I'm always the one who gets the bad reputation because I'm the one who speak for the rest. Then those other people with the same sentiment aren't even concerned at all because it's not them who had other people's respect taken away from them.

Another example of "How Life is Unfair".

18th Birthday Celebrations (yes, PLURAL)

May 23 - ALL BY MYSELF
Design class, and indulge my favorite pizza flavor and milk tea all by myself <3 Watched Beauty and the Beast and slept at 4:30 am
May 24 - I LOVE E.K.
ALL ODDS WERE AT FAVOR! No classes in Math21, Eng12 and Btech2! The sky is clear and bright, it did not rain! I woke up past 6am! That's merely 1.5 hours of sleep, yet wasn't groggy at all during the Enchanted Kingdom expedition! My bus trip only took an hour! I was able to reach Denise's house at 10am :)
IT WAS GREAT! "I love EK!"



May 25 - RELATIVES DAY
Woke up in Denise's house. Slept side by side with my beloved friends Eisen (on my left) and Sean (on my right). Sean wore the Bleach tshirt I gave him, the first time I saw him wearing it in person. He said he always wears it in iAcademy but not in Mapua LOL. We left at 10am because I was gonna meet my sister in Goldilocks. I left wearing my sleeping clothes xD
My relatives came and had a great time harvesting mangoes and celebrate the birthday with me. I'm just concerned with mommy being too busy the whole day.

May 26 - CAKE DAY
Mommy woke me up quarter to 5. I slept with the laptop on me, and yes, sitting. Not again -__- Came back to Manila at 6:45. Rowena was beside me in the bus from Alabang to Manila. I brought a cake with me during Physics lab so that it will stay cool (because it's too cold in the room). I sit-in inside Ma'am Jing's Visual Communications 3 class because I figured she'll let me. She took a portion of the cake and cut the whole cake in the process :) I bought a Root Beer and Sprite. I talked to Alan Fong while waiting for Planning class to end. It was really nice I shared a lot of stuffs with him. He can't come to eat cake with us because he has class >.< Denzel, Arvin, Wayne, Joah Lou, Bryan, Jorene, Christine Soto, Jireh, Melinda, Mon, JB, Ate Matz, Calvin (frosh Phylab groupmate) ate the cake with me. Then played with soft pastels after and left school while it's raining. I did not eat anything rightafter. At 10pm, Ate Marian shared her 'Sansrival' Starbucks cake with me. MY GOSH, IT'S TOO SWEET! :)) I needed water so I went upstairs. So yeah, I only ate cake the whole day.

Celebrating my 18th birthday - THE FIRST DAY (and the real date)

First off: The night. I "camped" on our dorm room's floor and borrowed a dorm furniture. The only thick blanket I have is the Hannah Montana blanket my eldest sister bought so I used that. At the same time, I was wearing a Hannah Montana lavender t-shirt. Talk about "Hannah Montana" =))

Then I slept with two pillows with me. I suddenly woke up to see my roommate ate Gabby greeting me "Happy birthday!". I feel like my brain was still floating above me then and I looked at the clock and it said "1am". f

The morning, I woke up before 7am. I wasn't able to go to church. I only lazed around and did mani-pedi which took me the whole morning because the first two nail polishes I'm using weren't good. Then I tried the red one, and it was really beautiful! It also speaks out "It's my birthday" for being too red =))

It was already 12noon when I get ready for school and actually eat. The moment I texted my neighbor friend (she's like a sister to me), she said she's in our dorm lobby waiting for her son (a freshman in our school). We hugged each other and I received a greeting from her :) Before I was able to go to the canteen, the security guards gestured that there's a gift that was left for me. I thought it was from Ate Tweeny, but I figured it's from Lorinell's. She really loves to gift stuff that's from Blue Magic =))

In the canteen, I ate with Ate Joanna, who was in line for the One Direction concert tickets earlier this morning. I admire her patience and dedication for her idols =)) I wasn't able to do that for Taylor Swift :(

When we went back inside the dorm, the cashier overheard a dormmate greeting me so she greet me too :)) Then the two guards also greeted me.

When I was about to enter the school, I saw Jorene (my batchmate-dormmate) and she shouted her greetings to me, making everyone around know it's my birthday! So the pedicab drivers greeted me "Oh, Happy birthday Ma'am/Miss!" etc etc, it was a really funny experience, I was smiling on my way to the South building. Then I saw Milan (an attractive friend of mine HOHOHO he might feel praised if he reads this XDD) and he hugged me just like he always does when he sees me, but I don't hug back XD I was expecting him to greet me but HE DID NOT. But I didn't tell him. I want him to find it out himself =))

In the classroom, I believe the first person who shouted his greetings is my "twin" Bryan, then my other classmates greeted me, too. But not everyone, only those who are truly kind to me :)) I was mentally smirking to those people who did not actually greet me even when we're less than 3 meters apart. Anyway, Bryan and I coincidentally had the same t-shirt design, only I was wearing the white shirt with red text, and he wore the red shirt with the black text. Yeah, he was wearing RED and he was the one who received a gift from me =)) because it was supposed to be last May12 but we had never met since then. Man, I really would love to take a picture of the two of us, but it's not allowed, so I'm trying not to forget such coincidences (just like when we were about to go to a site visit and I was wearing pink checkered blouse while he was wearing black/dark gray). Our professor arrived late and we were chitchatting and joking around. Arvin and Denzel was joking around saying they have gifts for me but it's only the things I have which they "steal" from me and present me afterwards.

Our professor's lectures were nice, it was really worth it. We had a lot of fun in the process. On the way downstairs, we encountered Ma'am Jing and Ma'am Gacutan. I figured they had no idea that it was my birthday so I was a bit disappointed but I know Ma'am Jing will find out in facebook later, and I really don't want to say out "Hi ma'am, it's my birthday!" It's just like---bragging or something. Rowena and I had chitchats on the way about dogs and her pet rabbits, and I parted ways when I was about to go to SM Manila, by myself, to eat pizza =))

It wasn't sad, actually. It's lovely to indulge your favorite pizza flavor all by yourself without anyone to share it with and buy a milk tea from Chatime! T'was Grass Coffee Jelly milk tea and Vegetarian Pizza with pineapple add-on. I want to bake a pizza too.>.< I like the staff of Shakey's because they always smile. Miss Catherine even handed over a glass of cold water when I wasn't asking for it. Such a kind gesture. In the comfort room, which I used only because I was curious of how it looks like, had a urinal and gladly I had measuring tools with me so finally I measured the actual sizes and space requirements needed for the urinal =)) I made two women wait though :P "Whatever, it's my birthday!" ;)

After that, I bought some stuff for the Enchanted Kingdom expedition! I also LEGALLY played in the lottery because I'm now 18, and that's just a good way to start the 18th privileges =)) Too bad I lost.

It's merely three days before I turn 18 and yet I'm getting addicted to Disney once again. Talk about heading to maturity =))

“With the kind of access you have to information, you have no excuse to be ignorant.”

Pedicab Driver Ate Heidi

Naglalakad ako sa walls malapit sa Letran kanina-nina lang, papunta kasi akong Starbucks which is kaunting lakaran na lang sana kaso nakita ako ng isang pedicab driver. "Ma'am, Fort Santiago ma'am?" ang sabi ko hindi po, dyan lang ako sa Starbucks, malapit lang naman. Pero inaalok nya pa rin na ihatid nya ako sa Starbucks, bente pesos lang. Hindi na ako tumanggi, kasi tulong ko na rin yun sa kanya since wala masyadong pasahero ngayon, at sobrang init pa. Saka babae syang nag pe-pedicab kaya nais kong makatulong sa kanya.

Una kong napansin ang mga tarpaulin na nagpataas sa upuan ng pedicab nya. Tapos may tuwalya syang pangligo sa inuupuan nyang de-padyak. Sinimulan nyang makipag usap sa akin sa salitang "Ang init, ano po?" "Naglagay na ako ng basang bimpo sa ulo ko kasi high-blood ako, pampawi ng init!" Naalala ko ang nanay ko na ganun din ang gawain kaya't nabida ko rin sa kanya iyon. Nasabi nya rin na natulungan nyang maagapan ang stroke ng kamag-anak nya dahil nagmadali syang maglagay ng malamig sa ulo nito. Pinuri din daw ang ginawa nya ng doktor ng kamag anak nya dahil magandang first aid daw iyon.

Pagdating namin sa Starbucks, sarado pala ito kaya nagpahatid na lang ako pabalik sa dorm ko. Bago pa man iyon, naglagay ulit sya ng tubig sa bimpo nya kasi natuyo na yung bimpo nya dahil sa tirik na araw, at napansin kong naubos nya na ang tubig nya. Buti may dala akong tubigan, naisip kong ibigay sa kanya iyon pagbayad ko.

Nung papunta na kami sa dorm ko, nabanggit nya sa akin na sa bangketa lang sila natutulog ng mga apo nya. Wala nang mga magulang ang dalawa nyang apo kaya't sila na lamang tatlo ang magkakasama. Dati raw silang natutulog sa may Lyceum at tingin ko nga ay nakita ko na sila noon sa labas ng skul na iyon. Lubos akong naawa lalo at nahiya at the same time ay naramdaman kong maswerte ako sa buhay ko ngayon. Nai-reklamo nya rin sa akin yung isa nya daw suki na nagbigay ng maliit na pagkain galing Starbucks na worth 500pesos! Grabe nga ang mahal, pero nanghihinayang sya sa ganung pagkain dahil ipangbibili nya na lang sana ng mga damit ng mga apo nya iyung halagang iyon. Hindi naman daw mahalagang makakain ng masarap ang kanyang mga apo, ika niya. Tama, needs before wants. Hindi nya ma-accept na makakuha sya ng bagay na ang halaga ay pwede pa sanang maging mas makabuluhan.

Nasabi ko sa kanyang Architecture ang course ko, at namangha sya sa akin. Sa loob-loob ko naman ay sana makapag patayo ako ng bahay para sa kanila. Mukha syang taong may "ibubuga". Makapagpatayo man lang sana sya ng tindahan ay aangat ang buhay nya. Naaawa rin naman ako sa mga apo nya kahit hindi ko pa sila nakilala dahil ganun ang buhay nilang mag-lola. Sana naman ay pagpalain sila ng Panginoon at makaraos sila.

Sana ako'y makatulong sa kanila.

Yun lang yung nagawa ko kaninang paglabas ko. Kumain lang sa tabi ng dorm tapos naglakad papunta sanang Starbucks. Pero nakilala ko sya.