This morning, a tragic thing happened.

One of my earrings fell down the drain.

Okay, before anybody laughs at me (although I'm pretty sure someone already did), let me explain the significance of this loss.

First of all, it's a starfish earring. A starfish. Most people know by now—and if you don't, well, now you do—that I absolutely love stars.

Secondly, I like that earring because it's small, and it works with whatever I wear: be it office clothes, formal dresses or the all-around shirt and jeans power combo.

Thirdly (and most importantly), it was given to me by Lori, one of my best friends.

Rawr.

*sigh*

Well, at least I still have one of the earrings... I guess I'll just look for another star earring with which I can match the remaining starfish.

Labels: life, randomness

Posted by sarah at 11:05 PM | Permalink | Comments | links to this post

My ultimate stress-buster of the month. Haha! When I get too stressed out I just play this song and it gets me smiling in seconds. On desperate situations, I watch the video. Heehee.



Lyrics...

Humuhumunukunukuapua'a
High School Musical 2
Performed by: Ryan (Lucas Gabreel) and Sharpay (Ashley Tisdale)

Narrator:
A long time ago
In a land far away
Lived a pineapple princess Tiki
She's as sweet as a peach
In a pineapple way
But so sad that she hardly speaky
Still if you listen well
You’ll hear her secret wish

Tiki:
(Aloha, everybody, my name is Tiki!)
I long to free
A truly remarkable fish
My sweet prince

Humu humu nuku nuku apua'a
Maki hiki malihini who
Humu humu nuku nuku apua'a
Ooh...
Hawana waka waka waka niki
Pu pu pu

(Ryan, the fog!)

Narrator:
She dreams of a boy
Who is under a spell
That has left him all
Wet and scaly

Tiki:
I sing from my heart
Of the power of love
Just a girl with uka-lele

Come to me,
My sweet one, and be still
I’ll grasp your tail
Then stroke each tender gill
My sweet prince

Humu humu nuku nuku apua'a
Maki hiki malihini who
Humu humu nuku nuku apua'a
Ooh...
Hawana waka waka waka niki
Pu pu pu

(Now this is where we lean
into the whole kabuki thing)

The clouds turned grey
And the big sky cried
And the ocean had a fit

(Ryan, where is my ocean?)

Then the wind went whoosh
And thunder cracked
And mighty Mount Fufu spit

Mighty Mount Fufu spit!

T-T-T-Tiki T-Tiki,
Wanna speaky, speaky, speaky
With the mighty spirit Fufu
T-T-T-Tiki T-Tiki,
Wanna speaky, speaky, speaky

Tiki:
The words I will not mince
Please make a man of my fresh fish prince

(This is real fish talk. No lie.)

(And then the fish
Turns into a gorgeous prince
And sings...)

Tiki: [male voice]
I'm prince
Humu humu nuku nuku apua'a
A Maki hiki malahini who

(With me!)
Humu humu nuku nuku apua'a
Ooh...
Hawana waka waka waka niki
Pu pu pu

(Everybody!)

Humu humu nuku nuku apua'a
Maki hiku malihini who
Humu humu nuku nuku apua'a
Ooh...
Hawana waka waka waka niki Pu pu pu
waka waka waka niki Pu pu pu
Waka waka waka niki
Puuuuuu
Puuuuuu
Puuuuuu

Labels: high school musical, music, randomness

Posted by sarah at 11:44 AM | Permalink | Comments | links to this post

No work today. And today, of all days, I woke up at 6 AM feeling so very refreshed...

And no office to go to. Rawr.

Anyway, to enjoy my day off, I read, and then watched, two titles that I've been wanting to read, and watch, for a really long time.

Interestingly enough, both of them were --and I was not aware of this-- heartwrenchingly tragic.

So much for enjoying. Haha! But I still enjoyed reading, and watching, both titles. Will blog about them in a few.

And then after that, I shall join my parents in ballroom-dancing downstairs.

Labels: randomness

Posted by sarah at 4:30 PM | Permalink | Comments | links to this post

You know how sometimes it feels like the day ahead would be perfect... only, several minutes later, everything winds up into chaos? We all get those mornings at least once in our lives, methinks. Today was one of those times.

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I woke up this morning feeling refreshed and, as an added bonus, an earlier than I should. This meant that I could go to sleep again, with the added luxury of feeling as if I had slept in. I woke up an hour and a half later, with the added torture of a migraine headache. Oh, joy.

I dressed and got ready in record time, and managed to leave the house on time. I've walked a block when I realized that I've accidentally left my phone. While I was fishing for my keys in my bag, the zipper snapped.

By the time I got out of subdivision it was 9 AM -- that's pretty late — and I knew that there was no hope of getting a cab; I'd have to get on a jeep, which will make me even more late for work. But voila! There was a cab — and from a really good company, too.

Traffic flow was surprisingly light, the train was incredibly spacious, and somehow, despite my bad start, I got to the office with 10 minutes to spare. So I had breakfast in the cafeteria, swallowed a paracetamol tablet and prayed that my headache would go away.

So I guess I'll just have to wait and see how the rest of my day goes. So far, though, everything's going much much better than it did in the beginning. Moral of the story? Even when things go wrong, hold out a bit longer because the day can only get better.

Labels: life, randomness

Posted by sarah at 11:13 AM | Permalink | Comments | links to this post

Yes, in case anybody's wondering: a lot has been going in my life right now. And I mean a LOT. As I told my mentor the other day, ala-telenovela ang linggo ko.

I'll write about it eventually, but right now I'm too much in a "floating in the clouds" mood, and at the same time I've got a mountain of wonderful work to do... And no, there is no sarcasm in that phrase.

In the meantime, here's a meme.

Your Native American Name Is...

Chista Kuwanyauma Your name means: Fair Butterfly Showing Beautiful Wings

Ooooooh. I like~ :)

Labels: life, randomness

Posted by sarah at 9:35 PM | Permalink | Comments | links to this post

Tagged by Renee. I actually already wrote a journal entry about this in my deviantArt account, but, anyway...

Six weird things about me:

1. Sometimes I unconsciously slow down my breathing.
   Sometimes I even stop. I know we all get those heart-stopping, hold-your-breath moments, but I'm not talking about those. Sometimes, for absolutely no reason at all, I just stop.
2. I can't sleep without a blanket.
   Yes, even when I'm insanely tired. And, yes, even when it's in the summer. When it's hot, I turn the fan on max and then get my thinnest blanket, and drape it on myself. (I eventually kick it off of me, but I can't fall asleep without a blanket.)
3. People still think I'm 17 years old.
   This began when I was 14. It was mostly because of my height, then. They all thought I was in college, when I was still in high school. Now, though, it's still a regular occurrence for new acquaintances to think I'm a high schooler. Even though I'm tall, and I have a natural tendency to be a leader or whatever, people who don't know how old I am think I'm a tall 16-year-old who's just mature for her age. I don't know why, but they do. @_@
4. Caffeine makes me sleepy.
   I think I'm not alone in this, but it's a strange thing, nonetheless. Tea makes me relaxed, and coffee makes me sleepy. Cold Coke simply feels good to drink. There was this one time when my godmother gave me espresso... I fell asleep in a matter of minutes. Chocolate wakes me up, but not because of the caffeine. It's because of the sugar. Oh, and it also gives me migraines, unfortunately. T_T
5. Drinking water in the morning makes me gag.
   The time isn't the key, here, actually. If I was up all night, drinking water is fine. But when I just woke up, I simply can NOT drink water. I have to drink either chocolate or fruit juice, or milk. If someone can explain this to me, please PLEASE do.
   
6. When I get one of my hands or feet wet, I have to get the other one wet, as well. I'm a woman of symmetry.
   And yet my drawings are almost always never symmerical.
   

Hehehe. This is fun. By Keysi's suggestion, I tag... him! Hehe. And Beth, Sara, Loraine, Mimi, Sarah, Kei, plus Pinoyblogosphere and BLOGS members who happened to stumble in here. XD

Labels: quizzes, randomness

Posted by sarah at 11:37 PM | Permalink | Comments | links to this post

I just noticed that it's been a long time since I've written anything about my life.

I mean, sure, the Internet is a significant chunk of my life --- a really huge chunk at that --- but the realization that I've been blogging about almost nothing but the Internet pretty much concerns me. Just look at the recent posts, will you? They've been about other people's websites, the Pepsi contest, my blog and SEO.

I haven't been writing about me.

Me as a person, me as a daughter, me as a friend, me as a girl. Self-centered, I know. But it's still kind of alarming. Does that mean I'm that wrapped up in the net? That my world revolves around it now?

Ha! Bollocks! Of course not!

Still, it does appear that way, doesn't it?

To tell you the truth, my routine for the past weeks had been work-sleep, work-sleep. There was a point about a month ago that I kept dreaming of our system. I was programming in my dreams. No exaggeration. The great part about it, though, is that there were several nights that I actually solved a debugging problem in my dream. When I woke up, my first thought was "This is AWESOME, I can't believe I figured that out!" My second thought was "Oh no... This can't be right. I can NOT be dreaming of programming."

Let it be known, though, that I still actually have a life outside the computer. I still have a family at home, with whom I've been marathoning Prison Break and Cirque du Soleil and Oscar Award-winning movies with. I still have friends I see on weekends. I still have my God I praise every day.

I don't know why I haven't been writing about my life like I did before. Change of writing style? Not really. Tilt of interest? Maybe. Tweaking of lifestlyle? Most likely.

So, in case you run into me one of these days and I start yakking techie terms and about my adventures with SEO, please please grab me by the shoulders and say, "Sarah, stop being a geek for a second and talk about something else."

That, or just stuff a chocolate in my mouth.

Labels: blogging, randomness, work, writing

Posted by sarah at 12:21 PM | Permalink | Comments | links to this post

Wind in my face, early morning sun on my skin, music in my ears.

And me? Where am I?

Thinking?

Thinking?

Thinking?

Floating.

Floating is more like it.

It's wishing to be there, yet not being there. It's wanting to be right where I was, yet uncontrollably moving away. It's skipping from one stone to the other when what I really want is to jump into the river.

It's seeing something unseen. It's not seeing what's right in front of me. It's catching something only to have it slip between my fingers. It's being in a chasm with transparent thoughts swirling by me. Moving into me. Overtaking me. And then, in the blink of an eye, escapes me.

Happy thoughts, sad thoughts.

Random thoughts, important thoughts.

Wanted thoughts, unwanted thoughts.

Thinking, thinking, floating.

I'm floating.

I want to get my feet down on the ground, to feel solid rock, to stand firm and stable.

I need to get on solid rock.

I am on a solid rock.

But I'm floating.

But then... Maybe we're floating. Are you floating with me? Will you float with me? Are you the one making me float in the first place? Do you want me to float with you?

Do you want me to fly with you?

I need to get on a solid rock.

I am on the Solid Rock.

Labels: randomness

Posted by sarah at 7:00 PM | Permalink | Comments | links to this post

Listening to: Garden of Love - Aqualung
Reading: write-ups
Eating: too little
Drinking: too much C2
Wishing: that I'll get to join the Philippine Blog Awards next year

Labels: randomness

Posted by sarah at 8:36 PM | Permalink | Comments | links to this post

Just a snippet of my thoughts for today...

Point #1: I just watched batman begins last night. That's my fave batman movie ever. Sure, Katie Holmes to me still hasn't grown out of Dawson's Creek (Rachel Dawes...-on? XD). But, while forgetting that fact for two hours, I concluded that Begins is my fave. Christian Bale is just awesome. The costume design and the physics of it all is just awesome... The story execution and how they connected it to the rest of the series is just awesome...

Point #2: Those of you who saw me in the Eng'g bldg (and cared enough to ask what I was doing in Diliman, and where I was going) know that my classroom is MH233A. Supposedly. We moved to MH235. Either way, I had to go near/through "the batcave".

Put 1 and 2 together, and you have me laughing to myself at 8:00 this morning.

Bow.

Labels: movies, randomness, school

Posted by sarah at 12:23 AM | Permalink | Comments | links to this post

here's a scene from today from "the department" in "the university". *ahem*

clarifiction. if the speaker is fuyu that means it's what's gonig on in my head, ok? so...fuyu=sarah's brain. ^_^

scene opens with sarah opening the door of the faculty room.

sarah: good morning po. my name is sarah, and . may i ask if you have an outline of ?
faculty person: ok, sandali lang... Ito, o... [hands sarah the curriculum]
sarah: ... uh.... course outline po yun kailangan ko kasi .
faculty person: course outline...hindi pa ba yan yun?
fuyu: like, duh.
sarah: um...hindi po... .
faculty person: aaaaah, outline... e, sa prof na yun hinihingi, e.
sarah: ah, gano'n po ba? kaninong prof po?
faculty person: teka... ... ang kaso, wala sila ngayon, e. wala kang mahihingan.
fuyu: dot. dot. dot. gee, thanks.
faculty person: pero si ms. baka pumasok. hintayin mo na lang.
sarah: baka pumasok...so hindi po sure kung papasok siya?
faculty person: hindi.
fuyu: so you want me to wait for someone who might not even come at all?!
sarah: puwede po bang hingin ko na lang yung phone number nya para siya na lang kausapin ko?
faculty person: ay, hindi ko alam phone number niya, e.
sarah: how about email?
faculty person: hindi ko rin alam email niya, hindi ko naman siya ine-e-mail...
sarah: uh...wala po ba sa record nyo?
faculty person: wala, e.
fuyu: Hu-WAT?!
sarah: *blink blink* eh... number or email po ng kahit alin sa mga teachers na pwedeng paganungan?
faculty person: wala, e.
fuyu: but that's IMPOSSIBLE!
sarah: ...ah...gano'n po ba...?
fuyu: you can't NOT have that in your record!!!
sarah: uh...sige po, balik na lang po ako mamaya...
faculty person: [nod and turn back to the PC]
fuyu: rawr!
sarah: ... thank you po.
faculty person: [no reaction]
fuyu: RAWR!!!!

aiya. sometimes i'm so nice and polite, i hate myself. yeah, yeah, i know i should've asserted myself, but...whatever.

rawr.

Labels: randomness, school, UP Diliman

Posted by sarah at 2:23 AM | Permalink | Comments | links to this post

We watched The Kingdom of Heaven today. Can I just say that Orlando Bloom's character was just... just... YEAH! Mehehehe. Asteeeeg, pare.

[Clarification: Yes, I think that Orlando Bloom's a pretty boy, but NO, I am not his shrieking fangirl. Of some of his characters, maybe, but not him. I respect the actor, though.]

It was a cool movie, but something I will definitely NOT let a 13-year-old kid watch. It ain't exactly Battle Royale, but it's got blood and gore nonetheless. Yeah. Blood splattering all around.To be honest, I liked the characters and politics and dialogs more than the action. I actually like the (sort of) antoganist! Yeah! Go saladin! Come to think of it, he isn't the antagonist at all...

But then there were annoying people all around us. Before the movie started, there was this kid who kept talking behind us. We made those meaningful glances, and tried to do the "SSSSSHHH!!!" strategy, but it didn't work. So, about two minutes into the movie, we moved a few seats away.

Yes. Silence.

And then this guy beside me was eating chips. Ok, so he was munching the chips quite quietly. Tolerable. What I couldn't tolerate was that the BAG of chips was making irritable noise. I mean, you could eat a bag of chips without holding the bag so tightly, right?!

Argh.

And then this guy sitting in front of my mom was talking with his girlfriend over the text messages --- messages. Plural. As in MANY. --- his friend sent him. And his phone had a white backlight that could pass off as a flashlight.

ARGH!

After a few minutes of torment, I finally bent over and tapped him on the shoulder.

Aarah: "Uh... Excuse me... I'm sorry for interrupting, but do you have ANY intention of watching the movie or are you going to just talk?"

The guy shut up. HA. So he didn't apologize (he didn't say anything at all) to me, but it was fine. We finally got to concentrate on the movie.

And then, afterwards, I got me sunglasses! YEY! After... uh... lessee *counts fingers* 12---- oh mhay ghulay! TWELVE!!!! --- years of not wearing sunglasses (or if I wear a pair at all, I wouldn't be able to recognize anyone), I finally got me a pair! Yey!

...

Kung kelan wala na ako sa LB, e.....

Oh well. At least I have sunglasses.... *giggle* Yeah, I'm repeating myself. And yeah, I'm being very shallow right now. Sue me.

Labels: movies, randomness

Posted by sarah at 12:28 AM | Permalink | Comments | links to this post