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I HAVEN'T BEEN THIS EXCITED FOR A WEEKEND SINCE... Well, since the first weekend I went home. Which was some time in July. Later, my family's flying to Manila just to see me! AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH I CANNOT WAIT OH MY GOSH. And then there's Health Sci Night. And the band thing. And my God my heart is pounding with excitement. I CANNOT WAAAAAAIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIT

        I've got a ton of things to work on tonight, but thanks to my short attention span and my inability to commit myself to doing one task at a time, I shall blog! Hooray for unproductivity!        Just a quick narration of the day's events (because I can practically hear my partner for my Filipino paper drumming his fingers on his table in impatience). I stayed up late working on a comic strip for my friends Alessi, Jani, and Arthur. It's about two superheroes named Soaperman and Sipilyo Ranger, and here's what a bit of the comic strip looks like:        I do hope I can finish it in time, what with all my procrastination and blogging.         Since the first class of the day was at 1:30, I also spent the whole morning working on the comic strip. Lunch was, again, siomai (which, thanks to aforementioned Fil partner, I now know is made from "pig and old pig").       ...

Last Friday was my high school classmate Jenica's eighteenth birthday! She's the first person in our class to ever have a debut. You can imagine how sad it was for Jason, Karen, Michael, Joseph and I to have to miss out on the celebration because of class (and expensive plane tickets), so we shot a video for her as a surprise to make up for it. Yeah, it's that "friend's video" I've been talking about in my previous posts. Badly edited by yours truly. They played it during her actual party, and from what I hear, she was really touched. Mission accomplished. :) (Edit: Behold my discomfort at having a camera aimed at my head.)

I'm back! Now, where did I leave off? Oh yeah. Wednesday       I stayed up until 4 AM, thanks to the annoying errors in Adobe Premiere that kept popping up whenever I tried to export the file as a .avi. If there's one thing I learned from my previous experience editing videos, it's that if something can go wrong, it WILL go wrong. (And in hindsight, everything I had expected to fail did actually fail.)       So I spent the day with that fuzzy feeling you get in your brain whenever you lack sleep. I don't remember much of what happened that day, but I do recall myself extolling God when our chemistry teacher said that the quiz he had planned to give us that day would be moved to next Wednesday. PERFECTO. I guess Murphy's Law doesn't apply to everything after all.      When I got back to the dorm, I got a text from Deo congratulating me on getting the part of a donya in our Lit 14 play. I fussed because I'm a really terrib...

I'm writing from the libe right now, and this will be a short one since I'm just killing the time until I get my lab notebook back from... uh, being duplicated. Valentine's Day was yesterday, and I spent most of it with my beloved block. We had a picnic over at Cervini Field. There was delicious food (gummi bears! lime-flavored nachos! Alessi's wonderful chocolate wafers!) and beautiful music. Andy also gave all the XX girls beautiful roses! Thank you! Immediately after that, I worked on my friend's video and got frustrated because my output was crappy, and this time I couldn't blame the software I was using (previously: MovieMaker; currently: Adobe Premiere). Gahh. Which brings me to where I am right now, venting out my ~artistic frustrations~ on my blog. Hmmm. Lab notebook's not done being duplicated yet. So I shall tell you about a few more things: We were dismissed early for Filipino today so that we could take pictures around the campus of sce...

       Oh boy. I've got a lot of things on my plate this week. And, thanks to my amazing time-management skillz, I am devoting an unhealthy amount of time and energy into the least important thing on my To-Do list: making a video for a friend. Gahhh.       I've got a four-page paper on Philippine signs due tomorrow. And then there's secret practice. And then a Fil paper about Maximo Oliveros.        Ugh. If I'm gonna live to see myself in Manila for my sophomore year I'm really gonna have to stop procrastinating, like I am right now.       So anyway. How was my week, you ask? Well... Monday Patigasan with the Health Sciences Society! (I already wrote about this in my previous entry. It has lovely pictures in it. Scroll down to see it, if you like.) Tuesday I was sore all over. My athletically-challenged body just wasn't (isn't) used to any physical activity beyond leisurely walking. I was also ...

      Super long weekend! Woohoo! A lot of my dormer friends actually went home. While I would've jumped on the first plane back to CDO had I the opportunity (and the great amount of strength that jumping on planes requires), the weekend in Manila wasn't too bad.       Saturday        On an impulse, I paid a visit to Cafe Xocolat, the inconspicuous little shop right across Box O' Rice, a few steps from my dorm. At the entrance, I was surprised at how un-cafe-like the store was. It looked a bit like my lola's house before it got renovated. Part of the cafe's charm, I guess, is that it used to be someone's actual home. The inside is wonderful as well, but I will not go into detail; you must visit it yourself. (Oh, and the food was delicious. A bit pricey, but worth it.) I wish I had taken more pictures, but I didn't wanna look like a cafe' n00b. Ugh. How pretentious of me :|        I finished reading...

      Happy Chinese New Year everyone! :D It feels weird having done nothing especially Chinese today, other than eating yummy tikoy courtesy of the amazing  Tin  (who, by the way, would make a totally awesome sophomore Executive Officer for SOSE)! I remember last year, Kong Hua School (my alma mater) went all-out for Chinese New Year. There were free dumplings, egg rolls, and tikoy! Red-and-gold banners were hung from end to end in the Gym, and the entire student populace went to class wearing red.      Ahh, high school. I heard they just made Mandarin classes a requirement this school year. Phew. I graduated just in time then.     This week has been really lazy, even if we did have a long test in Chemistry (which I studied really hard for!). Fencing was cancelled yesterday, and so was Chem. This morning we had a pretty awesome time in the lab, testing for anions and such, and then for Filipino we watched this extreme...