Laughing uncontrollably for no reason whatsoever

On life's simple pleasures and life's simple symptoms

2006-04-13T11:43:54Z

It's all over my friends page now so:

Name ten of life's simple pleasures that you like most, then pick ten people to do the same. Try to be original and creative and not to use things that someone else has already used.

1. Playing the piano
2. Free food tasting
3. Lying on the grass
4. Watching the fish in the aquarium
5. Staring blankly into space
6. Feeding/petting animals (as long as they don't bite back)
7. Playing with Lego (Which I still have)
8. Chatting with friends
9. Doodling on and/or cutting up scratch paper
10. Laughing at my own mistake

Everybody seems to be tagged already but if you wanna do this too, go ahead. But jsut to be sure, Jayvee you're tagged. Just testing a theory.

Speaking of 5. Staring blankly into space, this actually happened on one of the first times I talked to Carlo Cabrera (aka Garfield):
(It was early morning on the first day of Debate Camp 2005 and a few of us were waiting outside for Jess to open the venue)
Carlo: Hansky, What are you doing?
Me: Staring blankly into space.
Carlo: O_O

That's it. Just another random memory. (I actualy forgot what else he said after that)

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Bear with me here, it takes a while before I get to my point.

On another note, I got really sick starting Monday (good thing I left the crosstraining early) with something probably flu problem although we're not really sure (the symptoms don't match). Either way, I'm getting much better. But these past few days got me thinking about something. When people start feeling sick, and perhaps, may want to check what their problem is online, it won't really be helpful. Most online search engines and medical references need you to know the name of your sickness to be given info on what it is and what to do. But most people only know what they feel like pain in joints, fever, difficulty breathing, etc. And it can happen that people can think it's just colds when it really is the flu; or that a really high fever is dengue fever when it's actually a bad heatstroke.

Then again, we have doctors to whom we go to and learn about this stuff but my mom, for one, is almost a doctor by reading lots of medical books, consulting with my Tita, a doctor and taking care of me at home. She knows that when I am flushed, have a headache, and feel feverish and really drained of evergy, that I probably have a heastroke for example.

So I thought, why not have a sort of medical wikipedia? One where you either type in the name if you know it or just put in all the symptoms you're feeling and let it narrow down what you possibly might have. Well, I don't think it would work for serious things but it might help when someone is sick at home and you're not exactly sure what it is. It might help you treat it a bit for now at home or alert you that something really wrong is happening and that he needs to be brought to the ER. It could work because jsut knowing what you're dealing with even at home may help already and with the internet, it could become very accessible.

There are so many other things to consider. But its jsut a concept I thought of right now. Must be a combination of watching House M.D., Scrubs, being sick, and wanting to be a doctor.

Writer's Block...one year later

2006-04-09T04:03:27Z

April 1, 2005

My creative side still needs to warm up...Argh...I need to write better!

And one year later, I feel exactly the same thing. O_O

To be brief, what happened this week? I have to say thanks to Kim for that small but nice party last friday notably the jello shots no one seemed to have figured out how to drink at first.

Oh yeah, I just came from Subic with the Tennis Club featuring Jayvee. As the name suggest, we played tennis for quite some time there and tried to teach jayvee how to play. We also spent a lot of time talking about musicals (Rent) and Anime (I don't know how to spell the name. What is it James?). And we must be one of the few people who go all the way to Subic and purposefully spend three hours sitting at the edge of the boardwalk and reflecting about life.

On a sidenote, I'm realizing more and more how important third year will be and how much I'm putting on the line for things like grades and debate.

Finally, I saw this in a number of my friend's LJ's so I'll do it too.

The Wikipedia Birthday Meme
Go to Wikipedia and look up your birthday (excluding the year). List three neat facts, two births and one death in your journal, including the year.

January 17

Events:

1946 - The UN Security Council holds its first session.
1973 - Ferdinand Marcos becomes "President for Life" of the Philippines.
1991 - Gulf War: Operation Desert Storm began early in the morning. Iraq fires 8 Scud missiles into Israel in an unsuccessful bid to provoke Israeli retaliation. <-- Exactly one year after I was born :P

Births:

1706 - Benjamin Franklin American writer, inventor, publisher, and ambassador (d. 1790)
1962 - Jim Carrey, Canadian actor and comedian
* James Earl Jones who is the iconic voice of Darth Vader was also born on this day in 1931

Death:

1997 - Clyde Tombaugh, American astronomer (b. 1906) <--The guy who discovered Pluto and proposed the idea of Planet X (Some of his ashes are being carried on a probe to Pluto as we speak, I mean, as you read...random info)

Hello reader, do you have a blog? Okay then, you're TAGGED!

p.s. After seeing how much I wrote, perhaps its not so much of a writer's block. Either way I'm feeling very lazy this summer. Who doesn't?

Crosstraining...Happy April Fools nga pala (This House Believes....)

2006-04-01T11:46:51Z

Well, I was really annxious over the crosstraining for some reasons. I stayed up late last night to fix stuff with Alvina (actually just spent time worrying) and came extra early (Haha...You did too Val, don't deny it...Early Bird Curse indeed!). Perhaps its because it hasn't been a very nice week for me (except for watching Rent) and I've really been on the edge these days. But anyways, the crosstraining worked out very well. We managed to fit three good debates, I got to practice adjing, I gave one of my more passionate speeches, met a lot of people (soiree...*ahem*..I was really coughing a lot today), and laughed a lot. Interestingly, I kinda lost my voice after just one debate (some of the Knollers might have noticed) as in, it's not sore throat or anything, but barely anything came out of my mouth...oh well, it's better now.

Wow, that was really cool and actually productive; we managed to finish everything on time!(and I'm too tired to list the fun stuff) And it's all thanks to Gica, Carlo, Joey, Alvina, and James who helped get everybody together and Pao for being the only, um, coach we could get. Thanks to the realy big adj panel of 7. :P

We're planning another one around the start of May...msot probably a Saturday again. Just so you know. :)

More random stuff...My list of things to get in the near future:
1. Rent OST/VCD/Piano Sheets (I'm a fan) Oh yeah, Wicked Piano Sheets too!
2. V for Vendetta graphic novel (Alyza, I can't read that whole thing in just one day!)
3. I'll go scouting for a good book. I'm really looking for "Searching for the 11th Insight" (sequel to the Celestine Prophesy and the 10th Insight) which doesnt seem to be anywhere.
4. I never really though much about wishlists, thats about it.

Short Random Stuff

2006-03-31T09:34:46Z

I just realized that this is the birthday of my LJ! Okay...that and I'm really bored.

I was thinking about tomorrow's crosstraining and looking at the ride I will have, I ironically might be a biiiiiiiiiit late...actually I'm just really paranoid. (Just like during IISDC when we had a team breakfast and I couldn't help worrying about how late we were going to be...we kinda were come to think of it)

I love 135 minutes of Rent!

2006-03-29T12:37:51Z

I watched Rent today with my family. It was really great! I never knew how deep a story could be made out of that idea. It was really well done and it blew me away, especially the music. I wanna get the soundtrack!

Anyways, Lot's of people are posting this so:

Seven things that make me happy
1. FOOD!
2. The adrenaline rush of debate....and winning (Well, winning anything makes me happy anyway)
3. Music/Musicals (like from Rent)and playing the piano (which comforts me for all the things which make me angry)
4. Travelling and trying to learn the local language
5. Thinking to myself alone in my room
6. A wonderful conversation with a friend
7. Spontaneous uncontrollable laughter for no reason whatsover (James and Carlos know this very well...5,4,3,2,1)

Seven things that make me angry
1. Realizing how much of a jerk I was to someone close
2. Thinking to myself alone in a room (when it gets depressing or i realized something bad)
3. Being late....or knowing that you can never get there on time (usually because of traffic)
4. Myself at times
5. Failing or getting low for something in school or any project for that matter
6. Life is really confusing...If only there was a rulebook on life...
7. Regretting what could have been

If you are reading this and you have an LJ, you are tagged! :)

Speaking of debate, to all STC, Ateneo, and Miriam debaters who are reading this entry (you probably know this anyway):

Crosstraining at Ateneo SEC foyer from 8a.m. - 5p.m. on April 1 (this Saturday)

Or in the words of Ceejaye, Soiree...*ahem*

Anyways, please contact either Alvina for STC, Gica most likely for MC, and Carlo and myself for details (and also to confirm if you're going). If you can get any coaches to come, please tell me.

And I beg you, please be ON TIME so we can fit 3 debates in this. Thanks :)

p.s. Thanks Kaye for telling me about rich text format, it makes everything so much easier...wow I never knew this stuff before

A meme....what does meme stand for?

2006-03-27T05:32:16Z

Well, Kaye tagged me so...

List seven songs you're into right now. No matter what the genre, whether [or not] they have words, or even if they're any good, they must be songs you're really enjoying right now. Post these instructions in your blog along with your seven songs, then tag seven other people to see what they're listening to.

1. Take Me or Leave Me - Rent OST
2. Defying Gravity - Wicked OST
3. Another Day - Rent OST (Yes Alyza, I'm really into musicals right now, especially Rent)
4. The Heart of Every Girl - Elton John (Mona Lisa Smile OST)
5. Karen's Theme - Richard Carpenter
6. Agua De Marco (Waters of March) - Antonio Carlos Jobim
7. Will and Grace Theme Song (I really wanna play this on the piano!)

Tagging vincenzo_tagle camillecamille purdymonster wesleeptodream gauche_star braindeadperson alvinatiu

Hmm..let's see this nifty thing I saw in Erin's LJ...

2006-03-23T07:47:20Z

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Oh, I can't wait for Rent!

A very vivacious, vindictive, vicious, visionary, and verbose

2006-03-15T10:17:30Z

I spent the early part of the afternoon learning to drive...in the middle of Makati traffic which can be a rather unnerving thing. That and the fact it takes me 3 seconds to get my car to move forwards after each stop (so many stoplights...hahaha). To all the cars at the back, sorry na...patience is a virtue...hahaha.

Anyways, after that I watched V for Vendetta with my family and it was a really cool movie. It had tidbits of Matrix Special Effect genius along with rather repetetive script obsessed with the letter V (nevertheless, it's so witty the way they made or found a latin motto with all the words starting with V). Aside from the visual experience, the theme was pretty good, combining 1984(the book), Martial Law, and Hitler all in one (Yes,including Stalin, Animal Farm, Socialists, Totalitarians too...Mr. Falgui was so right, this sort of stuff is repeated in history so many times). The story was really intricate becasue so many things from the species of rose used to the (matrix-style) drops of rain were all connected with V, the plot, and the whole story. It was very detailed and witty to boot. As with the Matrix Trilogy, Well done Wachowski Brothers!

Terrorist or not, you can't deny he's got style.

p.s. Wow, Mr. Falgui sure gets mentioned a lot in my blog. Well, that just proves how much he actually taught us at the end of the year.

p.p.s. What's the music V plays when he blows up stuff? I've heard it a lot of times but never got the name. Either way, it sure is a cool song to play while watching fireworks...

Joining the Enneagram Bandwagon

2006-03-12T13:59:56Z

I saw this test a week ago and tried answering it but it obstinately refused to give me an html code even if I gave my personal info and said I have and LJ. I asked James how to do it and followed what he said but...nothing. So after doing the test many times over the week and getting extremely (and unusually) pissed off with the site, I just copied and pasted the answers. There! (why didn't I think of this before)

the Romantic
Test finished!
you chose BY - your Enneagram type is FOUR.

"I am unique"

Romantics have sensitive feelings and are warm and perceptive.

How to Get Along with Me

Give me plenty of compliments. They mean a lot to me.
Be a supportive friend or partner. Help me to learn to love and value myself.
Respect me for my special gifts of intuition and vision.
Though I don't always want to be cheered up when I'm feeling melancholy, I sometimes like to have someone lighten me up a little.
Don't tell me I'm too sensitive or that I'm overreacting!

What I Like About Being a Four

my ability to find meaning in life and to experience feeling at a deep level
my ability to establish warm connections with people
admiring what is noble, truthful, and beautiful in life
my creativity, intuition, and sense of humor
being unique and being seen as unique by others
having aesthetic sensibilities
being able to easily pick up the feelings of people around me

What's Hard About Being a Four

experiencing dark moods of emptiness and despair
feelings of self-hatred and shame; believing I don't deserve to be loved
feeling guilty when I disappoint people
feeling hurt or attacked when someone misundertands me
expecting too much from myself and life
fearing being abandoned
obsessing over resentments
longing for what I don't have

Fours as Children Often

have active imaginations: play creatively alone or organize playmates in original game s
are very sensitive
feel that they don't fit in
believe they are missing something that other people have
attach themselves to idealized teachers, heroes, artists, etc.
become antiauthoritarian or rebellious when criticized or not understood
feel lonely or abandoned (perhaps as a result of a death or their parents' divorce)

Fours as Parents

help their children become who they really are
support their children's creativity and originality
are good at helping their children get in touch with their feelings
are sometimes overly critical or overly protective
are usually very good with children if not too self-absorbed

So there it finally is. I read all the statements, including my mom's college psychology notes on the enneagram and I'm somewhere in between 6 and 4... so it's rather accurate.

Then again, the test got me so pissed off I don't feel like updating anymore...perhaps tomorrow.

Goodbye 2A... 3A na! ...Pero summer muna. XD

2006-03-08T14:39:18Z

Well, 2nd year is over. The exams probably won't come out as nice I would have wanted them to be. The culminating mass was pretty good and the program was really fun (great job Jayvee with the music videos and cool powerpoint Migi). I don't really know what to say.

Honestly, I'm not really sure how I feel right now. I'm not really that sentimental (probably not as much as last year). I never really thought much about the end of school until yesterday night (James' LJ) and the realization just sunk in during the program a few hours ago where we saw all our teachers dancing wildly and Mr. Falgui giving that goodbye speech (with fond memories of our noisiness as a class). I think we all realized how much we took these little daily events (like Mr. Falgui's reflections) for granted and how, no matter how we resented some of them, we would actually miss them. Even then, I didn't feel the whole Goodbye-2A-Thing as much (even as I write this entry).

I'm not even wildly rejoiceful because somehow I got myself into this very pensive and reflective mood - not that there's anything bad with that. It's just if I look at first year, privately, that was my very emotional year. This year, it's one confusing year for me. I learned so much about myself yet so many more questions came from that. This too was the year I wanted to do so much yet realized what little I could do. Alright, so perhaps it's just tonight that I'm like this. Tomorrow morning I'll porbably be jumping for summertime joy (yeah, something in tonight's goodbye program made me so reflective).

Wow, this is actually one of the few times I put down my feelings in this blog. I usually repress them or just write interesting events in a day.

It's about time I actually bid farewell to this year. To Noli, Polynomial Functions, the 7 miles of Emmaus, take home Bio long tests, and all the other difficulties this year. To the Potato Dance, Kanto Boys, the Block Rogue Parliament, spontaneous and nonstop laughter (James, remember drunk on Teasers?), and the funny weird stuff we did in our free time (alright, even during a busy class). To all our group meetings, The Wedding Club, The Breakfast Club, and the very noisy corner of our clasroom. To our teachers even those we secretly resent at times. To the Little Prince Preparations, the latter parts of the Class Night, the Dulaang Panradyo, the Christmas party, and all the stuff I regretfully missed. To my classmates and friends and to all the stories and secrets we shared. It's not so much of a goodbye or a thank you, it's me remembering all of this and writign it down. Well, NOW I'm sentimental. Here's to one heck of a year. Now we can all rest after one hard and sleepless year.

High school (A-2008, debate, Ateneo) sure changed me a lot in so many ways (way too many to mention). I'd be so different back in Southridge. Better or worse? I have no idea.

Life goes on.

YM conversations (something 2A would probably understand)

2006-03-04T11:27:10Z

This is probably a side-effect of debating.

Mari: nagddownload pa ako ng mga kanta
Mari: mga almost 100 na nakaqueue
Mari: tapos i have 30 done, waiting to be heard
Mari: grabe, ang hirap pakinggan ng mga to
Mari: ang dami
Mari: ang labo na ng mga pinuntahan kong genres
Mari: may children of bodom pa
Mari: tapos may disney soundtracks
Mari: at di pa ako tapos
Carlos Marin: mari, we all violate the copyright law.. but aren't you overdoing it?

Then the jokes begin.

hansky_santos (3/4/2006 5:48:28 PM): send a grp message : Please pray for the country, those suffering in Leyte, and Limewire/PLDT/Mari's computer...kawawa naman eh
hansky_santos (3/4/2006 5:51:42 PM): Dear PLDT, make this new plan, not plan 999 for students but plan 100 for Mari
Carlos Marin (3/4/2006 5:52:52 PM): i wouldn;t be surprised if a cruise missile from the us hits mari';s house
Carlos Marin (3/4/2006 5:55:04 PM): Carlos Marin: are you done downloading/? Mari: -_- Mari: 200 na pala sila Mari:
Carlos Marin (3/4/2006 5:56:42 PM): Mari: nasa iron maiden na ako Mari: Mari: alphabetical e hehe
Carlos Marin (3/4/2006 5:56:46 PM): give him credit
Carlos Marin (3/4/2006 5:56:49 PM): he's very organized
hansky_santos (3/4/2006 5:57:00 PM): Definition of Copyright Enfringement: See Mari
hansky_santos (3/4/2006 5:57:31 PM): Before ARPAnet, there was MARInet
Carlos Marin (3/4/2006 5:57:38 PM): to see mari, go to fbi.com and he will be under the top ten wanted people
hansky_santos (3/4/2006 6:00:04 PM): Blackbeard, Captain Hook, and Captain Jack Sparrow: Astig ka Mari! Idol!
Carlos Marin (3/4/2006 6:00:30 PM): William Wallace: *gives mari blue face paint*
hansky_santos (3/4/2006 6:00:54 PM): ENRON: Sorry na Mari!
Carlos Marin (3/4/2006 6:01:11 PM): NIXON: You are my god
hansky_santos (3/4/2006 6:01:44 PM): GMA: Hello? Hello Mari?
Carlos Marin (3/4/2006 6:01:56 PM): Monica Lewinsky: Shit, he's good
Carlos Marin (3/4/2006 6:03:08 PM): Bin Laden: I must recruit this guy
hansky_santos (3/4/2006 6:03:52 PM): the newest show CSI:MARI
Carlos Marin (3/4/2006 6:04:28 PM): gil grissom is baffled
Carlos Marin (3/4/2006 6:04:44 PM): general zaroff answers to mari
Carlos Marin (3/4/2006 6:05:00 PM): CHUCK NORRIS ANSWERS TO MARI
hansky_santos (3/4/2006 6:06:39 PM): FR PEREZ BOWS DOWN TO MARI
Carlos Marin (3/4/2006 6:11:37 PM): You wouldn't kill a man, don't commit a mari

Actually there was A LOT more. Tinopak na ako.

Carlos Marin (3/4/2006 7:11:32 PM): we must let the truth out

To quote Carlos who convinced me to make this entry:

hansky_santos (3/4/2006 6:07:47 PM): i will after i make my debate update
Carlos Marin (3/4/2006 6:08:02 PM): this takes priority anokaba?

Another debate year coming to a close tear

2006-03-04T10:08:46Z

Grands was great. We had in in St. Scho in their amphitheater-like Troika Room. I was teamed with Vitto and we lost by 1 point to James and Carlo in the quarterfinals. Oh well. It ended at 4:30 - record for earliest debate ever!

Congrats to Lou for winning Public Speaking Finals. (To quote James: It was between the girl who proposed to Leloy or the guy who allowed Leloy to bang his gavel twice)

Congrats to all the teams who made it to finals and Ateneo A (Mikee and Pao) for winning Grands! what a nice way to end highschool debating. Goodbye and Godspeed to all the seniors.

Oh yeah memorable events...Chuck Norris Jokes! (Even Jen finally admitted they were funny)

And as this year ends, thanks to Vitto, Joey, Edmund, Patch, Mav, and Vince for all being my team mates at one time or another, helping me make arguments, bearing with my pessimism, and being there all the way through. Thanks to everyone in Ateneo Debate especially the seniors. Special mention to Joey, James, Kaye, and Camille for being the people I trust the most, share my problems with, who are there for me all the time, and changed my life in one way or another this year.

Friendlies then a whole new year. Wow. So many memories this year. By the way guys, I took a couple of pictures in Grands so just ask.

Aside from that, two hellweeks are finally over. i can finally get reacquainted with my old friend the bed. Just three days of exams and thats it. Half of my high school life is ending very quickly. I wish I did more. 'Cause there's still a lot more I want to accomlish in these four years.

Ironically, democracy starts falling apart on the 20th anniversary of our democratic triumph

2006-02-27T05:27:55Z

Well, it's just sad that some of us who barely slept since Thursday simply find out that school's been cancelled...again. It's also funny that an hour after they declared no classes, the problem in Fort Bonifacio was resolved. Aside from the rest and relief, I really wish that this turmoil didn't happen now, in the middle of hellweek - that means more exams and projects crammed in less days. And despite all of this pressure, why am I still unproductive? Oh well...*does other stuff totally unrelated to school*

I hope that all the conflict here gets resolved...somehow.

I love my country but couldn't they make my country a little easier to love?

Weeee! Survey! (aside from that, not much of an update)

2006-02-26T07:23:49Z

*TELL ME ABOUT YOURSELF - The Survey*
Name:	Hansky Santos
Birthday:	January 17, 1990
Birthplace:	Makati I think
Current Location:	My house, in front of the computer
Eye Color:	Brown
Hair Color:	Black
Height:	Not sure...never bothered to check recently
Right Handed or Left Handed:	Right
Your Heritage:	1/4 Chinese, the rest Filipino I think
The Shoes You Wore Today:	Leather (for mass)
Your Weakness:	Well...
Your Fears:	A lot of things like failure, heights (roller coaters), pain, too many to mention...
Your Perfect Pizza:	All meat! Though I prefer more pepperoni and the more cheese the better! CHEESE!
Goal You Would Like To Achieve This Year:	Get accepted into YLI, win a debate, get 1st honors at least once, er, yeah...I'm feelign very ambitious right now.
Your Most Overused Phrase On an instant messenger:	ohh...okay
Thoughts First Waking Up:	What time is it?
Your Best Physical Feature:	Uh...
Your Bedtime:	9 to 11 (Ideally 9 but that never happens)
Your Most Missed Memory:	Gradeschool
Pepsi or Coke:	Coke
MacDonalds or Burger King:	Mcdo
Single or Group Dates:	Actually, single
Lipton Ice Tea or Nestea:	Nestea!!!
Chocolate or Vanilla:	Chocolate! goes to fridge
Do you Smoke:	No
Do you Swear:	No
Do you Sing:	Yes, though very few people have ever heard me
Do you Shower Daily:	Yeah
Have you Been in Love:	I suppose
Do you want to go to College:	Of course
Do you want to get Married:	Most likely
Do you belive in yourself:	Every now and then
Do you get Motion Sickness:	Not for a very long time
Do you think you are Attractive:	er...
Are you a Health Freak:	Not really
Do you get along with your Parents:	Pretty well
Do you like Thunderstorms:	Never thought about it
Do you play an Instrument:	Yeah
In the past month have you Drank Alcohol:	No
In the past month have you Smoked:	No
In the past month have you been on Drugs:	Read the above
In the past month have you gone on a Date:	whistles (wait, I can't whistle)
In the past month have you gone to a Mall:	Yup
*In the past month have you eaten a box of Oreos:*
In the past month have you been on Stage:	No...why can't I answer the oreos question?
In the past month have you been Dumped:	Nope
In the past month have you gone Skinny Dipping:	What?
In the past month have you Stolen Anything:	Nope
Ever been Drunk:	Nearly...If I went to Joseph's sleepover the other day
Ever been called a Tease:	A Tease?
Ever been Beaten up:	No
Ever Shoplifted:	Nope
How do you want to Die:	Fall asleep and never wake up again..or take a bullet for someone if that would ever happen
What do you want to be when you Grow Up:	Doctor
What country would you most like to Visit:	Switzerland
*In a Boy/Girl..*
Favourite Eye Color:	I really don't mind
Favourite Hair Color:	Any
Short or Long Hair:	As long as it matches with the person
Height:	Dunno
Weight:	Dunno
Best Clothing Style:	Er, anyting good?
Number of Drugs I have taken:	Not counting medicines, 0
Number of CDs I own:	A lot...They're all jsut scattered around the hosue
Number of Piercings:	None
Number of Tattoos:	None
Number of things in my Past I Regret:	1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, etc...
CREATE YOUR OWN! - or - GET PAID TO TAKE SURVEYS!

On AI, Hellweek, The Wedding Club, and Debate (once again)

2006-02-22T13:21:13Z

"Anyway, that was just horrible...Everything we liked about you just evaporated..It was like being in a ghastly hotel..." - Simon Cowell, same as always (I kinda predicted he would compare someone to a hotel singer at least once today). I'm still rooting for Kellie Pickler and Lisa Tucker!

Ack, its another hellweek (followed by apocalypse week then finally armagedon week). There's jsut so much to do and so much to catch up on (why then am I updating my LJ and not working on my Filipino paper?). Thank God summer's only two weeks away.

And a while ago (though the only one who would probably mind this part is Alvina) I got "married" to Martha for her Religion project on matrimony and we are now planning every aspect of our "wedding" from reception to priests to vows and all. Oh yeah, James (yes, it's the return of The Wedding Club), you're the best man and Joey's one of the groom's men.

On a sadder note, I don't think I can go to IDeA Grands this year. I have a very important interview to go to sometime in the afternoon and that would mean I would have to leave after Quarters or Semi's if I make it that far (I already missed the first interviews since they told me the schedule the night before Econtentions). Well, at least there are so many other debates to go to...it's just Grands and I thought I could compete this year.

Anyways, back to lots of work. 10 days to Grands (I'll still support probably), 15 days to summer, and ___ days to Friendlies.

A late Valentine's entry

2006-02-15T10:28:45Z

Yet another short update. I don't feel like writing much these days.

It's the first time I actually took much note of Valentine's this year and it was pretty fun for me. I got a rock (which has a really weird and undecipherable sentimental meanings) and peanut MnM's which I'm allergic to...hahaha...Anyways, to most of the Miriam SAD advocates: Single? You are all polygamous remember!

I just realized that vacation is so close. Only a few more hellweeks to go.

Then there's only Grands and Friendlies left. Yay! I have a team with Tami and Chaz...please let it be Asians...

As Long as You're Mine - from Wicked, a wonderful musical

Kiss Me too fiercely
Hold me too tight
I need help beliving
You're with me tonight
My wildest dreams
Could not forsee
Lying beside you
With you wanting me

And just for this moment
As long as you're mine
I've lot all resistance
And crossed some borderline
And if it turns out
It's over too fast
I'll make every last moment last
As long as you're mine

Maybe I'm brainless
Maybe I'm wise
But you've got me seeing
Through different eyes
Somehow I've fallen
Under your spell
And somehow I'm feeling
It's up that I fell

Every moment
As long as you're mine
I'll wake up my body
And make up for lost time
Say there's no future
For us as a pair
And though I know I may know
I don't care

Just for this moment
As long as you're mine
Come be how you want to
And see how bright we shine
Borrow the moonlight
Until it is though
And know I'll be here holding you
As long as you're mine

For the heck of it, jsut asnwer this if you want. http://kevan.org/johari?name=Hansky

From Gica

2006-02-12T04:45:42Z

<td align="center"> Hansky --
[noun]:

A person with a taste for acorns

'How will you be defined in the dictionary?' at QuizGalaxy.com</td>

The One Sentence Update.

2006-02-07T09:29:58Z

I'm simply amazed how 2-A can spend over 50 minutes debating with our teacher on one number in the English long test.

The most tiring, exciting, busy, HAPPY weekend I've had in a long time.

2006-02-05T12:12:48Z

Friday Night

Four things can potentially happen that day: AC fair, Poveda Sophnite (that I have nothing to do with), St. Scholastica Sophnite (which doesn't allow boys O_o), and the Woodrose Sophnite (which is FREE. Yes, it has food, party, adn everything and its FREE). And since a couple of friends invited me to go to WR, I deceided to go there. On the way I remembered the one and a half hour traffic leading to Alabang on Friday nights. That's one and a half hours on an express highway (the Skyway) and considering that I live half the distance to Ateneo. So after a long ride, we finally reached Ayala Alabang where we realized that we couldnt enter since we don't know who owns the house with the sophnite. Thankfully my parents pretended we were visiting a family friend there. The party itself was really fun and I met almost all of my Southridge batchmates who really changed a lot in two years. I also met a couple of Woodrose girls, listened to SR and WR bands, won a prize in a Bring Me game, and learned the embarassing way how badly I dance.

Saturday

After a quick rest, I spent the early morning of saturday matterlaoding for Econtentions (I hate and know nothing about economics). Though later found out that I didnt really need any of my matter. Okay, I actually used the WTO matter jsut a bit for one of the debates. And even though we were under-trained, matter-light, and extremely sleepy, Mav, Patch, and I managed to do pretty well and survived that day. Thanks to both of you for thinking up of ideas and bringing us to fifth break. (hough it feels kidna bad to think that some of the debates we won were simply by virtue of being less messy than the opponent)

On a separate note, Quezon City Science debate teams are scary. They enter with SOOO much statistics, figures, and matter that it actually dumbfounds us (and some of them were downright mean and insulting when they adressed our proposals..or perhaps as PM I just took that too personally). Of course we could always rely on logical steps and analysis but our adjes are not really debate adjes, more of economics teachers who might lean more to numbers. Well, thank God we made it through. Quarters here we come!

And one more thing. I missed Southridge's Father's day (as close as you can get to a fair) and a ratehr important interview which I hope they will reschedule for my sake. I hope Saturday's events were worth it.

Then on the way home, I heard all about the Wowowee incident. It's really sad how a big day for a number of these people turned into a really chaotic disaster. Pray for all the victims of that stampede.

Finally, I can end two days of no sleep.

Sunday

It was just a really happy happy day! (And yes, God is very merciful to make everything work out)

Edit
After an indirect request to extend the last entry (followed by another request to shorten it again)... Today was four hours walking all over Glorietta, talking about anything under the sun, trying to dance (as if last Fridays events stopped me), getting away with a lie, and having fun (and nearly spilling Starbucks all over me). That was followed by a rather productive and intersting meeting with the Awit Nasyonalista group.

Of course after all of this, there's still the Awit Nasyonalista project, the "optional" Religion Ressurection Reflection Report (ooh, alliterations!), the English interview, Filipino paper, and the Bio LT...wait, anything else? Thank God for President's Day...No school tomorrow! Still...lots of work to do...

Quizzes

2006-01-30T00:58:58Z

You Are The Hanging Man

You represent the seeking of enlightenment and spiritual clarity.
You tend to confuse others, but your oddities seem deeply satisfying.
Self sacrifice is easy for you, especially if it makes you a better person in the end.
You are the type of person who is very in touch with your soul and inner spirit.

Your fortune:

Right now is a good time for reflection and meditation.
You should stop resisting the problems in your life, and let yourself be vulnerable to them.
You may need to sacrifice something important to you to move ahead in your life.
Accept your destiny with courage, and learn to let go of what you think you need.

What Tarot Card Are You?

How You Are In Love

You take a while to fall in love with someone. Trust takes time.

You give and take equally in relationships.

You tend to get very attached when you're with someone. You want to see your love all the time.

You love your partner unconditionally and don't try to make them change.

You stay in love for a long time, even if you aren't loved back. When you fall, you fall hard.

How Are You In Love?

The IDeA 3 update I was too tired to make yesterday

2006-01-30T00:14:00Z

This was one tiring week. Thank God there's no school today (all hail Victory Day!).

The fair wasnt much for me really. We spent the first half of it training with the teams in Blue Cow. It's funny how Carlo and Patch kept fighting (physicially) with each other through out the debates. After that, we went around the Ateneo fair, Helios 10 Degrees Hotter which in reality was 10 Degrees Wetter because of the rain. There really wan't that much to do. I jsut walked around, met some people, adn talked to some debaters. I really got tired by five so I left.

Now..to IDeA 3

First off, Woodrose is really far for most people and being one tiem I actually got a good look at the school, these are just some trivial things I noticed.

- Woodrose almost looks like Southridge especially the main building which is a carbon copy of Southridge's main building.
- Woodrose is named after a rose which turns hard like wood after cut from the stem.
- II-B has a real fire escape in the room.
- II-C has a window leading to nowhere with a sign "Fire Exit" on top of it.
- The open rooms on the second day of debates were thanks to the Woodrose girls who broke into the locked classrooms for lack of a key.

Memorable Events of IDeA 3

- Joey and the Unofficial Ateneo (Acutally, still just Joey) Massage Service
- The Circle of Pink...and Joey.. and some awkward discussions (we have lots of Miriam-Ateneo pics to prive this)
- Tami still loves Joey's hair.
- We tried to make debate pick-up lines like "Hey, I wanna set you up." "Are we mutually exclusive?" "I concede, I love you" and much more credited to Kaye, Lisane, Gica, and Irisa.
- POLYGAMY! I got married to Val and Tami. Tami got married to the most people, I think over ten. Will you marry me?
- I agree with Val, the cow actually freaked me out when I first saw it. And I'm not taking their milk no matter what you do Val! (But thanks for the cookies and the brownies)
- Spent much of Saturday with Camille and nearly got stuck while climbing on one of Woodrose's gates.
- Vince finally showd his anger and punched Patch!
- I got a lucky eraser crayon from my friend on Saturday and I always beleived that helped me break. Unfortunately by the end of the tournament, I lsot it somewhere...I'm still looking for it. It porbably was a one time good luck charm.
- Happy Chinese New Year everyone!
- Happy Birthday Ceejaye! Belated Happy Birthday to Nicole and Bea!
- IDeA 3 was really fun! THere's jsut way too much to mention.

I'm so proud of Vince for pulling through no matter what and actually calming me down in debate and giving nice ideas. Evan in your first invitational, you were a great partner. I'm also proud of Joey, my partner usually, who made it to the finals! Congrats to the Kip Scouts (that means Xavier, congrats to you for a truly prosperous Chinese New Year) all the Atenean teams, all those who broke, all those who competed (okay, so that makes practically everyone who braved their way to Woodrose), Lou, for Public Speaking, and the top ten best speakers (thank you James for letting me hold on to the medal).

And finally, the only way home for some people was the Woodrose bus. For Mikee, Joey, Carlo, Edmund and I, we had: The HanskyBus. Five people had to fit int he back of a CRV so to make things easier, Edmund sat in the back compartment (I bet he is traumatized by CRV's now...kidding). Joey sat int he back the second time we rode the car. Anyway, for most people who haven't dropped by the South, they found themselves realy interested by a lot of things like the E-Pass, the Skyway (wow...THE SKY), and the intesne traffic in Alabang alone. We also passed by Outback and for some reason made so much jokes about the name. That was a fun ride. *looks in the back to check if Edmund is still there and still alive*

Whew

2006-01-28T13:20:05Z

Wow, that was such a tiring day. Congratulations to all the teams that broke along with the four atenean teams. Special mention to Vince, my partner, and our (wait, just Joey's) massage service.

I think that along with a number of debaters, I'm getting sick too. Darn.

I'll just update on the ten degrees wetter fair and IDeA 3 tomorrow...If I'm not cramming.

Another quiz from Alyza

2006-01-18T12:20:09Z

Ten Top Trivia Tips about Hansky!

Hansky kept at the window will keep vampires at bay.
White chocolate isn't technically chocolate, because it doesn't contain Hansky.
Never store Hansky at room temperature!
The risk of being struck by Hansky is one occurence every 9,300 years.
Dolphins sleep at night just below the surface of Hansky, and frequently rise to the surface for air.
Julius Caesar wore a laurel wreath to cover up Hansky!
You share your birthday with Hansky!
New Zealand was the first place to allow Hansky to vote.
If you blow out all the candles on Hansky with one breath, your wish will come true.
Snow White's coffin was made of Hansky.

Birthdays

2006-01-17T13:24:05Z

I usually have simple birthdays. I was actually expecting to coincide it with Kaye's party...hahahaha! Well, the morning started out well. On my birthday, my parents always put up a couple of happy birthday banners for me and leave a touching note. Today wasn't any different. All my relatives sent greetings and my tito celebrated mass for me today.

Well, not too many people in school know, or remember it's my birthday (special mention to Hans, Mikee and Vitto who do). I bet everyone else found out after I started giving chocolates to people (you can never go wrong with chocolates, right Ceejaye?). Actually some took until lunchtime to realize why I was celebrating. The good thing was that the rest of this week is pretty light school-wise for me and the bio long test that was returned brought back a relieving score (considering that I thought I would fail it).

At home I received a flood of YM messages (thanks to all of you) with greetings and two text messages from Therese, Carla, and Steffi. For dinner I had a huge serving of my mom's really god homemade spaghetti with real Italian sauce and freshly grated Italian cheese. Oh yeah, and nothing wraps up a day like an Oreo Cheesecake!!! I probably deserve a day off and since schoolwork is light, I'm not really working on anything right now.

See? Aside from the greetings and food, that's my birthday. Thanks to all of those who greeted me today and gave (or said they will give) me a little something. ^_^

Coming up: Fair! IDeA3! More Birthdays!

Amazingly true, except the fashion part. (From Alyza)

2006-01-16T09:06:44Z

You Should Be A Cancer

What's good about you: you're incredibly kind, caring, and generous

What's bad about you: you can be too moody and impossible to understand

In love: you enjoy wining and dining the object of your affection

In friendship, you're: likely to depend on other friends for emotional support

Your ideal job: historian, marine biologist, or religious figure

Your sense of fashion: you dress to match your mood

You like to pig out on: classic home cooked meals, like mac and cheese

What Sign Should You Be?