nostalgia, 2

Browsing through the archives of this blog, I can’t help but notice how much have changed since I went to college. And as I was going through college.

I remember why I set up this blog (June 2006), so that I can chronicle my college life as it unfolds. But I guess majority of the time I had the writer’s block, or I was simply preoccupied with other stuff.

So here I am, typing away during the last few moments I have left of 2010. I do not want to wrap the year up in extensive sentences in this blog because I am too embarrassed to do so. (pa-cute smile here. Haha).

I would just like to say this.. 2010 didn’t start as well as I hoped it would, but I learned several life lessons along the way: Forgive, Forget, Love. In the end everything eventually turns out just fine.:)

inked

Sanskrit:एवेर्य दय इस अ मिरच्ले

Spanish: cada día es un milagro

Latin: cotidie virtutem

French: chaque jour est un miracle

every day is a miracle

500 for someone lucky

Last week before going home from Bo's place, where we were having a little MOrg kinda-Christmas party, I withdrew Php500 from BPI in Astral using my GCash account. I guess I was REALLY tired, so after I got my card out, I turned away from the ATM and headed home, without even getting my cash!

I only realized what happened when, shortly after crossing the Intersection of Apacible and San Marcelino, I checked my phone and saw the withdrawal confirmation message from Globe. Oh my Jen. Too late to go back now, I guess. At least I did not forget to get my card too, right?

Anyways, in my quest to be a shiny happy person all the time, I just let it go.

I would like to think the person who got it needed it more than I did.

thoughts on you

Hey you..I just don't get it. Why do you keep acting like a bad person when you're NOT?

You act like a douchebag, especially in treating (and replacing) women, but you really aren't that kind of person. Really. Why do you keep acting like a jerk in front of your friends?

I saw how you really were, loyal and loving.

Anyway, I'm hoping you're just passing through THAT phase of your life.

Cream Silk ReCharge Stregth Boost. It works!

My sister visited me last week, during my GC haze, and it didn't take her even a minute to realize how much hair I have been losing. See it was everywhere, in every corner of my room, in my sheets, in my table!

So then she told me that it probably is because of stress. I wanted to explain to her how it may also be caused by my OB medications but I was too tired so I just shut up. I have all of Sunday to tell her anyway. :)

She told me that if I wanted to save my remaining hair I had to de-stress myself. "Stop thinking about your studies!" She said that she had a lot of hair fall too last year because she was the class president, CAT officer, and EIC of our former high-school's paper. I knew she was just trying to help me solve my problem but I cannot ignore my GCness. See, it was finals week last week and three subjects didn't have exemption criteria, so everyone was required to take them damn finals.

Then on wednesday, because I was already out of conditioner, I went to the hair section of Mercury Drug near my place. And because they didn't have stocks of my regular conditioner, I randomly snatched a sachet of the new variant of Cream Silk Strength Boost. I figured, I will give this a try then buy a bigger one if it manages to keep my hair on its roots.

Alas! On my first use I only saw about 5 strands fall off (usually about 30). So then I bought some more and over the next few days it seemed my hair was becoming healthier, it doesn't want to leave my scalp anymore! I already bought myself the bottle/big tube, whatever it is called. Yay!!

Lazy as it sounds, I do not have to sweep my room everyday anymore! Ha! Ha! Maybe only three times a week, now.xp (But hey, I am a gal-on-the-go! *wide grin*)

strawberry pancakes

Experimenting on a can of strawberry preserves and a box of Pillsbury served well.:) These are for our STS Russian booth. :D

bargains

So I've been doing a lot of internet shopping lately. Not that I have a lot of money. But I have been doing so because I get easily tired walking around the mall looking for the right stuff. Using the internet, you just type the keyword and voila! Items matching your query pop-up.:)

Within the week, I was able to acquire these awesome stuff:

1. A BCBG Max Azria Polo:





2. Ruby Vintage Studs (I've been looking for a pair for the longest time!):



3. Zara Little Black Dress:





So there. Now to the not-so-bargain-y-thing I want to splurge on:



That's the sample gold version of the batch ring (around 6k!). I'm thinking of just settling with the silver version (3.6k), with a Garnet stone (for UP Maroons). Ohmy. My money's flying away again!

6 months

6 months of treatment and hopefully "these" will go away. Pray with me.

making rock-hard brownies

Last sunday, Maling and I tried making perfect brownies, but we ended up with rock-hard very sweet brownies. BUT we weren't that disappointed because all of it was consumed before the end of the day.:D So it wasn't that bad.

Step 1: Mix the ingredients in a bowl.


Step 2: Make sure lumps of powder do not exist.


Step 3: (Grease the pan, then pour the concoction). Then, Oven!


Step 4: After 15 minutes, take the pan out.


Voila! My first ever home-made brownie experience.:D

my sister's laptop

Of course, my little sister also received her new laptop (a black Lenovo). She's a butch, yes. Hahaha.:D

Anywho, here she is playing chess in my bed:



And here is the back view of her Lenovo:


Of course, I used it to camwhore (1st ever camwhore moment using a webcam!). Here I am in a superman outfit:

And in the following pictures just goofing around in my parents' room:

vaiola

My laptop from the States finally arrived! yay.:) She's so pretty, I named her Vaiola.:D Here she is:






Vaiola is <3.

hairband-madness

I finally found time to fix my new apartment room. In the process of doing so, I dug these up from the jungle underneath my table. And in my attempt to put them in order, I tried cramming them into the mouth of an empty Erlenmeyer flask (which I found in another jungle elsewhere). In the end I failed. There's just too many of them!

So while we are on the topic of hairbands, these are my two favourite accessories:

The blue one, I bought on sale back in 2nd year college in SM Harrisons. While the stretchable one (I do not know how it's called exactly) I got from Majo (from the States). Goes to show how the best things in life are cheap/free, doesn't it?

passed out

Last night I experienced my first black out drunken haze. So that's how it feels when drunk people say everything's spinning. And that's how surprised you get when you wake up somewhere, and you don't know how you got there. And the worst/most funny thing about all that was I absolutely do not remember some/most of what I said or did. Next!

eL Laboratories

So the manufacturing internship ended yesterday (Apparently, eL is already a part of Biñan and not Sta. Rosa). I did not at all expect that I'd actually like and enjoy it there. We had a chance to go around and experience each department (QAI, QC, Prod, Warehouse, DCC, Prod Devt), but I enjoyed Prod the most. Especially whenever I am assigned to be a part of an on-line packaging assembly. There you have no choice but to be all hyped up and ready. (In comparison to other departments where staying awake is really really hard)

I will never ever forget the people I met there (Okay, maybe some/most of our co-interns I will forget). Even if someone says he's sure after a few years when we're already successful, we wouldn't even remember him. Ironically, I think it's him we will remember the most.

It's funny how unexpectedly things/perspectives change when you see the bigger picture. I thought of quoting Zac Efron in 17 Again but it wouldn't really be appropriate for the setting. Haha. Randomness forever Jen.

By the way, we rented half of a pretty big 2-storey house in San Jose Village 4C in Biñan. I particularly love its location in the village. Very..advantageous despite it being located at the cornermost corner of the last street. (Evil laugh) So. Here are some of the more memorable happenings inside the house:
- late night ROFLs because of random funny stuff
- "hawaan" of contagious quirks
- shamelessly speaking in accents
- cooking and being appreciated for it
- writing daily sabaw journals in the balcony
- late night drinking sessions (despite the 4.30 am wake up call)

laguna, pgh

So I do not have a vacation. I guess continuous work comes, literally, with growing old. But I am not too old. (I have batchmates born in 1988. We, the younger ones, in 1990)

I'm spending the rest of April and a bit of May with moi blockmates in Sta. Rosa, Laguna. We're renting a house, and there will be cooking assignments. Shocking, but I've never let them taste anything I cooked before. (This thursday, Sweet and Spicy Chicken!) And, of course, there will be drinking sessions. >:) Hopefully we'd still have enough energy at the end of the day.

Then May will be PGH month. Oooh my. The tiredness of it all! Not to mention the chaos in Manila because of the elections (which I will be part of, by the way!:]). Nevertheless, I'm really excited about learning how to make sterile preparations (injectables, parenteral nutrition, antidotes, etc). And I want a picture of me in a bunny suit. Not the playboy type, but the chemist type! Hahahaha.

~~~~~

I used to regret something that happened today, last year. But now I don't. The most important w, why was there. And the magic was there.

nerdy jenny

Tonight, I drank my milk with a carbocisteine capsule. Then I grasped when I realized what I just did. I drank it with milk!

It took all of 5 seconds for these questions to pile in my head:
- Will milk interact with carbocisteine?
- Will milk delay dissolution of the capsule?
- Will the ions in milk chelate with carbocisteine?
(then I pictured cysteine with some sort of alkyl group attached to it. trying to figure out where calcium will bind)
- WILL CARBOCISTEINE'S BIOAVAILABILITY DECREASE?!?!?!
(if so, hindi mawawala tong annoying phlegm thingy!!!)

Gosh. This is what I've become after a sem of Dispensing & Incompatibilities. Haha. Anyway I'm not really complaining. I got exempted from taking the finals!:)

new baby

my new baby:



UHUH!! I love it. Thank you gab for suggesting this (when I was on the verge of buying an E71). Nokia E72 is WAY better. With the Trackpad, 5 MP and all. And I chose metal grey.

Here's more information if you're thinking of buying it, too:
NOKIA E72

I have yet to name it though.

Thank you DADDY!!! =*

removed

I do not hate you. I removed you from my list because I do not want to hate you.

When I remember you, I want to think good times, and love.

terrified

So, this song made my day (and the free venti vanilla frap from starbucks.xp):

Lala Lala la la
Mmmmmm mmm
You by the light
Is the greatest find
In a world
Full of wrong
Your the thing thats right
Finally made it
Through the lonely
To the other side

You set it again
My hearts in motion
Every word feels
Like a shooting star
Im at the edge of my emotions
Watching the shadows
Burning in the dark
And Im in love
And Im terrifed
For the first time
And the last time
In my only life
Life

This could be good
Its already better than that
And nothings worse
Than knowing your holding back
I could be all that you need
If you let me try

You set it again
My hearts in motion
Every word feels
Like a shooting star
Im at the edge of my emotions
Watching the shadows
Burning in the dark
And Im in love
And Im terrified
For the first time
And the last time
In my only life

I only said it 'cause I mean it
Oh I only mean it
'Couse its true
So dont you tear
What I've been dreaming
'Couse it keeps me up
And holds me close
Whenever Im without you

You set it again
My hearts in motions
Every word feels
Like a shooting star
Im at the edge of my emotions
Watching the shadows
Burning in the dark
And Im in love
And Im terrified
For the first time
And the last time
In my only life
Life, life
In my only life

(Terrified by Kara Dioguardi)

dear john

(this post is at least one week late)

Okay, so it wasn't such a good movie after all. I must say the one who cut the scenes for the Teasers was indeed brilliant! BUT, it did have its share of amazing moments.. And most of all, it made me cry (the last time I cried over a movie was with Love of Siam). Not so much because of the stuff that happened in the movie but because certain scenes in there made me remember ..uhmm, stuff.

Anyway, after watching this, lame as I am, I wrote a "dear john". Not really sure if I'd ever let "john" read it though. Perhaps before he leaves? Or Not.

Things are becoming ironic again!

tumblr

finally, something that doesn't require too much explaining, TUMBLR!

here:

queeniejenny.tumblr.com

NMAT Results.

I got a line-of-9 score.:) Yay! It's not as high as I need it to be though, so I'm considering re-taking the test with my own moolah. Oh gosh. Spending my own 2k on something immaterial will be hard!

At least something good came out of that day (Dec.13 :[).