Tuesday, June 30, 2009

Fourth Year mayhem!!!

Well, i decided to make a blog post about a usual day of myself in school so just in case when i want to reminisce a part of my highschool in the future, i would clearly remember the things that happened at this time. Something like a time capsule for me, every month i would post something that tells my usual day in school until march.


This morning, i woke up at around 6 AM in my Japanese futon bed with a very heavy and sleepy head. I struggled to get myself up and walk to the bathroom dizzily as if i've just rode two consecutive rides on the Space Mountain(of Hong Kong Disneyland) and Space Shuttle(of Enchanted Kingdom). Then after brushing my pearly whites, i took a cold bath for 15 minutes until i felt a bit awake. Yeah, i felt awake but it's not enough to keep me going. After putting on my beige and pink gala uniform(and half wished my class and i could wear PE uniforms like the other year levels two times a week too) and sprayed on some Victoria's Secret "My Desire" perfume, i went out of my room, grabbed my school bag and hurriedly ate breakfast of hotdog and sweet rolls. Then after eating breakfast, i went out of the house and hurriedly went to school via a tricycle.

When i arrived at school, i was surprised i was a bit early than ever that i waited for 5 minutes before the bell rang to begin our CBA. Then at CBA, it was the first years who led the prayer, Lupang Hinirang and Panatang Makabayan. After the first years had finished, us fourth years and third years were called by our adviser sir Cris and our discipline officer sir Jojo to teach the students the new excercise. We went onstage and waited for our teachers to finally sort out the cantamixer and then played "Jai Ho" by the Pussycat Dolls- much to the delight of the young'uns. It was a bit exhausting but was very fun to dance especially the part that was often shown in the Pussycat Dolls vid. I agree everyone of us did a very great job in dancing it, haha!!!

After dancing "Jai Ho", we were told to go to our first classes(Oops, Sir Cris forgot to make us sing the march song for the second time around-lol) . In our first class- English- Sir Manto discussed our assignments as well as his anguish at kuya Berto and the new untility staff. In my opinion, kuya Berto is okay especially that he likes to talk about Japanese stuffs. To the other utility staff, i have no comment since we're not that close yet. Then after sir Manto's class, it was Filipino with T. Anna Espadera. T. Anna just made us review for our next period's quiz about Jose Rizal. Then the bell rang and it was recess. I remember eating Siu Mai and sipping coke to alleviate my sluggishness as i scanned over my Rizal notes with Rizelle. After reccess, we proceeded quickly with the Filipino quiz. I admit i had quite a hard time recalling the who's who and the why of the whats of the ways of Rizal, but the good thing was i scored as high as GT, we're both the highest- 36/40. ;-)
Then at math time, sir Ian taught us about an old topic we had discussed when we were in third year- linear functions.
Then lunchtime came and im lunching on Lucky Me Pinoy Chicken mami cup noodles again, i had this yesterday and a few days ago. I was sitting with Hanna, Vannesa(Muje's little sis) , Camille and Kash- talking about schoolmates, school, old memories and what we did last summer- when suddenly Rachaelle came. She noticed that im eating the same lunch again and since she's quite nosy and curious about things-like most Americans i met in person are- she asked me why am i eating the same thing. I told her that it was the only flavor that we had back in our home, then it was okay for her.
After lunch, we went with our afternoon classes: Values, Physics and Economics. Then Economics ended and we had a 15 minute reccess. After reccess, we had computer and then laboratory, when we were dismissed at five in the afternoon.

Sunday, June 28, 2009

Virtues of Harmony II


Virtues of Harmony II is a long running sitcom from Hong Kong. It is one of the funniest TV shows that i ever followed even though i never understood a word uttered from their Cantonese mouths. All of what i've observed from the show is that the show follows the life of Yau Nim Chi, her children Kam Nin, Kam Yuet and Kam Yat, Kam Yuet's wife Ah Lo, their aunty Kam Sa Sa(with the mushroom hairstyle), uncle Lau Gam and their friends around the family HK style cafe Tung Mut Yuen, the fashion company Kam Yat and Yuet works for and some parts of TVB. Their problems are mostly misunderstandings, love problems and other kinds of problems that you might want to laugh at. Like there was an episode when a Chinese guy from Texas went to live with the Kams for a while and they mistook him for being the Texas Chainsaw Killer, Lau Gam did an "ala Matrix reloaded" scene, Man Gwai Fei grew a beard and a low voice after consuming some men pills and Kam Sa Sa got a part of an ugly mushroom in TVB(much to the dismay of his old crush 11th Brother). Other than laughs, there are also those romantic moments like Ah Nin and Joey on the airport because Joey wants to leave for England to refreshen her mind because of one love triangle she had been in. Also when Ah Lo decided to divorce Ah Yuet, she was taken hostage in a bank robbery and then when Ah Yuet found that out, he went inside the bank and told the robbers to kill him instead of his wife(but the woman he was pertaining to looks a lot like Ah Lo- with the same clothes and hair) , thus making Ah Lo realize how much Ah Yuet loves him. After the robbery, they got together but unfortunately to the Ah Lo lookalike, her husband mistook Ah Yuet to be her lover-thus they got into a fight. And then there was an episode when Man Gwai Fei decided to marry Lau Gam because she is superstisious and the half-day god told her to marry Lau Gam but half day god turns out to be a fake so Gwai Fei was so disappointed.

Overall, this is the kind of sitcom that you would love to watch to get your pressure and problems out for a while. Enjoy a bit of good laughs and your sadness and depression disappears after watching an episode. If only i understand Cantonese or even read Chinese characters.