• magpaka-nerd at mag-average ng 94 this sem.
• mag-eyeglasses ulit to go with the image na nerd.
• bumalik sa marco polo fitness center.
• magpalit ng SIM sa cellphone.
• deadmahin ang group hug.

kung di pa ito mag-work, ewan ko na lang.

i make the other person feel he's NOTHING. if i feel someone gets close to my checklist, i set the bar higher... to another level of impossibility. if he breaks down, i tag him as gay, chicken, or softy. if he shuts up, i accuse him of being intimidated or dumb. if he walks away, i say he's "not interested enough." if he comes back, i think he's after revenge. ha! me and my twisted brain! i am the craziest girl any guy could ever fall for... so don't even think about it.

this sunday, there will be 8 more legians. i'm starting to feel a little shaky. i guess i'm just so used to the intimate kind of brotherhood. in my 3-year stay with sigma, this is the first time that our population will reach 20 in ateneo. it's the first time that the frat will have more than 5 members. it's the first time that i will have my own "babies" (i'm the sword this year). a lot of other "firsts"... and it just feels weird.

limerence

use in a sentence: i think i've been in a state of limerence for 4 years now.

... so can i.

a year ago, my dad decided to take a vocational course in accounting and computers. after taking his bachelors degree (around 1974), he never went back to school for post graduate courses. as i explained in my past entries, he's pretty old school. he saw the need to be "upgraded" when the family migrated to the US. it was tough to find work especially for a migrant over 50 years old and he wanted to be employed for what he does best - accounting.

today, my mom called. she said dad came home from school with a big gold medal. he did not tell my mom (his wife!) that today was their graduation. the medal was his proof that he did well in his studies. he graduated valedictorian (the most outstanding student) of his batch. my mom, instead of getting angry, was just so proud of what he has accomplished. i mean, it's not a joke for a 56-year old man to go back to school and finish it with flying colors.

i always thought i got my intellectual genes from my mom. turned out my dad has pretty solid reinforcement to share. we never keep tabs, but i'm proud to say 6 out of 8 members of my family are valedictorians. that's something written in history and no one can ever change such.

i notice that my family has a thing for keeping secrets, cooking up some kind of plan without the other members knowing it, surprising everyone with results, and achieving or exceeding expectations. if my dad can pull off something as amazing as that, with all the more reason that i can do the same. i am so fueled.

i'm blogging my heart out because i'll be in temporary but indefinite blogging hiatus starting next week. classes will start, heavens will fall. i need to buckle up for another bumpy ride.

i'm back teaching thesis. changes include finishing the whole thesis book during first sem, a more technical theme (so hindi na pwede char-char lang ang output), and the moderator (that's me!) shall be less involved with choosing topics for the students (so that they'll be less of a researcher and more of a proponent).

ateneo upgraded to autoCADD 2009. that means i'll also need to upgrade my exercises.

i'll be teaching history of architecture 2 for the 6th time. so what's new? i'm teaching two sections! teaching history 1 was hard.i had to prepare 2 sets of quizzes and exams because the two sections were scheduled on different days, so there's a greater probability for the students to cheat. the student's must know that when they take an exam, there's always the presumption of cheating. they're guilty until proven innocent. hehehe 

although i have the fewest units this sem (9 units lang!) in my whole stay in law school, i think it will still be an uphill climb. i'm reunited with my second year profs, father gus and atty jikjik. true, they don't conduct recitations, but the exam is super pamatay! i have a new teacher, atty tiu. they say she's no walk in the park either, but hopefully i can still ace her subject. i'm so happy i'm still classmates with my Sigma sisters ... and amsy and clipton and chalm and teddy and all the fun-loving people of our batch. being with them makes coming to class less stressful.

so this is it again! i'll drop a line or two if i get cranky along the way, but expect a peaceful and quiet blog from here on out. good luck to everyone!

i've been raving about the Wolverine movie months ago, but you can't be too ecstatic until you've watched the movie. the movie is A-W-E-S-O-M-E, stunts and story combined. i like the rustic cinematography and the no-BS lines. i was really anticipating the much-awaited appearance of gambit, who was my original favorite x-men character until hugh jackman played wolverine which changed my loyalty. what can i say, i am not disappointed. gambit should be the most handsome mutant ever, and indeed the casting exceeded my expectation.

i saw the helicopter scene in the movie trailer, but i did not expect that it would be done in the context of running away, rather than seeking revenge. it goes to show that logan needs to be shoved to kill, and not because he enjoys doing it. my favorite scene was the duel in a narrow alley between sabertooth and wolverine, where gambit confusingly joins in without thinking on whose side he's on. another favorite scene of mine came in the beginning of the movie, where the team of mutants (who, except for wolverine, i have not seen before) invaded a building where diamonds are being examined. it gave some sort of gangster feel, where you know both sides are bad. the korean-american actor in kim sam soon and the black singer of black eyed peas made me go "hey! he looks familiar."

no matter how much ruckus had been made about the slipping of the pirated, un-edited version of the wolverine movie, i think people should see it on the big screen to really appreciate the story and the amount of work given to it. i like hugh, but my raving is beyond hugh and wolverine. i think to the hardcore xmen fanatics, the movie is a good introduction to the most revered character of the comic series.

i was supposed to stay home and bore myself to death and not labor the day away like any ordinary day, because after all it's labor day. it is some sort of non-religious sabbath day. it's either you picket in the streets, spend your hard-earned money in a mall sale, or bore yourself to death. i think i'll choose the cheaper and less tedious activity, thank you very much.

after watching "x-men origins:wolverine" last night with jenith, i thought there's nothing that could make me drag myself off the bed. but whoa! i need to get up early because the basic orientation seminar of addlaw starts today and there are last minute preparations needed to be done. geeez!!! i can't complain. i haven't done anything much for addlaw this schoolyear, so i need to make up for all my passivity.

this lunch, i decided to eat at kuya ed's. i remember craving for their crispy kangkong a few days ago. the place is swarmed with ordinary people dressed in shirts with "mabuhay ang manggagawang pilipino" printed on them. oh yeah, i almost forgot it's labor day. i searched the buffet table and no crispy kangkong was in sight. oh well, i'm there, so might as well dig in.

i sat next to an old lady. she too was all in her lonesome. she asked me if it was my birthday. i thought she meant if i was part of those invited to a birthday party being celebrated there, but after much chitchat i realized there's a poster outside saying "birthday mo, sagot ko!" apparently, in kuya ed's, there is such a thing as free lunch if it is your birthday. she told me that she just lighted a candle in san pedro and decided to eat lunch; that she's now 62 years old; that her favorite is the shrimp fritters; and that she sat next to a fat guy minutes ago, who gave kuya ed's a run for their money.

the waiter asked if it is my birthday. i said no, which made him don a strange face. as i read it, it seems he's telling me that today is the wrong day to be eating at kuya ed's. anyway, the old lady left and i gave her a "happy birthday po!" greeting not just to be polite, but because it is much much stranger to be eating alone at kuya ed's on her birthday.