And I'll cry if I want to

Meme pics to be posted at a later time. Say, next year.

Messages for random people [You know who you are...or not. Doesn't matter.]:

1. You're not particularly evil or mean, but there's something about you that makes me want to throttle you.

2. I'm sorry for a lot of things, but please don't make me give this up, because I won't. I've grown to like it, and I'll finish what I started. (It's true that tantrums are rarely about what they appear to be about.)

3. There are some lines that I'm not going to cross.

4. I miss laughing at/with you, shopping together, talking to you about shallow stuff, like dibs on anime characters. It's been so busy that we haven't spent time at all together. Next year! The first Saturday of 2007 is yours.

5. I miss you everyday. But this won't last forever. It can't, right?

6. Thank you for telling me stuff about yourself of your own free will. Give it a few more years and we'll be having catch-up convos in Starbucks.:P

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And it’s not so important that it’s happily ever after – just that it’s happy right now. - Meredith Grey, Grey's Anatomy

Timing :]

EDIT: Gacked from an LJ friend's friend. This may take some time though.;)

Ask me to take a picture of any aspect of my life that you're interested in/curious about - it can be anything from the house I live in to my favorite shoes.

Leave your choice here as a comment, and I will reciprocate by taking the pictures and posting them in an entry as a reply to your request. That way you get to know a little bit about my life.

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I'm finally enrolled! Yay. Ditched my Product Design 197 for IE 3 because I heard it's very interesting, all about management. Although it isn't seasonal, I wanted to get it this sem so that Jerome, Mon and I could be classmates. Hehe. Felt kind of bad that I cancelled on Doc Jose behind his back tho. Kinulit-kulit pa naman nya ko tungkol sa Japan...

Promise, I will stiffen my arms and smile perkily and not make a fool of myself and the org.

OK, so I just felt like blogging because I ran into someone who made me smile face-splittingly yesterday. Does a frisson never go away??? Not that there is reason to complain, but this makes things more interesting. I have Janina to thank because if she didn't insist on going to the CR to primp before we headed to CAL, we would've missed him. So. Yeah.

Made my day.:D

If anything can go wrong, it will.

If I learned anything from this enlistment [which isn't even officially over yet because I still have to go to post-advising, and pay, and all that] it would be that Murphy's Law holds true. Things never go exactly as planned. I do have 18 units now, but I am far from feeling relieved about this. Except for the "Whoo I got ES 11 during the random drawing of IDs!" part. I also took 122, partly because I didn't want to pre-rog anything [lazy], and partly because I wanted to not be delayed in the 12x track.

So I have a less-than-perfect schedule. But it will do.

MTh:
730 - 830 ES 11 lec
10 - 1130 ChE 197 (Product Design)
1 - 230 ChE 197 (Polymers)
TF:
10 - 1130 ChE 132
W:
1 - 4 ES 11 lab
Sat (!!!):
830 - 1130 ChE 122

I feel like I'm pretending to be a hardcore Engg student. The fact that I AM delayed is starting to sink in. Don't get me wrong though, I don't regret my year in Japan. :)

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Jack Johnson put it best in his song Sitting, Waiting, Wishing:

Well I was sitting, waiting, wishing
You believed in superstitions
Then maybe you'd see the signs

The Lord knows that this world is cruel
I ain't the Lord, no I'm just a fool
Learning lovin' somebody don't make them love you

The ties that bind

After reading Jerome's long, meaty post about his All Souls' Day activities, I felt a bit guilty because I slept through it. No, seriously. I woke up at around 2 pm, but it wasn't really a problem since we only have one grave to visit. Papa Susing, my maternal grandfather, died after slowly turning into a vegetable thanks to Parkinson's Disease. I never met my paternal grandparents since they both died before I was born; from the stories I heard about them, I would've liked them. They're both buried in my father's hometown in Davao [or is it Compostela Valley now? Hmm.], where my Lolo has a street named after him. My Lola also likes Agatha Christie, so she was definitely cool...

WHAT HAS BEEN KEEPING ME BUSY THIS SEM BREAK:

1. Suikoden IV. Or, rather, being annoyed because the damn PS2 won't read the disc for the past couple of days. It was supposed to be my sem break RPG!!! So I only discovered it last Halloween, but still.T_T
2. Cleaning and organizing. At least, trying to. I swear this house is a black hole. Stuff disappears, turns up in the most unexpected places, and there are cats everywhere. OK, so there are only 2 cats. And a dog.
3. Keeping in touch. My beloved yosakoi team, Toppu, won 1st place in this big big festival!!! Yay! But replying in Japanese takes a whiiiiile. I have to look up words and check grammar...*sigh*
4. Promising myself I'll start reviewing my Japanese. The proficiency test is less than a month away, and I am so sure that when Engg Week crunch time comes around [as soon as classes start], there will be no time, energy or brain cells left for this.
5. Thinking about...stuff. Decisions need to be made, schedules need to be arranged, priorities need to be sorted, that sort of thing. My sister was actually surprised when I talked to her about something. She was all like, "Wow Ate, I didn't know you thought that hard!," or similar. Um. Huh.

It's enrollment the day after tomorrow, and I need to change my IE 3 sked and get ES 11. Ugh, I hope I get lucky. Also need to get proof that I passed my pre-req subjects [for ChE majors and ES as well]. Do they still keep classcards from a year ago?0_o

I'm really looking forward to this coming semester. :)