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| hey guys, yeah... its me. LOL. can you believe that i'm actually blogging?
things have been hella busy! as in!!! the times that i'm not doing anything, i try to use for sleeping and writing in my journal.
i'm happy to report that things are going great with our newspaper. i'm slowly building stronger relationships with my fellow staffers -but our moderator is telling me that i'm going to be the next features editor. um... NO!!! i keep on telling Jerome, he's the features ed, that he absolutely cannot and must not leave me!! i don't even know how i feel about it... do i want to be a features ed, or not? but i do know this - i don't think i can handle the responsibilities of being the new features ed. sucks, huh?
so how are you guys? i cannot believe that the VV board will soon be closing... its like the end of an era! with all the stuff that's been keeping me busy, how will i ever get to know what is happening with everyone by looking in one fantastic message board? 
miss you guys! i'm sorry for all the birthdays, anniversaries or whatever occasions that i might have missed. love you everyone!
P.S. Ree!! Another Judith McNaught book! I'm buying 'Paradise', next. | | |
| It's been so long since I last blogged! I missed it.
My family and I are in th midst of moving to a new house. So I don't have internet access at home, and its making me crazy because papers are being assigned left and right.
But through all the madness, I of course still find the time to read. :) Its been a long time since I last read a Historical Romance, so imagine my excitement when I finally got around to reading Until You.
Do you guys ever get the feeling like you're actually in the book that you're reading? For example, when i read books like Until You, I feel like I'm the heroine (haha! STOP LAUGHING!!!) and what she feels, I feel. The betrayal, the butterflies, the love. Everything! I think everyone's really laughing at me right now. But anyhoo, I feel that. Not only in the heroine's part - but i can feel how the hero must be feeling, because he thought Sherry was this actress who made him fall in love with her, and then leave him because she's guilty. I'm weird, aren't I? LOL.
I have to go. Need to research on this new paper for INDIBEH.
I'm chatting with Ree. And gurl, I just want to say that I really missed talking to you! Good luck on everything!
This is Jaycee, signing off. | | |
| Thank you to everyone who congratulated me with the Officer in Charge thing. I've been hanging out in the newspaper office for quite awhile now, so I'm getting to know the other staffers. I'm not really the person who just approaches someone and strikes a conversation. But I'm learning. And I've also learned that a smile goes a long, long way. :)
I've been reading Memoirs of a Geisha for the past two weeks. I know. I'm such a slow reader nowadays. But see, when I have free time, I usually sleep. LOL. My body is still not used to having classes from 340 to 9115 pm, then coming home at 1030pm. The earliest I get home is actually 10pm. I know that the time I spend at school is not that long, but what can I do? LOL.
Back to Memoirs. Its a really good book. It follows the story of Chiyo, how she and her sister were sold by their father (they're not that poor, but their family's struggling, her mother's dying, and her father's perenially grieving) so they could have a good life. Or so he thinks. Chiyo is sold to an Okiya, which is a house where geisha are trained. And her older sister was sold to a whorehouse. Its sad because she's so young to have endured so many pain and abuse, and to be separated from her family. I couldn't imagine myself without my mom and my siblings. Though I bitch about them all the time, it doesn't mean that I don't love them. :) Have any of you guys read this book? I recommend it. There are a lot of things to be learned, and to laugh about. I can't wait till Chiyo becomes a geisha. :)
About the terror prof of mine from Individual Behavior. You can't talk to her outside the classroom. If you get confused with one of her rules, you're better off to just ask a fellow classmate than risk asking her personally. She doesn't like it when students ask many questions. You might become a target of her wrath in the future if you're not careful. :(
I watched Alex and Emma a week ago, starring Luke Wilson and Kate Hudson.
This is not a new movie, okay? I think it was released last year. I heard that its not that good a movie and stuff like that. But I love it! Really, I do. Its about Alex, played by Luke Wilson, who has a big gambling debt from these Cubian <sp?> thugs, and he will be killed if he doesn't pay them soon.Now he has to write his book and submit it to his publisher so that he could get his paycheck of $125,000. But the problem is, the thugs broke his laptop, so he hired Emma (Kate Wilson) to be his stenographer as he dictates his book. The whole movie basically takes the audience to the fictional world of Alex's book, with Kate playing different characters. Its a good romantic comedy, and I think if you're a writer and you love to read, you will really appreciate this movie. :)
If it weren't for this movie, I wouldn't have known what a stenographer does! LOL. And I saw just how much Kate looks like her mom, Goldie Hawn. So that's why Jay Leno once said that he sometimes mistakenly calls Kate as Goldie. Hehe.
Well, I hope you guys weren't bored with this entry. Have a great week, everyone! | | |
| Ever had that professor who never really shows that she's this strict instructor, but instead gives you a hard time with requirements and stuff?
Well - I now have that professor.
I've always prided myself to be the lucky student - you know, the one who never gets the 'dreaded' professors. My professors for the past four terms have been so nice, and approachable, fair and basically, easy to talk to. Then I get to Individual Behavior or INDIBEH.
For those of you who don't know, I'm taking up Human Resources Management and this course deals with what else, Human Beings. LOL. But kidding aside, we've been told before that we better brace ourselves coz when we get to the major subjects, were bound to go through things that would make one tear her hair out. One of these subjects is this INDIBEH.
Okay, so I got a good feeling with our professor. She's a woman and there are stories that since she's a spinster, she doesn't like it when you talk too much to guys in her class. Don't act and dress like a flirt, recite a lot, do well on papers, projects and exams, and you'll surely pass her subject. I was so nervous when I started her class - which turned to fear, and now I am currently in the Petrified phase. Not scared, not apprehensive - but petrified. Lots of my classmates have failed her class not once, not twice, but four times. Mostly, they've said that the reason they have failed is because of papers and the quizzes.
I think of myself as an okay student, but this subject really had me doubting myself. I tell myself not to listen to the stories, but its everywhere so I can't really avoid them. Then this homework that she gave to us last Thursday was to be submitted today, Tuesday, and it took me 5 whole days to finish it. It totaled up to 13 pages, and it looks like a project already. She had us analyze a case study and point out the abilities of the dude in the study, and then give a minimum of five case points for each ability. While she was dictating that homework, I was just looking at my notebook with a stupefied look on my face. And now that I've finished it, I'm scared that I might not get a high grade, which could me a premonition of grades to come. I don't want to fail this class. Not only is failing a waste of money, time and effort... but it would look so bad on my record. :(
I also got assigned as the Officer in Charge of the features section of our newspaper. I have doubts of me handling something like this. The features editor is telling me that he's considering me to be the new assistant features editor, and really - i don't know if i'm actually ready for that. What do you think?
So if you guys don't hear from me for a while... just think of me toiling on another INDIBEH paper. Wish me luck... and I hope that I pass INDIBEH and everything else this term.
Sorry if its kinda boring. I have nothing else to write. LOL. | | |
| 2nd term is starting on Monday (sept. 5) - can you believe just how fast time flies? it feels like i just got my course cards the other day - which is not that far off coz I got them last August 31. :)
I got okay grades I guess, except in Accounting, which really sucked. But the silver lining in the cloud is that I wasn't the only one who felt like they were cheated out of the grade that they believe they deserve. Is that so mean? LOL. I was so surprised with my Business Law grade. I was so expecting to get a really low grade because of my past two quizzes in the first have of the term, but i got a really good grade, and I am so happy.
I love the show ED!! I know that its already cancelled there in the US, but the first season just started here in the Philippines and I fell in love with it from the very start. Did anyone watch it before? My God... Tom Cavanagh has the most beautiful, shockingly vibrant blue eyes! And his smile and dimples.... sigh... dudes, I think I'm in love! LMAO! I love everything about this show, the stories, the dialogue... and most especially - Ed Stevens of course! He's so adorable, and so in love with Carol that he would do anything to get her - even make his own You're my Inspiration music video, lipsyching to Peter Cetera and playing a toy guitar!
I haven't fell in love with a show this hard since 24! :)
Wish me luck on my 2nd term - its bound to be gruesome. I have Business Law 2, Industrial Relations, Quantitative Techniques and Organizational Behavior. If I'm still alive by the time Christmas rolls along, I shall consider myself to be very lucky. Very lucky indeed. :)
Oh - and I just finished my AM station observation gig for the newspaper. Thank you so much once again, Batchie! | | |
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