it's beginning to look a lot like christmas... in hell.


all the tragicomedy about typhoons have abruptly left without a trace, and here we are again sweating like sows in a sweltering sty. la manille has never been hotter -- not on a month like this -- which brings to mind another doomsday global warming a la gore ("soon enough, lowly island nations will submerrrrrge!"). but then it's a way of life for us tropical natives, so i'm just going to shut up.


... save the drama, i'm so much better now! =D


i'm finally relieved that my prelim grades are all in shipshape and that i'm faring considerably well for the first time this year... although to be fair, they aren't as high compared to previous semesters. my inane rationalizing self reasons out that since this year's the start of 'majors' everything just *had* to be average. (passing 12 units of accounting is no mean feat, ok?) ... and like the hopeful a** that i am, i promise to do better so as to furnish a good transcript. no "3"s for me. ha, ha. ;p


shameless news alert: the JPIA General Assembly hullabaloo!

suppose i join those quiz shows...
JPIA (our college org) Day happened last tuesday and things took on a really bright turn. having activities lined up the whole day, i volunteered to join on the Trivia Game for the third years which were inter-section and composed of 3's. this is the first time i get to join in a quiz bee of some sort, so i was quite excited for it (even if i didn't browse my almanac until that very morning, looking for oscar winners and world capitals... haha). so much for arriving nearly late, i caught up with my teammates alexis and jericho at the multi-purpose hall and we spent the half hour questioning each other on just about anything... i stared into space with those science / history stuff (whaat?) and grinned like a hare with "name the world leader of..." (...but of course. *wink,wink*). i observed that everyone else was engrossed with those fact books... omg! i felt ridiculously unprepared. i told them we'd get through it with stock knowledge. i somehow had an inkling they'd ask a barrage of questions about movies, since the GA theme was "Blockbusters"... so maybe, i just might know something. (showbiz has never left my system!) ... pleased that some of my classmates were there to watch and cheer for us. the quiz bee started 9am, multiple-choice type, and the first few questions were bearable enough. there were those that we simply didn't know, and there were always those that really heckled us because we'd often leave out our "2nd best answer" which turned out to be the correct one. (like kotex first being used as bandages in WWI, it takes 17 muscles to smile -- sorry ekko!, and that Will Smith played a fighter pilot on "Independence Day". uhm.) ... i felt that i kinda took the thing a little too seriously, while the boys were carrying on sanely. true enough, there were movie questions to redeem us... it happened that they asked those that i was familiar with! (like movie lines from "Titanic", "Scream", "Two Weeks' Notice", "How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days", "Romy & Michelle's High School Reunion", etc --- hmmm, i watched these flicks?!) ... they were nerve-wracking but fun. the thrill of knowing the answers felt great (i felt kinda like the "brain trust" in the group since i was sitting between the guys and they left me to make the final decision, wahaha). and hearing people cheer for you is awesome. our group finished 2nd (out of 9 sections), 5 points short from the first placer (3a4). and we even had to battle for 2nd since we and 3a5 were tied, leading to a clincher (that lexis knew the answer of, thankfully.) ... winning it isn't much, but it isn't bad at all. =D

ready for my next encore?
as things got on to a good start in the earlier half, i was feeling a bit chipper for the afternoon's main event: the GA itself. all the 3rd & 4th year sections (mandatory members of the JPIA) are each to perform a short skit that revolves around the "Blockbusters" theme and should run at maximum of 7 minutes. this whole thing was announced to us two months earlier, but we only got around into actually rehearsing the week before the presentation! (blame it on the postponed prelims, and a perceived apathy toward activities of this sort.) ... i thought we won't be doing it at all because we were already late, but in a race against time, anything can happen. we whittled down our concept of a 'music video' countdown to three movies: "The Ring", "Harry Potter" and "Moulin Rouge"... so, guess where i'm at. ^^;;;
as our show is mainly composed of dancing, expect a lot of movement! i liked the idea of doing a Moulin Rouge number (seems like i have a predilection for sexiness, eh? harharhar) ... but was a little reluctant when we got to do the actual moves. while practicing, i felt horrendously fat compared to my skinnier, slender classmates (they were really good), and there's no way i could pull it off without swaying my bum like a beached whale! i kept telling myself to "Feel sexy!!!" but consciousness got the better of me. i couldn't even follow the steps well (you know i don't dance :p) ... but then if there's anything left i can do, this might as well be the only one. (2 of my friends who were initially grouped here backed out.) ... so fast forward to the 4th, i am clad in a flattering tube (atop a shirt, duh!) and a short skirt, with black stockings and high-heeled boots to boot, bedecked with jewelry. i even got my hair tousled up and curled. in short, mama pimp! *LOL!* ... we were among the last sections to perform, leaving us ample time to just do whatever to feel pumped-up. i, on the other hand, had a queasy stomach. (of all the times!) ... and then it was finally showtime. "The Ring" and "HP" were performing respectively, and so far so good. i wasn't at all nervous at all; i just told myself to just get it done and over with -- and please don't make a boo-boo! so when we 8 ladies strutted to the stage to the beat of "Lady Marmalade", we could feel hundreds of eyes watching us. (there were the profs, the alumni, and the dean himself at the front row!) ... i don't know what got into me -- i really didn't give a damn anymore -- staring at no one in particular, dancing in line with the tune, with a sly smile and really shaky hips. i guess we were all doing well, until for some reason the audio got busted in the middle of the song. and from that duration till the end we carried on like seasoned pros, and we even got the audience to sing along! they liked what they saw! that was totally flattering. applause, applause. :)
so, here i go again, making people rethink how they'd stereotype me. after the performance, batchmates were telling me how surprised they were when they saw me in action. ("OMG, was that you???") ... i can only say, "you ain't seen nothing yet." =p


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US Open update: hours from now Rog and Nole will be vying for the championship! Woohoo! I've been wanting to see these two play each other at a grand slam final. May the best man win! (My odds are still on the Fed) =)

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