Saturday, October 31, 2009
Sfidato Day ♫ 9:33 AM
Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Some stay for a while and leave footprints on our hearts...
Firstly, I would like to say sorry for the really long delay. :| I've been caught up with a lot of stuff, and I didn't have much time to blog. ]= And secondly, I would like to apologize for the extremely long post... There's just so much to talk about. ^^
Hahah! :D
So right now I want to talk about how sweet the boys in our batch are. ^^ [And of course how awesome us girls are. Haha! :D]
So as some of you know, it was Sfidato's 1st birthday last October 29, 2009. [=
It's this thing we have in school. It isn't something I can talk about in a place like this, but what I can say is that having a birthday isn't something we decided on our own. It isn't something we can just make up like "Hey! October is a good month and no one celebrates their monthsary on the 29th. Let's make this day our birthday!" No, no, no, no, no... That's not how it goes and that's not how it's supposed to go. > . <
We earned this day and we got it because of the principal we all loved. ]=
But yea. :D And since it was our birthday we all decided that we'd wear our batch jackets. :D
[Weeee~ Atom in blinding matching jackets. :D (All pictures in this post are clickable. ^^) ]
Anywayss... So last Thursday was our birthday, and since Wednesday, we [girls] were planning to prepare a surprise for the boys, but then they found out, and when Thursday came, the boys decided to surprise us first. We knew they found out, so we made up or minds and moved it to the next day.
But yea... During lunch, all the guys went out and bought stuff which I assume were flowers. Hahah! :P Twinkle and I ate lunch then stayed in the classroom and waited for the guys to come back. [Yea, we all knew they were going to do something, they were being so obvious. :P ]
When they got back, we were all "They're here, they're here!" And we just sat there and the boys were all "Go to the conference room in 5 minutes."
Then when we all went out and headed to the conference room [which happens to be right beside our classroom], all of us were being sarcastic and "Wow! What a surprise!", "How shocking!" or "Suuuuure..." Hahahah! :P
Then we entered the room, I was one of the first to go in coz I was excited and our classroom was really close compared to Wave and Quantum. :))
We walked inside and were welcomed by the boys singing Mr. Suave. Hahaha! xD It was hilarious and I couldn't stop laughing at the looks on their faces when they were singing. :P
[Peh! Yenko's in blue. > . < Hahah! :P ]
After that, they said "We love you, girls!" Then yea... ^^
Then we [girls] pretended to walk out and get angry, we were saying stuff about them ruining our plans and all. [They said Harvee cried because of that. Hahah! ^^ I didn't see it though, but the story was funny. :P]
But a few seconds after we walked out, we decided to go back in and pretend to get angry later on instead. We felt sorry for them. Hahahah! :))
Anywayss... When we were back inside they started giving us flowers. ^^ How sweet! That's why I love them so much. ^^
I was actually watching Kuro Neko from the corner of my eye [of course not directly]... Y'know... Just wondering if he was gonna give me one. But sadly, he just walked right past me. :) It's alright though, because right before I could even wear a disappointed look on my face, Kryle came over and handed me a rose. ^^
It was really sweet. ^^
Then after the whole thing, the bell rang and we had to go back to our study halls. A lot of people were still outside taking pictures, but we didn't want to get marked tardy, so we went inside and took pictures there instead. :P
[That's right! Get blinded by the awesome Sfidato batch jacket. ^^] I guess it's pretty easy to spot me. :P Front and center with Chryzia peeping form behind me. :)) And that's Kryle holding the guitar. [= Kuro Neko is also in the picture. :) If you can guess which one he is, then... You've guessed who he is! Congratulations! Hahah! :P
And just when we were all settled down, Emman knocked on the door. [Yes... Emman.. the guy who's been giving me Christmas and Valentines Day presents since sophomore year.] He asked permission from our adviser to enter the classroom, then he came over to my seat and gave me a rose and said sorry for giving it late. > . <
Anywayss... That's it for the boys' part of the "surprise."
As for ours, we started early in the morning the next day. xD We were in the CR for practically an hour and we even skipped morning Devotion just so we could prepare for the boys' surprise. Of course not all of us were there. :P Please... You couldn't fit all 60-70 girls in there even if you tried. xD
Anywayss, in the CR, we were sorting out the letters we all wrote for the guys into individual brown envelopes, and making the kiss marks. :) [The kiss marks were all made by Nash and Jaymee (and two special kiss marks by Michiko ^^), they prepared these white cloths around the same size as a handkerchief, and Jaymee and Nash put single kiss marks at the corner of each cloth.] It'll be explained later on. :P
Obviously, the guys were on to us already. [Well, they were since the couple of days before.] But we kept doing it anyway, I mean, it's not like we didn't know they were planning something the day before. :P
After devotion, [I don't know how they did it; but] they let the guys stay behind in the conference room where manong VJ "talked" to them. :P
Then we entered and started blindfolding them and everything. :D [Before I get to that, there was this list with the guys' names and the name of the girl who would escort them to the other building, but I wasn't able to see mine, so Yves told me to just get anyone.] So when I entered, the first person I saw was... Ricco. :P So there I was putting my tangerine neckerchief around his face. :P
[Yea, not my necktie, some of us had a parade to go to, so a few of us were in girl scout uniforms. > . < ]
Then we walked them to the not-so-big space in the old Educ building [which now belongs to Sci Hi. :P]
[Sorry, that's the only picture I could find. :P ]
There, we lined them all up and the girls crowded at the side. xD When they removed their blindfolds, before their eyes were tables filled with brown envelopes with their names on each of them. :P
Kate told them to grab the one with their name and that everyone should have one. But we purposely hid the Prime Minister's [DP] envelope. :P
[The plan --->] Then the girls said "Kiss nalang!" So Michiko [of course] stepped forward and pretended that she was actually going to kiss DP. At first DP was all happy and smiley and all, but later on, he started to look nervous and started shaking his head. :))
Then Michi stopped, and Kate asked "Gusto niyo ba lahat ng kiss?" Then yea. xD Michi gave the white cloth with the kiss mark and other girls started giving their kiss marks to the guys. :P
[Sorry again.. That was the only picture I could find. :P]Anywayss, I couldn't really decide who to give my kiss mark to. I mean, it wasn't actually a kiss mark from me, but judging by the looks of it, it was from Nash. :P
At first, I was sure that I'd give it to Kuro Neko or maybe Ricco coz he's the one I escorted. But then I thought... I'm not that close with Ricco. And if I gave it to Kuro Neko, he'd be suspicious and all.
So then it entered my mind... Why not Kryle? I mean, he was the first to give me the rose the day before. So yea... my mind was made up and all I had to do was look for Kryle in the crowd. But [and again] as I was scanning through the boys, I spotted Emman. > . <
Gosh! I knew I was going to be teased and embarrassed and that I was going to regret doing this, but I did it fast and got it over with. He's done and given me a lot for years, I guess this is the only way I could repay him... Y'know... Before I changed my mind.
So I went over to him, handed him the piece of cloth and said thanks for the rose.
[Can you guess who got the other special Michiko Kiss? Well.. Doii... None other than Vernon! Hahaha! ^w^]
Now here's the good part. We asked the boys to proceed to the terrace of the building, while we went to the dirty lot beside the building. :P
["Romeo and Juliet in reverse." as said by Twinkle. :P ]
Those are the guys. [=
And that's us. :P If you can see it well, Mel and the others spelled out "BOYS" on the ground with sticks, stones... and dirt for the letter S. :P
Then when we were there, we sang "Smile", but a lot of us didn't know the lyrics. > . < So we stopped and sang "You First Believed" instead. [It's the song playing right now. ^^ Read the song description in the side bar. [= ]
Mel even had balloons prepared. Green and Black ones [of course ^^]. There was even a banner that was suppoed to fly away with the balloons when they were released, but they had to detatch it because the green balloons wouldn't fly. > . < [Because of the delay, they lost their helium.]
Then we saw our principal, Ma'am Dep come out of her office. She had this angry look on her face. [Yea, she looked really angry.] So we finished it up when we saw her and ended it with us shouting "WE LOVE YOU, BOYS!!"
And of course a response... "WE LOVE YOU MORE!!" [See? Now that's why I love our batch so much. ^^]
Now here comes the Kill Joy telling us to go back to our classrooms and scolding the other girls for not having their neckties on. [Sheesh! Of course they didn't have it on. Otherwise what would they use to blindfold the boys?]
We were having such a great morning, but she had to ruin the whole thing. I mean, can't she allow us to have fun once in a while? It's not like a batch birthday comes along everyday. Or she could've at least let us finish. ]=
I'm telling you... Worst principal in history. [ We all miss Sir Dioni. T~T ]
Anywayss... Let's not let the tubby lady ruin our birthday.
[Belated] Happy Sfidato Day everyone. ^^
Photo credits go to Jaja! :D Hahah! :P
...And we are never, ever the same. ü
Wednesday, October 21, 2009
Greek Fest ♫ 6:04 PM
I think I've told you guys earlier what Greek Fest is... But just to brief you guys about it again, it's an activity where seniors dress up as Greek gods and goddesses. [= Batch Solid06 started it, our Angels had it, batches Optimus and Infragilis Nexus didn't, and now we're reviving it. :D
Anywayss.. Greek Fest isn't as easy as it seems, we had to make props... LOTS of it... We had to have costumes [of course]... And we had to memorize our lines for our introductions, and some had to act stuff out for the short play.
We actually had it on a rainy day [October 6, 2009]. That's right... Ma'am Jerrel actually asked us if we wanted to postpone it so that we wouldn't have to go through the trouble of bringing all our props to FGB Hall and running under the rain in our costumes.
Some of us wanted to postpone it so that we could prepare more, practice lines, and improve some of the scripts... and of course keep ourselves and our props from getting wet in the rain. But of course a lot of us also wanted to push through with it so that we could get it over with and besides, we've all changed into our costumes and rushed a lot of the props, so we didn't want any of that to go to waste. te.
That's us in the classroom preparing for Greek Fest. :D Some were already having their photoshoot, Me, Char and Aica were on our way to the CR to change into our costumes, and you can see DP in the further right side wearing his costume with his wig, helmet, and fake beard. :P [Yea, you can only see the back of my head :P]
Anyways... Yea... :P You'll see my costume later, it's just 2 yards of blue cloth wrapped around me, held together by a bunch of safety pins. :P Oh, and the white rope thingy [from my mom's jacket that I wore that day] that I used with my costume coz It looked too plain without it [Actually, the first plan was to use my necktie, but white looked better than red]. :P [Thanks, Med :D]
That was during the performance. Psyche [Med] was going around with her lamp looking for Cupid [DN] like in their story. She's with Nyx [Arian] going around giving light to everybody one by one so we could introduce ourselves. But if the light doesn't hit us, we're all frozen. I guess you get the point. :P
You can see me in the pictures. :P We're on the left side of the stage by the forest area. I was supposed to be with Josh and Pres by the water area, but then Josh didn't show up and It would've been pointless if Pres and I stayed by the water part alone. So the muses stayed there and Pres [Aphrodite] stood by the center of the stage.
Anywayss... I'm the one sitting down [you have no idea how much my legs hurt when I stood up], you can see the light reflecting on my dog tag. [I was supposed to hide that > . <]
After the introductions, we cancelled the acting part [since no one was able to practice much coz some of the scripts were only given the day before] and we went on to the cat walk. :D
We All went up there one by one [except for a few who went up by twos] and told the audience who we are.
That's me! :D Hahahah! :P
After the "catwalk" we had to end the whole thing. Honestly, if I was part of the audience, I think would've gotten bored, but hey, I wasn't. Haha! :P Everyone left, and we stayed to clean up and [of course] take pictures. :P Come on, don't think we can take not having pictures after any event. :P We're talking about Sfidato after all. xD
Go ahead and click if you want to see a better view. [=
I'm pretty easy to spot. :P Just look for my costume. :D Not in the first picture though, I'm covered. :P
As for the second picture, that's [L-R] DanDan's arm holding DN's bow and arrow, Bianca, Thea, Jam, Med, Gianne, Bruce [covered by Chryzia's Spear], our adviser Ma'am Pam [Below Gianne], Chryzia, Arian, Me and Janine. :D [I bent down coz I thought there was someone behind me. Hahah! :P]
Then after that we all ran back to school under the rain [again]. Some changed to informal, some others [like me] changed back to the uniform and a few decided to just wear their costumes going home. Then we cleaned up the classroom where the props and everything else were messed up. :P
Then I went home with my sister. Yea, we couldn't get a taxi and the jeep place was too far if we wanted to walk under the rain sharing just one umbrella, so yea, we were really wet and we had to call our dad to pick us up and bring us to our mom. :|
But you know... at the end of the day, it was all fun. [= Ma'am Jerrel said that it was nice and nothing looked rushed and our impromptu performances didn't seem like they were impromptu. :D
And even if we weren't ready and we had the choice to postpone or not, choosing to push through was a good choice because for a whole week after that, we didn't go to school because of typhoon Pepeng.
So Quantum and Wave [who were going to have their Greek Fest the following day] had to postpone, and because of that it seems like they're having a hard time. I don't know if they are, but to me it seems like it. They had to have their individual "Greek Fest" some time last week, and their actual Greek Fest will be some other time.
Anywayss... That's it for the Greek Fest post. :P Next up, SOFAD. Hahah! :P After that, it's time to get back to the present time. :P
Sunday, October 18, 2009
Past Two Weeks ♫ 6:09 AM
Heeeeeeyyyy guys! [=
Sorry for the long delay. During the last week of september, I got a little too busy and for the past week or two, my mom visited. [= So me and my siblings decided to stay with her while she was here. We stayed in our grandparents' house with our aunt and cousin [where my mom grew up and where me and my little sister lived with our mom when I was 9-11 years old] it would have be World War III if our mom had to stay at our house with our dad and... them.
Anyways, so when mommy arrived [October 2], the first thing we did was talk and catch up 'til no-one-remembers-what-time. After that, she started unpacking her things and guess what? PASALUBONG-s!! :P A lot too. :D Food, candies, clothes, scrapbooking stuff, etc. [=
She even had billions of stories to tell and we never got tired of listening. She said that if she starts making our petitions now, we could be there in the US with her in more or less two years! :D I don't know why, but I'm excited. ^^
We weren't able to do much though, ]= Because of the typhoon, we couldn't go out of the house that much.
And sadly, during my mom's stay, our grandfather died of cancer. ]= It's really sad for my mom and my aunt losing both their parents in one year. Remember my last blog before I left for China last summer? I mentioned there that my grandmother [from my mother's side] had passed away.
And 5-6 months later it happened to be my grandfather's turn. :|
Anwyayss... Let's not be sad. ^^ When he lay in his coffin, he had this relieved look on his face that looked like he was trying to say "Thank goodness, it's all over." Because he's been in and out of hospitals [even in manila a few times] since my grandmother died. He was a strong man, but he seemed to be falling apart when Mama left. ]= When we visited him once, he'd gotten so thin and it looked like he had trouble walking even more than before.
I'm gonna miss going through his drawers beside his bed though. I remember we'd always find candies and chocolates there. ^w^ And then we'd eat the fresh pandesal he'd bring home in the morning after he goes jogging.
That was when me and my little sister lived there with our mom when our parents separated. I was 9 when that happened and when I was 11, my mom had to leave for the US, so we started living with our dad since then.
Anyways... Umm... Oh! Pictures! :D
First picture was taken in the house we stayed in. [It's the house where my mom grew up and the house where me and my little sister lived for about 2 years before our mom left] On the left is my sister [Hanna] with our mom on the right.
The other two pictures were taken in SM [= [L-R: o1. Me and Hanna || o2. Mommy and Me :D ]
We didn't do much though. :P And I don't have much pictures, mommy has most of them in her phone. [=
Oh! And speaking of her phone, she has a BLACKBERRY!!! Ö I know, right? xD I don't ahve a picture of it, but this is what it looks like *points to picture below*
Yes, yes, it's pink [unfortunately], but it's awesome! xD If you asked me, I'd prefer that over an iPhone. [= Call me crazy, but it's true. :D
Mommy actually offered for me to have it since she saw how much I loved it, but sadly it's locked. Meaning it's not open line, so it only works for Cingular [a cellphone network in the US], and getting to to be opened will be hard here in the Philippines coz not a lot of places here fix Blackberries. I mean we couldn't find anyone to open the Motorola phone she sent us before, whatwhate with the Blackberry? T~T
Anywayss.. :D While we were going through photo albums, we found pictures of our grandparents when they were younger. [=
[Papa had two pictures.. So go figure. :P]
On the left are pictures of Mama and Papa. Papa's picture is an ID picture though. :P And on the right is Papa again, but younger than the other one. ^w^ I had no idea he was that handsome before. ^^ There's another picture of him that Tita Stelle had [even YOUNGER], but I couldn't get a copy or a picture of it. :P
Yea, and within those two weeks, we had our Greek Fest and SOFAD, gonna post them later on. [=
So yea, that's it. I might have forgotten to mention a few things, but I don't really remember everything that happened, so I'll just put them up later. :P
I enjoyed it a lot though. ^^ Of course, mommy had to go back last Wednesday. [Sunday, supposedly but the typhoon and the landslides gave her a hard time to leave Baguio.]
Oh! And one last thing! I got a message from her this morning and she was asking for our exam and sem break schedule. Wanna know why? [Well, I'm gonna tell you anyways...] Coz if sembreak would be long enough, I could go to Singapore! ^^
But sadly... Sembreak will only be for three days this year [including the weekend] due to cancellation of classes for one week [Typhoon Pepeng] and for a week and a half last July because of the H1N1 thing.
So yea... Goodbye Singapore. ]= Oh well... That's it for this post... Next up... Greek Fest! :D
[Greek Fest and SOFAD posts will be below this one. ^^]
Friday, October 2, 2009
Angels' Day ♫ 6:03 PM
HAPPY ANGELS' DAY!! [=
It isn't surprising that this day didn't turn out as a surprise like it's supposed to, but it's not like it doesn't happen every year. :P
It was a sad day for me though. ]= My soul's uncle passed away the night before that, so she couldn't go to school. Everyone was receiving gifts from their Souls, everyone had someone to hug and all, but I just stood there hoping my Soul would magically pop-up out of nowhere and greet me a Happy Angels' Day. :| But no... ]=
Oh well.. [= Then the juniors [who prepared the whole thing] said that they were planning for Angels' Day to be on October 7, but it had tod tomoved on October 2 because Quantum and Wave were having their Greek Fest on October 7.
Then they sang us songs ans ande videos of us. Not video videos... Just the kinds of videos that have millions of pictures in it. :P And when I say a million pictures, I mean a million pictures. :P
They practically put all our batch's pictures in it, including pictures when we were freshmen, sophomores and juniors. :D And at the end of the video it said "We Love You Sfidato 2k10"
I'm not sure if that's what it said exactly, but it was somewhere around those lines. Hahah! :P
And later on, my sister said that she liked us better than the previous batch even though it was her angel's batch. Hahah! [=
And guess what? We got cake! :D
But I didn't get a piece. :| I don't know what happened to the cake. After the event, we all had to go back to our classrooms [waiting for announcements..] and then we all went home coz classes were cancelled for the rest of the day [coz Typhoon Pepeng was coming back.. I don't know why they had to cancel classes though, it was still shining..]
I never got my share of cake.. Hahah! :P But I did get a lollipop! :D You see the green marble looking things that form a 10 on the cake? Yeaa... Those are lollipops. :P
And the picture on the right? Well... See the girl in the girl scout uniform hiding her face? That's me.. :| I wasn't in the mood for pictures.. > . < Coz yea.. I cried.. ]=
Anywayss... That's it for this post.. ^^ But before I end it...
Let me just take this chance to say thanks for this day. ^^
First of all... Thanks to the juniors who kind of rushed the whole thing. If we knew you guys were planning to have it on October 7, we wouldn't have scheduled Greek Fest on that day and you guys would have had more time to prepare for it. ^^
Thank you to the Sophomores who were there and who sang while we walked through the hallways, down the stairs, and into the basement. :P
And of course, thanks to our Souls who, not only we're there for, but who are there for us as well. ^^ Sometimes we seem like we're too busy for you, but the truth is, we'd rather be with you guys than work with all the stress that senior life gives you. :))
Aaaaaand... That ends my post for Angels' Day. :P
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