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Yesterday, my family set out to a local fish vendor in Cogon to replenish our supply of aquarium fish. We did this because all of the aquarium's previous inhabitants have slowly died out, reducing the dynamic hotbed of aquatic life that was our aquarium to a depressing glass enclosure of wet decorative stones. So yeah, our fish all died. But this is not to suggest that we are bad fish owners, for they all seem to have passed of natural causes... Except maybe for the last guy. The last of the goldfish had inexplicably lost its will to live. It spent its final days stagnant at the bottom of the aquarium, somberly awaiting death instead of happily floating around in the water as goldfish are wont to do. It's pretty sad. And what's sadder is that after it died, the water in the aquarium was emptied, leaving just a pile of small stones, which mosquitoes apparently enjoyed laying their eggs in. Gross. Anyway! Proceeding with the story. The fish vendor lady in Cogon kept he...

I don't have anything interesting to write about today so here's a gif that I made for LFC, and for the love of Big Fish . You know, sometimes, so little happens in my life that I wonder if it's even my life I'm living in, or someone else's. Someone more exciting, more entertaining, and with more depth than me. I wonder whether I really am the main character of The Aimee Show. For all I know, I am just another extra, milling around in the background as the real main character ventures off into a world full of evil twins, enchanted mirrors, muzzle flares, spacecrafts, good-looking people, desert islands, Pegasi, triple-crossers, expensive wine, and cliffhangers. Six seasons and a movie. Don't tell me I've been watching too much TV. (Because the TV is downstairs in the dorm lobby, and I don't like going there because I'm too lazy to change out of my pajamas, and I don't want to go there in my jammies because all the other girls are wearing som...

While I was skimming through a really old issue of Meg magazine, I spotted this ad for PAWS - Philippine Animal Welfare Society. It featured pictures of different cats and dogs, and at the center was a drawing of two kittens and a puppy holding up a sign that read SOS - Save Our Strays. Now I had seen this ad in this magazine about a bazillion times already, and every time I saw it I'd always wish I were in Manila to help those poor little critters. But this time, something else caught my eye - the address of the PAWS Animal Rehabilitation Center (PARC) printed at the bottom of the ad. "PARC, Aurora Blvd, Katipunan, Loyola Heights , Quezon City." I jumped! Katinpunan! Loyola Heights! That's where ADMU is!!! So earlier, I went online to the PAWS website and found this: (click to embiggen) Weeee! PAWS doesn't look too far away from ADMU! This is so great! I really wanna volunteer for PAWS. I got so excited just reading their volunteer application form! ...