of insect bites and make up exams

Hah!

So I finally got to take my make up exam this afternoon. I would have taken it yesterday but there was a power outage so classes got cancelled. Funny thing though, after when classes were cancelled, I went to the mall, but they also had the power outage. Anyway, I'm rambling from the story. So, there I was, walking around, minding my own business as I was waiting for my brother to pick me up so I could tag along with him on his errands, and this guy accosted me and started talking about would I just try for their promo and I could win big big prizes (channelling Shampoo, scary). I already said no, but he was insistent, so why the heck not, right?

Yeah. Why the heck not indeed.

I won. The first prize, they said, a 19-piece cookware set from Germany. Only catch is I have to buy something from their promotional items so I could claim my prize. No biggie? The cheapest among their items costs about 30K.

Hah.

So we went for the cancellation, but I get to have a souvenir of sorts. So I picked, only I picked the card with a ballpen and a chance to win another prize. Guess what I picked. The home entertainment system with a foot massager. Only... yup, you guessed it, I have to buy something from their promotional items to claim my prizes. Yeah, those.

Hah!

Though if I had my own credit card, I probably would have gone for it. I dunno, guess I always wanted to do something like that even if it felt like a scam of some sort.

Then today, after I took my make up exam, I went with 2 of my classmates to a talk/orientation, for setting up your own business, so she said, and the speaker was a local congressman. So sure, okay... but once my classmate told me to keep an open mind, I was all kinds of wary.

Was I walking into some sort of "Praise the Lord!" kinda thing with the pushy angel wannabes?

Was I going to have to fork over some money for something?

Ah well, what the hell, right? I always wanted to play the sucker for something.

We listened, we chatted, my headache got worse, but it was over. I honestly went for the free snacks, which turned out to be just a club sandwich and a tetrapack juice. *sigh*

But I went, and would you believe it, it was in sales. Hah! I can't do sales even if my life depended on it. Honestly. But I signed up for some reason. Heck, I haven't even encountered their products before this!

Which reminds me, I have to check out their website.

Ah well, I hope I can do something with this, as the prospect of extra income is always welcome.

Long vacation or short sem break

Hah!

I just saw the notice on the board in class, and we have an 8-day break! Yay! Which begs the question, what do I do during that time. If anyone says study, I am going to break your arm, for what is the function of a vacation other than for a break from whatever it is that you are doing during the days before the break and what you're going to go back to doing after the break.

Hmm...

Dungeons and Dragons 2

Yup, saw the movie. As a matter of fact, I just got out of the theatre, and since I can't go home just yet as I think there are still people working at the house, I thought I'd stop by Netopia and blog. And yes, waste more time when I could very well use the time for sleeping as I have only got 3 hours sleep last night. It was bloody fun though, what I was doing.

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Get your mind out of the gutter!

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I claim first dibs on it.

*sigh*

Anyway, the movie. I honestly didn't know any of the actors, but I thought they did okay. At least it was better than the first D&D movie. The effects then were atrocious. This time around, they got better. I liked the ice dragon. Don't rightly know what happened to the 3 other characters -- did they die? Well, that priest one with the lines on his forehead, he got frozen by an ice dragon then he went kersplat and I saw a leg; they buried that. But what happened to the elf-sorceress and that thief? They were shown at the end so...

Argh.

I don't even know the whole lore of D&D. I just saw it was a more interesting film than the other ones that was being shown, so I went.

Anyway... what else about the movie... there were a few explosions, so it was fun. Drama, kinda made me wince. Bloodshed, which made me laugh, especially when that Leech monster thing killed the head mage's servant hehehe *splat!* under the bed. That was funny. And also when this Leech monster thing told the big bad with the black orb Daraman or something, that he go kill Berek himself -- Hah! Hilarious! Just coz he thought he had Leech under his command...! And he didn't! What did that monster say... something like, "The look on your face...! That made this entire endeavor worthwhile." before he changed and flew off. hehehe funny.

I have a make up exam to take next week, so I have the weekend to study. I'm thinking of going to my other brother's house for the weekend though, especially if there continues to be work done in the house. I do hope they finish soon. It's darned inconvenient, with the dust and the noise, and did I mention that they demolished the bathroom so we had to construct a crude covering so I could bathe?

*ahem*

la-la-la-la-la

blogging Adam

First off, Adam is a character from my new-old original story -- new coz I only just started writing it again, and old coz it's been in my files for a couple of years now. Anyway, I was hit with a sudden urge to write last night, never mind that I was getting sleepy, so off I went and wrote a few things down, Believe and a bit for my Illusion September challenge, which is majorly late already by the way. I wanted to keep going but my eye-hand coordination was getting sloppy, so before I hurt my beloved laptop and myself in the process, I decided enough was enough, powered down and went to sleep.

Funnily enough, I was writing a blog entry for Believe, and it reminded me that I haven't made an entry in permutations in a bit.

So here I am.

By the way, I'm supposed to be reading for the review classes tomorrow ^__^ even though our lecturer told me I could skip the class if I wanted to. Which I don't, coz what'll I do then? Mall? Uhm, kinda boring already. Then again, I am planning on staying out late for, at least, this week, since people will be busy with the house. I don't know when they'll stop being busy though, so I'm kinda seeing a lot of movies in my near future *sweatdrop* Goodbye savings for a new battery... if I ever got around to saving anything...

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What else is there for me to say?

Well, there's already anothe batch at school -- batch #5. I've met with their class president, and I thought he was a bit full of himself. Then again, he is older, a heck of a lot older than me anyway.

Nothing going with the lovelife (what lovelife?!)

Writing-wise, I'm getting there. It seems that I have to read a lot to get my creative process started though. Not that I'm complaining, I like reading! The written word is a lot more attractive to me than visual. Even though visual is a lot more in-your-face and immediate. The written word, though, it makes you use your mind, to imagine what those words would look like.

Work-wise, I have no idea what happened with Centrals. I was supposed to take a test a couple od weeks ago, prior to working there, but they postponed. Their words, not mine. And then this other mentor at school told me that she was sorry that my work for Centrals didn't push through.

Oh yeah, that one item ticked me off. The appointment, i.e., the test, was postponed. I haven't heard anything from them still, by the way. Postponed. Meaning there would be some delay, but there would be another meeting set up until further notice. Right? Not cancelled, meaning there wouldn't be another meeting set up. Right?

That just plain ticked me off. I mean, does she have an inside track in the Centrals that even the head faculty doesn't? And the head faculty was the one who told me it was cancelled since the Dean called her and all.

Which brings me to another point -- why didn't the Dean call me and tell me? Why go through the head faculty?

Damn politics. I hate that. It gets in the way of most relationships. Can't we just all get along without worrying that someone is trying to one-up someone else or you, that someone isn't taking advantage, or worrying about how to take advantage of someone else's good fortune. Gah, it's way tiring to always worry about those things when you could be enjoying your time!

*sigh*

Presence of people = politicking

One of the old philosopers have said that man is not an island (was it Aristotle or Plato?), that man needs man to survive... guess that's where the whole concept of politics came about eh? That there should me some kind of rules set up for interactions and what not. And as it evolved, it became, tadah! politics.

*cough*

Getting away from that thought...

sinfully sexy

*sigh*

I can't find the movie. I went to all the shops that I saw had vcds, and none of them had Chocolat. Heck, someone even asked if I was looking for the Chocolate Factory. Morons. So both films star Johnny Depp, but that's all they share in common.

*sigh*

No Chocolat, sadly. And Johnny Depp was so...

Anyway, so I cut class on Tuesday and Wednesday, missed the last exam on Tuesday, finished the transcription, and I'm going back to my first files to redo them and hopefully get a higher mark. I know we were told to make notes of our files so that when we go back, we could improve on them markedly, but I was lazy and I didn't. Hopefully, I can still improve on them.

Gah, that just plain wasn't how I do things. I hate taking notes, especially when it's not a lecture. Come to think of it, I get lazy during lectures too. That's why there's this handy dandy thing called tape recorder.

And now for the news

Nothing much really... Went to the interview/appointment at Centrals, talked to the Dean about some stuff -- isn't it so obvious that I'm withholding a lot of information? But then again, I really don't want to jinx this -- came back, collapsed in bed because of the presence of those frigging stairs and my knee still hasn't recovered by-the-by, and just about fell asleep, only I couldn't coz I was tired.

Then, the next day... well, today... dang it, I was supposed to do the laundry.

I'm supposed to be studying for the Oncology exam, but I am so not in the mood. Can't really force myself to do something that I know I am not in the mood for, coz that's just a plain stupid thing to do which I know will backfire on me, making me crabby and grumpy.

Don't want that right now.

Though I am kinda getting tired of being so darned amiable all the time. I feel like I'm hiding, much like Batman is hiding behind his mask. Only, I don't have a city to protect, vengeance to incur, and all the drama that Batsy has on his mind.

I did buy 2 new bags though. It was on sale, so... hey, what's a girl to do? I like bags. I like shoes, too. I just can't stand pink, rather, a certain shade of pink, as I am using pink in my website. I have this pair of shoes in mind, but I just don't have the time (or the resources) to go after them. Anyway, I do have a new pair of boots that really needs to be broken in. I can't walk too comfortably in them still. Have to use them a lot more often.

Alas, still haven't finished my cd of Pirates. Haven't even started on Sleepy Hollow yet. Ah well, Johnny Depp...