Kiddinggg very much!

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I'm now done with the Press Review -- that turned out to be a major report -- for External Relations of the EU. That's a load off from my chest for now. But wow, I just learned I'll be needing to do yet another thing...for another thing. Whyyy. I'll think of that tomorrow. :|

But being the true nerd that I am, I loved liked doing that report. It was about the Cold War and the fall of the Berlin Wall. I looooved it. History is so nice. :) I never knew the Cold War was that encompassing in terms of countries' involvement, nations, leaders, arms race and inceptions of organizations and countries. Why are the things that I love are not the kind of things that will bring easy money? Haha. Saw my friend the other day and she said, "Hindi siya applicable sa totoong buhay" referring to our course. I'm aware of that, but I'm also aware that I don't want to work corporate (or work corporate for a very long time) anyway and that not all high-paying jobs are involved with business or management. Boo yeah.

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Last night the six of us minus one went on a food trip spree again. Last night, first time kong mapagsarhan ng Starbucks. It's good times, good times you know. Last time, we had isaw at about 4pm, kebab dinner at 7pm then ice cream at 9pm. HAHA. Babs. I missed Kimberrr, she was selling her statement boxers at Eastwood with her groupmates. Haha. To bring out my underlying urge to have a Tagaytay trip, my friends and I just decided to text her that we were on our way to Tagaytay already. HAHAHA. She miscalled me thrice!!! :)) Really, we were just at Tomas. Sakto, cos Carlo's Pizza was at the second floor of Il Terrazza (?). We tried to take our picture with the Carlo's Pizza name but it was a failure. Anyway, it's all good nowww. Hahaha.

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So what will be of this last year in college? Last everything. Last shot. O.M.


Haay so many things going on, but at the same time, life is kind of bland. The irony of it all. I have no 'mo moneyyyy. I need more chillax times. :\

Brad was almost Russel Hamond and Kirsten Dunst as Penny Lane?! Whew, thank God that didn't happen. Everything was just so perfect about that film already. I can't believe imdb has so many interesting trivia about AF and CC! I was smiling and saying "Oooh" and "Aaaah" while reading this. It's so cool. And that is honestly also the reason why I love this film so much. No real profound explanation actually. I don't even find any dialogue deep enough to quote or remember by heart except for "I am a golden god" and "One day, you'll be cool."

Aaaah, I am going crazy over these information! I LOVE LOVE Cameron Crowe. He is such a genius! Maybe it's really not so much the film per se, but how it was delivered. It was really ama-zzzing, you know? And in the trivia part, I learned how all Crowe's films makes references to one another, or have distinct Crowe style in them, like singin in the car while driving. And it's so interesting how he makes so many music references in his films, esp AF.

Here are a few things that made me go "Oooh" and "Aaaah"

• Penny Lane asks William if he'd like to go to Morocco with her. He says, "Yes... ask me again." According to director Cameron Crowe, "ask me again" was Patrick Fugit stepping out of character and asking Kate Hudson to repeat her lines for another take. But Crowe liked the take as-is and kept it in the final cut.
• At the party, when he is on acid, Russell Hammond cries out, "I am a golden god!" This is a reference to Robert Plant of the band Led Zeppelin, who is purported to have said the same thing (sober) while looking over Sunset Strip from a hotel balcony.
• In the scene where the tour plane hits turbulence, Russell starts to sing "Peggy Sue". This is in reference to Buddy Holly, who died in a plane crash while on tour. Russell then continues "Whoa baby!", referencing The Big Bopper, who died in the same plane crash.
•  During the opening credits, the hand that's writing on the notepad belongs to Cameron Crowe (now that's cool)
• Cameron Crowe says he got Billy Crudup's line, "Well, yeah, on my better days, I am Russell from Stillwater," directly from John Cusack's response to a girl in a bar who asked, "Aren't you Lloyd Dobler?" (his character in Say Anything... (1989)).
• Featuring over 50 songs, the film's music budget was $3.5 million. Most music budgets for films are less than $1.5 million.

So now, I really really really have to watch Say Anything. Although I have been saying that since foreverrrr,

Learn and go to imdb!

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I'm taking a break from painting. I'm actually...getting better (whaaza?). But my mermaid has no face. I can't paint faces (yet). Bow.

Ryan Reynolds in The Proposal, holy shit. <3 Aaaaah. That movie was v. v. funny. Although the ending was just really, obviously, too good to be true. I mean, who falls in love in three days with a person you've abhorred for three years? Seriously. Haha. But it was really funny though.

Aaaaah. Someone get me out of here and into a beach.

Most days of the year are unremarkable. They begin, and they end, with no lasting memories made in between. Most days have no impact on the course of a life. May 23rd was a Wednesday.





The boy, Tom Hansen of Margate, New Jersey, grew up believing that he'd never truly be happy until the day he met the one. This belief stemmed from early exposure to sad British pop music and a total misreading of the movie 'The Graduate'. The girl, Summer Finn of Shinnecock, Michigan, did not share this belief.




<3

Definitely now included in my roster of favorite films. Haa? I have a roster of favorite films? What. :D

Yun lang.

Didn't go to the Bonfire anymore last night. It all seems so over the top already. Haha. I'm really glad we won though, if I were not, I wouldn't have been shouting my lungs out at Leong last Thursday, cheering. Spent time with Illums, I missed them. Super bitin lang. Friday celebrated with Max for her birthday. Super bitin also. Verns was just beginning to be drunk. I don't wanna be sober. But I also don't want to drown my liver in alcohol so, no.

Haay haay haay. Can everything just stoooop? Time flies when you're having fun but I say, time flies when you don't want it to. HAHA. Really.

This is I think, the busiest sembreak I will ever have. That is just gross, but what can I do.

This is a montage and I'm not making sense, but what is to make sense anyway. What!

This kind make sense. And good night.



I hate the term 'hippie chic.'
Let's face it, hippies are not chic.
I should know, I married one. - Kate H. (In Style, 09)

Frustrated and pissed off that I have been wanting (so bad) to watch 500 Days of Summer since forever and it's been months now and I still haven't watched it. And now Jam is going to premier it! BOOOF. AAAnnnd, others have watched it already. I can't seem to download, and I don't like watching online (yeah yeah yeah) so there. And I have been deceiving and confusing my mind about the ending cos I read from somewhere how it turned out. I am forgetting it.... That one sentence really.....argh.

I am so left behind with all the readings in Theo and Philo that this Tuesday, I was planning to read some of them knowing that the following day, it's back to school. But I really couldn't get myself to do it knowing that a few kilometers from where I live, people have died, lost a house, lost a loved one, and are dying slowly because of that typhoon no one expected to cause such humongous and terrorizing floods in Metro Manila. I mean, who would really be able to study at this point?

So now, knowing that the week's classes have been cancelled, I went and volunteered myself with friends and now, knowing that the finals are optional, I plan to finish all my requirements as fast as I possibly could and help out. One of my friends are involved in a tree-planting somewhere and I'm seriously going to volunteer. It actually seems so futile now, but who knows. I feel so useless when I'm here at home. I want to go out and donate, but our own refrigerator is almost empty because it got swept in the flood; I want to help give out food, but our own car got destroyed because of the same damn reason. I never felt so restless to go out and help, but knowing that your own home and family also needs you, it's not that simple.

I dont' even know how to begin describing how I feel and think about this whole situation. I'm lucky, my family is lucky, and most of the people I know. But man, knowing that one of us may not have been possibly spared is a scary fact to think about. The situation is getting worse that relief operations lack donations, goods aren't going where thery're supposed to and refugees are fighting over these donated goods. There's a feeling that the mere packing of rice or clothes is not going anywhere. "At least I helped out a little" is not good enough.

We can blame a whole lot of people for this. Well, in times like these, we blame everyone but ourselves. But like every other thing, there is not only one person, or one group of people, or one thing that have caused all of this. It is now that I clearly understand what seven years of Miriam grade school education has taught me over and over about the 7 Environmental Principles. One particular rule stands out -- Everything is connected to everything else. Now it's all clear how that goes.

Political. Economic. Environmental. Sociological. Every other factor is intertwined at this point. It just really saddens and infuriates me knowing that GMA can have several lavish, mouth-watering, and gold mine dinners in New York, and in times of calamity, the city of Marikina for example only have two rubber boats to rely on. That is for the whole city. Government officials say they did not expect this floods of biblical proportions to happen, but COME ON, my mom even knows from 10 years ago that Cainta floods like crazy and I'd bang my head on the wall if govenment officials say that they didn't know this. Sir Dave says that once you work, you'll feel the wrath and incompetence of the government. They really do take a large sum from your pay -- and you see nothing good happening in your country. No, Manny Pacquiao winning is not included. Money makes the world go round, only if used properly.

There is no urban planning at all in this country. Malls sprout like crazy and trees are treated like shit. Mama tells me that when lolo was the Director of the Department of Forestry, he would receive bags and bags of money coaxing him to let them (illegally) log trees in the mountains, but lolo won't let that happen. I think he was the odd man out in the government. He was too good. But that is exactly what this country now needs -- someone as selfless as can be. Benevolent but someone who knows what he's doing. As of now, I only have one vote, but once this guy collaborates with ERAP (based from rumors going around), he's out of my list. I really think this is not a hype, when people are fed up, they go where there is the most hope.

As Conrado de Quiros wrote, Why has Noynoy become phenomenal? Simple: Because he is the opposite of Gloria. Or is seen as so. In the same way that Cory was the opposite of Marcos and Obama was the opposite of Bush.

Bottom line is, politically, we need good leaders. If leaders can make people follow than cause hatred towards them, then that's a positive sign today. Two more typhoons are coming this way. One already causing more harm tomorrow. We still haven't recovered and tragedy might already happen again. I've never felt so afraid of rains than today. I've never felt so useless. I've never felt so empathic with this country. I've never felt so quietly outraged. I've never felt so confused. HAAY. TAE.

In International Political Econ, I learned that only global cooperation can possibly work in order to alleviate environmental problems. If cooperation in the national level cannot work, how more internationally? Kyoto Protocol expires in 2012, and there's no any other environmental control to replace it -- yet. Pray for the Copenhagen to be passed by this December. :| I hope Obama will do his best.

As I didn't know how to begin this, I also don't know how to end it. Hahaha. Right now, let's just pray. PRAY. And work for others. We have treated the Earth badly, and each other badly as well. Time to change.

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ANYWAY, NAKAKATAWA PA RIN YUNG NANGYARI KAHAPON!!! EPIC. Went out to help out, pero kami yung na-rescue!

Raw and honest it is, yes. I loved Adventureland. 80s, 90s, 00s kids are all strruggling about the same damn thing. But love, love is always on the way. Satellite of love.  \m/





And you know, besides the fact that it makes you realize that getting a job is difficult even having earned a degree, it makes you...think about summer. HAHA WHAT. We all have our issues. What better way to endure those than under the ferris wheels and mindless games?

"You're definitely a Games person."


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Grabe, I  want to watch Inglorious Basterds!

For My Loverrrrr. HAHAHA. Rooooight.


Spinoza's Ethics + Kant's Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals = BRAIN MUSH. DEAD.

Okay, so good luck to me on that deathly LT tomorrow. Another hell week on the way. LT + 2 reports + Histo Play + Beat It! = IDONTKNOW.


And so, my only consolation is sleep. I will forget all these (and at the same time process what Ive studied for) in 3 hours.


Bow.