National Bookstore Finds

Waaah! I want to get my hands on Jeffrey Sachs' The End Of Poverty. Buying my copy from bookstores however, will get me on my own road to poverty. The paperback copy costs P700+. Why oh why. Amazon has good deals though, selling used books at cheaper prices. Waah! I want one.

Gusto ko rin ng Development As Freedom (Amartya Sen), Blink (Malcolm Gladwell), Think! (Michael LeGault), and Good Omens (Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett). Haha. Na-obssess kasi hindi makabili. :D

first day high

I have two classes for today. The first one, Theology 151 with Fr. James Meehan, was already finished. I just have to say it would take a lot for me to keep attending his class. Well I hope this changes.

I almost did not make it to the second one, Social Innovations Seminar I with Mr. Harvey Keh. Mr. Leland dela Cruz, the Development Studies Department Chair himself, sent me this text message earlier in the morning:
This is leland from development studies. Just wanted to chek if you know that the course is a one year course and it will require you to establish a social innovative at the end of that year. If you have questns, pls call us at 4266001 local 5219. We cn facilitate transfer to another clas without load rev

Haha. Scary. Actually, I knew that the class is actually the thesis class for DS majors, but I didn't bother to ask if I could be allowed to take only the first half of the course. So anyway, I went to the DS Department all the while dreading to talk to Sir Leland. I know he's nice and everything but he intimidates me. However, luck was on my side for Sir Harvey himself was in the office as well so it was him I ended up talking to. He had no problem in my taking his class and I told him the work I would do for the first semester would not go to waste because I would be pairing up with Jaymee (Go Jaymee!) So yay, I'd be at the class later at 6pm.

free me from negativity

I have reasons to be pissed off today. Actually, three similar connected reasons. But I am choosing not to be. I am choosing instead to work even harder, challenge myself, and push my limits. Maybe through this, I may become the person I have always wanted to be. And then, those three reasons may just be among the greatest opportunities presented to me.

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Kudos to Yan-Yan for fixing my laptop, which I'm using as of this moment. Yey! Clap, clap. Thanks friend. :)

I want to look like her in this photo!

Anna Theresa Licaros looks beautiful in this picture. Hot too. Haha. I don't mean to sound lesbian or something, ew, but I am an admirer of beauty. When I saw this photo I just couldn't resist posting it because although I admit this kind of beauty isn't one-of-a-kind, it's the kind I would want to have. Asa. I mean she really does look Filipina, and I so loove her skin color. Hay. Someday.

up and running

I haven't had and still don't have personal access to the net. Drat.

Anyhow, because of Pau's very encouraging post (thanks pau, you're the best!), I have willed to pull myself together and put my life back into place. As Gerald just told me a while ago, you've got to have a sense of urgency early on when things aren't really urgent yet or else the circumstances will force to have this sence of urgency themselves. Starting this second, I'm officially shifting to supergirl mode again. Haha.

On to other things:

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I went to Odyssey-Gateway the other day and was browsing through some VCDs. This is a funny synopsis I read and I knew I had to copy all this in my phone:
Leung Chiu Wei and Willy were cartoonists. One day when they were on the way to office, they knocked down a lady-ghost Joey Wong. Joey's spirit was thus thrown into the human world. Joey knew nothing as it was the first time she came to a mundane of environment. At this time she met another demoness - Deanie Yip. Yip and her son were sentenced to death by village people because of adultery. Yip didn't do it but nobody believed her. Yip's only hope was to make her son revive from death. Thus when Yip met Willy, she selfishly kept herself and her son inspired by Willy's human spirit. She also intended to hurt Wei the same as well. Since Joey had fallen in love with Wei, she helped Wei to get away from Yip. Joey encouraged Wei to become a good cartoonist. Wei getting more and more famous. Joey became weaker and weaker being hurt by Wei's flourishing human vitality. Wei and Joey in fact were lovers in their previous lives. They were bound to be lovers again.

I got confused halfway through reading it. This is from an Asian (HK, Taiwanese, Japanese, not sure which exactly) movie entitled Fantasy Romance.

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During the same afternoon, I was at Farmers' Mall and it was raining very hard. While Gerald and I were walking along, we saw that people were watching something at the ground floor from the rink which all malls have at the middle. We thought there was a show or something. Turns out that the bottom floor was already being flooded and the people manning the stalls there were scrambling to save their goods. I was surprised that a mall, even a cheap one (haha snob), was prone to floods. Those tenants better get discounts on their rents.

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Later that afternoon, we were going to go home through the LRT. But because it rained earlier, there was a slight delay in the coming of the train according to the girl over the loudspeaker. Slight? How about super-duper. We were already waiting for 40 minutes or so. Anyway, I was regretting my decision to take the LRT instead of the jeepney, when a completely empty train came but from the opposite direction. Naturally, people immediately rushed forward ready to board. However, the doors remained closed. I thought that we were being given false hopes and that this train wasn't meant for us when Gerald realized the driver had to go to the opposite end so he could drive in the right direction. Yay! Finally, the doos did open and we easily got a seat. I find it hard to explain but I felt exhilarated upon seating down. I wanted to jump up and down but I had to content myself with just grinning from ear to ear. I just felt that it was so amazing that when we were nearing despair, this train from the opposite end came to rescue us out of the blue. The whole thing was like salvation, as in God's, totally unexpected and oh so full of joy. Thank you God. :)