I FUCKING MISS HIGH SCHOOL

[07:13] deutzy_gurl13: hi henny!
[07:36] fudtripers: hey steph
[07:37] deutzy_gurl13: happy lunch! sorry storbo, i'm at work, really bored.
[07:38] fudtripers: you're working already???
[07:38] fudtripers: times have really passed!
[07:38] fudtripers: sa biz niyo?
[07:38] deutzy_gurl13: haha hindi pa, practicum pa lang. ayoko pa magwork noh hehe.
[07:38] deutzy_gurl13: dont worry di ka pa ganun katanda!
[07:39] fudtripers: hahaha
[07:41] deutzy_gurl13: sige nanga, magpepretend na akong nagtatrabaho. baka bigla bumali boss ko. hehe. c u soon sana!
[07:41] fudtripers: sure! inom tayo. hehehe
[07:42] fudtripers: take care

As usual, I'm really bored right now. I'm only waiting for my boss to come back so we could meet to discuss plans for Mothers' Day and stuff. I already called up Philippine Daily Inquirer like she asked me to, but they scheduled to meet with me on Friday to discuss details of their offer. Which is weird, because I just want to ask a few things about it. I guess the dude who handles that is super-kaduper busy. I'm not really sure if they're just gonna call on Friday or they're gonna go here, in person, which is really frightening because first of all, I'm already scared when I was asked to call them. I have low self-esteem like that. And for me to meet with them in person?! I mean, the questions that I prepared to ask weren't really difficult to answer. Yikes. What have I gotten myself into?

Anyway, so while my boss went back home to I don't know, have lunch and take a nap maybe, I'm taking the time to go online, check my mail, and maybe chat with a few people. And of course blog. So as usual, nobody's online this time of day. They're probably out having a fun vacation, bumming around, or like me, stuck at work in the middle of a glorious summer. The last one I'm gonna have, I might add, before I have to work for real, with pay and all.

So I found a couple of friends online, and also my high school softball coach. He's an awesome coach, and now he's also a daddy! Well, he has been for a few years now. But when he started coaching us he was single. Oh what time has done.

I've been kind of thinking about high school for a couple of days now, whenever I'm upstairs in the function room trying not to be bored. One thing I really miss about high school is softball. I like the game, but what I really miss about it was the camaraderie. The softball team was like a second family to me. We had fun every practice. Lots of memories were formed. Even though those Sunday practices resulted to my uneven skintone, I don't care, because I got a hell of a fun time every time we set out to that field. And the medals were cool too. It's just that, the team's chemistry was perfect. We were all crazy, even our coach. Which is proven by his "inom tayo" comment. Haha! He has been inviting us to go out for drinks for a long time now, but we never got the chance to. Hopefully this year it'll push through. Hmm. Maybe I should plan it.

Being in this job makes me feel really grown up, you know? Evcen though I'm not being paid and I know that I'd be out of this in a few days, I really got the taste of working for someone. It's scary because if I screw up, it's my life that's on the line. That's why I miss being in high school. One thing is that I was a teen back then, which kind of gives me the excuse to screw up. I can do whatever, not study, and still get decent grades. It's just easier that time. I can also remember being angsty and complaining how difficult everything was. I mean, yeah, Chinese subjects were a pain in the ass but besides that, I got to hang out with my friends almost every single day of the week. Now I'm lucky if I get to see them once a month.

Sigh. I'm actually working on my 100 things I miss most about high school. I'll post it soon. My boss is back and my ass will be fired if she catches me blogging during work! Or will she even care? Because I was completely staring into space awhile ago while she's beside me and she didn't even care. Whek. Whatever.

Three

This is indeed a day of celebration!

Since I got swamped with schoolwork the first three months of this year, I completely forgot about this special occasion:

MY BLOG'S 3RD BIRTHDAY!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY BLOGGIE!

I can't believe I forgot my blog's birthday. I also can't believe that it's been three years since I first posted here. Whoa.

High school has been that long ago. :(

Anyway, no time for sad faces now. Another thing to celebrate about: THIS IS MY 300th POST!!!

WOOOOOHOOOOO!!!

I know, other blogs that are three years old has way more posts than 300. I mean, it's a toddler blog already. I will really try to post a lot more often than this. At present, I average 100 posts a year. Kinda pathetic, right? To think that about a quarter of those posts are seriously useless. Haha!

So there.

And last but not the least, the last thing I'm happy about today is that I'm 5 hours away from completing my minimum 120 hours practicum hours!!!!!

Actually, I'm really 3 hours away from completing it, but I can't get out of work early so I have to stay a couple more hours. I do wanna take a break though. I wanna get out of here for an hour. But the thing is, where will I go? First of all, I don't have a car. Second, I don't have money. I have a hundred pesos in my wallet and I have to make that last until the weekend. I could ask for this week's allowance though, but since World War 100 broke out at home last night, I'm gonna let the opposing powers to cool off a bit and ask for my allowance maybe tomorrow or the next day.

And one more thing is that I don't know when this practicum will end. Sure, I've completed the minimum hours but they said that they're gonna keep me until May. I'm hoping that means they're gonna let me go by May 2. 'Coz I really wanna get another job that's a bit more active and maybe one that pays, even just a small allowance.

So there. 3 celebrated things for my 300th post on my blog's 3rd birthday! Yey!

Analog Heart by David Cook

No, this won't get him kicked out of the competition. In fact, Analog Heart became the top downloaded album in Amazon.com this year, until they pulled it out. Don't know why. I just got all these infos from several news site and blogs. They don't know either. It's kinda weird 'coz someone mentioned that other contestants like Kristy Leigh Cook also has an album out there somewhere. It's just that all their albums are independently released. Someone even said that David burned the CDs himself. It's weird why his was the only one pulled out.

Anyway, I accidentally came across Don't Say A Word while I was looking for the studio version of Music of the Night. I thought it was a joke or something but I got curious so I downloaded it. And man, am I glad I did! It was awesome! No wonder David kicks ass every single night! His experience really paid off (he is/was part of a band named Axium which was his high school band, and they played with Maroon 5, Fountains of Wayne, and Smash Mouth already). His gig days really polished him off. And ANALOG HEART is proof that he's great from the start (it's his solo album, btw). He even has a degree on graphic design (which I think is really cool!) but music truly is his passion.

Awesomeness.

I'm gonna place a link to my Multiply site later on because I can't seem to upload the songs. But you could easily google for them, lots of blogs have links where you can download or listen to the album. :)

At Work Taking Advantage of DSL

Yes, that's what I;m doing right now whle pretending to work on promos for the whole year. Haha. I'm horrible. Well, I really am working on promos, and I'm happy to tell you that I've finished the one for May and July already. All I need now is the boss's approval and I can print it out and stuff. Next I'm gonna do the one for June.

I actually pulled the pump plug to plug in the dsl because there's no more available plugs in this tiny tiny office. Pity to the person who goes to the bathroom right now. Lol. I'm bad. I will replug the pump at noon, I promise. I swear, if I stood up and spread my arms, I'd be touching both walls. It's that small.

So I'm planning on taking up another job after this one. The thing is, the company I wanna go to requires a lot of certificates and stuff, and I don't have the time right now to get all of them because I'm at work 5 days a week. I can only go on a Saturday. Hmm. Maybe I will tomorrow. But still, I have no idea when this current job would end. My minimum 120hrs. would be up by Monday, and I wanna go already. but my boss told me yesterday that next week the PR agency will come here and we'll be meeting with them. That's so exciting! That's like the only exciting thing I've heard in two weeks. I think I'll prepare a calling card, just in case. PR is one of the things I'd like to do in the future and this could be an opportunity.

Anyway, I have to get back to designing these coffee cards.

P.S. I listened to the whole of Analog Heart awhile ago and it was just awesome. Awesome!

6 1/2 hours to go until freedom!!!

I Have No Idea What Title to Give This

So there.

I was supposed to write one of my Top 10 lists I made during work today while I was bored outta my wits, but I went through the top 10 lists and I just realized that they're so boring like Top 10 favorite songs or favorite movies or countries I would like to go to... So ordinary, right? The nice ones I haven't finished yet. I'm still working on 10 Things I'm Gonna Do When I Go to England and the 5 Albums I Wanna Listen to If I'm Trapped in a Deserted Island. Pretty hard because I mean, I'd probably die on that island and so I wanna be listening to all my favorite songs by different artists. Maybe I'll just write "My Own Compilation" there.

I'm still working on the 10 Weirdest Things About Me.

So... I don't know if I've mentioned it but I've been marathon-ing Charmed since I don't know, two or three weeks ago. I'm in Season 4 now, and so I'm kinda back in the whole magical world and everything. So these past couple of days, I've been feeling kinda down. I wanna make myself feel better, but that usually entails lots and lots of sleep, maybe a bit of baking, and lots of DVDs and some books. Maybe ice cream and donuts too. But I'm trying to cut back on fats now 'coz work has me sitting all day, add that with the heat of the summer and I just might get a stroke or a heart attack. So I'm sort of being careful now. And work takes up my whole day (and I can't sleep there) so no time for all the other things, except at night, like right now, maybe for a couple of hours.

I rambled, I know, I'm sorry. So anyway, being back in the magical world because of Charmed combined with the shitty feeling makes me wanna wallow in my sorrow or something. So I thought, what is magical and at the same time sad?

Now I'm back to Harry.

I'm not sure if I'm ready for it yet. I held off all these months from reading it a second time because it's like...such a huge thing. It's the last one, and a heavy one, filled with actions and emotions. It's not like the other books where I could just cry at the end because that's where the sad part is. This book... It's all throughout.

I read until page 6 just awhile ago. It was... I think I'll stop there for now. Because Harry Potter books, especially that last one, demands my whole attention. I can't concentrate when I'm thinking about how I should sleep early because I have another 9 hours of my life to waste at work tomorrow.

But I miss that world. I really do. It's like my safe place, you know? When I'm sad, I could just open the book and get lost in that world again. I wish this work thing is over so I could get back there.

Huwat?!

I love Jason and all, but he was the weakest last night. And they eliminate Carly?! She was awesome! She was up there with David Cook and Syesha. And then Syesha's in the bottom 3?! Please. My bottom two are Archuleta and Jason. I love them both, heck, I love all of them. But really, this is seriously unfair. And it sucks more 'coz I can't vote!

Oh well.

Silver lining: David Cook is still there.

David Cook --- Again

I just saw the show. He was awesome. All of them were! Well, I'm scared for Jason Castro though. I mean, I love him a lot, I love his sound, so mellow and soothing, that's why broadway week is bad for him. He doesn't have the voice-power to do justice to the songs. But I still love him.

Anyway, David just keeps on getting better every week. I'm not a big fan of musicals and stuff so I had no idea what the heck they were singing. But David's performance actually made me wanna watch Phantom of the Opera. I know the movie sucks compared to the real show (everybody says so) but that's all I have here and it's been here for over a year now and I haven't watched it yet. But tonight, because of David, I'm gonna watch that movie. Teehee.

He rocks.

P.S. I love Carly's SIMON LOVES ME (this week) t-shirt!!!

Work Blues

I'm at work right now, bored outta my wits. I've been given this marketing strategy thing to work on the whole week. As of this moment, I have reached the end of my daily supply of ideas. Basically, I'm done with this task and I still have 6hrs left in my work day. What the hell am I supposed to do? I don't have a computer or a laptop so surfing is out. I'm blogging with my phone right now because my phone doesn't have that complete keypad thing like a keyboard so it's difficult.'

David Cook

I liked him from the beginning. I liked his genre and his voice and his style. He reminded me of Bo (whom I miss, by the way. I wish he'd make a better sophomore album!). He's kinda somewhere between Daughtry and Bo, but at the same time totally different. D'you get me? But anyway, there was one Top 24 episode when he kind of turned me off. He came across as arrogant when he talked back to Simon about his comments. I mean, yeah, Simon could be harsh often, but he knows what he is talking about. Besides, his, er, comparisons are the best! Meatless burger is at the top of my mind right now. Haha.

Anyway, David Cook is just AWESOME. Yeah I was kind of turned off with his attitude, I mean, because Chris Daughtry and Bo were just as talented but really humble, but now David has shown what he can do and no weird attitude could erase the greatness of his version of Billie Jean and Always Be My Baby. The moment I heard him sing Billie Jean, I was like, "That's it. That's what I've been looking for this season." Anyway, even if he shows Simon attitude again, I'd still buy his future album. Maybe that's really the way he is. I mean, I wouldn't want him to be fake-humbling. Gets?

But by far, David's rendition of Always Be My Baby is the best I've ever heard. I totally agree with Paula that it could be a movie soundtrack right now. I can really see it in a movie. I just hope that if ever they use it, they'd use it in a good movie. Lol. I listened to that song for like 100 times today, maybe even more. I was at work for 9 hours and I had that song looped all throughout. Except for a couple of hours of Maroon 5. Still, I can't get enough of it!

I was gonna put up the song here so you people can have a listen, but the site where I used to upload my music to somehow got reformatted or something (if you'd check out the tag "song of the moment", you'd see that all the music's not working. argh.). Anyway, check out the "video" version. It's worth the loading wait!!!

Musings from the Library

I'm holding on to whatever it is that I'm holding on to, just to get this day over with.

I'm currently at the school library, waiting for my last class for the day. I am so still in the holiday mood. I can't believe I have to face a long test in 2 day's time. I haven't cracked a single book the whole break. The only thing school related that I did was copy my notes onto a nice notebook. I'm kind of OC sometimes. It's kind of hard to believe but I can be neat. Lol. Now my notes are nice and easy to read. Hopefully I do that because I have another long test on Saturday.

Which reminds me, I forgot to quit my job. Does anybody know how to write a 2 week's notice? I can't do it anymore. My subjects are more demanding this sem and I barely passed last sem. So I'm quitting. Kind of sad about the loss of income though but I'd be a bit more relaxed without a headstrong (that's putting it mildly) kid to worry about. I've got so much on my plate as it is, what with school and demented family issues, I don't need more reasons to binge on chocolate or ice cream. Mmm. I've been craving chocolate donuts and ice cream since last week. But I've gotta watch my weight and my wallet so too bad. I'll just settle for watching Will & Grace eat Ben n Jerry's from the container. They're my latest depression meds.

So there. I've successfully killed 30mins. I've got about 5mins to nap and then dash off to class. Thank heavens for MMS.