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Megan. 1995. Philippines. What you'll find here: over-photoshopped photos taken using a lowly point-and-shoot, useless gifs, fandom, and blocks of text about my life if you're lucky. Witness how Lost takes over my life | A "Let's Do This" Project
IT’S MY WORLD HISTORY TEXTBOOK! This was from last year. This book is the the only textbook I’ve read in advance before school started. Anyway, stuff:
- The cover, which is 10x messier in real life.
- A note on back of the front cover sums up my feelings towards this book precisely. “My favorite textbook ever… so far… probably… I guess.”
- “You know, Greek culture is amazing. Basing your culture on the Romans is basing your culture on the Greeks anyway, because the Romans are copycats. In short, Greece = AWESOME.” Obviously I was very eager learning about classic Greece and Rome.
- This
- Another one of those colorings
- World War II: YES PLZ
- On the very back page I scribbled my pseudonym
- Some atheist rants on the back cover
I really miss discussing history.
IT’S MY ID! I’ve always liked sticking things to my ID. And in the years I’ve been doing that, this is my favorite. Maybe it’s because I unconsciously gave it a blue-pink-green theme. And it’s neat. But that’s probably because it’s still months March. Anyway, stuff:
- Stop Wars pin from Bali, which was one of the four (five?) things I bought there. I am very very cheap.
- Little sticky notes with my name on it from Ms. Yaz
- Various bits of paper from competitions I lost in
- High School Night ‘10 ticket
- My grades last year which were exponentially higher than my current grades
- A smiling Batman on the Mueller tape over my horrible ID pic. I doubt anyone in Seton has a decent one this school year.
- Nahasapeemapetilon, Apu’s last name, written by the almighty Jana, cartoon expert, on a scrap from Carol’s Math assignment
I sure hope I’m free to continue this habit in college. Making my ID bulkier and slightly heavier than everyone else’s is one of those fun habits I wish to never outgrow.
Are those people rejoicing I hear?
I’ll be in the province until Tuesday.
I’ll be in the province until the very end of my much-awaited 5-day sembreak.
I’ll be in the province until the very end of my much-awaited 5-day sembreak, doing assignments.
I’ll be in the province until the very end of my much-awaited sembreak, attempting to do assignments while I’m being bugged by mindless, not-even-cute five-year-olds.
Dammit.
And to keep those people I hear rejoicing from rejoicing, I’m queuing one useless, not-even-original post… per day. I am lazy. I kinda deserve this punishment. Goodbye now.
I collect stuff inserted in Booksale books. So far, these are what I have! Photo’s overly overexposed so just read them. That’s a photograph, an index card, a photocopied invitation, a torn piece of paper, another torn piece of paper, and a postcard.
Finished and won my first Monopoly game ever
Here’s proof:
I feel so proud. I mean, seriously, in my 15 years of existence in a world where every house you go to oh-so-conveniently has a Monopoly board, I’ve never understood this game… until today, the glorious day when classes got cancelled and I spent three hours downloading game torrents. Thank you, Monopoly Here & Now Help Section, you shed light on some of the dark corners of my childhood that has long been inhabited by a shapeshifting smoke monster disguised as a formerly paraplegic man-of-faith, but was originally, IRL, many centuries ago, a dude stuck for all eternity in a metaphysically incomprehensible island with his brother, who he is attempting to kill when he finds his loophole which will happen ‘round 2007 with the help of The Artist Formerly Known As Henry Gale.
This calls for a GIF!
TWO GIFS! (but slightly less enthusiastic as my GIF folder only has a couple of files)
Alright, enough with the really shitty GIFs.
I used a hammer and mixed cement today. It’s not even a big deal, but for someone like me, you’re never expected to know any of these “unimportant stuff.” And that’s the fun in it! Quoting a song I am embarrassed to say I used to like, “We all want something else. We all want something we can’t have. Maybe a roll in the dirt, or it’s a seat in first class…”
It was fun ‘cause I got outside the house again, and everyone who passes by Anna and I was wondering why we are out on the street, pretending to know what we were doing. This dude on a motorcycle (who probably knows my dad) even stopped to help us out, as we obviously suck at that pretending part.
I also learned the light is very pretty around 5PM, so I took photos. That’s my friend/partner/classmate Anna, who I call Annie, because she resembles Annie from Community, causing great confusion since I have another classmate named Annie. We also have an Anne! (And an Ana, but we call her Regh.) Again I ask myself, why am I telling you this?
I shall now stop oversharing and watch Rushmore. Or that Fringe pilot I downloaded. Or Breaking Bad season 2. Or Supernatural. Probably not Supernatural because it’s 12:49AM and well, you know.
… And we’re back to the fandom crap nobody but me cares about. All is normal.
WHY IS THIS SO HARD
It’s the Scream Awards 2010! If you can’t decide, just vote for Lost and District 9 on all categories! Woohoo! Vote here! It’s fun! I don’t know why I keep saying that, but trust me, it really is. I’m all: Oh look, Kick-Ass! *vote* D9! *vote* Inception!Toy Story 3! LOST! *super mega vote*
Best Science Fiction Actor: THIS IS TORTURE.
Although it’s simply a choice between Sharlto Copley and Matthew Fox, it’s definitely the hardest decision I had to make during the last few minutes. You see the gravity of the situation now?
Josh Holloway didn’t do much in the last season. Sorry Sawyer, we know this isn’t for you. Leo starred in a great film, but his role isn’t even comparable to Wikus Van De Merwe. I love RDJ, and Iron Man was fun, but I dunno, it was one of those movies that lacked tension. So again, the role’s nothing with a capital NOTHING compared to Copley’s. And then there’s The Book of Eli, which I’ve never seen. You could shoot me now for making generalizations.
I elaborate under the cut, but it’s basically just me begging you to watch D9 because I am a loser and don’t have friends that I could talk to about stuff I like
World Expo 2010
Pavilions I went to:
- Urbanian Pavilion
- Philippines (We had ridiculously expensive Filipino food for lunch here.)
- Australia
- Indonesia
- Denmark
- Sweden
- UK
- Spain
- France
- Germany
Yeah, those were all, and mind you we were there for 12+ hours. The common mode of transportation was using your own two feet (or a John Locke woohoo Lost reference, and for that you get into the special old people/disabled/pregnant line.) Did I mention that Expo site was about three Disneylands, and to get to the other side you have to cross a river? We also had to stop to eat/drink, to excrete what we ate/drank, and to rest our overworked limbs. And the lines were either less than 10 minutes, 45 minutes or you’re lining up for the Germany pavilion.
Would’ve made 10 country pavilions but I waited more than an hour in line for Germany, which had the longest line, went around 3/4 of the building times three, and I can’t really say it’s worth it. I love Germany so much I don’t care, though. Besides, I was able to get in a verbal fight with this Chinese woman attempting to cut in front of me from outside the line and I got an imaginary patience ribbon from the Berlin polar bear.
Pavilions I wish I had time/patience/strength to get into: Switzerland (THEY HAVE A CABLE CAR), Egypt, Greece, Italy, Singapore, Russia, Polska, Finland (It was closed that day), Portugal, Japan, Iceland, European Union, Belgium and… everything else. I love traveling and technology and awesome architecture. I felt infinite.
Things to look forward to: June 2010
Compared to May, there are lots more this month. And I loved May. *face lights up with joy*
- Travelling to another country on my own with friends and awesome teachers from Seton and The One School for the Global Enterprise Challenge at Bali, Indonesia. Game.
- We’re staying at the relatively brand new Pullman Bali Legian Nirwana, and Seton paid for it (guys, this is where your tuition fees go… just kidding.) That stay is inclusive of 3 meals for 3 days, I believe. And a Bali day tour.
- We will be meeting contestants from other countires and everyone is stoked.
- Last first day at Seton. High School, too. New classmates. New teachers. World lit. Physics. Every damn topic is at its easiest during the first quarter so I might as well enjoy it.
- Senior power. Come on, who’s not looking forward to this?
- First day exchange gift with Jara.
- Downloading/watching Community. I have a TV shows to-watch list to accomplish. On my books to read, I’ve assigned myself Beatleology for June. Google it.
- And finally, AXN Beyond might start airing Lost S6 and that I have to wait no more. Why yes I have heard of the internet but I promised myself that I’m not going to watch the final season on pirated DVDs or through torrents, like I did with the other seasons. I wanna watch it the way it was meant to be watched, and that is on our new LED TV on theatre mode with occasional commercial breaks. Holding on to that thought is the best thing about a new lunar cycle, keeps me looking forward to seeing the “this month on AXN Beyond” advertisement.
Living room of the condo where we stayed at in Shanghai. Gee, mouthful.
- That’s my dad watching the news, the results of the 2010 elections to be particular.
- That’s a huge globe that I spun and spun then I closed my eyes, placed my finger on and asked myself the capital of wherever my finger is pointing at. (I got around 60% Pacific Ocean, though.) I am a nerd, you have no idea how much.
- Those are Terracotta warrior figurines and a Sungka game. We didn’t get to see the Terracotta Army, my favorite thing about Ancient China (next to Shih Huang Ti/Di, but they’re kinda related) because it was in another province.
- That’s the door to the balcony. There’s a pretty neat view outside and I’ll post that soon. The reason why I’m sooo inactive lately is the review classes. Yes, yes, blame college entrance tests.
The best Skittles ever: These Skittles are coated with “the sour equivalent of super sweet sugar” and they are AWESOME. ‘Course, Skittles are sweet so when the sour coating melts, you go from sour to sweet, and that is amazing candymaking. I’ve tried other sour-sweet candies before but these Skittles are the best. THE best, I say. Believe me, I get different types of Wonka sweets when my aunts come over.
I’ve only bought one, ‘cause it was something new and I just wanted to try. I never found any more when we went to the grocery, and I’m pretty sure there are none here.
Taro Pie: McDonaldses (my English teacher will murder me) in the Philippines don’t sell them anymore. My mom used to bring home Taro pies (note the pluralization) everyday and we never leave a mall without buying one. It’s been over a year ago and I missed it.
A bag with 9 Taro Pies inside: We had these for snacks during the 10-hour train ride from Beijing to Shanghai. There were originally 9 banana pies inside (good thing dad checked before boarding.) We went back and asked played charades with the manager. Turns out they only had 8 taro pies available so we had to settle for a banana pie which I never bothered to taste because I will forever hate bananas whichever way you cook it.
The Skittles website rocks by the way.
