a taste of heaven on earth

some of the things that i think give me a taste of heaven:

fully booked.
no further discussion necessary. please refer to previous posts. :)

bread talk.
that's one thing i think will always hold true. just a thought of all the kinds of bread they sell, damn, makes me drool. especially their pork floss bread. i know everyone would agree with me. it's just one of the best one could ever have in his entire life. or maybe i just get satisfied too easily that a taste of that is already equivalent to a taste of heaven. ha, the simple joys of life. as i always say, coming up with this shop is such a brilliant idea. if you visit either the one in glorietta or powerplant, it's always a guarantee that there's a line of people waiting to be served. now, this adds to the few things/businesses i'd love to have in the future.

powerbooks
this just comes second to fully booked for me. a far second i must say. but just having bought a hardbound version of the entire chronicles of narnia series made me think how good a bookstore it is. having bought it for 20 less, that very precious-looking, illustrated and colored book, i think, was just a great buy. i was disappointed though to have not seen a copy of winning, which i was intending to buy last week (i had to wait for my credit card to refresh before grabbing a copy of that). oh well. maybe not meant for me to get that book. but there's still next week. last week of sale. i might chance upon that. so hold on.

food
of course, this is only in reference to those mouth-watering, luscious foods. i had dinner tonight at cpk. tried their tuna melt pizza. and mmm. it was really good. despite having tomatoes, i still enjoyed every single bit of it. i thought it was just as good as their peking duck. one thing i really like about cpk is that there wasn't a single time that it left me still craving for more. that is, every time i go out of the resto, i'm so damn full that a thought of any other great food, like for example, their dessert, choco souffle cake, would already make me want to puke. i'm always super full every time i eat there. despite the very enticing description of the said dessert (belgian chocolate souffle cake topped with triple-thick layer of chocolate bleh bleh bleh), i still can't seem to want it anymore... one way of telling that i'm really full is that, when a glance at a very good menu, or a thought of any good food would already make me want to puke. that rarely happens. but when it does... i really don't like the feeling. just because i love eating so much that the idea of not wanting to eat anymore makes me feel terrible.


[the following don't really give me a taste of heaven. they simply make me feel so damn good that i feel like i'm in heaven. hahahaha.]

singing
high school friends and close college friends can easily describe me as a frustrated or for some, even a terrible singer. oh yes. even when faced with so many protests to stop singing, i still don't. there's something in it that makes me feel really good. maybe in my past life, i was the most famous performer. (i wonder how i looked like though back then. haha.) the songs i love to sing are those that require vocal power (but of course not those by celine dion or other belters out there). for instance, songs by boyz ii men, or martin nievera, or gary v. or songs they sing in american idol. there. that's why i also am looking forward to that day when i can go videoke. with anyone. so, anyone want to join me?

dancing
shit. this is one thing i really miss doing. my last time was in high school. my moves may have lost their suave already. hahaha. the though of competing in a competition gets me excited. really hope id make it through the auditions (and that the competing pushes through). this is my last chance so might as well do my best to make it there. grooving to fast upbeat songs releases some feeling of euphoria. hayayay. i wonder when i can dance to the beat again.

forced blogging

i'm starting to flunk my subjects. got a bad grade in my philo long test. damn. philo's a likeable subject and thus, i'm supposed to do good at it. just like last year. but something's happening. i feel like i'm slowly getting pushed down. in every single subject. first there was theo. (i take back what i said about him. no he's not an asshole. on the contrary, he's extra nice. allowing me to attend either his morning or afternoon class, without counting any cut for me. still, i have to write an 8-page paper to make up for the LT.) now philo. and by the way, did i tell you i'm not doing very well in my banking class as well??? there goes the 'blast' that i was looking for in my senior year. kaboom!

grabbed a copy of businessweek. thought it was worth my money. 80% of the double issue focused on "chindia". very interesting.

weird

something weird happened today. really weird. hmm. -no further details-

haay.

it was just recently that i started valuing sleep. a lack of it before was not an issue for me. but now, it seems like the constancy has gotten into me. badly. there were already times when i opted to stay or go home earlier just because i found the need for and desire to sleep. unlike before, where any oportunity to be out was taken.

ever beloved friend bernie just gave me a brilliant, though simple, idea for my creative pic for aegis. i wouldnt spill it here but it was surely a cool one. nothing special about it. i just thought that it was something i could've easily thought of. but i didn't. maybe i was trying too hard to come up with an idea that would fit my 'standards'. which are actually vague until now. :) it was merely perhaps my intense desire to come up with something perfect and big. something that would look good in every angle. i wouldn't want to appear as not having prepared for it. besides, it's gonna be a memento for everyone. might as well make it enjoyable to look at. rather than just striking a bland pose when i had the opportunity to do otherwise.

the INXS reality show today, i think, was hot (maybe because i only saw it today and the last performance). the guy who sang "baby i love your way" was GREAT. dave navarro's comment was touching. they both got emotional to the song. "Your song just made me think (or was that 'realize'?) how much i love my wife (who by the way, is hot)," Dave. i should watch that more often. take note of the schedule: WED 10-11pm.

still pondering whether to study polsci or not. must get a b+ in my paper so i can just skip the finals, settling at b+ for final grade. if i get a B, id have to get an A to get a B+ in final grade. otherwise, im stuck at B. which is not supposed to happen. but i would find out on monday pa. so that somehow leaves me with no choice but to study at least half of everything. so when things dont turn my way, im not left groping for time.

shirts and food. shirts and food. please. argh!

hot.

eva longoria is hot hot hot. jessica alba too. teri hatcher also is. there's daisy fuentes. but she's fat. then, there's eva longoria. and eva longoria. fine, angie jolie. jen aniston. alba alba alba!!! i thought julia robert's daughter didn't look bad. anna kournikova. catherine zeta-jones. j.Lo has always been. denise richards, i almost forgot about her. katie holmes is cute. nicole kidman, but i think she's kinda old. natalie portman. closer. and baywatch babe yasmine bleeth. i thought sarah jessica parker didn't look bad. just feel like there's something wrong with her. can't pinpoint what. paris hilton. if only she weren't such a dumb blonde. donald trump's fiance.

who else?

scattered thoughts

as i was watching ET tonight, i came across a face which looked a lot like Filipino. At first i thought, i could be wrong. But some info on the person was revealed and indeed she was a Filipino. Know what's more interesting? She had a degree from UP. and the most interesting? she's now the chief executive chef of the white house. fart. i wonder how it feels like to cook for the most powerful person in the world. (by the way, she's currently on vacation now but will be back soon; bush will be back in the white house this september).

it was a miracle that for once, i kept myself awake during our philo class this afternoon. it is a certainty that every meeting, for about half the time, i'd be half asleep or at least struggling to stay awake. it's not so much the teacher as it is the... subject that makes me fall asleep. i'm not even sure if that's that. all i know is philo makes me sleepy now. unlike last year where every meeting was a course of mental gymnastics. (by the way, i miss tolentino. not in the gay sense, but in the sense that he was a great, great philo teacher. kudos. he made me love philo. well, i dont love it, love it. it's just not one of the many hate-able subjects for me during college. he made me realize that it's a pretty interesting subject. otherwise, i wouldve completely dozed off in every philo104 session.)

if before ive always found myself searching for things to do to fill up my looong break every mwf, now i've found just the exact right filler. org stuff eats up all my free time, even those for class. talk about tresspassing!!! and violation!!! hmm... now i can understand other people when they say org stuff gets in the way of school. it really hasn't got in the way of school for me yet. but it seems like it's almost there. i always find myself rushing from one spot to another, to call and dress up, call and dress up. haha. it's fun though. i'm actually enjoying it. the feeling of being busy. mwahahaha. just as i've always wanted it to be.

pet peeve: people not replying to my messages in any form: whether it be text or ym (since those are the fastest means through which people can communicate). i swear that kills me. especially when people lack that sense of urgency when needed. especially those questions requiring a simply yes or no for an answer. especially those very urgent matters.

there will be a debate activity for polsci tomorrow. and brings back my thought on how id like to try debating sometime. tomorrow would have been my last chance yet i still refused to volunteer.

oh well.

go apply in aims and markprof. don't let go of your chances. again.

fully booked is a piece of heaven

fully booked is one of the most wonderful things for me, at present. or maybe ever. imagine the one in greenhills has four storeys. if only i had time to do some extra readings, i wouldve bought lotsa books already. the problem is i don't. and i'm not quite sure when i would ever have the time, maybe after college?

everytime i visit that darn store, it always occurs to me that i wanna have my own bookstore like that. it's so freakin amazing that hell, i wanna work there! (but of course, not as one of those who assist the customers and all that) i'd rather be doing some internal work like handling the deliveries/imports. that would be... shit.

it's undoubtedly the best bookstore there is. i wonder how i can beat it when own my own bookstore na. hahaha.

it's been a while.

this week has been a "sleepless nights" marathon for me. or i would like to think so. my usual measley 5-6 hours of sleep have downgraded further to a more harassing 4 hours, 4 or 5 days straight. i had to work on my polsci paper which was due today. considering that i worked on almost the exact same thesis last year in my IR class, it was still a heavy task for me. probably because i was all on my own. while last year's was a collective effort. still, an hour a page? that's too slow, i think. i may already be lacking in some brain juice to hasten my thinking. that poses a sign that i'm already tired of studying and i'm simply waiting for graduation, to make laziness and bumming around official hobbies.

having listened to green day's good riddance reminded me that graduation's just around the corner. now that it's almost mid-sem, i've got barely 5 months (sem break and other holidays excluded already) to give everything a blast. to work my ass off. and to take care of my health, which i believe is on the verge of breaking down. anyway, as the song was playing, there was the simultaneous breathe of excitement and nostalgia. for a moment, some of the most joyous college experiences with friends, the crew- kits, jul, karlo, kat, kellds, cels and jill, flashed back. it made me jump into the conclusion that junior year, albeit the most stressful, still is the best. at the moment, i still haven't really spent time long enough with the group. jul and karlo are busy with their somba (or simply hanging out in their airconditioned-all-day mini-office). with the rest, it's all with the cluttered schedule. no party yet for the time being (one held in kelld's place). no eating lunch together yet. none of the eating out. and the other things that have made last year a blast for me. it's somehow understandable why the current situation is as such, but it's also quite disappointing to see how we all seem to have lost track of each other's lives. or it could only be me. (waiting for kit's reply on my question: when was the last time he hung out with the rest of the group? him: last last week maybe.) i was somehow hoping that this year would be just the same as last year, or at least better. doesn't look like that.

i don't think i've mentioned this before, but i finally came across someone who has the same birthdaTE (not even day) as mine. cool noh? astig. haha. same surname pa. now looking at the possibility of having a twin. wahahaha. kidding. but i really find that piece of info fun. i was told that he also knows 2 other people who have the same birthday. now the reason to be celebratory is gone. for i am no longer an outstanding independence day kid. more and more are coming out. soon, there will be a self-created group which shall be called the children of indepedence day. mwahaha.

i think i need to have the lenses of my glasses changed. im very much certain the grade's now gone higher than 500. headache is now a more frequent occurence (did i get the spelling right?)

so i think that's all for now.