Flash!

Oh look, I'm blogging! :))

SO yep, I really didn't expect to be. It's been 4 months since my last post, and a lot of things have changed. An obvious one is the fact that the first term of third year has already ended, and my last post was during summer. Intense tagal ng hiatus ko. :))

Many things have changed talaga. Hahaha. From simple things like I have stopped using a mechanical pencil in school, started using twistable crayons and stopped as well, started using fineliners, got a new phone for Sun, made friends, started some new hobbies and ended a few, having the longest hair I've ever had then getting it all cut, became 3rd year, changed my wallet, gained some weight, GOT GLASSES, started collecting playing cards, changed school bags, etc. So many things, really. It's been a jam packed 4 months.

Soooo... ANG SAYA! :D Sobra talaga. Enjoying school, fixed a LOT of things, made some things even better and all that crap. =)) Grabe lang talaga, I've learned to counter stress so much better recently. Ang galing! Wahahaha. Sorry kung ang vague. Can't really explain it in words. :)

Let me share a story of today na lang. Hahaha.

So we were dismissed at 4 today, and I had to wait until 6 para sunduin ako ni Kuya. That's been happening a lot lately. :> Pero this time di ko inexpect, kagabi ko na lang nalaman. :)) Pero ayos lang! Akala ko wala akong gagawin, buti na lang may makakasama pala ako while waiting.

Until 4:30, I was with Miggy M and Russ chilling by the Admin part of the dirt wall. Wala talagang pakinabang yun sa buhay ng tao at all. :)) Umupo lang kami dun, kwentuhan and all. Steady lang talaga. Kinakagat-kagat lang kami ng ants so medyo hassle. Pagkatapos nun, we stood up and discovered that our pants were all marked by mud and crap. Dumi talaga, medyo basa pa. :)) Tawanan lang kami, and then Miggy had to go home. So kami na lang ni Russ yung natira. Wahahaha.

Naisip namin bigla na dumaan sa Grade school just to check if I could still claim my Grade 7 year book. Lakad lang kami, and when we got there, closed na yung mga offices so hindi ko na rin nakuha yung yearbook. :)) We just went around the Grade school campus, visiting every area possible. We managed to pick up a Grade 5 quiz which seemed like nothing we would take up when we were Grade 5. =)) Super dali! Nakakainis. Wahahaha. Sana ganun lang kadali lahat. We also visited the Giant Slides, and nalungkot talaga ako nung nakita kong wala na yung yellow slide. They demolished it to make way for the path. :( Sayang! We also saw Mr. Balmaceda in the Grade school, and it was kind of odd for that to happen. Wala lang. Hahaha. We were done with our nostalgia walk, so kinuha na naman yung bags namin and planned to leave.

We got hungry so I suggested that we go to McDo. We did, and got there at around 6 na. From 4:30 to 6, we walked non-stop talaga. Our feet began to hurt, kasi hindi naman rin magaan lang yung bags namin. =)) HEAVEN yung feeling na makukuha mo from sitting after that much walking. SOBRANG SARAP. :)) I just ordered a Burger McDo meal with large fries dahil medyo nagutom ako from all our walking. But I had to go shortly after that. Alas, it was fun to have been able to roam freely like that. :D

Too much to tell in such an ineffective way to share your life. Blogging is so limited, I figured.
But I guess it's good too, sometimes. :)

.MrRobby.
Talk to me. :)

Treasure Troves.

That's my restaurant in the Facebook game, Restaurant City.

Let me tell you, it's one of the most boring games you could ever encounter. But I'm pretty far up the ratings in this game. Why is that? Because even if it is boring, it's more interesting than watching paint dry, plants grow or running out of topics to talk about in YM. Even if just by a bit. :)) That's not the only reason, game kasi siya para sa mga tamad. And who can honestly say na hindi ako tamad? You? Then you probably don't know me well enough yet. :> =))

I've been addicted to it because it requires so little attention from you, but it gives you bragging rights and the chance to run your own restaurant. Sure, the customers are extremely impatient, but who cares about them? It's fulfilling to see you and your friends working in your own respective restaurants. And that's enough to make me love the game. Hindi dahil sa bragging rights, extra lang yun. :-"

Now that I've gotten that little piece of my bored loserness out of the way, let's move on to MORE PIECES OF THAT! =))

I cleaned out my drawer once again. Kasi ang sipag kong tao. =)) JOKE! Ang bilis kong kinontra sarili ko, 'no? Hahaha! Totoong reason? Pumunta kaming Shopwise kanina, and medyo nabaliw kami ni Maan. We got roughly 1000 pesos worth of chocolates, chips and other kinds of snacks. Kick our faces in if you want, but they'll probably be full of Snickers or Cheetos. :)) Adik talaga kami. This is what keeps me awake at night, my secret stash of killer food. :>

And oo nga, Maan.
Nakakainis na walang "BINIBINTA" na ballers sa Eastwood. :))

Last Friday and Saturday, we once again went to the Family Encounter weekend to be one of the presenting families who share in front. :)) Grabe, ang saya ng experiences. Nung Saturday, I wore my shoes at around 7 am, and removed them at 1 am of Sunday. That's 19 hours of my feet being in High-cut Chuck Taylors. Hindi naman weird yung feeling nung tinanggal ko sila, 'no. =)) Intense talaga, parang tinanggal ko na yung paa ko nung tinanggal ko yung shoes ko. :]

Grabe, sobrang aga ko matulog lately. Mga 6 am ang average time of falling asleep. :))
Note: Masamang mag-assume, people. You know what I mean. =))

This day, my Cellphone inbox messages saved on my PC reached a count of 11123. Hahaha!
Intense. Maybe not THAT high, pero sobrang daming bentang memories dyan. =)) As in. Thanks to all the people who text me. You have changed my cellphones' life. (Hindi life ko. Joke. =)) Syempre akin rin. :P) Kasi dati, nasa cabinet lang yun all day at wala masyadong pakinabang sa buhay ko kahit naka-post paid line na ako nun. Ang aksaya ko talaga. Haha. :D

Hindi na ako nakapagblog about the LSS, pero super saya niya. AS IIIIIN! Walang tatalo. :))
Highlight of the weekend: Kumoncert ako sa Vigil room dahil nagbreak si Tita Lina/the keyboardist. =)) Oh, I Want To Know You More ang first song na icocover ko pagmagkacareer man ako sa singing. HAHAHA! :D

Asa na lang ako dun. :))

.MrRobby.
Masama nga talagang mag-assume. :>

Loss of a Friend.

My duck died.

My roughly-7 year old duck died recently. :(
His name was Sonic, and he drowned in a drum of water.
A pretty sad death, you know, for a duck.

Nakakainis talaga, mamimiss ko rin yun! Naaalala ko pa nung binili namin siya sa Shopwise Libis, along with 2 other ducklings. The other two were Princess and Sarah, named by Kitkat and Maan accordingly. Benta. =)) Ang galing nilang mag-isip ng pangalan.

Within the month, namatay yung dalawang ibang duck, and si Sonic na lang yung natira. Nakakainis! =)) Pero ayos lang, matagal nabuhay si Sonic. Kung nakapunta ka sa bahay namin at least once in the past years, makikilala mo siguro yung weird quacking niya kasi laging nakatambay yun sa labas dati. Distinct talaga yung sound niya. Hahaha!

Pero ayos lang, proud na sa kanya sa accomplishment niya.
God bless you, Sonic. Rest peacefully in ducky heaven. :)

.MrRobby.

I miss the little dude. :']

Stellar.

Note that this entry spans the whole time I didn't blog. Sucks for me to not have done so. :/

"Shoot for the moon and if you miss you will still be among the stars."
That quote really stuck to me for a night or two. I managed to view it in two ways already, thanks to discussing it with different people. :)) First was with Zarah, when I felt sort of tired. I was pretty negative about it, and we ended up agreeing that there won't always be stars to catch you. When you risk, sometimes you'll just fail and fall. But then, when I presented that quote to Myka, she said "The quote means, that even if you don't get what you are aiming for, there were much more you've gained, compared to one loss." Then I realized I was blinded by my negativity, and I was looking for a different kind of star. There always will be something to gain, if you give an effort. It may not be as big as you expect, but it will be there.

I tried to challenge myself by jumping into a cold pool at a water spa. The water there is as cold as the kind you drink, chilled in the fridge with lots of ice in it. Managing to stay in there for less than 5 seconds was NO SWEAT [ DON'T HURT ME! :( ], but after that you'd begin to feel really cold and the pain would seep into your muscles. I tried to stay for as long as I can, felt a great deal of numbing pain, and panicked to get out. I checked my feet and counted at least 4 small cuts because the tiles of the cold pool are kind of sharp. You're not supposed to play around in there. =))

A few days ago, I got to try laser tag at Market Market with a couple of friends. It was really fun! :D The best part is feeling all awesome, looking for an empty corridor to run through so you can go all Rambo and shoot everyone you see. The worst part is after your first step in this crazy rush, you get shot by someone who's sniping at all the people down below. You run the whole corridor with all your lights off and gun disabled. Not so fun. Hahaha! Celsius ranked 10 of 23, not bad for a first timer, but I ranked 4th in our team of 5. Just a little more, and I would've been last. :O

There are 8 post-its stuck to the shelf beside my computer desk. They contain 2-3 words each, reminding me of what still needs doing this summer. I don't think it was a very good move for me to put such hard to notice notices [ :-" ] beside a computer screen that shines so bright even in the darkest of nights! =)) I usually even forget they exist. :)) Kind of weird for me to plan things out, you know. WELL, I CONSIDER THAT PLANNING ALREADY! Hahaha!

What's been up with the sun lately? The days have been hotter, and the sinks are more broken. Wait, hold the second one. =)) I tried becoming a situational plumber and ended up turning a semi-clogged sink into a broken one that's completely blocked by the metal drain cap. Nagfeeling pa kasing tubero, ayan tuloy. Hahaha! Pero okay na ngayon, naayos ko rin after a few hours. :D

Medyo SUPER sabog nitong entry na 'to. Wala talagang kwenta. :))

.MrRobby.

I need to BLOG RIGHT AWAY. The more I try to compress into an entry, the less interesting I can make it. :|

Phantasmal Reality.

Situation:
You find yourself in bed. The reason you're in bed is that you passed out hours ago, because you were caught in an exploding gas station. Cause of ignition? Your hand went ablaze, with no logical explanation. Just like a super power.

So your eyes open up, and everything looks normal. A few meters away, you see an unfamiliar man walking to approach you. He seems to want to tell you something. You listen to him say "I AM A MANATEE!", and he growls at you really loudly.

Question:
What do you do?

My Answer:
You wake up.

Last Sunday morning, my dream ended like that. They usually don't make sense, but I actually like that fact. Life has to make sense, but you have dreams for things to just break logic and create interesting new situations. After all, you have unbounded freedom in them. Might as well create the most interesting "stories" you'd never even think to encounter, just to maximize your opportunity, diba? :)) Dream amazing things!

Lately, I've been buying stuff for my PC to improve its performance. I can say I've used WASTED a lot of money on it already. =)) I don't really have much left with me now for other things, but since most of my hobbies and even my "job" revolves around my computer, might as well make using it a nice experience, right? Hahaha. I don't have any regrets though. I'm happy with all that. :D Now that I have everything from good memory to a smoking hot mouse, I can't even think of anything else of my PC that I can spend my money on. Well, thinking reasonably of course. Pwede ko nga namang bilihan ng 50" monitor dahil cool yun. Kahit yung mga kapit-bahay pwedeng makinood ng YouTube sa laki ng screen. =))

I don't know about how it is in where you might be, but the past nights over here have been quite cold. I REALLY love the night time breeze. Sobrang feel-good maglakad sa labas pag malamig yung hangin. :] 2 hours after midnight ba naman kami umikot lang sa village at naglakad dahil ang sarap talaga sa labas. Cool. :> Hahaha! If for some reason you were out at that time, the giant, semi-realistic face in the sky could have stared down at you without you knowing. =))

I have this really strong feeling that someone's still awake right now, who "isn't supposed to be". :-" Wala lang, medyo nababaliw na ako eh. Feeling ko may mind powers na ako or ano man. Basta, cool rin mangarap. X))

Hay, mind's flow blogging. Walang theme, 'no? Hahaha. Well, medyo natatali siya nung title pero kung ano-ano lang talaga yung sinabi ko. Maganda lang talaga yung title at sumakto siya sa pinagsasabi ko. :))

.MrRobby.
Taglish, 'no? Ayos lang yan. :D

Sugar Crash.

A sugar crash or glucose crash is the term used in American popular culture to refer to a supposed sense of fatigue after consuming a large quantity of carbohydrates.

Whip up a figurative rendition of that, and you've got what just happened to me. After thinking how nice my summer was turning out, I suddenly fell through the thin ice I've been creating and into the freezing water. Ironic, considering it's the hot season.

Recently, although it started quite a while back, I've honestly been a bad friend. I've loosened ties with some people, and detached myself from many things just so I can lessen the things I think of, as I felt the need to do so. I was having a hard time balancing everything, so I took selfish, drastic measures. If you've noticed that I've been different lately, or haven't been able to talk to you much, I really am sorry. It's not only a few who have been taking this kind of crap for me, but quite a lot. I gave up, and just chose to escape the problems instead of giving a greater effort to handle things. Well now, the not-caring thing is doing bad to keep me happy. Even if I don't have much to worry about, it's been hitting me over and over that I've done a bad thing to even consider taking such an action just to better myself. Now I'm different, and I somewhat want the old me back. At least I cared more about people's feelings. Working my way back will be very difficult. Just give me time, I'm trying to change all of this.

That's not all, I've been giving up here and there just because things take too much effort. Freaking lazy bum of a person, I don't even get up to do things I want to do just because it's so much more difficult than doing nothing. I'm a quitter, escapist and am too lazy to change it.

Now I that I know what's wrong, I just hope to act upon it. Hopefully, I don't just get stuck on hoping. And there goes a loop that'll take one hell of a push to get out of. Time to change those "am"s to "was"s, and "hope"s to "will"s. I can do it.

.MrRobby.
Darn.

Waterfall.

The only reason that I used that title is because it's raining right now. =)) I have no other reason to do it, since this is an entry on the awesomeness of summer so far.

My days since the last post, especially the past 3 days, just cut the cake- the cake of boringness, that is, and gave it all away for the recent happenings to eat.

I won't even go to details with this post, 'cause that will probably just bore you. :P

In the past week, I reacquainted myself with things from YEARS ago such as a show that had me screaming and slapping my lap all throughout just because it bleeds with coolness, the act of eating bowl-fulls of ice cream without limiting myself, a sport I haven't played, an instrument (even just for a while) that I stopped playing because of my poor, non-persevering old self, and even going to a playground to have clean, inexpensive and simple fun. I can say that I really missed these things, because so much has changed since the last time I encountered these, but they still haven't lost their touch. They hit me the same way they did way back, and I'm glad this stands true. It's good to be able to tell yourself that you're not old enough to say that you need to forget your past because times have changed. Hahaha! I'm totally happy with the way I grew up, and that the bad times existed to make me just who I am today. :D

In the past week, I was able to spend time with people I value a LOT in my life! Of course, with my family during Sundays (and even everyday! JamLegend kasi eh. :)) ), and I really did enjoy my time with them. I tried a new thing last Sunday nga eh, to just let go of my phone for a longer time just to listen more to the people in my immediate environment. When we're out, I have the tendency to pull out my phone and text away, especially when bored. I just stopped this for a while, and it really felt different. Cool. X) And not only with my family, but also with my friends. A '11, YOU'RE THE BEST! Subic was so fun, we did so much even when we were just at the cottage we stayed in for the time we were there. The freedom we had was great, and no regrets having to spend that much money with you guys. AWESOME was in the air, water and sand. =)) Not limited to them, but also with my BLD Youth friends and others. :D

In the past week I just experienced so much that I'm thankful for. Sure, now that I have highpoints in my summer, the boring days will seem boring-er and there still are a lot of them left. But whatever happens... uhh. Hindi, mali pala. Walang ganun, negative thinking na yun eh. Hahaha! O, erase erase, sa "But" ulit tayo: But I know that there are still many good things in store for me this summer! AYUUUUUN. =))

On second thought, Waterfall could be interpreted to be relevant to my entry now. Piece it together, I won't elaborate for you, para may exercise naman yung utak mo. Hahaha! It's not that hard. :>

.MrRobby.
Thank you God, for the week that has been. X)