Mega Reunion :D

Today, December 21, 2006, as we've planned earlier, my friends and I are to go to the Mall of Asia to have fun

Well,we planned to meet at the LRT station at exactly 9:00, Solomon and I were the earliest to arrive there at approximately 8:30. Ok, so we bought our train tickets and waited for the others to come. Nikko kept texting us, updating is with the whereabouts of the others. On 5 minutes before 9:00, Nikko finally arrived, then came Lisa and Stephanie. Now, only Joanie and Dianne have not yet arrived.So, where are they? It's a mystery.The two of them were supposed to meet up and go to the train station together. A few minutes later, Joanie sent Solomon a message asking what Dianne's cellphone number is...Oh my God!I can't believe these two people actually talked about meeting each other without getting each other's contact number first! Not just that, after a while, we received another text message, this time its from Dianne. She asked us where Joanie is...All of us we're like...O K A Y...what the hell are you two doing??? LOL If the two of you do not know where the other one of you is, how will we know? My my...what are they doing? In the end, we had to wait for them at our destinated station and continue on our way to the mall. haha

We got there at about 10:00. We walked a bit, went to IMAX theatre to buy our tickets for the 3D movie T-REX and then we proceeded to the ice skating rink to buy our tickets also in advance.We went straight to Teriyaki Boy to have our lunch because Joanie accidentally used her ice skating ticket and had to get back there before it expires after an hour lol Finally, after lunch, we went on ice skating. Ah...how nice to skate again... Skate, skate, skate...Unexpectedly, I fell 5 times today! haha Normally, I don't fall, maybe its because of too much excitement that I can't wait to skate fast. Alright, at my 5th fall, I managed to bump with a stranger who almost fell down with me. Luckily, she stood still and held me tight enough to make me sit right on the floor. My gosh! That was painful. I immediately stood up and rushed to the sides. At that moment, I felt a slash of pain through my index finger. I took a look at my finger and saw two straight lines of slash marks caused by the skating shoes. I didn't realize till then that the stranger had her skating shoes on my fingers when I fell. Now it started bleeding...I went out of the rink and asked for a band-aid. Ok, after that, my friends also got tired of skating because their feet are starting to ache, so we stopped and went to Starbucks to have some drinks, talked a bit, and even met our long-time-no-see high school friends. It was fun! We took a lot of pictures and laughed a lot.

At approximately 4:25, we left Starbucks and arrived at the IMAX theatre at about 4:30 and proceeded into the theatre to wait for the movie to start. The movie was quite good, since it's with 3D effect. The story is nice. It's about the discovery of dinosaurs and alike. The movie ended after an hour and we went to Powerstation and started playing arcade games. After 2 long hours of nonstop dancing and drumming,we went to Pizza Hut to have our dinner and finally, going to BreadTalk to meet up with Lisa's mom and dad, who would be driving us to our respective homes. How pleasant...I haven't been this happy for quite a long time now. Indeed, the more the merrier, we were the noisiest group of people wherever we go

After I got home, there was another surprise waiting for me. I logged-in my Yahoo messenger and guess what? My friend Dorin is online! I'm so surprised, I can't believe it was actually him. I haven't talked with him for 4 long months!It was really nice to chat with him again and to know that he is doing fine.

Ok...that is my diary for today. Quite a long post, I suppose. Please bear with me, as I've realized that I'm becoming more and more of a talkative person now Haha! Sorry about that... Well...umm Happy Christmas! Have fun byebye!

Basically, this is just a copy-paste version of what I've posted in my Opera blog account. I'm too tired to write a new one about the same happenings :D enjoy!

Storm gone and sun comes...

At last, after three full months of hard work and endurance, it is now my time to relax. Freedom at last! Today was the last day of our final exams. The details of the exams, I'm not gonna further explain, but it did went well :D Right now, I felt as if Christmas is only an arm's length away. I'm so excited! Christmas has always been my favorite holiday every year, nothing more can make me happier than during the Christmas season.

One reason, of course, is I get to receive gifts haha Another is, I get to give gifts. Sounds funny? Well yeah, it is. But I always find the joy in giving my thoughts and best wishes to my friends in this season. The best part is when I'm choosing gifts for my friends. I don't know, I just like it. Some people say that choosing presents for others is the hardest thing to do coz they do not know what their friends or relatives like. As for me, I always notice the small details in my friends' daily lives and take note on what they would wish to have as a present. Hmm it might be very painful for my wallet, but its worth it. After all, this season only comes once a year.

How I wish I'd be in another country, somewhere in the Scandinavia, during Christmas. I'm sure it would be a whole lot of fun-- different customs, festivities, and culture. Considering also that I'd be able to see snow...WOW that's one of my wildest dreams. I heard that the Christmas trees used in Europe are real ones that people cut from the forest. Lucky! We only have plastic ones here, which is kinda weird, but white ones look really nice :D

After today, my Christmas vacation would officially start, until the second week of January. Hmm what can I do during this three-week break? Umm play a lot of tennis, I'm sure, and maybe go to the mall and go to my friends' house. I suppose it would be good. This is the first Christmas I'm going to have since my university/college life started. Ah well, I'm excited, very. Besides being my first Christmas since college, the adding up of new friends--college friends or online friends to my life is also one thing that is worth my celebration and excitement.

Can't wait for the Christmas to come! I still have a few gifts to prepare. No worries, on Friday, I'm going to the mall with La Reina and Jessica to relax ourselves and to start Christmas shopping :P Okay, my post ends here. Happy Christmas! (In advance haha)

Is linguistics for me?

I keep wondering...
Would it be better if I took a liberal arts/literature course rather than taking up a business course? I think I feel more comfortable writing stuff then solving math problems. But why? Before I used to force myself to excel in math, to make myself believe that I am better in maths than in literature. So stupid of me, were I just tricking myself into believing something that is not true? Or......

Recently, I've been chatting with a Swedish friend. If you read my blog frequently, you would know who I'm referring to. Before I started having online friends, I was not very aware of the country Sweden. I mean, of course, I knew that it is somewhere in Europe, but I had no idea where its exact location is. Now, after seven months of chatting with this friend named Jocke, I was able to learn a lot of new things about Sweden and Scandinavia. Now I know how beautiful Sweden is. Now I know what Sweden is like. It is strange, but I've also become interested with the Swedish language. It sounds nice, truly. It sounds really foreign, but good, better than any other languages I've heard of.

I tried searching on the internet about the Swedish language. Of course, Jocke did tried to teach me some Swedish, but I feel it is not very appropriate to waste another's time in teaching me Swedish. It's not easy to learn. It was not so easy to get websites that teach basic Swedish either. Fortunately, Nikko managed to find this really good site--> http://www.ielanguages.com I got there and started reading. Wow! I saw "ä", "ö" , and "å" Cool! I didn't have the slightest idea that such characters were used in this language. Before I used to use these characters for making my text more creative LOL It looks nice I suppose, not that if you really knew the meaning of each of the letters and its pronunciation.

I've been trying hard to learn Swedish. I find it not so hard to start slowly, learning one by one, from the basics to the harder parts, if I could still manage to do so. Well, I don't know why, but I always find languages easier that maths; perhaps it is because that I only have to memorize the words, unlike math, where I have to twist and turn in my mind the fundamental stuff I've learned to solve more complicated problems.

Is linguistics for me? I'm still in a doubt, till now. I suppose it could find its place in my list of leisures... No harm done in learning a new language, is there? :D I believe I will have to continue working hard with Swedish. I have to at least know some useful basic stuff. It might help when I get the chance to visit Sweden. I must say that Scandinavia is certainly worth the visit, especially Sweden. Even if it is in the opposite side of the world, I would do all my best just to be able to get a glance of the lifestyle and people in Sweden. Good luck with my goal...:D Hej då!

Another MOA Marathon

December 1, 2006

As was planned a week before, we, the usual quadro, would be going to MOA today again to watch "Happy Feet" in IMAX, the 3D theater. Until the last moment before the movie started, I still thought that this movie is going to be shown in 3D, but to my disappointment, it was only shown only in 2D. I wasted twice the price for the ticket of a normal 2D cinema movie. *SIGH*  

Before the we watched the movie, which is to start at 15:30, we went ice skating. This time I'm happy to say that I've quite improved a lot, at least in my own opinion. I could now glide a bit, across the rink and near the sides. Although I fell three times, which was quite embarrassing, as people were crowded near the sides when I fell, I managed to get up and continue skating.  I'm confident that I'd be able to do better next time.  It's a shame that DK didn't arrive on time just to join us on our skating marathon haha I hope to see her skate soon >:)

After skating, while Steph,Nikko, and Solomon headed to the Powerstation to dance, I went rushing to find my mom so we could go shop for my corporate attire that I was required to wear on our day of report for english research class. While on my way to meet with my mom at the Sunset Avenue, I received a phone call from DK asking where we are, so I had to go meet her first before I go to my mom's. I saw DK, had a brief talk and I hurried away to find my mom. After an hour, I went to IMAX entrance to meet up with the others so we could go in the theater altogether.

I was full of anticipation, until the film started playing and that I discovered that it was not 3D, as Nikko told me it was earlier. Too bad, but I still enjoyed the movie, anyway. It was a nice, relaxing, funny 3D animation about a story of a tap dancing penguin, that was cast away by his fellow emperor penguins and had later found residence and new friends in another community of penguin of different kind. I don't think I'd want to spoil the movie here, so that's about as much that I can say about it. You should watch it yourself :P

After the movie, my mom and I had to continue shopping for my corporate attire. It took us more than 2 hours before we were able to find the right one that fitted me. We dined there and drove home afterwards. It was already 20:30 when we arrive home. I turned on my computer and started writing this post. Well, lately, I haven't been able to come up with interesting stuff to talk about. Maybe I'd have more inspiration when Christmas comes ;) See ya!