STILL SUMMER

It's half before midnight, and I'm sort of blogging in bed. In Notepad too.
I've just finished washing the dishes, something I don't particularly look forward to, and now I'm just um, making myself sleepy.

About an hour ago a mild yet disturbing headache hit me. Earlier this evening my sister complained of a migraine attack, something not uncharacteristic of her, and I now just hope to God I didn't "inherit" it too from my dad. Sabi ko pa, 'Sa akin na nga ung zits galing kay Dad, wag na sana pati migraine.' Hehe.

There again is that one topic that's been totally "in my face" for the past months and months, they're still there. Hmph.

Anyway, as usual, it's been another overdue blog, and yes yes, u might hush me, but really, so many things have happened since the last entry.

It's still part of the looong summer break for me, and what have happened na ba?

Hmmm..
Yeah, for a while I've been doing some socializing na. Big deal? Hehe. You see, in recent days, I've been home alone, with nobody but 8 dogs for company. and the tv. and the PC. and some random book. and the whole house and yard that always brings out my inner OC. Always something to be done.

So there, for a while some two weeks ago, I met up with my cousins, Alec and Justin, who came to visit my Lola's place. Alec just graduated from AdMU, and he's all psyched up to go to England with a Pinoy friend of his, who seems to have settled quite nicely somewhere in Manchester. Already, his favorite place is France, based on what he hears from people. I can tell he'd be TOTALLY ecstatic once he even steps foot on the England-bound plane. Basta, I promise I'll step foot on European soil someday, and ride those gondolas in Italy, and eat, or dine rather, in a genuine French cafe, and make snow angels in European snow. ;) maybe sometime in the very very distant future.

Justin was his usual laughing self, although I now see him on TV for a second or so. He got a small part in this commercial, see. Anyway, a texter from a so-called Millionnaires Club had informed me through SMS that I won P1.3M and Justin helped clear it all out. I admit, I felt a small flutter of giddy excitement when I woke up one morning to read the message. I didn't call him as instructed though, I just replied with a safe message. Justin, however, upon learning of the text, determinedly called the number. He said he liked talking with those kind of people. Haha. I also like to psychoanalyze people and all, but I didn't think the call was worth it. Hehe. The guy from the Millionaires Club chickened out and refused to take the call. Go Justin.

I had pizza with John and Jacques at Greenwich too. John is Jasper's little bro, and Jacques is my so-called little bro in high school before, both at least a three years younger than me. Quite a coincidence that I met them, since I only intended to have some photos developed. Interesting, John & Jacques & Joseph together. I'm thinking what if Jasper were there din. Um, okay, Michael JOHN too. Hehe. I like J's. Hmm.. I wonder why.

Also, I went to watch a movie with an odd crowd too, some time later. Not some weird crowd, really, but what was supposedly a big "laag" (as they say in Bisaya) or gimik or whatever, turned out to be a rather small company, but it was all good. See, Angeli was leaving for Manila for classes at Ateneo, and so she wanted to have one last Davao outing before that. It was grade school classmate Marc Rivera, highschool fellows Daryl and Angeli, who all came first, and the first thing they asked me when I arrived was, "Ba't ka nag-white?" Turns out Anj and Daryl were wearing white tops, which matched perfectly with my collared white shirt. Buti na lang at nagyellow si Marc.

Unfortunately, Marc had another appointment later, and had to leave us after a short while, and so Anj, Daryl and I went to McDo for snacks while waiting for Brix. And guess what color Brix was wearing? We simply had to laugh it off, as we walked to the cinema. We made sure for a while that we kept some distance among each other while walking lest we be confused for dancers maybe, or that NSTP (or something..tama ba?) or community outreach stuff that AdMu promotes. Funny, really. Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen was um, okay. Although I thought the whole thing could've been on an hour-long sitcom on cable TV.


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Anyway, when the people finally had classes, I was basically stuck at home. I did go visit Pisay again though, for their Independence Day program. I thought it was a lively show consisting of dances and all, but it turned out to be a symposium. But mind you, it was a pretty good talk, given by Fr. Albert Alejo, who, incidentally, turns out to be my mom's professor in her graduate studies. Substantial and entertaining talk, I must say, and that tells much, given that those two words don't usually stay in the same sentence.

Got to finally talk to my HS adviser, Sir Angel, about something he mentioned through text while I was in Singapore. He said he wanted to talk to me about something. But no, he couldn't say it through text, dapat daw personal. So there I was, in the flesh, in his cubicle, but this time, he told me to forget about it! Grrr.. Maybe next time na lang, when I was about to leave for S'pore uli. Hmmmm... makes me all the more curious.

I came to Pisay right when some relatives of my 1st year Math teacher, Mr Cheney Tapiz, came over to shoot a video. Mr Tapiz, who had for a couple of years been working as a teacher in the US, was soon to get married, and the relatives came over to get a video of his friends and colleagues as a surprise gift for the upcoming wedding somewhere in Northern Luzon in a few months. Next thing I knew, I was pulled into the Academic Chief's office, where some 15 or so teachers were being shot.

I gave him my best wishes when it was my turn to speak to the videocam, thanking and congratulating him. He had coached me before in several Math contests, see. Excellent teacher, I must say. Well I hope MY own friends and relatives would surprise me too, with something like that. Hahahaha. I mean, being away from home and all, studying so diligently I've been growing zits.. No? Fine. ;)

I got to ride a jeep with a bunch of Third Years, who interestingly are those closest to me (of course aside from my batchmates) when I'm three years older than them. They were freshmen when I was a senior, so go figure that out.




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I'd love to go on, but i think this entry's already way too long to be interesting. Hehe. Have to get some sleep too, since I'm going downtown tomorrow to settle some stuff. Good night.


P.S.
12:37 am. Does it really take me more than an HOUR to blog? Sheesh. =P

Tama, I've been making it an aim to practice typing. You know, the kind where one doesn't look at the keys, and uses all ten fingers. I guess that explains, if you haven't yet noticed, my very first blog entry ever ever (that's for emphasis) with proper capitalization. Hah.