M.O.A. "PARTY" !

 Well...I haven't had such a great day for so long, ever since I started university life. My high school friends had been inviting me to go malling with them, but sadly, all I can do is refuse their invitations. I don't have a choice but to do so, I'm really sorry guys...I didn't mean to, but I'm too piled up with projects and reports that I do not have anymore spare time to go malling.

Today, as was planned a week in advance, was the day for my second birthday blow-out, as I call it. The first one was with my university classmates, as I've mentioned in my other post earlier. Today, the second one is for my high school close friends. I'm really excited. 

On approximately 9:45 in the morning, Steph and Nikko arrived at my house and we waited for my mom to get ready and drive us to the Mall of Asia(MOA). DK can't come and Solomon will be meeting with us at MOA. We left home at 10:50 and arrived there at 11:30, then we went to have our lunch at Italiannis. After lunch my friends went dancing :D (dance maniax)

Finally, my chance has come. My friends are going to teach me how to skate on ice. Oh my God! I was so nervous at first. I didn't know what to do at first. Steph told me to always stand with my feet in "v" shape. "Okay...easy...easy...just calm down and you'd be able to get things right." I keep telling myself. I was really scared- afraid to let go of the skating rink edges. There were several times when I almost slipped and had to grab either Steph or Nikko just to keep me from falling. I made it a point to not slip evenonce, before I stepped in the skating rink. I don't want to get my pants wet and look funny... :P

After almost 3 hours of struggle, I finally managed to "skate" slowly by my own. At that moment, I felt as if I've accomplished something impossible. I was really happy. Ah...like Steph and Nikko said, skating is addictive. I want to try it again next time, and hopefully be able to glide a bit. Thank you so much for my teachers/instructors, Steph, Nikko, and Solomon, who did nothing but take pictures and scream when detergent bubbles were being sprinkled on the rink LOL

Right after our ice skating session, we immediately went to Powerstation to play Dance Maniax. All the three of them we're like crazy, "dancing" and laughing. I was amazed when I saw how fast they were able to follow the dancing machine. ADDICTS! I can never be like them haha They're too expert and I'm too novice lol ( whats with the grammar?)  I "danced" a bit too and I found it hard even if it was just mild level with slow speed. Oh well, I might as well need a lot of practice and money before I reach their level :S

That was it. We had dinner after and then went straight home. This was one crazy day. I'm looking forward to go malling with you guys again! haha I'm already very tired by the time I got home, but still had to study for the test in physics tomorrow :( Sleepy...sleepy... Got to go. Bye! :D See you all in the Chrisrmas break! >:)

Grattis på födelsedagen!

Novermber 21, 2006

Belated happy birthday to myself!

Yesterday was my birthday. It was a really happy day. Jocke was the first to greet me happy birthday :D I think this was the longest time we've chatted ever since a few months ago. He's always been busy, but yesterday, I'm really thankful that he came to chat with me on my birthday. Thank you, Jocke! :P

*I woke up really early yesterday at 4:00 because my aunt had to go back to General Santos, her flight was to be on 7:00 so I had to accompany my mom and drive my aunt to the airport, so my mom could drop me at the university on her way back home.

The next to greet me was my university friend, La Reina, she sent me a text message greeting me happy birthday early in the morning. After La Reina came some more greetings from my friends, both new and old friends. I am really happy. I never expected that so many people 
remembered my birthday and even took the time to greet me, either through text messages or in person. Thank you so much! :D

Today, I treated the whole class at Pizza Hut. I was really glad when almost all of them came, except four, in which one of them was not feeling well, and the others accompanying him. Too bad they weren't able to come, but I appreciated the time they took to sing me the birthday song.

When we're almost done eating, the waiter suddenly came out holding a cake with a candle on top. I was very surprised. I didn't what to say. At that moment, I wondered, "when and who bought the cake?" Then Joyce told me that the cake was from her,Ira, and Jessica. That was the reason why they disappeared suddenly while I was ordering the food--they went to Red Ribbon and bought me a chocolate mousse (my favorite!) :P I blowed the candle and my classmates started singing me the birthday song again.

The song goes like this..."Happy birthday SHIR! Happy birthday SHIR!" It sounded awkward and funny haha Keane (one of my friends) told me that the whole class had been practicing the song since Saturday, when they were on their way to BASECO (the venue for their community service). Awww I was so touched. I did not expect that they would remember my birthday, after all, I'm not that high-profiled in class...but at least I maintain an equal and neutral relationship with everyone :D I guess that was helpful haha

After this day, I can't help but make this day the best birthday I'd ever had. Thank you everyone for making my first birthday since college a happy and memorable one!

This Sunday, don't forget to come to my 2nd "party" in MOA, Nikko, Steph, Solomon, and DK :D I'm excited to learn ice skating :D I also wanna go to Powerstation and play dance maniac hahaha Good luck to me! Once again, thank you everyone for everything. I love you all!!! *hugs*

A Trip to the "Wild"

November 08, 2006  7:00

Everybody in class was excited about our trip to the Muslim mosque. Well, I'm neither excited nor interested because I'm sure I'd see things that I do not want to see. The exciting thing about this trip is that we're going on a car pool. My friend, Joyce, will be driving us to the mosque. I'm curious on how she drives, since she'd only had her driving lessons last summer. Ah yes, our professor will be driving his car too.

Our trip is scheduled at 14:00.


Same day 14:00

"Where are the others?" Our professor asked as he came to our assembly place at the Brother Andrew Hall lobby. "Sir, we do not know. The others do not seem to know that we'll be meeting here." I said. Well, we had no choice but to sit in the car and wait for the others to come.

*tick* *tick* *tick*

15 minutes had passed...
Still, there are some of my classmates who had not yet arrived. Joyce is becoming more and more impatient with each passing second. Even the others in the car are starting to complain, including me. Sitting in Joyce's car are Ira, Lareina, Jessica, and I.

Another 15 minutes had passed...
Finally, our professor started his car engine and we were on our way to the mosque. Since its rush hour, there was quite heavy traffic, with our professor's car ahead consistently changing lanes and stopping to wait for the others' cars to catch up.

After 10-15 minutes, we finally arrived at the mosque.
The surrounding was terrible...like an abondoned marketplace with fierceful looking people everywhere :S So this is how a Muslim place looks like...dirty and scary. Its a total stranger place to me. I've never been to anywhere place like that and I didn't even know that Manila has a place like  that. Oh my God! All the people in there were looking at us like they've seen aliens emerging from the UFOs. To tell the truth, I'm really scared. Never had I had this bad a feeling before. I feel so insecure, I feel that something bad might just happen to all of us there; maybe its because the impression I had on Muslims---scary, violent, aggressive, and wild that gave me such wild imaginations :D

The speaker welcomed us and started telling us about the Islamic religion. He started telling us stories about Allah and the prophets. O...K... I was like "Whatever...I don't care a thing about what you say. Jesus is not just a prophet, He's the one and only God." Everything the speaker told us sounded so ridiculous. When the time for their mass came at 15:00,we were allowed to stand outside the mosque and watch them pray inside the room.

I noticed something, no women inside the prayer room. The women were off-limits, even the women visitors. DISCRIMINATION!!! Oh well...the Muslims are well-known for that. But when one of my classmates asked the speaker about the women being not allowed in the prayer room, his answer was shocking and ridiculous at the same time. He said it is because that the Muslim women are regarded as jewels, once they break, the men can never put it back together again. Come one, who would believe that kind of cock-and-bull story? /:) He also said that there is a secluded place for the women to pray. What the hell? What a stupid excuse!

Damn it! I'm getting really really bored and irritated, especially when this talkative classmate of mine who keeps asking nonsense questions that might even offend the Muslims. In the end, all of our classmates were asking her to stop, thats when she stopped. Thank goodness, we were finally able to leave that hellish place. 

Now, we have to face the problem of the possibility of getting lost on our way home because our "caring" professor left us in the mosque and returned to the university himself :S Anyway, thanks to the strangers that we asked, we managed to find our way back.

Whew! That was one tideous day. I was already very very sleepy when I got home. Got to slept early at 23:00 after I finished doing some reading for my English research class. I also got to chat with my ever-so-hard-to-catch Swedish online friend on msn haha Lucky me! 


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So that's it for today. See ya guys next time! Bye :D