• wala kang dates to social functions!
• pag dating sa mga songs na uber sweet at romantic...you just seek out your friends para di ka magmukang pathetic kasi wala kang kasayaw!
• pag February 14, wala kang magawa kundi pumunta sa starbucks with your other single friends and be bitter that you don't have special someones!(aminin!!)
• pag nakikita mong masaya yung mga may chooting...kainggit! Sana ikaw rin!!
• pag naglalambingan yung mga couples, magkukunwari kang nandidiri pero sa loobloob... inggit uli!!

ayun!..yan ang aking attempts to derail kim's trail of reasoning!!..hehehe..peace tayo kim!!

AT LAST!!

And, Simon retracted his harsh comments towards Katharine yesterday! Kudos!

My my...My head is aching after all that this day brought! Whew!

Well, we were at the University of the Philippines this morning to complete our medical examination for our entry into the said institution. I thought that I was going to finish this entire thing today and was preparing myself for the nudity again. But lo and behold, fate has planned otherwise! I had not known that the XRay there took a 2 day processing and that it had to be finished first before my physical exam could be taken. I HAD NO XRAY!! The only consolation I had were(there were 2) that Anj didn't have one either, and that we would be completing it as early as possible...tommorow.

Analyn took us to a clinic where they took the XRay and released it after an hour. While we were waiting for the results, Anie, Anj and I went to SM San Lazaro(my favorite SM) to window shop and eat since we were running out of energy; we consider both as fountains of ATP. hehehe..(how bio). We headed to NAtional Bookstore after eating and looked at some books. I gazed upon the book "CROSSING THE RIVER TIBER". It was a book that tells the account of a protestant who converted to Catholicism. I was flabbergasted! I never heard of such a thing! It's usually the other way around! The Catholics turn to Protestants. There was a catchy line in the book preview that said "this book tells the 'unbiblical-ness' of the 'BIBLE ONLY' policy/belief of the PROTESTANTS"(paraphrased but taken the caputalized words accurately) and I couldn't agree more. I don't know...something tells me that that belief of the Protestants is so...off the hook. I guess we can agree to disagree.

I just hope that at the end of the day...when all is said and done...Katherine McPhee is safe..hehehe... ;P

My friends were really quite crazy back then, considering it was't our house and that Kim's dad was quite...unnegotiable...but we didn't care. It was an outlet for that eternal source of energy that keeps us proudly Linnaean.

1. I'm not rich. I cannot afford to but a lot of things that's needed in the highly competetive world known as High School. The fact that I studied at a public school (a prestigious one mind you. MANILA SCIENCE HIGH SCHOOL RULES!), the needs for social intermingling couldn't have been at a higher rate! With that, I tend to gravitate towards rich peeps and middle class peeps to gain an advantage. BUT that doesn't mean I only befriend them because of their pockets. As a matter of fact, I loathe those arrogant rich bastards; I befriend them because of their personalities. It just so happens that their social stature adheres to my social needs..hehehe
2. In order for me to be...more than regular..in other words...for me to stand out, that requires a tiny thing called popularity (if that's to arrogant, it's not my point...so change it to notariety). How do I try to obtain it? Well, again, I gravitate towards people who are well-known. Know the stars and then maybe, just maybe, be one of them. BUT AGAIN that doesn't mean that I only befriend them because of their popularity, I befriend them because most of them have substance that's required to maintain an intelligent conversation.
3. I keep the popular and the powerful friends as close to me as possible. The two are different. The popular peeps are the trend setters; the powerful ones are the "teacher nets".

Those are some of the reasons why I consider myself as a social climber. Or at least, those are the reasons I remember.

But there are those who put the word under a bad light. A concrete example would be the HYPOCRITES. I mean, my god! They really do everything just to reach the top, and for no other reason than the conviction of their own vanities. They bury their claws into the host and embed themseleves into their lives. Now that's a parasite. I don't get why people keep on mixing the two up. They're different! Please be a little more scrutinizing.

As Tim Yap said during an interview, social climbing is an art; it's not supposed to hurt anyone. So if people start getting hurt, that's no longer social climbing. It's more of social hurling-so-that-I-can-be-the-best-and-I-don't-care-who-I-have-to-kill-to-get-to-the-top.

Good thing I consider myself as a practicioner of the former.

All's the buzz nowadays for the upcoming Da Vinci Code movie starring Tom Hanks. And it's not just the movie goers and the book fans that are hyped up about it, but also some very very worried people: the fundamentalists.
Fundamentalists, according to the interview I watched yesterday on ANC, are those people whose sole basis of faith is the bible(oooohh.. I feel a bashing coming along) and nothing else. Their entire devotion and entire beliefs lie only on the written word and on notrhing else. For some that is good, since the bible is called "The Good Book", but in this case, it creates the problem.
The Da Vinci Code, both book and movie(and although the author claims that the written work is fiction) it is still based on some factual evidences, or those facts are embedded into the plot. All in all, the religious think of it as an attack, not only on the Church, but to the whole Christianity as well.
**(I hear someone in whatever part of the globe screaming THEY WILL BURN IN HELL!!)**
It is true, at least to my belief, that the foundations of the Holy Book is under siege. The main point of the Da Vinci Code is that the early Church sought to destroy the evidence of an alleged affair between Jesus and Mary Magdalene, and has manipulated the documents back then which predate the Bible. So if we put the pieces of the puzzle together, it means that the present day Bible is a patchwork of the documents which the early Church decided were the only ones that should make print.
Hence, the dilemma of the fundamentalists.
You know eversince I was awakened to the existence of the Protestant movement, I've always heard the bashings against the Roman Catholic Church. Iconoclasm this, Mary that.. Now, it is time to run to the defense of my church(although I no longer go to mass every Sunday..hehehehe)
This is what's great about the RCC(is this sounding like a campaign?). It's that there are other institutions for this sect that broader than the Bible. Hindi nakasentro sa bibliya ang kabuuan ng kanilang panananampalataya. If we were to use a pie notation set (ui at last! maaapply ko na rin sa wakas ang aking Finite Math lessons!) it would look like this:



(I'm so proud of myself! I can make drawings!! hehehe)

The human psyche is so complex and weird. We have a lot of winding enigmas in the piece of pulsating blob called our brain.
Embedded in the twists and turns of the said psyche are emotions, sweet yet brutal emotions.
Marami tayong mga emosyon: merong happiness, sadness, confusion, hatred, at siyempre, love. Haay, love. Question ko lang ay kung bakit nung araw na nagsaboy si God ng maayos na lovelife e natutulog ata ako ng mahimbing.. kaasar!
Im sure that most of the human beings on earth have already experienced love. Putting aside those creatures who feel nothing at all even at the moment of their births, we can safely say that we are all loving creations of the almighty, for those who are believers, and evolutions from the primates, for the aethists.
Back again to the topic. We are natural lovers! Eto, here's a list:
1. The moment we were born we feel an instant connection and love for our mothers.
2. The moment we lay eyes on our first crush, our hearts beat to the beat of an exploding play-bomb. (the toy ones, in my day there were paint bombs, letter bombs etc.)
3. The moment we graduate from elementary, high school, or college, we experience the manifestation of the love we have for our friends through the tears we cry. There's no denying it: we love our friends.
4. The moment we fall in love. We experience the palpitations of our hearts to the beat of an atomic bomb! It's like the world around us goes black for an instant and then back again, but this time, in full color! The lilacs and the periwinkles are so embosed! Especially the reds and the pinks.
5. During foreplay, the partners usually whisper sweet nothingness into each others' ears. "You're the most beautiful thing in the world";"I think I'm in love!" whatever.
6. Commonly, during sex, (ahem, pasintabi po sa mga conservative) at the point of cumming (take note of my use of the word..hehehe) some people say "I LOVE YOU!!" in a screaming fashion as if their insides had been gutted out of their bodies!**Sex itself is an example.What do most folk call it? Love making! again, with the exception of casual sex and one night stands..hehehehe
7. During wedding vows, the bride and the grrom, no matter how manly and macho the man may be, they both cry at the middle of their vows where the "i love you" part is written or where the "i commit to you my life" is jotted down. that in itself is an affirmation of love! Exception? for those who cry at that part because they're regretting the marriage.hehehehe..how terible!!
**Now, those are just some examples of what I think exemplifies our innate ability or impulse to love. Ther may be other examples out there that have fled the grasp of my mind. Pero the point of all this is to just celebrate love. I mean, it is deeply embedded into our genes. No matter if the feeling is returned or not, we want to feel it. And if we don't, we have no choice but to allow its presence to be in our lives for eternity. Without it, we are just animals. And if there's one thing I know, I AM NOT AN ANIMAL!! bwahahahaha..

In the regular flow of things, the stock market is the basis of assessing the progress of a certain economy or nation. If the stocks are up, the index also goes up and everyone, especially the investors, are happy. If the stocks are down, the index is also down and the entire exchange starts pointing fingers at each other for being a bad broker or whatever.
In the scheme called friendship, there are also stocks, or stakes, whatever. If things go up, that is, kung ang mga bagay ay maganda at ang pagkakaibigan ay nagpapa-angat sa bawat isa, masaya ang lahat. Everything seems fine and there's no cause for alarm or anything. Kung mag-away naman bigla, bababa ang stock ng friendship at magkakaroon ng pagkawindang sa relasyon ng dalawa o higit pang involved sa nasabing pagbagsak ng stakes..o stocks..whatever again.
So, obviously, the okay scenario here is to keep the stocks high. And the only way to do that is to keep investing.
In the market, you can raise the stocks by putting in a greater amount of money into that stock or venture in the hopes of reaping the gains that is supposed to be reaped from the said venture or stock. If, by luck, ay umangat ng umangat ang halaga nung stock, maliligayahan ang lahat lalo na ang mga investor because their investment paid off.
If we are to link friendship with this, then we are to say that we should do the same with friendship. Especially with those close friends that we have. Yung mga kaibigan nating hindi natin kayang mawala. We invest a lot in the relationship. And again, we hope that the stocks go up.
If the stocks go up, not only in friendship, but also in other forms of relationsahips, the stakes also get higher. If we get to a point kung saan nasa tugatog na tayo ng ating pakikipagrelasyon, in the eventuality of a crash, mas mahihirapan tayong makabangon muli! In the aspect of economics: if you invest a lot in a single venture, and it crashes, then you lose your capital, you go broke. The same goes for a relationship na sobrang high ng level! You keep on investing and investing til you've given everything for the sake of the relationship. And again, should the periodic depressions come, you go down with everything. You end up a shriveled down putz; a shmuck; miserable and filled with animosity and regret.
When the stocks go up, the stakes go even higher. What's the remedy? More appropriately, why do we keep investing?
That's a question that I myself have been askin for the entire span of my adolescent life (eversince the idea of relationships entered the door of my mind) The only answer that I've gotten, and I don't know if it'll satisfy anything, is because we are social beings; we thrive on social contact and expansion. The mere fact that we enter into relationships gives this. But the idea of investing is because most of us believe that the relationship is worth something more than what society dictates as the normal level. We feel that the connection between the parties deserves attention and care a bit higher than that of the others. Moreover, we know that we love the other party and that we care immensely for him/her/them. If we thought otherwise then we would have just settled for a relationship as shallow as an acquaintance.
We cannot completely, or even partially, escape crashes in relationsahips. But again, if we think that the connection is worth a lot to us, it's our job to keep the stocks firm yet fluid to keep the stakes stable and undestructive.