oh hello world! i've been dead for the past few days. the Sportsfest ate up all of my time... i've been going home past midnight since last week. anyway, our village's homeowners association recently organized a Sports Council and i was elected Secretary. i think it's a big responsibility but it's also an honor to be part of the team. we'll be organizing tournaments and you know, that kind of stuff... our first project will be a pinoy-style palaro for our town fiesta, which will be held in the last week of May -- which is a first, because we normally celebrate it on the first week of November. i don't know what the deal was but they moved it. *shrug*



so there, that's why i've been not only dead to the world, but also dead tired every single night... but it's okay, i'm having fun. :D at least my summer isn't wasted... although i don't consider bumming around at home such a wasteful activity, it's great to get out of the house once in a while... at least i'm doing something productive.



so now i'm watching the third episode of the Sex and The City back-to-back special... this is really a highly enjoyable show. :D hahah. :D



by the way, i think my ISP, Infocom, cut my account off... for the past month, i've been greatly dependent on the internet to relieve me of my boredom... i'm now surfing on a donated 1-hour prepaid internet card... oooohhhh... i don't think i can live without the internet anymore!



oh my, im a net addict!!! whatever. hahah. :D



anyhoo, please visit all these lovely people who love me! also, lucille, cathy and dani -- thanks for ur messages. i miss you... :D text niyo naman ako! :D

i've been really busy this week... the Sportsfest in our village is coming up and i'm part of the secretariat. actually, i'm also covering the games, which will be held this weekend, and coming up with articles for the special newsletter for the said event. walalang. :D



i'm so happy coz i've also been able to drive around more often this week. after the "warrant of arrest" incident kasi, i've been a little hesitant to drive. guess the big fuss about such a small incident finally got to my nerves. but like my dad said, no one wants to get into an accident; it just happens. that's why we have insurances, so we can be able to drive worry-free. besides, nothing still beats the thrill of getting behind the wheel of a car and actually be responsible for the movement of such a big and complicated machine... except when there's too much traffic or the aircon's inefficient. hahah. yun lang. :D

"I held the girl in my arms and I felt her quiver as she tried to keep her tears to herself. But there was nothing she could do. She looked at me with eyes full of emotion, and I was stunned by how she so freely exposed her weakness. I admire her for that -- for accepting that there are things that hurt her, things that she could not take. And in those few moments that I tried to console her, I felt helpless, powerless, vulnerable. Because I know that I shared her fear. I know that I myself cannot hold on forever. I myself will someday be gone, with only faint memories of the feelings we once shared. I know that I myself will die... if I lost her."



**sniff, sniff**

new link! sweet-angel.net sis arlene :D



go visit purple schmurple aA! :D

"you shouldn't stay in a relationship just because you have no reason not to... but because you have every reason to do so."



a public service announcement from teng.

quizzes galore.








How much of a freak are you?

Which stereotype are you?

Red: 21/100 Blue: 9/100 White: 7/100 Yellow: 8/100
Take the Color Code Test
by Dano






I'm the badass burgundy patent Doc Marten...
I'm cool as hell, I'm deep,
and maybe a little dark

Which Doc Marten are you?
(by *coffeebean*)

001. Great writer.

002. Our words, our works.

003. Binibinis. Filipinas. Women.

004. Want some WordCandy?

005. Unfolding...

006. Reminiscing silently.

007. Bloomin'.

008. Cool girl.



craving for McDonald's Mashed Potatoes... i don't know why but i seem to like it. even better than KFC's.



i've been online for four hours now. my dad went to my room a few minutes ago and was surprised to see me still up... he told me "Wag mo sanayin yung katawan mo ng ganyan, magkaka-insomnia ka niyan." not to worry, pa. i think i already am an insomniac.



this morning, i watched a special on the Discovery Channel about sleep deprivation. it turns out, our body actually needs one hour of sleep for every two hours of wakefulness. otherwise, we won't be functioning that well.



okay. i'm hitting the sack.



zZzZzZz...

i've been to two reunions in two days. last april 18, we had our high school reunion, organized by my friends from my senior class and it was actually held in my house! :D psyche was there and like she said, it was like we never grew up. :) we had lots of fu recounting our experiences in high school and anecdote after anecdote cracked everyone up... the atmosphere was still bubbly and well, very noisy, and three years did not make much difference. of course some were taller or thinner or fairer, and some had several boyfriends down their list, but everyone was still pretty much the same. i love those guys. :D



the second reunion was with my high school busmates. our school bus usually starts picking us up at around 5am and we arrive home at around 7pm, so we really spend a lot of time together, and we start and end our days together as well. we've really grown so close even if we were from four different batches, and i can say we've really formed a special bond. we spent the night reminiscing our kalokohan over barbecue and fried chicken... hahah. i love those guys too. :D



thinking back to the past two days, I realized I had four beautiful and meaningful years in high school… i guess that’s one of the reasons why I feel so attached to my alma mater. no matter how people put St. Paul down, I guess it will always be a part of me – a big part of me – because I owe to that school much of who I am now. Not only has it given me a good education, it has also given me people and friendships and memories to cherish for the rest of my life. that school has been good to me, and I do not have a lot of reasons not to be proud of my being a Paulinian.

i just joined pure pinay. :D

give her some lovin'! :D hey mel, welcome to the Sweet-Angel.Net family. :D



and my host is back up again! :D truly, a domain without a host is just like any other url... we missed you, mitch!

Which TRL girl are you?



Michell Branch again! yay! that girl totally rocks. :)



if you want to, i can save you... i ccan take you away from here... hihi. :D



happy birthday, Mons₂₄!

(sana lang nababasa mo 'to and you'd sign my gbook! hmph! :D)

i want:

001. new blinds for my room.

002. my wallpaper to be removed.

003. cable internet.

004. a webcam.

005. a new layout.

006. a new COURSE, perhaps...???

You’re Michelle Branch! You’re the ‘girl nextdoor’ type of gal. You’ve got a down-to-earth feel about you, and you’re not afraid to be original. You’re still trying to find yourplace in life, but that doesn’t mean you’re not enjoying the trip. Rich and famous? Sure! But you’re not gonna let that go to your head. ;D


What Kind of Pop Princess Are You? Quiz by Jonah



got this from ate jannie, who, by the way, has a new layout. :)



care to make me happy?

got this from an e-mail. i think my layout can relate to it. :D



WHY WOMEN ARE STRONG BUT CRY EASILY



One day, a young boy asked his Mom.

"Why are you crying?"

"Because I'm a woman" she told him.

"I don't understand," he said,

"And you never will, but that's okay."



Later the little boy asked his father,

"Why does Mom seem to cry for no reason?"

"All women cry for no reason" was all his dad could say.



The little boy grew up and became a man, still wondering why women cry. Finally, he put in a call to God.



When God got back to him, he asked, "God, why do women cry so easily?"



God answered, "When I made woman, I decided she had to be special. I made her shoulders strong enough to carry the weight of the world, yet her arms gentle enough to give comfort.



I gave her the inner strength to endure childbirth and the rejection that many times will come, even from her own children. I gave her a hardness that allows her to keep going and take care of her family and friends, even when everyone else gives up, through sickness and fatigue, without complaining.



I gave her the sensitivity to love her children under any and all circumstances, even when her child has hurt her badly. She has the very special power to make a child's

boo-boo feel better and to quell a teenager's anxieties and fears.



I gave her strength to care for her husband despite faults, and I fashioned her from his rib to protect his heart. I gave her wisdom to know that a good husband never hurts his wife but sometimes tests her strengths and her resolve to stand beside him unfalteringly



I also gave her a tear to shed. It is hers to use whenever needed and is her only weakness. When you see her cry, tell her how much you love her and all she does for everyone. And even though she may still cry, you will have made her heart feel good.



She is special!"

Winnie and Kevin kissed! :) I love that show, The Wonder Years... I used to watch reruns of that show on Star World, even when i was still in second year hs... it suddenly stopped (much to my dismay) and i've been wanting to see it again since then... and now, The Disney Channel is showing it again. hahah. i'm a sucker for cheesy underage love stories on tv... heheh. :)



anyway, it was my little sister's birthday party today. as usual, the ever-loving and world's greatest ate, me (heheh, you can bonk me now) was emcee and game master... walalang... (i wanted to say "they grow up so fast" but i'd sound like my mom... heheh, but it's true) sometimes i wish my sister would never grow old... coz she's at this age when she can constantly irritate me and i hate it when i get mad at her. but sometimes i can't control myself; more often that not, she fails to understand the things that are important to me -- things like silence, neatness, Austin, my laptop (heheh) or her having to memorize the multiplication table -- and why they are important to me... but what can i say? she's only 8 years old. my mom tells me that i shouldn't expect her to be on my level of thinking, and that it would greatly help if i go down to her maturity level and explain things. well of course my mom is right. i try to do that... but i'm only human. :)



i love my sister. i'd kill anyone who would harm or hurt her.



walalang. i just wanted to put that on record. :)

still up. want sleep. lids droopy. eyes heavy. bro's project, almost done. need bed. big yawn.



zzZZzzZZzz...

Rob was voted out of the island. i think he deserved it. he was a lying, conniving little... well, you get the idea. :)



some plugs that are looong overdue:

mixz, niks, carlo, psyche, denise*, mel*, aA*... (*--on hiatus)

At around 6:30am, Las Pinas police came to our house to execute a warrant of arrest… for me! Naturally I was still asleep at that time; my mom and dad proceeded to straightening things out without even bothering to wake me up. That’s how much they love me.



By the time I woke up, my mom had already gone to the city hall and my dad had already talked to the police. My mom told me to dress up and that she would have my picture taken… you know, in the manner that criminals have their picture taken… with the left and right side views… hahah. Now that cracked me up.



You might be wondering why I suddenly became a fugitive. Well, two months ago, I got into a minor car accident while driving along Sucat, Paranaque. I hit a 1978 blue Mitsubishi Lancer in the rear while making a U-turn. The passengers of the vehicle confronted me immediately and demanded that I pay the damages. Now I won’t explain whether or not I was at fault because it’s a long story. I called my mom and she went there to iron things out. It turned out that the other party was not insured and demanded that we pay them in cash. My car, on the other hand, had comprehensive insurance so it’s not really a problem, as my mom told me, because the insurance would take care of it.



My father refused to pay in cash, and explained to the other party that the insurance would pay for the repair if they agreed to have it fixed in an accredited auto shop. But they wanted us to pay it outright and said that they have had someone else estimate the damages, and that it amounted to Php 5,000. My father, being the strong-willed Scorpion that he is (like me – hehe) refused to have it their way. After all, that’s the reason why we pay for insurance, for them to cover our accident expenses.



And so, to make the long story short, after a month of not hearing from the other party, the police suddenly came to my house to pick me up. They’ve filed a complaint against me and issued a warrant of arrest without even inviting us to a hearing. My family suspects that they had contacts from the court that’s why they were able to skip legal proceedings. My mom has posted bail and said she would arrange everything, and leave it to the insurance. My parents were really comforting, my dad told me he didn’t want to get me traumatized. He didn’t want me to be afraid of driving again. :) What a dad. :)



In conclusion, dear friends, for the past month or so, I was actually a criminal at large… without my knowledge.



Hahah… crap. :)

may sikreto akong sasabihin sa'yo... mayroong nangyaring hindi mo alam... ito'y isang lihim, itinagong kay tagal... muntik na kitang minahal...



senti time... :) been listening to that song over and over since an hour ago... my brother asked me to download it... it's just so beautiful. i downloaded he version from The Company, not the new one by Carol Banawa... blah, you probably don't know and don't care what i'm talking about... whew... i'm sleepy but i still want to saty up... huh? bangag na talaga ako... ey psyche, ung domain nten ha... :) great-minds.org sounds nice... i can imagine the first version... it shall be entitled great minds think alike... mweheheh...



i recently started writing journal entries and saving it on my computer... i dunno, i just started ranting and raving and well, i couldn't stop... and because it's in my laptop, i write Dear Austin instead of Dear Diary... walalang, share ko lang...



i better go now... later i'll be laughing about this entry and how high i was while writing this... oh well... :)

I have decided to rid myself of my cell phone for the next ten days. When I checked my unbilled charges a while ago, it had amounted to 999.66 pesos. And I’m not even halfway through my billing period! So I figured it would be better if I stuck it out with my turn-off-my-cell-phone plan. I’m already ashamed of myself; my mom doesn’t deserve all those headaches over my cell phone bill. I often said that I couldn’t live without my cell phone but believe me, my bill is huge. Humongous even. And these tough times call for, well, some action.



I guess I love my mother too much to hurt her by abusing the luxury that she has given me of having a post-paid cell phone account. And also because of that love, I’ll be able to live without my cell phone for ten days. So there.



Please visit my my new baby. :) Oh no, it's not a boyfriend. :)

watched E.T. today. it was so-so. but drew barrymore was reeeeeaaaalllllyyy cute. she was only a toddler then. heheh. but my mom is sick. she has a temperature and a bad cough. now i'm sad. =(



anyway, i just wanted to show everyone my desktop and WMP skin...







spiderman fever. he's spun a web on me too. oh well, i guess that's it for now. i'm off to watch ally.

well, i think a long blog entry is due. i was gone for four days and now i have no excuse not to blog (kudos to our most industrious blogger)since school's out so... here i am.



my family and i went to Subic for the long weekend... and while i was packing, i was thinking whether or not i should bring my laptop. i've been working on this layout since last friday and i really wanted to upload it before the week ended. but i decided against it, thinking that i'd probably be too busy swimming and shopping to want to finish my layout in Subic. besides, there would probably be no phone line in the place where we would be staying.



it turns out, there were a couple of hours of boredom that i could have used to finish the new layout. oh well. during that time, i thought of a name for my laptop. i now call him Austin. from Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me. pretty lame but what the heck? i loved that film. =D haha.



anyway, we had luch at the Triboa Bay Country Club and the food was fantastic. i loved their Ceasar's Salad. my cousins and i were really so full -- the food was absolutely sinful. :)



because my tito is the president of a government organization handling loan guarantees, their vacation incentive included a two-day stay at one of the APEC villas. remember the houses they built for the different national leaders when they held the APEC summit here in the Philippines? that's where we stayed... the house was very well-furnished and it had floor-to-ceiling windows that offered a comanding view of the beach.



well, that's all for my Subic Adventure. :) btw, it's my little sister's 8th birthday today. i remember she told me a while ago, "Ate Teng, 8 na ko. Ang tanda ko na." heheh, so what do you call me now? a senior citizen? hahah. :)



Happy Birthday, Tata!!!



as if she could read this, but what the heck! :)

new layout... :) comments, anyone?

yesterday, i recieved an e-mail from edsamail saying that their services are no longer free. it was not a surprising step-- recently they offered value-added packages for a fee. but then, asking for payment for the use of their services is contrary to their slogan "Because it's a free world." Oh c'mon.



edsamail actually revolutionized e-mailing for Filipinos. their installation cd's were distributed all over Metro Manila and almost all of the people i know once had an @edsamail.com.ph addy. its free dial-up access also made it more popular than web-based email. i believe that a chunk of the technological awareness of a lot of people can be attributed to the popularity of edsamail.



i really can't help but think, "was their offer of free services before have a pure intention? or is it also just a part of a giant marketing scheme?" now that more and more Filipinos have become dependent on Edsamail for their e-mailing needs, which if i may say was primarily because it was free, they ask for a fee. they say it's because of the financial crisis and the region's economic situation, but is it? personally, i believe that even if the inflation rate was down and the country was economically stable, edsamail would find reasons to charge their users.



i just wish they could have forewarned the people, or better yet, confess that it's not really because of the economy that they're charging us. they never should have used their slogan "it's a free world," because when it comes down to it, everyone wants something in exchange of something else. very few people have pure intentions -- and i don't think the edsamail tycoons are among them.



but then again, it's just me.

really now. :)

went to school today to get my classcards... it turns out sa 18 pa pala ang distribution... hmph! waste of time, money and effort. ang labo naman kasi eh. hindi nila inaayos ang pag-announce ng important dates of the academic year... inefficiency truly plagues many of this country's government institutions. haaay.



anyway, the only class card i got was from p.e. and i got a 2.25. 2.25?!?!?! i was outraged! that's the lowest grade i ever got -- it even beat my math classes and major subjects -- of which i have a running lowest grade of 2. and for what?! for not knowing how to define all six aspects of wellness and physical fitness? crap.



wala lang. i know i'm making a big deal out of nothing... but i just had to have something to talk about aside from Rico Yan.