Botany. Me Love Botany.

Currently listening to: Going Crazy by Natalie

I just finished typing out a table of the Eukaryotic Phylums and their taxonomic characteristics (Don't even try to decipher what I just said, I can't even decipher it myself). I couldn't sleep, so I decided to study more for my Botany quiz that will happen later at 11:30 am. I know I'm suppose to be sleeping na, because, as many elderly or more experienced people say, sleep can get you to do good on an exam. Hayy.. I'll just leave this exam tomorrow kay God.

Men, Biology can sometimes be a bitch. I don't know why I even like the subject. Oh, Yeah. because it's interesting.

Anyway, I'm starting to worry about my grades again. It's not even finals yet and I'm starting to worry.

I don't know. Pag bumaba pa yung CGPA ko, I don't think I can handle it anymore. WAAHH..

Anyway, I gotta go. Need some sleep. I have four alarm clocks that will wake me up later.

Have a good week y'all!

I LOVE BOTANY!

10 REALLY random things about me:

+I'm a freak of nature. I sleep at 5 am in the morning and CAN wake up at 5 pm in the afternoon.
+I love Starbucks's Toffee Nut Flavoring.
+I love to eat, even though it doesn't show on my body
+I have this ability to feel and know things that are happening around me to which I don't personally know of. Woman's instinct as they call it.
+I have discovered recently that I enjoy watching DVDs
+I love Sex and the City
+I love Friends
+I have way too many pairs of sandals
+I can be awake for 24 hours straight.
+I love to shop
+I'm good at hiding sad feelings and feelings in general
+I don' like plastics (people or the thing that shopping places use)

9 ways to win my heart:

*Make me laugh.
*If you're patient with my ever changing moods, then you'll win me over
*Shop with me without any complaints
*If you can stand me not talking for 1 whole hour, then i will love you forever
*If you're passionate about photography or music, you got me
*If you have this really really cute smile. I can't resist smiles that are cutesy
*If you can get along with my cynical cousins and siblings AND parents.
*If you can get along with my friends
*If you don't bitchslap me, I will love you forever and ever.

8 things I carry (and wear) everyday:

:: bag
:: lipgloss
:: hair comb
:: pressed powder
:: wallet
:: keys
:: cellphone
:: clothes

7 things that annoy me:

:: sales people who are rude, bitchy, and incompetent
:: discrimination
:: computer that decides to freeze, crash or stop
:: promises that are made, then broken (I HATE THIS!)
:: people who I BARELY EVEN KNOW who mocks me by saying "baka mabali buto mo" or "baka lalo kang pumayat".. It irritates me to the core when they do that.
:: people who obssesses about things
:: (sometimes) neurotic people annoys the heck out of me.

6 places I've visited:

:: New York (I wanna go back)
:: LA
:: Las Vegas
:: Baguio, Philippines
:: Seattle
:: Vancouver, Canada

5 things I want to do before I die:

> Have a gallery of my photos
> Write a book
> Do medical research
> Travel Europe
> Travel Philippines

4 things I'm afraid of:

! God
! getting hurt
! losing someone i love
! snakes

3 things I do everyday:

/internet
/sleep
/pseudo-study (when I'm in school)

2 things I'm trying not to do now:

= slack off
= waste my time on non-productive things

1) person I want to see now:

Two people : MY NIECES.

La.Di.Da.

I'm currently thinking about changing my blog's header. It's been a while since I've made a change in this blog. Hmmm.. When I get inspired, I will change it, that is if I get enough patience to work with Photoshop. I'm a newbie with it, so I'm kind of having a hard time trying to adapt myself with it.

The quarter's almost over. There's going to be a lot of changes that will happen in spring, i.e., changes in my club, changes in my circle of friends, changes in choices.. there's A LOT.

Changes, changes. Hmm. Last time I checked, I was not a very big fan of "change". It usually takes me a while to get use to changes, no matter how big or small it is.

Hmm.. Ewan ko.

La lang.. nageesep-esep na naman ako. Sometimes I tend to analyze things too much. HEHE.. Guess that concept or attitude about me is not new to some of you.

On another note, do you think fate is real? I always tell my friends these sayings: "everything happens for a reason" and "if you guys are meant for each other, in the end you guys will end up with each other". I always tend to tell them such sayings without me even contemplating on whether or not I believe in such sayings. Ewan ko. Just a thought that sprung out of my head all of a sudden.

What else can I say? Hmm.. I'm thinking of not working next quarter. Working in the chemistry lab makes my mind (and back) go nuts. I'm always either standing up or walking around the stock room and the labs. It's exhausting and sometimes, the work that I do there gets a little repetitive. But I'm thankful I tried out that line of work. It got me to decide that setting up experiments and washing lab glasswares is not the work I want to do in the next ten years or so.



(This entry is written out of randomness. I can't really form an insightful one right now.)

last minutes of my day...

"lht nagbabago. kaya dpt matututnan ntin i-adapt ung srli ntn. life without change is not life at all.bsta, impt, d2 prin kmi aftr evrything.."

----- this is what my friend told me after I sent her a note about...something.

it's true. life without change,is, after all, a boring life. i just have to learn to live with such truth. i've been dependent on people around me for some time now, so, i've got to start learning how to live an independent life.

after all, i'm already 19 years old.

Thank You God for Another Year . . .

Well.. well.. this is my last "teen" year.

Hmm.. I'm out of words.

I just had to post something.

I had an interesting birthday. VERY VERY INTERESTING (friends, you know what i mean by this).

I was touched by the plethora of greetings I received from the other side of the world and of course, from this side of the world.

Anyway, I will post pictures of my birthday bash once I complete my schoolwork and work work for this week (or maybe even next week). I'm gonna be really busy since the quarter is almost over.

Anyway, I leave you this song:

Sometimes You Can't Make It On Your Own
by U2

Tough, you think you`ve got the stuff
You`re telling me and anyone
You`re hard enough

You don`t have to put up a fight
You don`t have to always be right
Let me take some of the punches
For you tonight

Listen to me now
I need to let you know
You don`t have to go it alone

And it`s you when I look in the mirror
And it`s you when I don`t pick up the phone
Sometimes you can`t make it on your own

We fight all the time
You and I... that`s alright
We`re the same soul
I don`t need... I don`t need to hear you say
That if we weren`t so alike
You`d like me a whole lot more

Listen to me now
I need to let you know
You don`t have to go it alone

And it`s you when I look in the mirror
And it`s you when I don`t pick up the phone
Sometimes you can`t make it on your own

I know that we don`t talk
I`m sick of it all
Can you hear me when I Sing,
you`re the reason I sing
You`re the reason why the opera is in me

Where are we now?
I`ve got to let you know
A house still doesn`t make a home
Don`t leave me here alone

And it`s you when I look in the mirror
And it`s you that makes it hard to let go
Sometimes you can`t make it on your own
Sometimes you can`t make it
The best you can do is to fake it
Sometimes you can`t make it on your own

Kids just being Kids

LOOK UP IN THE SKY!


Isn't this the sweetest thing you've ever seen?


I haven't figured out how to put borders in Photoshop. I'm too lazy to do so.

Have a good week y'all!!

A Day Worth Remembering..

Happy Valentines Day, everyone! I hope y'all had a wonderful day spent with family, friends, and significant others.

This year's Hearts Day is the most memorable of all the Hearts Day I celebrated before. The sight of my girlfriends and my guy friends smiling this day just made it all memorable for me. Usually, some people tend to get all mushy-gushy because they don't have any "valentine", but my friends weren't those people and I'm sure glad that they didn't become that.

Today, I know that I made my girlfriends smile. I gave each of them a pair of tulips, peach and yellow tulips, which signifies appreciation and friendship. I didn't give anything to my guy friends, but that's because I know that they wouldn't want to carry flowers around school. I just gave them my very best Valentines day greeting.

The best part of this day was the snow that came falling down early this morning. I got awe-struck and giddy inside when I saw the snow. Too bad, it dried out even before this day could end.

I think the snow changed my view about the true meaning of Valentines day. I still think that it is a day where people have an excuse to get laid or to receive/give extravagant gifts. But, I realized that spending this day with family and friends, without the gift-giving and flower-giving, makes it all worthwhile to celebrate it.

Again, HAPPY VALENTINES DAY to y'all.

It's the PERSONAL STATEMENT, y'all! (FINALLY!)

In the two years of studying in Shoreline Community College, I have come to appreciate things that really matter.

At the start of my educational career, my parents have instilled upon me that I should do my best to get high grades. They expected a lot from me; if somehow a not-so high grade prints out on my report card, they get all antsy and tell me that I should do better next time. At first, I wasn’t too keen on them putting a lot of pressure on me, but I started to grow into it. I vied for the highest grade that I could possibly get in every subject. I wanted to be in the 90-100 percent range of the grade system, any number below 90 was just not good enough for me.

When I became a senior in high school, I started applying for colleges. As I look through the requirements and the expectations that each college application have written out, I was a bit surprise or rather shocked to find out that “good” grades was not enough for an admission to a reputable/respectable college. I stressed on and on about why universities need to see community work and extracurricular activities, when I have a CGPA of 3.6. I angrily ask every person I talked to then, “isn’t good grades not enough of an evidence that I’m a good student who deserves a spot in the admitted students list?”

When I started studying at Shoreline Community College (SCC), I began to experience the trauma of getting low grades. I became hard on myself and I got stuck in a black hole known as “self-pitying”. Then one day I had an epiphany, one that I had when I, along with a group of friends, performed for a group of elders at a nearby nursing home. I realized then that grades that I get from every courses that I take are not that important but what is more important is applying what I have learned in each subject into real life experiences. It was more of sharing what I know and what I’ve learned to the community that is around me. After that time, I made one of the most liberating and intelligent decision, I decided to not pay too much importance on the number that I receive, but rather appreciate and apply the vast information that I have learned in a four cornered room to the immeasureable world out there.

After I’ve realized that real world experience was more important, I started to volunteer more openly and without the notion of “I have to volunteer, in order for my college applications to look nice”. I’m currently a member of the Asian Pacific Islander Club at SCC and whenever an opportunity to get myself involved in the community arises during our meetings, I sign my name up to join in. I, along with the other club members, have participated in the Christmas food drive of St. Mark’s Church, located here in Shoreline, for the St. Vincent de Paul charity. We also participated in the toy drive that was held at the Child Haven Center, located in Downtown Seattle. We also performed Christmas carols for a group of elders at the FOSS home located in Greenwood, Seattle. Such volunteer opportunities that I participated in has given me a sense of what I really love to do, which is helping people.

We all started to think about what we want to be when we grow up when we were only five years old. But during that time, we were naive and innocent little kids. We didn’t know what the “real world” was really about. But as we grew older, the world started awakening us more, consequently making us think more seriously about what we really want to be. I chose Biochemistry as my major because I know I can do so much with such broad major. It can be a stepping stone to medical school or a background for a job application to a biotechnology firm, both of which can be a good way to help people out. However, I haven’t formally decided on what I’m going to do once I earn my degree I still don’t know how to choose between going to medical school or just apply to local biotechnology firms to do research work.

I choose to apply for transfer to University of Washington because I feel certain that I can choose my path in life once I start exploring the curriculum in Biochemistry. The program gives its students the opportunity to explore ways to apply the knowledge that they have gained from their courses through research studies in the university’s own research facilities or the biotechnology companies that surround the school. As for the students who are taking Biochemistry as a stepping stone to medical school, they have an easy access to the Children’s Hospital that is near to the university, where they can volunteer or work to gain clinical experience.

I may not have a decision on what I’m going to do my life in the next ten year or so. But I know that my admission to University of Washington will help me decide on what my path will be.

Statement?? WHAT STATEMENT??

I'm suppose to finish my UW transfer application that is due 4 days from today (don't worry, it's an online application). I'm dreading the last part of it. It's the "personal statement" part. I have the draft of it, well, actually, the PARTIAL rough draft. I'm not feeling very inspired to write something profound about my life today. Wow, for once, I'm not being banal.

WEHEHEHEHE..

The friends went to Woodinville today to watch a friend's concert. I didn't go. Woodinville's too far. Besides she's gonna have another concert on the 26 in Lynwood (more details on this later).

CIAO!

The One You Love or The One Who Loves You

A friend once asked me this question: "If you see two people hanging for their lives on a cliff and you see that these two people is THE ONE YOU LOVE and THE ONE WHO LOVES YOU, who would you save?".

In times when you're in a position to make a choice on the spot, you are bound to make an impulsive one. Fortunately, I didn't make any, because I didn't know how to choose.

What if you're in a situation wherein the ONE WHO LOVES YOU tells you that he will always be there no matter what, even if he knows that you love someone else? How would you entertain him? How would you treat him? And what if he tells you that he will help you get over your feelings for the ONE YOU LOVE?

For me, I'd rather not entertain the thought of THE ONE WHO LOVES ME "waiting" around for me or "helping" me get over my feelings for the ONE I LOVE. To me, I'd rather not let him waste his time or even energy on helping me out. To me, getting over the feelings for the ONE I LOVE, is a one-person deal. A one-person deal, because it is solely up to me if I still want to waste my time oogling/gushing/mushing over the thought of the "PERSON I LOVE". It is I, who has the sole job of gathering enough strength and desire to wash away the feelings and not another person.

Hmmm.. another mushy note from yours truly. I guess all the hype about Valentines Day, which is coming up pretty quickly by the way, got me thinking about certain things and come to think of it, I already swore off V-Day. Wait, scratch that, I swore off anything that spells or exudes ROMANCE. It gives me the "ick". Well, except for one thing, if someone gives me a bear hug (you know, a hug coming from the back), I would think of that as a sweet gesture. I used the term "sweet", because like I said ROMANCE/ROMANTIC gives me the "ick". HAR HAR HAR.. Ang gulo ko 'no??

So to people who thinks ROMANCE is not "ickful": HAPPY VALENTINES DAY! (Hey, I wouldn't want you guys attack me with forks and clubs.. WEHEHEHEHE....)

An Addition to My PET PEEVES Family

In my last entry, I talked about this entry that I read concerning a "la hater" hating the guts of a "la writer". I happen to visit the link once again today and saw that there were more than many ANONYMOUS offensive/war-starting comments coming from left and right.

My gosh. Is this how people fight these days?? I swear, it gets on my nerves. I know that in order to comment in LIVEJOURNAL (or any blogs for that matter), you need to have a "screen name". And maybe, 3/4 of the people who commented on that entry was too lazy to make one, but is it too much if they put their NAMES at the end of their comments???

I know I shouldn't be judging , but c'mon now, almost all of the comments posted there were hateful/bitter/harsh. And sure, "la hater" deserved some of those comments, but don't you think she deserves to know kung kanino nangagaling yung sumbat sa kanya?? Buti pa yung "la writer" na naging target nung entry na yun e, at least she had class by putting her name at the end of her comment.

Me bago na naman akong pet peeve:

I don't like it when ANONYMOUS people post hateful/offensive comments in blogs.

Oh, and yes, I admit that I'm a bit of an eavesdropper aka. CHISMOSA (so SUE ME). I wanted to know if ms. "la hater" updated already. WEHEHEHEHE...

CAT FIGHT! meeeeeeeyyyyooowwww!!!

It's interesting how mean and catty people can get.

Nabasa ko 'tong blog entry na 'to kahapon lang. The entry is entirely about the blog owner bashing a magazine writer's supposed "kaartehan" or whatever.

Here are two 'things' that got on my nerves after reading this entry for the nth time in a row:

1) The blog owner wrote a VERY OBVIOUS hateful entry about the writer's "antics" or whatever you call it. By the looks of the write-up, I thought that the owner should've just added the name of the writer somewhere in that entry. Kung mababasa nyo yung entry, malalaman nyo talga kung sino yung nilalait nya e, well that is kung binabasa nyo yung blog nung writer na yun. Isa pa, dun sa comment box, kinoment nya: "Do you have an idea who I was talking about? Baka masyadong obvious kung sino, her sister's in LJ pa naman." Pagka-tanga naman. EWAN.

2) The very last comments made on that entry by some people really irked me. Most of the comments bashed the blog owner for being mean/catty/disrespectful/walang breeding/a cow. Yung ibang comments naman, pinagtatanggol yung blog owner. Feeling ko nga magkakaron pa ng war dun sa comment box na yun e. So anyway, yung kinainis ko dun sa comment box na yun e eto: kung babasahin nyo yung pinakahuling mga comments, makikita nyo na nagaargue sila sa isa't isa. In short, nagsasagutan sila. Yung kinainis ko dun e, yung mga NAMES/NICKNAMES nung mga nagsulat ng comments na yun hindi man lang nila pinapakita.. 'lam nyo yun? kung makikipagargue kayo or makikipagaway kau sa mga tao, dapat ipakita nyo kung sino kau diba?? tingin ko kasi sa mga nagtatago under the name ANONYMOUS, is duwag.. makikipagaway ka sa mga tao, tapos hindi mo sasabihin kung sino ka? Such BS.

HAYY.. ang blogging world. Nawawala na yung "zest".

It's FALL QUARTER '04 all over again

The procrastinating, the cramming, the tiredness, the tamaditis-ness, the social life comes first-ness, the lack of priorities, the lack of self-control, the lack of focus, and their relatives.

I stopped whining about my pseudo-love for a person a week ago. Now I'm starting to whine again and this time it's about school work. AGAIN. I went down this road before, if you scan (which I know you won't) my September-December '04 entries, you would find that the majority of those entries are mostly WHINY and FULL OF COMPLAINTS about school.

I don't want to complain anymore. It doesn't help ease the stress and the pressure that I'm under.

But, I'll let one slide, HOW CAN I BALANCE MY SOCIAL LIFE and MY STUDIES???

Chocolates = HYPERNESS

I think I've written an entry before about how I go nuts after eating a bar of chocolate or two pieces of choco chip cookie.

I just can't remember when I wrote it. HeH.

Anyway, I'm hyper right now. Hence, an entry being written at 12:30 am in the morning. HAAAYY... Chocolates really make me wonky. I swear, everytime I eat one, I go crazy. I guess the term "sugar high" is true.

So anyway, I chose to write a non-sensible entry about my favorite brands of chocolate. Read on if you must.

HERSHEYS Milk Chocolate -- YUMMY... I go crazy everytime I see my mom stack up on this brand. She always buy this brand in bulk so she could "padala" it to the PI. Of course, I always manage to score a bar or two from her. She always gets mad at me everytime I do it. She always tells me off by saying: "kaya hindi nawawala yang mga pimples mo e!!" or "masisira yang ngipin mo!!". I think it's her mode of preventing me from getting some. But it just doesn't work on me. Sorry, MUM.



TWIX Chocolate -- This is the only caramel chocolate that I would eat. I don't eat any other caramel chocolate except for this one.



KIT KAT -- Remember the line, "Have a break, Have a KITKAT"?



GODIVA Chocolate -- The most expensive, yet delicious brand of chocolate I've ever tasted. I swear, if I had the money to buy this chocolate, I would buy it in bulk! It's that GOOD!



M n Ms - The ultimate "snack" chocolate for me.




What brand of chocolate satisfies your sweet tooth?