kwento lang

this is probably the longest i've gone without blogging for the past 2 weeks or so. i'm kind of busy in the lab now and when i am in front of the computer i can't think of anything interesting to write about. . . well, i'll give it a try. . .

this weekend was pretty good. friday night , i got to have my first night out here at columbus courtesy of the christian graduate students alliance (or association? im not sure). i attended their fellowship which was pretty fun as far as christian fellowships go. the people there are a bit older than me and they were quite weird actually, so i felt right at home. we all went to dinner in downtown columbus after the thing. the downtown is actually very pretty at night. downtown columbus is relatively small (mas maliit pa sa makati or ortigas) and the buildings are a bit older so it was kind of quaint and not very metropolitan at all. tsaka parang ang tahimik.

saturday, i was ate lea's the whole day. they picked me up to do my laundry. naawa sila kasi ang layo ng labahan ko. so while doing laundry i was supposed to be reading an article but i of course ended up watching cable tv all day. puro specials at reality tv ang pinanood ko. sobrang weird na ng mga palabas dito. i saw a bit of "surreal life". jordan knight of new kids on the block was there. he got fat since he released an album a few years back. mukha na siyang tatay. tapos nandoon din si brigitte nielsen, yung ex ni stallone. sobrang weird niya. parati siyang nakahubad. basta ang weird. i also saw a vh1 special "i love the 90's: 1990". feeling matanda na tuloy ako kasi parang lumalabas na ang tagal na ng 1990 e alalang-alala ko pa yun. do you remember the slap-on bracelets na nauso nung grade school? wala lang, na-feature kasi dun. aliw. then they had this whole segment on sinead o'conner's video of "nothing compares 2 u" and people like michael buble and john mayer and this other comedian was singing it and crying. ang funny. then they now have a 90's trivial pursuit. i should probably get that.

sunday, i finally found a church i think i'd go to maybe for the next couple of weeks or so. someone from cgsa invited me to go there because there was a banquet last sunday. siyempre punta ako, free food e. tapos the pastor picks people up at a dorm close to my place so convenient. ok naman yung church, karamihan international students. tapos very lively and informal ang service so tama lang sa akin. at masarap din naman ang food. hehe.

now i'm starting to see how busy i'll be for the next few months. talagang lahat ng time na wala ako sa class, nasa lab ako. serious na ito. oh no. kaya ko ba?

i'll be injecting the little fishies later. medyo excited ako. ang weird nga e. tuwing nagkakamustahan nga kami ng mga ka-program ko parang feeling ko ako lang yung sobrang naaaliw sa mga bagay-bagay. siguro kasi mababaw ang kaligayahan ko. i think i need to seem more serious. baka akala nila retarded ako or something. abah. magandang impression iyon.

competence and transformation (of cells)

dito uli ako sa lab. looks like dito na ako madalas. the truth is i like the work. halos pareho lang sa ginagawa ko dati. but i don't like this building. i feel claustrophobic here. it's so unlike msi or ah that's airy and open. parang walang hangin mula sa labas na pumapasok dito. walang bukas na bintana. parang 3 layers ng pinto ang papasukin mo to get into the building. tapos di pa ako makalabas ngayon basta-basta kasi di pa activated id ko so if lumabas ako, di ako makakapasok.

i started poking at the little fishies today. i haven't injected them with anything yet, i just practiced looking at them under the microscope and harassing them with the electrodes (pointy cappilary tubes) i made yesterday. the fishes (well, they're still actually embryos so mukha silang tiny fish na buntis kasi may embryo sac pa) were in a little plate with water (of course) so they were still swimming around. then when i poke them they dart off and fold over. aliw. pero nung mga unang beses napapatalon ako. tapos nakaka-guilty din. kasi nga naman nanahimik sila tapos bigla ko silang tutusukin.

got a free lunch today. went to a seminar solely for the free food. had no idea what the topic was before i got there but i didn't really care. good thing plant seminar siya so slightly interesting. well, actually di lang pala for free food. i bummed a ride with my cutie classmate. hehe. pero ang strange kasi umalis rin siya before the seminar started so di siya nakakain. na-guilty tuloy ako.

think i better shake those transforming cells. . .

pers lab

sorry to disappoint you but lab here pertains to the real lab i.e. laboratory, not the other lab (awwwww...). i'm actually here at my lab's office. i still don't have a desk so i'm squatting at somebody's desk and using the lab computer. i've been here since 9am. 9am here does'nt feel like 9am here. it feels more like 6am. the sun rises at around 800am or something (i'm not sure actually but it feels like it). so at 9am it feels like the sun just rose (which it actually did). o gosh, i'm not making any sense.

the weather here is not very good now. the weather people keep saying that the weather is great but i disagree. a day when the low is at 55deg and the high is at 85deg is not good weather. i always feel like i'm coming down with something because of the drastic changes in temperature. you leave the house wrapped in a sweater and by noon, your sweating buckets. . .

there's a kid here (obviously somebody's son) who reminds me so much of leeron. chinese kasi tapos kalbo at mapula pisngi. haaay. . .

na-sidetrack ako. anyway, i performed my first experiment today, a miniprep. well, i actually used a kit so it was pretty easy. but i had low dna yield:). but it's not my fault. the shaker didn't shake the cultures very well so i only had a few cells. yeah yeah. i also learned to pull electrodes. electrodes here are basically glass capillary with super fine tips that you use to poke embryos. the machine that makes it has a laser and you place the capillary in it and the laser heats it up and then pulls it apart. it makes this loud popping sound. i almost ducked under a table when i first heard it. but it was a fun thing to do.

i'm still running the gel for my miniprep. i better check on it.

first day jitters

just finished my first day of classes here at osu. ok lang. ang init! kaninang umaga sobrang lamig tapos ngayong hapon mga nasa 90deg na raw.

i was pretty nervous and excited last night. di nga ako makatulog. mga ala-una na ako natulog. i got the same feeling i get in college pag dumadaan ako sa math building. yung para kang nasusuka na nahihilo na ewan. ang sama. anyway, woke up this morning at 630 for my 830 class. left the apt at around 745. thought that was early enough. turned out i had to walk to school. again. the buses never arrive on time. then i had to wait for the other bus for like 20 minutes or so. got to class at exactly 830. geez. my first class was biochem. i don't know what i'm doing in a proteins class but there i was. the prof reminded me a lot like father christmas. and he spoke really slowly. i sat near the front which i think now was a bad idea because for sure i'll be dozing off a lot on this class. good thing (or bad thing, whichever way you look at it) classes only last for an hour. and our academic year is divided in quarters. there is sooooo little time for actual learning. we'll have our midterms 2nd week of october i think. what would i have learned by then?

i don't know if it's just me, but in a lecture, most of the time, i feel like i'm just watching a really boring american film. parang hindi reality. di kasi sanay na may teacher na may accent. wala lang. ang weird.

sobrang sabog ko kanina i almost went to a whole different class instead of the one i was supposed to be at. i waited at a library at the other side of campus where my class tomorrow will be, nowhere near my class this afternoon. and i had no idea where the building of my class was. i just got on the first bus to come and somehow, i got there. their buses here are so confusing. there's the south loop and the north loop. but they don't go south or north all the time. i still don't get it.

i also started with my rotation. though i just picked colonies which took all of 30 seconds. but i'll be doing a miniprep and ligation all day tomorrow. nask. parang totoong molecular biologist. good thing the people in the lab are so nice. i asked really dumb questions. like, she was cutting embryos that were mounted on agar and my question was "are they dead?". duh. i just had to make sure.

nga pala. i got to see the amazing race finale last night. i was soooooo happy! el nido was beautiful. and it's a good thing that colin and christie didn't win. but brandon and nicole looks like they could use the money more than chip and kim. and brandon is such a cutie! and nice too! and a christian! i have to get me one of those. . .

certified GTA. . . take that!!!!

ha! i got a 290 out of a possible 300 in my speak test (test of spoken english type exam. it's required for me to be a teaching assistant). the required score is only 230. yay for me! those people at the written english program should know about this.

i haven't mentioned it here but i flunked out on the english composition test. i was so bummed. and to think the director of the program was a filipina. anyway, this one makes up for that. . . i actually have to take 2 composition classes but i chose not to take any this quarter. just didn't feel like it. too many things going on already. . .

just had to share that. i'm so happy!

free stuff

ahhhh. here i am again. i should be doing my radiation safety online course but i'm not. i can't seem to grasp the difference between alpha, beta and gamma radiation however much i re-read the darn thing. best to leave this to tomorrow. . .

just finished my registration. i've even paid for my fees over the internet. they're so wired here. but the e-mail server is down right now. feels so much like u.p. hehe.

went to the "buckeye bash" with charm and her friend ivan. it was at the osu stadium. there were long tables of free food from chips, to chicken wings to fruits and all the coke you can drink (apparently, coke pays osu millions of dollars so they could sell coke exclusively here on campus, then osu gets all the free coke it wants. . . tamang-tama sa mga addict na tulad ko). we did have to line up for a long time and under the burning sun at that. i was the only one in line hiding behind a newspaper. it was soooo hot! but it's free food so i don't complain. i even got to take home a sandwich and several bags of pretzels. hehe.

then inside the stadium there are booths for student organizations and they give you more free stuff like ref magnets and pens and candies. i even got a switchfoot poster! student organizations also include sororities and fraternities. and these people are exactly like the ones you see on american movies. it was sooo funny. the girls all dress alike in their little sorority shirts and even tinier skirts. and the frat guys are big and burly and noisy. . .

i got to go. this library closes at 5p,. . . what library does that?

on a sunny saturday afternoon

gosh. ang layo ng nilakad ko to make this blog entry so this better be good. i got sick of paying 1$/15min at the cybercafe next to my place so here i am at the 24hr/7 days a week student center where i could use the internet to my heart's content for FREE! ayos.

actually, nandito ako kasi wala akong maisip gawin this afternoon. i'm done with my laundry. took me 3 hours, would you imagine. had to walk three blocks with 1 week's worth of clothes which for me is quite a lot (you'll be happy to know na i still bathe as much here as i do at home kaya ang dami ko talagang clothes na nagagamit). three blocks here is no joke. sadly, walang nag-offer tumulong sa akin. mukha kasi ata akong amazona. pero lech talaga. ang layo ng laundry place na yun. kung may sampayan lang ako . . .

since last i wrote here, i've had significant progress in terms of my academic pursuit (opo, pumunta ako dito para mag-aral at hindi lang para mag-fafa). i have a rotation lab for this quarter! i'll be working on zebrafish as a model for spinal muscular atrophy. may publications naman yung lab sa Cell so mukhang ok. and the other RAs seem to really love the work. But my main reason for picking the lab is that i thought the PI seemed nice, almost motherly. and to those who asked, no, i didn't go for the lab with the hot PI. they all say he's too demanding and i don't want to be traumatized on my first rotation. aside from having a lab now, i have 3 other PIs who said they'd take me in the next quarters. so that's settled. mukhang kelangan talaga nila dito ng researchers so sa mga future applicants (jenner, eloi, cris, cathy, kat) apply kayo dito sa osu. daming fafa. promise.

that long walk addled my brain. i had so much stuff i was thinking of writing down before i got here and now i can't think of anything else to write about. darn it. there are now a lot of people here. di lang ako ang walang friends dito. ha.

police brutality

siyempre ang oa ng title ko. i was thinking of not writing this story on my blog kasi baka mas lalo pa kayo mag-alala (nask, feeling) pero i couldn't help it. it's too exciting not to share.

anyway, yesterday i was at urban outfitter's following shiela's advice on combatting loneliness, which was, well, shopping. so i came there for a pair of sneakers and as i was getting ready to pay, the sales person told everyone to go to the back of the store. there were several policemen with their guns draw just outside the door, and they locked up the store. apparently, may parang bum doon sa labas na may dalang knife and i heard him saying he also had a gun. pinaakyat kami dun sa 2nd floor nung store tapos siyempre puro babae yung mga tao, diretso silip naman sa bintana (dami din palang usi dito sa america). siyempre ako din naki-usi. pinagalitan tuloy kami nung mga sales people ulit. "we don't want you getting hit by a stray bullet or anything" ika niya. abah, talagang naka-alleviate ng panic namin. pero ok lang naman kasi ang daming sofa dun sa store kaya ang sarap ng upo ko. may videogame pa nga (ms. pacman joystick) kaya nakapaglaro pa ako for a few minutes. after a while na-sedate din yung guy, they got him with a stun gun sabi nung iba pang usi. pinalabas din naman kami eventually. by then may paramedics, firemen at camera crew na. dapat nga magpapa-interview ako e. hehe.

exciting din pala dito. . .

ate sasa, if you're reading this, wag mo nalang pabasa kina mama ok?

$4/hour

yes, i'm back at this coffee place next to my apartment that charges $4/hour for internet use. taga taga. i'm too wimpy to stay on campus 'til dark. and the library closes early anyhow.

last night was a bad one. i was fine when i got home. i cooked another terrible meal (bistek dapat pero weird lasa ng soy sauce. . . totally not my fault. . . hehe). I was doing what i'm almost always doing when i'm at home. . . watching the intersection right outside my apartment. what else could i do without a tv or a computer? hehe. i was reading the book prayer of jabez and it was actually very uplifting and encouraging. but when i got to the part where the author tells a story about playing with his son, i just started crying. . . i sooooo miss my parents. and of course i start thinking about everyone else and i start crying even harder. . . well, nobody said this would be easy and it's not. . . but i've been reading this wonderful book by elisabeth elliot entitled secure in his everlasting arms. there's a chapter there that says god will give what you need at exactly the right time you need it. and lo and behold, after a few minutes my phone rings and it's precious shrieking into the phone "nasa pilipinas na sila!!!haaa!" in her usual hysterical way. at first i had no idea what she was talking about, as it turns out she was talking about the amazing race. anyway, she just sort of reminded me that a) someone is thinking about me and b) someone else is going through what i'm going through (wala din siyang makausap. hehe.). i slept pretty well after that. . .

anyway, i went shopping this afternoon just to make sure that i don't start weeping again. hehe. good thing i'm not good at multiplying because if i was i'd start weeping again. . . hehe.

eto na nga. . .

medyo bitin pala yung last post ko. . . kakapagod pala mag move-in e.

well, as all of you may know by now, i'm here in columbus. i'm currently in the cybercafe next to my apartment. nask. my apartment na. hehe. anyway, my place is pretty cute. it's actually better than i thought it would be (mababa expectations ko). i think justine posted some pics in her blog so go check that out if you're really interested.

i've done a lot of dumb things these 2 days i've stayed here but i just have to post the dumbest thing i did. morning of sunday, i went off to find my laundry place. it was pretty far off, about 5 streets away.off course i didn't find it right off but i did end up at my apartment manager's office (without intending to. . . himala ba). anyway, someone had to accompany me there and i decided i'd come back to wash my comforter. so i went back to my place and cooked and ate lunch (adobo, which i just realized now, taste more like estofado. . . too much sugar i think) then off i went with my big, bulky comforter and a few towels. so i get to the place and go down the stairs and smell the laundry smell and suddenly remember. . . i forgot my detergent. bleagh. ang saya saya.

but i figured that must be the dumbest thing i could do for the day so everything must go uphill from there. and it did. i met 5 new filipino friends (isa pala indonesian) who insist on giving me furniture and appliances.

so this week we'll be having our thesis colloquium and i have to pick a lab to rotate in by the end of the wee. too much pressure. i realized i know virtually nothing that can be applied in most of these labs. garsh. must start asking if they accept hapless, inexperienced, hopelessly lost molecular biologists.

this place has good music. they're playing dmb! kewl.

nga pala, may 3 cuties sa class of 20. ganda ng odds. sabi pa nung isa kanina magaling daw ako mag-english. nask. at least may reason akong pumasok for the next few days.

i'm paying $1/15 mins for this computer. better go now.

ang susunod na kabanata. . .

i'm back in cleveland here at justine's place. i'm currently doing my laundry (yey!) after a couple of hours agonizing over how to open justine's laundry room. garsh. how retarded can i get? finally got to open it. it's just that i never got used to using keys believe it or not because we never used keys for doors at our house. . .

anyway, i spent the last three days in columbus. the weather was miserable the entire time. on wednesday, which was my first day there, it rained the entire day. good thing i brought my umbrella. . . and people said it NEVER rains here. . . geez. . .

anyway, when we arrived at columbus tuesday afternoon (poor george drove for 2 1/2 hrs . . . laki na talaga utang ko doon) i signed in first at the office for international education. they're really nice there and they tell me what to do for the next 2 days. i also got my buckID (nask) which apparently gets me bus rides for free and discounts at other stores and whatnot. then i checked in to my hotel which was conveniently located next to a mcdo, a discount shop and a grocery. i got to buy notebooks and plastic expandable envelopes for $1 to $1.60 a piece which was pretty cheap. so next morning i rode the bus to school which was ok enough. but of course, i just had to disembark at the wrong stop. i shouldn't have doubted that the dozen or so chinese students holding maps were going to the same place i was. the orientation was for international students (duh). about 50 percent were chinese (or taiwanese or japanese. . . i can't tell the difference) 20% indian (or pakistani or sri lankan) and everyone else. i met a girl from ecuador and another from jamaica who both hated america and americans. it was fun talking to them. they also shared my love for rice. hehe. i also met a bunch of other people from different countries which was really cool. there was this kid from the UK who had the cutest accent. i also met a couple of people from taiwan and all i could think of bringing up was F4. grabe ang jolog pa rin talaga. then it was quite embarassing when i met a fellow filipina. i totally flipped out in glee, clapping and grinning. she must've been more embarassed. turns out she has been in columbus for a year because her husband also studies there.

it was a really long orientation which started from 9am to 5pm. there were a few interesting and important things that were tackled like counseling, immigration issues, transportation etc., but there were also a bunch of really boring stuff which i of course slept through. it was cold i couldn't help it!

i got on the correct bus home (yey!) and got off on the correct stop (yey! yey!). i bought dinner at mcdo. they served healthy (kuno) stuff there. i ordered a ceasar salad which turned out to be huge but quite good and a really yummy deli sandwich. this is not the mcdo i was used to. . .

i'm getting really bored with this entry. i'll continue later.

rak en rol!

hmmmm. . . where did my narrative stop? . . . well, this is my 4th day here in cleveland. i just cooked dinner for justine and george, poor them. that's why i'm pretty tired. . . believe it or not, it's pretty hot here right now kaya napagod talaga ako nung nagluto ako. thankfully, naubos naman ni justine and george yung carbonara and nobody got hurt. . . well, not yet, we'll wait and see tomorrow morning. hehe.

so far, most of what i've done these past two days were shopping (which would not come as much of a surprise for most of you). i've spent more money than i care to count. but i did get some cool stuff on sale since it's the labor day weekend. i now have a couple of winter coats and a pair of winter boots. handa na akong ginawin! bring it on! hehe.

yesterday, we also went to the rock and roll hall of fame. it was pretty cool. i have a picture in there at justine's blog with the kikay giant guitar in front. sadly, you can't bring the camera inside the museum so i don't have pictures with elvis' report card or madonna's corset. the main exhibit was dedicated to the supremes and there were a lot of sequined, glittering gowns. . . it was funny to see all these kids complete with tattoos and piercings looking at diana ross' gowns. . . there was also an area dedicated to the beatles with john lennon's scribblings of song lyrics. . . oh, and there's the grunge area with chris cornell's baby picture. they also had listening booths everywhere but there were a lot of people so you had to wait for a while to get to one. justine and i stayed the longest at jimi hendrix's listening booth. . . i was tempted to buy an album but for $14.00? geez. . .

after the rock and roll museum. we went to the coat factory. we met ian there and he witnessed firsthand how the words "sale" and "clearance" can drive two perfectly reasonable girls insane. after that, we went to the taste of cleveland food festival where we sampled pulled pork sandwiches (aka. lechon paksiw sa monay. . . sorry ian) and other cleveland delicacies. there was also a free concert featuring blues travellers which was really cool. kinahihiya na nila ako kasi sigaw ako ng sigaw ng "rak en rol!" at "lab u pare!". hehe. we also got to see how totally spastic americans are when they dance. it was pretty sad to watch actually. hehe.

today, we went to see case (justine and george's school) and the museum of natural history. justine and i inadvertently trespassed when we got tour the place first before paying. good thing we didn't get caught. justine learned why her place is called shaker's heights. i learned how good rootbeer sticks are. . . hehe. ang sabog.

tomorrow, we're planning to go to the zoo to see the giraffes (i love giraffes!). then on tuesday we're going to columbus. . . the vacation's almost over. . .

cleveland rocks!

well actually, that is still an unproven fact for me since i've spent most of my time here sleeping. . . anyway, i'm here, safe and sound, so you can all just stop worrying about me. . . hehe.

my flight was uneventful, as i prayed it would be. good thing we arrived at the airport early (around 4am) so i didn't have to wait for ages at the concourse (?!?). i also got my request for all side-aisle seats throughout my trip. also, the check-in procedure at naia is a lot more hmmmm. . . meticulous now. a lot of body checks and baggage checks and all that. you even have to take off your shoes and one poor man puts his hands into every single shoe. bleagh. the plane left on time at 7am for nagoya. i sat beside a couple who were going on a tour of canada. we started speaking just as the plane was landing in nagoya (since i slept and/or cried most of the way there) with my ears popping and everything so i couldn't hear most of what they were saying and my replies were limited to "ano ho?"s and a lot of nodding and smiling. next thing i knew, the wife was giving me her son's e-mail address. apparently, binebenta na pala ako sa anak nila. . . hehe. pero they were very nice about it.

in nagoya, i also got to meet a couple who live in cleveland. they told me a few things about ohio and i learned that osu is the largest university campus in the WORLD. . . i don't know if this is true (or sobrang exag lang talaga siya) but this probably means that the school is pretty big. . . hmmm. . . more places for me to get lost in. . . scary. . . the plane was delayed for 10 or s0 minutes in nagoya because there were 4 people who had sore eyes. i was totally unaware of this since as soon as i sat in the plane i was out like a light (gravol, highly recommended if you ever travel). i sat next to a girl from naga. she's going to columbus as an exchange student and she's only 17! she travelled alone and she's staying in ohio for 9 months with a foster family. syempre lalo lumakas loob ko kasi if she can do this, siguro naman kaya ko. inggit lang ako kasi she was travelling as an unaccompanied minor so the flight attendants were nice to her and they let her stay in front of the plane just so she won't miss her connection. were as i had to run through detroit airport like everyone else. i really thought i won't make it to my 120 flight since we were able to disembark at 1220 and we still had to go through immigration and customs. the people in immigration were hostile to say the least. the guy asked me "who's paying for your studies?" and i said " the school" and the INS guy says "why would they do that?" like it's my fault! i was tempted to say "and why wouldn't they?" or "because i'm smarter than most americans that's why!". condescending ugly american! humph! good thing the people at customs were a lot nicer. they didn't open my luggage! by then it was like 110 and my connecting was at 120. so i started running. my gate was gate 59 and the i started running from gate 21! sobrang hindi na ako physically fit. buti na lang delayed yung plane by 30 mins. useless din pala pagtakbo ko. in the plane, i sat beside a guy who looks exactly like that guy in jurassic park who sold the embryo at the black market? the fat guy? and he took off his shoes and i swear, his toenails were like claws! gross! as in! buti na lang nakatulog ako ulit. and i was seated directly behind business class so i had more legroom than usual ( and he had more room for his toenails... eeeuww!)

so i got to cleveland airport by 4pm. the first thing you look for when you get off the plane is your baggage right? cleveland airport is very strange in that the baggage claim is a long way off were you land. so i was walking down very long corridors and as i rounded a corner, expecting to see my luggage there standing was justine and george! i musn't have looked very happy to see them because i was very confused what with my luggage still not in my possession. hehe. so we got my luggage and i got to ride in george's and justine's new red rav4! george used one of those talking gps things and it was pretty funny because we kept answering her like "yeah, yeah liliko na". then the first thing i did when i got to justine's was take a bath. kaya bye-bye straight hair kaagad. then we went to dinner at applebee's which is similar to tgif's. i thought i was ok after i bathed pero in the middle of the meal medyo nagsi-spin na utak ko and medyo walang sense na sinasabi ko. weird din pala kasi while we were eating the tv in the restaurant was showing a match between django bustamante and efren bata reyes. . . ano kaya ibig-sabihin noon? then we went to walmart and i bought a few stuff na looking back now, does not make any sense for me to buy the first day i get here (like, nail polish remover and nail buffer). ganoon na ako ka-lutang noon. then when we got home, i fell asleep immediately in the middle of justine's living room while we were watching will and grace. pag-gising ko madilim na buong apartment. hehe.

right now, mag-isa lang ako dito sa apartment ni justine kasi pumasok sila ni george. medyo nalulungkot ako lalo na pag naaalala ko sina leeron and zeth. not that i don't miss the rest of the people back home pero sabi kasi nila mama sabi daw ni leeron gusto niyang patigilin yung airplane ko sa may bahay para makasakay ka. at si zeth naman pupunta na raw dito sa isteyts para makita si barney. i guess synonymous na si tita jona kay barney. hehe.

haba na ng post na ito. pag nakaabot ka dito siguro wala kang magawa 'no?

so long and thanks for the fish. . .

i'll be leaving here in a little over 3 hours. . . the day has finally come. . . di pa ako nakakatulog.

di siya madali. i'm gonna need all the prayers i can get. i'm terribly sad right now. . .

next blog ko sa US na. . . wow.

postscript: title is ripped off from douglas adams. . . again. . . feeling dolphin. . . ang labo