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Friday, July 31, 2009
I Got My Fun Fun! ♫ 9:20 PM


Part i

Wasn't able to blog yesterday, so I'm going to give you a short, short [and i mean short] narration about what I did yesterday. :D

We had computer class in the morning, and in the computer lab, Twinkle and I suddenly saw a ping pong ball bounce toward us and to the door, I went after it and kept it since I don't think anyone was claiming or looking for it. :p

Later on, I wrote stuff on the ball. First, I drew a smiley. Then my name "CHiNKY" [no picture of that though], then Sfidato, 2k10, and last, but no the least, Carpe Diem! ^^





And yesterday for lunch, guess what I ate? No, you can't guess.. :D I ate ONIGIRI! ^w^



Sorry the pictures are too... bright.. I tried editing the brightness and all, but it didn't work. Quantum's classroom is so bright, that when i tried taking pictures, it would make it brighter. [Remember my camera's problem?] Yeaa... -.-"

There's this Japanese store that opened in our school's Food Court just recently and I've only gone there now. 'Cause I don't think the people I go with to lunch are as into japanese food as I am... ^^"

And since the teachers had a meeting, we had shortened periods the whole day and had YDT [Youth Development Training] from 3-5 PM. It's where we practice for Sportsfest. [= Freshmen-Juniors went to their own teams and practiced while Seniors practiced for the Grand Cheer. That's the part of Sportsfest where the whole school cheers. :D

Although after that, classes with the 5-6 schedule still had to go to class. Our class was one of them... -.-"

Part II

Started my day with a plate of Pancakes topped with bananas... Chocolate, and Strawberry syrup! Hahahah! xD Yumm :P And yes, my dad allows me to have sweets for breakfast.. xD At least I think he does... :))

Today at school, we barely did anything. We had shortened periods again and a lot of our batchmates went home because they had to review for UPCAT.

For debate, we had our Demonstrative Speeches that were supposed to be delivered last week. I planned on doing "How to Write in Chinese" That's why I had Wo Ai Ni written on my hand last week, since that's when we were supposed to have our Demo Speech. But then we ran out of time and I wasn't able to deliver my speech, so we continued it today. I changed my mind and decided to teach the class How to play the Poi Balls! :D

To those who dance or know about Hawaiian Dancing, you'll know what Poi Balls are. :D They're these white soft balls that are attached to strings. I don't have a picture right now, I'll show you next time. :D And it's one of the props to a kind of Maori Dance. :D [Hawaiian Dancing] Yes, I used to dance Hawaiian. :D

Anyways, after that we didn't really do anything in school, we just reviewed for UPCAT most of the time and practiced the batch dance a little, then went home. :D

We were allowed to go home at lunch and have half day so we could review, I was supposed to go home, but then I remembered we had Physics today. And I couldn't afford to miss Physics, so I stayed. But during Physics, we ended up not doing anything. T~T I could've gone home. Although my friends and I reviewed UPCAT instead, so I guess it was alright. [=

Then after school, I [finally] had my first Painting Class. Hahah! xD One month ago, when I first met my teacher, she asked me to paint a simple landscape and try to paint one of my anime drawings. So I did. And this is how they turned out.



As you can see, it's a sea shore. Hahah! I had no idea what other [simple] landscape I could paint. SO I painted this. :D



And I also painted Mokona! xD It turned out a little all messed up, though. > . <

Oh well, it was worth a try. Hahah! xD

Anyways, today in art class, I was taught how to do washes. It's a kind of water coloring where you paint the whole paper with just one shade of a color, and the color has to be constant all throughout the page. It's not that easy. Hahah! xD Here's a picture :p



The brown tape-like frame around the paper is called "paper tape". It's something you put at the side of a paper so you can have a margin. You can paint over it as much as you want, and when you take it off, it'll still be plain white at the edges of your paper, giving you a perfect margin. :D

As you can see, my wash isn't that good. The color is uneven, and the color fades as the strokes go farther. -.-" I didn't know I could repeat my strokes. Hahah! xD Oh well.. :p

Next, my teacher taught me how to paint a sunset. I don't have a picture of it, she just taught me the basics, so it's not that photogenic. Hahah! xD

Next, she asked me to draw a simple anime character, but I was too shy to do that, I felt that it wouldn't be that good, so she drew one instead. Then she asked me to paint it, with washes, shadows, and everything else. Of course, I did it with her help. :p



That's how it looks like... The background is red [yes.. it's red.. not pink.]

And when I got home, I found that my bed got bigger! Wahah! xD Okay, so my bed was a single bed that was meant for me when I was 11... That's when our grandparents got this house made for us. We were supposed to move in by then, but only ended up moving in last year. Hahah! :p I haven't lived in this house for a whole year yet, so yea. :D

My old bed was really small, my feet hung off the edge of the bed whenever I was sleeping, so since the house is being renovated at some areas [since certain people moved in 3-4 months ago], my dad's getting a new bed and all. So I got his old one. Hahah! xD He said it was too small for them. I don't know why he said that, but ti looks big enough for me! Hahahah! :p

Oh... right.. picture! :D Here! :D



I have a picture of how my room looks like with the smaller bed, but it's in the other computer, so I'ma post that some other time. xD

I think this blog post has gotten long enough, I'm gonna go get some sleep so I can review well for my UPCAT [University of the Philippines College Admission Test]. Wish me luck guys. ^^ Pray for me please :D Although I'm after Ateneo, it would still be great if I passed the UPCAT. Hahah! :D

My UPCAT is on Sunday, and I'm going to spend tomorrow reviewing. If I survive. :p

Good Night! :D


chinkyyy~

Wednesday, July 29, 2009
All Mixed Up ♫ 7:22 PM


Okay, so today, during Physics, I found out something really heartbreaking. T~T

So here it goes. We had a group work in Physics and I was group mates with Arian. Then she started asking me things:


Arian: Chinky, crush mo pa rin si Cabz? [yes, we all know who this is]
Chinky: Umm... medyo.. I guess.. yea.
Arian: Ganun? Wala nang iba? Sa class? Sa batch?
Chinky: Nope.
Arian: Hahah! Bakit? Lahat naman kasi taken na eh. Di ba si Cabz MU na sila ni *******?



I'd rather not mention her name, but yea. ]= I had no idea, and I guess several people knew at that time. I even told Sonya about it, and according to her, she already knew about it before. T~T

Jaja kept saying sorry to me. I don't know why, probably sorry 'cause she didn't tell me, or maybe she just really felt sorry for me. Hahah! :p

And after lunch, I also asked Pres about it:


Chinky: Pres, can I ask you something?
Pres: Yea? What?
Chinky: Are Cabz and ******* like..........
Pres: Umm.. It depends, how? What do you mean?
Chinky: They're MU daw?
Pres: Umm... yeaaa... I know *******'s side, but not Cabz's side, so yea. She really likes him daw eh.
Chinky: Oh.. I see.. Thank you.
Pres: Ala! I won't tell you nalang! Sorry Chinky. Baka you'll be sad pa..!



Yeaa.. When she said that, I kind of felt like crying. My eyes started to tear-up, but luckily none of the tears fell. I didn't want to cry over something so unreasonable.

It's not like I ever expected him to like me back or anything, but it's just that I've liked him a really long time and I've heard about him liking a lot of other girls before. I guess it's alright. I felt so wrapped-up in myself that I didn't want him to like anyone, moreover, to actually be with anyone.

Oh, but have I told you? I don't think so. SO I'm going to tell you right now. Cabz transferred schools. He's in Berkeley now because of 7 failing grades. I know, right?

Anywayss, he comes to visit his friends in our school a few times a week, I guess. So yea.. This is what Sonya had to say about it:

"Distance is supposed to help you move on!! How are you suppoed to do that if he keeps coming back?!"

Yeaa.. Hahah! xD And I found an icon of Axel and Roxas on photobucket that kind of expresses how I feel about him leaving. [Don't get the wrong idea though. Neither Axel or Roxas is gay. xD]

Anywayss, after lunch though, I got really hyper! xD We practiced our batch dance for two hours after lunch. I got really hyper since I love dancing so much. [= And I love watching to boys do Single Ladies! Hahahah! ^^

It's really fun :D At the start we all dance to Insomnia, then after that, the girls move out and the boys start dancing to Single Ladies Then after that, the guys move out, and the girls move in so we can dance Beat It. Yes, the one by Michael Jackson! :D

It's awesome that everyone's going to dance during Sportsfest. [= I'm actually really excited. :D I miss cheering, sicne the cheering part is only for freshmen to juniors [= Seniors kind of have their own team and we cheer the Seniors' cheer. Although, we're not part of the competition. [=

I'm going to try to record a few parts, but that depends if my dad will let me bring the video camera. [=

Anyways, after that, we had Computer, then Research. Research was kind of a free period for us. It usually is. Hahah! xD So we decided to practice the dance a little, then Vergel and Ricco started doing crazy things! Hahah! xD

Chryzia, Twinkle and I started doing some WuShu moves. xD

Then Vergel started doing a moonwalk, and Bruce taught us how to. Hahahah! xD Then Twinkle suggested they'd do Michael Jackson's Anti-Gravity Lean. And this is how it turned out:



But at the back, Jayvee's holding his shirt. Hahahah! xD But before that, Ricco tried doing it, and all the guys who were there held on to his feet, ankles and the back of his shirt, so when he did it, he was practically half-way down. xD

Then the boys pretended that Ricco was like a dummy or something, he just stood there and they started playing with his poses and his facial expressions. They even made him pose like the Statue of Liberty, using an umbrella as the torch, and a piece of illustration board as the book. I took a picture, but then it got deleted by accident. T~T

Oh well.. [=



That's a picture of Atom [our section]! [= That's not everyone though. Some people went home already, and some of the people in the picture are from Wave, I'm not sure, but I think some were from Quantum. :p

Anyways, try to look for me! xD

Can't find me? Then look for the two girls in yellow to the left of the picture. [= See them? The one with glasses is Jane. The one with longer hair is me. :D

Yep, see it? Aryt! :D Can't find me? Look again! xD

Hahahah! Later on, I was about to leave, but then the boys started doing crazy things at the back again, so I took my camera out and took pictures! xD



Yes, that's right. Ricco was walking on the wall. Hahahah! ^o^ Kidding! Hahah! :p You can see it, can't you? [= The guys were holding his back and he was pretending to walk on the wall. xD

Then later on, they started to pull him away from the wall and carried him away. hahah! xD That's the second picture, It kinda looks like he fell and people caught him, but that's actually him struggling, trying to get off. Hahah! xD

At the end of the day, I realized how fun it was. I forgot about the Cabz thing, but then I remembered when I was about to go home when I saw him walking towards school. Oh well... Maybe the guy who used to make me smile all the time, is meant more to be the guy who ends up ruining my day. =/

By the way, I'm currently working on a blog post entitled "Memory Avenue." It'll be a blog post about my whole high school life. That's right. :D My WHOLE High School life. xD Not for all the small details, but the major things that happened. It'll be a pretty long one, so I'm currently working on it part by part. I probably won't finish it soon, so just keep an eye out for it, aryt? [= Give me 2 months or so. Hahahah! xD

Although if I change my mind and decide to finish it up to graduation and Red Carpet next year, then you'll have to wait 'til [more or less] April 2010 before I get to finish it. :D


chinkyyy~

Tuesday, July 28, 2009
Sfidato ♫ 7:13 PM


Happy Kokopelli Day!! [1 year and 1 month] xD

Weeee!! I feel so proud today! xD

But before I start saying anything, I would just like to tell you that I've started making quote banners again! xD Yea, that picture over there is one of them. :D

Anyways... On with the blog post! xD

First of all, we had a long quiz in Physics, which I was really worried about. But in the end, I found it really easy, which is weird since I was able to have Haustus [recess] just about on time while the others extended and had only 5-10 minutes of Haustus.

I got kind of worried about that though, I thought about it, and I could've done the wrong thing which made me finish faster than the others, but oh well. Nothing I can do about that now. Hahah! xD

Then later that afternoon, for our last period, we had algebra, and Sir Anton started giving back our seat work and quiz papers from the past weeks. And [not so] surprisingly, I got perfect in most of them! :D

It's not that big a deal since Algebra is one of my best subjects, but still. :)) It's not so bad to feel happy for myself once in a while. xD

And right before lunch Daryl [Prime Minister] talked to the class and asked if we were all okay with "Sfidato" being our batch name. And I felt so happy when everyone liked it. ^^

Last Saturday, we were researching in the computer lab possible names for our batch, and I found Sfidato, which meant 'Challenged.' I didn't mention that in my previous post since I didn't really think it would be one of the names they'd actually choose from.

But I'm glad it was, I feel like I contributed something HUGE by giving a batch name. Hahahah! xD I'm not asking for any credit though. [= As long as our batch has a name and everyone agrees with it, then it's fine. xD

I don't want credit if it's for the whole batch. [=

Also, when we had literature for our second period after lunch, we continued our discussion about Norse Mythology. Then we talked about Odin. Then suddenly our teacher said that Odin had "Extramarital Affairs"

Hahahahahahahahah!! =))



Okay, so here's the story cut short and less perverted. Last year, we were researching in the University Library for topics for our IP. And we were sitting down with our groupmates and another group beside ours. Raymart [my bro ^^] was one of them.

He was holding a book that happened to be a thesis from the past. He started reading it then he saw the word 'extramarital'. Then we asked him what he thought it meant, then he started to compare it with 'premarital'.

[ I hope you guys get where this is going and that you guys get what he compared it with. =)) If not, then I understand. Hahah! xD It's okay if you don't, I didn't expect everyone to get this anyways. ]

We kept laughing and couldn't stop for about 10-15 minutes straight. I think the people at the library got irritated with our noise. Hahah! xD



When I heard Ma'am Jerrel say that, I immediately brought my phone out and started texting Sonya. I knew I was seated waay in front of the class, the teacher would definitley see me texting, and that the door was wide open for me to be seen inside the principal's office, but this was something I just really had to [more like wanted to] tell Sonya. xD

When those words came out of our teacher's mouth, I suddenly remembered Raymart. ^^ He was the one who introduced that word to me. Hahahah! xD

And sadly, my bro doesn't study in our school anymore. He transferred to City High because of an issue that happened right before the school year ended last year.

When Nicki and I found out about that, it was during the 'handog'. [March 2009] We just started crying when he texted about what happened and that he was leaving. ]= People kept asking us why, [I don't know about Nicki] but I promised Mart that I wouldn't mention it to anyone.

^^ Oh well, memories........... EXTRAMARiTAL! xD


chinkyyy~

Saturday, July 25, 2009
âmes de Legatus ♫ 11:39 PM


You might be wondering what my blog title means. It means "Souls of Legatus." Legatus is the batch name of our Angels' batch. [= It means Legacy in Latin. And we're their souls. So basically that's it. :p

We were researching today in the computer lab for some possible words we could have for our batch name. Hopefully we get to decide within the upcoming week. Sportsfest is near and we all want to have our batch jackets and/or jerseys by then.

The first name we were supposed to use was Cygnus X. Which was supposedly a constellation that forms an X in the sky. And X stands for 10 in the roman numerals. But then some people looked it up on the internet and it turns out Cygnnus is Latin for Swan, and image results show that Cygnus is a kind of motorcycle. So we're trying to think of a new one.

Kate suggested Batough10. Pronounced as beytow ten. It had a good meaning, but no offense to Kate, but I didn't really like that name. =.= It wasn't nice to listen to. [Sorry Kate]

Twinkle suggested another one Lex Tallionis. It means 'an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth', but it could also mean 'the last'. There's a reason why some of us want our batch name to have the meaning 'last' or 'final' in it, but I'd rather not talk about it here. [=

And while searching for names, Leah tried to put my name into the translator thingy, and Franceen Loy is 'Alatariel Galathil' in and elven language. Funny thing is that before we searched my name, we also searched for the translations for a few other words we could have for a batch name. Two of those words were 'legacy' and 'final'.

When we translated 'final', the word 'Alatariel' came out. And for Legacy, it was 'Galathil'. So I guess my name kinda means Final Legacy in elven language. Hahahah! ^o^

Anyways, today I also joined the new sport we have in our school. WUSHU!! :D I did Wushu in china for the study tour in Beijing last summer and I decided to continue it. So I joined the one in school. xD

I don't think our school ever had this club before, but I'm glad we do now. :p Here's a video of the one we performed in China. [=



If you can't find me, I'm the second girl from the left. The one with a half pony tail. [= See me? Aryt..! [=

All the boys in the tour performed since it was wushu. And our wushu teachers only chose 4 out of 14 girls to join the performance. And unfortunately, I was one of them. :p It turned out to be really fun though. [= This was the performance at our school in China by the way. We also performed in Manila when we got back to the Philippines, but I don't have a video of that one. :p

Anyways, I just decided to post the video since I missed Beijing a lot when I joined the wushu club. [I'm not even sure if it's a club xD] But hey, at least I finally have a sport in school! Hahahah! xD



Friday, July 24, 2009
Random! [= ♫ 10:04 PM


Hahahah! So here's a video that my batchmate, Matthew, took of Feed Your Batchmate during nutrition day. Hahahah! xD Well, basically it's a game where both people are blindfolded and the other person acts as the first person's arms and feeds him food. The first thing they had to eat was oatmeal. Then the next one was Oishi... The spicy flavored one! Hahah! =))



Anyways, in the first part, our filipino teacher, Sir Dem, is feeding the sophomores' filipino teacher, Sir Jess. Hahah!

Then after them, it shows the two freshmen participants. It's like, she's being fed so slowly. But during that time, the sophomores weren't even finished with the cup of oatmeal yet. Hahahah! :p

Then after that it shows my two batchmates. Bianca is the one at the back, feeding Med. Then it goes back to our teachers.

Anyways, that's not what I wanted to blog about today. ^w^ Today, we were all supposed to have our demonstrative speech for debate. And since I wasn't able to prepare anything, I decided to teach the class how tow rite a few chinese characters.

Although mine didn't push through, I'ce decided that I'm going to change my topic. ^^ So next week, when I do my speech, I'm going to teach the class how to do Poi Balls. It's something we used as props in Hawaiian Dancing when I was younger. [=

And Jane brought a Chinese Yoyo for her speech. I knew how to do that already since I learned that in China during the study tour. [=

And my art class was cancelled today... AGAIN! Hahah! :p I got stranded in school 'cause of the strong rain and I wasn't able to get to painting class in time. I was 45 minutes late. x_x

Anyways, that's also not what I wanted to blog about! Hahahah! Sorry, there's just a lot to say for today... I guess. xD

I decided that once a month, I'm going to blog about my stuff. [= Not just any stuff, but stuff that I love. Mostly things that are found in my room. So today, I took pictures of the things that I love in my room.

But don't worry, there are a LOT more than that, so there's still a lot of stuff saved for the upcoming months! ^^

So first of all, These are pictures of a giant lollipop I bought with my friends in Beijing! Hahah! [= I haven't opened it yet, I don't know when I'm going to, but I will... Soon! Hahah [=



And today, I wrote chinese characters on the back of my hand. In the picture below you'll see it. It says "Wo Ai Ni" I bet a lot of you know what it means already, but to those who don't know, it means "I Love You"



Then below, it's a picture an item I love.. The Dog Tag! [= I'm actually pointing to it. I'm not sure if it's clearly seen, but I bet you can see it anyways. If not, click on the picture to see a bigger view of it :p And if you look at my left hand, you'll see the thing I wrote earlier today. [=

[by the way, all the pictures of me wearing our school uniform were taken just today. When I got home, I went to my room, then spotted the camera and immediately started taking pictures. xD]



And next, you'll see me with my Starbucks Bearista Collection. [= I've collected those since 2004. I haven't gotten any recently since they've gotten so expensive already. > . <



Following this paragraph is a picture of me and my shutter shades! [= I bought these with Sonya and Nicole last school year. Sonya got the same ones except they weren't red. They had a print of the american flag on it. [= We got them at this store in Porta Vaga. Then when we brought them to school, everyone started buying their own! We're such trend setters..! Hahah! :p



And below, is a letter C!! Hahah! [= C for Chinky ^^ It was from the Quiz Bee last wednesday. There were 5 choices for each question represented by a letter, and which ever you think is the answer, you run towards the letter. Yesss... [= And after the game, we all got tired and sweaty, so we got the letters and used them as fans. Although I used E and B as fans, I found the C just lying around before we left. :p



"DO NOT DISTURB! unless it's time to eat..." Hahah! I stuck that on my bedroom door one time when I was reviewing for a comprehensive exam I had to take 2 months ago. And since I didn't want to throw it away, I stuck it to my piggy bank. :p



Next is a picture of me holding a Scream bottle! [= Scream is a drink taht everyone in the Study Tour loved. [= We drank that practically everyday. There are three different flavors. I don't know what the flavors are since I can't read the labels, but they come in different colors.

My favorite was the blue one, but they ran out just before we had to leave, so I couldn't take one home, I took a green one instead. [= There's also a red one, but a lot of people said it tasted awful, so I didn't bother trying it. :p

Click on the picture to see a solo picture of the Scream bottle. [=



And next, you'll see me with Roxas, my first guitar pick! Click to see better since, the pick is so tiny ^^



Next [don't worry it's almost done] is a wish box my mom sent me 1-2 years ago. [= It's really tiny. It's smaller than 1/2 of your thumb [= This is actually the first time I put a wish in it, and I hope it helps in some way. [=



And last, but not the least, is a music box I bought in China's National Centre for the Performing Arts. Also during the study tour in Beijing. That place had everything, art works, a studio, an opera house, a huge stage at the ground floor, and it had a store that sold souvenirs that had anything to do with Music. That's where I got this music box [=

I play it every night before I go to sleep. I think it already fell 2 or 3 times, which is probably why the guitar is tilted forward on its platform. :p

Anyways, goodnight [= We kind of have classes tomorrow. Not regular academic classes, but it's in preparation for this year's Sportsfest on August 18. [=



Wednesday, July 22, 2009
Nutrition Day ♫ 8:28 PM


Happy Nutrition Day, everyone! Hahah! Well, it's not a world-wide or nationwide thing... I don't think this day is city-wide either. Everyone probably celebrates Nutrition Month, and in our school, for one whole day in July, we celebrate Nutrition Day in the gym.

Every year, for most school activities, seniors plan it and supervise as well. One of our school's goals is Student Empowerment.

Anywayss... First thing this morning, we had practice in the gym while everyone assembled in their classrooms. And when everyone got to the gym, we started morning devotion and introduced 2 [for some, 3] new songs to the lower years.

Then for the first activity, we had a relay. A group of representatives from each batch [including the faculty members] had to complete certain... umm... tasks [?] in order to complete the relay. It was divided into 4 parts. First was egg toss. 4 people have to toss two eggs one at a time and get it to the 4th person.

Then once that was finished, they have to tag the next guy and that's where the calamansi pass. I think most of you guys know how this works, I'm too lazy to explain it. Hahah! :D

Then the next part is an apple eating contest. 4 representatives per batch have to eat an apple off a stick. The goal is for two people to finish their apple. But there's a catch. They're not allowed to touch the apple or the stick. :p

The last part of the relay was my favorite to watch! :D The eggplant thingy! :D there's this rope tied around the waist of a person with an eggplant hanging off a couple feet below. And without touching the eggplant or the rope, the person has to push a bottle using the eggplant towards the next person. And that goes through probably about 5 people until the finish line. Hahahah! ^w^

Then after that we had our Haustus [our school's term for recess]. And after that, Twinkle, Ino and I practiced a little backstage. Then after our break, that's when we danced.

The dance was the one we've been practicing for the past 2 days. And yesterday, we added this cute part where our arms are spread out and we rotate our hips real slow. Hahah! >w< We also added some of Angelica's Wu Shu Moves to the start of our dance. Hahah! :D

I got my sister to take a video but it wasn't that good since she used a really old digital camera. I'm not sure if the camera really didn't record sounds or if there was something wrong with it. But there sure wasn't any sounds in the video. And it wouldn't zoom in, so it was pretty far.

Soooo... I guess no video today. [= Although I asked Sonya to take a few shots of our dance using my camera. [I'm the one wearing bright green. You'll find me somewhere close to Chryzia, the girl in red on the right. :D]

The bad quality isn't Sonya's fault though.. Since my camera hasn't been functioning very well recently, the pictures are pretty blurry [putting the flash was pretty useless] and some were too bright, so I had to edit the sharpness and the brightness a little.

Here are a few shots. [= Click on them to get a bigger view since they're pretty hard to see 'cause they're all small and blurry... [=







Anyways, after our dance was the mascots. I don't have pictures of them though. Too bad. And I don't really know who won since I was in the screening for Gazette [School Newspaper] during the awarding ceremonies.

Then after that, we had Food Factor. It's kinda like Fear Factor except we just let them eat gross stuff. Hahahah! :)) The first thing they had to drink was a kind of shake thing that had ampalaya, okra, calamansi, and other things [I don't want to know] in it.

Then they had to eat mashed bananas, which looked yucky, but I guess it didn't taste bad at all. They just got it to look gross so the participants wouldn't dare touch it. Hahahah! :p

Then the last one was a sandwich with Balut and Ampalaya in it. Hahahah! Surprisingly, a lot of people liked it. Even the faculty representatives! hahahah! :D Which, by the way, was Sir anton and ma'am Jerrel. :D

After that was lunch I guess. Then after lunch, it was tug of war. It didn't push through, since the rope kept breaking. :))

Then there was the quiz bee. I joined since we lacked representatives. It was fun, everyone kept running to the same answer every time. All the seniors [except Jacob and Jaja], juniors and sophomores were eliminated later on. So two freshmen and two seniors were left. Jacob and Jaja just got lucky in the previous round though, so I guess it wasn't so surprising when a freshman won. :))

Then there was feed a batchmate! I wanted to join this, although I wasn't able to get a slot earlier. So I ended up just facilitating the game. It's a game that's played by pair and both people will be blindfolded. There will be a table in front of both people and the person at the back will act as the arms and hands of the person who's going to eat the food.

It's a pretty messy game, but there aren't any gross food involved, that's why I wanted to join. Hahaha! xD

Here's a picture I took, I have a few others, but this one's the best. It's a picture of the faculty representatives, Sir Dem and [a new sophomore teacher, I don't really know his name].



That's Sir Dem feeding the other teacher Oishi [a kind of junk food]. Although the first thing he had to feed him was oatmeal, which was way messier. Some of the participants had oatmeal all over their faces! Hahahah! xD

Some looked like they were about to cry coz their partner kept feeding them and feeding them endlessly, which I felt sorry for, but it's not like I could do anything, so in the end I just offered them a lot of tissue to wipe their face. Hahah! :D

And when I went over to where the teachers were, I heard Sir Dem shouting "Eat it! Come on! Eat it! Eat it!" and it's like he kept shoving handfulls of chips into the poor teacher's mouth. Hahahah! xD But they looked like they were having fun anyways. ^^

Then after that there was Pinoy Henyo where there's this word and the participant can't look at it. He has to ask questions to his batchmates and guess the word. I didn't really watch that since I was talking to Sonya backstage.

After that we went to Gazette Screening. We were supposed to go for feature writing. But we were only given one hour to write a news article, an editorial, a sports article, and a feature article. And we obviously couldn't do that, so we had to back out and we chose to either screen for photojournalism and layout artist. I obviously wasn't going to be able to do photo journalism because of my camera's sad state, so we both screened for layout artist instead.

There were only four of use who screened for layout artist [Me, Sonya, Twinkle and Rovie], but we knew only one person was going to be chosen, so we all tried our best, I guess. I finished at around 6 PM already. I didn't even notice that I was there for so long.

Anyways, I guess that's it. I'm going to get some sleep. ^^ Nightie, guys! ^^



Tuesday, July 21, 2009
Boom Boom Pow! ♫ 8:21 PM


Weeee!! ^o^ I miss dancing!! ^^

I can't say I'm a hundred percent good at dancing, since I wouldn't really know. [= Anyways, I've danced practically during my whole grade school life. Then here came high school, I was kind of shy and all. But I tried out for the dance group and I didn't qualify. [= Then just a couple of months ago, during our study tour in China, I danced with a few tourmates for this event we had to perform in. It was full of old people though, I didn't really expect that. :p

And after a long time of not dancing, I actually had a lot of fun. So this year I decided to join s few dances and last saturday, Twinkle asked me if I wanted to dance for Nutrition Day [which will be held tomorrow at the gym], so I told myself 'sure, why not?' and I joined. I've only practiced the dance for to days. Yesterday and today, and I think I've gotten the hang of it. ^w^

We even stayed in school today from 4 PM 'til 7 at night just to practice. And tomorrow we have to be at our batchmate's house before 7 AM. I'ma wear my green music shirt! ^^ Aaaaand, sadly, we have to wear skinny jeans... T~T I don't normally wear those things, but oh well.

Also, earlier, at around 4 PM when everyone was in their batch meetings, we started practicing and they taught us the part where we slide on the floor and we bow at the end. We practiced that part and since it was a little crowded, we were all cramped up at the center of the room. That kind of explains why my head was near Harvee's feet. Then I was about to pull my head up and next thing I knew, Harvee's foot hit my head. T~T Ooooww... T~T I was laughing though. Hahah! :p Although it still hurts up to now.. T~T

By the way, there aren't any pictures... Again. Although I think Criselle took a few shots, so I'ma grab them from her and post them on here once she uploads them. ^o^

I'm also going to ask my sister to take a video tomorrow, so I might take screen shots from the video as well.. ^^

Anyways, as usual, there isn't much to talk about, so I guess I'm going to leave it here for tonight. [= Goodnightie guys.. Chinky needs her beauty rest so she gets enough energy for tomorrow. Hahah! :D



Monday, July 20, 2009
2nd First Day of School ♫ 9:20 PM


So today was the second first day of school! Hahahah! [= Well, that's how I saw it anyways. SCA duty was annoying as ever today. And our first subject? Guess what? Chem! Baahh!! Hahahah! :p I know... We're Seniors and we shouldn't have chemistry anymore... But we're a Science School so I guess it's a must... =.=

My day started out bad though. 'Cause before our 'break' started, we had a laboratory activity in chem and I wasn't able to finish my Lab Paper, which was supposed to be submitted today, since I had to go to my advisory class. So I left my paper with my group mates. And today, I was supposed to get it back from her since it was due this morning. But according to her she gave it back to me, but I really don't remember her doing so. So I had to get a new paper and I had to work on it again. Oh well, it's for the grade.

Then for Values Education [Val. Ed.] we had an activity where we could choose our own group and we pass around our Val. Ed. journals so our group mates could draw symbols that represent us and they can put a reason why. I'm gonna put some of those on here. But not all of them since I don't really have much time. I'm sleepy... =.=

Anywayss, here's our group:



In those pictures, I'm the one wearing gray. Lol... Loyal.. Hahah! Kidding :p In the second picture, I'm with Chryzia. That time I was texting Nikki-chan! Hahah! :p

Well, here are some of the things my groupmates drew for me ^^ I don't really have pictures of them so I guess I'll just type it down. -.-" sorry..

Anyways, the first one was Chryzia.. She drew a camera and wrote "Capturing Moments"

Another was Aica's. It was a drawing of one of my shirts and a bunch of candy around it! Hahah! And she wrote "Colorful Shirts!"

The last one, that was Twinkle's, had pieces of paper and a pencil.. And on the drawing of a paper, there was a drawing of a face like this ----> >.< And it says "You're creative! In writing, in drawing, in designing... in DOODLEZ!"

And most of the descriptions there said "Always Smiling!" Hahahah! ^^

Anyways, after that was lunch, we ate at Paotsin!! Wah! I missed that place! Hahah! :p then after eating we practiced the dance we were going to perform before the mascots enter during Nutrition Day.. [= I think they've started practicing last week, but I was only asked to dance recently, so I had to be taught the steps first. We also practiced until 6 in school, and I can't help but laugh at how Ino dances! Hahahah! [no offense to him though ^^ it's funny ^^]

Then after lunch, it was Research. We went to the Com. Lab to research on topics for a new thesis proposal, but sadly they had no internet.



There are no pictures of the dancing since I didn't find anyone who could take shots, but I'm gonna ask my sister or someone to take pictures on wednesday. [=

Anyways, I guess that's it. I'm sleepy. Hahah! ^^

Oh! Special mention to Ian Que! It's his birthday in about 2-3 hours! Advanced Happy Birthday, Ian!! ^^ I miss you guys.. Say hi to Jo and the others for me ^^ Specially to Berwin! Hahahah! ^^ [I hope you're reading this though. Hahah! :p]



Sunday, July 19, 2009
Just Another Random Day ♫ 7:50 PM


So today was my great grandmother's birthday. Great grandmother from my father's mother's side of the family. Hahah! [= In short, my great grandmother form the Japanese side of the family. [= Today was her 82nd birthday. [=








Yes, the cake was Goldilocks yet again. *sigh* I'm starting to get tired of those. -.-" And in the second picture, from left to right, is my Great Grandfather, Great Grandmother, me, and my little sister. I know, I know.. Little sister's taller than me.. Now shut up. > . < Hahah! :p

Anyways, it was kind of a potluck kinda thing. Then we ate, and we kids watched Kung Fu Panda and Alvin and the Chipmunks, while the older people were downstairs talking about... umm... stuff. Hahaha! xD

Then we left at around 4 PM. Yea, nothing much to talk about here since it was a party with mostly old people. No offense to those who enjoyed it, but I found it pretty boring. Hahah! x]

Anyways, after that we drove a long way since, if you look at the distance form our house, Atok is like... in the other side of Benguet. Hahah! :p So yea, I fell asleep in the car, then when we stopped, I thought we were home, so I just jumped out of the car. Then I realized we were at Starbucks. Hahah! :D See that icon at the start of my post? Yes, that's from today. :D

The Starbucks we went to was the one in John Hay, so it was practically on the way home.

And at that time, I had to pee... real bad. Hahahah! SO I went to the CR. And to my surprise, the hand-dryers weren't automatic!! Hahahah! I've always wished for non-automatic hand-dryers 'cause the censor thingies don't always work. And Starbucks granted me that wish! Hahah! [=

Then I ordered a Caramel Frappe and a Croissant that I shared with my sister. Yumm.. ^^ Although, as some of you know, I don't drink coffee. So I ordered a cream based frappe. [= Just like my valentine! ^^ [to those who read my February 15 blog post, you'd understand ^^]

And this is the part I hate. *sigh* I decided to put cinnamon powder in my frappe, as I usually do. Then I started mixing it, and I saw all the powder stayed at the top. So I mixed a little faster and next thing I knew, the straw tipped my cup over, and the all the caramel goodness spilled on my lap and the side of my seat.

I couldn't help but think of all that poor, delicious caramel frappe all over the floor and chair. What a waste.. ]= and also a waste of trees since I had to use a lot of tissue to wipe it off me, my chair and the edge of the table.

At least it only got drained half way, I still had some left to drink, but I wasn't satisfied at all. I felt like I wanted another one, but I didn't want to ask since my dad didn't look like he was in the mood. Hahah! [=

Then I started eating the strawberry jam. Hahahah! Call me a sweet tooth but it was good. ^^ And I ate a lot of rambutan today! Weee!! ^^


Then before we left, I wrote a note to Starbucks saying "Sorry". I wrote it on the last piece of tissue on the table, then that's when I realized that I wasted yet another piece of tissue. *sigh* oh well, later on, before we walked out the door, I dropped ten Pesos in their Tipping Box. ^^

Also, today, I found out something huge about a batchmate that I really hate. And I mean really hate. Although since I heard the story from my dad [who happens to be friends with his dad], I kind of understand why he's like that, and I'm kind of starting to feel for him.

Anyways, I'm kind of rushing, since I haven't finished all the homework the teachers threw at us the day before our 'break' started. I don't think it'll take long to finish this one, but I want to sleep early tonight. Hahah! [= So yea, goodnighties, guys. ^^



Friday, July 17, 2009
Power Shortage ♫ 5:48 PM


Wah! So today there was a power shortage watchamacallit. My dad said the area was 'low in voltage.' I didn't really know what it means, but it's like there was a brown out in some parts of the house, but some parts had electricity. Which was weird.

I'm actually blogging on Text Edit in the laptop. Hahah! [= [It's called text edit in the mac, but to those Windows users, it's kind of like Notepad] I'ma copy pate this later on to my blog.

Anyways, when the power first went off, the laptop I was using was fully charged and the internet was still working, so I could've been still chatting on YM. But my dad said since there's low voltage, we have to lessen our use of electricity at the moment. So I had to sign out and we turned the modem and the TV off.

Then I played guitar for a while, then my own playing kind of annoyed me since I'm not so good at guitar and every song I played kind of sounded the same. Meaning they all sounded awful. :p

Then I started doing my unfinished homework, which by the way, I almost forgot about. Thanks to the brown out, I had nothing to do and I remembered the homework. :p Although I'm not done yet, I still have Economics and I still have to read a story for my report in Filipino so I can go to Jam's house tomorrow and lend her my book.

Oh! And the lights just came back! [= Right on time for the new episodes for Spongebob's 10th anniversary! Hahahah! ^^

Oh, by the way, remember from my previous post when I said the actor for Dumbledore was gay? Well, there's a tiny correction there, although it might be a huge correction to you Dumbledore fans. Click here to find out the truth. [Here's your proof Nikki-chan :p] But if you're too lazy to check then I'll just tell you right here. Neither Michael Gambon or Richard Harris is gay. If there's someone gay amon ghte Harry Potter characters, it's Dumbledore himself.

That's right, I was shocked, myself. 'Cause earlier this morning, I saw Nikki-chan's message in my Chatter Box and she was asking for proof. Hahah! :p so I searched it up on Google and Opened the page from earlier. Then that's when I saw the truth. Hahahah! ^~^

I guess that's all to blog about today. Not much to say since the weather was awful and I couldn't go to art class... again. *sigh* Oh well, next week I'm sure to go. Hahah! ^^ Well, tomorrow I have an UPCAT review, which I missed last week. And on Sunday it's my great grandmother's birthday and we're going to Atok to celebrate. I haven't gone there in about 5-8 years.

I'm not sure how long it's been, but I was waaaayy younger that time. I actually miss that place but I've always hated how long it took to get there. > . <

Anyways, I'm excited! Hahah! But i I don't wanna go to UPCAT review tomorrow... =.= It's boring and I actually only went there coz of Science and Filipino. But yea, they're not even helping us with Filipino. The brochure said they would, though. ]=

Oh well, 'til tomorrow. [=