Good and Bad

Ah, finally! After endless posts about bad days and unfortunate happenings, I can finally write some good news! Mabuhay! Yahoo! ASIA Philippines Edition is now on the world wide web! It's not yet Yahoo! Philippines, but it is a start! :D Flattered. Enrollment is over, and thankfully, contrary to what...

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Once In A Lifetime

I feel very, very, very rotten. :( I missed a once in a lifetime event. I wasn't able to go to SPUD's Alumni Homecoming. It was today/tonight/probably still going on right this very minute, and I didn't care so much before, I thought I didn't feel the need to go, but now I am extremely disappointed...

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Playing Teacher

As you know (or might not know :P), I'm currently teaching/tutoring English to three Koreans everyday, each person for an hour. Now, this is a very good part-time job, and I am quite grateful for it (and the pay is quite big for Philippine standards). However, it does have it's, erm... confusing moments. Like...

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Week-end

Wow, that week-end just passed by without me noticing it! That's weird. Maybe it's because with my life now (no school and all) every day feels like a week-end! Ehehehe. Oooh, my cousins and I are practicing an ethnic/folk dance 'coz our choir was asked to perform a number at a fund raiser at the...

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Damn it all.

I am so upset. I just had another grueling piano lesson, and I just felt so upset afterwards that I couldn't help but cry. My wrists ache, my shoulders ache, my butt aches--I just don't understand why I have to undergo all these when I don't even f***ing wanna learn! Isn't learning this supposed...

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Amazing

I can't believe I haven't written an entry about the two-hour finale of The Amazing Race 5. I sux. Anyways, here goes. If you haven't seen it and are still planning to watch, don't read... The star of The Amazing Race 5's Philippine leg Whoooo. El Nido is the most beautiful place I've seen on TAR,...

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Bed

Yippee! I got a new king-sized bed! hihihih... It really is big. Question now is, what will I do with a bed this big when I sleep all by myself? ...

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Hahaha!

Quote of the week, month, or rather--season: My ox is broken. --Colin in Episode 11 of The Amazing Race 5 RO...

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Yikes!

Last Wednesday night was the opening of the Foundation Day celebration at Silliman University. I went to the opening of booths at one of the soccer fields with my friends, Daphnie and Ethel, and my cousin, Chary. Later that night, we went to the Boulevard, which isn't very far from my school where there...

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The Amazing Race 5

I am soooooooo freakin' excited, I can barely stand still! The Amazing Race 5 passed through the Philippines, and they're probably gonna show it as a two-hour special! I don't know if they're gonna break it up into two episodes or not, but I can't wait to see which places they visited and what things...

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Ugh

Oh God, can someone please write this entry for me? It's so late that I don't have the will to do it myself anymore. >.< Anyways, here goes: We did take the 9:50 am bus out of YCAT, and arrived at Narita at around 11:30. was supposed to be on another terminal so April and I said good bye to...

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Schedule

Leaving the dorm tomorrow at around 08:30. Hopefully, will be able to take the 09:50 bus from Yokohama City Air Terminal (YCAT), and arrive at Narita at around 11:30. Narita-Cebu flight leaves at 14:30 JST, and arrives at around 18:00 PST. Our dorm.....

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Update Update

Ohh, sooo busy. Sorry, don't have time to do my journal. I'm in the process of doing the single greatest drawback of traveling: packing. And of course, squeezing all the last sight-seeings, parties, and omiyage-buying in between. Tough work indeed. Wish me luck!!! Soon I'll have to say goodbye to...

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Cruisin'

Went on a Tokyo Bay cruise last Saturday with some friends that I met on the chat party a month back. I was shocked when we got to the port, because I was expecting that we would just be on one of those small sight-seeing boats, but I was wrong, it was really a ship! It wasn't especially big, but maybe...

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And I live!

Just when I thought I was going to die: starving, bereft of entertainment on my last month here in Japan... I live! Hahaha. In other words, I am not broke anymore! By no means am I rich, but, I believe I now have enough money to pay my bills, buy food, and to some extent, enjoy my last two weeks in...

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Whew.

Busy, busy, busy! But thank God it's finally over now! Annie and myself all dressed up for hanabi My friends and I went to hanabi last Saturday. Hanabi is the summer fireworks festival in Japan. We went to the one that was held in the water near Yamashita Park. Oh my God, there were so many poeple...

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Bull

If you're a foreigner in Japan, you'd most likely be stared at, looked down upon, considered stupid, talked about, and always considered an outsider. When you are another Asian (especially brown-skinned ones like me), or when you are black, then the intensity of those treatments I mentioned above gets...

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U.S.-Philippine relations

Being in Japan, I don't know much of what happens in the Philippines nowadays, but another blogger's latest entry has woken me up to what's happening in Manila and in the Middle East. The Chancery of the Manila American Embassy So the latest hostage in Iraq is a Filipino. This still comes as quite...

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Ueno Zoo

I went to Ueno Zoo last Saturday. I figured, I just have to see the pandas before I leave. I just have to. So I went with my friend Japanese friend Sacchan, and we got to see the lazy bears. When we got there around lunch time, they were sleeping. There's two of them in Ueno now, Ling Ling (male)...

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Tropical is best.

The tropics and its inhabitants are often misunderstood. This is what I have recently realized. Up until now, I have more or less thought that I live in the hottest place on earth (apart from the desert, of course). Surprise, surprise. I do not. I don't exactly know why I thought that way, but...

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Yeah

I finally finished reading Villette by Charlotte Bronte. Yeah, yeah, yeah! Why did that book have to be easy to put down? Took me ages, and heaps of other books in between to read it. Teehee. Ok, what else. Hmmm. One more week of classes to go! Need to make two papers, and take one exam. Not...

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The Wedding and Digital Fortress

I finished reading both books in the span of 24 hours. What can I say? Well, I love The Wedding. It's so sweet. I was still crying all through-out the book, but this is Nicholas Sparks' first work where there's a delightful surprise at the end. I think that's the main reason...

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Waaa

In my previous entry, I wrote about the weird thing that happened at one of the stations here. So, someone really did jump from the platform onto the tracks. Waaaaaaaa! >.< Sale season has come! Since our allowance had just come too, we (, April, and I) decided to take advantage of it....

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Networld + Interop and something strange...

I went to Chiba today with Uchida Sensei for the Networld + Interop 2004 Tokyo, an IT exhibition. For those who don't know, Chiba is another prefecture located directly beside Tokyo (this is where NARITA Int'l. Airport is), but on the opposite side of Yokohama. It took us almost 2 hours to get...

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Heee...

I was finally able to watch The Last Samurai last night, and, I only have one thing to say: Tom Cruise, I love y...

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OMG

Really, the heat is incredible here. I don't know if it's because I passed through winter or what, but it's really different from the heat I'm used to. It's like, it's all over you. Back home, the sun is really hot, but when you're in the shade, everything's fine, 'cause the breeze is always cool. But...

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Chatters Party

Finally went to my first mIRC party last Saturday! :D It was an Undernet #Japan and #Tokyochat get-together which was at a BBQ place in Higashijujo, Tokyo, which is like 2 hours from where I live. I wasn't gonna go because of my limited finances, but with prodding from quite a few people, I went, thinking...

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Hungry For Your Love

This is such a beautiful story... read it. Herman and Roma Rosenblat Hungry for Your Love by Herman and Roma Rosenblat As told to Barbara DeAngelis, Ph.D. It is cold, so bitter cold, on this dark, winter day in 1942. But it is no different from any other day in this Nazi concentration camp. I stand...

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Uh-huh

In The Japan Times June 11, 2004 issue, Jack Gallagher, in an article entitled Verdict in O.J. criminal trial still a divisive issue quotes-- "If you want to know what it's like to be black in America, move to Japan...

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Yeah

Ah, what a busy past few days it has been! It all started on Wednesday. We watched Troy right after our Japanese History class. It was okay, not the best, but not the worst either. Friday afternoon, we had to haul ass as we had to be in Tokyo right after our class in the morning for a Gender...

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French Open 2004

Wow, wasn't that a great Roland Garros Men's Final! Whoooooo! The last time I watched a Grand Slam final was in 2001, during Wimbledon, when my favorite Australian Patrick Rafter was having his second consecutive shot to win the Wimbledon trophy. But Goran Ivanisevic defeated him *sob sob*, and at...

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Lazy

Urg. Lazy Saturday morning. Whoever said weekends are nice? Weekends are only nice if you have something to do, somewhere to go. But since I'm still down with the colds, might as well just stay here at our ultra boring dorm and bum around. I'm still in the middle of Villette by Charlotte Bronte....

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Cool.

Found something nice on someone's journal: 'Borderless world does not preclude the idea of a home' By Patricia Evangelista May 23, 2004 - Inquirer News Service THE PHILIPPINES' Patricia Evangelista, 19, won the International Public Speaking competition conducted by the English Speaking Union [ESU]...

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Kaeritakunai!

It's official coz I bought my ticket already. I'm going home on August the 5th. But but but... I don't wanna go home! I can't even believe I'm saying this, as I've been complaining about my stay here more than once... but I guess I'm in my wanting to go to a foreign country mode again. As the time gets...

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Sigh

My father is safe, thank God. He talked to my mom and told her that the attack happened somewhat nearby. This just pisses me off so much. Those people are so unfair, they only ever think of their fucking selves. >.&l...

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Those fucking terrorists!

I just found out about what happened to that oil company in Khobar, Saudi Arabia. That city is where my father is. And he's also working at an oil company with westerners. >.&...

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