Just When You Thought This Was Dead

… It isn’t.

I’m really, really, really fixing this up for real. I’m gonna make this journal hella damn simple. I’ll probably use premade themes for life but who cares? No one would actually comment on blogs if it weren’t for return comments. Hahaha. Well I guess that’s just in my case.

April is nearly half over? Dang. Life today is nothing but Facebook and gym. Yep, I’m working my flabs out. Hope it works this time.

I’m looking for jobs… will probably come in mid-April. I’ve got to learn to do 3D renderings. I might be designing booths. I’m siked!

Plus, I took a second chance for UP’s fine arts. I had the mental exam shiznits and the talent test just last week. I found it easy honestly. It’s just that my weakness is I’m totally slow at rendering things and I never wear a watch. Anyway, results will come out on 17th of April and I’ll tell the world whether I passed (at last) or failed (once again).

Bye for now. Restaurant City is being a bitch, I haven’t got much enthusiasm for Poupee Girl and I’m off to burn some fat.

‘Tis The Season to be Jolly

Ola, I’m now on Christmas break!

I experienced my first UST Paskuhan last Friday and it was pretty much awesome, except for the signal difficulties and the crowdiness. Hence I wasn’t able to meet up with my good ol’ friend Mady. I enjoyed all the free food though, haha! We ate free Kenny Roger’s and Tokyo Tokyo - how awesome is that? I didn’t enjoy the concert much cos I ain’t no fan of Join the Club and Bamboo. Good thing some highschool friends were around so we hung around - without alcohol, of course! One more thing that I couldn’t get over that night were the fireworks! They were really beautiful. Haha I’m a fireworks freak.

Anyway it was a great experience. I’ll have to check next year if I won in the raffle or something! Haha. I believe I’m lucky. I once won an iPod nano and a cellphone in Boracay.

Despite not being invited to some of my friends birthdays and debuts (:(), I decide not to fret about it cos it’s Christmas season. There are lots of good things to look forward to! One thing is I’ll be buying a dSLR camera soon! I’m deciding over a Nikon D60 or a Canon EOS 1000D - but I’m prolly leaning more on the Nikon D60! I’m dang siked! Other things to look forward to are Christmas gifts, money, lots of food and probably a family reunion!

Today’s the 14th month of my Uchi and I! Heehee. We’re gonna have Italian dinner later and I’m siked once again! I haven’t bought a gift for him yet though. I’m thinking a new pair of Vans or basketball shoes? I’m not really good at gifts.

I’ll be blogging once again - I have to go. I’ll be posting photos once I get my hands on a camera again. Bye for now! I have new links so make sure to check them out in the links page!

Can’t Win at Every Thing

Remember that I talked about a report for one of our major subjects in the last two blogs that I posted? Well we had it yesterday. Remember how I talked about wanting to “ace it”? Well the exact opposite happened. We actually failed with an excruciating grade of 40. :(:(:(

We were, unfortunately, not given the chance to present our report anymore because of being late. The class starts at 12 and we’re given 30 minutes to prepare for reporting. We consumed a little bit more than 30 minutes and we were given a failing grade already.

Now, the million dollar question: what happened? If I think about it now, it seems all too fast, like hard to grasp of some sort. It’s like there are lots of things that I’d like to say to explain why it happened - like because this week had been too busy, there wasn’t enough time to meet up with the group mates, because I did not distribute the paper work enough, because I did not finish the written report beforehand, because we didn’t synchronize with the time that we should be following - none would suffice though. No excuse would make up for what happened.

Plainly and directly I think what really happened was procrastination. It’s our fault alone and we’re now carrying the consequences on our shoulders. What makes me feel worse though is because I was the appointed leader. I should’ve not allowed this to happen. I should’ve been a better leader. I guess this is something for me to work on. I’ve never been good at being a leader.

I never cried at school yesterday. I tried to laugh it off and encouraged everyone that we could still make up for that very low grade. I didn’t want to cry anymore but after hearing the words “I’m disappointed” from my mother, I couldn’t help but shed some tears. I, too, was very disappointed at myself. To think that I sacrificed going to some of my classes for this report - it all makes me sadder.

All I want now to happen is to do well in this subject whatever happens. I won’t drop this subject or even think about of dropping it. I will learn my lesson and actually work my ass off now. No more procrastination - I guess this should really, really, really be number one on my resolutions.

To make myself feel tad better, I asked my mom to watch Twilight with me tonight. I know people say it’s not good and all but I feel like watching it today. Tomorrow’s a free day for me too. I’m hoping the boyfriend wants to watch Bolt with me. So, bye!

The Need for Resolutions

Only two more months til 2009. It’s definitely not a long wait for busy folks. I seriously think I need resolutions that I should not be labeling as “New Year’s Resolution” because I need and should be doing those resolutions as early as now. I’ve been so undisciplined ever since and I really do want to change. Here’s a short list of my Before-New-Year’s Resolution:

• I should not CRAM.
• I should do my (school) work before play.
• I should eat less.
• (and therefore) I should lose weight.
• I should be punctual.

There you have it. It really is short but those are the “core” stuff that I want to work on. It may be short but those aren’t easy! Agree? I’ll try my best though (starting tomorrow) and blog about my “progress” in the days to come.

On the bright side of life, it’s confirmed that I’m in the Dean’s List of UST CFAD (College of Fine Arts and Design). I feel so overwhelmed. Thank you, Lord. Haha. I will work hard for this semester again and for the semesters to come.

Now, stuff regarding my blog: I’ve put up the links page already. I’m now very open for link exchanges! I’ve also changed the smilies (see the little bunny things? :neutral:) but I don’t like it too much. I might change it again soon. I shall be putting up my “about” and “Isai” page soon enough.

Two new movies that I would like to watch are out in the cinemas: Bolt and Twilight. I’ve been receiving negative feedback about Twilight though. Things like: “It’s so bad I advice you to just wait for the pirated DVD copy.” or “Waste of money!” - you get it. Not much feedback for Bolt either. Uchi (the boyfriend) and I went to Glorietta last Friday though but ended up watching nothing.

Anyway, I have a big report coming up on Saturday. I still don’t know how to present it and I haven’t started writing the written report. Dang! I’ve got plates piled up too. I should really be applying my “resolutions” now in order to survive - bye for now!

Good Scary

Hurrah for my first decent blog entry! It has finally sunk in on me that I don’t have much time for now to make my own theme since I get busy/lazy and I have to familiarize myself again with the how-to’s of WP. That’s why I’ve installed this cute theme from Top WP Themes.

My last blog was from a year ago - Chickengravyxxx - didn’t last more than 30 entries. Before that livejournal, I had my last hosted blog at Comatose.nu. When I quit my hosted blog and my livejournal, I blogged a bit around Multiply and now I’m finally back on being hosted. Thanks to Pam!

Now today was quite eventful. It was my first time to step foot inside a real advertising agency. We have this upcoming report for one of our majors, ADPRAC1 (Advertising Practice 1) which requires interviewing an advertising practitioner. Today, my groupmates and I went to Universal McCann to conduct an interview which apparently, lasted up to 2 hours.  Lol! I remember opening my mouth to talk approximately 10 times only. Bad interviewer much? Our interviewee talked a lot and it was a good thing. Bad thing was our tape recorder stopped recording in the middle of the interview (or towards the end) according to my groupmate. I don’t want to expect much but I really want to ace this report. I hope the vital information we needed were caught on tape. =/

Anyway while I was talking to Ionne (the BFF) about being able to go inside an actual ad agency, I told her that I felt scared. She asked me if it was “good scary or bad scary” and the answer is the good kind of scary… like I’m siked to be in something like it. Like I can’t wait to be able to work in an ad agency as a practitioner in the creative department. K, so much for dreams.

All in all, I felt that today was a really good day. Tomorrow will probably be good too since I’ve got no classes. Goodnight.

P.S. The smileys suck aww. I shall update them soon!