Archive | July, 2008

kill the motherf*cking klepto

omfg, Jaah just stumbled in our room drunk. I was waiting for her so that we could majorly ransack 607B. We found a couple of her Seventeen magazines there! Those biatches! Oh no they di-int! I’m so fucking itching to bring it awn!

Jaah’s so cute, asking me what I think she should do about Helen and Geanne. I really don’t know. Geez, what kind of a friend doesn’t know what to do? A friend like me, I guess. It’s good that her brother is here to calm her down. I think she’s crying now. Godddd, I don’t know what to do.

I think the best way to deal with this would be to confront them both. Earlier, we thought of calling Geanne up but then I don’t think much could come of that. Texting would be out of the question because she could ask Helen first and then she’d end up covering for her friend.

Someone please tell me what to do.

So far, I have:
Option 1 - Kill the klepto (Thanks Kim and Charms)

That’s it.

I think I should just go and get drunk. Maybe then I’ll be able to figure out what we should do. Dang it, I said pag-strike3 na, I’ll be setting fire to their closet. But then I don’t think I could do that to Geanne. She isn’t so bad after all.

Aaaaaaaaaaaagh screw you Helen! Do you have any idea how stressful and turbulent our lives are? Maybe not, you closet-raiding whore.

I’m so angry I’m starting to cry. I hate being angry. I hate hating people… even if some deserve to be hated.

I can’t believe you even tried to befriend us, slut. I can’t believe how we thought you were the nicer one compared to Geanne. I can’t believe you have the guts to say hi when we see each other in Katipunan, you two-faced social climber.

You don’t know what you’re up against.

They say that with age comes maturity… but no. We’re just about to mess up their room, scream like there’s no tomorrow, and curse our way to hell. Thank god Jaah’s brother is here to entertain us (by doing splits and making his boobs move) and stop us from doing crazy stuff.

this is war

So Jaah told me that she caught Helen using the iPod that has long been “missing” from our room. I don’t remember the exact details but what I do know is that WE ARE MAD! This is war! You don’t mess with Jaah and the Jolograms!

Now I’m stark raving mad because Helen also stole three of my clothes last summer. I found out because when I checked her closet one time, I found one of my shirts. And then some time after that, I found my hanger (yes, I know my hangers very well. They have names, you know) in their closet. I’m so frikken sure that she stole it because, let’s face it, Geanne isn’t exactly the size –err- type to wear those kinds of clothes.

Damnit, I was so war mode earlier but now I don’t have anything to whine about. Augh. But I do thank Mr. HH for somehow distracting me and making me smile even if it’s just through lame-ass ym. There. I’m not so angry anymore. I can’t wait for Monday though because that’s when we’re gonna be interrogating —err- confronting the two of them. I’m not sure how to go about it though so it’s kinda good that we have the weekend to think about it. For tonight, we will just be ransacking their room. But I couldn’t wait for Jaah and Rona to get home so I pre-ransacked it already. And what do you know, Helen took everything home. It’s just UTAKAN from here on. I know it. I feel it. We all know that Helen took the stuff. But we just gotta figure out a way to make her admit it. Meanwhile, she’s figuring out a way to hide it. It’s just a matter of strategy. This is the real UP vs. Ateneo. And we are about to prove once and for all that Ateneans are smarter! For the sake of the entire Ateneo population, really.

So help us god.

P.S. Sorry New Guy, you’re mathematical-retardedness is getting kinda old and you just can’t make me smile today. I’m sorry, I think your stupidity is starting to be frustrating. I’m sorry, I know I’m supposed to be watching Dark Knight with you right now but I’m just not in a good mood. I will stress-eat now, mkae? Oh but I do think the cookies are sweeeeeeeet. Great move (Gweyt beeh - Jet Li).

you give me fever

I can’t believe I dint go out with any of the guys today! Just yesterday I was figuring out a way to go out with both and this morning I was choosing between the two. But tonight, nada. Good job, world. Is this karma for my making a mad dash to the restroom to escape Mr. HH after class? All I wanted was to avoid a potentially awkward conversation with him which involves me making up some lame excuse to ditch him for the nth time. I really do feel guilty for the times that I’ve bailed out on him, I mean, we are friends on some shallow level and sometimes I get confused when to act like a friend and when to keep my guard up.

New Guy has the fever. And so do I. I hope I get to see him tomorrow. I don’t care if I’m feeling really sickly tomorrow. If he’s going, then I will haul my sizzling feverish ass there. What a lovely way to burn.

mamma mia!

My roommates and I (aka Jaah and the Jolograms plus Zah) watched Mamma Mia! in Eastwood last night. The entire movie was so sabaw that we literally felt high and/or drunk after watching. Serena was right: Meryl Streep can sing (very very well indeed). So could Pierce Brosnan but then it felt so wrong and at the same time hilarious seeing him act in an un-007 kind of way. Will download the soundtrack ASAP (all hail piracy!). My favorite parts/songs: Chiquitita and Dancing Queen. Wutta laughtrip. This was the perfect movie for our window of freedom before the second wave of hellish school requirements.

There’s actually time for another movie today/tonight. Dark Knight, Dark Knight, Dark Knight! I’m just 30% sure about watching it with the AMF boys though. The prospect of going to the movie theater with a bunch of other hormonally-hyperactive guys just doesn’t sit too well with me. But it’s Dark friggin Knight! Watching Dark Knight with them though means that I’d be ditching New Guy today, and that idea doesn’t sit too well with me either. I think I’m gonna go with the New Guy this time.

newsflash

Mr. HH asked me if i wanted to watch Dark Knight with dem guys tomorrow after class. Dark Knight is Dark Knight is Dark Knight. So naturally, I went like “I wanna watch!” but on second thought, hm, maybe not. I don’t think I’d be comfortable going out with dem horny bunch. To ditch or not to ditch? A very crucial decision. Will decide depending on my mood tomorrow.

New Guy found out I was a cheerleader! Hah! Well I kinda knew that would happen. So… ball’s in your court now, dude. Why the random text tonight? Hm. He has the sniffles today, poor boy.

sleep-deprived college student by day, curly-haired high school student by night

Ahh yes, it’s so tough being a superhero, keeping a secret identity and having to save the world by… uh… skating and dancing to ridiculously upbeat songs. But that’s the way it is. My gift, my curse. Haha. Srsly, I blame this superhero mania on my excitement for the will-be-showing-tomorrow Dark Knight. Dark Knight! DARK! KNIGHT!

Heath Ledger! OMFG, goosebumps…

I bet I’d end up watching this movie over and over again with different sets of friends (and, uhm, special friends?) just like I did with Harry Potter, Pirates of the Carribean, Kung fu Panda, Da Vinci Code, and other great (although sometimes overrated) movies I’ve looked forward to watching (hold on, why is Kung fu Panda in this list?? I just happened to watch it over and over again but it isn’t exactly a great nor overrated movie). Ro–uhhm…New Guy and I are watching Dark Knight on Friday. But I’m honestly more excited about the movie than our “first date”, srsly (I swear on Chris Tiu’s face, so believe me). If there be butterflies in me tummy and if there be sparks between us, I really don’t think I’d notice. Really.

New Guy’s mathematical-retardedness is becoming more and more apparent… and appealing. *sigh* Ironically though, I’m helping him become less and less of a dufus when it comes to math so *sigh* there goes his crush-ability. Not! He’s really hilarious and I’d think we’d really hit it off but his nose! Oh his nose! I just noticed it yesterday and, frankly, with a nose like that? Uh-uh. Not if we’re having kids, no. I mean, lookit me nose, it’s just there for respiratory purposes. But aesthetically? And yours? Uh-uh, hell no. Let’s just see how far your personality and your artsy-fartsy self takes ya.

Mr. Hormonally-hyperactive, on the other hand… oh, I’m cracking him. I gotta gitcha wrapped around my finger and the game is on. Almost there! I think the hair’s gonna seal the deal, just you wait for it. And the AMF271 exam bet slash soon-to-be-TOSH-date-and-we’re-just-waiting-to-know-who’s-gonna-pay will be the death blow. From then on, I will slowly suck the life out of you. Date me? Srsly? Dream on.

And from the guy I haven’t heard from in months since I got back from Australia… Japs! He asked me out a couple of days ago. To watch High School Musical on Ice. Idiot! Haha. So then I told him that I was about to get tickets myself and that we could just “be there” on the same show time so we could meet after or something. We were both “there” last night, hahaha. He even went to the meet-and-greet part after the show and pretended to act like a really big fan, asking to have a picture with just me and then asking me to sign his shirt. Awww. I super missed that crazy guy.

Enough about guys.

I think my AMF friends (who are watching HSMOI) are going to kill me if they find out that I won’t be performing on the date/time they’re going to watch. I just found out that media nights are going to be next weekend and that the clips they’re gonna take then are also going to be shown in the news and in quite a number of talk shows on national television. So, naturally, the best manager in the world knew what to do. And then we shuffled my performance schedule quite a bit and I would end up doing all the shows for the remaining weekdays and Sarah would perform on Saturday and Sunday. All this publicity, ech, is making it difficult for me to stay out of the radar. Just last week I got about four calls for interviews and studio photos. Nope nope nope. That’s not going to be me. One even asked me for a live interview on this talk show and I said “NO!” with so much conviction that I felt I had to give a good enough reason why. But I was so sleep-deprived then that I could only come up with a lame answer: “I curse a lot” But srsly, that makes sense. It’s a live interview and kids and their parents are gonna be watching and HSM is a GP movie and I can’t end giving ridiculous answers peppered with expletives. Not a very good image of “Gabriella Montez”

Some of my friends are calling me Gabby now, just waiting to see when I will finally get pissed off. But then I probably won’t get pissed because it somehow reminds me of Gab, whom I sorely miss.

like a fat person misses cake

I hate to admit it but I do miss him. Last time we hung out was Thursday and nothing extra special happened then. I can’t figure out why I’m the one sapping up when I actually chose to ditch him today. I blame my occasionally responsible self. And this blasted Operations Research homework. But hey, this is the only subject that I understand and appreciate… so… to hell with all else!

Srsly, between J.Trib and Mr. HH, Imma give it to Mr. HH this time. Lately he’s showing a lotta signs of stupid… which is pretty damn cool. But then it could never last, right? I guess it’s too early to tell. What I can tell is this guy is bad news. It’s the right kind of wrong. I do enjoy the occasional flirting but then I sometimes lose track of why I’m messing with this dude. I think we’re starting to be good friends so I’m not sure if Imma push through with this personal vendetta of mine (that is to traumatize all guys who have broken the hearts of many many girls). Get close, reach into his heart, rip the fucking thing open, and leave it bleeding for all to see. With Mr. HH, I’m not sure I could hurt the guy that bad. Most of the time I hate his guts but sometimes I just feel sorry for the guy.

Let’s just wait and see.

three nights as Gabriella Montez

So far, so good. High School Musical On Ice Philippine tour kicked-off last Friday and it has been a blast! Most of the audience are children who are easily woaaaaaah-ed by the show. It’s so nice to be performing in Araneta once again (concert?!) especially now that the audience are there to actually watch our performance (in contrast to halftime exhibitions when people are there for the game and halftime is just an intermission number). It’s nice that they’re silent during some parts and react with a collective “Woaaaaaaaah” instead of creating random noises just like during UAAP games (Go ‘teneo! Whooooo! Popcorn? One big fiiiiiight! O, ready! O, Halikinu! T*ng ina mo, Maierhoffer! Hotdog?). Plus, I’m beginning to enjoy the autograph-signing and photo-op part after the show. Is this goodbye to staying low-profile? Definitely not. Much thanks to the best manager in the world, I’ve been able to avoid all the unnecessary publicity. It’s so ironic how I had to hire a manager to keep the media away when celebrities (I’m not comparing myself to a celebrity, I’m simply comparing the jobs of their managers and mine) hire them to help manage their public affairs. 

If it were up to me, I wouldn’t want anyone to know about my role in HSMOI but then sometimes it just can’t be helped. I’m currently condo-ing with a couple of my AMF blockmates and, judging by how they struggled to pry my performance schedule from my tightly-clenched fist one night, I don’t think I can keep anything from them. Two-on-one but to no avail. Or so I thought because the funny thing is, Rona was actually able to copy the schedule way before our wild struggle ensued but she was there helping Jaah wrestle with me. They were laughing and I was laughing and crying at the same time. That kind of thing should have been videotaped. Maaaaaan.

flings: 3 for 100

Mr. Hormonally-hyperactive once again asked me a blog-provoking question: Bakit ayaw mo ng flings? (Exact quote. Oo, jologs) It’s not like I’m looking for a serious long-term relationship with Mr. Right. It’s just that I think I’ve had my fair share of flings and I’ve reached a conclusion: Having flings are like frequenting tiangges and buying cheap knock-offs. You’d rather settle for what’s easily attainable instead of saving up to have the genuine one. You’d rather satisfy a temporary craving instead of figuring out what you really really want. When you get tired of your knock-off you can easily get rid of it, but the real thing is harder to dispatch since you know how hard you’ve worked to get it. Knock-offs bring you one shallow sense of fulfillment after another and there will be a time when you realize that what you really need is a deeper kind of fulfillment.

So while I’m not looking for another fling, I’m also not looking for a genuine relationship. I think that’s mostly because I don’t know what I want. Yet. But thanks to the guys that have been creeping around or the ones that are suddenly reappearing in my life, I’m slowly but surely getting an idea of what I don’t want. So there, ya creeps, thanks a bunch.

J.Trib and the Baracuda triangle

A coursemate of mine (a hormonally-hyperactive one, to be precise) recently asked me about my ideal guy and, without batting a perfectly curled eyelash, I answered “Chris Tiu!” I was so sure of it then because, let’s face it, the guy’s freakin’ perfect. The more we stretch our imaginations looking for the teeniest semblance of a flaw, his perfection just becomes so much more difficult to deny.

But lately I realized that he’s not MY ideal guy (gasp). Now before you start thinking that I’ve found someone who can whup Chris’ Hanford-poster-boy of an ass, I’ll go ahead and admit that my ideal guy has the ideal flaws. Aside from being athletic (chess is not a sport, neither is cheerleading) and musically-inclined, he must be AdamSandler-like sweet and JoeyTribbiani-like dumb. That’s about it. And oh, he must also drive like a maniac and suck at dancing. Being mathematically-retarded is definitely plus. He should also agree with me when I say that Rico Maierhoffer’s head belongs up in his ass.

Well, this is telling. So, in a nutshell, he must be like me but not like me. Hm. Interesting.

What’s more interesting is (get this)… I think I already met him… when I least expected to. While I’m trying my bestest to refrain from divulging more details on how we met (for fear of having him stumble upon this blog entry whilst stalking me, haha), let me simply immortalize the moment I realized that he’s… the… right amount of stupid.

We were hanging out in Rory’s Cafe (my favorite place in Katipunan as of July 2008) having an extensively sabaw conversation when we started talking about places we wanted to visit. I was still in the middle of racking my then vodka-infused brain for an interesting landmark when he declared “I’ve always wanted to find out what it’s like in the Baracuda triangle!” So I asked “What?? So is that like a place filled with, um, baracudas? What do you plan to do there?” And he went on to explain in the most adorably trying-hard-to-act-like-a-brainiac way that the ‘Baracuda triangle’ is actually an area in the Atlantic Ocean where aircrafts and sea vessels have mysteriously disappeared. I kept thinking “You stupid boy, it’s Bermuda kasi” but apparently, to him, I looked pretty confused (or pretty and confused, hehe) and I wasn’t saying a word (probably because I was trying so hard not blurt out an insult). So he was like “I can’t believe you’ve never heard about it!” and he went on to tell stories and rumors about the B-triangle. It was so hilarious but I couldn’t stand listening to him embarrassing himself so I finally said “It’s actually called Bermuda triangle…”  Silence. And then he laughed so hard that high-velocity drops of beer came flying out of his mouth. Cute.

Here I go, a-philandering again. It’s really been a tough three months for me. I miss my family. I miss my parents. I can’t believe I still have to wait 3 months before I get to visit them in the Land Down Under where the surfer boys, the Heath Ledgers, and the Michael Johns-types reside. What’s harder for me to believe is that the Math Department (courtesy of our very smart and considerate program adviser) is planning to have us go to school for the sembreak. See, this is the problem with people who don’t have a life: They also assume that other people don’t have a life as well. But we do, we do, we fucking do! And don’t start with that bullcrap about being in graduate school and having to devote 100% of our time and energy in our major. Maybe I will put my 100% in AMF when they (the geniuses of the Math Department) also put their 100% in our program. Last year and this year, it seems that they’re still learning the ropes and treating us like lab rats. Lab rats paying more than P30k per semester. I sure hope that it will all be worth it because this lab rat plans to buy a beach house and a Jaguar, retire at the age of 45, and live leisurely on interest. Ownage baby!