Are you going over board?

How will you know if you're obssessing (a bit) over a guy?

You join the orgs in which he is a member or officer.

You hacked his e-mail account and read every e-mail sent by a girl.

You befriend his orgmates, frat brods, dorm mates and block mates.

You despise his girlfriend and girl friends.

You created an anonymous friendster account which you use to view his profile and upload pictures for him.

You have more than 10 testimonials for him.

You have more than 10 pictures of him in your cellphone.

Your wallpaper on your PC is a pic of him. (an edited one with you standing next to him or something like that.)

You have a t-shirt hidden in your cabinet that bears the message: I Love (his name)

YOu hang around in the eng'g building hoping to see him while pretending you have a class for ES12.

You are learning how to play football or basketball just because it's his fave sport.

You always tell yourself and sometimes, your colleagues that you are more beautiful and smater than his girlfriend.

intrams preparation

...kaya walang klase. mahirap din palang gumawa ng props... 'nuff said.

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Last quarter, I made a case study about advertisements. in relation to that, here are some odd and amusing ads. I don't really know if they're "real" ads.

nice blogs, nice photos

Yesterday, I was "blog-browsing" and I found this blog rebelpixel. it has really nice photos. I grabbed some of it.

And speaking of nice photos, I liked this pic published in the lifestyle section of Phil Star (Nov. 28)

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my book has a new cover.. and a new title.

that's all for now. going to bed. hmmm.. this is the first time in like weeks that I am going to bed this early...

PROJECT: IN HOC SIGNOS (aka my 27th attempt at finishing a book)

Last November 19, I started compiling and editing for this folio with the title, In Hoc Signos Rebellion.

It will comprised of essays, stories and poems from various books and websites. I am also including some of my works. haha. I actually planned to work on my thesis this November and December pero never mind kasi I have this In Hoc SIgnos project. haha. kung pwede lang kasing ito na lang thesis ko noh! Mas may silbi pa siya kaysa sa dun sa ginagawa kong thesis.

eto pala ang itsura ng cover:

sabi ng kapatid ko ang pangit daw ng cover. just post a comment kung may ideas kayo for the cover of my folio. (pero that sounds impossible kasi i think there are only two persons who read my blog: Jonee and Faye)

ICT Whizards Camp 2005

A.M. HAPPENINGS

Pre-pageant for Mr. & Ms. Intrams. I wasn't able to watch much of it kasi I was finalizing the lay-out of the school paper together with Sir Villanueva and Daphne. It feels so good after we burned the .pub file into the cd which will be given to the Printing Press. Can't wait to see the final output.

Hindi ko kinaya ang powers ng ilan sa mga contestants sa Mr. & Ms. Intrams. Di ko take ang outfit ng iba. medyo bitchy ang dating. ok sana, kaso di nila carry. bilib ako kay Jason kasi nagawan nya ng paraan yung "techinical problem". ayos. impromptu ang kanyang talent. sayang di ko napanood yung kay john rey. naging bakla raw sya eh. mga first years, ang i-ingay. dinadaan lang naman nila sa hiyaw at cheers yung talent ng mga contestants nila.

IN THE AFTERNOON: CULMINATING PROGRAM NG ICT WHIZARDS CAMP 2005

I am so happy with the ICT Whizards Camp. It was a success. But it's not only me who'll take the credit - other officers, ma'am jaime, sir binas-o and some other members. This is the first ICT Month in LCSSHS - kaya achievement to for me. tapos 90% student-run pa to kaya it makes me proud. most of the programs and activities kasi sa school eh faculty and admin and nag-o-organize.

and for the first time, emcee ako ng program. kahit nung nasa grade school pa ako, never akong naging emcee. Hindi man naging ganun ka-effective yung pagiging emcee ko, ayos lng.

I particularly liked our guest of honor and speaker, Mr. Rufino Macagba III. kakaiba sya. he's not like most speakers na nakatayo sa harap, naka-lean at podium habang natutulog yung audience nya. Yung "talk" nya is interactive. Tinawag pa nga nya akong ng dalawang beses. First, he asked me to define ICT. Tapos he also asked me to name an event or program na kung saan involved ang lahat ng students related to ICT syempre sabi ko itong ICT whizards camp mismo. Hindi sana yun sagot ko pero...He also gave some proposal projects for our club. one is a ilokano dictionary website and the other is a webserver for the high school wherein the students wuld all be given a chance to have a webpage or something to voice out their opinions or something like that.

tapos moment of embarassment. sumayaw kami. sabi ko pa nga "you normally see these guys and girls in the computer lab playing NFS, gunbound, programming or blogging but now we witness them perform in a intermission number. Here are the CCE officers and members.."hiyawan silang lahat.

winners in the belen making

other entries...

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nga pala, i found this post on kathy's blog. (magco-comment pa sana ako sa blog nya pero wag na. baka mabasa nya.)

sounds okay (at first) but a bit silly kasi it makes it sound na love and friendship is exclusive lang to relationships involving opposite sexes. at tsaka freindship involves love pa rin naman eh

super sayan editors

Today, Daphne, Sir Villanueva and I turned Super Sayan editors. haha. I am too tired to elaborate.
My "forgotten password" is giving me such a headache.

zeus

may bago syang pic

fieldtrip aftershock.

I slept all day. totoo. kaninang 2-4 pm lang ako gising. naligo lang ako at gumawa ng project ni paul tapos tulog uli. kakagising ko nga lang kaninang 8pm para gumawa ng project ni barth. I haven't eaten anything. (yes!)

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November 21, 2005 Monday, Fieldtrip

Tulog ako ng tulog sa bus. I just feel so tired. I mean, I had the DSPC then then tow consecutive entrance exams sa UST and SLU. Sino ba naman ang di mapapagod nyan?

I wake up nung nasa Malago na kami. mga 30 minutes before the show started. Kain ng konti, change clothes, go! maganda naman yung show. kaka-aliw yung mga birds. medyo KJ ang karamihan sa mga HS studes.

The Emperor's New Clothes. The play was very lively. pang young audiences talaga. ang pangit na lang eh super huli kaming nasundo ng bus. as in naka-alis na lahat ng iabng buses ng lorma, wala pa rin yung bus namin. mukha kaming mga nawawalang bata sa gitna ng makati. BBALL PLAYER SIGHTING #4: BJ MANALO. He was with his wife, Dianne Quisimbing. HE doesn't look that tall in personal; basta mas gwapo sa personal. Bakit kaya ganun? si wesley di ko pa nakikita ng personal?

Nakarating din kami sa starcity after 10 days. Mas maraming nasakyan ngaun kaysa last year. muntik na akong maatake sa puso sa pagsakay sa viking. tawagin nyo na akong OA or KJ, pero takot talaga ako sa mga ganyan. Other rides and booths we visited: haunted house, balloon wheel, bump car, yung parang bump car sa tubig na di ko alam ang pangalan, lion king, ice palace, the mummy, lion king. dalawang beses kami dun sa lion king kasi nakaka-aliw si tricia na tignan at pakinggan na humiyaw. takot daw sya dun sa mascot o kung anu mang tawag sa kanila.

this fieldtrip was different. Hindi masaya sa bus, dun sa mga places na included sa itenerary masaya.

useless yung cam ko. tinamad akong mag-picture. siguro dahil: I don't want to remember this fieldtrip or any part of my 4th yr hs life o baka i think na pictures are not the best way to store memories. haha. sometimes, I find it hard to understand myself and why I think and act this way.

There's something different about Jonee that I've noticed.

password:

jonee, don't worry, it's something positive

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There's something different about Phia.

password:

phia, it's not that good. inaagawan mo ako ng *secret* joke joke joke.

bwye.

random posts

November 19, 2005
UST Entrance Exam (sobrang dali. I will kill myself If I don't pass)
DSPC Awarding Rites (I wasn't able to attend but why attend? Hindi naman ako nanalo.. I kind of like/dislike the text message daphne sent me: 2nd kevin, ray at ako humabol sa 5th 4th ces at taung lahat for reaching division dba?! =)
Bakit kaya ako natalo? kasi medyo maganda naman yung feel ko about dun sa work. alam ko naman kasi kung kelan ako dapat umasa at kung kelan hindi. Bakit kaya ako natalo? Probably because:
1. there's something fishy about the DSPC
2. hindi mabasa ni La Julian yung number ko sa paper or baka mali yung pagka-kita nya sa number sa paper ko
3. pangit talaga work ko
4. God is reserving something bigger... something greater.. something better for me. (I think you already know what I'm talking about)

3pm - card day. I finally got wish #8. I got higher grades (in majority of my subjects). bakit kaya ganun? probably because:
1. I really deserved it kasi even with the contests and other EC activities I joined, I still find time to complete my notes and submit the projects and the like.
2. I did good (in majority of the subjects) in the exams which is like 25% of my grades.
3. I wasn't able to get wish #10 & #11. Sabi nga nila, God compensates on the other.
4. God loves me lang talaga!

November 20, 2005
SLU-CEE (sobrang dali din. I will kill myself if I don't pass)

may message sa akin si Julius. actually, hindi nya alam na para sa akin pala yung message nya. ang gulo noh! ganito kasi. I made a new account sa freindster. ang pangalan eh nocturnal. sya lng yung friend ko tapos nag-upload ako ng pic nya dun sa pics nya sa profile nya. tapos na-upload ko yung pic nya nung namnama. sabi nya send ko daw uli tapos tinanong din nya kung kelan ko daw yun kinuha. hahahahaha

Division Schools Press Conference

wow.

I should have posted this yesterday but I didn't find time. I was busy with the school paper and of course, I had to watch ALIAS, my all-time favorite TV show.

Sobrang napiga yung brain ko for 1 week. Our workshop started last Monday. And while making articles, I was also reviewing for the PIChE quizbee will (finally) be on November 23. Yesterday when we arrived in ACES (aringay central elem school), they told us we need to submit at least a draft of the paper for us to qualify. Sir Villanueva was completely rattled. We decided to go back to Lorma San Juan to at least finish some pages of the paper and submit a draft tommorow. I went home to get the articles and all other neccesary stuff (including my scanner, that doesn't have a name yet). When we arrived in Lorma San Juan, kain kami agad ng lunch then it was non-stop work from 12:00 to 5:50. Tapos nagpunta kami sa Lorma Main para magpaprint. Naiinis pa ako dun sa technician or something. Kasi yung binigay naming paper is A4 pero yung size dapat eh 18x12. problema sa printing. di man lang nya nagawan ng paraan. naputol tuloy yung last 7 or 8 lines ng paper. tapos black and white pa. I arrived sa bahay mga 7:40pm. di naman ako pinagalitan.

Ang ginawa ko na lang, bumili ako ng manila paper. ini-size ko ng 18x12. tapos nag-print ako gamit syempre yung colored na printer. Medyo nasasayangan ako pero sabi ko hayaan ko na lang. I just have to print it. I am the associate editor. Feel ko... wala lang. ewan.

Tapos dahil sa long bong paper ko na-print, i have to cut and paste pa.

20 mins - pag cut ng manila paper sa size na 18x12

1 hour - pag drawing ng lines sa long bond paper para diretso yung pag-cut

1 hour 10 mins - pag cut ng bawat bond paper (hindi to madali ha kasi 36 bond paper yun tapos di pwedeng madaliin kasi baka maging tabingi or something)

1 hour 20 mins - paglalagay ng mga bond paper sa manila paper. di biro to ha kasi kailangan sakto at tapat tapat yung mga bond paper tapos half way nung paglalagay ko ay naubusan ako ng glue kaya kailangan kong maghanap ng glue. wala akong nahanap na glue. kaya naghanap na lang ako ng double sided tape. thankfully meron naman. pero naging mas mahirap kasi magugunting ako ng tape tapos ilalagay ko tapos tatangalin ko yung parang white na ewan.

pasado (name ng column ni danya) na rin ako nung natulog. di ko nga naka-chat si *ano* eh. thursday pa naman, "chat day" pa naman.

I just love our paper. di man ganun kaganda, i love it.

just look at it

yan ang hitsura nya fter mapag-piyestahan ng mga organizers and other advisers.

eto yung ibang page. basta papagandahin pa namin yan.

Today yung event ko. Feature writing, filipino. ang saya parang grade 6 uli. ok naman yung topic but I'm not expecting to win na. I've been joining the DSPC/LUJC for 6 years now. I won twice (thrice, if you count the radio broadcasting) - that's more than enough.

Hay, thank you po Lord may natapos kami at may nai-submit na maayos na draft ng paper.

*special mention kami dun sa lecture ni La Julian. sabi nya "I see students in gree jogging pants . (tingin agad sa mga grade skul.) why are you here? ah.. you're not from san fernando anymore. you're already in san juan"

haha. bali-balita kasi na talo na kami kasi wala kami dun sa journalism congress ng san fernanado or something like that. eh sa san juan naman na kami kaya dun na kami sa DSPC kasali.

how funny can you get!

I found another link in Joma's blog. the 3-variable-test.

The Results:

the Ham
(28% dark, 53% spontaneous, 15% vulgar)

your humor style:CLEAN SPONTANEOUS LIGHTY

our style's goofy, innocent and feel-good. Perfect for parties and for the dads who chaperone them. You can actually get away with corny jokes, and I bet your sense of humor is a guilty pleasure for your friends. People of your type are often the most approachable and popular people in their circle. Your simple & silly good-naturedness is immediately recognizable, and it sets you apart in this sarcastic world.

PEOPLE LIKE YOU: Will Ferrell - Will Smith

take the test, too! click here for the 3 variable test

how funny can you get!

=D

Nathan is back. kaka-setup ko lang sa kanya. haha. now I can be 6AM-6AM online. yey!

suspended classes

right now, I am having my lunch. yes, in front of the computer. multi-tasking. Chatting with lex while having lunch. Whatever I'm eating now tastes ten times better than usual. he just went away for a while because he has to eat lunch. kagagaling kasi nya sa enrollment. naisip ko na naman, hay, ang sarap sihuro gn buhay sa UP.

somehow, I can't get myself to hate lex for using words like "haye!", "hooora!" ang "enx"(thanks). if someone else have used those words on me, I would told him/her that it is so not good to hear or see. But lex, is different. ewan pero pag siya ang gumagamit ng mga words na yun, tunog "cool", tunog "astig". ewan

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postponed pala ang PIChE quiz bee. hay. they're prolonging my agony. signal #2 kasi ang la union. but I don't see that. the weather is kind of fine.

*** anyways, I'll just share this pics from an e-mail forwarded to me:

Mapua Entrance Exam

Thankfully, I passed the Mapua Entrance Exam. I don't know yet my score but I'm hoping that I got 80% or higher so that I could apply for Scholarship. I kind of amuses me that I qualify for BS Biotechnology, Chemistry and Chemical Engineering (Triple degree). Science was never my thing. My aptitude in Chemistry is so... whatever. Sometimes, I wish that if I ever pass UP, I don't get qualified for BS ChE, I hope that I'll qualify for BS CoE or CE. But that doesn't really matter. As long as I get in to UP Diliman, I'll be fine... so fine.

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My APEC members are still doing good. I hope they have uploaded the site now. I hope.

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The PIChE quiz is tomorrow yet I don't bother to review cause Thursdays are like "online day" for me and ...

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I'd like to share this cool story

An old man lived alone in Minnesota. He wanted to spade his potato garden, but it was very hard work. His only son, who would have helped him, was in prison. The old man wrote a letter to his son and mentioned his situation.

Dear Son, I am feeling pretty bad because it looks like I won't be able to plant my potato garden this year. I hate to miss doing the garden, because your mother always loved planting time. I'm just getting too old to be digging up a garden plot.

If you were here, all my troubles would be over. I know you would dig the plot for me, if you weren't in prison.Love, Dad

Shortly, the old man received this telegram: "For Heaven's sake, Dad, don't dig up the garden!! That's where I buried the GUNS!"

At 4a.m. the next morning,
A dozen FBI agents and local police officers showed up and dug up the entire garden without finding any guns.

Confused, the old man wrote another note to his son telling him what happened, and asked him what to do next. His son's reply was: "Go ahead and plant your potatoes, Dad. It's the best I could do for you from here."

all in a day's work

Exams are over and so is my life.

Today, I took the last four exams. It was hell. Hoping of the same or higher grades for second quarter is like hoping for Julius to show up during my graduation and actually talk to me. I am going down. haha. My mom will kill me in a few days or weeks. I am so not doing the terms in our "agreement". I know this is my fault. I mean, I have been out of class since October 3. How do you expect me to know all those stuff they've discussed for a month! yeah, almost a month! But I'm not unhappy or anything like that. I mean, I chose to join all those contests and I don't regret missing classes because of those. After the people I've met and "lessons I've learned", it wasn't all bad, you know.

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My APEC team members are so good. I am so relieved that they are doing great with the second activity. I made the right decision of choosing each of them. Plus, I already assigned Dominick to replace me as team leader for the mean time (as I have a lot of other activities like the CCE Week, exams and PIChE quiz bee this friday). So far, he is doing good. They are all doing great. I'm so happy to have them as members.

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Galileo teams for the CCE quizbee are so good. Ralph, Dominick and Aldriah qualified for the finals. Danya, Joyce and Raymark, although they are really good, did not make it. They got eliminated in the tie-breaker sudden death round. But that's okay. I told Ralph a while ago, "Bakit di nyo nakuha yung Gordon Freeman? Bakit Gordon lang sagot nyo?" he answered, "kasi ang naisip ko eh yung member ng linkin park J. Gordon. 'Kala ko J. Gordon yung as half-life at si gordon freeman sa LP. baliktad pala." hahaha.

sabi pala ni ma'am jaime, mag-intermission number daw kami sa culminating program ng CCE Week, kahit ano daw, sumayaw daw kami pag kinakailangan. NO WAY!

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I will join the PIChE quizbee this friday, November 11 (hmmm... do you remember something signifact... very significant event that happened November 11, last year? I do...) I never thought that this was my thing. haha. Since when did Ayi join a science quiz bee? never. except now. I want to win because Mama is part of PIChE. Although she's not a part of the committee for the quiz bee, I feel as though I have to prove something to her or something like that. At tsaka hindi group tong quiz bee na 'to. It's my name and reputation on the line!

Wish me all the luck in the world and may God bless me. (haha. ang selfish eh)

I wonder if there is a UP-PIChE (you know, like UP PSME. Papa is a member of PSME)

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Chinskitensai, one of the buddies I added throught the yahoo IDs Julius gave me, has this current status message: ESC meeting. hmm.. maybe that's why Julius hasn't logged in yet. He's busy with ESC. grabe, iba na talaga ang astig na UPian

Books

Books I like:
1. Harry Potter (whatever people say, I totally love this book)
2. Sisterhood of the travelling pants
3. Misadventures of a disorganized young woman
4. faulty electric wiring poems (poem anthology. I like it veen though I can't understand some of it)
5. ABNKKBSNPLAko?!
6. Stargirl
7. Bridget Jones's Diary
8. Yougnblood 2.0
9. A Walk to Remember
10. Paboritong Libro ni HUdas

Books I didn't like
1. The second summer of the sisterhood
2. Nights in Rodanthe
3. Tuesdays with Morrie (I never really got to finish it)
4. Maniac Magee (I stopped reading this after finishing two chapters)
5. The purpose Driven life
6. Asian History by Zaide
7. World History by Zaide
8. Five people you meet in heaven (I didn't finish the book)

Books I use to like (but now dislike)
1. Mates, Dates ...
2. The Alchemist
3. Cupidity
4. How not to spend your senior year
5. Princess and the pauper
6. Royally Jacked
7. Pirncess Diaries II, IV, and IV and a half
[ there was a time when I was addicted to young adult romance / romantic comedy fiction books. It opened my mind to crushes, infatuation and that absurd thing called "love". I don't know. Somehow, I'm not fascinated anymore by reading about girls who find their modern day prince charming. hindi sya kilig.]

anyways, I wrote tis post after joining a forum in peyups about the books you hate. A lot said that they hate Paulo Coelho's books, Dan Brown's books, and Sophie's world. Some said Artemis Fowl and Harry Potter. one posted:

I have to agree and disagree. After reading The Alchemist, I thought it was good, sort of inspirational nga. But now, I consider The Alchemist to be a blurry story. parang pang 10 year old reader. at first, it was close to reality pero it turned out be ewan. out of this world.

As for the Dan Brown books, ewan. I haven't read one. Pero I don't think na those books are good. I think it's the contorversies lang naman ang nagpapasikat sa mga yun eh.

P.S. Eviction night ngaun ng Pinoy Big Brother. Sana matanggal na si Sam. FilAm ata kasi sya. (di ko sure eh) The show is PINOY Big Brother. I think it should be for the full-blooded filipinos. Belated Happy Birthday pala to my second favorite (nex to Franzen) housemate, UMA (whose birthday is November 4. uy, magkasunod kami)

UPians : (crush at) Iskolar ng Bayan

secret muna..

password:

sixteen

Happy birthday to me!
These are the people who have greeted me (so far):

1. Lorie Dinia (who greeted me last November 1.. creepy)
2. Charlene (one of my batchmates in elementary. surprised that she even cared to greet
me)
3. Faye (2am, November 3. But have read the message just a few minutes ago)
4. Phia
5. Jhannel
6. Mama
7. Papa
8. Jonee
9. Joanna
10. Almira
11. Daphne
12. Patrick
13. Jing2
14. Shamira
15. Danya
16. Dian

I am staying up online till 12 midnight (hoping wish # 12 to be fulfilled). just kidding.

me? a nerd?

I found a link on Joma's blog. I took the nerd test. take the quiz, too.

here is my score:

happy halloween

but, this post is not about halloween...

a few minutes ago, I was looking up at random keepsakes from my "mahiwagang baul". here are some things I've found:

this was the diary I had for October-November 2004. I took a pic of my entry on October 23 and October 27. That was during the UP Namnama Quiz Show - Provincial level and Regional level.

October 23 - I met a cutie today. Yes, in the UP Namnama Quiz show. He's one of the facilitators. I don't know his name or anything else about him except for the fact that he's taking up Engineering. I'm guessing he's 18 years old. plus he has nice hair. at cute pa sya pag nakatalikod. anyways, I'm telling this to anyone else because they make fun of it

October 27 - Since we were sitting near the score board, I can see that the facilitators are also solving. And one of them was - JULIUS!! You know, the guy I was talking about the last time. That's him - Julius! He's taking up Civil Engineering at (I'd like to emphasize) UP Diliman. Pretty impressive....

hinalungkat ko ang mga dati ko pang diary at inubos ko ang post-it notes ko sa kaka-comment sa mga pinag-susulat ko

eto naman mga calendar na I make every month (obvious ba?) simula nung feb 2005, yung mga calendars ko eh color-coded na, according to the "mood of the month". nung feb, pink kasi nga prom. nung october 2005, green kasi that's my fave color kala ko kasi pinaka-masaya ng october. clearly, I was wrong.


P.S. nasa holy garden kami kanina. may nakita ako. naka-shorts at black shirt. (mali yang iniisip nyo) nakita ko si Jp.