Okay. These past few weeks I have been dangerously addicted to an application in facebook called MyFarm (to you reading this, you gotta try it but don't say I didn't warn you). You plant crops, trees and stuff to increase your cash to be able to buy infrastructures. I am totally addicted!
My room looks like shit, I've got tons of paperwork due for my masters and loadsful of dirty laundry that are not getting any cleaner. Somebody has to make sense of my life and have me start doing things already! But seriously, I have got to chill with this facebook stuff. =(
On the positive note, the year is ending and I am so looking forward to '09. Next year has got a lot of things lined up for me. I have been paying for a condo unit due to be built sometime on March, so that's cool. Around the same time is my completion due date for a couple of subjects that I took a couple of sems ago...that's a little scary.
I'm gonna start my year right with a trip to Caramoan with a couple of friends mid-January. I am very excited about it and I promise to post pictures soon after and tell you all about it.
Well work has been kind of a bummer. A lot of things are not going right there. I don't want to talk about it. Let's just say year-end is not the best time for our team.
Oh and yeah...I found my new year themesong this morning while watching Jamie Oliver's cooking show Oliver's Twist. It's my latest Now Playing post, see below. I love the energy of the song and the positive vibe it creates. Love it (and Jamie, too) *wink! He plays in the band, Scarlet Division, too.
Oh well, I am gonna have to start doing some stuff now. Ciao!
12.29.2008
Now Playing
my new year sountrack--
=)
Just the Start*
by Scarlet Division
In this world of mine,
A million things run through my head,
I Gotta take some time,
To do the things I always set my heart on,
Coz I don't know where i've been,
I got lost there somewhere,
There's so much I haven't seen,
Would you take me there?
No matter who you are,
Won't you come into my world,
Like a shooting star,
Take this journey with me to the heart,
Gonna reach that high,
And turn this world right upside down,
I'm gonna cross that sky,
On a silver cloud but I don't know which one,
Coz I don't know where i've been,
I got lost there somewhere,
There's so much I haven't seen,
Would you take me there?
No matter who you are,
Won't you come into my world,
Like a shooting star
Take this journey with me to the heart,
Can't you see that this is just the start?
*Sountrack of Jamie Oliver's cooking show, Oliver's Twist. He's cute BTW. ;)
=)
Just the Start*
by Scarlet Division
In this world of mine,
A million things run through my head,
I Gotta take some time,
To do the things I always set my heart on,
Coz I don't know where i've been,
I got lost there somewhere,
There's so much I haven't seen,
Would you take me there?
No matter who you are,
Won't you come into my world,
Like a shooting star,
Take this journey with me to the heart,
Gonna reach that high,
And turn this world right upside down,
I'm gonna cross that sky,
On a silver cloud but I don't know which one,
Coz I don't know where i've been,
I got lost there somewhere,
There's so much I haven't seen,
Would you take me there?
No matter who you are,
Won't you come into my world,
Like a shooting star
Take this journey with me to the heart,
Can't you see that this is just the start?
*Sountrack of Jamie Oliver's cooking show, Oliver's Twist. He's cute BTW. ;)
12.25.2008
Now Playing
Santa Baby
by Eartha Kitt
(baboom baboom baboom baboom)
(baboom baboom baboom baboom)
Santa Baby,
Just slip a sable under the tree
For me
Been an awful good girl
Santa Baby, so hurry down the chimney tonight
Santa baby, a '54 convertible too
Light blue
I'll wait up for you, dear
Santa baby, so hurry down the chimney tonight
Think of all the fun I've missed
Think of all the fellas that I haven't kissed
Next year I could be just as good
If you'll check off my Christmas list
Santa Baby, I want a yacht and really thats not
Alot
Been an angel all year
Santa Baby, so hurry down the chimney tonight
Santa honey, one little thing I really need
The deed
To a platinum mine
Santa Baby, so hurry down the chimney tonight
Santa cutie, and fill my stocking with a duplex
And cheques
Sign your 'x' on the line
Santa cutie, and hurry down the chimney tonight
Come and trim my Christmas tree
With some decorations bought at Tif-fa-ny
I really do believe in you
Lets see if you believe in me
Santa Baby, forgot to mention one little thing
A ring
I don't mean on the phone
Santa Baby, so hurry down the chimney tonight
Hurry down the chimney tonight
Hurry...tonight
by Eartha Kitt
(baboom baboom baboom baboom)
(baboom baboom baboom baboom)
Santa Baby,
Just slip a sable under the tree
For me
Been an awful good girl
Santa Baby, so hurry down the chimney tonight
Santa baby, a '54 convertible too
Light blue
I'll wait up for you, dear
Santa baby, so hurry down the chimney tonight
Think of all the fun I've missed
Think of all the fellas that I haven't kissed
Next year I could be just as good
If you'll check off my Christmas list
Santa Baby, I want a yacht and really thats not
Alot
Been an angel all year
Santa Baby, so hurry down the chimney tonight
Santa honey, one little thing I really need
The deed
To a platinum mine
Santa Baby, so hurry down the chimney tonight
Santa cutie, and fill my stocking with a duplex
And cheques
Sign your 'x' on the line
Santa cutie, and hurry down the chimney tonight
Come and trim my Christmas tree
With some decorations bought at Tif-fa-ny
I really do believe in you
Lets see if you believe in me
Santa Baby, forgot to mention one little thing
A ring
I don't mean on the phone
Santa Baby, so hurry down the chimney tonight
Hurry down the chimney tonight
Hurry...tonight
12.15.2008
A Hundred Years of Education and No One Seems to Have Learned
I can't believe the premiere state university, the University of the Philippines, has been around for a century. Disclaimer, this fact is NOT GOOD.
So I pretty much have planned today between going to UP before lunch to settle some stuff and doing initial christmas shopping after. I got there around 10am and submitted this letter, got it endorsed but it needs to be signed over at the dean's office before I could do anything more. I got endorsed but the guy at the dean's office asked me to come back after lunch cause the person whose to sign is in a meeting. So i had pretty much 2 and a half hours to kill since I really wanted to be done with this responsibility. I was glad CAL atrium had wifi so I just hung around checking email and facebook and stuff. I saw an old friend and we had lunch and coffee afterwards. I got back around 2pm with a big disappointment. The freaking letter is STILL NOT SIGNED. And the guy informed me that it will not be done until later this afternoon.
Are you effin kiddin me? I went all the way and waited for more than 3 hours for nothin?
I mean, if it was not gonna be signed today, at least set my expectations. I would've come back some other time and did the rest of the things I have planned today. YOU DON'T OWN MY TIME.
Now this university is going gaga over its centennial. You'd think after 100 years it would have mastered the art of dealing with people. Apparently, somebody forgot all about that. It's so disappointing to see how the institutional character of UP has taken over the humanist thrust of pedagogy altogether. It seems that 100 years of existence does not guarantee expertise after all.
I'm not blaming the guy at the dean's office. He doesn't know any better. For him, I bet, that's just how they naturally do business. I'm not even blaming the dean's office, CAL, or even the university. This seemingly petty instance is an issue of how the entire Philippine educational sytem, in both the academic and the hierarchy levels, is falling in deep shit. The thing is, the government is set at neglecting this sector through ignoring it's budgetary needs because, since the government is the biggest business there is, it just doesn't make sense to invest in something not profitable like education in the business sense.
That sucks. And while the university celebrates 100 years of existence, people sleep well at night knowing that another 100 years of the same shit will not make it any better for anyone.
So I pretty much have planned today between going to UP before lunch to settle some stuff and doing initial christmas shopping after. I got there around 10am and submitted this letter, got it endorsed but it needs to be signed over at the dean's office before I could do anything more. I got endorsed but the guy at the dean's office asked me to come back after lunch cause the person whose to sign is in a meeting. So i had pretty much 2 and a half hours to kill since I really wanted to be done with this responsibility. I was glad CAL atrium had wifi so I just hung around checking email and facebook and stuff. I saw an old friend and we had lunch and coffee afterwards. I got back around 2pm with a big disappointment. The freaking letter is STILL NOT SIGNED. And the guy informed me that it will not be done until later this afternoon.
Are you effin kiddin me? I went all the way and waited for more than 3 hours for nothin?
I mean, if it was not gonna be signed today, at least set my expectations. I would've come back some other time and did the rest of the things I have planned today. YOU DON'T OWN MY TIME.
Now this university is going gaga over its centennial. You'd think after 100 years it would have mastered the art of dealing with people. Apparently, somebody forgot all about that. It's so disappointing to see how the institutional character of UP has taken over the humanist thrust of pedagogy altogether. It seems that 100 years of existence does not guarantee expertise after all.
I'm not blaming the guy at the dean's office. He doesn't know any better. For him, I bet, that's just how they naturally do business. I'm not even blaming the dean's office, CAL, or even the university. This seemingly petty instance is an issue of how the entire Philippine educational sytem, in both the academic and the hierarchy levels, is falling in deep shit. The thing is, the government is set at neglecting this sector through ignoring it's budgetary needs because, since the government is the biggest business there is, it just doesn't make sense to invest in something not profitable like education in the business sense.
That sucks. And while the university celebrates 100 years of existence, people sleep well at night knowing that another 100 years of the same shit will not make it any better for anyone.
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