the adventures of the adventurers

Mood: Giddy
Listening to: tic toc, tic toc

unfortunately our digicam installer still wont work... so kamusta nman ang ang singapore a week ago, ang group meets 2 weeks ago, ang wedding pics 3 weeks ago at ang gig ng brownman sa xaymaca over a month ago.. ayun.. nasa SD card pa rin at nangunguripot si amang hari.. ayaw bumili ng card reader, paganahin ko daw ang installer. magikera sana ako.

tinatamad akong magkwento about the great singapore adventure ng walang pictures.. so that will have to wait. ibang chika na lng... fire away...

nung isang araw (mar 29), kasama ko si Martin, at sinamahan nya ko sa UP upang kunin ang substitution form ko mula sa math building. tapos nag starbucks kme sa katipunan at nakita ko ang team mate ko sa soccer nung hs. dala ko ang kotseng BM ni amang hari.. astig sana.. kung hindi lang olats ang makina nito.. samakatuwid ay bawal patayin ang makina. therefore, nakatambay kami sa kahabaan ng katipunan habang nilalasap ang aming caramel frappe.

matapos nito ay pumunta kami sa bahay ni Leo Martinez. as in si Batanggenyong Don Robert. baket kamo? wala lang.. mag papa autograph.. ang kotseng dala namen ay dati nyang pag aari at kelangan ng autograph nya sa deed of sale eklavu. basta proper documentation stuff that needed to be filled out. inutos lang sakin ni amang hari.

pag katapos ng aming pag bisita sa tahanan ni Don Robert ay dumeretso na kame sa aming palasyo. lingid sa aming kaalaman, ay umuwi na pala si Amang Hari! habang pumaparada kami ay bigla na lamang sumulpot ang aking paternal figure sa aming tarangkahan at may kausap na kliyente. ito ay hindi sinasadyang pag uwi ng maaga dahil may kailangan pala syang asikasuhin. sa madaling salita ay kinailangan ko nang ipakilala ang ginoong kasama ko noong moment na iyon.

tumambay lang muna kami ng ilang minuto sa aming tahanan at umalis na si Martin dahil may pupuntahan pa siya sa kaharian ng Ortigas. buti na lamang at may kausap si Amang Hari at hindi niya kami masyadong pinansin. Nang umalis ang kausap ng aking ama ay ininterview nya ako....

Amang Hari: si Martin, sino sya?

Prinsesa Anastasia: ay yun, friend ko po.

AH: anong klaseng friend?

PA: ahm, friendly friend

AH: nanliligaw sayo?

PA: not exactly....

AH: baket, sinagot mo na?

PA: not really...

AH: Bakit ang kabataan ngayon ang labo na sumagot. Dati ay 'oo' at 'hindi' lamang ang sagot! So parang MU ganon

PA: hehe... sort of

Hehe... well, malamang ay nababaliw na si Amang Hari sa mga sinabi ko.. pero sadyang hindi nya talaga maiintindihan. Basta.. steady lang.

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Maya maya pa ay tinawagan ako ng HR dept ng Hyatt Hotel and Casino Manila, may opening daw sa Marketing, Events Coordinator daw. job description: super nakakapagod at pressure, patayin ang social life kinda work. pero alam ko na isa ito sa mga bagay na kung saan ako ay magiging masaya + Hyatt pa. Ang lugar kung saan ako ay nag praktikum at natuto ng maraming bagay. Naging masaya ako sa organisasyong ito. Sana ay matanggap ako dito.

Ang aking interview ay naset para sa kinabukasan (which is, as i write, yesterday. Mar. 30) ng hapon. Ang nakaganda pa lalo ng araw ko ay pupunta ang mahal kong Brownman sa Robinsons Malate na tila ay apat na hakbang lamang ang layo mula sa Hyatt. Dito ay nakasama ko sina Jemma Emerald Zafra, Renato Ancajas at si Martin Bañez. Tinitigan muna namin sandali ang mahal kong si Dino Concepcion at matapos ay kumain kami sa Karate Kid dahil hindi pa ako nanananghalian (at alas syete na ito ng gabi). Chika chika at konti pang tambay.

Nang magparamdam na ang aking amang hari sa aking telepono ay kinailangan ko nang mamaalam sa pangkat. Hinatid nila ako sa taft avenue kung saan ay makakasakay ako pauwi... at nang humirit si Ren ren ng "Quasirelationship..... ang pakikipagrelasyon kay Quasimodo" ay kamuntikan ko nang maiwan ang bituka ko sa katatawa...

mahal ko ang unggoy

Musmosyalan

Mood: Contented
Listening to: Sounds of nature

Saturday, March 18, 2006. The University of the Philippines Travel Society, the Org to be in at the UP Asian Institute of Tourism held its Musmosyalan, the annual out-reach activity of the org. (this is where the profit from Tipsy Saturday went). Here, the members of TS makes a day special from the World Vision Foundation

TS kids

7:30 am: the members of TS convened at McDonald's Philcoa

7:45 am: begin set up for the activity

8:00 am: the party begins.

the party started with a few getting-to-know-u's

love this pic of miah and her little friend

and then some game

and then some more

even the ate's are game

chow time ;)

of course there are some gifts

one of the kids performed a song number.. the members are camera shy

we had fun.. i hope the kids did too ;)

Passing Time....

Mood: Fantastic
Listening to: some classical music

I'm currently at the Changi Airport, Singapore passing time... our flight back to Manila is not til for about 2 hours. Well anyway it's been a really fabulous time here, a more detailed account and (of course) pictures will be uploaded soon.

I'm dead tired but i had a great time. You see, night (i mean the moment the sun sets) here in Singapore begins at 7:45 pm... which is probably great if it were in the Philippines, because then we could always go home later.

We got home way after midnight and had to get up early for our trip today... u know the airport drill... 3 hours before take off.. so i'll see you guys soon. mwah!

almost all down

Mood: Dead tired
Listening to: Nothing but the buzzing of the wind

Things to do DONE:

thesis first draft (feb 24)
thesis poster (mar 15)
thesis final paper
promotional plan and collaterals(mar 22)
business plan - Tourism Planning (mar 17)
business plan - Strategic Management (mar 24)
Term Paper - STS (im the group leader) (mar 22)
Class paper - Ecotourism. (i'm the leader of the paper constructing group)
business plan - Entrepreneurship - thanks to our biz stints this is foregone!
4th long exam - STS (mar 21)
4th long exam - Natsci1 (mar 21)
finals natsci - i have a good feeling i'm gonna be exempted
defense business plan - Tour planning (mar 24) Cancelled!

it has been a busy week but at least i'm almost done. the final hard bound paper will need only a day to complete. after 4 nights of waiting for the sun rise, i'm finally done.

i just emailed to my partner my part in the promotional plan and my collateral ideas. prior to that i consolidated and edited my group's (ahem, leader-leaderan) paper in ecotourism.

my concept: jamocca.. a reggae bar + cafe

work of an amateur lay out artist+ a sickening monochromatic monitor

and before that i completed my part in our group's biz plan for strategic management and bonded and pigged out with my STS group mates on the night when i had 2 exams and no decent sleep.

my sts group- back: carla, meng; front: ana, me

after a looooong night

there's no use sleeping now. it's 5 am. my things are still in a mess. our flight is sometime later, i didn't even bother ask the time. all i know is that dad wants to get out at 7.30 am. i have a few minutes to spare. ergo i blog. i'm tired and drained. but i'm glad it's almost through...

1 down, a lot to go

Mood: ACAD MODE-- EXTREME!
Listening to: KLSP - spongecola

we finished our thesis poster last saturday. we were probably the first pair to finish. it was my demand. presentation was today, and i was busy yesternight working on my Tourism Planning paper with my groupmates.

I was the first person to place our poster in the seminar room yesterday. afterwhich, my groupmates and i proceeded to my one of my groupmate's house. i left JJ's house at exactly midnight.

poster presentation was a breeze this morning, a little more revision and we're ready to go.

Things to do:

• thesis first draft (feb 24)
• thesis poster (mar 15)
• thesis final paper
• promotional plan (mar 22)
• business plan - Tourism Planning (mar 17)
• business plan - Strategic Management (mar 24)
• Term Paper - STS (im the group leader) (mar 22)
• Class paper - Ecotourism. (i'm the leader of the paper constructing group)
• business plan - Entrepreneurship - thanks to our biz stints this is foregone!
• 4th long exam - STS (mar 21)
• 4th long exam - Natsci1 (mar 21)
• finals natsci - i have a good feeling i'm gonna be exempted
• defense business plan - Tour planning (mar 24) alas! i'm out of town!

Places to go

• TS Musmosyalan (mar 18 8 am)
• TS formals (all through out the week)
• IOD anniv (mar 18 6.30 am)
• TS indocrination
• Gabby's christening (mar 19 9.30 am)

+3 interviews and 1 long night for the STS paper.... and several research and data gathering for other things... waaaah!

this is gonna be one wild week... i'm gonna survive i know it! i better!

Anagrams

Mood: Hysterical
Listening to: kiss the girl - little mermaid

in my addiction to Dan Brown's work, i answered this like code breaking site.... wow.. astig... and then i came across this very interesting site: http://www.anagramgenius.com/server.html... and this site made me laugh... sobra.... so what exactly are anagrams? well.. they are a reshuffle of letters in a word to make a new phrase/sentence/word with a different meaning..

for instance:

• DORMITORY: dirty room
• DESPERATION: a rope ends it
• THE EYES: they see
• SLOT MACHINES: a cash lost in me
• A DECIMAL POINT: i'm a dot in place

ok.. since you've had the hang of it... you'll be surprised at some of the names i've looked up.. tell me if the anagram matches the person's names...

SISQO

• JOHARA BARCEBAL:'Jar abhor a cable.'
• CHRISTINA CAPERINA: 'Rich, sane patrician.'
• GRACIELLE DE LEON: 'Clean or idle glee.'
• MA. ROSARIO LOURDES EM: 'Malodorous, smearier.'
• GISELLE GERMAN: 'Eager smelling.'
• MA. MICHIKO SENIR: 'I am shinier mock.'

CHARADE BRIGADE

• ABIGAIL BAUTISTA: 'It is a bug at labia.' abby, your name means "labia"?
• MITCHELLE BAGUIO: I'm celibate ghoul.' si mytch celibate?
• FRANCES CEELIN BENITO: 'Beneficent, censorial.' couldn't have said it better
• KARL ANTHONY CAMILA: 'Tally-ho! Rank maniac.' isa pa toh!
• SARAH ANNE DIAZ: 'Hazard as inane.' hazardous sarah.. ayos
• KARA CEACILIA GABRIEL: 'Icier balalaika grace.' wala kong masabe
• SARAH JEAN GRUTAS: 'Aha! Just arranges.'
• JEFFREY MANUEL: 'Feel 'n' jury fame.'
• JULIENNE ONTUCA: 'Tunnel on a juice.'
• DANIEL CARLO SORIANO: 'An ideal, corrosional.' carlo, bagay sayo!
• MELISSA TOTANES: 'Measliest as not.'
• JEMMA EMERALD ZAFRA: 'Jam alarm mad freeze.' jem, alam kong mas gusto mo ung isa
• CHRISTOPHER NEX BENAS: 'Inexpert, brash chosen.' not a charade.. but the thought that his anagram says "inexpert" kills me.. ano kaya ssabihin nya pag nakita nya to?

JODERA

• MICHAEL AGUILAR: 'Glacial him urea.' wiwi?
• RENATO ANCAJAS: 'Jar ace on Satan.' renren satanista!
• MARTIN LEON ANTHONY BANEZ: 'Ha! Not tyrannize nobleman.' tyrant?
• CHARISSE BRUAN: 'Raunchier bass.' yes.. charisse raunchy!
• RAUL CANON JR: 'Jocular 'n' ran.' .. parang kiss and run?
• JASPER PAULUS CANONIGO: 'Jocular as sanguine pop." wla kong naintindihan
• LUCIA FLORES: 'Careful soil.' out of respect.. i shall not comment
• HERSHEL GATMEN: 'He's the mangler.' HE?!
• KATHERINE GONZALES: 'Sleek ignorant haze.'
• JESUS LAVA III: 'I. Is suave jail.' si third si mr. suave
• KATHRYN LEBUMFACIL: 'Crankily humble fat.' sori i dunno ur new last name... fat?! sarcastic ba to?
• AIKEN JUDE LOPEZ: 'Daze lupine joke.'
• CZARMILJUN MANZA: 'Jazz in carnal mum.' miljun=carnal?
• ELIZABETH HARRIET MRAZEK: 'Bike rather, I am the razzle.'
• LAARNI RABAJA: 'A labia ran jar.' labia?!
• SHEENA RAMOS: 'Shame reason. shame sheena!
• JOEVANNIE TAN: 'Innovate Jane.' jane?!
• MA. THERESA TAN: 'Hast man-eater.' haha.. man-eater daw o!
• DARRYL TECSON: 'Sacredly torn.' wawa ka nman darryl.. pati sa anagram o
• ELINOR VALERO: 'Evil, rare loon.'
• BEVERLY ANNE VARGAS: 'Bravely an avengers.'
• ANNA PATRICIA VELARMINO: 'A primaeval incarnation.'
• JEFFREY VILLALINO: 'Iffy, venal jollier.'
• GIANCARLO GEORGE YOROBE: 'Gooey arrogance obliger.' .. haha.. this came from the anagram maker ha!

NASTASSJA ANGELA CZARI: 'Jail crazes nag as Satan.'

NASTASSJA ANGELA CZARI M EUGENIO: ''Ejaculates as amazing reasoning.''

may mas aastig pa ba sa pangalan ko?! it's demonic and lewd!

Comodification of the Goddess

Mood: Irritated
Listening to: Get Busy - Sean Paul

i'm irritated.... never mess with me when i'm on hunger strike.... i'm irritated with this person.. new person. well not quite new... actually quite an old actor in my play called life.

basta, i feel like i'm not being treated equally. well drop equality- hell, it doesn't exist in this world anyway. i'm not bein treated as a person anymore, i'm down graded to a commodity .... the nerve of some people. Napaka-user-friendly ng ibang tao talaga.

boli ka tim iroy!

deym. ang kapal ng face! mabulok sila sa impyerno. sabe ko na nga ba ayoko na e.

This is the final straw!!

DIE-T

Mood: terrible
Listening to: Alapaap - 6 cycle mind (eraserhead cover)

DIET... a word in the toplist of my taboo concepts. effin' diet! but i guess the time has come to properly commence this wretched activity. but let me just say this... starting a healthy diet is really difficult during your period when you crave for everything delightfully sweet. extra difficult when you've just discovered your own recipe for a starbucks-like, home-made frap blended coffee -- yes, jessi and i just did!

the mall also isn't the best place for people trying to lose weight. yesterday.. in my desperate search for the best looking levi's jeans (no i don't have a problem w/ the size), i had to go to robinson's east... alas... mcdonald's on my right, jobee on my left. the aroma of the chicken joy lingering in my nose, making my mouth water. what do i get for myself? a chicken salad sandwich on wheat bread. fabulous! look.. unlike crash-dieters, i'm not planning to starve myself.. i'm just taking out the fat off my menu and regulating my eating hours.

this afternoon, after my fruit cocktail-sans the syrup-lunch, i went to L.A (lower antipolo) to visit my mom at work. on the way home i pass by riverbanks.. and eating time was just around the corner. desperately, i try to find the most calorie friendly meal i could.. and i run into SISIG HOORAY, a store that obviously boasts of its sisig. dammit! i go to the booth next to it and buy a natural strawberry fruit shake-small and a tuna waffle. i guess i'm making some progress, on regular days i would've gotten that sisig and probably an ice cream for dessert. not today baby! not for this month... i'm praying for a miracle...

me, after a month!

o yes.... and strictly no alcohol too!! (not more than a bottle of light at least)

shoot me next time you see me with a bar of