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!

It was enlistment today, my 2nd to the last enlistment ever and of course it was a struggle. Didn't help by the fact that I got home at 3 am already, piss drunk from a rowing party and I was expected to be online at 7 am. Bad things, I could've been in for a whole semester of hurt if I slept through my enlistment but of course, support systems made sure I was up in time (THANKS). It was fun though, haven't gone out for a long while. We played this game where you had to down your drink so fast and if you were last, you had to take something off (I had a vest, EXTRA LIFE): would've been fun except the drinks were so strong, it was only round five and people were already starting to drop out like flies a.k.a Ari and Arev. Anyhow, let me show you my schedule.



No breaks baby, I got Principe for Philosophy, Dy-Liacco for Theology, Aquino for both Spanish (trying to get into Young's class though), Yap for French and then Hofilena for History. Are we classmates? Let me know! I have a bad feeling about this semester, I'm so pissed I didn't get Lagliva but oh well. As for my language classes, three(!) so I am pretty psyched. With rowing, work, AIESEC and school to top it all off, I am getting a bit scared though.

In other news, ugh, I was sick the whole of last week. I don't know, after the row I think the sun beat down on me too hard for the first time. I got asthma and a severe migraine that lasted me for like four days. Ergo, I didn't go to work the entirety of last week but now I'm back. Pretty interesting things actually, I'm turning out to be quite the graphic designer. Right? I have no background in it whatsoever but my boss keeps giving me these jobs and I churn out what I can, with what I think looks good and so far so good. Now I'm tasked to design this giant exhibit for our upcoming event, it's pretty straight-forward but it is huge like 8 x 8 feet. I hope I get paid for this one because rather than paying the designer to do it, I'm doing it, haha who knows.

Oh and check this out:



The video I showed you guys a few entries back appeared on Telediario (basically the main-news show of Spain and the Spanish-speaking world internationally) pretty big deal if I say so myself. I'm famous, just kidding. My boss was ecstatic, beside himself really. Group effort but just the other day he kept telling everyone that he didn't know he got such a Spielberg for an intern. HAHA WHATEVER, gee I'm learning so many things. I don't regret devoting my summer to this at all. Well it is back to Instituto tomorrow, hasta luego

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Since I was sick, been catching up with so many shows. Top Design, Battlestar Galactica, Glee, Stylista (to be determined), Make Me a Supermodel, the works. Can't wait can't wait. Oh yea and on a side note, we got a new recruit for rowing. We'll see what happens, vamos a ver

So I'm the good cop? I miss Veronica Mars, I need a re-watch. It's been a while since my last update, been doing nothing much of late. These days I'm all about work and training, as usual. Training days have been moved to Tuesdays, Thursdays and Sundays. The internship goes on, it's been pretty busy actually and it's kind of awesome to know that they really do appreciate our help over there. Upcoming event on the 20th, do swing by.



Finally posted my picture survey on Facebook (thanks to Anna revoltish), check it out here. This picture is actually of me trying to take a group shot of the team at the Petronas Towers in Kuala Lumpur. The survey itself has some pretty funny stuff, back when I was XXXL and posing with people I actually don't like. Quite the trip, I love looking back.

In other news, I am going to take Spanish 3, 5 and French 5 all in the coming semester. AISIS fails to agree with me so I have yet to finalize my schedule but with my random number of win (45 baby!) all seems possible. Oh and I had another Jedi moment the other day, I "saved" someone's life. Worth a chronicle, if I do say so myself: ( Okay, so you're probably going, Is this like a Noxzema commercial or what? But seriously, I actually have a way normal life... )

That was a long one there under the cut, I guess until two weeks from now (hopefully not). Got to wake up early for a row tomorrow, see ya!

Great row yesterday, two fours crews, Lee and Coach on singles. We had races that day and my crew creamed the other crew by far, TWICE. For some reason I don't think our coach trusts me being the lead stroke (the guy who steers the rudder with his foot--well okay and also paces the entire crew). I know it's a maker or breaker position in terms of racing, having learned the hard way in Malaysia 1.0, but it's not as hard as it looks. I can steer just as well as Ari (maybe better as proven last yesterday, HA). In terms of the timing question, piece of cake and all you need is a long/er stroke. They told me maybe he just thinks I'm better suited to be in the middle (my real position in our top crew) as engine room. As principle, stronger people go in the middle. If I'm in front, I end up doing triple duty as the one who steers, the one who paces and the one who commands/screams. I can't wait for next Sunday, good news is we're clear for Wednesday! Two La Mesa days starting from now, I hope all goes well. In the mean time, check this out:



Very cool no? It's for El Día del Español, I'm proud to say we made this ourselves (the other interns and I). I spent one day running around the grounds of Instituto, recording people's favorite words on video so we could make this commercial for our Facebook page, do become a fan! Pretty awesome no? Notice even the janitors and the security guards know even a bit of Spanish. Amazing! Also, mira esto:



It's me HAHA, and if you didn't understand my favorite word was gusto. All of the interns were asked to pick their words and make a spiel explaining it to be posted on www.eldiae.es, ours are already up there if you guys want to vote hahaha. See the rest of the videos (the other interns HAHA) here. Speaking of work, I'm officially done with my hours but I'm going back on Wednesday. Too much fun I say, until then I guess.

Had Buffy weekend last Friday with Anna revoltish, too bad we missed out on Carina operatingroom and Becca. Re-sched? As for Saturday, went out and watched Star Trek. Family dinner in Alabang yesterday and then I did nothing today. Oh but I did jump rope, I've moved on to 3000 jumps. Takes me round about 30-40 minutes, pretty intense. I will definitely try to complete this week (each day), no excuses. It is go time. Hasta luego.

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My random number is 45! Time to fix my schedule.

Sorry it's been a while, it's just the days are so full I can hardly find the time with work, rowing and all that jazz. This post is going to be full of pictures from different times, I dunno I just feel like I owe it to this journal. Work's been okay, although it has been a bit of a lull ever since Día ended. It was a great success, if I hadn't already mentioned.

( Pictures from Día del Libro celebration )

I'm actually supposed to be done with Instituto Cervantes by this Thursday, it's my last day and I'm going to bring Lola cake. I have told them that I am interested to extended, however, since there's an upcoming event: El Día de Español on the 20th of June. If they need our help as interns, I'm down to extend until the end of the month. Just as long as there's work to be done, I'll be there. Check out the site here and their videos. It's pretty cool, people all over were asked to pick their favorite Spanish word (see refunfuñar and chapuza) and explain why. Our jefe already asked us to do the same, I chose gusto and I'll see if I can get around to posting the video here. Very cute. Anyway, time for A LOT of random pictures.







This was last Saturday at Ina's awesome house, making funny faces with Anna revoltish. We crashed Ina's younger sister's 17th, it was way high school hahaha! Fun and loved the pasta E, pictures taken from Ria. Oh well, what else. Take a gander at these:



HAHAHA. Thanks very much, my friends made this (along with like 500 more of them and our friends) on Facebook. I just wanted to share, they took the time to pick the right face and pose for each one it's incredible. Too funny, I swear. I guess that's it, Buffy weekend this Friday to Saturday with A revoltish, C operatingroom and Becca if all goes according to plan. I can't wait. La Mesa race day again on Sunday, hay. It begins! Cheers.

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Finally, I think I have some semblance of what I should do after college. This is it, fingers crossed.

It's too hot down here, I can't take it. Normal days feel like slow-roasts under the hot summer sun. With me going back on forth on the Metro, on the way to my internship at Instituto, it doesn't get pretty.

Speaking of Instituto Cervantes, Día del Libro is vast approaching! It's already this week, from the 23rd to the 25th! I'm kinda excited, finally field work. I think I'm really lucky I got to be an intern here. My Spanish is improving (at least I think so, I get to talk to my Lola much much smoother) and the work can be pretty interesting. On normal days though, it's a lot of sitting around, fiddling with Facebook pages and waiting for our jefe to give us work. Although it can pick up from time to time, like this week for instance, one of our office mates lent me a D-SLR and told me to take pictures of El Director with some kids for promotional material. Some of my shots got selected for Prensa (Spanish for Press!) and I dunno, sent them out to a bunch of major publications along with the official press release so it's pretty amazing! The next day, they asked me to take shots of the grounds and they're going to put it in the folieta for Academica. My name will be on it, pretty solid.

It's a bit grinding but I'm kind of loving it. It's back to work for us tomorrow, the usual 9-5. Hope it's another fun day. As for rowing, we've been going smoothly. La Mesa row today and two were out, Lee and Luigi (our dynamic doubles duo) had to sub in for the eight boat. It was okay, it really just goes to show that things can go really south when one or two people don't/can't show up for training. Le sigh, that's all.

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I can't get over Tali, I want to go back. I keep going over the photoes (see previous entry) and just wow, I miss the water.

Slow day at work today, I can't wait for fieldwork to actually begin. Día del Libro on the 23rd to the 25th, come down and partake of awesome books from Spain that I heard retails for below 200 bucks. I've seen them and they are pretty swank, find us and become a fan on Facebook. In other news, it was Semana Santa or Holy Week the past few days. It was awesome fun, spent it at Tali yet again (AUGH I WANT TO GO BACK RIGHT THIS SECOND. TELEPORT!) but without some of the usual suspects. No kidding, this year seemed different. Even though the jetskis were "broken", we still managed to have the best time ever. Berta came along and she met all my cousins! Great fun, no?









All of these are either taken from my sister, Andrea or Leslie. Lots of half-naked greasy people, cliff-diving monsters and pool idiots under ( here, enjoy! )

Whew, I had a thoroughly enjoyable time. I am so sad both Bianca and Sabine didn't make it. Oh well, there's always next time. I so want to go back. Berta, let's go back with Patsy and Tata the minute they arrive from London! Can't wait. As for me, it's back to work tomorrow. Hardcore rowing summer training will start this Wednesday, wish us luck. We definitely need it.

Cheers and that's all. I NEED TO GO BACK TO A POOL ASAP.

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I promise to run tomorrow at 5 o'clock, no matter what happens. Diet got fudged up over the past week, time to fix it.

Didn't go to work last Friday, went to Laguna instead! Awesome house, hot spring pool(!), thanks Berns gauche_star. I had much fun, really. Traffic could've been more cooperative, spent almost half the time in Ari's car listening to his dumb ipod hahaha--turn around, bright eyesss. HAHAHA have some spam, picspam that is!









Taken all from Drea, shower girl, Alleje. The rest under ( here. )

Had an okay row today, almost everyone was out but we still managed a fours and three singles. No work on Monday! Going to Alabang, might meet up with Jay. I'm excited. Day two of diet, so far so good. It's nothing though, just cut back on the stuff. Got to keep it up. That's pretty much my weekend.

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I'm almost done with Skins 3, it is awesome: ass to ass with you, ass to ass with me HAHA.

Haven't updated in a while, the long and short of it is I'm done with school. Right now, I'm starting full time at my internship 9 to 5, five days a week and today was my first day. It wasn't so bad, it was fun actually. We had a lot to do, never a dull moment even though half of it had to do with promoting stuff on Facebook. I am positive that my Spanish is slowly (but surely) getting better, my Lola called me on the phone while I was on the metro on the way home. We spoke the entire time in Spanish, a good five minutes. Even though I had a good 5 second lag time, still the feat. It was funny though because even as I was in a not-so cramped train car, nobody got weirded out by the Spanish. It really is not so far from our own, after all.







Skins Secret Party pictures from Berta a.k.a Pandora from the middle of last week. Celebration of finals end and mini-despedida for Tata shootreloadroar and Patsy for their internship trip to London town. Lucky, more pictures from Berta under here with ( Pandora, Emily, Tony and Maxxie )

The past weekend also was our yearly planning seminar for AIESEC in this rest house in Pampanga. I had fun, I feel good about the incoming team and our plans for expansion. It was kind of inspiring even. Had a good row today although bad stuff happened during the Sunday row (I wasn't there to see it through, was with AIESEC--couldn't prevent it even), things are a little rocky in the team but as they say, it's step up or step off. I'll fix it.

This summer is shaping up to be very busy, but in a good way. I am excited for the things to come, I'm even thinking of joining this gym kind of near my house because my hours at work won't get me anywhere near the gym in school. We'll see, I kind of want to make this summer ultra productive and I'm off to a good foot. I can do so much more though and that's exactly what I plan to do. In other news, I hope I get the grant for my pet project. Still in its conceptual stage though, so I shouldn't get my hopes up. Cheers.

One last thing separates me from academic heck to summer internship heck. I kid, I can't wait to get over this last paper. Five pages by midnight, tonight! Anyway, yesterday was quite the day. I had four tests, Spanish and French written finals, Theology finals and then Philosophy orals. I got a B+ for my orals, it was amazing. Hope I did well enough in both language finals to get an A for both, here's to hoping. Had my last of European Economic Integration today, hallelujah. In other news, have a picture;



Got this from Leslie, I guess I started young with these medallion things (haha!). Gee, I'm glad I hung around Enzo a lot when I was a kid, there are no kid pictures of me at all except for the ones they have hahaha.

Skins secret party tomorrow with Berta, Tata shootreloadroar and Patsy, AIESEC yearly-planning seminar this weekend and a bunch of other things. Can't wait for the summer, even though I'll be working at Instituto for my internship. Oh well, paper time! See ya.

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Watch Dollhouse, it is epic.

My liege, we have survived the onslaught! My Friday was intense, run in the morning, Theology presentation, Spanish written and oral exams and then a French exam at the end of it all. Amazing really, I think I did well on everything except the French test. Who cares, but I still want an A though. Athlete's night at the end, wasn't all that. Had fun spending time with the team though as per usual, I named Ari and GJ as MVP and Rookie of the Year, respectively. Democracy (and the rowocracy, let's not forget) deemed me to be the MVP again but alas, I'm nice that way. I kid.







Life of the party! Not. I got drunk, Fona and Ari's fault. Tolerance is supposed to go up, not down. Pictures from Jeff's birthday celebration last weekend (photo credit goes to him--and this is the clean version!) more photos under ( here. )

Had fun. It is midnight and now I have to go to bed for obvious reasons. Watch our Spanish play on Wednesday (or maybe not). Could be great fun, another onslaught is coming up and I am not happy. Finals week, have at you! That is all.

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Damn I am late to the Juanes sing-song party, thanks to Berns gauche_star for the invite.

Too busy to update, lots of things are going to happen soon for school. Spanish test and final orals, French test and final orals, Philosophy final orals, Theology reporting and finals, EU 151 finals and EU 31 final research proposal. Everything is doable, well some more than others.



Just wanted to share a snippet of last week. This is Cristina and I, at our internship at Instituto Cervantes. Remember Berso sa Metro (do become a fan on Facebook!), the second phase was launched last Tuesday. New poems and an entire train car decorated Instituto red. Pretty huge, Senator Angara and Spanish ambassadors were there for it. Imagine the train station, right smack in the middle of the tracks, in the middle of the busy street! Spanish food and giveaways laid out, looking forward to more events like this!

In other news, Bare with Ingrid, CADs with Ari, Anna revoltish, Tata shootreloadroar, Ina, Berta and co., Spanish field trip to the National Museum with Berns gauche_star with our professor/classmates and finally Jeff's birthday celebration at Edsa Shang. Will post and narrate as the pictures come, too tired now. Gotta say though, almost didn't make it to the Sunday row because Ari and Fona got me drunk during Jeff's thing. Bad, but it turned out okay. Rowing on two hours of sleep, a massive hangover and the blazing hot sun is not a picnic. Adíos!

Last weekend was fun, helping out the Swim team for the Aquathlon was a bit tedious but I'm glad they came up with a great race. Smooth, as far as I could tell. Past week has been a blur, I can't even remember what happened in school I've been doing so many other things. It's amazing though, despite the volume--let me enumerate: school, rowing, AIESEC, music, internship at Instituto and insert various other things--I still find myself lazing around with a lot of free time. I need better time management skills, I realize I can do so many things for myself with my free time and yet nothing. Think hard, live fast.


Yesterday, I played for the school string ensemble again! We played for the Stations of the Cross in school, didn't realize it was going to be such a huge thing. A lot of people there and I got kinda shy (not) because I was wearing shorts hahaha, but damn people enjoy the music and ignore. We played Ave Maria (intense!) and requiem. Hay, we better get paid next time. Photo credits c/o Gian, we took shots in between stations for promotions or something. Ignore the dumb poses and my dumb face.

It was me, Trish, Jian, Mark and Jan-jan. Three violins and then Trish, she's a cheer dancer (quite awesomely) and a violist--let's see, rower and a cellist. BOTH RARE POKEMONS I SAY.

( Mira my toned legs that I got solely from playing the cello. )

In sad, sad news. My cello string broke, the thinnest one and it was Jargar (cost me 40$ I think) so saaad. I replaced it with a dinky Korean string that cost 200 pesos, now my cello sounds like a tin can. HAY.

As for my internship, it's been fun. The travel time (forty to fifty minutes by two trains) is kind of a damper for a three hour shift but it's not bad. My Spanish bosses and the people who work there are awesome. My work as of late has consisted solely of Facebook promotions (become a fan of Berso sa Metro for me please!), however on Tuesday we are going to have our first field work. Launching of the second phase of Berso sa Metro, new Spanish poems to line our trains! Very cool, no?

Right now, I'm a mess of plans. All still in the primordial stage, I think it's my job as an intern to innovate and make my experience worth while. It's up to me to make it happen, I need a production plan and a timeline to make this happen. Pretty exciting if you ask me, time management skills here we come.

Pretty long entry, very informative though to say the least. Oh and Ambassador's day for AIESEC was today, not bad.

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La Mesa Sunday tomorrow! I can't wait. Healthier diet will be ironed out tomorrow, trust me on that. Five months till competition and I don't want to lose my bet a.k.a Project Spartan. Sounds impossible? IMPOSSIBLE IS NOTHING.

This weekend is turning out to be awesome! This is how my 2009 should be, busy yet full of win--in all senses of the word. Row today with the new blood and then AIESEC Amazing Race part deux for this year. I am so glad it's over.

Yesterday however, we won FIRST place in the Carrera Loyola I just want to scream it. AAAAAAH. The race was no joke, 12 stops I think with a deadly route. It was awesome fun, my team mates were awesome, we got first place/three thousand pesos and shoes I think. We've yet to get them but either way, first baby! Not to brag... okay maybe just a little hahaha but you get the idea. It was intense to say the least, sprinted the entirety of the school with Fona and Ari. Both handicapped as it turns out, Ari had an asthma attack earlier that day and Fona showed up piss-drunk but despite all that we clocked in firrrrst. I can't say it enough.

Man, my legs still ache. All that running has paid off, I am proud. Lots of hard challenges (apart from all the sprinting) but my favorite has to be the "taking directions" challenge. I'm so glad it was me because the task was origami, with your team mates directing the folds from a distance. Both of them couldn't make out a valley fold from a mountain fold (lol ORIGAMI GEEK)and they ended up blurting out "PRISON BREAK, IT LOOKS LIKE THE SWAN IN PRISON BREAK" and for the first time ever, my origami skillz had come into play in real life HAHAHA. Epic win.

Had so much fun. Learned some new things too, it sounds corny but I think I'm really meant to be a leader. Gross much--but yea, Fona told me the only reason he was able to bust out stamina for us to make it all the way was because I pushed him hard and I didn't allow him to give up. At the end of the day, that's what it is all about. Short entry turned long, that's all. It was great fun, great weekend. The day's not over, I'm on my way to Jay's dinner at Spiral for his birthday yesterday! Then Aquathlon tomorrow (4 am call-time DEATH) and then ice-skating with Ingrid and friends. Yay.

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Great effort from the other rowing crew team, they made fourth hahaha. I waited for Ari's phone at the end (because he left it at the wall climbing task) and as I was walking away, I heard people say "it should've been ours but the rowing team was just too strong!" NAKS. Dinner and a show! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Just kidding, the end.

I want it Baudelaire. This weekend is looking out to be fun; Carrera Loyola tomorrow with Ari and Fona (it's an Amazing Race around school; at the last minute I changed our team name from "Alpha Crew" to "Silver Snakes" HAHAHA. Legends of the Hidden Temple much?), Jay's birthday dinner at Sofitel on Saturday and finally Aquathlon on Sunday! Busy busy, but check out what finally surfaced;



I miss this coffee complexion. Pictures from our yearbook photo-shoot for rowing a few months back with this as our peg. Funny stuff, check out the version we chose for the actual thing ( here. )

I lost weight since then y/y? Haha! In other more relevant to life news, I started my internship today. It was fun, I barely did anything though but I'm sure things will change. My two bosses weren't there to keep an eye on me (one had a meeting and the other was very very late) but I did my best. On that note, do me a favor and become a fan of this page as my salary depends on it. I'm kidding but yes, please do and tell your friends. It's Spanish films every Saturday at Instituto, fun right? That is all.

Row tomorrow! La Mesa finally next week. See ya!

It's official. I'm starting my internship on February 19th, at Instituto Cervantes. This is wild, I need to amplia mi vocabulario now now now. I hope it's fun though, time to get some internship hours out of the way.

Remember this clip, the candy-gram scene in Mean Girls? Funniest thing, Ari asked me to help him out with his girl blockmates in their Economics class. Secret candy delivery kind of thing, it is Valentine's day after all and it just so happened I was wearing red. Coincidence! Right after training, straight to his class and this scene kept playing and replaying in my head all the while. I told him I was going to say the line at the end "Oh... and none for Ari Salud, bye" HAHAHA but then he told me it would ruin the surprise. I read the names from a piece of paper and one of them was last-named "Cocos", damn it was just begging for it. They ended up guessing anyway though half-way into my spiel, turns out there are only five of them in their block (it was a class of 40 though) and he's the only guy. Didn't help that they all sat together hahaha, I decided to forgo the line as the jig was already up. Too bad! Haha would've been epic.

Watched the Babble thing today with Lee and Micah micaaaaaah, it was fine. Carrera Loyola (Amazing Race!) next week, also the Aquathlon! La Mesa Sundays will finally come back next weekend! Today had both Luigi and Rafael row with the rest of us, we had a race and as usual my crew won. JUST KIDDING. So glad I've got nothing to do tomorrow though, cheers.

Minimal requirements due this week. As well illustrated by my last post, I'm back on the whole cello scene. Who would've thunk it but yea it's been awesome. Rehearsals dispersed all throughout the week during my breaks, right now we're practicing Giuilio Caccini's Ave Maria from Donnie Darko. It is an intense piece (and luckily very easy for the cello), very beautiful if I do say so myself. Anyways, Fitness Test part two last Sunday! 3k rowing machine, 2.2k run and then 30 steps in UP. Thankfully I got to beat my previous split of 1:47.3 and got it down to a 1:46.7, barely a second.



Quite the difference in expressions, this was before all the pain. Who got it right? ( Under here to find out! Pictures and results )



Then it was time go home. Ari, Coach, Luigi and Luis (new blood) not in the picture. See ya later. Run tomorrow! I hope La Mesa Sundays will finally come this week. Le sigh.
P.S

Guys sign up for Carrera Loyola! Ari, Fona and I are joining.