Personal | 11.20.11: FUN Run

Me and my batchmates from higschool joined the "Run for Ilog Pasig" which is a fun run that aims to bring back to life the once majestic Ilog Pasig. We planned to join this event weeks before and Ivy was the one who bought our Race Bibs for the 5k category. 

Running is not my thing but I've managed to make my lazy ass do the thing because I wanted to help the Ilog Pasig even in the smallest possible way.

Pam, Tracy and Ivy

The fun run turned out to be really FUN. I'm glad to see many people who cares for Ilog Pasig. The run started as walking but as it progresses, i can only see few people walking or maybe they are just resting just as we do in between running.

Me, the finish line and the low quality shirt from Champion

The feeling when reaching the finish line after working your ass off  is one of the best feelings in the world, much like reaching the goals or finish line you set in life.

Me and my angas face and Ivy with her wacky pose

After resting for a while we ate our breakfast at El Pollo Loco. Treated my friends with large fries and we just stuffed ourselves replacing the calories we've lost during running. Basically our run was useless but not entirely because we've helped Ilog Pasig anyway.

And of course, vain moments are cherished every time we are together.

Tracy, Ivy and Me on rest mode

Pam, Me and Tracy

Looking forward to next year's Ilog Pasig Run!

My solo pic! :)

Thank you Ivy for the pictures!

Personal | Four Days and Nineteen Hours

I was in Manila last October 20 until 6:30 A.M. of October 24 and I will be telling you what happened in that span of time.

Day 1:

Woke up 5:00 A.M. to prepare for my flight 5 hours after. I just brought my laptop, phones, toiletries, 1 pants, 1 pair of shoes and 3 clothes including the ones that I wore with me and fitted it in my laptop backpack and a small luggage. Ate my all time favorite breakfast meal at the airport, Tocino with 2 Sunny Side Ups with fruits as sidings and Pineapple juice.

I then proceeded to the check-in counter, gave the requirements; I.D., the Ticket and the credit card, I was not worried until the ticket-guy told me i brought the wrong credit card, I panicked....a little, i asked the ticket-guy what can i do and he said that he just needed the correct credit card number, so i called my mom and the last person i wanted to answer the phone just answered the phone *sighs* and told me, "You do not have enough balance to make this call". Good news is i have extra load on my extra phone, i made the call, got the correct credit card number, *imma tell the story fast* checked-in, waiteeeeeeeeed, boarded the plane, sleeeeeeeept, landed, went to my cousin's place, went to my place, freshened up a little, sleeeept, *funny story here*, and slept again.  

Day 2:

I thought it was just a normal day, woke up late in the afternoon, did some school stuffs, I've wanted to go to Eastwood but but you know, unexpected things pops up every fvcking  time. *INSERT MANY NORMAL UNNECESSARY THINGS HERE*. I was almost 7 that night, i am laying in my bed enjoying the sound of music until suddenly i texted my MedTech mates i wanted to see them and then you know just have a good time. We went to Tomas Morato and just had a really good time, they were going to Boracay early morning the next day but they stayed until 2:00 A.M. of......

Day 3:  

So me and my MedTech mates stayed up until 2:00 A.M. in the morning, we went home after we ate  our McDonalds sundae which we were craving for after having a good drink. Arrived at 2:30 A.M., *insert story* and then slept until 12 P.M., That day, luckily, Ivy planned out a Saturdate so I went to her "amazing clutter", she is watching a movie when i arrived then we decided to order pizza and watched "I Spit On Your Grave" starring by that bitch writer who went out by herself to "write" and then was raped and made her artistically-stomach turning revenge to the perpetrators after that we talked and listened to music, get prepared and went to Gaylord's "amazing clutter", chatted for a while and we went to Midnight Mercato. This is surely the only thing that will not be gone when SMILES are together: Food Tripping.

This is what we ordered plus Gaylord's lechon manok and some take out.

So the day ended when we went home to our amazing clutters.

Day 4:

I went to Eastwood that day with my cousin and her boyfriend, we planned to watch Paranormal Activity 3 at Eastwood Citywalk, I bought my Cocoa with Rocksalt and Cheese and NYFD as snacks then watched the movie, it wasn't scary but it will shock you so bad you will curse the hell out of yourself. In the movie house i was surrounded by lovers, on my right side was my cousin hugging her boyfriend, on my left side was couples holding hands and they were both guys, in front of my was hugging couples again and i didn't look back because i was afraid to see what they were doing *laughs*. After the movie we ate our dinner at Italliani's and ordered some of my favorite food there.

Italianni's Spinach & Artichoke Formaggio

Angel Hair Pomodoro, Sicilian Chicken Salad and Squash Soup

The food is amazing by the way especially the formaggio and the salad (all time fave), the pasta is really delicious too, and now i'm planning to eat all the food listed in their menu just what i did to Burgoo.

7hrs of Day 5:

It's beautiful to be alive. It's wonderful to live a life. #nowplaying

I planned not to sleep and just wait for 3:00 A.M. that day to prepare for my flight, went to the airport at 4:30, checked in, ate breakfast at Ya Kaya Kun Toast, boarded and voila I'm back in GenSan. 

I did not went home directly btw, i went to our Alma Mater with SMILES but that is a different story.

Personal | Shrimps are Evil

Having asthma is not really bad, sometimes I feel special having it but of course you have things that you are not allowed to do and you have food that you are not allowed to eat and sadly those food are really good to look at you can't help yourself but.....eat. So yesterday, I woke up early for my early jog and I feel very refreshed and sporty *laughs* and after that I went home, rested for a while, took a shower, blow dried my hair and then slept.

*Blackout*

When I woke up again, that was probably 11:00 A.M., I really felt hungry and realized that I skipped breakfast because I was too sleepy. I went out of my room and smelled the most amazing scent of real food in 5 months, I knew there was some frying going on because I can smell the bread crumbs and i thought our yaya is cooking Breaded Pork Chop *typing it makes me hungry* AND it was not Breaded Pork Chop *i feel hungry, damn you breaded pork chop, and again, FUUUUUUUUUU!*......MOVING ON! 

So it was not the food I thought about when i went there to check it, it was 10000000000x more amazing than Breaded Pork Chop *sighs*. I saw our yaya cooking those majestic helpless shrimps covered in glittering bread crumbs that makes my tummy *GRRRRRRROOOOOAAAARRRR*. 

I knew I was not allowed to eat shrimps but I'm not worried because I ate 15 shrimps in the past and nothing happened, so I broke my record and ate TWENTY-FOUR shrimps, nothing happened at first but then those creatures did their black magic slowly but surely, at first I had difficulty in breathing but i did not mind because I have colds that time, and then I feel itchy and I immediately know there is something wrong, and then I am experiencing short breaths and you know the typical asthma symptoms etc.. etc.. *tentenenenenenen* My savior arrived, Super Inhaler, it eased my breathing problems but not the allergies. My mom scolded me *cries* but of course i blame myself for eating too much majestic helpless breaded shrimps.

These  shrimps are just so cute and helpless on the outside but so evil once they penetrate your digestive system. And I'm never gonna eat 24 shrimps again, 24=My Limit, Shrimps=Evil.

DO NOT BE DECEIVED. 

Personal | Bloody Exam Week

Preliminary Exams are oveeeerr!

and the picture below sums up what we felt after the last exam of the last day of examination ended.

Stressed & Sleepless

This week has been bloody even before the official examination days started. Many professors giving us last minute quizzes and assignments, giving us extra notes to study which added to the tons of notes they gave a week before, powerpoint presentations, word documents, tons of photocopies not to mention many chapters to read from the books. If I were to describe the exams we took for three days I would say it was really difficult, you must be very, very, very, very, very ready to answer it without a sweat. Some subjects were easy like Anatomy and Physiology laboratory and Histology laboratory and the rest were really a pain in the head (Parasitology, ClinChem, Bacteriology) it was like I must live with the bacteria and parasites just to understand them thoroughly. 

But even though it was really difficult, I really Thank God by helping and guiding me through hell week, I really knew he didn't abandon me, he helped me with every question, guided me every time I study, so even if the result won't turn out to be good *still hoping the results would be good*, I understand.

So that sums up my hell week and i'm sure it will be bloodier and bloodier until the finals. CIAO.

Personal | First Day of Class 3rd Year Edition

-LONG STORY AHEAD-

Today officially starts the School Year 2011-2012 of my school, Centro Escolar University. I'm in 3rd Year now taking up BS Medical Technology. My class started 10:00 A.M. this morning, I got up at 8:00 A.M. so that I have enough time to arrange my things and my proper uniform (more about my uniform later) and not be late on my first class which is Clinical Chemistry 1 Lecture then I took a bath and the water is really cold, did all the necessary things and after that I let myself to dry using the towel (obviously) and by standing in front of the fan, put on my underclothes, pants, undershirt then the PROPER UNIFORM which I waited for 2 years by passing and enduring all those minor and major subjects, but the uniform made by the tailor (gave them a sample of the uniform) disappointed me, it was really ill-fitted/ill-fitting for me, I was not happy because I looked like a hanger, so to solve the problem, I used my backpack for school, loaded them with semi-heavy things like my big notebook, clear book and 1 whole pad of paper, pulled and folded the loose part of my uniform up to my back (sorry for the confusion) then wore my backpack which then holds the folded part of the uniform in my back steadily and made my uniform semi-hug my body, problem solved! then I went to school at 9:30, entered the room, saw my friends and have chit-chat with them while waiting for the professor. Our CC1 professor was an alumna of our school, judging by the way she talks to us, she is kind and not strict, Thank God, she discussed the rules in her class and other unnecessary things then she dismissed us at 11:30. We took our break then got to the next room which our next class will be held at 1:00 P.M. the class was Parasitology Lecture, another female professor, when she entered the room, she greeted us and started the 2 hour formal discussion, the lesson was easy on the first part but got difficult and more difficult as we progress, encountered many parasites e.g. Plasmodium falciparum, Entamoeba hystolitica, Naegleria fowleri and hundreds more of that and she said we will have our quiz already the next time we meet. The class ended at 3:00 P.M., went directly at my dorm, ordered pizza then slept (unhealthy, eh?). So now I am not looking forward for the Parasitology quiz but i'm getting ready and this is just the start of my 3rd Year life, many more to happen. 

fin.

Personal | History Of My Blog Title

So far I have three blog posts already, this fourth post will not be about films or books or travel but this will be about *drum rolls*.... "The History Of My Blog Title".

Once upon a cold December evening last year, I really don't remember what day but I'm sure it wasn't Christmas vacation yet, I was alone in my room lying in my bed doing....nothing 'coz there's nothing to do but i'm lying in my bed, that's something to do I think, then, all of a sudden, I thought of blogging then Tumblr came into my mind, I realized i'm not good in blogging because in my Tumblr account 99.9% of my posts there are all Re-blogs from other users, I tried posting my own blog post there but it didn't got any reblogs or likes because I'm not Tumblr famous that's why I stopped thinking of making a blog but after a few minutes because I was really bored, I got up, turned on my laptop, opened Google Chrome and surfed the net to find a nice website for blogging aside from Tumblr and *poof*... I stumbled into this website. I signed up using my  G-mail account, filled in necessary information, accepted Terms and Conditions, which i didn't read by the way, and one click is all it needs and then I'm officially a blogger member. I was there in the part where you will be making your own blog title and blog address then *boom* boredom struck, I clicked sign out and then went to Facebook.

And this is the "History Of My Blog", next time you will know why I named my blog "I Live Curious", The saga continues on "History Of My Blog Title Part Deux".