The post I was writing as a year ender was wiped out by a freak voltage drop so I'll just settle for greeting you guys

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!! GOOD BYE 2006 HELLO 2007!!!

Blogthings
This quizzes I found out from Icai are amusingly right most,if not all of the time. Try some for yourselves. They tell you alot of things about yourself(most in my case I already know. hehe) Here are some of mine.

This one made me laugh. Alot of things here made sense (to me) :P

Your Life Path Number is 9

Your purpose in life is to make the world better You are very socially conscious and a total idealist. You think there are many things wrong with the world, and you want to fix them. You have a big idea of how to world could be, and you'll sacrifice almost anything to work towards this dream. In love, you can easily see the beauty in someone else. And you never cling too tightly. You are capable of great love, but it's hard for you to focus your love on one person or relationship. You have a lot of outward focus, and you tend to blame the world for your failures. You are often disappointed by the realities of life - it's hard for you to accept the shortcomings of the world.

What Is Your Life Path Number?

Already Expected this one. Hehe

You Are A Romantic

You life your life like a fairy tale... or at least you try to. Living for magical moments, you believe there's only one true love for you. Love is the most important thing in your life, and you don't take it for granted. Your perfect match loves to be in love as much as you do!

Are You Romantic or Realistic?

That was amazingly short. And amazingly quite true?

Your Personality Profile

You are funky, outdoorsy, and down to earth. While you may not be a total hippie... You're definitely one of the most free spirited people around. You are very impulsive - every day is a new adventure. However, you do put some thought behind all your actions. Still, you do tend to shock and offend people from time to time!

The World's Shortest Personality Test

Cool. Hehe

You Have Fantastic Karma

You are a kind, sensitive, and giving person. And all your good deeds will pay off - if they haven't already. But you're not so concerned with what you get in return anyway. You have an innate caring nature - and nothing can change that!

How's Your Karma?

Uhuh...

You Are a Prophet Soul

You are a gentle soul, with good intentions toward everyone. Selfless and kind, you have great faith in people. Sometimes this faith can lead to disappoinment in the long run. No matter what, you deal with everything in a calm and balanced way. You are a good interpreter, very sensitive, intuitive, caring, and gentle. Concerned about the world, you are good at predicting people's feelings. A seeker of wisdom, you are a life long learner looking for purpose and meaning. You are a great thinker and communicator, but not necessarily a doer. Souls you are most compatible with: Bright Star Soul and Dreaming Soul

What Kind of Soul Are You?

People Envy Your Compassion

You have a kind heart and an unusual empathy for all living creatures. You tend to absorb others' happiness and pain. People envy your compassion, and more importantly, the connections it helps you build. And compassionate as you are, you feel for them.

What Do People Envy About You?

Makes sense...

Your Five Factor Personality Profile

Extroversion: You have medium extroversion. You're not the life of the party, but you do show up for the party. Sometimes you are full of energy and open to new social experiences. But you also need to hibernate and enjoy your "down time." Conscientiousness: You have low conscientiousness. Impulsive and off the wall, you don't take life too seriously. Unfortunately, you sometimes end up regretting your snap decisions. Overall, you tend to lack focus, and it's difficult for you to get important things done. Agreeableness: You have high agreeableness. You are easy to get along with, and you value harmony highly. Helpful and generous, you are willing to compromise with almost anyone. You give people the benefit of the doubt and don't mind giving someone a second chance. Neuroticism: You have low neuroticism. You are very emotionally stable and mentally together. Only the greatest setbacks upset you, and you bounce back quickly. Overall, you are typically calm and relaxed - making others feel secure. Openness to experience: Your openness to new experiences is medium. You are generally broad minded when it come to new things. But if something crosses a moral line, there's no way you'll approve of it. You are suspicious of anything too wacky, though you do still consider creativity a virtue.

The Five Factor Personality Test

Well...

You Are An INFP

The Idealist You are creative with a great imagination, living in your own inner world. Open minded and accepting, you strive for harmony in your important relationships. It takes a long time for people to get to know you. You are hesitant to let people get close. But once you care for someone, you do everything you can to help them grow and develop. You would make an excellent writer, psychologist, or artist.

What's Your Personality Type?

COOL. I always wondered what will I be in the cast of Narnia. Hehe

You Are a Centaur

In general, you are a very cautious and reserved person. However, you are also warm hearted, and you enjoy helping others in practical ways. You are a great teacher, and you are really good at helping people get their lives in order. You are very intuitive, and you go with your gut. You make good decisions easily.

What Mythological Creature Are You?

If I do have leadership skills, then this quiz was true: it is hidden

Your Hidden Talent

You have the power to persuade and influence others. You're the type of person who can turn a whole room around. The potential for great leadership is there, as long as you don't abuse it. Always remember, you have a lot more power over people than you might think!

What's Your Hidden Talent?

Small but Terrible. Haha

Star Wars Horoscope for Sagittarius

You are superbly wise and have been known to spread your wisdom widely. You are impatient and pushy when people take your teachings too lightly. And your philosophical side always peeks through. Star wars character you are most like: Yoda

What Is Your Star Wars Horoscope?

There are actually more I tried, but too many to share. Hehe

Merry Merry Christmas!!!
Turned 17, Shattered delusions – the best birthday gift I ever got

It's been 10 days since my birthday and I've been putting off updating my blog because I either wasn't feeling too industrious to type or was just too bored to do it, but mostly because of Christmas parties. My birthday always coincides with Christmas parties. Now I don't know if that is a good thing or a bad thing; good because it frees me (most of the time) from the responsibility of treating people and bad because it means people won’t be giving me two gifts. I don’t really mind (/care) if people don’t give me gifts. I’m not materialistic. What I do appreciate are experiences, and with this set of parties the experiences were amazing.

My block really had to set our Christmas party on my birthday, and initially I didn’t like it. The Christmas party though was a blast. We had it in Icai’s house, which is now on my list of top 10 largest houses I’ve seen. Anyway, from 8 to 12mn we just ate, played pool sang along, rough housed around and generally bonded. Well, that’s what most people did. There was something else behind closed doors. Continuing, it was a great experience because it was the time I really felt that I was finally “part of the block.” It’s hard to explain. See from the start I’ve felt that I was “detached” from my block. I felt there was some kind of wall preventing me from being close with them. I may not be making sense, but again, it’s hard to explain. But with this party we had I had the opportunity to finally shatter that wall down and open up to the block.

My second Christmas party was with ESS. As usual it was really fun because this time we had a kiddie party theme. We had some weird kiddie games and good food that made party a blast. It was different because I was entertaining a stalker…hehe

Third was back with my old high school. Yeah, I finally accepted the fact that I’m a graduate from high school and should move on, but hey, I’m an alumnus. I could sill come back.

These last 2 and a half weeks have been a whirlwind. There was this thing the week before up to my birthday that began the shattering of my old perspective in life in to something new. It was a lesson 10 months in the making, well, not counting the 2 years leading up to that 10 months, but it was worth it. I’m not one to whine about my problems concerning love life, and I won’t. It’s just this one…hah…this one...I’ll just say Fate’s a bitch. But whatever it was, however it felt it was worth it. To gain a new perspective, to have my neo-classical delusions of romantic and idealistic grandeur brutally shattered by the stone hammer of reality and practicality, was worth it. Mind you, it doesn’t mean I lost my romantic and idealistic view of life, it just means it’s now in a new light, like those priceless vases they said are shattered first and put back together before they are considered masterpieces. I had to look stupid in front of a girl, yes, but it was worth it. On second thought, it wasn’t just this time I looked stupid in front of that girl - I've looked stupid in front of her for countless times. Maybe this time will be the last. But now I’ll walk away having learned a life lesson. All things change. She gave me the best present of all, and she doesn’t even know it…

Birthday song: Kung Ayaw Mo Na sa Akin- Sugarfree
It’s a really cool song. Bathetic, and probably fits me (ask sir Serrano). Watch the video- its funny. Hehe.

Tagged

I got tagged by Icai! (Damn you...joke! hehe)

INSTRUCTIONS:
1. The tagged victim has to come up with 8 different descriptions of their perfect lover.
2. He/she needs to mention the sex/gender of their perfect lover.
3. He/she must tag 8 more people to join this game and leave a comment on their comments saying they've been tagged.* (I'm waving this instruction away. If you like just make your own)
4. If tagged a second time, there's no need to post again.

0.) My perfect lover is definitely a SHE

1.) Simple, and pretty- simple beauty and/or pretty simple 2.) Sweet - tipong Malambing and romantic (or mushy and sappy) 3.) Smart, even smarter than me - but not condescending, yung makakaintindi ng mga Simpsons jokes. 4.) Has a healthy sense of humor - para ma gets mga joke ko and para masaya kasama 5.) Values time spent more than money spent - tipong di high-maintenance and would like to spend time with me. 6.) Non-smoker -or else I'll make her quit 7.) Would understand if I don't call, just text or email or chat - I'm not the calling type, I'd like written para napagisipan, or in person para romantic 8.) Would accept my views, better if we have the same ones - whats the use of being an environmentalist kung malakas naman sya mag aksaya?

Birthday contemplative post delayed because of partying, assignments and schoolwork. Sorry for the inconvenience. Post soon to come! (and perhaps new, easier to read background work)

Last DAY being 16

Well, there goes my last day being young and sweet(ha, yeah) at 16. Tomorrow I'll be waking to the new tune of adult responsibility. At 15 you still sound like you can get away with the naivete excuses of childish teenager-ism and at 16 you might still be able to pull of the "I'm too old to be a child - too young to be an adult" but at 17 your cemented into maturity. Well, assuming of course that maturity comes with each year. I guess I'll be able to think this over WHEN I'm 17, which is still tom. As for today, enjoy life in innocence before the weight of the world- as they say innocence is bliss...

Blog Update: Last days of being young at 16

Oh yeah, almost my b-day. Damn I'm getting old! Hehe. Anyway, been a while since I posted so here it goes.

Last week Reming tore through the Philippines and caused alot of damage. As if we Filipino's aren't used to the fact already. But what gets to me are the people's apparent apathy. I'm not saying we Filipino's are apathetic. I'm saying we only care when it happens to us, generally. We see the destruction this typhoon caused in the already battered province of Bicol, but we all know as we watch that we maintain some sort of detachment to it all. Unless we felt it too. If only Manila got a whiff of what the people in the storms direct path experienced instead of being entirely spared without even a drop of rain. Camarines Norte was also in the swath Reming plowed through, and I shudder to think what sort of destruction was caused in that place. Our friends there aren't even replying to our texts, and we could only hope that they're ok.

Yesterday was our ESS Sportsfest and it was so much fun! All the events we played were co-ed, and a mix of different year levels. We played basketball, agawang-buko(oh yeah), touchball, catch-the-dragon's-tail and Takeshi's castle. Basketball was funny cuz it was a mix of experts and totally novice players. We kept laughing while we played touchball. Agawang-buko and catch-the-dragon's-tail were both incredibly physically battering games. Imagine the girls and boys both figthing over an oily coconut! I myself went against guys who are twice my size and have the body of RM (to those who know him) or your buffed up PE instructors. My body still hurts even now. A funny incident was when the girls were called up and when they rushed for the coconut Ricci was with them. Haha. Catch-the-dragon's-tail became a sumo wrestling of enormous proportions. Then Takeshi's Castle devolved into one large water fight that left all of us soaked through. By the end of that we were all dead tired, sweaty, oily and soaking wet. i'm having a hard time cleaning my white rubber shoes that turned black because of that affair. Yeah, that was a fun experience.

Makes me think about it though; why am I so open with my other college friends yet I feel I have to shut up when i'm among my course blockmates? I feel..repressed among them but when I'm with others I can show my fun(if not true) side. Thats why they think I'm such a quiet serious some sort of unfriendly emo dude. Others know what i'm like when happy and social. There is just something with my block that prevents me from totally letting go of my..shyness?