Pillars of the Earth

Me and my mom just finished watching Pillars of the Earth and may I just say it is beyond awesome? :') It's soo beautiful and I bet it's even more so in the book. That's why I downloaded an E-book, but I still want a real book-hardbound and all! Anywaaay, the story's really captivating and it gets you hooked right away.

The Pillars of the Earth is just a mini-series so it only has 8 episodes. Plus, soo many known actors and actresses played in this series. Every episode is full of awesomeness and so much content. Gaaaah. WHAT IT AWESOME? This is pure awesomeness, I tell you.

So after I finished watching the whole series, I went into research mode and read about the Salisbury Cathedral and The Anarchy and King Stephen and all that shit. There's so much darkness in the show, Iike it. It's a happy ending though, just so you know- which makes me love it even more. Gaaaaah.

I am now off, to read the book and fangirl some more :') Here are some trailers to get you excited, that is if you ever plan to watch it. :>

Bia's 18th and Noli the Opera :>

Yooo, I kind of sorta just woke up from my 18 hour sleep. I had such a super awesome long and tiring weekend.

FRIDAY

Friday was the most tiring, obviously. The day started at maybe about 5:00 in the morning because I had classes at 7:00AM and the day NEVER ended. Sooo, as stated above, I had classes at 7:00 and my classes ended at about 1:00. I went home with friends since we were to prepare for Bia's debut. I didn't even get to sleep in the three hours that we stayed in the house before preparing. Anywaaay, we left the house at about 7, I think and we arrived at the venue at about 8:30. It was a looong ride considering that from Merville we only had to go to The Fort, damn traffic. :|

So Bia welcomed us when we arrived and she was soo beautifuuuul. I swear it, she was soo gorgeous, she was like a princess! :> Anywaaay, there was a program at the start, and then we all ate-the food was awesome! Hihihihi, I kind of ate a lot because I was honestly so hungry :)) Sorry for being a pig at a formal-ish party. Anywaaay, after eating, it was time for the 18 wishes which I was part of, hihihi. I have stage fright, remember? It's a good thing I didn't screw up giving Bia a speech though :>

After the 18 wishes, it was time to legitimately party! \:D/ We took some photos at the photo booth thing and we drank some shots and we danced and partied. It was seriously sooo awesome and fun. It was nice that the party was a complete and total over the roof success because the debutant worried about it. She was being all ~paranoid~ and stuff. :))

Capture booth photos by: Veluzar Fotografia

Adge and myself

Chem friends! :>

"Heartthrobs" of the laterals (Adge and Denzel) and myself.

SP Laterals, my loves :>

Adge and myself again. WE are camwhoring :))

Fab 6 minus Bia and Lee! :))

Photos by: Melissa Aman

Eeeek! We were all sweaty from dancing already! :))

Ancie and Jessica :>

Mel and myself :))

Photos by: Lara Tan

Me and ze birthday girl, after giving her a wish ;)

This is a wacky shot. I love my lateral friends :>

Laterals + Chem friends' table :> :D

Anywaaay, we got home safe and sound and in the middle of the night. I had to climb up our very tall gate in heels and in a dress because they didn't leave the house open. Yes, paint a picture in your head, why don't you? Anywhooo, a couple of my friends slept over because they had absolutely no way of getting back to their places. I don't even think "slept over" is the right word for it since we didn't really get to sleep at all! We just talked about a lot of stuff-life and all. LOLJK. :)) But really, we just talked a lot. Hahaha.

SATURDAY

I don't even know how I parted Friday and Saturday because I really can't tell which day was which, now that I think about it. It's all just ONE LOOONG day for me, really. Anywaaay, at this point, I already had 24 hours of totally no sleep. Mwahahaha. We had to wake up at about 5:00 to prepare because we had to leave at 6:00 because some of my friends had classes that day. PLUS, I had an opera to attend at UP Diliman. What the actual fuck, right?

Anywaay, we successfully finished preparing by 6:00-which is a goddamn miracle if you ask me because SOME of us are really really slow in preparing. Hahaha. You know who you are ;) Anywaaay, we got to UP Manila a little after 7:00 but it's okaay. At least it wasn't THAT bad of tardiness. Hehe.

I left UP Manila right away, since I had to be at UP Diliman before 9:00. Me and my friend Mary, were to meet up long before the opera started. In case you're wondering, we watched the Noli me Tangere the Opera in UP Diliman because we were required by our professor in PI100. So yeah, we were forced into watching it.

I got to UPD at about 8:30-9:00, my memory is a blur. I was in bangag mode by that time already. Hahaha. I met up with Mary and we were first in line to get in the theater. We got good seats-2nd row and center, boo-yeah! It's a wonder that I didn't fall asleep during the opera because I have to admit that there were some dull moments (Ibarra and Maria Clara moments, ahem)

Overall, the opera was amaaazing! That was money well spent! I am actually glad that we were forced into watching that because if not, I wouldn't have experienced it's awesomeness. The cast was a genius and so was the orchestra. The people who composed the songs are totally amazing! Gaaaah. The boy who played Basilio moved me to actual flowing tears and the little boy who played Crispin was oh so adorable, I just want to hug him all day looong! The cast had superb voices-naturally. They gave me goosebumps-good goosebumps, that is.

After that, I got home, slept and 18 hours later, here I am. :> It was definitely one of the LONGEST weekends ever. But one of the more awesome ones at that!

My brother is bad ass

My brother trended in the Philippines courtesy of his friends. I only helped oh so slightly that I don't think it even made a difference. Anywaaay, they trended him so he'd make a twitter since he's always missing in action. But stubborn as he is, he won't and he shan't. He doesn't trust the system.

CAMP Talent Show

Just got home from our impromptu plans with Bia and Jessica to attend the CAMP Talent Show. I didn't even know that the CAMP Talent show was today, I thought it was not until tomorrow. If I knew it was today, I would've dressed more nicely. Impromptu plans are the best-I didn't regret going to the talent show, rather, I had an awesome time.

Mel, Jessica and Bia and myself went to Vito Cruz for lunch and we just decided right there and then that we want to attend this talent show. Mel didn't come with us though, she still had classes. So it was just me, Jessica and Bia. We really just wanted to check out the performances and see new faces (ahem). The people performed per block so we didn't get to perform because we were all laterals-oh woes are us. But it was still fun being the sideline and watching everyone else, judging them within ourselves, loljk. We had a lot of fun watching all the blocks and batches do their things. We liked PT 2014 and 2013 most because they were the most entertaining to watch. The judges seem to agree because they were placed 1st and 2nd, respectively. SP 2013 took 3rd place. We watched all the batched except for the OT people because it was time to go, by then.

CAMP people are so game to everything. They do everything (humiliating or not) to entertain people and to have fun. I am happy to be part of this college. :) I admit, that sometimes, I feel out of place when there are college activities-which is understandable because I'm not originally from this college, I just shifted. And in a college that is almost always block-oriented, where in the world will you place us laterals, right? But even so, there are times that I feel that I belong and I am thankful for that.

I had fun today. I wish I brought my camera. I need to bring my camera all the time for more impromptu plans like these ones. I love my friends :*

Let's do this 2nd Sem \:D/

As of today, I have met all my professors and got a feel of what the rest of the 2nd semester is going to be like. And unfortunately, it looks like it's going to be stressful. It's only the first week of classes and I feel so stressful already. God, help me.

It's not like I don't like my subjects though and most of my professors are cool and/or awesome. BUT there are just too many requirements and reading assignments and everyone knows I'm not an industrious pupil. I am just going to die this semester, I know it. However, this is my last (hopefully not though) chance of becoming a college scholar and I'm not going to let it go that easily. Last sem, I missed it by .05 and it's all because of that Soc Sci. I hate profs who guess grades :|

Anywaaaay, I kind of went astray from the topic. I'm excited and nervous about this semester. I'm excited because of the coolness and the awesomeness that my professors will impart and nervous because I might not do well. BUT I WILL. I swear it right now, that I must and I will do well-not just well but EXCELLENT.

I like Humanities II and PI100 the most this semester and mostly because my profs in these subjects are too awesome for words\:D/ Hum is about the Arts and my prof is gaaaah-amaazing. Not only is the subject interesting (at least for me), the prof makes it more interesting. It's like being in a lively conversation with your friend everyday. My jaw hurts from laughing and smiling all through out the 1 and half hour class. He is the reason why it's not such a bummer to be at school at 7:00 in the morning. Dayuuum. My PI100 prof is another awesome funny man. I don't even realize that an hour and a half has passed because he gives you so much information and he does so in a very interesting manner. I seriously don't like history in a class very much, but he makes it so interesting to study. He knows so much about what he teaches and gaaaah-just awesome, ok? :))

I have 2 more DAC (Department of Arts and Communications) subjects which are Communications III and Linguistics 112-both of which scare the crap out of me :| First of all, Comm 3 is about public speaking and I'm a writer (duh, e blog) not a speaker. I have horrible, just horrible stage fright. I stutter and I forget what to say and Tagalog words slip in sometimes. Gaaaah. Half of our grade if not more, comes from the speeches and the interviews :S I am nervous as shit. PLUS, our prof is so strict, she scares me. Although she's really kind and she's trying to make the subject more appealing and I really admire her for knowing so much about the subject matter and successfully imparting a great amount of knowledge onto her students, she still scares me. Now, Ling scares me because we're left to our own to study. She doesn't teach soo, yeah. And I'm not the studying type so the fear is lurking around me.

My last subject that will affect my GWA is STS. It's a science subject concerned with new science and technology. I hate it because the prof is boring shit. She doesn't teach, she just reads the slides. Plus, she failed one of my friends who totally didn't deserve to fail. Yes, I have my biases already. The only good thing about this son of gun boring Wednesday class is that I have an attractive classmate who I can stare at while the prof blabs on about something I can self study on our reference which she, by the way, WROTE. It's the first time in UP that I have an attractive classmate. At least I can ogle at someone now. :"> :))

Speaking of ogling and the like, I have read something recently and it's been viral for a while now. It's an article by a UP student and it was published at Philippine Collegian and it made me so giddy and I could relate to it all the way, I don't even know why. This has kilig vibes written all over it, so ENJOY :>

Paano ka ba magiging akin?

(Unang nalimbag ang akdang ito sa isyu 16 ng Philippine Collegian noong 15 Nobyembre 2011.)

ni Ninalyn Uy

Isa lang naman ang pamantayan ko sa paghahanap ng karelasyon: ikaw.

Pero siyempre bola lang ‘yun. Gusto ko lang kunin ang atensyon mo, dahil hindi ko alam kung magkikita pa tayo ngayong semestre. Nababaliw na nga ako sa kaiisip kung ano ang kahahantungan ng “love story” natin.

Malas mo dahil mahilig akong magbasa ng Tagalog pocket books at manood ng mga Asianovela. Mula sa mga tauhang sinubaybayan ko, alam kong kapag nakuha ng isang babaeng hindi nagsusuklay at hindi naliligo pero kaiba at mukhang madiskarte ang atensyon ng isang lalaki, posibleng maging sila.

Kung bakit mo ba kasi pinipitik ang mga daliri mo sa harap ng mukha ko sa tuwing nagkakasalubong tayo. Lagi mo pa akong kinakalabit, at kahit na sitahin pa kita ng pinakamalulutong na mura, ngumingiti ka lang at tahimik na tumatawa. Tapos bigla kang magsisimula ng mga usapang may kinalaman sa akin—kung saan ako nag-hayskul, ano ang binabasa kong libro, kung masaya ba ako.

Buwisit na buwisit ako sa klase natin last sem, pero isa ka sa mga dahilan kung bakit hindi ako nag-drop. Kahit na naririnig kitang tumatawa mag-isa sa tuwing napapahiya ako sa recitation, at kahit panay ang turo mo sa akin tuwing nagtatawag si Prof ng volunteer, okay lang sa’kin.

Kasalanan mo kung bakit bigla kong pinag-isipan nang mabuti kung ano ang ilalagay kong profile picture sa Facebook. Kasalanan mo kung bakit napadalaw ako sa ukay-ukay nang mag-isa para lang, oo, mag-shopping. Nabasa ko kasi ang payong ito sa Internet: If someone’s flirting with you, please cooperate. Oo, walang biro. Pati mga payo sa internet, pinatulan ko na.

Hinanap rin kita sa Internet, akala mo. Nagbasa ako ng mga blog entry kung saan binabanggit ang pangalan mo; inalam ko kung sinu-sino ang common friends natin na posibleng magpalalim sa kung ano mang meron tayo. Pinagtanong kita sa mga kaibigan mo at lahat sila, nagkakasundong mabait ka nga.

Urong-sulong ka rin kasi. Hindi ka masyado assertive sa pakay mo sa’kin, kung mayroon man. Sa dami ng mga pagkakataong nag-usap tayo, hindi mo hiningi ang number ko kahit kailan. Hindi naman ako madamot sa “oo.” Hinihintay ko lang na gumawa ka ng first move. Nang tinawag mo ako noong huling araw ng klase natin para sabay tayong maglakad, nag-usap lang tayo’t naghiwalay na parang talent ni Kim Chiu sa pag-arte: wala lang.

Siguro nga wala naman talaga ako sa‘yo bukod sa isang kaklase. O marahil naghahanap ka lang ng Ate. Siguro kapag nagkita tayo ulit, tatango ka lang at bahagyang ngingiti pero hindi ka lalapit para makipag-usap. Kaiba ka rin kasi. Hindi ko rin alam kung bakit pero sa‘yo lang talaga ako natutuyuan ng laway at napapangungunahan ng duda at kaba. Siguro kasi sa lahat ng nagustuhan kong lalaki, ikaw lang ang hindi celebrity.

Sakaling makilala mo ang sarili mo sa akdang ito, alam mo naman kung saan ako maaaring puntahan o kausapin. At huwag kang mag-alala—hindi pa rin ako madamot sa “oo.” Aanhin ko naman ‘yun. ●

Isn't it sooo beautiful? :') Anywaaaay, I have to hit the sack. Let's spread the awesomeness this second semester. :D That sounded so geeky and nerdy and spongebob-y that I have to hide my face for all eternity. :))

Enrollment is Shit :|

I finally finished enrolling after three loooong days ;___;

Enrollment in UP is soo hard. I bet more so in CAS (College of Arts in Sciences) At least, in CAMP (College of Allied Medical Professions, my College) all we have to do is bore ourselves to death with all the waiting. Imagine waiting for your much coveted Form5, 10 hours a day just for the College Secretary to tell you to come again tomorrow. It is mentally exhausting. But still, enrollment is always so hard :( I hate enrollment days.

Out of boredom, we have resorted into petty made up games. We even tried builing a house of cards. And when we were successful, we would add another two and then another two and it's really never ending. We were like crazies. Other CAMPers looked at us weirdly. I would too, if I were them. :))

The only good thing that came out of this three-day enrollment is bonding time with my fellow SP laterals. Gaaaah, at least our batch of SP laterals are fairly close. I heard that in the other batches, they're not all that, well, close. I love my pseudo-SP block :) We are all of the same vibe, if you get what I mean? :))

Anywaay, I am just so happy to get my Form5 already. ;___; Tears of joy, right there.

16 units of hopefully easy subjects :> All GEs. My last chance of becoming a College Scholar. Don't fail me, second sem! :D

PS: I am hoping that I'm a college scholar for the first sem, but I'm waiting for my Soc Sci grade. Please, Soc Sci, be nice :) *Sana swerte ako sa darts at ma flat uno siya :">*