of my dad's gout and my bro's indifference

Posted bylalah at 12:35 PM on October 2, 2004.

hi folks! wasn't able to post anything new again for two days. been buried neck deep in paper works (exam papers, grades ). even today, a saturday, im here at school to do some recording and computing on the office computer.
since i was a little kid, my greatest fear had always been losing my parents. i just couldn't imagine going through life without them! i am very strongly attached to them (especially to my mom, which i think is very common for girls ). in fact, my first ever sleep over was in college and that was because alfa/delle's computer got comatosed just when we needed a final write up of our thesis as a result, we had to sleep over at our good friend and classmate nae's house so we could use her computer. i think karen could attest to this. when we were in high school, i'd stay till the wee hours of the morning at their house finishing my baby thesis. she and her mom would tell me to just sleep over but i just can't i love karen and her family's so nice and i feel at home with them (because they always go out of their way to make me feel so ) and all, but i just cant sleep without my mom! i would then call home so my dad could come and pick me up. its not like she has to be beside me on the bed, but the knowledge that she's in the house is enough to send me to dreamland. it must be because of that time, during my childhood, when it was just mama and i at our home in tandang sora. papa was already working in angeles city then and i only get to see him during the weekends. my little sister's not around yet and my brother was living with our aunts and cousins.
so as i was growing up and of course, my parents were also growing older, i became more and more worried about my parent's health. mama is and obsessive-compulsive woman who wouldn't let the day pass without polishing the entire house until everything is sparkling clean and wouldn't trust a washing machine with our clothes. the soles of her feet can actually sense the most minute speck of dust on the floor. she prefers doing the cleaning and the clothes washing the hard way! papa on the other hand loves to overwork himself, too. and i guess his personality is kinda affecting his health, too. he mostly keeps to himself with his beloved forsythe or ludlum novels and is very, very quiet and is always under stress. plus in his youth, he smoked and drank alot. when i was in my 2nd year in college, he got confined in a hospital twice because of hypertension.
recently, i had been worried about a lump on his foot, close to the ankle bone. he said it was just a callus from wearing boots when he was still looking after my uncle's farm (his duty was just to take care of the flow of money but he'd go out of his way and would atually go with the farmers to the bukid or rice fields ). but it has already been a year or so since he's been there but the lump still kept getting bigger. so last wednesday, i bullied him into having it checked by a doctor. i gave him the money so he wouldn't have the reason not to ehehehe! good daughter eh? nah, i just love so much i just want to keep him in the pink of health. thursday mornign he went to the doctor and was told they'd have to drain whatever stuff's inside so they'd know what it is. i got a it scared. i was quite happy we'd finally get rid of the darn lump and know what's causing it, but at the same time scared because what if they'd discover its a sign of an underlying, more serious illness? that night i could sense he was kinda hesitant again to have it removed not because he was afraid (it would just be a minor procedure) but i know he was thinking about money again. that's dad, cant voice out his needs even to us, but would go out of his way, even sacrificing his own health, just to help others who dont help him when he's the one with a problem so i told my mom to give him the money i had entrusted to her. then once again, i bullied him again to have it removed and not even think about skipping his appointment and to ask loads of questions to the doctor.
next day, friday, i got home at around 8 pm. it was dark and there were people holding candles and flashlights on the road beause of a power failure. when i got inside my opening line was(instead of the usual "hello pig!" to my lil sis apple or "kiss mo ako mama!" to my mom) "anong sabi?" to my dad. i found him sitting as usual, at the sofa with his right foot bandaged on the ankle propped up on the center table. he was smiling and said it went okay and didn't hurt much. i asked him if they were going to do a biopsy but he said, there' s no need to. he said the doctor's diagnosis was gout. no wonder his feet feel sore sometimes, those where probably the times his uric acid is up. i heaved a sigh of relief. thank goodness its something manageable and not something very serious and deadly like the big C.
i find it kinda ironic that he has to be the one to have gout in the family when he is the most conscious one about salt. you see, he and his dad (my dearly departed lolo ente) share a common problem on their urinary system. so he's very consious of his salt intake. sometimes, so conscious that he'll skip the salt or the toyo in cookig, in which times he's get yelled at by my mom because the food is so matabang my mom on the other hand, loves bagoong (alamang and alubebe alike) with almost everything and tuyo in the morning, and drinks very little water.
we had dinner by candlelight (thanks to the darn brownout! ). he showed me a list of the foods he has to avoid so he could control his uric acid levels. on monday he said he's going to have his uric acid levels tested and i asked him how much he'd be needing. he smiled and said he still has money left for that. sigh, typical papa! so i just bullied (again) him and mama about how they should drink loads of water and how we're not going to have any bagoong, patis or tuyo in the house again. ever. i kinda sounded like hitler and was actually talking to both of them as if they were both kids. but they were just saying "yes" to everything im saying like a bunch of obedient angels. i know they know i was just being like that because i love them very much.
amidst all of these happenings, only one person is showing the highest level of indifference : my dear, old brother. as usual he didn't even ask why my dad's ankle was bandaged despite the fact he was directly informed by mama that papa had a minor procedure done on his foot.
on my next entry, maybe i could give you an insight on why my brother is this sweet and loving to us (every single bit of sarcasm and pun intended) right now, i am just thankful to god for giving me my good parents , my lil sister and for surrounding me with wonderful friends have a great day everyone!

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my sadako father and the haunted computers

Posted bylalah at 11:19 AM on October 4, 2004.

its a monday again! but unlike my usual manic mondays, this monday will be kinda laid back in fact, the rest of my days this week will pretty much be laid back, yahoo!!! its the last week for lessons na kasi. next week, its already the final exam and then after that, the much-awaited sem break woohoo! the best thing is that all of my lab partners (mam belle goce, mam carol and sir paul) have agreed to end the lessons (experiments and post lab discussions) last week. this week would be devoted solely for the final exam in the lab which is usually scheduled earlier than the lecture. double yahoo!!! adios chemistry! alright, i shouldn't be celebrating too much just yet. number one, im not done with the midterm grades yet. number two, i still have one last topic to discuss in my botany lab class and that would be flowers...hmmm...still… no more chemistry so.... YAHOONG YAHOO!!! my weekend was rather uneventful. saturday, i was here at the office to check manuals and data notebook daw i ended up watching anacondas with our lab assistants and laughing our hearts out instead of being scared . ernest kept on claiming he was among the actors playing several roles in the movie (the lead guy whose a muscle man, the funny black guy and the pet panicky monkey) delle (who by the way begged me to just refer to her as delle instead of alfa/delle. hihi! dami nya kayang alias! just wanna make things clear for her fans :slaphappy, girlie and i were supposed to have our facials but delles's el papa came and girlie had an immediate commitment. i didn't feel like going on my own so i just went home. papa didn't go to work that day. actually, he really wanted to. but my mom reminded him that heller! you just had an operation! do you think they expect to make an appearance at work today? shouldn't you be resting?! it was a good thing he listened (probably due to the threatening and dagger looks my mom kept throwing at him everytime he attempted to dress up ). because after the pain killers have subsided, he suddenly felt the pain on his fresh wound. it was funny cause he wouldn't walk anymore because he cant step on his right foot. it was really entertaining to watch him bunny hopping around the room alone or bunny hopping and at the same time being dragged by my mom with his arms wrapped around her neck. he got yelled at alot everytime he attempts to cling on the dividers holding my mom's precious collection of glassware for support. ahh...the joys of marriage, hee hee! . it was a little bit scary though, to all of a sudden see him do his sadako crawl especially while i was watching television with the lights turned off. my stone hearted brother as usual would just sit and watch and so far haven't made any inquiries yet as to the nature of papa's present condition. i never knew of any human being capable of such maximum level of insensitivity! sunday, spent the rest of the day reading the hound of baskervilles slept at around 2 am because i had to prepare a long quiz for my 7 am botany lab class. monday...woke up kinda refreshed and smiled brightly as the sun's rays poured from my window...wait a minute...sunshine?! i looked at the clock and to my horror, i saw it was already 6:15 am! i dont know how i got to take a bath, don my uniform, down 2 pandesals and brush my teeth. but i was able to do all that in 15 minutes . miracle of miracles, there was no heavy traffic yet and i actually got to school at 6:45. i got to prepare my exam in record time, too i told my students that we'll start at 7:45 so i expected that no one would be late anymore. i divided them into 2 batches and gave strict instructions that under no circumstances should they switch batches with anyone. much to my dismay, 3 people were late from the first batch. i have already given these habitual late comers and absentees an ultimatum last week most unfortunately for them, i was feeling a higher level of vindictiveness today for their daring to test that ultimatum and automatically gave them a grade of 65 this darn office computers are really sick last saturday, the other one i was using while writing my post and recording grades just collapsed...and wouldn't want to get turned on again for the rest of the day i thought it crashed already. but today, they were able to get it to turn on again with edz the lab assis right next to me right now actually typing an exam for one faculty. i guess these antediluvian computers are really bound to crash anytime especially as the finals is fast approaching with all of us rushing to input exam scores and to compute grades.
another weird thing about these ever up-to-date machines in our humble abode (bio office) is that they get stuck most of the times. combine that with the darn firewall (which kept us from downloading, accessing our friendster accounts and to use the advanced mode for our posts, and sometimes, edit our existing posts, and get this: even access our own blogs! )!!! last saturday, by some miracle, i found myself working with the advanced mode and i was able to put in my book of the moment and my song of the moment without even clicking that button! i was so happy i thought i'd be able to do that for the rest of my blog life today however... !!! it wouldn't accept the advanced mode again! now i really believe this office is haunted! this computer must have been possessed by some unknown entity last saturday and left it after i submitted my post. argh!...


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what my birth months says about me

Posted bylalah at 04:41 PM on October 4, 2004.

Take the quiz: "What does your birth month reveal about you?"

November
Has lots of extraordinary ideas. Difficult to fathom. Thinkforward. Unique. brilliant. Sharp thinking. Fine, strong clairvoyance. make good doctors. Dynamic. Secretive. Inquisitive. Know how to dig secrets. Always thinking. Less talkative. amiable. Brave. generous. Patient. Stubborn. hardhearted. Determined. Never quit. Hardly become angry unless provoked. Love to be alone. Think differently. Sharp-minded. Motivate self. Dont appreciate praises. Highspirited. Well-built, tough. Deep love, emotions. Romantic. Uncertain in relationships. Homely. Hardworking. High abilities. Trustworthy. Honest. Keepsecrets. Cant control emotions. Unpredictable.

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of my ruined semi-free day and my accursed foot wear

Posted bylalah at 03:09 PM on October 5, 2004.

my in time today was supposed to be 5 pm pa. we have a new release time na kasi and 8 hours was deducted from our work hours. every tuesday i only have 1 class, my ever brilliant hrm class na chem lab at 5-6:30. i was looking forward to staying up late and having to stay at home morning till afternoon, only coming to school at 5 kaya lang sir dioned asked me to be a judge in photo exhibit on phil environmental issues by his ecology students (mass com2 and bio4) that, plus the fact he asked me to make him a welcome speech (which i kept putting off last night so ended up cramming at 6 am this morning) so my relaxing tuesday fantasy flew out the window the exhibit was okay though last year's students were more lively and hyper (class ba naman nina guimo at luisa basta you are with these people expect it to be a riot! and why do u think i know of this? who do you think was their equally ecology teacher last year? ). anyways, i dragged delle along with me. hihihi! she has no resason to complain kasi may bonus naman: sir bucud, our economics teacher in college who was then (or up until now? ) her . oyon, so i guess she had the time of her life exchanging green jokes with sir bucud . it was especially fun at the population explosion exhibit. the bio 4 have decorated their board with inflated condoms. sir bucud, playing innocent as if he ould fool anyone ), kept on asking why there are flavored condoms. i kept reffering him to the expert: delle. i guess, he just couldn't admit he wanted the condoms as tokens of appreciation anyways, at 10 delle and i were back at the office bringing with us a sausage mc muffin meal (treat for being a judge from the presentors). okay, so i haven't successfully returned to my vegetarian life yet and i feel like a pig ryt now back at the office rho told us this huge fight which broke out between his older brother and his youngest sister, which took place while rho was taking a bath. now here's the most interesting part the fight made it necessary for rho to haphazardly over himself with a towel and rush to the scene of the crime to break his two fighting siblings so there he was, in between his brother and sister all the while praying that his towel will not fall off to expose his hihihihi! for a full photo of rho in that situation click here hihi! just kidding you softly rho! anyways, i finally finished the final exam for the hrm 1-b and had it printed na so full steam ahead with the exam later
and then i caught a terrible cold just this morning so i have the sniffles today (sniff!)
by the way, dad had his medical check up again yesterday and the same doctor said his uric acid levels were okay. so its not gout but arthritis.
before i post this, i have to share a little accident which took place a few moments ago. yup, as in ngayon-ngayon lang. in fact, sir dioned is still laughing silly here and im still giggling hysterically i was happily tapping away on this keyboard when i suddenly felt thirsty. as i was trying to get up, i couldn't dislodge the heels of my shoes on the bar below my seat. i plunged head on the monitor of the computer and my lips made intimate but painful contact with the screen!!! i thought i was going to fall completely for i still couldn't dislodge my feet to break my fall. sir edwin rushed forward and sir dioned who's seated beside me pulled me upright. at first they were like "shei! napano ka?" but despite the shock, i just couldn't help but burst into hysterical laughter that prompted everyone to burst out laughing, too. but to be honest, my upper lip is still throbbing right now so i'll stop this to break this exciting news to delle and rho.

p.s. let it be known that this is not the first time these darn shoes did this to me. the other time was on a jeep, it got dislodged as i was getting off! imagine that, my entire body was already forward but my feet were still hanging on to the jeep. good thing i was able to just jump off. or i would have been fined for causing serious damages to the public road

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wala lang!

Posted bylalah at 03:34 PM on October 6, 2004.

not much exciting happened this day. im just plain happy that im finally done with botany and chemistry lab. adios copper sulfate and aristolochia! just concluded botany today with an activity about the parts of a typical flower (karen, ibang flower ang iniisip mo, sa zoology pa yan next sem! ) anyways, not much for me to do because i gave the an illustration showing the parts and then they just have to look for them on the hibiscus flower they are bringing. no sweat. ahh...the joys of the discovery approach so laid back lang ako. then the rest of the time, they just review the slides for their final exam on friday. then chem lab, finals na nga mga bsn 1-26. had a talk with the mother and 2 aunts of one of the students from this class. turns out she hasn't been attending her classes for weeks and weeks na. she leaves home in her uniform but just hangs out at the plant boxes the whole time! then she goes home pag dismissal na based on her schedule! so all this time, her mom thinks na she's going to all her classes and being a good girl, goes straight home. hay naku! kaya naman pala. she hates nursing and would like to shift to another course. kaya lang its already the finals. f.a. or failure due to absences ang makukuha nya kung di sya magfafinals. i explained to her that that's bad to look at in her transcript. she should have dropped her subjects nung prelims pa. her mom and aunts kept telling her "mag-test ka na!" but she kept saying "wala nga akong alam!" well, she's right. she missed all the experiments, post lab discussions and the quizzes. and then she feels ashamed daw to borrow notes from her classmates. that's the trouble with parents dictating what course their children should take up in college! their children end up screwing up in school! then we asked her what she course she truly wants. guess what? she doesn't know either! hay naku! i talked it out with my lab partner and we agreed to give her until tomorrow to take her finals and to pass her manuals. i told her she should get a considerably high score to make up for the things she missed. i think its the last thing we could do for her. just to give her another chance so she could finish all her subjects this sem naman so that when she shifts to another course or transfer to another school, at least she has no unfinished business to leave behind. pero if she flunks tomorrow's test, then there's nothing we could do anymore. at least we gave her a chance to set things right. delle and i had our new i.d's made pala. i kinda told her off for not telling me in advance na ngayon pala kami magpapa-i.d. my hair sucks today and my pimples are in fool bloom right now. i look yucky! anyways, i need a new i.d. naman talaga because the one i have right now is split in the middle and i just put it together with scotch tape (or spellotape? ) delle left at 12 pala. hush....she told out co-workers here she had to go to the bank but in reality, she's going to carworld sn fernando to take an exam. she applied for a job there through jobstreet and got called for an exam.
finally karen and i are able to exchange "normal" and meaningful emails to each other. i missed sending her lengthy emails eh and getting the same from her. i mean, since i became very busy (and sya rin) puro "hi! buhay pa ako," "hello! gotta scram!," pssst! miss and lab u" lang messages namin to each other. i missed by best-est best pal in the whole wide universe na! and i miss
lino cayetano, too! wahhhhh!!!



erratum on my post yesterday, i said a fight broke out between ro's oldest brother and youngest sister. it was between his oldest brother and youngest brother pala. so lalaki sa lalaki ang labanan. my apologies to ro.

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my color

Posted bylalah at 05:35 PM on October 7, 2004.

You are green. Perhaps one of the most balanced of
all the colors. By balanced, I mean balanced
in both bad and good parts. Let me elaborate:
You're a natural, and somewhat superficial
person. You're extremely generous, but, to add
to the confusion, you're frugal and stingy.
You're a forgiving, but jealous person. You're
imaginative, but still logical. At sometimes,
you're a complete neat-freak, and other times,
you're a total slob. You're very stable, but
undependable. But onto the other traits that
are associated with this color... You're a
stubborn person, simply put. Do you believe in
Feng Shui? Green is closely related to the
thought of having a balanced environment, you
know. When in a bad situation, you're
painfully pessimistic, and when you're in a
good situation, you're extremely optimistic. A
fairly outgoing and amused person, you enjoy
talking to people, and hearing their thoughts
on different things. As a plus, when people
hang around you, it seems like time passes by
all the more quickly.


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Posted bylalah at 05:42 PM on October 7, 2004.

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pasaway ako eh...

Posted bylalah at 12:58 PM on October 11, 2004.

its a new week again! hope everyone had a happy weekend. firstly, i'd like to give full credit and recognition to my best pal kren for my new layout which she worked on during the weekend. thanks so much your royal highness! she's the only royalty you could actually order to do stuff for you hehehehe! anyways, as you can see the color reflects my personality and mind (im a nature lover! kayo ha, anong iniisip nyo?) my weekend was rather uneventful. what else...friday night, just watched bubble gang with mama (while she's ironing clothes using her antique, but environment-friendly and ever energy-saving iron, di uling ba naman). then at around 10:30 pm, things started moving. i was seated on the floor so talagang i could feel the ground shaking. earthquake pala. then after a few minutes, it was flashed on the news. i had the pleasure of explaining earthquakes to mama afterwards. last year kasi, i taught earth science and earthquakes was the part which i appreciated the most. mama, being the most amazing mother that she is, was amazed at my explanation. hope i still remembered the facts right.
i was looking forward to my saturday for weeks. its the second saturday kasi so its time for the earth explorers activity at the museong pambata (hey cathy and delle, complete ang title as you can see ) delle already said she wont make it and mama cant accompany me this time (as she did last month). i was so psyched to travel alone but then...arg! mama wont let me commute to manila alone!
saturday, woke up at 9 am with the phone downstairs ringing. mama, i found out, left me alone to go to the market and locked me inside the house. it was bibay pala calling. i dont remember exactly what i said but all i remembered was that i was speaking in my bedroom voice anyways, i felt a little guilty about not being able to help her go to our library, but i am still buried neck deep in exam papers. anyways, being the big procrastinator that i am, i kept putting them off na naman till sunday night finally! i was able to finish the hound of the baskervilles. di ko matapos matapos because of everything i have to do.
sunday...woke up to the sound of beating drums. parang may ati-atihan sa labas. well guess what? its our town fiesta pala! (i thought i was dreaming about the cultural ) i totally forgot! we didn't have a handa kasi di naman talaga kami naghahanda pag fiesta. it was just a bit sad kasi our town fiestas are not as festive as they used to be. parang reflection of the present economic turmoil ng country. its supposed to be a month long celebration kasi, our la naval fiesta. as in oct 1 pa lang start na ng festivities. dati may mga parades pa and every baranggay and community (including the muslim community) may float. i know fiestas are all about giving thanks for the bountiful year that has passed and shouldn't exactly be extravagant. but at least they should be happy naman diba? it was weird kasi tahimik, except nga for the ati-atihan na nag-ro-roam aroun. and then mama took the liberty to ask them where they came from and they said cavite pa daw. anyways, mama made buco salad for dessert and then i started reading a cat among the pigeons by agatha christie so i was really laid back the whole day.
today, monday, first day of the final exam. i had only one exam to proctor and that's filipino with the management 3c. as usual i had to look formidable to kinda scare the students and keep them from carrying out their mordacious plans
i asked our department chair to fill out a recommendation form for me for my grad school application. actually last week pa. he kept putting it off and told me to just answer the questions my self (that's evaluate myself) and then he'll just sign it because he hates thinking daw. this statement coming from a department chair of the biological sciences department. so today, i kinda bugged him to finish it na because the dean already finished the one i gave her (which she accomplished with the help of our college secretary, sigh...). i went to delle's and rho's office to make -chikka. then after a few minutes our dept. chair came with the form. i asked him, nicely and jokingly, "shouldn't you be answering that and keeping it confidential in the privacy of your own office?" i mean its true diba? if you are to evaluate a person you should do it in private and not ask the PERSON TO ANSWER THE QUESTIONS HERSELF. but oh,well there you go. he still couldn't work on it daw alone. so i told him to just copy off the deans' evaluation. and then he came to the part where he has rate me based on factors like intellectual ability, clarity of oral expression etc. well, he jokingly said aloud above average or average to which rho, delle and i laughed along. then he came to the items emotional stability and maturity. he dropped the hint ("jokingly" but i get the point, i wasnt born yesterday haller!) that the answer to that is not included in the choices, its lower than "not observed" so i told him why not add another column? i guess he was referring to that incident a few months ago when i refused to teach chemistry lecture because i am NOT a chem major. well, is it my fault if my only concern was that i dont want to compromise my students' chance to learn their chemistry?! i dont believe in bara-barang pagtuturo kasi. what i want is i am teaching a subject which is within my field of expertise. why would i teach a subject im not even interested in myself? thats another story i guess, and if you ask, i dont care anymore what they think of me after that.
bibay and i had several discussions on this issue already. about having to work with the oldies and having to deal with their backward and antediluvian ideas. and all about being labeled "idealistic" (as if that is all but bad). as i've said before, the reason why this darn school cant move completely forward (which by the way they always claim) is because it has always settled for second best when it has the choice nman of the best. pasensya sila, pasaway talaga ako! kainis! borg: bad ba ako?!
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stunning looks daw o!

Posted bylalah at 01:36 PM on October 11, 2004.

You're Element is Light. You are friendly, happy,
social, bubbly, and can brighten up any one's day.
You are very kind and a real people person
because you have several friends (or atleast
should). You're cheery nature makes you lovable
and your stunning looks are sweet and stand
out.(If you can't see tje pics, go to my homepage
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waiting for my prince to give me the kiss...

Posted bylalah at 01:46 PM on October 11, 2004.

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Sleeping Beauty
You love to sleep and trust everyone. You are a good person.

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wingardium leviosa!

Posted bylalah at 04:28 PM on October 11, 2004.

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Hermione Granger
You are hermione Granger extremly smart , and love to read ,and study , and the top person in your class

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dakilang proctor at craddle snatcher

Posted bylalah at 04:29 PM on October 13, 2004.

last day of the final exams for the non-prof subjects!! as usual, im a dakilang proctor pa rin. then in between, rushing with the grades. syempre, hirap muna today, all the pleasures later hehehe! oh well, guess what? the sections we proctored for this day were the sections we did last midterm exams. that means i encountered the same cutie i told u about last midterm exams ay hihihi! his name is ezekiel pala but he puts down kiel as his name sa test papers nya . proctored for them twice today. math in the morning and then filipino in the afternoon. they were so kawawa with the math exam. as in the entire two hours was up already and so they had to pass their papers. many of them were not able to answer everything. i had a grand time watching kiel (discreetly...i hope) concentrating so hard on every problem. i was pleased to see that he was able to answer everything naman, but im not sure if he got them all correct (im an imbecile in math eh. as in...). oh well, i think he knows naman what he was doing. given my in-born fear of numbers, i would have dropped dead if i was given that exam, no matter how some people here in the faculty room say out loud na easy lang daw yun (if i know... ) after the test they looked like they have been sent to the gallows hay, he's so cute talaga. as in no flaws in his angelic visage... afternoon, their test was filipino. he was seated at the back. as i was giving them the papers, i noticed na he had his head phone. siguro he want to listen to music while answering the test. eh bawal cell phones pag test. but i couldn't muster the confidence to tell him to put it away. so i just told him quietly when i signed his exam permit. as in, i leaned and casually placed my hand on his shoulder and said in my most cutest and innocent voice "kindly turn that off." buti na lang i didn't blurt out anything obcene. i was so tempted to say "see me after the test." ay hihihihi! he finished ahead of time but thankfully did not leave the room. sometimes our eyes would meet but i struggled to keep my face straight. then i started having images in my head (romantic ones okay?! hindi yang iniisip mo kren!). then i snapped out of my reverie. wait a minute...this is a freshman student we are talking about here. i shouldn't have a serious crush on someone that young! okay, i started praying, "please dear god, wag ko sana syang maging student next sem...please please please...tukso, layuan mo ako!" im back in the office now, doing this entry. and yep, im still drooling over him...oh my god, kren will have a feast day now teasing me about this. yes, yes yes! i have pedophilic tendencies! ang cute cute ni kiel!

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my fingers are crossed

Posted bylalah at 11:48 AM on October 14, 2004.

yellow! woke up at 7 am today. couldn't sleep again last night (but couldn't muster the will to check papers either) so i ended up reading till 2 am. this is not so unsual naman since i've been an insomniac for many years now . tapos nag-brownout pa pala last night at around 8 pm so i wasn't able to work on my papers. this morning i told mama about how delle's father was haunted by an crying ghost at their house sa punta verde . ay hihihi! of all people, father pa ni delle. yan kasi... anyways, that prompted mama to tell me her spooky stories from her hometown. heller! maraming stock yang si mama, galing ba naman ng leyte... tamang tama, halloween na. then went straight to school. im in my civilian clothes now because its already the sem break. there's no one here except delle, rho, mam ze, mam gon, sir maze and me. the others took their approved release time today. i was supposed to not go too but i decided to finish my grades na , dont wanna be a responsibility shirker now. anyways, next week, i myt not be around for the entire week because me and mam ze have been sent to a seminar-training at u.p. it kinda sounds boring and once again i found myself concocting evil ways to get away again , but wag na lang. for sure i'll learn something naman...aiks! di parin, dapat may side dish pa rin kahit official business! papa told me my uncle nong would like to speak with me. hmm...i hope it involves monetary rewards...pero for what? what have i done for the past months that would merit a reward from my uncle? or baka naman its the opposite? baka naman i'd be admonished for something...but i cant see how my uncle could keep track of my doings, or man...basta! i hope it involves money! yun na! i'll see him later this afternoon. i'll keep my fingers crossed... o sya, roan is signaling that his large intestine is already feeding on his small intestine.

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argh!

Posted bylalah at 11:58 AM on October 14, 2004.

arg! ayaw na namang mag-edit! couldn't put my book and songs of the moment. i think this computer has already discovered my scheme. somebody please burn the darn firewall!!! my entry above contains alot of typo errors! sheez! and hermione's pic wouldn't come out (sorry jhayna, tom na lang... ) ay hihi! i hope i run into kiel today ....u-oh, here i go again...someone slap me! ang cute cute nya!

book of the moment: the hollow by agatha christie (ayan, sinulat, ay tinype ko na lang)

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my weekend :jester:

Posted bylalah at 11:56 AM on October 18, 2004.

its a monday again! and im feeling so girlie girlie today simply because that's what people have been telling me...since they saw me with my polka dot skirt early this morning. they were like "uy, girl ka ngayon!" never knew they see me as a boy pala all these time hahahaha! let me see...ah yes, my weekend. i should start friday kasi i had no post for that day. nothing much, friday ended with me feeling so pleased with my self. kasi i finished the grades of all my chemistry lab classes. that means im done with the manuals, data notebooks and test papers (all 200 of them!). woohoooo!!! then monday, psych 1 manuals na lang then compute ko na rin grades nila. friday was also marked with a feast here at the office courtesy of, as usual, mam gon . we had the typical kapampangan feast of inihaw na tilapia (which brought ro and delle into fits of ectasy ), tahong, bbq, sipo egg, roast chicken and shrimp (which lbrought me to cloud 9...hmmm...) it was by the way, to celebrate mam gon's husband's good fortune in the u.s. through the vif program.
saturday was fun! volunteer orientation ulit at the ceae office. this time i went sans my mom and my beloved delle. delle's been very busy lately and so was mama. but i happily assured mama that i'd be alright travelling alone im way too precious for my mom eh, hehehehe! left pampanga (via sn fernando) at 9 am ( kahit 1 pm pa lang meeting, i was anticipating heavy traffic), then 10:30 nasa cubao na ako. stayed at jollibee to pass time. seated my self at the farthest corner and finished the a. christie i brought along with me. (hmm...feeling so independent) then had lunch afterwards then fly na to the ceae office. la namang traffic so i arrived at around 15 min to 1. but i had to do a bathroom check (which took me 15 minutes!) reason? i have my period and i hate it when im travelling with my period! im totally of leakage! anyways, when i entered the office, cathy was there already! cathy in her beauty /model countenance. (hey guys, beauty and brains to...sorry na lang she's taken hihi!)hay...it was so nice to see her again after 2 months or so. and gel, froi and joan too. they were all asking me about my mom while waiting, cathy, mam leng and i folded some brochures and it was then that cathy finally got it all together about delle hehehehe! the orientation was fun, we breezed through all the activities to be done on thursday kasi we have so much to do. then mas marami kami kasi there were volunteers from pnu. they were in their junior year in college too like cathy (i kinda felt old ...) much to their amazement ahehehehehe! given her modelesque stature ba naman! (she wont tell us her height no matter how froi bugged her about it ) the pnu bunch were so bibo kaya it was fun! anyways, i only got to stay there till 5 kasi i still have a long way to travel. i'll see them all again this thursday. the journey home was okay. couldn't wait any longer for the buses that pass sn fernando so i had to take one which will pass dau. and an ordinary one at that pa, kasi full lagi yung mga aircon. so when i got off sa dau, my hair was standing on end and could actually rival that of macy gray's
sunday. la lang, laid back again with another christie mystery. then at 5 pm went around nepo mall with mama. i really love hanging out with mama. when i have work kasi, i barely have time to talk with her. its times like this that we are able to catch up on things, ponder upon certain issues and problems about papa, and my loving bro after that, church then home na. slept a 12 midnight because of the christie im reading. i would have loved to stay later than that but i have work today. dad by the way, reminded me for the nth time to see my uncle. i will do so later...
today monday, just saw delle's new do. she has newly relaxed and hot oiled hair and is now sporting bangs. now i call her sachiko. ro, on the other hand, is estatic over his blog which now has music(wahh! kren! inggit ako ouch: )
before i go, i just realized who kiel looks like...ay hihi! he looks so much like richard gutierrez! and i miss my lino cayetano

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post script

Posted bylalah at 01:38 PM on October 18, 2004.

just saw kiel ! on our way to lunch, delle, rho and i met him and his classmates. and since its the sem break already, they are on their civilian outfits na. he's in his maong pants and white shirt, looking as angelic as ever...haaaay....then now they are right across our office, sa chem lab probably asking about their final grades. ay hihihihi! that's it! he should never, ever be my student this coming semester. its like being back on those days i am so heasd-over-heel s in-love with a guy named ralph...sigh... dont talk to me just now im off to dreamland with kiel...

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bad dobby! bad dobby!

Posted bylalah at 02:29 PM on October 22, 2004.

aaaaarrrrgggggh! finished typing my looong account of the happenings in my life for the past 3 days. then just as i was about to post it, by some evil force, i clicked on the x instead and closed down my tabulas window. arg! my loooong chronicle flew out of the window...soo bad...i ouldnt will my self to recall everything i just typed. tapos as if that wasnt bad enough, nag-off line pa internet dito sa office. sigh...stupid stupid stupid me! so to my number one fan kren, tomorrow na lang ang uncensored, no cuts account ng life ko for the past 3 days. miss ko na sina kiel at lino (where the heck did that come from?!)

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long week, long post =)

Posted bylalah at 10:54 AM on October 23, 2004.

here's a full account of my life for the past 4 days. tuesday: nothing much. people here in the office were mobbing our deparment chair. reason? its the time for preparing our skeds for the second sem. as usual, excuses and statements like "di ako pwedeng magpagabi", "i have a family", "nagga-grad school ako", and the annoying suggestion "bigay nyo na lang yan sa mga dalaga." the last one of course, refers to only two people in the faculty room, one of whom happens to be ME. kaya i dont bother to join the haggling na, it doesn't matter. i'll still end up with the same crappy sked everyone abhors. i have only one request: that i wont handle kiel's class' zoology lecture, okay lang lab but since they would be randomly re-shufffled, there's no way in telling which section he belongs so while they were bullying our dept chair, delle, ro and i were chatting with kren. woooohoooo!!! i missed kren na rin ksi, masakit man sa loob kong aminin. hihi! she sent me a couple pics of our batchmates in high school in their swim suits. these people who were just roaming the halls of the ssa in their boyish walk before are now vamps and goddesses so i told kren not to go home yet next year because we both have to those bodies before we hit the beach when she arrives. and that would take...3? 5? 10 years? that night i had a facial and after so much begging from me, delle finally consented to accompanying me. as usual i emerged from the facial center. wednesday: nothing much, just the usual staring into space stint in the faculty room. i didnt have a go with the computers here because they were both being used by by colleagues in rushing to beat grade deadlines. thursday: wehey!!! the day i have been looking forward to peec at admu! too bad delle couldn't make it again with so much work for her to do in her lab . so that means i had to travel alone again. left home at 9 am. i thought i saw a sign that this was going to be a bad day. it had rained the night before so the roads that morning had mud puddles. by the time that i was at the paradahan, my pants were already full of mud splatters. argh!!! catching a bus at the intersection in san fernando involved so much action and violence. there was alot of shoving and pushing tsk, tsk. pinoys talaga. why cant they just think that it would all be more efficient and safe for all of us if we'd just form a line. anyways, arrrived at katips at 11:30 am where cathy and i agreed to meet. it rained heavily again and i thanked mama for insisting i bring an umbrella. then cathy came and we went to rustan's to buy ice for one of the activities. we had to walk some distance and as usual, there were mud puddles again along the way. you guessed that right, that meant more mud splatters on my already muddy pants we had to take a trike to the iso in admu because of all the ice we were bringing. so when we finally saw gel there, i had to greet her with the usual hi! and hello! in an apologetic tone for looking like something the cat dragged in i met more of the ceae people. gel told cathy and me that there were only 16 participants from different places including the visayas region. i suddenly thought of mama and imagined how she would have engaged these people (her kababayans ) in an animated discussion had she been here. this is what i like so much about volunteering. i learn loads of stuff, i get to do something worthwhile and i get to meet more new people! i was labeled idealistic by some people here in the office and they made it sound like a bad thing. here i am surrounded with people who are in the same wavelength as i am and they are making a difference! hah! take that! they labeled me as that so i might as well make full use of it anyways, cathy's partner for the activity was froi and then gel told me that my partner would be bart. bart? a boy? bart turned out to be this cute and smart gal whose real name is really katherine but prefers to be called by a moniker derived from her last name she's soooo nice, like cathy beauty and brains din. we had so much to talk about in between preparing for our activity and waiting for our participants. the activity itself was so much fun! bart was right. its so much fun to do these ativities designed for kids with professionals and grown-ups! here are professors and teachers and doctorate degree holders running around to sniff trees and mobbing each other for some homemade ice cream! aheheheheh! ang cute tignan nina cathy at roi. mainly because, well, of the difference in their height (i hope froi wont get to read this, he'll simply kill me .) well, froi reminds me so much of my college classmate rolando, not just because they look so much alike and have the same height but because they were both einstein-ish. hey froi is nominated for best student volunteer, hope he wins! by the way, there's this family of pure white cats at the iso that i sooo wanted to abduct. la lang, i fell in love with them and i miss having pet cats. anyways, it was really fun fun fun! there were some minor delays so we ended with all activities at 6:30 instead of at 5 pm. i was kinda apprehensive na kasi darkness had fallen na and i still have a long way to travel. good thing cathy was also headed to cubao so i have someone to go there with. waaah! gabi na and i am still walking alone. good thing it didn't take me long to catch a ride home . got home at 10 pm. whew!
friday: back in the office. nothing much again for me to do. well, you know of my stupidity na yesterday so no need to mention that here again. sir maze, our dept chair had an operation this day for his goiter (yes, he is the exception to the rule! ). so with so much cajoling from his "second in command to the chairmanship" we went to visit him at 5 pm sa aufmc. while there, delle, ro and i suddenly remembered that our friend gey is due to give birth today so we checked her name on the list. and yup! she's confined already at the ob ward. so after checking on our department chair (and laughing so much at his mechanical voice and helpless, still dazed state. turns out my recommendation of him watching csi made him a bit paranoid making it necessary for the doctors to sedate him before they brought him to the op. room. hahahaha! ) we headed straight to the ob ward. jhunix was there to meet us and we stayed on a vacant bed inside the ward. gey is already in the or being prepared for c section. so there we were, bickering and laughing our heads off while gey lay in dreamland while having her tummy split. now delle, ro and i have long been so impatient for this moment and we cant believe our luck to be there at the moment it happens. jhunix was dealing with his anxiety and excitement by being his usual boisterous, dorky self. then we were informed that the baby is already out. so out we rushed to the nursery room. we waited by the window like hyenas drooling for food. we even marveled at the babies snoozing, crying or just being their cute selves there. by this time delle was proclaiming she wants a baby of her own and i was already thinking of begging my mom for us to adopt a baby finally, the nurse brought the baby in her crib and...awww....she's a cutie! no wonder gey was so bloated! she turned out to be a chubby lil angel. take note. we even outdid jhunix ksi we were the first ones to see yulianna (that's the name we all came up with. we couldn't trust jhunix with the naming eh). heheheh! ksi he was called by the nurse for somehting. the nurse kinda enjoyed our pagka-bana. i was squashed by the window of the nursery room by the way thanks so much to delle. so there, we learned that yulianna weighs 8.14 lbs. and i think she kinda sensed our excitement and entertained us by showing us how she got her mom's "infamous" lip acrobatics eheheheheh! ahh, the wonders of genetics. so to borrow carrie bradshaw's words: from that moment on, 2 aunts and an uncle were born." that all for now!

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waaaaahhhh!

Posted bylalah at 05:01 PM on October 25, 2004.

huhuhuh! had to delete today's post. fina-firewall kasi so i cant open my page with it. i dont know why. delle, rho and i went over it many times already and we cant find a single foul word or phrase para i-firewall nya. huhuhuh! till tomorrow, world! sob!

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dont bury your ex too much in oblivion

Posted bylalah at 02:43 PM on October 26, 2004.

yesterday was marked by so much frustration. no matter how many times i went over my post, our firewall here kept on keeping me from entering my blog for as long as that post is in it. argh! every now and then pa man din may comments. i didnt even get to read those by the way! (so sorry po! ) got off from work yesterday at 15 minutes after 5 pm. delle and i were soooo bored at the office. there's absolutely nothing for us to do. kainip talaga. anyways, while on the jeep, we decided to go around the mall muna. la lang, window shopping lang (wla pa sweldo eh!) . grabe, nalula kami with all the pink around! eeehhh! i so want a pink blouse, pink bag and a pair of pink shoes or sandals! then of course, as in any of our strolls in the mall, it doesn't matter if we didnt get to buy anything, bsta our tummies and taste buds get satisfied in the end! hahah! food!!! and syempre, if we are at nepo mall, that means only one thing: PIZZA HUT! now, we have long been a regular costumer of this pizza hut, this particular branch in fact...not just because of their pizza and pasta but most important of all, their equally manager PAPA DEXTER!!! ahehehehehehehe! kaya nga before we enter we make sure he's on duty and not his lizard-like (lupeeeet) co-manager. we ordered the usual roast beast, ay, beef pala (hahahahah! we immortalized that waiter's line talaga) feast for two and a chef's salad. now, delle wanted caesar dressing and i wanted thousand island. so delle and i had to use all our charm so the waiter would give us separate dressings. as usual, our charm and, er, our tummies won! it was really sooo much fun to be hanging out here with delle again. as usual our convo got us to places and we sounded like a couple of drunkards, which is just so common between delle and me. we have our own lingo we spent most of the time coming up with "disreetly" sleazy pick up lines we'd love to use on papa dex, who by the way was looking extra hot (and as we put it last night :nakakapaso ang tingin) last night (aww, dex, please stop! ay hihihi!). and of course, there's the usual re-assessment of the latest development in our gal pal gey's life: the coming of her baby. at first i thought (stupidly thought at that! ) nothing much would change with gey's marriage. but now that the baby is here, syempre naman, it was a wake up call for us. how would we expect her to hang out with us naman diba? now she has her own family to consider. eng eng talga ako pag minsan (pls kren wag ka nang mag-second the motion ...) when she was pregnant nga i found funny how before, when she asks for help to go somewhere, it would be to the mall or to school. now, its to the o.b. or to the pedia na pero okay lang namn. these things are just bound to happen sooner or later right? i must not let myself think na my friends would be single all my life and we be the same "autistics" as we are right now . anyways, im the only one in the group who hasn't got hitched, i mean who has sub-zero lovelife. i should be prepared naman for my friends' future plans right? and be happy for them . okay so much for that! before we got out of pizza hut pala, the riendly waiter asked us to answer a questionnaire. as usual its about whether we were satisfie with their service or not. syempre naman, for as long as the komodo dragon is in, we are happy there!!! today namn, eto, we just finished scaring our selves with the movie inner senses. it wasn't that scary or gory naman (owws? talaga? bakit halos magtago ka sa ilalim ng computer table?!). but as in with any asian horror flick, its the music and the cinematography that's making me jump out of my skin. delle and i decided that the moral of the story is to not bury your ex's too much in oblivion or else they'll come and haunt you later on. okay pala, since i have to delete yesterday's post, i just have to thank delle again for her new year's gift to me (im still waiting for the ones for my bday and xmas. i already gave you an IDEA last night delle! ) and of course, kren for my music. hehehehehehehe! these people really understand my needs, wants and my tendencies! !

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boohoo!

Posted bylalah at 02:47 PM on October 27, 2004.

aiks! this computer is not himself (ayan, binigyan ko na sya ng gender). its geting stuck for some strange reasons and yung isang computer ang may problema dun. anyways, spent the rest of my day yesterday promoting my blog to our training and support coordinator gel. bwehehehehehe! she found delle's and my blogs sooo gurly daw (talaga gel?) then at around 5 pm, my friend chingkit came over being her usual sunny, hyper self. anyways, she was disoriented about her father leaving her in angeles city without any money . and it so happens that you can leave chingkit in any part of the philippines (other than her hometown pampanga) and she'd surely find her way around. pero pag dito sa pampanga, she cant! so she begged me to help her with her dilemma. so we made arrangements for us to go to our house muna then i'll take her to wherever she could catch a ride home. before we left auf, i checked my email first and saw that i have a new mail from gel. yipes! i totally forgot all about the activity i signed up for with cathy weeks ago! oct 27 nga pala yun! in all the excitement of last week's ativities and the happenings that i am looking forward to this weekend, i totally forgot about it! you see, since i have a very long way to travel before i could get to these activities, everything has to be planned days before just to make sure i have the money and the correct directions to get there. so there, i ended up texting cathy at 11:30 pm to tell her im not going anymore aww....and i have been so looking forward pa mandin about this for weeks, as in i was sooo gagad ...anyways, i was also not sure if gel received my confirmation kasi i was not included in the addresee on the email, which she by the way sent through our yahoo group. so im not sure if they were expecting me to come. kahiya naman diba kung bigla na lang ako sumulpot dun and i am not needed naman pala diba? last night pala, as usual, i read a book before going to bed. then after sometime, i just grew tired of what i was reading so i just decided to turn off the lights and just listen to the radio in bed. ehehehe! as soon as the light went off, i remembered the ghost from inner senses and quickly turned the light back on . so i forced myself to read again until my lil sissy went inside the room to sleep (we share rooms kasi). hahahah! chicken no? woke up for some strange reasons at 3:15 am and couldn't get back to sleep right away. so i just turned on the radio again and guess what music was playing!? always by erasure! suddenly images of the umd (hoy karen dont pretend you dont know this group!) doing their butterfly dance and my high school crush ms. de leon a.k.a. "mr. vector" came on my still dazed mind! kaya naman until now that song is still playing inside my head (at least im am NOT attempting to do the butterfly dance! ). not that the activity vanished from my mind completely. its still a sore point for me today. i even texted cathy this morning to say that im still going to try to come but then, something came up so di na talaga ako pwede. haaay...maybe the Lord doesn't want me to travel today...or else delle and rho wont be so happy having lunch at kfc today! ahh, you know me naman, i was born to bring sunshine to life of these creatures, though they wont admit it (kren, delle, rho, chingkit, and my other friends ). met some of my students pala on our way back from lunch. they were so amazed to see me in my rugged clothes they really should just let us dress anyway we want talaga, my students are getting the wrong idea about me because of our so teacher-y uniform promised delle and rho pala that i would go to school in my orange socks tomorrow (im so fond of brightly colored socks right now). wearing that and only that.

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wekekekekekeh! =)

Posted bylalah at 03:54 PM on October 28, 2004.

wee! thursday na! that means 3 things: 1. PAYDAY 2. last day before the break 3. one day na lang, baguio trip na! wehey! chingkit, mama and i are going to baguio tomorrow. la lang, its been a loooong time na kasi since i went out of this province for pure relaxation . chingkit made all the arrangements. we'll stay overnight at u.p. i hope the ghosts there are not in the mood of saring innocent mortals like me, even if their holiday is oming up . anyways, we just finished watching "kulimlim" here at the office and instead of being , we spent all the time criticizing the movie. bad ba kami?! oct 28 by the way, is my nephew adrian's 4th birthday . well, he's in the u.s. with his mom (my bro's gf). he went home to the phils for the first time last summer and slept at our house a couple of times . gosh, i miss him na...he recently started school. and my brother told me yesterday that he got suspended for one week for punching his classmate in the nose . but that was not without his classmate pinching him first! anyways, it didn't come as much of a surprise to my parents. we were pretty much expecting it when we found out he's going to school already. like father like son. my brother did the same (and knocked out his classmate's front teeth ) when he was in first grade and they recently had their first field trip on a pumpkin patch. he went sans his mother. i hope he had a good time i hope he gets to come home again to the philippines soon. okaysh people, gotta sign off for now. i hope you all have great and relaxing break! happy halloween!

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yummy yummy yummy!

Posted bylalah at 04:09 PM on October 28, 2004.

here my fave chocolate ever!

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