the perils of

How's this for frequent updating, huh? :D Okay, yes, I have something better to do at the moment (a post-lab report which is due in five hours) but I figured I'd take a break from... whatever it was I was doing before I wrote this (procrastinating) to update my blog. (If I am putting off procrastinating does that mean I'm doing work, or slacking off even more?) Not much has happened since my last post (which was only two days ago), but there were a lot of things I forgot to mention in my previous entry. These are conversations, mighty interesting ones at that, that I keep going back to in my mind recently. For instance, Cheryl , Jules, Arthur and I were once talking about The Sims, and about all the things we made our Sims do. Then we talked about how God might be controlling us in the same way we control our Sims. Like, you know how you can walk into a room and then forget what you were supposed to do there? That's God clicking Cancel on your action. And then we ...

        Being a sophomore entitles you to one thing: the right to bully freshmen. Yes. You heard me. If you are a second year student, you have all the right in the world to look down at those in the lower batch, and scoff at them, and mock them, and make them feel inferior to you. Go ahead, Sophomore. You've earned it.       I am, of course, kidding. Nobody has a right to bully anyone. Except Kath Uy, because it is her birthday tomorrow and she is turning eighteen and she can bully the heck out of anyone she wants. ADVANCED HAPPY BIRTHDAY KATH! :D        So, sorry for the very delayed post. I HAVE BEEN SO BUSY. Everyone has. If you are a freshman, be sure to cherish every single waking moment that you spend NOT studying or NOT doing org work.       Here's what I've been busy with: (click to enlarge the busyness) I've been moonlighting as a "graphic" "artist" for the Health Sciences Society.  (Check ou...

       I like to think that I'm rather open to changes. As a kid I had always thought of myself as adventurous. Look back on things, however, I realize that I wasn't quite as daring or audacious as I would've liked myself to be. For instance I remember how strongly I protested when my mom gave me chocolate milk that was a brand other than my favorite (it was Sustagen. My old favorite, that is). Or how I was never eager to go on family trips to the bukids (that isn't to say that I didn't enjoy those outings; I most certainly did. It's just that I was slow to warm up to the idea of stepping beyond the four walls of my home).      And then I thought myself very adventurous when I agreed to living on my own in Manila. College, as they say, is the adventure of a lifetime (actually they say marriage is, but I'm sticking to college for now). And now that I've tried out the independent lifestyle for almost a year now, I can say with all certainty that it is ...

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...

      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...

Earlier I was chatting with my friend Lorenzo (I mentioned him in an earlier post ) about going to Manila, and it looks like I'm not the only one who's scared brainless about moving and studying there! That's comforting. No, that's not sarcasm! I mean I'm really, really glad that I'm not doing this alone. It's not just me and Larz here - there's Jason, and Paul, and all the wonderful new friends I made at the OrSem forums who, just like me, are apprehensive about moving there. Who wouldn't freak about having to live in Manila? It is a HUGE city. It's so unlike Cagayan de Oro, where everything is basically within your reach. In CDO, the malls take less than half a day to explore (granted you don't stop to look at much stuff). And in CDO, you don't have to wait for hours on end just to get from one place to another. Traffic isn't heavy. It isn't hard going places on a jeep, either. Everything is just so simple and wonderful and fam...