Merry Christmas, Everyone!

[Automated post! Since I'm probably too busy having the time of my life back in Davao where my family and friends who I love are at. And besides, I don't have internet connection. Haha.]

To share the holiday cheer, here's an e-Christmas card for all of you!

(Please click link!)

MERRY CHRISTMAS, EVERYONE!

Career High

Academic Year 2009-2010, Second Term, was when I hit the lowest GPA. I was really lazy then; I lacked the motivation and I got into a lot of things that interested me more than school did. That term was really fun but the GPA I got wasn't fun at all! After that, I vowed: NEVER AGAIN!

This term, I hit career high. It's Dean's List-worthy, after all. I was a Dean's Lister for only two terms in my frosh year. That's it. Everything had been pretty much a struggle after that, what with majors and all. *sigh* Given that I only have thesis and one major class for this term, it's only right that I get the grade I have wanted for a long time: DL-worthy with a GPA of above 3.0. But wait, there's more! Haha. Had I enrolled 12 units this term, I would definitely qualify for the Dean's List! First Honors, at that: 3.667. WHAT UP? However, had I enrolled 12 unites this term, I might have not reached that high a grade. Haha. But I'm still very grateful that all sleepless nights and stressful mornings have finally paid off.

Here's to a merry, merry, merry Christmas vacation! CHEERS!

Tomorrow, I shall formally close this term and fly to my hometown! Time to leave school behind and enjoy my limited time with family and friends back home! CHRISTMAS BREAK CHALLENGE: All my bags are packed and I'm ready to go. I decided to leave my laptop and planner here in Manila. Davao time will be school- and work-free!

Happy holidays!

Sweet Pre-Christmas Treat

I've waited for such a long time for this night to happen: The Chicas Christmas Dinner! Since Kay, Lexie, and Yanee have graduated, Meryl and I, despite the free time we have because of thesis and just one class, I rarely get to see the three. Sure there have been coffee and lunch meetups in between, but it's nothing like the grand reunion that happened tonight!

Can I just say that we are oozing with cheese? We decided to dine at Chef d'Angelo at Glorietta 5. It comes with memories, you know. Well, at least the one at Glorietta 2 before the place got bombed. Haha. If Meryl remembers it right (which I'm sure is pretty accurate), the Chicas had lunch at Chef d'Angelo during our first term break when we were in first year college. Hihi, see, how apt a place for reuniting! Anyway, we had coffee and desserts as Bo's afterwards, where we did our traditional and never planned exchanging of gifts! Bonus, bonus: cute barista/busboy! Hahaha! Boy, have we all grown. Ang lalandi na, kaloka! Haha!

Photos from Kay's camera! Thank you, Beggie!

My "since we'll all be corporate girls soon, here's a business card case and key chain" gift to everyone! Haha.

I particularly don't fancy this group photo of ours (even though the cute Bo's busboy took it HAHA like it matters) because I look crop-able. Like, in a bad way. Look how estranged I seem. Just saying.

Ah, this one, I like! I LOVE THESE GIRLS TO DEATH. No question.

It's always awesome to be with these girls. College would never have been this memorable without Kay, Meryl, Lexie, and Yanee. More of these soon? Definitely.

The End of The Beginning

Officially done with THESIS A! The meeting/orientation or pep talk/party or what have you that we had with our thesis mentor this afternoon was overwhelming. It made me realize how much I have to be thankful for since, yun na nga, after all the painstaking days and nights trying to perfect our proposal, well, I can't say that it's perfect per se, thereabouts.

And as it all ended, it's time to welcome the holidays with a merry cheer! (Whuts.) And after that, I come back to reality that the end of this term is only the beginning of a life-altering academic challenge!

Working Lunch Productions, lunchmates, we've only just begun! Let's go for gold! *wink, nudge*

P.S. / O.T.

I'm quite sad that the Philippines lost the first leg of the AFF Suzuki Cup to Indonesia by 0-1. It's the first time that I have ever been excited about a football game and we lost. *sigh* Anyway, we just need to score two goals on the second leg and we're good to go!

Almost Done

Last academic class for the day, week, month, term, year, degree, ever... Over!

Steady-awesome day.

(Photos to follow. Nothing much, just something out of boredom. And shutter happy-ness. Hihi. Thanks to Meryl in advance!)

I Love College

I know I've been wanting out for quite a while now, but thinking about the responsibilities that await... Nah. I don't ever wanna rush college. Ever. Sure, there'd be times I'd fee like shiz and just give up. I know in the end it's not that easy after college anyway.

There's never an easy way out of anything. However, though, there will always be temporary bliss; especially when you're with people you love!

Orgcom, cheers!

(Photo by Therese Ong @ Rooftop, 7:00ish PM)

College friends, drinks, memories! Cheers to college!

Working Lunch Goes Working Sunday

My thesis group, Working Lunch Productions, covered the Marian Procession at Intramuros, Manila today. Actually, it was just Meryl and I. Our other group mate, David, couldn't make it because of a tennis game he had to play in; something like that.

Anyway, I just wanted to immortalize this day. I don't usually go to religious festivities unless it's required in school or mandated by the family. So today's Marian Procession was sort of an I-have-no-other-choice kind of thing. We need to have footage of this annual event, happening only every first Sunday of December sponsored by the Department of Tourism and the Intramuros Administration, for future use for our thesis project.

I bought the family some souvenirs. Haha. Just to remember this day by, you know?

Armed in Meryl's SD video camera, and her in her DSLR, we trooped around and along Aduana-General Luna Streets to cover the main event. We didn't clearly know what was going on, what was about to happen, what we were supposed to do. But I think we managed fine. Haha. I really enjoyed the bulk of it, specially the part where we had to cross the street where the procession starts; which meant that we had to weave through the thick sea of devotees! Man, that was crazy. We had to join the crowd for a bit, hopping and clapping in rhythm with the brass band and devotees' chants, before we found refuge onto the other side. That was really nice.

And, December 6 edit... SOUVENIR SHOT!

Thanks to Meryl for the photo!

December Kicks Off Nicely

What a feat. Our thesis proposal paper is done.

Well, the format's still on the works as of tonight but uh, I think we're good to go. I shall now informally part ways with sleepless nights and zombie waking hours. Hello, bed, pillow, and blanket!

To celebrate this joyous day (HAHA), it ended with a chill bonding experience with my GMG babies. My self-claimed little sister, Arlene, Nikkai to me, turned 19 last Saturday. Her birthday treat was loud, tiring, and tipsy. It was awesome. I missed that feeling.

So, hello, hello, baby December. Keep all the good things coming!

Here's a webcam snapshot of Meryl and I on a quick breather from all thirty pages of words, words, words, and more words. Apt isn't it? Camcorder template, video thesis? Haha, la la la.

Cartoon Advocacy

To me, it all started with this anonymous entry on my Formspring account.

"Change your facebook profile picture to a cartoon from your childhood and invite your friends to do the same. Until monday there should be no human faces on facebook, but an invasion of memories. This is for violence against children.."

I said it sounded like work to me but I'll join the bandwagon when everyone's there. For reasons known only to me, and for you to most likely not find out, I liked my profile photo. Sure, I changed it once but my face is surely cartoon enough to be in sync with the fad. Haha!

So I was battling with myself, whether or not I should join the bandwagon of changing profile photos into a cartoon character, when I stumbled upon this amusingly witty photo of Dexter (Morgan or Laboratory, I can't tell) while looking through Google images for a cute photo of Deedee. Hihi. SO CLEVER!

Oh, and here's the Deedee photo I found. Sneaky! Cute, no? :)