Because I have not yet learned how to post pictures in the blog since I have not yet figured out how to upload pictures on the computer from the digital camera due to my shallow laziness, I have decided to add a similarly shallow blog entry.
Please take note that I have changed my blog skin. Looks nice, no? :D Please see credits for info on the site where I got this. It took me hours to search the web for the right blog skin.
I have tried to customize my shoutbox IN VAIN. I feel very frustrated since I've spent a total of three hours on the net dismally trying to change the background and the colors of the shoutbox so that it could match my awesome new blog layout. Drat it. God, I really wish I know how to program css stylesheets and html layouts. Also, I really REALLY wish for an Adobe Photoshop (please, somebody!). Though I have tried to borrow from my sister's busmate (how pathetic is that?) a cd of the said program, the cd DID NOT WORK. Drat it.
Speaking of CDs not working, the cd-rom drive in my computer is so ANCIENT (the cpu is also kinda old) that it refuses to open when there isn't any cd loaded in it. So when I am not mentally alert and the cd drive closes without any cd in it, it doesn't open the next time I want to use it (except when you enforce PHYSICAL PERSUASION- as in pounding the sides of the CPU really hard and pushing the OPEN button simultaneously which may lead to INTERNAL DAMAGE...drat it!). SOOOOO, when taking out a cd, I (and sundry other users of this computer who shall remain nameless) always have to replace it with another one.
Wala lang.
I feel really lucky. Know why? I was waiting all week for my period to come. I was even afraid that it would come during the grad ball (Lord no!). Fortunately, God decided to be lenient with me and (lo and behold!) my period came the day after the grad ball! (yehey!) It's my fourth day today and I feel better since I've switched napkin brands from Whisper to Modess. Modess feels better and, um, more breathable (as if your privates have respiratory systems of their own...).
Wala lang.
My favorite game is now
Minesweeper (sawa na ako sa The Sims). I finished all the levels (even the expert level in which my brain nearly POPPED OUT of my head). Here are the best times:
Beginner: 27 secs
Intermediate : 146 secs
EXPERT: 923 goshdarn secs!I was only able to complete the expert level ONCE...ever.
Wala lang.
2 weeks more until we go to the States on a one-month-long vacation. I am not excited, especially since my mom will be remaining in the States for one year to establish domicile (or whatever it is) for her to be able to petition me, my sister Tammy, and RAJ for a US Citizenship. It has to be done NOW OR NEVER since I'm approaching my 18 years of age.
Wala lang.
Yesterday (Good friday) our family scouted around for some houses since our contract of lease here in Pioneer Highlands Condo will expire in about 6 months. We actually still liked that house in Greenwoods which we saw last year and which STILL ISN'T BOUGHT yet. Soooo our dad says that if the seller would be willing to bring down the original price by half a million (which is most likely since he's been trying in vain to sell the house for three years now), he WILL buy the house. Golly, a real HOUSE at last, since before living in a condo we lived in a small townhouse unit. I'm so excited! Especially since that house in Greenwoods has FIVE rooms, which means that Tammy won't have to move in my room when Lola Terry comes to take care of us after Mom leaves.
Wala lang.
Sunday, March 20, 2005, was the BIG day- the day I FINALLY left St. Paul.
It was weird,though. I thought that I'd cry, but I didn't. I guess it's because I'm not the type of person who cries at every little mushy thing, not even because of a powerpoint slide (again! don't they have any creativity?) shown during the grad rites. It was as though I'd felt that I would see them again anyway; that it's no big deal since life goes on.
St. Paul let us go, finally, but not without a FIGHT- the two-week super boring grad practices (in which I was sorely tempted not to show up for those two weeks due to its boredom!), and of course the super HOT and STUFFY toga, stockings, and hat that made us near to fainting (Ayesa did!) in the sweltering hot Chauvet Gym.
Anyway, the point is that WE SURVIVED- not only that, we passed with flying colors! Majority of my batchmates got a lot of awards and medals (don't ask about Carol Baniqued! please!) which made us and our parents feel mighty proud. As a reward for my sleepless nights of stress and paranoia, I got a MEDAL (yey!) for academic excellence. Though I least expected it, I got a GOLD medal for Parish Involvement (?!). I mean, I was actually never faithful and sincere in doing that except for this year (yup, what I wrote for the parish involvement documentations from first to third year were A LOAD OF COMPLETE HOGWASH! yup, those were a contrivance of SICKENING LIES!) After this, I can definitely say that God has a sense of humor and irony.
I will definitely miss St. Paul. (boohoo!) I will miss not only my friends and the camaraderie within and without the batch (those are obvious and passe), but I will also miss the more interesting and conflict-ridden sidese of high school life (i.e. batch rivalry, gossip, collective hatred for particular teachers, academic pressure, and sleepless nights). I am not saying that I won't find all of these in college, but life gets a more humorous, fun-filled, stressful, interesting, and adolescent kick in high school where you not only care about your studies, but also your barkada, batch and department. (It seems to me that college has a more serious environment; everyone seems to be more or less concentrated on their field of study).
That is why, in order to sustain our connections, we have created a batch yahoo groups (at last! at last!). I hope that we will see each other again... (especially my friends who will also be going to ateneo!)
Continue to the next entry to read up on the grad ball! It'll be coming shortly, after I figure out how to upload pictures from the digital camera (we just got it last last week! yehey! at least we are not living in the stone age anymore. :D )
My dad FINALLY agreed to let me go to Ateneo (albeit a little reluctantly).
Mom and dad are arguing (again), this time over our vacation to the States. I can see that it's really hard for mom to live with dad since he's so TIGHTFISTED.
It was my dad's idea that we (me, mom and Tammy) should go to the States on vacation as a graduation gift. So my mom went through all the hassle of applying for passports and visas (which takes a very very LOOONG time), arranging the necessary papers, looking for flights, checking on prices of stuff in the States (which is obviously a long list of things to do). Then my dad backs out since he won't part with his lovely money to give us the money we need to survive there (even though the peso appreciated to its highest value for a long time!).
My mom's now getting really annoyed with dad, and I can sympathize with her. Dad has this tendency on focusing too much on the accumulation of money, and not on what you spend it on. In my point of view I think that's a wrong mindset, since isn't the value of money based on what you spend it on? I mean, it took me a long time to finally persuade my dad to let me go to Ateneo, because I think that it offers a better quality of education as opposed to UP even though the tuition's cheaper in the latter.
I really really really hope and pray that mom and dad won't get separated or commit infidelity, especially now that mom's going to the States for a year to petition us. I DON'T want our family to become a broken home. Please Lord!
