Neil Gaiman
Alexander Pope
Saturday, October 22, 2005
belated happy birthday RAE!!!
someone attempted to hack into my multiply account. whoever you are, if you're reading this... i have one thing to say to you... you IDIOT! haha! duh! when you click the forgot my password thing, they're just gonna email it me. they're not gonna give it up to just anyone who claims to have forgotten it. :)
anyway... finally!
to those who gave me palancas, thaaaaaaaank you!:) to those who didn't, 'tis okay... i don't know you guys anyway. MARTINA MANAS and MAUREEN CHAVEZ, i'm still waiting... ugh... i gave them palancas naman.
the first part of our thursday thing was boring. we heard mass, then we drove off to a secluded place. we were oriented and stuff then we had a sharing thing. the siesta time was fun though. we didn't sleep. we just snuck into the room of other people then took pictures with 'em. we got the whole third floor covered but, we didn't cover the whole second floor. the only people we took pictures with were maureen and erika. we got all scared and stuff cos tricia's camera and al's cellphone got confiscated by ms. culla.
when the blasted bell rang again, we all went down. 'twas fun we had to share stuff about our life. after a really looooooong thingy, we were given time to prep up for the parent-daughter thing. al and i didn't really do anything. we just bummed around and bugged people. we knew a group of people who'd never turn down our take pictures with us proposal. yeah, you probably know 'em already... we went down to the second floor and took pictures with the sajas. :)
the bell rung again. dang! we made letters and stuff for our parents. i wrote a stupid letter. my mommy arrived uber early. she hung out and chitchatted with other mommies. my daddy on the other hand, got there just in time. we had steak thingy from red ribbons and a pepperoni and mushroom pizza from yellow cab. ms. magdosa called both my parents and they didn't know that they were both gonna bring food so we kinda had a food overload.
my daddy and i were bonding outside when ms. culla said that we were allowed to go in na daw. i sat with both my parents one in each side to avoid stuff from happening. if we're close, you'd probably know why. i bonded with my dad some more. my mommy was really listening... she even told me to be quiet so she wasn't part of the whole bonding thing. daddy even answered like, one question.
"would you disown me if you found out that i'm not who you think i am?" i think that was the question. my dad's answer "i would if i could but i can't so i won't". comforting stuff... right? he said that if i sum all that up, it would mean that he wouldn't because he can't. haha! tapos afetr the open forum, we were forced to stay with our parents. my mommy cried during the prayer thing. i didn't want to cry in front of my parents so i just talked to them about random stuff. a few minutes later, we had to say byebye. i went up to the room with al. while al was in the bathroom, i started reading my mommy's letter. when al entered the room, i was crying like hell. i stop reading everytime i see al. she was like, "okay lang yan" and stuff... tapos she took a bath na. i kept on reading mommy's letter. i looked so stupid. i was going around looking for tissue. my eyes were so red and puffy. after i read my mommy's letter, i couldn't stop crying. i took a break. i got more tissue then proceeded to my daddy's letter. i cried even more. while i was reading it, ronniekeens entered. she was going on and on about some thingy and looking for cotton balls. when she saw me crying she was like, "whats wrong?" and i said stuff then she was like "are you done reading it?" i was like, "i read half of my daddy's letter na" she was like, "aww... i think you need some time alone for that..." she left and i continued reading. i couldn't stop crying pa rin. i was like, totaly done reading their letters pero i was still crying. i'm such a psycho. that went on for like, 20 minutes or something. i wanted to divert my attention to something else so i took a bath (they didn't have a heater). al wasn't allowed to leave the bathroom cos i was scared and stuff. i cried it all out na... after taking a bath, we were invited to join people who were totally bored for a takas thingy in maureen and erika's room. we found out that ms. magdosa's room was in the 2nd floor so we moved the thing to the 3rd floor. it was almost lights out time so we went back to our room. al and i decided to stay up until the 1 am takas thing. we talked about some stuff that you don't really need to know about, took pictures and ate a lot of stuff.
funny thing that happened!
me: bam, gising pa kayo?
bam: oo
me: ano ginagawa nyo?
bam: kumakain
me: kami rin eh
unknown voice: can you keep quiet? some people are sleeping... blah blah blah...
[i don't recognize the person's voice]
me: sino ka?
unknown voice: magdosa
[we were all shocked]
al: weh!
[i was hitting al]
me: sorry miss...
i was drinking melon milk. i wanted to get the ipod from my bag so nilagay ko lang yung thing near the bed. i told her to be careful cos my melon milk was just somewhere near there. kakasabi ko lang tapos biglang, i heard something hit the ground. i was like, "al, natapon mo yung melon milk ko"
we cleaned it up tapos we talked again. i checked my phone tapos i saw na maureen miscalled me. i called maureen and stuff but something happened and we got cut off. tapos, i called her again. she said na they're on their way up na daw. tapos erika started waking people up. midnight pa lang nun. we took pictures, discussed a lot of stuff. we talked about a thing that happened for a really short time lang tapos we proceeded to anna tan's thing tapos to anna tan's thing [ANNA TAN, WE LOVE YOU... :)]tapos to bam's thing tapos someone came up with a smart plan! we all went down to the dining area. we talked about random stuff, took pictures and did some weird stuff. tapos when we were uber bored na, everyone decided to go back to our room na. we were uber quiet nung nasa first floor kami pero on our way to third floor, we were kind of maingay.
*knock knock*
oh my god! si ms. magdosa!
[everyone panics]
a lot of people hide near the cabinet
maureen closes her eyes pretends to be sleeping while standing up(she was even holding her slippers)
no one wanted to open the door. al, thinking it was just ms. culla, opened the door. oh god! this is the clincher! when the door was opened, 'twas ms. mardosa! dang! we were so busted! we were given a really really really loooooooooooooooooooooong speech! after she left, everyone was like, woah! no one really moved... then, after a few seconds, she came back in and said, "girls, that meant that you're supposed to go back to your respective rooms" dang! busted again! we dispursed... well... actually, they dispursed. al and i were already in our room. al and i talked for a few minutes then, i forced her to sleep. an hour and a half later, ms. magdosa's bell woke us up. i got up and moved to my bed then slept again. after a few minutes, i woke up again and bugged the hell outta al. we went outside and saw a few people getting ready. we took a bath without a water heater. :( 'twas this time when all the drama started. we got dressed, brushed our teeth and stuff then went down to the chapel. almost everyone heard mass but almost half of the people there were totally sleepy cos of the whole midnight society thing.
you could feel the tension. mad people up in here...
a few people cried... some people smiled... most chose sides... some we're NR...some we're just plain clueless...
no need to expound on that.
TO THE PEOPLE...
if ever i offended anyone by participating in the "controversial" thing, i'm sorry.
to clarify things, i'm not sorry for joining the midnight society, i'm sorry for talking about the thing.
anyway... after the confession thing, we ate merienda. people were still flarring up. the open forum started...
"i love you... i'm sorry... thank you..." that was the theme of the show
I LOVE YOU RONNIE!:) had to say it...oh and to other people who gave me the candle thing, specially leal with her "pahiram ng candle effect", thanks! :)
after all was said and done, we ate our uber yummy lunch. i loved it. except for the gelo which tasted like tempra.
we were given picture taking time. we, of course, took full advantage of that!
it was a very short busride. we didn't want to go home yet so we decided to go to mcdo.
some retreat pictures are in maureen's multiply.
pictures of the retreat and the social action are in my new multiply thingy.
i have a new multiply account... http://heladoyburrito.multiply.com