Saturday, May 1, 2004
hey. happy may. 29 days from Jessi's birthday, ??? days from Kassidy's birthday, 29 days from Tita Cora and Tito Franks wedding ann., ??? days from Lissa's birthday, and 14 days from Ate Marah's wedding.

friday was the essex country relays. i went home afterschool, designed a thank you manga for gracey (she made me a small fruits basket comic to try and cheer me up, cuz i was pretty down in school since my grandmother died), then got dropped off to watch. i stayed throughout the race, with me and heather screaming our school spirit at the top of our lungs. heh, that brought back fun memories of track. i also got to see coach g's son aiden. he was so cute, and wouldn't share his cookie with his dad.
i went home after that, spent a few more hours finishing the thank you manga, and completing a library web evaluation {yuck}, i slept till eight next morning.
ate marah came with the collection of wedding favors, instructing us on how to assemble the small philipino boxes together. we'd decorate the outside with pink ribbons and silver beads, and inside, will be a fortune cookie with a note on unknown facts about ate marah and lin ^_^. that is such a neat idea.

and oh yeah, my mother and tita charito left in the afternoon. they're flying to tokyo, and then flying to philippines, to attend my grandmother's funeral. they'll be back by next friday, so mom has a complete list for ate bernadine to do with monika. i'm completely suprised she didn't make one for me.
sigh. man, now i wanna get away for awhile. i don't really care where, but just out of the country. A quiet place. So i can relax and paint. paint endlessly. wow, i should really do that one of these days...for serious. i've already got too much on my mind, and 1hr and 30 min. of private art lessons is definitely not enough to get away from the stress. if only i had a canvas at home...but i do have sketchbook. hmm, while i'm waiting for the laundry to get done...i might as well just design something. ha, cuz that's probably the ONLY thing in my life i'm good at.

Thursday, April 29, 2004
is it friday yet?
darn. the weekend is sooo close. but i dunno if i should look foward to tomorrow. i have a stupid alg. test, which i don't understand the quadratic transformations [and mike embarrassed me in front of mr. ladolcetta ><], and a U.S. quiz, on two sections i was absent for. grrr...

my Lola just passed away last night. devasted...am i. monika was crying like crazy. mom, at least, coped, and just spent the rest of the day cleaning yesterday, to keep her mind at ease. i continually pray for comfort for mom, and for my family in philz. mom and my other aunts are trying to get a flight there, since Lola's funeral is on May 4, and then come back in time for ate marah's wedding.

my cousin is here. ate bernadine. we are the bridesmaid's for ate marah's wedding. she arrived at two in the morning last night, and since i was sorta awake, just to wait for her to arrive, i became dead sleepy this morning. heh, she's the only one of out of the bayani clan that i see more often. since she's staying with us, she takes over monika's room, while monika and i share my bed. now since my stuffed animals take over a fourth of the bed, being the selfish person i am, monika and i cover up the remaining three fourth's with our feets dangling in the air (it drives mom crazy).
well, i do hope ate enjoys her stay here. but now i think i hafta wake her up. i wanna heat up dinner, and she's sleeping like a turtle ~_~;;;
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GRACEY! WHY DIDN'T YOU TELL ME THAT YOUR ORCHESTRA CONCERT WAS TONIGHT?!?!?...well i don't have a ride anyway. darn.

Friday, April 23, 2004
sigh. i'm tired...GOOD EVENING EVERYONE! seen i have nothing to do on this friday night, i guess u'll hafta hear about my boring recaps of week. starting from...where i left off (wednesday was it?):

three tests on wednesday. Bio, US, and Spanish. that wasn't fun at all, especially since i was also assigned a algebra quiz packet, and a u.s. research paper on COWBOYS. woot woot.
thursday, i don't recall doing any homework. but afterschool, i was walking aroung the school halls, lugging my 10 million pound backpack with me, looking for chase, cuz i didn't remember him quite elaborating on the time we were gonna practice. after a few minutes of dragging my self, i gave up and walked home. and with that 10 million lb backpack with me, it was the LONGEST walk home yet. i went home and called chase, who said he'd pick me up to bring me to his house and practice. that convo was actually pretty long, since i called chase on my cellie, and was also talking to dad on the land line. turns out monika had to tag along with me, cuz dad hadda go back to work, but he wanted to stay and meet chase...
chase was polite to him, and took me and monika to his place. monika brought her hello kitty dollhouse to play with, but once she saw chase's dog and cat, she immediately fell in love and played with them instead. anyway, i played my flute, and him playing the piano, we both sounded great. he drove us home (we're both direction retarded ><), i had piano lessons, and i went back to his house to practice with him and dave, the cello...ist. chase's mom loved us, and we sounded great.
anyway, enough of that...it all leads to today, the battle of the bands [i also had three tests, case u wanna know O_O]. my goodness. wat noise. o_O. we were a "special appearance". david and i set up back stage {it smelled like onions}, and sat down behind the curtain, while listening to this band that was playing "This Love" by Maroon 5, (the singer was off-key ><). finally our performance, good thing i wasn't nervous, since the lights were blinding me, and i could barely see the audience. when chase instroduced me and david, i heard shendz from afar shouting my name ^_~. hee hee, i just praise god that the performance was very successful, and the people in the audience enjoyed it (i hope)it was so sweet, when chase was done singing his girlfriend (or friend? i dunno) came upstage and hugged him ^_^ so cuutttee. when we were done, mazur was backstage with his camera, asking how we felt, that though we practice for only 20 minutes, we were amazing. i just smiled, kinda awkward at the thought if the footage was gonna be shown on a.m. wired. oh well...
after one final hug, i sat back in the auditorium with my parents, who wanted to stay and watch bianca peform. heh heh, i watched bryan p...(i forgot how to spell his last name! >_<) do his singing thang, and sean performing the guitar, with all the girls screaming like crazy. then mazur's performance of about his basement flood. then bianca's. it wasn't so bad, but eric's performance on he bass, was too good, it made me wanna cry..HA HA.
mi familia and i then left and now i'm sitting in front of this comp. with my wrist hurting like crazy.

Wednesday, April 21, 2004
oooh. today was the day we commemorate those who were silenced because of their race, religion, homosexuality, etc., by not talking for a whole day. one would need a permission slip, and a badge to carry around, so that people would know they are observing the day, and are not supposed to talk. bravo to those who participate! (shendz, gracey, lucy{thought she broke the rules}, etc.) i would've done it too, but i need to talk when i'm at home...stupid excuse right? ><

yesterday, shelly called up saying that chase fein needed a flute player for his band, since he's competing in the "battle of the bands" on friday. since shelly couldn't do it, and jessi sher was absent, she asked me. i thought it would be interesting, so i agreed. i was listening to the song, and thank God my part is not long, and the notes are not hard to think up...hee hee. he called up thanking me, and said we'd practice tomorrow, though i forgot to ask him where i'd meet him ><

so that means i'm missing youth on friday. and since the week after that i'm attending the essex country relays {did i mention that i didn't join track this year? ha ha, now u r spared from my track rantings}, and the week after THAT i hafta rehearse for my cuzns wedding...so it's three weeks i'll be gone from youth. *sigh*
ooh! in a few days my (other) cuzn is arriving from the philippines! her name's ate bernadine, and is studying psychology in college...i think. me can't wait for her to come ^_^
btw. if u wanna know the song i'm playing for chase, check out my xanga...

Saturday, April 17, 2004
*sigh* what's the matter with me? the whole past week was a joke. since the teachers didn't have such high expectations of us, coming from a vacation, they didn't assign too much hw, just ones that are due over a long period of time. so obviously i did nothing at home. just ate, watched some tv, and slept. the result? it's the weekend now, and i have a Bio bpq (writing a paper on eye color genetics, which is so frustrating), a spanish test to study, a US essay to create and REVISE (cuz i know it sux), and i still need to draw my pictures for my story depiction...for the kid's sunday school tomorrow...
heh, well i guess i know what i'll be doing tomorrow when we go to verona park...i'll be sitting on the bench working my butt off...
i might as well refreshen my mind and just re-track wat's been going on these last few days... friday. youth. borders! (fragmented sentences! darn you "Orinary People!") the ride was actually an hour long, but i didn't mind. i was apartment shopping for rachel. for youth, darrin reminded us of our closeness with God. he used abram/abraham as an example. he was so close with God, but yet still didn't consider himself perfect. why? becuz he was still a sinner, and sins is what keeps us from Him. so...how do i maintain my developing relationship with Christ? whenever i have time to myself, like, whenever i walk home, i'd talk casually to God, tell him wat's up with my life, and rant about the people i so eagerly want to witness to. i find it so awesome that our Almighty Father. the Big One. the G-man (G-man...now who besides me would actually say that? XP), would be willing to spend time with us. the sinners. HE'S CRAZY ABOUT US MAN!!! yikes. where did that hyper-ness come from?

saturday. today. no wait, YESTERDAY...aerobics, dermatologist, then went shopping to buy any crafts i can use to create a megaphone, for the kids on sunday...today. i finished my U.S. it took me hours to do, cuz i couldn't find the correct information on SALOONS. All i could find was information about SALONS. after taking a quick break of reading DNAngel (after hundreds of years of searching, i finally found the manga), i read Ordinary People. sigh. i thought it'd be a good book, but i still can't get into it. there's especially one part, when Conrad Jarett is dreaming, and the whole italic description was one long, run-on sentence. it hurt my eyes. >_O
DADDY CAME HOME! he has returned to the mens retreat camp in upstate new york. as a celebration? i drove us to boston market. HA. i went over the speed limit, so i wouldn't have any tail gaters behind me...

i guess that's all i'm gonna say right now. dad came here a few minutes ago, yelling at me to get offline. grr.well..till next time...

Saturday, April 10, 2004
saturday. the second day of christ's burial. tomorrow, he will ARISE! YIPPIE!

friday mi familia and i woke up around eight, getting ready to go to new york. after yelling at monika to hurry up, and after mom yelled at me for yelling at her, dad and i drove to the ATM, picked up gracey, jessi, and off to new york!
while we were entering the tunnel, gracey and i were searching for the GAP poster that said "less stains. less worries." grrr, mrs. rothbard, and her grammar lessons >_o
we arrived at new york, then we parked near rockefeller to go to the pokemon center. hee hee, us three were amazed by the pokemon statues rotating around the first floor. jessi vows to steal the spinarak, and i wanna steal the zubat, get the rotating equipment, and watch it rotate in my room ^_^
i bought almost worth of STUFF: pokemon colesseum {took up 48 BLOCKS OF MY MEMORY SPACE! but i guess it's worth it. the game is so amazing.}, a free t-shirt, i guess for purchasing it, two pokemon bath towels, and a big stuffed doll of cyndaquil. jessi bought a stuffed merill, and gracey bought a stuffed togepi. when we exited out, we were all carrying these big plastic bags full of toys people 1/4 our age play with. but who cares. i'm still a kid at heart.

after lunch, dad drove us to china town to purchase some shiopao (gracey's new word), and finally to elizabeth plaza to do more shopping sprees. i bought a babu notebook, and posters of F4 for heidz. i was glancing through the anime dvds, and was in awe when i finally found DNANGEL! problem was...THEY WERE TOO EXPENSIVE! actually...i could've afforded it, but i spent all my money in the pokemon center *sniff*. oh well, but i vow...i will PURCHASE THAT DVD! whether it's two months, or two years from now!

actually, i have a babysitting job tomorrow, at 20 bucks an hour, so after accomplishing that job, maybe i can afford it. ha ha, well, after our new york adventure, we dropped them off, and i slept like a baby when i came home.
today's gracey's bro's bday! HAPPY BDAY BRIAN!

...no wait...his birthday is THURSDAY (tax day...) HAPPY...um...EARLY BIRTHDAY!

Tuesday, April 6, 2004
yay! i have my permit! {my road test is on monday, december 6. do we have school december 6?)
it's this white sheet i can't fit into my wallet, so i hafta fold it and carry it around. thing is, i'm too scared to drive mom's van, so i hafta wait 'till dad gets home, which is pretty late, so then there's no point for me to practice driving anyway. though dad's off 'till four on tuesdays and thursdays, so this morning, i drove dad to the gas station. stupid thing is, i missed the gas entrance while turning {didn't turn sharp enough} so i hadda back off, and re-enter again on the busy street of livingston ave. [mr. lyons would've bonked me on the head for that ><]

lemme back track a little. friday. LHS christian club praise night. the band was awesome, and wat shendi and i {more shendi than me} swooned over, was the band UNSPOKEN. the singer and the guitar player were just...amazing, and i find it so awesome they not only do they travel around performing, but preaching as well *sigh* i hope that they can come to our coffee house, which i think i'm gonna be playing the flute for a certain song ONE HOPE is peforming >_O

saturday. um. i can't remember...oh yeah, after driving on the highway and such, went to jess' house for choir practice, bulged out my eyes playing video games, and staring and shendz, who was in awe of jessi's balancing eagle ^_^
sunday? fish tales puppet! meeks, heidz, jessi, tito bong, and i recorded our voices, for the children's musical, then played it back to practice on the puppets. since i'm a guy, theo, my voice sounds all rough like. hee hee! and my puppet looks like ernie. ah well, let's hope that while we're us "puppeteers" are performing, we don't knock down our black covering
yesterday? DAD AND TITA FLO'S BDAY! WOO HOO! our family went to red lobster in celebration, and i stuffed myself with shrimp ^_^
all's good i guess. that's all i hafta say. i can't wait till friday

Thursday, April 1, 2004
well...i wanted to update this thing by monday, but i only have 53 days left before my layouts get entirely wiped out, so i just might as well make the most of it:

HOMESTARRUNNER.COM is on reconstruction! nnnoooo!! that just ruined my day >_< how am i supposed to laugh at strong bad now?
others things that ruined my day, was when i woke up this morning dad kept poking me and said he heard rumors that i was COURTING someone. now unless he's joking, cuz it's april FOOLS day {*gasp* my dad and tita flo's bday is in four days},i'm gonna punch whoever started that. and then i totally mixed up the 14th and 15th Ammendment during my US test, so i DEFINITELY know i didn't do so well...
in addition i guess, i wrote in big bold letters for nardone to get his drawing folder. but he forgot.
wednesday i had lab. for our genetic theme, we were gonna make a marshmalian baby. i was the dad. cory was the mom. he kept complaining that our baby was so ugly, and got all the genes from me, except for our baby's wings, which he thought was cool.
...and that's all i can really say right now. actually, i hafta stay online for quite awhile, cuz i'm supposed to wait for steph, brett, and lisa, in order to start our chatroom for our english play of a dysfunctional family. wat we planned out, was an argument of at a dinnertable: the mother is overworking, and argues with her rebellious, punk son. the father, who also works 24/7 and is disconnected with his childrem, argues hestiantly with his daughter, who is under stress from being forced to live higher expectations, since her brother is...well, a "failure". yeah i'd say that's dysfunctional enough. which reminds me...IT'S POETRY MONTH! i'd recite a poem to you...but you'd probably think i'm cheesy or something ^^;;. that's enough from me.

Saturday, March 27, 2004
CORN BEEF COOKING LAST THURSDAY! since i'm was such a weakling and could never open the corn beef can the safe way (turning the metal key), i did the dangerous procedure of opening the top with a can openner. i felt fine after openning the can, but when i took a shower after, i felt a sheering pain on my right index finger. i saw small spots of blood dripping, and noticed a long cut with blood oozing out...

nice reese...wat a way to start an entry >_o

friday was brenda's sweet sixteen {at the same place and room i had MY sweet sixteen}, so i skipped out on youth at BCI. brenda invited more school friends than church, so we all spent the first hour laughing at wong's suit compared to arthur's casual clothes, hugging, and signing her guestbook. gracey kept thinking she overdressed, while shelly and i were banging on the tables demanding for some food XP. while gobbling up the chinese cuisine, gracey and i constantly duet-ed (such word?)on the songs playing.

after eating, we danced...shaking our groove thing, then it was time for some games. first game, we formed into five groups, and jessica d. and jaime tested each group as to who knew brenda best. heather, steph, will, jackie, and angie kept eagerly answering all the questions, while gracey, liz, shelly, and i just stared cluelessly. second game was the chubby bunnies game. you need to say "chubby bunny" three times, while every round you hafta stuff ur cheeks with another marshmallow. when xin stuffed five marshmallows in his mouth, and said "chubby bunny" two popped out, causing me to choke with laughter. at least i won that game. EIGHT MARSHAMLLOWS! i musta looked like a hamster ><. after depositing that sugary taste outta my mouth, we ate ice cream cake, then watched the peeps play DDR. hee hee, all in all, the party was awesome. i came home bout 11:30, kinda groaning cuz i hadda wake up early the next morning.

this morning was first day of driving lessons. i woke up with a cold sweat at four in the morning, thinking wat kinda faults i would cause if i was out in the road. ha ha. mr. lyons drove up to our driveway, and taught me how to make my seat comfy, adjust all the mirrors, and (most importantly) how to turn off the ignition switch ><.
i drove around the oval, which was purty easy, learned how to make sharp turns in the parking lot (that one was pretty tricky), drove on some resedential roads, how to back up then drove myself back home. i hope i didn't disappoint him too much, since i never slow down in time, i'm reluctant to push the gas pedal while turning, and at least i million other things. but he seemed patient...^_^ i just thank God i didn't get into any car crashes. but then, this is early in the morning, and my next lesson is friday afterschool...so i bet i'm gonna be in a heap of more trouble.
oh well, i think i've said too much already. i should be studying for algebra ~_~...

Tuesday, March 23, 2004
STANFORDS TODAY! @_@ wat a complete waste of time. there's completely no point. for three hours i took that test (nothing to elaborate on), then rested my head, dreaming of the taste of lemon pie from the open ended writing >_<. and wat did the seniors and junior's do? a drug assembly along with making up ur own nationality activity. ^^;; kim said mr. fried should get fired.

NEW FLUTE JUST ARRIVED! but the stupid part is...the case didn't contain any plugs for my open holes, so i can hardly create any sound. grr...mr. j warned me that if i don't have any plugs...i'm gonna throw a big fit. which i probably will do o_O

well that sums up wat's in my head. and i owe reggie my angelic layer mangas.

Sunday, March 21, 2004
ah ha. new layout. it all started out as quick copy and paste sketch. then it looked so pretty, i decided to re-design it as the new layout. though i better make this a quick entry, just to see if it workks, it's 1 in the morning, and dad's gonna yell at me ><

came home from watching meek's "kiss me kate" ha shendi. it's NOTHING western. in fact, it was quite good. meeks did an AMAZING job, not only as the wardrobe lady, but as a quartet, 'specially when they sang "bianca". i dunno. the play was better than i thought it was, though karl got nit-picky on the actors and actresses, since his high school did that play bout a month ago...oh and mico's hair...mico's hair...was...wow. very, um. 30's o_O words can't explain at this time at night.
i think that's all i have time for now. and happy belated bday to tracy