Random Monday

With Aya and J

Leche! Ang saya lang ng araw na to! :))

No spilling

With Cea, Bernice and Nicole (missing: Alex)

Love 'em to bits :)

Happy birthday Ei!

Thank for the treat, Ei! We love you!

(We call each other Triso not because we were born with chromosomal abberations. We're called Triso because we're weird when we're all together. And that's not a bad thing. This group showed me that being weird is good because it means you're courageous enough to show people how insane you really are deep inside.)

*Labor dance*

Midterm Week

I really cannot find the words or construct the right sentences that would describe my midterm week. Last week's midterm was probably the toughest out of all the stressful weeks of my life. It was my very first to experience just an hour and a half of sleep for 2 consecutive days (though I know that the only person liable for this is myself due to my inability to manage my time wisely).

I didn't really study that hard though, most of my time was spent making kwento with my brother or eating my midnight snack for more than an hour and dancing in front of the mirror for another hour to get my energy up (but ending up getting tired after) then another 30 minutes thinking if i should just sleep first and study later. So yeah, as you can see I procrastinate...a lot.

It as been my problem since forever, I cannot seem to find my "studying time." I know that my brain is at its maximum at midnight but my body just wants to sleep during that time. So I dont really know how to fix this problem haha. I hate the fact that there's no 24 hours coffee shop in sucat. I can concentrate in coffee stores even if there are a lot of people...i dont know, it's the environment, the ambiance and the fact that no one bothers to disturb you.

Anyways, midterm week is done. Can't believe I survived. haha. I'm very thankful for my friends, like SUPER! as in I wouldn't have survived without them. :) Even though we were stressed, we just kept on laughing during our group study at Starbucks. SATURDAY WAS ONE OF THE BEST DAYS OF MY LIFE!!!! :> As in john and I were just laughing for 15 minutes non stop and it's been a while since i laughed like that so yeahh...ang saya! :))

On our way to Amici. John was pretending to be a statue.

EATING is the best stress reliever.

John studying for nutrition

Mapagpanggap :>

okay, eya. Ikaw na smart.

A date with Marga

With Midterms just around the corner and left and right submissions of Case studies, Concept maps and Nursing Care plans, It's been really hard for me to meet up with my first year college barkada (because our sections were reshuffled last year). I mean we rarely hang out and sometimes we don't even see each other in school.

So last Tuesday and Wednesday, I finally got to talk to Marga (We haven't talked for the longest time). We were at SB for 3 hours both days we never got bored. Even if we aren't really the type of friends who would sit down somewhere and share stories or talk over the phone every night.

( I missed you Margs! This was like our ultimate bonding experience haha! but seriously! I like sharing kwentos with you. )

I was reviewing for Pharmacology Unit test while Marga was talking about her love life. HAHAHA! We don't talk about the same things but we manage to understand each other :)

Plus, thank you to the Barista (the name's JP, if i'm not mistaken) for giving us free short peppermint mocha! YEY!

Me and Margs!

I had See's with me and Marga had carbonara (no picture though)

I also got to watch our old chem lab videos during first year on Marga's phone and I terribly miss those days! :(

Although I've been stressing on a lot of things these past few days, I realized that there are really lots of things to be happy about everyday! So smile :)

Spontaneity

We went to highlands last month and i know its late to post this...but I super loved that day and it's gonna be depressing if this year ends without seeing these photos on my blog.

Cheers to Freedom from school!

I Love you Guys! :">

TrisoKids!

At first, i honestly didnt like my group because the only one i knew was arcee. I even remember telling arcee that we will stick together no matter what because i dont think that this group would be the type of group that we are now.

Sev, Arcee, Xy, Kim, Char, Love, Lovely, Maria, Ei and Sep, You have no idea how much I love you guys! I probably woudn't be as happy right now if i didn't have you guys in the group. I mean our randomness and cazyness and trisoness just made us closer to each other. I'm super thankful for our community duty because that was when we got super close to each other - yeah, paghinahabol natin yung fishball and mangga o pag naghahanap tayo nag isaw pero sa bakery lang pala tayo mapupunta, at san ka may IR pa :P But I'm more thankful for our lying in duty because that's when we ALL became trisos :>

I love how we all just bring out our baons and have like a foodfest every now and then...I love how we all crave for banana cues and turon, I love how we all love stick-o! Everything was just so funny in lying in...

with the labor dance,

with the triso board, pag nagreregress tayo,

when we all have that maria attitude, when we bully each other,

when we made our family thing,

when ma'am G. would join us,

when we would all wait for siesta so we can all sleep,

when we would play bumpcars with the office chairs,

when sep would laugh "NYAYAYAYYA",

when maria would kill aedes egypti and assess them and just say that their paralyzed "PROMISE!",

When we would all fight for the triso board,

pag nagmumura si lovely hahahah

and just basically everything!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

But what i love the most about our group is the fact that our friendship and closeness is not just seen when were on duty but also in school when we have classes. I also like it when we would surprise our groupmate when it's his/her birthday!

Anyway, I just wanted to say that i love our trisoGroup and i cannot imagine what would happen if one of us leaves that's why i was supper happy when we all passed microbio! I hope that next sem we're all in the same group because nothing beats our RLE group. We've had so much fun together as a group and i want that to last foreverrrrrr! I love you, Triso Kids!

tell the world of His love

Pat, Aya, J, and I went to High Street on Wednesday to take part in the Walkway: Reflections on the Stations of the Cross - "It is an interpretation of the age-old Christian tradition . There are fourteen interactive stations that are based on Matthew, Mark, Luke and John are set up throughout the mall grounds to hopefully bring fresh insight to the events surrounding Christ's death and resurrection."

On a hill in the outskirts of Palestine, history was marked by an event so powerful that it changed the world.

To some, the event does nothing more than mark time. But to millions all over the world, it is the epicenter of God's demonstration of unconditional love for humanity.

Here are some excerpts from the walkway.

Station 1 : The Garden

"...He didn't because He saw you. Right there in the middle of a world that isn't fair. He saw you
betrayed by those you love -- in your own garden of gnarled trees and sleeping friends. He saw you, and He didn't want you to be alone.

He had made His decision. He would rather go to hell for you than go to heaven without you."

Station 2: The Betrayal (Jesus is Betrayed by Judas)

"Jesus, on the other hand, lets us know how much God values man --yes, even those who betray
him...If you still doubt how much you are worth to God, Jesus' sacrifice settles the question once and for all."

Station 3: The Trial (Jesus before the Sanhedrin)
"...all the principles of justice they affirmed and implemented were scrapped. They breached all their standards to condemn the one innocent man who ever lived."
Station 4 : Jesus is judged by Pilate

Sttaion 5: The whip (Jesus is scorged)

The prophet Isaiah, foretelling the torture of the
Jesus, tells us,
But he was pierced for our rebellion,
Crushed for our sins,
He was beaten so we could be whole.
He was whipped so we could be healed.

Station 6: The curse (Jesus is crowned with Thorns)

"Because thorns are the fruit of sin, then we only need to step in to humanity's prickly patch to feel a few thistles: Shame...Discouragement. Anxiety...."


Station 7: The Cross (Jesus carries His cross)

"The journey to the cross began long before. As the echo of the crunshing of the fruit was still
sounding in the Garden of Eden. Jesus was leaving for Cavalry."


Station 8: The Two Simons

Station 9: The crucifixion (Jesus is crucified)
Why choose such a horrible death? why would God allow His only son to experience what is probably the most gruesome way to die in all of human history?The sacrifice ion the cross reveals how repulsive sin really is. But it also shows us the awesome
magnitude of God's live. God put you din on his Son and punished it there, so that you would be
free. why? for moral duty? Heavenly obligation? paternal requirement? No. Go is required to do
nothing.

John 3:16 reads that, "God so LOVED the world, that He gave his only son."

The motivation was love. The motivation was you.

Station 10: The Mother (Jesus entrusts Mary to John)

Station 11: The promise ( Jesus Promises Paradise to the Repentant Thief)
"We are punished justly, for we are getting what our deeds deserve/ But this man has done nothing wrong. Jesus, remember me when you come into your kingdom."

...And when one prayed to him, Jesus loved him enough to save him. And when the other mocked , Jesus loved him enough to let him. He allowed him the choice, He does the same for you.Station 12: The darkness (Jesus Dies)

The darkness of Good Friday seems real/ It seems permanent. most of all it seems to contradict the promise of Jesus when he said, "I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will never walk in darkness, but will have the light if life."
"SEEMS" is the operative word.

Station 13: The cloth (Jesus Rises)
"...when the final piece of job had been completed, the carpenter would typically fold a towel neatly in half and set it on the finished work and walk away. On the first day of Easter, Peter crouched in to look into an empty tomb. He saw only the linens that Jesus had left behind. Imagine that a smile crossed Peter's face as sorrow was replaced by hope...The carpenter had left behind a simple message.



Station 14: Remembering Jesus


The walkway was an inspiring experience for me. It truly reminded me not only of Jesus' Love for all of us but also the times when i neglected Him...when everything just seems nothing and unreal. Nowadays, if not all then most of us only remember God during Holy Week because only then do we see the sacrifices of Jesus. It is only the time when we actually visit churches, it is only the time when we remember our sins, it is only the time when we realize our mistakes. And I'm guilty of this. I know that after a while all the reflections will pass and that everything I hoped to change will never happen. I try every year to follow His examples and be a service to other people...to be selfless, to learn to love those who hate, to understand the meaning of sacrifice. However, I still forget Him and ignore Him....and it pains me to remember those times when i did because i know that i could've prevented myself from neglecting Him. And with this, I ask for forgiveness to the Man who loved me more than anyone else in the world.

"He would rather go to hell for you than go to heaven without you"

Passport # 14

Y!M status: will never become the responsible person i expected myself to be. oh well, life is good!

Nicolette Lim: i can relate! on your stat
Sydney Furio: hahah yeah
Nicolette Lim: walang nagbago eh hahaha
Sydney Furio: oo nga ehh leche yan!!
Nicolette Lim: i know! amp!!
Sydney Furio: like how you always tell yourself that tom you;'re gonna be responsible and you're gonna study no matter what and you're so excited to change but when tom comes it all fades away
Nicolette Lim: EXACTLY
Nicolette Lim: my life story ever since college started
Sydney Furio: true
Sydney Furio: hayyy nako!
Nicolette Lim: wahahaha
Nicolette Lim: friends talaga tayo!
Sydney Furio: syempre prends porever!1
Nicolette Lim: bffs!
Sydney Furio: 'fcourse, great minds think alike.
Nicolette Lim: yes yes


I find it really weird how I'm always excited about Change..but when the moment comes the excitement just flies away...so I lose that moment to become a better person. At the end of the day when I think about the "what ifs and I should'ves" and blame myself for all the regrets, I close my eyes and look forward to tom ... to make things better and to make up for the missed opportunities. Then Tom comes again and still...no changes.

The moron test

Thank you, Cea's itouch app! Thank you for calling me intelligent! HAHA.

(I was outside bernice's house for like 30 minutes because they couldn't hear me knock on the door and they were so into playing THE MORON test they forgot to check their phones [i was calling them]....they only found out i was outside coz i called nicole and asked her to tell cea i was already outside. fml :)) =))

Cea and I slept over at Bernice's house last night. twas fun..but we really missed nicole and alex :( Bernice freaked out when we watched The Orphan ( i super love that movie!) and cea's too smart...she guessed the whole story after watching like 15 minutes of the movie. I met Bernice's frog..UNSKINNED frog, Ted. After dinner we drove around the village. I can drive a bit...now ( though still not ready for some express way action, hihi). Then..we got so hungry after watching Orphan we ordered mcdo..but i was actually craving for jollibee. ehh?

tas, we watched pa pala..this movie about kidneys...so after watching half of it (we got bored so..) bernice kept on calling me KIDNEY SYDNEY *tickle tickle*. kaasar HAHAHAHHA.

People should be complete next time!!! please? It's not as fun if we're incomplete.

This and that

Not so much blog posts this month, sarrreh :( school's been a bitch and im not really in the mood. So to just add another post for January...here comes the randomness.

*Putamen! I <3 Anatomy
- I had to treat Eya a venti java chip coz i lost the bet
- I argue with Arcee almost every 30 minutes but I still love her! Great minds fight a lot!
- I made this bet with aya and john; the person who gets the highest average for midterms has to treat the lowest. (Starbucks, 'f course)
- I also have this bet with Gador, Marga, Eya, and Kaycee; the person who gets the highest score for NCM has to treat the lowest.
- I save more money when i was in high school. what happened to me?
- I hate my nihongo subject! I do not understand anything.
- Barcelona remains undefeated in la liga, while LFC (EPL) is struggling to get into the top 4. I still love the reds :>
-Arsenal and Man U tonight. Fabregas! :> <3

*putamen is a round structure located at the base of the forebrain

525,600

Barkada Christmas party at Marga's house!

Marga opening her gift from Aya

J receiving her gift from Marga

Arcee holding her SB tumbler from J

that's me with the powerbooks gift card from Arcee (thanks, love!)

Kas holding my gift for her

TADA! wow kayce, you're so surprised hahah, that's the gift from kas

Aya with her gift from kaycee

John with the balloons from pat!

Pat wearing her gift from John

Us hahha with j's candy canes and marga's gift

Thanks for everything, you guys!

Thanks for the 525,600 minutes (no, actually just 7 months :P), 525,000 moments so dear...In daylights, in sunsets, in midnights, in cups of coffee. In inches, in miles, in laughter, in strife....
let's celebrate remember a year in the life of friends. Remember the love!