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[31 Jul 2007|07:26pm] |
guys, especially those who've lived abroad for awhile and/or have been to beijing/china, help me fill up these lists please --
things to bring to beijing:
1. clothes (shirts, jeans, undies, warm jackets, a dress or two, pjs, exercise clothes...)
2. shoes (fave walking shoes, dressy shoes, sandals, slippers...)
3. toiletries (bath stuff, stuff for my period, hair stuff, teeth stuff, skin stuff including sunblock, nail stuff...)
4. medicine (vitamins, analgesics, antihistamines, antibiotics...)
5. camera + related gadgets
6. nerdy/fso exam review books (nobody scold -- i NEED these!)
7. bed sheet, blanket, and pillow cases
8. bath towels
9. yoga mat
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things to do while in beijing (aside from learn mandarin :p):
1. ride the maglev train
2. ride the other trains! (i love trains :p)
3. visit the forbidden city
4. visit tiananmen square and connected sites (tiananmen, national legislature, national museum, mao zedong's mausoleum)
5. visit the temple of heaven
6. visit other temples? although i don't know how many more temples i can stand beyond 3 really
7. visit the great wall of china
8. visit the summer palace
9. visit the marco polo bridge and the eight mile bridge
10. visit beihai park
11. visit the other parks!
12. visit the beijing zoo (pandas!)
13. visit the ming dynasty tombs
14. visit the peking man site
15. watch acrobats! (someone tell me where?)
16. maybe, if i'm brave enough, go through the chinese opera? this is a big maybe though o.o
17. visit wangfujing street (or is there a better shopping area around?)
if anyone has any suggestions for things i should add/remove, leave a comment :D
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[25 Jul 2007|11:43pm] |
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i was feeling guilty about posting such good news here when i know that a lot of people haven't been too happy lately, until i realized that life's too short to have to apologize for joy as well.
so, with a clear conscience and much enthusiasm, i'm letting you all know that i got into the gokongwei brothers foundation's china program along with 34 other kids. it's basically ten months of intensive language training, but way more interesting than ica because i get to live in beijing for the duration. i'm excited about the program for a lot of reasons, but chief among them right now? the fact that i can stop working before too long and can go back to functioning as an individual after that. haha
i leave for beijing on august 30. anyone up for dessert and/or a game of mario kart before then? email me -- i hate texting as much as i ever have :p
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[17 Jun 2007|10:22pm] |
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went to kelldita's birthday bash with bev last saturday which means that nobody can make me go to another one for the next four years. wahaha.
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[11 Jun 2007|09:24pm] |
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Spent most of today at the beach and the rest of it in Tagaytay. Tried out skimboarding. Caught up with some of my reading. Ate a lot. Altogether it was a nice break from worrying about work and my parents.
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[06 Jun 2007|09:37pm] |
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i'm unhappier than i've been in months right now, even considering my miserable last semester in ateneo. my parents have been stressing me out so badly that i'm half afraid that my hyperthyroid condition will flare up again. honestly, they just need to push me a little bit more before i can say that i hate them and mean it, even if it's only for a second.
or maybe they don't even need to do that -- i just HATE them right now. i hate them as much as i know how to hate anyone, which isn't much considering that i've never really hated anyone before, but still -- i HATE them right now.
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[26 Mar 2007|01:16am] |
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wow. i haven't posted anything worth reading in awhile now.
so i started work on feb. 26 and, so far, i actually like it. my boss and fellow RAs are really nice and the rest of the office is really interesting to watch (in an i'm-in-a-zoo-look-at-all-those-exotic-animals kind of way) but i think the best thing about it is that i don't have homework :p i may get of at 6.30 pm or 7.30 or 8.30 or 9.30 and i may sometimes have to go to work on a saturday, but once i leave the office i can switch my mind off -- and that, my lovelies, is VACATION for me. god. after 5 years of never knowing a moment's peace from "requirements" and "responsibilities" in general, this whole getting-paid-and-still-being-able-to-watch-TV deal is pretty great.
graduation this friday -- not looking forward to the heat and the humidity at all. i really really REALLY shouldn't have let my blockmates convince/bribe me into marching a second time. bah. in all honesty, with the way the weather is right now and knowing who'll be delivering the valedictory address and how itchy the toga will be, i'd much rather work overtime than attend graduation. nyahaha.
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[18 Mar 2007|04:49pm] |
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Rules: Each player of this game starts off with 10 weird things/habits/little known facts about yourself. People who get tagged need to write a blog of their own 10 weird habits/things/little known facts as well as state this rule clearly. At the end you need to choose 10 people to be tagged and list their names. No tagbacks.
1. i sleep sprawled out all over the bed. and i'm a total blanket hog.
2. i really really really L♥VE jade jewelry.
3. i'm a total spa virgin.
4. steamed dumplings (with really good sauce) are just about my favorite food in the world. even more than chocolate or coffee or cuapao O.O
5. i can't sit still. i need to read or to do something with my hands, otherwise i end up jogging my legs or tapping my feet or doing something equally irritating.
6. shopping for office supplies makes me happy :)
7. believe it or not, i like fruits better than candy.
8. i navigate around perfume stores/areas of the mall even when i'm in a hurry. i can't stand the smell >.<
9. i have a knapsack collection :D
10. i was fat and cute as a kid, and then it all melted away when i started school. now that i'm out of school, i'm gaining weight again :D in short, school isn't good for my health :p
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[23 Feb 2007|11:42pm] |
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one paper and one exam down -- just three papers, two tests, two presentations, and one oral defense to go. i'm almost free.
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[16 Feb 2007|11:36pm] |
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the neighbors sound like they want to kill each other again. there's screaming and crying and dogs barking and just a whole lot of bruhaha... i suppose i should just be glad that they're not beating each other yet and, so far at least, that nobody's broken out the glass bottles for target practice. they're all just so angry.
oh, and i have a job now. i'm going to be a research slave for a corporate outfit. don't ask, it's a long story. anyway, i start in around a week, although i'll have to take a couple of days off in my first two weeks to sit for final exams and finish the last of my presentations. and i'll have to squeeze in the rest of my papers in between of course. i guess i'm not gonna be sleeping for the forseeable future. i know -- what else is new, right?
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[13 Feb 2007|10:31pm] |
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you know what's really, really, REALLY annoying? mass-sent messages over ym. you know what they call that when you do it via email? SPAMMING. and it's near the top of the most-evil-things-in-the-world list. so STOP DOING IT. i didn't sign up for your mailing list dammit.
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[09 Feb 2007|12:04am] |
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who wants to trade lives with me? i can guarantee you'll end up losing a lot of weight without having to do all that much exercise.
by the way, if you guys never hear from me again after tonight, tell the cops that the first suspect in the (mass) murder situation is the wicked witch from the polsci department. we get to see her at 8 a.m. tomorrow -- oh joy.
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[12 Jan 2007|08:49am] |
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so. bev's new rabbit? now gone in a blur of fur, guts, and gore. death by yipping and nipping (it was attached by mini-pinschers and a jack russell puppy) -- what an inglorious way to go.
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there are 44 days left in the sem for me and i wish that time would just SLOW DOWN so i could finish everything without killing myself. my doctor started me on thyroid hormone early this week (i've crossed over from hyper- to hypothyroid although i haven't gained an ounce of weight) and i wanted to tell her that she didn't need to since, with the amount of stress i'll be going through beginning today, i'll soon be producing enough tsh to power 2 people once more.
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on the brighter side of life, my new books have arrived :D
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oh, and you know what i've discovered about academics' much vaunted curiosity? that they use it even more for gossip than they do for research. they remind me of washerwomen, i swear -- especially the guys.
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[01 Jan 2007|02:42pm] |
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hanging out with my mother's side relatives (cousins, aunts, uncles, and all) is usually fun for me, mainly because people are really down to earth and don't mind being stupid. this year things were even livelier than usual. for one thing, my 47-year-old aunt not only admitted to having a boyfriend but is introducing him to everyone later this week, so of course everyone's been teasing her. then, there's my 19-year-old cousin's continuing love affair with older women (this time, his girlfriend's around 24 or 26 or something but the older set's been telling him to get rid of her because she looks older than, well, his mom). but the best end-of-year revelation really was my 39-year-old uncle's new 18-year-old girlfriend O.O i'm not sure he realizes that she's only about 6 or 7 years older than his eldest daughter and that he'd probably commit bloody murder if someone pulled the same trick with either of his little girls :p
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[28 Dec 2006|04:18pm] |
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i spent the better part of the 23rd and the past 2 days roaming through malls with friends and, boy, did i learn a lot of stuff O.O
- when someone describes you as a hipon, it is NOT a compliment.
- it is possible to put jake off of coffee... for a few days anyway.
- the guy in those the face shop ads is a korean soap star and actually has an "asia tour" O.O
- fake pearls are called "majestic" pearls.
- those almost-naked figurines of female anime characters? you can take their clothes off... uh huh. that's what i said too T.T
- PSPs are totally to-lust-for *O*
- there are a lot of really strange video games out there and a bunch of them actually appeal to me.
- everybody loves monopoly :D
- the barbie diaries? total rip-off of the nancy drew notebooks i swear.
- i can totally buy t-shirts from the kids' section -- ages 11-13 please :D
- the connection between mutual funds and credit ratings
- what hedge funds are
- the difference between equity and debt and the stuff that come between them
- bench also owns kashieca and celio.
- the medicine for mouth ulcers is called pyralvex.
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[23 Dec 2006|04:50pm] |
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sometimes my mom just drives me INSANE. my brother drives himself home at 130 in the morning after drinking all night and she doesn't say anything but when i get home at 1230 she goes ballistic. her kababae-mong-tao line is such a load of crap. fuck. way to ruin an evening mother.
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[21 Dec 2006|09:07am] |
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i can't believe i made it to christmas vacation with my sanity still mostly intact. wow.
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[10 Dec 2006|01:52pm] |
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okay. see? now, if you ignore the torrential downpour and just pay attention to the temperature, *this* is perfect christmas weather :D
so. the rituals that structure our lives. they're really kinda random, aren't they? i told someone before that life is what happens between the exciting parts, that the long, boring stretches are every bit as important as those times that supposedly make or break us. and i still think it's true, although i understand the why of it all a little bit better. partly, it's about how we behave when we think no one's looking. partly, it's the way that habit is as telling as conscious decisions. but the most important reason, i think, has to do with how we're always searching for meaning in life and how we find our answers in our quotidian little rituals, even when we're not aware that we do.
i need to invest in a heart. but they're horribly expensive and, worse, infinitely troublesome :o so i ask, do i really want one?
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[04 Dec 2006|11:42pm] |
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the problem with studying with promil children is that while the class itself becomes pretty cool i end up feeling completely inadequate afterwards. so now i'm going through teenage angst once more, wondering about what i'm ever going to do with my life, two and a half years behind schedule. i feel quite bereft, i am sure. why couldn't i have been born brilliant and creative like other people? this is all my parents' fault :p
maybe i should just become a pirate. like the dread pirate blondebeard :D and yes, i meant to write blonde-, not black-, beard.
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[03 Dec 2006|05:25am] |
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okay, for all the whining that i do about dr. a's class requirements, there's really no denying that the man is goshdarn brilliant.
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[30 Nov 2006|01:07am] |
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i'm dying.
not literally, but... seriously. argh.
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