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The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) has appointed Ateneo as its satellite area for the repackaging of relief goods ready to be transported to Visayas. The repackaged goods are called DSWD family packs. The agreement was to have 80,000 family packs delivered back to the main branch by Saturday. To be clear: The goods are delivered in large quantities from DSWD to Ateneo. Ateneo is in charge of repacking them in the covered courts. Donations in kind are handled by another party, the Simbahang Lingkod Ng Bayan, but are still accepted in the Ateneo campus (at the Richie Fernando Covered Courts, specifically). Having said that, a lot of volunteers and leaders were puzzled by DSWD's choice of relief goods. As you can see written down on the board below... (picture taken from the Ateneo website ) ... each bag contains rice, noodles, coffee, sardines, and corned beef. Regardless of whether you've been following the news surrounding the affected cities,...

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 never thought I'd find myself awake at 1 AM and actually wishing for an exam. But the thing is that Santi came into town and just ruined all of my plans. So my Physio test got moved to Monday, right after my Philo orals, and because of that my flight at 12 has to get moved as well. Oh well. LOOKS LIKE I'M NOT GOING HOME YET. I am so bummed. So bummed that I'm actually blogging. I never blog unless I'm very sad or very bored, and right now I'm definitely the former.

When thesis work means visiting 174 homes in the depressed areas of a barangay named Holy Spirit, you can never wake up in the morning and know exactly where you'll be in four hours. To illustrate, my day started with this: Just your usual 8 am street parade. And ended here. Roch is looking sad because she doesn't wanna drive. In between it all, we saw some pretty sweet sights... ...right next to a literal hole in the wall. This was in a computer shop, where we stopped to print our materials. It was next to the bakery above. A good sense of balance was essential because solid ground wasn't always that solid. Our ability to minimize was tested. by walls that threatened to close in on us. We reached a dark time but the light was never too far away. If you think this was enough for one adventure Try two. End.

WARNING: This post contains stuff that you probably will not be interested in unless you 1.) Watch Ouran High School Host Club and 2.) like half-baked feminist analyses of pop culture. Why why why WHY do I always get the urge to write a blog post just when I'm about to work on something important. I've got a Physiology mini-thesis review of related literature waiting to materialize in the adjacent browser tab, and it's due on Monday already, but DEAR LORD am I fired up and ready to write something completely unrelated on my blog. Maybe it's the coffee float I just ingested. I got if from Jolibee for an extra twenty five bucks, and its resemblance, in terms of taste, to Kopiko instant coffee is unignorable. Anyway, I'll stop the rambling and proceed with that thing that got me fired up in the first place - no, not coffee (well, it's partially that), but Ouran High School Host Club. If you are either Jules or Rap, I know what you're thinking: How unchar...

This is the second of three greeting cards that I made for my design class. The challenge was to pretend like I was hired by Ateneo to design some cards. I really don't want to explain this card any further. I finished this one a few hours before it was due, so I didn't think through the concept well enough.  Now I'm contemplating going to the Manila International Book Fair. I'm hesitant because I'll probably find deals that are just as good at Booksale anyway. Maybe I'll go over to Booksale then. Anyway, have a good weekend!

" Looks like someone went too magis on birthday cake." This was one of three greeting cards that I made for design class. The catch was that I had to pretend like Ateneo hired me to design greeting cards for them. Yeah, I know the caption sucks.  This is probably the first time I've ever actually illustrated something from scratch. Most of my previous work I based off pictures from the Internet. So this is a design milestone! Yay! In other news, I've been meaning to read The Great Gatsby for a long time now. But I couldn't get my hands on a copy. The library's sole copy was missing, and it's too expensive to buy from bookstores (it sells for like P600. There was a version that was less than P300, but that was the freaking movie cover book. I avoid movie cover books). Anyway, fortunately for me I found a copy that was only P90 at the Zeitgeist book sale in Ateneo! God bless you, book sales.