I REALLY REALLY REALLY REALLY REALLY REALLY REALLY WANT TO WATCH HARRY POTTER AND THE HALF-BLOOD PRINCE ALREADY. O___O

Like. REALLY. I re-read books 6&7 while I was sick and I was just all overcome with emotion all over again. When all else fails, I return to the HP books. They're like coming back to an old friend. I think I first read them when I was in the fifth grade and they were just a huuuge lifesaver for me because I was getting bullied at the time. I had always been an avid reader but when the HP books came out, I pretty much just lived in my head and that's how I survived the bullying, no joke.

I ALSO REALLY REALLY REALLY REALLY REALLY WANT TO WATCH THE TIME-TRAVELER'S WIFE ALREADY. Except I'm kind of meh about Eric Bana. He has no chin. Which, I guess, is why they cast Rachel McAdams. Her face is one huge chin.

I've been under semi-quarantine for the past few days because I mysteriously developed a fever last Tuesday, lost it on Wednesday, and then regained it on Sunday. WTF, right? But even if my voice has completely given up on me (I have to communicate via whiteboard to keep from straining my voice even further) and my body feels pathetically painful, I will never ever trade my experience as a TNT. EVER. EVEEEER.

The first day was kind of fail. They were introducing themselves like, "Hi, I'm so-and-so and I'm 16/17 years old," and I kept going in my head, "HOLY SHIT I'M OLD!" But that wasn't the fail part. I couldn't make them run and they were kind of unresponsive. My energy level was kind of low as well because despite the yummy, yummy food they had for us, my stomach just WOULD NOT TAKE THE FOOD and I actually felt like vomiting when I was running around.

But then wow, 180 degree change for the second day! They were RUNNING! And they had ENERGY! And they were yelling, "FIGHTER!!" whenever I'd go, "When I say M1, you say fighter! M1!" I felt...probably like how a mom would feel when her baby finally says, "mama." It was seriously the best feeling ever.

:3

I finally have my laptop.

YEEEEEEEEEEEEEESSS.

It's actually my Mom's, though. She's just "letting me use it because I need it for school." But I strongly feel that it will be mine, oh yes. Mmmhmm. It will be mine. Soon.

Internet at home has not worked in two days and I'm all pissed off about it because I need my Polsci readings, dammit! The department's into saving the environment now so our readings are all going to be on pdf and shit. I read at school but I'm kind of iffy about sticking my USB in the lab's computers and bringing home a virus or something. Mom said I should make a very angry phone call to our provider but I CAN'T DO THAT! They're call center agents! It's not their fault! T___T;;

Good news though, my Mom has finally caved. She is buying me a laptop. WOOOT WOOOOO~~!! She's giving me a budget of 25-35k to work with. No problem, since I just really need a netbook for now (you know, those baby laptops?) but Dad's not going to be happy with her. He said that he'll buy me one when I graduate (um, yes, give me one when I don't have papers to write anymore) because if I get one now, I'll never come home/come out of my room. FALSE, because I'm not hooking the house up for Wifi. One of the reasons why it's so hard to work at the desktop is because of the Internet access.

I really want the HP Mininote for the regular sized keys (My fingers are huge) but the screen is a little smaller than I would like and it's slow because the newer ones all run on Vista now. I'm thinking of getting the Acer Aspire, though. I already texted my Mom yesterday ("The Acer Aspire series is less than 27k. It's very small. I like blue, hint hint :)")

Rar.

I'm not sure what I would call this expression. My 'brb brain is reading the internet' face? 

Spanish was slightly better today. I really like Senorita Young. Of all the teachers I've had (lol, I've only had 3--Senor Capili, Senora Torres and Senorita Young), she's the one who forces me to think faster. I think it's because this class is relatively bigger than my previous classes. Still can't get over those two Chinese girls, Julietta (ohhh~) and Isolda, who speak better Spanish than I do (I made a mistake in my last post; they're not Korean). Also, check out my new shirt:
It says OK! WE CAN! (stupid glare, but ancient Super Junior reference is win) I LOOOOVE IT because it has a dual purpose: I can flaunt my fandom without being stared at by the Koreans at school (unless...you know, they actually know who said this) and I can be all happy on days when I feel like crap because OK WE CAN~! I have an I BLEED SAPPHIRE BLUE shirt but I get self-conscious when I wear it to school because of the unfriendly Korean populace. I asked my Korean friend and she said that Suju is really popular with the middle school girls and I keep getting this image in my head of being kicked out of college back to like 6th grade or something for my blatant and oh-so-obvious love for them. Yeesh.

What I need now is a 2PM shirt. Are you reading this Mish?? Get into 2PM so you can make a 2PM shirt next :DDDD

EDIT: Holy shit, I should stop stalking OMTD and study. GAAAAAHHH I'm still in summer mode.

I added some new friends from omonatheydidnt  recently. I am pretty much addicted to Facebook so I haven't really blogged properly about anything in awhile. Hopefully, I can blog more consistently (and more coherently now) because I really do love to write. Shit, I used to post everyday here.

Call me Kaye. I'm 19 years old and a junior at Ateneo de Manila University. My major is European Studies, International Relations track and I'm minoring in Hispanic Studies and History. Whew. I like all kinds of food (my talent is to eat, seriously) and I am trying desperately to gain weight without getting flabby, a battle that I am currently losing because of my general lack of exercise and a diet of greasy cafeteria food (two lunches on Tuesdays and Thursdays!) People have told me that I look pretty intimidating, but I think that's because I'm pretty tall (5"7 1/2) and my default face is kind of...expressionless, but I'm a nice person. Really. I just have a temper. :D

I'm into Supernatural (the TV series). it kind of pisses me off that we only get the latest season NOW in the Philippines while it's already finished in the US but meh. What can you do? I don't download anything bigger than music videos or music (they are often of the Korean variety) off the Internet because my DSL is kind of a bitch. My mission for this year is to convince my parents to buy me a laptop. I'd save up for it myself, but I'm also saving up for a trip to Seoul.

So. Today we had TNT training. TNT stands for Talks and Tours, the group of people that give the freshmen their orientation. We were supposed to have the OrSem the weekend before school started but swine flu's a bitch so the administration put the kibosh on the whole shebang. There's a lot more work involved this year because we actually have to convince the freshmen to come and be all excited about it as they probably think they won't need it anymore, having toured themselves plenty in the two weeks before OrSem. Still, if we pull it off then we're awesome. It's HARD because TNT's don't have energy. They have ENERGYYYYYYYYYYY!!!! I mean. We didn't even really do anything except group dynamics and I'm exhausted. What more on the actual OrSem when we have to sprint from building to building around yelling, "MOB! MOOOOOOOOOOB!!" at the freshmen?

('Mob' in case you were wondering, is short for 'mobilize' so it's not just a random word that we're yelling just for kicks.)

I don't know who actually had the patience to read this through (It's kind of long-winded O_O) but on a final note, I have Spanish tomorrow and I have these two native Korean speakers in my class and they totally speak better Spanish than I do. If that's not a call to start cracking down on the damn language, I don't know what is.

1. Leave me a comment saying, "Interview me."
2. I will respond by asking you five questions. I get to pick the questions.
3. You will post the answers to the questions (and the questions themselves) on your journal.
4. You will include this explanation and an offer to interview someone else in the same post.
5. When others comment asking to be interviewed, you will ask them five questions. And thus the endless cycle of the meme goes on and on and on and on...

questions from xradiostatic 
1. how did you come up with your username? (it's so intriguing haha)
2. what's some of your biggest pet peeves?
3. what's your favorite time of the year?
4. how did you get into kpop?
5. would you consider yourself an introvert or an extrovert?

( I've just seen a face I can't forget )

I was supposed to have class today but apparently my prof is in quarantine. HAHA, GRIPE PORCINO!!

(I just really wanted to use this .gif because Woo Young looks like my very solemn young cousin. I CAN'T STOP WATCHING IT.)

that I should reserve a spot for her every week in my planner because she says something funny almost everyday. For your reading pleasure, I present to the Internet all the funny things that she has said these past few weeks:

May 2: A hairy vagina is an unhappy vagina.

June 4: I had this dream that I put holy water on my airplane seat, then our plane crashed and I was still in the air.

June 13: Pag na-discover ka na ni JYP, ako yung mag-popost ng mga embarrassing pictures mo sa mga forums [When you get discovered by JYP, I'm in charge of posting your embarrassing pictures on forums.]

June 16 (a conversation between me and my sister):
Ela: Ate Kaye, do you smoke?
Kaye: Of course not.
Ela: Stop avoiding the question. You can tell me! I won't tell anyone. Do you smoke?
Kaye: Of course not.
Ela: STOP AVOIDING THE QUESTION.

Today I learned that the national anthem of Canada and my school song are sung in the same tune.

The rain is making me feel really lethargic. And I'm kind of angry because I got my legs waxed yesterday (I was kind of bummed out for some really shallow reason that I don't feel like sharing and when I'm bummed, I spend money on things that I want but normally don't have the guts to get because they're kind of expensive--I think I have to get rid of that habit) and I can't even show it off because it's cold and wet.

Well. Other people wear miniskirts in the rain. But then again, they're all hatid-sundo from school. I walk home and nearly fell on my ass earlier because the sidewalk was so goddamn slippery.

I’m an hour into my first day (got to school at 8 even though my first and only class is at 11:30 because I really hate commuting) and already my heart’s all a flutter. I love first days and everything associated with them. New teachers, new notebooks...the new sea of humanity that comes with the trading in of the seniors with the freshmen...on the first day of school, not even morning traffic annoys me. I’m a humongous nerd, I swear to God, I even like to open my new books and breathe in that new book smell.

I ought to get my ass offline and start working on coherent answers for Spanish. Save for the occasional ‘hola’ and ‘adios,’ I didn’t practice AT ALL this summer so I’m super rusty. I’m pretty sure my prof will be all, “What did you do this summer?” so I have to have an answer that isn’t, “UM.”


I've got I Wanna Hold Your Hand stuck in my braaaaaain. Sadly, not the cool retro version with Ringo Starr bobbing his head as he drums to the beat. I've got the girl version from Across the Universe.
 

The other half is ogling the pretty boys (or pretty girls, whichever your preference). That being said, I WILL LEARN FIRE, DAMMIT. When I do, I'll file the information under the 'useless talents' part in my brain, where I've stored the ability to dance Tell Me by The Wonder Girls and Gee by SNSD. Damn these catchy motherfuckers.

So my LJ doesn't totally die out on me (Facebook is evil), have a meme.

The problem with LiveJournal is that we think we're close, but really, we know nothing about each other.
So I want you to ask me something you think you should know about me, something that should be obvious, but you have no idea about, or something you've always been curious about but have never asked, or something completely silly that you'd like me to answer for kicks. No limits on the range of questions, either: ask me anything you want to know about, whether it's a fannish opinion or a question about a fic of mine or trivia about my real life or my thoughts on events in the offline world.

I wish my dad played doofy games like that with me when I was a baby. I remember my baby self biting him on the leg a lot like a demented puppy and dancing 'I'm a Little Teapot' a lot, but that's about it for the cuteness.

I banged my back on the open refrigerator door when I was getting up from the kitchen floor.

Hey, that rhymes. :D

But it hurts like a mother. T__T

Our kasambahay Ate Railyn (my favorite kasambahay thus far; I was the favorite kid of all our other kasambahays as I never talked to them. Logic) is gone for 11 days so my sisters and I have been taking over chores and such, supervised by Miss Hannigan my mom's sister.

It's been two days and I have discovered that nobody should trust me near any stove-like object as my selective amnesia span leads to burning, and my short temper leads to fits of rage and crying jags. Last night my dad was boiling beef to make into mami. He spent three hours on it and I forgot to pour another cup of water into the pot and the beef ended up getting burned. There's a mangled piece of metal in our kitchen right now, the tongs that my dad mangled, no doubt to keep from wringing my neck.

That is all.

So Mother's Day was mad fun. Ela and I spent much of last night Photoshopping a picture of our Mom for our card. We were so into it that when Mom came upstairs to demand for her turn on the computer (as she usually does), Ela grabbed my boobs and I shrieked in bloody murder.

Subtle, yes? I swear, my Mom totally thinks we're insane. The fact that she sometimes catches us dancing to Girls' Generation and the Wonder Girls does not help.

Today we had lunch at my grandma's house. The best thing about having lunch over there is that there's A LOT OF FOOD and the food is always good. Like today we had two huge sushi/make platters, lechon, chicken, caldereta and some sort of salmon dish. I was pretty much full for the whole day. The worst part is having flashbulbs in your face all the time. All my relatives are budding photographers, you see, and there are at least two cameras per family. It's nuts, but also funny.

I swear to God, if I hear Poker Face in this house one more time, I'm going to spontaneously combust.

Same goes for Love Story. SHIT man. SHIT.

Not Ela's though and I know that maybe some of us need a laugh just to break the monotony of planless summers. She's been very funny lately though. Like that time we were watching Cooking Master Boy on DVD and Mao was having that knife battle contest with Leon. Mao raises his knife and it's all sparkly. And then Ela goes,

"HIS KNIFE IS MADE WITH REAL EDWARD CULLEN!"

Hahaha, good times. Anyway, the real quote I wanted to share is this:

Yi Jeong: Nice girls always want happy endings. I may be cool but I'm not a nice guy.
Ga Eul: You should forget the notion that nice girls will always want nice guys.

Which is true. :D Also

Ock Taecyeon (and 2PM) makes me happy in my heart. It's quite nutty, actually, but if for some strange reason I could actually be in a Korean boyband, I would want to be in 2PM. They're all...sufficiently insane.

Here's the thing: I'm a grab-the-first-Tshirt-my-hand-touches kind of girl. I don't put a lot of thought into my clothes. I have one pair of presentable sneakers, two pairs of dilapidated sneakers (the presentable pair was supposed to replace the dilapidated ones but the latter pairs are just much too comfy to be thrown out), and a pair of running shoes. My formal wear consists of three dresses that are on rotation and I own only one pair of high heels. Clothing is just not a need for me as I am notoriously cheap and would rather spend my cash on books.

Which, I guess, is totally the wrong attitude because it is my lack of appropriate clothing more than anything that prevents me from going to parties. God.

What exactly does one wear to a black and white themed debut held in a bar anyway? Can I wear pants? Do I have to wear a short dress? Does it count as black and white if my dress has a bit of yellow on it? And what am I supposed to do with my hair? I can't just pull it up in my usual ponytail. As it is, I think my hairline is receding.


OHHHH I wish I had an older sister.