Grace's Mind-it-on-your-own

Hope La Salle wins today's game against Ateneo. :)

Went for a swim at Grace Village's swimming pool with my sis this morning. It was okay. :) Just shows that i am truly unfit. :) But then, we plan to go back again next Sunday. :)

Well, my sis and I got this sunburn. :) But the thing is, hers is worst. I mean, we both got in and out of the pool together, but then her sunburn affects her more than it does to me. :0 Her skin is so sensitive to the sun, ever since she got this really bad sunburn at Boracay. We had to put on aloe vera over her sunburned skin so that she could get relief.

Anyway we were thinking of buying Ultimate Cheese Pizza at Pizza Hut at that time, but then, when we got there, the store was still close; it was around 1030am. So, we just bought some wheat and rye bread nearby. Yummy! Not bad for a small store. :)

Well, i just spent the rest of the afternoon watching tv and checking some stuff on the net.

I called by bestfriend by 6pm and we talked for a while, for 30 minutes i guess. :) Well, she is pretty quiet today, but then i guess it is because she is tired after having a rough week; sleeping late finishing tons of papers. Well, we would always have those times when we both talk a lot, when one of us just does most of the talking or both of us not talking much at all but still not hanging up. I guess it is just one of those days that i am the one talking much more and she is listening and taking a rest. :)

Well, my dad has a fever. I hope he gets well soon. :0

Wooh... been downloading updates for windows xp since this morning, as well as downloading a lot of other stuff. Oh well... hope it ends soon. I need to get to IT-RESM class.

Hmm... The second week of school was okay. :) I did enjoy philosophy class as well as elementary french class. :) well, orient3 was okay. we did some talking and presentation. JPRIZAL is kinda a little boring except for the stories that our professor tell, and Poligov is kinda okay, but not really that interesting yet.

So far, i guess i am still doing fine. Well, the only thing that i am really "worried" about is the thesis proposal that we have to come up with. But we are currently looking into web CMS or content management system. :) Actually, i am researching on it now. We will be going to meet one of the companies that Eric and I went to leave a letter to this Wednesday because they are going to talk with us. I just hope that it would be a good enough project so that we could propose it. :)

Other than that, i guess i enjoyed my week, except that i always feel sleepy. :)

I am reading the book The Purpose Driven Life, by Rick Warren, and am currently on Day 14. :) You only read one chapter a day for forty days. But so far, i am learning more about God day by day. :) I make it a point to read each chapter daily. :) Thanks to my bestfriend Daphne, i get to be guided closer to God. :)

I did have a weird dream last night. Well, it was rather scary because my best friend and I had a quarrel, an exchange of words and we were not talking to each other after that. We were in a supermarket then, together, but not really together. Of course, that is the only thing i remembered, and so i woke up. :0

I am worrying of not being able to lend an umbrella to Nats and Dianne when i could have had done so last thursday, when it was raining hard and I was on my to the car when i heard them call out to me. But i didn't get to help them out, and i am sort of afraid of what they think of me. Well, because if it had been Jo, i would have done everything that i can do to help, and they are Jo's friend, and how come i am indifferent to them when they did keep me company and drove me with the others to drop us off at Landmark during the afternoons after work during our OJT period. But i mean, i could have lent ito t them, and just told my dad that i lent the one of the umbrellas in the car to a friend who is in need of it. But then i didn't do so. But done is done.... Oh God... please help me in my worry, this worry. :0

Keren, thanks for the GB entry. :) hope we do get to meet in the next IT congress. :)

Well, we still don't have a thesis topic yet, and we need one by Sept 19, Friday. And of course, there should also be a test bet company of which business and IT problems our thesis proposal should solve. As of now, no company and thesis ideas yet. :(

Just found out that our thesis mate, Masayuki Fujimoto, wouldn't be taking any classes next term due to financial problems, and since he is the one with the idea and the already "approved" thesis topic (well, sort of, since Mr. Malabanan said that his proposal was okay), well, then we can't use his idea, so we have to think up of a new one. So it is just me, Eric and Malcolm. Hope we come up with a proposal, and pass, on time. :0

Eric is planning on us going to San Miguel on Friday to ask if there is something that they need. He said that we should be in semi-formal attire. Hmm.... I just hope we find a good proposal soon. But at least we are working on it. :)

Che, thanks for the GB entries. And you guys know what, my email address book has been used by the worm/virus that is spreading emails containing the virus/worm around, and if there is no such email, it returns back to my email account, and myself knowing for sure that i didn't send any email at all to that "certain" email address. Ohwee.... Yuck! Grr...

Since August 31, 2003, up to present, I haven’t been able to write or type my journal entry. I just got… tired? :) Well, not really. :) It just seems that I am typing a day-in, day-out journal/report of my days, but then I guess I was sort of “bored” at work and that is probably I end up writing those. But now, I guess, with school starting again on the 10th, it wouldn’t be must of a journal thing anymore, but would be something of a “what-I-think-is” journal(?). I do end up wondering of things most of the time.

I bought my own hardbound copy of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, which is book 5, during August 31, 2003, Sunday, as we were waiting around at Rockwell for an hour before watching the movie Pirates of the Caribbean to start. Well, I told my sister I going to stop by there to look around, and I am glad I did. I was waiting for copies of Book 5 to be on sale again, and my prayers were answered, and bought it with a discount; instead of P 1345, I paid P 1076, though I don’t know how much it would cost if I bought it at National Bookstore’s booksale from August 15 to September 15. Anyway, after the movie and eating out at Don Henrico’s, the Libis branch, I started reading the book once we got home. And of course, I would wake up late for the whole week and spend the day, well the afternoon up until evening reading the book.

September 2 was a very “rainy” day but I did get my ITPRACT course card (for the practicum), and me and my OJT mates passed the course. At last, there would be no problem about that at all; I heard that some of our batchmates who also took the OJT didn’t get to pass ITPRACT/OJT because the company withheld their Company-to-student evaluation forms since they didn’t work much during their OJT. Yikes! But thank God we passed. :) Well, I spent my morning with Ram and Alvin, lunch with Alvin, met up with Drew, Ad and Carlo at the Gokongwei lobby by 130pm I guess, and still waited to meet with Malcolm and Eric Uy, and therefore there are already four of us in our thesis group: me, Eric, Malcolm and Masayuki, as long as Masayuki doesn’t push through with his Leave of Absence for the coming term, or else we have to think of another thesis proposal, though I guess it wouldn’t hurt. Well, Drew, Ad, Carlo and I kept each other company up until 4pm, by which time they left and me, my brother and my cousin were picked up from school by my dad and sis since they were at Makati and were on their way home. :) Of course, I spent the night reading Harry Potter again.

September 3, yes, I woke up late. And of course, I didn’t wake up early for this week since I always ended up waking up late so I just stayed home and kept on reading. :) Well, I do remember reading up until 3am of September 4. :)

September 4, of course, I woke up real late, like by noon. And I kept on reading until I finished the book by about 6 in the evening. And well, I just watched tv. But I still slept late.

I was then awaken by a phone call made by my mom on September 5, around 1030am, telling me that I will be spending my afternoon collecting checks for the services/products delivered. :) And well, me and the driver were out of the office from 1230pm to 630pm. When I arrived home, went straight home, ate dinner and just drowned myself to tv.

September 6, woke up by 12nn and helped out with preparing orange juice for lunch drinks. After that, just stayed home, and kept on thinking about Pizza Hut’s Ultimate Cheese Pizza. Oh, my sister left for Batangas for a “vacation” with her friends early in the morning. Oh, Drew and I talked for over 2 hours, over anything under the sun. :)

September 7, well, woke up late, as always, left by 4pm to visit Aunt Haydee. After that, we went to eat at North Park, and then after that, went to visit my Aunt Gloria to bring her some food from North Park. By 10pm, my dad and I left to go pick up my sister at her friend’s house. Well I didn’t get to sleep until 3am the next day, well since I can’t sleep and since my sister needed some help, for me to get some things, like ice and towels, for her since the itchiness caused by the sunburn is making her restless and nauseous and needed help going around the house. But at least we got our sleep later on. :)

Monday, today, okay up by 1030am when my sister left for the office. I had to hand over some papers containing changes that are needed on some documents that my sister is working on. Well, I also did get to get my copy of The Purpose-Driven Life that I asked Ate Ana to buy for me at National bookstore. Well, after that, I just spent the day at home, reading and watching tv. I ate dinner early, and just kept on watching tv, more on programs about Japan. And of course, I remembered I have to type something down, I don’t know, to redeem myself over something I don’t really know, and I also think since I kept on reminding myself that I needed to research on a thesis topic and to check my email since I wasn’t really able to do so for the past week. Well, my best friend Daphne called through our cellphones by 923pm and we talked for a minute; she told me when she already got a line that she would sometimes call me since she has a lot of free minutes. :) and this is one of those times. :) She said she was sorry for not being able to reply; the truth is, I was glad that I was able to reply to her and didn’t really expect a reply from her today since I know she is busy. But I am also glad that she did call, and at least I get to hear her voice now and then whenever she calls when she wants to, to reply on the messages I send. :) She does time our talk to a minute, and that is just right since if she goes pass a minute or pass a fraction of a minute, it would be still a counted as a minute and any more extra. Well, she asked me how my sister was feeling due to the sunburn because she knows how it felt to do so and she had to take some medicine for it just to relieve herself of the pain and the itchiness. She also asked if I am still going to go back to La Salle, and I told her yes, on the 10th. :) Well, we have the trimestral system, theirs at Ateneo follows a semestral system. :) Anyway, she had to really go when told me that our minutes were up and she hung up. :) That’s okay. :) I was sort of “shocked” why somebody would call me, but I guess I would welcome it as long as it’s my best friend. :) and I went back to typing this “journal”, somewhat despicable for me since I wanted to write “differently”, though I don’t know if I really mean it while I watch Charmed. :)