Halloween is the only time in the year in which young-uns and kids-at-heart(like me) dress up and let their creativity run wild. Some dress up as witches, some dress up as wookies, and others dress up as cookies. But one thing's for sure is that Halloween is the only time of the year in which people can dress up whatever they wanted to dress up in no matter how crazy it is. But in my case, Halloween is not only imitating someone's style for one day but also realizing if that someone you dressed up as is in your place for one day. I planned on dressing up as Lady Gaga(so i can wear my crazy, Lady Gaga-isque hairband) at first but Mark Malabanan suggested that i should dress up as Bill. I took his advise since i realized if im gonna be Lady Gaga, i should wear swimsuit.(I only wear swimsuit only of im gonna swim in a swimming pool or beach.-lol)
October 30, 10:30 AM. Irish Uy came home from U.N day in school. She took off her favorite black school jogging pants and black "Proud to be a MONTESSORIAN" tshirt to change into her H&M skull tshirt, Mango skinny pants and Tribal skater shoes- part of her costume that she will be wearing tonight. She planned on going as her major crushie/ Potterforums hubby/ probable old internet buddy/ probable guy who thinks im a Hong Konger/ fashion icon/ favorite singer/ favorite German/ favorite androgynous person Bill Kaulitz. As she took off her school clothes, she felt that Irish Uy left her. The moment she put on the clothes that resembles her crush's, she no longer feel like she was herself anymore but she was Bill Kaulitz. Like what Bill does whenever he had a performance later that evening, she decided to do her makeup and hair later an hour before she'll attend the party her best friend Gt will throw.
Some time later, her dad asked their household helper yaya Becca where on earth Irish is. Inside Irish, she wants to tell her dad that Irish is in To Kwa Wan, Kowloon... Probably wearing a white dress with a dark blue tie, dark blue sweater and black shoes like her cousin Lily. Irish Uy right now is probably reciting in Cantonese about mechanical and electromagnetic waves. Maybe when she goes home to her uncle and grandaunt's small apartment near the old Kai Tak airport, she would have a hour for memorizing all her lessons for the day, log in to the forums where she and Audrina first met(Potterforums.com) and then play her electric guitar inside Lily's room while Lily is busy watching TVB or updating her Facebook. In short, the real Irish is probably in somewhere Bill probably thought her to be in.
After helping out in their family business(not really helping out since im too young to memorize codes of autoparts. I would rather learn income taxes formulas, trigonometry, sound waves and sentence diagramming- which i all suck at-now since studying is a bigger priority than helping out in the business. It's only once in a lifetime that someone gets proper education). Bill Kaulitzified Irish Uy went upstairs to wash her face clean and open up her potterforums, stardoll and facebook to relax her off. It's only some two hours before she'll have to leave for school again and that time she decided to do the last parts that will make her completely Bill Kaulitz- putting on her silver blings, make up and tease her hair to make it look like Bill's infamous lion mane hair. After some time of surfing the net, Irish began to complete her transformation by ironing her hair straight. Then she went to put on some black eyeliner, dark eyeshadow, blusher and lipgloss(with the help of one youtube vid tutorial). Then here comes the hair part. With the help of another youtube video, i finally figured out how to make my hair defy gravity more than my previous attempts to imitate Bill's hair last summer- so far back then, i only mastered Bill's "Spring Nicht" and Comet 2007 awards hair.
After doing myself, i went to the Halloween party where i met my friends who had strange remarks. Some said i look cute and others say i look too freaky. Just like Bill, i just smiled and thanked them for their remarks. Leniel even said " Si Irish, mukhang rockistang nabuhay... sa patay." and Dean said(when he was introducing the teams for a certain game that i forgot) "Eto ang group ni Bill Kaulitz- na galing Germany."
It was fun anyway, even if it's only for a day. It made me realize how would Bill be if he was on my shoes.
Saturday, October 31, 2009
Wednesday, October 21, 2009
A normal day in Montessori-detailed.
Okay, this blog post won't be much regarded as important but it might be something that would bring nostalgia when i read this years from now.
I arrived in school just in time and after praying, singing the national anthem, say the panatang makabayan, dance "Jai Ho" and sing the march song, we went to our classroom for our first class of the day, English, with sir Manto. In English, we didn't do much except compute for our grades and sir Manto gave us some assignment but thank God, they're vocabulary. Before sir Manto went to his next class, he told me to read editorials coz he made me compete for an essay writing contest- how's that?
Then T.H.E time came, in which T. Mafel talks about fishes and ways to preserve them. Gt and i shared a book on the back and we drew some fraeuleins in my intermediate pad at the back of the class. I guess Gt had some plans on embarking the fashion world than the world of medicine.-If you know what i mean. ;-)
Next came recess time when i ate some siu mei, meringues and drank a cup of royal. At first, i hanged around with my classmates in the lobby then soon after, the second years were dismissed. When i glimpsed at the two people whom i kinda consider as my "best buds"(i don't want to get hurt badly from losing a best friend again so who knows they might be my best friends or just close friends), i joined up with them and soon our daily Harry Potter discussion began. Jonathan flooded me with much Harry Potter questions out from his curiousity, asking me who's the greatest teacher in Hogwarts, spells that were taught there, about the horcruxes and such. Although it nags me up a bit, i don't care. Im happy that i have them for friends, all these times i don't have not even one Harry Potter loving friend to talk to in years(not counting internet friends like those from PF). Also, they proved to me that God is okay with me being a Harry Potter fan since why did God sent me some God loving, Harry Potter fans who had a Baptist pastor for a dad if God knows that Harry Potter's evil especially for me? Beat that, Joma Villahermosa.
Then the bell rang and it was time for Economics, the first time of the day in which we'll be meeting sir Ian. During eco class, Sir Ian was telling us a "fairytale"( or nonsense that involves a dwarf- an inside joke about PGMA). Phoebe on the other hand got interested with my Lady Gaga-isque headband that she wore it and also kept talking about non-sense. Non sense she talked about was Barack Obama was the Anti-Christ. Well, for me it's non-sense since she doesn't have any concrete proof. She said that in the book of Isaiah, he was mentioned there in Greek. Who knows, it may be a different Barack Obama or the translations could be wrong. And i don't want to judge people without knowing them who they really are since it's only God Himself who could judge people and i am not God. I would believe in Barack Obama as the antichrist if there was enough proof to support her claim. To see is to believe, they say.
The bell rang and it was math time, Sir Ian immediately threw a quiz. Thank God, i studied yesterday so i got 21/30(which is not bad, i guess. But i should do better next time), but i don't really get out new lesson in math. About the coterminal things and such, i just hope that i'll get it soon so i won't mess up on my next math exams again- like what happened last time.
After sir Ian gave us our assignment, he went off and it was lunchtime. After eating my lunch of fried rice from the canteen and vienna sausages that i brought(with Kassel nakikiepal about my lunch since she always notice along with Twinkle that my lunch is always cup noodles), i went to the library where i made my assignment in math and talk a little bit with Mark and Jonathan, the two Malabanan brothers. Then sir Jojo opened up the computer in the library and played a movie(the ten commandments), probably testing out if the CD works or not. After the bell rang, my buddies Jon and Mark left me but my classmates entered the library after telling them to go there earlier to watch sir Jojo's movie. I agree that watching movies is also a good way to learn things.
I arrived in school just in time and after praying, singing the national anthem, say the panatang makabayan, dance "Jai Ho" and sing the march song, we went to our classroom for our first class of the day, English, with sir Manto. In English, we didn't do much except compute for our grades and sir Manto gave us some assignment but thank God, they're vocabulary. Before sir Manto went to his next class, he told me to read editorials coz he made me compete for an essay writing contest- how's that?
Then T.H.E time came, in which T. Mafel talks about fishes and ways to preserve them. Gt and i shared a book on the back and we drew some fraeuleins in my intermediate pad at the back of the class. I guess Gt had some plans on embarking the fashion world than the world of medicine.-If you know what i mean. ;-)
Next came recess time when i ate some siu mei, meringues and drank a cup of royal. At first, i hanged around with my classmates in the lobby then soon after, the second years were dismissed. When i glimpsed at the two people whom i kinda consider as my "best buds"(i don't want to get hurt badly from losing a best friend again so who knows they might be my best friends or just close friends), i joined up with them and soon our daily Harry Potter discussion began. Jonathan flooded me with much Harry Potter questions out from his curiousity, asking me who's the greatest teacher in Hogwarts, spells that were taught there, about the horcruxes and such. Although it nags me up a bit, i don't care. Im happy that i have them for friends, all these times i don't have not even one Harry Potter loving friend to talk to in years(not counting internet friends like those from PF). Also, they proved to me that God is okay with me being a Harry Potter fan since why did God sent me some God loving, Harry Potter fans who had a Baptist pastor for a dad if God knows that Harry Potter's evil especially for me? Beat that, Joma Villahermosa.
Then the bell rang and it was time for Economics, the first time of the day in which we'll be meeting sir Ian. During eco class, Sir Ian was telling us a "fairytale"( or nonsense that involves a dwarf- an inside joke about PGMA). Phoebe on the other hand got interested with my Lady Gaga-isque headband that she wore it and also kept talking about non-sense. Non sense she talked about was Barack Obama was the Anti-Christ. Well, for me it's non-sense since she doesn't have any concrete proof. She said that in the book of Isaiah, he was mentioned there in Greek. Who knows, it may be a different Barack Obama or the translations could be wrong. And i don't want to judge people without knowing them who they really are since it's only God Himself who could judge people and i am not God. I would believe in Barack Obama as the antichrist if there was enough proof to support her claim. To see is to believe, they say.
The bell rang and it was math time, Sir Ian immediately threw a quiz. Thank God, i studied yesterday so i got 21/30(which is not bad, i guess. But i should do better next time), but i don't really get out new lesson in math. About the coterminal things and such, i just hope that i'll get it soon so i won't mess up on my next math exams again- like what happened last time.
After sir Ian gave us our assignment, he went off and it was lunchtime. After eating my lunch of fried rice from the canteen and vienna sausages that i brought(with Kassel nakikiepal about my lunch since she always notice along with Twinkle that my lunch is always cup noodles), i went to the library where i made my assignment in math and talk a little bit with Mark and Jonathan, the two Malabanan brothers. Then sir Jojo opened up the computer in the library and played a movie(the ten commandments), probably testing out if the CD works or not. After the bell rang, my buddies Jon and Mark left me but my classmates entered the library after telling them to go there earlier to watch sir Jojo's movie. I agree that watching movies is also a good way to learn things.
Wednesday, October 14, 2009
Meet the Malabanans
Before i entered IJMCP, i expected that i will have no Harry Potter loving friends there since back then i had the notion that Harry Potter is for kids only. But surprise took me the moment i met Gt and his cousins ate Kim and -especially- Keith. They proved to me that highschool students can also enjoy the joys Harry Potter give when they became my best friends. But like the saying that i learnt in Montessori "Nothing is constant in this world but change", my friends quickly changed their ways and slid away from me. Although Gt, ate Kim, Tata and Nr still treats me well, Keith was different. He treats me like i don't exist and tries everything he can to avoid me to the point when some teacher tries to group me and him in a project or dance, he would find a way to shake either me or him off the team. He would find a way to seperate us even if it would take serious means to break it off. And im amazed he almost always manage to seperate. So, other than breaking my friendship with him, he really did a good job to soar my hatred on him to the point i want him to disappear in my life and never see him again.
Two years after experiencing a kind of betrayal from friends whom i thought would never suddenly change, i never wished having Harry Potter loving friends again in my highschool life and became numb when it comes to having best friends. I just don't want to get hurt again like what they-especially Keith- did to me. I just told myself to get used with being alone and my only close friends in school are my classmates and sir Ian. I don't want to be messed up with another friendship that would leave me again in agony especially it will be my last year in highschool. It took me about two years(october 2007 to april 2009) to get over it and i don't want to get through another frustration again.
But then, two second year students moved in to Montessori and when i saw them first i expected them to be total loners(and i promised myself to be close with my classmates only), Harry Potter haters(since they are devout born-agains like Phoebe) and had no chances of being close friends with me but i made a grievous fault.
June has passed and i was having fun within the comfort zone of my classmates. But then fate has it that most of us got seperated with each other because of the Nutrition Month cooking fest. All highschool students were divided into seperate groups and almost all fourth years were made to be leaders of the groups. I ended up to be the leader of the team which composed of Asriel, Twinkle, Marlon, Camille and Jonathan. I never, ever expected anything from Jonathan and i treated him something like scheisse even if Twinkle insisted on me that Jonathan is an expert on cooking since his mom is learning to be a chef. In the end, i gave in and made Jonathan my junior assistant(with Asrie as my volunteering head chef/senior assistant). Then there was a sudden twist of fate when Jonathan found out that i was a Harry Potter fan. "So what?" my stressed-from-doing-everything-and-studying-for-the-UPCAT self snapped at Jonathan. He smiled and told me that he was also a Harry Potter fan too, as well as his siblings Mark, Emerson, Clarisse and James. So that began a friendship that i never expected will bloom out.
At first, i don't hang that much with them since im afraid that they are maybe like Gt, Keith and ate Kim- who will also leave me for good. But after long, i began to consider them as my homies including Marlon and NR. After the Nutrition month celebration, i began to hang out with them in the library, telling them things about Harry Potter. Not long, i found myself having lunch with them and our conversations went beyond Harry Potter. Due to constant pressure in the sportsfest and my numbness on best friendships, i think i started eating with them at either the weeks during my cheering practice or the week when i was studying for the DLSUCET since i remember telling them that i will take the DLSUCET and they are all bidding me "Good luck".
Well, now it's only a few months away before i have to graduate and leave Montessori, im so glad i finally made good friends such as the Malabanans before i go and start life again. I hope i'll be able to keep in touch with them and also meet friends as good as them when im in college. With all the challenges that lies on college life, who knows i will or i won't?
Two years after experiencing a kind of betrayal from friends whom i thought would never suddenly change, i never wished having Harry Potter loving friends again in my highschool life and became numb when it comes to having best friends. I just don't want to get hurt again like what they-especially Keith- did to me. I just told myself to get used with being alone and my only close friends in school are my classmates and sir Ian. I don't want to be messed up with another friendship that would leave me again in agony especially it will be my last year in highschool. It took me about two years(october 2007 to april 2009) to get over it and i don't want to get through another frustration again.
But then, two second year students moved in to Montessori and when i saw them first i expected them to be total loners(and i promised myself to be close with my classmates only), Harry Potter haters(since they are devout born-agains like Phoebe) and had no chances of being close friends with me but i made a grievous fault.
June has passed and i was having fun within the comfort zone of my classmates. But then fate has it that most of us got seperated with each other because of the Nutrition Month cooking fest. All highschool students were divided into seperate groups and almost all fourth years were made to be leaders of the groups. I ended up to be the leader of the team which composed of Asriel, Twinkle, Marlon, Camille and Jonathan. I never, ever expected anything from Jonathan and i treated him something like scheisse even if Twinkle insisted on me that Jonathan is an expert on cooking since his mom is learning to be a chef. In the end, i gave in and made Jonathan my junior assistant(with Asrie as my volunteering head chef/senior assistant). Then there was a sudden twist of fate when Jonathan found out that i was a Harry Potter fan. "So what?" my stressed-from-doing-everything-and-studying-for-the-UPCAT self snapped at Jonathan. He smiled and told me that he was also a Harry Potter fan too, as well as his siblings Mark, Emerson, Clarisse and James. So that began a friendship that i never expected will bloom out.
At first, i don't hang that much with them since im afraid that they are maybe like Gt, Keith and ate Kim- who will also leave me for good. But after long, i began to consider them as my homies including Marlon and NR. After the Nutrition month celebration, i began to hang out with them in the library, telling them things about Harry Potter. Not long, i found myself having lunch with them and our conversations went beyond Harry Potter. Due to constant pressure in the sportsfest and my numbness on best friendships, i think i started eating with them at either the weeks during my cheering practice or the week when i was studying for the DLSUCET since i remember telling them that i will take the DLSUCET and they are all bidding me "Good luck".
Well, now it's only a few months away before i have to graduate and leave Montessori, im so glad i finally made good friends such as the Malabanans before i go and start life again. I hope i'll be able to keep in touch with them and also meet friends as good as them when im in college. With all the challenges that lies on college life, who knows i will or i won't?
Monday, October 12, 2009
DLSUCET: Sorrows and surprises
Following the ACET in my list was the DLSUCET. I thought that the DLSUCET was easier than the ACET- from all those claims that La Salle only takes kiddies with very rich mommies and daddies, never minding how intelligent the kid is- but i was wrong(along with those guys who assumed to me that La Salle is the most low-iq among the big three). Turned out that in La Salle, you money not only matters but also brains. At least i had fun as much as i had when i took the ACET.
Before i took the test, i met two girls, Katrina(from Saint Paul QC) and Meg(from FEU FERN). We talked a bit about the test and the fact that we were still sleepy.
i gave out some text messages to GT, ate Ash, dad and kuya Cj, telling them "shutang inamets, im about to take the La Salle exam". Soon after the test had started, i scanned my test booklet and was surprised to see how hard the math sub test was, then i started doing the first subtest(an IQ test most likely since it shows problem solving questions and analogies) in my exam. Five minutes to go and i got finished answering them. Then i went frantic when i realized that i was shading at the wrong questions for the last ten questions- with all of my answers a question after the question i intended to answer with my given shades). So i hurriedly erased all ten of them and shaded them again, i finished just in time for the proctor to announce to move on to the next subtest. Man, i made one big mess on my testpaper but i hope my answers will be considered since it would be a waste. =(
After some time, i found myself answering the math questions- with my least fave math topic Geometry, some fourth year maths and the topic we haven't discussed about as of that time, Trigonometry. Although i asked sir Ian for help before the DLSUCET, it just gave me little help since most of the trigonometry questions were those complicated ones.-gasp!! So much for Trigonometry. Then break time came and i met Meg again, who told me that solving logarithms should be solved with calculators. I was shocked about it, since sir Ian never let us use calculators to solve logarithms(and im a big fail at the more complicated log, honestly.=p). Lugi ka ngayon.
After some more tedious IQ tests, there came the reading comp. in which it made me lighten up a bit. If the Ateneo Reading Comprehension mentioned Indonesia, Singapore and made me go into an untimely rapture of Bill(long story), it was nothing comapred to the awesomeness i saw in De La Salle's. They mentioned Hong Kong(buh-na-na-nah), Seoul, Gisele Buenchen, Jay-Z, Star Trek and most of all Harry Potter!!! Now that's what i call an entrance exam!!!
i gave out some text messages to GT, ate Ash, dad and kuya Cj, telling them "shutang inamets, im about to take the La Salle exam". Soon after the test had started, i scanned my test booklet and was surprised to see how hard the math sub test was, then i started doing the first subtest(an IQ test most likely since it shows problem solving questions and analogies) in my exam. Five minutes to go and i got finished answering them. Then i went frantic when i realized that i was shading at the wrong questions for the last ten questions- with all of my answers a question after the question i intended to answer with my given shades). So i hurriedly erased all ten of them and shaded them again, i finished just in time for the proctor to announce to move on to the next subtest. Man, i made one big mess on my testpaper but i hope my answers will be considered since it would be a waste. =(
After some time, i found myself answering the math questions- with my least fave math topic Geometry, some fourth year maths and the topic we haven't discussed about as of that time, Trigonometry. Although i asked sir Ian for help before the DLSUCET, it just gave me little help since most of the trigonometry questions were those complicated ones.-gasp!! So much for Trigonometry. Then break time came and i met Meg again, who told me that solving logarithms should be solved with calculators. I was shocked about it, since sir Ian never let us use calculators to solve logarithms(and im a big fail at the more complicated log, honestly.=p). Lugi ka ngayon.
After some more tedious IQ tests, there came the reading comp. in which it made me lighten up a bit. If the Ateneo Reading Comprehension mentioned Indonesia, Singapore and made me go into an untimely rapture of Bill(long story), it was nothing comapred to the awesomeness i saw in De La Salle's. They mentioned Hong Kong(buh-na-na-nah), Seoul, Gisele Buenchen, Jay-Z, Star Trek and most of all Harry Potter!!! Now that's what i call an entrance exam!!!
Sportsfest!!!!
Last october 1 and 2 was the Sportsfest which was held in Lucena city. =P
I never expected that we would win lots and only one winner in the cheering contest!!(shutang inamets)
I was soooooo upset when it was announced that there was only one winner in the Highschool cheering contest and that was freaking Lucena( the Mary Sue-ish among the four branches of Montessori. They're like always the first...) . In the yesteryears, there was three declared winners. And now that Lucena became host school, it became horribly unfair. Only one winner... wtf?
Of all the hard work, the confidence, the body aches and the torment i endured during my practices and what we got was nothing? It would be okay with me even if all of the branches were given awards like before and it would be okay for me that San Pablo would even end up as third, at least we had recognition for that.
Also i heard from some of the Montessori San Pablo moms(tita Weny, Abby's mom, tita Flor) that Lucena started practicing their dance since august, while Lipa and us just started on the second week of september. It was really unfair, we all should have the same practice time just like the SPF.
At least, my dear classmate Riz won the title "Miss Sportsfest" later that night. Like when the special awards were given out(all of the special highschool awards were garnered by Twinkie aka Lucena candidate), we thought that Twinkie would win so me, Dean and Phoebe decided to leave the audience out of disgust and disappointment, but we were shocked to hear that Rizelle became "Miss Sportsfest". - It was like a miracle, but as the saying goes "...walang himala!"
And then came the second day- aka ball games high school day- i came to Lucena late but just in time to hear that Lucena-again- won the girls' volleball game. Then came the San Pablo vs. Lipa boys' volleyball( and San Pablo won). Then the teachers' volleyball game (in which Lucena won over Lipa/San Pablo). I left Lucena out of disgust as the basketball boys finals San Pablo vs. Lucena has begun.
Then on monday, i was surprised to hear that San Pablo became champions in the basketball- after 6 years!!
I never expected that we would win lots and only one winner in the cheering contest!!(shutang inamets)
I was soooooo upset when it was announced that there was only one winner in the Highschool cheering contest and that was freaking Lucena( the Mary Sue-ish among the four branches of Montessori. They're like always the first...) . In the yesteryears, there was three declared winners. And now that Lucena became host school, it became horribly unfair. Only one winner... wtf?
Of all the hard work, the confidence, the body aches and the torment i endured during my practices and what we got was nothing? It would be okay with me even if all of the branches were given awards like before and it would be okay for me that San Pablo would even end up as third, at least we had recognition for that.
Also i heard from some of the Montessori San Pablo moms(tita Weny, Abby's mom, tita Flor) that Lucena started practicing their dance since august, while Lipa and us just started on the second week of september. It was really unfair, we all should have the same practice time just like the SPF.
At least, my dear classmate Riz won the title "Miss Sportsfest" later that night. Like when the special awards were given out(all of the special highschool awards were garnered by Twinkie aka Lucena candidate), we thought that Twinkie would win so me, Dean and Phoebe decided to leave the audience out of disgust and disappointment, but we were shocked to hear that Rizelle became "Miss Sportsfest". - It was like a miracle, but as the saying goes "...walang himala!"
And then came the second day- aka ball games high school day- i came to Lucena late but just in time to hear that Lucena-again- won the girls' volleball game. Then came the San Pablo vs. Lipa boys' volleyball( and San Pablo won). Then the teachers' volleyball game (in which Lucena won over Lipa/San Pablo). I left Lucena out of disgust as the basketball boys finals San Pablo vs. Lucena has begun.
Then on monday, i was surprised to hear that San Pablo became champions in the basketball- after 6 years!!
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