Cooking Media Noche

As per usual, I am the cook for the holidays.

Christmas menu: Shanghai noodles with cabbage, pork, and peas. Fruit Cocktail Refrigerator Cake.

I was leaning towards a no-bake Pumpkin pie, but I couldn't find the main ingredient here in the province *sweatdrop*

New Year's menu: Lettuce, cucumber, carrot salad. Asian steamed Fish Fillet with Vegetable Sticks. Angelhair pasta with tomatoes and sausages. Crema de Fruta.

Does it look weird?

I still have a few more hours before I cook. Good thing I finished the crema de fruta earlier, and the other stuff can go really fast, so it's a "serve immediately" kind of thing.

oh my ears... it feels clogged... pressure thing... argh...

oh my nose and lungs... they'll feel bad with all the firecrackers going off later...

Holiday laziness

Who isn't lazy during the holidays? I, for one, admit to being lazy and that all of my good intentions of actually doing something productive flew out the window as soon as the date changed to the 24th of December, and it will probably stay that way until 02 January.

Why am I still wired this way anyway? I'm not a student anymore, so why should I be bothered with normal holiday routines more recognizable as something a full-time student should have?

I'm still sleepy. Way too early.

Job hunting

You gotta love technology. I've been applying all over the place, and I haven't even left the house. Well, except today since I had to go out anyway and get my temporary certificate of completion. E-mailing is such a convenient addition to everyday life, don't you think? I just copy-paste the cover letter, attach my resume, and send it off. Now all I gotta do is wait for the responses, and there had better be responses. If there aren't until Friday, I'll probably do the job hunting the old fashioned way and walk all over the place.

*sigh*

There is this one company that I want to work in. I just hope they have the opening that I'm qualified for.

Happy news: Christmas Party at Ems is this Friday!

Missing stuff

Yup, it's official. I have lost 2 (two) items: a manga and Fluffy's bday party token. Both loss majorly sucks, but especially the manga since it's not available anymore. Damn those kids! And man, was I mad when I found out. I shouted and yelled and brought out my belt coz I was very, very close to walloping their hides. How dare they take something from me?! I had to attend my class's Christmas Party so I left and forgot about it for a while, but when I came back, I was ready for a fight from the adults, since I shouted at the kids. Jeez, if they can't bloody acknowledge that their kids are effing delinquents... what the hell is the world coming to?

I still want restitution. I prefer blood.

Onto happier news:

Trilogy's Christmas Party went okay, as far as I was concerned. I don't care for the snide remarks at the end of it though, especially coming from someone who didn't attend and who was bitching about the party coz she was (I think) inconvenienced coming after the party for a bit of business talk with us care of her former classmate.

Heck, she can arrange the next gathering. I gladly hand her the reins.

Another Party.

Hmm... My week is enclosed by parties -- Monday and Friday. Lovely. And for the first time, I don't think I'll be going to the province for Christmas. I'm thinking of staying here in Manila for the holidays. Is that weird?

I mean, I don't have anything special planned, but it's just easier for me to stay here so I can apply for employment already. Besides, I have this nagging feeling that I am not welcome to stay for long over there. Hell, where am I welcome?

Clearance

Yay! I'll be hunting up 2 more people for my clearance -- the registrar and the school admin. The registrar wasn't in today coz of a nasty toothache, I'm told.

I totally flunked pharma in my Basic Exam, like totally flunked. I got 82% for the medical lecture and 97% in the laboratory. As it is, I'm one of the highest scorers, according to my mentor, which is a very good thing.

Now, all I have to do is finalize my resume, print, and apply.

*sigh*

Bye-bye monthly allowance.

*sob*

Basic is OVER!!

Oh yeah, time to dance that silly dance of victory, now that the dreaded Basic Exam, i.e., Final Exam, is over. Read them and weep: O-V-E-R. I just finished with it, and I went straight to the mall to get something to eat, coz man, I was starving at the middle of the exam. Good thing my mentor had a bag of chips, and she knew how to share hehehe

The food that I decided on having though, wasn't that good. I went to Wendy's here in Festival Mall, and the chicken wasn't crispy nor was it hot, not even warm! At least the spaghetti was plentiful and hot, so at least I didn't feel like I was cheated out of my money.

I'm still thinking of doing something to reward myself on a job well done, if I do say so myself. I found the exam to be fairly easy, though I did get confused between nystagmus and strabismus. *sigh* And let's not mention pharmacology, since I know I totally bombed that one.

I'm thinking of watching a movie, either The Myth or Just Like Heaven, I think, although that has to be tomorrow's consideration. I want to go away for the weekend, and I'm still thinking if I want to go to the province or to my other brother's place. Both have their pros and cons; I just have to tally them.

Oh yeah, there's this other exam that I want to take, maybe next week, the Top Level Exam, sort of similar to the CMT exam, erh certification exam, though I can't take the real CMT until I get at least 2 years working experience in the field. It's still up in the air whether I'll take the TLE next week, but I want to. I have to check the schedule first though.

-o-o-o-

On a sadder note, I just found out that my favorite English professor in college died April this year, lung cancer. I called the school coz I wanted to touch base with him, so imagine my surprise when the department receptionist/secretary told me he died last April.

Until the next time we meet in the hereafter, Doc P! Watch out for me, wilyah? You've always been cool.