my ishkul.

currently listening to:Ulan/Rivermaya.

we (lasalle) played again feu today. we lost. by 7 points.

what's strange about it, is that it's the first of the 3 losses wherein i don't feel bad about it. at all. i'm happy even.

we played well. REALLY, REALLY well. it's just a FACT that feu has the most experienced team (no one really graduated from last year's team), and that they are in fact, much, much taller than our adorable little players :).

a lot of people expected our team to be massacred out there--but they played with their hearts, and it showed. the lead never went too far, and our players never gave up.

this team is going far, baby!!!

i love my school. yay! :).

what about...

currently listening to:What About Love?/Lemar.

i was telling my friend earlier how i'm sooooo not a "morning person".

and then i went on, saying that lately, i haven't been much of an "afternoon person" either. and neither have i been an "evening person" for the past couple of weeks. she found that funny, for some reason.

but... but... it got me thinking...

does that mean i'm not a person? :(

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What about love?
What about feeling?
What about all the things that make life worth living?
What about faith?
What about trust?
And tell me baby...what about us?

release.

currently listening to:Eye In The Sky/Jonatha Brooke.



in order to keep sane sometimes, you just need to vent it out.

my suggestion? let out a few tears, get ahold of one or two friends, and turn on your yahoo messenger.

of the 21 hours that i've been awake today, the highlight, without a doubt, is the 20-minute conference chat on yahoo messenger with two of my good-est friends, jackie and jj.

we each had our own issues to rant about--and boy, were we ranting.

the screen would suddenly be filled with 3 different colors of text appearing at the same time--the 3 of us interrupting each other with sentence after sentence of things that just seemed to tick us off and pile up and cause us to momentarily go ballistic. (fine, fine, only jackie and i were ballistic. jj was nice enough to keep saying, "okay lang yan!". hehehehehe.)

after we had expressed our disgust and anger towards our momentary personal issues and crises, we typed in our thank you's, "okay lang yan"'s, emoticons of hugs, and said our good night's.

no, the pressure and stress hasn't disappeared or decreased at all. but goodness. i feel better now. much, much better. in times of extreme stress and exhaustion, it's refreshing to look around and realize that you've got great people along for the ride.

salamat sa inyong dalawa, at sa lahat pang nakikisabay rin sa aking biyahe =).

nonsense.

currently listening to:Man On The Side/John Mayer.

hello. i'm kris!

it's a monday afternoon. i should be working on thesis, but am way too lazy at the moment. i should be studying for another algebra exam, but again, am way too lazy.

so i choose to chat with my dear friends who have abandoned our country. my friends, my friends--oh, my friends. how i miss the two of you!!! (and you too, nelm!). come home na! please!

i choose to listen to "man on the side" for about the 17th time this afternoon. and sing at the top of my lungs. to sing. to sing. to sing.
i choose. i choose. i choose.

:)

marcy.

currently listening to:The Nearness of You/Norah Jones.

remember marcy?

for those of you who don't, he was a wishkid of ours, and we granted his wishes last april 30.

marcy wished for a component (so that he could play music louder than his neighbor), to meet bayani agbayani, and he also wanted to go to festival mall. unfortunately, we weren't able to take him since he was confined in the hospital that weekend, and but we promised to take him when he got better.



marcy passed away last Saturday.


life throws you things at the most unexpected times.


please pray for the repose of his soul, as well as strength for his family.

recap.

currently listening to:Desperately Wanting/Howie Day.


did you watch the game?

well, i may sound like a sore loser, but seriously speaking, i believe that if it weren't for those horrible, horrible, horrible calls by those referees... we would have won yesterday's basketball game against UE. ask anyone who was there.

horrible calls. really.

the fact that we lost by one measly point makes it even more heartbreaking.


photos by Vic Icasas


anyhoo. the players played their best--yeo, maierhoffer, cabatu, even casio, who was sick. all of them. they gave it 111%, and that's what really matters.

manalo, matalo, lasalyano parin ako. i love my team, and i love my school! yay!

animo. =)

wala lang.

currently listening to:Come Around/Lifehouse.

finally. the week has ended. it's been a long one. a fun one, no question about it, but an extremely long week, nonetheless.

there are a lot of 'activities' happening this weekend--some i can't wait for, ONE in particular, im dreading... (also known as THESIS), but anyway. this weekend is about family. yay!

happy birthday tomorrow, mommy! =)

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*end of useless post*

wasted.

currently listening to:Stay/Cueshe.


one of the worst feelings in the world is giving something your all, and finding out that in the end, it wasn't worth it. that your efforts were completely, and utterly wasted.

currently listening to:You and Me/Lifehouse.

i came across one of those old quotes/poems that i used to read as a kid. anyway. i just wanted to share it with you.

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After awhile you learn
the subtle difference between
holding a hand and chaining a soul
and you learn that love doesn't mean possession
and company doesn't mean security.
And you begin to learn that kisses aren't contracts
and presents aren't promises and you begin to accept
your defeats with your head up and your eyes ahead
with the grace of an adult not the grief of a child.
And you learn to build your roads today
because tomorrow's ground is too uncertain for plans
and futures have ways of falling down in mid-flight.
After awhile you learn that even sunshine
burns if you get too much so you plant your
own garden and decorate your own soul
instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers.
And you learn that you really can endure
that you really are strong
and you really do have worth
and you learn
and you learn...

Veronica A. Shoffstall

animo.

currently listening to:You and Me/Lifehouse.

aaaah, the UAAP season is back. green shirts (and socks!), hoarse voices, timing mrt rides with daddy, cutting tuesday and thursday classes, posting messages on archerpride.com and greenarcher.net, and seeing lasallian animo at its best.

it was a fantastic first game for us in the 68th season. although the lead (which reached its peak at dlsu 31-admu 13!!!) went down to 18 points at 78-60, it doesn't matter. my favorite part of the year has arrived!!!

stay tuned for pictures that have yet to be uploaded.

animo lasalle!!!

two cents.

currently listening to:Ants Marching/Rockapella.

ive been visiting blogs of my friends who have migrated (and although im too lazy to comment, i do read your blogs--ganon rin naman kayo eh! hmph!), and i see that they all share the same sentiments--"kawawa naman ang Pilipinas", "anywhere is better than the Philippines", "we're better off here than there", etc. etc. it makes me sick. and sad.

i don't want GMA to step down. fine, she may not be the best president in the world (ha!), but realistically speaking, who else is there to lead us? noli de castro? susan roces?

goodness gracious.

besides, if GMA DID cheat in the elections... so what? who didn't? in a country where it's a given for all politicians to be SOMEWHAT corrupt, why are we so affected about this particular situation?

and these solutions! rallies, rallies, rallies! people withdrawing support, people suddly volunteering themselves to be able to lead a country. and sorry, i've lost track... what edsa # is it again?

when are people going to realize that rallies won't solve anything? and what use are elections when their positions can be taken from the elected by a few thousand/hundred thousand people standing around, anyway? yes, it worked once. it worked twice (i believed in the 2nd one, though), there was supposedly a third one, too. do we really need a fourth?

yes. our state is depressing. but we don't have to add to the depression. we don't have to badmouth our country--we just have to make the best out of our situation. it's bad--so make it better. let GMA keep her position and fix the country rather than get someone else to do it and have to start from scratch. why bother? maghahanap lang rin naman tayo ng butas sa kanya eh. para matanggal rin posisyon ng susunod kay GMA.

don't look for a new president, please. at the rate we're going--we'll all be president of this country. at least until we get impeached.

bananas.

currently listening to:Bad Day/Daniel Powter.

it's been an awfully long day.

i was in school today from 8am to 945 pm. that's more than 12 hours, you know. (really?) and to think the only thing on my academic calendar was one class from 5-6pm that i was late for, and which ended early. magaling. magaling si kristeta.

anyway.

i just got home. im going to shower, attempt to do something about my thesis, and study for tomorrow's algebra exam. that's my sked for tonight--hair to wash, thesis to lose hair about, and more algebra to solve.

are you as excited as i am? gosh. baka di ako makatulog sa sobrang excitement ko for tomorrow! :)

currently listening to:Half Life/Duncan Sheik.

just a little update to let you guys know i'm alive! i'm alive! i'm alive!

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it's been a hectic week, but i've surprisingly been able to sleep before 1am a few times this week, and have also managed to decrease my sungit level. yes, that's a big thing. hehe.

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have uploaded the pictures of my wishgrant, but haven't gotten around to photoshop-ing it yet. soon, my loyal readers (who don't comment!). soon.

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midterm week na next week! how the hell did that happen?!? first day of school was just yesterday!

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oh dear green and blue fans---kita kita tayo, JULY 10, ARANETA COLISEUM!!! bwahahahahahahahahahahah! UAAP HAS BEGUN! WOOOHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!! :)