June 4, 2012

Day 156

The First Day Back & New Classmates

Today, I reluctantly woke up at 6AM, dreading the day ahead. I decided to forget the whole issue about the ridicule that is my uniform. I mean, at least I have one, right? And what good will it do if I sulk and complain more.

I met Mariz on the way to school 30 minutes before our class started. I was excited and anxious, sharpened by the nervousness of being around a new class. The irony of it is that the classroom of our first class today also happened to be the very first classroom of my first day of college three years ago. Honey was already in her seat when we arrived and I was glad to see a familiar face. The highlight about being in third year Medical Laboratory Science is the uniform. Everyone looked so different. It’s like going up another level, a higher rank, a new level of respect.

Instead of donning the original white pair of pants, the boys now wear black pants, which, honestly, makes them even more handsome. The girls now sported figure-hugging blouses with a V-neckline. Wearing the new uniforms gives you a sense of pride and 5-minute bragging rights that you made it through two years of college life.

Being surrounded by new people is both exhilarating and overwhelming. There’s always a thrill being around people you don’t know and there’s also this awkwardness that follows, but that’ll be gone after a few days.

My first day of third year Medical Laboratory Science has been good so far. We’ve already got loads to read and so far I’ve already spent all of my pocket money on four textbooks. The first week back is always never light on the wallet.

(That picture is me in my uniform. Photo edited using Pixlr-O-Matic app.)

June 3, 2012

Day 155

I awoke today to my mom showing me the uniform that was hurriedly made only two days before. I tried them on. The skirt fitted me well but the blouse was awful. It was huge at the arms and upper half, and the lower half was freakishly short, with tiny pockets. I can’t even fit my handkerchief in. Because of this, I got into a steamy argument with my parents. At 9 in the morning.

Nothing can be fixed now. I start classes the next morning. They can’t alter my blouse anymore because there’s not enough cloth, and it’s not like my dad can drive all the way to the divisoria to get the it in 10 minutes. No. If only the tailor had finished sewing them last week, we’d still be able to correct the damage. I have no choice but to wear this ridiculous piece of clothing my mom claims is my uniform.

I was beyond annoyed. They spent 2000 pesos on this? I should’ve had my uniform made in Fairview instead. My mom, my parents, they’ve just become insufferable throughout the entire summer.

I couldn’t wait to leave and go back to my dorm. Yes, I left home in bad terms with my parents. My brother, instead, drove me to my dorm. Instead of telling them that I got really good grades last semester and there’s a possibility that I finally qualify for a partial scholarship, I left my grade report on the living room table for them to find. I don’t want to know what they think. It doesn’t matter, I guess.

Don’t get me wrong. I still love them to bits. But they can be a handful most of the time. I think I’d better stay in solitary before I go back home.

Because of the whole uniform issue, I am very much worried about the first day of classes tomorrow. I’m afraid I’m going to feel conscious about my uniform while everyone has nice ones. I feel like a spoiled brat complaining. I’m going to shut up now.

Lord, today was such a horrible day, please, let tomorrow be good.

June 2, 2012

Day 154

Today, I spent five hours on a parlor chair. I had my hair relaxed today and, oh my goodness, that was a very long process. It was my first time having any treatment for my hair and I’m hoping my hair’s happy.

I was so happy having this “new” hair until I got home. My mom, though I love her, never fails to make me feel miserable. Ever since summer started I told her I’d go to the tailor’s in Fairview to make my third year uniforms. But no, she insists that I go to someone we know here in Montalban, so I did about two weeks ago. And now, classes start in less than a day and I still have no uniform. The tailor just started yesterday and I have a bad feeling that my uniforms won’t be that pretty like everyone else’s. They sent over the skirts today and to my dismay, they’re too tight. It’s not like I gained any weight the past two weeks while I was at dance practice everyday. So my mom and I went to the tailors about an hour ago to have my skirts altered. While I was there, they let me try on the blouse, and that won’t fit too. So they decided to make it “straight” when the blouse is supposed to be figure-hugging. I don’t have a straight figure. I’m curvy.

Ugh. Good mood ruined.

June 1, 2012

Day 153

Today, we had the first heavy rainfall of the month. I was also supposed to get my hair relaxed today but the salon near my house didn’t provide that service. “Ay mam, rebonding lang po ginagawa namin.” If you guys only provide hair rebonding, why did you guys advertise anything about hair relaxing? Geez. I wasted an entire day, when I could have gone to SM Fairview to get my hair done. I’m going tomorrow. I hope it doesn’t rain.

Classes start in two days and all over Twitter just now, my batchmates were panicking about this homework that our MTLBE (Medical Technology Laws and Bioethics) professor (who happens to be a licensed Medical Laboratory Scientist AND lawyer) mentioned yesterday at the orientation. Apparently no one took it seriously. That or, no one listened. Haha. We apparently have to read pages 1-44 of the Medical Technology Profession textbook for a quiz/quizzes and continue reading pages 45-90 in advance. Classes haven’t even started and we already have homework. We don’t even have the book yet. Welcome to third year, Mar. Lord, please help me have a great semester.

Pretending as if I don’t know anything about the homework while I continue to enjoy the remaining days of my summer vacation, I downloaded these two apps. Brian, Gian, Pia and I were playing King of Opera yesterday at the orientation while waiting for food, and I really enjoyed this game. This is more enjoyable to play on an iPad but since I only have Charlie the iTouch, it’ll do. I also downloaded Harry Potter Spells, where I get to cast spells and duel. Both these apps aren’t free on iTunes, but if you’re jailbroken, you can easily get them on Installous.

May 31, 2012

Day 152

Graduated

Ladies and gentlemen, I graduated. From PULSE (MedTech Dance Crew), that is. Today was my last performance because third year Medical Laboratory Science requires my entire attention. So nerve-racking.

Today, started out as a disaster. The call time for us dancers was 8AM. I was the first to arrive at our meeting place. Everyone else came at around 8:20AM and by 8:45AM, we were complete. Talk about punctual. The freshman orientation program was supposed to start by 9AM, but they decided to start an hour early, so by the time we arrived at Alfonso Hall, we barely had enough time to change, warm-up and practice one last time.

As a result, our performance was horrible. The rehearsal performances were so much better compared to today’s performance. The introduction was great though, but towards the end, things got topsy turvy. Nevertheless, I had fun.

Since we were pretty bummed about our performance (and I hadn’t realized that today was my last performance yet), we (me, Kyla, Jumelia and Kuya Eli) sulked away at McDonald’s and Cha Dao. Nobody aside from Mars, Kevin and Brian wanted to dance anymore for the 3rd Year Orientation, until they convinced us saying that today was probably the last time we’ll be performing as a group. We ended up dancing in front of our batchmates who, thankfully, cheered for and supported us wholeheartedly.

If you think our first performance was bad, our second one was worse. Gen had to go home early and miss the second performance, while Gerard had to sit the whole dance out because his ankle got messed up after his back tuck stunt. The second performance was a disaster, but because our batchmates cheered our embarrassing asses on stage, it became really fun.

I just hope we made an impact on the freshmen that’ll prompt them to audition and join the crew. Our juniors should be taking over, now that most of us are entering our third year of college.

Today was such a fun day. I enjoyed listening to Mam Natividad again (Director of MLS), watching Kuya Aljo (MLS Student Council President) do his job so wonderfully and watching our seniors go on stage to receive numerous (HUGELOADS) of gold medals for scoring grades of 95% to 100% for third year subjects. It’s inspiring and motivating. Three more days until classes start. I’m a 3rd Year student, people!

Thank you lord for this great day!

May 30, 2012

Day 151

Well, I got my grades today. My average is pretty high but I’m not sure if it qualifies for a scholarship. I should be happy with my grades because I think, it’s the highest I’ve gotten so far. But for some reason, I’m quite disappointed. That or, I’m telling myself not to expect anything because of what happened last time. I should be happy. And I’m grateful for the Lord. For now, I’m keeping this to myself until I get confirmation. I don’t want to get anyone’s spirits up. I don’t want to get my spirits up.

Today also happened to be the last day of dance training. Tomorrow’s the performance and I’m getting butterflies in my tummy. Tomorrow’s also probably the last time I’ll be dancing in a long time. Third year college requires all my attention, so I’m graduating from dance and focusing on my course.

Wish us luck!

May 29, 2012

Day 150

Charlie (my iTouch) is updated (iOS 5.1.1., baby!) and jailbroken (oh yeah!) and these troll faces decided to mess with my lockscreen. Haha. That’s Kevin and Mars from the dance crew.

Practice today was SO tiring, but very productive. It was a fun practice too.

May 28, 2012

Day 149

Today, Niks told me that the jailbreak for iOS 5.1.1 is finally out. And it’s about time! Charlie (my iTouch) has been working on iOS 4.3.1 for almost a year now and he needed an upgraded look.

It took me probably 5 hours to get everything done, i.e. download, restore and update Charlie to iOS 5.1.1., jailbreak (thank you GreenP0ison!), sync 30GB worth of data, download more apps, download more sources for Cydia, research potential sources for Cydia, look for potential sources on Cydia, etc.

The one thing I don’t like about iOS 5 is that it doesn’t support battery percentage display for iTouch. And the hand gestures whatsoever, I have no idea how to use it. Gotta research.

I’m typing this at 1:30AM, and I have to be awake in probably 5 hours. Say hello to my Chanel bags under my eyes.

May 27, 2012

Day 148

Finally! After 197183264566212108326 days of spending most of my time at home, we went to Trinoma today. We arrived there at 11AM, when most of the people were probably still on their way to the mall. The first place I went to was (no, not the bookstore) Pop Culture. Kuya Eli said that I needed to blingify my costume for our orientation performance. I ended up buying two bracelets and I hope that would be enough bling.

Of course, the next stop was the bookstore. I went to Power Books and as usual, I didn’t find the books I wanted. And then I went to Fully Booked (I’ve probably mentioned this a million times, this is my favorite bookstore). I found at least five books that I really wanted to buy.

1. The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
2. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer (Although they still don’t have the original book cover and there’s only one copy left!)
3. Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Seth Grahame-Smith (Been looking for this book 6 months ago, and now there’s only two copies left!)
4. How To Get What You Want Without Having To Ask by Richard Templar (for personal reasons)
5. Starter for 10 by David Nicholls (Author of One Day)

If only I had a million dollars… Or a gift card. I still have tons to read, anyway. My goal this year is to read at least 20 books, because last year, I only managed to read a sad number of eight books. I’m already on my 10th book now. I’ve already read four out of the six books on my summer reading list, and I’ve been updating my Good Reads account too. Reading is good. It’s like living wonderful life in another world, away from the sucky one you have in the real world.

Anyway, I had pizza today so I’m happy.

May 26, 2012

Day 147

This is me at 12:30pm at my dorm killing time before I went to school for dance training.

We finally did something very productive at dance practice today. We organized the tasks to be done on orientation, audition posters, costume and the photo shoot on Monday (Yikes! I don’t do photo shoots).

Our choreographer tells me I lack expression in my face. How do I correct that?