Brain: Drained.

I had my examen escrito y oral yesterday. I can't say that I've done very well on them. More like so-so. I just hope I will pass level 9 and go on to level 10.

We had our written exam in the morning. Sra. Trining was assigned to another level and cannot administer the exam. Instead, Felipe (our nivel 10 teacher) was our proctor. In fairness, he's nice.

The auditiva part was easy. Too easy. Maybe because we've already had that listening exercise before. It's raining... subjuntivo! Eeeew. I forgot all the other verbs that could be used; therefore, I stuck to using te recomiendo, te sugiero and te aconsejo~ which were used in the given examples.

I made a lot of boo-boos during the oral exams but generally, it was okay. I'm just a bit annoyed cos my partner was so OC. Palibhasa, bibo kid. Our teacher was already signaling that we should finish our dialogue but Partner just couldn't get it. He brought two pictures for the soporte grafico part. There was only enough time for one picture. One. He already took up so much time talking about the first picture. The teacher wanted us to wrap up our dialogue... but NO, kailangan talagang isingit ang second picture niya.

P.S. Just wanna share that he looked like Tweedledee (or Tweedledum) yesterday.

During the 4-hour gap in between the written and oral exams, I hah lunch with aunts, sisters and cousin. I was instructed to take a taxi and "get off sa likod ng DFA." So I got in front of DFA but alas, the Paluto was not anywhere near the area. It was located in Macapagal Boulevard pala. Just imagine my horror when I had to cross the verrrry busy Roxas Boulevard. Nagmistula akong pusa na nakikipagpatintero sa mga sasakyan sa Roxas. I never thought I'd get through it alove. All this happened at 12pm. Mainit. Super.

Naiinis na ako sa Starbucks na yan ha! It'll be February soon and they still don't have those planners!

Kim Nam-jin

It's official. I am in love.

Dang! Why does he have to be so sexy? According to my googling, Kim Nam-jin was born August 8, 1976 which makes him 29 years old to date. Not bad. Still a healthy age gap. And he's soooo tall, he stands at around 6'2. He might not be uber good-looking at first sight but he grows on you. Sabi ko na nga ba I saw him before... I'm just not sure where. Apparently, it was on an ad he did with Hyori for FRJeans. I didn't find him good-looking at first cos his flared nostrils were just so distracting. But after seeing Prince's 1st Love... haaayyy. Mas marami na akong aabangan sa Arirang and KBS... Woohoo!!!

Can I just say that his body is TO DIE FOR! ;)

I can't wait to buy his other series and movies... just to have a glimpse (for 2 hours or more) of Kim Nam-jin. Oppa... choahyo! Chongmal saranghaeyo! Bwahahaha!!!

Kim Nam-jin. Just the thought of him sends my heart to a flutter. * sigh * If only Koreans who come here to the Philippines are as good-looking as him and all my other Korean boys ie. Won Bin and Jo Han-sun... Kim Nam-jin.

Ang huling kokak

The family went to Tagaytay. We fetched Auntie Madre from the convent to take her to lunch somewhere nearby. My sisters and I had a photo-op again. We could not resist taking pictures with the lush greenery as background. I loved it there. The whiff of fresh air and a view that is relaxing to the eyes. Everything's beautiful. It is just unfortunate for a tiny creature here on earth that he has become a statistic of a phenomenon we call roadkill~




The plan was to have lunch at Viewpoint but the elders insisted that we should go to RSM instead. After lunch, we went to Sonya's Garden just to look at the place. I liked it.



The cottages had an Old Manila feel. They give off a somewhat eerie feeling. Four-poster beds with immaculate white, clean sheets. Parang feeling mo anytime may lalabas na white lady.

During the trip, a family secret came out into the open. While walking around Sonya's Garden, we came across upside-down, lily-looking flowers. My daddy shared that whenever my lolo had asthma attacks, he would smoke those leaves which are known to the modern world as talampunay. Talampunay?? aka trumpets aka dungshroom?? E diba drugs yun?? Haha!!! :) Apparently, it was used as an alternative cure for asthma. It just happened that it also has a narcotic element akin to marijuana.


ang talampunay... bow!

The trip was fun though the trip back was horrendous. It took us 3 frickin' hours to reach Manila. I wasn't planning on going to the World Pyro Olympics but at the last minute, decided to go with Vicky and her boyfriend. We left the house at 8:15, reached Taft at 8:30. At this side of the city, traffic began to build up. We reached Taft corner Buendia at 9pm. Then someone sent my sister a text message saying that it would be better if we don't proceed anymore since there was only one fireworks exhibition left and traffic's really, really, really bad. We decided to turn around and just eat at McDo instead. It took us na hour to make a U-turn along Buendia. On normal circumstances, that would only take 5 minutes. Dahil lang sa fireworks...

Holiday!

I am still on leave from work. Yay!

I planned on having a DVD marathon of all the new series I bought. There are 4 Korean series waiting in line and I am not yet finished watching BuHwal. BuHwal is nice but it got a bit dragging in the middle. It's not interesting enough to hold my attention for long and since I watch it on the computer, I got easily distracted by the internet and games. After just 2 episodes, I decided to stop forcing myself into watching.

Instead of a DVD marathon, I did a little cleaning instead. Bitten by the anti-tamaditis bug, I cleaned the room, sorted, repacked and sealed my files in plastic packs, cleaned the library, vacuumed and polished the floor, organized my VCD, DVD and audio CD collection and magazines. So that was what kept me busy this week. Plus, there was this Magic Pad my sister bought from SM. It came with a free folding guide. I put the folding guide to the test and before I knew it, I was still folding clothes at 4 am in the morning. D*mn folding guide even gave me a papercut. Fortunately, it didn't hurt and didn't bleed as much.

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The family went to Bluwave in Macapagal to watch the World Pyro Olympics. It was supposed to start at 7pm but it started around 8pm instead. We just had to live up to the infamous Filipino time, 'no? But I think it was worth the wait. The display of lights in the night sky was a feast for the eyes.

Everyone was present. It was daddy's special request that everyone should be there. We had dinner at Max's.

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I had a dream last night. And it was the nicest dream I've had for a long time. I'm glad that I was able to remember that particular dream and it was not lost together with all the hundreds of dreams we had during sleep. This might be a premonition that the coming year would be a good year for me. Hmmm.. I hope so. Well, I had a dream about my crush and I have these two conflicting theories with regard to dreaming about the object of my affection:

(1) they will remain only in my dreams and there would be no chance of translating such into reality; and,

(2) if I dreamt about that somebody, he might be thinking/dreaming about me, too.

The first one was theorized during my Savage Garden days wherein I have never dreamed of Darren Hayes (pathetic, I know). Meanwhile, the second theory was formulated when I kept on dreaming about a crush. Hulaan na lang kung sino. Pero sa totoo lang, sino'ng linoko ko???

But I just wish that 2006 would indeed be a better year for me. I'm a Dog in Chinese Astrology and it'll be my year. I hope it'll be a better year in all aspects of my life.

I did it my way.... not.

It will be December already tomorrow and before I know it, it is already the Year 2006.

Right now, a myriad of thoughts are going through my head. A lot of whys, whats and hows. I have never been so unsure in my life. I feel lost as to what I would really want to do with this so-called life of mine. I want to be carefree and living one day at a time but I can't stop worrying about the future. Yeah, I do worry about the future. Although I may not look it, I do care. I am scared of what the future holds for me cos right now I feel very pessimistic about it.

Another year has passed and I haven't done anything that's relevant to human existence. I remain to be such an insignificant homo sapien en la tierra. Of course, I am not expecting much from myself but I also want to stop living a mediocre life. I fear I am forever doomed to remain in this state of mediocrity and inertness. To reiterate and give emphasis to my discontentment, I just want to say that I feel life is not short. It is but a long, meaningless journey towards nothingness. I would be much happier if it was much shorter.

I hate the feeling of uncertainty. Hate hate hate.

babaw

I am such a shallow human being.

I just noticed that just recently but it's actually been going on for 3 friggin' years. I may be suffering from what they call the Peter Pan Syndrome because I don't wanna grow up!

I really hate that I am so indecisive as to what I want to do with my life right now. When I was younger, I was so sure I wanted to be a lawyer. Everyone thought I was going to pursue my dream of becoming a lawyer. Then I realized it wasn't my dream. It was someone else's dream for me. Even if I took up a course directly related to law, I kind of knew that I didn't want to become a lawyer. And so I withdrew from law school just after 2 weeks into it. My parents were disappointed, of course. I myself am disappointed because I think I fell short of my parents' expectations. I am pissed at myself because I didn't dare think for myself what I want to do with my life. I was so keen on pleasing my parents that I didn't try to think of other options. I was never the confrontational, aggressive type and from that alone, I should have taken my cue. I am so not lawyer material.

Though I still hope I am headed somewhere. I believe that in life, there are no accidents and things happen for a reason. So for whatever reason that may be, I hope it would lead me somewhere. I just wish I am not an aimless soul. I still wish to find my reason for living, as cheesy as it may sound.

Un día muy aburrido

I am sooo bored.

After lunch, we went to Eastwood to do foot traffic count. That was the most boring thing I ever did... EVER. However, I saw Bam Aquino which quasi-compensates the boredom.

While doing the most boring thing in Eastwood, I kept on hearing people doing sound check. They were setting up the stage for an Oktoberfest event later that night. Wala lang, it reminded me of good ol' high school days during intrams. I missed the intrams. Gosh, I loved the intrams. I miss watching volleyball games. I miss training for the track team (if you could call that training at all). I miss slacking off during intrams. I miss the cheering competitions. I miss everything about it!

The good thing about doing foot traffic count in Eastwood is Eastwood is very near where I live. As I got home early, I started watching Mianhada Saranghada again. But then I had to discontinue my MiSa marathon because sister dear arrived early from work.