April, 2009

Hanging On

30Apr 09

I’m glad to report back again after a loooooooong week that I am finally well again after that last post!
THIS IS GOING TO BE A LOOOOOOOOOOONG ENTRY, TOO.

Today’s the last day of April and tomorrow is May, and officially after that.. I have 20 free days and then I go back to school after that. Ugh, not again.. SCHOOL. It’s TOO early to talk about school at this point, isn’t it? But when you think about it, it’s not too long before May 21 comes knocking at your door, it’s not too ‘close’ either.

My brother and I were supposed to go out today.. to Trinoma. Yup, that big mall in the North. People say that it’s bigger than Mall of Asia already so it must be REALLY huge and I want to see it! Besides, I’ve NEVER been to any malls around Quezon City. :doh: ‘Supposed to’ because its raining now and ugh, dunno, I feel lazy to go out already. I think it stopped for now but the weather isn’t looking happy (sunny) yet. I would rather go out in the heat than a rainy weather.. what if we come by a flooded place? We’ll commute on our way there pa naman. )

Anyway.. a lot of things have happened since my last entry. Wait, it has been only just a week since I updated? It felt like 4 weeks! I have posted most of it on my other journal already. Apologize for updating this late, and last.

1. I passed 2nd year! Well, almost. I failed a class, take a guess. Its okay, not. Big deal, I’m gonna repeat it for the 3rd time and then what? Fail again? See it actually helps to be negative and pessimistic about something. At least I knew this was bound to happen. If I kept on saying to myself that I will pass and then get that grade, I’d end up crumbling down again and crying, just like last time.

Ironically.. I got one failing grade and the rest of my grades are perfect. No grade below 90 and if only I passed that subject.. again, I could have been a Dean’s Lister for the term. Fate doesn’t want me to be a DL. Fuck you, fate. :whistle: It’s always like that.. I get a low (or REALLY low grade but this rarely happens) then the rest are high enough to make me a DL.

2. I finally have a DSLR!!! Horrrraaay! I never thought this day would come that I will own a camera like this. Now, my dreams are complete. =)) But I’m serious with that part. I thought I’d only get a laptop but my parents agreed (mom) to buy me this camera as well since I’m going to use it for school sooner or later.

It’s also a good thing that I was patient enough for this because if I bought one earlier, I won’t get to own a better model. Actually, IDK if there is such thing as a good camera model.. they say it’s on the “photographer” and not on the “camera”. (Arrow/Indian quote). Its a tough decision at first, 5D or 450D, then at the store we compared 50D to 450D, and I chose the latter. Hmm.. I named it Casey.

I heard recently that the 500D is out. Argh!! Why did I buy sooner? I should have waited more! But, no worries! =)) I did my homework before doing my purchase (so many times on different cameras) and IMO it’s like a 50D and 5D in one, and I heard that one of those 2 cameras doesn’t have a good megapixel (something like that) so yeah that made me back off. The 5D is too expensive for me and too huge so I didn’t want it in the first place too even though it has 21MP, oh yeah it doesn’t have a built in flash.

The HD video capability isn’t much of my concern.. but would be good to have one in a camera. S’ok, next time when I’m better and deserving of a better cam, I’ll get one with HD recording feature hehe.

3. Hanging out with my high school friends.One of the things I want to do during my summer break is to spend a day with them since I’ve been missing out all the time one our previous bonding sessions thing (cause of school). This happened last weekend, after we enrolled our brother, my mom dropped me off at my friend’s condo in Manila and the rest is history.

Too bad I didn’t go for a swim, though I bought extra clothes all was missing is my pair of havs. I didn’t stay long anyway, and when I left that’s when they began using the pool.

) I got a note yesterday that there’s going to be another one (swimming) this Saturday, this time at the pool place we stayed at last year.. hope I can go.

) And I hope the weather cooperates as well.

4. I’ve started reading books again. I think I started reading again last week but I finished a book just last night, lol. Yes that’s an accomplishment for me because the book is really thick it felt like I am never going to finish it. You really need to be patient when you’re reading. )

The photo is flipped because of Photobooth, I tried to flip it back but I look weird. Hahahahaha.

And I’m glad I read this certain book patiently. I have this book “Beach Blondes: A Summer Novel” by Katherine Applegate that I bought and started reading last year but I stopped on August after that I didn’t get to read it again. Until two days ago I got bored and picked this book randomly, good thing I still remember where I stopped. I didn’t read from the first part again, I skipped to the last part I read instead.

Its really boring and typical at first (teenager Summer Smith, girl from Minnesota with no boyfriend and living the plain ol Jane life comes to Crab Claw Key for the summer. She meets new people and snags 3 possible boyfriends along the way!) but when you get to the middle part of the book, that’s when it gets thrilling and keep you wanting to find out what happens next. Of course before you get to that, there’s going to be the boring parts first. Yeah, believe me. )

There are twists, too. Interesting story, actually. I wish they’d make this to a movie, really!!

So now I finished reading Beach Blondes, I hope I get to finish reading this book that I almost forgotten that I had it. The other book, Chicken Soup for The Soul, belongs to one of my colleagues and I borrowed it from her then completely forgotten about it until I saw it on my mother’s table last night, lol.

It reminds me of Paulo Coelho’s “Like The Flowing River”, its packed with inspiring story, quotes and snippets. Hopefully this won’t take long to finish.

By the way, did I mention that the book Beach Blondes is almost as thick as the HP4 book?? HELL YEAH! That’s why it took me a looooooooooong time to finish it. Same with that Harry Potter book.

5. CHUCK COMES TO AN END…. For good or just for now? Last Tuesday was the finale of Chuck season 2 and I hope this show gets a season 3. At the end there’s a To Be Continued, what does that mean? Some sites say NBC doesn’t care about that.. others are hopeful that there is going to be a season 3 to this show.

To summarize the finale: Casey gives Chuck his paycheck for the services he has done for the past 2 years then hugging ensues, Casey gives Chuck is personal phone number :X . Ellie’s dream wedding comes true with a bit of mishap at first, Chuck gets the intersect back into his head and learns something new along the way.Heroes finale was also on the same day and there’s a sneek peek of Volume 5 alrady, damn!! They’re so sure about it already.. D: I love Heroes but the storyline is getting nowhere, really. Its all the same, save the world stuff.. new villains and dead heroes come back to life. Its getting old. NBC should investigate on Heroes more than Chuck, really. I don’t want to talk about cutting shows on TV, its like taking away the jobs of the actors hahaha. In the end all they want is to earn money from their hard work. Everybody works hard don’t they? (How did I get to this topic?)

With Chuck and Heroes done for the meantime.. I’m out of shows to watch again except for Smallville (and they often go on breaks pa!).. What to watch now? Gossip Girl is starting to look interesting to me but I’m not sure if I can still catch up. I want to watch shows that are still fairly new so I can catch up with downloading new episodes, unless someone would let me borrow their DVDs of the show or something.

6. A friend suggested I watch Firefly since I like Adam Baldwin so much (hahaha YES). I downloaded all the episodes last week and I finished episodes 1-10 yesterday.. There are 14 episodes + 1 movie so today, if possible, I’ll watch the last 4 episodes & the movie tonight or tomorrow.

Too bad this show got canceled. Phooey. I can’t describe what this show is about, look it up on IMDB. =)) But I like it nonetheless and not only because of Adam, I’m way past that. ;;)

Right now, I’m downloading True Blood.. its taking so long, add to the fact that the internet connection is going bonkers lately. Damn. So much to watch, so little time!!

Okay it took me 2 hours to write this post. Amazinggggg. ) BYE NOW!

Boo you whore

18Apr 09

Post tags: Boredom / Domain Talk / Entertainment / Health / Life / School / Summer —
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Karen: I can’t go out.
[fakes cough]
Karen: I’m sick.
Regina: Boo, you whore.

Me and Karen Smith from Mean Girls are on the same boat right now. Except that I’m telling the truth and she’s not, so in the end she’s still a whore. Then again, she’s just pretend and I’m the one who’s really sick. So I guess I lose too?

Haha, was that confusing for you?

I’m sick. *cough cough* Yep, for realz. I got the whole motherload of sickness package: Cough, flu (clogged nose), sore throat and headaches. How unfortunate for me that I get sick just when summer is really here (for me) and I’m done with school. After I had a phone conversation with one of my high school buddies about some get together trips, one of them includes going to Star City and Trinoma sometime during the week, my minor cough and colds got pretty major and eventually got worse.

I hate it whenever it gets really hot and way out of proportion. It may be fun for some, because they have reasons to go to the beach. That would be fun for me as well, if I don’t get sick from it. I remember the doctor saying that I shouldn’t be too exposed in heat because my body won’t handle it. I’d get sick if I were in someplace hot for too long. Like I’ll get infections, add up the people around me who’s sick as well.

There you go, little ol’ easily infected Anna. Easy to get sick. Misery loves me a lot.

I wish all of these would go away soon before Monday, I have to go to school and claim my grades. I have to be there ALL day. I’d be fine with that but I have to go early, and my friends have to go to the afternoon, maybe I’ll die from misery and boredom waiting for them. Damnit. It sucks to wait when your sick with a dripping nose, it makes you do stupid things.

I believe that going out when your sick does make you do stupid things. Its like your whole body isn’t in the mood to do anything, and that’s why you should take a day off and rest all day.

That, I wish to do but thanks school for taking it away from me!

Yes I know I should sleep instead of blogging. But creative juices come out when I’m sick, funny how that works. ) Wait wait, that’s not it. Actually this post came to my mind yesterday but only go to do it now, just time when my condition has gotten worse. And I already slept, woke up an hour ago.

Holy Week 09

11Apr 09

Post tags: Boredom / Entertainment / Idiot Box / Life / Photos / School / Summer —
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One more day and Holy Week is over and we’re back to our normal lives again. I’m back to school for sure, but just for 1 week cause its only finals week and then course card day. End of 2nd year college after that and hello ho ho ho SUMMER BREAK.

How’s your week so far? Have you done anything holy? (err, hahaha) I haven’t and I don’t think I will as far as I’m concerned. You see, this year’s HW for me was just like another week for me (minus having classes).

I had classes last Wednesday but just half day, looking back I’d say its a relief having classes on that day. If not for having school last Wednesday, I’d be bored to death here at home already. I won’t have any reasons to go out and enjoy a time at the mall, I could have started on my other subjects BUT I would be worried about not finishing my portfolio project for the other project. So good thing I had classes last Wednesday, I had a nice time having lunch with a friend and I got my portfolio ring binded by the end of the day. One task off the list and I can use the rest of my remaining free days to finish my two other projects for school.

A part of San Fernando, La Union shot by me.

The way we spent holy week last year felt more genuine unlike this year that neither my mom nor my brother Alex went out of the city and to the province. It was only my dad who left for 3 days and came back — yeah sure, that’s holy week for you dad. Last year we stayed at San Fernando, La Union for Holy Week ’08 (at my brother’s uncle and aunt’s house) and it felt more like Holy Week there because the usuals were there such as no meat for x days (IDK should you not eat meat for a whole week? Having no meat for a week felt like years to me), hearing sad music on the radio (from what I remember, I thought those music playing on the province radio station were from the 20s era — yeah I feel like laughing at myself right now but I swear it does sound like some old age music way older than the 60s-80s) and PASYON (I know there is one but I haven’t seen it IRL) and the La Union boat parade (quite unique I must say).

This year feels a bit different that I spent Holy Week here in Manila, in my home.. treating it just like any other day. I’ve become used to idea of seeing a sea view right this moment, but no.. I’m looking at a screen monitor. Oh well, it will never be the same again. Next year, after holy week probably, will be the start of my OJT. Bye real summer break. To my last summer break: I hope you become memorable to me.

In other news, have you heard of the TV series “Chuck”? Sure you do! I blogged about it 2 posts back, its hard to miss. Anyway, I’m one of the people who are trying to keep this show from being canceled and removed from NBC. If you’re a fan and a religious follower of the show you’d know about this, and I’m sure we have the same sentiments about it. We don’t want this show to be canceled because its simply awesome (lack of better word to express my feelings right now.. Ryan McPartlin’s voice is going around my head =)) ), storyline is good and not common (it looks like another spy themed series but this is action, romance, comedy, family all rolled to one), they have fresh faces on the cast lineup, etc. There’s just too many reasons why this deserves a third season. If you would like to also do your part in helping the show, there are many ways to do it.

That’s where the Chuck Campaign: Watch/Buy/Share/Write More comes in, click the image for more info. It won’t even cost you that much to help save the show (unless you plan to buy the DVDs). I plan to do some real participating myself, writing a letter to NBC. We’ll see how this goes. So far I’m plugging Chuck endlessly on my Tumblr (even though I’m sure some people might be getting annoyed already hehe), Twitter and Plurk.

I recently just got interested to this show, big thanks for my friend who already has back episodes so it was no problem catching up with season 1. And even though I’m just a new fan, I don’t want to end my fangirling to this show anytime soon.

Not all good deed comes out ignored, you also have a chance to take home cool stuff if you win. There’s a contest for people who promote Chuck to the net, the world and to their friends and family.

Give this show a chance, you won’t regret it.

This is not a sponsored post. I’m doing this for my love of this show. Even I am surprised that I’m this dedicated with Chuck, really. Love makes you do crazy things, that’s what they say.

What now?

8Apr 09

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Do you get those days where you sit infront of your computer for more than 4 hours and then all of a sudden you’re up to this mood to post a new entry in your blog? And then when you’re in your website’s dashboard page, specifically on the “Add New Post” page — you have forgotten how you’re going to start off your entry? Just moments ago, you already got everything up in your head: How you’re going to start, then proceed to telling your readers all about it, say something witty and end it with a bang.

Not only have you lost your mood and momentum to start off as interesting but eventually you lose your will to keep up with this blogging lifestyle. — And that’s how I feel exactly right now.

(I am listening to Fall Out Boy’s This Ain’t A Scene in high volume hoping for some miraculous buzz to happen in my mind so I can write something interesting)

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Only one week left before school ends for me and summer break officially starts from that day forward. Today’s my last for this week because of the Holy Week holiday and not to be a party pooper/KJ person but I’ve no plans but to STUDY and DO school-related stuff over the 4-day break. That should be sufficient to finish the ff, don’t you think?

DESNCON Portfolio (SDA: Multimedia Arts themed logos)
ALGEBRA Finals (Must set to top priority, MUST PASS THIS FUCKING SUBJECT) Yes, “fucking” subject, you heard that right.

Oh the life of a MMA student. The life of a Benildean is definitely hard, we’re like work slaves! And this is unfair because even workers get breaks on official holidays. =))

My family doesn’t have plans of doing anything special, except for dad. He left this morning to go to the province to catch up with his relatives and catch up with his ‘buddies’. My mom didn’t want to leave to go out of town to ‘relax’ because there’s no one going to be left here looking after the business. My brother, I think, will be at home all throughout the week but he’ll be practicing for his band in Easter Sunday. :whistle:

Y’all already know what I’ll be doing. See my to-do list if you’re lost again, haha. I’m going to be online, for the most part. On breaks, I’ll hit up the DVD player and watch some Chuck or Smallville episodes. (Those shows are just AWESOME)

Why is it when you want to ‘relax’, you prefer to do it the luxurious way? You go to a expensive spa or to a place where you get the best treatment for your body. Does relaxing have to be this grand?

Whatever happened to just staying at home, sleeping all day? It may not sound fun for most of you but this literally relaxation (if you ask me). Sometimes I just don’t understand why people, during Lent ~~or Summer~~ rush to the beaches, spas, anywhere that other people also go to… to relax. I’m not saying that, okay, because its Lent, you have to be miserable and act like the world is on your shoulders and cry when you see a Pasyon event.

If you ‘relax’ at home, you don’t pay for anything, and you don’t get tired at all. Of course, I think partygoers don’t agree with this. I guess this is a case-to-case basis kind of thing.

Sure it may be relaxing for you in the beginning, you get to have a fun time. But all of this is just temporary, sooner or later the breaks will end and you have to end it — by paying the bill. Well, I think that’s not relaxing for you, or to your pocket at least.

Who am I to say these things to you right? Just an opinion. Maybe I just prefer the old fashioned life.

PS: My idea of summer 2009 is going out of the country NOT to relax but to see a new place. No, actually… I want to go back a place I’ve been to before: Hong Kong. Surely I can never relax when I’m there, there’s just too much to checkout in just little time (and days!).

In Pieces

2Apr 09

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Well, I’d have to start somewhere if I really wanted to come back to blogging, right?

I guess I’m not like the usual blogger who comes back from hiatus showing off a new layout. I just can’t make one right now, and this comeback is rather spur of the moment, totally unplanned. My last term as a 2nd year student is ending in 2 weeks (at most), after that, you may expect to hear something new from me and see a new look here.

If I fail to provide you guys with a new layout and recent posts after 2 weeks, you may drop me a line (find my email here, its hard to miss) and complain that I’m such an ass for making false promises. )

So why did I bring this back on such a short notice? I needed to make site sample screencaps for a brochure I’m making for a mock company in my Desktop Publishing subject. That and, I just thought it was perfect reason to turn off the maintenance mode. Hehe! Actually, I was still hesitating with turning it off but I just said to myself “its now or never.” And there you go!

TO-DO LIST FOR FINALS:
Radio Drama for SONDESN subject
DESKPUB company portfolio and brochure
DESNCON “SDA: Multimedia Arts” logo concepts portfolio

Basically I’m trying to accomplish these before the holy week ends. The 2nd task, I’m trying to get it done before Wednesday next week because the printing shops might be closed by then for the holidays and I need to pass it by April 13.

See you around friends, welcome me back! I see that I’ve lost 20 followers, or maybe all of them from the RSS reader. Lol.

LATER DAYS!!

PS: My domain’s expiring and I thought I wouldn’t be able to save it cause I thought I didn’t have enough funds on my PayPal, turns out I have. And now there’s no way this site is leaving the Internet world. Hehe. Just thought I’d share this with you guys.