just a happy thursday journal

rite of passage

i've always thought that you've never really experienced UP if you haven't been lost in Diliman. so yesterday, five years after getting my bachelor's degree from another UP campus, i finally passed this UP rite of passage.

so getting lost in UP and riding the IKOT-TOKI jeepneys are a tradition that all true-blooded UP'an should pass. i have done it... yehey!

soul food

experiencing UP may be the ritual i needed to do to feed my starving soul. as i experienced my many 'first', i found myself deliriously happy. i've been like a fool, feeling like a freshie on her enrollment day. i got lost, bugged a lot of people, got off at wrong stops twice, walked around the campus, sat on a dirty, red-cement bench under a tree and had ants climb up my arms, leaves and twigs falling down my hair. i couldn't help giggling like a fool and wave cheerfully to some drivers just because they gave me that 'look' as if they're afraid a might go crazy soon. i felt happy. i felt at home. i felt like i've been back in baguio, back in UP. and maybe, that was what my soul needed.

a really good day

as i boarded the UP-Pantranco jeepney yesterday, i found a folded 1000-peso bill in my wallet among the folded atm receipts. whoa, it was a dead money, something that i didn't know i still have. so i went to have my facial, got a massage, ate things that i wanna ate that were normally out of my budget and spent the balance on pirated dvds from st francis. in the end, i spent it all in half day. who cares anyway, i've never felt so happy and refreshed for so long.

P.S. i wrote this piece while sipping watermelon shake from fruit magic at sm megamall foodcourt, written at around 2:45 pm, in a crumpled yellow paper i managed to find in my bag. so the "time" of the post had been edited, the content's the same. everything happened yesterday, 22 may 2008. ^_^

dreamland

i am happy. to borrow den's word 'not exactly insanely happy' but i try to be. for one, i regained the capacity to dream again. and for someone who lives in her 'make-believe' world often, it is a indeed a big deal.

i've been a happy child. i can't even remember if i had a phase of 'imaginary world and friends' when i was younger. i had too many playmates, my cousins, and my parents used to play with me. but as i grow older and realized that the real world can be cruel at times, i discovered my escape route... off to my own world.

so when the real, oftentimes cruel, world took over, i became lost and depressed.

i’m gaining it back now. i’m happy.

thanks heavens. ^_^

Eight Things People MIGHT Not Know About Me ^_^

As tagged by ladyholden ^_^

1. I don't belong to any organized religion. Yey, my bad. But yes, in my heart, I don't belong to any of those. I believe in God, don't get me wrong but somehow, I wish that there would be a church that is 'non-sectarian'... I mean, a church that doesn't delineate and differentiate between organized sects and 'religions. Just a church that preach the words of one God just as it is without biases, talk of faith and just let you be. I believe that there are only one God. I know that some of my friends are really uncomfortable when I talk about this and some are even bothered but... *shrugs* someday, I'll find my earth-bound sheperd.

2. I hate it when people read behind my back... you know, snooping on my emails, my posts, stories, text messages etc, etc and just about everything personal... you know what i mean.

3. I am naturally introvert and a snob. I am very private though I may not look it. I think that my friendster account is too crowded although people tell me 'konti nga lang ang friends ko' hehe bakit ba kasi...

4. I really don't fancy chinito at maputing guys... ask Den and Kat. But that was before Lee Dong Wook, Gong Yoo and Bae Yung Joon. hehehe Now I'm a convert.

5. I'd like to learn other language and be able to fluently speak it. I mean, unlike when I took up Spanish just so I'd have an elective... I want to learn other languages and be able to converse in that language. List includes: Irish-Gaelic (w/c is next to impossible), French, Spanish, Italian, Mandarin, Nihonggo and Korean. I can speak, read and write English, Filipino and Ilocano na eh... and just about bits of other Filipino dialects hehehe

6. I really don't like big groups. I prefer small, intimate group of friends though I'd want to belong to organizations too. But on personal level, suplada ako. I choose who to be friends with...I know, sorry.

7. Just like Thet, I'm sipunin though baliktad yata. When I'm puyat, sisipunin ako though minsan parang si Thet din, when I'm having a long night, my sipon is like my warning device na kapag sinipon na, dapat matulog na ako.

8. I constantly change my toiletries. You know I don't have any brand loyalty when it comes to bath soap, facial wash, body wash, body scrub, shampoo, conditioner, deodorants though I have this "default' brands na kung sawa na ako sa lahat, dun ako babalik like Jonhson's baby lotion (the pink one), head and shoulder's shampoo and pantene conditioner (siguro nga in a way dun nga loyalty ko hehehe

PS. It's fun doing this but I'm not gonna tag anyone. Bahala na yung gusto rin itong sagutin hehehe

Thanks Thet ^_^