(nail) art attack!

had my nails painted last night courtesy of my mom. don't really like the design on my fingernails all that much but i like the tiny flowers on my toenails. (my toenails are really small so these teensie-weensie flowers are all that they can fit in there. and ugh. i have ugly feet.)

i am now thinking of growing my nails and having them painted regularly. my mom gets her home-service mani-pedis once a week. if i get my mani-pedis done at home on her scheduled mani-pedi day, she'll pay for mine too. bwahaha. the benefits of leeching off the available resources in the house. :)

who can resist freebies, anyway? :P

oh, and pardon the low-res pics. i don't have my cam with me so i had to make do with my phone cam. 

thirty days hath september

Thirty days hath September,
April, June, and November.
All the rest have thirty one
Except February alone,
Which hath twenty eight days clear,
And twenty nine in each leap year.

i've had this mnemonic memorized for as long as i can remember. i don't even know where i got this from.sa book siguro namin nung grade school sa rws.

thirty days hath september...

i've been chanting this line in my head the whole day. na-realize ko kasi na patapos na ang september.. at matatapos ang september na sobrang baba ng productivity rate ko.

limang araw na lang. hay.pwede bang wag na munang mag-october? or i-skip na lang ang october ngayong taon? fast forward na lang tayo sa november..

october equals acad month. i need to take lots of exams sa school.. kasalanan ko, i know. tamad mode kasi ako from july until now. by october, bawal na ko pumetiks. super acad mode: on. plus, something i've been dreading might happen in october. :(

november equals travel month. cdo-camiguin-laoag-pagudpud-vigan. excited na ko. :) tapos start na ng new sem ko. so pwedeng pumetiks ulit ng konti. :P pwede bang november na? please, please, please...?

oh well. it's inevitable, anyway. sana pwede ko na lang i-fast forward ang october. haaaay.

one more chance

 hahaha. one more chance trailer facebook version. ang kuleeeeet. :D

credits to the maker, youtube user imarc7. view his tumbler account here. 

destination : dumaguete/siquijor

this post is three months late.

On the last week of June, I went to a Dumaguete/Siquijor Trip with some good friends. This trip marked a lot of my firsts.. First plane ride, first trip to a non-Luzon destination, and first dolphin watching activity. That said, i was sure that me and my pare(s) are in for a heck of a ride. :)

DAY 1 

We left Manila on the 24th of June.. The plane took off from NAIA Terminal 2 at 2.10pm. Upon getting to the airport in Dumaguete, we were immediately met by our friend-slash-host-slash-tour guide (a former trainer who is now a very close friend of ours) and after a quick stop in the city itself to buy some things we forgot to pack along, we were whisked to the city port to get a ride to the island of Siquijor..

clockwise from top left: upon landing on Dumaguete, Siquijor port,
sunset view from the road, resthouse

U-nibersidad ng Pilipinas!

 

A quick appreciation post for the UP Pep Squad for winning the 2010 Samsung UAAP Cheerdance Competition. (And as I've posted on my plurk/twitter/FB, I still find it weird that it's called Samsung UAAP Cheerdance Competition and not Nestlé Non-Stop Cheerdance Competition. I take this to mean that yes, I am old. And if you feel the same way, then so are you. :P)

Oo na, olats kami sa basketball. But this is cheerdance. And once again, it is ours. :)

Btw, I am posting this vid and not the one aired on Studio 23 because some good parts of the routine wasn't shown on the live telecast. In my humble opinion, this video showcases the pep squad much better. Oh, and credit to where it is due: I do not own this video. This is from youtube user aamonces.

summer camping

Marine Base. Ternate, Cavite. May 2010. The first and last of summer 2010 for the housemates.

Tent. Sand. And marines to wake you up early in the morning. :)

-just trying out email blogging from my mobile phone. if you can read this, then i'll be able to blog anytime im bored even if i've got no access to a computer. ha! technology right at my fingertips! :)

fail

new promo for Cebu Pacific! i have been wanting to go back to ilocos for quite some time now so i was really excited when i saw this promo today.

so i quickly looked for dates that i could work with (which is virtually any 3 or 4 day period. ah, the benefits of being a full-time home-school student.) and was all set on conquering ilocandia alone. i was pondering on whether or not going on a solo trip was a good idea, knowing full well how bad i am with directions. fortunately, my friend (the one who just got back from thailand) was online and was willing to go with me. :)

cluttered

seems like i have a lot of digital clutter in my life.

i always find myself trying to de-clutter one thing or another.

take today for example. i'm de-cluttering the laptop. uninstalling programs and deleting files that i no longer use.

i've also been backing up some files from my portable HDD to DVD-RWs the past week. my 160GB HDD now has less than 10GB free space.

or maybe it's just my OC-persona taking over.

i remember a couple of years ago, i took pain-staking time to arrange my music folder by artist. i had thousands of songs in there and it took me months to finally get it all sorted out.

this obsessive-compulsiveness attitude that i've got towards my computer data does not only run through my music files. i also have all pictures arranged by folders of my group of friends and then by occasion. (if it's a multiple day trip i even have them sorted as day 1, day 2, day 3 and well, u get the point.) i also have my videos organized into tv series (subfolder-by season), movies, and separate folders for every camera i've ever used (subfolder-by date and/or occasion).

i wish my OC-ness will manifest itself with my material stuff, though. i can't seem to declutter that part of my life. my room always looks like a tornado hit it ten times. (i'm exagerrating here.. or maybe not.. :P) this has always been a major argument between me and my mom when i was younger. now, i think she's learned her lesson and is trying to stay as far away from my room as possible. :D

okay. so i just ranted about computer files. how much more boring could my life be? :P between this and studying the constitution, i seriously need a break (and a heavy dose of booze :P).

marathon

Nope. Not the sweaty type of marathon.

I've kinda been into movies the past couple of weeks. So I've been having a movie marathon of just about any movie I could think of. You may have noticed that I was watching Pretty Woman while I was writing the last blog entry. I also watched some more recent films like Letters to Juliet, Despicable Me and Chloe.. Btw, is it just me or is it weird seeing Amanda Seyfried as Sophie? She's got some expressions that reminds me of Karen (her dim-witted character from Mean Girls) and of Chloe (crazy title character). Or maybe just because I've seen all three movies within the last month due to my sudden movie addiction. I kinda don't remember how she looked like in Jennifer's body though (but that could be because I thought the movie was really bad).

clockwise from top: Amanda Seyfried as Sophie, Chloe and Karen

hello, september!

My first blog post for the -ber months. 1 month to finish my current semester, 2 months till my next out of town trip, 3 months till Christmas, 4 months till New Year and 5 months till my Coron trip! :)

So much for the countdown, let's talk about my recent activities (or inactivity to be more precise).

I was set upon taking an exam at school last Monday. I didn't realize, though, that it was a holiday so I wasn't able to take the exam. And I woke up too late yesterday so I decided to just take the exam by Thursday or Friday. I'm gonna head home to Cavite in a few to work on my essay (which is in need of much revision). The long commute really puts me off but I'm running out of cash so I really don't have much of a choice.

Right now, I'm all set to go home. Bags are packed and I'm all dressed up.. Pero tinatamad pa ko magbyahe. Hehe. I've been attacked by an unproductive, lazy bout the past two days. That's another reason why I want to go home. Baka sakaling sipagin na ko pagbalik ko. 

Anyway, just some of today's thoughts. (In no particular order. Or, well, in the order I'm gonna be thinking of them starting this second.)

1. The 21st Philippine Travel Mart will be held on September 3-5 at the Mega Trade Hall, SM Megamall. Sooo... I've enlisted  the help of one of my friends to attend the event and try to find some travel packages that will suit my student budget. (Which reminds me.. I need to save up for my CDO-Camiguin trip this November and my Coron trip February of next year.)

2. The above mentioned friend just came home from a vacation in Bangkok, Thailand and I am soooo jealous. My passport is in desperate need of stamping! Take me out of the country, please. Again: on a student budget. :P

3. I've finished transferring the entries from my old blogs into this blog. These are from 3 different blogs I used to have. From my late teen years to my early working years, you'll read about the thoughts of a younger me. It's funny to read about the thoughts of an 18 year old version of yourself. Oh, memories. :) (P.S. You can find them on the top right part of this blog under where it says pages.)

4. I left my cellphone, camera and PSP chargers in Cavite. Thank God for the invention of usb charging. (Or maybe thank technology would be a better term. :P)

5. I've informed the laundry shop that my laundry is ready for pick up but they're still not here. I'm waiting... waiting... waiting....

6. It just started raining. Now my long commute will be even longer. :(

7. I need to drop by the mall on my way home. I am in need of:

• DVD-RWs (..to back up my data with. My external hard drive already has roughly 110GBs worth of videos, pictures, music + other files)
• dermatographs (I have this inability to study without dermatographs)
• pencil sharpener
• shoes (I have no shoes! I've had to make do with slippers for more than a month now! This can wait, though.)

8. The rain just got heavier. Paano ako uuwi nyan? I hate using umbrellas. It cramps my style. (Yeah, right. As if I've got style. :P)

9. Diet. Yeah, I'm trying to lose weight. I am horrified that I've gained so much weight in the past year. I hate exercising, though. So I'm gonna have to cut down on my food intake and maybe start drinking some of those slimming teas. Chanting my new mantra: I need to slim down. I need to slim down. I need to slim down. Argh!

10. I've got to go get dinner and then I'll go home once the rain stops. Might be stuck here for another day if it doesn't.. I wish the rain would stop. Then I can go home tonight. In the meantime, I'll try to get some studying done. 

Hey, September~ amp up my productivity please! :)