Orientation and Recruitment [Part I]

Gawa ni Dan-kun. Sugoi!

Freshmen Orientation and Recruitment [Part I]
@ Alumni Building Grounds
May 23 - 25, 2007

Photos stolen from Ivy's Multiply

[still waiting for Greg, Scott and Robert's photos]

Legend: [L] = Levy's Photos

Genshiken ID

Genshiken DLSU-D Official ID waiting for approval from RSO.

Death Note-inspired.

Design by: Greg [G], Maki-maki [B] and Me [L].

BUT-BUT-BUT: That L chibi isn't ours, and we don't claim ownership. I found it at DeviantArt but I forgot who to give credit to. Oh, the fonts and the DN border and some of the other elements isn't ours too. Hehe..

ATASHI WA TENSAI!!! BWAHAHAA!!! SUGOI DESU NE!

Mangaholix Manga Mania

@ SM Mall of Asia
May 19, 2007

SUGOI!!!

Mine and Greg's photos are in and I'm still waiting for Maine, Scott and Robert's photos..

Edited June 9: I got the photos from Maine! Robert and Scott na lang!

Wanderlust

Over the edge over again. I've been to the Carribean and back, in and out of Davy Jones' locker. The 3rd Pirates movie installment simply ROCKED. As usual, I went to see it alone last Wednesday but as much as I enjoyed it, I was disappointed. There wasn't as much people in the cinema as I've expected. It isn't that bad since I got my favorite seat [middle, balcony] and a saw new movies to watch out for but I expect it to be another hit. Sorry, no reviews nor recaps. Haha.. I love Johnny Depp so much! The last part suggested that there may be a fourth movie. Wow! I think there should be. [SPOILER: The map that leads to the Agua de Vida.. Captain Jack Sparrow, the Immortal? Hmm..] Hehe!

A'right! The Mindoro trip didn't push through.. The Laguna trip didn't too. The Genshis want to go to Island Cove but I have no more money. Haha.. Tough luck. Well, I don't really feel bad because I did get to go to Mangaholix and it's been fun. I saw Alodia-sama in person, I saw Jan/Raito a.k.a. Batella [KAWAII!] again, and Diego/Teru Mikami and Rick/L who are very cute too. It was tiring like all the other trips we had but, yeah, it was all worth the.. Uhh.. Tiredness? Whatever, hahaha! Aww.. Beautiful people.. Don't you just love 'em? Have you not, even once in your life, wished to be part of the world they're in? I know I do and I'm sure I have but to make it happen.. I could only look at the sky and watch out for falling stars. Well, yeah, I could do that but, no, I don't really do that. [So Jack Sparrow] Hahaha..

Last week, Wednesday to Friday, we had recruitment for freshmen. I also joined the others to tour them around campus. Man, it was tiring but gratifying as well. I remember the first time I had my tour of the campus. Never imagined I'd do the touring for new comers in the future. I spent more hours in school more than I spent at home and the university's been my second home. Heck. Can't fancy having to leave it soon. Hopefully, I will graduate March 2008 but I hope I could work for DLSU-D too after graduation so I won't have to stay so far. that's the problem with being emotionally attached to something. How can you leave when you've found peace there, when you've got friend there, when it has become your home? My tuition's not paid yet but, well, this June I will start a school year without most of my BCS friends [most of them already graduated] but I still have my Genshiken friends [old and new, hehe.. Hi, PAUL AMIEL! , Special mention.. Yay to my newest new friend!], and those darn ITs [My blood's boiling so don't ask], the new people I will meet, hopefully "Shiawase" [Aww.. The sweetest smile!].. I get this feeling that this will be a great year, except for some things, ehehe.. Now, can you tell me how to let go when the time comes that I have to?

The stupid PLDT MyDSL [<-- Remember the name] is giving me a hard time again. The same problem, it never changed. Connect-disconnect but for most part, it's DISCONNECTED. Last night I didn't get to connect at all. I wasted 10 of my precious hours [1pm - 12am] trying to connect to the internet but to no avail. I called to report the problem a few hours ago but here it goes again. As I write this part of the post, this very moment [2pm, May 28], I am, disconnected. It's not like I have any choice since I'm not the one who pays for it but when I get to subcribe and pay for my own internet, I will not choose PLDT MyDSL and I mean it. Not to exaggerate or anything but it feels like being sabotaged. We're the only one in our area suffering the problem or seems like it. Am I just bad-mouthing PLDT? No, I'm just expressing annoyance. Their service used to be satisfying but after that Taiwan earthquake last year [was it last year?] it has become.. Can't think of the right word but I think IT JUST ISN'T WORTH WHAT THEIR SUBSCRIBERS ARE PAYING THEM FOR. I don't like it, not one bit.

I'm joining DLSU-D Mountaineering Society. Not for the reason that my friends think, oh, well, not totally, haha.. but I'm looking for a new sense of adventure, a new kind of thrill. I've always wanted to join DMS, ever since I started college, which was four years ago and now on my fifth year, isn't it about time? I will start from scratch, of course, since I don't know anything and I don't have anything that has to do with mountaineering but I'm so looking forward for it. I wish to climb atleast one mountain before I die, and not knowing when my death's gonna be I should already start moving and working for it. Unless anybody with shinigami eyes exist, nobody can tell anybody's lifespan and knowing this fact we should live our lives to the fullest extent but even if you can't live it to the fullest atleast we should try to reach half-full. Haha.. You get what I'm saying? Good, but if not, haha.. BAKA! Don't waste your time. Ahahaha..

Oh, oh, I'm applying for HF's Literary section too. Matt's been telling me to join since first year and just imagine how much I've missed. I've tried for the Art section last semester but I didn't take the exam seriously so it's not so surprising that I wouldn't make it.

It's already 3pm and the internet is still not connected I guess I will have to post this one later tonight. Stupid PLDT! My Meteor Garden II marathon's disrupted and delayed. Can't watch it online. Grrr.. If only I had a DVD player and the DVD to watch.. Poor me, can't afford those things yet and I don't want to settle for anything pirated because I want my future collection to be all-original. Pride. Pride! Wahaha! It's a sin because it makes you want to spend lots of money before you even get hold of the money but it's a virtue when you get something you worked very hard for and when what you get is ORIGINAL. Ahaha! Beat that?!

By the way, after 4 years I'm finally getting my copy of my highschool yearbook. Carlo got it from me and he'll give it to me when he comes back to Dasma. I hope I get it soon because.. Nothing. I'm just excited because I've waited long enough. Bleh!?

Aww.. I can't go to Lucena for the fiesta. How sad..

I still haven't had lunch so I'd go scavenge for anything to eat for now. Weeeh! I will watch GTO Live later. pilot episode! Wala lang..

Bye-bye!

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Edit: It's 4:25pm, internet's back and I'm finally posting this entry. Yokatta!

 

Yare yare! What happened to the font? SHIMATA!

Insatiable

I always knew how I wanted to see that smile but didn't think I'd see it again and soon. I can never have that smile for myself but it was something that kept my dream alive. I wanted to come closer but it wouldn't matter, for any distance is near enough as long as I can cherish the sweetness and sincerity of it. I'll try my best to give my self a chance on stolen glances, they're most precious. I know I said in one of my previous posts that I'm saying goodbye for the moment but I just can't help but want to see his sweet smile again. Atleast not now that I saw it again.

I know I said I'll be writing about last Saturday, about Mangaholix but laziness got me again. Oh, man. What should I write? Aww.. Can't think. Maybe I will some other day..

I re-read my older post and.. DARN! Typos and missing words.. Grrr.. It's embarrassing. Haha.. Who cares? I don't. I just wanted to tell the obvious. Hahaha!

Now what? I ran out of things to write. My head just doesn't work when I'm hungry. But, oh, yeah, I've got my eyes on someone write now  but.. I'm not telling, so don't ask. You'll just know when.. uhh.. Haha.. Well.. Whatever.. We'll see... Didn't make much sense.. Again, did I? Even the title doesn't fit.. Heck! Grrr.. Can't straighten out my thoughts..

Aww, well... Bye-bye for now..

The Saturday Mania

I will post something about this one of this days.. for now, I just came to warn. Har-har..

Jun Matsumoto's 24th Birthday

Start:	Aug 30, '07
Location:	Japan

Aishiteru, Matsujun!!!

Be My Matsujun!

GAYNESS ALERT!

Maybe it's obsession but it's over now. Haha. For the moment, this will be the last time I will be talking about the guy I once called 'Shiawase'. Not that I don't like him anymore but the inspiration he once gave me [without him knowing it] just ran out. My friends know how much I've been obsessing on him [and I even assume that I've fallen] and how often I wake up from dreams of him [when I used to think of him a lot] but now, even my dreams can't reach him anymore. Even friendship seem too farfetched. I'm not giving up or atleast not totally, I'm saying goodbye just for now. Bye-bye, Shiawase!

Today I will be introducing one of the folks of my fantasies, Jun Matsumoto...

Be mine, Matsujun!!!

I'm fantasizing on a foreign actor [and singer] again. The first time I saw him was when I used to watch Gokusen then now, Hana Yori Dango I and II. Darn! I had the same feeling for Jerry Yan, before. I wanted to reminisce about him before I turn my attention to my Matsujun. But I forgot, I gave away most of my F4 stuffs to my couzins. Grrrr... I guess I have to buy myself new ones. Hehe.. I'm having some of my typical obsession symptoms, like thinking he was made for me. Nyeeekk! I'm so gay [or atleast that is what my closest friends would say]. Man, I so love to kiss those lips of his. Eeeek! Blushy! He's so KAWAII!!! Oh, my Doumyoji Tsukasa! Oh, my Shin Sawada! Weeee! Well, there isn't really much to read in this post. It's not like I'm going to tell you that he's turning 24 on August 30 [born 1983] and a Virgo, or that his height is 5' 6'', or that he belongs to a JPop group called Arashi or that his blood type is A and he loves noodles just like me. No, I'm not going to tell you those things. Haha.. I wish I can go to Japan and meet him. I know we can be good friends or maybe more than that... Haha! When is that going to happen? Haaayy.. Life is giving me something new to look forward to, again.

Alright, Bleach Manga Chapter 274 is already out, actually I've just finished reading it. I'm almost done with my OJT, I'm hoping to finish my Hana Yori Dango II Marathon tomorrow, I added something on my wishlist, Mangaholixx is coming up this Saturday and nothing can stop me. It's a good thing I got sick last Sunday [yesterday] and I won't have to get sick anytime again this week so..

Well, is there anything else I've forgotten?

Maketaku naishi, Nakitaku naishi

It's always a bad idea to leave your camera phone at home; I went to SM this afternoon to buy myself food. And whenever I'm there, I don't forgot to visit Bio Research. I'm so happy when I saw my favorite dog breed, that I only see in pictures and on tv, the SIberian Husky. It's the cutest thing ever but of course, I can't possible have it because it's too expensive. I could've taken a picture of it but as I said, I left my phone at home. I also this small, bulky, wrinkly dog called a Sharpei, a Shih-tzu, a Persian Cat, a Golden Retriever and some other animals. Then, I saw that a band setting up on stage of the activity center, a big poster hung, and a familiar music is playing in the background. Darn! If only, I brought my phone, I wouldn't mind staying for a while to watch. Chris Cayzer is in SM Bacoor right now. Well, I don't know much about him and heard his songs only a few times but Cayzer-kun is really cute. I already invited him as a contact in Multiply but I think it'd be much better to see him perform in person.

Am I just full of myself or are they really telling the truth and I believe them? I love it when other people say I look young for my age and it's quite getting into my head. I love telling my younger friend that they older than I am and I think it's kind of annoying them. Haha.. Like that would stop me? Buhahahaha! Also, I can already imagine myself with blond hair and blue eyes, Misa-misa!!! well, I still haven't lost weight. But my friends think I'm cute enough to be Misa. Buhahaha! Do I love myself too much or what?!

The LOVESICK side of me has awaken, watching Hana Yori Dango is, partly, to blame. I'm not going to get into the the details but, yeah, my feelings about everything around me is quite unstable/unsettled at the moment. It's not like it's anything new right? Hehe..

Yay, my Death Note ringtone downloads are done and Val old me about this mobile web cam. I think I'm gonna try it when I get to buy my own bluetooth but for now... WALA LANG!~

I guess that's be it for now so..

JA MATA NE!!!

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EDIT: I saw this Death Note Artbook Blanc et Noir Deluxe and Death Box, now I want it badly. A new addition to my wishlist! Hehehe! SUGOI!!!

W-A-K-A-R-A-N-A-I

Darn this is so annoying; I found a ringtone torrent file with Death Note character lines and some some music files but darn, why is it taking years!? I can't find the individual files anywhere. My uTorrent takes week a to finish a single download. Is it just me or is it really slow? I'm running out of patience. I know I can possibly do the ripping of the sound file myself. I have an available software for extracting sounds from a video [or do I? hmm..] 'cause.. I don't really know why. Why can't they just upload the actual file instead of links? Grrr...

What's with the Japanese titles lately? Nothing. I'm feeling kinda otaku these past few months and I find speaking Nihonggo kawaii (cute) esp. now that my friends think I can be a good Misa Amane of Death Note [props out to Bernie-mac & Alain]. Whether it's true or not, I'm feeling it so.. Bwahaha! I'm gonna be Misa-misa and there's nothing anybody can do about it. I'll be saving for my first ever cosplay [ka-karir-in ko yan!] and iI guarantess it's gonna be something I will be remembered for and oh, I'll be posting pictures for all the world to see [all hail, the second kira! ME ]. Misa is just the first one on my list and I'm definitely planning for more.

Anyway, I'm already done with the database. I started watching Hana Yori Dango this morning and since I'll be busy slacking off again, I'll be doing my HYD marathon tomorrow [Aishiteru, Jun Matsumoto]. Buhahaha! I will have to get started with the project report but, hey, that can wait. Oh, I finally got Alain's Harry Potter Book 6. Now I can read it. Woohoo!

So.. what now?

Aisaretai bakari..

I hope I got the meaning of that phrase right.

Right now, I just feel so weary and uninspired. I'm so tired but I can't run away. Even if I run, I've nowehere to run for shelter to. I wanted to be pushed off a cliff and be caught before impact but even if I jump by my own will no one will notice me being gone. I'm just pretty lost right now [I'm pretty and I'm lost, hehe]. There's gotta more to life than just this 'cause I'm sick of it already. I'm just empty-headed right now and nothing in my head works. I'm definitely not hungry since I ate burger and fries with my friends before I went home. I'm distracted by something unfathomable and my mind's off somewhere place. Yay, the great wide somewhere... Darn, I'M SO LOST TODAY... RIGHT NOW... THIS VERY MOMENT. I need a search and rescue team, now and fast.

I'm done reading the Death Note Manga, done with the 2 Death Note Movies, done with the latest released Death Note anime episode, done with the latest released episode of Bleach anime and latest chapter release of Bleach Manga. New episodes of both animes won't be out till Thursday. I'm almost done with the database I'm working on. Damned Engineering courses, why do they have to be 5-year courses. I'm getting sick of typing. I need to take off to some place far from here, and unwind. I really need a break. And that project report... I hate anything that has something to do with programs and systems and documenting and solving problems it has in it. Now I have to rush on with my database so I can work on my project. I wanted to but I just can't take a day off my internship duty because I wanted to finish my 240 hours already. Maybe, i'm just making an excuse for being lazy. But hey, I'm feeling the need for laziness. It can't be helped.

Give me something to look forward to, please. Well, for one there's this big event Genshiken planning and with the tie-ups they're planning with other organizations in and out of school.. This will be HUGE and Mangaholixx on the 19th. Other than that... I can't think of anything else. I want to go swimming, I want to go to a zoo, I want to go hiking, I want to go malling, I want to eat out, I want to take a break.

This is so.. I don't know what this is.. Really.

By the way, seems like the most viewed page in my site is the Music Page particularly the Gothique and Dark Musique albums. Thank you, people! Hope you can drop me some line so I'd know you like what I post. THANKS!

Time to Kill

I already bought my Death Note and I'm ready to use it against anybody who gets in my way. Buhahaha!! I just wish it works. Ahahaha! It's a replica of the one used in the movie and it looks much like what you'll see in both movie and anime. There were a lot of rules. Man that sucks. Every rule that appeared in the anime is in the note's instruction. I wanted to read everything but they're just too many, and I didn't feel like reading yesterday. Right now, there are 4 of us with the note and not likely we'll kill each other with it but... Buhahaha!! It's so nice to pretend, eh? I also bought posters and stickers yesterday. Bleach and Death Note.. Fever! Woohoo!! By the way, I got my prize money from HF already but the certificates won't be ready till they get their computers fixed. Man, I was asked if I wanted to be an Art Staff and if I want to contribute to the Alipato since they are still in need of more artworks before they can have the art folio printed. And of course, I said yes, and as a matter of fact, I'll be working on my artwork tonight when I get home and I'll pass my past works too. SOSYAL! XP Weeeeeh!

I saw Erich yesterday and told me about the gig in Laguna and... If that pushes through, I can finally go out of town even if only for one day. As long as it'll be far from here, and I can relax for a while.. I will go for it. And I really enjoyed working with them though we don't talk that much yet. Hehehe.. Well, I still have room for more friends and they're really nice guys. *wink*

After Mangaholixx, I'll be going back to the store where I bought my Death Note and buy that Final Fantasy Cosplay necklace. I think it's from FF X but not really sure since I don't play Final Fantasy but the necklace is so gorgeous and I really got to have it. It's like a blue stone clutched by silver something. I dunno, I just want it for myself together with a Death Note logo necklace and an L logo necklace. Weeeee! I'm so excited.

An hour from now, I'll be getting off because the IS Unit will be leaving for Galera by twelve and I'll be eating lunch and hanging out with my friends the whole afternoon. I don't wanna go yet, I'll miss my workstation.. *hik-hik* ETCHYOS! Ahahaha...

I still have no idea what to do for my OJT Project Report but.. THE HECK! Matagal pa 'yun? So why worry? Hahaha...

Pathetique

Today is one typical OJT day, heavy eyes and I feel sleepy and its so early in the morning; I even came a few minutes late. Almost done with the encoding. man, endless typing sucks. Just finished Death Note episode 29 and I think Bleach ep. 124 will come out later this afternoon. Can't wait till may 19th, Mangaholixx especially not now that a good news just came in through SMS. ! $_$ ! Hehehe.. Unfortunately, I won't be cosplaying yet. I need to prepare and cosplaying preparations usually takes months if you want to come out with something really amazing. I'm planning something simple but show-stopping. I'm not giving out spoilers about my cosplay plan so people'd have to wait. Though I may still change my mind. But if I decide to do (cosplay) that certain character, I guarantee you'd never recognize me. Does that count as a spoiler? Hahaha!

Just when you think you are good at something, someone better just comes out right at your face and makes you look all weak and amateurish. Well, I am an amateur but why do you they have to make me envious? *pouts* Now I really want a pen tablet worse than I wanted it before. Remember the character contest we were suppose to join? We didn't. I had to take one step backward and retreat for a while. They were, like, professional digital artist, and I'm a newbie photomanipulator. You can't do much with just a mouse. You can do vectors and stuff but you can't get into details by just it or atleast I can't. You can't get into drawing fibers of the hair, properly digitally color something by just dragging the mouse here and there and shading, the tiniest details.. blah-blah-blah! Genshiken's even planning a Photoshop seminar and I will be one of the facilitators? What the heck?! I'm not worthy...

I'm afraid, the gang's not pushing through with the Mindoro getaway. Sucks. I really want to go somewhere, anywhere as long as it's away from here. I need a break. Tomorrow, the IS unit is going to Puerto Galera, which means I'll only be on duty tomorrow for half a day. Inggit ako, I wanna go there too. *sigh* Haha. My sibs been there a couple of times and I've never been there, not even once. Poor me. Not even sure I can go to Lucena for the fiesta on the last week of May since I've nowhere to stay 'cause I think my aunt already sold her house, where I used to stay during highschool and every summer. I'm so bored. I want to go to a zoo since it's, literally, been a decade since I last went to one but I can't 'cause the nearest zoo in my place is.. I don't know. That's the problem, I don't know where it is. I'm so pathetic. Haaayy.. Surfing the net is getting quite old if it just wasn't for Bleach and Death Note.

Something's calling me to write again. Yes, that novel I started when I was in 2nd year highschool is calling me to continue it and eventually finish. It's raining ideas, the juices are flowing out but I can't get myself to grab a pen and go on writing. I'm too lazy right now. I plan to finish it this year or anytime before I graduate but right now I'm just not feeling it. I prefer imagining how my novel goes but not actually putting it on paper. I can write it down on the same notebook where I started it but I would have to type it when I finish it but I'm so not into typing very long stuff except for my blog. But if I would type it write away, I would have hard time checking it since I check what I write (compose) every now and then to check for errors and I since it's a novel it would be something very long and I don't like reading longs stuffs on the pc. I prefer to read comfortable and infront of the computer isn't always comfortable like right now on my workstation and most of the time, it's hard to stay put, sit properly 'cause I can't lean the whole of my back on the chair and my legs get tired too so I sit like an Indian on the manager's chair (yeah, the rotating one, used in offices), I also like leaning my arms on something, and the pc's too near at my face.. Blah-blah-blah.. Those stuff.. It's just annoying.

Oh yeah, my drawing too. I wan to draw/sketch/paint something again but I just feel so uninspired though the reiatsu around me is pretty overwhelming. Oh, well... 

Now, I'm hungry. Everyone's left for lunch and I'm still here waiting since my friends (Genshiken) won't be out till 12pm. I can hear my stomach rumble. Haayy..

What of my BCS friends? Dunno. Haven't heard news since we last saw each other, I usually catch some of them online in my YM but we don't talk since there isn't much to talk about. Do I miss them? I'm not sure. It's like they exist but they're too far that I can't feel their presence. I used to miss them knowing they're just there but now.. Hmm.. Well, I'm not really sad since my other friends are filling in the space they left or if I should rephrase it, it would be like, I made more space for other friends so I don't have to feel alone and nobody would feel used by me just because I'm lonely. I love my friends and I can still make room for some more since I'm a friendly, loving person. Hahaha!

I'm finally buying that cosplay item we saw at the mall and the stickers and posters I have the anime shop reserve for me. Weeeeh! I have to go now,  Still have a few chapters of the manga to catch on and, well.. I'm hungry. Hehehe..

Ja mata ne!!!

IsKaT IsKaM

Genshiken DLSU-D and Ozine Fest '07 through Scott Valencia's Digital Camera

Cosplayers from the event and US in the bus on the way home after the event.

Di pa tapos, may pictures pa kay Dan, Hehehe...

SUGOI!