ah, wishlists be darned! as there will be another megastorm coming, i'd better get this up and running before power goes out and i'll be sitting in the dark and staring into nothingness! :)

first off, kudos to the Fed for such a fantastic season -- 12 champion titles this year, ending with a masterful sweep at the Tennis Masters -- $8,000,000+ total prize money for 2006 (gimme some moolah)! i was quite certain he was going to win, and he did =) ... oh, i must mention that Rog is featured on the December issue of Vogue Magazine, in an six-page spread with him donning elegant haute couture. and he's also in People Magazine's Sexiest Man Alive issue. cute!

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the tension's slowly slithering in again, and come next week we'll be pencil-pushing already for quizzes, quizzes and more quizzes... plus those crazy things the profs want you to do just to fill the syllabi requirements. there's nothing more satisfying than banging your head on the table over piles of homework, so as always i won't be that visible around here to give my crap. welcome to the fabulously hectic life of ellie, geek supahstar! ;p

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if there's one thing that keeps me on my toes, it's my PE. this is my last, and i'm going to make the most out of it. (perhaps if we were to foresee the next few years without mandatory physical education, i would probably look like an overweight ass... like the guy in fatboy slim's album cover!). predictably, our first drills meeting in table tennis went down like a soggy rat on me, since i didn't know how to play. i had one wrong serve too many, balls bouncing in odd places, picking up more than i can play, the prof branding me 'epileptic' because i couldn't relax my arms. i felt hopeless with my table-mates (and well, everybody else) because they're able to do those things and i can't. :(

but of course, I HAVE TO DO IT! naturally it's only my first time, so four months will be enough for me to learn and be good at it (that's the spirit! i mean if RF plays table tennis, then so should i :D) ... i've got to show 'em what i can do. so with my classmate L., we went to the gym after class last week to practice ourselves. and there was some progress on my part in yesterday's class, at the very least i was able to serve correctly... diagonal and straight. it's a good thing i can do it, since next week we'll have a practical test on serves. receiving would be another subject altogether! that would mean yet another million rounds of ball-picking... *shudder* (pulot girl!)

i'm even practicing at home, hitting the ball against the wall! i get really tired afterwards that i feel immobile in the morning. i swear, playing is making me lose weight... i can imagine those icky fats dripping as sweat! i'll be sexy in no time :)

sometimes, i just have to think positively in order for things to go right.

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on the subject of The Amazing Race 10, which i haven't exactly tackled this season: we're down to 4 teams (hotties, couple, moms, and the damn barbies) and the pressure is on! the thing is that none of my bets have made it this far (father-daughter, and the cho brothers) so i guess i have to stick it out with the hot models James & Tyler because they're good anyway and well, they're cute. ;p the beauty queens annoy me so much -- why weren't they eliminated? for viewership's sake? (come on!) ... all i can say is that TAR is some kind of a national pastime every monday, 'coz i influenced the folks into watching it with me. heehee :) ... rumor has it they're gonna have a Paris leg in the final! go J&T!

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i managed to catch Casino Royale, and make no mistake about it: the movie's great. i'm one of the many people who had initial apprehension about Daniel Craig being cast as Bond (actually, i never really liked the series -- just Pierce!), and i should better eat my words up. Craig's not your run-of-the-mill spy clone, he created his own style and with good effect. i loved the first half of the film, and the ending left me half-expecting for more. and (semi spoiler!) accountants rule! =p this is one of the few movies i truly enjoyed this year.

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i've been setting up a new blog layout... it's somewhere in the final stages. maybe i can "unveil" it in a couple of weeks. clue: a la mode en femme!

cheerio ... i hear the wind already, aaah!!!!

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