Today is jrep's birthday

Today is jrep's birthday. Pati ng friend kong si Bianca sa nursing.

Happy birthday. :)

Now I am waiting for my libre. And a chance to glimpse some significant others of my significant others (hahaha ang gulo ba, hehehe). But first I have to do some things:

Go to ward, check patients assignment for tomorrow.
Get my new uniform from Aling Ising (or rather, her descendants, coz she's dead, haha morbid).
Take the unpurchased book back to the NCBS (paticularly to an officer named LJ).
Go around the block to explore new fields (aka orgs).
Have something framed...
Do my bibliography for the CFAD exhibit. (ay mali...eto ata ang dala ng pagiging toxic, grr)
Do my bibliography for the patient last week.
Do a reflection paper for the CFAD exhibit.

Ayan. So before I conclude this. let me scrib about my recent emos...

Recently, I am happy and gay (as with my usual days, hahaha). My mother and I are still on truce, mga four weeks na ata standing yang order na yan, thank God. I think it takes a lot of patience and trust in God to be able to hold up this long. And I still hope to hold up longer para blessed ang feeling sa pamilya. :)

On my work, medyo crammer pa rin (siguro nga hindi ko na maalis ang habit na nakuha ko from sj), but I am starting to develop time management skills, hahahaha! Yah right. Peach and time- nyahahaha. Aw, I get my things done, ocd pa rin (obsessive complusive disorder), pero I'm getting my timeouts.

Pag work, work work work talaga nonstop. Pero pag sleep, sleep todo until wake up time. Pag r&r, todo relax rin. I would like to promote holistic health upon myself- like the way I would like my patients to do upon themselves...and so with the people around me- my family, my friends...I see the need to impose such an optimal behavior upon myself.

Still have baby fats, not perfect shape naman (asa na lang ako, hahaha), pero in fairness I'm always in my right weight. As in gitna ng acceptable margins, so that must mean I'm very good. :) Although I have to fix my eating sched coz it's not in order (madalas hindi ako nagbbreakfast, kasi 7am ang time ko, so that leaves to be changed).

There's so much room for improvement. I just have to get souped up for such major variations- coz like my MS/Pharma prof just said yesterday, behavior is not an easy thing to change. Parang nasanay ka na kasi, a habit...maling isipin na such a task is on the level of a chicken feet.

Hindi lang sa health ang nagiging prob ko. Most importantly, I have to keep my spiritual health kempt. This centers on my relationship with God, the perfect justice and love na we will never fully understand, but should trust in, no matter what happens to us. After all, it's all about him that we live for. If not, for what? If we live for things other than him, it surely won't last. Kasi wala namang permanent sa mundong ito.

This world surely could not provide and won't satisfy our primal yearning for perfect love and purpose, which only our holy Inventor could provide for us. This is something that I pray my friends and family would come to realize.

God is impressing on me three things: (I have to pray for these pa)

Trust in Him no matter what (as in no matter what).

It's all about Him anyway, so I have to learn to let go of my sense of pride and humble myself (mapride kasi eh kaya napapahamak).

Never fear- especially in declaring the love that God has for me.

Resting Phase

I am on my dormant phase. Hahaha.

Tomorrow I plan to be working on my assignments for the week. I'd like to be smooth sailing before having fun with my friends, hehehe.

Kahapon nagkarron ng minireunion sa Ate Eva's, hindi planado ah, nagkitakits lang mga sj peeps- ako, si Rep, Jo, Ian, Leanne, Abigail, Zelaine.

I have pics to show, hehe. Wag lang now, tamad pa ko magupload. Hahahaha.

Kahapon pala naghagout kam ni Julie, Apple, Sy, Yani nung gabi. I like these girls- nice company.:)

I love ice coffee

I am such a sucker for ice coffee, particularly from Quickly...with black sago...yumm...but something tells me that like milo, I shouldn't take it on an empty stomach. Kasi nagppprotest ang aking GIT (gastointestinal tract or the digestive tract) whenever I do so. Now even ice coffee's on the list. *sigh*

Anyway I am now hanging out here in the library internet room with my friend KR, who is trying to post a fiction story of hers. I am just waiting for her, on account of 1. I have nothing better to do, 2. I need the airconditioned room like I need air, and 3. She's my friend. Whatever with the peachness.

Next week magbbday na ang isa diyan, at madadagdagan na naman ang bente miyembros natin, wahoo! Patay siya sa kin...

June 25- Jordana
June 27- Tadz and Jrep

I need a good sleep ata- head's heavy talaga, probably due to my brace episode...like I said I'm using full force, and my dentist's only too happy to cater to my...um, demands, hahaha.

This morning we just had our RLE (related learning experience), aka duty in San Alberto Ward (Pediatrics ward for children ages 1 day-18 years). Happy naman, cutie si Ma'am, kaso I caught myself occasionally eyeing her...um, thigh, kasi her skirt's slitted slightly over her knee. And kahit may suot pa siyang flesh stockings, it's an audience caller, kmusta naman, hahaha...sorry sa fossil (aka living-under-a-rock) factor ko, as my friends call it, but that's me...that's her. Let her figure...mwahahaha

During my first week I got to meet new people randomly, sa corridor and sa lib just before I sat here. Si Joey, senior ko, section 5, gave me good advice on how to cope with my dislike sa prof ko sa socio. Two juniors like myself, Pam and Malic (teka, I got to ask KR, I forgot na)...both said hi. I forgot the names of the sophies whom I made friends with, hahahaha...anyway...

Oh, til here na lng, I gtg. KR's done. I think we need to eat. Or maybe I have to meet up with a friend I haven't seen for seven years, to be exact. ^^

First dog haircut becomes a trauma. Red rubbers do rock

Lebron just got his first haircut. He's not happy about it. He's been squirming.
After the ordeal, looking very sad.
Cutting edge...
Eto ang awa look when he was being shaved...

Cut cut cut. Snip. Snip. Snip.

He's just soooo adorable, even when he whimpers...

Picture picture...

I love my new red rubbers...just had my wires re-tightened this noon. And because I'm so determined to make it quick, I asked my dentist to give maximum force every visit. Cruel, coz I can't sleep during the first night after, but the power of wanting it...that's all I probably need. :)

I have a ton of work to do. I have to read through medical surgical book, pharma, and I have to study pediatrics. Currently my mission is to finish the laundry...still pending in zonrox-treated water.

Can't bite through any solid food. Aunt offered me a plate of pancit canton. It was perfectly spicy, but my teeth could not handle it pala. So I didn't finish it. Grr. Head aching, side effect of the wire...but I'm not taking any meds- I'm ok with the natural analgesic of cold- cold water, cold anything...

Sadness has a name, Relationship's a game

Having spent my fifth day of school today here in the college, I'd say this has got to be a serious year for me. The nightmares of stress and starvation are real, unfolding before my eyes that wished to have cataract so I wouldn't see them, but then...

Serious ba super? Well, let's keep it light, shall we? Siyempre super thrilled naman ako, along with the pressures of having to keep up with the profs and their load of terrorizing in the form of projects and papers to submit...which honestly I know not a thing about. Masaya rin ako, of course, that the long wait to see my ust friends again is over. The happiness of reuniting with my class berkies is just priceless...but our medical books are not. Hahahahaha. Anyway...

My critical analysis of my courses this sem (and the profs, of course)-

• Pediatrics 2- Ma'am Jurado is 62 inches of craze...she's got such a humor fit for kids. No wonder she keeps us up, hehehe. She claims she treats us like her patients in the ward- her secret to being so successful in establishing rapport. Nyahahaha. Basta I like her na. I just have to keep my tardiness to a minimum if I really want to impress her.


• Sociology- Boring Boring Boring. I don't get why I have to go through this. If there's a subject I wish to drop, I've found it. Also, the prof's just unbearable, with strict house rules that even forbid us to yawn, have hair over our face, or break eye contact with her when she's discussing, lest we want an instant quiz (and she's serious). And the bad thing is, she's got this very slooooowwwww pace of verbalizing her wants, which lulls me to dreamland faster than a lethal dose of Demerol. Jo says he's amusing. I say she better make me laugh.


• Literature- Depite the infamy of this very demanding subject, I have been looking forward to taking this course, because it involves studying literary pieces, which I am deeply interested in. The prof/comedian/dramatist, Sir Hibek, is a big bonus along with the package deal- brutally funny, yet with all the insults and green goo he's throwing at us, we are quickly getting immune to the potential offense this may have. And he's really smart, btw.


• Pharmacology- The course seems like the road not taken- certainly not my cup of tea, but then the prof, Ma'am Cristobal, who's just sooo cute and sooo frank to us, gives me my surge of hope whenever she lectures.


• Medical-Surgical Nursing- Also Ma'am Cristobal. She's dedicated. The subject's really scary for me, as it involves a lot (and I mean a lot) of subjects. And as my background knowledge of Anatomy and Physiology can only be as visible as air now, let's see what happens to me in the rat race, hahahaha. Aw well...


• RLE (duty)- It's been a really messy sched, so I can't say anything yet...

Ayun muna, tapos na magwork si Yani so I gtg.^^

To continue after about 6 hours...

Eto, medyo nasasad kasi as predicted namimiss ko na naman ang aking ultimo compadre, si Jrep. Ewan, basta, dami ko kasi gnagwa so we don't see each other that much anymore. Aw wel. And my balancing of friends has been tasking, especially now that marami pala sila. And yeah, so far I'm still praying that I would be faithful to my convictions with God...I don't want to be like what I was then...ayoko na tlg, Lord...

Ayun, random thoughts lang. Also got to browse blog of tif...grabe so little time, pero i tried to listen to her playlist songs...love em, love em...

Today, just me. Tomorrow, the world...?

Recent stat:

Right now I am lounging in my own lazy way here again in front of the pc, alone in the house...not if you count Lebron, who's sleeping just behind me, of course. Been wanting to call someone to talk, but then again...maybe he's not home yet. Anyway...

Main chika:

Yesterday was a very fast-paced day for me. I opened my eyes at 830 am, but slept and didn't rise until 1120.

I decided to be a good housemate and clean the house floor before food, so I started at it. I was washing rice when ma came in and handed me the wireless phone. It was Jrep. May lakad pala nun. I forgot. I didn't think of it coz I thought I had zero chance of going anyway. But then something told me I was going, so I told him I'd call later.

After my chores Jrep called again. That was when I asked ma. All she said was, 'next time, wag bigla ang paalam.' So that must mean yes. So I agreed with rep and he came to pick me up. Medyo nakakahiya nga kasi I was in the middle of my bathtime when he arrived. And late na kami kasi hindi pa rin pala nagllunch ang mga kasama namin na nandun na, si Sha at si Bequa.

Sa daan pa lang excited na ko, especially with the fact that I'm finally going to see sha, na hindi ko pa nakikita since christmas. Medyo setback na hindi nakarating sina Os, Pau, Leanne, at si Bern. So in short apat lang kami. The meeting place was G4, btw.

So ayun, pagdating dun nagsshopping pla ang mga dudettes. So we waited for them sa Heaven n eggs. Dahil puro kami chikiting sa grupo, we opted for the swing seats...you know, suspended benches for a 'heavenly' ambience? As in ang kulit kasi hinintay pa namin umalis ung isang group ng customers just to have that space for us. Ewan. I love my lot. Hahahaha.

Besides eating and kwento galore, gumawa kami ng mga videos na weird tlg. Ok nga kasi game lahat. Scandal vids do rock...sabi ko nga eh, kung pwede lang magsalita ung pancake na tinusok-tusok namin ng fork (and knife), I'm sure sasabihin nun, 'Patayin niyo na lang ako now, please!!!' Hahahaha

Pagkatapos namin sa heaven (and eggs), tuloy kami sa timezone to pass time. Una we made a few free games sa dance mania, mga 3 rounds lang kasi di naman adik ung mga kasama namin. Ang gusto pala ni Bequa, house of the dead 4.

I had my complaints with the title, though, kasi nasan ung house? I told her it's supposed to be 'village of the dead.' She said it's more like the 'city of the dead.' Hahaha. Whatever. I joined in, firing ammo with her and throwing grenades...saya pala, ay. Pero 2 lang per turn di ba so nung inabot ko na kay rep ung baril ko, naglaro naman kami ni sha dun sa tabi nila- some shooting game na mas mahirap kasi you have to be compatible or something to win.

Pero ayos rin, enjoy talaga. Sigaw kami nang sigaw ni sha kasi nakakagulat ung mga creatures na bigla na lang sumusulpot, hahahaha. At natawa pa ako kasi paglabas namin ni sha dun sa game namin, napansin ko na super layo na nila rep at bequa sa game- may crowd na sila sa likod nila. Kaso na-game over sila, so aw to that.

Pero seryoso, ang galing ng kamay ni rep sa shooting...though sabi niya tabingi daw ung cursor...nyahahaha. Bequa played good rin, I mean when I played with her puro siya excellent rating, hay, I need to practice..? This is starting to smell like a newfound obsession...hmm...

We tarried for a while and then we parted in two groups. Sha joined the family of Bequa pauwi. I half-joked that our next meeting out perhaps would be on october, or if not, the christmas again. Totoo naman di ba...hahahaha.

Meanwhile, rep and I walked on- a request I made kasi I wanted to enjoy the outside world while I still could (house arrest can really take the fun out of me when it's too long). I was going to let him try one of my fave drinks- coffee shake with sago, but nadisappoint ako kasi wala pala.

So we chose green apple and choco chill, sat for a while, chika galore, then we walked around the movie area of the mall sa taas, checking out the latest shows. I honestly want to watch Evan Almighty, hehehe. Steve Carell is such a great comedian, can really pull funny stunts.

After nun, mga before 7, we headed home as planned. Ayun, back to my house. Naisip ko ngang dapat na umuwi ni Rep kasi may pasok pa yun next day. Sigh, times flies fast when we're having fun, don't you think?

Skin matters:

Btw, see my new skin? :) I had help from exploring macromedia flash for about 3 hours- really have no idea how it works, pero yun, medyo kumalikot dun until I came up with something like this. Maybe sometime I'm going to learn more codes and programming styles.

First-day jitters:

I'm bracing myself more than ever for the coming school year. I don't know what's harder- to balance school work with my sanity (if it still exists) or to maintain my steady relationship with the Lord without ever compromising. Nah, I'm kidding- to my experience mas mahirap ung latter.

Looking back, I'm sure I have a better life now, living (or trying to) with the only purpose of pleasing the Lord. Ayoko nang bumalik sa time na I get overwhelmed by the world when in fact it doesn't matter as much as my faith for the Lord, my trust in his ultimate justice that I cannot ever fully comprehend with my human mind.

Ayoko nang maging overinvolved sa mga unnecessary and temporary things, like work, prestige, respect, acceptance...in the end they all evaporate. Grace lang ni Lord through Christ ang magiging basehan natin ng security sa next life. And it saddens me to this day to know that my friends wouldn't understand this unless they choose to.

Maybe you're wondering ano naman ang kinalaman nitong lahat sa third year ko. Well as I had discussed with mi ultimo compadre, may times na nagiging malaking balakid kasi sa akin ang mga friends ko. Not that they're not nice- gifted ako sa friends, loyal kasi. Pero ayoko nang mahila sa mga worldly principles nila, just like last year, grabe nagsisi talaga ako. Kahit mamaintain ko na ung tawag nila sa akin na 'fossil' due to my being too conservative, ok na yun kaysa naman I act like wala akong God, kakahiya.

Sa lahat ng bagay, seek first the kingdom of God. First, hindi last, take note. Eh bakit daw ganun tayong mga tao, ang primary consultant natin ay sarili natin when we make decisions? :) Tapos do you notice na pag wala na talaga tsaka tatawag kay God...hahahay nako, we humans are sooo naturally proud. Let's guard against that, shall we? :)

A line of warning to my killing habit of small-time compromising: Small evils as stains in life may seem small alone, but lots of them around can be so darned messy.

sanguine melancholy

Peach's personality is Sanguine Melancholy

33% Melancholic
8% Phlegmatic
35% Sanguine
25% Choleric

When I was in my first year college, my Psych professor discussed these personalities. I shared that I got this result during high school at rhgp. My prof was right when he pointed out that I had two opposing personalities, because being sanguine means being an extrovert, talker, and an optimist. Being melancholic (just 2 pts behind, take note) means being an introvert, thinker, and a pessimist.

Now I realize I haven't changed much. Hmm...

I guess I still have that chameleon complex, I think...you know, showing this side to your trusted people, and the other side's just for show to the world...ewan ko ba...but having read the details of each persona, I think I'm a bit of all, but these two still rule...

Obsessions and matters

Aaaaarrrgghh! I want to say enough, but I just can't, I'm soo soo loving this new obsession of mine- Michael Buble's 'Everything'. Saw the vid just yesterday night, dl it via limewire out of curiosity, and...hahaha...I'm hooked.

I've always liked Buble's crooning- he's superb. Although may choice picks lang ako sa mga albums niya, as a singer he's really good. :) And because he sings mostly old songs, very meaningful ang kanta niya, and he gives the lyrics justice...

Speaking of obsessions, I recently realized na neat freak pala ako. I get disturbed at the sight of muddied floors, dishes piling in the sink...and I do not eat unless the kitchen's in order, so I do them all before I take a bite...

I'm having the first-day-of-school anxieties. Ewan. Hahaha. What's new...

Kanina I got myself a good gash on my knee- kasi nasagi ko sa end ng isang nail na nakatusok palabas dun sa cabinet...ouch tlg, nagpeel ung skin...approximately 2.5 cm (sukatin ba, hahaha) and I saw the plasma...made me wonder while it stung in pain as I reached to touch it.

I haven't fixed my biological clock (meaning disciplining myself to sleep at 11pm below). My nightlife is just too tempting- scrabble, tv, chika with the people who just came home...and the fact that I'm a night person. The consequence is I wake up too late. No, I wake up as early as 6 pero bumabangon ako ng mga 10-12. Hahaha. At pag hindi pala ako nakatulog ng before 2, hindi na ko makatulog. Added stress un for the next day. Hahahay...

Yeah, just dl Mark Bautista's break it to me gently...now listening to it...parang test drive, hahaha. Hmm...parang galing sa soul niya, ohyeah.

Classes start on June 13

I confirmed just now through the website. The horrors of my nursing course are about to start again...*shiver*

Anyway it's 1130 pm now and I cannot sleep so I decided to type in something here. Today has been a very promising day, as me and my cousins went off to swim in a private pool nearby. Not bad, I can say...except that early in the day I didn't want to go to the 7ft water level because of my phobia since I nearly drowned in subic.

It was a simple gathering of kiddies and my aunt and ma...very relaxing especially with the nearing day of opening of classes. Man, I'm torn between my eagerness to go back to my patient assignments and my stress over theories and group work.

I sure hope I can get myself ready for this. I haven't finished my compilation of notes, meaning rewriting it for handy reference. But I should. Laziness should depart for the meantime.

Weird feeling...but I just felt a bit sad, missing my littlest bro whom I do not get to see all the time due to his varsity training. But I am happy that he's got real friends and great company this time. He's surely happy about it. So I step aside...

I'm feeling the want for sleep, so now I wish to post my 6 weird stuffs, as two people have tagged me: (I'll try my best)

• A phobia or two: I had been afraid of bump cars. Only had fun with it this january 2007 when we went off to our clan trip to baguio. I had a boom accident with the lampshade socket when I was 6, and because of that I was very afraid of plugging in electrical equipment. Currently still shaken, but at least no longer freaking out...
• A physical deformity: My left thumb is slightly deformed due to a metal door accident I had with older bro when we were playful kids. I got weird-looking keloids on my left wrist due to a rough games accident when I was 8. The bones were mended cleanly at St. Luke's. But the hospital that removed the metal braces a week later used threads and needle, so it had stitches. So mukhang ipis. Grr the bad surgeons.
• A passion: I am a huge fan of michael buble. I get weird looks when I tell people this one, so...
• A past: I had been confined in the hospital twice in my life. On the second time I even became a getaway patient as I let the surgeons chase me all over the hallway right before my operation when they had to give me my aneasthesia shot. Nyahahaha. (And I'm a nurse now, how ironic...*claps*)
• A prisoner: When I was 6, I cried myself in the bathroom for about an hour when I could not open the door (I was too bone skinny then and for some reason the door won't budge). Later my aunt rescued me with a laugh. When I was a grader, I once chose to lock myself in and cry in the bathroom when a small dog blocked the way out. Naturally when they came looking for me they all laughed (I was very afraid of dogs then).
• A prize: I now have four good teeth in my prize collection after they were extracted by my current dentist. I let her drill a hole through the first two so I can make them pendants for a necklace.

Ouching. Happy.

It's been a few days since I came in here to write anything. Must be my changing moods, changing plans (nakakawala kasi ako recently to somewhere...business/pleasure, hehehe).

Like recently, my enrollment on June 1, 2007...which turned out to be more than a go-see with my classmates. It was a chance I took, a risk I made that I was able to go free and roam around moa and banawe and back to the captivity of the four walls of my house. And to think that I actually made a groggy decision of just staying home...

That morn, I woke up with a heavy head after tossing and turning to sleep at around 1230. I was very very sleepy, but not too lazy to check my cellphone time: 430am. All I said in my head was, 'Please, pwede bang hindi na lang ako mag-enroll?'

But of course, just seconds after having thought of that I mustered all my willpower to kick my legs off the soft boundary of the cool comfy bed and get up. At that time I came face to face with the man of the hour- Lebron, who then seemed to have been getting a bad case of wake-sleep dilemma. I took time to give him a good am hug, embracing all that handsome fluff, and moved quickly to prepare for the day.

Stepping right in front of Dapitan gate was rather refreshing after a long while of house imprisonment. I checked my watch: 620. Friday was color coding day for us, so it was a good time for me. Right after I came in my building I was pranked by a guard...hawhawhaw...

Anni: *swipes ID* Kuya! (I feel rather uncomf using this term, but then it's a form of adaptation to the dominant culture, so...) Bukas na ba po yung office?
Guard: Ay *checks the computer with my face on it*, 625 pa lang, maghintay ka na lang dito ng 5 minutes.
Anni: OK, sige po, thank you. *waits for twenty seconds until guard laughs* Niloloko niyo po ako eh!
Guard: Bakit kasi naman ang aga aga mo?
Anni: Hmph. Kakain na nga muna ako, sige po. *leaves*

Yani was my next stop. She was with her younger bro at Wendy's. I decided to get some chicken for breakfast. At around 710 we parted ways so we could do our respective tasks. Truth is, the enrollment time was at 10-12. But I had to be sure...must be a case of OCD(?). But then the color coding..!

930- Office finally opened for us. Hooray. Filled up form and went to gym, submitted. Enrolled. Few people coz we're early, yeah.

Just after my last business with the office (ID sticker), Ivan (a nursing friend of mine through Jonathan) came into the scene. I asked for his company because it was just 10 and my meet with Jrep was scheduled at about noontime. This little favor of mine turned out to be a very enlightening chitchat-walk kind of wait. We got some coffee drinks, went to Aling Ising's for uniform matters, checked out an old joint, and returned to ust to make some calls and go our separate ways.

It surprised me to have this kind of time with him, because during the school days we normally didn't talk that much. That must be because my other friends hogged him most of the time, and so I find my place and leave. So this was honestly a good op for us.

After a decision-making complex I went off to meet Jrep as agreed at 12. I arrived there 25 minutes later, but not before meeting 2 very good and helpful citizens, which is rare for strangers in Manila nowadays. They gave me safety and road advice for future use. :)

We went off to moa and had our chika session as always. While at it we ate at Congo Grill because it was something I've never tried before (at malay ko ba kung dahil rin yun sa gusto ngang idiin sa akin ng kasama ko na ganun nga ako ka-sheltered o ano, hahaha). We got full with kare-kare and sisig- despite having braces! (And I thought I was the mischievous-stubborn girl here...eto pa pala ang isa, hahaha!) Well...masarap talaga ang bawal, hindi ba? Nyehehehe. At nagulat akong hindi naubos ni Rep ang inorder namin, magaling kasi hindi naman sinabi sa king malaki pala ang servings...

I texted a few sj friends, si Pau, Bern, Bequa...na baka perhaps pwede silang mag-catch up for a moment of chitchat. Pero sadly medyo naging hectic ang sched so next time na lang.

I got to meet KR, though, kasi she lives nearby (ust friend). We met at NBS and played at quantum, stopped by at Papa Beard's, went to Iceberg's, kwento...balik ng quantum, and finally, when it was growing dark, uwi na. Originally rin kasi hindi nag-paalam si Rep so we chenged plans and set the optimum time to 6pm, pero something happens along the way and napatagal pa...

After sending KR off sa lrt, I asked rep if we could stick still with the original plan and eat dinner at Banawe, kasi ayoko pang umuwi due to some...unresolved concerns, hehehe. Hindi niya rin ako napasakay ng lrt kasi I was gripped with fear when I got sandwiched amongst the people during the rush hour. So time for a plan b.

Nagjeep kami, yan. I told rep to make his decision before 5th ave, so we can get off there. At aba, napabilib naman ako sa tapang ng lalaking to- magpaalam to dine out sa nanay niya while on the way. Payag naman much to our relief. Yung mama ko nga nag-text rin when we had arrived sa kainan, and when I told her that we were planning to have dinner pa, she was fine with it. *whew*

After an hour of chitchat (new food: hakaw, and lots of new learned cool trivia) and food, time to end the adventure...pagod na rin eh, hahaha. It was very different, and certainly one of my best...kasi ang layo ng napuntahan namin. After two more short stops I finally got home...and later nakauwi na rin si Rep. So ayun. Happy.

Today however, I am relieved from my wire dilemma (braces ko), but the dentist tightened them again full-time, so now I get to perish some week-long discomfort. Hay. At dahil natuto na talaga ako dahil sa past experiences ko (brackets removed and wires loosely scraping my inner cheeks), super strict and food intake ko. Not necessarily soft diet, but then very choosy na this time.

OK, I gotta sleep. Ma's calling me. Undisciplined daw ako. Hahaha.

Enrollment day

After 4 hours of sleep, I woke up at 530 am with a thought of surrender, 'Wag na lang akong mag-enroll today pls...'

But of course I had no choice if I wanted to take the first sem courses of third year. Hahaha.

Nakatutuwang isipin na third year na pla ako. And my berkies from sj and ust. Ang bilis ng oras, tila. Wala namang way out of growing old. But there's a lot of chance to get away from growing up, which I have no conscious intention of pursuing, thank you.

Dahil color coding, I stepped down from the car right in front of Dapitan gate at 620am, despite the time of enrollment being 10-12. I talked with the guards on the way to confirm the time of gate openings. One guard in the building even had the nerve to almost trick me into waiting right there when I had asked him of the office hours, parang ganito:

Anni: Kuya (I don't like using this, but dominant culture says I got to), bukas na ba po ung office?

Guard: Ay...*checks the computer where I had swapped my id* 6:25 pa lang, hintay ka na lang, 5 minutes na lang yan...

Anni: Ay, ok. *waits for about 20 secs before realizing the guard's trick* Ay, niloloko niyo po ako eh!!!

Guard: Sige na, mamaya pa kasi yan eh. Hahaha.

Thank God Yani saw me on the way in (color coding rin, hehehe), so she texted me that she's in Wendy's with her little bro. I was filled with excitement with her text, and so I made my way there right away after the guard incident. We talked. I had breakfast. At about 710 we parted ways because she had to change into her uniform (she forgot it as a requirement) and her bro went to play pc somewhere, I think.

I returned to the building and met up with Paula. Still later Lotrenz, Ed Cel, and Soc came. Also, Ivan was already there. Tambay and talk pa kami until sa wakas nung 9 they decided to release some paper, requirement namin for enrollment.