Filing this under 'Useless but Cute Purchases.'

DIY Stamp.
Had to use an exacto knife to cut out the letters. At least the rubber letters had double-sided sticky backs; all I had to do was peel and stick the letter to the wood thingy that came with it.

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random post of an insomniac

i shy away from covers lalo na if i heart the original artist but sometimes, i change my mind.

i like cellar 55's version of u2's with or without you.
smashing pumpkin's rendition was kadiri but ari hest did a wonderful job on fleetwood mac's landlside. seven million hearts. i want to marry him :p
cassandra wilson owned neil young's harvest moon.
and dilana (of rockstar supernova) who is nakakatakot, was nakakakilabot in a good way when she did the tapang cover of johnny cash's ring of fire.

my pinaka hate? pizzicato 5's version of girl from ipanema.
buwiset.

i've had prescriptive glasses half of my life.
and half the time i don't wear them :p

for one thing, i'm pango so i only have my ears to make sure they don't fall off.
it also got a lot in the way of my everyday life :p

i got contacts after college and i only got to wear them once.
it was an ordeal trying to put them on without anyone's help so needless to say i gave up trying hahaha.
i just resorted to my cute plastic specs and tried hard not to get annoyed at the old school lisa loeb reference.

i've been toying around with the idea of getting contacts again but given my legendary blink reflex,i was hesitant. i was afraid of blowing cash again on something i was not going to use.

but guess what, yesterday, i got a pair of lenses. putting them on took quite a while. it didn't take the whole day but if it was a task in the amazing race, we'd be eliminated. anyway i was able to put them on unassisted, so yay me!



so it's not the prescriptive ones that i need but it's a start.
vanity won over practicality eh. sue me.

back to work

it says 7:02pm sa clock ng laptop and i can't wait for it to be 8:00pm so i can start getting ready for work.
i've been sick for almost a week, and was just well enough yesterday to go traipsing about the metro. for the pat few days, my little engine that could, well, couldn't.

sucky yes, lalo na if you're energizer bunny me who can last ng almost 48 hours without sleep and in heels ha?

but yep, i'm raring to go to work. it's monday so it's reports day harhar.

but i'm pretty sure we'll be spending the first few hours catching up.
i missed team starbucks :p

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let's answer the UP centennial meme first:

1. Student number?
95-25336 hahaha

2. College?
CSSP

3. Course?
Philosophy

4. Did you shift or get kicked out?
nope.

5. Where'd you take the UPCAT?
Bio Pav hahaha iskeri.

6. Favorite GE subject?
PI 100, where you can get a 1.0 if you can outdrink your teacher hahahaha shh. I wont tell who.

7. Favorite PE?
Ice Skating -- nuninu

8. Where'd you do guy/girl watching?
AS Lobby

9. Favorite professor(s)
SV Epistola (+) who introduced me to Buddhism
Paolo Manalo who made our class write about our Oblation run experience which Darra and I planned to fake (because we had no intention of watching fat naked strangers parade their weiners) but the Unverse had other plans
Wendell Capili because he forgave us (Darra and I) for being late on the first day, among other things :p


10. Most hated GE courses?
STS! Pointless!

11. Did you take Wednesday or Saturday courses?
Had to -- Majors.

12. Did you go on field trips?
Everyday kahit hindi required :p


13. Did you ever become College Scholar or University Scholar?
ALmost but I dropped a subject so underload blah blah.

14. What were your organisations/fraternities/sororities?
AIESEC only. I'm baduy eh.

15. Where do you hang out?
AS Lobby --- far away from the AEISEC tambayan sa attic ng BA

16. Dorm, boarding house, or staying at home?
I live two kendengs and a kandirit away from UP so, dorm. hahaha. Joke. Home

17. If there was no UPCAT and you were free to choose your course, what would it be (given your mental state during high school)?
Philosophy pa rin. I dreamt of beoming a Pink Sister :p

18. Who was the first student you met in UP?
Na non- Paulinian?
Si Donny Dingcong. He was the nicest, and we became fast friends.
and then there's this guy whose name I vaguely remember, Buji? Basta I call him 4-J kasi that was his section sa Ateneo. I think it was Chiquit who introduced us and I zoned out when I saw his lashes. They were incredibly long! Everytime I'd see him I'd go "4-J!!!!" and that went on all-throughout college :p

19. First play that you saw in UP?
I don't remember ever watching a play. there was enough drama between our bench and the soccer bench eh. Drama!

20. What were the 5 most coño orgs.
Babaylan :p

21. What were the coolest organisations/fraternities/sororities?
I don't knw... but I was always envious of the people sa fine arts. they could doodle everywhere.

22. Was there a fraternity/sorority that recruited you?
they tried :p

23. Where'd you have lunch usually?
Darra's, Marco's, my place, Mang Jimmy's, SR Thai, sa Ateneo,Manang's and sa Caf (yes, nang i-invade ako ng school).

24. Were you happy in UP?
Yes, kahit ma drama :p

25. Were you ever part of a rally?
No. Rumble, oo hahaaha

26. How many times did you vote during the student council elections?
Once, when my friend Jeboy ran for well, something.

27. Name at least 5 leftist groups in UP.
I have no idea.

28. Did you ever wish for laude status when you were a freshman?
No.

29. Who did you have the hots for?

Jusko! Mike Templo and Joma Marquez hahaha.

30. If you failed the UPCAT what was Plan B?
I wasn't planning on passing. UP was Plan B :p


okay, 7:41pm na. wrap it up vera.

see you whenever :)

receptacle of useless information

So we were going down the escalade -- hahaha joke! escalator lang :p
so yun nga, we were going down the escalator when Red saw the tarp for the Psychic Festival.
Anyway...

R: Runes? What are those?
V: Elder Futhark Alphabet.
R: Huh?
V: Norse Alphabet. They were given to Odin, some NOrse god.
R: Si Thor ba 'to?
V: Hindi, si Odin nga. Basta, he hung himself upside down some tree ... I forget ... on the 9th day, yung point between life and death, he saw the Runes.
R: (gives me a weird look)
V: Totoo nga.
R: (look gets weirder)
V: Nagtatanong ka tapos pag sinagot, hindi maniniwala.

*kamot ulo*

haha ive always been the go-to gal for stuff that are walang kwenta,
like joao miranda --> the foriegn minister of angola hahahaha ngek diba? eh ano ngayon?
i'm pretty sure mu cousin ja can kick my ass now but at least it's still in the family :p

listening to dumb things make me dumb din

so right now, i have the il postino ost on loop.
maybe i can regain the IQ points that got shaved off the past couple of days. tapos i got sick pa. my utak got fried.
so i'll post this muna here so that my blog will have something beautiful naman for a change.


- I Like For You to be Still
by Pablo Neruda
I like for you to be still: it is as though you were absent,
and you hear me from far away and my voice does not touch you.
It seems as though your eyes had flown away
and it seems that a kiss had sealed your mouth.

As all things are filled with my soul
you emerge from the things, filled with my soul.
You are like my soul, a butterfly of dream,
and you are like the word Melancholy.

I like for you to be still, and you seem far away.
It sounds as though you were lamenting, a butterfly cooing like a dove.
And you hear me from far away, and my voice does not reach you:
Let me come to be still in your silence.

And let me talk to you with your silence
that is bright as a lamp, simple as a ring. You are like the night, with its stillness and constellations.
Your silence is that of a star, as remote and candid.

I like for you to be still: it is as though you were absent,
distant and full of sorrow as though you had died.
One word then, one smile, is enough.
And I am happy, happy that it's not true.

i feel useless

i guess i'm just so used with doing so many things, being busy and stuff that being not busy is making me sort of well, sad.

i was so ready to fix my room today but tara was here so nge. bukas.
i hate putting things off pa naman.
i'm scared kasi na if i put something off, knowing my utak, i'll end up forgetting or not wanting to do it at all because the moment of 'wanting to' (parang chinese na profound word 'no?) passed na and i do't really do retro wanting.
once i get over it, finish na. period. heehee.

wait.
i do agains pala.
rarely but it happens.
in my life, agains are pretty powerful. strong enough to make the same -- sometimes stronger -- impact in a different place/time/circumstance.

hay. i think kulang lang ako sa food.

today i made jalapeno and cilantro sour cream cheese quesadilla (na walang picture because we ate it na before i remembred food porning it).

ito na lang.
it's a mommy-daddy pic. go figure :p



extra pa yung shoulder ko sa mirror hahaha
argh! i'm bored!!!

i've a secret.

i've had full bangs for three weeks now.




i had to deal with kurots sa pisngi, double-takes and a lot of hair- touching and OMG-i-didn't-recognize-yous :p

OA much? nope.
my brother did not recognize me.

i need a tub of chef tony's popcorn

aarrrgh!

don't you just hate it when people (feign concern and) tell you 'okay lang yan?'
of course it's not okay. kaya nga i'm stressing eh! like THE!

pakain kita sa buwaya eh.

"vera, tu as grossi."

yes i did.
over the weekend too, thank you very much :p
i put the EAT in feat.
i think i should swear off buffets for the rest of the year.
the sushi buffet in ebisu was fine but the lunch buffet at alba?
bless me father for i have sinned! glutton-ton gutierrez!

i'll visualize na lang that scene from se7en para hindi na ako kakain mashado.
boo!

Hit a tripwire of smell ...

... and memories explode all at once. A complex vision leaps out of the undergrowth.

Sabi yan ni Diane Ackerman.

And it holds true for me.
I have a very sensitive gustatory system (kaya ako mahilig kumain -- heehee excuses, excuses blahdy-dah) pero kahit na my nose is not matangos, mas sensitive yung pang smell ko kesa taste.

and i bleed it. no hindi yung nose ko -- never nag bleed yun :p. i mean ine-exploit ko talaga yung sensitivity na yun.

i trigger memories. sadya. self-induced harhar. kaya ko i-transport yung diwa ko from here and now to my happy place basta naka pikit (or blindfold *wink*) tapos papa-smell mo lang ako ng something na i associate with that happy place.
eh yung memorya ko pa naman pang elepante, so very detailed yung montage na nag u-unfold.

eh i miss the beach.
bitin ka summer. boo to you!

this is the first weekend after 6 weeks na hindi na dampian ng araw yung balat ko.
hassle kasi yung rain eh :p

so yun, kanina nung naliligo ako, sinabay ko yung coconut scented body wash na sa bath salt (para maalat hahaha pretensyosa!), tapos slather the coconut scented lotion all over and then spritz ng exotic coconut na body spray hahahaha.

yun lang.
walang point, yun lang.

naks, quoting diane ackerman and meron pa akong gustatory system na nalalaman eh ang bottom line is gusto ko lang i-share na amoy latik na ako.

pwede na ako ipartner sa suman.

surprise

in the 7 years i've known J, i never would've have pegged him to be the quiet, introspective one.

he called the place inspirational. i could not have chosen a more appropriate word. maybe that's why i want to move there.