That's a working title. That, or The Ortigas Experience? Or The Ortigas Explorers? Or The Practicum Hunting? Or The 5 Km Exercise? Or... Ugh. I can't even!
Meryl and I hunted down our soon-to-be-practicum office in Ortigas. You know, to get the feel of the commute experience; how long it takes, how far we need to walk, things like that. What's funny was that we were being our usual selves while in the MRT: chatty mode. The first flaw came from my mouth as we spontaneously alighted at Shaw instead of Ortigas. Let's not make the storytelling as long as the time it took us walking, and just say that we were forced to explore.
Basically, there was a lot of evaluating, strategizing, and overthinking. After which, there wasn't much thinking going on anymore. I swear, we tried. We really did try to understand how the Golden Spoon ordering process worked. Hahaha! What is, mind and body is wasted?
We never got it right because we had to keep turning majorleft. Get it? *HIGH FIVE* What a way to end January, right? I hope February wouldn't be as exhausting. NOT. Wishful thinking!
Lesson learned: It's useless to consult a map if you can't identify North from South. T_T
You know when a girl has this time of the month that the red flag is raised? Based on observation, hearsay, and experience, that's when the girl becomes too emotional and sensitive over the smallest things. Well, my hormones must be running wild! See, I recently finished that part of the cycle, okay TMI, but I can't get any more ridiculous today!
I stayed home all day, partly because I had no business in school or elsewhere. I was drained from yesterday, too. But for the most part, I was (still am) scared to bits about the recent bus bombing incident at Ayala Ave. So I stayed in my pajamas, had n bowls of cereals, and watched newly downloaded movies.
Emotions On Overdrive (EOO) Symptom # 1:
I laughed too much while watching Easy A. Well, props, if it really was that funny. I loved it! Also, I got too excited about Olive's wit and the whole wordplay thing going on. I felt so down for her when things got really messed up. Like, come on, Cee. What up?
EOO Symptom # 2:
I cried over a random scene in Across the Universe when the movie barely started laying out its plot. I thought I recovered well when I began to sing with the cast to the tunes of The Beatles. No, bad recovery, even. I bawled my eyes out some more during Jude and Lucy's forcied means of separation.
While enjoying my movie-watching, Mom alerts me about an incident in one of the residential condominiums currently under construction at Paseo de Roxas. Construction workers were killed from a gondola fall of almost 30 floors.
EOO Symptom # 3:
Add to the fact that the recent incident was spine-tingling, I can't believe I got goosebumps all over my body. I can't help but be all jumpy and jittery at the smallest things. Makati City has been the hot spot for bad news lately.
Last year's season of American Idol bored me. After the new set of judges for American Idol 10, though, I got myself quite hooked again. Plus, I expected that talents were running low, so I felt rejuvenated to see that this year, a lot of hopefuls can still bring it! Take Chris Medina from the Wisconsin auditions.
EOO Symptom # 4:
Come on. It's not only his tragic story, which I think will be bashed by haters very soon; say a couple of hours. He sang the most beautiful of all songs in my life's soundtrack. He sang it really well with his own twist. I'm the The Script was proud of him. And how can I not shed a tear when he said, "What kind of guy would I be if I walked out when she needed me the most?" I hope men in all forms and walks of life were listening.
I get the weirdest dreams lately, ones that don't make an inkling of sense or reason. I wake up early only for thesis, and if not, I find that it's only early enough to sleep again. And when I do need to sleep, I can't seem to have my eyes shut and mind relaxed. Sure, maybe all I need is to reset my broken body clock. I've been working on it.
Meryl and I revised our script for thesis for five hours at the Yuchengco lobby. My body hurts; back, neck, and butt. Even my jaw aches sometimes. Am I deteriorating? Anyway, I almost lost my phone today. I was in a rush while I packed up my laptop and charger that I forgot to place it in my bag or even my jeans pocket. Sigh. I almost died panicking for two minutes. It lasted that fast because of the kindness (quite expected, so luck perhaps would be apt?) of the friendliest Diar's maintenance lady I know in all of La Salle. Like, I make small talk with her sometimes, but mostly, I flash a big smile and wave at her. Hehe. She's super nice. I thanked her so much I thought she'd get irritated. Hahaha. Sorry, phone is life these days. Anyway, I hope I don't get a disciplinary offense for "losing" a property or valuable, no matter how minor it is. *SIGH*
Makati, after yesterday's bus bombing at Buendia-EDSA, does not look safe to me anymore; neither business nor residential district. Manila never looked safe to me, ever. Haha, okay, you get the point. Some riding-in-tandem snatching happened again earlier. *SHUDDER* What is happening to Metro Manila? To the Philippines? It's not safe anywhere anymore!
Okay, last leg of word vomiting... Look at this!!! :)
ADORABLE, RIGHT? Aaaaacccckkkk!!! My friend inboxed me the link in Facebook because she said the piglet reminded her of me. O_O Thanks a lot, huh. I don't mind, the little piggy's cute anyway. Haha. Photo from Flickr user: Brittney (whisker snaps photo)
The photo made my day, really. I have a new desktop wallpaper, if the owner won't mind. Hehe.
I watched The Tourist with my mom today. After which, we watched Little Fockers, too. But I especially loved the former. Interesting plot, amazing twist, and tasteful musical score. I realized that despite the aburrida mood I can't help but channel today, I can and will never EVER get tired of ogling at the faces of the Johnny Depp and the Angelina Jolie.
Eyegasmic, how the world possesses such beautiful creatures! Haha.
I mean, come on. What better faces to ogle at than...
... the sexiest woman and man who ever lived in this lifetime.
I was playing my current Facebook Application game addiction: CityVille (see my beautiful town below, hihi)
when the page freezes and is suddenly redirected to Facebook's Careers page.
I don't know if I clicked on something or it was all automated that I was brought to that page. I just find it odd that I never really considered working for an internet-based company. (Not that I'm already employed in a non-internet-based company now. Haha! Just something my internalizations might have missed.)
I remember one of the topics we had in my Organization Theory class(es), the virtual organization. I wonder if Facebook is that way. Maybe I should read up on it, yes? I never really gave it much thought anyway. It's time to know. Haha. So anyway, I browsed through it and I realized that I could fit into the Communications & Public Policy department;
I'd like to think I write fairly well hehe, and my four years of college education is on communication, in bulk. Wala lang, interesting, what with all the practicum-hunting I should seriously be doing and all, it seems worthy to be given some thought. I mean, look at the openings! Isn't it Org Comm enough? ;)
How apt is it to start the year with my 100th blog entry? Not as apt as ending with the 100th and starting with the 101st! But oh well, I'll have to make do with the 100th.
Anyway, we all know how New Year's Resolutions go. You make a decision to do or change something, something big and drastic, and expect to have it done with by the end of the year. Honestly, I gave up on those a long while back. Say, high school. Hehe. I make a resolution, and mid-January, bam! It's gone; either forgotten or deliberately ignored.
As I always say, 2007 was a year of adjustment and adapting. 2008 was a year of pain, loss, and a lot of sadness. 2009 was the booming year of recovery! 2010 was even better! I really know already where I should stand and for how long, how tightly or lightly to grasp at things, stuff like that. So since last year ended two days ago, and I'll have nothing much going on with my life at the top half of 2011 but thesis, OJT, and GMG, I decided to have a resolution again. But this time, I'll be really goal-oriented and specific, and I'll make sure the goals are feasible, too. Haha.
I shall add the following list to my side bar so I could tick them off one by one. It didn't work when I tried to remember it; didn't work even when I wrote it down on paper... Or that time I posted my resolution on my bedroom wall. *sigh*
Get an SSS number
Start running again
Take driving lessons
Get a driver's license
Enroll in boxing class
Stop eating food with high cholesterol and starch content
