Twisted

Why Not Blog?

Enzo — Sat, 28 Aug 2010 02:22:09 +0000

That’s the question I asked myself as I woke up this morning, remembering I have a blog that hasn’t been updated for over two months.

Sure, I may have been busy lately. In fact, very busy. However, there are also a handful of blog-worthy experiences I had within these past two months. And to mention, I haven’t been so busy that I couldn’t go online anymore. I’m actually online on most nights.

Which then still leads to the question: why not blog?

I honestly have no idea.

Anyway, just to catch you guys up, within the past two months, I…

Took the UPCAT. It was kind of easy (except for the Math part, I’ve always been shit at Math). The problem is, the competition is very high so it’s kinda hard to get in. Cross your fingers for me!
Had a team building with the student council. It was really fun and I became closer with the entire council.
Went to a Search-In retreat. Search-In is yet another organization in my school, and wow. WOW. It was really life-changing and worth it. <3
Put up a class production of a Filipino feast. We got Kadayawan from Davao and we won 3rd place and Best Music! Many people were saying we should have gotten 2nd or 1st (and I’m not just saying that ), but it’s ok. We know we did our best.

One last thing, can someone please remind me to blog the next time?

So, How’s Everybody Been?

Enzo — Sat, 17 Jul 2010 02:48:53 +0000

Hey guys. I can’t believe it’s been more than a month since my last post! Wow. I’ve been really busy doing stuff, particularly…

Student Council Stuff
So I’m pretty sure most of you guys know already that I’m part of the student council in my school. We have been fixing so much things that when I come home, I just usually browse around quickly then sleep. There was Grand Opening, Elections, Spirit Week..AHHH.

Cheering Practices
I’ve been working extra hard on cheering these days. We’re seniors now; WE’VE GOT TO WIN. I make sure that every practice is productive and when I’m not practicing, I browse around the internet for ideas.

College Preparation
I’m going to college guys! Can you believe it? I was Grade 7 when I started blogging and now I’m a senior! So, college preparation has been keeping me busy. Reviewing of modules, writing of essays, filling out of applications, giving out of recommendation forms. Yeah, the works.

So, I think that’s pretty much it. What have you guys been up to lately?

PS: If any of you guys have Tumblr, go follow me. I post there more often than I do here.

I’m (Almost) A Senior

Enzo — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 05:22:34 +0000

I cannot believe it. On Wednesday, it would be my first day of classes. As a senior. *dramatic pause*

Growing up surrounded by coming-of-age TV shows, I always thought that by the time I reach senior year, I would have done absolutely everything I wanted to and the only thing I should do during senior year is choose a college and repair broken friendships.

Looking at my life now, I would say I’m far from doing everything my juvenility would allow me to. I have chosen a couple of colleges I would like to get into, as well as what course I’ll be taking in those colleges, but I’m not in the mood to repair broken friendships. Now, most of you might misunderstand this, but I would just like to say that by “broken friendships” I don’t mean “friendships which ended cause one became a bitch.” By that, I mean “friendships which ended because they gradually lost contact with each other and if a person tries to contact the other person, it just becomes awkward.”

I’m not saying I’m not looking forward to senior year. I am looking forward to it. With my batch the one leading the student body, I bet it’s going to be a rocking year! I can’t wait to go into the gates of school again and see people. What I’m not ready for is that day being the last day I’ll ever go into the gates of my school as a student after a long summer break.

I’m reading this now and I realize it’s a bit all over the place, but I think you guys get my point.

Wanting

Enzo — Sat, 29 May 2010 08:38:13 +0000

Have you guys ever wanted something so much it hurts? Have you guys had it for so much stuff at the same time?

This seems to be life for me nowadays. Being a teenager, it is expected of me to change. Having spent a significant amount of my life watching “coming of age” shows and movies, I thought I had my teenage years by the balls. Boy, was I wrong.

As I was dressing up one morning, I noticed the back and side piles of my closet, which my nanny did so “I wouldn’t have to rummage for clothes again.” I’ve always seen these piles, but never really noticed. Curiosity overwhelmed me so I decided to poke through the piles. What I saw made me nauseated, embarrassed or suicidal.

These are the clothes (tops particularly) which I bought about three to two years ago. You know how when we were 13 we thought that plain shirts looked cheap and that massive prints are the way to go? No? Well, I did. (It’s really ironic cause the clothes I wear nowadays are mostly plain ones.) Looking away from these godawful pieces, I then shift my attention to the front pile, where all the clothes that fit into my current style lies: v-necks, round-necks, black, white, gray, colorsplash.

I then make a mental list in my mind of all the things I would want fashion-wise, and I realize that I have quite a big list. Not that it would no longer fit into my closet if I buy all of them. No. It’s just big enough for me not to be able to buy them all in one sitting.

So, sharing my list with you, in case you guys ~~would want to lessen it~~ were curious as to what I could possibly want this time:

A denim shirt or a denim jacket (either one will do)
A sailor shirt
A red plaid shirt (I don’t get how I still don’t have one. I swear I bought one a couple of months ago)
A couple more v-necks (so I can make a rainbow with all the different colors I have)
A gray scarf (I’ve been seeing a lot, but nothing that tickles my fancy)
A couple more pairs of jeans
A straw fedora
A handful of long-sleeved shirts (I never bought them before because of the excruciating heat)
A gray cardigan (see comment above)

So far, I think that’s it. The problem with mental lists is that you sometimes forget an item or two. What about you guys, are you guys wanting anything at the moment?

Spam? Seriously?

Enzo — Tue, 25 May 2010 10:21:43 +0000

I’m having this trouble recently where an obvious spam comment (the name, the email, the URL, the EVERYTHING) is being let through. This is quite bothering for me because I’ve been using WordPress with Akismet since I started blogging (well, almost; I went through the Cutenews phase, you see) and this has never happened to me before.

The comments are left on an old entry and is about the general idea of the post, but not really related to what’s written in the post. (Like I wrote about how I love coffee shops and they’ll go say coffee makes them puke, you guys get the idea.)

So, to all WordPress (with Akismet) users, has this been happening to you too?

Pain, Pain, Pain

Enzo — Mon, 17 May 2010 07:10:33 +0000

What’s with me and pain lately? As my previous post mentioned, my jaw locked for 6 hours and I had to be rushed to the hospital. And now, I need to get three of my wisdom teeth pulled out. (I already had one pulled out last week.)

Honestly, I was expecting the worst when the dentist told me I had to get my wisdom teeth pulled out. I heard really horrifying stories about the process and the pain that goes along with it. Before my dentist was about to yank my teeth out of my poor gums, I asked her if I would be able to speak after she’s done the operation (as this is what I see in TV) and she told me it’s going to be difficult to and that I should rest. Ok, there goes two of meetings.

After about 15 minutes of needle-poking, yanking and God-knows-what-else, the dentist proudly announced it was done. I was like “Oh rly?” I didn’t really feel any pain. I was expecting something like Texas Chainsaw Massacre pain and was grasping my phone the entire time, ready to call my friend for my last goodbyes and instructions in case I don’t make it through.

But, that was it. There was really nothing left to it. I went home and rested. I took my medicines (I was really keen on what time I was taking the painkillers cause I was afraid if I miss it by a minute, a man with a chainsaw would jump out and attack me) and basically waited for the worse. But, there was nothing. I took painkillers about twice when I realized there was no pain at all and I should stop before I get addicted.

I’m returning to the dentsit soon to get my 2nd wisdom tooth extracted (and then two more after that) and I hope it goes as smoothly as the first one.

On a completely unrelated note, I realized I’m mostly babbling my way through my blog entries now and I’m not sure if that’s good…

Lock Jaw

Enzo — Fri, 07 May 2010 07:11:24 +0000

I was browsing my website to remind myself of the stuff I’ve been writing and maybe take a short trip down memory lane when I noticed that somewhere between April 9 and April 25, there it wasn’t: my lock jaw experience.

So one night, I was watching TV with my sister in my room when I yawned and SNAP! I couldn’t close my mouth. That wasn’t the first time that my jaw locked so I tried putting it back. OWW! It’s eerily way more painful that I remembered. My six-year old sister, seeing me in pain, ran to my mom for help, and my mom seeing in pain, ran to my dad for help. My dad, seeing me in pain, thankfully was smart enough to ask my mom to call my dentist to ask for whatever the solution was to this hell I was experiencing.

She (my dentist) recommended this thing but it was really really painful so my parents decided to drive me to the nearby clinic. Thankfully, they didn’t have a dentist in so they left me with my mouth open as my dad drove to the nearest hospital (thankfully, also one of the best in the country). Thank you so much so-called emergency clinic.

When we arrived the hospital, I got wheeled through the operating room and doctors gave me a shot of Valium and Demerol. Lucky me, I got to live a junkie’s life for a while. I started feeling lightheaded that I really had this urge to stand up and dance, but I couldn’t with the doctor’s two hands in my mouth. I then just sat quietly and thew myself a little party in my head. The doctor gave me yet another shot of Valium.

Then I collapsed.

I woke up, being wheeled to my hospital room, after 6 hours of continuous trying (which I know nothing of. I was high), with a still open mouth. I was going to the operating room the next morning where they’ll give me general anesthesia as they try yet again to close my mouth. I lie down and SNAP! my jaw is back in place.

I Live

Enzo — Sun, 25 Apr 2010 11:28:04 +0000

Living in a world dominated by technology, one of my biggest fears is losing anything that will help me connect to the internet; be it my router, my internet provider, laptop. A couple of weeks ago, I did.

For some stupid reason I don’t even know, the Windows installation on my laptop got corrupted. I was happily browsing one night, when I had to go tend to something so I left it running for a while. Big deal, I do it all the time. I came back after half an hour or so and unplugged the laptop from the charger to bring it to another room. I plugged it back in and started caressing the touchpad. The backlight didn’t turn on, though through the darkness, I could see the outline of a couple of windows I left open. I tried using my keyboard to put it make it go on standby since that’s what I normally do when that happens to me. Nothing. I then opt to restart. And then, it made the horrifying sound.

Long story short, I was laptop-less for a couple of weeks so I indulged in books, telephone and parties. Anyone have something interesting?

Who’s Naked?

Enzo — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 13:43:15 +0000

Today was turning out to be a pretty typical night for me. I’m sitting in front of my laptop after dinner when I check Tweetdeck and see Mellisa‘s tweet asking who’s participating in the annual CSS Naked Day. I then immediately checked the date to see if it really was April 9 (summer makes you forget what day it is, what more date). It was.

Panic-stricken, as I’ve always made it a point to participate in the CSS Naked Day, I go to my website and check if I still have the handy WordPress plugin which automatically strips your website of stylesheets as April 9 strikes the first time somewhere in the world. Thankfully, it is.

So, to you guys, who’s going naked this year?

Home Alone

Enzo — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 05:14:54 +0000

My parents are in New York for a week, so I’m here alone in the house with my six-year old sister, the two maids and my aunt and grandma, who promised to watch over us throughout the week. You’d think that having minimal supervision for a week would be fun, but honestly, it isn’t. I think the most I’ve had so fear is when I had dinner with friends and went home at 9 PM, something that my parents wouldn’t have allowed on a typical case.

One reason as to why I’m probably not having fun is because it’s Holy Week. Most people would go out of town, out of country, whatever, and spend their week there rather than be stuck at home and bored to death (as I). So while the rest are probably enjoying the sun, having some barbeque by the pool, I’m here at home playing Sims for half the day, and then browsing the web for the remaining half.

Another reason is that my friends and I live far apart, the nearest to me being around a 15-minute drive away. My mom isn’t here to drive me to places and some of the family drivers I usually ask to bring me places are busy as well. So while other people are going on roadtrips and having the time of their lives, I’m here at home watching a couple of TV shows I’ve downloaded.

So what am I getting into? Nothing really, I just needed to rant about the shitty week ahead.