Spring Break

So I'm hoping to end my spring break with this kind of sobriety shown in this picture. I'm hoping to start spring quarter with full energy and enthusiasm.

This picture was taken by Gene during our 1 year ani at the Royal Argosy Cruise (highly recommended for all the Seattle peeps out there, try their Crab Bisque entree.. reaalllyyy gooodd). I like this picture. When I first saw it I asked him, "is that me?", and when he said yes. I was astonished. I luuuvvv this picture! and also the person who took it.

I'm ending my work study this June. I'm planning to look for a job at the hospital. I already got my Phlebotomy certificate, so it's on to looking for actual jobs. I am looking towards applying at Children's Hospital, since I'm planning to work with kids in my future. Recently, I've been checking the job board in their website, but it only shows one opening during the nights. Anyway, I'll keep checking.

"Kamikaze"

My first drink as a legal person in this country. It tasted like lime juice or lemon juice.

So.. turning 21? Yes, I'm a certified adult now. More responsibilities though and more things to think about in life. I'm almost graduating so it's time for me to actually get on with my med school admissions stuff. I'm starting to study for the MCAT, piece by piece that is. OHHH... and I have to finish our citizenship papers. Sooo much stuff.. to do..

I wish the euphoria (sans the puking) I had during the day I had this shot taken didn't wore off. I wish that that night with less responsibilities did not end. But it had to. I woke up the next day and I knew I had more to do.

I really don't know if I'm still qualified to say, "Heck, I'm still young, I can take my time". At 21, I really don't know if I should start taking life seriously or just go with the flow like I did when you were 20, or 19 or 18 and so forth.

Anyway.. I have too much time on my hands today.

Heeyyy.. this is the first post in a long time with a photos.

Awesome.

Finals: THE END

Done for the quarter. Read that my Physical Chemistry grade is out and about for the public eye to see. Damn professor.

Anyway, spring break... my "plans" are.....

Monday -

home/work/tires

sh%t i don't know..

Tuesday -

home/work/oil/tires

seriously.. no clue

Wednesday -

home/work/oil/tires/FAFSA PAPERS/citizenship papers

arggghhhh...

Thursday -

home/work/oil/tires/Fafsa papers/citizenship papers/iron my mother's clothes

spring break is starting to shine upon me by now..

Friday -

who gives a damn anyway???


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happy day today. it's 1 year day. it's green day. it's saint patrick's day.
1 year beybeeehh!!

Finals II

I am taking one of the million breaks that I've taken ever since I started studying at 9pm. I'm studying for my History of Christianity Final. There's a lot to study and umm.. there's really a lot to study.

I finished my Physical Chemistry Final today. It was alright for the first few parts, but when I got to the end, I completely flaked out. I didn't know how to do it, so basically I BSed my answers. Can't wait to see my grades for that class.

I also finished my Phlebotomy course. I can start looking for jobs now. Just looking.

For my sake, I hope this quarter ends with a bang.

Can't wait for this:

1 year BEYBEEHH!!

Finals I

I have this theory that when you wait until the day before a paper is due you can' t possibly get the best score (or at least an average score) on it, unless of course you're a really good writer and you already know what you're gonna write already. But I didn't know what to write about and I proved this theory with the 2nd paper I did for my Rome class. 2.4 baby. Yes, that's how much I crammed to do that paper. Quite sad.

Last class for my Blood Draw course tomorrow. I am pinning to get a 39/40 in the test tomorrow cause as it turns out (thanks to my lovely bf who reminded me about it), I have to get at least a 90 out of a 100 to get a 3.0 in that class. I already lost 8 points from the previous 3 quizzes that we had. Fun.

Anyway, I should be studying instead of blogging.

See you in a week.

Finals Week.

*scratches head*

it's that time of the quarter again.

I have 4 to take. ho boy.

ok. breathe. breathe. i can do this.

breathe. breathe.

seriously, i can do this.

OK...
i'm ok..
let's just think of happy thoughts.

Tomorrow's Agenda: Study for PCHEM final. That will continue on until Tuesday.

Wednesday's Agenda: Study for Christianity final. That will continue on until Thursday.

Friday's Agenda: Study for Rome final, which will continue on until Saturday.

ALSO for Thursday and Friday's Agenda: Study for Phlebotomy class' final.

1 week to study. YEEYYY. I shall kick some butt. Who cares if I don't get registered with the classes that I want? If I kick some butt with finals, I'll be extra extra happy.

*jumps up and down*

ok. PEACE!

Banks give me the creeps

Bank of America says that they are "THE BANK OF OPPORTUNITY"

I'm so sure.

For a bank that charges for withdrawal fees from ATMs to a bank that doesn't even inform you that they will charge your credit card that you don't use with the money that you owe them.

BANK OF OPPORTUNITY indeed.

Bente-Uno

9:47pm

I received a wonderful gift today. The hospital assistant in the surgery department that I volunteer at toured me around the operating rooms in the hospital, both the pavilion and the main one. It was a great experience, getting a first hand look at a real operating room. I also got a chance to sneak a peek on a surgery actually being done to someone. It was great. I can't really describe the feeling that I had when I was there. Basta. It was a great gift I could received and to think I received it on my 21st.

In my head, now more than ever, I have a good feeling. I am going to med school.

NO MATTER WHAT.

I AM AMAZED.

12:37pm

I need to get a camera phone.

It's my birthday!!

uhhh..

What else should i say??

IT'S MY BIRTHDAAYY!!

Why can't President's day be 48 hrs?

3 day weekend GONEE.. BAAHH!!

OK. Back to school again later today.. waaahh.. i want spring break..

i'm also sad right now because i didn't get the lab class that i want. effin graduating seniors (and to think, I will be them in a couple of months..)..

anddd.. my birthday is in 2 days.

OK. I have to turn on my school mode again.

BAAHH!!!

21st happens only once in a lifetime

I'm almost 21 and umm.. for the sake of having a wishlist.. here's one.. i haven't done this before so.. bear with me.. hehehehehe..

Materials:

(1) Gift certificate from For Love of 21 - The accessories store of Forever 21

(2) Gift Certificate from Starbucks

(3) if you're really generous - 5th generation IPOD charger.

(4) 5th Generation 30gb Ipod Skins - to protect ipods from scratching and breaking

(5) 4x6 Printer Paper for my Canon Selphy CP510 printer

(6) Did I already mention Gift Certificate from Starbucks?

Untouchables:

(1) Have lunch/dinner with me @ Tony Roma's - I have a birthday certificate that they sent me. I want to use it. So have dinner/lunch with me.

(2) Hang out and talk with me whenever you and I are free.

(3) Have a "drink" with me.

(4) Tell me 21 things that I don't know about you.

(5) Bake me brownies

(6) Bake me SALMON (HINT HINT.. HAHAHAHAHAHA.. *coughs* JAN JEN *coughs* )

(7) Visit me @ UW and have lunch with me or just hang around with me around the UDistrict or UVillage - I need some break time away from all the craziness.

(8) Tell me 5 things you don't like about me (ohhh.. free for allll.. hahahahaha.. )

(9) Give me one good website to visit.

(10) Tell me 1 thing that you like about me.

Twins

So. It was an overdue post. But, it's ok. Let me introduce you to, Reymond Edgardo and Sofie Gwen. Hihi. They're so cute!! (Y'all can tell who's the boy and who's the girl right??)

And here's Ms. Sofie Gwen smiling/laughing. It ain't that hard to make her laugh.

And this is Reymond Edgardo trying to smile. It's hard to make him smile. HEHE..

A "pietas" entry.

I had a conversation with this Filipina lady in the bus on the way home from school two days ago. It was an encounter that I never expected. From the stories that she's telling me about her family, I could tell that she came from a well-bred family, "me kaya", is the word for it in Tagalog.

She asked me about my parents, how long we've been staying here.. all those standard Filipino question and answer.

When I told her that my dad was back home and didn't want to stay here. She gave me this whole speech about America being a good land to live in. That you can live in it without any worries and frustrations. That life here is much better than life back home. She came to a point of saying the words, "wala ng pag-asa ang Pilipinas, kaya sabihin mo sa tatay mo dito na lang sya".

I never really got the impact of those words when I read it from other immigrants' blog, but when I actually heard it in reality, that's when I really got the whole meaning of it. I mean, here's a Filipino, born in the Philippines, who is downgrading or shall i say downcasting her own motherland, where she came from.

I didn't really know what to feel when I heard those words from her. Deep inside me, I felt like I want to be mad at her at tell her off by saying, "it's your homeland, it's where you come from, how dare you say those things to her? it's people like you who makes the Philippines worse than it already is." But then on the other hand, I thought, she's right, in so many aspects she's right.

I don't know. I guess in a way I think highly of the Philippines, no matter how hard it is to live there now. Philippines is so much more than economy and growth. It's a place I call "home". A place where I grew up. To me, it doesn't hurt to think that one day, this country will rise above every challenge it is facing right now. To me, it doesn't hurt to think positive about the country.
Sure it is what it is right now. But with the right amount of help especially from its people living abroad, that country can fluorish.

I just don't really get why there are people like that. Like I said, those kind of people are the people who make the Philippines what it is right now. Wala ng pagasa. Good thing there are others who still thinks that Philippines is a country with many opportunities. I still think that there is a lot of good opportunities there --- farmland, culture, sights, beaches, metropolitan --- people just don't see it or they just chose not to see it anymore.

Picture Post I

01/26/07: The Shoes that Hurt my Feet

This shoes made my feet suffered that day. I had scabs on the sole of my feet. It was crazy. But I learned an important lesson that day.

Never buy shoes that don't fit you well, NO MATTER HOW CUTE THEY ARE.

LOL. I'm crazy that way.

That day was also the day of my first PChem Midterm. So yeah, the end of my day was pretty much a day of craziness.

I still have yet to get the results of my test. Hmm.. I wonder..

Photos are sad.

I just remembered that I took a picture from last Friday that I thought I would post here. But, I haven't got the chance to upload it. ARGGHHH.. I'm losing touch I'm telling you. I owe Photography a lot these days.

Errmm..

My Classes. My Business.

February 6. My first midterm in Rome's History and Art History.

I'm quite scared because I have seen the guidelines for review (which is on the left side of this entry.). A lot of it based on memorizing dates (to which I totally hate since.. yeah.. I just don't like memorizing numbers.. except when it comes to Math or Chem of course.. ). Hayyy.. O mi gosh.. I'm scared. But I can't be scared. I took this history class for two reasons. One, for me to learn about the history of Rome, so I won't be an ignorant pompous ass when one day I see myself walking on the streets of Rome seeing all the nice places, and TWO, so I would conquer my apathy against history.

O mi gosh..

I'm really scared.

But um.. I won't be scared. I'm writing our first paper right now. It's about the theme "virtue and vice" within the Roman history. So, techinically, I'm reviewing already.

Hooray!

Ok. Must go back to the paper. I have one week to review. ONE WEEK. AND on top of that, I still need to review for my other classes. I have another book to read for my History of Christianity class. And my PChem professor ain't making life easier for us.

Ok. Must stop complaining.

I haven't got the chance to upload pictures of the new additions to our family. My cousin gave birth to twins. A boy and a girl. I'll upload as soon as the craziness in my life tames down, to which I hope would be after my rome exam next week.

Life Lessons

Realizing that I am a bit of a freakish, illogical and unreasonable person when I'm mad/high tempered..

ERR.. Menn.. You know it is true. You don't want to be wrong and yet sometimes you still are too stubborn to admit that you're wrong. I don't know if its genetically embedded in a girl's DNA to be prideful. Aren't men suppose to me more egotistical than girls?

Anyway. I've decided to calm my self down and start living a life (with less) pride. I am not sure how that will go because as we all know, pride is the one sin that we all can't beat, unless of course we have a strong heart to beat it.

New Found Glory

Errrmm.. so I'm back here.. hahaha..

anywaaayy.. I'm tired.. I just got done doing my physical chemistry homework.. must review tomorrow because i have midterms coming up.. argghhh.. tomorrow, my cousin will be having her twin babies (joyy!!!!), boy and girl people.. i have a nephew and a niece through my first cousin!!

anyway.. it's gonna be loud and distraction prone in this house in the next month or so. soooo.. I am thinking of making Starbucks in 220th my new home for studying.. ohhhh boyy.. hahahaha..

i have a long day ahead of me tomorrow.. after school and work, i'm gonna go to the hospital to check my new niece and nephew (this is gonna be a toll to write.. ).. ok..

i'm off to fix my stuff..

Thermochemistry, Early Rome 7 Kings, Romans sees Christians..

- Seattle had another snowstorm.
- Seattle has icy roads.
- I don't like Seattle when it snows during the end of the week.
- Seattle sucks when it snows and freezes below standard temperature.

I'm very whiny right now. I was itching to go out earlier but couldn't because it's so chilly outside AND the roads are covered with ice. BAD to drive on roads that are covered with ice. So I just stayed home and looked for e-coupons for ipods and Tiger OSX (which I had no luck by the way). I'm actually planning to buy a new iPod since I gave my old one to my dad and I'm also planning to buy a new operating system for my iBook since it's long overdue of an upgrade with its OS. I've been having trouble downloading some "10.4 required" apps lately so I have to be upgraded to a 10.4 system.

I've been rather busy again. It's a 3 day weekend (Martin Luther King Day on Monday) and of course, if it's a 3 day weekend, profs love to stack homeworks and readings on you. This quarter I'm taking: History of Christianity, History and Art History of Rome, and the second course of the Physical Chemistry series. So, I have a lot in my hands, LOTS of readings. PLUS, I'm working and planning to volunteer at the hospital. AND I also applied for Phlebotomy Course at North Seattle Comm College. So Yeah... it will be a busy quarter and so much for social life! I have to start getting use to it. I have to stop sleeping through bus rides and sleeping in between classes. It's quite hard to get back in the game when you have been out for a while, but I'm getting the hang of it so far. Next week, I'll probably in it 99.4%. HE. HE.


Little Snowman 2006
(reminiscent of the snowstorm Seattle had last November 2006)

I'm sailing off to "neverland".. whatever that means..

I'm sailing off to Puget Sound, originally uploaded by photosdotcom.

Since I'm beginning to be boring and slowly losing my passion over my academics, I'm gonna start posing with the pictures that I took last year that I have uploaded onto another flickr site.

I took this picture last spring with Gene at the Old Ivar's dock. It was pretty nice out there, kinda cold, but nice. I recommend it for people who loves to take picture and for couples who want to see something new in seattle (in case of course you haven't been there)

I like this picture because it depicts ME (the boat) wanting to sail off of
Seattle. I'm not liking Seattle anymore. I don't if it's because of the rain or the vibe here. I don't know.

Skinny as the new trend?? THEN I must be a Trendy person!

Skinny jeans. Leggings. Tights.

EFF!

I'm not the kind of person to follow trends while it's happening. I usually do that when the trend is OVER, meaning it's no longer a fashion "YES".

I was at the mall today and I saw a pair of leggings in Hollister. 9.90. Yeah. NO! I've been telling my mom and my sister that I'm not buying a pair of leggings for that much amount of money. Heck, I can buy food for two days for that amount of money.

Last Sunday, I improvised on leggings.. since I'm too cheap to buy them. I cut off the foot of my stockings and VOILA! Leggings my friends! Too bad I didn't take a picture. EFF! I'm getting boring.. that's not good..

Anyway....

2006 was fun. 2007 will be cooler.

Discovered new things.

• I can actually keep my room clean. I re-did the whole layout of my room when my Christmas break started and yeah, I'm kinda digging the new look. Although, I have to accustom or rather train myself to fix my stuff. It gets too crowded in my room when there are too much stuff.


• I discovered that I have the power to become uber crazy when I'm drunk. It's true, people do the craziest things when they're drunk. AND they also go through the most embarassing things.


• I discovered that I can make the FIRST move to the things that I want most and HEY, making the first move isn't so bad at all. You actually can get what you want.


• I've been through phases this year. It was crazy.

Trashed the old things.

• I trashed some bad vibes around me. It wasn't the nicest thing I've ever done, but at least I got it out of my system AND my environment.


• I made some people mad AND I made some people think with this ENTRY.

Discovered things about myself and my surroundings.

When people do things that I despise, I realize that I despise it because I myself do the same thing that they do.
I realized that no matter how hard you try, you'll still expect from others.
I realized that nothing in this world can be permanent. It always ends up being messed up.
I learned not to push myself into somewhere I don't belong to.
I learned to watch my back even more.
I learned the power of true friendship.
I learned the art of being passive aggressive.

To the people that I have met, thank you for the lasting impressions you gave me.
To the few that I have hurt, for that I am sorry. I don't expect for things to get back to the way they are, because I know that IT will never will.

Goodluck and God bless with this year everyone.
HAPPY NEW YEAR.