Nocturnal Girl

Guess what? I got sick from all the sleepless nights I spent hanging out just about everywhere before I went home. Just great. And nowadays, I can’t sleep no matter how tired I am. Last night was only the first night I got to sleep early. I’m really starting to worry about my sleeping habits because it’s so hard to become productive during the night especially that people transact during the day. I seriously think that there must be some sort of scientific classification for people like me who are just hyperactive during the night and so sloppy at daytime. Since I were a kid I already noticed that I get so much done when everyone is asleep, and I hardly become productive when everyone else is. (Oh no! This would mean that if my work shift is 9-5, I’m definitely not going to impress my future boss!) I’m sure as hell I’d be a very productive citizen of this world if only business is done on evenings. On the brighter side, I could get a job that operates on nighttime. Aside from the additional hazard pay for a night shift, I’ll hardly be sleepy at all which would be plus points at the workplace. :) And I’ve noticed that if I don’t sleep at night and catching zzz’s during the day, I get slimmer. I actually lost almost 7lbs. which I attribute to the habit because I eat the same amount of food and oh no, I certainly do not expose myself to any kind of exercise. Only I got dark circles around my eyes now. I wonder if this kind of habit is still healthy at all. I hope it is because at daytime I really sleep as if it’s the night. Plus I got my sleeping aide (a piece of cloth with garter over its ends to hold itself around your head, whatever you call it) which is a BIG help.

Anyway, it’s my second week here at home and I have barely gotten out of the house. Not that I really want to. It’s just that it has started to become boring especially that I’m almost always alone. My super kulit bro goes to school everyday coz their sem break hasn’t started yet (hey, I didn’t have any sem break when I was in high school…) so there’s nobody to pester me. My sister still hasn’t gotten back from Manila since she’s still waiting for the registration period and get herself enrolled first before she comes home. And it’s as if she’d be home a lot at all when she gets here. It’s her first sem break so I bet she’d be out with her friends when she gets back. I know she misses them. Give her a year or two and she’d be homebody convert just like me. The only thing that’s keeping me excited is that Star World show of Paris Hilton and her friend Nicole Ritchie tonight. I think it’s called “The simple life”. They will take on a life with an average family at a faraway farm minus their dough, credit cards, phones and everything else that is the core of their lives. Ooooh, I wonder how these über rich kids will fare. MG, it’s the world like they’ve never known it! And that other show at ETC called “Young, Posh and Loaded” sounds interesting. How fascinated am I with the lifestyle of the rich?!

Oh yeah. That Usher concert I was so prepped up before is NOT going to push through..Uhuhuhuhu! My friend has a sis working at the MTV Studios and she says it’s been cancelled. Not even postponed. It’s really cancelled. Uhuhuhuhu!

The beginning of the last sembreak

Whoa! It’s been that long since I blogged.

I’m home right now, just got back from Manila yesterday. I’m eating lanzones, after months of trying to ignore the lanzones sold everywhere in Manila for an outrageous price of P30 for half a kilo. That probably reveals how scarce that fruit is in that city. While in my little town, its so abundant it's sold for P30 a kilo. In fact, lots of them were already thrown away because they were starting to rot. Even if you eat a boxful (coz we put them in a box instead of kaing that’s more prone to fruitflies) there is still plenty for everybody. In fact it was just yesterday when the fiesta was celebrated here we call “The Fruit Festival”. That is how bountiful this town is and I love it and I’m proud of it even if nobody really knows where it is. Oh how I love the fact that I can eat as much of any fruit as I want here. Well, almost anything—coz mangosteens are still quite pricey. I barely eat anything that comes from plants back in Manila. Well, I probably do eat some “plant products” but I bet those come from GMOs. Ugh! I’m never going to live to an old age.

Anyway this is the start of the bumming around for the last time. It’s the sem break once more for me and I’m happily stuck at home where I don’t have to think about anything, and there’s nothing crucial I must do for survival like dropping my clothes over at the laundromat, etc. I don’t think I can bum around in the summer coz I’d already be looking for a job. Not that I’m complaining, I’m actually excited to “make money money make money money”! Oh yeah, I’m going to try to work next semester because I only have 15 units left and most of the subjects aren’t really hard (or so I’ve been told). That would be a good money-saving agenda because, instead of getting bored, going to the mall and spending so much for pigging out, and most of all, nightly gimmicks (which is starting to make me feel like it’s a routine after all these years), I would have something else to do. Last sem, I only had 15 units and you have no idea how miserable my life is because I have nothing to do and all my friends have their busy lives to attend to. I’m not a studious person but for lack of anything better to do, I study. Can you believe how pathetic that is? And all my small problems are suddenly magnified because there is nothing else to think about. I was even eaten up by thoughts of my harmless little crush who normally goes out of my mind when he’s out of sight. But well at least the last few weeks were well spent as I’ve met a lot of interesting people. Last night was the only night I didn’t spend on bars for the last 5 days (How could I? I’m home.)

Oops… there’s my Dad telling me to sleep already..Well, there’s an entire month for me to blog.. I guess I’ll just catch some zzzz’s. I already look 5 years older.

The regular isko's UAAP frustration

I watched the UAAP game this afternoon. UP played against La Salle. We lost. It was kind of disheartening. Actually, it was disheartening. It was my first time to ever watch a game live and we had so much difficulty finding Philsports Arena since I rarely go anywhere near there and to add to that, it was raining. I was determined to go to support our team since some of them were my friends. And I just thought it was high time that I watched a collegiate basketball game while I was still in college, with my team playing. The next time I'd be able to watch a UAAP game, I'd no longer be an actual student of the university already..

We got there just when the third quarter ended. Our players actually put up a good fight but in the last few minutes they were disorientated which really affected their performance. So that's how they lost. I bet they’re really crushed. Just when signs of us being able to make it to the final four appear, we were put out immediately. But well, it was a good game. We were beat fairly and squarely I guess. Considering the substandard facilities we have in school and the measly deals offered to our players, we were even lucky to get anywhere near the final four. I wonder what could happen if the school gave free lodging at condo units, cars, allowance and all that bling-bling to promising high school basketball players too...

Usher in Manila??!!

OMG! Usher's coming to town!!It's confirmed! I cannot believe it!! The talent freak is coming to Manila! And on top of that my friend knows somebody who could get me a seat four rows from the stage and take note, it's right at the center of the stage! OMG!... and I know exactly where to get the dough to fund it.. No, I won't resort to theft (not that I could since I don't know anybody who carries that cash around). Robbery isn't my thing either--I'm too physically unfit for the job. Well...I'm simply not going to my field trip in Pagodpod. Anyway that's just for leisure and isn't really part of my academics. I just figured it might be good to have something after the sem ends so I gave my parents the idea that it was required in one of my subjects ("Dad, may field trip kami"...). I just really wanted to go because a few of my friends are going. Well, i guess I can't have everything but at least I can get the best ones. Ooooh... I can't believe it, life is getting more and more fabulous! So many things are coming up and they aren't conflicting with my acads. Well, even if they were, I'd find time. Besides, my prospect of becoming a CS is slowly becoming more hazy. I guess I really am just not smart enough for my school.

Sagada Adventure

I recently had a trip to Sagada to have an ocular of the place so our group could make a much better ecotourism strategy for that part of the country. I wasn't so revved up for that trip because there were only four of us going, to my great disbelief. There were ten of us in that group and yet only four of us were coming. Joyce was even tagging her boyfriend along just so there would be more of us. I tried to invite a friend myself but I was right about him not being interested on such a trip given a very short notice. So there were five of us heading for a place I thought would take forever to get to-- 6 hours to Baguio, and from there, 7 hours of rocky roads to the Mountain Province. And man, there couldn't be a name to describe that place any better. In fairview, the seceneries were spectacular. Mountains upon mountains of pine forests... The air even seemed scented with pine.. During the trip, I was only either sleeping, or eating. What a pig I am.

Anyway, when we got there, it was all good. I didn't expect anything so I wasn't at all disppointed-- not that there was any reason to be so. Everything even became suddenly fun when we got to have some real 'bonding moments'. We all got along very well. Joyce's boyfriend Paul is actually very nice to us all and he was also funny so I guess that added to it. As soon as we got there, we spent the afternoon touring the place on our own. It was quite small (or at least we were exposed only to a small area of Sagada) and so the tour was manageable even with our tired bodies. Besides, the environment was just so refreshing. I guess it was that that drove away tiredness from us all.

Early the next day, our guided tour started with an Igorot guide who was just HUGE. I therefore conclude that the natives of this country are wrongly described by whoever it is or whoever they are that write books about our origins. :p We were toured inside a cave, up, down, over, under rocks.. and man was it slippery. My knees were trembling knowing that if I ever fell, I was sure I'd die. I mean, with all the rocks??.. Anyway, we all survived the cave tour, though barely unscathed.. Paul was such a big help to us all girls. The guide was really just doing his job--guide us through the tour. Nobody said he'd help us get through everything we had to pass by..I should have understood that beforehand..

Well, the afternoon was spent hiking. And I didn't think it would get more and more dangerous. We passed through nature trails but the final part of the tour was that our guide took us through a route that wasn't used for a long time. The grass were all over. There was no trace of a trail anymore. So you can imagine how difficult it was for all of us.. scratches here and there because the grass' blades were sharp! and once again, over rivers, rocks and all those thorny bushes. But it's not to say that all was work. Earlier during the tour, we were shown a small waterfall. We took a quick swim at the river and it was soooo cold, but the thought that i was swimming in clean water from the mountain streams was enough to make me forget the cold... for a while. The final spot we went to was the Echo Valley. The view was the best!! It was overlooking everywhere we passed by. I thought that if i lived in Sagada, I could have always been found there whenever I was mad at the world.

We left early the next morning for Baguio. It was so scary because it ws so foggy and the road was very narrow that one wrong turn would head us right down the mountain. Well, to save myself the burden of thinking what grim things might happen, I slept almost the entire trip. Baguio on the other hand is not one bit impressive. In fact it was hideous. There were houses in every inch of the mountainside. The air was obviously polluted. I've read before that World Bank declared their air hazardous as the particles per million in the air there was much higher than here in Manila.. I wonder why so many people like it there..