Jujitsu and Starbucks

No one really had plans for today. I met with Mara and her friend Sarah at Cheaverz. I had to eat even if I didn't have the appetite for it, I knew I was hungry. We sat there a bit waiting for Fritz to arrive. I was supposedly going to work with my DB group mates but they weren't replying. After getting the attendance slip Mara needed from Fritz, we went inside the school to have it signed by a teacher. P.E. festival was over by 9am, we arrived at around 10:30am. Bummer. 

After having their attendance slips signed, Mara and I waited for Elvis a bit, only to realize he wasn't coming anytime soon. Mara and I went to Rosedale where we last left Fritz. We had popsicles and just hung out there for to talk and just stare blankly into space (lol). Fritz was with  his friends, off to their Dota adventures. 

Mara and I finally decided to go off to Ayala. When we got there, we just walked around there going in and out of stores until our feet ached. We went to Foodchoices for some Thirsty's fruit salad and not long after that Elwin arrived. We headed home to drop off the car so that I wouldn't worry about bringing Holly home and all. 

When we arrived at my place, Anne decided to just meet us here. It wasn't a long wait and Anne was here. We hung out in my room and watched F.R.I.E.N.D.S. (again). Elwin was able to nap for just a tiny bit and he tried to keep himself up to watch F.R.I.E.N.D.S. We then decided to just have dinner here. We called up Fritz and Elvis to come over for dinner. We waited for quite sometime before they arrived. When they arrived, Anne had already eaten since she had to leave for a 7pm appointment with Norman Go for his Jujitsu sessions at the Loft, 4th floor gym, which Anne will need to shoot soon. She needed to check them out for a pre-shoot slash observing thinger or something so she can come up with a concept.  

So we had dinner when them Fritz and Elvis arrived. I was happy to see them eat a lot, especially Elwin and Fritz. Fritz was hesitant at first but after offering, he'd take the food and eat it. I'm sure yaya Violy loves looking at my friends enjoy her cooking, although we had barbecues bought as well. 

Fritz was tired and asked if I knew how to drive manual, I forwarded the question to Mara and Mara told him that I very well knew how to drive manual since my car (dad's car) which I drive to school is very much manual, "pawis steering" as they joke about it. Surprisingly Fritz handed over his keys to me, I was going to drive his sister's Honda Civic- WOW! I was honestly conscious with my driving since it wasn't my car but it was very very nice driving it. :) 

So we were at I.T. Park, Loft, and I'm glad we made it there safely. I kept asking them if my driving was okay, since I was conscious about it and all, and they said my driving was fine. Fritz even said I drove better then him but I don't know how true that is since I haven't experienced his driving yet. 

4th floor gym- Jujitsu session was going on. As most of us didn't expect, Jujitsu was quite an aggressive sport that involved a lot of grappling. Norman was the head/ master, as Anne informed me. He invited us (or the guys we were with at least) to a trial session. Only Fritz gave it a go. It was funny to see him being squished and trying to get out of the awkward positions he'd get locked into. But I did admire his guts to try it out, maybe partly to impress someone or just because he was curious. Come to think about it, Mara did mention earlier that Fritz was a guy who'd try anything at least once. 1,000php per month and that will get you everyday session of Jujitsu, if I'm not mistaken; but I think Sundays are not included. If I'm not mistaken. Fritz was interested of joining in, he even asked Elvis and Elwin if they'd want to join as well. 

Fritz trying out Jujitsu with Princeton and Norman

After Jujitsu, it took us a while to decided where to go off to next, we did Twenty-One and it was Elvis' pick. He picked Kopi Roti but maybe because Anne's family was there and it wouldn't be that comfortable, we decided Starbucks, Paseo Arcenas at Banawa.

I drove Fritz's Honda Civic once more and my passengers were Elwin and Elvis. Fritz drove Anne's Yaris and Anne had front seat and Mara was at the back seat. It was honestly weird to be driving Fritz's car once more, and this time without him- the owner (or brother of the owner). This was only our 3rd time to meet by the way, maybe trust came easily? 

On the way there I had to make a quick stop at McDonald's Escario to use the restroom. Elwin bought regular fries in exchange for us making use of their restrooms. Elvis just waited in the car. 

Paseo Arcenas. As we got down I saw Fritz, Mara, and Anne approaching. I ran to Fritz and told him that we took a while cause I bumped into a motorcycle. And as quickly as I gave away that joke, I took it right back. I saw how worried he really looked and it seemed like he was dizzy and about to faint or something. I apologize for the bad joke, but it was hard to resist. 

Starbucks. We hung out there, talked, and had frappuccinos. We also took some photos. Carole also came, Mara went out to meet her. I knew Carole doesn't really like me, I don't know why but I wouldn't really care. She went there to convince Mara to go with them to Bantayan. But gladly Mara chose stayed with us, all the more reason for Carole to dislike me, but it's cool. We called it a night at around 10:30pm, almost 11pm I guess. Fritz, Mara, and Elvis went together. Elwin rode a taxi, I was worried since his mom asked him to head home at around 8pm but he still stayed. I rode with Anne and she brought me home. Thanks again Anne! :)

Group photo shot by me. :p

I wasn't still

An awkward D: && a Fritz who didn't follow instructions. Tsk.

Undying Mara pose

Group shot 'round the table.

Kyootie.

Group Shots

Custom timer multi shot.

Thank you for this fun night. I'm glad to have met Mara's friends especially Chang, Elvis, and Fritz. They're fun to be with. But as to when I'll see them and Mara again, that'll be a question. :( Especially since Intrams is over. Hopefully soon, very soon. 

"I hate this part right here"

-pringles

PS: Today was when Nardo met his 3-month girlfriend from Leyte for the first time. He shared it wasn't awkward at all and they held hands and hugged. I'm happy for him. :) 

   

DevArt

My DeviantArt was never really active. It's an off relationship between me and my DevArt profile. So, I checked back 2 days ago and was surprised.

I was only able to blog about it now because I had to get the other person's permission on this one.

This was one of my first wallpaper slash background works. My first few tries with the brushes I downloaded from DeviantArt.

Submitted: December 26, 2007

second.alienized

The surprise was someone had used it and incorporated it into their masterpiece. :) And I was really happy about it. The artist did an awesome job too.

Here's the work of my fellow DevArt artist

otakuFrustratio-On

Submitted: July 23, 2009

Grafitti

Old School and Girls' Night?

Sacred Heart School- Hijas de Jesus

formerly Sacred Heart School for Girls (SHS-G)

I revisited my old school with my sister. Cheering competition wasn't as fun, lively, and as impressive like before. We arrived in the middle of the Seniors' cheering (they performed second). I did forget about the drummers' showdown, per batch they now have two drummers. The school mural was still the same as before, just like some of our batch mates painted them, the way we left them.

Cheering competition

Rosita's mini school supply store was no longer there. There was also this new wide ramp leading to the field. The gray gate was no longer filled with chairs and hang out spots, no more stalls like Thirsty, Taco's, and Jello. The short-lived botanical garden was also removed. They were all replaced by a very wide gym. I heard they now have a girls' basketball team, my sister has been anticipating the formation of such a group, but it was too late. She already had transferred school before the actualization of the plan.

New Ramp

New Gym

Old faces and a whole lot of new ones. There were now not-so-little boys running around. Before only little boys were enrolled in our school, up until kindergarten only I think. It was sad seeing my sister, no in the same shirt as her former classmates' are in. There's also a building being built on the side of the school. New guards as well, only one guard had that familiar face.

My sister with her friends

After the trip to my old school with my sister, we went to UnionBank to withdraw. We then had lunch at home with Tita Judy, tita Judy's mom, and Carmel (they've been sleeping over for a while now :D), and my dad. I went up and Miggy was kind of sleeping, I felt sleepy to and decided not to go off to TC to attend the afternoon's Robotics Seminar.

Around 4:30pm I woke up to Miggy's bark. I knew who was about to enter my room, and as I guessed it right, in came Anne, Chippy, and Princess. I was counting on my sister to wake me up when my phone alarm went on but turned out she fell asleep too. My sister and I hurriedly prepared. First stop, Raintree Mall to check out bootleg copies of installers and games. We didn't really get anything. They were too expensive for bootlegs, a lot of cheaper ones downtown (so I heard).

Drive thru at McDonald's Jones, we were all starved out. We each overpaid our share, I guess the McD crew didn't get his calculations right. We hung out at Club Ultima, Anne was meeting her dad for a contract or something. The guard told us we weren't allowed to eat there with food from outside, but as I mentioned, we were starved and so we ate anyways. It wasn't long enough until we got caught and was told again by the guard *embarrassing*. Anne took longer than we all thought. Kyle and Mara arrived, we all decided to go around. There was this great kiddie place which we sadly couldn't play at since we were all over 12 years old.

Princess and our McD take out on the table

Chip and I waiting for the elevator

Going around (Holly, Chip, Mara, Kyle)

The Kiddie Place behind us

Group photo by the Kiddie Place

Kyle left and later we met with Anne after our Nth ride on the elevator. Off to her house and we went straight to our agenda- to watch a movie. Mara brought "The Haunting in Connecticut", it was a good movie. Mara was too scared to even bring home the DVD and she just left it (and sort of gave it to Anne). Mara left and had dinner at 9:30pm. We then watched my F.R.I.E.N.D.S. Season 5 DVDs which I just got back from Stanley. We had a lot of laughs to wash off the feeling of suspense and horror from the previous movie we just saw. Anney brought us home at almost 12am right after Chippy got picked up, Princess hitched with her. Thank you Anne! :)

I wasn't able to see Elwin today. He decided to go home because I wasn't replying when he got off school, I was too busy digging in those bootlegs copy (guilty). But the flow of the day was very unclear anyways.

For tommorrow, 11am lunch here with Anne and 12pm to USC Main. We're watching the pop jazz competition which starts at 1pm. Mara said she'd have some seats reserved with her blockmates' help, thank you Ma! :)

Watching F.R.I.E.N.D.S. still with my sister and Miggy.

God is good,

-pringles

PS: Happy Birthday to my old college bud Raymond Besinio by the way! Hope he had a good one! ;) God bless him more and more.

PSS: Check out Chippy's Sony Ericsson phone. I was thinking about getting one when I first saw it at Princess' Birthday. Holly saw it and loved it too. VGA camera but the sounds is great. It really looks like an iPod too. ;)

Front

Back

Side

4 Boxes of Pizza

I attended the seminar we were required to join, it was about System Dynamics. The speakers were Dr. Kwak and "Prof." Sabellano (Yes, Miss Sabellano was called "Prof."). All I really did was doodle.

After the seminar, I met with Elwin and we went to their place to get some Gotu Kola plants for daddy's pond. On the way home, dad called up and told me Anne was over, that was a surprise.

So had lunch with Anne and Elwin. Mara was text messaging Anne and was inviting her over to main, and so we went.

At main we had ice cream and toured the Law Building (or what should appropriately be called the HRM Building). We watched basketball games there (around 3 games). The last game was what we actually enjoyed watching, CAS vs. COMMERCE. Sadly, CAS didn't bag that game, I expected too much. But it was a very good game though. Elwin was hilarious, I asked Anne to take videos of him watching the game while I was busy taking photos. x)

Elwin and I at the USC gym

(I'm fatter now, more round. :p)

Mara, Anne, and Elwin

Anne, Lora (Elwin's cousin), and BG

JP and Lourielle

#17 CAS Player, Cliffor Diaz

I like this "Lucky Shot" I was able to take with the monkey.

(Raw, can't wait to edit it)

CAS Team

(their Coach was my Physics 2 Lab teacher)

For dinner, we went over my place. Ordered 2 boxes of pizza, take out, at Gustoso's. It was fun and I was very comfortable talking to Mara's friends- Elvis and Fritz. It was the first time I've actually talked to Fritz, Elvis was over my house summer 2008. I'm happy to report that Mara does have good friends from her new course. We decided to order in 2 more boxes of pizza. Chang came over after spending time with his girlfriend and/or family. We had good laughs (especially me) and good talking as well. I really had fun, a different kind of fun but fun nonetheless. I'm also still smitten in a different way on a different matter. (Yesterday I was annoyed with this comment and private message from an old college block mate. Ugh.) *puts the thought aside* I can't fully put out details since my friends do visit this site from time to time. :D

I'm looking forward to what tomorrow holds. I might be revisiting my old school- Sacred Heart Scgool- Hijas de Jesus (formerly (and simply) known as Sacred Heart School for Girls). I haven't really gone back there since graduation, except to fetch my sister or bring her to school when she was still enrolled there, and to claim my yearbook. I can't wait to see the cheering competition with my sister and hopefully with some friends (I invited Mara and mentioned it to others as well, Elwin will have classes. Boo!). I honestly think our cheering competition is better than college's cheer dance competition, before during our time at least. And in the afternoon I'll have to somehow force myself to attend a Robotics seminar as it is required, 1pm-5pm. I already got out of the morning (8am-12pm) seminar on PhilNits because I submitted an excuse letter signed by my mother, stating that I'll be watching my sister's cheering competition- which isn't the whole truth though. I'm watching my sister's friends' cheering competition, it's almost alike right? Okay so they're not really the same thing, but I had to give a valid excuse. :p

After the seminar I'm hoping the get-together slash movie time with friends will push through. We'll see.

in it for the fun,

-pringles

Intramural Opening

After my 2 hour or so nap, I lay awake in bed. I was debating with myself whether or not I should go attend our school's Intramural Opening. I realized I have been lazing in my room for a couple of days now and I should get up and about, moving. So I showered, got ready and instead of having Jade pick me up, I got a ride with my dad. He brought me to USC main campus right after we dropped my sister Holly off for school.

Strangely enough, there was a very long line outside the school that reached the corner. People lined up to get in, good thing the line was fast moving. I was in before I knew it, met up with Jade. There was another long line just inside the campus before you can actually enter the gym.

I was a bit nervous at first, should I really go in a very packed gym with an empty stomach? The possibility of me fainting due to an empty stomach or lack of oxygen was being pictured out in my mind. I was reminded of what happened last Sinulog, just this year.

FLASHBACK: I nearly fainted by Fuente circle. It was only me and Elwin. We were trying to make it through Fuente circle since it was the shorter way to my house. The passage way was somehow blocked and we were in between people who were pushing forward and backward. It so hard to breath, I could feel the lack of oxygen and the heat was intense. There was also a person who just fainted up ahead, not far from us, the medics had to get through her. Elwin instructed me to look up and close my eyes and try to just inhale and exhale. He'd taken me to the side where the crowd wasn't as aggressive. Tears started falling down my eyes as I felt dizzy. He bought me a bottled water, I drank it and started to calm down. My hero- Elwin.

Back to the present time (lol.)- So we were in, Jack called me up, it appears he had spotted me and Jade walking to and fro, trying to get a seat. It was my first time being seated at the West Side of the gym. It was my first time as well without Elwin and Mara. I still went and attend though, as this would be my last Intramural if things go according to plan.

I was really pissed off by the guy beside me, Jade even said we should switch places. He knew how I was really irritated by that brat. He kept throwing these messed up comments, constantly cussing, and trash talking. A few things he said (not exactly the way he said them, but the idea is there):

* "The school is soooo stupid. Why are they letting us wait for sooo long, why can't they just get on with it?!!"
- my rebuttal: You are such a dumb boy. As stated in the school program, the opening begins at 8:30am but you just came too early. If you didn't come too early though, you wouldn't have a seat. Stop whining!

* On the girl who offered a song number "Boo! F*uck you, f*ck you! You are such a waste of time! Is this what we came here for?! Boo!"
- my rebuttal: If this was a waste of time to you, you shouldn't have come. I doubt anyone forced you! And if it was a required attendance, just get over it! Respect the person trying to entertain someone worthless like you!

* "P*sti. K*yata. F*ck. Sh*t."
- my comment: Boy you have such a bad mouth and sorry face. Grow up! Don't go cussing all over the place, there are ladies beside you, you moron!

Grrrrrr....

And as if that weren't enough, I had to deal with the people from the college of Nursing who were getting on my nerves as well. They kept booing and hissing on the other colleges except for there. No respect much?! And they kept shouting out to the college of Engineering "Baho mo'gcheer dance CR" (You're restroom stinks!). In my seat I kept going on to Jade about how annoyed I was. First of all, a big percentage of occupants of the Engineering building are (or at least were) from the college of Nursing - the nomads who inhabit on other college's building. Second of all, for someone who is sharing building with them, they have NO RESPECT. Thirdly, for sure you (the college of Nursing people) use the Engineering restrooms as well. Ugh! They also went on about how biased the judges were just because they didn't win first place on the competition (they won 3rd place). Get over it!

And somewhere between the first half of the program, my camera battery was out. I wanted to take a lot of photos for this last one. I had to settle with my Sony Ericsson K800i's 3.2mp camera phone. :p

Anyways, after all that frustrating ordeals, we were out of the gym to grab some grub. I had dimsum steam rice (54php) and siomai quail egg (50+php) with it, and Royal (9php) for drink. After eating with Jade, Ron, Clifford, and hia Jermy, Jade and I went strolling on the Wrockledge (did I spell that right?). There were these B.A. students' exhibit things there. I ended up buying from 3 different stalls, from my friends Rachelle Ang (38php), Janet Discaya (42php), and Genevieve Dale Po (21php). But I didn't eat them, I had them swap and eat since I was full. Maybe I should've taken B.A. huh? But then again. not. I wouldn't have met Elwin. :p Also, after lunch I saw Monique Lim- YEY!

Going around for a bit, I decided to go home since Jade didn't want to watch the basketball game anyways. Jade walked me to the jeepney stop and I rode my 06B jeepney home. Did a little Farmville, Tweeted a bit, and then went to sleep.

I watched GET SMART on HBO after I woke up and had my snacks. After that was the Biggest Loser- amazing how they can loose all those weight. Others think it's a scam and all but I think otherwise.

Tomorrow I'll be off to TC for a Seminar, 8:30am- 11:30 am. Way to kill the Intramural spirit right? Pena will be checking attendance. I'll try to get out of the Thursday's morning seminar.

LAST WORDS: Intramural Opening is not the same without Elwin and Mara, especially without Elwin. :(

But thank you very much Jade for accompanying me to what might be my last Intramural Opening. Good bye Intramural.

a frustrated
-pringles

/* update

Photos from the Intramural Opening

(Photos were mostly zoomed in, sorry for the not-so-good quality)

I went with Jade

Opening

The Different Colleges (Intrams Players)

International Student's Team/ Representatives

Different College Muses

with Ms. Cesafi (uber pretty)

and Ms. Intrams 2008 (bad outfit and gained weight)

USC Dance Troupe

Cherr dance uniforms that disturbingly seemed like underwears at first glance

Another photo of the cheer dance