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The name is Elaine or Ien or Pssst or Hoy ...or whatever suits you
...from the city of Davao
...26 with fine lines and wrinkles already
...short-haired, two-eyed na! (thanks to constact lenses), right-handed, flat-footed
...wants to be a Buddhist and a United Nations interpreter someday
...confused about life in general
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Saturday, January 29
Weekend Blog
I'm inside the FRC (Faculty Resource Center), taking my one-and-a-half break from being a juror in today's thesis defense. Apparently, there's only 6 of us (arki faculty members) doing round-robin as jurors in 41 individual theses. Well, all of them have been very "obedient" with our demands [so far]. the first deliberator(?) had 20+ boards, fully-rendered, hand-drafted, with title-blocks and "da works". Her model is as big in area as a plywood, which reminds me of the BLA theses back in college... puro puno kase...hehehe And speaking of BLA, I'll be watching Christian Bautista's concert later tonight. Oo! Fan ako! Bakit ba?! I'm so proud of my batchmate. I really thought he'd make a better Star in a Million champion than Eric "Pepper" Santos. I can still remember back in college when the student council would ask him to perform impromptu for college programs. Like during arki week, he sang duet with Yari (another potential recording artist) after such short notice. Anyway, with all his fame and platinum records, I hope he'll still remember me... charing! FC=feeling close!
So, I watched Elektra yesterday. Tsk, tsk, tsk... I'm sooo disappointed. What can I say? The Incredibles are better superheroes. I also watched the ending of Lovers in Paris. Muntik ko na ma-miss kase ma-traffic... Yes, out of nowhere, nagka-traffic sa Davao City!!! So, they (abs-cbn) made it look like they ended up together... tsk, tsk, tsk again... pathetic! If not for my new hunk-a-doodle crush Martin, hindi ko papanoorin pati yung interview ni Korina Sanchez. i also watched Kung Fu Hustle... Astig! Astig talaga! I remember those pinwheel lollipops back in kinder. Usung-uso 'yon, pero bawal kase junkfood sabi ni Ms. Camino. I love Stephen Chow back in Shaolin Soccer, and I love him more in this movie. Anyway, movies keep me sane lately. But my sister would say something like, "Hindi na yan diversion, bisyo na yata yan eh!" Well, siguro nga. Hehehe
A huge booksale in Victoria Plaza made me buy a P95 book on how to learn Spanish. Although mi hablo Espanol un poco, I need to polish it further because we're planning to go to Portugal by the end of the year. Puhon, puhon. I also bought a guide to taking GRE Tests... but that's for my sister. Wala pa akong lakas nang loob to take GREs.
That's all for now. I need to go back to the AVR. Adios!
I'm inside the FRC (Faculty Resource Center), taking my one-and-a-half break from being a juror in today's thesis defense. Apparently, there's only 6 of us (arki faculty members) doing round-robin as jurors in 41 individual theses. Well, all of them have been very "obedient" with our demands [so far]. the first deliberator(?) had 20+ boards, fully-rendered, hand-drafted, with title-blocks and "da works". Her model is as big in area as a plywood, which reminds me of the BLA theses back in college... puro puno kase...hehehe And speaking of BLA, I'll be watching Christian Bautista's concert later tonight. Oo! Fan ako! Bakit ba?! I'm so proud of my batchmate. I really thought he'd make a better Star in a Million champion than Eric "Pepper" Santos. I can still remember back in college when the student council would ask him to perform impromptu for college programs. Like during arki week, he sang duet with Yari (another potential recording artist) after such short notice. Anyway, with all his fame and platinum records, I hope he'll still remember me... charing! FC=feeling close!
So, I watched Elektra yesterday. Tsk, tsk, tsk... I'm sooo disappointed. What can I say? The Incredibles are better superheroes. I also watched the ending of Lovers in Paris. Muntik ko na ma-miss kase ma-traffic... Yes, out of nowhere, nagka-traffic sa Davao City!!! So, they (abs-cbn) made it look like they ended up together... tsk, tsk, tsk again... pathetic! If not for my new hunk-a-doodle crush Martin, hindi ko papanoorin pati yung interview ni Korina Sanchez. i also watched Kung Fu Hustle... Astig! Astig talaga! I remember those pinwheel lollipops back in kinder. Usung-uso 'yon, pero bawal kase junkfood sabi ni Ms. Camino. I love Stephen Chow back in Shaolin Soccer, and I love him more in this movie. Anyway, movies keep me sane lately. But my sister would say something like, "Hindi na yan diversion, bisyo na yata yan eh!" Well, siguro nga. Hehehe
A huge booksale in Victoria Plaza made me buy a P95 book on how to learn Spanish. Although mi hablo Espanol un poco, I need to polish it further because we're planning to go to Portugal by the end of the year. Puhon, puhon. I also bought a guide to taking GRE Tests... but that's for my sister. Wala pa akong lakas nang loob to take GREs.
That's all for now. I need to go back to the AVR. Adios!
Tuesday, January 25
Aja!
Thank God this koreanovela will be over soon. I think hanggang Friday na lang 'to. And just to spoil the excitement of the avid viewers of this cheeeeeezzzzyyyy flick, it will end when Vivian wakes up. Yes, panaginip lang lahat yun ni Vivian! Kainis ba? Hahaha... Someone in UP Mindanao bought the whole season's DVD and spread the word about the disappointing ending. When I heard about it, I didn't even know what Lovers in Paris is all about. The ending might have stirred curiousity in me, but i feel more frustration over the story, or at least how the writer ended it. And ganda ng build up eh... not your typical asian telenovela -- unpretentious and frivolous women, asian people in european setting [in almost half of the story], really funny punts na patok na patok sa Pinoy. Then suddenly, you'll try to escape from the final decision of choosing between Carlo and Martin by drowsing them all to dreamland. Sheeesh! Some writer/s they have!
Pero naisip ko rin, baka na-pressure sila. Parang katulad nung kay Diether at Jericho sa "Sana'y Wala ng Wakas." Sana nga hindi na lang nila winakasan! Hahaha... O sya sya, baduy na kung baduy ako. I can't help it. I have to watch those dramathons if I'm planning to write flicks someday. I have to learn from their mistakes and know what makes them such a hit. But if i were to write the ending for Lovers in Paris, it'd probably go this way...
Vivian jumps off the Eiffel Tower... THE END.
Aja!
Thank God this koreanovela will be over soon. I think hanggang Friday na lang 'to. And just to spoil the excitement of the avid viewers of this cheeeeeezzzzyyyy flick, it will end when Vivian wakes up. Yes, panaginip lang lahat yun ni Vivian! Kainis ba? Hahaha... Someone in UP Mindanao bought the whole season's DVD and spread the word about the disappointing ending. When I heard about it, I didn't even know what Lovers in Paris is all about. The ending might have stirred curiousity in me, but i feel more frustration over the story, or at least how the writer ended it. And ganda ng build up eh... not your typical asian telenovela -- unpretentious and frivolous women, asian people in european setting [in almost half of the story], really funny punts na patok na patok sa Pinoy. Then suddenly, you'll try to escape from the final decision of choosing between Carlo and Martin by drowsing them all to dreamland. Sheeesh! Some writer/s they have!
Pero naisip ko rin, baka na-pressure sila. Parang katulad nung kay Diether at Jericho sa "Sana'y Wala ng Wakas." Sana nga hindi na lang nila winakasan! Hahaha... O sya sya, baduy na kung baduy ako. I can't help it. I have to watch those dramathons if I'm planning to write flicks someday. I have to learn from their mistakes and know what makes them such a hit. But if i were to write the ending for Lovers in Paris, it'd probably go this way...
Vivian jumps off the Eiffel Tower... THE END.
Aja!
Monday, January 24
It's Back
...to normal. yehey! after 3 weeks of looking for a good blog layout, i'm back to my black and blue skin. what really happened was that i accidentally deleted some important codes from the template when i erased some links. i was trying to look for the original code from blogskins [and even searched for blogs with similar skins], but i couldn't find "the code." i facelifted this blog several times with baduy layouts, but just couldn't be happy with any of them. charing! parang lovelife eh no? so, i decided to chop-chop codes from different layouts until i got this back. lesson of the story: do not erase links!
...and so i was forced to hibernate again. but it's ok, there's really not much updating needed. right now, i'm dwindling in all aspects of life. that can be expected since i always believe my life will end 3 years from now. it would have been easier to accept this situation if it only concerns me. but i feel i'm failing the people around me too. i'm failing my students for not checking their papers on time and not submitting prelim grades. i'm failing my sister for being so stubborn and praning lately. i'm trying not to fail my friends because i know they're going through a lot worse coming from reviewing, taking the exams, and waiting for the results. i'm failing my orgmates (from the professional org, that is) for not releasing last month's newsletter. i'm failing clients and colleagues for not keeping my word most of the time. i'm failing my other job for not showing up in the office anymore. i want to compose myself again, but i will be needing time for that and time is something i don't have right now. aaaarrrrggghhhh!!!!
i've read about other people's miseries in their blogs and it must have conditioned my mind that i should be in the same situation. sometimes i feel i should be feeling worse because i don't have a normal working schedule and i always have take-home work and i'm underpaid and i don't have a "normal" architectural career and i am in no position to teach simply because i don't have "enough" experience and i don't have a lovelife and i'm not with my family or my friends and i am not going to church anymore and blah, blah, blah... now i feel worse. this is the reason why i haven't been blogging and reading blogs for a while. i don't want to hear good or bad news, happy or sad stories, failure or success etchos because i'll be reflecting on my life as well. and these rantings will just come out again. oh yeah, it's back... my blog and my dismal life is back.
...to normal. yehey! after 3 weeks of looking for a good blog layout, i'm back to my black and blue skin. what really happened was that i accidentally deleted some important codes from the template when i erased some links. i was trying to look for the original code from blogskins [and even searched for blogs with similar skins], but i couldn't find "the code." i facelifted this blog several times with baduy layouts, but just couldn't be happy with any of them. charing! parang lovelife eh no? so, i decided to chop-chop codes from different layouts until i got this back. lesson of the story: do not erase links!
...and so i was forced to hibernate again. but it's ok, there's really not much updating needed. right now, i'm dwindling in all aspects of life. that can be expected since i always believe my life will end 3 years from now. it would have been easier to accept this situation if it only concerns me. but i feel i'm failing the people around me too. i'm failing my students for not checking their papers on time and not submitting prelim grades. i'm failing my sister for being so stubborn and praning lately. i'm trying not to fail my friends because i know they're going through a lot worse coming from reviewing, taking the exams, and waiting for the results. i'm failing my orgmates (from the professional org, that is) for not releasing last month's newsletter. i'm failing clients and colleagues for not keeping my word most of the time. i'm failing my other job for not showing up in the office anymore. i want to compose myself again, but i will be needing time for that and time is something i don't have right now. aaaarrrrggghhhh!!!!
i've read about other people's miseries in their blogs and it must have conditioned my mind that i should be in the same situation. sometimes i feel i should be feeling worse because i don't have a normal working schedule and i always have take-home work and i'm underpaid and i don't have a "normal" architectural career and i am in no position to teach simply because i don't have "enough" experience and i don't have a lovelife and i'm not with my family or my friends and i am not going to church anymore and blah, blah, blah... now i feel worse. this is the reason why i haven't been blogging and reading blogs for a while. i don't want to hear good or bad news, happy or sad stories, failure or success etchos because i'll be reflecting on my life as well. and these rantings will just come out again. oh yeah, it's back... my blog and my dismal life is back.
Tuesday, January 4
I'm Thinking Of...
... a nice way to start this entry.
... going to the gym and working out for real.
... emailing my mom to tell her i want to be a chef.
... the next plate i'll give my arch 8 class.
... contacting my HS classmate Boqs and giving him my script.
... not coming to my next class [which is arch 8]
... how to cook the leftover ham. 'told you i'm a chef!
... buying treasury bills.
... buying a pirated "How To Speak Fokien" CD
... eating brunch.
... stopping over at our house to watch GKNB.
... selling dad's good-for-nothing golf clubs at ebay
... anton
... inflating the tires of my bike
... joining MTV vj hunt and claiming my 15 minutes of fame
... going to spain this year
... going on hunger strike for 2 hours
... not thinking anymore
(everything listed was written in less than 5 minutes. sheesh! wasted nuerons!)
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How long will I be waiting
Until the end of time
I don't know why I'm still waiting
I can't make you mine
- Addicted by Simple Plan
... a nice way to start this entry.
... going to the gym and working out for real.
... emailing my mom to tell her i want to be a chef.
... the next plate i'll give my arch 8 class.
... contacting my HS classmate Boqs and giving him my script.
... not coming to my next class [which is arch 8]
... how to cook the leftover ham. 'told you i'm a chef!
... buying treasury bills.
... buying a pirated "How To Speak Fokien" CD
... eating brunch.
... stopping over at our house to watch GKNB.
... selling dad's good-for-nothing golf clubs at ebay
... anton
... inflating the tires of my bike
... joining MTV vj hunt and claiming my 15 minutes of fame
... going to spain this year
... going on hunger strike for 2 hours
... not thinking anymore
(everything listed was written in less than 5 minutes. sheesh! wasted nuerons!)
-------
How long will I be waiting
Until the end of time
I don't know why I'm still waiting
I can't make you mine
- Addicted by Simple Plan