Oh-So-Many-Things: When Your Gut Tells You To Bring Your Camera - BRING IT!!

- February 1, 2012, Wednesday.

- I didn't know why I felt like bringing my camera today, knowing that I wasn't going anywhere aside from work and after-work-theater, and there wasn't any special occasion today. I still decided to bring my camera, even if I had more things to bring today - such as my scarf and some accessories to adorn myself - since I felt like I wanted to document today's theater rehearsal.

- I wore my Tibetan shirt today, complimented by my Indian scarf, Singaporean-Chinese turtle necklace, and my yellow Buddha-bead-like necklace. I wanted to somehow match the artifact (replica) display in the conference room my office would be in today for our planning session.

- My day started out pretty bad because of my ID mishap - nearly lost it, had to go around school retracing my steps, but luckily retrieved my ID, found and kept safely by the Ateneo Gate 1 security guard. Despite this, I noticed a tarpaulin of the yearly "Jumpstart Study Abroad Fair" by one of the organizations of Ateneo (ASEC, I believe.) The fair happened to take place today, and I was excited to visit the booths, mingle with the people from different countries, embassies, and institutions, and of course, get some freebies as well.

- I visited the fair later this morning, during our planning-session break. I was surprised to see new countries that participated in the fair, most especially India. I was informed that no one was manning the Indian booth, because the embassy "lacked man power." I felt a bit sad that I wasn't able to talk to someone about studying in India (an opportunity to maybe make myself noticed,) but I still got all the brochures and magazines. All of them were interesting reads.

- Countries such as Malaysia (the most number of participants,) France, Germany, Chile (unmanned too,) Czech Republic, Taiwan (they were surprised that I knew Mandarin,) were present. Other participants included the Erasmus Mundus foundation, British Council, and others. Still, the number was still fewer than the first time I encountered the fair in 2009.

- Now, fast-forward to this afternoon, after my rejoice of being allowed to go earlier than my usual time-off. I went straight to my alma mater, where everyone was surprised by my early arrival. I had a nice time hanging out and directing some of the actors, and indeed I took some very interesting - albeit a bit disturbing - shots. The best part of the afternoon was when the current club president, Cleo, had to substitute a guy's role - the lover of our member Abi's role.

- I've been having a terrific week lately; everyday felt like a Friday, and I hope this continues until the end of the week, and the extended weekend on Monday and Tuesday due to Ateneo's school holiday. I could have brought my camera yesterday as well, since I also liked what I wore yesterday, but today's surprising and bizarre events made the day extremely camera-worthy.

I Went To School Just Because. Haha. The Day Before the Big Day.

- Sept. 24, 2009, Thursday. I didn't have classes again today. Haha.

- I forced myself to go to school because of the Jumpstart Study Abroad Fair. I wanted to look at what other countries have to offer. Well, if I'm extremely lucky (and extremely rich, which is far from what I am right now), I might hopefully be able to go after I graduate from Ateneo.

- I made sure that I would use my flaggy ID strap and flaggy bag, since I'm a very multicultural person. Haha. Tralalalalalalalalaaaa.

- I wore black today because I recently found out that our adviser in 4th year Chinese, our Chinese Math teacher Zhuang Mei Mei Lao Shi, a.k.a. Robot, passed away recently. Now, a moment of silence.




(moment of silence)




- I went to school with the usual carpool people. They were strangely silent today. They were studying.

- I got bored, so I tried to take pictures of people in the car.

- I arrived at school, and went to the library to photocopy Danica's readings, so she wouldn't have to photocopy it after her class, meaning the earlier we could go home.

- I tried to learn Russian in the library for 30 minutes while the xerox lady was photocopying the thick readings. I can speak a bit of Russian now. HAHA. Just a bit.

- After the photocopy session, I went to buy Macmac's Ms. Coo trading card from Celadon in the doghouse. I wonder why he's shy to buy a Ms. Coo card. WE HEART MISS COO :D:D:D:D

- I met Leslie, who didn't have class as well, but needed to sell stuff for Celadon.

- I also met Jackie Tanliao, my Feature Writing class classmate. She was eating a banana. :D:D:D:D I like bananas, but I like pigs more. We both like orange.

- After minutes of confusing Leslie's life in the Celadon booth, I decided to check out the Jumpstart Study Abroad Fair, since by that time, they were already set up.

- Foreigners from their respective embassies went there. I was also able to get a big bunch of brochures. I was also able to talk to some of them in their native languages....again, just a bit of whatever languages. This is why I like foreigners. :D:D:D:D

- I went back to Leslie's booth and confused her life once more. Macmac texted me about an hour later, and told me to meet up in the LS Bookstore, so I can give him his Ms. Coo trading card.

- It was such fun seeing Mac. I don't get to see him often because of my thrice a week classes. I usually get to talk to him online though. Haha. We really miss history with Ms. Coo, though some people may beg to differ. HAHAHAHAHA.

- After Mac's episode, I went back to Leslie's booth, and confused her life for a third time. Danica later called me, so I headed towards Macci.

- We met along the way, and headed home. I bought an ice cream in JGSOM while waiting for her car. They ran out of chocolate after a short squirt of it into my cone. I told them I wanted vanilla instead, so they squirted vanilla over the tiny tiny drop of chocolate. Hahahaha. :D:D:D:D

- That ended my half day. Currently, I'm glad I'm done with my part in ComRes (my tedious but fun research class). I am ready to parteii tomorrow. Haha.

- By the way. I'm going to school again tomorrow, since the people from the French Embassy/Italian Embassy would be visiting Ateneo, since they weren't around today. Yeyyyyyyy. Snooze.