i was looking over my entry last year, december 2005. and i went through the stuff i wrote, about the people i met and things i achieved and special guys i wanted to thank for such a wonderful year. i'd do 'em today sana, but...well, things just aren't going so well right now. not much reason to celebrate.

i did have a great time last 28dec! haha! for a while there, i forgot all the troubles and the problems that are going on right now. that's thanks to my cousins and high school tropa--and pepe. haha! thanks, pepe, for putting up with my cousins' wackiness! ahaha!

last 28dec, we had our tropa party. than, just for laughs, tinawagan ng cousins ko si pepe. then they asked him a bunch of questions (which i am so not gonna put here, so as not to embarrass both me and pepe). basta, laughtrip talaga! damn.

anyway, whatta year, right?

i graduated in march2006.
i spent my summer in ho chi minh city, vietnam. met a bunch of new friends, including tan and renz and the other pinoy kids there.
i played with my band sa robinson's--sta rosa.
i started college at UST college of nursing.
i met a great new bunch of people (special mention to miko and pepe!).
i passed first semester with a fairly good grade.
i survived a week without blogging and computer at the dorm.
i am still alive.

special thanks for a wonderful 2006:

my family
my ssc-w batchmates
my bsn1-3 classmates
my new friends in vietnam
my college bez
my sweetier gummi bear monster

love you guys. stick around for 2007, aight?

whoever said christmas was always the happiest time of the year is so wrong. totally, absolutely wrong. idiot.

ugh. mehn, i feel so aarrggh(!) over christmas! my grandma had to be rushed to the hospital on christmas eve--like, right after the christmas eve mass--kasi she slipped on the church steps. my advice: don't go to church anymore--especially in the churches that have a flight of stairs.

i do thank my very, very, very good friend for being there to comfort me on such a horrible holiday.

"If ur crying, il cry wid u! Ok?...Cge, il let u rest 4 d nyt! Sleep tyt, pray b4 u sleep! Thank HIM 4 everythng! :) u go 2 bed now! Nd just belive in d magic of xmas! Gudnyt fides! Thank u 4 makn my xmas happy!"

thank you, mr. gummi bear monster! ;) you made my christmas at least a wee bit happy, too!

i haven't blogged in a week! ugh, darn exams. bakit ba naman kasi we had monthlies pa? pwee naman prelims and finals lang. oh well, at least nakabawas na sa pag-aaralan.

i didn't make it sa DL. aww. haha. as expected. anyhow, i am so naastigan with katkua and weena and aleyla. whoa. three of my blockmates made it to the list. *applause, applause* ahaha.

syet. i wonder kung may mapupulot pa na score sa tests ko, i really didn't study all that much these monthlies. ahaha. by 9pm for the whole exams week, i was already asleep. it didn't matter kung chemistry or zoology or socio-anthro pa ung test. basta bedtime's at 9pm. hehe.

i did manage to do something i am quite proud of--no phone for the three days of exams! wow. haha. whoever thought i'd be, like, holding my phone 24/7? eh dati nga iniiwan-iwan ko lang yun anywhere. haha. hmm, bakit nga ba? ahaha. but yeah, no phone. pero right after the last test (english101b), nag-unlimitxt agad ako. ahaha.

we went to sm to pass the time. paskuhan kasi nung last exam day namin eh. but since the celebrations weren't to start before 6pm, we watched a movie muna. "the nativity story"--a requirement for theology. i went with miko, mhebes, madz, and marj. haha. puro "m" pala sila, ngayon ko lang napansin. nyak. we also saw mikmik and weena. then kagulat si pepe! we were like, at the blue magic place, tapos pag-turn ko nasa likod ko na pala siya! syet. haay, naku. bigla-bigla na lang nag-aappear! haha.

we went back to school, changed into our "paskuhan" outfits, then went to kfc to eat. we didn't bother with the free food na, mahaba kasi yung lines. hehe. pepe and percy went to kfc to meet us. after that, di ko na sila nakita. aww. pepe was asking me pa naman na samahan sya and si percy. i said no, kasi i had to go back to the dorm before curfew. and ayaw ko magpa-late because i didn't wanna go around dapitan when it's late. he said hatid daw nya ako, hehe. pero i didn't see him and percy after that eh. we all kinda went our ways, and Globe was acting up and i couldn't send messages. by 8pm, we were already bored. miko and madz wanted to leave by 9pm, so umuwi na rin ako. but yeah, the fireworks--oh, the fireworks! sana next year, i'd have a special someone to watch it with. hehe. (libre mangarap...)

i don't really intend on keeping up this whole Favorite Person of the Week thing, but as long as i find a favorite person, i'll keep making it.

my el favorito this week would have to be...






*drum roll*



...martin! my brother! weeee!

hehe. i was gonna say pepe again, especially after that little talk we had nung thursday at mcdo. basta, haha. it was more than a talk. pero martin got me smiling the whole week kasi eh.

i woke up monday morning and texted my folks at home. just a simple good morning. mom, dad, and loser replied with a good morning din. pero i got this reply from my bro: "thank you for you message, mm."

ahaha. so cute! kaya he's my favorite.

papa got one of those starbucks cards thingy, and he was thinking of going to starbucks today.

ME: ako din gusto ng starbucks!
PAPA: haha, ayaw. may pera ka ba?
ME: eh, sige na! please?!
PAPA: kung may pambili ka, sige.
ME: papa, pinambili ko ng gift mo yung money ko eh!

wahaha. may price na rin ang gift. hehe. pero sa totoo lang, wala pa ako gift kay papa. i just said that to make him buy me a frap.

tagoink!

i woke up thursday morning feeling excited. i couldn't wait for school to end, kasi we were gonna have a christmas party sa isang dorm in dapitan. aww, yeah!

so anyway, god, sobrang lahat talaga in a party mood na. by 4pm, even yung prof namin nahahalatang gusto na namin siya umalis, wahaha. i went back to the dorm to change, then ran back to ust to meet miko. tapos we went to tina's place, er...dorm. whatever.

people were already there. there were games and stuff. ang ganda nung place. lotsa food! ayos din ng sound system.

then there was the exchange of gifts. funny, si miko hindi sure kung sino nabunot nya. alam lang nya is guy yun! it turned out to be bmr! yeah! kapatids! weena got me. i got mariden. then there was this recollection thingy, where we each have five bracelets of assorted color. the colors correspond to what we feel, like, the blue bracelet means "i wanna get closer to you" and the purple means "i admire you." we were supposed to give them to other people in class. i got few compared to others, pero it's okay. those four meant a lot to me. so yun.

bad trip nga lang, miko had to go home early, kasi malayo pa house nila. so i spent the rest of the evening with pepe, talking about...hmm, someone some stuff. basta, the things that happened after the exchange gifts got both of us so depressed. we were sitting together and doodz was trying to get a picture of the two of us *issue, issue* kaso we were like, "no, please. wag ngayon. bad time, bad time." gah, just...sad.

by the time that pepe went home, iilan na lang din kami sa party place. a few already had one too many drinks. so ang nag-hang out muna, kami ni glen--di kasi kami umiinom. he was playing a slow song on the guitar, then bmr went up to me tapos konting sayaw-sayaw. hehe. nice move. then jamming--eraserheads songs. si glen astig sa guitars, lalo na sa songs ng join da club. wow.

since late na at napagsaraduhan na ako ng dorm, i asked paopao and weena if i could crash in their room, dun kasi sila naka-dorm. so un. i crashed at their place, though maaga din ako nagising. dj and company didn't leave na! they stayed dun hanggang umaga. grabe talaga.

last WEDNESDAY, i thought of going to sm san lazaro to buy gifts for my friends. then i heard that some of my other classmates were also going. miko had p.e. so i knew she couldn't accompany me, which was fine, since i'm used to going around the mall on my own. pero pepe said he also wanted to go daw, kasi yung brother nya 4pm pa ang uwian, so he had a lot of time to kill. so the two of us went with leigh and company to sm.

we got there, tapos everyone split up. we went with ivie and doodz. kaso we hadn't gone anywhere pa talaga when pepe's mom called. hindi pala alam na nasa sm--uh oh. so i told him i'd accompany him going back to ust.

we got back to ust, and wala naman pala dun yung mom nya, haha. his mom was just checking up on him. so, to kill time, we went to mcdo. kaso there weren't any seats available. he suggested maglakad-lakad daw kami. we went around the carpark, to the sports complex (where miko was playing softball, haha!) then back to mcdo. finally may seats, and we settled there. hehe. di naman kami bumili ng kahit ano dun. talagang hanging out lang dun.

we hadn't been talking that long when i saw george walk past outside mcdo. he saw me din, and waved hi. tinuro ko pa siya kay pepe, kasi i was telling him about george just the day before. haha. tapos yun, talking and talking and talking. what i like about hanging out with pepe is that pag kausap siya, sobrang layo ng nararating ng conversation. there's never a dull moment. and talaga lang, yung talk namin that day was...wow. basta. wow.

i ate breakfast early today, alone. everyone else was still asleep, and i was already hungry.

so anyway, the froot loops had 'disappeared' so i got to pick which cereal box to open first. out of the three boxes on top of the fridge, i got the coco chex one--or something the sounds like that. it's the kellogg's one--like coco pops, complete with the monkey wearing a hat.

i got the milk and the bowl, put the cereals and milk in, then ate. it tasted nothing like coco cereal stuff. the bad part is, i'm not sure if it was because of the cereals...or the milk.


oh gawd, the milk...? *barf*

according to news reports, the super typhoon was supposed to hit our part of the country today--but it didn't. it changed course. so lucky for us--but unlucky for the ones who got hit.

anyway, the whole family's been bummed out doing nothing at home, so we decided to go to ATC. haha. yeah, may bagyo pero punta pa rin sa mall. weather wasn't promising at all, pero what the hell, right? i mean, our cousins were going, too--kuya joe was taking little iya to ATC to watch the dora the explorer thingy there.

i went shopping for presents. jinx did, too. we went like, back and forth, back and forth. grabe. before, i used to buy just the same stuff for everyone--like, say, bags. different colors lang for different people. pero today--wow. i don't think i've ever run out of money as fast as i did today. i even spent more than loser did! *gasp!*oh well, they were for gifts.

so now, i don't have any more money. i don't have anything for myself. i am dead tired. i'mma go to bed. *thud*