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       Hello blogdom! I'm back, after a long, lazy hiatus. Finals week was crazy, but you don't really need to know about the gory details of my Math and Chemistry exams. However, this might be more interesting to you:         Dear friends, may I present to you Eng/Lit M02, my English block, with our teacher, the elusive Mr. Max Pulan. This was taken after our rendition of Nick Joaquin's, "Portrait of an Artist as Filipino," and it was the very last thing I did as an official freshman. It was perfect too, because our play was held at the end of the day at the end of the week at the end of Belarmine hall. And the weather was cold. And the people were wonderful. I couldn't have asked for a better way to end my freshman year. . . .     I got home last Saturday, and ever since then I've been doing nothing but fermenting on my bed on the Internetz. Sorry about the delay in posting; I rekindled my love affair with Tetris Battle...

      Lesson learned: drinking coffee the night before a 7:30 exam = bad idea. I can't sleep na hinuon. Yeah. Little bits of Bisaya have been finding their way into my conversations lately. "It's like this man gud." Maybe it's because I've been thinking so much in Bisaya ever since I wrote my paper about language last Saturday.       You heard me. I actually did some work over the weekend, because I knew I wouldn't have time to write during finals week. Hooray for productivity, right? :)       WRONG. The deadline got moved to AFTER the finals. :| Ohhhhh as flies to wanton boys we are to the Gods of Deadline!      Right. Anyway. Chem exam is later, 7:30 AM. That's six hours from now, but the caffeine in my system refuses to let me rest. So here I am, online. (MY BRAIN IS FULLY SATURATED I CAN'T LEARN ANY MORE CHEMISTRY)     . . .      I can't believe I'm going home this week...

I got really vain and decided to look up my name on Google, and I found this very sweet and very old entry from my schoolmate Sandy's blog: You know why I couldn't study tonight? I was too eager to surf the net and search for Aimee Capinpuyan's blog - I've heard she's sensational! I did try to review my skills in Math Proficiency but when I got to question number 16 or so I gave up and just hooked the laptop to get some form of recreation. And I searched for Aimee's blog - swear, it's so super! Super funny because of the way she says the stuff on her mind. Super honest because that entry about the Nursing Exam Retake almost made me cry. Super cool to look at - her blog design's even cooler than mine! Of course Sandy was talking about my ancient Friendster blog (which I stopped updating after I started using Blogger), but the entry made me smile nonetheless! Thanks Sandy. :') I guess the real reason I'm writing this instead of writing the concl...

        Short post, since I'm taking a break from cramming Chem things that are "not useful in everyday lives" (our teacher's words, not mine) to write and to breathe and mostly to distract myself from the fact that if I wanted to get an A on this test, I should've spent four of my past Saturdays in the library, reading the crumbly old Chem books that our teacher so loves to peruse.       Nobody did say that getting an A would be easy. Where did I ever get that idea? I used to do so well in high school, but now I'm no different from Sir Jake's favorite crispy, yellowed tomes. Hayyyy.      (Speaking of crispy, here's an awesome new food blog that all Katipuneros and Katipuneras should check out! )      Okay. Break time's over. See you guys in hell. So much potential Potential potential po- The blank page beckons.

I found out yesterday from Alessi that our last exam is on the 23rd! (Yeah, I haven't gotten around to checking the March calendar yet.) My flight's on the 26th (with Gerard! ), so that gives me three extra days of ~COMPLETE IDLENESS~ woohoo. So anyway. I'm really excited to go home. It's just two weeks though, and after that, TWO MONTHS of summer classes. Which means I'll have to fly all the way back to sweltering Manila to take up the TWO SUBJECTS that I and the rest of the Health Sci majors are required to take. Gahh. I can feel the heat waves reverberating towards me from the future. Right. Lest I digress any further, here are some of my (our) ~summer plans~ roflmao March:  Go home and be happy as a bee for two weeks! April-May: Take Psychology and German. -_- Take the Carlos Celdran tour around Manila! n_n Sign up for PAWS! At last! Light up some environmentally destructive floating lanterns, and then later lecture everyone on how they've just...

Right now, I can feel only two things: disappointment and exhaustion. I'm disappointed in myself for not having worked harder, and I'm exhausted because... I'm working harder to make up for my laziness? Nah. If I were, then I wouldn't be blogging right now. My forehead would be resting on a Chemistry book instead of parallel a laptop screen.  Anyway, I cannot sleep until I update this thang, so here goes. My English/Literature class, section MO2, has been preparing for our Lit play. We're doing "Portrait of an Artist as a Filipino," written by Nick Joaquin (and masterfully abridged by Mika and Ali!).  Today we went over to Jessica 's house for rehearsals and for props making. In case you were wondering (and I highly doubt you were), I'm working as both an actor and a props person. It's not easy, especially since I've got tons and tons of lines to memorize - huge, dizzying chunks of text that I must jam into my limited memory. Kidding. I...

There was a tsunami in Japan today. Tsunamis are expected to hit other countries later today as well. I was at rehearsals for our Lit play earlier when I heard the news. My friend asked me, "Hey Aimee, what province are you from again?" "Cagayan de Oro," I replied. He consulted his laptop and then turned to me with a grim face and said, "Cagayan's on the list of provinces expected to be hit by a tsunami later." I excused myself and stepped out to call my mom, who then calmly quelled my fears by telling me that what was up on that list was not Cagayan de Oro, but the province of Cagayan (in Luzon). I breathed. My family was fine. My friends were fine. I wanted to cry. . . . I wish there were something I could do for the people affected by the calamity. Prayer is the only thing I can offer at the moment, but prayer isn't exactly as directly effective as personally handing a disaster victim a bag of relief goods. It's the best we can do....

WOW. I haven't posted it two weeks! That must be a personal best. Or a personal worst. I'm too lazy to check. Anyway! On with the show, eh. TWO WEEKS AGO... HEALTH SCI NIGHT! Me, Rap, and Jules in the foreground, while Issa (drums) is somewhere in the shadows. :)) Our vocalist Miah isn't in this picture. We played "You Give Love a Bad Name", and we sounded all right (you know, for a first). At next Health Sci Night, we will be legen - wait for it because it's such an overused reference already - DS OF THE HIDDEN TEMPLE. FAMILY TIEMZ! Jiggy pa-cute :| Hooray for family tiemz! My family came to Manila for a weekend just to visit me! (Actually, it was all because my mom was able to buy cheap airplane tickets on an impulse.) Anyway!  We checked out the Ayala Museum, and Star City (and we won this cool stuffed bird Kevin), and I toured them around Ateneo, and there was so much foooooood like omg Which reminds me. What is up with frozen yogurt stores? Wh...