I Love the Rain [na pala]

I know, kakasulat ko lang ng isang mahabang-mahabang entry about my not liking the rain but something happened a few minutes ago to make me change my mind...

I was about to go to Starbucks when I was welcomed by the fury of the rain and while I was contemplating on whether I should stay in school or swing it [meaning, magpakabasa sa ulan] over a stick of yosi, something kakilig-kilig happened. This guy I've been crushing on back in the day emerged in front of me.

Euns: I know you.
Guy: Yeah.
Euns: YFC right?
Guy: Yup.
EUns: I'm sorry, what's your name again?
Guy: Anthony.
Euns: Oh my God, you went to my debut a few years ago!
Guy: Yup... WHat's your name again?
Euns: Euuuuunice. [this is how I introduce myself when I'm in the presence of sosyal people]
Guy: What're you taking up? Law?
EUns: Yeah, you? MBA?
Guy: Yeah...
Euns: Your classes just started?
Guy: This week.
Euns: Great.
Guy: What year are you in?
Euns: Third.
Guy: Wow, that's like 2 more years and you're a lawyer...
Euns: I knoooow. Who would've thought diba? Anyway, I'll see you around.
Guy: Aight. Bye.
[naiwan si Eunice na nakangiti]

Chenes! Checked his blog. IN A RELATIONSHIP. Pakshet. What did I expect diba?

Anyway, I'm blogging because there's nothing else to do. The rain is still pouring like there's no tomorrow.

2007 na!

Euniceeeeeeeeeeeeee! 2008 na! 2006 ba yung year na inaabangan natin? hahaha its been so long! Naalala ko lang bigla LOL, so did you meet prince charming? Did you? Did you? *hugs!* -Shine

Backtrack... in 2002 a "manghuhula" friend of ours predicted that we'll meet "the one" four years after. That's supposed to be in 2006. But no!!! 2007 na. Sabagay, ang sabi lang naman "mami-meet" di naman sinabi na magiging kami na agad. And so the countdown once again begins... ang problema walang specific period para malaman ko kung titigil na ba ako sa paghihintay. Malas.

Prof: Do you guys know what Toll Packing is?
Class: No.
Euns: Ana, TOOOOLLL PAAAACKING daw.
Ana: Bakit pag ikaw ang nagsasabi, laging parang bastos?

Our very accommodating tax professor, Atty. Gonzalez lectured today on VAT because we begged him to do so [some photocopying fiasco resulted to this]. I would like to acknowledge his being very reasonable and amicable via a moment of silence. [moment of silence].

FREECUT kami sa Labor kanina so I would like to acknowledge the class' happiness by shouting Hell Yeah! [Hell Yeah!].

Ces: Mag-aaral ka ba sa Starbucks today:
EUns: Oo eh, May meeting ako ng 9pm for SALSA.
EUns and Ces: Yeeeeeeeees! [may blending]

Who would've thought diba? So, surprisingly, I am not inactive.. besides being the resident host for all the Law School Events, I am now a member of FOUR Organizations, a startling deviation from my tumataginting na ONE ORG in college [UP Economics SOciety, ay dalawa pala isasama mo pa ang Performance Artists Circle]... Sa Ateneo, I have:

Campus Ministry [CMO],
The BADminton Club,
The Palladium [Student Publication] and
SALSA [Dance Group of the Law School].

Yihee, kamusta naman ang may time?

Hazel: Ate, may nanliligaw ba sayo ngayon?
Euns: Wala e.
Hazel: Sinungaling. [walkout]
Euns: [Lord, pati sarili kong kapatid di naniniwala sakin.

Badtrip.

Nobody Has that Right

Nobody has the right to tell a person whether she will or will not stay in the law school [may it be a for a year or for four years, even if the person talking is in fact at the "finish line" of his law school race because everyone in the law school SHOULD BE GIVEN CREDIT].

Nobody has the right to judge a person and dismiss her as a weakling, worse as a bimbo, just because she doesn't look as haggard as everyone.

Nobody has the right to exploit a person's fragility by accusing her of being someone who will most likely put herself on a pedestal.

Nobody has the right to judge without basis because a judgment is, LOGICALLY SPEAKING, supposed to have basis.

Nobody has the right to outrightly harm another, may it be emotionally or physically, just because he was given the opportunity to do so.

Nobody has the right to be mean, insensitive and plain cruel.

Nobody has the right to win at the expense of another especially if the "at the expense of another" part demonstrates how dirty the winner is willing to get to reach that goal.

Yes you can voice out your opinion, but your freedom stops when another person's right starts.

If I were a freshman,

I will vote for J Viray..

she may not be your stereotype BATCH REPRESENTATIVE but I know why she wants to win and she doesn't have to go low to prove her point.

Rain, Rain Go Away!

[written last night...]

For me, the rain is the most efficient downer. It has a certain effect that I rarely miss and tonight, it got the emphasis that I involuntarily granted when I decided to study alone outside Starbucks despite the heavy downpour.

I was literally alone while struggling to get through my homework in Succession. It got me into thinking about why the hell am I still alone when rumor has it that I don't look and play the part. It can get pretty ugly really, going through my daily routine with that emptiness that constantly bugs me. Right now, it ceases to be a question of WHY because I know that there are reasons that are beyond my understanding but it is more of a string of HOWs that bother me. How am I surviving this emptiness? How can I change the whole thing? How can I continuously deny the reality that I miss being part of an "item"? How did i end up like this? How can I move past the uncertainties, the insecurities and the persistent reign of negative emotions that sometimes overcome me?

Happiness is a decision, in the same way that love is. You don't declare that you love someone just because in the rare moments that you got a glimpse of what could be, you realize that HE COULD BE. It's a fatal error to mistake love for something so temporary, it's fatal to think that you can make someone see what you see just because your view of the possibilities fit in your grand plan.

We all look at the same thing differently and most of the time, these views may never be reconciled. Love really is finding someone willing to share the view with you to share the different experiences that it triggers. Love is looking at the rain as a friend because it gives you the opportunity to share an umbrella. Love means never having to regret dancing in the rain . Love means transforming something as depressing as the rain into something magical...Love means feeling his warmth without having to hold hands. Love can never be temporary because it leaves a smile, a few tears and a lifetime of memories.

Love is pleasant loneliness. Love is enjoyable depression. Love is an expected irony.

SECRET OF THE WEEK

from POSTSECRET

Heard from Anj Danila [Long lost sister]

Laughtrip.

Waitresses talking about their supervisor (paraphrased into tagalog)
W1:
Grabe naman si ma'am ano? akala mo matalino.
W2: Bakit?
W1: Eh kasi kanina
nung pinapagalitan nya tayo, sabi nya "Ano ba guys," eh puro naman tayo babae
dito...
W2: Oo nga, dapat pang lalake lang kasi "guys" eh

International Economic Law

Prof: What would you do when the demand for sequined
blouses rises?
Student: Uhmm... advertise?

Prof: What is Finance?... It's one of the SEVEN SACRAMENTS.

Prof: You only know the value of education when....
TADA! You don't have it.

Prof: Is anybody here absent?
Class: [confused look]
Prof: It was a joke.
Class: [ah ok]

Prof: You're studying law, FICTION must be easy to
you.

Euns: Ang love parang Economics, hindi sya fixed.

Minsan, para din syang International law, kasi it's a PROCESS.

The WILL

Prof: Can you write the will on a tissue paper?
Student: [hesitant] Yes?
Prof: Why? Does the will have to be HYGIENIC?

[un na... di naman po, pero sana mas ok kung hygienic]

Prof: What is Herpes Zoster?
Doc: [blahblahblah]
Prof: Yeah, and it is airborne right?
Euns and Ces: [panicked look] AIRBORNE?????!!!

[afraid!]

THESIS the MOMENT!

Ok, for our first thesis seminar if and when we reach 4th year, I suggest that we call it... "THESIS IT!" while playing the lyrics, "Thesis the first tiiiiiiiiime, I'm gonna say I LOVE YOU...."

While we're at it, I'm formally declaring that my topic'll be...

"FORMALIZING THE INFORMAL ECONOMY"

or

"FORGIVENESS OF ONEROUS DEBTS"

[the title i will change because it bores me!]

Ana Diaz asked me to post that her topic will be ....

The MILK CODE

Thesis really is it! Let's go Batch 2009!

TRIPLE SEVEN DAY...

... proved to be magical.

• I spent 8 hours partying with Ces and the rest of the gang at Coco Cabana...
• the boyfriend "made me sundo in Starbucks" and "made buhat my bag" on our way to Plant. then we "made beso" when he went home [looks at Ana]...
• ang kanyang pagte-text na "papunta na ako dyan." na inabot ng syam syam [meaning natapos ko basahin ang dalawang dyaryo] at tinext ko sya ng... "Nadapa ka ba?" pero ang totoo, wala syang payong at kailangan nya umikot sa ground dahil sarado na ang B1. aww.
  
• then he stayed for dinner and a bottle of beer "against all odds."
  
• plus, managed to make me panic when he jokingly asked me to talk to his mother. [horrified look]
• dagdagan pa natin ng kanyang idea of sweetness na pag "dantay ng kanyang ulo sa aking balikat" na tila baga kami'y nasa luneta lamang.
• ang walang hanggang usapan tungkol sa kawalan ng GENDER EQUALITY
• ang kwentuhan tungkol sa aking "FIRST DATE" of the day
  
• ang pagbubunyag ng "TENSION Headache" sa Transformers
  
• we got to meet Ces' college friends... halo-halo na'to! and the gorgeous Vernon.
  
• I got to talk to my long lost "brother" Elliot... our kwentuhan was loooong overdue. Napag-usapan ang VFA, JPEPA, go for the gold at kung anu-ano pang kalaliman.
  
• i learned a lot of secrets from "the drunkards" [i.e. Boss Sam and Boss Trina] .
• I saw Chris pinch Aj's nipple.
• Nasabihan ako ni AJ na sensual dahil sa red shoes.
• Nagkaron kami ng patay gutom moment habang napapamura pa sa sarap ng BULALO Steak kasabay ng beer at chocolate cake.
• nagmukha kaming human stoplight, human philippine flag at kakulay ko ang PULIS MAKATI.
  
• We ended the party by smoking one cig stick... it was a SMOKING ORGY. [Ces, Haze, AJ, Carloa and Patty]
• Pag-uwi ko ng bahay, napagtawanan pa ako ng dad ko dahil according to him, "Para kang pusa na dahan-dahang pumapasok.. Di mo inexpect na gising pa ako no?" Ayos.

TRIPLE SEVEN DAY was GREAT!!!!

Back to regular programming. Back to law school.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY CES!!!!!

My choice is the right choice....

You may be feeling quite confused by the many different options in front of you, Eunice. Perhaps it feels as if you are walking up a mountain with a large pack. You arrive at one ridge where the view is beautiful, yet you know that if you hike up farther, the view will be even more spectacular. The problem is that you may feel completely comfortable just staying at the place you are at right now. Remember that the choice you make is always the right one.