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went to puerto galera last sat. next tym n lng ung details. basta nasabi kong pumunta kami hehehe. may hangover pa ako from last ny eh so tulog muna. pero nakapost na yung photos here.

Well it’s back to the writing scene again, I just got my first set of writing assignments due on April 24… weeeeeeeeee.
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And getting back to my writing days means getting back to writing this blog. This blog is kind of the vein that drains all of the poisonous stuff that comes into my body whenever I write for profit or for work, whether it be for a subject, for a raket or for somebody else, this blog is my drain and my readers… well your kind of the wastewater treatment plant… hehehe.
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Well back to che 123, I have an exam tommorow.

It’s almost the end of the first week of summer classes and almost time for bloody exams and already people have experienced and shared with me the wrath of a curse that befalls every female known to woman…. PMS.
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For those who don’t know what PMS is, please google it, don’t make me explain it here.
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Anyway, I think I might’ve shouted at a few people and consequently, natarayan ang higit pa na mas madaming tao, (wala akong makitang appropriate word for natarayan in the english language eh) during the course of my curse.
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Aside from being short fused, I am also prone to food binging, which is really bad if you’re trying to lose weight like me.
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And if those weren’t enough, there is also oversleeping waaaaaa. i scheduled myself for a 6 hour sleep today after which I will wake up to do school stuff and other important stuff. Since I choose to sleep the heat away during the afternoon, I sleep during the day and work at night.
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Up until now, that plan worked…. waaaaaaaaa.
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I overslept, now I only have a third of the time I usually reserve for working… waaaaaaaaa.
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Patay…

I thought it was bad when I stopped doing rakets concerning writing, now I’m not in the mood to write even in my blogs.
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I’ve been trying to, but i always get distracted.
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So
I’m forcing myself to write right now so that I don’t get rusty,
especially because I’m taking in a new raket this summer which will
hopefully continue on through the next year. After all I’ll be needing
the money for the trip to Puerto and the planned swimming thing that my
batchmates at UP are planning.
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Anyway i’m re-organizing my
stuff today. It seems my stuff just spontaneousl get disorganized
during school season. Most of the time I don’t have time to tidy up
because either I’m late for class or I need the extra 15 minutes for
sleep.
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Usually my room is clean and organized during summer and vacations, but once classes start, well you get the idea.
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Anyway
usually, before classes start, I expect the clutter to  come so i renew
my organizing strategy. Well it neer seems to work.
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This summer
class season, I decided to buy one of those cardboard boxes with labels
for my readings. I wanted a pigeon-hole like spot to place my readings
and organize them into subjects, but it was just too expensive so I
settled for the boxes.
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And I’m also gonna reconstruct my shelf
so I can turn it into a study table. I hope it works. i’ve taken into
making my bed my study table, it’s okay but it becomes a bother when
I’m studying in the middle of the night and suddenly have the inkling
to take a power nap which then eventually turns into a full pledged 8
hour sleep and when I do wake up, I’m suddenly cramming to finish what
is hould’ve finished the night before.
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Right now I’m on a rest period, I never knew I had so much paper to organize and to throw away.
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Oh I completely forgot to CRS bash nyahhaha see it in my next entry.

Well my anger and frustration has ebbed tremendously since thursday
when i found out that CRS changed the enrollment procedure for this
summer. They made it online and they announced it the day before the
first day of enrollment!
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Aside from stupidly not informing the
students, they also conveniently did not inform the (in my case)
engineering administration, the engineering registration commitee, even
the other engineering departments, so on the day of registration
everybody didn’t know what to do.
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The enrollment process used
to be, pre-enlist online, go to your department to fetch the your list
of pre-enlisted subjects, go to the departments that offer the subjects
you want and have them manually (as in written in paper) encode you
into the class list, have your reg form checked and then pay.
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they changed it into, pre-enlist online, go to your department to get your list of pre-enlisted subjects, enlist online, print your enlisted subjects, have your subjects checked or they’ll be cancelled, pay.
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Now
here is the first stupid. If they’re going to impose online enlistment,
why didn’t they just give all the slots during pre-enlistment?
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Stupid
no 2: They imposed online enlistment, but the servers for the
enlistment isn’t able to accomodate all the influx of people logging
in. So instead of eliminating lines, they just concentrated all the
lines into one BIG line behind the computer center because of stupid
no. 3.
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Stupid no. 3: The online enlistment can only be accessed
through dilnet but they didn’;t provide enlistment computers. As one of
my friends said, even if we overloook the blatant miscalculation of
bandwidth needs how the hell are people going to access online
enlistment? The answer was of course the computer center, where people
lined up for hours just to get to the computer terminals only to  find
out (after constant window refreshes) that the subjects they want is
already full. At least during manual enlistment, you’lll find out your
subjects are full the moment they are becuase it’s going to be
announced when you fall in line for that subject.
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They could
have at least informed reg com earlier then maybe regcom would have
provided computers at the  engineering lobby or somewhere else. I’m
sure other reg com of other colleges would have done the same.
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Stupid
no 4: They rushed the implementation. Wi eman what else could oyu
conclude from an announcement that came out on the day before
registration period and a registration commitee that doesn’t know and
weren’t briefed of the new protocols?
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Personaly I pity the
engineering regcom because people ask them for information which they
themselves do not know becasue they weren’t briefed. So the students
end up venting their anger at the regcom. And when the regcom goes to
the admin for help, the admin isn’t able to help either because,
whaddaya know, the admin wasn’t  informed either.
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Stupid no. 5
Colleges need to go thorugh tons of paper work and signings just to
input subjects into the system. Sometimes colleges get petitions for
making osme subjects available for summer. And they get these petitions
during registration period itself. Before, one the subject is approved,
the department offering that subject can easily release an announcement
so that the students can enlist. But now they have to get permission
again just so they can input it into CRS. That’s ok if the permission
is given instantly but it’s not and slow permitting is ok if the
registration period is long, but the registration period is only for
two days.
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Gawd I can go on and on about the stupid things that they failed to foresee. But my day is just going to get ruined.
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Fortunately, due to sheer luck, I was able to enlist ES 11 and Che 123 or else I’m toast.
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just hope they don’t use this  for the 1st sem registration or rather
have the common sense not to try anything stupid like it again.

Well despite my previous entry, we got on to going to Bolinao this weekend. The place we went to was good looked good great facilities, but too expensive for my taste. I’ve got pictures at my multiply site, and also a full review of the place.
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Anyway, after trying to even out my tan lines I ended up having too dark skin. Hehehe it doesn’t show in the pictures I uploaded but you see, after we went to the resort, we visited my grandmother at Santiago Island and the boat trip and tricycle trips under the burning sun called all my melanin out.
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Anyway it was fun spending some time with my parents and my sister, I just wished we could’ve stayed there longer. I was a little disappointed with the beach though, it never got very deep, but the sand in the deep part was more like mud than sand, maybe because the beach was right beside the opening of the River Malinao. The waves never got to the beach because there appeared to be something blocking it off shore. We later found out that the place where the waves end is a deep drop. i tried to go there but I was stopped by the mud-like black sand which was really gross.
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Anyway I just confined myself to looking at the bottom of the about hip-high water where I found lots of shells, a few fish lurking in the dead coral and the newly sprouted seaweed and one dead fish floating into oblivion.
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My feet had it’s own share of exfoliation when we walked the beach into Puerto del Sol, which was only a few meters away from Punta Riviera. The waves hit their beach and as far as I know, they don’t have the icky muddy sand, weel that’s because before I got far enough out into the deeper  part of the water, I was blocked by a WALL OF SEAWEED!
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Here I was thinking that maybe we finally arrived at a better beach. me and my sister, with my neice went further, so as not to be scolded by the Puerto del Sol people, then while my neice enjoyed the deeper water which was full of dead sea weed, I tried to explore the deeper parts. With my goggles on I swam out but before I could get deep enough to practice my swimming skills, there I was tangled in a wall of seaweed. Seriously, I thought I was going to die, it was soooo gross and slimy, I felt like Harry Potter in Goblet of fire when he went thorugh the wall of sea weed, but this was icky and slimy and as far as I know, there were no grindylows.
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Anyway, I got home safely, but not without an allergic attack because I went into the pool. I think I’m allergic to pool chlorine, because i didn’t get any allergic reactions from the sea water.
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Owell that’s my Ilog Malinao adventure, hopefully we get to go to Patar beach this last weekend of April. Either that or I’m going with my higschool friends to Puerto Galera…. But I’m crossing my fingers because this kind of planned stuff almost always gets cancelled.

Well i found out yesterday that our outing on Saturday is cancelled. Good now there’ll be nothing to look forward to before summer classes, just my luck.
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Also I failed ES 11, and rumor has it, they won’t be taking 2nd takers this summer.
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And to top it all off, I gained 3 pounds since I haven’t been going to the gym.
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I haaaate it!
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Well at least I’ve got a new raket, I hope I stay on this one, and I truly hope that i can balance this, execomm duties, acads and everything else that seems to come to my life at worst of times.
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I guess life can only be what you make of it.
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Right now I’m craving an extra cold Venti sized Starbucks Frappucino, unfortunately, the nearest Starbucks is about three rides away if I commute, so I’m sticking to my instant coffee with ice and topped with my just bought, non-fat whipped cream. But it doesn’t taste the same so it did little to boost my optimism, but it did keep me awake.
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Anyway, my room’s a mess because of the past acad rush from the last week of the semester, and I’ve been procrastinating ever since to clean it up.
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My mom says my allergies were because my room was… ehem… dirty, but I get allergic reactions everywhere I go recently, heck i wasn’t even able to enjoy the FR properly because I started to have really bad allergic reactions to the Pool water.
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Although I am glad that I never was allergic to alcoholic drinks and caffeine, because if I was, I think I’d die.
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Anyway I still have to do some general cleaning in my room, scrub the walls, dust the mattress, vacuum and stuff so that’s not really something I’m looking forward to. But at least I have this laptop so I can watch Casablanca and continue my starwars marathon while I clean up. Haaai. Here I go. Thanks for reading my nonsense hehe.

It’s funny when something you’re so sure of turns out to be something unexpected.
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Right now I am home alone, not knowing where my parents are (hehe orphan). I just came home from our org’s Final Rites and semender hoping that I will arrive at a home where a steaming bowl of something delicious is waiting for me as my dinner, unfortunately, I came home to an empty house and no food. So I had to fend for myself and cook my own dinner.
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Anyway, speaking of the semender, it’s kinda sad that there’re very few people who attended, maybe because of the wonky schedule which is a sunday-monday overnight event, or maybe because most people still have requirements to finish for acads.
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Well it was kinda fun and tiring at the same time. Of course the applicants were put through a series of tasks that they had to finish before they can be inducted, after the induction was of course the videoke busting singing marathon!
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This was my longest marathon that’s org related if memory serves me right. I think i went to sleep at 5am, of course not before I was caught sleeping open mouthed on the chair I was sitting in. hehehe. i also discovered a new way to ruin a perfectly good alcoholic drink… grape juice. We called it gin-ubas, and I don’t suggest trying it. Unfortunately we had no choice because it was the only juice available at the 7-11 outlet we bought it from.
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I’m not really in the mood to write, I just thought I had to document the event. heheh.
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Actually I’m hoping that my inspiration comes back in a few days… Well, I kinda need it ‘cuz I’m planning on re-entering the writing scene. I desperately need a gig to finance my… ehem summer escapades. Hehehe.
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I’ll make sure to document my sumemr escapades too though.