For once in my life I woke up thinking if at least one out of the seven billion people of the universe cared for my well-being. I wondered if there is someone in the shadows who imagined themselves in my shoes, put my heart into his / her sleeve, or simply concerned with what I will do and what I have done. Every time I wait for the Earth to swallow me whole while I’m in the middle of nowhere, I wish someone would rescue me from this living travesty. One day, I would fully realize that no man is a puppet to manipulate its emotions. It just saddens me that you would not know how much this person is so important to you once he / she is out of your sight. While you’re enclosed in this thought, imagine yourself being in the person’s shoes. How would it feel like if no one seemed to show their affections to you? To quote that man, it made him worthless and he wanted to point this out as a lesson to the rest of the world. If you want people to remember you fondly, make sure you show them how much you care for them. No one knows what will happen at the dawn of the new day. 

100512: TGIF (Last Friday)

October 5 was one of the best days I’ve had this year! That day was my dear buddy Tisha / Patutti Frutti’s 18th wherein she celebrated it with her friends and family at Makati Shangri-la and Greenbelt. To kick things off, we ate our hearts out at the Circles buffet in Makati Shang wherein we had about four to five plates each of dessert and main course! As for me, I was able to return to the smorgasbord four to six times to get seafood, roast lamb, roasted chicken, California Maki sushi, chocolate chip cookies, chocolate from the chocolate fountain…and the list goes on to describe how happy my tummy was during those moments! My appetite was so large my friends already teased me about it. For about an hour and a half, my friends and I were eating while talking about anything under the sun. 

Following the lunch, we walked to Greenbelt and headed to Timezone. But right before that, Tisha decided to treat us to Taken 2 which was what we did after playing arcade games since the next screening was already about 4 in the afternoon. Now in Timezone, we all took turns shooting the zombies in House of the Dead 2 ! Defeating the boss in the game can’t get any more fun without the help of your friends. Monzie, Tisha and I also had our snapshot taken at the photobooth inside. The funny thing is, we actually fought over selecting the best shots because I accidentally chose the one where I was answering the phone to talk to my mom! It was a real LOL moment but at least we had better snapshots ahead! 

When there was about thirty minutes into showtime, we all headed to Starbucks for a couple of drinks. I really missed the smell and vuluptous taste of mocha frappe! Speaking of Taken 2, it didn’t disappoint me despite never having seen the first movie. I don’t even know why a lot of people consider it as the “worst sequel ever” to begin with!  Anyways, we met up with Tisha’s aunt and cousins after the movie for a dinner at California Pizza Kitchen. A shameless confession: I last ate at CPK in 2004 during my mom’s office Christmas party. Thank the lucky stars CPK and I crossed paths again after eight years. All I would have to say is that their pizza and pasta is just as good as ever. During the dinner, Tisha’s aunt and cousins were telling lots of stories which made us delightful the whole time! 

Thank you so much to the birthday girl Tisha and her fam and our friends for this awesome day! Now the camera rolls in 3…2…1…there you go to do the talking! 

Patutti Frutti and moi! 

Tisha with the waiters singing “Happy Birthday” to her! What a lovely surprise! 

After lots of begging, Monzie finally got to convince the forever camera-hating Kevs to have a photo!

Inside the Makati Shang CR! I am the “long-legged astronaut” - Monzie 

Inside the photobooth (while Kevs played something else for obvious reasons lol) 

Thank you Monzie for these shots even though I forgot my memory card at home! Still waiting for the pictures from Tisha’s new SLR! 

***The next day was LASARE2 and it was fun! This week has been really hectic that’s why I only got to update Tumblr yesterday. But anyhow, school is going really well and my breaks are great especially when I’m with my friends! 

Dear October, I would appreciate it if you make this month better than the last. September wasn’t exactly a disaster but it was an evidence of how bad things can it be sometimes. Many people were really disappointed with me because I didn’t meet their expectations. I already traded off a portion of my leisure time in order to be on top of the mountain again. So far, things have been looking better for me and I believe this would go on until Halloween. If things didn’t turn out exactly what I wanted before, please make this work this time because I’ve suffered enough the last time. My faith keeps telling me God will unfold His plans in due time - I hope He will this month. Overused as it may seem, October, please be good to me. I will do everything just to make things right. 

A Small Update

For the first time in almost three weeks, my forever favorite KFC chicken filled my hungry tummy before going to my TREDONE make-up class today. This may not seem much to some people, but not being able to eat my #1 fastfood chain of all time for weeks is as sad as Tumblring only on weekends unlike before wherein I was on daily. Dimsum has been delighting me lately most especially the ones in Hainanese Delights and Cantonese Dimsum House (located in Agno). I blame my friends for introducing me to that during the last leg of the preceding term. On Monday, I will be starting my duties as a telemarketer at the Development Office in school as part of the student assistant program. I’m grateful to be one of the few given this opportunity to gain work experience while earning at the same time. Finally, Perks is out in theaters! I’ve been hearing good reviews from people who’ve already seen the film.

Second Term Part Deux

The first week of the second term is over just like that. From the five terms of tenure in the University, I would have to say that it was the best first week I’ve ever had. But first here is my current schedule:

                   

 Without further ado, I will present to you what happened last Wednesday and Thursday. 

First Two Days (Last Wednesday and Thursday) 

• Had my first class in Andrew building for GENDERS with Monzie


• Out GENDERS prof was the fabulous Sir Canoy


• He asked us, “Who would you be given a day where you are another person of the opposite or same sex?”


• I wanted to answer any celebrity but instead I chose my dad 


• Monzie answered the Jake Gyllenhaal and Sir Canoy asked her, “Are you a lesbian?”  - ROTFL moment


• BTW, the prof came late because he commutes via the LRT every morning from Blumentritt


• Went up to the 17th floor to bring Monzie to her TREDTRI class 


• We then saw this girl eating a waffle and assumed she was a classmate of Monzie's 


• Monzie asked, “Hello girl eating a waffle, are you in my TREDTRI class?”


• It turns out that the girl was my longtime Candymag.com Teentalk buddy Nadine!


• Chatted with the two of them in their classroom until the prof went inside 


• Went to the DO to claim my certificate of good moral for START application


• Had lasagna at Animo Food Haus 


• Slept at the lib because Monzie met up with her friend in Rob…


• Until she called me up to meet them there twenty minutes later


• When I was there, we had lunch at Hainanese Delights


• And I had 6 ½ SERVINGS OF HAINANESE RICE. 


• On Thursday I met my SPANONE professor coming from Instituto Cervantes


• At first, I thought it was a student until she introduced herself x_x


• Sudden free cut in INTOECO so I had an early lunch at Pasta Boy 


• Headed to Andrew for HISTCIV 


• Hats off to Sir Rolly for his very eccentric yet lovable character: “I come across as crazy it comes to the point I cannot distinguish between truth and lie." 


• Met up with Mica and spent the whole four hour break at White Hat in One Archers


• Had GREATWK as our last class and met Sir Jiggy for only ten minutes 

Second Week (Monday - yesterday) 

• By chance I saw Justine inside the LRT and walked together up to Coffee Bean


• Got a surprise text from Kevs before class since he was absent last week


• Had GENDERS at 8:40 and got dismissed at 9 AM


• Met up with Kevs and stayed at the 17th floor while Monzie had class


• As usual we spent the whole 90 minutes talking about hilarious stuff 


• Workout at the Razon sports center during the break - jogging, curl-ups you name it 


• Monzie and I were out of breath while Kevs sat in the corner laughing at us =))


• Since she was free cut in WIKAKUL, I had fun in the LRT with Pam and Sofia! 


• SPANONE is getting more interesting every session 


• Got to see our INTOECO prof for the first time as our class was about to leave 


• Had GREATWK in Gox where I met the triad: Sir Jiggy, Dr. Sarza and Mr. Villacorta


• Boy, Mr. Villacorta was kind of intimidating with his theatrics while discussing about Nietzsche! 


• Got to see many of my blockmates in our section + groupmates with them for the final project!


• After asdfghjkl weeks I finally got to see Tisha before GENDERS class! :”>


• Early lunch at 7-Eleven = too bad they only offer unlimited rice on Sundays :( 


• Found out from the Lit department about the qualifying course for Lit this term


• Face-to-face BBM with Kevs at Flower Delight (aka the bubbletea store) 


• Before sending this message: “Go out of the store because I know you will laugh so hard”….and I did


• Watched I Am David in TREDTWO class


• Caught up with 


• Two burritos and pizza from Zaide for lunch 


• Went to Instituto Cervantes to inquire about the SPANONE book only to find out that they don’t sell on Thursdays :/


• Got interviewed by the SFA regarding the student assistantship program (crossing my fingers!) 


• Met up with the friends at Tokyo Tokyo - REUNION! 


• Sir Jiggy did a good job in making us understand Aristotle’s Poetics better 

On the sidenote, I got to see The Mistress with my aunt last week. She treated me to Greenwich while I treated her to Oishi chips and cheese popcorn. The movie was overall satisfying much to my pleasurable senses. Story was believable, characters were not static. Watching Pinoy movies on the big screen may seem like a plausible thing for me to do but this flick is an exception. As long as it offers many reasons for the audience to watch it, I would go and see it just like what I do with Hollywood movies. 

About an hour ago I enlisted in the qualifying course for Lit majors for the second time. I must not shift.  As Lao Tzu quotes, “If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.”  Besides, have I decided to shift to another course this term I might be written off as a “quitter” for not trying until I succeed. Who knows, life would turn out differently if I proceeded to the shifting route. Ask any successful person out there, they have had an experience when they almost changed direction but persevered then got better than they wanted. Last Sunday and for the past few nights I’ve been praying to God that He may make me pass the QLY-LIM as Lit is the last option for me as a college course. 

Last term was probably the worst ever in my year stay in the Taft-based university because everything fell into the lackluster category. I really hope my fortunes will turn around this term from my grades to the qualifying course. Probably the Big Man upstairs has given me all of these challenges the previous trimester to test my faith in Him as well as my endurance to surpass all of these struggles. I don’t want to assume or anything but I think He reserved all those good things in store for me this term. He saw how much I suffered last month and my desire to be as lucky as many people out there. If last term was their term, I would do everything to make this trimester my time to shine.  With highly recommendable professors in the subjects I’m taking right now, I guess this is the beginning of turning tables from Bad Luck Brian to Lucky Larry. 

With faith I believe Bro will make me a happy banana this Christmas.