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Thursday, August 26, 2004
Three weeks with legacy and I still can’t find my “mr./ms. A” as my downline. I have to admit, I haven’t had the time to work on it. I’ve been giving a lot of reasons to my uplines on why I don’t even show up at the office. Its just… I think it’s a waste of money if I have to go there almost every night when I don’t have a downline or salary at all. But as my downline Ridge says, “patience is a virtue”. Our time will come, and we’ll somehow get our own downlines. Besides, I do have a lot of more important things to think about, especially now that the end of the term is quite near. I have prototypes and other projects to pass, not to mention grades that I have to pull up.
It’s a Thursday, the second day that schools have suspended classes because of the typhoon/s. I’m not quite sure if our school suspended classes yesterday, but my parents and siblings told me not to leave the house due to the heavy rains, telling me that I might end up walking from school to our house. That was yesterday. Today, though the rain seems to have stopped, I simply didn’t want to go to school. I have a 7:30am class today but after hearing other schools around the metro as well as the government suspend classes and work today, I started texting friends as well as my professor to know whether or not the school will hold classes. Luckily enough, Thel replied and told me that we don’t have classes so I stopped working on my laboratory report and played Ragnarok Online instead :P
I’m actually starting to get bored. I’ve seen “Bad Boys” on Star Movies already and I’ve grown tired of flipping channels over and over again, hoping to find something real good to watch. However, even “Ella Enchanted” that I’ve watched more than 10 times doesn’t appeal to me anymore. I know I have a lot of things to work on, including the 5-page assignment in my signals class but I’m just not in the mood. At the moment, I simply want to eat or sleep, and enjoy every minute of this day. I’m such a slacker. Hehehehe.
Oh yeah, before I forget, Sep, Ritz and Janina were persuading me to attend IECEP’s acquaintance party since I’m officially a part of the Sports Committee there. I said I’ll think about it and I’ll have to ask my mom if I could go. They did some brainstorming yesterday and told us about the “Yes Yes Show” concept wherein I would have to act as one of the Viva Hot Babes.. Tempting, really tempting (hahahahaha…as if!) but I’ll have to decline. I can’t do it. Janina and Ritz asked me to go to the acquaintance party and told me that they’d stay at my house on Saturday night, kinda like a pajama party of some sort. But still, I know I have to think things over since I do have a lot of things to do. And we have to prepare the house for the arrival of my relatives next week. I might have to start vacating my room because Grandma, Aunt Mel and Heidi might stay at the house. And since I’ve got the biggest room with an airconditioning unit, I might have to let them use it for what, three weeks? Auntie Onie and Uncle Rey might stay at the Shangri-La Hotel again since they have some friends from Japan who’ll be coming over. Everyone’s coming for my cousin’s wedding, including my sister who’ll be staying in Manila for a few days. Everyone’s going to attend but me. Hahaha. Don’t get me wrong, I have nothing against my cousin or his bride-to-be. Its just that I do have classes on their wedding day. So I guess I’ll miss seeing the grand wedding at Caleruega.
Posted at 03:04 pm by ashleyspinelli
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Sunday, August 15, 2004
it’s a Sunday! I’m actually supposed to go to IECEP’s orientation today but I couldn’t. I couldn’t very well leave this Sunday because I was already out last Sunday. I spent 7 days in school last week... 6 days for classes i enrolled in and another day for orientation of applicants... waaaah... talo ko pa ang nagtatrabaho! so now, I plan to stay home and be the good girl that I am (?) this week. I guess I’ll just have to put off my iecep application this term... or I could continue my application and just ask sep to sign me up in the sports committee. I don’t want to go back to the technical committee ever again. joining them was a mistake. with rona as the committee head, I felt okay. but now that rona assumed a higher position, that is, IECEP’s president, she couldn’t very well stick to technical could she? I’m not saying that i don’t believe that alvi could do the same. she could even do better than rona if she wants. I just think I don’t really belong to the technical committee. I think I’d feel somewhat wanted in the sports committee since the sports committee head along with his members are all my blockmates when we were in first year. I just feel I could relate with them more, never having to be shy since we’ve shared a lot of experiences and a lot of tequila way back. hehehehe. god, how I miss drinking with those fellas!
what to do? what to do? hmm.. stay home.. watch tv.. and its high time i catch up on my studies.. can't flunk a single subject this term.. or ever again for that matter... i have to condition myself.. my world will have to revolve around four things: family, friends, studies, organization, and legacy... hopefully in that order... my lovelife will have to wait.. hahahaha.. as if i have one!
Posted at 04:59 am by ashleyspinelli
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Saturday, August 14, 2004
after the mind-boggling exam in strength of materials, I rushed to my signals laboratory class so I could get a copy of the next experiment. luckily, our professor told us that he’d give additional 10 points for the first five groups who’d finish the experiment. and luckily, I got the old testament for the experiment. as usual, I was, at the passive side of the computer table, meaning, I get to copy notes and my partner gets to do all the typing. in order to somehow contribute something, we tried to look at the OT whenever we’re on the verge of fighting over some things. hehehehe. eventually, with my help, we got the second spot, and got a grade of 39/30. not bad. and we finished the entire experiment at 7:45pm. hehehehe..
I saw a good friend of mine today… arn-arn.. one friend I owe a lot to. she’s the reason I’m where I am at the moment. she was the one who encouraged me to join the organization I’m in at the moment. I missed her so much.. and I’m very glad I got to see her today. she said she’d go back to school in January.. arn-arn.. good luck! I’ll be waiting for you!!! J
Posted at 11:50 pm by ashleyspinelli
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1-2-3… the term used when you ride a public utility vehicle without paying. yesterday, after meeting the legacy boys (since I was the only girl in the group) james, dwain and I went off to robinson’s galleria to find a bus. a few minutes later, we found ourselves riding a bus to Lawton. the conductor approached us and asked our destination. “city hall” we replied and I fished 50 bucks from my pocket and handed it to him. I guess he didn’t have enough change so he said he’d come back a bit later. this time I got 20 bucks from my wallet and handed it to james, telling him to add 7 bucks. however, the conductor somehow forgot about us and didn’t even stop us from getting off the bus when we reached city hall. wow! my first free bus ride ever! hehehehehe…
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Friday, August 13, 2004
about a week ago, I was quite hypnotized to venture in a business called “Legacy for Life”. A typical networking company wherein you’re required to get two people: mr. a and mr. b or ms. a and ms. b in order to earn enough money, say, 10 million bucks in a span of two years. At first, it was quite unbelievable considering that its another networking company and there’s this notion that it could again, well be, just another scam. But after a few weeks of watching schoolmates get paychecks worth 20 thousand bucks a week.. that’s when I told myself, maybe I should try this for a change. Especially now that I’m in dire need of money, considering I have but a few weeks to get enough moolah before the school term ends.
I was convinced by a schoolmate (how was I convinced? I don’t really know), and a day later, I had tete-a-tete with my sister, and finally got her to loan the money I needed for the business venture so to speak. But of course, I have to succumb to her condition: after returning the money I borrowed, she gets a quarter of my earnings. hahaha.
I got to visit the office a day later, it was a Friday—payday. people, mostly students and yuppies piled in the small office to get their paychecks. instead of “hi” or “hello” people greet each other by asking “you have a pay-in (pay-in refers to referrals) ?” “how much did you get?”
a week later, I was with the legacy group. A week with the group and I got a single referral. god! convincing people is quite hard! especially when you’re not really good at conversing with people. might as well start kidnapping people and let them attend seminars instead of explaining. perhaps they’d join us if I let them talk to the top earners. I dunno… might as well try.. but as early as now, I’m feeling a bit sick knowing that you’ll be forced to lie to a person who trusted you all these years just for an amount of money. waaaaaaaah.. but I couldn’t very well stay like this forever. I have to act now, else I won’t be able to get my “mr. or ms. a”. God! how I envy my cousin eikel. three weeks with the company and he gets 8000 bucks for his first paycheck. waaaaaaaaaaah…..
Posted at 10:55 pm by ashleyspinelli
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we had this game in our signals lecture class. sir ngo asked us to get a piece of bond paper, write our names and place numbers 1 to five. I would’ve been scared of a check-up quiz if I hadn’t asked leshter about the activity when attended the earlier class. and since I knew about the activity, I just happily got a piece of bond paper and shared it with jonah and Jeffrey: my seatmates. we were asked to give comments or impressions on other people in the room. jonah, jeffrey and I agreed to pass the pieces between the three of us first before trying to ask others to write their impressions on us.
before I forget, that very same day, the three of us: jonah, Jeffrey and I all wore blue shirts to class.. but we never really confided with each other…. it just happened! hehehehe… here’s what they wrote:
jonah: ganda ng kulay ng shirt natin ngaun ah…
jeff: with blue earrings pa..
rona: musta thinkers? good luck po!
kuya Lowell: tampo ako sau… apply ka ulet a!
chy: inuman tayo!!!
coincidentally, my message for the last person “chy” was : not enough vitamins… inuman tayo!!! hehehehe… god how I miss hanging out with this guy.. I definitely miss drinking with them! haaaaaayyyy…..
Posted at 04:39 am by ashleyspinelli
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Wednesday, August 11, 2004
life really is short. you never know when your time is up. could be today or tomorrow.. or whenever.. you just wouldn’t know.. just like what happened to tito nestor. I don’t even know if I have the right to call him tito because we’re not related at all. he’s my aunt’s brother in law. we’ve only seen each other a couple of times and that was during our villa nelia days. I only knew he was a public figure being a councilor and undersecretary, seeing his name in certain places in manila and seeing his posters as well… he passed away last august 10, I think, because of a vehicular accident. I don’t know what really happened because I got to talk to his sister when we visited the wake and she said that the news was exaggerated. I feel sorry for his family, but I do know they’d be able make it. they’re a bunch of strong people, and they’d be able to get over the loss after some time.
i seldom attend burials. I’m not afraid of dead people, but somehow, I’m afraid of the idea of death. particularly losing the ones you love the most, without being able to tell them what you feel for them. I know I somehow got over this feeling when I was in high school but when I got into college, and started prioritizing my studies more and sometimes, my friends more, I started losing contact with my family… L
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Tuesday, August 10, 2004
school sucks! especially during TTHS! I’m starting to hate Strength of Materials because I truly hate my professor. never thought I’d see him again, never in my wildest dreams have I imagined that he’d be my professor again.. ever!!! why do have to put up with this shin chan look-alike?!?!?! grrrrrr… I hate him. I truly hate him.
we had our laboratory class in communication lasy Tuesday. got to see my groupmates again. the people in our organization are laughing at us because every Tuesday, we get to stay at the tambayan for a few hours before performing our experiment. and the best way to kill time? memorize answers to the experiment itself! hehehe. at first, I abhor using old testaments but after a few weeks, I realized that its better to use old testaments than try to reason with “bes”.. our groupmate who doesn’t really jive with us. while we’re too busy trying to do the experiment as fast as we could, he’ try to delay the group by playing with the equipment. arrgghhh…
still can’t forget about the time he swallowed a whole sandwich when we tried to rush him into the laboratory a few weeks ago though! hehehehe… we’re mean… hehehehe…
Posted at 12:05 am by ashleyspinelli
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Saturday, August 07, 2004
I’ve developed a fondness for ashley spinelli when I was in high school a long time ago. probably because we have some similarities.. probably because I wanted to be like her—the toughest girl in disney’s recess. tough and mean looking but still has a soft side she has yet to reveal to other people. and I guess, I envy Ashley spinelli too for she always has this I-don’t-give-a-damn expression on her face, like she’s not scared of anything at all, and as if she could do anything and everything she wants.
I never really got the chance to follow her story because I woke up one day and decided, well not actually decided but just didn’t want to watch tv anymore. maybe because of computers—the internet, or maybe because of school, whatever that is, it sure keeps me from watching tv these days.
Posted at 01:28 am by ashleyspinelli
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sen·ti·ment (s  n  t  -m nt)
n.
1. A thought, view, or attitude, especially one based mainly on emotion instead of reason.
2.
a. Emotion; feeling.
b. Tender or romantic feeling.
c. Maudlin emotion; sentimentality.
3. The emotional import of a passage as distinct from its form of expression.
4. The expression of delicate and sensitive feeling, especially in art and literature.
Posted at 12:00 am by ashleyspinelli
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