“…So listen to the radio”

Naging malaki ang papel ng radyo sa araw-araw kong pamumuhay. Dahil wala namang TV sa boarding house sa unibersidad kung saan ako nag-aaral, radyo lang ang katuwang ko. SHOCKS! Wala pa akong makausap doon kaya nakakabaliw talaga. ‘Pag dating ko naman dito sa bahay, sira naman ang TV sa may living/dining room namin kaya yun, wala akong choice kundi makinig sa radyo.

Hindi naman masama ang pagkasira nung TV. Unang-una, tipid naman sa kuryente eh. Pangalawa, ayos na ayos naman ‘yung pinapakinggan ko. Haha! In fact, nakakatawa yung pinapakinggan ko. Minsan nga mas mataas pa ang entertainment value na nakukuha ko rito kaysa sa panonood ng TV. Basta kapag ang pinapakinggan ko sa radyo ay ang Barangay LS.

Inaamin kong medyo baduy nga ‘tong radio station na ‘to. Ang pinapatugtog ba naman ay mga “jukeox hits” eh! Saka yung mga kanta ko nung bata ako (example: yung mga kinakanta nun ni Roselle Nava… mga ganun. Haha! Yung mga songs na uso noong 90’s). Pero in fairness, sumasabay na rin sila sa uso… Haha! Ang saya ko noong narinig ko yung “Can’t Fight This Feeling Anymore” na version ni Cory Monteith (yung sa Glee). Haha! Astig talaga.

Bakit nga ba baduy? Hindi kasi ito tulad ng Magic 89.9 at Wave 89.1 na Ingles kung Ingles ang mga DJ. Pero aanhin naman ang sosyal kung hindi naman ito makakapagdulot ng kasiyahang nanggagaling sa kaibuturan ng puso? :))

Marami-rami na akong nakuha sa kakapakinig ng “Talk to Papa” (Monday-Saturday, 1-3pm) at “Wanted Sweetheart” (Monday-Saturday, 9pm-12mn) na naging kasalo ko na sa aking pagkain. Ito ang ilan sa mga halimbawa:

Papa Bear: Dapat hindi na bilog na prutas ang hinahanda 'pag New Year kasi 'pag ganun puro barya lang ehh.

Papa Dan: Tama, tama! Dapat papel 'yung shape ng mga prutas para paper bills talaga.

Papa Bear: Ano ba ang mga prutas na papel ‘yung shape?

*sandaling moments of silence*

Papa Dan: Fruitcake!

Ako (habang nakikinig siyempre): HAHAHAHA!!! =))

Sabi ni Papa Dan sa program niya…

Ang daming nagkalat na overripe na calamansi na nagkalat ngayon… Kiatkiat yung tawag.

Nursery rhyme nina Papa Kiko at Papa Bear

Marami pa talagang mga nakakatawang mga pagkakataon sa pakikinig ko sa Barangay LS. Wala pa yan sa kalingkingan ng mga halakhak na aking binitiwan at patuloy na binibitiwan. Kaya naman kung bored ka at may radyo ka namang nakatiwangwang lang, ilipat na ang istasyon ng radyo sa 97.1 Barangay LS FM. Ayos gyud!! :))

“Ipakalat ang magandang balita.” –Papa Jepoy. =))

Bakit ko pinost ‘to? Wala lang. Gusto ko lang i-share ‘yung saya na nararamdaman ko tuwing nakikinig ako ng radyo. Hahaha! :))

Rent!: Live in Manila

Oh. My. Gosh. *hyperventilates*

“Rent”, a musical play or rock opera as they say, will be showing live here in Manila on February 2010. I need to save money for this one. Haha! I’ll make sure that I won’t skip a beat.

“Rent” has already a film adaptation and that is where I first loved and I literally got addicted to it that I watched it almost every afternoon when I arrived home from school when I was in second year high school… And now, I’m really thrilled to know that “Rent” will be staged here in Manila.

Gaaah!! I’m so excited for this.

By the way, show schedules and ticket prices can be seen here.

Penmanship Meme I

I’ve been into memes lately (isn’t it obvious?). Then I saw this one from a blog and decided to give this one a shot. I tag everyone who happen to stumble this blog! :D

The rules are pretty simple. You just need to write down in a piece of paper your name, age, location, current music, favorite book, a description of yourself in five words and something weird about yourself. Then scan or take a picture of it and post in your blog or notes in your Facebook.

Here’s my penmanship:

 (Just click to magnify.)

I took a picture of the “Penmanship Meme” and edited it through Photoscape.

If you did this, let me know. I’m curious what your handwriting looks like. :D

Random Meme I

Please pardon me for bombarding this blog (notes in Facebook) with memes. I just find entertainment in them… And I’m quite bored. Haha! If you like any of these, then go ahead and I tag you! ;)

1. What is your first name? Monica. :)
2. Were you named after anyone? I don’t think that it was on my parents’ mind to name me after St. Monica.
3. Do you wish on stars? No, I don’t.
4. When did you last cry? I can’t really remember. Haha!
5. Do you like your handwriting? I like it a lot. I guess that’s one of my assets. Haha! Just kidding. ;]
6. What is your favorite lunch meat? Chicken. =))
7. What is your most embarrassing CD? Hmmm… The dance hits of the 80’s and 90’s CD. Haha! I just needed it for a school activity.
8. If you were another person, would you be friends with you? Yeah! I’d like to be friends me. :))
9. Do you have a journal? Yep. I have one. I don’t write regularly on that, though.
10. Do you use sarcasm a lot? I think sooo. I use it charmingly. :))
11. What are your nicknames? My friends call me Mon, Mamon, Monmon or MamaMon.
12. Would you bungee jump? Probably. It depends on the peer pressure. :)
13. Do you untie your shoes before you take them off? No, I’m too lazy to do that. :)) And I don’t wear shoes often.
14. Do you think that you are strong? I don’t think so.
15. What is your favorite ice cream flavor? Cheese. :D:D
16. Shoe size? 9 or 10… *embarrassed*
17. Red or pink? PINKPINKPINKPINK!! Haha!
18. What is your least favorite thing about yourself? When I plan to accomplish something ahead of time, it rarely happens – I still prefer cramming.
19. What do you miss most? Going to school? :))
20. Do you want everyone you send this to, to send it back? Well, it doesn’t really matter.
21. What color pants/shoes are you wearing? black.
22. What are you listening to right now? silence.
23. Last thing you ate? KFC Hot and Crispy Chicken. Yum!
24. If you were a crayon, what color would you be? PINKPINKPINKPINK!! Haha!
25. What is the weather like right now? It’s fiiine. It’s really cold… and I love it! :D
26. Last person you talked to on the phone? My dad, I guess.
27. The first thing you notice about the opposite sex? face? :)) I don’t know.
28. Do you like the person who sent this to you? I just grabbed this from a blog without asking permission.
29. Favorite drink? Minute Maid Pulpy Mango Orange. Haha!
30. Favorite sport? I lovelovelove volleyball. I miss playing it. I haven’t done it in about 8 months.
31. Hair color? Black with streaks of white.
32. Eye color? Dark brown.
33. Wear contacts? No.
34. Favorite food? Chicken from KFC. Haha!
35. Last movie you watched? “This is It” – really cooool! :D
36. Favorite day of the year? Christmas Day. :D
37. Scary movies or happy endings? Happy endings of course.
38. Winter or summer? Winter I think… Even though having a winter season is just a fantasy when you’re in the Philippines. I don’t like summer that much because I hate heat.
39. Hugs or kisses? Hugs. >:D<
40. What is your favorite dessert? Buko Pandan or Dulce de Leche cake from Red Ribbon.
41. Who is most likely to do this meme? I can’t think of anyone. So probably, none.
42. Who is the least likely to do this meme and comment? All the people I know. Haha!
43. What books are you reading? Nicholas Sparks’s “A Bend in the Road”.
44. What's on your mouse pad? I don’t have a mouse pad.
45. What did you watch on TV last night? The Tonight Show with Conan O’Brien
46. Favorite smells? The smell after a drizzle or rain (I don’t know what it’s called) and aroma of my mom’s cooking. Haha!
47. Favorite sound? Sound of my favorite artists’ voices.
48. Rolling Stones or Beatles? The Beatles.
49. What's the furthest you've been from your home? if for a long time, it would be probably in Quezon City.
50. Do you have a special talent? I don’t know. Haha!
51. What is your ring tone? Asher Book’s “Try” from the movie “Fame” (2009)

Music Meme I

(credits to: ysmarko. Thanks man! :D – though I don’t know you personally. Heh.)

1. Open your library (iTunes, Winamp, Media Player, iPod, etc)
2. Put it on shuffle
3. Press play
4. For every question, type the song that’s playing
5. When you go to a new question, press the next button
6. Don’t lie and try to pretend you’re cool!

Opening Credits: Muse – Supermassive Blackhole

~* cool! sakto ahh. ganda ng intro ng song na toh. :))) bagay pang opening credits

Waking Up: BoyzIIMen – On Bended Knee

~* haha! ganyan talaga pag bagong gising ako.. “I’m down on bended knee.” haha! gusto pang matulog kaya ganun. xD

First Day At School: Maroon 5 feat. Rihanna – If I Never See You Again

~* first day palang, may ayaw nang makita ehh. :)) ampanget. xD

Falling In Love: Sisqo – Incomplete

~* “Without you, my life is incomplete.” ‘nuff said. :”> toinks! :))

Fight Song: Silent Sanctuary – Rebound

~* “Rebound mo lang pala akooo!” Wahaha! away dahil dun noh? xD ang chaka! :))

Breaking Up: Michelle Branch – Are You Happy Now?

~* “Could you look me in the eye and tell me, are you happy now?” ang bitter lang ng dating ehh. :))

Prom: David Archuleta – Don’t Let Go

~* haha! ‘di bagay pang-prom. :)) ..pero pwede riin. :))

Life: Muse – Starlight

~* “Never fade(s) away.” – wala na akong maisip na ibang angkop na linya ehh. :))

Mental Breakdown: David Cook – Innocent

~* “I remember feeling low. I remember losing hope. I remember all the feelings and the day they stop.”

Driving: Michelle Branch – Everywhere

~* ..sakto ba? O___O parang roadtrip lang ehh. :))

Flashback: Up Dharma Down – Oo

~* hahaa!! :)) grabeh ka winamp. amp talaga. :)) walang ganyanan. xD

Getting Back Together: Southwind – Malay Mo

~* “'Di naman ako umaasa pero malay mo… tayo ngang dalawa.” ‘yan lang yung pwede ehh. :))

Wedding: David Archuleta – Falling

~* ANG CHAKA NAMAN! :)) such a sad song for a wedding. :(

Birth of Child: TLC – No Scrubs

~* ‘di ren bagay. what’s happening to you winamp? :| at first, you seem to work perfectly… giving me the right songs and all and now… woooow. :|

Final Battle: The Ting Tings – Be The One

~* “I don’t wanna be the one making all the noise.” siyempre dapat quits kami ng ka-battle ko. :))

Death Scene: Silent Sanctuary – Summer Song

~* “Pangako ko sa’yo di kita iiwan. H’wag kang mag-alala” pramis talaga yan… hanggang sa aking pagyao. :) (parang magmumulto lang ehh. :)))

Funeral Song: Anoop Desai – Everything I Do (I Do It For You)

~* “Can’t tell me it’s not worth dying for… Everything I do (did), I do (did) it for you.” pag nagpaka-martyr ako na naging sanhi ng kamatayan ko. . . andrama lang ehh. :))

Remembrance Song: Jason Castro – If I Fell

~* Ewaaan!! :)) parang di bagay. :)) Ayyy., ito ata.. pwede na rin. :)) “I hope you see, I would love to love you.”

End Credits: Anoop Desai – True Colors

~* pwedeee! :)) payo ko sa mga taong nakadaop-palad ko sa aking tanang buhay. chos! :))

If you read this or it just happen to catch your attention or you just like to answer this for fun, then I tag you! Haha! Enjoy!

First Sem, First Year.

If there is one thing that I regret as I look back on my first sem-stay in UP, it’s that I didn’t blog about them as soon as I experienced those ‘firsts’. I just can’t pull my thoughts together! Argghh! It’s as if my brain is swallowed by zombies as I played “Plants vs. Zombies”. (I can’t also give the “I’m busy excuse” because I ain’t. Haha! Well, I think I became lazy and stuff… as if I was never before. Ha.) Oh well, I’m just going to ‘compile’ all that happened last sem. :)

.first.sem.ever.

One word=FUN! …and other terms synonymous to that. I really had a blast on my first semester in UP. I’ve read somewhere in the forums, “May first sem bang masaya?” Well, I might have to debunk that because as for me, I really had a great time. Sure, there were school works to accomplish but I think they were still ‘bearable’ enough. (My gauge for bearable school works: I can still cram them a night before. Heh.) But more than that, there are still more reasons that made my first sem stay enjoyable. :D

• Schedule – I lalalalove my first sem schedule! Why? On Mondays, I only have PE and PE isn’t strenuous as it was Duckpin Bowling. But I got low scores every time we played, sooo… goodluck. :| Although it was a ‘fairly petiks PE’, I still don’t like going there. Maybe because it’s the only subject I’ll take for the day. Nevertheless, I enjoyed it and because of that PE, I would have something to play whenever I would be bored. :P Then, from Tuesday-Friday, my first class would start at 10:00 am and my last class would end at 4:00 pm (every Tuesday and Thursday) or 2:30 pm (every Wednesday and Friday). Actually, during my ‘pre-freshie days’, I didn’t like the schedule that much because of the WF schedule – I was intimidated by it because there would be no breaks from 10am-2:30pm then I had to walk from a building to another which was quite a distance. I didn’t know that it was really do-able.
• Profs – My blockmates and I had considerate and really good professors. I really learned a lot from them. Hmmm… Discussing my professors’ teaching styles would bring me too far from my topic so I’ll just discuss them in another blog post. :D
• Free Time – We only had three subjects per day so I really had a lot of free time on my hands. This was a real shocker for me because I thought that I’m going to have oh-so-sleepless nights but it ended up the other way around. There were times that I pity my mom and my sister because from my mom’s text messages, they sometimes had sleepless nights but I did not experience those that often. I savored every moment of this as much as I could because I know that I would not experience much of this in the future.
• Trinoma and SM North (hahaa!!) – Almost every Friday of October and September, I went to those malls to unwind and buy gifts for my siblings and my mom. Sometimes, my blockmates would just invite me to go there with them just to eat and hang-out. Going to these malls gave me a sense of freedom… really. Heh!

But there is one more reason that made my first sem ever funfunfun…

.first.set.of.UP.friends.

They are the ones who made my first sem sooo memorable and worth-cherishing.

These guys never fail to make me smile and laugh. I wish there was more time. Four months really went by really, really fast. I wish there was more time. Although I’m certain that we would still see one another around the campus, it would still be different going to different buildings, eating snacks and lunch, walking home with them and having chit-chat with them before classes. The last thing I know, I’m already longing for them.

At first they were my blockmates but as days went by, they became my friends. Eventually, they became a shoulder to lean on and an ear to listen to me whether I would just like to goof around or be serious until they became people who supported me especially when I’m about to give up – especially in Math (special mention: Rhea and Carlo:D). Hahaha! :))

Having ICE CHRIM (Intelligent, Cool, Excellent Class of HRIM) was such a blessing to me because I didn’t expect to gain such close friends in college. If there’s one thing that I’d confess about is that there are times that I found myself enjoying with the company of my blockmates more than that of my high school classmates (Peace! No offense intended.). Before, I remembered myself being lost in the middle of my classmates conversing with each other but with my blockmates, every time they noticed that I’d be lost on their conversation, they never hesitated to bring me back in. With my college friends, I never felt that they were too pre-occupied to have time to listen to me… Something that I had a little of when I was in high school.

There were still a lot of things that I can’t cover here because I don’t want to go farther from the topic. Haha! (I’ll write a closely related post though. I just hope I won’t be so lazy to write it. Haha! It’s on my mind now. I’m just collecting my thoughts about it. Haha!) But the bottom line is I am so blessed having my blockmates… and I hope our friendship would last for a life time. :)

[This post seems melodramatic. Hell, who cares. :))]

Yow Blockmates! :))

ICE CHRIM! Just in case you like notes from the ACLE organized by Psychological Association, you may download it in PDF format or in .doc. Be warned that the .doc version of the file isn’t formatted properly, unlike in the PDF format. Here’s a sneak peek of what’s in store in the file. Nyahahaha! xD This one’s in PDF. :P

Hahaha! Enjoy! xD

Comments are love. :)) Nyahahaha! Charoooot! xD

About Me.

This is actually for my Comm 3 Extemporaneous something. Haha! We were told to create a 3-minute extemporaneous speech and I’ll post a draft here. :) I have a lot of versions on my mind and I can’t think which one I’ll choose! I hope you can bear my poor description about myself… Mind you, I prefer to describe others than to describe myself. :P

Oops! Posting here reminded me that I haven’t written anything UP after the first day of classes! xP

Hola! My name is Monica R. Almeida. I am taking up Bachelor of Science in Hotel, Restaurant and Institution Management. I graduated from Immaculate Heart of Mary College – Paranaque. I felt the urge to tell the school where I graduated from because it has been a very significant part of my life. It was a period of self-discovery more than anything else. To help me know myself a tad more, I usually delve on psychological tests. The interesting ones that I found are determining a person’s personality through the food that he prefers to eat. Handwriting also reveals a lot about the person to be analyzed. And the one that I found the most interesting is Color Psychology. When I knew that this kind of personality test exists, I googled what psychologists say about people who are ‘obsessed’ with pink. Yes, I am a self-confessed pink-aholic. As far as I remember it was said that people who like this color are usually carefree and blissful. But what struck me most is when psychologists say that ‘pink lovers like to be taken cared of (no matter how independent they are)’.

Back in high school, I was often selected as a leader of a group. For me, this added to my image of being independent. This was actually a boon and bane for me. A boon because it helped me discover my utmost potential and it gave me an opportunity to lead others to the right path without anyone being cynical on the reasons behind I was doing such a thing. But it became a bane because it acted as a restraint upon me that I am expected to not be vulnerable on how I feel deep inside. During that time, I was longing – and up to now, still longing for someone who would take me as I am without any latent function. It does not apply to someone romantically right away. I am just searching for a friend who will bring out the best in me and accept me no matter how vivacious or boring I become. As a result of this longing, I often offered my shoulder to cry on and lent my hand to be a help to others. And when someone comes to me and ask for advice, I usually tell them what I firmly believe: Don’t fret. Remember that everything happens for a reason. If something goes out of the way, brighter things would come at the right moment. Just be ready for something grandiose.

This is all. Haha! I am hesitant on using this one because I think this is too personal… and serious. Oh well. I’m still brainstorming on other ways to describe myself.

(Written last June 25 ‘09)