A Humbling Experience

So I failed my Math 53. Yes, I know, sappy blog title, but what else do i call this thingh?  D: A nasty surprise? Hardly. After the last two exams came out and both grades did not even add up to a passing grade, hope was a like a flickering match in the middle of a rainstorm being spit on by Sir Dimabayao and stamped on for good measure. Heck, that was an understatement.

Now my transcript contains a searing 5 plus a 3 from my Math 14. Only mathematics can make me feel so inadequate. Meh. Thankfully though, there are second, third, fourth, etc chances (if you take tuition out of the goshdarn equation). But then I do hope I'll hold out at my second shot next semester. Whee.

I have blogged! :O

Kat's 18th

Held at the Grand Terrace, it was amazing! D: i mean...like...woah. HAHA.
AnGALING sobra ni Kats, the band was uber KHEWL, and.. ewan, nakakabitin siya! hahaha! I hope Kat will have a second debut on her 36th!! Nuhuhu!! :D

THANK YOU KATS for giving me one of the most enjoyable nights of my life! :)
Happy birthday!! ^____^

Tagged By She Who Draws

TEN RANDOM FACTS OF SHE WHO ALSO DRAWS

1. I read the dictionary for fun.
2. I own and meticulously tend to an aquarium containing two dragonfins, which I satiate with guppies everyday. <3
3. I am really bad at math. It can make me cry.
4. I am a learner of the piano, the violin, and the japanese language.
5. This may sound odd, but I can't memorize how I look like. I seem to.. look different everyday._.
6. I haven't really watched anything in the cinemas since Transformers.
7. I do not really like talking about myself. (Just like I am doing now. >_> Thanks a lot.)
8. I do not like eating (or cooking) fish. Hm, I'd rather keep them in a tank.
9. Currently I am (desperately) training my mind to think positively.
10. I <3 bikes.

TAGGING: MICH!

To People Who Despise the Sun

A poem with many relevant meanings for those who have seen better days.

To People Who Despise the Sun

You cannot hide from the summer.
If you close the door behind you
And draw the blinds, even,
It will disguise itself as a bird’s song
Or a peddler’s bell that permeates your walls
And leads you to push down a fading filter
And peer out with a grim disposition.

You take in what you can
Until the scene sears and sickens.
That is when you hurriedly withdraw
And hide yourself in the corner of a closet,
Where no sunlight ever reaches, except
In your brave visual venture, which stays
As a memory, and may trigger a bit of pain.

Eventually you will have to step out
And leave the cool, dry shadows
For the hot, humid wetness of
The inescapable that pricks your skin
And smothers you with heat.
Your swollen tongue lolls impatiently
And your limbs feel restless.

Take heart, soon the sun will have to set—
Even if it takes longer than usual.
Then you embrace the damp and the darkness
Which keep away the memories that drag.
Stay awake—scarce is a moment like this
That gives solace. Soon you will be seen outside
Celebrating the short-lived night.

P(t)oast to Vanny

This is not some tribute to vanity if by any chance you were misled by the title. Anyway, everybody's welcome to view, if in case you are interested to see how... particularly quirky I've become after a few days of madness.

First Off! The Sons of Basilio photos I owe you, Vanessa. (For those who aren't Vanessa, let me explain. One fateful day, she gave me this funny looking egg, and it turns out it has plant-fetus inside! Khewl. So now i'm raising them. This is all in lieu of my past writing <beware shameless plugging here> about an Egg Tree, which I will add, for no reason at all, is found here in my multiply.) I've been documenting their lives for the first few days, stealing shots here and there. Some weren't flattering, but there really is nothing they can do about it, is there.

Alright, that was taken on the onset of uh.. germination? Meh. I was actually surprised that there were four of them. Yes, I expected only one basil plant. Now I have three more mouths to f--water. Hee. Thank you for this utter joy of faux-motherhood (which I will pronounce in French as faw-maudh-whee. Say it with me!)

Ok, so now they grow a bit. And notice how much water I've put! (I just did that for show.)
Kidding! Stop experiencing mock-cardiac arrests! I drown them every single day.


Here is the demo of the 'exercise' I've been telling you about. See how they stretch to reach the light? I discovered that one day, and was quite frustrated to find that no matter where I place them, they always bend. Always. I thought this was unhealthy. So I took it upon myself to make sure that it was all...balanced. Hence, everyday I rotate them so that they wouldn't suffer from any plant-version of a stiff neck. Wonderful.
Isn't that a pretty shot? You can sort of see now who the big brothers are (no allusion whatsoever to that television show which i do not watch, but secretly despise).

Okay! So this is the last shot. They are actually a lot bigger now than they are here in this picture, but it seemed to me that they seemed to be immensely depressed lately. Their leaves just sag like that obscene CSA rat-mache. I didn't have the heart to immortalize them in that state. I suspect it's the lack of space. They're growing children after all, it might be a little cramped in there (I will buy them pots soon). But then it also occurred to me that if I had to live in something like that (points) I'd probably be a little down, too (if not mad).

TAKE A LOOKIE! >>>>>


That's my arm, by the way. An arm that has been touched by Vanny's artistic genius! (Hm, well, technically, mine, because that balloon animal was my idea). But anyway, who cares about credit? Not me. So anyway, the first shot is the outer part of my arm. And initially, that was the only thing Vanny did. But *RARZORS! Vanny got this brilliant idea to draw on the other side of my arm, wherein if i twisted my arm outward (imagine that), I get to 'pop' the balloon animal. Gut-splaying galore.

*Taken from Vanny's vocabulary.

The next object you are about to see would be (according to my post) the sixth thing that had recently made me happy. The lamination. Only, it hasn't been laminated yet in this...rather bad shot. So anyway, I did this for the birthday of a friend of mine, who I fondly call 'Goldfish', 'Goldpishz', '(insert other variant),' and she calls me the same thing. Although, ever since I cut my hair, she's been calling me an 'Ex-Goldfish.' Haha. I found that pretty clever.

And you have to know, the (according to my post) fifth thing that had recently made me happy was the one that inspired me to do this! I will humor you and mention what it is: Abstract illustrations made by some fanatical egoist.
Vanny, I may not understand all your metaphorical riddles, but what say you to my figurative art?
*feels smug and disregards that fact that you do figurative art too*

This morning I was tasked (by my OC sister) to fix my messy papers, materials, and closet. Knowing me, (hm, well, you probably don't) I don't really care where I chuck my things, but by some strange force, I do know where they are. But then I felt sorry for my sister. She's probably strained by my mess, so I get up at 5 am this morning and resolved to fix my things. And HUZZAH!

Although I really am not comfortable showing this rather personal photo to the public, I am quite proud of arranging my hanged clothes by color. Even the hangers!! Oh. Even. The. HANGERS. (I am such a coughcoolcough freak!) That's the neatest my closet has been EVER, even my sister got envious!!

So I sift through my childhood memorabilia (in me closet, yes) and guess what I found:
A badge, Vanessa, a badge! (Inward groan) I never knew I had one. And I'm giving it to you, for being such a Pokemon addict. I think you've earned a coughuncoolcough badge like this one. Pin it on you for all the world to see!!

So anyway, I hope I've delighted you, even just a little :D

Taggehd *o*

TEN THINGS THAT MADE ME HAPPY recently.

1 Xa's Debut! ^____^ it was really, really great! Hahaha.
2 Meanness...  :> Ang mean ko dun sa Ball-Star Dancers (?) !! Pero,.. well... sila eh!!
3 Fishes. Apat na goldfish namiin ^_______^
4 Me hair:D
5 Abstract illustrations made by some fanatical egoist. Ha.
6 A certain lamination I made :D
7 LAVENIIIRS
8 Cake :3
9 Mich!!! Yes! You are a happy thingh!! Hahaha.
10 THIS TAAG. Oooh, yes. Do it, and you will be haappyy :)

Hence, I tag: VANNY, Merri, Drei, Patrick, Hannah, Geo :D

hair CUT!!

tun dun dun!! parang horror! hahaha.

well, well. it's gone. most. of. it. weeee!
it is a physical manifestation of change, a disguise, a step closer to the quest. for. IDENTITY!! D:

gyaah! this is how i look now. (pissed) haha. for the benefit of those, who will not see me, anymore, anytime soon.

chka para hindi kayo magulat! i mean, magugulat kayo now tas,.. there! :D

i can finally comb/run my hand through my hair nowzz!! :D