The Dalai Lama

He's coming to UW-Seattle on April 14, 2008 and will have a talk at Hec Ed Pavillion. I am disappointed that I am not going to be able to come (tix for students are complimentary!!) because the program starts at 3pm and ends at 5. I have a class that day from 12:30-3:20p

Haayy.. stupid middle of the day class.. 

Dalai Lama at UW-Seattle

Ces/Venus -- If you guys are going, let me know how it was.. 

Here's what the next two weeks will look like for me

Anyone wanna trade places with me?? I swear it will be fun!! =)

Saturday (03/08)

- Tutoring from 8:30 - 4pm
- from 4pm - the middle of Sunday morning: will be doing lab reports and papers and studying for two exams

Sunday (03/09)

- 7 am (or 9am) - church
- 9am - onwards - time spent for eating, lab reports, paper, studying for Biochem exam 3 and Inorg Chem Lab final exam. hope to finish the "paper" by this day.

Monday (03/10)

only have one class this day;
will be doing lab reports and studying for exams

Tuesday (03/11)

- final lab report due for my Instrumental Analysis class
- no classes this day, so it will be spent doing lab reports for my Inorg Chem Lab class.
- studying for exam 3 of Biochem and final exam of Inorg Chem Lab

Wednesday (03/12)

- Arene Lab Report due for Inorg Chem Lab. (25% worth of my grade for that class)
- do another lab report that is also 25% of my grade for that class
- study for lab exam
- study for biochem
- 12:30-4:30pm Phosphor lab

Thursday (03/13)
- 8:30 am (or 9:30am) - exam on Inorg Lab class
- study for biochem
- still be doing a lab report

Friday (03/14)
- 8-9:30am - Biochem exam 3
- 9:30 - 10:30 - class
-10:30 - 12:30 - working on Linkage isomers lab report (25% of my grade!!!!!)
- 12:30 - Linkage Isomers lab report due
- 12:30 - 4:30p - Phosphor Lab NMR; check out for InorgChem lab
- also due is my paper for my Tutor/Credit/Educ 401 class.
- will be doing lab report for my Phosphor lab.
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03/15- 03/20

These days will be spent studying furiously for my final two exams:

Biochem
and
Instrumental Analysis

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03/17-03/21 - FINAL WEEK, MY LAST WEEK OF UNDERGRAD WORK

EXCITATION

i am so excited.
i got 3 more weeks till my university work is over.

i got 3 more months till i walk in my toga.

i got 3 more months till i go home and chill with the 'barkada'.

I AM SO EXCITED..

Three Weeks and Counting

I have the "senioritis" effect on me right now. I'm trying my best to fend it off. I am excited to be done.

Right now I am hoping and praying for an interview in the jobs that I applied for the past week. I had an interview in Seattle Cancer Care last Monday, I don't know what the verdict is, but hopefully it would be a plus. I don't know how I did in the interview, for some reasons, I feel like I don't do well on interviews. I tend to linger and talk a lot. Hay..

Anyway..

back to lab report.

Films and staying committed

Had the chance to try out the edmonds photo pro lab. they did a pretty good job of developing the film considering both of it were expired.

i'll post some pictures when i'm done editing them.

it cost me $16 for developing and scan to CD. i think it was all worth it considering how i'm just trying film photography out again.

and about staying committed -- i had made a "picasso" like collage in today's tutoring for my pipeline class. it was pretty cool and i think i'll hang it up on my wall to remind me of how i should stay focus whenever i'm doing school work.

all of the pictures shall be posted soon.

one of the boys

I can't remember the last time that I had this "time"..
actually i do.. but i don't know.. didn't feel like it was those true rational moments spent with guys who actually care about you and you care about.

kaya namimiss ko yung mga kaibigan kong lalake sa pilipins e.
masayang kasama, mga harot at higit sa lahat madaling kausap.
walang pakeme. walang kaartehan.

i have yet to find guy friends around here who I can have the same relationship as I have with my guy friends in the pilipins.



this is all of them.
kulang pa nga yang mga yan e.
yung bestfriend kong lalake asa campo.
yung isa nagtratrabaho siguro.
mga mababait 'tong mga 'to. sapaw na sapaw ang kabaitan sa pagiging loko.
kaya nga miss ko na sila e.
hay. promise ko sa sarili ko, magpapapicture ako kasama lang sila pag uwi ko.

"CAS"

I have it.. hihihihihi.. mostly on vivitar cameras..
went to goodwill store today and found them there..

i also learned a lesson today:

GO TO GOODWILL BEFORE YOU GO TO EBAY.

hihihihi..

now I have to find some expired films..

Pictures

while i live vicariously through other people's photos taken with their lomo cameras, i live now in the world of photoshop, trying to tweak some photos to look like pictures taken with lomo cameras.





Camera: Canon SX100 IS
Inspiration: Flickr Lomo Pool

revised BIRTHDAY/GRADUATION WISHLIST

- $$ for Philippine trip

- $$ for this cameras:

colorsplash
fisheye (Urban Outfitters sells the blue fish eye camera)

this is to relive my passion for photography. ever since i bought my new camera i've been itching to do it again.

- a job (any kind will do right now)

- flying colors during my graduation

- sunny day on my graduation date

I'm getting pissed off with my recollection of freshman chemistry stuff. Simple balancing of oxidation-redox reaction I can't even do. GGGRRRRR...

THIS IS WHY I DON'T LIKE GETTING SICK WHEN SCHOOL'S AROUND!!

on the flip side of things...




it's my new toy, my old camera's replacement. I haven't really fully played with it yet but from the stuff that I already uploaded, it's looking pretty darn nice. I'll get the chance to maximize it's capacity once the memory card for it arrives, hopefully before the twins' birthday party this Saturday.

ohhh.. did I mention it was black? hahahaha..

my chemistry 'non-cookbook' lab class starts its first experiment tomorrow. i've been trying to read the safety issues and the procedure. This lab class is a bit scary because of the accident stories (2 stories to be exact) that was told to us by the TAs/prof/manual that happened because of not following the safety procedures.

anyway, i'm excited for that lab, it seems like it would be the first chem lab that will not show the full procedure of each experiments. students have the chance to figure out what to do based on knowledge and readings. exciting and daunting at the same time since figuring a procedure on our own can be grueling and frustrating, but it's all base on fun, knowledge and learning. plus, it's a real world thing, everything can't be spoonfed to us as they say.

--

music these days is pure crap. no one is making good music, every single song that repeats over and over the radio are made by martians. where are the good musicians?

i pity my ipod because it's not really getting the attention that it needs.

i had an accident late this year. it was my fault. i think after all the sayings and precautionary tales that i have received i have learned much. but one thing that they don't know is how much guilt i felt and stupidness i felt. at the time of the accident i have felt already that it was my fault. i didn't know how it was but i knew. i knew how things can skyrocket especially with my own insurance.

two times that i have been to an accident and twice that i cried and felt really bad getting in it. it wasn't fucking awesome.

i already received many tips on how to drive in the freeway and also in the city. and i am going to apply it.

and i will be careful.

if i don't i know that it will be the BUS for me or walk or have people drive me to wherever. and i really don't want that.

I passed Intro to Biochem!

and i'm so freakin happy about that..

one more quarter at UW. one more pre-req for med school.

then, GRADUATION!!

then, the complete real world.

then, maybe, med school.

my life right now consists of a holiday paying job, a style book by one of the most stylish person in this world that I know and my iBook.

In 2008, my life will contain many many many trips and hardships. But it's all good, it will all be worth it in the end.

I don't have much to say but,


MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE!

=)

CHRISTMAS WISHLIST

which also applies to my birthday and my graduation. hehehehe..

1) Steve Madden Riding boots

-been looking for a cheap one in EBAY... but the cheap ones get taken so quickly.. grrr
- This one is on sale in Nordstroms tried on a 6.5 but it was too small, so I'm guessing I am a seven.

2) Red coat

- size XS or S - pea coat or trench coat that go up to the half-thigh/thigh-half

3) The elusive Patrick Robinson for Target dress.

4) Christian Louboutin peep toe pumps in beige (riiigghhtt.. tried it on for the first at Barney's in Downtown Pacific Place, o mi gulay, it feels so good on the feet.. )

5) plane ticket to Philippines

6) $$ for Boracay/Batangas with friends in the Philippines

7) $$ towards my Black Macbook fund (which I am starting to build)

My warranty for my current Ibook is expiring this month. Hopefully after this month the book will fly solo with no sickness till the time I decide to purchase a new one.

8) For me to drive the 'good drive'. My latest accident wasn't too peachy with my insurance. I want to learn how to drive well in the freeway.

9) A hospital job - phlebotomist/chem technician/ekg taker.. preferably in Childrens Hospital

10) Vintage boots - only I can find

11) Memory foam pillow - not the contour one. the actual huggable pillow that conforms to your hug

12) starbucks GC

I think this is it

ADDITIONAL!!!!

13) SONY PSP!!!!
++ ULTIMATE MARVEL NEMESIS PSP, TOMB RAIDER, ULTIMATE ALLIANCE, MORTAL KOMBAT UNCHAINED GAMES

:(

I feel like I'm cursed in lab class right now. IT doesn't seem to miss one class where I don't make any mistakes, miscalculations or putting the wrong reagent in the mixture.

GAAAHH..

ok.. so i know I'm not suppose to think this way about this lab. i have to stay positive.

then again, how can one stay positive amidst all the stupidness and retardation that one is feeling everytime she is in the class?

GAAAHHH!!!

WE have a TREE!!

(me opening the front door of our house) ...

Aunt: "Oh! We have a tree in our house!"

Me (confused about a woman standing by my mom's bedroom door and my aunt's words) : "We have a Christmas tree already?"

Aunt (laughing): "No!! C'mere and look"

(me walking towards the dining room and seeing this part of the tree inside the house)

Me: "OH... THHHAAATT KIND OF TREE."

HEHEHEHE.. yeah so that was funny to me. But this happened after a windstorm that hit Seattle two weeks ago. Quite fun. Well, not really. IT was quite scary. But on the upside, hot firemen came to our house. yehehehehe.. well one of them is hot, the other two were a bit old already.

i guess when you open up yourself to something that you're usually not, you easily get torn down and be back to the reality that you're not suppose to be who you are usually not.

preppy fashionista

my mythology professor looks like a preppy fashionista. reason being? he's a harvard and yale alumni.. ahem.. i know, i'm biased.. but i have this pre-conceived notion that all people who go to those schools are preppy fashionistas.. don't have anything against them, in fact I admire their sense of style..

in conclusion, i like my mythology professor's sense of style. not all professors dress like him.

spinning in physical and mental state

three days ago, i had a car accident. it was one for the books for me as it was very meaningful albeit the scariness of it. i was driving towards the Veteran's Affairs hospital to finish up my job application there to become a clinical lab assistant, a job description that I liked so much because i get to practice blood drawing.

towards the exit sign, i got into the accident. the car that i was driving spun around.

before i had that accident, i came across interstate morning traffic. it was literally hell for me because i was so tired and so frustrated about the traffic. i begun into thinking if that job was the right job to take while i'm at my situation right now. i was weighing pros and cons, thinking of things to consider, thinking of things that i have to think about even before i make a decision. i was so confused and so dazed that i just prayed to God to give me a sign that tells me not to take the job anymore.

in comes the accident. a sign. a big sign.

my mental state that day was in daze and confused situation, however, the accident alleviated it quite a bit. although, i was traumatized i feel like that day was a big lesson for me that i for sure will remember for the rest of my life. i've learned a lot of things and one of those was to thank God for being there for me always.

if i would've taken that job, i would've been in a spin state. my head would be all clouded from all information from school and be tired from all the stresses of travelling back and forth from the hospitals and from selling my ass off in my retail job.

i'm graduating in 6 months. 6 freaking months. i'm panicked and i'm excited.

before i graduate, i want to make the grade. but in order for me to do that i have to make school as my #1 priority.

i have to make sacrifices in order to survive and be rewarded graciously.

to friends whom i don't see or talk to anymore, thanks for staying as my friend.
to family, thanks for being there for me and understanding.
to a guy who cares much, thank you for always believing.

Tibetan Personality Test

I ordered these 5 animals in preference:

horse - FAMILY
sheep - LOVE
cow - CAREER
pig - MONEY
tiger - PRIDE

I described these 5 in one word:

dog is playful - describes my personality
a cat is relaxed - describes the one that I am in a relationship with.
rat is dirty - describes my enemies (nyahahahaha.. )
coffee is yummy - describes how i see sex
sea is peaceful - what my life is (a.huh.)

I think of important people in my life and associate them with these colors:

yellow - Kuya Ice - I won't forget this person
orange - Ate Leah - she is my true friend
red - Tita Chi - I love this person.
white - Jan Jen - she's my twin soul
Green - Mom - someone that i will remember for the rest of my life