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VISIT TO MY GRANDMOTHER We spent the whole day at Golden Haven, the name of the place where my lola was laid to rest. Our trip was a day earlier than I expected, since we always visit her grave on the 1st.

Sadly though, even though we spent the whole day there, I didn't feel like I made the most out of our visit. Instead of reflecting and praying for my lola, my mind was on other things. I was thinking how bad I felt over someone. (That someone shall remain undisclosed.) It didn't help that I also brought a book to pass the time. Well, I guess I was really feeling blah the whole day, like some miserable crumb.

Thinking about her, it just reminds me that what I knew about her later on in life was someone perpetually bedridden, recognizing just one person, a maid of ours before. My memory of her as someone who taught me who Christ was, who recorded every fact in the books, (to exercise her mind, I believe) and left a legacy of respect to elders - well, it just took a backseat because the memories were just so vague. I wish we could have learned from each other when I was a bit older. She was simply one of the kindest people that I ever knew.

It's been more than six years since she passed away. I wonder where would I be if she didn't pass away? I wonder what her influence on me would be in my later years, if old age didn't rob her of her wisdom and experience?

I wonder...

STRATEGY PLANNING. I spent the whole day with Peter and Joyce, two of my closest college buds, at the Shang discussing what to do for November 4, our supposed day for ARC bonding. (ARC stands for Architecture Registration Corps) Siyempre, under the guise of 'going out'.... Kinda pathetic, but at least excuse to go out! The fourth year batch in ARC were in charge of the bonding session slash general assembly. Anyway, we were able to cover food (care of my good friend, Brian) and games. We are patterning one of the games after MTV's 'Catch the Jaguar' (as in James Bond's Jag) Contest, but in this case, the people would try bringing to us any of the stray cats loitering around the college. It's something like a modified bring-me contest, something like scavenger hunting, and of course the final goal would be bringing a cat to us.

So forgive us. We couldn't think of anything else.=)
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The verdict on Wendy's Spicy Chicken Fillet: okay, but KFC's Zinger is better. For one thing, KFC's take on chicken fillet is tad more juicy than Wendy's. Plus, I'm not such a big fan of tomatoes, which Wendy's has.

Had the Chicken Fillet for lunch. =)

GOT TO BELIEVE. I just finished watching the movie, and this just reaffirms my belief that I am 1) an incurable romantic (I actually stood hearing Claudine Barretto rip off some of the most memorable lines from movies like 'Love Story', and in the end winded up really liking it.) 2) truly JOLOGS. There is simply no hope for me.

Anyway, after watching the movie, it just saddened me all the more how Claudine and Rico's story ended in real life. I don't follow their careers and love story, but everyone who reads the paper (including the broadsheets) would surely not miss their story. It's fodder for the tabloids. I recall reading the whole sordid situation between their families in Yes! magazine a couple of months after Rico died, and I couldn't believe how messy the whole thing got. Minus all the hoopla, the story is just really sad.

Anyhow, I couldn't wait to watch THE TWO TOWERS. I also couldn't believe it has been almost a year since I saw the Fellowship of the Ring, but I have yet to read the book. Hay naku, as if I would be able to read it this sem break...just too damn short!

GOT TO BELIEVE. I just finished watching the movie, and this just reaffirms my belief that I am 1) an incurable romantic (I actually stood hearing Claudine Barretto rip off some of the most memorable lines from movies like 'Love Story', and in the end winded up really liking it.) 2) truly JOLOGS. There is simply no hope for me.

Anyway, after watching the movie, it just saddened me all the more how Claudine and Rico's story ended in real life. I don't follow their careers and love story, but everyone who reads the paper (including the broadsheets) would surely not miss their story. It's fodder for the tabloids. I recall reading the whole sordid situation between their families in Yes! magazine a couple of months after Rico died, and I couldn't believe how messy the whole thing got. Minus all the hoopla, the story is just really sad.

Anyhow, I couldn't wait to watch THE TWO TOWERS. I also couldn't believe it has been almost a year since I saw the Fellowship of the Ring, but I have yet to read the book. Hay naku, as if I would be able to read it this sem break...just too damn short!

FIRST DAY. Today is officially my first day of semestral break, and I've done nothing but clean up. Oh, and of course catch up on the latest chika with my best bud. Anyway, I gathered all the first sem debris and put them in their proper places, with some tidbits making their way to the trash. I can't believe already one semester has passed...so many things happened in the last semester that it seemed like sem break would never come. There was TFA week, arkiweek (yeah, and Hiyas too), midterm stretch, the bridge, acoustics. Sigh. Enjoyable, but tiring. I'm glad for the sem break even if it's only for about a week or two.

Hey! I just saw the sequel to 'Betty la Fea', 'ECO MODA', on ABS-CBN. It would be starting this coming Monday. Good news - I get to watch it, even for just a week. Bad news - the channel plans to show it at the same time 'Betty la Fea' is shown. I can't believe it. The networks are battling out at the viewers' expense. I mean, I WANNA WATCH BOTH SHOWS and I'll have to switch between the two channels at the same time. Duh.

Things I have to do this sem break:

- sleep
- make portfolio
- meet up with Armie and Edward and go back to CSA
- sleep
- organize a strategy planning seminar with ASAPhil's execom
- write some letters
- visit my lola's grave
- install more programs
- sleep
- clean up my room
- sleep
- sleep

As if I haven't been doing any sleep last semester. Yahoo.

IT'S ALREADY SEM BREAK!!! YAHOO!!!!

Though there are still a lot of things that I need to do (uh oh, I can already see them coming. org stuff, s.a. stuff, portfolio, learning new programs.....) for now I WOULD CELEBRATE. Yeah baby! No more plates, no more school, no more of that prof in THOSE subjects.... no more!

Sigh. Talking about this makes me feel pathetic. Why do I keep rambling on and on about school? Schmuck. Loser ko talaga. All I look forward to during the sem break are telenovelas and more telenovelas. At least I can catch up on 'Betty la Fea'. And oh, I can check my email more often. Geez.

I might visit my grandma (well, sort of. He happens to be my real grandmother's sister-in-law) at the hospital tomorrow. More on school...I would be going in the same direction tomorrow. She is currently confined at the Heart Center.

Shucks. Its already sem break for everybody, but I'm still trying to tie up loose ends...kaasar talaga. Why oh why? (I can almost hear Mikey saying 'I-told-you-so' for getting ----- for design.) And even if I would be on break, I don't really want to go out because of the
bombings that occured recently. I even saw in the newscast that UP is one of the schools at risk for bombings because of the high
concentration of militant students studying there - terrorists might try to put the blame on the students for their crimes.

Sigh. At least I did something for myself today - I borrowed the Coyote Ugly VCD, and I plan to burn it. Yeah baby!

Sigh again. I wonder how I'll end the semester. Last Saturday's exam wasnt' exactly piece of cake. Har har, piece of monstrous cake. Piece of a black hole! And I am sucked into it.=(

I just wish I'll pass.