Pisha's Journal

3:29am: WHY??? WHERE DID I GO WRONG?

2:19pm: Currently on the couch... updating. Mr. Laptop's back! =)

9:20am: This isn't Stat, this isnt Finance.

So why the hell am I freakin stressed?

(and inarticulate, to add.)

2:51pm: ( Yay. )

6:18pm: I have never taken a tip out off a magazine before this, but I'm glad the only tip I've taken is one that did not let me down.

The Lord of the Flies by William Golding is definitely a good read.

It is a good read but points not to the fact that it is comforting. And in the midst of the immense disturbance, the book opens one's eyes to the many dark and evil realities that exist even in the so-called un-savagery in today's civilization.

5:47pm: Today, Kyle came over and all we did was to watch movies and play PS2 games the whole day long.

So much for an anti-sedentary lifestyle. Sooner or later I'll have growing fat deposits just about... everywhere!

9:26pm: Was to blog about my long day today. But then again, wag nalang.

1:32pm: Hahaha. Some people, really.

http://www.cofibean.blogspot.com/

12:26pm: List 10 things that bring you a moment of joy & tag six friends to do the same.

1. food - What can you expect from a person like me, with me being totally gourmet (or gourmand? hahaha)? I love food, and even if I have (more than once) vowed to follow some strict diet, I can never find myself depriving myself of one of the best worldly, earthly joys: food! Come stress weeks, in order to get by, you can find me chowing on all my favorite food (which, actually, happen to be quite a lot).

2. a good song/ a good piano piece - Good songs and piano pieces are the ones that make my hair stand and the ones that well, I feel to be wonderful. I can play them over and over without ever getting tired of them.

3. pictures and letters - This week I found tons of them while cleaning my room. Old graduation pictures, prom pictures, ball pictures, pictures of people I haven't thought about in a while... all of them were amazingly wonderful. And of course, old letters that bring memories of old ties (severed or still existing) back. When you go through them, you find that some things do change, and some don't, and after that you find yourself missing all that have come to past, both the good and bad times.

4. video and computer games - Really. I grew up in a household where consoles were permanent fixtures (family computer, sega, super nintendo, N64, PS, PS2 and consoles galore [plus all those game boys]). Nothing beats a good rpg (hahaha, okay, I know only Kyle would be able to relate to this), and nothing beats this little sense of accomplishment (okay, hahaha) when you've beaten the big bosses and okay I think I shall stop now. =)

5. some moment of solitude - I don't have to be around people all the time to be constantly happy. Being alone allows me to somehow look at my life from a distance, think about a lot of things, plan for the future and simply reminisce both the good and bad times. I love breaking away from the busy-ness of today's world and being alone once in a while, and I actually believe that I need those breaks as well.

6. a random text, a random call, a hug, a pat on a back and their likes - People who really know me are well aware of my constant rantings of being UA (under-appreciated) {yes, yes the Pisha dramas}. A simple display of appreciation is all I need to get me back on track from my angst-filled dramas.

7. learning something new - I have this constant need of knowing that I am always better than who I was before. Learning new things grants me this feeling, and even if I know that I will never be a perfect person, learning new things gives me this feeling that at least, I don't just settle for less. Don't we all feel the same? Finally learning how to ride a bike, finally learning a tremendously difficult piano piece, finally getting that ball through the basket from beyond the arc, finally understanding shadow prices (hahaha, I can't believe it took me so long to understand them), learning to keep the clutch at working level and all others... 'di ba fulfilling? ;)

8. my family - Sure, we sometimes push each other's buttons, but if there were a select few people who have stuck to me despite my terrible mood swings and temper, it would have to be my family.

9. barkada, college friends, and Kyle - the hang-outs with, the random moments, the food and laughing trips... all of them make me feel how good it is to be alive.

10. God - It's just a wonderful feeling knowing that when the time comes that everyone and everything do turn against you, at least, still have God to back you up. ;)

I'm tagging (okay, different people naman!)
burpee
celiniii
clasalovestofu
coffeeislove
exist_in_6th
gaidin177

8:09pm: We never admit it, but we all love the drama once in a while, don't we?

10:31pm: Zelda =)

Haha.

Oh, and today I drove all the way to Pasig (accompanied of course). Hey, I'm actually getting the hang of it! (Driving that is). I could drive around all day (and not complain of cramps from 'clutch pedaling'. Hehe) Who ever said driving was a pain? I can't wait to get my license. =)

(Let me savor the "hey-driving's-great" feeling before the "hey-I'm-a-new-driver" syndrome rubs off.)

12:22pm: Short-lived privacy.

On another note, SMEG!!!

12:10am: I'm on a high, because of real friends and a love I know I'm lucky to have found. =)

9:50pm: ( Woohoo! Only in the Philippines. )

1:10pm: LJ keeps telling me that my password is too easy to guess.

Well, take a guess, guys! If ever any of you do come close, then Mr. LJ was right all along! :))

11:34am: I've finally gotten down with the basics of my lay-out, and well, will maybe find the time to fix it more up to make it prettier and more easily 'navigatable' =) (Okay, okay, I'm all lay-out talk, but you can't blame a suddenly inspired not-really-a-techie person for getting excited over some techie-progress!!!)

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On another note, I'm finally finally finally going to be able to learn how to drive. (And yes, I finally will have the skill to make up for all the times people had to drive me home.) Yesterday, I went to LTO (along with clasalovestofu sister dear) to get student permits... and just then our life-long dreams of being able to drive became more real! Hahahahaha. And sorry nalang for being miss vainness, because despite of the inip-ness of being in LTO, I still managed to smile a big, toothy grin in my permit pic! (Believe me, I've been through dozens of licenses and almost all of those that faced me were big, big frownies!)

I START DRIVING (REAL DRIVING) ON THURSDAY AND I'M JUST SO EXCITED AND JITTERY AT THE SAME TIME. WHEEEEEE.

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Just recently, I watched House of Flying Daggers and some older version of Phantom of the Opera (Yup, with all the blood, gore and tons and tons of SKINNING), and can I just say that I was sooooooooooooo depressed after that. So thank God on Wedenesday it'll be DVD marathon-ing at our place, to make up for ultimo movie depression and finally, to grant myself the time to update myself with not-so-neanderthal movies! I just feel so down-dated (???) (for lack of better term) when it comes to movies. People ask me, "Have you seen this-and-this movie" or "Did you like that-and-that movie" and I'm all ---> -_- Hahaha. Blame it on all the SMEG work and my ultimate nerdo-ness last sem.

So I guess I'll be rating my Sem Break as beyond 'productive', because I'm actually getting to make up for all the lost leisure time for the past months. Aaaah, the joys of staying up until 3 am, getting up at 11 am, no skipping of meals, and no pressure of deadlines whatsoever. Rejuvenation at its best! =)

10:33pm: Hey, I'm making progress. Yippee... *prances around the room* Check it out! =)

http://www.livejournal.com/~pinklicorice

[Saka na mga links ko... so be prepared to click "back"! Pati na rin comments links thingamajiggas ko... still messed up. Howell!] *sheepish time.*

5:53pm: I've been online for the past few hours, clicking on links in http://www.w3schools.com. Being the neanderthal I am, it's amazing that I'm actually getting to learn CSS and HTML. Little bored me wanted to fix this little bloggie's lay-out and I just found it immensely frustrating that I couldn't bring it to look exactly the way I wanted it to be. So, hello, hello, productivity. I'm actually learning something new!

3:01pm: Okay, I feel like anchors are tied to both my rag-doll-like arms.

Can.... not.... lift....my.... arms.... Boohoo =,(

Constantly remind me not to resort to SWIMMING if I want to lose weight.

Who am I kidding? My name may resemble what we call the beings of seas but my swimming skills DO NOT come close to theirs at all!

1:12pm: Today is just one of those days wherein I feel uninspired. The kind of day wherein you just want to stay in bed, curl up under the covers and do absolutely nothing but sleep the whole day off.

Don't get me wrong, everything's perfectly fine. Maybe it's something a little like Garfield and Mondays... There's just something about me and select days of uninspired-ness. Oh well, now allow me to go off and continue my vegetable-ness, then.

5:15pm: No grade talk here, no grade talk here!!!

It finally is great that I can go out without feeling guilty about it, without thinking that I should use the spare time for studying.

So yeah, I've finally spent hours out with friends, longer than all the gimiks I've had during SMEG sem combined. [Really, I think I'm not exaggerating! Haha]

So there was 4 hours of Hot Pot [courtesy of Ryan, we were there from 'a little after lunch' time to dinner time!]

Movie... (hahaha with Kims screaming in Corpse Bride. =D Peace, Kims!) [Pero in fairness, the thought of it is creepy. A bride rising from the dead. Ooh, *chills up my spine.*]

Kain

Kain

Kain

And a little pasalubong from Early Earl the Pearl. Hahaha.

Oh what fun. =)

And whooh, was I exhausted. When Earl, Kims, Ryan and I were going around the mega, I was dozing off. Really. Dozing off... standing up! Homaygulay, but ya know, sleeping while standing is actually a useful talent. ;)

And one funny thing: we passed by this antique store, and Earl and the others were browsing through magazines (and I was dozing off again) and suddenly they burst into a fit of giggles. Siyempre naman ako, went to see what the fuss was about (okay, I woke up first before that)... And there I saw, smack on the cover of an October 14, 1974 (and it was the 14th of October that day) issue of a magazine, "my hair" on someone else's head. Hahaha... whattabout I am a fashion icon of the 70's! Hello, Brady Bunch! (Or were they in the 60's?) Hahaha.

Oh well, I'm babbling and I don't care if this entry is beyond incoherent... and I don't care if my grades are at their all time low (okay, a bit of grade talk then), because finally, finally... I'm free from the shackles of SMEG sem! Hello, hello freedom!

1:12am: On her. Passed away because of liver complications. Rest in peace, Kirat. You were a good pup. I will miss terribly your intense foot licking and leg nibbling.

For her. When I was younger I never admitted I was wrong, but don't hold that as a fault against me because you had better take a look at yourself first before you start pointing fingers, Ms. Self-Righteous!

On them. Random numbers. How are they ever random? I've had random numbers above 400 for 3/4 of my Ateneo Life! (And once again, yes, an above-400-random number for the second sem. WHY?)

12:15am: That made my night! =)

8:33pm: Haha, I know I'm being a silly little girl but I just had to let this out =P

Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee, Kyle was looking sooooooo kayute and corporate-y this afternoon. And white... Gosh, I love white shirts on guys! Haha, I wanted to melt when I saw him! Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha okay I'm still giddy.

And they did great in this afternoon's marketing plan finals (which I did watch to de-stress before my long date with history research and paper making). But well, it kinda did worry me about all the marketing worries that I'ld have to face in the coming sem. Oh well, fight pa rin.

P.S. Someone made a scene today. Okay, rules aren't meant to be broken, but golly, that really wasn't necessary!

7:12pm: FEU made my day.

No really, the 4th quarter catch-up was just amazing.

To any annoyed reader: Peace lang. >:D< I'm a sore Atenean fan, right, sore as can be, but you are too, if you're now bristling with anger.

La Salle played well too, I was actually expecting a Game 3.