UP Fair 2010 - Loverage!

Spent V-day evening with my boys :-) My year wouldn't be complete without a night at the UP Fair, I didn't get a henna tattoo this year though. Oh guano, I'm growin' up! LOL

Broadway Night on KTV! :-)

Meet Anj and Vera -- two of my college best friends. Whenever I think of the tandem I am always reminded of Disney and Broadway musicals... well, music, in general. What better way to catch up than watch the Princess and the Frog and hit a ktv bar?!?

Jess, JD, and Ann

After almost three months...

I love you, guys! Thanks for everything. xoxo

Catchin Up with Good Ol' Friends

There's just so many things I am thankful to God for. When I mull over life I realize how blessed I am having such great friends... I cannot thank the Lord enough. Yesterday, I met with my college friends whom I met at Kalayaan when we were all in first year. It was almost perfect had Chezka been there. But still, it's near perfect! It's so great to see how we've all grown to fine, smart, classy, and independent women whose vocabulary does not have "compromise" for a word. The conversations were great. Ultimately, I am so happy for Lorie. She's shared to us the peace and serenity she just recently found in Christ. And I really thought it'd be weird having the "spiritual" (instead of men) conversation with my girls. Her testimony was very uplifting. :-)

Speaking of friends, my typical lazy afternoon is spent with B and my roommates walking around the oval or just having some coffee in one of the cafes on campus. :)



Thinking about how my life had turned out... the friends I met along the way who never forget... makes me feel proud and blessed a gazillion times over. The joy is just overwhelming! xo

Fun with the Gang

We've been going out a LOT lately. Dati rati kontento na kaming tumatambay lang ng dorm -- kwentuhan, inuman, panonood ng kung anu anong movie at t.v. series. Kamakailan, labas na kami nang labas. Nung isang gabi, nang-aya si B na pumunta kaming Punchline -- isang comedy bar. :-) Panibagong karanasan para sa aming lahat maliban keh B. Weh???

Graveh! Matindi! Lumabas ang aking pagka-promdi. Medyo na culture shock ako nung umpisa... well, hanggang sa huli!

Ibang klase. Ibang level. I only had one thing on my mind at the end of the show -- "Nakakatuwa ang mga jokla -- ambabastos pero ang wiwitty!"



Kahapon, ibang trip naman. S and Johnson fetched me at the old NIP to go for a walk to the dorm. It was so refreshing. Everything was perfect... the weather, the company, the ambience, and the food. We decided to hangout at the Museum Cafe where B joined us for a little chit-chat. It made me realize how priceless it is for me to be here in the University, to be hanging out with these young bright minds, to be in control of my time.



In the evening, we went to grab dinner at the T-hub and played some arcade at Timezone. Crazy! Bumili pa ako ng Doraemon at Minnie Mouse na balloons :-) Naglaro at nanalo sa deal or no deal. Nakabili ng bubble-generator (iyong bino-blow) na kulay green. Para akong batang nakakulong sa katawan ng isang dalagita. Masaya! And just when I thought that the day couldn't get any better, S suggested that we take a stroll around the campus later in the evening... the six of us. And we did. :-)

Christmas Lunch with B and Bunik

Hay... Ang lungkot pag ikaw iyong nahuhuli talaga like when everyone's already gone home to their provinces and you... left alone at the dorm... still waiting for the 20th because you booked your flight so late. Geez! Such a wuss. Anyway, instead of whiling away our time in our dormitory and getting bored to death waiting for our flights home, B decided that we should go grab lunch in a semi-fancy resto and dress-up. It was THE perfect way to end our 2009 together. Lunch at the Chocolate Kiss... all dressed up. Mwahahaha!

Kamagong Residence Hall Xmas Party 2009

Too lazy to put captions. Let the pictures do the talking! Mwah!

KAMAGONG CHRISTMAS PARTAY with the best DORMERS in town!

Happy Together!

Had a crazy, crazy dinner with the gang at Sefali's last night. Hay... Ang sarap ng may mga kaibigang tunay! Mamayang gabi ulet!

Brownout

Anlabo naman kasi ng MERALCO. Brownout kagabe. Sobrang tagal! Ang init tapos meh sakit pa ako. I've been hangin out here in my room since Sunday because of my sinusitis. R was sweet enough to bring me some fruits to help me get better fast. Ang tigas nga lang nong green apple, Ry! Parang bayabas! Ang asim pati. Haha!



Anyway, so ayun, biglang brownout naman at nagpapansin si MERALCO. And it hit me. We are so pathetic without electricity. It's as if we couldn't do anything without it. Paralyzed, especially at night. So for a moment, I just stared at the only light source in my room, my laptop screen. Internet was down. I was thinking. What to do, E? What to do? D, my roommie, was nangangapitbahay. I decided to join them upstairs. After a little chit-chat, we finally got bored. And I wasn't really feeling well.



So I got back to our room and lit five candles. The room lighting was perfect especially for photography, I thought. Super init nga lang!!! Sumunod na rin sila sa akin pababa. D and I decided to get a little creative to kill the freagin deadliness. Geez! So I took my Talecraft cards. :-) And so we (E,D,B,J, and R) started playing, telling mga kwentong barbero to each other using the cards we had in our hands. It was fun! A great way to beat boredom na gawa ni Mamang Meralco. Pansin ko lang sa story-telling, ah, ba't parang laging meh hari at kingdom at mga prinsesa at prinsipe. LOL. Tapos parating anti-climactic iyong mga kwento. Hahaha! But opkors, fun pa rin. Sobra! (to know more about Talecraft, check through their website here.)

Some Kamagong Lavin'

Laking dormer ako. I've been a dormer ever since I entered U.P. in 2001. It has taught me a lot of things, especially when handling myself and when dealing with people from all walks of life. Mahirap maging dormer especially when it's your first time to live away from home and to live with people whom you do not know. Sa probinsiya, I had my room all to myself and I had a part-time "yaya". It's a totally different scenario when I got to UP and stayed in one of the University dormitories.

First, there's the roommate that you have to deal with every now and then; and second, you need to get to learn how to get along with her/him fast. There are lots of personal adjustments that need to be done to nurture a healthy relationship with your roommate(s) with whom you'd be sharing your room with for at least one semester.

Anyway, this post is not about my entire dorm life. Aabutin ako ng ilang pages kung ganon! hehe Nah, this time Imma talk about my Life in Kamagong. I've been staying here in Kamagong since last year and it's only now that I've really gotten to know the people around me -- my roommates and our "neighbors".

ROOMMIES



ROOMMIES and PSEUDO-ROOMMIES



One of the major differences between a graduate dorm and an undergraduate dorm is the level of maturity of the people staying in the dorms. In a graduate dorm, one doesn't really need to have to worry about small talks because every one seem to be very busy getting on with their lives. We don't talk much in graduate dorms than in the undergraduate ones. Pero, medyo umiba ang ihip ng hanging lately. Who would have thought? May life din pala sa graduate dorms. :)

Reader, meet my dorm friends. I love hangin out with these dudes. We could talk about almost anything under the Sun. No, actually, we could talk about anything under the sun! We could talk about life, philosophy, physics, love, nonlinear dynamics, computer architecture, science, albert einstein, sex, movies, music! Anything!! We never run out of topics to share and discuss. This is probably one of the best things about having friends who are both intellectual and witty and secure of themselves.