Harry Potter series (and other related books), Meg Cabot's Every Boy's Got One, J.M. Barrie's classic: Peter Pan, The Alchemist, The Little Prince, The Giver
Coach Carter, The Quiet, V For Vendetta, She's The Man, Goal, Chasing Liberty, Harry Potter movies, X-men Installments, Transformers, just to name a few...
CSI (Las Vegas and NY), Veronica Mars, Numbers, One Tree Hill, Grey's Anatomy, Ghost Whisperer, Prison Break, Avatar, Heroes, The Simpsons, Danny Phantom, and My Fairly Odd Parents
ice skating and other sports, reading, playing the piano and my guitar, watching tv, shopping, watching movies, hanging out with friends, bumming around with my family
cookies (Penny Brown), Double Stuffed Oreos (only), chocolates in general, Lays, Cheetos, my mum's tuna sandwich (:p)
Bethany Joy Lenz, Missy Higgins, Beyoncé (just because I was given a free cd)
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Songs In My Pockets
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Bethany Joy Lenz
Honey I just can't get around it anymore
You make me feel like home is where you are
And baby I just can't run around it every morn’n
It’s time that I believe it, home is where you are
Notes in my drawers, songs in my pockets,
Fragments of letters that you sent,
Leftover phone calls, cologne in the bath
I still have that bottle of Rosé
Staring at your photograph, tryin’ to take it down
There’s still a stirring in my heart
I’ve never been to half of these places
But your postcard collection makes me crave
A little space, a little ways out of the city to the grace of another land,
another tongue, another time
Staring at your photograph, I can’t take it down
There’s still a fire in me yet
Honey I just can’t
You better believe yeah
I am friends with
charmaine,
april,
jen,
glennie,
nissy,
uchi,
ia,
mabelle,
concha
dot says:
"All I wanted was to be invisible...But being invisible isn't worth it in the end, because when you're invisible, other people may not see you, but you can't help seeing other people.
They say that the truth can set you free, that's a lie. The truth is lies can protect us. Lies keep us safe from the truth."
lucas scott says:
"Happiness comes in many forms-in the company of good friends, in the feeling you get when you make someone else's dream come true, or in the promise of hope renewed. It's okay to let yourself be happy because you never know how fleeting that happiness might be."
timo cruz says:
"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It is not just in some of us; it is in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others."
my university
all-gURL
love the game
hollywood gossip
proudly tsinoy
dare to take the friggin' quiz
my fabulous family
my gorgeous friends
gURL.com
photobucket.com
blogdrive.com
shag.com
my sponsors
the hot people who graced my blog
other sites from which I took some images
everybody who helped me create this blog.
and
you.
thanks.
people cared
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Saturday, December 01, 2007
Identity scathed. Filipinos ought to watch more of Heroes.
It's the first day of December! For the past few days, the weather has gone bonkers. It's bloody frigid at night. Even though the sun is shining in the morning, it still is cold. I'm not at all complaining. I love, love this weather! It's like Baguio or some European county minus the rain.
Long weekend for Filipinos. Last Thursday, UA&P held its annual Eucharistic Procession. It took us two days to make the fabulous flower carpets. And yes, I was one of the flower girls. :) After the Procession, my friends and I went to the Venue to grab our lunch. Then news broke out that the Manila Pen and the people inside it were taken hostage. Apparently there was a coup attempt--yet again. Can I just say that the person/people who staged it did not think their plans through. Because if they did, they would have had the decency and delicadesa to at least think about the people inside the hotel. So much for consideration. But the masterminds were just as stupid as those who were responsible for detaining them. How could they have slipped out of their fingers? This is just loathful and moments like this make me ashamed of being a Filipino. They know better. They know a whole lot better. It was also suspiciously coincidental to have staged a coup, the day before the celebration of Bonifacio Day. I never knew people could be so stupid--the people, not necessarily their motive. Thanks to them, there was a curfew imposed that night and good thing, a tinge of leniency has been restored. Weeks ago, Glorietta 2 exploded. Now this?
What's up, Philippines?
Anyway, below are the pictures from the Eucharistic Procession. Thanks and kudos to Claude:)
@ Prom A
@ the Ledge
@ Prom B
Posted at 08:52 am by the_l0ft
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Saturday, November 24, 2007
A week of pain, suffering, and oodles of fun
The week that I've been waiting for came! And what a week it was. Edsa Shangri-La opened its gradeur glass doors to us. *Sigh* Hotel. The strenuousness of the activities escalated as days passed by. Day 0 was Registration Day. I, with Monica, Rosc, and other iKLR (i keep love real) peeps were assigned to do kit distribution. Rosanne was not kidding when she forewarned us that we'll surely meet a whole lot of people with a rainbow of personalities. Strange enough though, a surreal encounter of some sort had to happen to me. Some person approached me and introduced himself and he was like, "Hi, I'm Willy... You can call me Wil for short or Willy for long". I was like giving him a blank, confused stare. What was weird was that my facial expression seemed to be invisible as he continued blabbering about his luggages. And I was like, "Sir, I will have to call our head to accommodate your request, if you could kindly wait for a minute". So he did. I stepped away from the conversation Rizza and he had. It was a hell of a relief to have escaped such creepy, traumatizing encounter. Sorry to Rizza though. After 500 kits or so, we were swept away by the loads of KFC meals. And thanks to Tita Anabelle, we were provided choco tuna snadwich with strawberry jam. Too exotic for my taste though. I went home half complaining.
Day 1 of the Congress came. I was one of those assigned to be floor ushers. We were roaming around the Isla ballroom looking for seats, collecting questions written on small pieces of paper, and directing people to the loos. We were also taking turns in resting in the Sulu Room, the designated secretariat. After breaks, we were also tasked to remind the delegates to enter the ballroom again. Basically, a day in a life of a floor usher. Lunch came and we had roast beef and brownies for dessert. This day was the day when Lestra baptized Mark as "Brownie". Tita Anabelle's sandwiches reappeared. We called them salad sandwiches - lettuce with fuji apples and mayo. After lunch, some of us packed the iKLR kits for the real love revolution. Today, I was adopted by Mommy Carla, the den mother of the Astoria kiddies. Second day ended with much knowledge from the conference. Kudos to Mrs. Dr. Irala, Mrs. Colleen Mast and the other speakers.
Day 2 was hostile. But thank goodness for the food upgrade. Finally Hotel food! Not that I'm such a huge ingrate. Don't get me wrong. We were well fed. Bottomless coffee and Gardenia products. For merienda, the whole lot took muffins. But before one could take, one must first define real love and stick the written definition on the muffin tray. It was a R-I-O-T. Even Dean Torralba, Mr. Borra, and Mr. Balberian gave their sumthin' sumthin'. And the mother of all degradation, humiliation, and pain came - the giving out of the certificates of participation and certificates of appearance. It was painful. The delegates rushed through the tables and frankly, I felt disrespected and they blamed the ushers for something we weren't responsible for in the first place. And the people were just mean and ironically, funny. Hear this: "Miss can we please get our certificates today because it's hard to get ours after. We don't have fax and cellphones. We live in the mountains." Beat that line. Such insult to our intelligence.
Day 4, iKLR REAL LOVE REVOLUTION at Le Pavilion smashed open the day. We were groggy from the last few days but then, we still had to carry boxes and tables. We had to be runnners. We had to endure the crowd of people and the attitude of these people. We had to usher celebs like Barbie Almalbis, Christian Bautista, Julianne, Mark Escueta, and RJ Jimenez. But after overcoming death, we had oodles of freebies like food ad iKLR merchandise. And the best, WE WERE EXCUSED FROM CLASSES. We went home in buses and in the bus I took, we shared ghost stories which were pretty entertaining.
The whole EDI Congress experience was a blast. I had so much to learn -- from the talks and from the people I worked with.
Thanks for the memories everyone! I miss you all already. Until the next Congress!
Posted at 10:27 pm by the_l0ft
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Thursday, November 15, 2007
Today would probably be the coldest day. Take note of the premise: the Philippines is a tropical country so this isn't a normal day. I totally dig the cold weather but I'd rather be a beach bum than be a blown up popsicle even though the weather is reminiscent of Europe (the one place I would want to go right about now). Whilst in school, my friends and I were huddling to give out and take in as much body warmth as possible. And with the caf being so disorganized, so crammed, and so umm... puny, we had to literally camp out in the MPC (multipurpose court) at lunch. It practically looked like an evacuation center. But came 3 o'clock, classes were suspended. (Nostalgia of high school elation during these moments.) So I went home, had arroz caldo, brownies, and Lay's. A perfect ending to an otherwise not-so-perfect day.
Looking forward to: attending the EDI Congress (hotel food, baby) and going to Divisoria (shopping, my favorite pastime).
Posted at 08:50 pm by the_l0ft
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Monday, November 12, 2007
The start of something...not-so-new
The Monday blues is getting overrated--or am I just feeling numb or apathetic? I was supposed to wake up at 6 but for some cosmic reason I woke up at quarter to 8. That speedbump didn't screw up my day thank heavens. The day went pretty well, generally. So why did I write this nononesense? Hmmmm...
Posted at 09:49 pm by the_l0ft
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Sunday, November 11, 2007
Frustrations frustrations...
The short-tempered me resurfaced this weekend. I felt sucky beyond sucky this weekend. I suffered from insomnia this Friday which luckily gave me an opportunity to watch, yet again, "The Quiet". The recent obsession for this movie must have caused this. Meanwhile, Saturday brought me into partial idleness. Good thing we went to Shang to buy stuff for school. But then another roadblock. As I thought I would have gotten Missy's album, it did not exactly happen that day. To add horror to my already horrific day, I had to search for Folger's edition of Shakespeare's "Othello". High and low I searched. By all literary meanings I did. I went up to the 6th floor and looked for it in a bookstore but to no avail. I went back down to look for a copy on another bookstore. And guess what? There was none either. Out of depression, I had to seek for the comfort of a grandé peppermint hot chocolate at Starbucks. Luck seemed to have been attracted to the Red Cup. My sister and I made another stop at a bookstore. Because I was so irked about the unfortunate events that had already occurred, my sister went inside and asked the kind lady in the customer service to check out their other branches and yes, thank heavens for the less-charted territory of the Podium. In conclusion, it rocks to live in the Ortigas vicinity.
Today, I feel like a massive bum--a perfect combination of a sloth and a glutton. Here's to the exercise I did and the diet I had over the break.
And here's hoping for a better, chill week.
Posted at 05:38 pm by the_l0ft
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Friday, November 09, 2007
A semester has passed...sem break has gone and yet this blog has remained unupdated. Pity. But since I was inspired by a dear friend who has managed to keep his blog alive, I might as well keep mine ablabbing. For a quick run down of new, well, recent events, here is a list.
1. Two day's ago, I watched Beyoncé at The Fort open field. Daaang. She was worth it. Starstruck much. Great is an understatement of the century. Note to self: upgrade vocabulary for better, more appropriate words.
2. I've watched a very interesting film entitled "The Quiet". It's a favorite despite the bitter reviews. I love Camilla Belle. Below is she.
Posted at 08:13 pm by the_l0ft
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Friday, June 29, 2007
A lot has happened in the past 2 weeks. I fainted last week and it was like the first time I ever did. It was not fun. For second I felt I was done for. Weird. The logical explanation behind it probably was lack of sleep. It could have been a warning sign for an illness of some sort. But indeed, it was both. I had cough and colds which left me a walking virus for 5 days. I did pity my friends though.
That Saturday, the 24th, I took the mandated medical check up for school. Blood extraction, dental checkup, xray, and all that jazz.
This week, however, was generally better. There was more enthusiasm on my part probabaly because I was able to recuperate from the colds.
July 2 is Pasig Day! No class bwahahaha!
July 11. Harry Potter. Can't wait!
Posted at 07:40 pm by the_l0ft
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Wednesday, June 13, 2007
The week before almost left me half dead. Here's why.
1. The 6th til the 8th were the Freshstart Days--the orientation of the freshmen. I worked as a volunteer FDA (Freshman Development Authority). As FDAs, we had to tour the newbies around school (as if the school's that big), we had to keep them together during lunches, administer their tests, and all the hooplahs. It was tiring but fun at the same time. The job provided free food. Not bad at all. I think I'm saying in behalf of all the Freshstart organizers that we all worked our butts off so we deserve the cred.
2. On the 10th, my sister went back to Singapore. Emotional baggage.
Yep, they're not much. Maybe so, but I felt hellish.
Anyway, I cut my hair after the longest time..
School started today. I was on my Spanish class with our temporary sub prof. cos he said our real teacher is new. Any hoo, good luck to all of us who are foreign to the foreign language.
Posted at 06:54 pm by the_l0ft
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Saturday, June 02, 2007
13 minutes ago, I officially ended my driving lessons! Wipee! I know how to drive! And I drove myself home. Anyhoo, I'm gearing up for the school's online enlistment. It'll be hellish, prolly, but I hope I'm not jinxing myself. Today is also my sister's Graduation at the PICC. This'll be fun.
Holler to my bud, NISSY! Happy, happy birthday, love! Missing you oodles! Kiss Kiss:p
Posted at 10:04 am by the_l0ft
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Thursday, May 31, 2007
A very pleasant surprise...
Spare the drumroll...My sister went home from Singapore! Without any clue, hint, or nudge, she arrived early this morning. My scheming mum knew all about this as early as March. She brought a lot of pasalubongs and one of which is a mobile phone for me. It wasn't the one I wanted--IT WAS WAAAAY BETTER. It's a sleek white Samsung phone which I dearly love. Yes, purple is savvy but white is dandy! We ate out and bought our gifts for our cum laude of a sister for her graduation on June 2. I'm uber proud of my sisters! Love you both!
It's surreal having Entee home. I would not have cared if she brought nothing at all. I would have been as happy if she came home without the booties she brought along. But big thanks for the loot, luv!
Note to self: On driving--I may have mastered road courtesy but it's time to take the lane that's truly mine. Bwahahahaha!
Posted at 11:06 pm by the_l0ft
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