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The Soup Principle & More November 24, 2007

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A little something I picked up from CS 197 - Leadership 101:

The Soup Principle

Everything’s just like a bowl of vegetable soup. It doesn’t matter how much you don’t like onions. The question is, do you like the overall taste of vegetable soup?

I’ve had this belief for quite some time already, I just wanted to share the nice way Mr. Lafferty had stated it. See for me, it’s been the Macaroni Salad Principle. I do not like pineapples. I would take any other fruit over pineapples anyday (except for guava.. and those ridiculously unfamiliar fruits you would curse me for not knowing). But my mom makes Macaroni Salad with loads of pineapples and I would just be working in vain taking all of the pineapple tidbits out.

It amazes me, however, that I have never come to dislike mom’s Macaroni Salad. In fact, it’s one of my favorite salads ever, and I don’t think I will ever get tired of eating it even if I had it for breakfast, lunch, and dinner.

…If you’re getting what I’m trying to say.

You know what they say.. “Makulay ang buhay sa sinabawang gulay.” demn.

I haven’t blogged for a relatively long time period. It’s because a lot’s been happening here at home that I’ve been finding it hard to cope with. Add that to daily Awitan practices that go past 10PM, and me getting home past midnight… and you have the most conducive venue for slacking off and cracking under pressure.
Oh! And newsflash!

I’m going to be moving in with BFFL Joelle next week! Hindi na ulit ako mag-uuwian. =/ As to whether that’s good news, we shall see. Slacking must not be an option (as my previous dorm experience has taught me). Haha.

Yun lang.

Sigh. I am still so confused right now. Grr.

Passing By November 18, 2007

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On my way home last night, I was passing by some food stalls found beneath the Ayala MRT station before I could get to the Shuttle Terminal beside it. Since it was already past 10 PM, most of the stalls were already closing, except for one, where I purchased a bottle of mineral water. While I was stuffing my change into my wallet, an older man looking like he was in his mid-40’s went over to the sales boy.

Sales boy: (smiles) Ano po yun, sir?

Customer: Ang aking usual.

Sales boy: Sige po, sir, yung usual niyo. (Goes about, stuffing the order into a plastic bag)

Customer: (Whispers to himself, but just loud enough so I could catch what he said) Gabi gabi na lang, Ensaymada. Hay.

The man said it in such a way that it was as if I could already read how he liked his life. He didn’t.

He was wearing a cream-colored pseudo-barong polo that looked like it had been worn out 10 years ago, shabby pants, and black leather shoes, which although they were old-looking, were polished to a perfect shine. I could gather he worked late shifts seeing as he was only going home at 10pm.

I’m no expert, but I could tell you right there and then what that guy was miserable about: the dull routine that made up his everyday life. (more…)

Escape November 14, 2007

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Lesson 12. Strings and String Concatenation

word 1 = The only thing I order from a Starbucks is either a hot or an iced _______.

word 2 = Self-diagnosed Virlix-________.

http://[word1] [word2].wordpress.com

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And can I just say.. that this blog you’re reading right here.. well, you can never find any other blog that’s as messed up, random, fickle and/or unpredictable as this one. So if I were you, I’d just go on and click the “blog links” page on the sidebar over there and pick someone else who’s a bit more consistent.

That’s what you call self loathing.

Haha.

A Wise Friend Once Said November 13, 2007

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You better know what the f*** you’re doing, Mayee, or I swear to God, I will smack you so hard that your braces fall off.

Thanks for “knocking” some sense into me. Haha.

Just an Update =) November 11, 2007

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Me = Temperamental. One minute I’m hating life, the next I couldn’t be happier. =)

First Day of Classes

The dreaded first day of classes had finally come. For the first time in weeks, waking up early and reaching UP in time was imperative once more. I was 5 minutes late for my first class, Geography 1. Our classroom, as I was disheartened to find out, is on the 3rd floor, right beside the staircase. It’s one of those corner rooms in Palma Hall. It’s as if the designers of the building had just forcibly turned a broom closet into a classroom for the sake of adding to the building’s capacity. It’s also as hot as hell there. But I’m not all complaints, at least. I think I’m going to survive through this class well if I can find it in me to keep coming to class on time and more importantly, keep coming to class period.

So I just went ahead to the CS building, 30 minutes before my next class. I ran into CS 130 classmates there. The fudging CS 130 that I enlisted in, which was supposed to be an MTh 2:30-4:00 class, was moved to 5:30-7:00. I could not for the life of me take one whole sem with a 7am class in the morning and then stay until 7pm every Thursday, so I and some other classmates prerog-ed in another section.

Anwyay, after my last class, I met up with Marie, and we joined some other ESC at Eng’g before proceeding to NBC Tent in Global City for the UPAE Homecoming.

UPAE Alumni Homecoming

The ESC were to serve as ushers for the Alumni Homecoming. The venue was set-up really nice and there was a heck load of buffet tables with so much food and 2 whole roasted cows that looked kind of freaky. I was stationed with some others at the entrance. We were the “greeters”. It was kind of tiring having to welcome each and every guest, but oh very rewarding since we were the first to, er, “mingle” with the VIPs. Nagpa-picture pa kami with Pres. Roman !! (more…)

Strange Yet Familiar November 8, 2007

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You know those days where you swear you’re having the worst day of your life? Everything that can go wrong, goes wrong, as wise old Murphy said, and you feel down in the dumps. Simply putting it, you had a bad day.

But nothing went wrong in my day today, apart from my iPod running outta battery while I still had 1.5 hours of commute left ahead of me. I woke up on-time, had a decent snack before leaving the house, South Super Highway traffic was not its usual sadistic self, I got home in one piece, and I even had a hot-fudge sundae before taking the service home from Ayala, AND I got the subjects I enlisted in this afternoon.

Yet I still feel like I have a dark rain cloud hanging over my head. And it’s been dampening my mood the whole day.

I think I know why, though. I think it is because of a semi-pseudo premonition I am having about the coming semester. I THOUGHT I was excited to start classes and all that, but apparently, it’s just wanting what you don’t have. Now that I can actually feel how heavy the burden of acads and everything else will be bearing down on me this sem, I am actually whatever the opposite of excited is.

Classes haven’t even started and I’m already losing sleep. I have 18 units once I’m done enrolling, and 18 units is no joke if I consider I only had 15 units last sem and nearly hanged (yes, hanged not hung, thank you very much) myself from being so overloaded with tasks and not being able to sleep for over 2 hours a day.

Plus, my very concerned and overly-protective-but-has-no-sense-of-how-hard-it-is-to-commute-to-UP mother has still not given in on my pleas and begs for her to let me dorm again. Curses.

A visit to the dentist:

Dentist puts an effin lotta cotton in my mouth, does her thing with her dental instruments in my mouth, leaving the sucking machine thingy on.

Dentist to my mom: So nagcocommute pa rin si Mayee araw-araw papuntang Diliman?

Mom: Oo.

Dentist: Bakit hindi mo siya ipagdorm?

Mom: Eh pwede ko naman siya ihatid. And, ano ulit yun, Mai, bakit nga ba ayaw kita magstay sa dorm? (referring to her reason that she won’t be there to wake me up, and I would keep being late for class. Go figure.)

Mayee: (mumbles incoherently due to the overstuffed mouth) *in mumbles: ay ewan ko sayo*

Dentist: Naku ang layo talaga nun. Hindi ba siya nahihirapan ng ganun?

Mom: Oo, nahihirapan.

Wtf?

Argh. Bad day, bad day.

Nearing the End… November 4, 2007

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…of sembreak.

Current LSS: Some Christmas song Karen Carpenter sang.

Today is Sunday and, as me and the rest of my school’s population very well know, the last day of our Sem Break. Well, it’ll only be Enrollment this coming week, and school actually starts on Friday (yeah, go figure), but Enrollment can be oh-so-much-more than the simple falling in line to pay my tuition bit. Our enrollment involves raising hell into our campus, and having to scurry around it in fits of antagonized anger.

So with the coming semester I have vowed myself (yet again for the millionth time) that I:

It’s all so exciting and yet I find myself dreading the thought of having to wake up at inhumanely early hours (if I’ve already slept enough by then) to get to my school which is as good as a hundred miles away, but not really, and facing 2.5 hours max of travel time if for some reason fate decides to throw traffic every inch of the way.

But the thought of seeing my classmates, friends, and orgmates again is quite enough compensation for all that toil. Besides, I am flat broke right now and could use the daily allowance again.

La Di Da. Happy. Anxious. Happy. Anxious. Happy. Anxious.. about many things. Ehehe.