evil_zucchini

( Answers to the song meme from last Saturday )

Congratulations 100percentcocoa !

It's V-Day week and I had my fortune told with Krix and Karla for a hundred bucks. :D Considering that all the legit fortune telling places usually charge you P300 a session, I thought that I got a pretty good deal. And I don't really put much faith in such things but some of the things manang fortune teller told me was eerily spot on.

Basically she told me that I'm going to be working with kids. I assumed that this means I'll be a freshman guide again for next school year. I mean technically, those freshies ARE kids. Then she said that my future lies outside of the Philippines, with me communicating with people all the time. She asked what my course was and I said that I was a European Studies major and then I think she said that it'll probably have something to do with like diplomacy or something. Just for fun, I asked if I had a future as a radio DJ or a VJ and she said that it'd be a good back-up career. Then I asked her if I had a future in writing and she said that I was going to end up writing stuff that's going to offend a bunch of people and I wondered if this spelled doom for my new blog.

When it was time to talk about my love life, the first card she turned over was the Death card, which meant that any relationship I could've had ended before it had a chance to begin because there's supposedly one guy who likes me now and he hasn't said anything yet but I've already refused him. Then I asked if he was a 'bad boy' and she said yes, that he was a player and then I think it's one of my friends. I had a crush on him before but I got really turned off because he's incompetent. But he's a player in more ways than one.

Then she told me that I'm going to be really focused on my career and stuff that I'll run the risk of putting a strain on my relationship with my family and that I'll only have two kids and it'll be 'risky.' 

Yeah. I think it's time I got back to writing my paper.

I'm back guys, and I suppose it really wasn't much of a hiatus since I still checked Omona daily for news and such things. But I swear on my life that I didn't touch Twitter or Tumblr. Go me and my self-control. \o/

Anyway, I had major bad vibes this past week. I had a project proposal of sorts due for Theology on Wednesday so my group met up on Tuesday night to try and finish it. I had to leave Bea's house early because it was a school night and my parents are mad strict even though Bea and I live in the same subdivision. So they did finish it and I wanted to pass it by early Wednesday so it could get approved by my professor faster so I asked them to send me everything early Wednesday so I could look it over and and make corrections and such things but a certain groupmate JUST WOULDN'T COOPERATE. Like looking back, what he did was funny, but it caused me so much stress and aggravation at the time, especially since at the same time I was stressing about the project, I needed to get my sister waxed for her prom (!!!!!!!!), and I needed to study for my Philosophy long test (I needed to get a good grade on that one since I basically got a D on the last one - philosophizing is definitely not my strong point as I prefer for things to be discussed 'down here' as opposed to 'up there'), and one of our new puppies died due to the unfortunate stupidity of one of the caterers that came for my grandpa's birthday party. I MEAN SERIOUSLY. I was wigging out. When I got home and found out about the puppy I cried so hard and my dad was like, "WHAT YOU'RE REALLY THAT UPSET??" and I was all, "IT'S NOT JUST ABOUT THE PUPPY BAWWWWWW"

Then Thursday I was so out of it at school that I cut two classes and slept in the infirmary for most of the day. Had a brief lol moment where this one girl came into the infirmary because she smoked for the first time and she wanted to vomit while the doctor accused her of smoking marijuana. I discovered at home that I actually had a really mild case of food poisoning from the siomai I ate the day before and proceeded to cut class on Friday.

You know what the worst part of food poisoning for me is? It's not the constant tango with the toilet - it's not being able to eat due to lack of appetite.

Anyway, so hi friends new and old. I have a bunch of memes due for cityscripts but I figured we could play a game before I get to those things.
( let's play a love game, play a love game )

I'm also thinking about starting a review blog where I could review Kpop releases at the end of each month or something. I don't know, would you guys read it? It's just mostly to practice my non-fiction writing chops and God knows I'm opinionated enough about such things.

Oh, and I had a dream the other day that I had a two-hour Kpop special segment on one of the local radio stations and I realized that all I really want to do right now is to be a radio DJ.

Tonight is prom night for my little sister. Will be posting pics tomorrow because I am a stage sister. ^^

Just for less than a week though (less than because my little sister's prom is Saturday night and I plan to post about that like a good older sister trying to relive her youth ho ho ho). Projects and long tests are piling up on me like shizzle and I need to F. Cuz.

That's me playing on words, y'all, laugh. 

But seriously, I just need to focus. I'm probably going to try and give up Twitter and Tumblr too. Man, this is gonna be like trying to cut out my appendix with a spoon.

But hay new friends and hay old friends. Don't cut me out of your lists while I'm gone alright? 

I added the third 'do it' so no one would put "chu~" HEH. YOU K-POPPERS ARE SO PREDICTABLE. 

the { first ✚ impression } meme

Hanging out with Reese in the caf at the moment. I'm going to leave in a bit to pass reservation forms to the Fine Arts department. I hate talking to Xander - I'm sure he's a nice guy but I always feel like he's going to bite my head off. :( This is the only thing I hate about doing logistics work for BlueRep. That and the OAS man who never wants to approve my reservation forms.

I failed the Spanish supertest I took last year before the break :( To be fair, I really didn't study much for it and before that I never really paid attention...ugh, I shoot myself in the foot all the time, I swear. But it's not the last test so I still have a chance to redeem myself! 

I tried recording my IPE lecture earlier but I sit way in the back and my prof speaks really softly so it was kind of difficult. Plus I sit beside schizofragile and for the first part of the class we were compiling a list of songs that Krix needed to listen to. She got into SS501 recently xD Anyway, I gotta think of a way to fix that for tomorrow's Philo class because my prof there talks even more softly and I'm in the back AGAIN. I hate Charlie - he made me sit next to him :|

Bea's got an interview with the European Chamber of Commerce for OJT on Wednesday and she's trying to get me to go with her. I don't know, I think it's too soon! It's the freaking CHAMBER OF COMMERCE. I haven't been keeping up with EU news so I have no idea what's going on with the Lisbon treaty and shit (I DO know that it's been ratified by like...Ireland already) and I'm usually a nervous wreck during formal interviews, I haven't even typed up my resume yet...

The truth is that I really want to teach History for a year or two, at my old high school. I've been hearing stories from my sister about how shit it is now compared to when I was in it. All the exams are Scantron and they only write essays in English class and I'm like, "THAT'S NOT GOING TO BE ENOUGH GDI," because I wrote a ton of essays in high school but I'm still a pretty bad essay writer now. It's not something that comes naturally to some people so if you're not going to let them practice, they are going to suck at it. And truth be told, my history teachers weren't exactly the best so I really hated the subject in high school, didn't even consider becoming a history major...then I had really awesome profs in uni and I really regretted not taking history. 

Long story short, if I ever taught History over there...I would make all my quizzes essays. And they'll probably thank me someday.

I had a really embarrassing dream about Taecyeon last night. Not perverted embarrassing, just "OH MY GOD WHY IS THIS HAPPENING TO ME??" Long story short, he was an exchange student at my school and he asked where the registrar's office was, talked to each other like normal people and all that jazz when all of a sudden, my cellphone rang. 

And my ringtone was 10 Out of 10. *facepalm*

Well, he was pretty nice about it in the end and he said that he appreciated that I wasn't fawning all over him. But it was still pretty embarrassing. Poor dream!Kaye

So I watched little bits and pieces of 2009 SBS Daejun Gayo and decided that for this year, it should have been named The Big 2PM Show instead. I mean, I have a major 2PM bias but that was just a little ridiculous. Probably the most painful performance was them singing 5 Steps by Dru Hill. People, there is a reason why 2PM is not being marketed as a vocal group: Junsu (and Jay *teeeeeeaaar*) and to some extent, Junho are the only ones who are really consistent when it comes to hitting them notes. But whatever, give the guys some props for trying to be well-rounded. To be fair, the harmonization in the chorus was pretty good.

( More Gayo babble here, plus related fandom stuff )

Now that fandom ramble is all over and done with, it's that time of the year once again where I try to make some New Year's Resolutions. I've been making them for as long as I can remember and I only manage to keep like maybe one or two for a few weeks and then I give it up entirely because some habits are just too hard to break. But I'm turning 20 in 2010, and graduating in 2011 (maybe) so I think it's time I make an effort to grow up a little bit more.

For 2010, I firmly resolve to:
1. Stop whining. It's a waste of time and energy, and it's not particularly attractive.
2. Be an overall nicer person, especially to Trina because I have TWO younger sisters, not just one.
3. Stop rolling out of bed and throwing on the first thing you touch from the closet and slouching into school like it's community service.
4. Stop procrastinating.
5. Learn how to drive.
6. Get rid of this ridiculous addiction to the Internet.
7. Save more money.
8. Write more.
9. Get more physically fit.
10. Be as awesome as I can be everyday for the rest of my life.

Wish me luck, you guys. And I hope you all can keep your resolutions as well.

By the way, to all the people who have made my 2009 special despite everything, everyone who stuck with me even though I was and still am kind of a shitty person...you know who you all are. I thank you and I love you all. Happy (almost) 2010! 

1. Attend a party behind her house on the day before her last day of class (note: this works better if she has a test to study for)
2. Scream uproariously every five seconds. No, you do not need to have a reason.
3. Play lots of music. Preferably one with heavy bass.  (note: if you REALLY wanted to drive Kaye crazy, play Love Story by Taylor Swift)
4. Shout along to the lyrics
5. Keep it up until the wee hours of the morning.

I hate my neighbors, I really do. Especially the teenagers. No class, no breeding the lot of them. I feel like going over there and whacking them all on the head with the imaginary cane that symbolizes my advanced age.

Or reporting them to the village guard. *cue evil laughter* But Mom says I can't report them because 'tis the season and everything. BUT THIS IS RIDICULOUS OKAY? There's a fine line between celebratory and just plain boisterous. I hope someone else reports them. I hope they get busted for like...underage drinking or something. 

Momma didn't raise no foo. T______T

By the way, you can still leave me some love if you don't think I'm too cranky and surly for it.

But leave me some anyway okay? :D

Then leave me your own links so I can give you all some love as well. Coo? Coo.

PS Check out my new other new icon. So geeky. XD

Busy busy weekend

Thursday
It was Stef's (and my school's) birthday! Stef and I aren't super close but we've been hanging out a lot lately, mostly because we're groupmates for the Theo project. She invited me and a bunch of our other friends to her house for pizza, pasta and cake. Stef's house is creepy as hell on account of it being so old, so we spent a lot of the time being ridiculously scared out of our wits. Cathy, Bea, Kim and I got there first and when we knocked on the front door, it just swung open like in Scooby Doo! But it turned out to be Stef's little cousin Matthew who answered it. And then there's supposedly a ghost in the pool area (wearing only a towel, wtf) so we kept taking pictures and joking that there would be 9 people who'd show up instead of just 8. We all kept joking about throwing people in the pool and stuff, Bea kept all the valuable stuff in her pocket to deter anyone from throwing her in just in case. Ellaine was first to get thrown in the pool, followed by Gel, and then Cathy and Jescia. Stef wasn't supposed to jump in but Ellaine nearly drowned the second time because she jumped in with Gel and they kind of ended up pulling each other down or something. Gel knows how to swim, but Ellaine didn't and we nearly didn't get there in time because we all thought she was joking. Stef jumped in but Cathy ended up saving her.

( Busy and long weekend )

I'm really glad that this coming week is the last before Christmas break, though if my next insertion is going to be as draining as the first one, I don't know how I'm going to be able to survive later that night. Bea and Stef are throwing a party at Bea's place and I already said I'd go.

Tis the season again, where mornings and evenings bring cooler wind and less humidity but afternoons remain as excruciatingly hot as ever. I'm down with a bad cold at the moment, and today I felt so crappy that I opted to skip my two classes today (and miss the graded recitation for IPE, which I did not study for anyway) instead of risking being too weak to go to school tomorrow (and miss my Philosophy exam, which I can't make-up). Only Merleau-Ponty is REALLY REALLY HARD so it looks like I'm going to fail. Maybe. I swear, I shouldn't have taken that seat in the back next to Charlie. He distracts me quite a bit - last week, we ranked SNSD from favorite to least favorite. I started from the bottom up, though since I'm not a huge fan. His favorite is Sunny and his bottom is Hyoyeon, while Sunny was on my bottom three and Hyoyeon was on my top three. I asked my dad for a tape recorder for Christmas so I can listen to the lecture while I study. He asked if I wanted a cassette and I said yes "para old school." ["so it'll be old school."]

I love speaking Filipino, honestly. I suppose it's because I'm so used to it already, but things that are funny in Filipino/Taglish aren't as funny when you translate it into English.

Anyway, since I'm interested, I'm going to start my own meme. Since you know, they don't start themselves :>
( down huurr )

OH YES. I promised schizofragile that I would pimp out her U-Kiss pimp post but it doesn't look like she needs my help. U-Kiss = the shit now, which is about damn time. Been following Kevin and Kibum since their stint in Xing, and I've been kind of following U-Kiss since a summer or so ago, when my little sister discovered Not Young. We turned Alexander's full name into an expletive ("Alexander Lee Eusebio naman eh!"), and believe think he's Filipino.

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Shit man, I feel like I'm going to be thrown in Livejournal prison or something. OVER 4MINUTE?? WHAT IS THIS I DON'T EVEN GRAWRRRR

What am I supposed to do? Delete it??? DAMN YOU 4MINUTE THE BLAME FALLS SQUARELY ON YOUR SHOULDERS. >.>;;

Recently I dreamed that I auditioned for JYPE and holy shit,even in my dreams, I can't freestyle to save my life! I suppose I can follow choreography alright, but I remember that when I was in All Shook Up, the directors were constantly frustrated with me because I couldn't perfect the choreography for Jailhouse Rock (OPENING NUMBER OMGAH PRESSURE~) until like a weekend before our opening night. I'm really quite awkward. :\ He took me in though, for my "above average" singing and overall winning personality (charms? Kaye has over 3000!), and then he put me and six other girls in a group that was supposed to be like the female equivalent of 2PM or Beast, all hip-hop and in your face and stuff.

All in all, one of my better dreams, probably stemming from the fact that I AM SO SICK OF ONLY HAVING SEXY OR CUTESY TO CHOOSE FROM OMGAH. I mean, I suppose 2NE1 does come close to having a fiercely independent image, but come on. Y'all can do better than that. There's a slew of amazing female hip-hop dancers out there. Unfortunately we weren't very successful because there were two members who weren't full Korean (one was black and Korean, another was Spanish and Korean and they were both GAWJUSS, I swear to God), and one who wasn't Korean at all (me), and because everyone wanted us to go for a cuter, more feminine image. TYPICAL.

I finished your Christmas cards y'all! I'll probably mail them in on Sunday so if you missed my Christmas card post, PM me your name and addresses and I'll get back to you righ quick~

I went to the German Christmas fair awhile ago! My German-speaking batchmates taught me some words, but I could only remember "SCHNELL! SCHNELL!" which means either fast or faster. I was yelling it a lot while I was waiting for my turn at the climbing wall. I never got to climb (people were SO FUCKING SLOW. I suppose I should be more sympathetic but there was this one girl who was on there for like 10 MINUTES and she didn't even make it halfway up, seriously), but I think a bunch of German kids gave me weird looks. Speaking of German kids, there was this one little boy who looked like JUSTIN BIEBER!! Oh Justin Bieber, you remain to be a constant source of entertainment. First it was your song (GONNA TELL YOU ONE TIME~), then that Justin Beaver picture on Tumblr, now you have a German doppelganger.

I also fell asleep in IPE class today. Just for like five minutes or something and when I woke up, my prof was still on the same slide *facepalm* I'm glad I wasn't drooling. Back when I was still doing All Shook Up, I fell asleep in my Economics class a couple of times. I think I even drooled on my desk.

Shoutout to schizofragile! WOMAN, where is your U-KISS PIMP POST??

I mean, admittedly, I'm not the most industrious person in the world but this is just ridiculous. And it's not just the 'I-don't-wanna-do-any-schoolwork' type lazy. I've been feeling really lethargic about everything. I'm even too lethargic to elaborate about feeling lethargic.

I think I skipped school mode and went straight to Christmas break mode after sembreak mode. WHYYY?

I need something to light a fire under my ass. IIII GOTTA FIND MY PURPOSE.

You know how you witness something but afterwards you're kind of in a daze and even though you know for sure that it happened, you can't help but think that it was all a dream?

Yeah, felt that yesterday. I attended the Philippines-Korea Friendship Day Concert and HOLY FUCK, I AM STILL NOT OVER MY HIGH.

I'll try to recap as sanely and as wittily as possible, because I think I have embarrassed myself enough for one event. XD Not too many pictures from me - I brought along my shitty Pentax from 2003 (omg 3.2 megapixels! There are cellphones with better quality XD) and it was soooo slow and I couldn't focus properly. Occasionally I would get good shots, but this camera is notorious for capturing people at their worst moments. Good thing I was seated with friends armed with SLRs.
( Warning: Text-heavy with big-ass pictures. I also give Jonghyun a piece of my mind. Feel free to go grab a coffee or something before reading, if you do plan on reading this in its entirety. )

All in all, great night. Thank you Reese, Rian, Tata and Jiro, thank you thank you thank you Mish! You deserve a spa day after all of this :X I wish I had a picture of all of us, but it looks like it'll have to wait.

PS I mentioned Lucky Manzano (cannot call him anything other than that, I swear) in this post 7 times, 8 if you include this sentence. I think if he Googles himself, this blog'll turn up. Hello Lucky Manzano 8D (omg 9)

PPS I hope Onew got to try the Chicken Joy at Jollibee cos Chicken Joy = love (and joy obviously)

The Loyola School of Theology is officially the scariest place in my school. My friend Bea and I went to the library there earlier to research for our Theology project. The building's really old and not very maintained, and the library's structured in such a way that you enter and exit from the third floor, and then all the non-reference books are in the second and first. SCARY AS SHIT, man. No one was in that library except for the librarians and a couple of nuns who were doing research, and they usually stayed on the third floor because that's where the study carrels are and stuff. It's quite dark on the second floor, but that was fine because none of the books I needed were in that spot anyway, but even though the first floor was really well-lit, the bookshelves were so close together that I couldn't help but feel like the walls were closing in on me. And it was ABSOLUTE SILENCE. Not even the hum of the air-conditioning or the generator.

You'd think that as a Catholic, I'd be more comfortable in places like that. I mean, they have crucifixes and pictures of the Pope (and past Popes) all over the place. But I don't know, if I was a demon, or some strange spooky thing, I'd probably spend all my time in places like that, just to screw with the devout.

Oh my God, I'm going to hell. @___@

My sister's still pretty pissed off at me :( I wish I knew that she'd get over it, but I don't know.

I NEED A PLAN!!!

Inspired by mutatedpuffin and the fact that I just discovered that there's a post office nearby (fail, Kaye, FAIL!).

If you want a Christmas card from me, comment on this post with your name and address and I will try my hardest to send you one! :D Also, I'm not particularly artistic so tell me if it's okay if I send you a pre-made card with just a personal message inside, or if you really want me to make one. I don't mind if you want me to make one, I promise! I'm just worried about how it'll turn out. ^^

Comments are screened, I'll message you if I have any questions. Okay? GO!

The new Rizal library is finally, finally open! I'm a huge nerd, though my grades do not suggest this at all. On regular days, I get to school and immediately make a beeline for the library, whether to cram some readings or to study...I just feel significantly better in the morning when I'm surrounded by books before class. I think it has something to do with the fact that books never test you on what you've learned from them. HAH. Anyway, the first week of school was a little sad for me because the old library was closed on account of the people moving the books and study carrels and things into the new one so I had to find a new place to kill time before my classes. I spent MWF mornings with Mish, Reese and Rian, spazzing about SHINee and TTH mornings usually in MVP Basement.

Anyway. The new library is so goddamn first world. I don't know how else to describe it. It's very white, and there's like a fountain in front, and there's supposedly a pond of some sort on the first floor. It's got four floors plus a covered roofdeck. It's huge and I got lost like twice trying to find my way to the reserve section so I could pick up my readings.

Most of all, it's really sterile. Like you can smell the fresh paint and everything, and it's really cold. And it's really, really huge so it kind of reminds me of a hospital instead of a place of learning. All in all, I would really like to have the old library back (it was cozier, but admittedly had less room, which was problematic during finals week because all the people who never even step foot in the library suddenly congregate and steal all the desks) but I'm glad the new one is finally open so I can finally get my study groove on. :D