9.7.09

Back. Finally.

Oh. It's been a long time since I last updated this pala. And yey, I'm finally back! School kept me busy for a while. Well, make that "...as always. What's new?"

Planner for the Sophomores are finally out! Yey! I was surprised today that the planners are already here! Yey! Yey! Yey! And I'm so proud of its outcome! Just the way I envisioned it to be, as its designer. :)

More yey! that the people actually liked it, considering that it's a first for me. Wow! I really should pursue this career, you know. More into the artsy-fartsy thingy.

Will definitely post pics soon...

Now back to reading Property cases. 6 down. 10 to go.

23.5.09

Havaianas, the Pinoy Way

There’s nothing like a comfy pair of flip-flops to get you through the day. Once used only in homes, rubber flip-flops have become fashion must-haves fit for almost any occasion.

This season, it’s easy to slip past the plain and ordinary, and step into perfect, personalized style with Make Your Own Havaianas 2009. Visit the Rockwell Tent from May 28 to June 1 during mall hours, and you can create your own work of contemporary art by customizing a pair of stylish Havaianas.

With nearly all the hues of the covetable Havaianas collection available as your palette, there are hundreds of possible combinations of soles and straps for Men and Women, in the popular Top and Slim styles.

Also available are different pins for embellishing your masterpiece, from sleek Swarovskis so you can unleash your inner chic to Lifestyle Pins so you can show off your inner soul. Lifestyle pins range from peaceful Yoga poses to funky, vintage tellies.

This year, Make Your Own Havaianas will also be offering an artistic treat for Havaianaticos by allowing them to parade their Filipino pride with Culture Pins featuring symbols of their unique and colorful heritage, such as wide-eyed Tarsiers, vibrant vintas and much more.

Styles, colors, sizes, and embellishments are available until supplies last, so be the first to flip-flop your way to Make Your Own Havaianas 2009!

13.5.09

A Pre-Birthday Special

Two days before my 22nd birthday, Sek gave me a surprise visit and this....

It's a mini-cake with the beach theme which she herself made.
My friend Sek (whose real nickname is Iwi) has been doing this hobby lately
and I think she should pursue it as a business.
Seriously.

It would have been an alcoholic theme
because for them, I'm alcoholic.
But I'm not. Hahaha!

But good thing it was a beach theme
because I just love the sun, sand and the beach!
Tan tan tan!

I can't wait to taste this cake.

Again, thank you Sek and Timi!
Thank you for remembering!
I can't thank you enough!

Awwww....

P.S. Can't wait for what's up on Friday.
Excited!

10.5.09

The Supremacy of Love

If I speak in the languages of humans and angels but have no love, I have become a reverberating gong or a clashing cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy and can understand all secrets and every form of knowledge, and if I have absolute faith so as to move mountains but have no love, I am nothing. Even if I give away everything that I have and sacrifice myself, but have no love, I gain nothing.

Love is always patient; love is always kind; love is never envious or arrogant with pride. Nor is she conceited, and she is never rude; she never thinks just of herself or ever get annoyed. She never is resentful; is never glad with sin, but always glad to side with truth, whene'er the truth should win. She bears up under everything, believes the best in all, there is no limit to her hope, and she will never fall.

Love never fails. Now if there are prophecies, they will be done away with. If there are languages, they will cease. If there is knowledge, it will be done away with. For what we know is incomplete and what we prophesy is incomplete. But when what is complete comes, then what is incomplete will be done away with.

When I was a child, I spoke like a child, thought like a child, and reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I gave up my childish ways. Now we see only an indistinct image in a mirror, but then we will be face to face. Now what I know is incomplete, but then I will know fully, even as I have been fully known.

Right now three things remain: faith, hope, and love. 
But the greatest of these is love.

-1 Cor 13

9.4.09

Nerd Herd.





Yes, I am crushing on Chuck.
Any problem with that?
I've been dating him almost everyday.

Nyek!
I'm just into watching Chuck these days.
Since Gossip Girl and Privileged are on break.
Oh, even Ugly Betty.
So might as well use my precious time to date him.
Hahaha!

Who would have thought that nerds could also be so gwapo?

I officially heart Chuck.

Busy here. Lazy there.

04.13.09. The day when incoming freshmen (SY 2009-2010) become excited to enter yet another chapter in their lives, the law school (Are you crazy? You're entering the anti-social law school!) I remember the day when I myself had my registration, and I will never forget such date. Although memos told us that registration for the first batch of incoming freshmen was from 7AM to about 7 to 8PM, I wasn't that excited and even slacked off, going to school only at about 5PM to register. Initially, I've wanted the afternoon session because (I didn't want to miss any of the telenovelas--kiddin') I don't think night class would work for me and I heard that evening professors are, um, not-so-much-pleasant-with-the-students. As I chose my preferred session in the tiny computer lab, I found myself not having any choice at all since the evening session was the only one available for us slackers. Apparently, the afternoon was selling like hot cakes. 

Going home disappointed for not getting my preferred session, I asked my dad to do some magic so I can transfer to the afternoon classes without having to miss bonding moments with my potential blockmates. But my dad insisted that I stick with the evening class. And I'm so glad he did. Aside from the leakage that I may be able to get from the afternoon session, I can use the entire afternoon to prepare for class. But because of that, I became a vampire on my own, sleeping at about 4-7AM and waking up after lunch, skipping meals, and having only 1 half meal a day. Yes, 1 half-meal a day. 

On 04.13.09, I will now represent the Sophomores (yes, sana lang pumasa) in helping out with the OrSem Registration. I've been a bit lazy these days doing some artworks for OrSem--invites, logos, IDs, tarps, manual, shirts. Plus the marketing packages which I have yet to finalize so we can start bugging companies and firms to give us some moolah. And I'm really excited to see new faces in school next year! (Sana maraming gwapo! Please lang Lord, para lalo ako ma-inspire mag-aral. Joke! Basta sana maraming gwapo!)

Anyway, that's all. Will keep you posted soon.

P.S. April 30 is the date set for the release of our 2nd Sem grades, sana lang kumpleto ah! Please do pray for me that I pass. Well, if not, PSID, here I come!

2.4.09

If frustration isn't the word, then what is.

As most of you know by now, I wasn't able to go to CamSur (I can hear you laugh, nerdo!) with Icha, Rina, Kay, Lai, Christian, Vlad, and Gelo (the trip which Icha and I eagerly prepared for months!) because I had to stay here in Manila. I won't explain what really happened. But in a nut shell, my parents had to recall their permission in letting me go because of safety measures. They probably saw Taken. But I doubt they did. So there. Now I'm stuck here in Manila waiting for the results of the bar exams (which will be released tomorrow, by the way).

I just want to go home, sleep on my bed and eat Yaya's food. Plus, watch TV series and movies. Plus go to Subic and hit the nearest beach I see.
I also want to go to Anawangin and Putipot in Zamba and push through with CamSur.
Who wants to go with me?!

29.3.09

Why I explain...

Silence, 
because of its ambiguity, 
lends itself to error, 
but there may be circumstances 
where silence may be as eloquent 
as the express manifestation of the will.

-Tolentino, in his commentary on the Civil Code

But I must admit
I still believe that
there are some things
better left unexplained

Logic and Wasted

What I like about Atty. Dy is he knows what quotes to get. But as to how he makes his exams, hay. No comment.

"WASTED of course, is not about violence. It is about intesity, passion and most of all LOVE.


When you're in love, you know it for sure because there is no middle ground, no maybes, no ifs, no buts, no doubts, no 'I still need to figure things out.' Love grabs you and wraps its arms around you and you helplessly surrender. (True, very true.)

'When you love someone, then that's it! You just can't past that on to someone else.'

Of course you can't. People get themselves into relationships because they need sex, they need someone to go out with on Saturday night, they need to forget their last significant other or they feel thei self esteem suffers without someone sending them text messages six hundred times a day. 

The more honest among us will admit that's all bullshit. And being with someone for those reasons still leaves you emplty and still leaves you searching for that one person who can make you happy and complete. Relationships like that are like buying canned pineapple chunks -- you know there's an expiration date in there somewhere. 

The danger of falling in love is that private hell one goes through when that one love is taken away. x x x. 

So children, if you've found love that truly makes you happy, understand how incredibly lucky you are. That sort of thing only happens once if the gods smile upon you and rarely do they give poor schmoes like us a second chance at it. If you're living a relationship that's a life, I know you won't take my advice but believe me, you're better off alone! And, if you've taken for granted love that's real and special, then be afraid. Be very afraid."

---- From "Be Afraid" (21 May 2002), an Introduction by Karen Kunawicz to the final edition of Gerry Alanguilan's graphic novel "Wasted"

25.3.09

I can relate to a couple...

1. On the first day of the Mango sale, the sister of my friend was looking around and picked up a dress when a woman at the counter started screaming, “Put that down, that’s mine!” The sister of my friend looked up, looked the woman up and down, raised an eyebrow, and replied, “Excuse me. You are NOT a ’small’”

2. A supervisor once told a worker who has difficulty in understanding instructions, “Ang ulo, hindi lang yan pinapatong sa leeg, ginagamit din yan sa pagiisip.”

3. A friend told another friend, “Naku, magma-makeup muna ako, baka magmukha akong yaya mo.” The other friend replied, “Wag na, magmumukha ka lang yaya ko na naka-makeup.”

4. I told my then boyfriend during a fight, “Even on your smartest day, you’re not half as smart as I am on my dumbest!”

5. “Ako, I was born beautiful. Ikaw, you were just born.”

6. A letter posted on a car windshield in UP: “Sir/madam, the parking space that we have reserved is for the College Secretary, not for you. Guard.”

7. When I saw a friend I haven’t seen in a long time, she told me, “Grabe, lalo ka pang tumaba!” So I told her, “Ikaw din, lalo ka pang pumangit!”

8. Pag sinisingitan ako sa pila, nagpaparinig ako. I say, “Ang pilang ito, according to beauty. Mga panget muna.”

9. “Unlike you, tinuruan ako ng mga magulang ko na hindi pumatol sa may asawa.”

10. From the movie She’s The Man: “Girls with an ass like mine don’t go out with boys with a face like yours.”

11. “Maliban sa mukha mo, ano pang problema mo?”

12. I once told an officemate who kept on bragging about her new shoes, “Sale, right?”

13. I pointed a “7 items or less” sign to a clueless pasosyal at the supermarket. She bitchily answered, “I can read!” Sabay irap. So I shot back with, “I know, but can you count?”

14. “Tuwing nakikita kita, gusto ko mag-sorry sa eyes ko.”

15. “I’m sorry, I didn’t mean to be bitchy. It’s an involuntary reaction whenever I encounter ugly people.”

16. Man: “Hey baby, what’s your sign?” Woman: “Do not enter.”

17. Man: “how do you like your eggs in the morning?” Woman: “Unfertilized.”

18. After receiving her pay slip and realizng how much she’s paying for tax, a sosyal officemate exclaimed, “Ang mga poor ba nagbabayad din ng tax?”

19. During a hike at Mt. Mayon, we had a maarte companion. When we ran out of water, our guide got us some from a ntural spring. The maarte girl said, “Dini-drink ba yan?” I told her, “Bakit, sa inyo ba ang water chinu-chew?”

20. Overheard from 2 kids talking. Kid 1: “Lahat tayo galing kay Adam and Eve.” Kid 2: “Hindi yan totoo. Sabi ng papa ko, galing tayo sa unggoy.” Kid 1: “Hindi natin pinag-uusapn ang pamilya mo, kaya wag kang magulo!”

21. A friend told his officemate: “I’m impressed. I’ve never encountered such a small mind inside such a big head before.”

22. Bading: (envying a girl na crush ng crush nya) “Isang butas lang ang lamang
6:12 PM23. I was staring at an ugly bystander in their street. The ugly guy snapped, “Bakit ang sama mo makatingin?” I snapped back, “Eh bakit ang sama mo tignan?”

24. A friend once told me, “Ang ganda mo!” I answered: “Thank you, sana ikaw rin…”

25. I told this to an ex: “I must admit you brought religion to my life. I never believed in hell till I met you.”

26. “When a cashier tells me she doesn’t have change, I say: “And…kaninong problema yun?”

27. “Kung lahat ng tao galing sa unggoy, bakit ikaw, kabayo?”

28. "Pwede wag ka na huminga? You don't deserve to breathe the same air I'm breathing!"

29. "They just asked about you, and you know how hard it is to describe you without using the words fucking ugly."

Thanks Vince. Go back to your video games. While I study 600++ pages of crim.

23.3.09

<3


There is no one as kind as you, 
no one who gave me reasons 
I understood for doing what at first seemed so hard

21.3.09

Freedom Countdown





I'm so excited! I just can't hide it!
I know! I know! I know! I want to!

CamSur Watersports Complex
Caramoan Island
Be ready for me!
Here I come!

Just because I'm excited
For yet another adventure with Block D

I'm feeling this is gonna be the best R&R so far.

10.3.09

Here is my 30 seconds of fame.

Unfortunately, they did not include Yves's and my interview.
They included Laura's though.
But my face was there.
So I'm happy about it.

Watch TV Patrol's episode here.
Fast forward to 4:10.

Hahahaha! At least I was on national TV!

Me and Laura.

My side view.

P.S. I will upload the video once I figure out 
how to get it from that site!

Thanks Conan for sending the link!
I spent around 2 hours looking for the video.
Boohoo.

24.2.09

My 30 Seconds of Fame

I will have my 30 seconds of fame, soon.
Earlier today, I had a shoot for an interview
with TJ Manotoc for TV Patrol
regarding the Facebook Controversy
which revised its TOS
claiming ownership to all media files and info
uploaded to their side.
Anyway, abangan niyo na lang.
It's supposed to be aired sometime this week.
I will also upload the video
as soon as I get a copy of it.
Hence, my 30 seconds of fame.
Haha!