argh, basketball.

[listening to] snoring (Dad)

I just slept for 5 hours straight, after our first basketball drills session today. I realized that I am sorely (literally) out of shape. After a coupke of jogs and sprints, my heart was beating really fast. And after the first hour, my vision started clouding with these multi-colored blobs. This prompted our coach to call a water break.

Ugh.

On the plus side, we get reversible jerseys. My classmates chose yellow and purple, in favor of the Lakers. They were oblivious to my protests that the Lakers were creamed by the Pistons in the championships. Bah.

up and down

[listening to] kaerouka - mihimaru GT

I really hate having my period.

Yes, I know it's pretty icky reading that if you're a guy, but it's true. More than once I've wondered why the fairer sex must be afflicted with such a condition, even though I know it is because of our destiny to bring mankind into the world. And it doesn't help that it arrives at the most inopportune times (ie. anytime in the school day) and that I seem to have the motor skills/luck of a rock when it comes to napkins. Plus the zits and the extra-irritability at incompetence.

OK, enough. That's MS (PMS, without the P) talking.

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Even though I am an officer in an org right now, I will be demoted to "the amoeba on pond scum" (to quote a friend) while applying to another. This semester is going to be a challenge. Like being schitzophrenic on purpose.

Juggling school, org 1 duties, org 2 application, snagging a certain dude, the fulfillment of my dreams and the scheme to get Dochin un-married/divorced (OK, just kidding about the last one. Really.), I probably will not be updating as often as I want. Ah well.

er.

[listening to] itoshii hito - CHEMISTRY

I don't really feel like blogging much on account of Dochin being married *wails* but I realized it was pretty stupid of me to mope when 1) I am just a fan 2) I don't even live in Japan and 3) He is 9 years older than me.

So I wish Dochin and his former Kirin Beer poster girl/4 months pregnant wife Morita Atsuko all the best. She better not fool around.:P

EDIT: She's older than Dochin by 4 months. (4 months, again. What is it with 4 months?)

WHAT'S WITH ALL THESE JAPANESE CELEBRITIES GETTING MODELS PREGNANT AND HAVING TO MARRY THEM? HUH? HAVEN'T THEY HEARD OF BIRTH CONTROL?

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I wonder what it feels like, to have a song written and sung just for you.

WHAAAT? *fangirl post*

[listening to] some pop song

Dochin is getting married? And not to me?

Man, I hope that's just a rumor. But if he is, I think it's not because he got the girl pregnant (ala Yukinari of DA PUMP). He's responsible enough.

Jenn and Jen: I'll let you know when our boys will appear on Pop Jam as soon as I get home.^_^

how (un)original

[listening to] push - matchbox 20

Skimming through the blogs of some people, I realized that this blog is pathetically inane. I have no talent in elevating the mundane.^^;

Which is perhaps why I like it, and keep blogging my mostly superficial ranting and raving. Call it a breather. Besides, the world doesn't need more of my stupid angst. But they could afford to laugh/sneer contemptuously at my constant fangirling.:P

To cap off today: I'm not going to shift. It makes me a little sad to think that I chose the beaten path, and didn't trod off to make my own. I don't think I'll ever LOVE what I'm doing right now. I can learn to like it, in time, I guess. And the way I see it, it doesn't have to be an either-or thing. Some people get their happiness later in life. Maybe I'm one of them.

(I feel like a sheep, though. Y'know, goes "Baaah" and is herded around with the rest of the flock by a sheepdog.)

However, despite my twinge of sadness, there's really no regret. Others may think differently, but applying oneself to the study of the "physicality" of things, how they work, etc. isn't...well... contemptible. The thing is to still have that sense of wonder at beauty and art and other abstract concepts, while fully appreciating ordinary objects. One cannot be without the other, I think.

Just my $0.02.^_^

rabu rabu <3

[listening to] i'm still here - john rzeznik

OK, so I am not officially enrolled yet. I came to school late and had to leave because I wanted to free myself from the shackles of DOST before the school year officially started.:x Anyway, I only got 16 units. First, because the lines were all horribly long and I got lazy, and second, because I don't think I can handle any more than that this semester because of org stuff and I'll also be taking Nihongo classes. If the teachers involved allow me to sit-in. *crosses fingers*

Monday / Thursday
7 - 10 Chem 28. 1 (Lab)
11:30 - 12:30 Physics 72 (Lec)
1 - 2:30 Chem 28 (Lec)
4 - 5:30 Jap 10 - 11 (sit-in)

Tuesday
10 - 11:30 Math 55
11:30 - 12: 30 Physics 72 (Lec)
1 - 2:30 Jap 12 - 13 (sit-in)
2:30 - 4 Kas 2
4 - 5:30 Jap 10 - 11 (sit-in)

Wednesday
9 - 11 PE 2 - Basketball for Women

Friday
8 - 10 Physics 72.1 (Lab)
10 - 11:30 Math 55
11:30 - 12: 30 Physics 72 (Lec)
1 - 2:30 Jap 12 - 13 (sit-in)
2:30 - 4 Kas 2
4 - 5:30 Jap 10 - 11 (sit-in)

In other, non-academic news, CHEMISTRY will be in Pop Jam on July 5! The show will be telecast on July 6 and July 19. Hurrah! I now feel better despite the fact that I will not be able to watch them perform LIVE at Wowow tomorrow. Am overcome with a great wave of love for dirty old man Tsunku.

badjao kitano!

[listening to] shizukana hibi no kaidan wo - dragon ash

Have just finished watching Beat Kitano's version of Zatoichi on pirated DVD. To put it simply: it rocks. The platinum blond Zatoichi was a disconcerting sight at first, but really, I got so into the movie that I barely noticed. Or I did, but the hair became so much a part of the character that it didn't matter. Wait, why am I talking about hair? The blood and gore in this movie was tastefully done, not more than artistically necessary (I think). And the sound effects/BGMs are just amazing. I'd rather not spout my non-film critic's mumbo-jumbo. Watch it for yourself. And do not forget to fully appreciate the (SPOILER ALERT!) crazy group tap dance sequence at the end.

That reminds me, I finally finished enlisting for all my subjects today. I have yet to go to post-advising, though. Enlisting for bloody PE was a bitch, I swear. Out of desperation I was all ready to take the weight training class, but then they ran out of slots. So I cut in the line for Wednesday PE classes, only feeling half-guilty, and got Basketball for Women. Hah! Despite my height, I have never excelled at this game. And it makes my previous PE classes (Philippine Games, Walking) seem all the more sedentary.

Also got Kasaysayan 2 (Asian History). I thought they were going to kick me out of the room thanks to the wonderful wonderful (*dripping sarcasm*) tri-college rule, but it turns out they enlist anyone, no matter what college you're from.

tsukaremashita~~~x_X;;

[listening to] Pieces of A Dream - CHEMISTRY (hehe)

Thanks to the tri-college priority system, the only thing I accomplished today to further my enrollment was get my Form 5A. Mercifully I was not as unlucky as I first thought. Online pre-enlistment gave me all my major subjects, so what I have to worry about is PE and 1 or 2 GE subjects.

Anyway, we helped the Japanese exchange students tread through all the bureacratic red tape. Kinda tiring though.

What I realized today:

1. Worrying is a destructive habit. It accomplishes nothing.

2. Even the people close to you, who call themselves your friends, seem to have this self-satisfied glint in their eyes when you screw up really, although when you look the next moment, it'd be gone. I wonder. Maybe wanting to be better than everyone else and being happy when others fail is human nature.

quiz alert!

[listening to] The Reason - Hoobastank <333

ACT Profile Test
Answer honestly. It's pretty accurate, in my case at least. According to it I am

Has an impulsive streak, rebellious - does not like to follow rules
Hard working (?)
Determined, persistent (?)
Holds strong opinions, stubborn, rigid
Agitated, lots of nervous energy
Controlling; likes to do things his/her way
Tough-minded; not very sympathetic/empathetic to others
Gets angry easily; temperamental
Self-absorbed, concerned with own needs and wants
Hurried, impatient, high sense of urgency
Prefers to talk than listen
Not particularly cooperative; not a team player
Anxious when uncertain
Worries about what is wrong, could go wrong, may not be right
Tends to be critical of others
Very assertive - pushy, forceful

In short, I am an obsessive, selfish control freak.;_;