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May 16, 2012

Today is my Ateneo-tour day! Together with Ate Elaiza and Isiah. :)

I woke up at 5:30am since my mom would be leaving for Divisoria early. Before she went there, she had dropped me to our condominium here in Katipunan, Xavierville Square. Here I waited for Isiah to arrive. Took him a while to get here, since he claimed to have gotten lost around the area and have circled the whole Katipunan before arriving at our condo lol.

We had lunch, met with my sister at Fully Booked at 1:30pm, then hanged out with my sister’s college friends while Isiah went back to UP to submit some of his requirements. After that, he went back to Ateneo and then my sister toured us around the campus. Wee!

Oh, we were supposed to watch Cabin in the Woods at Trinoma, but sadly it was not available in the cinemas so we had an alternative plan — to watch movies in our condo. Heehee.

We bought snacks at Seven Eleven and then headed back to our condo, where we watched American Pie on my laptop. My sister had a copy so yeah, don’t blame me. x) Mixed LOLs and EWWs and AWWs while watching it. XD

Isiah was fetched by his dad at around 7:40pm. Good thing we had finished watching the movie by the time his dad arrived.

Fun day! Thanks Ate and Isiah for the wonderful time spent. ;D

Okay, I need to practice summarizing my entries like this. Heh.

Yesterday’s date with my sister and Isiah. Fun day is fun!

No One Can Talk Like This Man. | Look who’s in the cover of this month’s Esquire! Perfection in a cover. And a few more pages.

Spare me a minute while I go cool myself off in a corner. And fan girl. My body is ready.

So many UNFS and HNGS! This guy’s gonna make me pregnant even with just his brown sexy eyes which seem to stare past my very being.

I’ll be a kind RDJ fangirl and share the contents of the magazines - or at least take shots of it:

Just look at that piece of perfection.

Still not yet done reading the whole article ‘cause I ended up spazzing at all his photos and taking these shots to post here. Will read it as soon as I get home!

(Still in school right now, actually. It’s raining so badly outside - with thunder and lightning, even! It’s like Thor’s calling. Heh.)

So, my last entry was Wednesday, and it was even just a reblogged post. I apologize for not updating this blog for the last three days - but those three days were pretty much busy. It was so busy that I wasn’t even able to turn on and use my laptop during those three days.

Seriously - even I surprised myself.

Anyhow, I had so many readings for my three classes this summer, and since we have these classes daily just because summer sem’s a short semester, I need to finish the readings the day they’re given. Political Science class has lots of readings, and then there’s Economics class, which I’m still trying to grasp. BritLit’s fine as heck; I love learning about the literature.

Since there were so many readings (there still are), I had to read them every night which means I had no time to procrastinate and surf the net. I checked my Facebook just a few minutes ago, and notifications started way back from Wednesday. LOL. Tweeting easy and short, thanks to my phone. Tumblr, well, I don’t think I trust myself to just open the site, make an entry, and not browse the whole night. So…yeah, no Tumblr for me if I want to finish my readings.

Had to study Thursday night for an Economics quiz the next day. Yes, it was just a quiz, but for goodness’s sake, a quiz in Econ is not just a quiz, especially when I’m trying to grasp every single concept our professor’s been throwing at us. Was able to understand half of it, but then due to some events and circumstances the next day, we weren’t able to have the quiz. Which means, I have two quizzes on Monday - PolSci, and Econ. Heh.

BritLit however, was fun. We watched Orlando last Wednesday and Thursday, and had a very short discussion last Friday. I liked the film, and I especially loved the art and the costumes. I swear, those clothes were fantastic! 

After my classes last Friday, my friends and I ate lunch for awhile, before I returned to the condo, with my mom waiting for me. I had to go to Fontana resort that day too to meet up with my sister and her friends, and document their trip once again. Lol, I need to get paid for doing this for them. But then again, I can’t say no to my sister. I don’t even know why; it’s annoying. Hahaha! 

After a few stops, we reached their villa, and I was with them for the rest of their stay. Took photos of them (main purpose of going there, anyway), and then bonded with them throughout the night. Theo grades were actually released while I was with them, which made me a bit pissed and sad and just plain upset for a while, but then it’s no use being grumpy about it and possibly affecting the mood of the others, so I just threw my concern out of the window, at least for the mean time, and had fun with them. Played Pictionary ‘til morning, and it was really fun! We still had to sleep though even if it was six in the morning. Haha.

After that, we woke up, took a bath, prepared our things, and checked out of the resort after taking a few photos here and there. Dropped my sister’s friends to each of their homes and then went home. 

Which brings me to the office of my dad here at home, where I’m typing all these.

Tiring day. Or week, for that matter. But there’s not much time to rest since I still have readings to finish. For the mean time though, let me procrastinate…at least for tonight.

A block that gets stress together, stays together. | Part two of the field trip from yesterday. Hurray for obligatory class photo with Marketing professor and Zenith representative Miss Tin!

This was at Zenith Optimedia where we had a small talk about Media 101. 

I love my block.

Photo credits to Fielle!

For a lack of a better, more creative title. I don’t feel like thinking of a good one anyway; right now, I just feel tired, stressed, upset and slightly depressed. Heh.

Okay, probably not to the point of locking myself in my room and crying, but just depressed that I want to tear up. My reason would have sounded really stupid and shallow to any other person, but it’s just that I’m really starting to feel lonely knowing that David’s gonna take a leave from the music scene for two years. Haha, typing about it sounds ridiculous, even for me, but I just need to let all these feelings out some way.

He’s been here in the Philippines for more than a month now, and during that whole stay, he’s been doing a lot - and I really appreciate it. I know all his fans here appreciate it so much too. And yes, the fans - they’re amazing too - supporting David all the way in all his tours, shows, and many other more. I was able to see him again during his stay here and I couldn’t be any happier, but I really wish I could have seen him once more before he leaves for the mission. He had a show at Trinoma earlier at five for his launching in Bench, and the mall was just twenty/thirty minutes away from school, and I can’t believe I still wasn’t able to go. All because I have a freaking class at six, and that we’re not allowed to cut this class. I was thinking about the whole thing and how I’m gonna miss it the whole day - I think it’s partly the reason why I’m depressed right now. Haha.

I’m gonna miss him, and I’m going to have to settle to watching his mini serye and old video blogs and listening to his songs over and over again while waiting for him to finish his mission. I support him with his decisions though; it’s his religion and it is just so him to be that kind of nice guy. Hearing him talk about this mission and his decision to pursue it made me love him even more, and it was just very admirable. 

Anyhow, enough of this fangirl drama. I’ve already talked and think about him the whole day today…wait, actually, since yesterday. Or maybe the past few days. Right before coming home today too, my friends and I were just talking about him and how we’re gonna form this ‘waiting for Archuleta’ club - heh. My friend said we would arrange a day per month where we just talk about how we’ve been doing coping with David’s absence, and then cry and be depress together. O gosh, the things my friends say!

Last night’s journal doodles. I was playing David’s songs on loop, and decided to write random lyrics from his song while listening.

Show me that good things come to those who wait.

Image heavy post.

So yesterday, as I said in my previous post - I did a small shoot for my friend’s campaign, and had me and my friends’ own fun shoot after. Posting photos since I really like how it came out, and the whole thing was fun to do anyway, especially with awesome friends.

This is my friend Macky - he was the one who asked for the campaign shoot and I was more than glad to help. Working with him’s always fun - he’s like our JTA block’s own unicorn; wait, scratch that. He is our unicorn. 

Look how fierce that is.

Outtakes - ah, the joy of taking shots of him being so hyper!

And then we stayed with a few more of our friends after this shoot to eat lunch. Talked about random stuff, and then the others had to do school errands and went ahead. We had the fun shoot after. 

Fair warning - what’s under this cut are just more photos of my friends and I (fine, mostly me - since they requested not to post much of their photos here anyway) being happy people in front of the camera and posing. There’s a reason why it’s called a ‘fun-shoot’ and nothing else.

There you go, I warned you.

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Yesterday’s outfit. It was the third day of JTA classes - fourth officially, but who cares - for me. We were able to meet all the professors we’ll be having this semester, and it’s a little early to judge and say this, but I feel like last semester’s professors are more fun. Don’t get me wrong, the professors this semester look fun and interesting too, but maybe I just really loved last semester’s professors so much.

On another note, look at that sparkly notebook. That is the most colorful, amazing, hippy-est notebook I’ve ever loved the first time I laid eyes on it. No second thoughts in buying it, and I can’t wait to write doodles (and notes…probably, heh) on it!

9. | Nine days before the day, and I missed posting this yesterday. Anyhow, this goes to all my friends who left, or are leaving this semester; thank you so much  for being part of this very wonderful experience.

This is the sad part of having international friends in exchange programs - leaving. But this doesn’t mean that the friendship ends as well; we all know better than that. 

Have a safe trip! This is not a ‘goodbye’ - we’ll all be seeing each other some time in the future. また今度！

…Got home at two in the morning, since we had this sort of ‘Congratulations, you’re graduating!’ drinking night. Yesterday, we had a sort of formal graduation ceremony for those leaving after the fall semester. We’re a lot actually; few international students will be staying for the year, and it’s really sad to see people leaving. Sigh. 

Yesterday was still fun though, and I can definitely say it’s the greatest Friday the 13th ever. 

12. | Twelve days before the day and I get to eat Filipino food with a friend. I suddenly realized how much I missed it. On another note, I feel so stressed with all the papers and exams. Just this week - be motivated!

…Taking a five minute break at the moment from studying and doing my report for East Asian Finance Class. I have two exams tomorrow too. Wow.

Stressful things aside, I spent the night at my Filipino friend’s place last night. We watched Tangled again, and basically just talked about lots of girl stuff. Cooked Filipino food in the morning, and had such a good time just chatting. I think I’ve never spoken so much Tagalog during my stay here. Haha!

And…Universal Studios Japan was awesome.

ハッピーハロウィン！| Happy Halloween! - October 29, 2011.

Attended two parties yesterday and the other day (October 28-29, 2011). Had a really good time with good friends! All the costumes were great, and I had so much fun, even with all the unnecessary emotions. 

More photos soon!