Posting Girl's Generation's music video here. I'm not really a fan of anything Korea, but the song is good enough to be listened to, even though I don't understand one thing. But the very reason I'm putting this here is because I LOVE THEIR OUTFITS enough to grab my dust-gatherer sketch pad and draw them myself!- despite the lack of my artistic skills. If any, then subtle. I wish I could draw, though. I tried hard doing this one.


BTW- a few hours from now I shall be watching Transformers. Dear me, I really am anachronic without even trying to. This is the 2007 movie I'm talking about! Everyone's talking about the Revenge of the Fallen one and how good it was, practically everyone, so might as well go and check out the 2007 movie first before jumping into the hole.

'Tis week. Hm... so-so. Nothing very special. I hope next week will be better!

School's officially started, and here's just a few updates:

• Two major Pharma classes we have are under Miss Mae, who is nice but is really stern as an instructor. She's an alumna from school, and when I was still a freshman she was my senior. I wonder why she decided to teach in her alma mater? Is she so dedicated?

Anyway, the two classes are Physical Pharmacy (to which she referred to as "just quick") and Pharmacognosy. The other day I was home, mom asked me what my next class was and I answered her, "Pcog." She asked again, "What was it? " so I proceeded to say, "Pharmacognosy." Then in reply she told me, " Oh, you should go to school!" I bet because the name of the class was hard, she couldn't afford to let me skip!

Since Miss Mae is strict, and I have a 7.30 class with her, I cannot afford to get late either! Every tardiness is minus grades, (not sure how much), and every absence is a minus graver than a tardy one!

• An old elementary classmate from Bets is back, and we have a few classes together. Kristine Yu. I entered the classroom and saw her but wasn't able to spare a few seconds to say hi, so when the class ended I decided to give her a smile and a hello, but before I could do that, she's already darted out the door.

A DELUGE OF FRESHMEN!! Well, a bad exaggeration, but to put simply, the number of pharmacy freshmen has significantly increased! When I enrolled for the first year, I was even afraid I'd have the chairs and the chalkboard for my friends maybe because no one else has enrolled. When the first day of the year came, I was relieved to find there were people in the classroom aside from the instructor. I guess we were around.. 15?

This time there are 42!! FORTY TWO! And to add to that, my classmates said the freshmen Medtechs have gone up to FIVE SECTIONS! Shocking!

• The other 7.30 class I have during MWF is PharmChem, a major major. I cannot afford to get late with that- either either. New teacher, too. ARGH! Why do important subjects have to be early in the morning while I'm still sleepwalking!?

• No classes under the dean, Doc Cabrera, who talks on and on about her life. Thank God! This sem I will not have to need my mp3 player. Good.

• I missed two Philo classes. Thanks to how lazy I am. Uh oh. That's a bad start. I'm never planning to skip next time again. I also missed an English class, thanks to the same reason. And our English teacher, well,- just sucks! Miss Mendoza? We don't need any of her drama. Tch.

Pictures on the next entry? I wasn't able to lug my cam. Maybe I'll start taking pictures when school gets more buzzing and interesting.

That's it. May the grace of God be with me, and all of you.

And so a new page is turned for this year. School comes back, and that officially makes me a third year student. The next statement is very cliched. Wait for it...~ Oh how time flies so fast~ Hahaha. You saw that coming. I wasn't going to type it down but I did anyway.

*OK, I'm totally blank right now. This journal is supposed to be filled with the events of last Wednesday, Thursday, the sleepover and everything else but blogging about those would be very dry and boring. YAWNERS!

Anyway, but I SHALL post some photos. That's not yawners. When Mikko allows to photoshare them. *curses Facebook for low-res photos. Pfft! Soon..

And oh, tomorrow school is back but I'm not going in. It's just gonna be hustle bustle "adjustment period" (I'd like to call it that even if it isn't), so I'm probably going in by Tuesday, or much more probably by Wednesday. PharmChem, Pcog, and blahs here I come! GOD help me! I got so-so grades the last sem, due to slacking off but this time I'll definitely try harder! And with God's grace too.

And why am I so excited to end this entry? Because I shall now watch Rurouni Kenshin! Yata~!

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EDIT! A funny YM conversation! Transliterated to English from the dialect and dialog edited :p

xot18: Gud pm, Chip.

me: Yo.

xot18: I have something to ask.

me: Fire away.

xot18: Does my brother constantly buy load from you? How much does he owe you?

WOAH! My classmate sure doesn't want his brother to know he owes me something. tsk tsk. Better be safe now.

So I proceed to text him, "Hey! Your brother is asking me how much you owe me. What do I say to him?!" No reply.

xot18: Hey? Chip? What do you have to say?
xot18: Don't tell him I asked.

I was still waiting for the text message reply. I texted him, "oi!" None yet.

So I went to walk on fire by replying to his brother in Yahoo. Sorry, I didn't know what to do.

me: Yes, he does ask me to load him.
me: Sorry, I went out for awhile.

^Obviously a lie, hahah! It took me long to reply coz I was waiting for the text.

xot18: Hehe.
xot18: I read your text message.
xot18: Don't tell him I asked, and I won't tell either.

What? He actually read my text message to his brother and knew I was lying about the went-out-for-awhile thing! HAHA! AWKWARD!!


P.S.
Thank you GOD for the beautiful rain! The pitter patter of the rain to the leaves, the pavement, the ground, roof, --everywhere, it is indeed the wonderful orchestra of nature.

In continuation to my blog entry, yesterday, as mentioned, I was gonna have my hair cut and YES I DID.

Initially, my mom and I headed to Luce in Mango Square but to our disappointment, it disappeared! So tonight, I decided to give Tony and Jacky a go, and hoped for the best.


The hairstylist was nice and friendly (his name is Andy), but I think he didn't understand me so much. He asked me what school I was from, I answered, he asked what course, I answered, and it seems as if he didn't understand me so he asked again what it was, I answered, I answered again and he just shook his head as if to say, "What a tiring conversation this is." I just smiled so I won't look like the idiot I am trying to hide.

But still, he was friendly and there should be more hairstylists that are like him. And less of boring and cold customers like me.

As I have said, I brought a printout of Ueno Juri and, to my unbelief shock, he even said I looked like her!! TOTAL FLATTERY!! But even if that were true, I woudn't believe it! Haha.

Oh and yeas. He did a good job. I myself have to admit my hair looks like Ueno Juri's!! ^.^

So. After getting a temporary good hair day from an expensive stylist from Bench FIX, I realized I didn't like my hair anymore.

The stylist called it the Eva Maria (sic), the hair on the top layers were short, to the back. And the front was really long. Like two black tapered thick strings hanging from the sides of my head. It annoys me and it made me look like a "biatch" who didn't want anything to do with ugly people. To be more precise, it made me look like someone who cares too much about her physical beauty, and that's why she made her hair that stylish. And I don't like that.

Yeah, it may have looked nice, but if I don't like it, then that won't do. My mom half-jokingly suggested that one day, if I get bored with my hairstyle, we'll cut those two tapered strings off. So I did because it was unbearable. When my mom came in the room, I was doing a botched job, so she decided to help out. Thank goodness. Thank goodness what we did to my hair was OK enough for me to continue going out and not be embarrased for having had a floppy haircut.

So my hair right now is still that Eva Maria style, tapered strings excluded.

Maybe tomorrow, I'm gonna have to fix my hair to make it look a bit like a boy's. Maybe not tomorrow, but surely before school starts. (School has been postponed for a week thank God!)

I am excited but a bit nervous too, maybe the stylist won't be able to execute it the way I want to, but then I'm gonna make a printout of Ueno Juri's photo~! I love her and imitation is the best kind of flattery, they say. :)


If only my face looked like hers too. ^.^

(But I can say I'm content with how I look- I have countless flaws on me, but that's only because I'm not a model nor an actress. No extremes.) And no, it's not only because I like her that I'm getting a cut similar to hers, but I've been planning on getting a boycut for a long time now.

Jdrama Updates!
Nothing as of the moment. Hahah! Books are gonna keep me busy, hopefully, as I declare Facebook and the Internet my arch nemeses! (If that is the plural of nemesis haha)

1. Saint by Ted Dekker. One good author, but I think he's used up all of his creative juices writing Black, Red, and White because this book I'm reading doesn't compare to the trilogy.
2. The House of the Scorpion by Nancy Farmer. (borrowed from Mikko) Next on the list. I heard from Anne that this was really good!
3. After Dark by Haruki Murakami. (from mikkosaki again!) Mikko said it was good, but I haven't gone halfway with his other book, Norwegian Wood, because I think he's boring. Woops.


*Also, Jdramas are out of the list temporarily, but one anime is in! That's Rurouni Kenshin! That's right. That anime from ages ago (I'm very late/left behind/ anachronic, I know). Finally, this time, I can understand what's so great about it. It's as good as Full Metal Alchemist, coz it's the kind of show that makes you want to move on to the next episode- unlike some new anime I have watched but quit somewhere halfway, Haruhi Suzumiya (barf), for example, or take Honey and Clover (drops dead). I'm still at episode 14, that's a long way to go, but with good time management skills come this semester, I shall succeed!

Here's how my hair looked like. It doesn't look how I described it though. And I do not look like a nasty biatch. :)



^.^

Tomorrow, we were supposed to go on a beach outing with some of my high school friends. But due to some circumstances, it was cancelled.

Mikko asked me if I wanted to go watch a movie, and I am more excited about it than I would've been if it were the beach! Even if it's just Terminator.

And school's back on Monday. 7.30 everyday! I can do this!

MY LAST DAY!

It's finally over, thank God! TWENTY THREE DAYS of darn boring internship over. Actually, 25 days was required, but it's over anyway. Over. Over. Until next year. XD (If you're wondering where the other two missing days went, it was spent in Bohol.)

Jao texted and wanted to go out, I agreed but then I changed my mind since I'm going out with high school friends tomorrow. Let me just celebrate my last day by myself then.. home alone writing on a blog. Haha!

I was supposed to post a photo of what my workplace looked like, the filler area where I merely put orders into plastic, staple a label, and go! And that's the work I wait to do for eight whole hours. But too bad, my computer cannot seem to detect the photos from my phone. XD

AAAAAAAHHHHH.. once again! Finally! The taste of freedom is in my mouth!

Yesterday, my brother sent me a message in YM asking me,

"What alibi do you tell mama and papa when you go out? One that is believable."

"Dunno."

"Why, do you always tell the truth?"

Well, no. I do not always tell the truth. Even a godly man would lie right? It's natural to man like flying is to birds. His question got me thinking.

If I go out with my friends or with someone, why do I even have to lie? If I go and tell them what I really am up to, would it stir up a ruckus and tear us apart? No, it wouldn't. But then I would also tell the truth because of the fear that if I lie, surely, one day, it would be found out and brought to light. And then therefore, the aftermath would be worse than it would've been IF you just told the truth earlier. Right?

Repeat MY question: would it stir up a ruckus if I told the truth? If the answer is yes, then the first instinct, of course, would be to lie. Lie even though you know it's wrong because you want to protect something TEMPORARILY. Like for example, if I go out with another guy when I have a boyfriend somewhere out there, then of course, I will lie to my parents about who I'm going with and where. If I told the truth, then they would be intrigued, ask me questions, figure me out, tell my boyfriend, and ...!!

I concluded then that I shouldn't be doing things that must be hidden, in the first place. I shouldn't be doing anything if it ends up tearing relationships apart and affecting others negatively. If you do something wrong, then you're going to scramble and find ways to cover up the fault, and while doing so you may end up doing another wrong thing! Take David's experience, for example. He committed adultery with Bathsheba, and when she got pregnant, he didn't want the husband to know and to make the long story short-- he murdered the husband! Or was it like that? But that's my point.

Or Yagami Light of Death Note, for the second example. Initially, he just killed all the criminals to scour this earth of them, but then when detectives were out to look for him and arrest him for his murders, he ended up killing those who were after him, even if they weren't criminals.

Do you always tell the truth?

--You shouldn't be doing anything that should be lied about in the first place. I'm talking about INTEGRITY here. or FIDELITY, or related stuff.

I don't really know about my brother and what he's been up to, and this blog entry is just a totally different tier from that simple YM conversation. When he asked the question, all these thoughts just brainstormed into my head, but I wasn't able to explain properly in words right away, so I just gave him a simple reply,

I don't need to lie.

OK, 10 days down of the internship! Whew! Technically, it's 8 days because I skipped two days but I pray I do not have to extend. The manager in our branch is really nice, she says bye to me when I leave and she doesn't frisk about on me, and she's quite smiley and a peaceful-looking middle-aged woman. I'm so thankful for that.

On the other hand, I have quite a disadvantage on my side, too. I cannot find the exact reason why but I never made any friends with any of the clerks or pharmacists for the past eight days. Some of my classmates have already and they say that their duty hours are tiring yet it's still fun. FUN. That's the very thing that's missing in my internship. Where on earth has it gone?! My classmates say they are doing something worthwhile, helping out in the pharmacy, giving out change, talking with the clerks while I sit down for eight hours waiting for 8 a.m. to become 4 p.m.! I tried to help but one clerk was too embarrassed to me so she was like, "Oh nevermind." I asked the pharmacist that I help out log the prescription in the book, she said "OK" but she didn't let me do it! O____O WHAT THE?! BORING!!!

And also- I still REALLY cannot talk. I don't know. I wanna make chit chat and all but I'm just so blank.

Anyway, isn't it ironic how time flies by so fast through the weeks and months, even years maybe but it creeps slowly right there on your skin when it comes to minutes and hours. Maybe because when you count the time through minutes, the numbers become very big because it's a very small measure. Hm.

And to kill boredom, I purchased Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett. I hope they don't kill me reading a book in the pharmacy! ^.^

JDRAMA UPDATE!
I'm watching ROOKIES this time. Somewhat a mix of GTO and Gokusen type, where the teacher is very poetic and the students are indignant of their passion. It's also about baseball. The baseball part isn't very exciting for me, but, hey, let's see what good comes of it- especially because that comprises most of the series' story. (There's no guy who is my type, thankfully, so I continue to fangirl over Tsukamoto Takashi for the sixth month!)

Off to watch ROOKIES! or maybe eat dinner first.

Heyhooooo. Tomorrow, finally, is the start of internship! I should be happy it's finally starting, but at the same time, I'm disappointed because summer break is over and I'm gonna be hanging out at the pharmacy for eight hours (9 hours, technically, if you count the break) for the next 25 days. And to think we aren't allowed to face the counter and the customers. I just hope I won't be standing there gazing at outer space- that's the look of a total idiot.

Yesterday, we had the orientation and I apologize if I'm gonna say that the HRD manager totally sucked. I arrived late (along with many others) like the usual, and that head took out her anger on the ones who arrived early. Anyway, when we were all gathered there she showed us an attitude as if we were the snot in her nose, she was annoyed at our very presence, and wanted us leave and kill ourselves already because she's so great that she has many other important things to do. So, I just understood her anyway because I know if you climb up your career ladder that high you wouldn't want to talk to the novices anymore and be contaminated of their ignorance.

She actually said, "Be reminded that we, Rose, are not the ones inviting you to be interns in our pharmacies, but YOU are the ones requesting US that we can accommodate you. We originally didn't want interns in our pharmacies. For us, they are an extra burden. But since you requested us..."

I wonder where she had her internship when she was still a student, though. Hmph.

It's just like saying to the employees, "Be reminded that we, Rose, are not requesting you to work here. Because extra pharmacists are just a burden for us. We do not like to spend more of our profits on your salaries." Something like that."

I wish I could back out and be an intern in a more humbler but better pharmacy. I wish someone told me earlier Rose sucked. Anyway, it's all right! I'll endure this as discipline from GOD, and I'll be stronger in the end.

Just a quick one right here. A conjunction to my previous entry about Stand Up!! and the salmon bot.

I'm finally done with Stand Up!! I'm so glad it ended in a good and proper way, as in, a closure kind of ending. With that, I still had a hangover from the show. Meaning- it still lingered in my head because of how good the show actually was. But I went on to watch Mei-Chan no Shitsuji anyway! I'm relishing the summer break! This Monday, internship will start, although not officially. The orientation, at least.

And about the unbreakablesalmon dude who IMed me in YM, was actually a bot! Well, a real person, but here in LJ, whenever one makes a new public post, I don't know how the system works but there's this thing that activates the bot and gets your contact details and blah. ?!?! Then that bot uses another YM/Livejournal username to send me a message with, of course, a nickname that uses anything that is "salmon" or "coho" or anything fishy. Darn! I learned about it here! Thank goodness, I googled further. XD

Yaaay! I just finished watching Kisarazu Cat's Eye, and now I'm watching Stand Up!! (this one definitely better, I assure myself.) I remember watching this extremely bad quality TWO years ago on Crunchyroll, and ended up watching one episode and a half only. Boo for bad quality eps that make you watch colorful square pixels talking in Japanese. :( But hats off to Crunchyroll anyway, because they've made a lot of improvement since that day, and the anime quality is sufficient enough to be watchable!

Not that I've completely watched a series in Crunchyroll anyway. Streaming is just so- ugh. It's so.. groggy and slow. Sites likes these are only useful when you want a sneak preview (or a "one episode test drive", rather) of a series you want to watch, and if you've latched on enough, then you can go ahead and buy the real copy. But that's not a practical thing to do here where I live. Go and download a torrent! Yes, do this to all the things related to computers. May it be songs (ok, Limewire is handy sometimes, if you want a "one song test drive", lol), music videos, books (?!), games (but Sims 2 is a little buggy though) and of course anime and drama~

Back to Stand Up!! I'm enjoying it so much! Once one episode ends, you can just go and watch the next without having to feel like it took a long time! Wehooo! Happiness~ However, I cannot simply go and watch the next episode, because I haven't completed the download yet. Tsk tsk, I should've downloaded that batch thing. I was particular with the subbers. I knew JTV is a good sub but I had experience with it with the KCE, and when I watch the video from the television (connected from the pc), the subs were too small! My eyes went squinting for 9 whole episodes. Whew, thank goodness Nya this time didn't make me go blink blink blink.

The downside is, the Nya torrent had very few peers! LOOK WHAT'S HAPPENING!


^^^Gosh, it's so slow! Ep4 (the last on the list), is taking at least ONE HOUR to download the last 10%. Doing the maths, that's taking ONE HOUR++ downloading 51mb! Gyaaa T_T Episode 6 (first one) is doing fairly well as it is very almost completed, but as I have mentioned, I'm sticking to NYA fansubs, not JTV. I downloaded that to test the speed, and JTV is much faster. This is teaching me some patience!!!!

So. SOME SCREENSHOTS! YEAH! Oh and by the way, TSUKAMOTO TAKASHI IS IN STAND UP!!! ^_____^ More squeee~ And I shall be proud of myself because this time I didn't watch the show just because he's there. I'm also disappointed Oguri Shun is the worst-looking amongst the gang, but he's bearable, from a fan's perspective. Even Yamapi looks better than him, and I'm not a fan.

So here's a few...

Chie. That pretty pretty princess childhood friend of theirs who suddenly comes back home, and is now an ordinary-looking young adult. But then again, being ordinary isn't always what it seems, right? Especially in a drama.


And here's Shou-chan. His cutey cutey face somehow irritates me, but you'll get used to it. Why am I using double adjectives? Cutey cutey~ pretty pretty~


The bad looking SHUN!



He looks good whatever role he plays. ^.^ ♥ Tsukamoto makes me feel all fuzzy inside.




and so this entry ends with Tsukamoto-san! Goodnight ^.^


EDIT!
This is the second time, man! I just received another random spam message in Yahoo! Messenger from someone who has yet again a very randomly-thought userid! Grrr!

The first time around, I didn't know it was spam, and I was like "Huh?" to the first offender. I was puzzled, so I googled his name up (forgot what it was) to find out anything about him in case he was someone I knew. What I found was just a blog entry about him. In the entry though, he posted his conversation with the spammer showing that the author just went along with him. I thought it was a great idea, then here comes MY chance to do it when an unknown contact sends me this..

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unbreakablesalmon: If you respond with an away message containing a phone number, I will laugh... then rickroll you by phone.

me: Oh really?
me: But how come you aren;t doing anything?

unbreakablesalmon: 我不懂英文= =
(trying to confuse me with Chinese, eh?! Good thing this was simple Chinese and I understood it! He says, "I don't understand English = =")

me: But you just spoke in English.

unbreakablesalmon: can u speak chinese

me: Can you?

unbreakablesalmon: of couse

me: Dui bu zhi.
(it means I'm sorry. Just being random. I don't think I spelled it right, but who cares. To hell with the spammer.)

unbreakablesalmon: who r u

me: Who am I?
me: and.. who are you?

unbreakablesalmon: i dont know who im

me: Then I do not know who I am either.
me: Isn't it strange that even though we think we know ourselves
me: The truth is we don't?

unbreakablesalmon: yeah

chiquiyoung: Indeed.

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Ends there. My goodness.

I AM ENRAGED AT ROSE PHARMACY! (well- I am not THAT extremely angered, but more of irritated). The pharmacy orientation will still be held next week (that is, seven days from now) but it should've been conducted days or a week ago, so we could've already started our internship today.

Ugh. This is very unreasonable for me to get ticked out off my brains right now. Yeah- I know, Rose is a big pharmacy and it should prioritize other affairs than giving way to measly intern pharmacists who know nothing at all. I hope we won't be too late to finish 200 hours. Time is ticking!


Oh, and for the free time- I watched Kisarazu Cat's Eye! Not very impressive but I watched it because I liked one guy! Guess who! ^^



It's mixed with a little baseball, too.





SQUEEE FOR TSUKAMOTO-SAN!!! I will love him to death.

LOL I'm not the type who would write down and proclaim to the whole world I'm bored- which I'm not. But I wonder why I'm taking these darned quizzes on Facebook! It is clear that the results are extremely inaccurate. How on earth can they determine which rock band I am if I answer a mere 5-question test! LOL!

Tabulas blogging days were better. XD Blogthings is still so much better. This is so hilarious.


Oh oh oh! Just for the record- I wanna buy a Nikon SLR!! XD

Finally! A reunion with my good ol' high school buddies! I miss you guys so much! (I never said this publicly, and you guys would never probably read my blog so I can say anything I want, haha~) Thanks so much to Charlie Go for the success. We've always thought the way he (and so with Gerard) plans our adventures and trips so recklessly, but I'm sure dealing with a difficult class like, that would be a natural thing. Thanks for the hardwork, Chao! Too bad we didn't bring an icebox for the ice and drinks.

This island hopping thing didn't interest me at first, coz I expected it to be a fake fun kind of thing- and we've been to beaches before already, so I thought this might just tire me out. I WAS WRONG. It was fun! Yeah- pardon my lack of appropriate adjectives, I don't study in Bethany anymore where I was filled with words and I could describe everything when writing. This event allowed us to express our youthfulness and live it to the fullest! And allowed us to enjoy the kind of fun where we couldn't when we were under the yoke of Doctora (ahem ahem!). What kind of fun? Fun as in, drinking alcohol, and sleeping in hotels with both guys and girls! Sleeping out of the house even- we were prohibited from doing ANYTHING back then.

But then, thankfully, we didn't go overboard with the drinking (at least, MOST of us didn't). Haha- Mikko's party last year was my learning experience. It shall be my principle not to get worse than what happened in that party last year. Two glasses of vodka then I'm dead. Not this time. At least- it's safe to know, if you want to drink your heart out (but I'm not encouraging you to), you can always drink it up with us. Trust us, we'll keep you safe! ;)


Here it is! Gilbey's gin and some mixer. Three of them vs 13 graduates of a Christian school. Who wins?!


So red! But not drunk! ^^




There was a little.. "docking" place somewhere near the beach. We settled in there, and I don't know why, but the drinks started pouring there.





Brett takes me back! Thanks dude! Told you it's safe to be with these guys ;)

We slept over at Hilton, the guy at the front desk was kind enough to give us a FREE upgrade to a room that has an ocean view and a king size bed! Coz we know 8 people checking in would be too expensive so Mikko devised a way to make us 4 girls decoys by checking in. Thank GOD he was nice enough. Must be Anne's good looks that charmed him? And the next day when we checked out, he was also making small conversations with us. Anyhoos, there were supposed to be us 5 girls sardined on the king size bed, but everyone else fell asleep already and I was not able to sandwich myself in between! I tried the tub but I kept hearing strange sounds, so I got a towel and lay down on the floor. Urgggh. It was so painful! Thankfully, Charlie awoke at 3am and was unable to sleep so I invaded his bed instead!


That's five of us and the measly bed! Grr!


Kudos to Charlie Go! and Good morning everyone!

We checked out at 5.30. I rode with Anne, Karla and Noj then we went to Canduman to fetch some dog food for Anne's babies. The guy who owns the "place" is a Singaporean! I love his accent. Hahaha. And I headed to Anne's place for the sole reason of borrowing a DVD of Full Metal Alchemist the movie, but that thing I COMPLETELY FORGOT about when I arrived there. Urgh! Oh well.

So glad that this break has been productive! I'm currently watching Neon Genesis Evangelion but it's a tad boring. I hope I make it through 26 episodes. Tomorrow is enrolment!! Gaaah! Internship here I come!

Since this morning, I've been having memory "flashes" of two years ago when I graduated high school. I don't know how you explain it, but it's just like epiphany and there's this split second where it just suddenly feels like last last year. Of course, maybe because summer is crawling in and that experience of waking up with sweat all over your body comes along with it. Hm, how memorable.

Yes! And because summer is nearing, how much more the finals! Finally! There's this 40-page photocopy of the last lesson we're having on Biochemistry because Doc was not able to catch up with the lecture (I was waiting for her lecture to end, seemed like it never did). This summer, I plan to self-study Pharmaceutical Calculations because I never learned one thing about it. Meanwhile, I am also going to be an intern in a community pharmacy. Intern as in, hang around the drugstore alone like an idiot just being told where what is, prohibited to touch anything because we are not "experienced" yet- for 200 hours. Christ, help me.

And for the me time, I plan to rewatch this show called Full Metal Alchemist because Mikko made fun of me being senile and "old" not being able to watch any anime show anymore. I swear, I'm gonna be productive. Christ, help me again.

Ur so gay and do you even like boys?

To our Pharm Cal and Ph Comp lab instructor, yes, I'm talking to you right now and this entry is dedicated wholeheartedly to you!!!


You know yesterday was a holiday right? Did you enjoy it as much as we did? Or maybe even more? We're wondering who you spent it with. Anyway, it doesn't matter to us, but the next day matters to US and to YOU!

So you also know today you have a 7:30am class with us. One of our classmates texted you asking whether we have one or not. After all, we're not sure since we've completed we are done with all the exercises, and we cannot imagine having more exercises because finals are nearing. And yes, manly as you are, you replied, "WE HAVE CLASS PHARM CAL ON TUESDAY."

Didn't you think that since you replied to the answer, of course, that text message would be forwarded around class so everyone else will come in 7:30 in the morning, eager for your lessons. At least- your class will have more people than usual because you are more likely to give lessons when you text so.

"Oh, what a miracle, he's finally having a class! And he said so himself!" Turns out- not. Last night we shut down all our fun, because, as disciplined as we are, we do not want to miss out on your class that enables us to learn valuable lessons!! You are our instructor after all and we want to give you reverence in everything we do~ (sarcastic much?)

Then we turn up in the morning, the board reads, "NO CLASS."


DARRRRNN ITTT!!!

How much gayer can you get?! HOW MUCH MORE?! So you think just because you're the instructor you can come around (reverse pun not intended), and control your students to come to school for class while you won't?! Oh, do I hear you saying, "It's your responsibility as a student to come into class, whether or not your instructor turns up." ? What? Yeah we understand your needs, sir. We are humans too. With life like you. Or rather, less busier because, after all we are students and you are a busy adult.

BUT HEY! Just because our lives are easier than yours doesn't mean you will make ours as difficult and complicated (I know yours is) as yours. When the number of hours you sleep is reduced because of your job, then don't take it out on your students by reducing their sleep also.

And today is almost 9am. It's still your period, isn't it? Don't worry, at least one student spent her time thinking and writing an entry for you. Isn't that sweet?






Gosh, I just needed to vent out. This gay instructor makes us wake up early then we realize there's just no class.

Tomorrow, I have a scary 50% of the finals report to deliver about the different methods on preparing suppositories. Doc is gonna ask each reporter a question that is either hot or cold, something you can answer right out of the book or either something simply out of the world.

It's not a big deal but I'm guessing I need to take alprazolam, because individual reports are just outright scary.

It's 8pm, and getting late.

What I should be doing is sitting at the study table, reading and rehearsing my report, doing further research on possible questions Doc might ask.
















What I really am doing is: scouring the Internet looking for MORE photos of Tsukamoto Takashi! :(


It's been over two months, my fangirly zeal should've died off by now.

Hats off to kogs130.





EDIT (Friday, Jan 20): MY REPORT IS FINALLY OVER~! :) Doc didn't ask questions that came from outer space, so I was able to answer them. My brain didn't die on me in the middle of delivery, my body didn't get seizures, and I didn't have to take alprazolam.

Another item to praise God for: My brother passed the Nursing board exam! I should've seen them making a ruckus jumping up and down screaming, smiling from ear to ear.

Hallelujah!! ^^ Thank YOU thank You thank You thank YOU THANK YOU GOD!!!

WOOO! Just an update entry right here.

So today, for Biochem lab class, we were experimenting with our urine. It's funny how the one who typed the lab guide could've been so indifferent: like, describe the odor of your urine, color, blah. Come on, it's just plain disgusting. Even if you think of the fact that urine's just the filtrate of wastes from our bodies, filled with sulfates, chlorides, and anything else- it's still disgusting.

But thank God the experiment was not as difficult as the previous ones which we had to collect our saliva in test tubes and boil them all the same time, stuff like that. This one we just had to collect urine in test tubes, drop chemicals on them, note the reactions, and that's basically it. Whew!





One disgusting sink.

So maybe after all- we can survive all the crazed professors in university. Last night, before I slept I was evaluating our teachers at Pharma and reconcluded they were all going crazy, and wanted to come up with an idea of how to go through the next last months. But then, no matter how you think and curse them under your breath, they are not going to change. It's just gonna add up to your stress and bitterness.

At least- I know I can survive the megalomaniac profs in school because God is with me. After thinking of all their idiotic actions, I simply prayed about it and all the anger dissolved. It's all that pent up anger that made me not want to think of academic issues, and so now that it's gone, I'm gonna tread on a better path.

And talking about treading on better paths, I'm feeling less stressed about the Dosage project! Thank you God!

JV gave me the link to this site which has articles ranging from celebrities, photos you won't believe are photoshopped, to the origins of the happily ever after fairy tales stuff- it's really funny, and wittily written too. It keeps you stuck on your seat for hours making you forget you actually have a difficult test to study for.

Anyway, there's also an article (or two) that relates to the Bible. Well, I've read the Bible front to back, but sad to say there are so many verses I hear yet I cannot locate it anywhere in the big Book! One day you remind yourself that you are a "new creation" thanks to the cross of Christ, you've read it in the Bible before, so you decide to look for it. You just end up flipping left and right.

It's a big Book, all right, no matter how many pages it contain and what size you carry around. It must've took me more than a full year to read it completely. When making decisions, I have to remind myself about what God has to say, so, of course, that would mean to turn to the Bible. But in the vast sea of thous and thees, how on earth can you find just what you're looking for?!

Thank God for concordance, flip to the back pages of your Book, tada, it's there! But if not, then go on ahead to biblegateway.com.

So, anyway, about the new creation thing- it was really something I experienced. Searching for it from Matthew to Revelation but to no avail. You can find it in 2 Corinthians 5:17, btw. Gosh, I miss Bethany where we were forced to memorize Bible verses either because it was a test for Bible class, or my class messed up again so they rubbed God stuff all over our "sins". Back then it used to be tiresome, but no. It was awesome fun. Memorizing verses from the Book is whole lot better than memorizing stuff like enterococcus faecium clostridium difficile blah.

SO SO SO. Back to what I was originally talking about!

The article is here: the title is The 9 Most Badass Bible Verses!! Even the title is so interesting already! If you've read the Bible, surely you would know that The Book is filled with love, war, and lots of VIOLENCE, among others, this article won't surprise you. But the fact that the NINE most "badass" verses are compiled together into one- just woah.

The verses are shown, you can read them, and I had to check the Bible itself just to make sure they weren't making stuff up!! (biblegateway~) And it's real.

^There's profanity and sex themes in the site, so keep guard. But the author writes it in a way as if he really believes in the Bible. Good one there. Hope he isn't being sarcastic or anything.

So- if you're looking for a really good book to read, take the Bible. Sex, love, money, death, afterlife, Jesus, how to poop when you don't have a toilet, blah, etc- it's there.