To my favorite brat in the world who never grows old...

nino

I just want to post something random just so to let my friends know I'm still alive.

My bum life's gonna be over soon and school's starting next week. Actually, school should've started last monday but due to the ah1n1 issue, classes will start next week. Epidemics and viruses aren't a good thing, but I can't help feeling happy when it means that I won't have to go to school too soon.

Yeah, I'm one shallow being.

Still, this sem will be one of the best sems of my college life, because it's gonna be my last. I REALLY want to finish school so much and graduate. My college life should have ended a long time ago, but due to various IRRITATING/CAN'T-BE-HELPED circumstances, I've been stucked in this situation.

Anyway, on to another random sidenote. I want to see Atadan episode 9. I wonder if I'll be seeing more of this.

chisatoxsho hug

AND THESE XDDD

chisatoxsho kiss

kiss <3

I suddenly got myself a very long weekend, when Gloria announced that the Edsa holiday will be on a  Monday. It all started last Thursday, you know, my long weekend. It was actually my birthday, which I thought would another forgetful one, but it wasn’t. I got home from school, then my lovely friends came over at my house and they are such a dear that they treat me to takoyaki and pizza. When I came home after we ate out that night, my mom finally agreed to open the much awaited white wine which was in our fridge for months. It was in fact supposed to be served last Christmas, but everyone slept on me that it remained untouched. So it was decided to be opened in New Yew, but everyone was so full already with food and soda that, again, the drinking of wine was postponed and we thought that we could open it on my Dad’s birthday which would be five days after. Surprisingly, which really isn’t, it still remained intact and unopened. So we decided that it should be really really really opened on my birthday, because the next occasion would be four months later, which is my Mom’s birthday.

The days droned on and all I did was to read books and live a bum’s life. But there are the tiny glitches like our computer’s having a problem, which is probably my brother’s fault for turning off the firewall at times. And because of that, my sister goes mental and it isn’t a pretty sight to see. But she recently made me laugh so hard because of a mistake she overlooked in her blog. And since she already knows about it, she has corrected it. It went like “…the wine in the fringe…,” which is supposed to be “in the fridge.” The image of a wine bottle balanced on a fringe, which is another way of saying bangs, replays itself on my mind that I can’t stop myself laughing at her. On second thought, maybe I should have kept quiet and let more people see it, then I’ll point out her error in the comments. I bet she’ll love that. No. I’ll love that. Oh, she’s so gonna be mad at me when she reads this. And then, she’ll try to hack my blogger.

I know I have a lot of things to do, but knowing myself, I’ll just let it pass ‘til I really have to do them and I’ll cram. At least, I’ve washed my filthy bag. I still have that blog which I promised Fae to write but have no will power to do it. I also have to read some materials for school and I’m not in the mood to read it.

I need some Arashi crack to lift my spirits up. Geez, I miss those nipple t-shirts.

Nipple t-shirt Sho version

Ohno with weird glasses

Seriously people, I think we already had too much of the HanaDan drama that three dramas are enough. No, wait, it's already too much! I'm not saying that I hate Hana Yori, I really love it, but to have three?! I just saw this in one of my online friends' updates. Apparently, there will be another remake of the famous story of Hana Yori Dango a.k.a. Meteor Garden a.k.a. Boys Over Flowers. Taiwan was the first one to make the live version of the story and they did a good job, you know with the story flow, casting and all, until they did a season two. Then Japan also has one. Anyway, I'm really happy about this one since it was their own story anyway and I love anything that pertains to Japan (Well, maybe not really all i.e. kabuki, visual kei, ageha, etc.). Besides, technically, the japs were the first one to make it into a live action, though it was in the form of a movie. Another good point of the HanaDan, though this is a biased one, is that it has Matsujun in it and Arashi got to sing its OSTs. Plus, Inoue Mao did a really great job as Makino Tsukushi. Moving along, Korea has one, too, which is still ongoing. I haven't seen it yet and have no plans of watching it any sooner. But the big shocking news is that Philippines has decided that it should have its own share in the Hana Yori Dango fever, which translates that they are now planning to make one. I guess I have no right to judge them (the producers) of their actions, but I hope that they don't ruin the beautiful image that Hana Yori Dango has. Well, that's all I can say for now since everything seems to be still just an idea.

I couldn't believe my eyes, what I'm seeing at this new Arashi update, rather update on Matsujun, on lj! Matsujun will have a new drama this coming April and guess what he's role would be? He's gonna be a guy named "Bito," half-filipino and half-japanese. There has been rumors going on already for the past few months, but nothing's really definite at that time. The drama, by the way, is entitled "Smile" and a love story. Here's where you can find the news, straight from TBS. However, it won't be much of an information to you if you can't understand and read Japanese. Anyway, the post in the TBS site, to sum it up, is just about the announcement of the new drama and that it'll have the Friday timeslot, things like that. Matsujun will be doing the drama with Aragaki Yui and Kiichi Nakai. And that's much about news I can get at the moment, but it's enough to give me the hypes. I can't wait for more news about it and I'm definitely going to be anticipating for April to come. And as usual, Arashi might sing the drama's theme song, so I'll be looking out for that one, too.

At the moment, I'm watching Ohno's drama - Uta no Oniisan - and I'm waiting for Yatterman, Sho's movie. I tell you, it just keeps coming and coming. It's a good year for them and it's their 10th year anniversary as well. Not bad, eh? ^_^

It’s a good thing that my chemistry exam today was over or I would have turned to sulking in regret of not ditching class yesterday. Boy, that chemistry exam is sure a hefty load off my poor worn-out-studying-mode brain. Anyway, I was already thinking about not attending class the day before, but my goody-goody side won me over and decided to go to class, or so I thought. I really should have listened to my sister when she told me, not directly, to ditch it and I'm pretty sure she'll be so smug about this when she reads this. Unfortunately, I was struck with the “good student syndrome” that day and went to my evening class. But I didn’t see that one coming - my professor ditching the class. Adults are really a step ahead of us, younger ones. Just when I was planning of ditching class, my professor already decided on ditching our class. Tough luck.

It is one of the worst times of the semester – midterm exams week – and I’m aimlessly approaching it. And lookie here, I still have the guts to make a post when my science book is lying on my bed. Huh! What a bummer I am. This is probably one of the worst midterm exams week I had in my whole life in college. I’ll have my Physics and General Chemistry exams in two consecutive days and to make matters worse, my professor in physics even told me to do my best in the exam. Talk about pressure. So now, I’m deliberately debating with myself if I should ditch my night class tomorrow to review for my exam the next day. Is it worth it? Or can I handle the pressure if I still attend the class and have to study after that? And fate seems to think that those aren’t enough that on Saturday I’ll have two midterm exams one after the other in a day. Just thinking about that blows my mind already.

Focus, focus, I need focus.

This was something I’ve been meaning to do for so long. I’ve just been putting it off for the mere fact that I can’t think of a title to this post. Weird or lazy, it doesn't matter I still delayed this post so much. I was surfing the net that pleasant day, I’ve nothing to do but laze around with no little brother or dad to compete with the computer. So I just suddenly thought of looking up Johnny Depp, my favorite actor for his eccentric roles and versatility to perfectly portray those characters, since I’ve haven’t had any news of him for the last who-knows-how-long-it-was.  I got excited seeing the information on wikipedia that he’ll be doing another movie with no other than Tim Burton, my favorite director for making such wonderful films. It’ll be Alice in Wonderland which will be release in 2010. Yep, a long wait since we just entered the year of 2009. Johnny Depp will be playing the role of the Mad Hatter. The movie, by the way, will also have Helena Bonham Carter as the Red Queen. I think that’s something we all Tim Burton fans to expect, because it’s always like a package deal that those three are together in a film. Nevertheless, she is a very good actress. Anne Hathaway will play the White Queen and Alan Rickman a.k.a. Professor Snape will be the Caterpillar.

Aside from that, another thing to look out for the year 2010 would be another Nodame Cantabile Live-Action Special. I’m so excited for this one, too. I miss Nodame so much as well as Juri Ueno.

*sigh*

I hate waiting, but if those are the things to wait for…then, it’s absolutely worth all the waiting.

It feels like war has started, like I’m hearing bombs explode and gunfire shots everywhere. Maybe this is how it feels like during a time of war. Fortunately, it isn’t and it’s the time of celebration.

If I’ll be looking back at the events that happened in my life this 2008, I’ll say that this year has been a time of trials, hardships, and tests. But with all of these come the triumphs and accomplishments which really makes me feel that I’ve done a lot this year. From thesis and oral defenses, nerve-wracking projects, and other unexpected things, I definitely feel like I’ve accomplished so much for this year.

A new year will be born soon and with it comes the promise of a fresh start. I really don’t take New Year resolutions seriously because I always think of them as inauspicious promises that’ll eventually be forgotten. So I guess, I just start my new year by thinking about all the things that I can do or want to do, new things that I want to try.

But of all the things that I or we should remember during the start of a new year is that we will never realize something if we don’t act on it. Well, that mostly speaks for me. Take it from a crammer.

"It wouldn't hurt anyway" is what I've told myself the other day when my sister insisted that I get a Shelfari account. It’s not new to me that my sister would adamantly tell me to try the new thing that she’s been doing. In any case, I gave Shelfari a try.

Shelfari is a website in which you can have a bookshelf wherein you can put books that can be organized in three categories: I’ve read, I’m reading now, and I plan to read. It didn’t impose so much interest at me at first. It was just like having a virtual bookshelf that you can show people the books you have and read. Nevertheless, I had fun putting and sorting the books.

It wasn’t until today that I’ve really got hook in it. I was just browsing through Shelfari and familiarizing myself with it when a line that says “Your profile is 40% complete” caught my attention. Beneath it was another line saying “How do I get to 100%?” on which I mindlessly pointed the cursor and clicked the link. Subsequently, a list of things popped under it. I consider the different options I was suddenly presented with and I chose “Join a group.” I tell you people, it was the start of my new found addiction – Shelfari.

There are many groups to choose from. I already belong to three groups as of the moment, which means that I'll be joining other groups in the future. Below are names of each group I’m part of (at the time I'm writing this) and underneath each name is a brief, verbatim explanation about the group straight from Shelfari:

Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry

Just pretend ur at Hogwarts. You are a student and you are in a house group. The administrator(s) are teachers and headmasters/headmistress/prefects/head boy/head girl of Hogwarts. So basically u talk about subjects taught at hogwarts and stuff.

LETS TRY AND SEE IF EVERY ONE ON SHELFARI CAN JOIN 1 GROUP!!

As far as I know, this group doesn't have a point other than to have as many people join it as possible, and to be totally and completely random in exsistence. :D

We have games of all kinds, topics of conversation, notes about almost everything... various other things... but yeah. Overall, we're a fun crowd. This is an open group, so...more »
As far as I know, this group doesn't have a point other than to have as many people join it as possible, and to be totally and completely random in exsistence. :D

We have games of all kinds, topics of conversation, notes about almost everything... various other things... but yeah. Overall, we're a fun crowd. This is an open group, so feel free to join all the fun! And please no politics or religion involved! XD

The Challenged Reader

The Challenged Reader is a group for people who have so many books waiting to be read, they need a challenge or two to make a dent in their TBR. Join us before your bookshelf collapses!

This group was started after one of our favorite groups, Readers in Thongs (RIT), stopped being active. The Challenged Reader is meant for members of RIT who would like to continue in a similar vein but new members are of course very welcome too!

Our first challenge will start in January 2009, details to follow (think along the lines of helping your bookshelf reduce its heavy load!).

Do join us, everyone is welcome!

I’ve been lazing out a lot lately these days and my reading life is no exception from it. No matter how hard it is for me to admit, Twilight has helped me get life back to my reading but not enough to maintain it. For the record, I am absolutely not a fan of Twilight, it was just something light to read at the time, something that doesn’t make me think too much like watching TV. But now, I definitely found just the thing to get me going and read voraciously. At the very least, I can now say that I have one addiction that will bring good benefits that’ll do me good and a lot of wonderful possibilities.

With fingers crossed, a renewed mindset, and stack of books lined up for my “I Plan to Read books” this coming year, I say to myself: Happy reading! ^_^