When tomorrow comes, you'll wish you had today.

How long has it been since the last time I posted? Yes, it would be an understatement to say I've been gone a long time because the time I spent unable to get anything constructive done on the internet felt like a measure of eternity within the span of somewhere around two weeks-ish. Alright, some of you might have seen me online around that period. I'll explain. Now, how did I manage to update my accounts and talk to people from time to time? I actually subsisted on stray wifi signals from the guy who lives right behind us. Weak signals, no signals, adapter not compatible and all that sort of crap kept getting in the way of whatever I tried to do but still it got me online long enough to check stuff for updates and whatnot. Yeah, I was the Bear Grylls of internet usage for a while. It was sort of thrilling but it was also incredibly taxing. With my room facing Ladislawa, the odds were fairly good for the way things were at the time. What actually happened? It wasn't PLDT and it wasn't because we didn't pay the bills. It's the rats! Yes, the goddamn rats! They chewed through the wiring and got me into that whole mess. Things are much better as of the moment so I guess everything turned out fine after hatching the plot to blow up PLDT a week or so ago. Now, on to regular blogging...

It's been a while since the second semester and well, as summer came and went things seemed to take their natural course and I was left in the back seat to watch everything unfold. Things became beautiful, I started seeing things differently and all of the sudden the whole world seems like a huge window of opportunities to come back to life and start living the life I actually want to live. I am enveloped by an odd but beautiful sense of serenity towards myself and the world around me. It makes me wonder how I got here but for whatever it's worth, I'm happier like this. The cynic in me would like to believe that something that feels as good as this would have a catch but what's left of my untainted sense of hope would beg to differ. Maybe this is what growing up feels like. Oh well.

First semester rolled in rather smoothly. I love my classmates to death and the teachers are people I definitely want to learn from and work with. My schedules are perfectly fine with me aside from the fact I missed my EDP311 class thrice given the 7:40am TTh slot but otherwise things are working out great. Just for the sake of added length I'll post my schedules here too:

MWF
Psychological Testing with Prof. Ericson Batican
8:45am-10:45am on Mondays and Fridays
9:45am-10:45am on Wednesdays
Psych lab on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays

Psychological Statistics with Prof. Ericson Batican
1:30pm-3:30pm on Mondays and Fridays
1:30pm-2:30pm on Wednesdays
Psych lab on Mondays and Wednesdays
F610 on Fridays

TTH
Applications in Research
7:40am-9:10am on Tuesdays and Thursdays
F613-C on Tuesdays and Thursdays

Industrial/Organizational Psychology with Prof. Jeng Chiongson
1:00pm-2:30pm on Tuesdays and Thursdays
T303 on Tuesdays and Thursdays

Principles and techniques of Counseling with Dr. Orencita Lozada
4:10pm-5:40pm on Tuesdays and Thursdays
Psych lab on Tuesdays and Thursdays

Retorika with Ma'am Araceli De Guzman
5:55pm-7:25pm on Tuesdays and Thursdays
C204 on Tuesdays and Thursdays



Apart from all of that, what else is new? Well, I might as well post a few pictures of what I have going on in my house and my newly acquired bedroom. I will say a little something about each picture as well.

THE OFFICE AREA/SUPPLIES

I have an office area now! Spent a lot on supplies; stuff like paper, new pens and a purse thing where I put my school supplies for easy access when I'm out. I also have a filing rack for incoming/outgoing papers or bills to pay and whatnot.

THAT GIRL I'VE BEEN TALKING TO

Truth be told, this isn't without its ups and downs. Whatever it is between me and her though, it's definitely something I'd be eternally grateful for. I guess I have her to thank for making me believe that there is still goodness and beauty in this world and it's even closer than I used to think it was. It's one of those things that goes without saying now. I owe this part of my life to her and no matter where this leads, I won't regret any part of it.

THE HAMBURGER PHONE

It's a no-brainer. I loved Juno and I got this for the sheer novelty of it. Haven't seen The Tracey Fragments though, but that's a whole different matter entirely. I got this phone cheap and thanks to me getting my ass over to PLDT and threatening to set myself on fire over at customer service, I could finally use it now that the phone lines are rewired. No thanks to the fucking rats in my ceiling for chewing through the wires.

MY NEW SPEAKERS

I have absolutely no love for any furry woodland creatures who get a kick out of munching through meters and meters of wiring among others. I had a pair of Altec Lansings that I used to use with the legendary 'old PC'. The line leading up to the adapter was gnawed to shreds by my wonderful little dog, Saetia. I managed to get them working again after a little splicing, albeit a bit messed up due to the horrible job I did. Unfortunately, they got lost under stacks of boxes when I moved to the new house. No speakers, none of the 35,000 mp3s on my old pc. Nothing. After months of crappy laptop speakers and horribly shaped earphones, I finally decided to break the bank and get myself a new pair of speakers. They were out of Altec Lansings so I got Creative speakers instead. It has a subwoofer, sounds a little bassy but it sounds solid and that's all I need really.

MY SMALL RECORD/ZINE COLLECTION

Every self-proclaimed music geek has his or her own fair share of records and music-related literature. Whereas I was born into a generation where the majority of the music we patronize is acquired via downloads/burned cds, I still make it a point to give due credit to where it all started. Tapes, 7"s, 12"s, compact discs, 'zines and whatnot. Most of my records are late 90s/early 00s emo and post-hardcore. I also have a little indie pop and am looking forward to adding more to that part of my collection. This were it all starts.

THE NEW CELLPHONE

Do any of you guys remember a time when I had a girlfriend and two slide phones, namely the pink one and the red one? Well, sometime after my ex and I broke up the red phone followed. It sort of died with the relationship, oddly enough. Soon after, the infamous pink cellphone died out as well after a service life that went as far back as when I was in third year high school. 2009 is a year for new things and beautiful beginnings and my mother just had to top herself by giving me an even gayer unit than the pink cellphone. Behold, my 6500c. It's sleek, it's slim and it has no hoops whatsoever for a sling/strap or whatnot. I can't keep the thing in my pocket for fear of slipping out so I carry it in either my bag or my shirt pocket whenever I go out. The fact that it has this weird USB charger slot on top makes it annoyingly inconvenient to have around when you don't have your charger with you or a socket to plug your model-specific charger in.

THE RETURN OF THE INTERWEBS

Oh sweet, sweet internet! How I missed you so! Seriously, you don't have to be a rocket scientist to figure out how I feel about having the internet back. The first part of the blog says enough already. I love you, internet!

BOOKS! BOOKS! BOOKS!

What's a new school year without books? I just hauled all of my books over to my room and stuffed the shelves with them. They look so cute together and I can't wait to get back to books I have yet to read and books I have yet to finish. Don't mind the copy of Dianetics I have up there. My best friend gave it to me for funsies. So many books, so little time!

Odds and ends:

Ma'am O is afraid of heights and furry woodland creatures.

I have a girl classmated named Dexter. I thought the cross-gender names were my thing, turns out there are other players in the game.

Sir Batican either has bad luck or can't drive for shit. He's too calm, too but hey he's a good dresser so it can't be all bad. He's pretty awesome.


Ma'am Jeng is jollier than I expected.

Strawberry Switchblade- Since Yesterday

Sarah Bagis is nicer to talk to than I thought she was.


I FUCKING LOVE STATISTICS!

The Khash diet is not economically viable.

SERENITY.


Why does it make me want to crap my pants knowing I have a fucking catholic priest for a classmate!?

Nics, I yearn for you. I'm fucking serious.


Ate Weng is my mother's analog. She has the same length hair, the same name, roughly the same age, and they were both born in July.

Caitlyn Bailey is back and working on new material.

Capulette reunion record sometime this year.

I need to wake up around 6 in the morning every TTh.

That's basically everything. Welcome back, Maria. Welcome to the internet. Welcome home.

The plot to blow up the Philippine Long Distance Telephone Company

Alright, it's been a while since I've posted. 'What ever happened to the kid who's on the internet all the time?', you might ask? Well, that's what this is about for the most part. I usually update this every two-three days at most but due to problems with my internet connection, I haven't been able to get anything done at all. Been fiddling around with the modem and the router and I've discovered two things; the first being the router works just fine and the second being the fact that THERE IS ABSOLUTELY NO INTERNET JUICE FLOWING INTO THE MODEM. Yes, folks. For some strange reason, either the modem's dead or we got cut off for not paying for the bills we WEREN'T sent. I went to PLDT yesterday, paid the bills and waited half a day and what did I get? Nothing. Zilch. Nada.

I tried checking if I'd hear so much as a dial tone if I plugged the phone into the wall socket. I didn't get that either. Like James Dean said in Rebel Without A Cause, life... can be beautiful. Just because it CAN be beautiful, doesn't mean it isn't; especially when you can't get in touch with one of the reasons why life could be beautiful in the first place. I'll go to PLDT again tomorrow and ask about this. If that fails, then there's always the radical option to go and blow PLDT up and start a new account at Bayantel who apparently NEVER gave me this kind of crap back then.

Now that that's out of the way, back to regular blogging...

The past few days have been really really really really slow and unproductive. I've been waiting for class for the longest time; a new set of things to do, things to learn and people to talk to. I've been looking forward to it since summer classes ended and as if it wasn't strikingly obvious yet, I'm incredibly excited or at least I was. My pants were pressed and my uniform was hanging in my closet, waiting for me to pull it out for a wonderful first day at school. At the last minute, word chimes in that the date for the start of class was pushed to the 15th. YES, MORE TIME TO FAN THE FLAMES OF DISCONTENT! Well, it's not too bad. At least I get to do more errands at home and I have a window of time to smother PLDT with my gratuitous amounts of vitriol. I just want to get things over with so I could get to work on Sir Hadji's thesis and so I could wait for that special someone to get online without fear of being disconnected.

Til then, I'll just stare outside my window listening to tweepop and RnB. Oh yeah, I have to write a new note for the car since you've already seen this one.

P.S.

I took that pic while I was paying bills at Bayantel. TAKE THAT, PLDT!

All-girl summer fun band

Something I found on the internet.

From WikiHow:

Pop is a genre that has been around for a very, very long time. Everyone reasonable knows that pop is the best music genre.

Steps:

1. Start listening to lots of music. Music is the most important part of being a pop kid. You should explore twee, c86, shoegaze, fey pop, jangle pop, guitar pop, anorak, shambling, dream pop and noise pop.
2. Dress however you want, it's not that important. However, dressing in cardigans, corduroys, anoraks, and band shirts will help other pop kids identify you.
3. Wearing badges (also called pins) is also helpful. Pastels badges can be especially useful. A Pastels badge started Talulah Gosh, so who knows what could happen!
4. Start a band.
5. Write a fanzine.
6. Maintain a LiveJournal way past its expiration date. (Only if fanzine plans fall through.)
7. When you enter your thirties be sure to only listen to records that came out in your twenties. (ex: if you are 35 now only listen to stuff from Kindercore, Sarah, etc.)
8. Have a boyfriend/girlfriend who looks just like you. Not the way you dress (which will certainly be identical) but actually looks like you (i.e. nose, body shape, etc.)
9. Familiarize yourself with commonly referenced songs. (such as "Throw Aggi Off The Bridge" by Black Tambourine, "Anorak City" by Another Sunny Day, "Pop Songs Your New Boyfriend Is Too Stupid To Know About" by Tullycraft, etc) Listen to the rest of the songs by these bands, too, of course.
10. Become hopelessly in love with a particular record label and talk about them dreamily to people who probably do not care or know what your talking about. (a pop kid favorite is Sarah Records)
11. Join the indiepop list and make friends.
12. Try to persuade countless friends to listen to pop with mixtapes. (or CDs if you're digitally inclined) Be crushed when they don't listen to them.
13. Remember that stripes never go out of pop style!
14. Wear 1 billion buttons on whatever bag you're carrying. When you change bags take your buttons off and apply them to the new one. Repeat.
15. Make really, really little stickers to advertise whatever it is you are involved with (zine, label, mini-comic)
16. Have a crush on a boy/girl who doesn't know you exist. Write songs about it.

Tips:

• Being a fan of public transportation is important, trains in particular.
• Have vague ambitions of moving to Glasgow. (note: if you live in Glasgow, have vague ambitions of moving Somewhere Else... Bristol, Stockholm or Sheffield, maybe?)
• Always remember that wherever you are is never as great as where you talk about wanting to be (EX: if you live in the US, Canada is always better; If you live on the East Coast, the West Coast is always better. Good pop cities are Athens and Olympia)
• If anyone ever compliments something you're wearing never, ever admit to buying it. Always tell them, "I made it."
• A lot of your indiepop days might be kind of lonely, so fill them with other hobbies besides zinemaking and band-doing! Examples include trainspotting, shoegazing, knitting, looking at bridges, trying to draw the Sarah Records or K Records logo JUST RIGHT, daydreaming, mixtaping, taking long walks while listening to the Field Mice, and arts and crafts.
• Buy a duffle coat. Now.

Warnings

• You might get beat up by skinheads or punks...actually, you might get beat up by everyone.
• Matt Haynes might break your chin
• It might be near impossible to find popkid friends that aren't Internet Friends From Faraway Places.
• You will probably get made fun of, especially if you are in Britland
• If you are in Britland, avoid the term "twee", as some people find it offensive
• Popkids are either completely sexless or complete sex fiends. There is no middle ground.
• Shyness is nice, but shyness can stop you. If another popkid comes up and tries to befriend you, say, at a show, you should definitely befriend them. (especially if you are secretly in love with them)

Things You'll Need:

• Lots of money to buy records
• Determination
• A broken heart and a nice haircut
• Saropoly

Song for Apple Orchard's indie/pop compilation.

Little Chains

I still look outside my window, wondering where we begin;
if our hands, they'd fit together or if we're doomed to start again.
I'd pick loving over safety. I'd run the risk of getting hurt.
If you're listening, I am ready. Now let me know what love is worth.

Atta girl!

SPERM MEETS EGG, SO WHAT?

"Dr Amelia Fletcher has been Chief Economist at the Office of Fair Trading for just over 6 years. She leads a team with responsibilty for economic policy on enforcment, economic research, evaluation of impact and competition advocacy to Government. She is also Head of Profession for the 50 or so economists working at the OFT, and is responsible for ensuring that the economic work carried out within the OFT is rigorous and state-of-the-art.
Prior to the OFT, she spent several years as an economic consultant in London specialising in antitrust, at Frontier Economics and before this London Economics. She has a doctorate from Oxford University, where her thesis was on economic theories of self-regulation."

Yet again, tweepop leaves me with more to aspire for. Thank you, Amelia Fletcher! This is way better than being all about Bobby Wratten all the time; I swear he'd just make sad bastards out of all of us and I'm happy I don't have to be that way. You might be as old as my mom but you're still just as adorable as you were during your days with Heavenly and Marine Research.

Article was taken from HERE