extranaybella

it's finally sem break, hurrah! so i stayed up late (until almost 4am) reading this new manga i discovered (thought it was only a taiwanese telenovela, apparently like meteor garden it was actually based on a japanese manga) and so i didn't wake up today until a bit after 10am. still short on the hours, but i woke up mainly because of this freaky dream i had. don't remember the details, but it was something like med school/my being an evp but supposedly for 2 years/some olden time in england - think sherlock holmes time/then a freaky woman who plays with corpses from some order (not dominican or franciscan... can't remember what exactly, though) who was hugging a head but i didn't see that bit as she left but was told by my companion, dyan, i think/then us not really bullying but more like interrogating some younger one before entering a sorority-like society dyan and i were supposedly members of/then dyan being scared about wearing slippers so she asked permission to change quickly which entailed her leaving the room and then i was alone with poor girl being interrogated then i made her look just at me that time someone other than dyan entered - dunno if that person really came in - but it was supposedly the freaky woman/then a full-blown ala-squat invasion of the place since i think dyan called them to capture freaky woman then everyone was there - even bev, and a few other schoolmates from med school/we were all trying to wait for the woman to come back and we ended up hiding outside some veranda-ish place but the silhouettes could still be seen and from where we were we couldn't hear the conversation that we thought would happen - woman hasn't arrived - bev was trying to fix the other side by blocking off the sun so our silhouettes wouldn't be seen at the back.../then i tried moving to other parts so i could see and hear, but i'd ratherr just hear, then i saw a spot in the open air but would've been covered from view - funny bit was a lot of us were there - not a lot, but yeah/then we waited then i heard this sound and saw an ultra slow-mo bullet coming at my direction, hitting the spot where i was just a few seconds ago straight into my shadow on the wall - so they knew we were there, then another but this time i heard it somehow but it was coming straight at me again and i dodged it just in time so i scrambled for shelter behind the rock then again i heard it and it was for me again but this time i was behind the rock so was covered, then i think there was a fourth one still for me but by that time i was at the back area behind the curtain somewhere...
thing is it felt so real (except the bit about the slow-mo) that i woke up having that nervous feeling and all and it was so freaky... why was i the only target? weird.
just something for me to remember!

eeeew! there's another person in the world with the same nickname AND spelling as mine.
she's a multiply user and she stumbled upon my site, probably wondering who the original icca is :p
but really, i couldn't very well say these things over there at multiply where she may stumble upon this particular entry, so i'm ranting here. eeeew, though. i wanna spy on her...

that's not really a bad thing, but considering my true age it's just sad. i'm talking about the fact that i've only had one major crush in my lifetime, the rest being futile attempts to perk up my daily life a bit, not that i really need more perkiness, but it's just nice to see nice-looking faces once in a while. and that's just it, they're just eyecandy AND they're so few! woe is me. anyhoo, the real sad part is that i'm afraid i'm starting to develop another major crush on someone i don't even know! well, i didn't really know the first one, but he was a friend's friend and someone accessible since he was in the same campus, in the same college, and in a building right beside our's even! and in the end we DID get introduced by another friend. but this one's unknown and not even from within the country! oh no! and i feel so giddy just seeing that he viewed my site and PM-ed me only because i pirated stuff from his and said thanks first. and i can't even muster up the courage to properly stalk him since it feels like such a sneaky thing to do. it's like being a thirteen-year old and NOT all over again.

it all started at 4:45am...
had a stint as an usherette for this year's graduation at picc.
unbelievable! the parents came earlier than the ushers!
it was chaotic, but in the end turned out well,
especially for me! hihi. 2nd line, the best place to be ushering.
then i slept the whole afternoon before going to my cousin's
then we went to our uncle's where we eventually had a dinner feast
and received our christmas gifts! fun!
... and ended just now.

i had a super long siesta today. i think i slept for 5 hours.
i'd wake up once in a while to change my position since it was
just too hot i sweat through the sheets. gross, huh? but i remember
dreaming about dragons or fireworks or dragon fireworks. it may be
because of my reading harry potter now, what with all the weasley twins'
joke shop products and dream journals, but i distinctly remember
dreaming something like normal fireworks - those beautiful ones that
burst, the ones we didn't used to have here in the philippines but
now everyone does during new year's - but instead of simple colored
sparks, it'd burst into dragon-shaped lights that shone a golden-orange
color, much like the sunset. and instead of fading before they
reached the ground, these sparks of light turned into real dragons,
falling on cars in a parking lot, damaging the roofs and hoods and
whatever part of the car they hit. they weren't so big, though. they
didn't exceed the length of a car's roof. then i started picking up
pencils in the parking lot between and under the cars, as if the
dragons that had fallen on the cars turned into pencils as they
rolled and hit the ground. there was also a bit about a church-ish place
with beautiful cakes and sweets in little tables in every corner of
each room. i didn't know who they were for, but i did get a slice of
one of the cakes and hurried off feeling very much like a burglar.
i'd love to see the dragon-fireworks in another dream soon, but i hope
none of the dragons would fall on me.

went to school to clean our sc office i.e. throw out trash piled up from eons ago
sighting #1 (someone else's): not such a happy sighting seeing as it was for an exam
sighting #2 (same as above's): stalked a while pretending to throw out trash
clean clean clean
looking dingy the whole time what with my old dark clothes get-up and messed up hair
free lunch care of petty cash! kfc bucket meal original recipe
sighting #3 (for another someone): didn't get to stalk
starting to feel ashamed of my appearance
finally, after 7 hours of cleaning - bee-yoo-tee-ful! or better, at least
stalked our adviser at the dean's office to talk about the upcoming apmc planning seminar
sighting #4 (mine!): oooh! just as i was about to leave. oh happy day!

went to edsa shrine to avail of this once-in-a-lifetime chance to receive plenary indulgence and to pass it on to daddy
got a free green rosary c/o unknown old man while waiting for my turn at the confessional box
heard mass featuring st. martin de porres - the building where i study is named after him!
apparently he is the patron saint of mixed cultures and healing of man and animals, if i remember correctly.
timeline: said vows 1603 - died 1639 - canonized 1962 (?)
when i finally got to go to confession, the priest gave me a LONG sermon/lecture/talk that when i finally got out, no one was left in the line except frances
fell asleep while frances finished her prayer for penance
went home, let frances email
read a bit of pharma
fell asleep
frances left when i woke up a bit, then i fell asleep again
was dead to the world for a long time
finally woke up and cooked myself dinner: garlic fried rice with cheese omelette and bacon.
mmm!
but nowadays the bacon no longer tastes all THAT good - maybe because this batch is unusually thick, can't get it crunchy without burning it a bit. grrr.
but still mmm, good!

hmm, look below - looks more like wishful thinking than contemplative! :p

COCC sword = sir galahad
shuffle = teany sen
laptop = totoro titanium
iPod = howl, i think
(already dead) pink rose bush = sophienk

ok. done.

i give up
i will no longer force my hair on its 'wrong' side
i tried, but it won't follow
so now it's cut on the 'right' side again
that is, with the cut on the left side going to the right
but that doesn't sound right
but if you get what i mean, hurrah for you!

had quite a non-productive but fulfilling day to-day:
called fides this morning and chatted away for about two hours
she invited me to this intermed dance thing, free ticket!
of course i agreed to go - when else does one get an invitation from the goddess herself?
so i spent the rest of the day, between 11am and 4pm, pretending to study
but really not doing anything of the sort
i DID watch tv and surf the net, though
then i dressed up and went on my way to st. paul
same place where trp was held
there i saw jamoi! he's part of the ust med choir
they won 2nd place, 1st was la salle
then ust won 3rd in the dance competition part, up 1st
i saw many people, one of whom was my new-found apo reef friend, francis
juno and lulu came to support jamoi, saw many familiar 2010 faces from pgh
alric was there, and so was allan and more abm-ers from both pgh and ust
fides' thai classmate, missy, is funny
and she fancied the same boy,
little does she know that i know his name though...
then the goddess and i went to beverly hills to surprise its occupants
we chanced upon three: pao, bev, and hazel
chatted away till 12am or something
until fides' mom threatened to be at my house in 30 minutes
so off we went and rode a cab home
then we toyed with totoro titanium a bit, while waiting for the threat to materialize
and i gave fides her birthday gift - 20 days early!
a real totoro purse!

i made one goddess very happy to-day!
and one mortal not much smarter.