Expect the Unexpected

Trust my smartphone to update just when I'm about to sleep. I know it's automatic but since the time when I almost lost everything on my phone, I've been wary about upgrading it to latest OS. Not that I'm angry or anything with Ja, I'm not. I love you. It's not your fault, honey :) It's the company's stupid computer's fault :P So yeah, due to that sudden update at around 1am, I spent the day unenthusiastically groggy especially because of my upcoming training for the absence I concurred about a week ago.









Here you go. I'm actually ambivalent about this Jellybean update. The UI is nice, it's fast and easy to navigate. But it fucking drains my battery like a damn black hole. I didn't expect that the already very poor battery life of my Galaxy S II can get any worse. That sucks. It's forcing me to by a powerbank and you know that right now I'm as poor as a freaking sewage rat. And besides, I'm planning on purchasing a licensed MS Office 2013. Investment, yes? No? I don't know. I'm planning on becoming a teacher so that would be very useful, diba?




Surprise, surprise!

Knowing that I haven't had enough sleep recently because of my longer working hours and all the extra review I've been doing (am I really?) and the fact that I didn't sleep until two in the morning last night, I expected to have a difficult time focusing on our training at work.

It was a training in prep for a TOEIC exam (it's a weird phrase coz the T of the acronym is actually Test wtf anyway) which was easy to say the least. I mean, you're just gonna have to concentrate on what you're hearing and just choose the correct answer. It had two main parts each with 4 and 3 sub parts for Listening and Reading respectively.

I love taking examinations and being the competitive person that I am, I, of course wanted to get the highest possible score despite my lack of wisyo.

Tada! Didn't expect that from me, did you?

I could have done better had I been able to get a better rest and preparation. But, hey! Come on! That's my first try. Give me some credit, would you? :))))))))))))))

Should I take the test again? Yes! I would definitely have a higher score next time. ^^

Hot Not

I know I should be snatching photos of our Caramoan trip last week from my friends' albums on Facebook. I know I should be enjoying all the nice shots with them and of course a bit of the true beauty of the Philippines as we have experience in Bicol's very own, Caramoan Islands.

But I just can't.

I fucking CAN NOT.

Regret really comes at the end.

I regret not working hard enough on my diet and my exercises. There really were a lot of excuses being my working hours too long and that I have to go to classes during my days off from work. I literally do not have a holiday. All that stress because of finances and shit and that secret thingie I posted about the other week. Any free time I get, I have to deliberately and regrettably deduct from my supposed to be earning hours and days.

I do not wish to upload any of my horrenfuckingdous body.

My friend did and I immediately removed the tag. JFC. My tummy looked fucking ugly there and everyone just had to see it. Great. I'm not blaming nor am I angry at her. No. I love her for uploading all the beautiful shots of Caramoan but I just can't fucking digest seeing how disgusting I look. Kill me now. Please.

Except this. This is a sky shot and it freaking hid my disgusting tummy. Thank you, Nadine, for this mapanlinlang shot. :)
Photo by Nadine Camunay

And so, I fucking swear. The next time you see me at the beach, you guys be drooling over my model body. And I so fucking swear I won't be doing that by freaking starving myself. Nosiree. Never would I deny myself good food and good ice cream.

Caramoan is soooo beautiful. I don't want to taint a blog post because of my body, okay? That post will be done in a day or so. I have a lot to post but as I have mentioned, I don't have time and I won't have time because I will be working on that beach body yeah!

Election

I didn't vote three years ago.
Why?

Because my mother was forcing me to.

I don't like it when a person forces me to do something. My refusal to do so wasn't really that serious. I just said that I didn't want to vote for the presidential elections because I didn't like the candidates. But she just went on a tirade saying that it's my right and my obligation to the country as a citizen yadayadayada. Tempers blazing, I got on a word war with her and pushed away the idea of registering for the election.

Last year though, I've become more politically aware and has been active with online discussions regarding the RHBill, FOI, and same sex marriage. I wanted change. I wanted those opposing these out of the legislative branch of our government. My family had the chance to register together. Without my mom pressuring me of course.

I don't have my voter's ID, still. As well as my parents and my sister. But it's okay. Looking at COMELEC's computerization, I'm sure I'll get it within the year or maybe next. Kudos to their utilization of technology. It was easier for me to find the precinct I was assigned to and basically had no problems about today's election.

Except for this.

I'm not that angry really. Just a little concerned about my votes. I did think real hard for my choices for it to be jeopardized by a broken PCOS machine or worse, by people who want to change my ballot. I wish for the best of course. And may the deserving and those who want to serve the people win.

Overall, it was a peaceful, almost eventless election on my side. Maybe because we went in the afternoon instead of early in the morning when most people choose to vote.

Posted this here because everybody on Facebook's been complaining about it.

There's so many people complaining about all the photos of pointing fingers with indelible ink on Facebook. Come on.
No votes, no complaints.
Tagalugin natin, kung hindi ka din naman bumoto, wag kang magreklamo.

This Ain't A Review, It's A Goddamn Battlefield

I don't even have the words to describe how insanely exhausted I've been these last few days. There's been lots that happened and I just wasn't able to write for I often went home either too late or too tired. But here goes.

Neat interior of Subspace Cafe. I wasn't able to take a photo of the other amazeballs lighting. Will do so when we go there again. Promez.

There was the Labor Day Hanash with the Gang. Dinner and tambay at Subspace Cafe which I honestly like very much not just because of the KPop they play. Although, yes, that's a one big plus point for me. First song was Rose by Lee Hi. Oh yea!

Kenny and Bri had Purple Potato Latte. It was weird at first, but got better as you drank. Yea, I drank half of theirs. loljk

This Marshmallow Cake was just so scrumptious. I promise to try their Red Velvet Cake next.

We planned to have this hanash to finish earlier but it seems like whenever we're all together, it's difficult to just go home after eating so we headed to Metrowalk just coz Eldin was hungry. Then it turned to us drinking one bottle of Tanduay Ice each. Red Horse for Kenny. He's macho like that.

Then that spontaneous Iron Man 3 with Bri, Kenny, and Erwin. While waiting for them to arrive, I was even able to meet my old Wangan/Timezone buddies, the Misolas Siblings.
And of course, yesterday was the start of my review for the LET with Mela, Ate Queenie, Precious, and Darls. I've been so used to going to work in Buendia that I've forgotten how far Manila is from Makati, considering the fact that they're just next to each other. Fucking city traffic. Just the MRTLRT endeavor took most of my energy. Whatever was left I used in trying to concentrate in the helluva place called an "airconditioned" auditorium of PNU. It was just too hot to concentrate that I was able to fall asleep just because of the heat. Imagine how painfully painful my headache was. Dagnabbet.

Review again today.
Precious slipped on the stairs and fell really bad. She had to be taken to the hospital. Are you okay now, bb? Hope you are. See you on Saturday!

Saw this on my way home. A sign maybe that after all the rain of hardships I'm having right now, the light would still shine and give me a better future. Certainly. Absolutely. I'm claiming it.

After all that, I'm just glad that I'm still alive. Even when I can't even continue with my "diet program," it's all good. Two rainbows greeted us on our way home earlier. I saw some awesome cloud formations and their beautiful silver lining.

Now, I gotta start with my English Literature review. That's one damned long review for me. It's been years, Edgar Allan Poe.