New year

i just want to say a very Happy New Year to everyone

just wanted to finish the year with my 50th post: )

what is the meaning of Christmas?

is it still about Jesus Christ being born? or had the meaning changed through time? is Christmas meant for kids or for everyone?

it would seem that kids are the only one who enjoys Christmas.. They are the ones excited about putting up the Christmas trees and decorating the whole house with ornaments... listing down the name of friends to give gift to and shopping endlessly to buy something extra special.... waking up extra early to be the one to first say "merry Christmas everyone" and be the one to celebrate the day as something special since its the birthday of Jesus Christ..

i used to be that kid.. but now it seems that ive been celebrating this occasion like an adult..

How does an adult view Christmas?? work work and more work

inventory, raffle gifts, customers, shameless solicitors who comes in expecting you to give them something just because of their positions or lack of positions, traffic, noisy paputoks,....

damn i miss being a kid..

Galera experience

the place was nice.. liblib yung place na tinirhan namin but the view was breathtaking.. my bro was really irritated since malayo kami sa mga tao... pero super worth it sya for me.. i could just stay there for a whole day and not get tired of the view... even though people say internet pictures are a lot nicer than the real thing... the view was really different.. it was a lot better.

we went snorkeling.. hhe me na takot sa tubig sumama.. may lifevest kasi so lutang lang kami and then there's a boat that would literally "drag" us around.. mga tamad.. unfortunately i didnt have my contacts on kaya super blurry ng corals... but it was still quite an experience...

pero walang makikita sa galera.. it could be pretty boring when you roam their town.. the local waitresses dont even know what a credit card is!! super clueless nung girl na yun.. super irritating..

all in all the experience was really different.. even with the bumpy minicab ride and the "wavy" ship ride it was an experience worth more than 300 pictures.. hhe trigger happy eh..

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cant seem to make the tagboard work.. it works naman when i preview the template: ( and then there's the font size.... cant make it bigger din.. : (

will appreciate anyone who can give any advice..

Christmas na

Merry Christmas!!!!!: )

can dying be better than living?

when a person dies, would it be unfair or evil for me to think that it might even be a better option for them?

an old lady related to me by law died last night or this morning.. no one knew when.. or so the rumor said. when i heard that she was dead, the first thing that i felt was not one of grief for her, but i was even sort of relieved (for her) of course sadness came right after that.. even though iam not related to her, it's still sad that she died.. a few days before Christmas.. and she died alone.

she lived a life that i wouldnt want anybody to experience.. no one wanted her.. she had a lot of sons with most of them earning lots of money... but they grudgingly take her in from fear of being rebuked by the society.. sadly i feel that they might even be happy that she has finally died...

i have always felt that living a life like that (is) was worse than death.. that even in your death your family didnt rushed you to the hospital in hope that you are still alive, not even checking if you're still breathing when they found you.. that they didnt even wanted to know how you died coz they are scared to go near you..

i hope she still believed that someone would shed a tear for her..

may her soul find a better place to rest and live a life worth living.

pls dont tell anyone.. post was made with angry emotions..

food trip

i just came home from libis.. me and L and H went to libis for no reason... we didnt do anything but eat and chat and walk around.. naubos yung oras na wala kaming nagawa..hhe.. pero it was fun naman..: )

we saw andrew... or should i say andrew saw us... we hardly recognized him.. (pls dont tell him that..) he grew taller and look so uhm... clean... anyway it was great seeing him again.. other than the appearance and voice and height eh he didnt changed naman... still the same nice and easy going guy he was in high school... hope he gets an ojt na before break ends..: )

after andrew left for his party... we went to eat at dencios and barely finished the food... we ordered inihaw na (lumpia) oops pusit pala: ) and sisig lang... we planned on ordering soup pa.. hindi na siguro namin tlga mauubos...

after walking around for a while ulit... balik food nnaman.. after sitting in coffee bean's couch eh we left for jack's loft naman where nahiya na kami lumabas... so we were stuck there it was ok nung una.. pero nung lumamig we went sa labas pero we would suffocate naman coz the next table blow their smoke toward our direction... damn

hhe the night was wrapped up with me writing it all in here: )

happy: )

immersion effect

well last weekend i was in christ the king for both saturday and sunday... we were selling audrey and elvis.. sales was so slow.... people were mostly older ladies with kids: ( we sold 5 audreys for the whole morning and afternoon: ( as in we started mga 10 am nyan ha.. so after almost 10 hours in the bazaar.. someone finally bought 20: ) we were so so so happy..

next day naman maganda yung start namin. we started pretty early around 8 people were already coming in.. and first wave of people palng we were able to sell 6 sa isang lady while 10 sa next..: ) kaya we called for reinforcement of inventory pa.. however, the next hours were dull naman... but we were still able to sell more than saturday: )

super ubos yung enegry ko nung weekend.. after selling i needed to cram 2 philo papers... which were passed just for the sake of passing: ( im dead...

this week laine started selling their products din: ) it was actually fun to help them.. since i was not panicking about the stuff while they do.. i just watch them..hhe.. pero syempre my head was rattled din. konti.. sadly, 2 days lang sya..

anyway, the irony of my week is that it came a week after immersion.. after seeing how our capitalist structured environment is creating havoc in other people's life.. and personally seeing how they live.. here iam selling helping to create that capitalist environment...

im not sure if im the only one being insensitive about the situation...

such a waste of time

me and L has been going around the campus looking for hotspot wherein we couold find a good internet connection.. to no avail...

i change my clothes a total of 3 times this morning, in case i meet someone while walking around campus... and after almost 4 hours of walking aroung lugging my very heavy and very big laptop... there has been no sighting: ( .. haiz such a waste of time: (

LSS with awitin mo by VST

dance thru the night

after readings laine's blog.. exaggerations yan

well, i was sure laine would be surprised na sasayaw ako.. well tried to at least.. we had about 2 hours of practice kaya pagpasensyahan nyo na yung dance namin..

i was assigned by a kid to partner with M, there were 3 guys and sya yung pinakaayaw ko sana.. anyway, during the practice kya he was masungit. i tried to talk with him pero suplado.. after the practice medyo naging ok na kami. kaya nagkukulitan na din kami nung nagvvideoke yung mga kids..

nung dance na mali2 kami kaya we were laughing at each other and trying to catch up with the others.. kaya siguro parang mas matagal(as laine had observed)... it was really fun coz we were having fun dancing and making mistakes..

after the dance, nagkukulitan nlng kami sa gilid pushing and nudging each other..

regarding the bugging him to accompany us sa jeep.. sila lang kasi other than our groupmates yung medyo nakakasama ko..

well kanina i sort of looked for him(walang hiya eh noh)... and ganun pa rin naman yung asaran naman which was nice because ayoko naman na hanggang sa area lang kami "friends"

Immersion

for immersion, my foster family has 4 children. 3 are already married and i was left with just one sibling to deal with.. she was about my age and medyo talkative. maraming kwento about everything.. my mommy naman mabait din nasobrahan lang ang pagiging religious.. yung freaky na minsan lalo na kung kaming dalawa na lng yung gising and she's gonna ask me questions like... sino ba si adan at eba? when i said first people blah blah blah.. she was like sigurado ka b? san mo nalaman yan? she wears a smile na parang mischievous na gustong matawa sa sagot ko.. ah basta nagffreakout tlga ako... yung daddy naman tahimik di ko din masayado nakasama..

me and my "sis" taken by M

as Laine has pointed out.. we prepared ourselves for much worse tlga.. maybe not to the extreme na magpractice hindi kumain kagaya ni B lol... pero sa dami ng horror stories about immersion, i feel that we got an easy one na..

tonight im back at my home. and i thank God that i came home to a family that might not be as expressive as my foster family, but of a family that iam happy to be with and to be in.

The village itself has so much kids. per family ata mahinang 3 kids... kakaloka, i dont even know half of their names...

practice time for presentation

andyan ako natabunan ng mga bata.. there are 8 ateneans in that pic.. yung iba mga kids sa place na sumasama sama sa amin... half of which di ko kilala..

before anything else...

may kwento ako..: ) pero gusto ko muna mabasa reaction ni laine : ) hint hint

Immersion

i'd be in montalban rizal tom. im not sure what im suppose to feel. im scared but not afraid naman. at least laine would be there somewhere. haiz i'd just update after my immersion. pray that i'm still ok about it afterwards...