Archives for August 2008

For the past three weeks I’ve been worried sick about myself regarding how my performance on may ORALCOM¹ finals is going to turn out. It wasn’t a normal experience for me wherein I would have to just sit down for an hour and answer a test paper, instead I would present a skill in class and demonstrate it. Thankfully, things went OK (at least, for me) last Wednesday (the day of my presentation) and I was able to present it even though I was nervous and stuttered at times. :doh: I demonstrated in class ways how you can fold your fancy table cloth napkin, originally I would’ve presented 8 but I only got to 6 because I took up too much of my allotted time, haha!

My *unknown* crush attended class on that day, probably not to watch me but to help his friend, lol. Ugh, again with the crushes?! I’m not gonna say that this is the last time, clearly it won’t be! 😛 Yeah so he was there, I didn’t look at him but I felt really embarrassed while going through the whole demonstrating thing, grr. 😳 As soon as I was finished, I packed my things and went back to my seat. That night, my friend from that class said I did good, and the professor said ‘very good’ after my presentation. Gah, I was so distracted and busy with packing I didn’t hear the prof say that. At least he heard it and then he let me know about it. :)) Here’s me hoping to get a good final grade on that subject, t’was good while it lasted. Seriously, I loved ORALCOM, not because of ….. and ….. 😉

Now I’m done with that, I’m insanely worried with my DESPRIN² final project, our own self portrait *insert faint horror screams here*. Never been good with drawing, I swear to God. Okay, so I got to accomplish all 10 required plates on that subject throughout the term but the problem is all of the things I drew on those plates are not people, human or persons but objects and sceneries. I’m not good with drawing people! 🙁 And now I have to draw myself. Shit. 😐 Bet I’ll mess it up, but I’m ready for it! The self portraits are to be drawn on 1/4 illustration boards, I bought 4 just incase I mess the first one up. I really hope I find a way to make a decent output. My hands are not coordinated well with my imaginative brain, you know. :pray:

August is about to end and September is about to start once again. The -ber months are just around the corner!! Ick, I’m gonna turn a year older again. You know, guys. While reading Breaking Dawn (yes, finally finished reading Eclipse, I’m now reading Breaking Dawn!) .. I never really paid much attention to age (cause after all it’s just a number, right? :whistle: ) until Bella started making a big deal of it. 😡 I wrote a long entry about my “age” issues on my Multiply account (just sharing) and here’s an excerpt from it:

– 19 seems like a BIG age difference from 18.. same with turning 20, at 21, 22.. and so on.
– I think I wanna be 18 forever.
– 19 seems TOO inappropriate for me. I don’t look 19 at all, do I?! I don’t.
– Damn you Bella Swan Cullen for making age a big deal

I don’t think I’m spoiling anybody here because of that.. we all know that Bella wants to be a vampire so she can stay the same, physically, so that it’ll be the same with dear Edward.

I don’t know if there’s going to be any change at my little life once the clock strikes 12 at MY day. 😐 Better or worse? Or still the same? *shrugs off* Dunno what I would do on my birthday, good thing I don’t have any classes on the day where my birthday falls, lucky me! :))

During our upcoming term break though, I’m planning to practice drawing (cause I have 2 subjects that are focused on drawing and color rendering), or maybe continue my driving lessons (which were stopped while I was already halfway through it.. only 4 days left and I could’ve passed and learned how to drive by now), or maybe go out of the country. But on the 6th of September, I’m definitely going back to school, not to study but to attend WordCamp Philippines! :dance:

For the meantime, I want to pass this term, receive 3.0 marks on my subjects, be a Dean’s Lister. Hahaha, dream on! Well, I might receive 3.0’s, but there would ALWAYS be a subject where I’ll receive a grade lower than 3.0, I’m sure of it. I’m used to it, too.

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Finally Rico Blanco is back on the music industry! After leaving Rivermaya and going soul searching for a long time, he finally decided to enter a recording studio and make real music again. Actually, I have no idea what he did when he left. All I’m aware of is he did some fashion designing stuff (for Human), and did a mini show for the farmers once (I’m not very sure of this but he DID, my fact is not that accurate, my apologies). I’m sorry if this offends some RM fans but after Rico left, it really wasn’t Rivermaya anymore. I don’t know, maybe Rico IS Rivermaya alone. The new Rivermaya is just not Rivermaya, its just the name but the music is very different.

And let me share you something, there’s a guy in my school who looks a lot like Jayson Fernandez (present vocalist of Rivermaya)! :)) It’s embarrassing but sometimes, when I see him in the hallway, I can’t help but stare at the guy. LOL. Quick 5-seconds stare though, I believe he has buddies that I am classmates with in two subjects, so no long stares. 😯 While I’m at the topic of celebrity/musician look alikes.. here’s my recent findings: We have a Claudio Sanchez (Coheed and Cambria) look alike. He’s not my classmate in any subjects, but I see him in school often. He has THE Claudio hair, for the most part, and his body is Claudio-ish. I know Ian couldn’t agree more with my statements about his favorite artist’s look alike. 😛 The only thing missing is a guitar and a microphone for our Claudio look-alike. He really looks convincing, I stare at the guy longer than the Jayson look-alike. ;;) Last guy on the list is the look alike of Paul Yap (Up Dharma Down bassist) in my DESPRIN¹ class every Tuesday. 😛 That’s all.. I love my school! :heart:

So yeah, back to Rico Blanco. Along with his new song, comes a new album as well! It’s also titled ‘Your Universe’. I’ve heard some songs off the album already from imeem and I liked them a lot. On repeat for me, besides ‘Your Universe’ is his song titled ‘Ayuz’, really catchy. I didn’t post it here though because it’s not in English, so my foreigner readers (if there are any) might not understand so I posted the English song instead. I hope you like it guys, I did! :dance: Have I mentioned I don’t have the CD yet? Ugh. I wish I found out about this days ago so I could’ve searched the malls for the CD since I’m too lazy already to go out today.

I might go to the Eraserheads reunion concert after all. The sad thing is, I won’t be enjoying the night of August 30th with my brother. :hmph: I did whatever (polite) I can to include him, but they’re really strict that only 18+ year old people can go to the event. Oh well, safety measures I suppose. I owe my brother big time, I promised him if Coldplay or one of his really favorite bands comes here in the Philippines I will treat him! No, not VIP tickets.. I’ll try my best to give him the best accommodation of the show by means of getting a good place in the venue for him to watch the band. 😉 I hate that I had to break the news to him when he just woke up hours ago, right now he’s back to sleeping. ;)) I’d like to give a big, BIG thank you to Marcus Adoro for the ‘invite’. :heart: Forever grateful to him even though he doesn’t know me. :worthy:

Yup, my post for today ends here. I’m still practicing to stylishly fold table napkins for my ORALCOM² final exam this Wednesday. Please wish me luck, I’ll really need it. ;;) Thanks a lot! Just in case you are wondering what my title has to do with the entry, A Million Flames is the Multiply site of Rico Blanco. 🙂 Till next time!

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2. Oral Communications ↩