Thursday, May 27, 2004
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lInterneeeet!!!! I missed you! But I am in an Internet place across work right now. I miss the pc at home. It's on the blink. I miss Internet! My bro and I are beside each other (we've been dying for Internet!)--so this is what happens if we're both logged online: he will flood my e-mail. Goodness.* * * I had my driver's license renewed today. I hate the fact that I had to shell out Php300 to get a medical exam and a drug test. *hmph* At least the process was more or less painless, save for the drug test *shudder*. But I look so... man-ish in my driver's license pic (the first one, I look very giddy, 2nd I looked... well, my blouse was awful). How could you not look harrassed after the drug test? :)
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Tuesday, May 18, 2004
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How cute is that! I found our senior year class adviser in Friendster! Miss Cuartz was our seventh grade Science teacher and sobrang I enjoyed her class--to think I'm not fond of Science at all. We were reunited in third year and fourth year high school. *sigh* I miss her, "Ladies... Ladies" when trying to get our attention. Or her writing "P6" on the board and we were all like, "P6?!" Physics pala. I will not forget also her coming up to me with a note from the principal that I should go to the principal's office v(nothing bad though, just org stuff but she always had me there with the note). Goodness.
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Sunday, May 16, 2004
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Troy Hector is the man! Ahaha! That was my reaction during the whole movie. You just have to root for the guy because he is so dedicated to Troy and his family. Even to Paris, Hector was faithful to him, after all Paris did *roll eyes*. Goodness, even before, while reading Iliad for school, I disliked Paris for being so weak.
Troy is Iliad, Hollywood style talaga. Then again, the credits read "inspired by Iliad" so it's not totally ruined by Hollywood. My favorites based on school readings were Achilles, Odysseus (spelling?) and Hector and Andromache. Plus, I loved the names Chryseis and Breseis. :) In the movie though, it was a bit hard to picture Achilles as, um, Brad Pitt. Rather, Brad Pitt as Achilles. :) It just didn't jive with my perception of Achilles. Oh well. Hector (Eric Bana) was definitely the way I imagined him to be: noble and valiant. How cheesy but I thought Priam oozed of wisdom and humility (especially when he went to Achilles, aww). *sigh* As for Helen... bah. She's pretty, that's it. It was a nice movie, but not as spectacular as I thought it would be. Fun three hours.
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Thursday, May 13, 2004
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My parents are asking if I want to go to Bora with my mom for my birthday and I declined. I'm weird like that. I celebrated my 17th birthday as well in Bora with my family and it was so-so. I probably can get a leave for my birthday (that's a big "probably" there--you never know with my office), but I don't feel like doing anything special on my birthday because... well, it stemmed from a recent conversation which I had with one of my officemates about being in our almost mid-twenties and all that. Super shallow, but I still am wallowing in despair about it. Goodness.
Oh, I take back pala about the indelible ink. The one on my thumb came back after two days! :( Everyone noticed it.
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Wednesday, May 12, 2004
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Blogger rave
I like the new Blogger! I think it's funner (is there such a word?) now and I want to tinker around with it. It does take some getting used to, though. I was so impressed, I even wrote them about it, saying how much I like the improvements made. Although the new Blogger comes off a bit like LiveJournal, it still offers a lot of flexibility (no locked entries though). Ang cute nga ng response nila about how we power Blogger and how they--and we--should look forward to more new features. Aliw! :)
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Monday, May 10, 2004
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How fun, I got to vote for the first time today (whee!). The precinct (a public school) was a mess--I half expected a classroom, but what I got was a 3x3 meter divider. That was my precinct. Gaah. It was warm, loud, messy, frustrating, but still quite exciting. Our voting was well documented too, thanks to my bro's digital camera. I also asked the person putting the ink on finger to put really, really little indelible ink (yeah well, I'm vain like that). The indelible ink got off after ten minutes of scrubbing with Scotch Brite and liquid dishwashing soap.
I was the last one in my family to enter the voting area and the first one to finish. I didn't know who to vote for among the local candidates, which was kind of terrible because the local units are the ones who directly affect me (ie, fares of public transpo in our town, etc). But we're not also well-informed about them. I hope I made pretty good choices though. * * * I had been vacillating about my choice for president for the past few weeks, especially since I learned a lot of dirt from one of my friends who works closely with my original choice. So people around me have been pushing their candidates to me, hoping I would consider as I had become "undecided" all of a sudden. My officemate is making me keep an open mind about hers, another has gotten me into a passionate debate about why her candidate should be mine too. I didn't consider their candidates so much because they were not that appealing to me. In the end, "president" was the last space on my ballot I filled in and I settled for my original choice. No matter how sure I was to vote for the second choice, I went with my original choice. How could I not? It was what I knew was right, what my conscience told me so, who I truly believed in, no matter what. * * * Watching the partial and unofficial results on the TV is super annoying. Why can't people respect the sanctity of the ballot? Why do they have to sabotage the canvassing through power failures? Why are people so frustrating? Argh. That's it, my parents went up--will change the channel. Hate listening to the election results and other events today.
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Thursday, May 06, 2004
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Since we couldn't be found on the website and I haven't tried to text "FindP" for my precinct, my bro and I stopped by our subdvision's guard house to check the list of voters from our place just to see if we're registered. Yep, we are registered, bahala na lang where the precinct is. I think it's still in the public school in another subdivision. My main concern is being registered.
So I'll be going to the polls on Monday and place my vote. You know what, I don't know who I really am going to be voting for already. I was very decided until recently. My officemate is telling me to "keep an open mind" about her candidate--which I am not doing. I also do not have enough senators. Or even a vice president. It's so sad in this country, we do not vote for the best person to rule, but for
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Sunday, May 02, 2004
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FindPrecinct is ideally useful, but I haven't found myself or my bro. It can't be because we will be first time voters because I found some of my friends from college and their precinct (fun!)--and they are first time voters as well. Might it be because we're in a provincial area (Region IV)? Hindi rin kase I found my friend who lives in a province as well. Boo. They have a disclaimer if your name doesn't appear, it doesn't mean you're not in Comelec's list, you're just not in the database supplied to the website. It scares me lang that I might not be registered successfully or something (during reg, they had issues about my long name). Sayang din boto ko (haha, I wish my vote would be worth it).
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Because this girl at work was mean to me yesterday, Crissy and I call her "Stealer"! Grr! Fake ang beauty niya. We're peace-loving, not very mean people (unless inspired), but when it comes to the incident yesterday--ooh, we're going to fight. >:( *seethe* I'm still mad from yesterday! It's not healthy to carry a grudge but... if you're OC-ness was challenged, argh, it's hard to get over. Aaargh! I just have to vent! Remembering "Stealer" drives me crazy!
It's May already! The year is almost halfway done. 2004 is zipping by without me really noticing it--that's scary. Again, I'm feeling left behind by my plans. My former teammate got married today. I missed the wedding. :( I missed Mio singing (we requested her to sing "Loving You"). I missed the fun in prepping for it with the girls. Feel bad, but I'll hopefully get to make up for it during the housewarming! The F girls will come over to the newly wed couple's apartment to, uh, teach the bride (wife!) cooking and housekeeping (Bliz, Diane, etc will teach cooking and I will teach dishwashing *grin*). My aunt was showing us her Vigan pics... aww, memories of Vigan days. Going there for a day and a half--I swear, the bus ride was much longer--was so stressful for our feasibility study, but it was so much fun. We were five: Amity, Mike, Isabel, Tobi and me. We stayed at Amity's grandfather's house and that was one of my memorable driving experiences. I don't recall exactly why Amity made me drive, but there was a point where in I was driving around a strange town with a German guy (Tobi) telling me how and where to park. Goodness. :) Miss that. I will never forget 10 hours on a bus (forget bathroom breaks) or standing in the middle of nowhere at 1a or the best view ever: a bridge over the sea, connecting two mountains. That's hard to describe, one has to see that. Isabel and Amity made sure I saw that on our way home.
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