Oh, it’s only been a week since my last blog post! I really should blog more often. It’s fun! If only I had more time.
Review’s still fun. Our adviser changed the seating arrangement but it’s great because I made new friends. I like to talk, and I’m glad I have them to talk to. They’re pretty good talkers too, so we always have awesome conversations. We also got the UPCAT simulation results yesterday and I’m in the top three. Yay! I was really surprised but of course, it’s great news. It’s nice that I’m still enjoying review, I hate doing things I don’t like. Ooh! And the deadline of the UP application forms is on the 27th. I still haven’t thought of a course that I really, really like. Journalism is nice, yes, but then I like Engineering too. Can’t choose. Music would be great too.
Right now, I’m getting big red spots all over my body and my brother said I am allergic to something. We just don’t know what that something is. I wonder when I’ll be checked. It’s seriously starting to annoy me. Even my face itches. Now I know why my dog can’t resist scratching and biting his healed wound. There are just times that it itches so much. Ow. I already took some anti-allergy pills but all it does is make me sleepy. I think that was what hindered me from focusing in review awhile ago.
Hmm, so what else? I can’t stop listening to Kris Allen’s version of No Boundaries. Lol. However, whenever I listen to it, I also can’t help but imagine Danny singing it. It’s a Danny song for me, I think he would have nailed it if he got a chance to sing it. Anyway, I’m still happy for Kris. I’m still glad he won.
…especially celebrity fandom. But of course, it’s not great when they’re so near, yet so far from you.
David Cook and David Archuleta arrived in the Philippines yesterday and of course, I couldn’t help but feel excited. It’s so nice to know that finally, they’re here! At last I got to feel the concert fever. I really, really want to meet them both and all the chances I get just slip away in a matter of seconds. Like today. David Archuleta had a meet and greet at 5pm in SM Mall of Asia and because of my review classes, I did not get to come. Bummer, right? Gah. I was really looking forward to finally seeing them and talking to them even for just seconds, but in the end I wouldn’t get to experience it! I was stuck in my ACET for four hours.
And tomorrow, David Cook will be in SM North Edsa at 4pm but again, I won’t be able to come because of the review. I really wish my review was in the morning! It’s so sad. Kim and I found a solution, and we decided to just go see the Davids in their hotel, since her dad’s there. There’s going to be a press conference so we figured that after that presscon, we could greet them and stuff. Something. I asked my parents but they wouldn’t allow me, even if my sister was going to fetch me there. It’s unfair!
[UPDATE 051409: FANGIRLY STUFF!]
The next morning, my parents decided that I could go see the Davids. I was confused for a while but it’s so great that they allowed me, and after the review I took the bus with Kim. It was funny because we kind of got lost. It was also my first time being on the streets without an adult with me. Scary, but I loved the feeling at the same time. Haha. It was a good thing that we managed to arrive at around 7pm. We waited for quite a long time and one of David Cook’s band members, Joey Clement, was there. I had a picture with him <333 He was sooo nice!
And then after the presscon the Davids left quickly. Such a bummer, but David Cook waved at us and that gesture made me forget that my feet hurt from waiting. Heh, such a fan, eh? Well anyway, after that, we went to dinner with Kim then talked by the poolside. After some minutes, her dad called us and told us that David Archuleta was there at the entrance! Of course we rushed there and we found no one. Or so we thought. David was BEHIND us and when we turned around he was already inside, heading for his hotel room. It was a huge disappointment, but he said that David Cook would be passing by there so no problem. My sister wasn’t there yet to fetch me so I waited for Cookie, too.
He arrived at 11pm, I think. And when we saw him, we just literally gawked. We froze. We couldn’t speak. He was super near us and at that time I didn’t know what to say. He looked even better in person and he seemed really cool! I don’t need pictures to relive that moment or whatever, it’s in me already. Lol. Then after that my sister came and I went home. What an experience! As I said, moments didn’t have to be really big. I just really wanted an encounter and I got it! Yay.
I can review happily now~
Seriously. I’m enjoying work, this is crazy! Must be the effect of the summer rain. The rain always gets me high. I wish I was like this all the time.
Review classes started yesterday and I had a great time! It was crazy having to answer the UPCAT simulation for four hours and having only a fifteen-minute break but I loved every second of it. I’m slowly learning how to be on my own, and I can’t believe that I didn’t get lost in the mall looking for the review center for the first time! I never thought it would be this cool. So anyway, I forgot all the Math stuff I learned way back in my second year of high school. UPCAT’s a bit tricky, so my scratch paper was filled with numbers and drawings of triangles and circles. Heh. But Science proved to be my worst subject ever. Why oh why did I get that freak as a Chemistry teacher last year? I forgot to study and that just made things worse. But oh well. I had fun. I look forward to the ACET tomorrow, even though it’s a bit hard to study at this time.
My review’s until night, so when I came home I was a bit brain-dead because of the exhaustion, of course. Who wouldn’t be? Then when I got home, a school paper editor asked me when I would be able to pass my feature article, or something to that effect. I didn’t know I had been assigned something to write, and the “deadline” was Sunday so I was obviously shocked. My editor extended my deadline and I started working on it for five hours, including the interviews I did. It was funny because I was working on one of my favorite topics, rain, but I was having a hard time transferring all my ideas to paper. It took very long. Since I couldn’t afford to be sleepless (because of the review), I decided to take a three-hour sleep and woke up 4am. I still did not get to finish it so by the time I got to review I was thinking of possible things to add to the article. Luckily I was with my friends and just having them there made thinking easier.
I got everything done by 11pm tonight, and it feels so great! Despite all the hard work I’ve done trying to write a lead in the wee hours of the morning, the weird, dull answers that came up during the interview, and the crazy titles my friend Kim and I thought up, it was the greatest feeling I’ve ever felt these past three months. I love working so far, it would be great if I stayed this way forever.
I don’t know why I’m kind of happy about being busy again, but I am. It’s weird. I mean, I’m not the type who enjoys work. I’m all about play. But now I’m glad to go work again. Maybe I just got tired of being lazy.
My review classes start next Monday and I’m excited. I will be reviewing with two of my friends, and it’s always nice to have friends with you in a new environment. My brain wants to do Math stuff already! Really. And people said that on the first day, we’re going to have a mock exam. I’m not sure if I want to do that already, but I’d do anything that gets my brain working. Besides, there are many amusing questions in some of those exams (i.e. Who won the seventh season of American Idol?). I’m sure it’s going to be a blast. And after the review, I could go shopping if I wanted to. Lol. The review center’s located inside a mall anyway. It’s kind of contradictory but… XD
So many things to get excited about. And there’s the concert. It comes next week too, and it will be a nice break from the first week of review. I’m already doing a countdown. But I hope David Cook’s going to be alright when he performs here on the 16th. I feel so sad for him. It’s going to be hard but I know he’s going to give his Filipino fans a great performance as always.
Claudine. 16. November 19. Filipina. Officially a college frosh. American Idol freak. Gamer. Three-fourths pessimist, one-fourth optimist. Little Miss Perfectionist.