Sunday, March 06, 2005
sorry for not blogging sooner. my longing for hiatus has momentarily eclipsed my "intense-ness" [nope, not intensity] to blog. hahaha. but now, things have finally started to sink in. things like the fact that it's all over. sooo, bear with me, this is gonna be a long entry.
our daysi remember my very first day of highschool. i went to school, started going around trying to look for my classmates. and i remember that i was so amazed that i was wearing black pants already. hahaha. i had no idea what my life was gonna be like from that point. it was a strange, scary feeling. but it was the good-scary type of feeling. it led to four years of tragedy, comedy and realization and it's been the best days of my life. i guess i'm gonna feel that way again in a couple of months. let's hope.
the last day of school wasn't really all that special. i had just found out that our teacher would pick whichever was the highest between our exam grades and our class standing grade to be our final grade. best teacher ever. and so, without any pressuer, i willingly failed the 83rd and last exam of my higschool life. hehehe.
i went home. but then, it just wouldn't sink in me.. that it was over. i still had this feeling that tomorrow would be another day when i'd put on my uniform, buy over-priced cafeteria food, answer a couple of tests and hang-out with people i've known pretty much all my life. but wow, days like those are over.
i'm speechless. i can't seem to explain everything i'm feeling about this. towars the cours of the school year, i've been asking people, "dude, iiyak ka ba sa graduation?" most answered yes, otehrs said they didn't know. i think most will. and on this day, we will finally forget everything that stood among us. no more honors and non-honors, no more cool dudes and losers... we will all, finally, for once, be called ONE batch, batch 2005.
thesis paper deathwell, soooo, school was over. everything had been said and done... well, not everything! imagine, me standing and freedom/summer/fun is right in front of me, i can reach it, touch it, hell, i can breathe it in! but then, imagine a HUGE brick wall in between me and that freedom.... call it the Filipino thesis paper.
if you combine the two laziest people in class and give them a REEEEAAAALLY big project to do, what do you expect to happen? can't think of anything? that's right, neither can i! hahaha. i have no idea why joel and i were partners on the thesis. with two days before the submission, we had only accomplished say..... NOTHING. haha. and to think we've been going to each other's places to do our thesis for quite some time, and we always stay until mga 12AM! but still, we do nothing. talk about the kings of procrastination.
thursday night.
we had some progress on the thesis paper already. and friday would be the submission of everything. things were going pretty well, we just had to do our individual assignments, combine them all, and we'd be finished. but then, fortune favors everyone else. right after spanish class [yes, i have spanish class. it's a family affair actually], joel calls me.
Joel: "dude, sorry ah, pero you hafta do everything na."
J: "what the hell?"
Joel: "i have to pack, my mom just had a stroke and now i have to go to the states."
J: "what? when?"
Joel: "as soon as possible. uy, sorry ah, i know it'a lot of work." [yes. yes it is.]
J: "yeah, sure sure, sige dude. bahala na si batman."
Joel: "what the fuck is with that saying?"
J: "i dunno."
and so, the brick wall just kept growing and growing. i had one night to do everything. whee. hahaha. and what did i do when i got home? i slept soundly! hahahaha. galing noh? ok lang, my nice teacher [bongiad? nice????] gave me an extension of one day, understanding the situation.
anyway, friday was thesis day. i worked on it all day [jau helped me some] working on it all day actually means that i worked mga 5 mins and then i'd bum around for 30 mins. hahahaha. galing noh? anyway, the brick wall would steadily decrease. and by 4am of saturday, finally, i could reach out and touch freedom! yipee! hahahaha.
on my way to school that day to submit our thesis and to help out in the preparations of our gradball, i got emo. this was the final requirement for highschool! eto na! last na toh! hahaha, and what a way to go! hahahaha. anyway, i'm glas it's over and i no longer care what grade our paper gets.
goodbye to boozeso joel went to the states.
he called me thursday night and the next morning he was on a plane already. sad. wala man lang proper goodbyes with his friends, a nice despedida, he wasn't able to go to out gradball, nor will he even march on graduation day. [whoops! have i just made you cry joel? hihihi. kidding dude! don't worry, you ain't missing much]
and so, our group has once again dwindled in number. and ngayong pang when we could all celebrate our last times. throughout the gradball and even at the post grad-ball hang out at metrowalk, we kept on doing commemorative actions, toasts, and even exposure of naked pictures of joel. hahahahaha.
goodbye booze! hope to see you soon. wala na kaming dakilang transpo ngayon. damn.
graduation ballthe culminating event to a year full of different experiences. could i just say that the set up of the whole place was fantastic. and the food was great! great value for money. the SACB really outdid themselves [hehehehe] the program was a little stupid though. maybe it was cuz of the emcee. hahaha. oh, and the music was cut short. damn it. hahaha.
anyway, it was really fun. but then, it was also medjo weird. i saw someone there i had tols myself to never talk to, nor even look at again. reasons are not to be disclosed. and it was so hard to fulfill that promise to myself. but i guess i went through the night doing so. buti na lang! haaaay. hahaha. goodbye mary jane watson. *j smiles. he is content*
summersummer is finally here! there are so many ways to spend it! but then, i started with the best one of all. monday, today, was my first official day of summer. already i've forgotten what the hell the derivative of a derivative is. what did i do on this day? i woke up at 4pm. yup. batugan na toh! haven't done that in such a long time and it's too damn refreshing, if given the opportunity, i'd probably be able to stay in bed for two days! hahahaha.
things i COULD do this summer.
1) beach. doesn't matter which beach.
2) repertory. miss the reppers terribly.
3) travel with my parents. i think they're going to the scandinavian countries and russia or something.
4) go to australia as an exchange student. naaahhh.
5) learn the piano.
6) take voice/dance lessons.
7) think of a nice way to keep a steady flow of income. hmmmm.
8) do nothing. be a hamster.
frankly, i believe the last one is the most plausible. hahahaha.
summer has never tasted so bittersweet. but still, let's focus on its sweetness. hahaha.
painting a thousand wordspictures.
emo boys joel, mico and i during the last sleep-over at my place. we had emo talks the whole night. literally. now, us taking pictures of the
broken dawn.
with ernest, my ex-seatmate-bestfriend through out the first half of the schoolyear. umm, mike is in the background.
the class seatplan. awwww. can you see where i am? i'm beside the two mico's. hahaha. if you can see the erased statement on top of the seatplan, that says "MAMA has chicks" hihihi. joel and chino put it.
haha. this is
my seat. see, we in bashaune group [that's the right corner of the class. mico, mico, nathan, shaun, andre and i] all have stickers c/o andre. and hell, who could disagree with art? hahaha.
i love
this picture.
our building. wala lang. might never get the chance to take a picture of it again.
playing around
in the SACB room.
gradball set-up.
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andre and chino at the gradball. i hate the night shot feature in my phone, it ruins the quality.
tricia and i.
the boys. yee-ahh!
more pictures soon. once i get the actual gradball pics. hehehe.
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so, it wasn't really that long! i just condensed everything cuz i'm too tamad to write every little thing! hahahaha.
the adventure ended at 8:42 PM
