I had my first public speaking activity yesterday for my first class, ORALCOM¹, at school. It was hella scary and I am thankful I didn’t vomit after. Well, I didn’t had much time to practice since I procrastinated for 3 days almost but I think I did ‘fine’, just ‘fine’. I didn’t violate much of the no-no’s of public, just 2 I think. I remembered I was sort of rushing my speech as well, DAMN! To be honest, I only did my speech the day BEFORE (Thursday) and practiced on the same day as well. It was pretty short so I was a little bit confident, but the jitters still got to me from time to time especially on the day itself.

I’m just glad that it’s over because I can breathe easily now. Unlike my other classmates who are scheduled to present theirs on Monday. I wonder if they’re procrastinating, cramming, lazing out or practicing and exerting effort for it? Now I’m thankful my last name is NOT on the bottom half of the class list, hehehehe.

From yesterday’s ‘Introduction speeches’, I noticed that most of my classmates are musicians. Most of them are ‘addicted’ to music just like me.. and some of them are in a band. Show ▼

There’s one guy, whom I didn’t remember his name, who has a band and their name is from an Incubus song. :X I think it was Pendulous Threads? I forgot if he was the one who said that they play EMO music, I giggled. Then one other guy who belonged to a family of musicians, and we shared the same interest of artists. :yay: Ok, I don’t remember much after that except for my friend’s speeches. I think I embarrassed myself when I said that my favorite subject for photography are MUSICIANS because clearly that’s THEM.

Hahahaha. So much for that, moving on……

Last Wednesday, I was supposed to get the PSP I ‘bought’ from my friend, but heaven didn’t agree so God let it rain. I got so annoyed because neither of us wanted to go to the other building to meet. I thought he was making it up when he said that there was a Pep Rally on the main building so that’s why he couldn’t go to the other building, which later turned out to be TRUE. I was a day late when I found that out. Sucks to be in the SDA building², you’ll be so isolated from everything. Meh, I hope it doesn’t rain next Wednesday. I want that PSP. I’m so bored right now and I don’t have anything productive to do. Imagine just what I can do with that PSP…. Play with Tekken all day? On a pink gaming console?

Actually, I have things to do. I could start playing with iMovie so I can start editing our raw shots from our BASICOM³ subject but I’m not in the mood for that. I can… get back to reading New Moon, 4 chapters to go! BUT I’m hella lazy.. New Moon is my least favorite book, I’m just being patient reading it just so I can finish it. Jacob Black makes it so boring, SORRY TEAM JACOB. Sometimes I don’t even read thoroughly, I just skip to the dialogues instead. If not reading, I have another option which is to create another plate for DESPRIN⁴ about gradients.. which, btw, is HARD.

No classes on Tuesday so I have ANOTHER option to defer my DESPRIN plate and my ‘review’ time with my HARTDS1⁵ notes for a quiz.

In other news.. mom’s selling quite a lot of stuff like crazy recently. She goes into our stuff and asks if we still use whatever she finds and if we say we don’t use them anymore or we won’t be using it she takes them away and sells it. I saw the things she compiled up for selling and there were so MANY! Oh well, it’s better to have it be owned by someone who’s really going to use it. So, who wants a once-used Ice Cream Maker? I should help out by giving some of my CDs be put up for sale. I need to make money. So much stuff we have here that we don’t use, it’s almost good enough to put all of them on a Garage Sale.

She also put up the new Reader’s Digest magazines on sale, I asked her why can’t she just continue on collecting them along with the other books we have. And then she said that it’s taking up space.. well, that’s the purpose of having another house. Put loads of shelves. Such a shame to see these age-old art books go to waste. I could use them for school anytime, you know?

EDIT: An hour later I wrote that, my mom came to my room, announcing that she will include my NEW BOOKS for sale!!! I got so furious and shit. I went out to the living room and started speaking in a loudish tone. Why the heck would she do that? Because my books was put in a box she thought it was useless to me now! Gah. This is why I’ve been asking for SHELVES and for my room in our renovated house to be CLEANED and FIXED soon so I can move my shit there and not take up space in this house we are in right now. Sorry. I’m just really annoyed because most of the books she was going to put for sale aren’t even mine, 1 of them I just borrowed from a friend. Shelves, is just too much to ask for? My collection of things are getting way out of hand and I need my own storage room.

Lol. I was able to save money 2 weeks ago, but last Thursday it only took me an hour to spend my savings on 4 DVDS. I bought Good Luck Chuck, Tokyo Drift, Pursuit of Happyness and Mean Girls (we already have a VCD of this movie but I still want a DVD of it!). I really want lots of shelves on my room. I have so many books and DVDS.. CDs as well and boxes are not good enough to store them.

I found out a review yesterday while doing reviews at a certain website that REALLY pissed me off. I won’t say sorry to the person who did it if she ever finds it out. Not only that it offended me, but it sounds downright stupid.

I don’t like rock bands so I will definitely not watch their concert here in the Philippines.

This rock band this ignoramus is talking about is INCUBUS. What bothered me a lot is why did she wrote up a NEGATIVE review about them and rated them a POSITIVE 4. Does that even make any sense to you? I, for one, can’t simply just ignore this because the topic of the review has only received few reviews, probably why I noticed it that easily. And is she even aware that the band’s concert here in Manila was already a thing of the past? Did she even bother to read at least 50% of the site content she was reviewing?

In case you are not aware, this site gives you points for every review you do. And if you reach the minimum points required, you can get rewards for your points such as MONEY. It makes me mad because people do the stupidest things for MONEY. At least FOLLOW the goddamned rules of this review site. I know not everyone likes Incubus, but what the fuck.. was that ‘review’ even necessary?

In Eminem’s words, “Be smart, don’t be a retard.”

Maybe it’s just me who’s acting so mad, pardon me. I’ve let it go, trying to move on.. but still can’t help but think about it whenever I see it.

Bye for now. I hope my PR goes back to normal again, it went back to 0 last week. This is horrible, I think I’m not getting any new sponsored posts cause of this. I already asked for a rereview from Google and I hope they do rereview it soon.

I recently got a Plurk account by the way! Add me in yours, y/y? I’ll only add back people I know, and I know a lot of people online but they don’t know me, haha. Plurk has more security features than Twitter, that’s why I prefer it more but I still update my Twitter once in a while. :dance:

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31 comments

1. Aisha Says:
   June 21st, 2008 at 2:51 pm

   parang d2 sa post mo hnd pa binebenta ng mama mo un gmt mo ah LOL and now ur pissed off LOL hay nko girl talk with her.. im sure hnd nya mabebenta yan hehehe it’s your anyway
   shux i miss school.

2. michelle Says:
   June 21st, 2008 at 3:20 pm

   New Moon’s really boring? Awww.

   Hah, your mom said that? How… cruel. And selfish. LOL. But duh, you won’t “payag” naman eh, right.

   Ang weird nung nagsulat ng review! Negative yung review tapos POSITIVE4 yung rating? WTF? Ang stupid naman nooon.
   Wait, the site gives yeh money?! What site? Haha. :>

3. Christian Says:
   June 21st, 2008 at 5:21 pm

   I really enjoyed my oral class. My prof was great. I learned a lot of things from her. Actually, I got a decent grade in this subject. Hehe. Kung magkaka Speech Demo kayo, be sure to prepare a week before. Haha. Dito maraming pumapalpak, especially kung di talaga nagpractice.

   My books are kept in my shelves (napuno ko na yung kalahati! w00t). The only problem is that my shelves are not in my room, so anyone can get my books. I’ll try to find a way on how to lock ‘em.

4. Pamcy Says:
   June 21st, 2008 at 7:57 pm

   Andami talagang retarted. Inggit lang sila dahil magaling ang Incubus!

   Ganyan din naman yung mom ko! Biglang magsisipag at biglang sinosort ang gamit ko at biglang iisa-isahin ang gamit ko at tatanungin ako ng “Ano, benta na natin?” Hahaha. Buti nalang minsan lang sya magsipag!

5. jerichama Says:
   June 21st, 2008 at 8:49 pm

   hey! cool site! haha! thanks for commenting on mine! I hope you try out cosplaying ’cause it’s uber fun!!!

6. Joyce Says:
   June 21st, 2008 at 9:13 pm

   PSP? argh! gusto ko rin nun so I could play GTA all day. i saw a red psp sa 168. i think it looks hotter than pink. but pink looks nice din. ahihihi…

   a garage sale is a great idea to earn money. i have tons of stuff here pero di ko sila mapakawalan.

   whoever said that stuff about the greatest band in the effin universe is definitely not a real music fan. maka-comment lang kung anu-ano ng non-sense ang sasabihin. my gas. it’s probably a fan of one of those jologs singers or groups na nadidinig mo sa radyo sa jeep. hehehe.

7. Erika Says:
   June 21st, 2008 at 11:50 pm

   you seriously had me laugh my ass off with that photography and musicians thing. i can imagine your classmates’ faces, haha. and the last time i had to speak in public (by public i mean in class, haha) almost everyone agreed that i talked too fast. it happens when i get so nervous and stuff. do you have stage fright ba? anyways, about the stupid review? it’s just that. it’s stupid. stupid, really. and no comment on your mom selling your books. i wish i have stuff to sell, too. i want moolah, i need moolah! hahahaha. i soooo love your posts.

8. Cerisse Says:
   June 22nd, 2008 at 12:17 am

   I just read your post, but it seems like my mind doesn’t work a little. it’s pre-occupied i guess. okay, i’ll read it one more time. )

   Gezz, good thing we don’t have(yet) speeches this time. We’re just discussing on our lecture and just oral drills & role playing activities in our lab. now, i could see that prolly, ours will be harder.

   Lol on your mom selling your new books. You must demand on getting yourself some bookshelves. Good that your collections are still up till now. Mine, di ko na alam kung nasaan.

   The hell, curse that girl. She prolly don’t know what is good music. Tss.

9. Charlene Says:
   June 22nd, 2008 at 1:16 am

   My mom was like that too. But good thing she didn’t try to talk me into selling my collections. That would’ve sucked.

   And I know about the website you’re talking about where you get points and get paid by writing reviews. I just registered yesterday Haha.

   Good thing we don’t have something like that in our ORALCOM class… YET. But I bet we’ll get to that later. Ohnoez.

   Lucky you, you still get to blog about things even during classes. Me, I’m lazy updating. I’m stucked with Forks still.

10. bennika Says:
    June 22nd, 2008 at 12:04 pm

    Urgh, that btch. Don’t diss Incubus. :hmph:

    LMAO.

    I can tell you’re a fan. So stellar.

11. Mariel Says:
    June 22nd, 2008 at 12:39 pm

    medyo OP ako dito sa post mo hehe di pa kasi ako colegge but well i love psp

12. Joelle Says:
    June 22nd, 2008 at 2:04 pm

    wow i actually just re-read new moon and i’m currently re-reading eclipse. i’m one of those team jacob fans but whatever. lmao! xD

    incubus rocks! my brother is a huge fan of it.

    ot: i love your theme. =)

13. Char Says:
    June 22nd, 2008 at 6:24 pm

    Speech! Sana pala pinicturan kita or video habang nagspespeech ka! Para remembrance. READER’S DIGEST! Wow sayang un ah, sarap pa naman basahin nun kahit mga ilang beses pa lang ako nakakabasa nun xD

14. Kai Says:
    June 22nd, 2008 at 8:00 pm

    yo, anna.
    thanks for the comment. marketing communications, by the way.

    and about that person who reviewed/commented to your review, well, some people are just downright dumbasses. cheers!

15. Tinaii Says:
    June 22nd, 2008 at 8:19 pm

    My speechless class is draining the life out of me, kiddeeeeng

    Hmmm, New Moon? I didn’t like Jacob either, haha. Boring! I want to have a copy of Eclipse! :p

16. Ayiene Says:
    June 22nd, 2008 at 8:30 pm

    New moon is boring. HAHA. Isa lang naman dahilan nun eh, wala si Edwardyyy! The iDazzle guy!

    Public Speaking will make me go kuhrazzzzy! I swear. Ayoko ng ganun eh. Nakakatanga talaga.

17. Chie Says:
    June 22nd, 2008 at 8:40 pm

    haha. op kami ni mariel. XD kabado ba? haha :bravo:

    oo nga. medyo ayoko nung incubus. lang arrive. ~.~

    Author’s note: Huh? Lang arrive?

18. mary Says:
    June 23rd, 2008 at 1:47 am

    yeah, you’re sooo right. new moon is so boring i wanted to skip it already. but edward kept me going. hahahaha.

    what’s plurk? lol. oh, and thank you for the greeting anna! and yeah, it was our monthsary that time as well

19. Khayte Says:
    June 23rd, 2008 at 10:49 am

    Gaaad, ur so confident sis pra humarap sa mrming tao. Ako, hanggang writing na lang. Huhu. Anyway, ate why dont u try selling those stuff over the net? Mkktulong din un. Post them here sa site mo, mlay mo may magkainterest dba?

20. Kisty Says:
    June 24th, 2008 at 12:03 am

    Gaaaaaaaaaaad! I now miss and prolly is excited for situations that I need to stand up in front and say something. I think I haven’t done that in the longest time.

    You said a lot in your entry and now, I don’t know where to begin.. But probably, the favorite part you’ve told in your entry is about New Moon. I agree with that part! I have to blog more about my review regarding New Moon but yes, I still agree that it’s boring.

    Weirdo naman nun. Is he/she a Filipino? Sipain ko siya eh! Hahaha! Either that or he/she was lucky enough to touch the computer, kaya basta basta na!

21. Jhoice Says:
    June 24th, 2008 at 5:06 am

    WOW sis buti kpa dmi mu ngwa in just a week. aQ super boring… Anwyae i hvnt sEen any review about that BAND….i hope i am thinkin da right one… I guess wla n xa mrview kaya un nlng nsv nia,LOL! ahaha!! >-

22. jhoana Says:
    June 24th, 2008 at 3:39 pm

    ako naman nung nag oral claass kami excited.. hehe! English 3 na nyo yan diba?

23. Aisha Says:
    June 24th, 2008 at 10:02 pm

    public speaking? shet prang mamamatay ako sa gnun ah AHHAHAH! ko kaya buti kpa kaloka

24. Rachel Says:
    June 26th, 2008 at 2:18 pm

    ayaw ko ng mga ganyan mahiyain kasi ako pero atleast ikaw kayang kaya mo. y nagbebenta ng marami ang mom mo? mukhang nagpapayaman si mother ah

25. Ivy Says:
    June 26th, 2008 at 9:29 pm

    lots of people join plurk now and i cant keep up wiht it! >.<

26. Hachi Says:
    June 26th, 2008 at 10:58 pm

    naku, pag dating sa books and reader’s digest, big no-no sakin ang pagbenta niyan. hehe. sa dami ko ng magazines dito na napagsawaan ko na, binebenta ko na. hehe. nag-pipile lang dito sa kwarto ko. hehe

27. cars Says:
    June 27th, 2008 at 8:57 am

    awgahd. eventhough i always speak in public in school when there are events i just can’t get over the JITTERS! darnnn. hahah. lagi rin akong parang nasusuka.

    HAHAHA. musicians. lol.

    –
    the girl should have at least done constructive criticism if she was gonna make a negative comment.

28. seksziichiicq Says:
    June 27th, 2008 at 10:07 pm

    :yay: public speaking..good thing you did not vomit.. ahehe.. i ly dat

29. Sherica Says:
    June 28th, 2008 at 9:01 am

    Binasa ko lahat pero wala ako masabi haha. Buti tapos na ang public speaking me, i had my first time last school year . i was hella nervous pero naging okay naman . ang hinhin daw ng boses ko parang madre lmao.. hehe. xD and speaking of books i badly want the books of twilight since it sounds really intriguing for me haha. xD.

    wala na akong masabi. haha. :bravo: :bravo:

30. chester Says:
    June 28th, 2008 at 8:43 pm

    hala. basta ako, i :heart: rock bands!

31. Bernadeth Says:
    June 29th, 2008 at 4:06 pm

    wooo I’m glad tapos na public speaking niu!

    OT: pls. tell me kung ililink pa kita. My site is back!