Whee~ My old flame is turning into an absolute daredevil, shaving his hair and all. Not scared of a challenge are ya Vincent? Love it! :D

Vincent Kartheiser is, as it turns out, still in the industry. XD Still doing indie, and a little bit of TV. :D The first photo is from one of his more recent independent films, Barstool Words. Looks pretty interesting if you ask me, although he does something quite too psychotic for comfort. The second photo comes from an upcoming TV Series, Mad Men. I'm digging that too, for the fact that it's set in (let me take a wild guess) the 60's. He looks like such a geek. Lol. And he's filled out a bit. *glomps* This look, I'm afraid, still has to grow on me. But he's nailed the nasty journalist look in that photo, and I have a good feeling he'll pull it off.

I hope I find a copy of the series somewhere.
And the movie too, of course. I think it's out on DVD.
These days, it's not that difficult to find such things.

Thank you piracy!

But wait...There's more!
He actually plays a very gay English major in this short film by Samuel Park, Shakespeare's Sonnet. Haha. At first it was...Creepy. But, well, he played it well, which is awesome. Because diverse roles are what I look for in good actors..(And is the reason I adore Johnny Depp and have no respect for Tom Cruise).

Anyway, credits for all this rekindled fascination go to Krisalis and the great thing she's done to the fansite I used to own. XD Also to that humble e-mail that reminded me that the fansite was still up and running.

Whee~ Go Vincent.

Last na: Not-so-shameless (?) Plug: Genina's Blog is absolutely crazy~
(that's a good thing, btw.)

New layout. Again. Hopefully this will be more, well...Pleasing. O_o No more extremely odd color combinations and creepy guest appearances. Phew. And a little more summer-y, thanks to the nice little flower up there. *points*

Everyone in the kada (more or less), except me (and Stacy, I think), has had their hair cut short. Whee~ It's the perfect time for a studio pic! Lol...I'm so high school. Hindi na kasi uso ang studio pics ngayon eh. >__> Lahat na kasi ng tao may mobile camera. Anyway.

Watched episode 13-18 of Deathnote this morning. *tears of joy* I think the 18th episode, though, went a little off track. It seemed almost like *gasps* a filler episode? It seemed to focus more on that one member of the squad who has a family and was forced to quit because he could not afford being unemployed. Too little of L or Light in that episode for comfort. Tsktsktsk.

I hafta meet Er tomorrow..or rather, later to run some financial errands for Tennis UP. I'll have to wake up at around 9? But really, at this rate, I'll be waking up noontime. XD *which means off to hit the sack for me*

Goodnight world~

Yuh.

Laguna for four days. Bulacan two days, Batangas another two days. XD Lol.

No pics though. Unfortunately, or...fortunately?

We'll see what other places will I find myself in before the end of the summer.

End of the summer. One more month.

Yer.

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Gen, Sig and Tracy, feast your eyes: http://behindinfinity.deviantart.com/gallery/

Tomorrow I will get to watching the still untouched CDs Gen has burned for me. TuT

For some reason lack of academic pressure during summertime equates to the lack of drive to do anything I'd consider absolutely fun when I'm in school. O_o I will regret this when summer ends.

something something something suddenly [and finally] sunk into my amazingly thick and insensitive head. XD and a kiddie kid kid could've understood it given what was given. >__>

that took quite a while~

lol.

nonetheless, i'm so happy for my ex-co-AVP! *huggles*

In my watch it is 12:04 AM (adjusted for advanced time preference differences)


Magpapaganda ako today. XD





Wheee~


* *
Today...Este, yesterday, was filled with walking. O__o And playing tennis. =P

I saw Bongerz today too. XD Was delighted. We hung out in the bran spankin' new Econ cafeteria and was very very pleased with the air conditioning. ^_______^ I swear, we can choke to death from the heat.

We basically talked about dieting and how much we're needing it, and how my dad's been forcing me to prematurely write our thesis...You know, the usual things. She was taking Panpil 17 and was dumped with a truckload of readings, while I was taking nothing, but was still dumped, or rather...burried alive, by a whole year of saved cellphone messages that I was (and still am) to transcribe to my journal. It's been on my to do list since eons ago, that is, when summer started. I've written out give or take one-fourth of it throughout today, of which around two-thirds were written while Bong was taking a shot at a few pages of Panpil.

Rachel's been utterly enthusiastic about a certain one-day swimming outing that she's been planning for us (the us not being so well-defined as of yet). And her up and up mood about it is certainly rubbing off on me. XD I'm pretty thrilled about it too now. Wehehe~ She's setting her sights at La Mesa Eco Park, which I've been to once and had a fantastic time in. XD We can even go bring some food and have a pickedy picnic. It's a lovely place with lots and lots of trees and it is a place you'd love walking around in, although on first impression, you'd think it's bigger than it actually is. That's how it projects itself to its visitors...Big. Anyway, digress why don't I? Lol. Rachel was thinking maybe on Monday afternoon? Which is perfectly fine by me, although I'm not quite sure how Gil will find a way around his internship. And it's his first day, at that. Hopefully though it'll push through. It's the first unofficial but full-fledged CE outing I'll be taking part in since I became part of CE. ^__^ And I'm pretty sure it'll be loads of funn. (Btw, Gen and Bong, you guys are certainly invited -- incase Boss Rach hasn't texted you yet. ^^)

I've been having conversion issues with my mother's Nokia 6260. I don't remember if I've mentioned it, but she gave me that in exchange for the use of the Moto V3x that used to be in my possession (can't really say it was mine because rights of ownership have been blurred by the arrangement). Not so bad, the 6260, it has its own camera...But since this afternoon, the pesky blinking message signal has been blinking its way into my nerves. I've deleted more than half the photos I've taken and all the messages in my inbox and still it wont stop blinking! Grrrraawwwrrr. (f=>_<)f It gets my right eye twitching whenever I flip that cellphone open.

Hay..Anyway. I've started complaining. O.o

At the courts this afternoon, we've invented some new ways of killing time while waiting for a free court. XD We call them, the Matrix.


the Matrix spearheaded by Tim


the Matrix, Jojo style~


of course, I just had to try it myself



and finally, other [inferior] Matrix poses (thru night vision goggles lol)
The Buddha pose and the Nightcrawler pose

Forgive the quality, that's pretty much why I prefer the V3x over this cellphone.

There there. I better get to bed.
April 18 naaaaaaaa~ <3

I spent my afternoon looking for a nice theme for my *cough* new, second-hand phone. It used to be my mother's, but she decided we should trade, so now she has the Moto and I have the Nokia. It's not so bad, it still has a camera, just not as pretty in its performance as the Moto. At least it does its job. And one consolation I always tell myself is that at least I can get cute themes on this phone. The Razr V3X was difficult to find themes for. ^_^

Wala lang..^_^

I am so bored.
I'm just at home...like a board! O__o
And it sucks that I can't afford...

Anything.



This is not even worth calling an attempt at bad poetry. LOL.
I wanna go out somewhere far away. XD Like the Hundred Islands or Puerto Galera or Palawan or Panglao or someplace fun like that.

Hay!

Who'da thought going to San Pablo would take so long? O__o It took us two hours. Hehehe...And throughout the trip I was thinking how we as children used to love long field trip rides (the longer, the father away XD). I remember being disappointed whenever the ride would take less than an hour. But now, older and more impatient, long trips are nothing but an inconvenience. Nonetheless, we got there, and it was fun fun fun from there on out.. XD



The place was really nice. Although, not as nice as I'd have expected from the photos on the internet, it was much much better than many of the previous planning sem resorts we've been in. We had the huge Ilang-ilang session hall all to ourselves, and we mostly used only half of it, unless a game was in play (which reminds me to give due credit to Boss Riza who loves having and organizing games but hates playing them kasi daw lagi siyang natatalo at sinumang matalo ay maghuhugas ng pinggan..lol..)

The rooms were okay, it was all wooden and stuff from the outside, which looked absolutely pretty, specially with the capiz windows that were very neat and rather convenient for using as a door when the real door was stuck. ^__^ The key to our room (room 2) was particularly memorable because it was cylidrical instead of the usual flat, and it reminded us room twosters of a futuristic sci-fi movie. Hehehe. Too bad we didn't get a picture of it.

Inside the rooms, I took the top bed on the double deck and was having a difficult time going up and down the whole time. (No one else's fault but mine lol). Outside our rooms, we had our very own grass place (which for convenience sake I will call the yard). That was where we had our barbequed dinner during our first night, and the slogan session, and the Pepsi-7up and Monkey monkey and bubuka and bulaklak and pusoy-dos-with-shot session. That was also where we played a pretty neat prank on our beloved president. XD You should've seen his face! ^____________^

The food was fantastic! :D For the first time we had a planning sem with abundance of food (meaning catered lol). We could even take seconds! A privilege I never let pass. XD We even had merienda! :D Wheee~ This was all thanks to Dindi's Mark's family who made a lot of tummies happy. Mine was in bliss. *.*

I was even missing Genina when we had Cordon Bleu (wehehehe~) because we have a special memory together in relation to that dish. TuT I was almost hoping I could MMS a piece to her. ^____^

Lalala~

I'm not quite sure why I'm being very in-depth about this...



this is the only serious pic I am going to show you~


toh pa pala..XD


barbeque-ing for dinner


barbequed mallows. *yum yum*


sasara ang bulaklak, bubuka ang bulaklak, dadaan si riza, pakembot kembot pa!


mukha bang nagso-slogan session? UPCE We Define.


that's what they call "may spark!"


picture picture after ng slogan~


PUBorito!


Ops!


ech-ar..hoy pat!


little boys doin' the raindance. O__o


Matrix group 1 :p


ang mga boss. :D

Planning sem photo credits: Riza

Unfortunately, I had to leave a little earlier, the day of the calendaring session. :( That's because I had to go to Sta. Rosa to drop some stuff off and be home before my dad's birthday on the 12th. I had loads of fun already anyway, so it wasn't a waste at all.

My adventure to Sta. Rosa was, well, an adventure in the truest sense. Lol. I took three jeepneys from the resort, but the last one was the best. We were on the freeway when we got a flat tire. Whee~ O___o We were near the exit na naman eh, and I could see Enchanted Kingdom from where we pulled over. So I was thinking whether I should walk the rest of the way, kasi naman, only very few (chosen) people would have a walking-along-the-freeway-while-watching-the-ferris-wheel-go-round-and-round experience. But then..I didn't walk the rest of the way. I got there anyway, long story though. Some van picked us up and brought us there for an extra P10. (Short lang pala lol). At first I was hesitant to ride because it was a private vehicle and the word "hijack!" was floating around in my head, but I rode anyway because I'd be the only one left with mr. jeepney driver fixing the tire if I didn't.

As I said, I did get to my destination. :)



Finally met Toto Vanvan and Kuya Les. Hung out for a while. Played with the kulit bunch (no pics of them, unfortunately -- Little Athena was extremely sweet though TuT...and ticklish). Dropped the stuff off. Hugged and kissed and was off again. Which was funny because Kuya Les and Ate Michelle thought I was going to Mindoro with them for Baby Vanvan's birthday binyag. XD Kasi I had a big bag from the planning sem. Lol.

The trip home was the most tiring. From Sta. Rosa to Cubao it took us almost 3 hours due to bad expressway traffic. Then when I got to Ever, I didn't walk home as planned, because when I planned that I was thinking I'd be home a little earlier, which means a little brighter and less dangerous. O_o So yeah..I had to wait for my folks to fetch me. ^__^ But it was all right. Last stretch of the journey na naman yun eh. :D

My summer




doesn't seem to be turning out

the way I'd thought it would.







I will not

lose



any of you.

My layout is blah. :(

...now imagine mine.

Hahaha...XD At first it was, well, odd. But with the help of two slices of watermelon that kept me from looking too attentive, I got by. ^__^

So, what were my father's relationship tips?

1. A relationship must be growth oriented. You must give each other enough space to grow and follow your goals. Once a relationship hinders growth, it is a relationship not worth taking.



2. When out on a date, the guy must pay for the expenses. At the worst, it has to be 50-50. If he can't afford anything fancy, dapat, magtiyaga ang girl, for as long as its something the guy can afford. Kasi daw, if the girl pays, either the guy will be insulted or he doesn't deserve to be her boyfriend at all.



3. Hatid sundo must be the guy's responsibility. If he's on a tight budget, tricycle. (Exag naman yun..) But he has to pay for it. (He even inserted an anecdote about him bringing mom to watch an orchestra riding a jeep -- but still, it's the orchestra!! T_T)
   
   
4. Sex (to him) is not a moral issue. At least not until there is a child. A child will make it very difficult of all parties to go for their goals. The worst (as in emphasized talaga ang WORST) decision for a couple, though, is to get married for that reason. It only compounds the difficulties. The decision to have sex, on the other hand, is completely and totally the couple's decision, for as long as they keep their goals and dreams in sight.



5. Respect is very important. You (let's just assume I -- or my dad -- is talking to a girl) must have enough respect for him to be able to introduce him to your friends, etc. (I got only a vague idea of how this works...the respect-introducing to friends thing, but that's how he said it..O_o)



6. Regarding being seloso/selosa: the reason why my father isn't (and I think it will be good to adapt this way of thinking--for those of us who are) is because for him, the value of his wife only increases if other men like her (or find her beautiful). That is, the more who like her, the more valuable she must be! XD Ang sabi nga niya, "kung ako lang ang may gusto sa asawa ko, I must be blind!" Hehehe..I dunno if that quote helps, but I was laughing for about a whole minute when he said that. lol...lalala~ XD

I wasn't very attentive, was I? =p

Anyway, yeah. ^__^v That was a really weird dinner table discussion we had tonight. Weird enough to merit a whole blog entry to itself.

I got into reading Mia and John's testi's. Wala lang~ They're overflowing with so much love for each other! XD Na para bang kung basahin mo ay magiging masaya ka nalang din about the world. Ang labo nga eh. O__o But I'll take this happy-about-the-world feeling as a chance to say I'm sooooo oober doober happy for them.

I'm sooo oober dooober happy for you Mia and John and Ally~ *huggles* I really really hope you stay happy like that for a long long time. And I hope that so many other people in the world become happy with each other like you are with each other.

Hehehe. And thank you for making me feel happy about the world tonight. ^____^v

Yay! :D

I was hoping to make it look and feel like a lively, bright, unbound summer layout. I do think it's lively and bright...Unbound, though, I can't be sure. :( I really hoped I could exclude the arrows from the whole design but it wouldn't look very nice on any resolution higher than 1024x768 otherwise. So it's a little bound. But only a little. (Still, it annoys me)

The Globe exam took far too long. Almost four hours, I think? But the interview was all right. It was in all a pretty good experience for me. I'm not really in the mood to narrate my day, but it is noteworthy to mention that Dindi and I went through the whole procedure together. It was extremely relieving to find someone I knew around there. And she and her father were really nice. (Thank you for the omelette~ I loved it!)

I can't be sure if I'll get the internship, though. I'd like to now. Hehehe. But I don't mind if I don't. It was never really on my summer agenda anyway (nothing was). And there are so many other things I can do over the break. Those so many other things though just don't have allowance. =P

The afternoon after my first (and hopefully not last) taste of the corporate life was extra delightful. <3 Kame and Jin are so cute!!

I think, though, that this will be the last happy-in-that-way day I will have for the summer. *sniff* People have left for the Holy Week. And tomorrow, more people will leave. Only, it's for longer.

But anyway. I'm excited about the planning sem. XD It's in Laguna! And I heard there's a hot spring? And our sessions will be held on a gazebo? It sounds different, this time: the planning sem. I hope it is. Actually, anything other than Casa Elum is different hehehe (no offense to past IC T_T). BUT! There is a special reason why I'm so happy that it's in Laguna. Hehehe. So that my chances of visiting this one person afterwards are a lot less slim. Ohohoho~

Hmmm. I just checked my grades on CRS. I wonder why the grade I got posted on one of my subjects is a notch lower that the grade I was given when my professor posted our overall performance. *iyak iyak* It throws my whole computation off balance. (Who'da thought I'd still be computing this late in my college life??) I don't think my creative writing classes furthered my writing abilities very much anyway. I think I was writing better blog entries when this blog first started. (High marginal productivity of things that are new...;D)

I should start reading again.

Lam mo ba, summer na. *tears of joy*

This is me, care of my quasi little brother, Jaijai. <3
If you're wondering why I have two extra eyes, those are my glasses

I have an exam and a job interview for Globe tomorrow. I never really had anything productive (like classes or a job) planned for my summer, but when I received the invitation, I was like, what the heck.

My resume is mediocre because I only made it tonight (I'm printing it out right now) and I prepared not at all for tomorrow's exam. This is just a what the heck, no need to fuss about it.

But if I get the internship...

Cool.

I'm done with my stories!!! TuT And it is definitely good enough news to spare wee bit more of my supposed sleeping time to announce it to the world. XD

I'm a junior no more!!!!!!

Hay.

Now I better hit the sack. Proofread ko pa yung mga stories ko before printing tomorrow. TuT OMG I am so Happy.