BEEVERS. bato bato sa langit, tamaan… tamaan ang dapat tamaan.

Ito ang nangyayari pag nag-b-blog habang freshly asar pa…

So (s)Tups announced that the deadline for the final paper would be this Friday 1:30pm. Now before you think “Hay nako, not another rant post about Tups…” lemme just say na hindi ako asar kay Tups. Well, asar ako kay Tups but for plenty of other reasons (including her once again lousy attempt to act concerned by asking me “O, ano nangyari sayo? Long story? You know you can always tell me anything ah…” Bullers) but this time around, BV talaga ako sa mga tao diyan na sooooooooobrang reklamo.

So Friday yung deadline. Deal with it. Last week pa nga sinabi yan eh. Last week nasa ospital ako, alam ko na dapat na i-compile yung deliverables. Ilang araw ba kailangan ninyo para mag-compile?! Copy paste delete lang ‘yan eh. Hirap grabe.

Pati Monday pa lang naman ah. Na-cancel pa yung long test today. So Monday afternoon, Tuesday afternoon, Wednesday whole day, Thursday afternoon, Friday morning. Wala ngang time.

Ano lang ba requirements? AMF240 LT, OR LT (na insignificant naman), AMF280 LT, Xianxu report. Meron ba akong na-miss? Wala? EH PUTA BAKIT PANIC NA PANIC KAYO?

Eh kung mag-thesis kaya kayo. At mag-defense every single day. At kayanin pa mag-bonfire at manood ng Eagle Eye?

Bakla kayo lahat. Hindi ko talaga malaman kung ano ipinagyayabang ninyo. Peste. Bow.

FINALLY!

I long for the day when I will be able to blog properly, without mental constipation to blame for a slew of sabaw thoughts and incoherent sentences. But for now, I will have to make do with a scarce amount of free time and a temporary bout of sanity in order to record the recent whirlwind of events.

  • So ganito pala feeling ng basketball championship. Is it just me or was 2002’s more festive? This year’s is more definitive though. SA WAKAS. Nung 2002 it was just more of YEY, BOO LASALLE. *sigh* What a way to end my stay in the Ateneo. Sayang nga lang na sa apat na taon ko sa Babble, kung kelan pa ako nag-quit tsaka nag-champion. Malas yata kami nila Baba, hehe. Or hinintay lang ba nila na makapanood na kami ng games bago sila mag-champion? Hm. Siguro naisip ni Chris dati, “Guys ‘wag muna tayo mag-champion ngayon, hintayin natin mapanood ni Kei yung pagkapanalo natin. So sige, mag-f-France muna ako para sa 2008 tayo mag-champion, k?” But seriously, wah, FINALLY! The road to the championship was characterized by tons and tons of waiting. And in our case, waiting in line to get tickets. For the first game, we stayed overnight in Ateneo (in Katipunan even!) for 14 hours to score Upper A tickets. Nagka-rally-like chaos pa and stampede, grabe, it’s kind of disappointing to see Ateneans and former Ateneans acting like barbarians. But at the same time I felt proud of the people (the alumni daddies in particular) who took charge at the expense of being yelled at by the scalper-folk and the uncivilized people (aka the Fat Lady in Red na ikinakahiya ko pero kilala ko siya, and the Bobo Face Guy na ikinakahiya ko dahil kilala ko din siya). For the second game, we lined up for 24 hours. Bente kwatro oras! Just to get Upper B tickets. I was actually able to line up twice, once sa BlueEagle for alumni and another one in MVP for students. Thanks to Sir Jon who told me that, technically, I am an Ateneo alumni and still a Loyola Schools student. Sayang, sana na-exploit na namin yung opportunity na yun dati pa. Made friends with the drivers and alalays who were also lining up for tickets, actually ang bait nila, as in concerned sila for me and Jaah who kept on leaving to go home or to go to class. What an experience grabe, pero ayoko na ulitin. The season pass fund is in the works. Can’t wait for next year’s championship! Bonfire ulit!
  • Went to Meg’s 10th Anniversary Party with Michi, Lionel, and Raymond… wait kulang, wala si Kim Cruise!! Huhuhu. I miss that girl. Anyway, saw a bunch of celebrities pero sayang hindi namin na-reach yung 10 celebrity pics goal namin. Just with Champ from Hale, David Cook (hahaha), Raymond Ang (waaaahahaha), Rabeh (oo celebrity na siya, MVP eh!), and Simon Atkins (Hot-kins). Not bad. Saw Lucky Manzano, Chris Tiu (and the rest of the Blue Eagles, na sayang hindi ako nag photo op kasi dinumog sila ng photogs. oh well, there’s bonfire naman), Mikee (PBB?), Inaki (PDA?), DJ Rico Robles (na super TH maging nigga), and a bunch of girls who are too young and too dolled up. Tsk tsk, bawal yan kay Francine. Bawal heels, bawal make-up, bawal short dresses. At bawal Meg (sorry Michi!)
  • Did I mention our 52-page deliverable?! Ownage!! In your motherf*cking face Tups! As in I feel like yelling like Noy Baclao did to Rico Maierhofer in Game 1. Sana maisip niya na “Shit, kapal ng mukha ko mag-check ng deliverables nila, wala pala akong naiintindihan” Snap! In fairness, galing pa kami ni Jaah sa 14-hour vigil sa Blue Eagle Gym niyan! Pagka-gising, turbo mode na…
  • And let’s not forget the very un-Kei moment during the roll call for the ticket line. We were around 40th in the list and the CAO people were calling out the names using a wut-is-sobrang-weak-megaphone. They said that they would call each name twice and if that person doesn’t come forward, his spot will be forfeited. So we were trying to make our way through the crowds of jujos (jumping jologs) and we heard Rona’s name called. Rona was shouting “Here! Here!” but the CAO dude didn’t hear. He called Rona the second time around and I panicked when I realized that they might not let Rona line up. So I mustered all the remaining energy in my body (which wasn’t much since we were sleep- and food-deprived) and yelled in my Babble-est voice: SIRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And the world stopped. Literally. I felt everyone’s eyes on me. Nakakahiyaaaaaaaaaa. Na-startle pa ata sila so they even moved the big ad thingies just so we could get through. Waaaah, the things I do for you Chris Tiuuuuu…

10pm! on time! 1 hour! improving!

slept at 10pm last night, woke up early today, and made it on time (5mins before the time even!) to our 8am OR class. and I was no longer NPA! well, at least for an hour. maybe next time 1.5 hours na. sana naman for the last OR meeting i can pay attention during the entire period. even took down notes today, oha. improvement.

*tangina talaga yung mga ‘yes’ ng ‘yes’ diyan sa likod*
can’t stand some of my coursemates, gr. ANO BANG IPINAGYAYABANG NIYO, HA? world’s biggest a-holes.

can’t stand my course either (here we go again) but i’ve already come to terms with the fact that there ain’t anything i can do about it. so i think i’m done complaining (finally). the mature thing to do here would be to just make the most out of it. yun eh. kelan pa ko naging mature?? i guess i just realized that my roommates are nahahawa with my indifferent attitude towards AMF, and that can’t be good. wag ako tularan, please. since we’re groupmates for most of the course projects, we can’t afford to be mediocre altogether. so i guess it’s time for me to step up (me? why me?) and hopefully dito nila ko tularan (assuming i sustain this and that i’m pretty much successful at it). masaya din naman mangareer paminsan-minsan. lalo na pag walang ibang constructive activity and all alternative pasttimes involve hangovers. i think i’m past that na. 4 nights in a row ba naman?! and to think bawal ako uminom, haha.

so…

my plan is to…

sober up.
catch up.
keep up.
suck up. (yun eh)
step up.
level up.

so help me god.

TUUUUUUUPS! [major rant post, obvious ba?]

Tangina TUUUUUUUPS!

*deep breaths, deep breaths*

TANGINA TALAGA!

You are the biggest wuttagenius in the Math Department for scheduling a required elective right in the middle of our most precious (and not to mention LAST) sembreak of the century. It’s unfair and unreasonable to deprive us overworked students of a few weeks of brainless resting. What’s more unfair is that we haven’t even been informed properly about it. As in nalaman lang namin from the grapevine kaya fuzzy pa yung details and shit. These things should be OFFICIALLY announced at the start of the semester or at least a couple of months ahead. Talk about being very inconsiderate. As of now, we only know that we would be having an elective during the sembreak. We don’t know for how long, how often, how much of a bullshitcrapfest it would be…

I mean… Thaaaaaanks. This really says a lot about how the Math Department treats its graduate students. Like fucking guinea pigs. As in “Oooh this looks like a good idea, let’s try it on them” then “Ooops, phail”.. Shitters. I don’t know whether it’s just because they are friggin hermits that they treat us like we’re cut off from the rest of the world as well. Is it just me complaining because I already have plans for the sembreak? Is it just because I’m not so adapted to sudden major changes in schedule? Or are we all convinced that the Math Department is scum?

I’m very very tempted to drop (dead gorgeous) graduate studies. For one, most of the things we’re currently studying will never never be applied in the real world. Come on. All’s theoretical, farfetched, scholastic-esque crap. And in the end, I bet I’ll still end up a drug dealer after all this.

Add to that the fact that the WorldBank has already (finally! Been lusting about this my entire money-oriented life!) given me a job offer that’s so goddamned difficult to turn down. I’m convinced that it is the ideal job that will definitely allow me to travel, have a socio-political scandal, amass large sums of wealth, and retire by the age of 40. I will then buy a country, a mountain, a country with a mountain, hire a hitman and get back at Tups. Maybe then she’ll be ever so slightly convinced that money was never an issue.

Grabe, she’s number one on my hitlist. HH coming in a very close second.

It gets worse by the way. Just this morning, we got an email announcing that we’d have pre-seminars for our sembreak elective. Pre-seminars scheduled on Saturdays (we already have Saturday classes, ngayon plus seminar pa! Sawang-sawa na ko sa coursemates ko! Kayo nanaman! Araw-araw nalang! Buong araw pa! I wanna see new faces!), and get this, during finals week. Ayun eh, kung hindi ka mapapamura diyan, ewan ko nalang. Kung hindi ka makakapatay diyan, eto konting push: Tups will be the one handling the pre-seminars.

Crapbombs! Anong alam niya?! Eh hindi nga siya aware na may commodity options! (Sorry AMF jargon, pero swear, if you’re involved in AMF and you don’t know that commodity options exist, you ought to be crucified upside down and fed to red monster ants)

Not worth the time and tuition I tell ya. Oops wait, I don’t pay tuition pala. But still…

And oh, the reason they scheduled the seminars/elective on the sembreak is because French professors will be coming over at that time and giving lectures. So… because it’s CONVENIENT for the Math Dept, instead of coming up with an AMF elective for the 2nd semester, they decided to just let us listen to these dorks with poofy accents talk about stuff we can’t even apply in the third world, or the real world, or THIS world for that matter.

I thought this was the Ateneo?!?!

I should have left for Australia when I had the chance. Fuck, I shouldn’t have studied in Ateneo at all. College was a very wrong decision. Well, AMF is. The only things I enjoyed in college were those not related to my field of study. I swear, I think mas matalino pa ko when I was in high school. My biggest regret is getting bigger and bigger, and it’s staring right at my face smirking and mouthing “I… told… you… so”

Mygosh, if I could do this all over again, I would pick skating in an instant. Maybe then I’d be getting somewhere. But now, it’s just one crapbomb after another. I can’t understand the lessons. I can’t stand most of my coursemates. I want to kill the horniest of my coursemates. I want out.

Silver lining are you there? Anywhere…?

At least my Eco thesis is turning out very very well. Although I still believe that Ateneo’s Ec Department doesn’t exactly have high standards, at least it’s grounded in this world. It’s practical and at least I see results. At least people there are normal, considerate, and unpretentious. At least there I get one amazing job offer after another and that I’m insured that I wouldn’t need to kiss-ass to land in a high-paying position.

I am entitled to whine, right? I mean, all this is still an understatement. Madami-dami pang atraso si Tups samin. Supremum of my wrath pare. I don’t see how I can get any more infuriated than I am now. Bihira pa naman ako magalit. Shit, baka magka-fever nanaman ako niyan. Noooo!

We deserve so much better. And we deserve a Bash Tuprio Day. I think we all hate her to the core. It’s just that when we have our course meetings, everyone else is acting like they agree with the crap that’s coming out of her mouth. Well not me. I super disagree, but I’m either super sleepy, mentally constipated, weak, or late to speak up.

Not today.

You have angered the Goddess of Balls! I throw you blue and red balls from my urn of powerrrrrrr!

midsembreak

The long weekend is loooooong and it’s only Wednesday! And WALAAAAANG PASOOOOK! Birthday kasi ni Japs eh kaya ginawang holiday ni Gloria. Ganyan talaga pag sikat (na gitarista, hindi bodyguard).

Even if walang pasok, I still went to school. Siyempre. Miss ko na Ateneo eh. Srsly. I mean I can see Ateneo from our window but I miss it so goddamn much. Wenkwenk. I’ve done nothing but sleep, eat, and watch TV. Parang sembreak talaga. Well, mukhang wala kaming sembreak eh so I guess ngayon ako dapat nag-cchillax. Especially after a grueling week filled with math. Oh I actually spent yesterday thinking about the urn problem. See our professor had us answer this long test problem at home, maybe because he thinks that none of us would actually pass the LT haha. Anyway, I spent the first half of the day thinking about those frikken blue and red balls in the stupid urn. Hindi na nga kami naka-graduate from urns, balls, cards, coins, die (and by die, I’m referring to the plural of dice. Not that I just want to say DIE randomly). I powernapped for a couple of hours and woke up feeling very powerful. Yeah, I was able to figure out the second part of the problem when I woke up. Ahhh the joy of sleep.

Allow me to gloat, mkae? It’s the first time I actually did something right for our Stochastic Calculus class.

Modesty aside, I think it’s because I kinda mastered our discrete probability class way back in soph year. Yeah, actually yun lang yung math subject na I could get by with sheer intuition. (Yabaaaaaaaaaang) But if you think about it, napakababaw ng understanding ko sa lahat ng math courses. I think natuto ako sa discrete prob kasi si Sir Quimpo nakaka-pressure. So yun, hello good study habits. Noon. Wala, hindi din nag-last. But thanks Sir Quimpo. I am the master of the URRRRRRRRRNNN!! I am the goddess of BALLS! hhh.

Frustrating and ego-boosting at the same time yung fact na meron pala sa internet nung solution. Burat mehhhn. And very very similar pa dun sa solution ko, so good thing ba yun? Sayang lang oras and energy ko kakaisip about the balls…

Speaking of balls, I will kick some serious balls. But, umm, I’m still a bit torn. Ysee, I went to this despedida of a blockmate days ago… managed to have a good time sans alcohol (bawal na ko uminom goddamnit)… had a blast… kwentuhan with ex-coursemates… had another argument (dumping number n, solve for n, hint: n > 2) with HH.

So far, this is the lol-est argument I’ve ever had with him. Heck, this one’s top spot in the books. Until the (n+1)th dumping I guess. I remember I asked him when he would give up and he replied “Give up? Bakit ako mag-ggive up eh SOULMATE KITA?”

And I responded in the only sane way possible.

I laughed… out… loud.

Naman kasiiiiiii. Soulmate?! SOULMATE?! Ilang taon ka na?! Naka-ilang cheeseball romance movies ka na?! SOULMATE AMPUTA. Kung soulmates nga, di ba dapat may pagka-mutual yan ng konti?! Kahit konti lang?!

And the worst part of it was that he was dead serious. LOLZ.

Sorry for being a beyoooootch. But this guy just won’t let up. I think he’s the most persistent one so far. Taas pride eh.

And the only sane response would be…

To crush his pride. Yes I really mean it this time. Major paasa mode like never before. So if you see me acting flirty and affectionate around him, don’t panic. I haven’t turned stupid. I know what I’m doing.

And I think it’s about time we add a little more excitement to AMF. Mejo dragging na yung existing “romance” sa AMF eh. Bagal. Bored na ko. Geez I see my coursemates too much everyday, enough to have memorized their outfits haha. Not counted yung roommates (and honorary roommate) ko since I think they’re no longer JUST my coursemate/roommates. Awwww. Hhh. They’re my bitches. Hhh. No srsly, they’re a blast.

And Zah is weed. And I’m yoroPOT. And we’re making a movie that’s gonna beat the crap out of the Cannes entries. And we’re having a Friends showdown too.

It’s all good.

A little hellish from time to time. But it’s all good.

disturbia for breakfast

Yes! I’m finally freeeeee! I got confined in Medical City a couple of days ago because of a stupid fever. I actually turned myself in (rehab?), come to think of it. I just went there for a check-up when the doctor said that I should stay until the weekend. He said “Sabi ko sayo bawal ka ma-stress ah!” and I replied with a guilty smile. I eat and breathe stress doc. That’s just the way it is. Can we move on now?

Anyway, Japs was kind enough to check up on me regularly. Buti nalang. I thought I’d be launching into another one of my I-wish-my-family-were-here dramas.

So a couple of days tied to the hospital bed got me thinking about a lot of things. A LOT of things. Well, I hate to admit this, but most of my thoughts were about acads cz we have a couple of midterm exams next Tuesday and I wished I had brought my books to the hospital. Yun eh, dork to the core. Well not really. I’m just paranoid because I don’t really get both DocMara subjects. The rest of my thoughts were, uhm, about boys. Hahaha. Kaya na-sstress eh.

Yeah. And aside from that, I eat salt-deprived and sugar-deficient hospital food that tastes like paper, I’ve watched a bunch of chick flicks, and listened to my boyband playlist over and over and over again. The latter is a sign… that I’m… you know…

…about to majorly reorganize the songs in my iPod. And that I’m kinda into this guy? 

Yup.

Ahhh crap.

Oh and one more thing. I am so ready to megakill HH. Damn this guy, I thought he’d quit bugging me after the letdown in Starbucks a week ago. Basically, I told him that it’s never gonna happen and that I’m already in a serious relationship. And do you know what the jerk said “Alam ko naman yun eh.” In other words, “I know you have a boyfriend pero sinusulot kita.” Pucha. So natulala lang ako diba? I had to keep on repeating that there really wasn’t any chance for him and that I wasn’t looking to fool around either. In the end he kind of begged me to let him “act like his normal self” around me. So I said okay. I mean after majorly crushing his ego (recall that I was still on a self-imposed guilt-trip then) I decided to let him have his pride. Act like nothing happened, I could do that.

Wrong decision.

It just gets worse. One of our ex-coursemates texted him days after asking if we were going out because some friend of hers saw us together in Gateway (ok super gulo ng pronouns and antecedents, sorry na, mejo high pa on dextrose). He showed me the message and I told him to just ignore it. And then we started joking around about our loveteam having a lot of fans and paparazzi. Bad move number 1. Then he also told me that another one of our ex-coursemates sent him an IM that, to him, seemed the threatening type. I dunno how he got to that conclusion but he seemed super super pissed about it. That afternoon he told me that he would never let “our special sumthin” be affected by what other people say.

Faaaaaakshit. When I told him that he could act his normal self around me I dint mean that he could completely forget about what we talked about in Starbucks that night. Grabe. It just gets worse. He insisted on giving me a new nickname (Carmie amp. Potek) and that I change my VSE username to his secret nickname. What the hell anong ka-cheap-an yan?? Maybe he just wants to cheer me up (Ayan nanaman ako eh, believing in the best in people). He’s just so frikken persistent. I think this is the first time he’s felt something other than lust… and now he’s mistaking that feeling for love (but it’s obviously not, right? Please don’t let it be). He even called me up and sang “Selfish” by Nsync. Cheeseball amp. Oh well, this one’s not so bad compared to his rendition of “With You” by Chris Brown. That song has been ruined on so many levels (Damn you David Archuleta!)

Grabe grabe grabe.

How many hearts have I broken during my stay in Ateneo? I dunno. How many hearts has he broken?!

Sus, this is just fair game. The pieces are falling into place, then megakill it is.

never-ending self-imposed guilt trip

Allow me to ramble on without any concern about grammar, coherence, or style. In other words, wag i-mentally-edit ang post ko, mkae?

After our cursed ym conversation (HH and mine), I was in a really bad place. I couldn’t figure out why I was so affected by it when I knew that I dint really have any feelings for the guy (except disgust sometimes) and that I was on a mission to trample on his ego in the first place. Friend-manliligaw disparity again? (Faaaak I hate that word manliligaw. But HH uses it a lot so yan). I started to worry because he kept on cutting classes and his friends (Jonas Brothers mwehehe) kept on calling me almost every night. Ay nako, here I am making a big deal out of it again. It’s not like I lost anything naman. And it’s not like we’re that good friends na I would lose sleep over it. But I did. I fucking did. VSE plus this. No wonder my friends were saying that I look bummed stressed tense gloomy lately. To use Marj’s term: GOF = guilty of the feeling. Appropriate ba? Basta yun. If it’s the wrong use of the term then well, maybe I just mean guilty. Super guilty. Si Ate Marielle pa kasi nagkwento about J***-the-Snake yesterday. Daaaaaaamn. About how the dude had to sell some of his prized comics (and mygod that guy is so in love with his comics) just so he could take me out or buy gifts for me. And to think that I even made uber lait to his Christmas gifs then. Pano ba naman kasi, he gave me a whole bunch of my favorite stuff (favorite according to my Friendster account, which I deleted instantly), like DVDs of my favorite movies and copies of my favorite books. I’ll give it to him for doing his research pero naman, if those were my favorite books and movies malamang may copies na ako nun, right? Stups. But A for effort. 

So yesterday HH texted me asking what we did in class. I told him that it was the usual DocMara lecture and that he dint miss much. Then I asked him why he cut class again. And he replied “Ayaw kita makita eh.” Oh snap. But like Zah said, maybe it’s just his self-preservation thing. I don’t want to be presumptuous though. Maybe he just really hates me. Oh well.

But then we ym-ed already last night and I think we’re good. Not back to normal, but good. And I think that’s for the best. I think it’s best that he knows that, well, asa siya. And at the same time we’re on speaking terms. So, yun, tis all gooooood. The only thing I’m weirded about is he kept calling me “Jasmine” (favorite Disney princess cz she’s hot and she has the best clothes) and as in maya’t-maya kept sending hanging messages like “Kei…” then after a couple of minutes “Kei seryoso talaga…” and then after a long long while “Pakikinggan mo ba ko?…” and then.. well you catch my drift.

Well in the end he said he missed me.

Ohhhh please. Abort mission na ako.

fish out of the water [totally stoned. don't judge, ktnx]

Not in my element. A square peg in a round hole. Rose among the thorns. Whichever way I put it, it becomes nonethemore euphemistic. I am feeling very out of place in terms of school and my coursemates.

I don’t know exactly how this dawned on me while I was watching the Daughtry concert (which totally rawks by the way. David Cook you’re next!) with Japs. Maybe it’s because the only time I’m able to have fun is when I’m not thinking about academics (yeah, but don’t we all feel the same way? except for a dorky few, I guess). Or maybe because we got a bit stoned. Just the same, I was dreading the fact that when I’d get back to Prince, I won’t be able to stop myself from checking out my VSE portfolio. And like I said, I’m not really concerned about my ranking (maybe I will be concerned when our teacher’s about to check it). I’m just hoping to see some green (when returns are positive, they turn green. I know, amazing right? Gah).

So anyway, when I got my dehydrated self (dehydrated from screaming my poise out) to the condo. I opened my laptop and logged-in to VSE (yeah yeah, I have no self-control). My then online and stock-trading coursemates were having a ym conference about VSE (what did I expect??) and maaaaaaaaaan, they were all so intense career hyper hooked obsessed about it. And I thought I was already exerting too much effort (too much based on my standards and given the amount of effort I used to exert when it comes to pre-gradschool acads). Daaaaaaaaamn. It’s first year college all over again. Back then I was so intimidated by my blockmates who came from science high schools (serry na, Agustino) because I knew that they have a different perspective towards acads. I’m not the grade-conscious competitive type and I’m just studying to learn (oh please. srsly, I’m just tamad and unfocused). So yun. But then the years went by and I kind of forgot about this insecurity because I wasn’t exactly trailing behind in terms of grades. I also had no idea how much studying everyone else did because I was caught up Babble-ing and, in junior and senior year, Guidon-ing. Yeah, distractions rock.

I quit both Babble and Guidon this year and damn do I regret it. Sheht. The only worth-remembering parts of my entire college life. And to think I wasn’t that much into both Babble and Guidon back then. Hindi nga ako tumatambay sa Pub or Babble bench as much as I wanted to. Ayun, now I regret that too.

Now my weeknights are filled with acads and stock-trading. Sometimes may concert (TG for Lifehouse and Daughtry for breaking the monotony) or may movie. Pero pucha tagal ko nang hindi umiinom. Wah. Oh well, an MA demands a certain sense of maturity. So yeah, cut down on good times for now (or for good. crap). So why am I whining?

This is just a whole new world for me, I guess. And it’s not a good thing. It gets harder and harder to appreciate my course. I was hoping that the seminar on ethics and careers in finance a couple of days back would re-inspire me but phail. The speaker was a 35+ year old CFA charterholder who rambled on and on about so-called ethics in finance. It would have been helpful if he gave actual scenarios and helped us figure out how to make ethical decisions or something. But no, it was 1.5 hours of a bunchload of crap that, in a nutshell, just meant be good and don’t steal. Taaaaaaanx. That’s 1.5 hours of my life I’ll never get back. I even cancelled a thesis consultation for that. What really bothered me (aside from the bullshit-fest) was that the speaker was barely past his thirties but he had streaks of white hair and that his left ring finger was totally naked. And that he bored the shit out of me. I don’t want to end up like that. Rich, well-travelled, boring bachelor(ette). Greatest fear. Oh wait, my greatest fear is ending up a housewife. A fat cross-stitching telenovela-obsessed housewife. No thanks.

Bottomline, I can’t find it in me to care about AMF anymore. Call it quits? Nah. This is probably just a phase. Stressful phase it is. But let’s take it from the Dark Knight: The night is darkest just before the dawn. Yes yes. Bahala na si Batman.

show no mercy

That’ right. No mercy. Now isn’t the time to be nice and call it quits. Even after a super super super nakaka-guilty ym conversation. Wah basta.

Looks like HH is taking it more seriously than I thought. Wuh-oh. I can just kill him, I can kill him now. I think I already did. I bet he’ll never be able to talk about it in person. Sus, san napunta lahat ng kapal ng mukha?? Huhh? Wutta wimpy boi…

M-m-m-megaaaakill!! (Poser DOTA-er, haha) If imma megakill I really have to do it now. The more time I spend making paasa to this guy, it becomes more difficult to megakill. Not that I have feelings for the dude. Ick. Oh god, no. Mas nakaka-guilty lang because I’m starting to realize that he is capable of taking some things seriously. But still, I should keep things in perspective. Right?

Btw, can I just say… Si NG hindi marunong P-um-EMDAS. At RomanNumerals-illiterate. Pumasok ka ba nung grade school?!

Oh my, freak magnetism it is.

this is what happens when you wanna BPD

Jaah, Rona, and I live in the same unit but I wifi outside the bedroom (because it’s so tempting to just curl up in bed instead of study or trade stocks). We’re attempting to access the vse site which is currently nagsusumpong because of us AMF majors itching to trade. I’ve been waiting for an hour just to be able to log-in. This is madness! I now understand why stock traders die young. We’re just playing with virtual money (and oh, our grades are on the line too) but I’m having DOB (difficulty of breathing - Zah’s term) just thinking about what will happen when the market opens. Thanks, Mr. Reventar, for ruining our social life. On on the brink of oblivion na nga because of my thesis (my gaaaaawd, there’s nothing like thesis + MA that says goodbye social life) and now this! I remember he said that we’d be having another stock portfolio to manage, this time by groups. Just frikken perfect. Individual pa lang nga we’re all so praning na, what more if we have $1MM (uyy MM, haha Xianxu + Lacsamana knowledge) to manage?! US stock markets are open during gimmick hours pa naman (930pm-2am). Daaaaaaaamn. No more no-pressure-nights. Or even if we all went out to watch a movie, I bet we wouldn’t even enjoy it because we’re all worrying about our portfolios and rankings at the back of our minds. Tnx talaga. Wutta-welcomes into the real (third) world.

So anyway, lengthy intro aside, Jaah and Rona were watching PDA in the bedroom and they saw that Christian Bautista is on! Instead of me going inside the room to watch, they webcam-ed the show for me! Yay, roomies the best, mwahugz! (hahaha, what is jologs?) Fun fun! Oh noes, freaky Christian (the 25-year old guy who looks like a 12-year old lesbo) gives me nightmares! Stop webcamming!

My gosh, this is driving me nuts. We’re so sorry Pheebs. Peace offering, you want?

7-11 break, anyone? Me need sugar rush. Or comfort food, whichever. Hopeless.

On the VSE site;

We are currently experiencing technical difficulties and are working on the situation.

Thanks for your Patience

ANONG Patience?!?!