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Friday, February 29, 2008
20:09
Memories.
This is going to be a very long post.
It's mostly pictures.
It's the first day of March, and it just occurred to me how slow time passed by for the past two months. Which was a good thing, because I got to feel that I have spent a long, happy life in my new school and my new home.
To recap the first term, I might say that I did pretty well academically. Mr. Scheelbeek gave me a pat on the back and told me, "I heard you got a pretty good start, Rowland." It's a great feeling to be commended by someone else. I promise I'll do even better for the next term. Promises are made to be broken, though. But I'll try not to adhere to the stereotypical concept of a "promise."
Anyway, I was browsing through my collection of photos in my laptop, and I felt like I was traversing back in the past, back to the happy, fun, lovely, bad, melancholic, sad, etcetera, moments of January and February.
Candice and I on board Philippine Airlines. Business class!! We were supposed to be in the economy class, but PAL made some mistake by taking in a lot of passengers for the economy class, so we ended up being moved to the business class. Yeah, I know it's fantastic, having all the business class services and amenities for the price of an economy class ticket.
On the way to Singapore. End of the 2007 year-end vacation. Sighs.
My grandmother helping me pack my stuff the night before I left for Singapore.
I miss her so much.
December 31, 2007: Danson, Kenneth, Jix, and I (taking the photo), at The Esplanade waiting for the New Year Fireworks Display.
Piece of advice:
If you do go to Esplanade for the New Year celebrations, then don't leave Esplanade until everyone has disappeared from your sight.
DO NOT join the crowd walking out of the place.
DO NOT even attempt to squeeze in a bunch of smelly and sweaty people.
IN short, Do NOT celebrate the New Year in Esplanade.
My new home. Annabelle fetched me at the airport with a Jaguar. I was like. Whoa. Jaguar??
From left: Rowland, Chris, Niko. Our very first week together in De Casalle.
Chris, Savy, Rowland, Nalaka, John, and our dear Asih. Hostel people are so fun to be with. I love you guys from the bottom of my heart.
Some of us went to East Coast Park for a bike ride and we encountered this pretty sandcastle along the beach.
Grade 11 Social Night. Look at Yinto before. You'll never believe it's yINTO!
He was so yINTO chicken at that time. And I was yINTO everything!
Social Night was a blast!
SJI International. I'm beginning to fall in love with the slope.
I can't seem to remember who I went out with when I took this photo at Clarke Quay. :(
The best school in the universe has one of the worst uniforms. :P
I should have bought size 31 pants.
De Casalle Barbecue Party: Amanda, Nalaka, Niko and I.
Heroes.
Arf-arf. Cool name. My very first stuffed doggie courtesy of Rheyza. :)
Supposed to be her post O Level gift. delayed by a month and a few days. Nevertheless, I love the gift! Oh, Yza, the antivirus software is not compatible with Vista. :(
Rheyza and I having lunch at Delifrance Bistro in Takashimaya. I hade a fun time! Although both wallets were emptied as soon as both stomachs got filled with delicious food.
It's so difficult to be poor, you know. It's so difficult. It just feels like you can't move, can't breathe, can't do anything when you don't have money.
Chris, Rowland, Luigi, Amanda, and John. Chinese New Year frenzy at Chinatown. I remember Amanda buying a jade ring for $20. And this was the night when Eskor first discovered his love for Chicken Rice.
Sleeping beast. I think Savy has one of the most terrible body clocks I have ever encountered in my life. :)
My laptop. My favourite mouse. My favourite mint (thanks to Sid). My empty wallet. And other nuisances in the photo.
Photo shoot using Celine's MacBook.
From left: Jose, Luigi, Rowland, Celine.
Background ghost: Nalaka.
Pepper Lunch at Ang Mo Kio. The day when Nalaka, Joey, and I started to get really close.
And I began to fall in love again.
Shall not elaborate further.
2008 Pinoy Games. So far, the best Pinoy Games according to Kuya Gian. Was so proud of my batch!! We did it well. And thanks to Kenneth for doing most of the brainwork and physical work. The Pinoy games wouldn't be the best ever if not for you. :) I love you batch 7.
No matter how much we did "badly" in our O levels compared to all our seniors, I can still say that we're the most fun and most lovable batch!! :D
We know we did our best. We may not be the smartest Pinoy batch, but we are still by far the most united.
And for the first time in history, the first ever complete Pinoy batch in Singapore after O Levels. We're ALL in JC and IB now, no one went back home, and that's something we can be proud of because we're all still together suffering in this little island.
I love you guys.
*zippy not included in the second photo because she left earlier*
Joey's house-to-house inspection in De Casalle. :)
After the X-ray checkup. KFC at Bedok. Evil hostel people indeed.
After every Kwong Wai Shiu service: Cam-whoring at the bus stop, 30-minute wait for the bus, a nice siesta inside the bus, and a painstaking 1-hour + + bus ride to go back home.
Celine's and Luigi's birthday parties. I preferred Luigi's cake though... Strawberries. Feels like heaven after every mastication.
Jalaka Juddhika Jarnakula.
Wei Jie and I soon started calling people with Js in front. Like... Jowland, or Jeugene, or Jicolette, or Jamanda. Good for people who originally have Js in front like Jessica, John, and Juns.
Free taxi rides hosted by Celine. Fun conversations inside the cab. Though I hate it when taxi drivers begin to insert themselves in the convo.
The Grade 11s. I love all of you!but of course I love ASc the most!! I think my tutor group is the best among the five classes. :)
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To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it the more fit for its prime function of looking forward. ~Margaret Fairless Barber, The Roadmender
[ISILY OST] Mika Nakashima - Yuki no Hana
[ISILY OST] Mika Nakashima - Yuki no Hana
Term 1.
seven, six, six, six, four, six, six.A good start.
Hope I'll do better next time.
Thursday, February 28, 2008
08:30
Numbing the pain for a while will make it worse when you finally feel it. ~J.K. Rowling
Adrenaline rush.
I can't believe I just ran like an ostrich.
Wednesday, February 27, 2008
04:49
All choices become wrong in the end because, as time passes, all the things you lose become the best.
Tuesday, February 26, 2008
01:43
Twenty-day holiday.
I was so angry early this morning. She scolded me. She was so tall, and her high heels made it worse as she gained a few extra inches of that precious commodity we call height. I could barely see her face emblazoned with disgruntlement. Argh. But she had a point though. I knew I was wrong. I knew she was right. My subconscious wants to thank her for reminding me how lazy I've become for the past few days.
My laziness somehow overwhelmed me last night, which eventually led me to watching another episode of "I'm Sorry, I Love You" (Thanks a lot, Carmen. ^^)
Watching it just made me realize how much I have been getting so childish these days. Amanda was happily scolding me on the bus today, saying that I've become so childish. But I can't help it. On one moment, I get emotional, then on another I get so hyperactive, to the point that it's not fun to watch me making a fool of myself anymore. Guess it isn't childish. Guess it's just sheer weirdness.
*****
I can't believe it. Twelve days more and I'm going back to the Philippines. This is absurd. Half of me wants to go back, and of course the other half wants to stay. I can't just possibly split myself into two. That would entirely wipe my existence out of this world.
After two years, I have learned to completely annihilate this irritating and annoying habit of mine - homesickness. I do miss my parents and my siblings, I miss them a lot, but this time I have learned to resist myself from those crybaby nights of mine way back in my secondary school days. Truly, the combined efforts of the immense workload in school and warm and wonderful company of friends has enormously contributed to my "moving on".
And thank you for making my heart sing each and every day. You know who you are.
I actually drafted some of the things that I'm going to do during the course of my 20-day holiday in March.
1.) Eat, eat, eat, and eat.
2.) Eat more.
3.) Never stop eating.
4.) Sleep early (11pm)
5.) Sleep more (wake up at 12 noon)
6.) Watch cable TV
7.) minimize internet usage (Rowland appears to be offline).
8.) go to my great granny's house to pick some star apples for Sarah.
9.) go to my great granny's house to breathe some fresh farm air. ahhhh... although we sometimes can't avoid getting a whiff of carabao shit. Never mind. It's organic in its entirety. It's safer than inhaling smoke from belching cars.
10.) do homework. Duh.
11.) do more homework. Duh.
12.) playstation 2!!
13.) go to church.
14.) meet old friends.
15.) shopping (if possible)
16.) travel far, far away from my city.
17.) learn a bit of driving.
18.) do tutorial for my lazy siblings.
19.) takuyaki festival at KCC.
20.) Get buff. hahaha
Monday, February 25, 2008
03:49
Close proximity.
It means so much to me.
To gaze at your eyes, even for a short while.
To feel you're there even though we're parted by the bitter reality of life; that I am here, and you are there, and I can't be where you are.
It seems too early to feel this way.
But
My heart pounds, my mind blurs, my palms sweat, my knees shiver, my blood flow stops just to treasure my every moment that you are around.
I can't believe you made me feel this way.
You practically did nothing anyway.
******
We have but a moment to fall in love, one moment that is ours, then it is gone. Taken on a breeze delicate and fragile, never to return. If it happens, it happens then, in that one moment, in that breathtaking second as eyes meet, speaking volumes. No words needed. And we know? we only have one chance, one moment to say I Love You. Take that moment. Embrace it. Make it yours.
As if it's so easy.
Saturday, February 23, 2008
23:32
Summary.
I can now officially call this day as a BORING day.
*party poppers popping peacefully*
Yes, it bores me deep inside. Today is like a cork borer trying to screw itself deep down inside my defunct life. What an irony. Defunct life. Sounds like a breathing corpse blogger. Well, in actuality, the word blogger itself wholly identifies the prospect of a breathing corpse. Talk about people who have nothing else to do but blabber in cyberspace. There's so much more out there in the real world, people.
Anyway, I would like to summarize what I did today because it's so easy to do so. When you practically had done nothing in a day a 150-word O Level English summary format would provide more than enough space for you to write phrases such as Once Upon A Time or And They Lived Happily Ever After. However, I have learned to move on with my life (thank goodness), and so I am never going to do another similar summary shit ever again.
I would like to give a beautiful recount in the form of photos and captions.
The first thing I saw when I woke up: the bottom of the upper deck of the double-decker bed.
Off I went to shower. Almost had third-degree burns as I accidentally turned the heater to maximum.
Changed to my outside clothes (photo cannot be shown, nudity is prohibited)
and picked my shoe (Adidas, upper left) from the skyscraper shoe rack.
Nalaka, John and I went to Church. We managed to go out by successfully unlocking the gate shown in the photo.
Went back after church, and gazed in front of the window for a few minutes, contemplating on whether I should go for a dip into the pool.John went for a dip.I didn't.
Usual stuff. Wasting time. Laptop sessions.
Lazy dude I am. Unfolded bedsheets. Scattered books.But a concerned environmentalist. Used electric fan instead of air-conditioner.
A late lunch. Sunday Times paper and SJII PE shorts not included in the meal.****************
Number of words: 22,465.69 (pictures are worth more than a thousand words).
My grandmother helping me pack my stuff the night before I left for Singapore.
Rheyza and I having lunch at Delifrance Bistro in Takashimaya. I hade a fun time! Although both wallets were emptied as soon as both stomachs got filled with delicious food.
Jalaka Juddhika Jarnakula.
Free taxi rides hosted by Celine. Fun conversations inside the cab. Though I hate it when taxi drivers begin to insert themselves in the convo.
