Wednesday, March 29, 2006
Lukan's Last Moment
12 am from tagaytay, i woke up with a weird feeling in my tummy and threw up. this went on per hour in the succeeding three hours so i couldn't sleep. thoughts came in my mind that i won't be able to go to our junior section's outing which i've lead. my body was failing me.
i was friggin' sick.
i waited until my mom woke up and told her about it and we went to a hospital for check up. my guesses were right. my body accumulated an infection due to my cough, dehydration, booze intake and not eating well which may have lead to a premature ulcer. the doc gave me four distasteful tablets to be taken everyday until i'm fully well. but what i liked about it is that i have to drink lots of gatorade! yeah, happy moments. but i couldn't drink booze, coffee, tea, softdrinks nor eat spicy foods.
at last i was home. i've slept for awhile and woke up the time aldrin called me. he said to go there immediately and bring some needed stuff and that ma'am maal was on her way already. oh yeah, there sure needed it alright. cigarettes. my 100 bucks got washed up 'cause of 'em. and being a good boy i didn't take some no matter how hard they tempted me. i just had a couple of beer bottles. nah! just 2 small glass shots and thats all. hehe. i couldn't swim either which kept me away from the pool 'cause everyone just had that intention of getting me wet. man. what a night.
i had my brother fetch me as well with 4 lukers so our small car wasn't very spacious then. maal and i had to sit on the front seat together (yipee!). too bad we left already when the real party started. i wasn't there when the others boozed off and experienced what was never experienced before by many of our age. haha. crazy naughty bastards. anyway, at least i'm okay now, i think. just gonna keep up with eating, drinking and sleeping most of the time until my body recharges. then back to booze and puff intake! whaha. ciao!
Chad || 10:52 PM
Monday, March 27, 2006
Tagay-tay
once again john arranged an outing for all of us in his rest house in tagaytay. the last time was 2 years ago i think? anyway, this time there were twelve of us and the trip would last for only two days and a night, again. well it was supposed to be three days and two nights but most parents didn't approve of it. we had loads of fun...not to mention that there were no adults to limit our actions! we were free men, for the time being. darren and albert brought their ps2s so we played and cracked each other's skulls off in tekken, bloody roar, soul caliber and such. after game time we went to the park in the sky and witnessed the great views and took some goofy pictures.
next stop, the picnic grove! we ventured through the long and bumpy road with laughs and trips. it eventually lead us to another great view. the taal view i mean, where the clouds strife with the cold damp air to create that scenery where the mist engulfs everything, leaving only a slight blurry view of whats ahead. there was also this time where we played a game of balance in the playground. there were six see-saws in which each two sat on one and tried to balance it without the feet touching the ground. albert and i won! the said prize was ice cream, which we didn't get! grr.
night came and we banged on the booze we bought at 7-11. we played cards, listened to music, watched movies and talked about almost everything. we watched euro trip, by the way. it was a total laugh trip. we continued the boozin' on the rooftop where everyone let their anguish and frustrations out. yeah, booze loosens the tongue but i didn't think it would go so intense like what it did to three of us. we ended the night with scary ghost stories while playing fatal frame 2. i was the one playing and when i passed the controller for another to play, everyone was fast asleep. i did the same too, in that bed where six of us slept. ouch.
the next morning we just enjoyed the day until we went home at about 5pm. we stopped by rp at about 8 something to eat and then went home, tired.
Chad || 8:44 AM
Sunday, March 26, 2006
High School Grad
finally, after 11 years of studying at marist i have graduated! this school has surely shaped me to somewhat what i have wanted to become and also made me realize what i should become in the nearing future. so many friends, companions and such i have supported who also did the same to me made me confident in the next phase of every high school graduate's goal: college.
the ceremony was very memorable. we weren't serious and all but we knew how valuable and important it was to us. we laughed, talked and shouted like we weren't given instructions to follow. nonetheless the faculty and staff didn't mind. our batch was the very first, of all the decades of grad ceremonies that marist ever had, to receive our diploma in an enclosed hard jacket. its something to be really proud of. at the end of the exercise, everyone joined in the moshpit and slammed with everyone else even though all wore sweaty barongs and newly polished leather shoes. every teacher greeted us with congraulations and teary goodbyes. then we bid farewell to our batchmates with hugs, shakes, and picture takings. the last song just sucked. it was narda! hell it should have been wishful thinking of john petrucci! frickin' mr. eching.
i'm really gonna miss high school life, as i learned how to be an asshole in those times. but college sure is promising to be worse! i'm excited at the same time nervous and scared but most of all, i'm curious. i guess most of us are. the only thing we can do is hope for the best in the upcoming years. good luck graduates!
Chad || 10:28 PM
Saturday, March 25, 2006
Ours Forever
people kept asking me to send our grad song to them. it was just now when i realized i should have uploaded it in my blog so that people can get an easy hands on! anyway, just click on play if you want to listen or right click and then copy the url on properties to download. lyrics are just right below.
ours forever marista batch '06 grad song
composed by ken, joal and chadlooking through what was before, a dire glass of what we're for. we've had our ups and downs. and all of the friends that we have made, im sure we'll never seperate, the countless pains and joys. bring back our frozen memories and fly away. things will never be the same as it takes our time away. we go on, we remember everything will be forever. as we move on to a better place, new friends we will create. still nothing will ever replace everything that we have made.
Chad || 9:17 PM
Friday, March 24, 2006
Recognition
i finally got it! the certificate of recognition in the performing arts. only four of us was awarded with it from the whole cluster and it happened to be me, ep, ged and james. delay should feel so proud considering all four are from the band. heres the scan:
i was supposed to get this last march 17 but i wasn't able to attend the recognition day because dany invited me first to play with coalesce in their sophomore night at vale verde 4, which was fun. i met new friends and old ones but unfortunately i wasn't able to join them in tiendesitas, i had to go early. anyway, i feel really great about receiving this award. this is proof that music really is one of the things we love getting into. lets keep rockin!
Chad || 9:33 PM
Tuesday, March 21, 2006
Last Days
just a few more days to go and we would have graduated from marist already. i just noticed how time could seem to have passed by so fast. anyway, this week was one of the busiest i've had although we should all be sitting back and relaxing by now. i had to finish that yearbook video a pre-school from town & country paid me to do (thanks john! i'll have to add that to my resume in the future) and i also had to finish typing my part for our yearbook committee which contained 40 pages that are the biographies of the students of section slr! my fingers almost snapped from typing that time.
graduation practices are okay except for the fact that it's so damn boring. you could just imagine in these two weeks of rehearsals all we'd do is sing the songs and sing them over and over again until most get them right. in the processional we'd stand and wait for me and my partner's turn to walk towards our seat and it is only then we can sit down when the last pair gets to their seats which is pair number one hundred-something. grr. what i like about it is that everyone gets to sing the graduation song we composed. oh i feel so proud.
good thing practices last for only half a day. after that we'd go to james's house and hang out for the rest of the day. we'd play playstation and computer games to beat the hell out of each other, watch some stuff and of course food tripping as nothing can beat the caseroles of our moms! yeah, these are the times...
Chad || 12:30 PM
Tuesday, March 07, 2006
The Exams
finals na bukas! the very last exams in our whole high school years...whoohoo! haha nakakatuwa lang. at school earlier at about lunch time, we watched the farewell video i made for smc and i was happy that everyone was happy about it. i gave myself the liberty of selling them a copy for a small price. after all, i didn't cost the edit for anything. god i'm gonna miss high school...all my friends, bandmates, acquaintances, barkada, mga kainuman, kasama sa bisyo (sorry if its a negative thing for you and i'm not saying it's positive), the teachers, the food maski sawang sawa nako kase araw-araw pare-parehas na lang! pati naren siguro yung mga taong hindi ko kasundo o kung ano man, basta everythings all part of it 'coz it wouldn't be what it is if one part is missing. anyway, sige na...aral muna ako! haha!
Chad || 4:10 AM
Sunday, March 05, 2006
Legacy
at first i really wasn't planning to go to the legacy until nica invited me and at the same time i knew that friends of mine were also coming. i went with joal and anjo and when we arrived we got with dany, krisha, her lil' sis, john, albert and dan. we tripped around and watched the bands. there was hale, itchyworms, other amateur bands and assumption's own.
finally there was bamboo. i was really surprised about how they performed. they were really awesome! stage performance to the max. now i know what makes bamboo what he is. dan and i most of the time sang and waved our hands the whole bamboo performance though it rained. i got home contented. 250 php for the ticket was kind of worth it. go bamboo!
Chad || 9:33 AM
Friday, March 03, 2006
UP Strolling
last thursday i went to up diliman to check if i passed the upcat. i didn't care if i'll fail or pass though, i was just really bored at home. well, not really. i was nervous! 'cause the results will determine what school i'll be in for the next coming years...i rode a jeep from masinag and an unsuspecting incident happened. for most people when they ride a jeepney they would sit where there's more space right? thats what i did, i sit beside an old man who was farthest from the entrance. little did i know that he was somewhat weird and that he carried a real gun in his right hand while his left one carrying vegetables was covering it. i only knew this after the driver said "alam kong may dala ka. san mo balak pumunta tatang? naiilang na mga pasahero ko sayo!" the man replied with grunts and not-so-decent words and then he looked at every one of us with a keen eye. the driver and the man continued arguing. good thing we were at marcos highway so the driver just told the military on the checkpoint about it and they took him away.
i met up with a childhood friend, nola, at ministop so we'll go there together. we got lost in a while but after some time we found the palma hall and looked for the results. we scanned the papers only to find out we didn't pass. bummer. i should have known...well, i had a strong feeling i wouldn't pass but my hardheadedness kept me hoping. we just went to places after and then went home. oh well.
actually i still don't know what school i really like if i was to choose between ust and up. yeah, i like up for it's high standards, popularity and low tuition fees but there's something special about ust. people there aren't that liberated, not like some of those in up who waged war to the government foolishly and believed that they are fighting for their rights. but anyway, i'm not very much into politics as long as it's pro-progress. ust also isn't that big plus the fact that i have many friends already studying there, not to mention my sister and her barkada. should i audition for up's talent test? nahh...i guess i'll take business in ust instead.
Chad || 10:52 PM
