The mud and rocks adventure

November 20 was our outbound. I tell you, it’s the best outbound I’ve had so far since First Year! This is the first time I went on a muddy and rocky adventure without tripping or slipping on anything. In other words, I was safe throughout the outbound! Rafting was the coolest thing I’ve ever tried. I was one of the first people to try it out in our class. While we stood on the bamboo floater, our facilitator instructed us on how to get the pH level of the lake. All you have to do is use a thermometer-like instrument then wait for about a minute to see the result. After the measurement, all of us went down the floater and swam! Shortly after the rafting, we went to the other side of the lake where we played swimming games with our classmates. What I didn’t like about the outbound was when we have to climb up and down the rocky stairs just to plant a tree. Can you believe it? We have to pass 150+ other junior on the way down? Overall, it was a great day.

Nothing is truly impossible in life, right? Over the past months, I’ve been bitter over my Chemistry class. It’s not that I hate our teacher/adviser (in fact I praise Ms. G for her excellent teaching). I just get frustrated of not getting a perfect score there. I would feel bitter when I will see my classmates’ scores for that they’ve reached the jackpot. I wished for myself that someday I’ll get what I want. So last Wednesday, everything came to a head. A few minutes later…

I hit my very own jackpot.

My efforts were no longer in vain. I deserved to get a perfect score!

Have I told you about New Moon? It was wayyyy more awesome than Twilight. It followed the novel more closely, except for the ending. Edward just said “Marry me” and the credits rolled. Whoa! Anyways, I like Jacob Black better than Edward Cullen. My mom even switched from Team Edward to Team Jacob after seeing Jacob’s chiseled, drool-worthy abs. Plus, Taylor Lautner has great complexion.

I recommend you watching this, people! It’s worth the money!

Come on baby we ain't gonna live forever

Have you ever seen The Veronicas’ UK version of 4Ever? I am currently listening to it right now and it’s the best version so far. The song was released four years ago and there were two versions of the music video prior to the most recent one. Here is the UK version:

I am about to dress up for Robinsons Midtown because I am going to watch New Moon. I heard it’s the highest-grossing movie in midnight sales now, surpassing Harry Potter 6 and The Dark Knight. Outbound was great, especially rafting for the first time! But I’ll tell more about it soon. BTW, did you like my new blogskin? I edited some of it and added a background. The title was inspired by Lady Gaga’s Bad Romance which I’m LSS-ed right now.

I gotta feeling that tonight's gonna be a good night

I just learned from Ms. C today at dismissal time that I got a perfect score in this morning’s English quiz on modifiers. Woo woo, you know it!!!!

I can’t install Adobe Photoshop CS3. Dammit. Why do we need some authorization code to make it a full version?

One less lonely girl

One word to a describe last Friday and Saturday’s retreat: a disaster.

I just didn’t enjoy the retreat which was supposed to be fun. I was even excited about it the day before. I couldn’t sleep the night before. And when the time for the retreat came, it just didn’t happen. Do you think it was meant to happen because it was Friday the 13th? So we arrived at St. Michael’s Retreat House at around 2 pm where we were met with the shocking news: we have to be arranged by class numbers for our room assignments. Most of us were just disappointed.

The sessions were okay - we made mandallas made up of the four elements and wrote something on our Barbie journals. All of us have to go to confession before we go to sleep. There was only one priest and we were 52 students in there. The confession was reported to end at 2 am and I was asleep by that time. After my confession, I arrived at my room and we had a little chit-chat. 1 am was bedtime and we woke up at 5:30.

I have to say that the worst part was yesterday’s breakfast and lunch. Some person just offended me and because I shot her back, she left the table. I’m not even “feeling close” - I just want to make friends with my classmates. You don’t need to be invited by someone to join the table. So what? It just bothered me the rest of the trip back home. On the bus, I just told my story to a friend and gave me some good advice. When we got back to STC, mom was already there and immediately told her how horrible the retreat went. We went to Robinsons Midtown to cap our day off. There I bought a Baby-sitters Club book - I haven’t bought one in a year. I’m coming to the point when Stacey lied to all of her friends and to her dad because she didn’t tell them that her boyfriend’s family will be vacationing in Fire Island.

Lately I’ve been experiencing hell, since it was November. I don’t know why I’m cursed to have a bad month in November because it had been running since 2005. I just hate it. Now sometimes I eat lunch alone or just go to the Guidance Office to tell about my problems. School is all about the pressure. I feel something different about my classmates lately. I just feel so miserable right now. I wish everything will go back to the way it used to be.

CHANGED MY URL!

HTTP://SWEETASCANDICE.TUMBLR.COM

New Tumblr URL. :)

Hurricane Streets

This kid above is so cute! I just love the way he imitated MJ’s This Is It pose. I also reblogged it on my Tumblr. I watched the documentary of his must-have-been last concert and I and mom had a really great time. Michael Jackson was not only an energetic performer during his rehearsals but also he was kind to his backup dancers, singers, and the other members of the crew. I was so touched when he kept on saying how much he loves them and that they are blessed. It was so sad to know that the concert never happened because the graphics which were supposed to be used there were totally out of this world! My favorites were for Thriller and the song where they used some 30’s style thing. I just love it.

Speaking of my sembreak, I had a great time on Sembreak Friday when I went to Elai’s house to have some chit chat. We talked about almost everything, played Showtime, swapped secrets, and just made the fool out of ourselves. We wanted to do a camwhoring session but since I forgot the memory card of my phone, we just stuck to doing the alternatives. And the Internet? I just spent hours and hours there, browsing blogs, discovering Tumblr, and I downloaded Amelie on my PSP. I’m not yet done watching Amelie but I’m enjoying it so far. It’s such an enchanting story of how a girl discovers an antique which will change her life from that day.

My cousins went to my lola’s place on All Saints’ Day and here are some photos from my uncle’s cam to share here:

Abby and Reese, after the Linggo ng Wika Celebration

Popeye! I just miss watching it. I think that’s my old bag. :)

A view of their school

Borrowed my uncle’s cam

And now we do it like this.

I'll Be Right Back.

I’ll be right back with a long post by the end of the weekend. Just some quick updates:

-Someone’s pissing me off right now.
-I just joined STC’s Gawad Teresa essay-writing competition last Tuesday and was sleepy during the seminar. We only watched half of Michael Jackson’s “Black or White” MV because it suddenly stopped in the middle of the vid.
-I’m addicted to Tumblr, but I’ll still be sticking to Blogspot. I like it more than I like FB.
-I don’t open rainbowdoll.m.com anymore because it’s boring as hell.
-I’ll be playing chess for intrams. AGAIN!