VIKTOLI!!!! ^___^v




I dids it I dids it I really really did! Love and internet cookies to all those who offered their support via email/text/LJ/Facebook or managed to show up and watch me spazz out at the podium! <3333

Thesis revision is still due, and I have an integration paper for Third World Lit II and my final orals exam for Theology. I will completely bum out, though, at least for tonight! :O
Classes went by in a blur for me yesterday because I used the periods to finish my Lit Conference Powerpoint Presentation of Doom. Thesis tends to make delinquents out of students. @_@ The good news is that I finished it and it looks awesome.

Thesis class was reserved for last minute preparations and a pep talk from Sir DM's end... it was the usual "If they torch you during the conference it's not because they don't like you!" spiel. x_X Missed out on the Formations meeting (FORGIVE ME [livejournal.com profile] hamster_friend + [livejournal.com profile] ryvaeus!!!!111oneoneone) because the Punzalans had a Family Dinner in lieu of Liza and Liana leaving on Monday. Petrik and Yas + Anika were around, although they had to leave early because Petrik had a flight to The Land of Kimchi later in the evening. Pio and Mai Mai slept over... I got to show off my Lit Conference Powerpoint Presentation of Doom to Mai Mai and Pio leeched some titles from my hentai stash, but Mai Mai is not supposed to know that. o_o

Oh, interesting thing happened yesterday... this sucker added me on Twitter. I didn't add back, and sent the following message:

@gloriaresign: What makes you think I'm interested in what you're going for? Either de-follow me or I'm blocking you.


Let's get a few things straight: I'd like to think I'm not apolitical. I care about the country. In spite of the shit, I care a lot. But srsly. Dissidents stalking people on Twitter just because they're from the same country? Who the hell gave them THAT bright idea?

Furthermore, as my twit said: why would they think that I care about what they're pushing? Do they even realize what they're talking about? Or are they just a bunch of jobless fucks who mooch off the taxes that my parents pay and waste my time with their stupid rallies in Makati? Maybe they ought to think about not evading taxes and doing something with their lives before they think they have the right to tell anyone to step down. FREEDOM OF SPEECH IS EARNED, BITCHES.

This insults my intelligence in more ways than I can count.

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Anyway, I'm staying home this weekend to ideally study for my Theology final exam and most definitely work on my lit conference stuff. [livejournal.com profile] yukitsu might be swinging by later after visiting the 5-star Hotel for Dead People. Chinese burial ceremonies and all. In lieu of her absence, I have put my brand new Power Mix (aka, dancey [livejournal.com profile] fsts for Persona 3, SMT: Devil Summoner - Raidou Kuzunoha vs. the Soulless Army and Sentou Yousei Yukikaze and some techno/industrial/hard rock ones that I made way back for Bus Gamer and Devil May Cry) on my playlist in order to help me get in the groove.
Waking up with a cold this morning pushed the big red Panic Button in my head, and Mom didn't exactly help there ("You were sick like that just last month! And you have a history of cancer now! ANYTHING CAN HAPPEN!" D:), so I ended up going to the doctor's office before my classes for the day in order to put both our fears to rest. Thankfully, the doctor said that it's probably an allergy due to the dust that my neighbor's construction work is kicking up. Still: Cold = NOT COOL.

THESIS UPDATE: I took [livejournal.com profile] yuktisu's advice and threw together a comprehensive outline with quotations in lieu of a fully written speech... I realize that I really do a lot better with something more or less imipromptu, and to make matters worse, speechifying my thesis seemed impossible. ~_~ Well, now that the outline is out of the way, I just have to work on the Powerpoint presentation and I'm good to go. I'm still not sure what time I'll be presenting, but it will still be held on February 22 sometime in the afternoon.

Now, onto other school matters.

Sniffles and dizziness aside, today was cracktastic. My beloved blockmate [livejournal.com profile] pyrosinferno played substitute prof for the second time in Third World Literature II class, where he did a very impressive impersonation of our professor and basically facilitated the liveliest class discussion that we have had in a while. We got a bit sidetracked by one of our classmates, though... she's very fond of giving convoluted, over-politicized analyses of the texts at hand.

*cough*

Anyway, on my way to Theology class I found out that today was the last day for toga fitting. Cue me cutting half of my class in order to get that done. >_> My group and I also met up with our professor afterward in order to discuss our final presentation.

That said, here's the Almighty Dates & Dos List:

FEBRUARY 14 (...What do you know? That's tomorrow!): Rush over to Ateneo in the morning, rendezvous with [livejournal.com profile] le_esperance and proceed to bug our professor about our group presentation.
FEBRUARY 15:: Regular classes + the last thesis meeting before D-Day. Expect a post about this one when it comes. ~_~
FEBRUARY 16-17: Final Fantasy Tactics tiem Free day. Will probably study for my Theology final exam and/or start on my Powerpoint.
FEBRUARY 18: Last day of regular classes.
FEBRUARY 19: PANIC TIEM I.
FEBRUARY 20: SENIOR'S LIT CONFERENCE (DAY ONE).
FEBRUARY 21: PANIC TIEM II.
FEBRUARY 22: SENIOR'S LIT CONFERENCE (LAST DAY) + THEOLOGY GROUP PRESENTATION.
FEBRUARY 23-24: Final Fantasy Tactics tiem Unwind just a bit + study for my final exam in Theology.
FEBRUARY 25: FINAL EXAM FOR THEOLOGY.
FEBRUARY 26-28: Final Fantasy Tactics tiem Revise my thesis for the last effing time.
FEBRUARY 29: SUBMISSION OF UNDERGRAD THESIS.

As you all can see, Final Fantasy Tactics is srz biznez.

It's a long, hard road all the way until graduation.

HAY GUYZ. THESIS CONFERENCE WAS MOVED TO FEBRUARY 22. I don't know the exact time yet, but if you're interested in going just poke me about it by Thursday or so.



My dreams have been increasingly weird lately. The latest one involved some sort of school setting where I was classmates or schoolmates with a lot of people I've come to know over the years and a few RL versions of anime/manga/video game characters. The strangest part (and possibly the highlight) was a high school crush of mine getting touchy-feely with me in the bathroom (she groped my boobs and stroked my stomach several times on the pretense of fixing my uniform) and gave me balloons.

*coughs*

Oh, there have also been many dreams involving dishwashers.

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Saturday was lovely -- I am so going to go back to the karaoke bar that [livejournal.com profile] khursten dragged [livejournal.com profile] yukitsu and I over to with the lyrics from all my favorite songs from anime and video games printed out. x_X

Also: Bizu strawberry shortcake = <33 !

Petrik came over with his family earlier, so Anika was dragging around her latest toy (a wooden jeep) and generally being the cutest being on Earth. When we were all chilling out in the living room, she came over and sat with me to watch me play FFT. She also commissioned my dad to crack open some assorted nuts for her, although she was more interested in watching how he did it rather than eating the things.

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I won't be going to the office for this week -- I need to prepare for my upcoming defense and fill in the last few requirements that I have for the final semester of my college life.
Um. I'm back now. Yes. Unto RL things.

Sunday: With the exception of Sunday Mass and meals with the family, I spent my day flat on my back, playing Final Fantasy Tactics: War of the Lions. I shit you not. It was fucking glorious, but also exceedingly disturbing... see, the last time I played FFT I was an innocent little thing because I hadn't met [livejournal.com profile] yukitsu, [livejournal.com profile] khursten, [livejournal.com profile] macgirl_13, [livejournal.com profile] sortinghatlover and [livejournal.com profile] magnetic_rose yet, so my Gaydar wasn't quite in tune yet. Now that I am a full-fledged, morally corrupt fangirl, however, the game suddenly feels extremely, EXTREMELY gay with all the prettiness and the FMVs and the voice overs. x____X My heart can only take so much, damn it!

...So can't wait to get Balthier. GIMME SOME SKY PIRATE ASS, YO.

On other news, I used Innocent Life: A Futuristic Harvest Moon to recover from my fangirl spasms. I now take farming Very Seriously.


Monday: An extension of my weekend because I didn't have class (some Atenean holiday; gotta love those Jesuits). Spend the first half of my day flat on my back, playing with the PSP again (and occasionally wandering over to the laptop to poke people online) before I headed off for dinner at Glorietta with [livejournal.com profile] yukitsu, [livejournal.com profile] kye_kestrel and [livejournal.com profile] khursten. ITALIAN FOOD FTW! I ate WAY too much, though, because Ramon's driving made me incredibly queasy. Felt like sicking up for the first two hours after I got home, and ended up alternately lying down and getting up to pack in more Harvest Moon tiem until I finally fell asleep at around 1:30. *fails*


Today: This morning will go down in history as a footnote to The Maid Saga. Came down for breakfast to have Susan inform me in a sweet voice (because my dad was at the table) that she was going to make me something else to eat beyond what was on the table. That was cool by me, even though I would've eaten the food that was there. Anyway, after dad left and right before I finished the food she gave me, she comes out to clean up and starts semi-bitching about how difficult it is to feed me since "there's so little that I eat". Also, I was struggling with all the shit I had to lug to the office earlier, and she didn't even bother to help. I rarely ask or need someone to carry some of my stuff, mind, but it WOULD have been nice to get some for that time around.

Srsly, woman. Learn some respect and take some real initiative or you're going to be out of a job. Maybe you should get a brain while you're at it too, or at least learn to stay your wagging tongue.

ANYWAY. I'm back at work now, although I only reported after lunch since there's not much to do just yet. Had a meeting with my aunt regarding the missing information and whatever else she wants me to put up -- she says she'll get back to me on the details once she's gone over the webbie on her own. The last leg of the site is getting the section for the company's new building up, but I got nothing on that so that's not going anywhere for the moment.


The very last revision of my thesis is due tomorrow, so I'm sending it out to a few people for some final edits before I submit it and hope for the best before the conference. I'll post it for everyone else here soon enough. o_o

Am in dire need of sleep -- all this gaming/fangirling/spazzing is not good for me.
izkariote: (lit bitch.)
( Jan. 30th, 2008 11:16 pm)
Is it just me, or has the Internet suddenly gotten universally crappy down here? I mean, I'm finally not downloading some huge-ass file off BT, so I can effectively snatch stuff from DDL sites, but browsing has been strangely difficult. o_o ...Anyway.

Had my first regular day at school since I got back from my immersion, and I was greeted by a quiz in Theology 141 (which I totally failed) and a thesis class session wherein Sir DM had those who were ready submit their "final draft" before D-Day. He also proceeded to chew out those who weren't in the clear, and outline both the flow of the actual defense and exactly what was expected of us in terms of conference requirements. As of this moment, I am certain that I will be presenting my paper as a part of Panel 6 on either February 20 or 22 at the Natividad Galang Fajardo Room, Dela Costa Building. Mark your calendar, folks... I think you're all welcome to come and watch.

Righto. So I know I ought to be a little more freaked, but to be honest I only get a little twitchy when I'm sitting with the lit block, discussing thesis matters with Sir DM himself. I guess I could say that I'm very confident about my thesis -- I mean, I've run it by both Sir DM and Sir Vince (my mentor), and both of them say that it's already good. I think at this point it's just a matter of making sure I do even better than just good, and hoping to God that I don't get bitchy readers. I've already anticipated what some of t

On that note, I will be posting my thesis under a filtered f-lock soonish. I'll need people to read through it and help me condense the paper, as one of the pre-conference requirements is an extremely condensed version of our thesis that clocks in at about 8-10 pages -- perfect for a 20-minute presentation with a supplementary Powerpoint.

Beyond the thesis freak outs and Theology massive failures, I hooked up with [livejournal.com profile] archangel_dream, who showered me with chocolate chip cookies and more moneyz for the PSP Fund. I'll be cashing in my check from work soon, so I'm very, VERY close to my goal... if I scrimp over the next 2-3 weeks, I should be able to hop over to Greenhills and buy me a PSP before the lit conference. *fufufu*

My head was full of thesis by the time I got home, so the trip over to Pio's apartment was a very refreshing change of scenery -- Peter's birthday became a sorta excuse for everyone to get together there, since my Tito Lorrie and Tita Faye will be returning to the USA very soon. We celebrated with popcorn, tortilla chips and Toblerone fondue while Peter rolled around on Mai Mai and Pio's guest bed. Kid's tuckered out from all that parting, I think.

Other small victories include:

1.) Getting more dermatological gunk for my skin because I might as well have a clean face since I haven't been exercising.
2.) Backing up the 22 GB of Hentai titles that I kept from the original 53 GB download.
3.) Sorting more of my music.
4.) Nearly finishing my Darker than Black fanfic. Give me a bit more time; I may be able to wrap it up by the end of the week.
5.) Bonding with Liana. She's such a tough kid, but she does seem to like me. :3

Going back to work tomorrow. Dad won't be around (he's going scuba diving in Batangas again), but I think Pio will be, along with some of my aunts and uncles.
izkariote: (zen.)
( Jan. 28th, 2008 06:05 pm)
It's good loafing around at home~

The one class that I was supposed to have today ended up getting canceled, and I only found out when I was already in campus. >_> I suppose that was a good thing, though, since I got to go to Trinoma and become Liana and Anika's punching bag/latest toy/source of perpetual and patient amusement pseudo-babysitter over lunch. I also managed to drag myself out to CD-R King and get some stuff for the PC.

Not going to the office tomorrow -- Dad wants me to stay at home and burn a whole bunch of copies of the DVDs containing the videos and photos of Pio and Mai Mai's wedding. I will get paid, so I'm really not complaining. It also leaves me more time to chill out and catch up on small but significant school things at my own leisure. :3

On other news, I'm finally catching up on the backlogged episodes of shows that I'm following. Ghost Hound is still moving pretty slow, but the thought of getting to the bottom of all the fucked up shit in the series is keeping me going, along with the eye candy and characters. Oh, and Torchwood got a double dose of gay and a triple dose of humor. [livejournal.com profile] khursten, leave Gundam 00 and start watching Torchwood already! <33

FYI, "Let's all have sex" is the best thing to say in a life-threatening situation.

I've a Darker than Black fanfic in the works right now, in response to a prompt that [livejournal.com profile] ingenius_inc left for me over at this post. Will prolly work on it as soon as I watch everything that I've got at hand. Thesis will have to wait until after I re-download Lucifer, because silly Kae forgot that her comics are sitting on the hard drive of the busted PC, not the working laptop. >_> I need to sink images into my paper, but said images are in the comic and I don't want to hassle myself (or ruin my comics) by scanning them.

Graduation's a coming. Starting to feel it now.
So here is what the rest of my semester looks like for the last year of my college life:

JANUARY 22-24: Running around like a headless chicken during school days, lolling around the office during office hours, and shopping in between to prepare for my immersion.
JANUARY 25-27: Immersion in the San Miguel region of Bulacan. We might get stranded for an extra day.
JANUARY 28-29: Last minute thesis stuff-stuff. Finished my second draft already, so here's hoping.
JANUARY 30: SUBMISSION OF THE INITIAL CONFERENCE PAPER.
:
JANUARY 31-FEBRUARY 19: More running around like a headless chicken + finishing off the last of my Theology 141 requirements (including the big-ass post-Immersion report) + Fretting over my fate as a lit major.
FEBRUARY 20: SENIOR'S LIT CONFERENCE. It's been moved from the original date of the 13th. Should I be happy? ...I don't know yet.
FEBRUARY 21-28: Final exams + Thesis revisions.
FEBRUARY 29: SUBMISSION OF THE FINAL PAPER.
MARCH 1-27: Clearance stuffage.
MARCH 28-29: GRADUATION.

...Yep. I'm freaked, I guess. I say I guess because I'm having little anxiety attacks here and there, but overall, I'm numb. I think that since I got all excited over it last year, I'm just sorta "meh" now that it's actually happening.

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Spent the whole day working on my thesis (as witnessed by [livejournal.com profile] yukitsu, whose chatbox received all my mindless babble while I was busy with it), and then I went off to the doctor in order to get my clearance slip for my immersion. My appointment was at 4:30, but due to some screw-up on her secretary's part she arrived at 7:30. Not cool, uh-huh.

At least I wrote a lot of drabbles. Will post them later. Check the section below for them~

Came home hungry as hell. Rewarded myself with a HUEG serving of sinigang. Since I'm done with the second draft of my thesis, I can slack off online and write again. :o

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Head's up to [livejournal.com profile] sindapa, [livejournal.com profile] kye_kestrel, [livejournal.com profile] yukitsu, [livejournal.com profile] lonelybusiness and [livejournal.com profile] psychoshoujo. Some of the stuff you have suggested were fulfilled, either in part or in whole. And [livejournal.com profile] khursten, there's a DtB short in there somewhere.


ORIGINAL WORKS
Apocalpyse Please. A red letter day.
Endtimes: Thick as Thieves. A thinking woman sleeps with monsters.
Endtimes: Blood Sings. The quiet things that no one ever knows.

FANFICTION
Persona 3. At most, flowers.
Tales of the Abyss. The concubine's laughter.
Ookiku Furikabutte. Mad-lib communication
Darker than Black. he rain my drink.
D.Grayman. How painful dreams can be unless you know they're merely dreams.
Persona 3. We share our mother's health.


Been posting lots of writing these days. I'm vaguely happy about that.

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No, no. Let's not talk about where we go from here just yet, hmm? I know one thing's for sure though: as soon as I finish for realz, I'm going to smoke, marathon Gintama, post all the backlogged stuff I have on FF.net and ring the technician about fixing my PC.
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