kinya

Hatenaki yume motomeru shirube naki sekai de...

Kasanaru omoi kokoro tsukisasu kodou..
Shizuka ni tsuzuku tamerai mo nai uta

Tooku sora no kanata kara mazariatta bokura no kage
Hitsuzen to kimagure no naka shirusareta kioku
Surechigatta toki no uzu
Kuchihatetemo kimi no koe o shinjite

Hatenaki yume motomeru shirube naki mirai de
Boku ga hikari nakushitemo itsuka
Kimi ga tomoshitekureta kirameku mune no honoo
Tsubasa ni kawaru kibou no kakera

Yamanai ame to yasashiku nureru tsuki
Kiztsuitemo ii kaze ni yureyuku bojou

Kurayami mo tsuranuku shisen aoku sunda hitomi no oku
Zetsubou mo kodoku mo koete kizamareta shirushi

Yugandeku toki no hazama
Kawashita kizuna ni kimi o kanjita

Hakanaki michi o tadoru kotae naki sekai de
Fui ni mayoi tachidomatteru kimi yo
Mune kiramekasu kibou no asa e

Hakanaki yume motomeru kotae naki sekai de
Boku no negai todokeru kagayaku mune no honoo

Hatenaki yume motomeru shirube naki sekai de
Boku ga hikari nakushitemo itsuka
Kimi ga tomoshitekureta kirameku mune no honoo
Tsubasa ni kawaru kibou no kakera

1st Ending Theme of Tsubasa Chronicles
Loop
by Sakamoto Maaya
Nee kono machi ga yuuyami ni somaru toki wa
Sekai no dokoka de asahi ga sasu
Kimi no te no naka sono hana ga kareru toki wa
Chiisana tane o otosu darou

Fumikatamerareta tsuchi o michi da to yobu no naraba
Me o tojiru koto de mo ai kanaa?

Kono hoshi ga taira nara futari deaete nakatta
Otagai o toozakeru you ni hashitte ita

Supi-do (speed) o yurumezuni ima wa donna ni hanarete mo
Meguru kiseki no tochuu ni mata mukaiau no darou

Nee kono machi no yuuyami ga sariyuku toki ni
Kono namida tsuretette

Katarikakete kuru moji o shousetsu to yobu no nara
Todokanai kotoba wa yume kanaa?

Yodominaku nagareteku kawa ni ukabeta konoha de
Umi o mezashite kumo ni natte ame de furou

Tooi kimi no chikaku de ochita tane o sodateyou
Chigau basho de kimi ga kizuite kureru to iin dakedo

Kono hoshi ga taemanaku mawaritsuzukete iru kara
Chiisaku aketa mado no soto keshiki o kae
Watashi no aishita hana sotto mebaeru kisetsu de
Meguru kiseki no sono hate mata mukaiau no darou
Mukaiau no darou

Kururu mawaru kuru kuru to
Kuru kuru kimi no mawari o

my mind fleeted at :9:05 pm ;

Sunday, April 23, 2006

*Tired**Sleepy*

Yesterday, I went to a day where the activities were numerous. It all starts with the Nucleus diagnostic exam in Wesleyan College.

I came really late for the diagnostic exam. And I would have to take the other exam at 12:30. But that would keep me off schedule. I insisted on the fact that I would take the exam. I only had two hours left to answer a 275 item exam.

What greeted my eyes when the instructor gave me the questionnaire was preposterous. I felt that I was going to dwindle. And in some points I felt really fatuous. The exam itself was monolithic. After seeing these words at the Language Proficiency Exam, I felt macabre. The instructors were like… going to immolate us. [This is a joke. However the words in boldface appeared in the exam.]

The Science Proficiency part was easy, since almost all basic sciences were already tackled in MaSci in just three years. It was the turning point in which one could relax. For a bit though.

The Math Proficiency Test was ghastly at some points. Some items needed shortcut formulas, others needed the manus approach. Others needed a little bit of luck and a good guess.

Reading Proficiency was the turn-over. It was easy because it was just the matter of understanding to common sense to literary thinking.

After I rushed the exam, Philippe, Bea, Anna, Aby and I went to eat and inquire at the badminton court in the Rizal Sports Complex. When we reached the badminton courts (which were, according to Philippe, were taraflex courts) the rental for an hour was P234. That was too much. Badminton City offered P40 pesos on students.

We had called on Niño and told him to go to Starbucks in Vito Cruz. However we waited near the LRT stairway because we assumed that he’d take the LRT. However he took a jeep and Philippe saw him waiting at Starbucks.

We went to Wendy’s where we sat and talked about the exam a little bit. We ordered afterwards. Philippe and I ordered one-piece chicken and rice meals (which was a little troubling because we didn’t have drinks). Bea and Niño went to Jollibee to buy their lunch Aby and Anna ordered after us.

After eating and some “body part” talk and imagining Niño after twenty years, Aby, Anna and Bea went home while the remaining three went to Badminton City.

Our badminton play-off had sudden endings courtesy of Niño. He made the shuttlecock fly to unreachable places. After cooling down, we took an early drift to the shower room. It was nice, because we avoided the traffic of sweaty people vying for a cleaning cooldown.

Philippe and I rode a Tas Trans bus because I was going to Cavite and he was going home (to play again with his parents). We talked about particular pre-med courses, hotel rates, activities, and a possible food trip plan for BDT.

After going down the bus, walking some strides to a jeep, going down and walking again, and then another jeep, and then another jeep (the second jeep had mechanical problems, so we transferred) and a tricycle before I reached my cousins’ house for a celebration.

That’s one hectic day. I’m tired, and I need some sleep. Ciao~

my mind fleeted at :2:08 pm ;

Friday, April 21, 2006

Nalagpasan Ngunit Muling Binabalikan

Kapag may nalagpasan ka… Yung pinaka-nakaka-bad trip e yung malaman mo na marami kang nalagpasan. I missed this:

Jay-V Barit: kelan lumakad ang bdt?
Niño Joseph Paz: monday hanggang wednesday
Jay-V Barit: adik
Jay-V Barit: kwento m nga monday to wednesday
Niño Joseph Paz: monday...kming dalawa ni maton, nagparapara kami...ndi kami nakapagrevo... 15 credits...so naginternet kmi netopia for one hour....pagbalik sa quantum, 15 p rin ung credits..wow...
Niño Joseph Paz: tuesday....mike, cean, vanir, aby, maton, pH nagbadminton city kami...lunch sa mcdo...tpos nanood ng d lucky ones
Jay-V Barit: tpos
Niño Joseph Paz: wednesday... mike, maton, ako, aby, ph....naginternet sila ng umaga....tpos naglunch sa kfc...tpos nagbadminton city... tpos umuwi n si aby...tpos pagtapos laro, nanood ng Moments of Love....tpos nun kmi ni mike, maton, at ph kumain ng dumplings sa tabi ng supermarket...umalis kmi SM 8:30 n

I MISSED A LOT! Hay… Walang magagawa…

Naubos ata yung oras ko kaka-type ng mga letters at etc ng mom k… Hay.. Ang hirap pala maging secretary… Kasi dahil naka upo ka… may possibility na mag form ng blood clot sa legs.. causing thrombosis.. and its deadly and fatal.. tpos yung eye strain.. grabe…

At… natapos na rin. Waah nag tagalong ako ulet. Uki lang yun. Masaya naman ang buhay…

Ciao~

my mind fleeted at :8:50 pm ;

Case Cleaned and Ready for the World

I cleaned my drawer (which contained 90% used paper and 10% stuff) and removed all the garbage (which I might have thrown almost everything away). I removed all those paper wasted with scribbles (of boredom) in it. I also kept some things that reminded me of… Some things…

My New Clean Drawer contains:
1) a large card given to me on my fourteenth birthday
2) a Papemelrotti box given to me by Thea, also for my birthday, with some stuff she included “just for me”
3) a plastic envelope which contained
3a) my cross stitch project
3b) my embroidery project
3c) 5 pages containing 999 kanji
3d) blank sheets of bond paper
3e) an unfinished excuse letter when I was absent during clearance week
3f) unused crosswise, lengthwise, one-fourth sheet and intermediate pad paper
3g) a list of Japanese songs that I burned written in Japanese on a math notebook page
4) Kiwi shoe polish
5) Gibi shoe cream
6) A box filled with used crayons (collected over periods of time) with the childhood motto of art- "Crayons are made to be broken..."
7) 2 tiny (and I mean really tiny) baskets which we used on our Christmas tree 2 years ago
7a) with one basket empty
7b) and the other containing old dollar coins
8) a Gackt CD burned by Bea Montenegro (thanks!)
9) a CD of our cinematography project
10) a tiny glass vial with pebbles, a shell and green beads inside and corked
11) my English-Romanji-Kanji dictionary
12) a medical terminology book
13) a Manileño notebook with some stories about the first days of Hertz
14) a red box with a painting on its front (formerly a chocolate box) containing
14a) a Raganarok priest badge
14b) the Survivor’s Club badge for Science Camp
14c) a Ragnarok manga badge with Chaos, Loki, Lydia and Fenrir in it
14d) the ticket for “Ang Guro”
14e) a pack of unused Mongol no.2 pencils with 2 remaining pencils, one with the eraser already used
14f) 2 name tags I used during the start of the third year
14g) a silver bull-shaped bottle opener
14h) an angel figurine
14i) the chain which was formerly connected to my pocket watch
14j) 2 old Manila Science High School blue laces which I used for the first and second year
14k) an empty orange tictac box
14l) a small Papemelrotti pad with messages on top
14m) a pink laminated bookmark with the words “R.A.G.N.A. Party ~ Vote Thea Pias”
14n) a white notepad
14o) the password code for 4 months access in Infotrac Online Library (which was formerly attached to my Biotechnology book until I tore it off from its perforation)
14p) a card with a bouquet painting in front
15) 2 dysfunctional diskettes and another diskette full of physics experiment papers from second year
16) a heart shaped chocolate box with metal stuff in it and a rock with calcite imbedded in it
17) leftovers of my intermediate algebra notebook (consisting of useable graphic notebook pages)
18) a blue pencil case with
18a) a red pen
18b) an eraser
18c) a lot of pencils
19) my wallet which contains
19a) nothing
20) my old phone which I’m using again
21) my Gtech 0.3
22) my 3rd year ID

Since they were part of the 10% of the drawer, imagine the 90% of used paper that was present before I had the ATP to clean it up. Ciao~

my mind fleeted at :8:13 pm ;

Sunday, April 16, 2006

Tried and Tested

Who even thought I would do this. Thanks CM. I also got the word cloud.
I tried it - and its green. ^ ^

http://www.snapshirts.com

Ciao~

my mind fleeted at :7:08 pm ;

To Gamble, Repent, Cook and Take a Break

I’ve been out of the house for Holy Week. For the past 7 days I was in Cavite, and now I’m back home, a little bit nostalgic.

I am officially sleep deprived. Puyat. *yawn* I have been sleeping less and less for the past 3 weeks - since the official start of summer vacation, where slumber hours are becoming lesser by the days. I can’t cope easily with sleep reduction by sleeping whenever I want to do so because it keeps me awake at night. Since I can’t sleep, the whole twilight hours of Easter Sunday I was awake.

*yawn*

It starts with the Gospel of Judas. We watched the two-hour premiere of the lost evangelion written in ancient times. It was very discreet and short, and there were only a few truths that helped us ponder on how faith is constructed.

*yawn*

I slept at my cousins’ house, the house of my closest cousins, and stayed there for Holy Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. Without anything packed for me to stay there (clothes and such) I was given a new toothbrush and the permit to use my cousins’ wardrobe.

*yawn*

With the four of us together (me, and my cousins Jerico, Dave, and Reji) we were doing a lot of stuff for the summer.

*yawn*

During the Holy days, we were left in the house and we have to cook for ourselves. We had softened tapa (I learned the softening technique from my mom, which pounded the tapa with the knife blade), mashed potatoes with sautéed corn (which I learned from Emeril Live), pineapple crepes (one of my dessert specialties), smores pie (another thing learned from Emeril Live: Chocolate Festival). I also tasted a specialty dish - chicken in cream and pineapple syrup with carrots, potatoes and pineapple chunks.

I love cooking. I told them that I would prefer cooking everyday as long as I don’t wash the dishes - I hate washing dishes.

*yawn* *eyes are beginning to droop*

*pistachio break*

In Cavite, specific to the part of San Nicholas, Bacoor, the people there visit the Holy Week show Senakulo. It is a large field known as the Ilaya, and there is a stage in which they perform the trials of Jesus, usually sung. In Ilaya one could enjoy the senakulo, the food (composed of the seasonal bibingka, mami noodles and free tea, coupled with some hotdog stands and other food stalls), the rides (there is a small carnival there, with a bit boring cannonade of shooting games, a horror train, a Ferris wheel and a few rides that wouldn’t even raise adrenaline levels to a millimetre), and the main attraction: gambling.

*yawn*

There are two games available for the gamblers. The first is the color game, known as beto-beto. It is a game in which you bet amounts of money (lowest amount is dependent on the bangkero, the one who runs the stall) with a choice of 6 colors: red, blue, green, yellow, white and pink. There are 3 cubes; each cube has one of the colors mentioned. The cubes are placed unto a sloping drop-off. When the cubes are rolled down by a person (usually a bettor) the colors that appear will win. If a color appears once and you bet on that, let’s say P10, you will receive P20 (since they will return your P10 and give you another P10 for the winning color). If you bet on a color and 2 of that color appears, you will receive P30 pesos (P10+[P10x2]). When all cubes show your color, the return would be triple (if you bet P10, it would be P40).

*yawn*

According to my very lucky brother (who won almost P3000 for the Holy Week) it yields a 40% chance. I lost a lot of money. I am a born loser - to gambling, that is.

*yawn*

The next gamble is known as the sakla. It is a game played usually in funerals (a tradition in most Caviteños) and is also played for the Holy Week (since it is played in funerals, my guess is they matched it to the death of Christ).

In sakla, there are a lot of card pairs to choose from. You could bet in a card pair, or in sets of 2 or 4. When you win, your bet would be returned to you 18 times its original amount. If I bet P5 and I won, it would be returned P90. The winning card pair is determined by the deck shuffler or the balasador. When the pair of cards appears, the winning pair is in.

*yawn*

We enjoyed going to Ilaya, mainly for the tasty bibingka and free hot tea (concocted from Lipton tea bags and pandan leaves). We also gambled, and I lost all of my money (as aforementioned, I’m unlucky at this stuff).

*yawn*

I found some interest in reading a 1000+ page book about the Fundamentals of Nursing. I now know the pulse sites, the difference of systolic and diastolic pressures, eye muscles, respiration rates and other basics of nursing.

I finished reading Reader’s Digest for March and am currently reading the one for April. I liked the story on the Medecins Sans Frontieres (Doctors without Borders) in which doctors risk their lives in war zones and disaster sites to help people. I am aspiring for the job, and the topic has been a hot discussion whether I will take a double degree of try to qualify for a 6-year course.

*yawn*

Now I’m done. *drifts off to sleep*

*wakes a little bit*

Happy Easter! Ciao~

*doze off*

my mind fleeted at :5:30 pm ;

Friday, April 07, 2006

Lunar Blessings

May nabasa ako. Hay…

“There are people who need to have another person to give light to their life - like the moon reflecting the light of the sun. Not only that these kind of people wax and wane the light they reflect, sometimes they are fully endowed with it, sometimes they are not, and when the light of the sun fades the moon will be just an ordinary satellite, waiting to reflect on new light and shining upon others seeing the waxing and waning of the light.”

At idagdag mo pa ito…

“The moon is one of the very beautiful and mysterious orbs of the cosmos. Lifeless but shines within the light of the sun. It shimmers among the dark night, gleaming, empowered with such grace of change.”

Kung saan ko ito napulot, hindi ko rin alam. Ciao~

my mind fleeted at :9:39 pm ;

Enrolled and Ready for Summer

Madalas mahirap ang mahuli sa lahat ng bagay. Kadalasan kasi kapag nahuhuli ka marami kang bagay na malalampasan, at kadalasan importante ito sa mga susunod na pangyayari na magaganap sa buhay mo.

Minsan, hindi maiiwasan na mahuli.

Enrolment ko nung April 5. 8-9 ang meeting, tapos ang enrolment. Pinaalala ko ng paulit-ulit sa mga magulang ko ang tungkol dito dahil kadalasan kinakalimutan nila ang mga bagay-bagay. Hindi nga nila nakalimutan, kaso nagising na man kami ng 8. At Miyerkules pa, coding! Hindi namin magagamit yung sasakyan namin. Patay! Sobrang late na kami niyan!

Nag-bus lang kami ng mga magulang ko papuntang Masci, at nakarating kami ng 15 minutes to 10. Tapos na yung meeting with the principal. Tapos pagkarating pa lang namin punta kami kaagad sa UCB [under the comsci building] at na-enrol ako agad. Ang galing!!! Hindi na pumila yung mom ko!!! Napirmahan agad yung agreement. Kaso may konting aberya. Kailangan ng attendance sa meeting na hindi man lang nasilayan ng mga magulang ko. Sinabi na punta daw kami sa auditorium.

Eto yung cycle na pagdaraanan ng mga na-late sa meeting:

Akyat sa auditorium. Tapos papupuntahin kay Mrs. Apolinario. Hanapin si Ms. Chavez sa auditorium. Akyat papuntang audi. Wala siya doon. Magtanong. Punta sa guidance. Puntahan si Mrs. Arellano. Puntahan si Ms. Chavez sa Electronics Room. Nandoon siya. Kung naka-attend ka sa meeting, pirma niya ang nakukuha mo, jackpot. Kung hindi, pupunta ka sa office para kausapin ang principal bago mo makuha ang pirma.

Nang marating na namin ang part ng cycle kung saan kausap na namin si Ms. Chavez. Kung nagbasa kayong mabuti, malalaman niyo na hindi kami nakarating kahit isang segundo ng meeting na iyon [na according sa mga parents e hindi na kinakailangan masyado, sermon lang yun tungkol sa blah blah blah], sabi ng mom ko na na-late kami [true] tapos 15 minutes after 8 kami nakarating [false] at nakarating kami sa meeting [false] at nakalimutan niya magpapirma [false] kaya hinahanap ka namin Ms. Chavez [true] para magpapirma [true].

Ang lupet! Enrolled ako in less than 30 minutes.

April 5 din yung start ng outing ng Padolina. Kailangan ko pala ng snacks or kahit ano. Binigyan ako ng pambili at ng pambayad sa pool. Nag-meet kami sa Chow King sa Robinsons tapos namili kami ng drinks, ingredients ng pansit at ng konting chips. Weeee! We are ready to go!

Nandoon kami sa car nila Thea, kasama yung dad niya, si Michaelle, Jorge, Philippe, Jude, Nick Paul, Yani at ako. Sinundo namin si Ralph sa Magallanes. Ang haba ng biyahe kasi traffic sa SLEX, kasama pa yung joke ni pH na kung ang South Luzon Expressway ay SLEX, paano daw kapag South Expressway lang, at na sobrang habang paghihintay sa tollgate.

Pagkarating namin ng Solemar del Pansol, di muna kami nag-swimming [di kami excited] kaya nag-bilyar lang kami at nagbaraha muna kami. Nag-swimming lang kami noong mga 4 na. Dumating din sina Lorraine, Karen, Katz, Tita Yeta at Tita Arlyn nung nag-umpisa na yung swimming.

Masaya naman. Puro pictorial na nga lang e. Nagluto din kami ni Michaelle ng pansit [na tinatawag kong dog food dahil palpak iyon at kulang sa equipment at takip sa kawali] at nagkaraoke. Weee… masaya. Nag-twister din kami, tapos si Ralph at Katz ang nanalo.

Pagkatapos ng mga 5 rounds ng swimming at kulitan, natapos ang lahat noong April 6, 3 AM. Tulog na lang muna.

Nagising kami ng mga 6:30 at nag-breakfast. Bumili rin kami ng tubig kay Aling Kapuso. Tagal din namin hinintay ang Mendel, pero din a rin namin sila naabutan. Umalis na kami ng 10. Naiwan sina Philippe, Jude at Yani.

Weeee…. Tapos na… Hay… Sa wakas… Ciao~

my mind fleeted at :1:08 pm ;

Tuesday, April 04, 2006

Strings

Studying is painful. I know that for a fact. And I would like to take another language transition. I may seem impermanent, but sometimes it’s important to sometimes divert things, because constancy gives limits.

My tips of my fingers in my left hand were hurting real bad. It was killing me, and my teacher said that I should rest for the time being. He included that I must endure the pain or else I wouldn’t learn a thing.

So far, I am learning, and the pain is bad. I must learn one at a time. He told me that I must have patience and discipline in learning this.

My brother is very strict about my guitar lessons. I may not have lessons with others, since I have my brother there, but his close eye to detail makes the pain even more tormenting than expected.

My assignments:
1) Practice chord shifts.
2) Practice finger placements.
3) Perfect “Ang Huling El Bimbo” before I can learn a new song.
4) Everyday, for at least an hour, play the guitar.

That may seem little, but it’s a lot of work. I do however have a lot of summer days to endure the pain. Ciao~

my mind fleeted at :2:38 pm ;

Monday, April 03, 2006

Buhay Magsasaka

Sino nga bang nag-aakala na yung lunch ko aanihin ko pa? Naaliw ako, dahil bago kami mag-lunch, na-tripan ng mom ko manguha ng talbos ng kamote. Eto yung dialogue:

“Jay-V, kuha ka ng kutsilyo mo, ako kukuha rin. Punta tayo sa kabila. Kukuha tayo ng talbos ng kamote.”

Sabay kuha ng kutsilyo at lakad sa katabing bahay, kung saan walang tao at ipinakausap ng may-ari nito na bantayan ang bahay niya, at ito rin ang lugar kung saan nagtanim ang aking ama ng sari-saring gulay. Parang farm estate sa tabi ng bahay namin. Lakas trip.

Pagtungtong namin sa makeshift farm estate, nanguha kami ng talbos. Kaso, ‘di ko alam kung ano ba yung kukunin ko. Ano nga ba yung pwedeng kunin? Nabigyan tuloy ako ng isang komento.

“’Di ka pala pwede mabuhay sa bukid!”

Ouch. Pero medyo totoo na rin kahit papano, at nanguha pa rin kami. Naaliw ako sa experience kong iyon, dahil madalang lang makaranas ng buhay sa bukid, dahil sa buong Luzon, halos lahat ng dating taniman at gubat ay ngayon e kalsada, subdivision, office building at SM malls. Kaya minsan lang makaranas ng “farming experience”. Kung nanaisin ko man maging magsasaka, gagawin ko lang yun kung meron akong sariling lupa. At sa ngayon, ang isang sako ng garden soil ay 100, at kung makakagawa man ako ng isang hektarya, kelangan ko ng humigit kumulang 2000 sako. At wala pa akong mapaglalagyan nung garden soil na iyon, kung makabili man ako.

At dahil birthday ni Carlos at Yani ngayon, isang malaking “happy birthday!!!” sa inyo! Ciao~

my mind fleeted at :9:22 pm ;

Rewritten from Paper (Sayang sa tinta ng gtech)

April 1, 2006

Summer. Tag-init. Bakasyon. Isa ito sa mga masasayang panahon para sa isang estyudante dahil hindi magdurugo ang utak niya sa pag-aaral. Ngunit kung wala kang ginagawa, ang boring minsan. Ngayon ang unang araw ng bakasyon ko.

Sumasakit ang ulo ko sa panonood ng TV nang matagalan. Eye strain lagi ang napapala ko. Pagkatapos ng magang mga mata ay matinding sakit ng ulo, migraine. Kahit din sa paggamit ng computer, kapag nag-DotA ako ng tatlong oras mangangailangan na ako ng paracetamol. Masaya sana mag-internet, kaso ubos na yung internet card ko.

At dahil wala na rin akong magawa at mapanood na palabas sa TV, naiisip ko kumain. Kaso wala masyadong instant sa bahay naming. Walang tinapay, prutas o no-cook noodles. Merong patatas sa ref, pero hindi ako uod para kumain ng hilaw na patatas. Magluluto pa ako kung kinakailangan. Kung gugustuhin ko man ng instant, kailangan may pera para makabili sa tindahan. Kabibili ko nga lang ng Tofiluk at Cream-O kanina. Nguit kahit masarap ang matamis, nakakasakit din ito. Kaka-tonsillitis ko lang at umiinom pa ako ng antibiotic. At ‘pag sobra din ang nakain kong matamis, sumasakit ang ulo ko.

Pwede din ako mag-basa. Kaso, inaantok na man ako kapagnagbabasa ng libro. Laging ganito - dahil kapag nag-babasa ako, ‘di ako nakaupo dahil nakakangalay yun, kaya nakahiga ako. At masakit yun sa mata dahil kadalasan ang posisyon ko ay against the light. Siguro after 10 pages sasakit na ang ulo ko at ipipikit ko na ang aking mga mata. Idagdag mo pa ang simoy ng electric fan, tulog na ako. Kahit kapag nag-aaral ako para sa periodic exam, ganito ang eksena. Kaya siguro ang baba ng score ko sa exam na yun.

Masaya pala magsulat sa papel (Obvious bang kinopya lang ito sa papel? Wala na kasi akong mai-post sa aking munting blog. This parenthetical remark is not included in the original manuscript.). Nasanay kasi ako magsulat sa PC at kapag nagsusulat ako sa blog e naka-English. Since na-inspire ako magsulat sa Tagalog dahil sa Stainless Longganisa (nahiniram k okay Loraine kaso ‘di ko pa naisauli. Another excluded parenthetical remark.). Parang ang dami kong naisusulat sa papel. Mas naiintindihan ko ang mga naisusulat ko at mas nararamdaman ko ang kagandahan ng pagsusulat. Ano yun?!?!?! Basta, masaya.

Mahirap makakita ng matinong palabas sa TV. Palipat-lipat na ako ngayon, ‘di tulad dati na sa isang channel lang ako nakatuto. Marami akong gusting panoorin sa National Geographic kaso puro hayop kadalasan ang naaabutan ko. Hindi ko type yung mga animal shows maliban lang sa World’s Funniest Animals ng Animal Planet. Personal favourite ko ang mga crime/disaster-solving shows, so inaabangan ko ang 3 CSIs (Las Vegas, Miami, New York), FBI Files at New Detectives ng Discovery Channel at Air Crash Investigation, Interpol Investigates at Seconds from Disaster ng National Geographic. Naaliw na rin ako sa channel na Crime/Suspense.

April 2, 2006

Aliw! Bumili yung kuya ko nang Ultraelectromagnetic Jam. Music ng Eraserheads na ni-revive ng mga artists of today. Ang saya!!! Kasi dati nung bata ako hindi ko ma-appreciate yung Eraserheads. Ngayon lang ako natuwa. Maganda pala.

Ngayong araw na ito nagkakagul kami sa preparation ng green mango shake. Specialty ng blender namin kapag summer. Kailangan mo ng manggang hilaw, yelo at puting asukal (walang angal sa recipe!). Nagkakatalo sa pagkakasunodsunod ng sangakp sa blender. Yung sa akin kasi, mango tapos asukal na may kaunting tubig na ipu-puree, saka ihahalo yung chunks ng yelo. Yung sa kuya ko yelo muna tapos mangga tapos asukal. Kaya nagkakaiba sa timpla. Pero masarap pa rin yung shake.

Napag-usapan namin yung Moments of Love. Sabi ng mom ko maganda. Kapapanood lang nila yun kagabi. Hindi daw boring. Nasabi ko na dati may nag-comment na ginaya lang yung story board ng movie - dalawang tao na magka-iba yung panahon tapos yung connection nila nabubuo sa tulong ng isang bagay. Pero hindi ba dapat ang titignan mo yung kung paano nila idedeliver yung story board na yun? Kaya dapat panoorin muna bago mag-comment. Kung parehong-pareho yung movie sa isa pang movie with the same story board, dun sila mag-away tungkol sa plagiarism at illegal copying.

Ang init! Nagbukas na ng aircon yung mom ko. E ang init talaga! Napabili na nga kami ng Twin Popsies e. Hati kami ng mom ko sa orange. Yung mga kuya ko choclate. Kaso mukhang 5 minutes lang ang epekto ng Twin Popsies. Pagkatapos ng limang minutong ginhawa e tutlo na ang pawis mo at hihilingin n asana may snow sa Pilipinas sa gitna ng Abril.

2:30 pa lang ng hapon gutom na ako. Gutom na rin ung iba, kaya naatasan ako magluto ng macaroni soup. Kaso corned beef ang pangsahog. Wala masyadong lasa ang corned beef. Tapos ‘di ako gumagamit ng vetsin o broth cubes kapag nagluluto. Kaya medyo naguluhan ako kung paano titimplahin yung soup.

Ang init talaga! Kaya Habang nasa aircon ako, binuksan ko yung TV at nanood ng Air Crash Investigation (ang galing, sakto ako sa palabas!). Pinasabog ng US yung Iranian commercial flight 655 dahil akala nila F 14 fighter plane yun tapos meron na yung silang (yung crew ng carrier ng US) scenario-fulfilment syndrome kung saan sa takot nila maatake kahit yung data sinasabi na passenger flight yung IR 655 e nag-act sila on impulse at nag-fire ng missile. Laki ng death toll. 290, crew included.

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Yikes! Laking language change sa blog. Magsusulat pa rin ako sa English pero trip ko muna ngayon Tagalog. Ciao~

my mind fleeted at :12:56 pm ;