.: Naughty by Nature :.

and so, the supposed 'main event' of our student council finally pushed through, after last minute changes, so much hassle, it's finally over. hmmm, imagine, on the day itself, saturday, had to be in la salle at about 7am to start setting up and stuff na, and we ended at about 12am and in that span of time, with all the running, the asikaso, the errands, etc etc, i only had two meals. and i survived. you know me, i HAVE to eat every 2 hours. hehehe. sabi ko nga eh, di ako tatagal dun sa Survivor, i'd vote myself out. unless maraming rats and stuff to eat! hehehehe.

so how'd it go? it went great! more people came than i had expected which is really cool. that radiomercial really worked ah! wahahahaha. anyway, the show itself went along smoothly, wala namang [halatang] mga palpak. hehehe. i'm so proud nga eh! experience din to with events management and stuff. hehehe. [plus, the models were really WOW! hahaha.]

pics...

let me tell you about our tuesday adventure. see, our teacher's sister passed away [rip] and we asked permission from our assistant principal if our class could go and visit the wake all the way in the far reaches of novaliches. being the astig class that we are, pinayagan kami and off we went. but we couldn't leave yet cuz the people who had promised transpo suddenly came up short and couldn't provide anymore! hassle! so we were still in the classroom in 1st period, desperately trying to get transpo!! finally, after some persuasion, we mustered up five vehicles tas siksikan na lang. hahaha. hmmm, it took us about 2 hours just to get to the place cuz of the immense traffic, and in the car, many [very funny] things kept on happening for example..

--> j is bored. no good music to be found.

--> he looks behind him, apol is teasing kiko in a very 'foul-ish' manner.

--> he looks in the glove compartment. lo and behold, a cassette tape.

--> he pops it in the radio as his friends behind him wonder what music is about to be played.

--> suddenly, a distinct melody fills the car. it causes nostalgia to almost everyone in the car.

--> with feelings and the typical boyband facial expressions, a sing-along starts in the car..

--> "i don't care who you are, where you're from, what you did as long as you love me."

hehehe. so we stayed at the wake for about an hour or so. our adviser was cool about the whole thing. hehe, ewan, for me, ms.yky's been our best adviser in the past four years of high school. lalang. cobi then, insisted that we have our lunch at his place, which was five minutes away. we all agreed. on the way there, crazy people in the other car were trying to get themselves killed.

getting back was a bit of a pickle. see, we were supposed to get back by 1pm, eh mga 2pm, were still in KFC having another meal, kaya we all scrambled to come up with an excuse, and what did we come up with? well, the ever-plausible, never-failing traffic in Manila! haha. buti na lang, we didn't have to use the excuse cuz we weren't asked about it! hahahaha.

.: amazing things keep happening in my neighborhood :.

for the past few days, my friends have been here at my place. wednesday, it was the house-warming. thursday-friday, it was a tambay-sleepover thing, friday night, it was the usual post-gimik tambay [my house is everyone's house]. hehe. well, on each day, something worth noting always seems to happen.

1) wednesday. housewarming party. my friends and i were eating in the basketball court area. casually, we were just talking, eating, listening to bree and mike rave about lovers in paris [all the rage in class for some reason] shooting some hoops, when suddenly, we hear screams outside our house. we peer outside. a crazy man wearing a lifevest [yes, a lifevest] with an axe is screaming, swearing and hacking away at one our guests' cars saying that he shouldn't be parking in front of his gate [in a, uhm, different manner of course]. he just kept shouting and threatening people who'd pass by until i had my sister get the guest who owned the car who parked in front of his gate. crazy palakol man went back in his house and the scene was dormant for a while.. until baranggay tanods came into the scene and tried to get the guy come out and explain stuff. crazy palakol man went back out still shouting and threatening and stuff [intense!] but then, another neighbor, who was apparently his friend, prodded him to go back inside the house. the tanods then, called the cops, a little later, a tricycle with a cop on it arrived. a little later still, a police car arrived and two cops came out, one had a fully loaded M-16! wahoo! naka free show kaming lahat. this whole ordeal lasted about an hour and we were just there, watching. kulang na lang, popcorn. hehehe. the cops, with guns in hand, tried to get the guy to come out. after a while, a similar man came out, also wearing a lifevest but was also wearing an "army of phils" issued helmet on his head. this guy didn't seem crazy. he just talked to the cops and stuff. and so.... after a LOT of talking na, the cops left and everyone forgot the whole thing. amazing. hehehehe. sayang, walang action! hahaha.

2) thursday night. after having played basketball in the rain [saya sobra!], we went in the house and we saw these weird, uniformed people, singing and dancing in my living room! WTF IS HAPPENING?! hahaha. it was a musical group. apparently, the priest who had blessed our house the night before is a singer and had a group of four [a tenor, a baritone, an alto and a soprano] who sung in perfect melody and sounded as if they were 20 people! galing. they serenaded us [my friends and family] with xmas songs with matching facial expressions and actions pa! wahahaha, it was entertaining. the spirit xmas bar in my just climbed up a notch. hehehe.

3) friday. was gonna do my xmas shopping. had no transpo so i hitched with my friend ralph going to gale. his sister was driving. about 50m away from my place, in the intersection of the 1st main road, we got into an accident. yup. see, we were on the mainroad. there's this rule that in an intersection, the mainroad has the right of way. it was uber traffic that time and we were already in the middle of the intersection when this starex turns left from our left to join the mainroad [not: we were already in the middle of the intersection and we stopped when we saw the car make singit] and BOOM! we hit. smack in the middle of the intersection. we were stuck there for about an hour. traffic around us was horrbile. dozens of specatators were around. and about 5 MMDA people were on top of the whole thing. ralph's sister was a bit emotional about the whole thing and was crying so ralph was the one who talked [and kinda got mad {he has every right}] at the guy [at one point, i thought ralph was gonna kick the bobo guy's ass na. btw, ralph is a black belter in taekwondo and has been the team captain of the lasalle team for 2 years now.] we ended up in city hall na where they ahd to file reports and stuff. fil and i [yung mga freeloaders na nakisabay lang] decided to go our own way na since nakakahiya na diba? hehehe. ayun.

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well, that's 3 amazing things.

hehehehe.

.: christmas time :.

it's almost xmas and i'm glad to say that im feeling it na rin. hehehe. i dunno what triggered it. i guess it was listening to that musical group perform in front of us. hehehe. and so, my family will be going away. i'll be on hiatus for about 8 days. the destination... a secret. i'll tell you when i get back. hehehe. it'll be our "last" family trip since next year, my sister's getting married and my other sister's going to the states to pursue a 2nd master's degree [shempre, bente nanaman kapatid ko!]. so this trip'll be special. but the thing is, i'm leaving in like 10 hours and i'm not even excited or anything. i don't feel like going. know what, i'd so much rather stay here at home. haaay.

tragedy has been the theme this xmas season. sadly. i've been to 2 wakes and known a few more people who have passed away since early november. hassle grabe. i think i've only been to 5 other wakes in my whole life and 2 of them have been this year. well, they've all gone to a better, more xmas-y place.

.: ghostly encounter :.

took this picture in one of the bball courts in alabang. i was inside the court, all alone, in front of the electric fan. it was about 1030pm. i was just fooling around, playing with the amazing lighting of the place, but i guess i caught more than i wanted to. please check the right side of the picture. once again, i was ALONE inside the bball court... wtf is that figure walking?!

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and so, finally, i'm gonna end this blog entry na. hope i haven't bored all you. hehehe. i've already tried to shorten everything. hahahaha. anyway, i'll blog asap. i'll try to do so while im there. anyway, tc all. and in case i won't be able to greet you all...

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!