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Sunday, February 27, 2005 'Prom night' Last night was fun. I was at the hotel a bit before five pm. Met up with Toni and Adi by the lobby, then we headed up to the suite Toni and Lyssa would share later that night (which was right next to their parent's even bigger suite o_o). We watched My Little Bride, and just as it was about to finish, Lyssa showed up, all made up from the parlor and ready to get dressed. We fawned all over her like spinster aunts (haha), took pictures, then she finally ducked into her bedroom to change. Nai arrived, bouncing off the walls after having had stale hard candy ;) We finished the movie, then Bianca and Ther arrived. Lyssa came out, all pretty and dressed up, and Nai and I dragged her one floor down to the pretty lounge to take pictures. Dave came, and whisked Lyssa off to the ballroom. Dinner at Schwartzwagner, the lot of us (Toni, Nai, Adi, me) with Ther, Bianx, and Jiro. There was an enormous sausage platter, and herb and mustard chicken, and Caesar salad, and prawns and more food :) We named the sausages and said their stories (There's Jude and Shirley, and Jude is cheating with her husband on Shirley because she's lesbian, but she doesn't know how to tell her husband or her children that *goes on and on*), and stuff. Ther, Bianx, and Jiro headed off to Greenbelt after dinner, and the rest of us headed off to the Captain's Bar for jazz night, drinks, idle chatter, and dessert. We were there for about an hour, then we headed off back to Toni's suite, where we walked around barefoot and gossiped and caught up like the girls we are. We watched a bit of TV until around eleven, when people started milling out of the ballroom. We then went back down to the third floor to pick up our friends. Feanne had the most gorgeous dress ;) It's not something I'd wear, but it was really prettyandfluffy/darkandgothic. Lyssa was also so pretty last night ;), the gorgeous make-up really brought out her pretty eyes. We hung around the reception area with all the juniors and seniors for awhile, then we (Toni, Adi, Nai and I) tried to sneak into the ballroom, but Arantxa drove us back out. (We managed to get in eventually though, hahaha.) Captain's Bar again, Toni, Nai, Adi, Dave, Lyssa, Feanne, Levi, me--There was sensual jazz music and the lot of us were in a darkened corner of the bar *raises an eyebrow* ;) there was laughter, kropek-peanut pick-up lines, origami folding, paper roses (hahaha!) corny jokes, indecent jokes, a bit of drunken-sounding singing here and there, overpriced mango cheesecake, photo-tripping, grammar nazis, wineglasses, and a pretty wilted red rose. :) After the bar, we all trooped up to Toni's and Lyssa's suite again. It was nearing one in the morning by this time, so most of us couldn't really think clearly, and we were all doing--and saying--pretty weird stuff. I remember people perched on tables, and people trying to seduce oranges and guavas--or whatever that green fruit was, and people talking in Simlish--Adi and Levi are the masters, haha!--and Feanne talking about her ardent desire to pimp men ;) I got home a bit past one-thirty am, care of Dave. I wasn't able to sleep 'till four, though. Click here for some photos from that day. blind the deafened moon {03:22 p.m.} xx Saturday, February 26, 2005 Kinda senseless entry...errr.. Last night I went and watched 'A Series of Unfortunate Events' with my mom and my sister's kids. I liked it, though at times it went a bit fast (but then again, they squeezed three books into two hours, give or take, soo...), but it was cute. (I've never read the books though, maybe I will, someday.) Violet and Klaus were cute, I'd willingly take them under my wing, hahaha! I'd think twice about Sunny, though--I don't care how cute she sounds, I have enough trouble with Yinyang (he'll chew on your leg if you stand still long enough.) Sunny: Someone's been to crazy town! Hahaha! The paper/puppet-ish art at the end was really cute too, just a little too dark/gothic for my taste--it seemed like something out of a screwed-up children's storybook, not quite Emily, but not quite The Littlest Elf either. Basta, nakaka-aliw. My sister's kids loved it--especially the Reptile Room, and Uncle Monty's house. (I like Uncle Monty's house too, but I don't think I'd want to live in it, haha! Not that I have anything against snakes. :p) I think I will go and watch it again. It's been so hot and humid lately *narrows eyes* it's summeeer...I love summer, really I do (no school? oh yeeeah) but the weather, oh god the weather--ngrrr. Maybe I'll update more later. blind the deafened moon {11:52 a.m.} xx Thursday, February 24, 2005 snitched off someone else's site. go and read! Once you've learned to pronounce every word in the following poem correctly, you will be speaking English better than 90% of the native English speakers in the world. If you find it tough going, do not despair, you are not alone. Multinational personnel at North Atlantic Treaty Organization Headquarters near Paris found English to be an easy language ...until they tried to pronounce it. To help them discard an array of accents, the verses below were devised. After trying them, a Frenchman said he'd prefer six months at hard labour to reading six lines aloud. Try them yourself. English is Tough Stuff. Dearest creature in creation, Study English pronunciation. I will teach you in my verse Sounds like corpse, corps, horse, and worse. I will keep you, Suzy, busy, Make your head with heat grow dizzy. Tear in eye, your dress will tear. So shall I! Oh hear my prayer. Just compare heart, beard, and heard, Dies and diet, lord and word, Sword and sward, retain and Britain. (Mind the latter, how it's written.) Now I surely will not plague you With such words as plaque and ague. But be careful how you speak Say break and steak, but bleak and streak; Cloven, oven, how and low, Script, receipt, show, poem, and toe. Hear me say, devoid of trickery, Daughter, laughter, and Terpsichore, Typhoid, measles, topsails, aisles, Exiles, similes, and reviles; Scholar, vicar, and cigar, Solar, mica, war and far; One, anemone, Balmoral, Kitchen, lichen, laundry, laurel; Gertrude, German, wind and mind, Scene, Melpomene, mankind. Billet does not rhyme with ballet, Bouquet, wallet, mallet, chalet. Blood and flood are not like food, Nor is mould like should and would. Viscous, viscount, load and broad, Toward, to forward, to reward. And your pronunciation's OK When you correctly say croquet, Rounded, wounded, grieve and sieve, Friend and fiend, alive and live. Ivy, privy, famous; clamour And enamour rhyme with hammer. River, rival, tomb, bomb, comb, Doll and roll and some and home. Stranger does not rhyme with anger, Neither does devour with clangour. Souls but foul, haunt but aunt, Font, front, wont, want, grand, and grant, Shoes, goes, does. Now first say finger, And then singer, ginger, linger, Real, zeal, mauve, gauze, gouge and gauge, Marriage, foliage, mirage, and age. Query does not rhyme with very, Nor does fury sound like bury. Dost, lost, post and doth, cloth, loth. Job, nob, bosom, transom, oath. Though the differences seem little, We say actual but victual. Refer does not rhyme with deafer. Foeffer does, and zephyr, heifer. Mint, pint, senate and sedate; Dull, bull, and George ate late. Scenic, Arabic, Pacific, Science, conscience, scientific. Liberty, library, heave and heaven, Rachel, ache, moustache, eleven. We say hallowed, but allowed, People, leopard, towed, but vowed. Mark the differences, moreover, Between mover, cover, clover; Leeches, breeches, wise, precise, Chalice, but police and lice; Camel, constable, unstable, Principle, disciple, label. Petal, panel, and canal, Wait, surprise, plait, promise, pal. Worm and storm, chaise, chaos, chair, Senator, spectator, mayor. Tour, but our and succour, four. Gas, alas, and Arkansas. Sea, idea, Korea, area, Psalm, Maria, but malaria. Youth, south, southern, cleanse and clean. Doctrine, turpentine, marine. Compare alien with Italian, Dandelion and battalion. Sally with ally, yea, ye, Eye, I, ay, aye, whey, and key. Say aver, but ever, fever, Neither, leisure, skein, deceiver. Heron, granary, canary. Crevice and device and aerie. Face, but preface, not efface. Phlegm, phlegmatic, ass, glass, bass. Large, but target, gin, give, verging, Ought, out, joust and scour, scourging. Ear, but earn and wear and tear Do not rhyme with here but ere. Seven is right, but so is even, Hyphen, roughen, nephew Stephen, Monkey, donkey, Turk and jerk, Ask, grasp, wasp, and cork and work. Pronunciation-think of Psyche! Is a paling stout and spikey? Won't it make you lose your wits, Writing groats and saying grits? It's a dark abyss or tunnel Strewn with stones, stowed, solace, gunwale, Islington and Isle of Wight, Housewife, verdict and indict. Finally, which rhymes with enough- Though, through, plough, or dough, or cough? Hiccough has the sound of cup. My advice is to give up!!! --- Author Unknown I love this. :D blind the deafened moon {04:11 p.m.} xx Thursday, February 24, 2005 because I'm not alone I want to hug each and every person who is feeling like how I'm feeling right now. :) At any rate...concert next Saturday for the entire conservatory *shudders* Fuck-it-that's-notwhatIfuckingneed. I'm afraid now, not for the performance per se, but for everything that's going to happen inbetween now and then. --And I'm not talking about the practice. (I guess I better stop on that, if I don't intend to reveal anything other than that.) But, well. Who can go? March 5, though I'm not sure what time I'm on, I'll have to get back on you with that. (Rina, if you're still interested in pursuing your violin, I suggest you go watch the concert and see how we classical students--haha!--do it. No, seriously. :) I changed the layout again, I added that notepad thingie, hahaha! I'm improving with the html, ohhh yeeeeah :p --Well, at least I think I am. Hopefully I am. XD Will probably add more--maaaaybe butnotnow. The other half of the page is looking pretty blank. blind the deafened moon {02:00 p.m.} xx Wednesday, February 23, 2005 entry again, yes. I'm listening to happy Japanese bubblegum pop music right now, and somehow, I'm reminded of my high school friends and the times we had *laughs* Hurray for being all nice and young and naive and blissfully ignorant--with regards to high school politics, haha ;) There's Maan and Denma, the strangest pair on earth--the 'conservative' Catholic/closet thespian and the leftist semi-goth atheist--complete with the most insanely inane inside jokes nobody ever understood and past lives as Greenland-ers and all (Who was Helga again?) There's also the sibling-pair Toni and Lyssa, both all fruits-y and Japanese/anything-Oriental loving, complete with windchimes and green tea and riceballs. Ther and Bianca are the only official best-friend pair in the group, Ther with her books and sharp tongue and killer heels and Bianca with her photography/cooking/everything-else-sheis-good-at skills. Nai is bubbly and bouncy and the new-found conscience of the group. (Never ask her to help you stop cursing. Never.) Adi looks like someone out of a Final Fantasy series (take your pick, Yuna, Rikku, or Selphie?) but don't be fooled by how she looks like to you, it's all a front. ;) Chris is the clueless Grammar Nazi-slash-Incubus diehard-slash-crayon wielding girl who walked around Alabang in nothing but a red bathrobe and Spongebob boxers and socks and slippers. Whysa is the thoughtful brooding poet-artist-athlete who always looks like a rockstar no matter what she wears (it must be the hair.) Jeffer is our resident over-achiever and basketball superstar. :) And you know me. Yyyyeah. I miss those days. Bla, bla, bla. Have to go, there's school tomorrow, it's thirty minutes 'till midnight, and I have to go to sleep. blind the deafened moon {11:30 pm} xx Wednesday, February 23, 2005 real first entry, oh the gloom I was going to write a long, dark depressing entry about the sordid state of our generation and how de-moralized and, okay, worse, how un-principled (can you say that?) we've become, but now is not a good time to get depressed over things you don't have much control over (especially when your peers don't listen to you because they think you're just being a pretentious little psychobitch), so I stop now. (Yeah, well, someone's in a bad mood.) But, really. I need reassurance. Is this just something everyone goes through at some point in their lives? I mean, yeah, adolescence, nobody's really stable at this point in life, you say this but you're thinking something entirely different, you go drinking, you party, you have casual meaningless sex, to "feel it," to "feel the blood rushing through your veins," that adrenaline rush, you know, it's all part of "feeling alive". (I admit to being like this at times, but I don't go as far as going to strange parties and getting drunk and high--and that's not on water or life--or kissing strange men, for the matter. Just a clarification.) But, that thing people say all the time, the thing about how you do something, and you say 'just this once, I'll never do it again,' like when you cheat on that Math test on that one question because you forgot the answer to that one, or something--do it more than several times, and it becomes a habit. And old habits die hard, et cetera. And more than likely, they will get carried on, to when you're all "grown-up", when you start your first job, when you get married, when you have children...those habits, that might have started from a 'one-time' deal 'only', those things you did as in your youth, in your free-spiritedness, during your rebellious days, because you were there trying to find your 'niche' in life, you wanted to test your boundaries, you wanted to see how far you could go (oh I'll stop now, you know what I mean)--they will eventually affect you and that beautiful, glorious thing of a future you had all planned out for yourself, right? And most probably everyone else's around you as well, more so if they're going through the same thing as you? And then your future won't seem as bright and beautiful anymore. And there's nobody else to blame but you. 'But that's not fair,' you say, 'I'm a teenager, let me be one, for just fucking one night.' But it seems like we can't really be 'teenagers', all of a sudden--especially after you take into account the situation of the world around us, after you step out of that beautiful rosy-pink bubble which is your world,which consists of college (or school), your girlfriends, your boyfriends, and your family. (But then you find that after stepping out the bubble, you want back in. And you dive back in willingly, because you don't want to face the reality that's just out there, waiting for you to come back out so it can swallow you in and by doing so, devouring you alive. Lovely.) Well, I don't know, that's just how I seem to be seeing things lately--nothing's really been going well everywhere I look, and the bleak-y dreariness of it all is infectuous. *insert smiley here* Okay, I'm going on and on again about things I don't want to talk about, this should stop now. blind the deafened moon {10:23 p.m.} xx Wednesday, February 23, 2005 alleluia Guess whose Pitas is baaaack? :p Punyeta, I slaved over the 'layout' like anything, but be proud! This is the first layout I've ever completed by myself without a.) giving up halfway through just to download the empty shell of one instead and b.) having anyone else log in as me so it could be finished. Finally, a layout I can call my own. :) Not good enough for you? Then fucking buzz off. :) I shall type in a real entry later. blind the deafened moon {05:20 p.m.} xx Monday, August 25, 2003 weird been so dazed lately. when i was trying to log in to Pitas.com, i forgot my password, so for awhile there i couldn't get in XD anyway. Actually had fun this weekend. I love three-day weekends--they seem so long, but when you get to the end of it, it gets annoying coz THEN it seems to short. haha. Anyway, friday, we were supposed to watch LXG with sina nina, cris, yz, hanna, nadz, but the showing was sold out so we just ended up going to nina's house and...go to yz's blog for details nalang. -___- it was fun, but something was bugging me the whole time, couldn't really concentrate on matters at hand, arrgh. My hair ended up smelling like cigarette smoke as well, which of course was a bad thing. =P then, saturday...went out with my family and my sister and niece and nephews =P i bought two books, a book on Erap and the impeachment trial (about People Power II--getting into those kinds of books lately), and a book full of paintings. also borrowed my tito's People Power I book, which i found VERY interesting =P been reading everytime i could. which wasn't much time, of course =P next day, sunday, i just stayed home and finished all my palanca letters!! whoo!! =P all how many of them, i'm so happy! i felt so drained after i wrote em all though, oh lord. =P that's why i'm glad i'm done and over with all of em. haaay. glee club today. =__= i don't like glee club anymore. move me back to S2. blind the deafened moon {05:57 a.m.} xx |