ONCE IN FOUR YEARS
hey. posted the previous blog when i realized,
this day only happens in four years!
hmmm... what thing could i do that'll be SO DAMN special it would be good enough to last four years?
hmmm... i'm stumped. maybe i should get me some sleep muna and think it over.
i sure hope i do something worthwhile today, for some weird, inexplicable, self-serving reason.
but i think the concept's nice, right?
why don't YOU do something extraordinary today? just for kicks. or maybe,
just because this day won't be around next year and next next year and next next next year. ;)
night!
FIVE THOUGHTS
1. 1:46am and i'm still blogging. WHY CAN'T I JUST SLEEEEP RIGHT NOW?
because you're a blog adik. and because you slept this afternoon. duh. and maybe because you suspended for the moment your belief that the amount of sleep is inversely proportional to the number of zits.
2. came from the NTU (nanyang technological univ) choir's concert nga pala in victoria concert hall in downtown singapore. WHY CAN'T I SING HEAVENLY?
i mean, okay, i got *ahem* accepted for choir in the hall (but i didn't join them since i was too busy.. yihee), but the NTU choir is just plain superb. gawd. for 12 bucks i'd go again. and shempre, bonding bonding with the NTU pinoy pipol. ;) loadsa fun with those guys, i tell you. enjoyed the night. =)
i'll try to post photos when i have time, which is when i forget to study AND i choose to blog AND remember to post photos. if you're a faithful reader, you'd know that i'm not exactly mr. responsible. =)
3. why is my blog getting hits from spain, dominican republic, UK, germany, israel, japan, australia, USA among others?
because of the words "takagism", "crimson room", "MOTAS", "tips". it's nice to know that the world is going bonkers over those 2 games. they even have to "google" and "yahoo" for tips and cheats. like what i did. hahahaha. but for some "tips" lng syempre. (scroll down to my SWALLOWING MY WORDS blog to get the links to the games =P )
napaisip tuloy ako. if i put the words "paris hilton tape" or " free nude celebrities" or "janet's superbowl BOOBoo" or something in my blog, then i would prolly get thousands of hits. but nah, never mind. i don't want uninterested people to visit. i'd just be wasting their time. besides, my blogs are too long and uninteresting for strangers. but i know my good friends would take the time right? if they (YOU) have the time to spare of course. yiheeee. THANKS FOR READING. ;)
4. hmmm... this is related to thought #3. why aren't some visitors tagging?
hmmm.. shempre joseph, baka there's nothing to comment about. i mean, wala lang. there's just nothing to say. haha. masaya lang pag may nagtatag. i don't even mind if you flood. and nooo, that's not a lame excuse to ask you guys to tag! really! =) but... never mind. ;)
5. tama, i transferred the photos from the cam to the laptop. ang pogi ko raw sa screen ng digicam, sabi ko sa sarili. but wtf?! pag dating sa PC, when the image is much clearer and BIGGER, syete. WHY CAN'T OIL GLANDS JUST NOT EXIST?!
imagine, if there were no zits for everyone on this planet!
no oil > no zits > no angal pag close-up shots > more confidence > happy life > better world!
sigh. my new mission in life: make vicky belo my best friend.
haha. no, i'm not depressed, thank you. ;)
p.s.
but if miss vicky belo is reading this.. um.. never mind. shy ako. nyahaha. ;P
1. 1:46am and i'm still blogging. WHY CAN'T I JUST SLEEEEP RIGHT NOW?
because you're a blog adik. and because you slept this afternoon. duh. and maybe because you suspended for the moment your belief that the amount of sleep is inversely proportional to the number of zits.
2. came from the NTU (nanyang technological univ) choir's concert nga pala in victoria concert hall in downtown singapore. WHY CAN'T I SING HEAVENLY?
i mean, okay, i got *ahem* accepted for choir in the hall (but i didn't join them since i was too busy.. yihee), but the NTU choir is just plain superb. gawd. for 12 bucks i'd go again. and shempre, bonding bonding with the NTU pinoy pipol. ;) loadsa fun with those guys, i tell you. enjoyed the night. =)
i'll try to post photos when i have time, which is when i forget to study AND i choose to blog AND remember to post photos. if you're a faithful reader, you'd know that i'm not exactly mr. responsible. =)
3. why is my blog getting hits from spain, dominican republic, UK, germany, israel, japan, australia, USA among others?
because of the words "takagism", "crimson room", "MOTAS", "tips". it's nice to know that the world is going bonkers over those 2 games. they even have to "google" and "yahoo" for tips and cheats. like what i did. hahahaha. but for some "tips" lng syempre. (scroll down to my SWALLOWING MY WORDS blog to get the links to the games =P )
napaisip tuloy ako. if i put the words "paris hilton tape" or " free nude celebrities" or "janet's superbowl BOOBoo" or something in my blog, then i would prolly get thousands of hits. but nah, never mind. i don't want uninterested people to visit. i'd just be wasting their time. besides, my blogs are too long and uninteresting for strangers. but i know my good friends would take the time right? if they (YOU) have the time to spare of course. yiheeee. THANKS FOR READING. ;)
4. hmmm... this is related to thought #3. why aren't some visitors tagging?
hmmm.. shempre joseph, baka there's nothing to comment about. i mean, wala lang. there's just nothing to say. haha. masaya lang pag may nagtatag. i don't even mind if you flood. and nooo, that's not a lame excuse to ask you guys to tag! really! =) but... never mind. ;)
5. tama, i transferred the photos from the cam to the laptop. ang pogi ko raw sa screen ng digicam, sabi ko sa sarili. but wtf?! pag dating sa PC, when the image is much clearer and BIGGER, syete. WHY CAN'T OIL GLANDS JUST NOT EXIST?!
imagine, if there were no zits for everyone on this planet!
no oil > no zits > no angal pag close-up shots > more confidence > happy life > better world!
sigh. my new mission in life: make vicky belo my best friend.
haha. no, i'm not depressed, thank you. ;)
p.s.
but if miss vicky belo is reading this.. um.. never mind. shy ako. nyahaha. ;P
ABOUT TIME
my english teacher in ajss (35th, ateneo junior summer seminar, some two years ago) ms chona lin (not lim) quoted some famous literary great or something and said something to this effect:
if you don't write your memories and experiences, it's as if they never existed.
hmmm.. doesn't sound poetic enough to me. oh well. i told you, something to that effect.
my 3rd year high school english teacher ms suyin told us something more poetic (if only because i remember this one and not the previous):
"the fadest ink is clearer than the sharpest memory."
right. nuff of my cliched intros and lemme get on with "writing using ink" so my memories will "exist". that's right. it's ABOUT TIME i blog. (i read the title again and no, this is not about my philosophy about time and space and all). ;P
++++
before i slept a while this afternoon (for what, 30 minutes?!) , i read some email. i've recently discovered this cool "pop peeper" program which checks my mail every 5 minutes. it's like e-prompter, which was the program recommended to me by wayne dell, but for some reason i couldn't run the setup file. bummer. pop peeper works fine anyway, so watda.
ANYWAY, my ajss2002 yahoogroup was getting messages about 37th batch now. it was cool actually, to realize that sheesh, it's been two friggin' years already and our yahoogroup is still alive and kickin. and yes, a gentle reminder to me that good ol' joshie is gettin older by the minute. disiotso ka na joshep!! time to what, get a life? haha. =)
the results of aj were out already, and i think one of my aj batchmates has a sibling there (genes nga naman). patty, a fellow ajsser, mentioned in an email that she was searching (or according to an episode of SATC, perhaps "googling")for the aj37 results when she came up with a site from ajss36. and that got her a little nostalgic and parang, whoa, two years na pala kami.
anyway, patty posted the link to the blog, which i later visited.
grabe, ajss does MAGIC talaga. it's the superb-est, bestest, surest way to get some smart studes all over the country to get all mushy and comfy and warm and fuzzy all over. or at least, jelly enough to have swollen eyes during and after graduation. that was some real cool fun. =)
never mind if it was a clever scheme to brainwash top students to liking ateneo de manila.
as i've always maintained, i was happily brainwashed.
and, like the rest of the ajss people from all batches, i think that was the best summer experience.
(nga pala, bat 5 weeks lng sa aj36, diba 6 weeks ang aj35? nebermaynd. =P )
ayun, i couldn't help but tag on anna banana's tagboard, and even mention 3 of my juniors of pisay davao who i'm sure are now soem of her closest buddies.
sigh. ajss. arrrrrghhhh! makes me wanna fly back to manila (or wherever the ajss pipol are) and gather all the aj babies!
(shempre andami sa kanila pumunta ng admu, diba?) haha. the cervini days. miss the dormers din and the whattamen and the manila people.
i-compare ba sa king edward 7 hall ko right now? hehe. um, iba sila eh.
but i'm POSITIVE my network of friends would be much bigger kung nasa manila ako. ;)
pero nga, iba pa rin sila. (play it safe.)
____
the other e-mail issue i'm a little annoyed about is about the one regarding my fencing photo-shoot!!
darn. it was last night! at 10:30 pm!
and you know where i was at 9:30pm? in the freaking photo room!
and you know who was the photographer? the head of fencing, KY!
oh well. nebermaynd.
i don't blame KY for not telling me. it was all my fault. and you know why?!
because they sent me an email!! which, for some reason, i wasn't able to read!!
hmmm.. i checked my pop peeper and it wasn't there.
and i remembered maybe the email was sent to my mailcity account, on which i couldn't use the peeper.
i checked it, nada.
i checked the yahoogroups message archive and the email was there.
dammit.
the only two extra-curricular activities i got involved in for this year, and in half of them i wasn't in the photo!
but oh well. must have deleted the email without reading. or without remembering. never mind.
at least, i was in the PR Comm photo. i told myself i'd run AMUCK if i wasn't in that photo.
i mean, with the crazy workload, the zits, the swollen eyebags, i should at least have myself immortalized in one small photo in the yearbook! and so it was.
but, darn, just reread the email just now, and the fencers were in full body gear in the photo.
oh well. forgive yourself na jose. that's okay. =)
++++
before the pr comm photo shoot, i went to church with brice. it was ash wednesday you see, and i just HAD to go to church now since i've been a very bad boy. i mean, last sunday i didn't go to church since i told myself i had to study for the midterms. i was hoping God would forgive me and understand my need to at least pass my statistics and physics (yep, i won't complain much na). but i realized that wasn't a valid reason. the other week i went to church all right, but i arrived when the priest was giving the sign of peace. the week before that, birthday ko pa naman, i arrived during communion. sigh. bad boy.
anyway, bonding bonding daw kami ni brice kevin. as i've told korinna before, mabait si brice, kahit hindi obvious. hahaha. hmmm.. i'm thinking if brice can read this, given that our blogs are linked.. hmmm.. okay naman si brice eh. yun pa. cool guy. and with a cool career to boot! saludo ako dun. pasimple lng, tinik sa physics and statistics.
we had some good conversations, and it was all good. we're stuck with each other for a good 4 years din, kaya buti na yung bonding bonding. yiheeeee.
++++
before that, we had this crazy physics lab. 2-5pm. dustin and i were groupmates, and for some reason, our frequency generator and oscilloscope weren't topnotch. the signal kept blinking and at times it was even moving while we were measuring it. kakahilo sobra. and to top it all, i forgot my calculator. buti na lang our instructor, feng qingguo, who has quite some difficulty with english, is considerate. ayun, just submitted my lab today. overdue, but hopefully with no deductions.
(i asked him if there were any deductions if i passed the day after, and not on the same afternoon, and he didn't seem to get what i meant. the lady instructor, who also had english difficulty, thought i was asking about the discussion part of the experiment. anyway, sir qingguo said at last, after my asking him at least twice, that there was not much difference.)
++++
oh, before that was the physics test. 8:15-9:30am. i think i screwed up, never mind if i studied like an insomniac in the study room the past few nights (since we had back-to-back midterms).
i didn't get this and that, and also this one question where the dr roland su instructed us to use most of the page to draw a ray diagram. darn. i didn't know he was strict about the scaling of the blasted ray diagram. so ayun, i couldn't find my ruler, and my "straight lines" occupied only 1/3 of a page. i didn't even get the concept perfectly right, so never mind.
i asked dr su if we could get the solutions to the test, and he said "no" with a grin. no problem really. but it sure would've been nice.
funny, i don't seem to be too affected this time.
i just "send it up". sure it feels awful to screw up a test expecially if you've got eyebags and zits to testify to your diligence, but i sure am proud of myself for not being depressed about it. unlike last sem probably.
it feels much better this way.
++++
oh, BEFORE THAT physics midterm yesterday morning, i had statistics midterms the previous afternoon, 2-4pm.
i think i didn't do horribly, on the contrary.. nah, don't assume too much.
but really, i don't think i did spectacularly, but i did okay. i think. never mind if everyone thinks 0.88 is the correct answer while i got 0.619. and nobody knows the right answer for the last question just yet.
oh well. hmmm... long blog now.
here's the deal: i give u readers a break from this overly looong blog and i give myself some much-deserved sleep. deal! =)
my english teacher in ajss (35th, ateneo junior summer seminar, some two years ago) ms chona lin (not lim) quoted some famous literary great or something and said something to this effect:
if you don't write your memories and experiences, it's as if they never existed.
hmmm.. doesn't sound poetic enough to me. oh well. i told you, something to that effect.
my 3rd year high school english teacher ms suyin told us something more poetic (if only because i remember this one and not the previous):
"the fadest ink is clearer than the sharpest memory."
right. nuff of my cliched intros and lemme get on with "writing using ink" so my memories will "exist". that's right. it's ABOUT TIME i blog. (i read the title again and no, this is not about my philosophy about time and space and all). ;P
++++
before i slept a while this afternoon (for what, 30 minutes?!) , i read some email. i've recently discovered this cool "pop peeper" program which checks my mail every 5 minutes. it's like e-prompter, which was the program recommended to me by wayne dell, but for some reason i couldn't run the setup file. bummer. pop peeper works fine anyway, so watda.
ANYWAY, my ajss2002 yahoogroup was getting messages about 37th batch now. it was cool actually, to realize that sheesh, it's been two friggin' years already and our yahoogroup is still alive and kickin. and yes, a gentle reminder to me that good ol' joshie is gettin older by the minute. disiotso ka na joshep!! time to what, get a life? haha. =)
the results of aj were out already, and i think one of my aj batchmates has a sibling there (genes nga naman). patty, a fellow ajsser, mentioned in an email that she was searching (or according to an episode of SATC, perhaps "googling")for the aj37 results when she came up with a site from ajss36. and that got her a little nostalgic and parang, whoa, two years na pala kami.
anyway, patty posted the link to the blog, which i later visited.
grabe, ajss does MAGIC talaga. it's the superb-est, bestest, surest way to get some smart studes all over the country to get all mushy and comfy and warm and fuzzy all over. or at least, jelly enough to have swollen eyes during and after graduation. that was some real cool fun. =)
never mind if it was a clever scheme to brainwash top students to liking ateneo de manila.
as i've always maintained, i was happily brainwashed.
and, like the rest of the ajss people from all batches, i think that was the best summer experience.
(nga pala, bat 5 weeks lng sa aj36, diba 6 weeks ang aj35? nebermaynd. =P )
ayun, i couldn't help but tag on anna banana's tagboard, and even mention 3 of my juniors of pisay davao who i'm sure are now soem of her closest buddies.
sigh. ajss. arrrrrghhhh! makes me wanna fly back to manila (or wherever the ajss pipol are) and gather all the aj babies!
(shempre andami sa kanila pumunta ng admu, diba?) haha. the cervini days. miss the dormers din and the whattamen and the manila people.
i-compare ba sa king edward 7 hall ko right now? hehe. um, iba sila eh.
but i'm POSITIVE my network of friends would be much bigger kung nasa manila ako. ;)
pero nga, iba pa rin sila. (play it safe.)
____
the other e-mail issue i'm a little annoyed about is about the one regarding my fencing photo-shoot!!
darn. it was last night! at 10:30 pm!
and you know where i was at 9:30pm? in the freaking photo room!
and you know who was the photographer? the head of fencing, KY!
oh well. nebermaynd.
i don't blame KY for not telling me. it was all my fault. and you know why?!
because they sent me an email!! which, for some reason, i wasn't able to read!!
hmmm.. i checked my pop peeper and it wasn't there.
and i remembered maybe the email was sent to my mailcity account, on which i couldn't use the peeper.
i checked it, nada.
i checked the yahoogroups message archive and the email was there.
dammit.
the only two extra-curricular activities i got involved in for this year, and in half of them i wasn't in the photo!
but oh well. must have deleted the email without reading. or without remembering. never mind.
at least, i was in the PR Comm photo. i told myself i'd run AMUCK if i wasn't in that photo.
i mean, with the crazy workload, the zits, the swollen eyebags, i should at least have myself immortalized in one small photo in the yearbook! and so it was.
but, darn, just reread the email just now, and the fencers were in full body gear in the photo.
oh well. forgive yourself na jose. that's okay. =)
++++
before the pr comm photo shoot, i went to church with brice. it was ash wednesday you see, and i just HAD to go to church now since i've been a very bad boy. i mean, last sunday i didn't go to church since i told myself i had to study for the midterms. i was hoping God would forgive me and understand my need to at least pass my statistics and physics (yep, i won't complain much na). but i realized that wasn't a valid reason. the other week i went to church all right, but i arrived when the priest was giving the sign of peace. the week before that, birthday ko pa naman, i arrived during communion. sigh. bad boy.
anyway, bonding bonding daw kami ni brice kevin. as i've told korinna before, mabait si brice, kahit hindi obvious. hahaha. hmmm.. i'm thinking if brice can read this, given that our blogs are linked.. hmmm.. okay naman si brice eh. yun pa. cool guy. and with a cool career to boot! saludo ako dun. pasimple lng, tinik sa physics and statistics.
we had some good conversations, and it was all good. we're stuck with each other for a good 4 years din, kaya buti na yung bonding bonding. yiheeeee.
++++
before that, we had this crazy physics lab. 2-5pm. dustin and i were groupmates, and for some reason, our frequency generator and oscilloscope weren't topnotch. the signal kept blinking and at times it was even moving while we were measuring it. kakahilo sobra. and to top it all, i forgot my calculator. buti na lang our instructor, feng qingguo, who has quite some difficulty with english, is considerate. ayun, just submitted my lab today. overdue, but hopefully with no deductions.
(i asked him if there were any deductions if i passed the day after, and not on the same afternoon, and he didn't seem to get what i meant. the lady instructor, who also had english difficulty, thought i was asking about the discussion part of the experiment. anyway, sir qingguo said at last, after my asking him at least twice, that there was not much difference.)
++++
oh, before that was the physics test. 8:15-9:30am. i think i screwed up, never mind if i studied like an insomniac in the study room the past few nights (since we had back-to-back midterms).
i didn't get this and that, and also this one question where the dr roland su instructed us to use most of the page to draw a ray diagram. darn. i didn't know he was strict about the scaling of the blasted ray diagram. so ayun, i couldn't find my ruler, and my "straight lines" occupied only 1/3 of a page. i didn't even get the concept perfectly right, so never mind.
i asked dr su if we could get the solutions to the test, and he said "no" with a grin. no problem really. but it sure would've been nice.
funny, i don't seem to be too affected this time.
i just "send it up". sure it feels awful to screw up a test expecially if you've got eyebags and zits to testify to your diligence, but i sure am proud of myself for not being depressed about it. unlike last sem probably.
it feels much better this way.
++++
oh, BEFORE THAT physics midterm yesterday morning, i had statistics midterms the previous afternoon, 2-4pm.
i think i didn't do horribly, on the contrary.. nah, don't assume too much.
but really, i don't think i did spectacularly, but i did okay. i think. never mind if everyone thinks 0.88 is the correct answer while i got 0.619. and nobody knows the right answer for the last question just yet.
oh well. hmmm... long blog now.
here's the deal: i give u readers a break from this overly looong blog and i give myself some much-deserved sleep. deal! =)
SLEEPy ALL DAY
hey hey hey!
midterms are over na! at least for statistics and the first of two for physics.
like i've said before, i don't wanna complain TOO MUCH na.
that doesn't mean i'm not gonna complain, pero i'll try.
pero, i won't complain TOO MUCH nga. laboooo.
anyway, i was so sleeeeepy all day.
the bed was so tempting, pero i had to work.
on what? my overdue physics lab report which i crammed and still did not finish yesterday afternoon.
but that's just the tip of the iceberg, see.
hmm... where was i? oooh. i failed to tell you how my last few days were "bustling with activity" (translation: stressful) right? (won't complain na, diba? ;) )
hmmm... i'll tell you, don't worry.
now that i'm in blogging mode again.
but nah, tell you after i sleep. i told you, i was and still am sleepY all day.
p.s.
i just looove that jason mraz song "sleep all day".
but today, norah jones is lulling me to sleep (got the just-released new album from the NUS network).
gudnyt.
p.p.s.
OOOOOOOOH!! i forgot to tell you!
notice pala the cool animated icons on the sidebar (and one small button in the "photo frenzy" post below). cool eh? dunno if you like em, but i sure do.
kept me from doing my physics lab last night. haha.
anyway, they make me happy. korinna says "ang cool daw ng blog ko kasi daming pachu chu". pachu chu? wahahaha. nice.
hey hey hey!
midterms are over na! at least for statistics and the first of two for physics.
like i've said before, i don't wanna complain TOO MUCH na.
that doesn't mean i'm not gonna complain, pero i'll try.
pero, i won't complain TOO MUCH nga. laboooo.
anyway, i was so sleeeeepy all day.
the bed was so tempting, pero i had to work.
on what? my overdue physics lab report which i crammed and still did not finish yesterday afternoon.
but that's just the tip of the iceberg, see.
hmm... where was i? oooh. i failed to tell you how my last few days were "bustling with activity" (translation: stressful) right? (won't complain na, diba? ;) )
hmmm... i'll tell you, don't worry.
now that i'm in blogging mode again.
but nah, tell you after i sleep. i told you, i was and still am sleepY all day.
p.s.
i just looove that jason mraz song "sleep all day".
but today, norah jones is lulling me to sleep (got the just-released new album from the NUS network).
gudnyt.
p.p.s.
OOOOOOOOH!! i forgot to tell you!
notice pala the cool animated icons on the sidebar (and one small button in the "photo frenzy" post below). cool eh? dunno if you like em, but i sure do.
kept me from doing my physics lab last night. haha.
anyway, they make me happy. korinna says "ang cool daw ng blog ko kasi daming pachu chu". pachu chu? wahahaha. nice.
GOING BONKERS
really, i'm goin bonkers for my midterms.
i can't even focus. i hate it.
yesterday and the day before that, and RIGHT NOW, i did and am doing stuff that i shouldn't be doing at all: blog, do some friendster, surf surf, get distracted.
anyway, i know i shouldn't be posting such miserable titles to my post as karen may pity me even more. i hate it when people think i'm being miserable and studying to death and stressing myself. i hate it even more when i evoke SYMPATHY.
i remember my cousin's cousin ate vida (who's closer to me than some of my cousins) who hates being "kinakaawaan", or being the object of someone else's sympathy.
karen told me yesterday that i'm pathetic. maybe because of my recent msn names: "going bonkers", "gone bonkers finally", "joseph needs a life support system", "must study study study :|". the other time i mentioned a stats formula, so maybe that's why people think i'm studying as if my existence depended on my midterms. my PR comm stuff was driving me nuts too, and on that crazy day where i shall not even tell you how damn stressful it was, my msn nick went like this (it's my favorite too): "all pucked uf. fardon my prench. :|"
but really, i use my msn messenger (and sometimes yahoo messenger) names as a form of release. for some reason, they make me feel a tad better.
i also use em to MOTIVATE ME TO STUDY. they don't always mean i was studying like a madman that time. oh well.
maybe i'm just pathetic after all.
maybe i shouldn't get annoyed that people are seeing right through me.
i can't focus on studying, and now i'm blogging even.
i studied already yesterday, but there are still some stuff i missed. anyway, what the hell.
anyway, my point in this blog is that two people made my day.
the first one is an email from cyril to the 2003babies yahoogroup that i just opened. here's the part about me:
Josh,ang ganda ng site mo...pero di ko pa nabasa lahat...kaka-
proud...pakita ko gud sa mga kasamahan ko...Vale naman yan...nasa
Singa...hehehe
happy lang. happy lng tlga. cyril is one really nice friend. my classmate for 3 years in grade school, and even if we were never classmates in high school we managed to keep in touch because rode the same jeepney home with the rest of the gang. he even sent me an MMS with a cool valentines wallpaper and the ocho-ocho ringtone! bait tlga! =P
i was studying today when my phone beeped and kaye tamse's SMS greeted me:
hi j0sh!kaye tamse 2. la me l0ad.hehe!
deng,mis u na tlga!bl8d hpi bday& vlentyns!
mis kta!sbra!mis me 2 no?ryt? luv kta s0o0o mch deng ha!:)
tke gud cre,k?luv u!luvU
okay, clarifications. kaye is just a really sweet friend of mine. hahaha.
"deng" is a name they call me to tease me with someone. haha.
anyway, i replied and told her how busy i was and how i was going bonkers and all, and here's what she said:
hang n der.u cn d0 it!
deng,GOD wudnt hav put u thru 0l ds
f he nu u get thru evrytn,db?
deng,kya mu yan!
GOD bles sa ny0ng xams!luv u tlga!tke cre!
there. that ought to be enough to let you figure out that when i say kaye's a really sweet girl, that's an understatement.
thanks kaye and cyril for making my day.
it's nice to know people still believe in me.
maybe it's time i start believing in me more.
now i'm off to work. =P
p.s. my msn name now is "semi-charmed life". =P
previously it was "over numbers, unencumbered numbered words".
that's a line from jason mraz's latest single, "you and i both". (click on the link on the sidebar to play the song if you feel like it. =P)
and i used it, too, to refer to my studying statistics. hahaha. i think people didn't realize it was part of a song, and just thought that i was a studyholic gone amuck. or maybe they didn't even bother. hahaha.
study ka na lng kasi, jose. =)
really, i'm goin bonkers for my midterms.
i can't even focus. i hate it.
yesterday and the day before that, and RIGHT NOW, i did and am doing stuff that i shouldn't be doing at all: blog, do some friendster, surf surf, get distracted.
anyway, i know i shouldn't be posting such miserable titles to my post as karen may pity me even more. i hate it when people think i'm being miserable and studying to death and stressing myself. i hate it even more when i evoke SYMPATHY.
i remember my cousin's cousin ate vida (who's closer to me than some of my cousins) who hates being "kinakaawaan", or being the object of someone else's sympathy.
karen told me yesterday that i'm pathetic. maybe because of my recent msn names: "going bonkers", "gone bonkers finally", "joseph needs a life support system", "must study study study :|". the other time i mentioned a stats formula, so maybe that's why people think i'm studying as if my existence depended on my midterms. my PR comm stuff was driving me nuts too, and on that crazy day where i shall not even tell you how damn stressful it was, my msn nick went like this (it's my favorite too): "all pucked uf. fardon my prench. :|"
but really, i use my msn messenger (and sometimes yahoo messenger) names as a form of release. for some reason, they make me feel a tad better.
i also use em to MOTIVATE ME TO STUDY. they don't always mean i was studying like a madman that time. oh well.
maybe i'm just pathetic after all.
maybe i shouldn't get annoyed that people are seeing right through me.
i can't focus on studying, and now i'm blogging even.
i studied already yesterday, but there are still some stuff i missed. anyway, what the hell.
anyway, my point in this blog is that two people made my day.
the first one is an email from cyril to the 2003babies yahoogroup that i just opened. here's the part about me:
Josh,ang ganda ng site mo...pero di ko pa nabasa lahat...kaka-
proud...pakita ko gud sa mga kasamahan ko...Vale naman yan...nasa
Singa...hehehe
happy lang. happy lng tlga. cyril is one really nice friend. my classmate for 3 years in grade school, and even if we were never classmates in high school we managed to keep in touch because rode the same jeepney home with the rest of the gang. he even sent me an MMS with a cool valentines wallpaper and the ocho-ocho ringtone! bait tlga! =P
i was studying today when my phone beeped and kaye tamse's SMS greeted me:
hi j0sh!kaye tamse 2. la me l0ad.hehe!
deng,mis u na tlga!bl8d hpi bday& vlentyns!
mis kta!sbra!mis me 2 no?ryt? luv kta s0o0o mch deng ha!:)
tke gud cre,k?luv u!luvU
okay, clarifications. kaye is just a really sweet friend of mine. hahaha.
"deng" is a name they call me to tease me with someone. haha.
anyway, i replied and told her how busy i was and how i was going bonkers and all, and here's what she said:
hang n der.u cn d0 it!
deng,GOD wudnt hav put u thru 0l ds
f he nu u get thru evrytn,db?
deng,kya mu yan!
GOD bles sa ny0ng xams!luv u tlga!tke cre!
there. that ought to be enough to let you figure out that when i say kaye's a really sweet girl, that's an understatement.
thanks kaye and cyril for making my day.
it's nice to know people still believe in me.
maybe it's time i start believing in me more.
now i'm off to work. =P
p.s. my msn name now is "semi-charmed life". =P
previously it was "over numbers, unencumbered numbered words".
that's a line from jason mraz's latest single, "you and i both". (click on the link on the sidebar to play the song if you feel like it. =P)
and i used it, too, to refer to my studying statistics. hahaha. i think people didn't realize it was part of a song, and just thought that i was a studyholic gone amuck. or maybe they didn't even bother. hahaha.
study ka na lng kasi, jose. =)
SWALLOWING MY WORDS
7:12pm.
okay, i swallowed my words. now i'm back to blogging just after a post about my blogger downtime. oh well. actually, i technically didn't swallow my words, i, or agent tomato rather, also said, "..until (the blogger) could resist the temptation no longer". haha. figure i'd make a good lawyer. ;)
anyway, i just had to blog today. i can't let noteworthy events slip right? look what happened to my sentosa outing and JC visit and our crazy PR comm project, which are, to this day, still un-documented and un-blogged. oh well. i promise to give flashback later (see, i'm really bent on cutting my blogtime and focusing more on studies =p).
anyway, today i had no class. i planned to study all day. i woke up at 9am, had a quick breakfast of cheese and jam sandwiches (separate duh =P), with studying at the library in mind. i went up to my room, decided to check my email for a while, until i saw this email from the PR secretary of the hall (he broadcast it to all his yahoogroups).
anyway, the following is a copy of the email:
***
Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2004 01:37:01 +0800
From: "Wang WeiSheng" [add to address book] [protect or block sender]
Subject: [Prcomm0304] 2 Very interesting but Very Challenging Flash Games Links
To: KentRidgeMF@yahoogroups.com, "Temasek Holdings" Temasekholars@yahoogroups.com, AiTong6B93@yahoogroups.com, s67@yahoogroups.com, jasmineneo@temasek.com.sg, chuanchoo@temasek.com.sg, ke747@yahoogroups.com, KEVIIswim@yahoogroups.com, Prcomm0304@yahoogroups.com, 28MC@yahoogroups.com
Reply To: Prcomm0304@yahoogroups.com
Hi Pple,
This is one of the best and intriguing Flash Games. It's not easy but sure is interesting. You may get stuck, but I'm sure they can be solved, coz I managed to get past the 2 games yesterday :) ....enjoy?
http://www.datacraft.co.jp/takagism/index_e.html
http://www.albartus.com/motas/
Take Care and all the best!
Warmest Regards,
WeiSheng
***
haha. little did i know that those two seemingly innocent URLs would disrupt my study masterplan. click on the URL's and get hooked.
i've actually loved those types of seemingly-simple games even before, especially when we got our first desktop PC at home. they're smart games really, which require some good mouse tracking skills, a good bunch of braincells to kill, and a never-say-die attitude. GOD these games could be depressing when you get stuck and totally stumped, but it just feels AWESOME to pass a difficult level.
never thought those games would come back to haunt me even when i'm miles and miles away from home. haha.
the first one was just one level. it was mind-boggling as hell, and i even had to search some sites for some help. try to get out of the crimson room without any help from anyone! you'll go bonkers, i tell you, unless you're really good. ;)
the second url, the one about "mystery of time and space", seemed cheesy at first (what with its title), but it turned it to be genuinely C-R-A-Z-Y. it's so baffling i got my brain twisted. then there's this link at the bottom of the screen where you get to chat with gamers online!
hahaha. basically there, people just ask how to do this and that, where to find the key, how to solve the brain-twisting puzzles and where are the small items are secretly located. major headache i tell you, but it was genuine fun.
i spent around 5 hours playing the 2 games (until around 2:30) till i reached level 9, when i decided it was time for lunch. hahaha. but really, a major highlight was that i gained a couple of new friends! i was asking this sonja how to get past this room with a security panel and a laser beam and a log (play the game nlng kasi! hehe). she was very helpful, like many of the people in the chatroom. i was thanking her profusely when i finally passed level 4, and she said that was just the way it worked, somebody helped her, she helps me, and i help someone else. some pay-it-forward type of scheme. i thought that was really nice.
dubber, mrsbigbig also helped me a bit, but it was at past 1pm that i was the one being asked for help, which was a cool thing. i helped this sel and dragonfly and some other guys with mystery nicks.
i think i got to be good buddies with this guy "gnome". we were both helping "sel" in one level, and later i learned that he was in a much farther level than that i was in. since everyone else seemed to be lagging behind both of us, i asked him for help on my current levels. he was extremely friendly and patient, and, although i didn't get past level 9 yet despite his tips, we exchanged emails so he could help me later on! cool dude too. now i realize this game got me HOOKED. haha.
anyway, i left for lunch apast 3pm already, quite annnoyed with myself for wasting studytime, but it was okay. there's always some compromise. i needed to have a break too, from my crazy PR comm work the past days and WEEKS. oh well.
++++
after lunch at science canteen by my lonesome (yep, i'm proud to say i can eat alone comfortably), i was walking towards the science library when i saw, surprise of surprises,
MR NG WEE SENG, my math teacher last sem.
it was a wonderfully pleasant surprise! i couldn't help myself but THANK him profusely for giving me a B- in math last semester (i know that's a miserable grade, but i sincerely thought i failed the exam, which was 60% of my final grade, on top of my miserable midtrerm marks).
i was VERY TEMPTED to think that he did some "magic" on my grade last sem, such that i even had the same grade as nirorn, who i consider to be a brilliant cambodian, and even higher than some of my fellow bridging babies (of course, all-hail-the-great-but-still-humble-and-simple rotana got an A+ =P).
but no, sir wee seng told me that i "did quite well" in the exam and that my answers, although i was quite uncertain about them, proved to merit points after all. so even if i got B-, he said i did "satisfactorily" and "okay".
that, my friends, made my day.
i mean, for someone who used to love math with a passion and even battled several competitions in the name of oh-so-glorious mathematics, only to be disappointed and rather shattered because of university mathematics in singapore, that was just the thing i needed to lift up my bruised self-esteem.
i went to the library to study for a few hours of statistics, met gelo and had a good chat, and later walked by the shepherd's path shortcut to catch the once-a-week western food dinner at the hall.
++++
there was no western food at the hall this week, but nirorn's news at dinnertime was enough to make me endure WEEKS of bland, tasteless food without any complaint.
you see, the non-filipino bridging studes still take up the english course we filipinos took last sem, and guess what they discussed today: my essay last sem.
it was a position essay regarding the issue of genetically-modified food, which all english students had to write after learning the course. i mean, we were given an essay that discusses about a topic like GMF or about raising kids online, and we were to make our own essays about some issues raised in those essays. it was basically a good chunk of the EA1101 course, since a similar essay would be given in the exam (which, by the way, i screwed up last sem =P).
anyway, i felt extremely delighted and flattered and just plain HAPPY.
i mean, having screwed up the exam last sem due to nerves or just plain lack of thinking, i was just GLAD that ms happy goh appreciates my work. (my work however, had an error in one paragraph, nirorn pointed out, but he said that that was the only thing.) writing an essay in university standards is quite a tough act, since there is always some error to find, for some reason. i don't mind really, since it makes me admire english teachers all the more.
and one more thing: i'm exceptionally glad because english is one of the few aces up my sleeve. i mean, math used to be my forte, but it seems it's not going in my favor the past sem. maybe it just means i have some brushing-up to do.
english has always been my friend (never mind my bad exam last sem haha).
anyway, THAT again, made my day all the more complete.
now i can study all night with a happy heart and a peaceful soul.
p.s.
survivor too at 10pm tonight. this is just plain GREAT.
p.p.s.
sorry for this looooooooong post.
hmph. i'll try my darndest to blog in ten minutes or so next time. gotta study!
7:12pm.
okay, i swallowed my words. now i'm back to blogging just after a post about my blogger downtime. oh well. actually, i technically didn't swallow my words, i, or agent tomato rather, also said, "..until (the blogger) could resist the temptation no longer". haha. figure i'd make a good lawyer. ;)
anyway, i just had to blog today. i can't let noteworthy events slip right? look what happened to my sentosa outing and JC visit and our crazy PR comm project, which are, to this day, still un-documented and un-blogged. oh well. i promise to give flashback later (see, i'm really bent on cutting my blogtime and focusing more on studies =p).
anyway, today i had no class. i planned to study all day. i woke up at 9am, had a quick breakfast of cheese and jam sandwiches (separate duh =P), with studying at the library in mind. i went up to my room, decided to check my email for a while, until i saw this email from the PR secretary of the hall (he broadcast it to all his yahoogroups).
anyway, the following is a copy of the email:
***
Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2004 01:37:01 +0800
From: "Wang WeiSheng"
Subject: [Prcomm0304] 2 Very interesting but Very Challenging Flash Games Links
To: KentRidgeMF@yahoogroups.com, "Temasek Holdings" Temasekholars@yahoogroups.com, AiTong6B93@yahoogroups.com, s67@yahoogroups.com, jasmineneo@temasek.com.sg, chuanchoo@temasek.com.sg, ke747@yahoogroups.com, KEVIIswim@yahoogroups.com, Prcomm0304@yahoogroups.com, 28MC@yahoogroups.com
Reply To: Prcomm0304@yahoogroups.com
Hi Pple,
This is one of the best and intriguing Flash Games. It's not easy but sure is interesting. You may get stuck, but I'm sure they can be solved, coz I managed to get past the 2 games yesterday :) ....enjoy?
http://www.datacraft.co.jp/takagism/index_e.html
http://www.albartus.com/motas/
Take Care and all the best!
Warmest Regards,
WeiSheng
***
haha. little did i know that those two seemingly innocent URLs would disrupt my study masterplan. click on the URL's and get hooked.
i've actually loved those types of seemingly-simple games even before, especially when we got our first desktop PC at home. they're smart games really, which require some good mouse tracking skills, a good bunch of braincells to kill, and a never-say-die attitude. GOD these games could be depressing when you get stuck and totally stumped, but it just feels AWESOME to pass a difficult level.
never thought those games would come back to haunt me even when i'm miles and miles away from home. haha.
the first one was just one level. it was mind-boggling as hell, and i even had to search some sites for some help. try to get out of the crimson room without any help from anyone! you'll go bonkers, i tell you, unless you're really good. ;)
the second url, the one about "mystery of time and space", seemed cheesy at first (what with its title), but it turned it to be genuinely C-R-A-Z-Y. it's so baffling i got my brain twisted. then there's this link at the bottom of the screen where you get to chat with gamers online!
hahaha. basically there, people just ask how to do this and that, where to find the key, how to solve the brain-twisting puzzles and where are the small items are secretly located. major headache i tell you, but it was genuine fun.
i spent around 5 hours playing the 2 games (until around 2:30) till i reached level 9, when i decided it was time for lunch. hahaha. but really, a major highlight was that i gained a couple of new friends! i was asking this sonja how to get past this room with a security panel and a laser beam and a log (play the game nlng kasi! hehe). she was very helpful, like many of the people in the chatroom. i was thanking her profusely when i finally passed level 4, and she said that was just the way it worked, somebody helped her, she helps me, and i help someone else. some pay-it-forward type of scheme. i thought that was really nice.
dubber, mrsbigbig also helped me a bit, but it was at past 1pm that i was the one being asked for help, which was a cool thing. i helped this sel and dragonfly and some other guys with mystery nicks.
i think i got to be good buddies with this guy "gnome". we were both helping "sel" in one level, and later i learned that he was in a much farther level than that i was in. since everyone else seemed to be lagging behind both of us, i asked him for help on my current levels. he was extremely friendly and patient, and, although i didn't get past level 9 yet despite his tips, we exchanged emails so he could help me later on! cool dude too. now i realize this game got me HOOKED. haha.
anyway, i left for lunch apast 3pm already, quite annnoyed with myself for wasting studytime, but it was okay. there's always some compromise. i needed to have a break too, from my crazy PR comm work the past days and WEEKS. oh well.
++++
after lunch at science canteen by my lonesome (yep, i'm proud to say i can eat alone comfortably), i was walking towards the science library when i saw, surprise of surprises,
MR NG WEE SENG, my math teacher last sem.
it was a wonderfully pleasant surprise! i couldn't help myself but THANK him profusely for giving me a B- in math last semester (i know that's a miserable grade, but i sincerely thought i failed the exam, which was 60% of my final grade, on top of my miserable midtrerm marks).
i was VERY TEMPTED to think that he did some "magic" on my grade last sem, such that i even had the same grade as nirorn, who i consider to be a brilliant cambodian, and even higher than some of my fellow bridging babies (of course, all-hail-the-great-but-still-humble-and-simple rotana got an A+ =P).
but no, sir wee seng told me that i "did quite well" in the exam and that my answers, although i was quite uncertain about them, proved to merit points after all. so even if i got B-, he said i did "satisfactorily" and "okay".
that, my friends, made my day.
i mean, for someone who used to love math with a passion and even battled several competitions in the name of oh-so-glorious mathematics, only to be disappointed and rather shattered because of university mathematics in singapore, that was just the thing i needed to lift up my bruised self-esteem.
i went to the library to study for a few hours of statistics, met gelo and had a good chat, and later walked by the shepherd's path shortcut to catch the once-a-week western food dinner at the hall.
++++
there was no western food at the hall this week, but nirorn's news at dinnertime was enough to make me endure WEEKS of bland, tasteless food without any complaint.
you see, the non-filipino bridging studes still take up the english course we filipinos took last sem, and guess what they discussed today: my essay last sem.
it was a position essay regarding the issue of genetically-modified food, which all english students had to write after learning the course. i mean, we were given an essay that discusses about a topic like GMF or about raising kids online, and we were to make our own essays about some issues raised in those essays. it was basically a good chunk of the EA1101 course, since a similar essay would be given in the exam (which, by the way, i screwed up last sem =P).
anyway, i felt extremely delighted and flattered and just plain HAPPY.
i mean, having screwed up the exam last sem due to nerves or just plain lack of thinking, i was just GLAD that ms happy goh appreciates my work. (my work however, had an error in one paragraph, nirorn pointed out, but he said that that was the only thing.) writing an essay in university standards is quite a tough act, since there is always some error to find, for some reason. i don't mind really, since it makes me admire english teachers all the more.
and one more thing: i'm exceptionally glad because english is one of the few aces up my sleeve. i mean, math used to be my forte, but it seems it's not going in my favor the past sem. maybe it just means i have some brushing-up to do.
english has always been my friend (never mind my bad exam last sem haha).
anyway, THAT again, made my day all the more complete.
now i can study all night with a happy heart and a peaceful soul.
p.s.
survivor too at 10pm tonight. this is just plain GREAT.
p.p.s.
sorry for this looooooooong post.
hmph. i'll try my darndest to blog in ten minutes or so next time. gotta study!
Agent Tomato
Blogger's Spokesperson/Chief Publicist/Talent Manager
1626 hours, the 19th of february, 2004
the room across the F4 girls washroom, singapura lah
PHOTO FRENZY
okay. 5:14pm. i should be getting much-needed sleep right now (if you could just see my swollen eyes), due to extensive work last night and the other night for PR comm, aside from the tremendous pressure caused by the coming midterms, but i decided to blog. i think it's not a very wise decision, but i just have to post some photos before they become stale and moldy and all.
gee, i could be OC pala at times (even if my room, my bed, my notes, my stuff seem to say otherwise).
here here. thanks to my "test post" a few days back, which wayne helped me fix and organize, i can now post lotsa photos without much space.
JUST CLICK ON THE TITLE OR THE BIG PHOTO TO OPEN THE PHOTOS, AND CLICK IT AGAIN TO CLOSE.
methinks there should be some text to accompany the photos, and there will be, but not just now. hehe.
+ "surprise" birthday photos: february 8, 2am
those were taken at around 2am, february 8, after i did an exhausting night-long PR comm task with xiaolong and prashant.
it was a "surprise" party, which i sort of expected. ;)
i even had utensils ready. wahahahaha. it was fun.
tell you more when i'm not too busy.
**
wow. napagod nako dun ah. resize sa photoshop, upload, etc.. haaay. later na lang ung iba ok? study na dapat ko! dinner na muna!
okay. 5:14pm. i should be getting much-needed sleep right now (if you could just see my swollen eyes), due to extensive work last night and the other night for PR comm, aside from the tremendous pressure caused by the coming midterms, but i decided to blog. i think it's not a very wise decision, but i just have to post some photos before they become stale and moldy and all.
gee, i could be OC pala at times (even if my room, my bed, my notes, my stuff seem to say otherwise).
here here. thanks to my "test post" a few days back, which wayne helped me fix and organize, i can now post lotsa photos without much space.
JUST CLICK ON THE TITLE OR THE BIG PHOTO TO OPEN THE PHOTOS, AND CLICK IT AGAIN TO CLOSE.
methinks there should be some text to accompany the photos, and there will be, but not just now. hehe.
+ "surprise" birthday photos: february 8, 2am
those were taken at around 2am, february 8, after i did an exhausting night-long PR comm task with xiaolong and prashant.
it was a "surprise" party, which i sort of expected. ;)
i even had utensils ready. wahahahaha. it was fun.
tell you more when i'm not too busy.
**
wow. napagod nako dun ah. resize sa photoshop, upload, etc.. haaay. later na lang ung iba ok? study na dapat ko! dinner na muna!
IRKED
i'm irked but i'm okay.
sana di uli kami mag-away ni wayne. i just don't like what he said in his blog.
the one about our sentosa outing last night. ayun, i just had to comment.
tulog na nga muna ako.
i'm okay, don't worry.
dapat sa statistics ko binubuhos ko energy ko.
disclaimer:
this blogger is not initiating a sparring session, verbal or otherwise, with the aforementioned co-blogger.
i'm irked but i'm okay.
sana di uli kami mag-away ni wayne. i just don't like what he said in his blog.
the one about our sentosa outing last night. ayun, i just had to comment.
tulog na nga muna ako.
i'm okay, don't worry.
dapat sa statistics ko binubuhos ko energy ko.
disclaimer:
this blogger is not initiating a sparring session, verbal or otherwise, with the aforementioned co-blogger.
TEST POST!
this is a test post. i'm trying out stuff how to display lots of photos in a way that they don't consume the whole page. maybe i'm even gonna have a "photo blog" once in a while, so write less and study more. yehey! ;P
testing testing lamang po.
click on the titles to view the photos. to close, click on the title again. ;)
(if too lazy, please just check out the sidebar..:D)
loadsa thanks to wayne for helping me with this. why he helps me? he says he does it
"for the love of html". thanks! =)
sorry kung recycled ang photos! edit ko pa to uli! i'll post my birthday photos and hall play photos and valentine's day a.k.a. S.A.D. sentosa photos.
there's something wrong with the formatting of the text.
i mean, THIS TEXT I'M TYPING NOW. bigger than normal.
i'll figure it out later. tanungin ko pa si wayne.
for now, i'll go get me some sleep and study stats after! =)
this is a test post. i'm trying out stuff how to display lots of photos in a way that they don't consume the whole page. maybe i'm even gonna have a "photo blog" once in a while, so write less and study more. yehey! ;P
testing testing lamang po.
click on the titles to view the photos. to close, click on the title again. ;)
(if too lazy, please just check out the sidebar..:D)
loadsa thanks to wayne for helping me with this. why he helps me? he says he does it
"for the love of html". thanks! =)
+ me
+ kai, my laughing sister
+ fellow titans in singapore: korinna and ibiang
sorry kung recycled ang photos! edit ko pa to uli! i'll post my birthday photos and hall play photos and valentine's day a.k.a. S.A.D. sentosa photos.
there's something wrong with the formatting of the text.
i mean, THIS TEXT I'M TYPING NOW. bigger than normal.
i'll figure it out later. tanungin ko pa si wayne.
for now, i'll go get me some sleep and study stats after! =)
