wake up, you sleepy head!

I've been lazy these past days, with dvd engagements all night until 朝日 shows up and dozing until the last rays are gone.

My day's the other way around. As it has always been. Only worse.
Blame it to oversleeping.

I feel weak and too tired to cook.
Blame it to over sleeping.

My room's a mess for weeks or maybe months now.
Blame it to over sleeping.

I haven't seen the sun for a while now.
Blame it to over sleeping.

I doubt if I can wake up tomorrow in time for our Tokyo trip.
Blame it to over sleeping.


And to 24.

habang atin ang gabi

had a gluttonous make-your-own sushi dinner..

5 am and still awake..

taking advantage of the free internet.. (arigatou Uchida-sensei)

made a chikka account.. (but nobody replied)

trying to blog my supposed-to-be-sad-but-turned-out-to-be-happy Christmas..
(salamat Mar, Kat, Gino, Ate Cy, Kuya Jayson, Ate Nor and Xiao)

wanting to answer my mom's e-mail..

assessing my 2007.. (a blessed year)

but no luck..

maybe next time..

wondering who'll come to our high school batch reunion tonight..

and thinking of the fun they'll have..

all without me..

hahay..

no more drama of wanting to be home..

in less than 2 months, i'll be home anyway.. :)

but now...

i'll just continue my lazy dawn..

listening to a deadly dose of my musical refuge..

if there is such a term..

SOUTHBORDER..

w/ Jay Oliver Durias at Kanto Bar (Davao Show 2004)

Ginger Bread Christmas Cottage

Dec. 22, 2007


Today, we made a ginger bread house. Six hours, a tray of home-made apple pie, glasses of peach tea and a Bridget Jones’ Diary movie after, the snow-covered cottage stood up while decorations were being glued on its roof.



A minute or two of that Yatta! and yehey! feeling, the sweet-smelling house collapsed. The meringue a.k.a snow a.k.a glue didn’t do its job well. And, damn gravity. haha



In the end, we had to eat the house, piece by piece.


It’s three more days to an apparently sabishii, no-noche-buena-and-family Christmas but I’ll not be a collapsed ginger bread cottage. I refuse to be one though I’m already on the edge.


Merry Christmas everyone!

panicking

isang slap-on-the-face moment sa literature class ko nung monday:

-----> we were talking about Chapter 1 of the book The No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith when DNA testing came into the subject...

DNA! DNA! DNA!

(..in Dawn's mind..)

Sh*t! What does DNA stand for again???

deoxyri... deoxyrin.. deoxy... what?????????????? .......... acid!

gulay dawn, DNA... DNA... remember.. remember...

................................................................................

a few moments of panicking and scribbling after:

(..written on dawn's notebook..)

deoxyribonucleic acid

there you go dawn.. after what seemed like 48 years for a biology major... shame!!!!!!

reality check: i've been totally blocked out from biology (no books, no lessons, no lectures, no everything!) for almost a year now and given my poorest of poor memory, i have to start getting back on track. Remebering what DNA stood for is my first step. Disaster. Major.

Oh God, help me.

1's, 5's and 12's

Dahil katatapos lng ng World Cup Volleyball 2007, my mind's still full of volleyball.. hehe
May hang-over pa ako with the volleyball fever, so eto.. I'll give you my list of my best players, coincidentally wearing jersey # 1, # 5, #12.. hehe pero siyempre may ibang exceptions..

1) Taismary Aguero- # 12 of Italy.

Former Cuban star na lumipat sa Italy. The title 'Cuban Star' speaks for itself.




2) Yumilka Ruiz Luaces -# 1 of Cuba

She's one of the few left from the superb Cuban team dati. Veteran kumbaga.

3) Katarzyna Skowronska-Dolata- # 1 of Poland

She's Poland's middle blocker (pero pra skin, she's a better wing-spiker) and was awarded the Best Scorer in the 2007 World Cup.

4) Francesca Piccinini - #5 of Italy

My fave Italian player. Wing-spiker / celebrity. hehe

5) Jelena Nikolic - # 1 of Serbia

Another killer wing-spiker. I don't know much about Nikolic but she's definitely Serbia's main scorer. (FYI: Serbia is this year's European Vice-champion)

6) Miyuki Takahashi -#5 of Japan

Yeba! Yeba! By far, my most most most favorite player in the league! hehe Though hindi siya kataasan (170cm), she has a spiking technique (na hindi ko ma explain in words, sorry) na kahit gaano pa katangkad ang blockers niya, it's either the ball goes out, or makakalusot, in a straight course down the line! woohoo!

I LOVE YOU SHIN! :)

7) Thinkaow Pleumjit - #5 of Thailand

A middle blocker na efficient sa quick sets... in fluid motion.. hehe I'd like to say she's Thailand's it girl and many call her the SCORPION QUEEN kasi my tattoo siyang scorpion sa may shoulder. hehe

8) Saori Kimura -# 12 of Japan

Saori will be the next Japanese volleyball savior. She's still young (21) but she can play a universal position. She's a wing-spiker na efficient sa likod as a receiver and digger and she can block. She's also trained to set and is improving her back row spike. And by the way, siya lang ata ang nagse-serve ng ganong jumping floater sa league ngayon.

--------------------------- syempre may exceptions-----------------------

9) Yoshie Takeshita (# 3 of Japan) is THE setter.

From now on, I will get inspiration from this girl. She is the smallest setter, maybe even the smallest player in the international volleyball scene today, (159cm lng sya). But despite her height, she is by far the best setter of her time. At sa liit nyang yan, nkaka block pa sya ha! hehe

'Di man nakasali ang Russia sa World Cup 2007, thumbs up pa rin ako kina...

10) Lioubov Sashkova Sokolova -# 5 of Russia

She is one of the finest diamonds of the former Russian Head Coach, Nikolai Karpol. Karpol transformed her into a universal player na kahit anong ipagawa mo sa babaeng ito, she will deliver.

11) Ekaterina Gamova - #11 of Russia

Whew! Whoever remembers Ekaterina Gamova will always say, she's the Giant! Standing at 202 cm, she is VERY efficient in blocking. Nung mga starting days niya sa Russian team, she was just a mere higante on the court but she managed to improve and now, she is a universal player too. Penge naman ng height!!!

----------------------------------and of course------------------------------

The Brazilian squad will always be my number 1 team! Sila lang ata ang team na lahat magaling eh. hehe No bias, really. Distributed lahat ng points. Wala silang star player, unlike other teams.I call them "the team of barbie dolls". Simula kay Leila Barros to Erika Coimbra. Ngayon, Shiella Castro and Jaqueline Carvalho.




Leila Barros- # 12

Who will ever forget the Leila mania sa Pinas sa ilang taong pabalik-balik ang Brazil sa Manila?? She really was not all beauty and charisma. She was once Brazil's main man. Too bad, she retired that early.

Erika Coimbra- #11 (# 3 before)

Nang mawala si Leila, pumalit na man si Erika. She's not all beauty too, you know. Isa rin siya sa main spikers and ace servers of Brazil. Sayang lang, di siya naglaro this World Cup.

Shiella Castro- # 13

Hmm... She is, I think, the next Virna Dias.

Jaqueline Carvalho- # 12

Need I say more?? She's Brazil's up and coming volley belle.

The Brazilian Squad at the World Cup 2007 in Nagoya, Japan (silver medal)

(* all pictures are from the FIVB official site)

Goddess of Phone Bills

Pockets are getting tired of paying more than it could, 43000, for the record. Since then, it has been a monthly mantra, “Never call Pinas w/o THE card.” But what’s a girl to do when the only thing left to lift her spirits up (not even a truffle ice cream nor the biggest platter of sushi w/o wasabi can suffice) is an hour-worth of call, badly wanting to hear news and simply desperate to talk?

For that moment before sleep, a stupid smile is lingering, imagination is dancing and the heart, singing. But then, the next sunny day hears GUILT shouting, finds hopes of a GREEN SONY VAIO crashing, and devises a plan, a serious mode of STARVATION. Then and there, the mantra is recited and meditated upon, again and again.

Yes, the mantra works for a couple of weeks, stopping the itching hand from getting hold of that

BLACK TEMPTRESS

and from pressing on “005345639064881661 + call”. And a couple of weeks it is. That is all it takes to clog up every possible space with the mounting stress, elevated insecurities and even the mere nature of slight depression of not having to talk and hearing news. And with a clog like that, the strongest decongestant sure will have to be taken in. Prolonged suffocation is dangerous; tested and proven. And so…

“Kring…. Kring…. Kring…. Kring… Kring… Kring….”

Oh well, whatever happens at the end of this round and about monotonous clash of alter-egos, whether the GREEN SONY VAIO will or will not set foot on Philippine soil on February or whether or not the telephone company will send a thank you letter for being the “BEST CUSTOMER EVER!”, only the

legendary GODDESS of phone bills know. ;)

beyond comprehension

Immersion with things beyond your comprehension makes you realize how much of the world you still need to know.

My English in Society and Culture subject taught me how language is such a complex matter, and how it functions in the society. Now, I have new terms added to my memory dictionary: decreolization, received pronunciation and inherent variety among the many others. Global Issues class exposed me to the serious problems of the world: from obesity down to malnutrition, city planning to overpopulation, free trade to fair trade, land mines to child labor, and efficient energy consumption to diminishing natural resources, just to name a few. Globalization classes taught me about creative cities and how they were formed and how the employment conditions in some countries change over the years. Literature classes taught me to read books and classics, which I did not normally do. And of course, Nihongo classes taught me a whole new set of writing, vocabulary and grammar to use.

I know it doesn’t have a lot of Science in to it, which I was very used to, but I am enjoying this broadening-my-horizon-of-learning thing. Well, yes, I miss my Biology classes back home. I miss the cats, the frogs and the fishes I open up almost everyday. I miss my professors’ explanations on things like how a jellyfish moves or why dolphins are shaped as they are or why the cacti appear to have no leaves when they actually have. And I miss wearing lab gown, too. But having to take these “deviation from my norm” classes made me feel I have been too focused and devoted to being a doctor and disregarded the other things that matter too. Way back, I never found myself reading history books again or even just the newspaper. I never read other books aside from those Biology ones, what more of those literary greats. So now, when I am asked about how the labor demand is in the Philippines, or why was India separated from Pakistan and Bangladesh after the war, or even a simple question of whether I have read a Samuel Richardson before, I don’t have answers. And yes, it’s hard and embarrassing. But I like the fact that I’m learning new and relevant things, and that I’m starting from scratch. It makes me want to know more.

I know I am left behind, stocked knowledge wise, but I like it that now, I not only know that Jane Austen wrote Pride and Prejudice but Elizabeth fell in love with Mr. Darcy after all; that not only is London the capital of UK but is also a “global financial articulation”, together with New York and Tokyo as well, and that せいぶつがく (seibutsugaku) actually meant Biology in Nihongo.