Entries for January, 2008
The Holidays are over. There's only a few days left for the break. I'm back to my school work starting today. I'm doing the Finance Case Problem. I got a kick in "answering" it. In the words of Holden Caulfield, it killed me. It really did. ROTFLOL
I'm going to post some pictures when I get back to Zamboanga which will probably be on the 7th because my dad and stepmom want me to celebrate my birthday here (in Basilan). It's going to be another pool party. I'm so bored with pool parties. I had three this December and I'm sick of it. There's the AAO Party at Inland Resort, the Caltex Christmas Party at Isawad Cabunbata and the Land Bank Holiday Party at Isawad Balanban.
It's the first time in quite a long time that Three Kings' Day will be on the 6th. (FYI: Three Kings' Day used to be celebrated on every 6th of January until they changed it to every first Sunday of January.) I'm turning 20 and I really don't feel like celebrating. It's not that I'm getting older and I'm bitter about it. 20 is still young. If given the choice, I would rather go to Zamboanga and watch a movie in the cinema or rent/buy VCD/DVD and lounge at the house. Alone? Maybe, maybe not. Since I still live with the parents, I don't have a say in what they want to do even though it is my birthday.
I feel kind of guilty because I ordered this Aeropostale hoodie and I promised to myself that I won't spend and just save my mom's pension this year. Since I already ordered it, I just think of it as a birthday present for myself. Besides, I don't have a hoodie and I really need one.
My high school friends and I met up yesterday. Ethel and I ditched our families (They had another pool party. Ack!) and went to Jolibee to see our friends and catch up. I really didn't expect to see Junaidi there. He's not a high school classmate but he seems to have made a bond with the Gagoo Dolls (our boy classmates' barkada name). I used(?) to have a crush on him. He's Marion's grade school classmate, the valedictorian. Elmer was there, much to Marion's delight. Pupung was there, too. He and Hazel revealed that Jamie used Pupung's pictures (the decent ones!) to court this girl so Pupung had a girlfriend for two years without him knowing it. While Jamie was texting the girl as Pupung, the real Pupung was flirting with boys as he just came OUT. It drove me hysterical!
I posted something on Multiply. Visit The Confined.
So much for that...
I hope that 2008 will be a prosperous year for everyone.
{ music } a lot of Blondie and the Beach Boys
{ mood } working
While having breakfast, my dad asked me what I'm planning for my birthday. I said nothing. He has to figure things out for himself. If I tell him what I really want, he'll get miffed and wouldn't go with it anyway so why bother.
I'm almost done with Finance. Law is another story. I'll probably do it Monday evening or Tuesday yet, just in time to pass it to stiffy Clarence.
I updated my savings account at the bank this morning. I just can't believe that after 17 years, my money is still... well, nevermind. It's still on In-Trust-For and under the name Lizette Bautista so I have to take care of that first. RA 9255 is such a hassle sometimes.
Let me rant about something. While I was surfing the net, I read that they were going to do a Dragon Ball movie. I thought it was a cool idea but a few years back I remember thinking while I was watching a rerun of the show that it was kind of impossible to find someone who can play and personify the characters. I mean, with the hair and the Super Saiyan thingy, I just can't see it done live. So you might not be surprised if I was so aghast in finding out that a Caucasian (Canadian) is playing Goku. *groans* I know they're from another planet and not really Japanese or even Asian but I just don't feel Justin Chatwin for the role, not unless to put a gazillion of paddings. It might sound unfair so I guess I need to give them a chance to show me what they have to offer; just please, I beg you like the other netizens who commented, don't ruin my childhood. I love Dragon Ball. I don't want well-loved characters be besmirched by Hollywood's idea of Dragon Ball.
There's also My Sassy Girl, a US remake. The movie poster made me retch a bit. The original My Sassy Girl is not a cheesy movie but the US movie poster made it look so ugh! I just hope they didn't stray away from the original story. I hate remakes especially poor ones.
Enough ranting, I better get back to work.
{ mood } cranky
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If only the circumstances were different, maybe things would be much better. Since they're not, I hope against hope that things will get better. I am not a person who settles for anything less than what I think I deserve. And I deserve to be happy.
Do not question my character, negative as you deem it to be. I was raised this way. You should have been there.
{ mood } apathetic
Happy 20th Birthday to me!
Thanks to all who remembered (last January 6th) especially those who I haven't had communication with in the past three or more years but still were thoughtful. You made my day!
Though my Dad ruined my day in the end, I am quite content because I still have a lot of things to be thankful for in the past twenty years of living in this crazy world.
Twenty years and hopefully life is not done with me yet because although I have suicidal thoughts sometimes I'm really not done with life yet.
For a very impatient person, I've done a great deal of waiting. I am still waiting...
{ mood } pensive
The midterms just ended last Tuesday and amazingly, I don't feel any jitters. Is that good or bad?! I'll know soon enough. I have a paper due tomorrow and I guess I'll just write it tomorrow since I'm preoccupied in doing nothing. HAHA
I just finished watching the entire first season of Gossip Girl yesterday and I like it. : )
I also read Twilight by Stephenie Meyer and I like it, too but in an overrated kind of way which suits me just fine. I still want to read the sequels New Moon and Eclipse and see the movie though.
My first purchase as an online shopper will arrive tomorrow hopefully. It's just an Aeropostale hoodie, really nothing much.
I'm going home on Saturday because I'm running out of cash. It's been three weeks since I've been home. I'm not the keeping-close-family-ties kind of person. Everytime I think about it, I think of him. He reprimands and patronizes me because of it. It's not my fault. I practically grew up alone. I keep to myself.
Sorry about that. It's just me. :p
{ book } Twilight by Stephenie Meyer
{ show } Magnolia
{ mood } bored
I'm writing from Basilan. I went home for no reason which is something. Ha!
I got the hoodie last Friday before closing time. I just realized that I bought it at a wrong time since it's almost summer. The heat is stifling in Zamboanga and it's still January.
I checked out this shop featured in MYX Wer U At?! It's called Quest 4 Cool. They sell things that are not primarily available in the Philippines. They have a Multiply account where you can order. I dig the Sigg tumblers and the interchangeable rings. Pretty nifty stuff.
I can't believe it's going to be February in a few days. So much for a slow start!
Here is a list of movies I have watched and want to watch in the following weeks.
Atonement-It's a sad and depressing story. After watching the movie, I didn't want to read "Ian McEwan's masterpiece" at all. I don't like tragedies that much.
The Bucket List-It's not that great though it boasts Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman. The story's done with.
The Kite Runner-It's a very good story and I guess a fair adaptation of Khaled Hosseini's book.
August Rush-It's a fairy tale to say the least. I liked it though. 
Juno
No Country for Old Men
There Will Be Blood
Knocked Up
Magnolia
Donnie Darko
The Dark Knight
Another week of classes will start tomorrow. I just want it over and done with. School's such a bore sometimes.
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{ book } The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
{ mood } cranky
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