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September and October in Photos

These photos encapsulate how amazing the past two months have been (especially October), from friends to family to school life. There were two weeks that have been quite rough for me but it doesn’t take away the fact life has been a lot better than I expected. 

Speaking of extracurriculars, I’m enjoying my time between Green & White and the production internship for Dr. Tullao’s lecture series. I’m glad I’ve met a lot of friends along the way aside from doing the best I could do in my responsibilities. Thank goodness for those opportunities; my time is not wasted by bumming around which I don’t like to do so at all. 

Without further ado, let me tell you the story behind those photos: 

1: Borg’s is one of the newly-opened restaurants inside Archers, and it does not disappoint. Their chicken fillet with mushroom gravy is delicious although the java rice is a little bit too small for my appetite. I’d love to go back there and try their other delicacies soon! 

2. Monzie’s mom got free tickets to a PBA exhibition game between the San Miguel Beermen and the Meralco Bolts at the Blue Eagle Gym. Whoa! On the way to Katipunan, Monzie and I were joking about wearing a DLSU shirt inside the campus which prompted us to think of a scenario in which a bunch of students catch us in our green-friendly gear. The game was intense itself, ending in a tie between the two teams. The fun part was seeing the players in person. No photos with them though because the place was crowded and the players were gassed out by the time the game ended :( Either way, we were able to see a clean-shaven Simon Atkins, Coach Norman Black, and Chris Newsome in person! Additionally, the experience of going to an archrival’s gym was fun. 

3. After the exhibition game, we were invited to a dinner at Kenny Rogers. Yay for food galore! Chicken and veggies aside, this brownie ala mode was heaven in my taste buds. 

4-5. The last time I went to STC was in September 2011 when I reunited with IV-3 and my batchmates to claim our high school yearbooks. Yesterday I returned to my beloved alma mater for Family Day to not only watch Monzie’s niece in the GS field demonstration but also to reunite with my old friends and teachers. Walking through the corridors, greeting people I haven’t seen in three years, and basking in the sunshine illuminating the lawns of the campus made me feel like I’m sixteen again.

6. Shoutout to Mariae for tagging me and Marga into bringing us to throwback land on Instagram! That was our logo for We Ala Kings, a brand we made for our feasibility project in TLE back in senior year. I was the one who made the tagline hihi :“> 

7. Tita Badet came home from her visit in Singapore to these tops my mom bought for me. Lovin’ the printed tee from Esprit and the kitty crop top from H&M! Well speaking of H&M, I have yet to visit a newly-opened branch of theirs here in Manila lol. 

8. Monzie and April aka my "thesismates”! Haha! I may be working alone but I enjoy bonding times with these two. They’ll be doing a documentary in Bataan while I’ll work on a screenplay like I’ve always wanted to do. <3 

9. Meals with friends = one of the things that make me happy. 

As for life lately: 

• Please don’t let Justin Bieber sing “All About That Bass” again. EVER. 


• Sana Dati, The Notebook and The Normal Heart = tearjerkers


• Is it just me, or does Annabelle look like Glen from Seed of Chucky?


• I missed eating BBQ. Thanks to this food stall during Family Day, there was a feast of isaw, pork ears, and bituka. Cheap thrills rule. 
  


• I know it’s early in the season but fans should stop overreacting with every win or loss. It’s just October. So Islanders fans, stop acting like you’ve won the Cup. Blues, you can still make the playoffs in April.  To the Penguins, #DontTradeFleury, #DontFireEveryone and #BringBackBylsma when you lose. 


• I might start watching How To Get Away With Murder after watching an episode in the office.  There goes my list of movies and TV shows to watch! 


• I don’t use iTunes anymore to be honest because Spotify is making music so much convenient for me. Also, I don’t have to spend my entire memory with songs when I could stream them online.


• I can’t wait to watch Blue Is The Warmest Color. 


• November’s gonna be one hell of a busy month. 

Gonna be blogging about some good news next post. Stay tuned.

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When Johnny saw Winona for the first time he was 26 and she was 18. They were every adolescent’s dream - he was a teen idol and she was little more than a teenager. They knew of one another through their movies but they met in person at the premiere of Great Balls of Fire, Winona wore white and was in the hall drinking a Coke. “It was a classic glance,” said Depp, “like the zoom lenses in West Side Story, and everything else gets foggy.” “It wasn’t a long moment – echoed Winona - but it was suspended.”

They met again several months later at Johnny’s ‘home’ at the Chateau Marmont and they talked about their mutual love of Catcher in the Rye and the soundtrack from The Mission. A week or so later their union was blessed during their first official date, by the LSD guru, Timothy Leary, who, just like in a screenplay of a dark rom-com, was the godfather of “I have never had a boyfriend and I stay at home with my mum and watch old movies” Winona and the idol of the Beat Generation “I finished trying out all the drugs there were at 14” Johnny.
Shortly after that she had a ring on her finger and he had “Winona forever” tattooed on his biceps.

She said things like: “When I met Johnny, I was pure virgin. He changed that. He was my first everything. My first real kiss. My first real boyfriend. My first fiancé. The first guy I had sex with. So he’ll always be in my heart. Forever. Kind of funny that word." 
He responded with: ”I’d die for her. I love her so much. I don’t know what I would do without her. She’s going through a lot right now. I wish I could just kiss away the pain, make it go away, stop it, kill it! If she, you know, I don’t know what I would do. I’d kill myself. I love that girl. I love her. I love her almost more than I love myself.” Or: “Believe me, this Winona Forever tattoo is not something I took lightly…Her eyes kill me”.

I WANT TO CRY

Aw..MY EYES ARE WATERING. Goodness they were so perfect.

Everybody Panic?

In the middle of writing this post, I accidentally closed my Internet browser so everything disappeared in one click.

My laptop’s LCD screen broke, disabling me from working on stuff in a flawless screen. Thank goodness it’s fixed now, but the horror of not being able to work on layouts or blog entries and watch films that a tablet or a smartphone cannot do for an extended period of time. 

On Wednesday, my laptop’s LCD blacked out for no reason. Chaos everywhere. But a single reboot made everything function the way it is supposed to be.

Then this past weekend, I worked on the revisions of my thesis proposal for my second reading this Thursday. I changed my topic because one of the panelists thought it was not interesting enough, hence the verdict of “resubmit” - not a disapprove but improve on the potential of the topic. However, I decided to work on another one since the concept of dealing with peer victimization is too cliched although it is relatable to adolescents everywhere. 

My mood is collectively orchestrated by this image below, stress and all (with tears as a bonus):

                            

Thanks to my friends, family, and professors, I was able to control myself a little bit. They always told me two things to remember: 1) do not compare your Chapter 1 to everyone else’s Chapter 20 because we all have to start somewhere, and 2) if you did not get what you wanted the first time, continue to persevere and you’ll achieve it eventually. I’m lucky to have even given the verdict of resubmit rather than disapproved, but what made my heart sink was hearing all those stories which left me pondering whether I am good enough or not. I guess having to go through the second reading only means God wants me to do really well in my thesis. 

The topic proposal, my friends, is the reason why I shed so much tears the past few days. Frustration mounted my brain the entire time I worked on my revisions. Deep inside I was sad my topic didn’t get approved immediately, but it only served as my motivation to revise my topic from boring (according to one panelist) to something much more appealing to future audiences. I tried to make it simple and blunt as much as possible. I kept on wondering what would have been had I been approved in the first reading, but everyone helped me ease the pain and move forward . Every time I feel sad thinking my work is inferior compared to others, I just remember that God wants me to improve so my final output would be something I’d be very proud to have accomplished in the end. 

I must stay positive. I must stay confident. I can survive this. I will get the “Yes” of Dr. D, Sir Gary, and many others. I can do it!!! 

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I'm Still Alive.

For so many reasons I can count them more than my ten fingers, no decent blog post since almost three weeks ago. My laptop’s LCD broke so there’s that. I’m stressed out with thesis proposal so there’s another one. September was just plain bad so down goes another.