my lines, vines and trying times...

[LINES]
last Sunday, June 21, 2009, we went to the mall...

we went there to buy groceries...

but i have something else in my mind...

The Jonas Brother's latest album: Lines, Vines and Trying Times!!!

we got in the store where me, myself, and i will buy it from...

i was ready for my money and for the CD...

[VINES]
but then...

mom told me to let my cousin pay for it!!!

it was awkward for me...

in my mind, i was saying something like...

leave my cousin out of this!!!

she didn't listen so i let it be...

[TRYING TIMES]
now...

i'm so gonna pay my debt!!!

still...

i got the CD!!!

also...

i have no face to show my cousin for what happened...

i never thought it would come to this... i'm not paranoid anymore!

yo... hey... what's up, people!!!

and i'm back...

back from Shakey's Retiro that is... their food is awesome but once you repeat the same meal again and again it gets ickier and ickier. we had our lunch there and ate DEAL 1. we usually eat DEAL 2 but since it was just me, my brother, and my cousin from canada, we ordered the smallest deal. but in my opinion, it's not really that small. considering the carbonara we added, it was like ordering deal 2. i was forced to eat a lot of carbonara because my cousin was the one who served the pasta. she filled my small plate with pasta. and i was suppose to finish that?!? so when i ate enough, it was all right for her to let me stop eating carbonara (besides, i have eaten like 3/4 of the whole platter of carbonara--now i'm totally bloated!!!). so i finished my chicken and also a slice of pizza. there were 8 slices and four of them were taken home because the three of us were full and it's all the carbonara's fault!!!

anyway, i enjoyed eating lunch with my cousin. we're closer now than before. she has been sleeping here at home since last week's Friday until today. maybe she'll be sleeping here for this week because next week, she'll be leaving for canada. and to tell you the truth, i'm so gonna miss her... we have been through a lot of times since she came here to visit us. she's my role model now. she graduated from the course that i want to graduate from as well. she' living my dream!!! and now that i see that she is very successful, she inspires me to study harder and reach my dreams!!! it is true that we can learn to love a person in our own free will. and i choose to love her because she loves me back, anyway.

so she's really nice. she got me a some kind of hand-made bracelet made from local materials. i think she bought it from puerto galera since it is printed on it "Puerto Galera". did i mention before that she bought me a shirt as well? well she did. and it was for free. she was also the one who paid for the CD that i just bought last Sunday (which made me love her more and feel embarrassed of her because she was the one who paid for my CD!!!). now, i am so gonna pay her before she leaves for canada. i won't let her go without paying my debt. part of paying my debt to her is accompanying her in buying bread in the morning and coming with her when she shops or just want to have fun somewhere. she's really awesome for me right now. and i know she stays the same forever...

since now we're close, i don't have to continue my posts about being paranoid with her. it's not appropriate anymore... besides, i'm paranoid of other things right now (especially at school)...

anyway, i was planning to read El Filibusterismo today since classes are suspended because of a typhoon... but unfortunately, i am too lazy just to do that. instead, i'll be using the computer to the fullest.

i'll go to other sites now...

see ya soon!!!

the family's first niece/grandchild in my mother's side...

you see...

my cousin was not the only one who is taking vacation here in the Philippines from Canada. my cousin's sister-in-law with her two kids came here as well. her older child went with my cousin to visit us here. my niece from my cousin is really awesome and smart!!! she's just four but she speaks straight english since she was born in Canada. she's really cute and very adorable!!! she liked the kittens and the cats that lived on our streets and that usually sleep on our front yard. she liked riding the tricycle. and she's very friendly! she liked me and i liked her! we had fun together during her stay here at home. she's really lovable!

we spent time together because my cousin assigned me to take care of our niece for awhile while my cousin uses the computer. that's our bonding time together. we scared away the kittens on the street then we hid in the house then go back outside again to scare the kittens again! she also met our pet hamster: Chippy! it's cool that she met our pet but the thing is she wasn't able to see the hamster running on its wheel.

the sad part is that her mom, my cousin's sister-in-law, wanted her to sleep in their house. she can't sleep with us. she was really sad because she wanted to stay with me and my cousin who slept last night here at home...

now, i MISS HER!!! :(

i wish kids will be like that. they're not afraid to talk to adult nor are they shy. they are friendly and answers the question if they are asked anything. but i know that not all the kids be like that... the family is just lucky to have very smart, cute, pretty, adorable member!!!

that's it! the kid who makes me happy aside from my younger cousins on my father's side...

it has been a week...

hey guys! I haven't have any time to post in my blog. i'm already in fourth year high school. unlike the previous years in high school, this year is totally different. there only few quizzes but many projects and homework. and speaking of homework, i got a lot of them. here is list of what i'm suppose to do for next week:

• Religion Quiz
• Physics Quiz
• Physics Homework
• Elective Homework
• Computer Quiz/Long Quiz

as you can see there are only five of them. but in reality they are harder than you think!!! I have to write a paragraph with no word repeating even for once (it's about anything you want)... It's FREAKING HARD!!!!! and also, we have to scramble the letter of the word IMAGINED to create new words. the new words that we created are the only words we should use to make a poem about imagination. how the hell is that going to happen???? i'm not that good and creative. the poem i did don't even make sense. i'm going to post it later if i have time...

that was for my elective... let's talk about Physics. we have to write our own procedure about the experiment that we did last thursday!!! it's hard because it has to be in the write sequence and blahdiblahdiblah.....

the religion quiz is easy. all we have to do is memorize and understand our notes then it's cool. but our computer is not like that. true, we still have to memorize things but we also have to know the details!!! who cares about what ARPANET is anyway. it's gone forever since '90's!!!

anyway, we had our palihan yesterday... it wws fun because we had our orientation on what we're going to do for the year. i am very excited for our activities because they are very challenging and hard at the same time. but i think that i'm going to have fun anyway so i can't wait for all our last palihan sessions for this school year!!!

about today, we had our review for college entrance exams. i had fun because our math teacher is my favorite one!!! unfortunatelyh he's not our teacher during regular class hours because he was assigned to teach in thrid year this year. it's a good thing that i am a mathlete because he will be the one to facilitate the club!!! now, i'm not only looking forward to palihan sessions but alos club sessions!!!! before my favorite math teacher leave the class awhile ago, he told me that there wil a contest for this year!!! now, i can't wait for our reviews with him because, obviously, he's my favorite math teacher ever!!!

we also have a study about Earth Science. i had fun there as well because the topic was very easy! so i had no problems relating to the subject...

now, i have decided to cut my hair because my hair is straight but it has bumps on it. the rebonding session was not a complete success. it's very disappointing. because even though i didn't like my hair straightened again before classes starts, i learned to like it along the way. now, it's horrible and my classmates and friends all agree that i look better with my hair short. they say that i look old with my hair long so i'm going to cut it short preferably today.

tomorrow, we will be eating lunch in a five star hotel for father's day. unfortunately, my dad won't be with us because he has to go to work. so we're bringing my cousin from Canada in the hotel tomorrow! she suggests that the four of us wear formal clothes. that is where my problem is. i don't have formal clothes to wear considering that the only clothes i wear are t-shirts, denim jeans and my sneakers and flats. that's it. i have a formal skirt but i don't know where it is. i have a polo shirt but i don't know if i want to wear it. i guess that i'll be wearing my flats since sneakers are not allowed... (and besides, i don't wear high heels...)

so... that's it for now! i'll post later...

first week of school and awhile ago...

so far so good...

i had already caught up with my sleep. i don't feel sleepy anymore. but for some reasons, starting from yesterday, i am going back to my old self wherein i always get almost late! like awhile ago... the national anthem was about to be sang and it's a good thing that i ran on my spot in line or else that would be my first late in my whole fourth year life...

surprisingly, on the second day of the school, i was assigned to collect reply slips. and temporarily, my class made me the YPMO officer who tells everyone to turn off the lights and fans and close the doors when the class leaves the classroom. it's awesome because they said that i was meant for that position since i can boss anyone around in the class without them hesitating. my class adviser obviously think that i can be a leader. but in reality, i am not. i'm not even half responsible. how can i lead if i am irresponsible, right?

anyway, about today, i was nominated for the same position... YPMO officer. i objected and our adviser accepted my reason. my reason was that i had a grade lower than 80 last year during the first quarter. but that was my last line-of-seven grade. the rest of the quarters last school year, i had more thatn 80 as my grade. in fact, i was an O.S. last year, fourth quarter.

my point is... i never thought that i can use my grade last year as a ticket for erasing my name on the nominees's list. i never wnated to be an officer anyway. i am already in the fourth year level. if i become an officer this school year, my module will be module 2. i will be spending my leadership training days with most of the second year officers. i won't enjoy it since my friends are in module 4 and i'm in module 2. so i think that i made the right decision... besides, i need to focus now on my school work so i can graduate with flying colors. also... FYI, i don't like too much responsibilities. i want to have more time off than time on. you know what i mean...

being an ordinary student is awesome! your responsibilities are not that big nor small.

oh yeah, i have been experiencing eating problems in the morning. i can't seem to eat breakfast properly. when i bite, the bitten food in my mouth goes to my pharynx and not in my esophagus. i end up choking instead of swallowing.

so awhile ago, i woke up at 6am which was bad. i wake up at least 5 minutes before 6am so i can still have time to eat breakfast (i eat really slow because my digestive system doesn't work when i wake up early in the morning. also, i take a long time in the bathroom--about 10 to 20 minutes i guess). anyway, i woke up but my parents haven't yet. so i did everything myself like boiling hot water for both my Milo drink and for my bathing. i took a bath but i didn't eat yet. i only drunk a mug of Milo. when i was about to live the house my mom found out that i haven't eaten breakfast yet. she was about to get mad at me but i was getting late so she let me slip off this time. but still i went to school with a plain bread and ate it during in between classes before recess that morning at school.

at school, i was about to be late. but i wasn't. anyway, that's it! one more post coming up!!!

first day of school

first day of school is amazingly awesome, dude!!!

you see, i was sleepy at school the whole time. i was not able to sleep in complete 6 to 8 hours of sleep last Saturday. my cousin who just came from Canada decided to sleep here at home last Saturday. she took asleep at about 2:30 in the morning. and of course, since she's a girl and she's my cousin and as time passed by we became close, she wanted me to stay with her until she wants to sleep. but my mom said i should sleep already so we can go the mass the next day. so i did. i slept at 1:30 in the morning after an hour she went upstairs in our room and surprised me while i was asleep. the thing is i was startled and opened my eyes to see what was that. it was fun because we spend time together at the same time she slept beside me. so i didn't get mad at her when she surprised me. i am a good sport, i have to say.

so my head was already aching from after recess until i got home. though I was sleepy, i had fun because our class adviser was our religion teacher last year. i was at like at home and there were no signs of shyness. feeling comfortable with your teacher is a big thing. if you had a good time with the teacher already, then you can express yourself without being shy. our math teacher is the same math teacher last summer review. i have hints that he could be our class's co-adviser. our adviser hasn't told us yet who our co-adviser is. our math teacher said that we will be having a diagnostic test the next day...

anyway, there are new teachers. and to tell you the truth, our teacher in economics scares me alot. though he's really amazing, it's hard to recite because he might correct you or criticize you really badly (sometimes rudely, too). our t.l.e. teacher is also new. she scares me differently compared to the way i'm scared with our economics teacher. she gave us homework immediately! our english teacher is pretty awesome! i like her. i alrady feel comfortable with her. i was able to recite in her class. so she knows me even just a little.

well, that was my first day... more about school later... see ya!

the dance that i'm currently addicted to...

we just had our dsl. now, i'm enjoying it since this monday. i've been viewing yooutube videos of the Jonas Brothers, Miley Cyrus, Demi Lovato, Selena Gomez, and my favorite music videos. i'm having fun! the internet is very fast. i even got to watch the last live webcast of the Jonas Brothers in Facebook awhile ago at 8am.

Anyway, after iwatched their webcast, i watched their previous ones. after that, i practiced again the steps of the hoedown throwdown.

the hoedown throwdown... the clip commercials fo this dance in Disney Channel was very intriguing for me. i always catch it on the afternoon commercials, trailers and behind the scenes of the Hannah Montana the Movie. I felt like i want to dance it and also memorize the dance. so i went to mileymandy channel in youtube to check if they have a video of it. and they did. they have a teaching lesson for mandy. miley taught the steps to mandy. mandy tried it three times. she got the dance during her third try. then there was the fourth which miley and mandy danced really good.

i have been watching the video since monday. i only watched it but didn't try to do it at first. then yesterday, i just had nothing to do. so i decided to learn the dance. for about 3 hours, studied the dance and practiced it. then i joined miley and mandy while the music was playing in the video. then by 7, i finally got it! i even did it when i was in the bathroom bathing. and i did it just now and repeated the video twice before posting right now! how awesome is that?

oh well... i just want to savor this moment when i found out a way to get pumped even though I don't know any exercise that is tiring and releases your sweat after many times of diong it.

that's all! I'm gonna have to continue to post about me being paranoid...

what happened during our dates and what i felt about them

one of my older cousins came here in the Philippines from Canada. her arrival was last may 29. we we were not the ones who fetched her. it was her boyfriend who did that (she made a choice). so... being her cousin and all, she promised me and my brother to take us out and give us treats. and this is where the story starts...

last Monday, we went to Shakey's to eat dinner. at first i thought that it's just me, my brother, and my cousin. but i was wrong 'cause when my mom asked her who else was going with us she said that there were also her boyfriend and his younger sister. thoughts begin to enter my mind. when we reached our destination, i recommended the "deal 2" in the menu. and they added mojos and one more large pizza. anyway, it was fun because the four of us (me, my brother, my cousin's boyfriend and his sister) made fun of every word that my cousin said. My cousin, even though grew up in the Philippines, has a very slang accent because of living in Canada for eight years. When she says a tagalog word, she mispronounces it and that's very funny for the four of us. She also has a different manner of holding a glass of water and using the utensils which was also funny when you're in a mood of mocking someone. But there were times during the dinner when i don't really know what they're talking about. so the only people laughing is not me which is bummer 'cause everyone was having fun excpet me.

The second date was awhile ago. We went to the mall of asia. the same group last monday. we ate lunch at Highlands Steak House. the food was expensive but the steak and sauces were awesome!!! So we ate. all of us were bloated. then we went ice skating. my brother and i didn't know how to ice skate. so the two of stayed on the sides until we got the hang of it (at least I did. my brother gave up minutes before all of us quitted).

anyway, the thing that pushed me to know how to skate away from the sides was the feeling that i am left behind. although my cousin guided me and my brother at first, she left us on the side and had fun with her boyfriend and his sister who knew a how to skate even a little. The three of them went across the rink and took pictures of them. they also made videos of them. and you don't know how it feels to stay on the side, practice your balance on your skating shoes, while you see the three of them having fun. it's not fair. only the three of them had fun. my brother didn't. he wasn't successful balancing himself. i only had little time to enjoy when i got my balance. but it was too late since we got out of the rink 15 minutes later.

i am very competitive when i feel like i'm left behind. when i'm competitive it's either i want to lose (only when i know there is no way for me to defeat the opponent) or i want to win (that's when i had already enough of being left behind). I have the tendency of having self-determination and self-control. and always, i win when i choose to win. and if i do win, my ego gets bigger and pride takes over. but even though pride takes over, it's either it ends that way (when there is no chance for me to skate again because we don;t go to rinks that often) or i still practice and improve more (when the challenge is within my reach).

after we went ice skating, we played in the time zone. we played games using the card of my cousin's boyfriend. we used the card until there was nothing left. then we went home.

that's it. i have the feeling there's going to be a next date. my cousin is staying for a month. it has only been 3 days since she came from the airport. she still has three weeks and 4 days to schedule a date or more.

who knows what's going to happen to me before she leaves for Canada.

you know, maybe that's why i'm paranoid. we're not that close so we don't connect. yeah, i'm paranoid all right...

How can the last week of summer be this great?

You see, in a boring life during summer, the most popular things to do when you're not good in sports, or don't have any money to go to the beach and you're staying at home, are watch television and surf the net. There are no problems with the tv because we already have Disney channel unlike before. But there was a problem with our Internet. It's speed is so slow that when you're downloading something it takes you forever to finish. But then that changed last morning.

Awhile ago, a man from the phone company, that we are registered in, came and changed our Internet to Ethernet (that's from Dial-Up to DSL). How awesome is that? Now I can enjoy the same thing I do when I go to the Internet Cafe. I don't have to go there anymore! Hotmail is now accessible. No more reason to go out.

But there is a reason to go out. My cousin just called the family celphone and invited us to hang with her in the Mall of Asia tomorrow. My brother and I will be picked up by my cousin's boyfriend with his younger sister. We might go ice skating so we are also asked to wear socks. How exciting and awesome is that?

Though I don't know yet what's going to happen tomorrow, I am reminding myself to post about why I feel Paranoid before tomorrow comes.

Anyway, that's it!

Killing Time

I have nothing else to do. My brother went in the Internet Cafe near our house because of the same reason. I'm posting right now because of it, too.

My cousin is taking her time shopping and spending time with her boyfriend.

But that's a good thing. It will be better if mom gets home first before my cousin does. That way, my mom knows the time when we take off and the place where we are destined to eat tonight.

I'm all alone at home. We have a helper who irons our clothes but she's upstairs so she doesn't count since I'm alone here downstairs.

It's a good thing I have a blog. I don't know what else to do when I'm tired of watching the television and playing Text Twist over and over again.

One thing I don't get tired of doing. And that is listening to PARANOID by the JONAS BROTHERS!!! It's very addictive!!! It's on repeat one on my music player. I memorized the lyrics in three days.

And just now, my brother came back from the Cafe...

Anyway, he's not important for now...

As I was saying, I'm in love with JB's Paranoid. I watched the music video on Youtube during the times when my brother and I, together with my mom, went to the Internet Cafe. It was AMAZING!!! The lyrics are pretty much useful and applicable to me even though I have not have a boyfriend yet. The song is rumored to be all about Taylor Swift and Joe is Paranoid about her. Well, that's just the rumors.

Every time I turn around, something's just not right!!! Just might be PARANOID!!!

Last Summer

What DID I do last summer?

I’ve been writing poems and listening to music
Cleaning the house and washing the dishes
Going to the dentist and fixing my hair
Doing nothing which is so not fair!

All I did, too, was to watch tv
Surf the net and be lazy
Nothing that’s so impressive
Not even close to productive

I was supposed to be with my friend during her birthday
But I can’t be in the meeting place; there was no other way
And to think that I all ready had a gift for her
Now I have to bring it to school so I can give it to her

My friends said that I was the only one who wasn’t there
They said that they had fun all together
During their reviews in co-ed classes
During my friend’s 16th birthday, filled with goodness!

I blogged about what’s happening to me
I also chatted with friends who are far from me
I made a guide for my last year in high school
I had posted it so everyone can use a tip or two

I did have a review
But it only lasted a week times two
I read two novelettes for school
But none of them was cool

I didn’t even get any chance
To have fun under the sun
No going to the beaches
Just hanging out on our small pool

Summer has gone so fast
We only had two months
To actually enjoy and chillax
How awful and lame is that?

So… How about you? What did YOU do last summer?

Unexpectedly Unexpected

Things happen so fast that you don't know what's going to happen next. For example, who knew that my cousin, who gave me an iPod Shuffle, was visiting the house today? I mean, i was only warned this morning when I woke up. I was surprised in the inside but I didn't want my mom to see that I was surprised in the outside because it was announced that anytime this June that my cousin will be coming. I didn't know what day it was but I did know that it was any day on the first week of June.

Anyway, she came between quarter till 12nn to quarter past 12nn. My brother and I had not yet eaten our lunch because we wanted to spend time with our cousin. After an hour, she went out and went shopping with her friend. She'll be back later evening and pick my brother and me up because she'll be treating us to dinner along with her boyfriend and her boyfriend's little sister.

The little sister is not so little. In fact, she's a year older than me. We go to the same school but we're not really that close. We talk but that's only when there's something to criticize or anything like that. We don't share experiences nor do we have same interests... She's sort of on the upper middle of the food chain. I'm on the lower middle part. Though she's nice, honestly, I don't know how to start a conversation with her... I can only start a conversation when I want to talk to someone I just met or someone I don't know yet or a person who I encounter for the first time. It's a good thing that my brother is come with so I can at least talk to someone during dinner.

Since the dinner was also unexpected, I didn't know what to wear. I hadn't prepared my outfit yet. So when the sun sets, I looked for comfortable clothes that I like so at least with my outfit I feel good. I don't know whether to wear my sneakers or my flats. I'm going to figure it out later!

I'm going to share what will happen during our dinner. Maybe I'll post pictures... (if there are going to be any good ones...)

Gotta go for a sec. I'll just fix my hair. Though I don't know when she'll take us to dinner, I'm preparing for it.

Bye for now!