T.G.I.T. (Thank God It's TIU's-day!)

(nahalungkat sa hard drive...hayayay, yet another fanpost. )

September 30, 2008 Tuesday

A memorable Tuesday talaga! Putek na Bonfire yan! Literal na putik experience kasi. Putik as in mala-quicksand putik kasi umulan, eh yung venue sa uncemented grounds. Pero happy naman.Salamat sa sorpresang imbitasyon, Teph! At talagang pinuntahan mo ako sa bahay...kahit na last choice mo ako sa pwedeng isama...

Grabe, ang hirap talaga pag sanay nang naka-slippers parati...ayan tuloy. Nung una, ma-poise pa kaming maglakad para wag maputikan ang paa. Pero di talaga kinaya. Halfway papuntang stage, nagbreakdown na talaga ang slippers ko dahil di ko na sila mabuhat dahil sa sobrang pagkalubog. Kaya ayun, nag-paa na lang talaga para lang makapunta sa harap. Worth it naman dahil nakita si Chris Tiu! Although mga 5 meters away, pwede na. Di ko na nga lang kinaya ang meet-and-greet part kasi ang haba na ng pila sa putikan. Next time na, pag di na maputik. Tsk.

Funny lang when we were struggling to lift our buried feet (with slippers) out of the mud, nag-comment ang isang middle-aged woman/alumna sa tabi na, “wow, atenistang-atenista!”. Hehe, ooops hindi po! Pero syempre ganun din naman talaga ang nangyari sa mga atenista (or Chris Tiu fans...haha) na andun na naka-flips lang. ¼ ng length ng pants namin ay putikan din kasi lubog kung lubog talaga! Tapos pati sa may gripo ang haba din ng pila para maghugas ang mga tao after. At eto, ang traffic pa sa katips. Buti na lang sa may tabi-tabi lang kami nakatira ni Teph.

More Chris Tiu

Thanks to Chris's blog, I get updates. :) Enough to make my day! Haha.


First update, I was just thrilled to know that a "Chris Tiu" would actually enjoy a movie that's Twilight (Twilight Fever blog entry). Yeah, this chick flick, almost teeny-bopper movie...that I intend to watch, by the way. Bilang naging instant fan ng book last week (not that it's good, though. Funny read lang). Minutes ago, I was still undecided whether to watch the movie or not. Hmmm...50-50. Not until I've read his blog entry. Now, I'm so 101 % sure to finally see Twilight. Maybe not this week, but it's definite that I'll go see it. Nah, so I think I'll just have to endure the shrieking and giggling of high school girls (and the not-so-high-school ones as well) in the movie house. No, I would definitely shriek and giggle like a high schooler. Yes? Yes. Hahaha.


Second and latest update, Chris Tiu won the Nickelodeon Kids Choice Awards Philippines as favorite athlete, beating Manny Pacquiao, Miguel Molina, Efren “Bata” Reyes, and Japoy Lizardo. CongraTIUlations!! Bilang ako ay adik lang na bumoto sa yo online, I'm so proud of TIU!!!

Things about Chris Tiu are among the few things that get me teary-eyed. Haaay...I've come to accept the fact that Chris Tiu has a really big influence in my life. Oh, I'm not a fan. I'm just...you know, yeah, a fan. I really look up to Chris as a person. He's actually "too good to be TIU" --- good-looking, rich, smart, nice (at least, sa tingin ko), famous (at least, sa UAAP) athlete, politician (former SK chairman and present kagawad in Makati). Woah, talk about being perfect, eh? So, what's the flaw? I wouldn't know. Oh, I know one...his hosting stints. I don't watch his GMA shows because he's not that good. I wouldn't want his perfect image in my mind to blur. But he's getting there...little improvements every now and then.Anyway, Chris, all the best! Gambatte ne!

Why we somewhat hated Mommy Cora when we were a bunch of high school kids

C'mon, maybe she's just living up to her name -- SERMONia. That's why she has "pampered" us with her sermons. By the way, can someone enlighten me on how the Filipino language (or is it the people? the culture?) tends to negate/contradict the meanings of DEFINED words in the English dictionary (i.e. sermon, salvage)?

Remember how people in school (both teachers and students!) often joke around, tagging our boarding house either a prison or a monastery? Funny, really.

Remember how we often sneak through the gate (after calling a roommate or housemate to unlock the gate, that is) just to keep Mommy Cora from knowing we came home past our curfew, like 7 or 8pm is already late? Was it 6pm, our curfew? Whoah. And by calling, I mean sometimes we really had to shout at the top of our lungs loud enough for someone inside the house to hear but soft enough for Mommy Cora not to hear. Ang labo. Nakakatawa lang. Ang hirap i-describe pero nagfla-flashback ang experience. And just imagine when you're sneaking through the unlocked gate already (not to mention, succeed in not calling the attention of Mommy Cora), that's when Alpo blurts out his revenge. "Holy cow! I've been staying here for years and yet the damn dog still barks at me?!" Mapapaganun ka talaga! Later we've learned that the dog's losing his eyesight (was that Alpo? kung sino man...). But can't dogs recognize people's smell? Oh well, give it a break, maybe it's confused na lang talaga dahil madami tayo. Seconds later, Mommy Cora's on her way out of the sliding wooden door to check up on his beloved dog's outrage. Ayun, in the end, huli ka din lang! A shower of sermon for you.

Remember how Mommy Cora makes rounds at late nights (parang nasa kulungan talaga e, noh?) making sure the lights in our rooms are out? (Shocks, parang nasa kulungan talaga, kulang na lang flashlight. hahaha.) Then, she goes, "SHHhhhhh...sinong maingay dyan?! blah, blah, blah..." when we're laughing our hearts out or when we're chit-chatting. Sometimes we just ignore her (thinking she's gone already) and continue making noise. That's when we'd hear her yet another angry voice saying, "Isa pa, ha, isa pa..." (something like that, I think. I can't remember exactly). And then we'd stop, errr lower our voices a bit. :)

And how can I forget. Remember how Mommy Cora appears with her planggana, collecting our cellphones during exams? This makes me wanna do a "roll on the floor" laugh for real. :D

But like a normal person, Mommy Cora has her soft (cheerful and even funny) side. She'd treat us at times like donating food during our Christmas programs or to her granddaughter's play in Manila (Julia and Amet lang yata to). She'd let us watch TV, too. I remember the shows we used to watch -- Kay Tagal Kang Hinintay with JLC (Yuri Orbida) and Bea Alonzo (Katrina Argos), Digital LG Quiz, Click, MYX, Sarah G's Star for a Night, etc. Mommy also has her pets -- Mommy Cora's pets (like a teacher's pet, you know). Haha. I certainly was not one of the pets, how sad. :D Being the Mommy's pet equates to being a saint. Haha, exagg. Simply put, mga pinakamababait sa aming mga mababait. :)

Remember [insert whatever memory you can think of]?

High school kids that we were, we harbored so much animosity towards Mommy Cora. Now, twenty something's that we are, I think we've come to realize why it had to be that way. Actually, I still don't fully understand why. No pain, no gain? Diamonds are made under pressure? What can't kill you will only make you stronger? [Insert whatever quote you can think of]. Whatever. But I like to laugh about those experiences that I've/we've had.

I somehow miss Mommy Cora now. And Daddy Cora, too. I miss my bed (for 4 years) back then. I miss my boardmates. I miss my roommates (not much, I see them from time to time. haha). I miss high school.

Then and Now: RS and Benedikt

Browsing through the pages of our photo albums just now, I saw this interesting photo from 7 years ago during our summer vacation in V, AT. As always, hangkulet ni RS kay Benedikt sa pic na to.

THEN... (2001)

Seeing this picture, I was so excited to find a recent photo of these two. Alas! I grabbed one fromRS's multiply album (bro, pa-post ng pic dito, ha?). And here are those two kids then, both grown-ups now (not really that grown-up, though). :D Perfectly amazing.

...NOW (2008)

Just spot the difference(s). :)



P.S. Inspired by Bad's "Then and Now" movie-watching, I'm starting my "Then and Now" series.

On My LIGHTEST Note -- Chris Tiu and the gang

Cheers for me!! My fingers led me to certain realities. I found three separate interesting stuff about my crushes (Crush in the sense na natutuwa lang akong panoorin sila sa kani-kanilang endeavours -- Faust in theatre, Michael in singing, Chris on the court. Tipong katuwaan lang na ako lang ang natutuwa...haha.)

• Faust Peneyra's, 23, paglisan (link secured)
• Michael Cruz's, 27, MySpace
• Chris Tiu's, 23, blog -- ...the whole nine yards!!

Friends often mock me how fairytale-ish daw my crushes are. Whatever. Hehe. Basta crush ko pa din sina:

1 -- Faust Peneyra of Dulaang UP
From Faust's Multiply:

"wesley3p wrote on Jul 29

faust! i never knew not unti jaecy's post... waahhh!!! ur leaving na!!! bigla tuloy nag flash back highschool days; u being a great leader till the havana nights sing along!!! magmi-meet pa ba kau before u go?,,, wah, felt like wer losin one great dreamer... but hei, remember wat i said, di lang dreamer, dreamaker ka na!!!! im so happy and proud of u... remember the 'brown raise' renaissance, ur part of it.. go global! show them what ur made of...talentado ka talga! haha! maraming salamat sa lahat ha..sna may chance na makita ko si mr.peneyra ulet... kelan alis mo? kudos! asteeg! galeng! we'll miss u! surely!"

Aalis na daw si Faust?! Ha?! San sya pupunta?! Di pa kami nagkikita up-close and personal! (Harriet, na-sad ako...haha, korni.) Well, kung ikabubuti ng career nya, eh di cge, go lang!

2 -- Michael Cruz of The Singing Bee (true-blue bading, as in!!)
and 3 -- Chris Tiu (syempre, ang true-blue Atenista).
Chris Tiu...as a "masarap maging Atenista" icon. Hehe.

Chris Tiu (in white)...as a...business socialite?

I find the U.P. Fighting Maroon's Basketball Team hopeless, really. That's why during my undergrad years, I used to watch the Ateneo Blue Eagles (Actually, I just watch their games with Chris Tiu as an eye-candy, yay. Even his missed shots are eye-candies!), instead. Ayayay...nasan na ang pagiging hard-core taga-U.P. ko?!


May I singit lang...I remember how I initially wanted to go to Ateneo but later on settled for U.P. Actually, I just got scared of U.P. before because of the I-don't-know-if-they're-slums-or-what areas I saw when we were going around campuses during the summer before college. But eventually,syempre, di ko ipagpapalit ang U.P. kong mahal. Chris Tiu, sayang...haayyy..nagkikita sana tayo parati. Hehe.


Anyway, I found another article related to Chris Tiu that he's hosting Ripley's at GMA. Whaaat?! Eh wala nga yung talent sa hosting sa Pinoy Records eh! (I-mock ko daw ba?) Gudlak!


Bottom line lang ng post na to ay nalungkot ako na aalis na si Faust, pero natuwa ako na nakahanap ako ng myspace account ni Michael Cruz at ng blog ni Chris Tiu. Period, no comma.

HF...

...as in hydrofluoric acid.

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Exposure to hydrofluoric acid can produce harmful health effects that may not be immediately apparent.

Inhalation:
Severely corrosive to the respiratory tract. May cause sore throat, coughing, labored breathing and lung congestion/inflammation.
Ingestion:
Corrosive. May cause sore throat, abdominal pain, diarrhea, vomiting, severe burns of the digestive tract, and kidney dysfunction.
Skin Contact:
Corrosive to the skin. Skin contact causes serious skin burns which may not be immediately apparent or painful. Symptoms may be delayed 8 hours or longer. The fluoride ion readily penetrates the skin causing destruction of deep tissue layers and even bone. <----- eto daw talaga ang scary, malamang.
Eye Contact:
Corrosive to the eyes. Symptoms of redness, pain, blurred vision, and permanent eye damage may occur.
Chronic Exposure:
Intake of more than 6 mg of fluorine per day may result in fluorosis, bone and joint damage. Hypocalcemia and hypomagnesemia can occur from absorption of fluoride ion into blood stream.

Source: http://www.jtbaker.com/msds/englishhtml/H3994.htm
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At work, we occasionally deal with hydrofluoric acid. (Occasionally, as in twice to thrice a week) At dahil mabangis si HF, we've got to be in our full-battle gears when working with this dangerous acid.

Tipong kamukha ko na si Marvin the Martian...pink nga lang. Ahahay!














(Ahem, di naman pala magkamukha... :D )



HF, just don't kill me too soon, aryt? Yay.

Gupit nang gupit

It's barely been two months since I last had my haircut. (My first time in a salon ALONE, and even telling the hairdresser to just cut it short (shorter than my then already short hair) however she sees fit. It's your lucky day! And that was it. (I feel like I'm writing a mathematical equation with too much parentheses. Awwwww...I miss math...! Really, why do I have to put parentheses all over my paragraph?! Just let it pass...I just feel like putting them everywhere.) Ang gulo ng mgaparenthesis!!!)

Enough of the parentheses. Today, I was in high spirits to have my hair cut...errr, not exactly a new one. It's more or less the same haircut as the last one, except that this one's at a different salon. Lately, I just get tired of my hair --- gives me headache when I'm in the lab. I don't want to grow my hair at all (dude, stay as you are...haha).

Thinking about it now, I actually had my hair cut thrice since April of 2008. It seems like I've been doing a lot of things way too impulsive lately.

All work and no play makes Raph a dull girl

What a life! Never-ending strings attached to acads. Huh, for what? The love of studying? Crap.

When will I ever breathe the freshest of airs? Funny how, days ago, I ranted over not having anything to do and yet now STILL rant over having no time for play, eh? Ano ba talaga?!...I guess it's human nature --- d*mn human nature.

On second thought, it's not totally an all-work-and-no-play for me at all. See, I still find time to spend my precious time here. It's just annoying how my eyes hurt from reading (and sleeping? hmmm...) yet I can't afford to concede defeat against this hurting...I have to finish my thing before going to bed. No more ranting and raving for now. For that, oyasuminasai.

Money talks after grad

My first paycheck for the first 9 days of work. It's not much, keri lang. :)

U.P. @ 100 finds its way to me

Finally, finally!! I got them by "accident" when I had a three-day training (or was it a part-time job?) at Ate Hydie's travel agency. Actually, they really saved these two for me. Weeee! Buti na lang di ko binili yung binebenta ng school na worth Php1,000 (1,500 na yata ngayon) for four UNCUT 100-peso bills. Huh, who cares if the ones they're selling are uncut? Meron naman palang nagci-circulate sa public! Sorry naman...I know, fund-raising it is for U.P. nating mahal (...at MAHAL na ring mag-aral sa U.P. these days)!

My looking forward

Just before last week, I was too busy couch potato-ing at home for more than a month or so. Save for the times I was “leaf-lifting” through the pages of my chemistry books, reviewers, and previous notes. My daily routine’s as simple as waking up at 8am, taking a bath, pigging out, watching TV, web surfing, studying, and whatnots at home. During those weeks, I used to go out of the house only AT MOST twice a week. Take that very literally, as in I didn’t get to go out of our main door for days. It’s not that I can’t, but I just opted not to. Home’s fine. I only do go out for unavoidable circumstances: 1.) during our “compulsory” exams at the review center once every two weeks, 2.) when I run out of food in the fridge, and 3.) during “emergencies” such as my application for the board exam. For that, I missed looking forward to some things.

During my undergrad years, I used to look forward to a lot of things -- the first day of classes, the LAST day of classes, the upcoming exams (Naks! Looking forward to take the exams? Don’t buy it), the suspension of classes (whether due to bad weather, rallies, unexpected holidays, blah, blah, blah), the time to end each class, the end of the day, the weekends…haaaayyy. But days at home…I seem to look forward to almost nothing at all. Ah, at the very least, I do look forward to little stuff like watching shows I was engrossed in – The Tyra Banks Show, Ambush Makeover, and some local shows. I never had the chance to look forward to the weekends anymore. In fact, I can hardly notice the day of the week or the date of the month!

Unfortunately, and FORTUNATELY, my lazing came to an end on a Monday last week. Opportunityknocked on my door and I whole-heartedly let it in. And I’m rejoicing that at last I’ll be looking forward to some things again! Things like when it’s time to go home after a hard day’s work, the free Ikot ride in school on Tuesdays, my paycheck, and the weekends! Yeehuh!

Butterflies all over my stomach

It's 5am and I'm having butterflies all over my stomach. Today's my last exam for my BS Chem degree...hopefully. I'm having all sorts of jittery feelings and I can't help but "blog" it.

I'm still anxious as ever towards graduation day! Am I gonna make it? Though uncertainty strikes, I still wanna believe that I'm gonna make it. It feels like 10 years already even though it has barely been two weeks. I just started to realize for real that I really really need to graduate! It really scares me...

So, BAD and TET, you've finally SLAYED YOUR DRAGONS AND BEFRIENDED YOUR DEMONS, eh?

Ginugulat nyo talaga ako Bad at Tet ngayon...! Grabeeee...! Ambot talaga, Ambot! (Haha, sorry at kelangan ko talagang sabihin ang "ambot". Eto lang kasi ang alam kong word...! :D)

Pero eto...di ko talaga kinaya ang trip nyong dalawa ngayon! Pramis!!!! Napa-"whhhhaaaaaaaaattttt?!" talaga ako at sobrang natuwa sa mga pangyayari. Ang babaw ko shocks! Kasi naman...magkasunod kong nakita ang pics nyo at magkaibang sites pa (Friendster at Multiply). Stand-out talaga dahil sa dinami-dami ng posts sa Multiply at friends' update sa Friendster ay napansin ko talaga ang sa inyong dalawa na effortless...lalo na yung kay Bad na tipong hindi naman ako normally tumitingin sa friends' update tapos napansin ko yung kay Bad?! Haha!
Rurok!!...at rurok din ba ang kababawan ko? :D

Ayan, nagamit ko tuloy agad ang quote for the day ko!
"...slaying your dragons and befriending your demons..." -- Ala Paredes

Nice one, Bad at Tet! Bangs kung bangs...at bikini kung bikini!! Ahahahay! :)

Hmmm...actually, I've already been thinking of "slaying my dragons and befriending my demons" in YOUR kind of way... Hmmm...Friends, so ano gusto nyong new look ko ha? Afro na ba ha, game? (Bad, I'm hearing you laugh... **Bionic ears**) :D Bwahahaahahahaha!
Brace yourselves...!!!! <--- Bad's one-liner these days.

Bentang-benta si Sir Arellano

Bentang-benta talaga ang quotable quotes at words of wisdom. Pramis! :) Although nakuha lang naman din ni sir somewhere ang iba (i.e. Hannah, ang isang alamat ng Chem). At di ko na maalala ang iba pang QQ's. Pero eto...


Pag napre-pressure na ko sa acads at dahil sa bwiset na pag-graduate...

• Wala akong karapatang ma-pressure...hindi ako GAS!

Pag excited na kong maging yuppie dahil pa rin sa bwiset na pag-graduate...

• Wala akong karapatang ma-excite...hindi ako ELECTRON!

At sabi nga din ni sir...

• Not everything is learned in school.

  
  

And so now I say..."Why go to school?" Hehe, joke lang. Seryoso, gusto ko talaga pumunta sa unity rally bukas pero dahil sa acads (112.1 special project at 112 exam ng 7-9pm ), ayan...pano na ang pakikibaka ng isang iskolar ng bayan na tulad ko?!


Pahabol:

Bawal kang mag-settle down, hindi ka PRECIPITATE!

Realization: 4 cups of coffee won't do me any good

About 10 hours ago, I thought of drinking 4 cups of coffee to keep me from being a sleepyhead and to stay wide awake for a hardcore acad mode. Because, may I say that based from experience, 2 cups don't work for me. I didn't expect to be this WIDE awake. Literal talaga, shocks. That even though I'm supah dupah sleepy to the nth level, my eyes won't close. Kadiri talaga. Arrrggh. The feeling's really like sleeping with eyes wide open, that's totally and definitely different from my usual oh-my-God-I-am-oh-so-sleepy-na moments. And I've actually spent almost half of the time just whining to myself to please please SLEEP (you know, that kind of sleep with eyes closed and consciousness temporarily shut down -- yeah, sleeping in the MOST real sense please!) instead of studying for my exam. Darn. This is really one helluva night and really really driving me nuts. I wanna sleep big time! Grrrrrrrrr........!

I know, I know...I won't do this again (at least for now).

**Can someone just sing me a lullaby...?