Monday, December 15, 2003
CUPID'S ON SANTA'S SLEIGH
Carpe Noctem (Seize the Night) - Year 2 - Starting Week #25
Background Music: "In a Rush"
NOTE: This is a weekly blog entry that is posted at the start of the week prior to moving into my dormitory.
THEY did it once, and they did it again!
The DLSU-D Pointes and Flexes Dance Company (PNF) won again at SOP Rules yesterday (Sunday)... making it the 2nd week in a row. One more week is needed to be even with Ateneo Dance Company's 3-week-consecutive wins before the PNF knocked them down last week.
They were against Colegio ni San Juan de Letran (Frontact B). PNF danced to only one song during their Frontact A, which was a remix to the danceclub anthem "4 My People".
The lighting was icy blue compared to last week's hot yellow.
However, my classmate Jeremy wasn't among the dancers this week. I did know someone though, Fidel. Fidel is a new member of PNF and he's my dorm mate. I just met him last Friday night at the Admin Building.
I didn't see any classmates in the cheering group in the audience. The president of our University Student Council, Kuya Romel (who I've interviewed before for HF) was among those in the front cheering the PNF onwards. He's seen smiling in the picture to the right (above).
Congratulations to them! Now that they've won, I believe next week I'm going to see Altrinth (friend of mine since my VPAPU days) dance. Hopefully beyond the Prelims, these dancers can put together two songs instead of just one. More power to them!
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Saturday night was shopping frenzy at the crowded SM Bacoor where I bought No Doubt's new album, a collection of their hit singles from 1992 to 2003. It's a great album actually, I'm glad I bought it.
Sunday morning was watching PNF on SOP versus Letran's Streetbeat. Dad called as usual and spoke to mom. I helped mom put up the new curtains in my room... which were a shower curtain tealish green when I first saw them on Saturday night. Now that we put up those white curtains that go with it, it looks like Animo La Salle. Green and White curtains.
After getting ready, we went to Hardin ng Postema where my cousin on my dad's side Kuya Santy and his wife are still fresh from the United Kingdom. The two are successful nurses there and they brought home their 2 year-old daughter Chelsea Anne for the very first time.
I stayed in the CR-V to finish the Magic 89.9 Final Countdown, Chingy and Ludacris' "Holiday Innn" was #1. While grooving to the music at Volume 22 (the decent of loud), I took a picture of myself at the steering wheel... forecasting the traffic of 2004 when I'll hopefully be driving the SUV.
We all arrived later in the party so I didn't have much time to meet and greet. Don't believe me? I'm usually in a reserved mood when it comes to the meet and greet with cousins and relatives from the states, partly because I used to be like them. But today, I was walking around the party with confidence... willing to shake anyone's hands and talk to them about this and that. I wanted to talk to my Kuya Santy in english, hoping he'd finally understand me (because before he went to England, I think he didn't understand anything I was saying back in, say, 1999). I would've received a British response from him.
He was busy tending to the party and to his daughter. I managed to say "Kuya Santy" when he passed by us as we left the party. He was looking at my mom though. Um, okay.
After the party, we went further down the road towards Naic (but not into Naic) to another cousin of mine, who is hopefully going to get married to his fiancee. He invited us, and his whole family, to do the traditional "negociation" thing with the parents of his fiancee in that isolated barangay deep in the fields somewhere.
We entered and that Mass Comm guy (graduating) was there. He's always at these gatherings, but I don't know who he is! No one has ever introduced us formally. I was still in that "meet and greet" mood, but I saw Sunday's copy of the Philippine Daily Inquirer that I simply couldn't resist.
It so happened while the negociations where going on, the lady next to me was the mother of that Mass Comm guy. She told me he's a candidate for Magna Cum Laude. My jaw literally dropped. Woah... HEAAAAVY. That guy is a Magna Cum Laude?!
Then she goes off telling me how expensive productions are and I nodded also telling her I know how much they can cost... Php 30,000 for just one production. Then she says that guy's been to Batangas, to Baguio, everywhere... and I smile because I'm doing those things too.
Then she concludes me he has a segment on a radio station, perhaps AM radio I think... and that he has a column in some newspaper.
That guy is just like me! But he's at PLM. I'm at DLSU-D.
I couldn't take anymore of the weird negociations. It's tradition, but the father of my cousin's fiancee was raising his voice to terrifying levels. My Uncle was also raising his voice. Everyone was blinkin' their eyes and everything. It was like one of those Gilmore Girls moments of sarcasm.
I snatched one BBQ stick from the table, drank a glass of coke with tube ice in it... and made my way into my CR-V. I sat inside with my brother and we listened to the radio. About 20 minutes later our driver, Kuya Jhong, enters and I start asking him questions about the CR-V and ways on driving it and handling it. He eventually gave me a small tutorial right there until we were interrupted by my mom.
We went home eventually, passing by McDo for a Sundae Cone dipped in Chocolate. Then mom suggested Mister Donut for me and my brother's breakfast tomorrow. I took a picture of the fresh donuts. The Mister Donut branch just opened up there.
We went home and I took pictures of the Christmas Lights. I also made some remarks on the lights that my cousin Kuya Junior (mom's side) made on the front garden wall. It was all on the inside... and from the outside it looked weird. It looked disconnected outside. It was all attached to the wall by a glue gun. I suggested they repeat the whole thing. Sayang ang bayad namin sa kanya... dapat ayusin niya ang arrangement!
In the evening I did some surfing and I still owe it to Wearechildrenofatheneum.com for the borrowed webspace. It's because of them my blog is now flourishing with new pictures. Once again, thanks Kuya Jay!
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Academics/JOU2-1. Prelim exams this week. Must study well.
Heraldo Filipino. Layouting of the LS XI-2 with Joanna and the Feature staff this week. It's a requirement now.
AB Comm Channel/ISA. Hiatus for Comm Channel. For the ISA, there's a scheduled X'mas Party at Hard Rock Cafe in Glorietta-4 on Friday... midnight till we drop. Sounds fun. It'll connect with Jezire's Roxas Blvd. Tour also on that day.
Dormitory/Tropa. The Christmas lights are up and the dorm is just as cozy. Within the tropa, Christmas moments. I'm also going to Glorietta after my exam on Wednesday. I'm going with Abbie and whoever else wants to go. It'll be Christmas shopping... I gotta buy things for people..
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Take care! Wish me luck for the Prelimz!
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