Just got home and am happily ending this long week. There's been a lot going this last few days, most of which about a certain filipino hero, an accompanying song and sleep depravation. Next week is looking equally grim but at least there won't be straw hats and filipiniana outfits to worry about.

In other, more interesting news, we're studying the playful folk song 'Galawgaw' in choir. It's the type of song you can laugh about while dancing/playing along with it. I always thought that our choir was great, but not yet 'sell cds and make a profit'-kind of great since we still need a few more tenors and i think i need a little more work. But early this evening, when a fellow choir member recorded our practice, i can't help but feel a sense of pride in my work. We're not top-notch, but we're definitely on our way there. A year or so, maybe?

Oh yeah, hamachi's doing great messing up productivity and the waking-sleeping cycle here in my slice of the world. I'm slightly complaining, because I'm totally enjoying the whole level of 'play with your pc friends in the comfort of you own home and cheap internet' thing but am totally bummed out by the lack of sleep I'll have to put up with to keep the fun going. Ah, must go out and get me a LAN card so I can hook up that DSL access I've been looking up the whole of last month and leave the concept of 'free internet from 12-4am' behind.

Allan's birthday is coming up and I'm hoping I can set something up soon. As much as spontaneous lakads seem to have been more succesful in the past, I still want to go out and do some serious 'pag-aaya'.

Anyway, lots more to look forward to, like sembreak and that something-back mountain I've been hearing so much about, plus I finally got a copy of HP6 (many thanks, allan) so things are definitely looking up.

Just one more burst of 'work work work' and i'll be in the clear. raaar! fighto!

work work work, and i find myself reading through someone's blog. great, just great. and to think i could have been comfortably buried in my dreams right about now if i had even half the brain power to start 2 hours ago. sigh. well at least he writes purty well (elbert).

oops, it's 10pm. i feel the urge to work coming on. later.

its official, that last post has confirmed what i've(and hopefully, you've) dreaded all along, i've renamed myself bonkers, slipped a bolt in the process, and am walking back from crazy town. that last statement is probably freudian and may need to be appended with a comment from a licensed psychiatrist. anyway...

life goes on over here, sometimes stopping by just to remind how he goes on around everywhere and i'm stuck over here doing thesis research and all-important 4th yr stuff. i'd hate life but then i wouldn't have any good reason to interrupt my work. as a note, i've been having too much life lately... ho-hum.

more news to come when i've thought of more creative ways to talk about the mundane, or eat a cream puff, or get inspired, or eat an inspired cream-puff... see? bonkers.

my little ode to the random picture screensaver of windows xp

i died this morning
and flew to heaven jump-roping
and memories went by smiling
in a screensaver of randomness

i ended up bathing
weary and, of course, tiring
from all the flying and jump-roping
and randomness spilled close by

i dried off, towelling
and there, found myself dying
put on my face and clothing
and caught some of the randomness

and randomness in hand, i sighed
and, at last, promptly died
and woke up bathed, clothed and dried
in a heaven of random memories spilled

i was offerring my friend 30minutes worth of writeup i tried whipping out of the blue for the guy. It was nice then but on re-reading... Mr. Douglas Adams' technique is very catchy, lets leave it at that.

Somehow the conversation veered itself away from the heart-felt garble i spent 30minutes on and turned to ff10 music, which casually lept into a certain gift which supposedly should have left my hands 2yrs before. It lept in there with my heart and knives a-flashing. And i blurted this out.

ibaon na lang sa unan.
... then 'sleep'ed away from any more talk. next morning, i electronically scribbled this down.

ibaon sa unan
at ilibing sa panaginip
ang alaalang nasaktan
at pagkainip
... i think all those sad filipino songs are starting to take their toll.

»» a lot can happen between dial-ups

... its true you know, especially in the case of us dial-uppers. ever noticed how important things seem to happen more frequently in-between internet cards? well its not like there is a relationship between the two but this last weekend could have been good eveidence of such an occurence.

and so we jump right into the stories...

... manila day was casually spent in the company of friends, namely those that were lucky enough to get into updiliman. while waiting up for said friend's schedules to untangle themselves from each other, i sat crosslegged on one of the many stone benches circling their sunken garden, a gentle afternoon breeze of falling acacia leaves sets the mood. so relaxing, id give anything to have that close-with-nature ambience at our school in upmanila. anything quiet would be much preferred over them blaring trucks and buses crowding each other at taft avenue. my heart can only take so much of those stressful horn blowings.

... stowed in a bag side pocket is an mp3 player, the bag and the sheer glee being mine and the mp3 player, my sister's. it'll stay for the week and so far i can't make up my mind of what to stick in there. for now, sheer glee. ^_^

... i hate having to use these dial up cards. here's hoping someone nice(and rich) will read this and buy me some dsl.

... reading into the hitchhikers guide to the galaxy(im at the 3rd book, so far). besides the british humor which i can leave with and the sheer weirdness which i can enjoy, there's a creeping feeling up my spine that tells me this thing has no actual direction whatsoever. i guess this is the point that someone says "that the fun of it!" and i answer back "if thats fun, then there mustn't be very much of it".

anyway, still vice free and dead bored.

»» back to school

my sched is actually freer than i thought. except for flooded tuesdays, fridays and saturdays, im virtually free the whole week.

better start making plans for manila day this coming friday... visit UPD? slum around at home? maybe i'll just giggle around like a silly excited little girl. tempting, but no. maybe ill just think of something to post here worth reading. yah.

»» score two for the home team!

the sojourn into the dump i call the entertainment area of my room(aka corner-with-tv-and-ps-and-lotsa-junk) has been successful. the dust bunnies have all been freed back into the urban wilderness and two mystery boxes have been stripped of their secrets...

box1: 3 pairs of shoes(black, brown and rubber), none of which is mine. big surprise.

box2: 2 printers(both VERY old), old highschool docz(testpapers, memos, circulars, the works) and my old books(hardy boys ^_^, choose your own adventures and random non-bestseller novels)

... will buy cd book to tame the stacks of ps1 cds here and will probably give ps1 unit and cds to cousin.

in other news, mini polo shirts fit me real nice ^_^ but a little more exercise wont hurt so im sticking to "the regimen" for another week, not to mention the "white party" is coming up. better look my best, so will lay-off from in-betweeners and coke.

and presently just came home from manila memorial along sucat road. sang their for the wake of dude related to our sponsors. still wondering if all this singing is going to payoff in videoke someday, maybe if the song is in base-cleff. anyway, its work worth doing and i wouldnt trade what i have now for anything else... except maybe for a solid gold toilet.. make that three.

and just.. er.. "decorated" my notebook for college. stuck all those tickets that accumulated during the euro trip on the front cover. perfect for reminding me about the best reason for studying harder, so i can go back.

off to bed to try and get some zzz's early. lookin forward to early morning arcade-ing at times plaza just before my 11:30am class. will make infamity in arcade a goal this year("hey, its that panda guy").

zzzzz... oyasuminasai.

»» score one for the home team!

i have reclaimed the space in my room occupied by the cabinet. it used to be that that nook was filled with all my odl clothes. yep, it was the motherload. from baby garments, ring bearer costumes, little shoes, jump straps, mini belt bag, grade school clothes, mini neckties and the occasional mini underwear, i went throught the whole lot of it only to find that only an eighth of it all was still wearable(those small polo shirts doesn't seem so out of fashion anymore) or nostalgic enough to keep(mini necktie!). well, at least now i have a place to keep my pants. yifee.

»» the great fixer upper

i guess i've got a lot in my hands. besides fixing my room, i still have to fix this place, and through countless FAQs, random clicking and luck, i found where i can post my own bg. yifee. the color scheme's next and im not feeling up to the challenge. better start reviewing on those complimentary color watchamacalits.

and on gaming news? a tad depressed, not been able to find time for tekken this last week since the only time i have free is lunch breaks and i spend those eating(big suprise). its only a matter of time before those arcade junkies get used to my big fluffy panda and i lose my "ha! you didn't see that coming coz you've never fought a panda before!" advantage.

the online gaming scene isn't looking to fun either since most of the people in gunbound seems to be so stuck up with their new trajectory calcuting skills. the constant streams of "asa ka pa, boy" and "b0b0" isn't working very well with my nerves. the urge to actually hurl something 70degrees into the air in the direction of said stuck up pr*ck for real comes to mind, but i dont have a wind speed measuring thingie so i'd probably just hit some poor unexpecting ground somewhere, or at the worst, me.

will continue to waste precious internet time downloading mp3s and making the most out of Ares before its defunct. and o yeah, need to look into RSA encryption and Health Informatics journals, coolness. watermelons are still up for sharing.