Of food comas and movie marathons

After enjoying a month and a half of studying Philippine Politics and Govenment and Rizal, I can’t believe I used to spend my summers just lazing in front of the computer. So many summers wasted! I’m planning to take summer classes again next time, just so I can be productive.

Anyway, we celebrated Patty’s 19th birthday last Thursday! Vince and I bought her Brazo de Mercedes from Shoppersville completely forgetting the fact that Hannah doesn’t eat Brazo. LOL We stayed at the tambayan for a while to play board games with Lolo Russ (SEVEN WONDERS, YOU HAVE BEEN SORELY MISSED).

Vince, Patty, Hannah and I went to SM Megamall which made the List of Malls The Four of Us Have Visited Together longer. Hee. We went to the department store and bought matching scarves! Shame I didn’t bring the camera, because we all looked like idiots. Just imagine a group of four wearing (colorful) scarves. LOLOLOL

Patty treated us to a food coma at Racks. I’ve no idea what came over us when we ordered the family platter good for 9-10 people. Since a photo isn’t available, here’s picture of the menu from the Racks Facebook page.

THIS IS WHAT WE HAD. INSANE!

We had Ribs, Fish and Chips, Rice, Bolognese, Fries, Mashed Potatoes, Broccolli with Cheese, Garlic Bread and 2 Liters of Coke. It was all so delicious! I just wanted to sleep right after eating because I was so full.

Patty, Hannah and I took a bus to Patty’s because we felt like it was too early to go home yet (Vince rode the MRT home). After our first movie (What’s Your Number), we just decided to sleep over. Hee. We went to sleep at around 6AM after watching Flipped (again!!) and The Art of Getting By.

We woke up pretty early and went on Skype with Vince. We squeezed in another movie (Insiduous) before going home.

Yay, so happy birthday Patty AKA Most Competitive Sister Ever! Thanks for everything, for sticking with me despite my weirdness and emotional instability. It’s comforting to know that someone will be there to teach my future children sports. LOL Here’s to the rest of our UP life our eternal friendship!!!

SISTAHS FO LYF

On moving to a new home

Due to lack of options regarding layout customization in WordPress (I am too lazy to tinker with CSS ugh), I’ve been thinking about shutting down this site and moving back to Blogger. I decided not to push through with it because this has been my Internet home for more than three years already! More than three years full of poorly-written highschool rants, mushy confessions and constant fangirling. I can’t just leave all of that behind. Alas, I discovered that I can actually import this entire blog (posts, categories, tags and comments!) to Blogger! So HELLZ YEAH.

However, I won’t leave theoriginalquerida just yet. Hm, I’ll move to Blogger on my birthday, perhaps? Just to give me time to tinker around my new blog and make sure my new blog host wouldn’t have a few dealbreakers that would make me decide to stay in WordPress instead.

So far, I’ve discovered that Blogger doesn’t have Tags. All of my Tags have been converted to Labels (which is like the Blogger counterpart for Categories). I was a bit peeved by it but having the option to customize my site easier outweighed the non-existent Tags problem.

This post is immensely boring. If you actually read all of it, wow. You’re so bored.

Six-Word Stories

I first read about six word stories in Adam David’s collection of poetry called the El Bimbo Variations (there’s a copy out there in the Internet, go download it. It’s worth reading!) It’s pretty self-explanatory. Flash fiction taken to the extreme. A six-word story. It supposedly originated from Hemingway but I’m too lazy to Google to confirm.

It isn’t as easy as it sounds. I think I had an extra hard time trying to make one since I talk a whole lot. Nevertheless, I’ve decided it’ll be a fun and a great way to keep my brain from rotting due to excessive use of social networking sites. Here are a few I’ve written tonight:

• Cockroach. “Fucking kill it!” She screamed.
• Alak. Aral. Mataas na grado. Gulat.
• Birthday pero puro luha. Nasaan ka?
  (A personal favorite. Hihi.)
• Palpable tension. Both avoided eye contact.
  And this, since almost everyone probably have experienced this)
• Humiga siya sa kama. Namaluktot. Umiyak.

Hee. I’ve three that’s still unfinished. I’ll post them when I’m done!

What I Did During The (Almost) Two Weeks of No Internet

• Used my pink card from the library every single day. Oh yeah, libraries rock.
• Studied every night. In advance.
• Managed to pass all of my quizzes in PolSci (except the first two, but we still had Internet that time so those don’t count)
• Updated my planner.
• Started watching Sherlock. (I’m just two episodes in, so shut it with the spoilers!)
• Organized my DVD collection.
• Put eight (YES, EIGHT) movies in my Movies I Watched in 2012 List.

Basically, everything I’ve been putting off since forever! Alas, PLDT has fixed our landline so goodbye productivity! I don’t care about being a lazy bum now, today is the start of my vacation!!!!!!!! HELLO, SEASON FINALES!