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Tonight was the the night of my block's usual sem-ender "party" at Albert's house. Since me, Pat, and Bel (and Albert himself) are this month's birthday celebrants, we brought food. A lot of it. There were six boxes of pizza and a lot of KFC chicken. After we ate, I just sat around, absentmindedly watching a Dr. Who episode with Andy. Then for some reason the lights went out, and Rap came through the door carrying a cake with a single lit candle. It took me a while to process this, and when I was finally able to wrap my mind around what was happening, my heart felt like it was soaring. Rap told me to make a wish and blow the candle. As I did, everyone there sang happy birthday, and I wanted to cry. Cry like I did on  my previous birthday surprise . But to my relief, this time around I managed to keep myself from breaking down into a teary mess as I let out a shaky "Thank you" to Rap and to everyone. This is one reason why I love summer classes - your ...

I'll just cut the usual "I'm so sorry I haven't been updating" blather, because I HAVE BEEN BUSY AS HECK and I don't need to apologize for that. If anything, the universe should apologize to me for taking away my free time!!! Kidding. Please don't smite me and take my food :c Last Saturday Instead of NSTP, I  went with my friends Jules and AC to an event called Celebrate Life Program, organized through a partnership between Kythe Ateneo and Musikero  (<-- click that!). We went to the children's cancer ward in a public hospital somewhere in Quezon City and we put on a musical skit for the kids. I had a pretty tiny role in the story; all I had to do was play the guitar when it was time for the main characters to sing. But I loved my part thoroughly. When we started performing, a lot of the kids didn't bother with what we were doing, but a few of them were very enthusiastic about participating. They volunteered and exclaimed and everything! W...

       Before I start to  rant any further, please take a minute and a half to watch this awesome Fiamma Fresh Fridays trailer made by the awesome production team of Loyola Film Circle using "over 4,500 shots" (I'm assuming that they're talking about "shots" as in, pictures). Go watch. Fiamma Fresh Fridays Teaser from miguel gutierrez on Vimeo .        I love the video. I love the soundtrack. I especially love the editing. The video alone is awesome. The hardcore party lifestyle that it shows, however, I'm not too fond of.        Okay, okay, I know some of you are reading this and going AWW MAN, THIS AIMEE PERSON SUCKS. SHE BE HATIN', and that's perfectly fine with me, BECAUSE I REALLY AM HATIN'!!!! PARTYING SUCKS!!! Kidding. If you like partying then by all means, go party.        Anyway, the point of showing you the video was to illustrate what most people outside Manila (well, my frien...

Goodness. Why do I always get the urge to write at the most inconvenient of times? (Tonight's answer: I just wanna put off reading the Sociology and Anthropology handouts.) Anyway, I just got back from the LFC Doc & Pub Committee General Assembly. There was so much sushi. Too bad my chopstick control is sub-par. u_u Today for Bio we spent an entire hour watching a documentary called Endangered Tales , which is quite fanciful a name for such a mildly interesting film. When I say "mildly interesting" I mean that the only parts I paid attention to were the parts with actual animals and colorful plants. I think two-year-olds have longer attention spans than I do. Oooh look, a dorm cat! Also today we had Organic Chemistry Lab wherein we had to do all sorts of labby things. The main point of it was to separate and extract benzoic acid from naphthalene. While doing the labby things I was thinking about our ex-Chemistry teacher, Sir Unsay , and about all the other certifi...