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Looking Forward and Beyond
The customary sem-ender assessment post should’ve been at hand, but I just can’t seem to bring myself to analyze the entire sem that transpired. It’s just so major to be put down into words which, I think, will not suffice for the intensity of the past semester. One word fits, however, and that’s the title of my previous post: Haggard.I believe I haven’t been that stressed in my entire life. I haven’t had two-hour shuteyes either. I haven’t downed three cups-full of coffee in just one night. I haven’t been so mad. I haven’t been so disappointed. I haven’t been so frustrated. Frankly, I do have mixed feelings about this sem.
That’s why I want to put it to a close. Leave it behind. Give closure to things and move on to broader horizons. I don’t want to look back at the sem that just passed anymore, because it only evokes a lot of feelings and emotions that I don’t want to linger for long. So this is why the customary post-semester post won’t be a reality this time. Instead, let’s all look forward… and beyond.
Kumi was right. This’ll be our last summer as carefree students without a care in the world. Next summer, it’ll be all about the real world (not unless we don’t graduate on time, which shouldn’t happen to me AT ALL COSTS). So to commemorate this last summer in our student lives, we’ll be starting PROJECT SUMMER. Details shall follow soon. Watch this space. 
I also want to be as productive as possible this summer. Aside from my internship at Philippine Daily Inquirer (150 hours of Police Beat Haggardness–everybody now: “Stress!”), I want to do things that’ll enrich me personally. I want to experience new things, and these are some of the things that are lined up for me this summer:
- PROJECT SUMMER with friends, whatever and wherever that may lead us
- Learn how to do a Wordpress theme, courtesy of Shari’s prodding
- Go to Baguio for the FIRST TIME EVER (Haggard, I hope it pushes through…)
- Participate in The Blog Awards Challenge to get back my writing groove
- Ask to contribute to another magazine (a prof of mine is asking me to write for this new street magazine)
- Go places! Road Trips! Hikings! Vacationing! Anything that can help me relax and reclaim the life stolen by the past semester
Those are the things I could think of right now. I really want this to be a very productive summer for me, this being the last fun summer I can ever have.
Hope you’ll have a fun summer ahead of you! Right now, I’m just glad that the past sem’s off my back. It just dragged on and on and on that it’s such a relief that it’s finally over. Honestly speaking, it hasn’t sank into me yet. I hope it does soon, for I only have a week’s worth of vacation ’til I start internship.
Oh well. The next few entries, I hope, will be more insightful. I plan on posting my misadventures during internship at the risk of creeping my readers out. You’ll see. Watch out for it. :evil laughter:
Gaby’s Back in the House y’all!
I wasn’t watching Uber yesterday when a friend texted me something that made me jump off of my feet and wail in excitement: Gaby’s back in the house!!!
From the Pinoy Big Brother website:
“I got kidnapped!” Gaby first told the two housemates as they got in the house. Gaby returned from her seminar in the US just this afternoon and the PBB staff surprised Gaby right at the airport and offered her a chance to return to the Big Brother house and continue being a celebrity housemate. Being used to stepping up to any challenge, the renowned car racer agreed to come back. From there, she was immediately driven straight to the PBB house.
Apparently she had no idea she would be given the opportunity to go back inside the house. With Mcoy and Ethel’s voluntary exit last week, I suddenly lost interest in watching the show. But now with Gaby back in the house, I guess I’m gluing my eyes to the TV every 930pm once again!
Notice how she looked so fresh and pretty in the pictures? Sigh… I just can’t get enough of Gaby. This time, I hope she wins.
*Photo from The Official Pinoy Big Brother Website
Suportahan Taka
If you remember that line from a PLDT TV Commercial way, way back, then you’re probably from my generation or a generation older.
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The infamous “Kung sa’n ka masaya te suportahan taka” (which loosely translates to “Wherever you’re happy I’ll support you”) line caught up so good that it rapidly spread around the country like a virus. Ever since then, whenever we want to say we support somebody, we would utter this oh-so-famous line.
Remembering Will & Grace
I’m a very sentimental person. It’s hard for me to let go of special things in my life, even if it may appear superficial to others. From time to time I read my blog archives and reflect on the person that I’ve been and the man I’m becoming. That’s how senti I am. Cheezy, I know, but that’s me!
In any case, I just had a momentary lapse of nostalgia when last Saturday, during CommRes class, one of my classmates was holding a magazine with Will & Grace as the cover. Suddenly I was jolted back to the past and remembered all those times when I’d laugh so hard in front of the TV and everybody would just give me an intriguing look and I won’t mind them.
For the skeptics
Okay, I know somehow you guys are convinced that Gaby did give me an autographed picture, but I just have to show you this.
Tita Tinna posted in her multiply these pics that show Gaby signing her pic for me:
And this: (more…)
Where’s Gaby dela Merced?
Update on Gaby dela Merced: IA’s friend Julian, who works with ABS-CBN Publishing, told us that last November 14, Gaby flew to Phoenix, Arizona to attend her driving seminar. Before she flew to the US a press conference was held so that she can say a few words to the press.
Now Julian said that IA happened to mention to him that I adore Gaby, and so he got me one of these:
And not only that, it came with this: (more…)
Chronicles of Insomnia: The Champion, The Itch and The Dark Room
O diba, talagang pinilit ang title? Hehehe.
Chronicles of Insomnia
I’m not really an insomniac. If you know me well enough I’m sure you’re aware of my very stable sleeping patterns. You also know that I can sleep absolutely anywhere at any sleeping position if I’m really sleepy, no matter how grave the circumstances or the surroundings may be. So yes, I’m not really an insomniac, except for days when I find myself pondering a troubling thought or I simply just can’t put myself to sleep. Say, just like last Monday night!
Pinoy Big Brother and the Super Mariel Complex
Pinoy Big Brother Celebrity Edition 2 has got to be one of the most exciting seasons yet. A twisted set of housemates, twisted set of rules and a whole lot of twisted set of twists, if you know what I mean.
This is the first season ever that a surprise house guest has been introduced into the Pinoy Big Brother prison house. We all loved how Mariel looked when she got the shock of her life that she was to become one of the housemates. How she knew it all along. How she hyperventilated. How her manager Boy Abunda consoled her. In the end, she accepted the fact and blended with the housemates.
