I've taken this at Bacnotan La Union when I visited Au's hometown.

Hey! I've been figuring out how to squeeze my creative juice (and where to keep it). Good thing an idea struck me, a bolt of lightning out of the sky. Hehehe kidding. Thanks to my cousin Miyo and her tutorial, I've challenged myself to get out of the shell and be less shy of my photography.

It's no big really. Just did it out of boredom and been a hobby for years. See that picture above? That's just a patikim (naks!). Nah, it's actually one of the best. I call it "LONELY BASO." Hahaha. I know! I suck at titles.

If you have time to kill, just curious, a fan of photography or a fan of mine (yabang pinoy!) you're very much welcome. Hehehe I'll update it when I have time.

KENWORX ♥

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This week, Boyfriend and I experienced the gruesome sweet torment of being a freshie in UP. That is, getting an admission slip from the College of Law, signing up an account in CRS, enlisting online, medical exams, dental check-ups and x-rays in separate days. It was one helluva week, just thinking that the week hasn't even ended yet.

MONDAY
It started busy last Monday. I accompanied Pat to Belo and then met up with Kaurie. My libre has been overdue for some time and I think escaping would be too embarrassing. So I treated her to lunch at Sbarro and sponsored our short concert in karaoke in Time Zone. We walked all over TriNoma and tada! We've found a book sale! Where are those John Grishams??? I took home two Johns! Hehehe. The other was gift from Kaurie. I told Boyfriend that I have two new John Grisham books waiting to be read by him. He got excited though he pretty had no idea what it was when I told him to guess what I got for him.


Inside the booth, trying desperately to sing. Hehe

Just window shopping.

TUESDAY
Yesterday, the doctor in UP Health Services has finally shed some light as to what my real height is! Hehehe. I've been filling-up forms for years with made-up ones such as 5' or 5'1" but never did I dream of writing down 5'2". (It would just be too ambitious.) Well, let's celebrate 'cause I've grown an inch taller--I'm officially 5'2" and the doctor there can attest to that.

I really didn't want to go home early yesterday so Pat and I hung-out at Starbucks while reading a novel each. He was reading The Firm while I indulged in The Rainmaker. We stayed there for hours munching and bingering on overpriced commodities. Well, if you ask the kuripot in me, everything for sale in Starbucks is overpriced. But we needed a place to read and sometimes in life, you just need to outgrow your kuripot side in order to taste C-O-M-F-O-R-T.


Cozying ourselves while gray clouds loomed above.

The Rainmaker and The Firm

TODAY
We had our x-ray and physical check-up taken awhile ago. By the time we finished with the two, we were starving. So we ate at the nearest carinderia, consuming 1 ham and cheese, four packs of pancit canton, a coke zero and a mineral water. I have a vision that I'd probably have the same meal once or twice a week for the next four years. Hehe I'm not complaining. Pat and I can eat after classes in Trinoma if we get sick of it. Hehehe.


4 packs of pancit canton. The merienda that Pat and I will probably share for the next four years in law school.

Pat and I goofing in UP awhile ago after the check-ups.

On Friday, we'll go back there again to get the results of our x-rays. Haaay. Thank God we're in block sections at the College of Law. Just like in USTe. I can't imagine myself running back and forth from one building to another--considering I'm not the athletic type. :)

Aha! I've secluded myself in my room with John Grisham and a PSP for the past couple of days. I've been ignoring the urge to write and been hurrying to finish nightly conversations with Boyfriend just to be "Blair" in a town far away from here. (I suggest you play or google Harvest Moon, Boy and Girl.) The days of summer are counted and I'd probably be locked-up in my room reading tons of Supreme Court decisions and... well, still reading. Great plans are just around the corner and I'm really crossing my fingers!

I just realized, I haven't blogged about my graduation last March 31, 2008. I know it's late and the memory isn't fresh anymore. That leaves me to photoblog, right? Well, here it goes.


That's me with Pocholo before wearing our togas in the Plenary Hall of PICC.

Cecille, Ayen, Ruby, Nica and Irene : )

That's me with Philippe aka "Guru" in our Policy Formulation class. That's what Sir Bob calls him 'cause of his high IQ!!!

We're already in line here, waiting for the announcement of "Legal Manangement" course. L-R: Me, Ruby, Pocholo, Francis and Ayen

My friends and I. L-R: Me, Gigi, Irene, Ruby, Sheila, Ayen and Nica

That's me with Boyfriend. Hehe. This is such a sweet pose.

With my seatmates slash friends since my 1st year in college, Irene and Ruby

A picture of the crowd.

The picture says it all.

This shot is taken by Boyfriend. We were seatmates during the whole program.

That's boyfriend taken by yours truly. After the imposition of hoods.

Gigi, Irene, Ruby and I

The beautiful Ms. Cecille and plain me. :)

Four years of hard work finally paid off. UST AB Legal Management, magna cum laude (so is boyfriend). I'm proud of it cause I earned it without begging proud professors.

L-R: Tin, Nica, Tyrus, Irene, Ruby and Me

Guru, Poch, me and Anjo with our Taxation professor from Ateneo, JD Atty Chua

With Irene, Gigi, Mae, Goy, Bang, Tita Olivia and Pocholo :)

With my loving parents, taken by Tito Henry

"Family" Picture taken by Tito Henry (Pat's dad)

Hehehe okay, this is my solo. What a lame photo. Hahaha let's all pretend I'm so beauutttiiffuuul.

Smelling the flower in La Union, taken by my cousin Miyo Sia. :)

It was Tito Henry's birthday last friday, April 16, and I was invited to stay in Bataan again. It was hard to get permission from my parents but they allowed me when I assured them that Tito will drive us to and from Bataan.

I love it there especially Boyfriend's family. Even their dogs. I love the Dizon-Salazar clan. *Sighs* Every time I go there, I feel the warmth of their welcome. Joking around with his brothers, sister, cousins makes me want to belong there. We swam, sang, played card games and billiards again. Slept around 1:30am for each day I've stayed there because of all the goofing and joking around with his family. Tito even gave a wine for Papa. *Sighs again*

Here's a keeper. I told him to look for an eight of hearts out of the 52 cards in 5 tries while I told myself that if he gets it, it's a sign that it's us in the end-- that we're meant for each other. First try was waaaayyy far. The second attempt? He got it! Eight of Hearts! Well, well, well. Looks like it's us in the end. Looking forward to drinking life with you :)

Vicky Belo's surname really amazes me. "BELO" suits her profession and her company. You'll get what I mean you read the rest of this entry.

Last Monday, Tita Olivia (Pat's mom) and I accompanied Boyfriend to Belo Clinic in TriNoma. It's my first time there and you can say I was amazed. He doesn't want me to elaborate much. He's too shy about it. But I guess I can tell you my conversation with tita. We both agreed that this action was stimulated and provoked by his wanting to start a new life in UP. Though he told me countless of times that he wants to do it for me. Hehehe. My dear Boyfriend, you really don't get it, do you? Just don't be gay and I'll be yours forever.


Tita and Pat, signing up some forms for the program.

Rewind to year 2006 and you'll caught me having my first Spanish class in my entire college years. Forward to 2008, you can me ask me what I've learned and what I'll probably tell you are the basics. Though I pretty much have my notes kept in my room for further review. Plus I can still sing to you, in whole, the... (tentenenen!) Lupang Hinirang in Spanish.

And of course, how could you not learn a language without knowing the translation of BEAUTIFUL. It's bella. So now you get the point, Belo = Bella? Okay, I give up. I'm lame. I'll come up with something more ingenious next time.

Little things make me utterly happy lately.

My kuya has just told me over the phone that he bought me a Harvard shirt. Wow. Hehe saya. As if I'm going to Harvard Law School... but hey, I'm happy to be going to UP College of Law, the Harvard of Pinas! Hehe. I told him I'll wear it on my first day as a law student but he told me it won't arrive by then. Too bad. I was thinking my Harvard shirt would give the impression that I studied in Harvard. Sneaky.

Speaking of first day of classes, Pat and I decided not to tell any of our future blockmates that he's my boyfriend and I'm his girlfriend--but only for that day. He told me he's going to sit beside the boys and I told him I'll sit beside the girls. And by the end of the day, they'll see us together... hand-in-hand, walking out of the room. Sorry for the cheesiness, I just can't help imagining things. One would probably wonder why and how I passed LAE. That's the thing really, when you really believe it to happen, it will happen. Wanting isn't always enough.

You want to know something else I believe in? I believe that something wonderful will happen. I had been pessimistic about things and outcomes before but lately, I'm seeing the glass half-full. I don't know to whom or to what should I attribute this change of outlook, but I want to keep it. It makes me feel... less burdened. It makes me see everyone and everything differently. But as much as it adds to my good-side, I'm afraid my bad-side, sometimes, cannot be repressed. Oh well, as I've learned, goodness is inherent in human beings but avoiding temptation is always a work in progress.

Kami ni Pat sa Baguio. Este, ako lang pala.
Summer is almost out, what happened to boyfriend and I's planned getaway together? Wala. None. Nada. The trip to Bataan's not counted ok? Hehehe. But no, I won't lose hope! I refuse to let it all go down the drain. I know it will eventually happen. It will happen! Because... because when we're together, everything falls into place. :)

Hahaha gumaganon.

Boyfriend and I went out to see a movie today. At first we really didn't know what to watch until we saw two choices: Iron Man and Forbidden Kingdom. I was just waiting for boyfriend to decide between the two but I kind of hoped he'll choose Forbidden Kingdom. Maybe 'cause there's a lot of comic-book stories and heroes, both DC and Marvel, being made into films and I'm just tired of it all. Nakakapurga na. I wanted to watch something different, like an epic or some sort. I mean come on, it's not everyday you get to watch Jackie Chan and Jet Li together. I sort of blurted it out and it turned out that boyfriend wanted to see that movie too. Unluckily, it won't screen until 3:00pm so we ended up watching Iron Man. It wasn't bad. It was actually good, comparable to Transformers. Robert Downey Jr. played it well for an old man and it made me agree that he does deserve his spot on the 2008 Time Magazine's Most Influential People. Ate Sha told me she was able to see him and shake hands with him on the premiere night of Iron Man in Australia last April. She said he was "gwapo" and I'm like "tanda na nun 'di ba?" Still, I'm not changing my mind over one movie or one actor about the trend that movie-makers are doing and following. If you ask me, every comic-turned-movie is overrated. I used to like it though... until they bombarded the big-screens with it.

Another thought, I tried influencing boyfriend to watch Gossip Girl. I failed. He can't take it. We were talking about it awhile ago on the phone and he just said "hindi ko kaya." I asked him why and he just said "pambabae 'yun eh." It made me think for awhile and we agreed on one thought. Maybe male fans watch GG not because they're "like sooo into the story" but to catch a glimpse of Blake Lively or Leighton Meester's ass. I mean I can't imagine chatting with boyfriend or Philippe or even Migs about how Blair is so wickedly awesome. It would be just too... queer. And speaking of queer, ALL ABOUT MY BROTHER (Ep.16) is by far the best episode I've watched. I've already finished it yesterday but only blogged about it today. Eric is gay, Jenny's kicked out, Blair is Queen B again and Serena's secret...? She killed someone. Sorry for spoilers! :)

So, we gambled. Doesn't everyone? Maybe not with their money anyway, but some gamble with their hearts, luck, chance and whatever they may put on the line. Carefree people do that. I joined in the bandwagon. I gambled the first time I liked you--threw everything away, set aside my backpack full of habits and rode on the roller coaster of love. Somewhere along the way, I met your family. Your family never became the loop that I expected. Instead, they are the smooth intervals in the rail, the calm neutralizer of the heart-stopping speed and turns. I want to be part of it, of them. I've come to love them as much as I love you. Please let me gamble FOR them.


So what's the main attraction in Bataan again?

Relaxing in the Salazars' bahay-kubo, near their house.

Playing with macro.

Migs, Ruby, Icko, ate bheng and I went to Pocholo's in Bataan (more like Hacienda Salazar). We ate, we gambled, we sang, we swam and we conquered! hahaha :)

Even though the sun was turning on and off, Val, Patrick and I surprised bigtime Chino in UP today because as you all know (or not), it's his birthday today. Yey. Happy debut! The three of us met up at SM North, bought a balloon and two slices of cake then rode off a jeepney to UP. We really wanted to buy a big cake and dozens of balloon but hey, budget and the heat won't permit us. :) We walked our way to the DZUP station where bigtime was waiting for Val only. He had no idea Pat and I were there. Too bad I was not able to see his reaction because I was not wearing my glasses. Sayang! Haha!

The sun finally decided to hide and let the clouds pour out its emotion when we were just about to enjoy our ice cream courtesy of bigtime. We ran inside the building where the station is and we waited until 2:30pm. What's with 2:30 nga ba? Parking Love is on-air! Haha! You might be wondering what the hell is Parking Love well let me save you a few clicks. It's a program in DZUP 1602 kHz where Chino's the host and you can share your love problems on-air with him and he'll definitely try to give you some advice. Again, that's DZUP 1602 kHz in AM station every Fridays at 2:30pm-3:30pm. I'm not plugging am I? Hehehe. Val guested on his show by the way. Sobrang katatawanan :P

The sun peeked again before the moon claimed its spot as Pat and I went to TriNoma. I love TriNoma, my second home. Mama, Papa and I bonded and dined there yesterday. Mama and I pretended that we were ultra rich, thus, shopping. It made me think that age gap isn't really a hindrance for a 58 year-old mother and a 21 year-old daughter to bond (I'm the youngest of five children). Anyway, Pat and I stuffed ourselves with high-cholesterol foods again, tried memorizing the layout of the mall (even though both of us are SPATIALLY CHALLENGED) and end up seeing Kathleen, Mori and Kenzo. I love you inaanak! See you on your birthday!

Chino's party is tomorrow but I won't be able to attend. Too bad nga eh. I'm going to Bataan for the fiesta! Hopefully, "plan corregidor" would push through. :)


Val and I

Pocholo and I: against all odds

Chino, Val and I

The birthday boy

DZUP "Taga-rito ka!"

Okay, for those green-minded people, you can get this pic :P

Date mode after

Inaanak Kenzo and bestfriend Kathleen :)