Friday, June 16, 2006
gracey and ben are right..THAT certain blonde person is SO DAMN HARD TO SHOP FOR! if she doesn't like the gift i'm giving her...i'm gonna throw rocks at her.

soo...took my one and ONLY final this morning: my favorite one of all...PHYSICS [groans]. all i can say about it is, i know i did better than the midterms, and, as i predicted, the problems i skipped in the practice test were obviously asked in the actual final. i hate it when that happens.

after that, gracey came over, and we basically spent the next ten-ish hours doing nothing significantly productive, maybe we played some video games, watch an utena clip [with akio's exploding chest and saioji's attempt to look sexy ><], watch monty python's The Life of Brian [god that was funny XD] and, well, shop at the mall...again.

So yeah, ten hours of doing practically nothing, but hey, this is how most of my summer days will be like: free of work, projects, and tests. it's like procrastinating, but there's nothing u r particularly procrastinating from.damn.

well over the course of this week i got at least the main errand done: BUY ALL GRADUATION GIFTS. ha ha, and now i'm broke, but i'm broke with good cause. XP
ugh...that's about all i can say for now. hopefully, if I become less lazy, more 'exciting' events will happen over the summer.
and as gracey nicely put it "why are we friends with boring people?" amen to that. lolz

Saturday, May 27, 2006
to the most beautiful and fabulous one herself:

i am SOOO SORRY that i wasnt able to make a montage of both of us...but anyway, HERE'S the song i wanted to play if i was able to do it
by ashley ballard

When I think of what I've been through
I can see that you've always been there for me
to tell the truth don't know what I'd do
without you
Half of my dreams would not come true

You are the one that I have hoped for
Now my life means so much more
Now we can be together forever
Forever just you and me be here for you
you here for me

It was you
who showed me I got a friend in you
I always knew that you'd be right here for me
and it was you who stuck with me when the skies were blue
and it was you
who stood by my side
It was you

Since the day you came in my life
I knew then that you'd be someone by my side
Then you proved you're a friend to me
Within my heart wherever, you will always be

It was you who was always right by my side
when I just can't do it
you helped me through it
we're friends forever like best friends should be

you'll always be a special part of me...

I LOVE YOU JESSI! FOREVER AND EVER AND EVERRRR!

Thursday, May 25, 2006
alright alright...so prom has come and gone. i'm pretty sure all around my school friend's sites, u'll find pics of the same prom...so here's just one pic of me and my date:



cute neh? its prolly one of the few pics in which i think i don't look as bad ><
so tonight marks one full week since prom. now there isn't much to look forward to...right? except maybe summer. this is the time when i start to reminisce, and look back at my past and realize how much i'll miss every single classmate. they say that ur friends for life are the ones whom u meet in college, and according to my Lin, he rarely makes contact with his high school friends.
how the hell am i gonna go through life without my c-hall friends? gracie's laugh? lucy's blondeness? ben's movie craze? nardonie's sarcasm? shelly's bubbliness? nat's randomness? geoff's layed-back personality? even though during pratt's acceptance students day, i met awesome people, i honestly couldn't find something within my future classmates, a spark that would ignite an everlasting friendship with moi. of course i'm being prejudice, and i know that friendships take awhile to build, i'm just being too darn lazy to start from scratch.

thank god all of you guys are not too far away [except for nat...maybe we'll all rearrange a trip to visit him]. and i swear, i'll try to make as much spare time in my summer schedule just so we can all hang out together, before the time comes when we must....part.

and i'll ALWAYS BE THERE FOR YOU JESSI! [huggles close]

Sunday, May 14, 2006
love u lots mom! for a tribute that two guys made...see my xanga <3

Thursday, May 4, 2006
AP English.

so help me God.

i just want higher than a three.

Sunday, April 30, 2006
alright i know its past midnight, my nose is killing me, and my eyeballs are about to pop out [for lack of a better description nother than 'wide eyed']and all i gotta say is:

i have officially fallen too much in love with pratt. if the school transformed into a guy, i'd marry it. lolz.
so today was student's acceptance day. wat more can i say? the graphics designing department is awesome, the seniors who were talking had like, the greatest personalities [ESPECIALLY the one from new jersey...he's a total comedian! lolz], the faculty is outstanding [ i mean come on, how often do u find a british teacher who'd fly from his european land to this college, to express his passion for art??], and for my other fellow students? i dunno where to begin! i'm sitting on the lawn with peeps who've had a passion for art since they were like...five years old! just like moi! i already love them all.

sigh. need i say more? go canoneers XP XP

okay so gracey, as of now, is trying to figure out wat word describes the philippine language. so far she's come up with:
philippinese
phillipean
philippeanish?
french = philippench?

XD it's FILIPINO my dear. filipino.

Tuesday, April 25, 2006
for all you fruit and ice cream lovers out there: i recommend eating very berry strawberry icecream with kellog's K fruit and yogurt. it's like your tasting heaven itself :P

on a darker note...i really don't feel hyper tonight. maybe it's cuz i'm so damn tired, maybe its cuz AP tests are next week, maybe its cuz i'm too caught up with studying, and having no time for a teenage life. no, scratch that, no matter how pressed i am for time, i somehow leave room for video games and random web-surfing.

many trials have come my way, friendships have been broken then ammended, people whom i love dearly are either dying hospitalized...most of all, i've been very thirsty spiritually.

thank god for RJ and sig's message, i should continue to obey and abide with god, and he will give me many blessings. what blessings you may ask? the simple kind that u may not notice: having a loving family, giving you the opportunity to go to college, having the money to meet your daily needs as well as your daily wants, cool stuff like that.
last night i think, i was reading 'daily bread' and it called out to those who were sick and tired of living life as a boring routine. God is in the "ordinary duties of life" and "any routine task is relevant to God's work in and through us". yo, what an awesome reminder! life may be very methodical, but eventually, every little thing counts towards spiritual growth. sigh, i dunno, i was especially affected, cuz its towards the end of senior year, the time when i just wanna do nothing.

i'm sure all seniors just about now feel that way [except for a certain mallet SOMEONE ><]
alright. i think i should withdraw from this entry. i dunno how relevant this entry was to you, but just typing it all out to an unknown audience is somewhat of a catharsis for me [WAY too much english influence]. ha.

Saturday, April 15, 2006
let's see...how should i put this...

HAPPY BELATED GOOD FRIDAY or HAPPY EARLY EASTER SUNDAY or HAPPY 2ND DAY IN THE TOMB

choose which u like, and enjoy.
hmm...let's see how long i can type before i collapse on this here computer desk of exhaustion:

so this whole week was spring break. how do i feel towards this week? eh, quite neutral. of course, the good part is that eight hours of every day is not wasted on school...bad part? i was basically cooped up in this house the whole time, thus driving myself crazy.
i know that monday i can arguably say that i never stepped a foot outside, if u dont count retreiving the mail. i just sat around, finished some AP studio art work, watched part of castle in the sky, net surfing...and slept. how unproductive of me.

tuesday was a little better. no...WAY better. mom and i ate mcdonalds for lunch, and guess who was there? the balloon-man again! this time i actually went up to him and asked if i could have a yoda balloon. he would be more than happy to create it for me, but there were tiny children swarming all around him, asking him to make swords, or dogs, or, simple stuff [even though he's SO capable of making very complex balloons..there was this one kid whom he created the seaturtle crush from 'finding nemo' for]. so i asked him to make me the millenium falcon...and i still have no idea why i asked him to make THAT balloon, since the spaceship itself consists of weird shapes and...stuff [but in the 80s, i guess that was pretty cool then]. nevertheless, being the amazing person this guy is, he was able to make that freakin' ship. and it looks a heck lot like it too XD. i'd take a picture of it, but mom has the camera...maybe later...anyway, once he was done with the ship, and when i was about to leave [while text-messaing ben, who was freakin out while flying over key west], the guy thanked me for my patience, and that if its not to busy, the next time i come and he's there, he'd make me the yoda...aww..

i have no idea why i told u that story, but u read it, and it's now ingrained in ur head...so ur stuck with it.

that night was another hangout at loosey's. half the night was spend throwing gummy bears across the room, eating pretzels, which were suspiciously addicting, and...looking at flashcards of some random fairytale? hmm, i don't exactly know how to describe that night. but of course, it was absolute fun nonetheless.

i can't remember what happened on wednesday. was that time jezreel, morielle, and hesan came over? idk. all i remember is that for some reason, i ate at mcdonalds again.

thursday? um...i was SUPPOSEDLY having a ddr date with jessi, but for some odd reason that didn't work out. hrm...i think i went ice-skating that night, ooh, and my parents were starving so we ate at mcdonalds...

on good friday, we took jezreel to the zooooo, which i wasn't too enthusiastic about. mom said the zoo would inspire me since i had to slave myself drawing animals for AP studio art. yeah well, i'm done drawing the animals and i'm on to drawing skeletons. it would be creepy if the zoo had the skeleton instead of the animal.
probably the most interesting part of the zoo was the farm, there were these cool hens there that LITERALLY had feather afros. the sad thing about that farm, was after passing by the cute cows, the afro hens, and the big fat pig, i couldn't help but think of beef, eggs, and bacon. [after our trip to the zoo, dad didn't eat so we went to mcdonalds]
ooh in addition, when jezreel, monika and i left the farm, the wolves nearby started howling, and believe me...it was pretty scary.

good friday service at the pastor's house, where he does the annual preaching of jesus' 7 last words. all the while mico, being the santa-clause she was, managed to carry little grace AND sarah in her arms as they fell asleep. unfortunately i was stuck sitting next to mico and thus was burdened with parts of grace's weight. my right arm died.

hmm...so tomorrow is SUNDAY! our church choir will be holding an easter cantata entitled 'then came sunday', and i'm gonna pantomine as peter! [how i came to become peter...i'm still trying to figure out]
so tomorrow, feel free to jump for joy, cuz the savior is alive! woopah!

eh...i'll end on that note. i think this entry is long-wided enough.
blah! i don't want to go to school...X_X

PS:
saturday...today...the children went to the senior citizens and performed the 'three trees' musical again. guess which fast-food restraunt we went to afterwards? ^_~

Wednesday, April 5, 2006
April 5, 2006??? My dad is *cough*21*cough* years old? (or so our hot applebees waiter announced to the restraunt)??? it snowed?? I'M WRITING???

i'm sorry man, i had major...MAJOR writers block. i don't want this blog to die, it has documented my high school years, and will most likely be the only way my new jersey peeps can read how my life is like during my college years. sigh. only two and a half months left until i graduate...

so what has been going on my mind lately? um...april break is approaching, mom says that we'll be spending most of that time in new york ^_^...and...AP testing. blah. i'm not worried about AP studio art (and becuz of that, i've been slacking on my work), all my worrying is for english. ha ha, i'd be bouncing off the walls if even get a THREE.
my essay writing is THAT bad ><

oooh, last friday was pratt's open house. in the morning, different faculty members, and i think the vice president spoke about campus life, why pratt is such an awesome school, blah blah, and, what i found most interesting, how you are allowed to take electives that have nothing to do with ur major. for example, they have a very good science department, and let's say you're majoring in like, photography...you can take a class in marine biology is you want! i dunno, i found that fascinating, since i did consider to be a marine biologist, like, in eighth grade.
afterwards i went to steuben hall, which is where most of the courses of illustration, advertising, and graphic designing took place. i dunno about the rest of the peeps there, but i was touched, becuz the faculty there are sooo passionate about their work, and insist that they'll do watever they can just to see us excel [one illustrator teacher said that taking illustration courses is like 'joining a brotherhood' @_@]. in addition, the faculty said that if, for example, we major in graphic designing then decide to switch to advertising, we'll be able to do so without losing any credits. thank god, cuz in regards to my ambition, it's a fuzzy line between those three majors.

and an added bonus about pratt...SHENDI IS ONLY GONNA BE A MANHATTAN BRIDGE AND A CHINA TOWN AWAY FROM ME! if she goes to NYU i mean. *grins* i can imagine just how many shopping spree's WE'LL be having XD

alright, i don't have much else to say...i'm too eager to get back to playing spider solitaire....DARN YOU MIKE, because of YOU that game is SO ADDICTING

Tuesday, February 21, 2006
happy tuesday everybody! the second weekday of vacation.

yesterday was pratt day for me, mi familia, and grace [we decided to drag her along or else she'll be stuck at home all day dying of boredome]. this is my second visit there, the first time was, obviously, when i had my interview, and i only walked by the campus...this time we enjoyed ourselves walking around, getting familiar with the neighborhood, and the different artifacts displayed on the grounds.
the first place we went to was the cafeteria building. now remember, this is an artsy school, so many of the popular rooms were interestingly designed. some of the seats had this sort of cup-like shape, u know like those spinning teapcups in that 'alice in wonderland' ride in disneyworld/land. it felt kind of awkward: a random family sitting down, enjoying hot drinks, while everybody were college students. mom was obviously fascinated, and even commented on this punk dude who had LONG spikey hair, dyed in blood-red and dark-orange...saying how he is "so cool" with his "fiery hair". i'm still figuring out if she really did mean that.

next builing we went to was the main building. i felt uncomfortable that we just gonna randomly look at the rooms ourselves, cuz my common sense dictated that us looking without a tourguide is considered rude. of course, that didn't stop mom. she nonchalantly strolled along, looking at all the corridors, while me, being the coward i am, tried to fall back...strangly, we didn't get yelled at, but we did catch some awkward stares.

next we decided to walk around the campus grounds, to explore the different sculptures. gracey was fascinated by the mitocondria/leaf sculpture, and the memorial statue dedicated to those pratt students who fought the world war [gracey: wat did they do? attack with paintbrushes?]. monika liked the sculpture of the attacking lions, and gracey took a pic of monika pretending to attack as well. gracey was also fascinated by these rusty metal "pillows" that looked soft and comfy. after being tempted to run and jump on the "pillows" it turns out that they're as hard as a rock. [actually, gracey tapped on one, and a few seconds later, another tap responded back. could it be that someone LIVES in them? O_O]

sooo...where did we go after pratt? lemmee give u a hint...pratt is only a few miles from the manhattan bridge...and the manhattan bridge connects to canal street soo.....

after eating panfried noodles at the wonton garden...gracey and i once again enjoyed ourselves to USELESS SHOPPPING. elizabeth plaza! the place where there's just SOO much CUTE STUFF, but NOT stuff our LIVES can depend ON for the FUTURE...they're there just to TAKE UP SPACE.
sadly i spent over fifty bucks on useless stuff...Kiddy Grade [a very very girly anime...ha ha...but as i continue watching it...it's not bad], a[nother] pucca pillow, shelly welly's bday present, a garu pencil case for my art pencil, and a haagen-daaz brownie shake. i tried to convince gracey to buy this stunning wall scroll of cloud carrying kadaj, and an Advent Children card deck [with a drooling picture of Reno], but no...she refused. i'm disappointed.

so we all happily went home [listening to monika's tree-story singalong...which gracey happens to deeply enjoy ><], flopped down on the couch, and snoozed while monika read us stories. aww...

and now we roll to TODAY! anything FUN TODAY? well in the morning no...but at the afternoon at mcdonalds....

i order this new shake called 'shamrock shake', in which the shake is not pink or brown or white...but GREEN. the first sip wasn't enjoyable, almost tasted like toothpaste mint, but shakes and a double quarter pounder don't mix well. eventually though, this shamrock shake tasted better.
the best part of all was that there was a guy there who could make all sorts of balloon people, balloon animals, etc., compliments to mcdonalds. the kid inside me wants a balloon, but the arrogant side of me didn't want to immediately jump up and ask that he make me something...cuz u know...an eighteen-year old who wants a balloon? who the hell is that?
well...that's wat little sisters are for, so i sent monika to ask him to make me a balloon monkey [mom went to cuz u know...she's never afraid]. apparently this guy can do more than ur average balooon dogs and swords...he could create characters...like STAR WARS characters. so guess what mom requested him to make?

here it is:


[monika is wearing it cuz the helment can't fit over my head]

i was in shock. THIS DUDE IS GOOD! i'd SO hire him to do parties and stuff. mom said that if i actually confronted him, he could make other star wars characters. like YODA. sigh...if only ben was there...

okay that's all for now. i'll depart with something darrin just said:

darrin: just don't join a pratternity

ha ha ha

Wednesday, February 15, 2006
happy belated singles awareness day

and a haaaaapppy happy happy birthday to my dear shelly welly! you are eighteen now! gah! you're an old fart just like me! but of course, nobody can feel more like an old fart than mike. tee hee.

so to celebrate shelly's eighteen years of existence, me, gracey, meg, shelly, and luce drove to baja fresh and satisfied ourselves with nachos. sigh, i haven't had mexican food in the longest time. do they still aire those commercials with that famous tacobell chiuaua?

so...today was my dentist day...not my most favorite days, cuz im uncomfortable with the fact that someone is inspecting my teeth with ultra-sharp tools. so tita eden is eager to enroll laurel and jaise to my lil art classes. the only time they're available is friday three-ish. meaning that once school's over...i gotta rush home.
yeah i know...why am i taking on more jobs? because art is just THAT cool. [har dee har har] but i waste 75% of my spare time downloading all sorts of procrastinating crap, so i might as well use some of that spare percentage and do more productive things.
it's not all that bad.

ohkay, procrastinating time is over. i gotta get back to finishing my As I Lay Dying chapter.
and my CALCULUS GRAPHING TOMORROW. i'm going to fail. i mean, how am i EVER going to apply calculus to my life?

scenario: i'm walking down a street looking for a friends house. the only directions she gave me was a function polynomial equation. if i take its derivative, determine it's relative extremas, determine its concavity from its second derivative, then the resulting graph created is a drawn out map that tell me how to get to the house.

*scratches head* oh yuck.

Monday, February 13, 2006
yes yes yes...i am alive.
i should've posted before, that i would be on hiatus until i set up a new layout. sigh. i was SOOO tempted to break my hiatus keep, cuz i knew i would NEVER have time to create a layout, when suddenly, GOD sent 18 inches of snow, resulting with no church and no school. i nearly died this weekend completing all my hw, and now i have nothing to do. so why not use this spare time to create the layout now?
...and that's just wat i did. so ha! it's not a real anime, juuussst a drawing i made myself. XP

so anything significant happen during these past months? well, if u are so keen to know...i GOT INTO PRATT INSTITUTE, many birthdays passed, and....i really want summer to come now.

yesterday michelle, grace and i went out to that fabulous korean restaurant in celebration of gracey's 18th bday. we ordered forty bucks worth of delicious food: fried dumplings, this spicy soup with kimchi, and this beef-like meat [i'd attempt to name these cuisines, but i know if i spell them wrong, a riot of koreans will try to murder me ><]. afterwards, we all went over gracey's house to play 'pump', this korean ddr-like game which includes a fifth step right in the middle of the pad. [i first played it in chuck e. cheese two months before...don't ask me why i was there].

hmm...so since a lot of snow fell, and since there was no church...what did i do today? spent most of my time finishing up my studio art work. i just realized: i only have like, TWELVE ART PIECES, when in three months, i should have TWENTYNINE. this realization is what's motivating me to get off my ass and start makin more art things.

bleh...NO SCHOOL TOMORROW. you'll know what i'll be doing ><