Lalalalalala...

Wala lang.

Lalalalalala...

Nothing here to fear
I'm just sitting around
being foolish when there
is work to be done
Just a hang-up call
and the quiet breathing
of our Persian
we call Cajun on a Wednesday

Iibahin ko na siguro layout ko, kasi May na. I'm the only one who actually looks at it often, but I know you get to see it when you post a comment, so . See, I do it every month now. I'm a sad person, I know. And I'm not even a good graphic artist person. Bear with me. I can only do so much with paint and that XP picture fax viewer thingie. I used to have this neat Adobe thing, but I lost it.

Anyway, I think I'm going to go Strange Little Girls this time. I haven't done that one yet, I think.

Words like violence
break the silence
Come crashing in
into my little world

Social relevance? Nada. Sorry.

When I get my comp back I'll make it better, I pwomise.

-Joma, on crazyassslow dial-up.

Whoa. My blog is all black and red and white and angsty again. I don't like my background too much though--looks more like a web than broken glass--but it'll do.

Next Tuesday I'll have to sing *shudder* for my English 11 class. I hope I don't suck, because I get a grade for both song choice and performance. I'm pretty sure I can get a good grade for the paper I'll have to do for the song (a 1.75 probably, the only grade I've been getting so far... consistent!).

I chose "Josephine" by Tori, which I think is an aymayzing song, and a good example of poetry, albeit a bit vague and muddled up. There's a nice history to it too, about Napoleon and his wife Josephine, which I'll have to explain within the two minutes I'll be having. Click here if you're interested. For me to say "there's a nice history to it" is a good thing. I must be growin up.

Speaking of singing, it would seem that the a house behind ours has been converted into a karaoke bar, and they've been karaokeing for the last few nights and driving me nuts. My room, by the way is at the back of the house, so I get near-front row seats to this atrocity. (My brother has it worse since he's on the first floor.) Wonderful. 

They just have to turn it up loud enough for the neighbors and the neighbors' neighbors across the block to hear. God. I just wish they could keep their "singing" to themselves. At least I admit to myself I can't sing.

 

Currently dreading Tuesday.

Parang ang daming kailangan gawin.

I wish I could be just like those other people who just go out and play DOTA every day. Except I don't really want to it every day, just every other day. Which is a bit like what I'm doing already. Hm.

My Pressing needs:

- Finish my paper on the poemsong, due tomorrow

- Start on my other paper, for which I need to find The Pearl and read The Little Prince again

- Study my part for Midsummernight'sdream because I don't know where the spaces go

- FOPC (otherwise known as pambabasurero, which reminds me, f*ck I don't have newspaper yet. Raining PET bottles on me tho)

- Semender thing. Gah. Food. Buko salad. Transpo. Coding. The rents. Conflict with DOTA. Boohoohoo. (Then again, it is an overnight thing anyway, so there's no stopping me from arriving late, unless something else happens)

I wanted to bring my camera tomorrow coz I saw something interesting across the math building. But then I realized I had to marshall in blue tomorrow. Hmp.

My mom bought me Gary, of Spongebob fame when we were out on Mother's day. We were in this to store, and I saw it and I told her that that was what I wanted as pasalubong when she was in the U.S. Then she went okay I'll buy it for you and bought it. Love ya mom.

*miaw* Doing my paper now.

 

*edited to add the title and to say that the clause at the bottom of the pop-up emoticons window lies!

*mwaw* *maw!* *rowrr* *purrr* *mwaw* *maw!* *rowrr* *purrr* *mwaw* *maw!* *rowrr* *purrr* *mwaw* *maw!* *rowrr* *purrr*

Love ya mom.

I should be studying for my exam tomorrow, and I will. *sigh* I can't believe we're having an objective exam on poetry. Good ghad. In one part of the exam, we're going to be given a line from a poem and we have to identify the title and the author. Feels like Pagsi all over again. Somewhat. Ugh.

Then I have to read Oedipus Rex. And start on learning my lines from Midsummernight'sdreamwhosespacesIdonotknow. Sucks.

Turns out I might be playing DOTA tomorrow after all, or maybe not since I won't be out until about five, or whenever our meeting lets up. I missed my org's sem-ender because of class and F-riggin-OPC meetings. Geh. Ack. Bleh.

Now I have to do a tour-and-rank of UP's bathrooms. On the CMC side of UP. So that basically makes it almost all the buildings for public use. This should be interesting.

Oh. In case you're wondering, oh dear, dear reader, I got a 1.45 on my Josephine song presentation. I guess that's okay. And I got a 2.45b8s#7v8&h*8cja on my exam. I don't think my teacher does math very well. She always gives me a 1.75.  Plus that weird exam grade.

Othwise, she's pretty okay. I think we overanalyze a tad too much though. But it's all good. Well, not really. But who cares anyway. We're having F-U-N!

Must go back to studying.

*mwaw* *maw!* *rowrr* *purrr* *mwaw* *maw!* *rowrr* *purrr* *mwaw* *maw!* *rowrr* *purrr* *mwaw* *maw!* *rowrr* *purrr*

My mom rocks.

Because babelfish.altavista.com is my friend.

Like my friend, Mr. CSS, I have begun (okay, not really, but for dramatic effect) to consider what being in my course/college/university will lead to.

For the life of me, I can't imagine myself as a director. I can tell people what to do and stuff, but I can't think of it as a real job for me. It'd be nice to be some indie avant-garde filmmaker/artiste hotshot, but I'm no visionary, really. I'm a bit screwed-up/creative/artistic, sure, but not like a lot of other people I could mention.

I'd think that the only thing I should be making films for is the country. I know it's idealistic and pakabanal, but I believe it's true. But then, I'm not at all that patriotic. I sucked at social studies. I can hardly write/speak good Filipino for godssakes. I have little social commentary to give. I can't "save" the country with good films. I don't even know if I'm going to be any good at all.

I guess I'll just go into scriptwriting or TV work. I guess I'd do commercials and music videos. But, fuck, I don't want to fade into obscurity like everyone else.

What I'd really want to be in is photography. I haven't managed to suck at it that much, andI enjoy it. I'd love to go into commerical photography. Okay, what I'd really love to go into is advertising. Print ads, TV ads, radio ads, etc. Only thing that's making me doubt going into it is the competition, and the pressure (from what I've heard, advertising has a lot of those). My English 10 teacher once told us she thinks there are too many ad executives in the country. So... seriously reconsidering.

Hmm... PLUG-IN

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So I said before that I was doing this article for the FOPC. I'd appreciate it if you comment on the bathrooms in the buildings on the CMC side of the academic oval. So that's from NCPAG to the Alumni Hotel. Tell me anything, if you've seen roaches, rats, murder, suspicious behavior, ANYTHING. Also, rate from 1 to 5, 5 being the highest. Your efforts will be greatly appreciated.

Where I've gone to so far (only talking about the gents CR, mind you):

MassComm - Five bathrooms, two on each wing, plus the basement. There isn't any water in either the film part, or the library part. Mostly clean. Main bathroom closest to entrance have windows looking out onto the driveway. Grade: 4 (so I'm biased. Sue me.)

Music - Two bathrooms, I think, or maybe three. The main one, in the old building, usually looks like its out of order. Seems to have running water. 3.

Theater - I distinctly remember it being pink. I may be wrong. And not as clean as I would have thought it would be. 3.

Film center - Pretty. Has stained glass windows. Blue tile. Can also be quite creepy. Otherwise, very pretty. And clean. And all in working order, as far as I know. 5.

Eng'g - Bathrooms at the ends of the hall. Pretty much like the AS bathrooms, which are generally clean and orderly, but engg's are smaller and creepier, but only because of the large concentration of frat boys around. 4.

Vanguard - Ecch. No water. Stinks like hell. 1.

Alumni center (actually bowling center) - Banyo ba 'to? More water on the floor than in the faucet. 1.

Bahay ng Alumni - Bathrooms both on ground and second floor. Ground has a pretty picture before you go inside. Not that clean. Some of the faucets don't work. Lots of mirrors. Spacious. Upstairs sucks, pretty much the same, only smaller. 3.

Shopping Center - You pay two bucks. Need I say more? Looks like any run-down toilet you see in gas stations. Avoid as much as possible. 1.

Chapel - Also has two-peso pay. I only got to use the urinals, but I'm pretty sure there was a sink and a toilet there. Pretty clean. Okay enough. 3.

Alumni Hotel - Pretty. Clean. Has soap. 5.

More bathroom testimonials tomorrow.

Because I'm a sicko, for all you gym boys out there (it's a pic. and you drag the link):

Ouch. Of course, you'll have to see the whole Nightmare on Elm Street movie (the fourth one, Dream Master) to fully appreciate it. I first saw it back when I was nine or something, and it never left my head.

I should be reading The Pearl and The Little Prince and mulling over how uncanny it is that these two books return to haunt me from The Pagsi Experience, and how high school bit me in the ass, again. I should be writing a paper right now. Maybe I shouldn't bother. I'll probably just get a 1.75, as always. Meh. Klah. Seething... Burning... Hate...

Okay, enought with the whining. And now... I have nothing to talk about.

I did find this. Item building is fun! A bit outdated, but woo!

Weird how I can understand Midsummer Night's Dream. I could hardly read Romeo and Juliet and Hamlet back then, and now it's like, "I'm getting it! " It can be pretty funny sometimes. I doubt whether those parts are the jokes though.

Back to work, now.

Initially I was going to put "Blasphemy!" but this'll do.

Earl Javier
-likes going outdoors
-Elizabeth Sipon Siton School <--(yes, I'm an idiot.)
-free time: goes to park
-zoology and botany
-sketching flowers

Dale Quimpo
-fun person
-reads about military stuff, fairy tales, fantasy
-people are fun
-everybody votes for him when he runs for a position

Carlo Lazaro
-Grand Villas, walks to school
-watches TV first thing in the morning
-dreams of movies

Earl Young
-avid reader
-classics, war
-student from Grace Christian H.S.

France Go
-from Colegio de San Agustin Makati
-plays PS, fighting games
-hurts his fingers from playing

Trevor Monsod
-lazy person
-does HW in school
-thinks of sleeping all the time

Jerome Villanueva
-from Southridge school
-gaming addict
-plays for half a day-Counterstrike, Half-Life
-dies of boredom without game

Amusing. Then there was that damned quiz. Why in J.C.'s name would you have a quiz about your classmates? And I could've sworn Jomel was in there too. Oh well, no nostalgia for you then, Jomel.

Due to the likeness of my Eng11 class to The Year That Was Pagsi, I looked through my old notes and remembered stuff. Like how Pagsi didn't seem to take a liking to me, or how I didn't really care much, or how it wasn't my fault that That Chinese Guy at the Back passed his paper late, and I totally misunderstood how I shouldn't have been writing notes on that Julius Caesar game thing. 

Oh, and there was That Conflict with Amarra and Pagsi. "Not thinking straight" my ass. You're the one who's not taking your crazy pills, o wonderful teacher. And not taking your crazy pills is a very, very bad thing.

And I remember the LitMag thing. Hehe. I thought that hot, famous actresses bit Jacoba did was great. We had four years of inescapable bonding ahead of us. Why would we need to do write-ups on the class?

Back to the Real World now. This is what my tentative sked for the next sem looks like, if want a look. You know you want to.

 MonTueWedThuFriSat

7:00 - 8:30	Anthro 10 MHQ-2 [PH 402]			Anthro 10 MHQ-2 [PH 402]
8:30 - 10:00	Comm 100 MHR [M 213]	Art Stud 2 TFR-1 [PH 213]		Comm 100 MHR [M 213]	Art Stud 2 TFR-1 [PH 213]
10:00 - 11:30	Geog 1 MHU2 [PH 204]			Geog 1 MHU2 [PH 204]
11:30 - 12:00
12:00 - 1:00		PE 2 ST TFG [V 300]			PE 2 ST TFG [V 300]
1:00 - 4:00		Film 112 TWX			Film 102 FWX

(Boringness. For UPD students.)

Our last day of English11was kinda fun. Our group's skit pretty much sucked for the most part, but I think we handled it well enough. Plus we had props and music and shit, so how can we not come off as prepared? And we had food. All that forgetting our lines biz was just nerves. Hope we get good grades.

Anyway. No more classes! Yay! Now I just have to avoid FOPC as much as possible. Hehehehe.

Ang kulit. (Kung napanood mo yung Star Wars, alam mo kung ano iyan.)

Hahahaha. Nakakatawa sked ko ngayon.

(Yung pula yung hindi pa sigurado)

 MonTueWedThuFriSat

7:00 - 8:30	Anthro 10 MHQ-2 [PH 402]			Anthro 10 MHQ-2 [PH 402]
8:30 - 10:00	Comm 100 MHR [M 213]	Film 112 TRU		Comm 100 MHR [M 213]
10:00 - 11:30	Geog 1 MHU3 [PH 206]			Geog 1 MHU3 [PH 206]
11:30 - 12:00	Art Stud 1 MHV-2 [PH 213]			Art Stud 1 MHV-2 [PH 213]
12:00 - 1:00		PE 2 ST TFG [V 300]			PE 2 ST TFG [V 300]
1:00 - 4:00					Film 102 FWX

Bwisit na Film 112 iyan. Hindi ko makuha-kuha. Iyan tuloy, kailangan kong ikansel yung Art Stud. Meron pa akong 7 am na klase na naka-enlist sa TF. Walang kwenta. Kung matuloy iyun, may malaking butas ng wala akong ginagawa sa Friday class ko. Hahaha. Teka, tanggalin ko na nga.

Takot ko lang kasi, baka maleyt ako ng todo doon sa MTh 7 am na klase ko, parang last sem. Last sem kasi, puro kraming sa umaga, eh minsan hindi na ako pumupuntang klase dahil doon. Kaya sana, sa sem na ito, hindi ko na siya gawin. *nods*

So Biyernes, class ko 12 magsisimula. Nyeta. Hahahaha.

Bwisit din ang Destiny. Noong Sabado kasi, nag-plaktiyuweyt ang kuryente, at nawala ang mowdem (pilit). Natawagan lang namin sila nang Lunes, at dumating sila ng Martes para ayusin siya. Eh ang nangyari ngayon, isang kompyuter lang ang pwede maka-akses ng internet, eh dapat dalawa. Bwisit. Grrrrr...

(Only because you care soo muuch.) Ito na yung mukha ng sked ko:
MonTueWedThuFriSat 8:30 - 10:00 Comm 100 MHR [M 213]     Comm 100 MHR [M 213]     10:00 - 11:30 Geog 1 MHU3 [PH 206] Geog 1 MHU3 [PH 206] 11:30 - 1:00 Art Stud 1 MHV-2 [PH 213] Art Stud 1 MHV-2 [PH 213] 1:00 - 4:00     Film 102 FWX

Nawala yung PE ko kasi nakisangkot ako kina Jomel at Tony sa Saturday tap-dancing class na hindi tumuloy. Hahahaha. Pero okay lang, kakayanin. Tulad ng sinabi ng aking English11 teacher, baka ito'y isang "blessing in disguise."

Bwisit lang nga yung Film 112 na iyan. Walang kwenta. Nilipat ko na nga sa umaga, ayaw pa rin bumigay.

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Pupunta dito si Neil Gaiman sa July! Rockwell sa 9! Some other Fully Booked branch sa 10! Isa pa sa Gateway! May Fully Booked na nga pala sa Gateway! Wheeeeee!

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Nagdrive ako ulit kanina. Pero 30 minutes lang kasi natraffic kami papunta doon. Pero isang beses lang ako namatayan. Ang saya ko. Umaambon pa iyun a.

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Parang gusto kong magkasariling digicam. Tapos gawin kong semi-photojournal 'to. Pipikitiyuran ko lang yung mga kinukunan ko sa SLR tapos i-uupload ko. Niyek. Hahaha.

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Amboring. Tama na nga.

edited to say:
Hey! Look! I have linky things at the side! Anyhoo, if you don't want to see your real name (oh noes) there, just drop me a line and I'll change it. I also plan to fix it so all my "tabulas friends" won't be added to my links page. And I'll fix it so it isn't just one long, fugly line. But that doesn't concern you anyways.