I need to get back on track--can't waste, got to chase. I've been buried under a lot of homework and org stuff the past few days, intense but at least after it's all over I know I won't have to worry about it for the rest of the semester. Early reports win, even though I didn't do so well it's okay. I'm a freakin senior already, in my last semessster. Bittersweet. Anyway, like I said, I don't have enough time for a proper entry but it's been a while so back log. I'm just going to post pictures as usual--White Rock Triathlon, My Mom's welcome dinner (oh yeah did I mention, she's back for three weeks!) and then Anna's revoltish 2NE1st party. Enjoy!







Me with the Extribe team, great race! Me and my Brother withextrarice also haha. Upcoming races are NB Power Run at the Fort on November 29 and then ExTriathlon first weekend of December in Batangas.







Cousins, my Mom and my Grandmother for their joint welcome dinner and birthday party. Fun, ate for a family again.















Great party, Happy Birthday A! The other A fell asleep as per usual, they drew on him with lipstick joker style. Seriously, Fona and I had 6 cups, he had two. He woke up in time for the last picture, or rather we woke him up, and off we went.

Time to go back to work, hassle. It's getting in the way of me and Dragonage, after submitting everything on Tuesday I'll be free except for AIESEC work. CURSES. See you around. That is all.

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OMFG, I think this is the first entry in two years that will not get the rowing tag. GASP? I've been training and all that though, guess I'll just give the next entry a double dose.

I just got back from Subic, helped out in this year's edition of White Rock Triathlon 2009. I'm so black right now, and just in time for school tomorrow. In it's sixth year already, I'm proud to be a part of this year's White Rock Tri-contingent from Extribe, premiere race organizers in the Philippines. I was in the swim leg this time around, on a kayak. It was epic fun, but more on this later when the pictures come around.

Ugh, school tomorrow. The (last) first day of my last semester in college, at least I think it's the last. The only good things I'm looking forward to tomorrow are team run(!), breaks with my friends and that's basically it. Got an AIESEC meeting in the afternoon, joy but I think I have to leave early because my Grandmother is flying in from the states. Whatever. Enough about that, time for some (or a lot) of pictures. I got to say I got to make the most out of my semester break, for what it's worth. Again, two things in one post!

Firstly, I got to go on a Subic(!) day trip with Drea, Janine, Alcine , Jandro and Kat. It was a bit of weather fail but it was great fun still, spent the entire day by the beach. Drinking and jet skiing (thanks to Kat's cousin!). We need another Bosque fiesta, with Berns gauche_star this time! I miss that evil gnome girl. Picture credits from Alcine, here we go!







Being delinquents in the middle of SCTEX (this new highway in the Philippines that cuts through mountains going to the North), I swear as we scrambled back into the car I could hear police sirens--just joshing.

















The perfect :S face ever captured in a photograph. I love you Janine HAHA, this really made my day.





I heart Drea, this didn't really happen. Or did it? HAHA.



Dinner before heading home to Manila, expensive Indian restaurant but hey I liked the food. Curry galore. Right as I got home, headed straight for Gabes' house for a later dinner and drinks party. She made chicken, I devoured one (of two) haha cause there was only me, Laurine, Kix, Fona, Anna revoltish and Gabes herself. We should do this more often, steady nights--I got drunk though haha. Photocredit from Gabes as per usual.

















I really enjoyed this last picture with A revoltish and Lau HAHA, no seriously it's so cute. This was Wednesday, Thursday I spent half at the office to get my dollaz and the night with the team--movie dinner date!

I have to say, getting my check cashed was quite the experience: a. lining up for 30 minutes, I started to realize that the clerk was cute and then b. I only had one valid ID. I presented myself with only my Ateneo ID and a print out of my passport (foresight!) and was consequently directed to see the manager. I almost got rejected but then I said "bbbbuttt, it's my first time and I'm an intern and this is my first check and, and, and...' AND IT WORKED. All the clerk said was "Wow, how'd you do that? I've never seen that happen before" and it was epic, I got my money and I ran back to the office in time for pizza. Later that day, was in Gateway and I realized I missed my boys, spent almost three hours catching up and pigging out as usual--Taco Bell, Wendy's, Dairy Queen, Big Chill, World Chicken, the works. Enzo and Migs were absent from the eights! Nobody eats like the rowing team, I kid you not. Saw Law Abiding Citizen, went home around twelve and that was that. Subic early the next day for White Rock!

I guess that's it, school tomorrow. Early morning run as well, got to go fix my stuff. I'll see you all soon, oh and if you're wondering what my schedule (last ever omg) is like, check it out under ( here )

That is all.

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Oh yea and last Saturday was my good good friend Fona's birthday, HAHA! I'm sorry I wasn't here to celebrate with you, but I'm sure you had a swell time. Hope you enjoyed my "t minus..." texts every hour, on the hour--you told me you did so HAHA okay maybe you didn't. Well HAPPY BIRTHDAY, at the end of the day, after all the screw ups and crap you put me through, I'm really glad we met ♥ ♥ ♥ HAHAHA. Hope you had a good one bruder.

Tags: college, dayjournal, picspam, rowing, weekend

Behold! One of my proudest moments in my rowing career caught on tape, we felled giants! Literally! Guys up to 6'4+ in height, we looked like babies next to them. My crew (Ari, Jeff, Fona and myself) managed to beat them in a 2000 meter rowing machine relay, by a whole second with a total time of 6:13 beating their 6:14. Pretty wild stuff, I spent the past hour putting funny annotations hahaha. Check it out:



White Rock Triathlon this Saturday! I cannot wait for that, hope it's fun and we enjoy good weather. Le sigh, that is all. Can't help but feel like the best chapter of my life is about to end/HAS ended. Rowing that is, not college psh. Well I couldn't have had rowing without the other so, cheers to that! See ya.

Immersed in the final semester break of my Ateneo college existence, a bunch of things have been afoot. General life update, in chronological order and lots of pictures. So last week, we had another Bosque (Janine and Berns gauche_star) birthday at the Treehouse! Jandro's house in the mountains, always fun. An 11 hour meal really, plus drinks and great fun. Stole most of these pictures from AlSCENE soulasylum_: HAPPY BIRTHDAY BERNS! It's today.















Then last weekend, it was my sister Maia's 30th birthday at WeLoveToast (Okay it's actually welovepost but HEY!), epic party. It was a Japanese costume party, I invited too many of my own friends (HAHA) but my sister was okay, they brought drinks anyway. It was so fun, music was Jpop and Kpop for half the night then it jumped the shark. Le sigh. Maia was Xiaoyu, my brother Miguel withextrarice is a Crazy 88, Drea is a geisha-gone-bad, Kat is a human tetris contestant, Alcine and Pia are jpop stars, Janine is a waitress, Raffy is a random geisha and I'm a taek fighter from KOREA. SAMURAI X, guess who! Anna revoltish the ninja, Fona, Becca, Gabes and Ina the panda are not pictured, sad. Glad you guys went <3























PICTURE SPAM. What else, what else. Monday was pretty interesting, secret meetings. Catching up for lunch (me, Luigi, Ari and GJ) AND dinner, I think I spent more than half of that day with GJ. Watched rowing videos at home with Lau and spent the better half of the day eating not at home. It was fun. Tuesday was another KK session with Gabes funktifiedheart, Anna revoltish, Fona, Ina and Lau. Wednesday had me, Ina, Kurt and Gabes at Quezon City hall for voting registration. A total of 6 hours just to be a good citizen! Extribe meeting at night for Subic Triathlon next next weekend, couldn't be more excited for that. I'm part of the swim leg team, I'll be in a kayak! As for today, trained the wookies (the new recruits--the noobs will forever be noobs in all our eyes) in the heavies. Went pretty well, I guess that's all.

Lots more stories to tell--maybe some other time.

Cheers.

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YOU ARE SUCH AN EPIC WORDSHAKER, GOOD GAME. That is all.

Things are going to be a lot different from here on out. It's a bit bleak, I'm always a bit listless these days. Getting lost in thought becomes easier and easier when I think about that week in Malaysia, all the little moments, my awesome teammates (like family), the months spent training for it--everything, I miss all of it.





It was seriously like a dream, it all happened so fast. I woke up, we were already well on the way home. You're not supposed to grow up in Neverland, it seriously felt like that--especially after opening the chaffing dishes during breakfast. Haha it came to a point that we just had to imagine we were eating donuts instead of the weird rice square things, I kid.





I seriously want to build a time machine, haha okay maybe not. I want to be able to go back--in time, specifically two weeks ago, not necessarily go back one more time to Malaysia in 2010. God knows I'm done, my time's up. It's a sad thought but staying on for another year wouldn't be right, I've already done everything I set out to do. I got the gold I set out for in the beginning. I led a team to victory, even though some things could've been tighter--you can't have everything. We built this awesome thing together, we surmounted incredible odds together. This time, the hang over is worse because there's no more future for me to build on.



I'm happy for those undergraduates who will go on to fight, you have a lot of time and the work is cut out for you. I'll still be here to help you guys out (of course), every other step of the way. It's time for me to grow up. One more semester in college, it's going to be horrible. I will miss everything; the training, morning SOM breakfasts with Lee, Laurine, Luigi and Kat baraquiello, the perfect-rowing class schedule (10:30-3 everyday, no breaks!).



It's time for change! I guess I just need a bit more time to get over the fact that this could be the end of rowing as I know it, it changed my life--cheesy as it sounds.





Dreams never die. I wish time stopped. My heart wants to explode, I could die in peace right now. Be in touch, live the dream again. Believe in what makes you feel good, because if Putrajaya 2009 didn't feel good what else could? Snippets from a late night conversation, you know who you are. Don't stop believing okay? Hold on to that feeling. I know I will.



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Listless listless listless. I just got back from Bosque birthday at Jandro's house with Berns gauche_star, Alcine soul_asylum, Janine, Drea etc. More stuff about that later. Team lunch tomorrow <3, Wanda's party this Friday and then my sister's giant Japanese costume part at WeLoveToast this Saturday. Time to look up. I'm joining a gym tomorrow, this small place near my house to make up for all the rowing I'm going to miss, wish me luck.

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My end of an era letter to the team, posting it here just for my own personal reference: ( under here. )

Just in case you didn't hear, I'm back and Malaysia's over. Our crew won a total of two golds, 1 silver and two bronzes. Competition was stiffer this year, but through all our hard work and perseverance, our Men's 8 blew them out of the water. Oh man, this trip was hella fun. This is my legacy, I told you it would be golden.

I'm so proud of my boys, this is the stuff of legend! Our other gold came from the erg (machine rowing) competition (will post video) against two other crews and our own Beta Crew. We managed to walk away with the gold even if we only placed with 2nd during the semis, we rowed our hearts out against all odds (literally, the opposing teams were giants 6'3 heights plus) but we still managed to beat them by a second. 6:13.2 for 2000 meters for the gold, while they clocked in at 6:14.3 for the silver. Anyway enough of that, wait for my epic Malaysia post once the others start posting their pictures. Here's some of mine, see the rest at my Facebook.































Had too much fun. I feel listless when I think about it, I've done well for myself, my crew made me proud. Future's daunting, we shall see. Cheers.

I haven't been writing stuff here, been busy with everything. The typhoon, volunteering, getting my crew together for Malaysia 2009. Here it is, tomorrow we fly and true to my style, I sent them a letter to get them going, to get them ready. Took inspiration from an expected source, if you recognize it don't out me just yet haha. Here we go, sent this to all of my crewmates--subject: Here's the part where YOU make a choice: the eve of the war.

It's time to fight! You've bled for this, battle scars and all, you're ready. It's been a year in the making (or even years if you count the journey leading up to this dream), the Ateneo crew has arrived. We trained through the heat and the rain, the exams and the deadlines--it all boils down to this. It's time for glory!

In our sport, preparation is key. The tournament is just the performance- -showtime, if you will. We say that we train for months just to accomplish a 7 minute race. Apart from the oars we have, the only thing you bring to the boat is the hard work you put in, all that months of preparation. In the truest sense, it's one of the most valuable lessons this sport can teach you--something I'm sure you will grasp after all of this is done. The fact is, all that is over now. It's done. We bring what we have, wherever you guys think you are now, that's all it is. You're right there, smack dab, right there. You will have doubts, the ones I warned you about. Some of you might wish you spent more time on the erg, woke up earlier to get that extra round in La Mesa or wished you didn't stand around so long when you could have been lifting weights. The simple fact is, all that is over now. It is go time, whether you think you're ready or not. This is the enemy, doubt can be your biggest obstacle--not the crews from Malaysia or Indonesia. Nothing they do will affect our time to reach the finish--we don't wish failure on them as a means of winning. We stick to our lane and we treat them with respect because they hold the capacity to push us even harder.

This isn't about wishes. THIS IS ABOUT CHOICES.

Here's where we fight: there's no turning back now, trust yourself and the fact that you did put in the time. Trust me, you did--YOU CAN DO THIS. Ignore the doubt, focus on your stroke and relax. Doubt will always be present whichever way you look at things, it's our job to shut it out and to keep moving forward. NEVER FORGET. It's our job to pick each other up. It won't be easy, we need to stick together. Always listen to me.

Just like our rows in La Mesa Dam, focus is the key--ignoring the fact that you got 3 hours of sleep the previous night, zone everything out and focus on yourself. Turn to your crew mates, trust your partner, trust in their skill, trust in yours. Once you're on the water, focus everything on the boat and you will do fine. This is about you, in the bigger picture, this is about our crew, our glory and nothing about the boat beside you. The definition of rowing as a sport is that of teamwork, we act like a unit, keep our numbers in check and we will blow the competition out of the water--together.

No matter what happens out there, whoever our competition is, do your best and you will succeed--no matter the outcome. As of this moment, I'm already proud of you guys for sticking this thing through, it's no easy feat. You guys of all people should know, we do this for the love of the sport. We wake up, we torture ourselves and we go to school--that is no small thing. The medal is just the icing on the cake, it's the journey that counts and I'm proud to say that I'm so fucking happy I'm able to take this journey with each and every single one of you. It means a lot, I want you guys to do me proud. No regrets, if we go down, we go down fighting as a crew--but trust me, if we all do our parts with 110% trust, we'll bag the big prize. Like I've said, here's the part where you make a choice. Make it now. ARE YOU READY TO BE STRONG?

Your Captain,
Martin

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We've made it: the biggest crew (11 guy rowers, 7 girl rowers, 1 cox and Coach = a contingent of 20) to compete internationally in the history of the Ateneo de Manila Rowing Team. Thanks in large part, to me (I kid).

Well of course this wouldn't have been possible without the perseverance of the veterans for sticking it out, including the novice men's doubles and women's single--that is the resilient women's fours (the PPG plus Nikkimon), the persevering women's doubles (Arev and Dada) and our oldest master Enc on the single. That's a total of 6 crews, 7 events total. I'm proud of what we've done and how far we've taken things, don't discount that fact. It's time to show them what we've got.

17 days left until show time. Crunch time is now. Haven't had the time to update, the past few days have been a mix of school, afternoon dates, training (of course) and whatever else. I'm excited for Malaysia, it's coming up faster than I anticipated. I hope will make sure we'll be ready in time. Nothing to write, have some pictures:







Awesome photography once again from Gabes. Had Ina's innocent after-sex photoshoot the other day, I brought my extra large polos to style and we all just hung around to see the magic happen. T'was fun, watch us make the prune face--Mary Kate and Ashley Olsen style.

All for now, Rowing Recruitment General Assembly Tomorrow and Team Run in the morning. Time to secure the legacy (NAT), cheers.

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CHECK OUT MY NEW ICON <3

Epic video. GJ made it! Video by Coach (my camera), photos by Jeff during Malaysia, action shots by Pao, creative direction by SJ, director by ME and editing by GJ.

Watch it and revel, join the Ateneo de Manila Rowing Team!

Haven't had a proper entry in weeks, the time has been going by pretty fast. I can't recall anymore what exactly I've done in the past couple of days, nothing big. Good times spent with friends, not studying and training our butts off for Malaysia 2009; which as of this moment is 29 days away. Stupid weather didn't let us train today, we had intense rain this morning. Apparently there's another storm, it's sunny now but when I woke up at 5 it was raining cats and dogs. I sent texts to the entire crew that I'm canceling the row--hallelujahs abound. According to Ari waking up really early in the morning and finding out you don't have to get up at all is the best feeling the world. It's a funny thing, I know almost all of us alarm 30 minutes ahead of schedule just so we can snooze right back to sleep before actually getting up. Interesting.















Picspam! I invited my friend Pao to take pictures for us last weekend. For promotional use during recruitment which is this coming week! Excuse the last two gratuitous shots hahaha, they're hilarious. EDIT: Oops, sorry they aren't Facebook sized, I forgot they were a bit bigger.

Great stuff, used them for the tarp and the epic video which I shall post in my next entry. 29 days to go, we've got a long way to go but we're getting there. I am terribly excited I can't take it anymore, it's go time, one very last time.

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Been a very bad student, been very good at whiling away the time not studying. It's an uncanny talent, with 21 units how do I manage? Oh well, given that 9 of it is Spanish/French, it's really okay. Not saying I'm doing well however, I'm doing terrible. Senior syndrome, self-diagnosed.

Six weeks to go til Malaysia 2009, that's the only thing I keep going back to these days. Stress and fun times await, there's still recruitment to handle (supposedly already next week but I'm thinking of moving it again for lack of preparation). Bad planning, it gets really hard. I feel like a one man army most of the time. Training is going well, as far as my crew is concerned so that's peachy but the biggest thing right now are the plane tickets. S-T-R-E-S-S: it's either we settle for the 11k tickets (I'm inclined to this) or go for the 8.4k ones but stay an extra day and miss the first day of finals. We shall see, give me more time to figure this out. In the mean time, have some week old pictures from Alcine soulasylum_ of recent events passed--my actual birthday (STRIPES ATTACK), my party and then Bosque Birthday in Jandro's house (Pia, Drea and Alcine's birthdays combined!).















I love these shots (especially Drea's ~sweet~ face HAHA). As for school, I don't feel like a good student but I've been doing relatively okay. It's senior's syndrome, I am afraid to graduate yet at the same time, I don't feel like studying anymore. It's the end of youth, the death of infinity as Raymond mondang puts it. Oh no, after October I'm done with rowing. School will cease to exist with meaning, le sigh.

This better be my year.

Voldemort: Let me tell you something about Dumbledore. We were best friends in middle school. I know, right? It's so embarrassing. I don't even... Whatever. So then in eighth grade, I started going out with my first girlfriend Bellatrix who was totally gorgeous but then she moved to Indiana, and Dumbledore was like, weirdly jealous of her. Like, if I would blow him off to hang out with Bellatrix, he'd be like, "Why didn't you call me back?" And I'd be like, "Why are you so obsessed with me?" So then, for my birthday party, which was an all-boys pool party, I was like, "Dumbledore, I can't invite you, because I think you're a homo." I mean I couldn't have a homo at my party. There were gonna be boys there in their *bathing suits*. I mean, right? He was a HOMO. So then his mom called my mom and started yelling at her, it was so retarded. And then he dropped out of school because no one would talk to him, and he came back in the fall for high school, all of his hair was cut off and he was totally weird, and now I guess he's on crack.

As the above masterpiece suggests (sadly I didn't write that, I don't know who did), I had a mini party for my 21st (August 13!) last Friday, August 14th. It was pretty much all that, except for the fact that there wasn't a pool. Just kidding, Dumbledore was invited!

It was pretty eventful, more than that I should say. Almost everyone I invited showed up, it felt pretty special and I had a lot of fun with the people I heart in this life. The only thing that killed it (literally) was me passing out at 1 AM. And then some, but let's not recount and just have a round of pictures. Sorry flist, would elaborate more but school and training beckons so early in the morning.



















Good times, great times! Would give anything to remember that last hour though, and maybe skipped out on a couple of shots haha but no regrets. Thanks for coming guys, it made my 21st something to remember.

Holiday week this week, too much fun. Spent the night last night at Jandro's tree house with Alcine soulasylum_, Berns gauche_star, Janine, Kat, Drea and Jandro. A lot of people came and went, steady vibes. Didn't get drunk (both win and fail) but I had a blast, can't wait for the videos.

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We are green lit for La Mesa training! A month and a half to go, pressure is mounting. Let's do this guys!

Not much to say, dayjournal much. Two hours to go till I'm officially more than two centuries old (Angel, I'm catching up--or maybe not). I've got a midterm tomorrow I'm not studying for, I don't think I'm doing anything all that important tomorrow so my Lola is going to whisk me away right after class. I hope someone surprises me, JUST KIDDING. Feeling! Haha, have some pictures.







Alcine soulasylum_ dragged took me, Janine and Nicky to the Block to watch the Saturdays live! I'm not a big fan, who am I kidding? HAHAHA. Alcine brings out the popmania in people it's not even funny anymore. I loved it, it was fun screaming their names out and seeing their faces go "OH, SOMEONE IN THE AUDIENCE KNOWS US" hahaha! Awesome much.

In other news, ASEAN Varsity Boat Race 2009 is finally official! YES, I AM ECSTATIC. The whole crew is ecstatic, I can't can't wait for October! We're really gearing up, the pain, the sweat, the blood, the tears. Everything's so tangible because we finally have our goal! Malaysia, here we come! Oh and also, I was a rower for my creative shot. Innovative, right? I just didn't want to think anymore although I did work pretty hard on my write-up, want to see? ( Under here! )

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FRIDAY, HERE WE COME (Fona was just here, excited?). I'll see ya.

Had a fun, fun, fun weekend! Friday madness at the softcore opening of welovepost in Makati, with only 1/8th of Team Secret Event this time. It was my sister and her husband's new post production company, check out their website! They've done commercials, dramas for local tv (Rounin, anyone?) and a lot of other things. I knew it was going to be a huge party (lots of CELEBS, no lie) so I asked if I could bring a few people. I invited Anna revoltish, Gabes funktifiedheart, Fona (rowing team reppin' for three weeks now) and E but she couldn't make it. Last minute, I invited Alcine soulasylum_ and she brought like forty (EVIDENCE) of her friends but it was cool. In hindsight, I should've invited like a few more people, just a few more and nobody would've cared. The party was that big, not kidding. Congratulations Maia and Peter!













Of course, no Friday photoseries is complete without me and my head down somewhere. Thanks to Gabes, Alcine and Peter's SLR for the pictures! Always a pleasure, hahaha I particularly like the family pictures. It's like a sheer dose of Borja-Yambao (HAHA), I can't take it. Can't wait for the next one: part three!

As for yesterday, met up with Berns gauche_star and her friend Sab. Buffy/Firely/BSG extravaganza at Teriyakiboy. Had an 8s row today, the wind was epic strong. Waves all over the place, but it was fun. Two missing but we made do, thanks Lee hahaha. Row is love and love is pain. It is Sunday, school beckons and it's not pretty. All for now, cheers.

Rollercoaster weekend, not that I'm still reeling from it. It's already Monday, had fun though for what it's worth. A couple of bad turns here and there though, such a shame. Qué lastima. Somewhere along the way, it was as if someone had decided to give me a big lesson in trust, well let's make that two big lessons actually. One of which was that my poor brother got his iPhone stolen--but enough about those things. As they say, never, ever dish anyone in print because once it's in print, it automatically becomes the truth. But then again, that is what lawsuits are for.

I can't say I passed either test, at least I already made amends and salvaged everything I could from the second. I truly am sorry it came out like that, I didn't mean it at all. It was out of line and uncalled for. Even though it wasn't meant for your ears, I still shouldn't have said it. The scores are tied, I learned my lesson. For now enjoy some Gabes Cantero awesome photography: secret event two!












I. was. drenched. Becca's house was awesome and theme of the night was prepster nautical; ergo my lone argyle tie. The usual, brought Fona, no Ari (regrets much?), chips, pizza, got too wasted to row the next day and that was that. It was a send-off for Tippy and Alex, back to Australia they go! I'll miss you guys, I'll miss our secret events.

In other news, I spent Saturday doing absolutely nothing. I spent it eating rice, chips and everything I could find to boost me up for the fun run last Sunday. Yesterday, in fact, Ari and I round up some of our faster team mates in the hope of winning a prize for the fastest 5-man team run. We got to the event, Raffy left his race bib at home automatically barring us from the official race. But that didn't bother me as much as it should have since most of the professional running community seemed to have gotten the 10k prize memo. It was insane, I recognized a lot of faces from our brief stunt as Extribe race organizers--a truckload of serious runners. From the looks of the hundreds of people in the assembly pen, I knew already it wasn't going to be a Carrera Loyola redux. Dream big, but anyway.

We just decided it was going to be our warm-up for the day, since we still had rowing after. Some warm-up, we all pushed ourselves hard. It was fun though since we're so used to the hills in Ateneo, whenever it was inclined we found ourselves pacing ahead. That was my only goal, get as much ahead, passing people as I could and not let anyone re-overtake. It took a strong-steady pace, I wanted to die 2/3rds of the way but I guess adrenaline kicked in, I got to make a sprint to the finish. It wasn't as epic as we hoped for but at least we had fun, I'd say we made fourth place (yeah right) if there was a fourth place, haha. The run felt real good, nonetheless.

As for today, got a bunch of things still left to knock out of the ball park: yearbook write up, rowing marketing concerns, AIESEC pre-selection interview this week and then lastly, homework. This week will be sort of light, no class today and on Friday! Yee-haw.

In retrospect, I guess I had a really good weekend. Speed bumps and all:



I had too much of a good time, I dare say. Cheers Salud instead!

I slept so early last night, I did nothing yesterday it was bad. But I had a great weekend, still. Row today and got schooled by Coach again, this once a week thing is starting to take its toll in terms of technique but nothing can make me go back to Pasig (at least I hope not). We're getting stronger though. Been running/weights/doing the erg five times a week, it's amazing. There isn't a day I don't wake up at 5 except Saturday, well this past Friday was an exception because of the stupid tifón. Oh well, the weekend was fun: ~SECRET EVENT~ last Friday at Gabes' funktifiedheart. It was a party for Tippy and Alex, fresh from Australia and I had so much fun and it's time for some pictures. Excuse the man-cleave, attire was saktong bastos or just-enough-obscene in English HAHA I don't know. I followed the directive!













Most pictures from Gabes, check out her mad photography skills over at her flickr and one picture from Wanda. Fun, fun night. It was crazy fun, I brought two of my team mates (one was invited, the other was dragged) for maximum ownage: FUN IN A BOX. 2NE1 + Paradiso Girls for the win! Too bad E didn't make it! Next Friday, let's plan it A revoltish? Ari fell asleep after a few drinks and Fona wasn't hit at all, what a fucken given. Fist bumps and all, I WANT TO DO IT AGAIN.

In other news, lots of responsibility ahead. Trying my best to run a tight ship, there's Rowing Week in a month's time, got to lock down some sponsors and the promotional materials for that. AIESEC is still AIESEC. As for school, only significant thing is I will definitely try to ramp it up in Spanish and French. I'll try not to waste time.

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We're joining a fun run this Sunday, a team of five and I hope we win! It's going to be me, Ari, Enc, Migs and Raffy: fastest guys on the rowing team. Might be Carrera Loyola grand prize win redux, I SURE HOPE SO. See ya.

Had a fun weekend! School is the same, nothing new to report on that except I realize that I've become quite slack with all my things but who cares, senior yearrr. Yeah right, oh yea we finally have a date for Varsity Boat Race 2009! Wuhoo, October 5-10 a.k.a pre-finals week! HASSLE but at least it's there, it's concrete and we're gunning for it. Three months to go, let's do this boys!









A roadie, a make-up artist, two models and one awesome photographer made up my Saturday. It started on a rainy afternoon in U.P, mud and all then moved to the Tennis court in Xavierville. We ended the night at Gabes' funktifiedheart house with an impromptu steak dinner. We also had salmon, salad, potato salad, wine and fucken cake. I had fun, Gabes got to shoot some good pictures for her portfolio these are just the goofing around shots. I was in charge of the reflector, beat that! As for Friday, spent the night with Anna revoltish, Gabes, Tippy and Alex visiting from Australia! Great fun also, so much fun we're doing it again next Friday. Brace yourselves, SECRET EVENT.

Lots of people rowed today, so much that we ran out of boats and had to take turns. It wasn't pretty but at least everyone got their work-outs in. Rained too, but we already had our boat back in the boat house when that happened. Ari's crew, Lee, Enc, Rix and Coach were still out there when it hit though. Must've been fun. I guess that's it.

Cheers.

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I think this is the first time ever I've been photographed wearing shades, I don't own any--hello, glasses and I generally thought they didn't frame my face well. Oh well, I like these shots!

Haven't updated in a long while, precisely because it's been the same old, same old for a while now. I haven't been going out, cough cough, not sick though! Approximately three months till competition, been planning big things for Rowing Week (August 10-14) and then training as usual. Our schedule has been severely cut down though for La Mesa, Sundays only but we're making it work. Run/weights almost every other day, slowly but surely getting the optimum pace back. We used to go 25:25 the route (5-6 kilometers), we'll get there again.



Been busying myself with my tumblr, it's my giant mood board for stuff I find in my Google reader. This is my latest collage inspired by these pants, neat-o. It's pretty swell, kills a lot of time in Photoshop though. More proud of this one though, it's supposed to be my style ( under here. )

Cheer rally this Friday, GJ beat me on the erg for 1k, last time on the run was 26:10, did 30 minutes today on the rowing machine and I guess that's it. Gotta hit the sack, early run tomorrow. Word vomit.

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RSS my tumblr! CHEERS.

First things first, El Día E was a huge success. Great turn out of people, the interactive exhibit was a hit (thank you, thank you JUST KIDDING) and the facade of the whole building was awesome. This day was effectively the end of my internship, with school and all rearing its ugly head. Hope it's not the last though! In other relevant news, I am going to get paid. I guess for the extra weeks I spent there and the Scrabble/Word search designs. Pretty sweet deal, it's not the Art Department dream internship but I had such a swell time anyway. Met people for keeps, made enough connections and got up to a great start in all this real world business.







Had a swell time. I'm going back on Friday to fix some stuff with Instituto Cervantes (dollar dollar) and also to go to a meeting with mi jefe and my sister's company WeLovePost something for Pelicula in October. Should be fun.

Both bad news and big plans for the rowing team, bad voodoo hoodoo again from the stupid Rowing Association of the Philippines. Gee, but then big plans for recruitment and promotional week. Stay tuned for that. Time trial this Sunday, run and weights again tomorrow. Feels good to be getting back into the swing of things, I'll definitely miss this once college ends. WHAT--gross. That is all. Hasta luego.

School tomorrow, senior year I can't believe it. Feels like it was just yesterday and I was at square one, a fat(ter) freshman with NOTHING. Melodramatic much, well in a manner of speaking you know. After three years of the Ateneo edumacation system (lol thanks Petra gh0stmeat), I don't know if I learned enough things to get me where I want to go in life. And to where I want to go? I have no idea. Right now all I know is, I want to get that scholarship to Spain and that will be that. I need to decide what to study though, I can't believe I don't know. There's still a year left I guess, time to figure stuff out. In the mean time, have some pictures from two Wednesday's ago c/o Jeff. Sorry I look gruff, I just came from work and I hadn't shaved three weeks prior:







Always fun, this was prior to enlistment and I got hella drunk, we all did thanks to the game (seen in pictures and mentioned in the previous entry). It was fun though, no one does it like the rowing team do, and that's fo' sho'. I find the last picture hilarious, that's me covering my face in anticipation of the READY SET GO and in case the drink spills! One last picture for the road, NSFL ( that's not safe for life to the less erudite )

In other news, school tomorrow! I'm half excited to see everyone again (TRULY) and half scared because of the pandemic. I scared for my team to be honest, if one of us goes out it could mean the entire team.

Senior year, senior year. The beginning of the end of an era. I had a great summer even though I only got to go to the beach once with my cousins, it was a great trip though. I pretty much worked the entire summer, and if I get to thinking about it now, I wouldn't have done it any other way. I got to meet some awesome people, got to bust it out like I was a real employee and it felt good to see my contributions published in both local (Inquirer here) and international (ElPaís y Telediario en España!). Too awesome for words, I'm going to miss the office I dare say but I still have this coming Saturday as my last stint. Pretty big day for me, hope my designs turned out all right. Hasta luego y nos vemos mañana!