I should have listened to Scarlet’s Walk a long time ago

What can I say? It’s feels hella good to be home.

Going to Punta Fuego in the middle of a typhoon is like getting a dish of melted ice cream on a hot summer day. What you have is already there, but not quite in the state you want it to be. I’m sure the place is very beautiful around April to mid-May, but do not go there on the months of June until whenever it stops raining. It was a little depressing. Everything was so gray! The sky, the water, even the grass and the trees seemed to lose their green-ness. The only saving grace was the smell of the saltwater. It was everywhere we went, even in our casita. The smell wasn’t very strong; it was just right, like really mild perfume, and somehow that felt very relaxing.

So what exactly did we do there? Well, my sister and I made pa-cute to all the guys in our swimsuits in that freezing cold weather (not!). I had a massage at the spa. I ate a lot. I watched movies. I was supposed to go to the gym to work out and get rid of all my excess calories, but it’s hard to get around Punta Fuego without getting wet because it’s obviously a summer place and they hardly have any roofs or anything outside. So by the time I got to the gym I was wet, cold, and bitchy. I tried to open the door to the gym, only to find out that it was locked. All that getting wet for nothing. Grrrrr. What’s a girl to do? I marched back to the casita, got out the Playstation2, and became re-addicted to The Sims. If someone doesn’t save me I will waste away in front of the TV from playing that game.

Our vacation wasn’t really all that bad, though. I just wished the weather could’ve been better. Why, why, why did it have to rain? When we were at Cebu three years ago the sun was still there. But it’s still quite odd how the rainy season started on the day my brother died. That night, it rained really hard.

Traffic was horrible today. Our house is only five minutes away from the South Super Highway toll gate but the traffic was so terrible, it took us another extra hour to get home. o_O I’m just happy that I’m warm and dry here in the computer room, and that my house is still in one piece. I picked up a newspaper this morning (for the first time in months) and I was so horrifed when I read about all those people typhoon Chedeng killed. It’s funny how I only thought of it as a mere irritation, like a speck of dirt on white pants, something that ruined my vacation plans. Whereas so many people in this country saw the storm as something that wrecked their homes and killed their loved ones. Man, am I a pampered, insensitive bitch. And for some reason I was in a newspaper-reading mood today because I actually read the damn thing from cover to cover. Even the entertainment section. So anyways, now I’m back to resuming whatever activities I like doing (namely, talking to Jason :P).

Oh, and awesome news. My best friend Angelica got out of the waitlist of UP Los Banos. She is now a UP student!!! I’m so happy for her. Hehehe. All summer she was really worried that she would end up at CSB. Heh. I love how we both got into better univerisites than the people from our high school who used to torment us for speaking in English all the time. She’s going to stay at a coed dorm, I’m jealous. And I heard that UPLB is a real party place. Well, good for her. I always tell her that she needs to go out more.

For some strange reason I’m actually excited about college now.

Pictures and photography stint below:
Punta Fuego
Taal Vista
Scavenger Hunt Photolog

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High-pitched voices and Catholic schoolgirls

It’s still raining. For the first time in years, I’m not happy to have the rainy days back because I’m going to the beach tomorrow and how can I really enjoy it with all that rain? *sigh* I’m definitely bringing the PlayStation because I highly doubt that I can go frolicking around the ocean with this weather.

School’s back for all the La Sallites out there! I couldn’t help but feel a little jealous from thinking of how my friends have it a lot easier than me because so many people from my school are going there and they don’t have to go through the awkward, I’m-lost-I-don’t-know-a-single-soul-in-here phase. I’m sure that none of them are taking up the same courses, so they’ll still have to go through that phase I just mentioned. But at least they had each other for moral support before school started.

Then again, I would like it a lot less if there were a lot of people from my school in Ateneo. It’d probably feel like a high school reunion again, which I wouldn’t want to happen until I’m really really rich or famous or something.

Something I heard from Angelica: Maricris picked Assumption over UST. O_o I was like, “What?!?!?” when I heard that because Maricris is an honor student, for crying out loud, who is a total genius at math. And it wasn’t like she was waitlisted at UST either. She already got accepted, which is why I don’t get why she chose to go to Assumption instead. Angelica says it’s most probably because Glyka and Dina are going there too. Gosh. (This remark might make me come off as a really bad person, but I’ll go ahead and say it anyway…) For someone so smart, she sure can be dumb. Even though the thought of being all alone on my first day of school sounds really terrifying, I would never choose to go to a certain college just because all my friends are going there. Not to be mean or anything but Assumption is like…..college, high-school style. All-girls. Uniforms. Nuns. That is the very last school I would ever want to go to. O_o I want boys in my class, for a change. Boys!!! And strictly no nuns.

Is it just me, or does everybody else feel like smashing the radio to a hundred tiny pieces whenever the DJ plays Nina’s remake of Foolish Heart too? I swear to God, she totally butchered that song. If there’s anything I can’t stand, it’s when a singer sticks all these unnecessarily-exaggerated, high pitched notes in their songs. It’s no problem if they want to show off their voices every once in a while, but when they do that in every damn line it can be very annoying. I mean, we already know that Nina’s got a great voice; she doesn’t need to do the eardrum-breaking Mariah Carey thing to tell us that. Real artists should sing from their hearts. Whenever Nina sings like that, it sounds like she’s only singing from her throat. Or diaphram. It sounds so insincere. But what can you expect from a pop artist except a pretty face and lots of insincerity?

Damn I hate the radio.

I think that I’m lost in a place called CSR Makati

Yay! I finally got my ORSEM (Freshmen Orientation Seminar) pack today. So I guess that means my acceptance really wasn’t an error in Ateneo’s part. I’m still feeling rather terrified about going to college. I wonder what sort of state my mind would be in right now if I did get accepted to a US college this year. o.O Makes me a feel very thankful that my university is only an hour and a half away from my house. At least I won’t be making that big of an adjustment.

My IQ must have gone down several points during my last two months of bumming around. The first thing I thought when I opened the ORSEM brochure was, “What? We have to wear yellow? But yellow is such an unflattering color!” See, for some strange reason we have to wear color-coded shirts according to the college you are in. On the first day, those who are going to the College of Social Sciences have to wear yellow. I’m not happy about it of course but when I look at the silver lining, wearing yellow is hella better than wearing green. Still stressing over what to wear for the ORSEM. I don’t own any yellow tops. I guess I’ll just forget about being fashionable for once and borrow something from my sister. I haven’t tried her yellow tops on yet but it will look obvious that they aren’t mine because my sister is a little bigger than me and I’m sure that the cloth will bulge out at all the wrong places.

See? See??? I can’t believe I’m still worrying about what to wear! I thought I should be way over that by now? I mean, clothes aren’t supposed to be that big of a deal anymore.

I really love this layout. I took the pictures myself, when my cat Lady seemed so fascinated by the light of my bedside lamp.