Last night, Aris held a cookout at his house to celebrate his returnfrom Senegal plus an excuse for a belated celebration with us. Becausemy dad had to work at the church all night while I had to stay at hometo keep my mom company (as she never outgrew the scary feeling ofstaying home alone), I only got to catch up by midnight when my dad gothome.

Sohalf an hour before midnight, the moment my dad got home, Aris and Iamarrived at my house a few minutes later to pick me up. Found Seph, Joshand Raffy at Aris' house, and while Iam decided to catch up on a fewzzz's, I took her place at the table with the rest of the guys. I nevergot to the actual "cookout" part of the night, but at least I got topick on the leftovers. Plus I also managed to finally open that bottleof Merry's Irish cream from Rosa. And I must say, I loved Raffy'sbarako coffee jelly with vanilla ice cream.

Iam had said that by the time she and Aris had left to pick me up, the rest had been ranting about the Twilight movies, especially this new one. Hahaha, all throughout the wee hoursof the morning, even as our conversation shifted from topic to topic,we still somehow ended up going back to that topic because of howidealistic and crazy-fanatic people can get over the whole vampiretrend. Crazy conversations over beer and Irish cream included Twilight's "sparkling" vampires, the "stealth assassin," the "gay friend," the useless 40-kilometer workout, the ala-School-for-Scoundrels teacher, the text language issue, among others.

Whoneeds the high school reunion plus those unnecessary "reunion planningsessions" when you can just get together like this? One favorite topicwere those very interesting revelations that were only opened up tosome or most of us at least 10 years after they had happened, hahaha.Diane's boys, Avril's boys, and even the uneventful Olive competition.Pre-prom date vows, prom dates, rejections and merely funny heartaches.But hey, as we kept saying the entire morning, "That's high school." Itwas amusing enough that how some had mentioned their own point of viewon what was happening. It could get even more interesting if more ofthe people involved could be there as well, hahahaha!

Now that's a thought. That could make a really awesome December get-together.

Quoting from Chris Martinez' Last Order sa Penguin:"What makes a jologette jologette? Physically? Bordering on thekakatulungin. Kaunting-kaunti na lang, kakatulungin na. And generally,ang mga jolog girls pangit ang skin. Parang loob ng Bar None. 'Yungcross section nu'n--ganu'n ang skin nila. At mahilig sa pink nalipstick. Pansinin n'yo mamaya diyan sa labas. Pink ang lipstick nakutis Bar None at pwede mo nang papasukin sa kitchen."

Wala lang, pinapahaba ko lang yung entry, hehe.

Teena had asked me to blog about my jologs side. I honestly have noidea what part of me can be considered jologs. Though I sure hope I canrelate some certain experiences to that.

Let's see. Being a one-time groupie, I used to follow a local bandpractically everywhere. I went early to bar gigs so I didn't have topay for cover charge and just order one drink for the entire night.Never mind that I sometimes came straight from school with a bag, so Ican just dress up before I go to the venues. And of course, we do maketime to go to all those mall shows, because, hey, that's the cheapestgig you can attend, because it's for free.

But I don't know if I really do consider that jologs. I recall a fewgirls who followed in our footsteps who were way worse than we were.Imagine one girl even offering to carry the artists' clothes and bagsfor them before and after the gigs. Oh well.

So let's see. Jologs.

Oh yeah, I remember back during my first year in Atlantis, Ate Sally,Richelle, Kuya Boni and I would always try to escape and leave theoffice early just so we can catch the latest Sam Milby movie inGlorietta, hahaha! I think we did it 2 or 3 times, just so we can watchit at a decent time. Hey, you have to admit, when Sam Milby was a newfresh face in Pinoy Big Brother, he was cute... until maumay ka na lang sa itsura niya because of too much exposure.

And yes, we go to Pinoy Big Brother. During our free time, Ate Sally and I would always go online to check out regular updates of the first season of PBB,plus the first celebrity season. Effort pa kami to read all updates inthe website, and sometimes sisilip pa kami sa forums para makarinig ngchismis. And laging naka-schedule ang evenings namin so we can watchthe show every night.

Hahaha, now I know why Teena requested this. She has her own jologs side as well because of Pinoy Big Brother. Heck, whenever we would be chatting online, she would even tell me what she's seeing on TV, ahahaha. Di naman ako maka-relate.

Now let's which dare topic I'll tackle next.

I had mentioned a few entries before that I wanted to go back to how Iused to blog. So as an exercise, I decided to bring back the "dare"post I made about a year and a half ago. For those of you who had seenit before, you may remember that I never got to follow through with allthe blog challenges that some people had posted. So I'd like to bringit back. Here we go.

Everyone has things they blog about. Everyone has things they don'tblog about. Challenge me out of my comfort zone by telling me somethingI don't blog about, but you'd like to hear about, and I'll write a postabout it. Ask for anything: latest movie watched, last book read,political leanings, thoughts on TV, favorite type of underwear, storiesI'm working on, travel, etc. Repost in your own journal so that we canall learn more about each other.

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Went to ATC yesterday afternoon to meet up with Rosa and Iam. I didn'tmind that it was a Sunday, because considering it was also the day ofthe Paquiao-Cotto match, there wouldn't be a lot of people millingabout. Haha, there wasn't any traffic at all, so the jeepney ride tookonly 10 minutes. When I arrived at ATC, I noticed that Gerry's andItalianni's had blocked their glass windows for the boxing match,having sold tickets for the live telecast.

Rosa arrived while I was hanging out in Powerbooks, and because Iamwouldn't be around until after the boxing match's delayed telecast, weheaded to White Hat to try out their frozen yogurt. Stayed there andtalked until we noticed that a lot of people were already outside,which meant that the match was over. After a little errand at thehardware store, we did a little window shopping and ended up munchingon chicken skin at the food court while we waited for Iam.

Window-shopped a little when Iam arrived, then we went to CANS becausethey were going to have pedicures. Went with them as well, even thoughI have my nails done at home. Sat between them and talked and giggledalong with them as their feet were as ticklish as mine.

After pedicures, we stopped over at the supermarket so Rosa can pick upsome cranberry juice, then we headed to good old Mount McDo to eat.Funny conversation jumped from the Paquiao match, to being aboksingero's mom for instant fame (hahaha), to the discovery of an apoand an older sister, to marriage. It's fun getting together like thisagain, just the three of us.

After a little more walking (with a side trip to Salsa jeans), I bidthem goodbye because they were attending the 7 o'clock mass at St.Jerome (I heard mass before I went to ATC). I ended up briefly meetingwith Lara near the cinemas, as she was there to catch a movie and havedinner with her siblings. Finally met her Barbie-ish older sister andolder brother that she fondly talks about. After chatting over Platowraps, I finally headed on home.

I just love hanging out with my happy thirds, plus spur-of-the-moment meet-ups with other good friends.


Pahabol: While everyone is watching 2012 at the cinemas, I once chanced upon an old 80's movie on the MGM channel a few days ago called 2010 naman. Hahaha.

I realized today that I really need more exercise, so I did a littlebit of walking when I had to go on a little errand this afternoon.

I had to pay our broadband internet bill at the 7-Eleven outside ourvillage, so when I had set off walking along our street to look for atricycle, I suddenly decided to walk the entire way out the village.Thank goodness I chose to leave the house at around 4 in the afternoon,when it was cooler. While I was walking along the street parallel toours, I noticed the cracks on the road and remembered how old thosecracks were. I remembered how bewildered yet fascinated I was of thosecracks when I used to walk along that road when I was kid. As I walkedfurther, I realized that I hardly walk around the area at the fringesof our little subdivision in our village, and I had to admit, thesights are actually pretty when you walk on by instead of riding by ina car or tricycle.

I really have to remember to get a second pair of frames for myglasses, because the pair I'm wearing has thick sides that block myperipheral vision. I've had these since last year, when I used to walkto David's studio for voice lessons. I forgot how dangerous walkingalong the main road was until this afternoon, and I really must havethose new glasses made.

Jhack had posted on her Tumblr about the cast of Glee guesting on Tyra,and I had almost forgotten that it was to be aired on ETC this evening.Thank goodness I was just vegging out in front of the TV after dinner.I was channel-surfing and randomly stopped at ETC, when Tyra was just starting. I was intrigued at Tyra's entrance with the westernhigh school cafeteria clique dilemma, so I stayed put to watch. Theytalked about the typical high school cliques and how the so-calledpopular kids would judge the others and vice versa, and even got abunch of "outcasts" to speak up along with the popular kids. Haha, Iremember how I felt like such an outcast in class during some time inhigh school, so I resorted to joining a whole bunch of extra-curricularactivities, such as track and field varsity, the youth corps, thestudent council's programs and planning committee, and of course,theater.

Seeing the Glee cast made me miss my training. Dave's been pretty busy with teaching at the school so we haven't gone back to regular training. Maybe I'll walk over to the studio for a visit one of these days.

I was looking at my old blog entries from at least a year or two ago,and I realized that I missed blogging like that. I just blogged away,regardless of who was reading it. Un-edited and candid, and neverconscious about what I wrote because heck, I didn't really need to puta disclaimer to say that it's my blog and it's just my personal take onthings. I hope I could blog like that again. Oh well. So let's go withthe flow, shall we?

Oneof the things I love about Tad is that he's not afraid to be frank butstill have the tact. He knows when to say the right thing, and managesto get my head out of the ozone. He knows exactly what I needed tohear, and not just the things I want to hear. I'm so grateful to havehim as my voice of reason when I get too tactless and stubborn incertain situations.

I was chatting with Jenny last night about aprevious blog entry. Hmmm. This is what I love about talking aboutcertain issues with different friends. You find different takes onthose situations, and sometimes they tell you if you could handle themdifferently. Yes, Jenny, I'm too nice, hahaha.

Just for kicks, sometime this week, Nicco had posted Pasencia on Facebook, which was an old video from the old days, back when Istarted hanging out with them post-thesis, when they shot film projectafter film project for class. When we all saw it, comments poured as wecracked up and asked for more of the old films. So today, Drei posted Garahe, the film project that Miko wrote for them that was inspired by the movie Fight Club.I remember tagging along with them during their location shoots atCamille's house and Rian's house, until I ended up doing a silly cameo.Oh my gosh, those were the days. Food trips on isaw and tapsilog, andlate night shoots while our parents were texting us to come homealready, plus the late night commute with Nicco and Drei, with at leastone of them suddenly falling asleep on my shoulder during the trip home.

Speaking of watching videos, so I finally got back my DVD of Our Town from Nicco. I got to watch it again last night, even though I knew I'dcringe and lower the volume at the sight of myself and my own voice.Yes, I'm that critical of myself, hahaha. Even though it was abeginning acting workshop recital, I never seem to cut myself someslack, ahehe. Anyway, while I was watching, I have to admit, for abasic acting class, we actually did pretty well. I was always laughinghalf the time I was watching, seeing all those nuances that everyonedid again, and how we barreled through and gave it all that we've gotso far, hahaha.

Thank goodness for finding this laptop's adapter and fixing it up. Mycomputer's on the blink again, but at least I still have something touse.

I had planned to go to CCP yesterday to get my router back from Tad aswell get my Microsoft Office CD from Betty, but I ended up just meetingBetty for lunch because Tad and the rest of the Actors Company had togo to Assumption.

Lunch talk with Betty, from the annoying weird texts I got, to Chekovreading (aba, pa-deep, haha), to other Betty-tales, which led us toslipping inside the relatively quiet prayer room. Aba, confessional baito? Ahehehe. Well, at least hanging out together that early afternoon,even for a brief time, brightened both our spirits a little.

I had told Claire that I was planning to visit Atlantis that very sameday, so it was off to Makati next. She had mentioned that Nicco wasalso going there, so I told him to drop off my Our Town DVD (which he has for the past year and a half already) so I can justpick it up at the office. Apparently, he was going there to pick up hiscustom-made Spring Awakening jacket, but because the delivery guy was super late, he was still inSan Juan and I had to wait for him to arrive. Hehe, ended up checkingout photos in Ate Sally's laptop from their Hong Kong trip. Kuya Boniand I even laughed out loud when we noticed a magazine that was sent toAtlantis that day. My name was still the addressee, hahahaha!

The jacket delivery guy finally arrived after at least 2 hours, soClaire had to sort everything out because the sizes sort of got mixedup. When she finally sorted part of the groups of jackets, Nicco andKelly finally arrived. Hahaha, syempre it took a while for Nicco tofind the jacket that fit him, because the size order got a littleconfused.

One observation, it's so funny to see Nicco actually speaking straightEnglish to everyone, and being so OC with the jacket that will fit him.So unlike that Nicco I knew from years before, back when I was the onewho was talking to him in straight English and being so OC witheverything in sight. Pseudo-siblings have switched certain traits,hahaha. And to think that he used to tease me because of my"burgis/conyo" accent. Hey, I only adapt certain accents depending onthe people I'm talking to, which also applied to him. I bit my tongueand decided to not to tease him in front of everyone... and told him sowhen we found each other online last night, hahahaha!

I was planning to wait for Tad to get out of Assumption, but then heand Riki happened to have a recording with their voice teacher in Cubaothat very evening, so I found myself walking to SM Makati because Teenahad mentioned in her Facebook about Gonuts Ice Cream, which wasreminiscent of good old Coney Island Ice Cream, so I immediatelyignored the strawberry (my favorite flavor of any ice cream) and wentahead and bought a scoop of bubble gum, which was my all-time favoriteConey Island flavor. And it has bubble gum bits, yay! Hahaha, I justhad to ask to put it in a cup so I can save the bubble gum bits forlast.

Man, that bubble gum ice cream made me feel like a kid again. But nowthat that craving's gone, I'm now craving for one of Peaberry'scheeseburgers again. I wonder who'll be my next victim that I can dragalong with me to the cafe, hehehe.

Courtesy of Peachy's spamming, hahaha.

So please make us happy and buy tickets. =) See you in February!

Text message yesterday from some stranger: Eow poh kamuzta na poe u? Kaen nah poe u ng deener ahh. c",)

So I politely asked: Sorry, who's this please?

The reply: Wow galeng poh u mhag izpell ng wordz ahh. Parah poe niu pinapah mookah zakin nah ang julogz coe. Haha!

Annoyed, and somewhat thinking this was someone's idea of a weird joke, I asked: No, really, who's this please?

The reply was: Nasl poe?

I stopped replying. Ano ba yan.

First thing I thought, what the heck is this person doing? Is this someway to find a textmate? Ang cheap mo ha. And please, what is it withthat weird text language? I mean, I'd understand if you shorten wordsso you can save the space and put everything in one text message. Butthose weirdly-spelled words with the unnecessary extra letters? It's asannoying as those Q's and X's that people use to substitute otherletters that still seem fine on their own.

At aba, before it was just "ASL." Ngayon "NASL" na? Takot na ba ang mgamay gusto ng textmate sa anonymity? Baka takot sa mga "hologram" (asTad and Chrome would call them).

It's so sad how some people's spelling just worsen with the use of textlanguage. Sure, you can shorten words when you send text messages, butthere are still some people who still use text language for emails,chat, and other stuff where there really isn't any valid reason toshorten certain words. People won't take you seriously if you keepdoing that.

Oh well, just my two cents. And if ever that anonymous texter reallywas a practically joker sent out just to annoy me, may araw ka rin.