musicplasma

especially for the music enthusiasts (i.e. tani + margie)

I'm not sure if anyone know this website already (www.musicplasma.com), but it's a pretty awesome and fun thing. We can enter a name of a band/singer, and it will display a web containing other bands/musicians that are closely related to it (by genre, I think...)

Hullo my pretties~

I thought I'd move and it'd be done with. But its Tuesday and I'm still packing all the minor stuff that we left behind when the professional movers came. And "minor" does not mean there's very little of it. There's a LOT of stuff left :P

Tomorrow is Adhira day however (as is marked on my calendar) and hopefully that means I can take a break from packing and go out and have fun with 60% of the jeeks (counting me). Ooh but guess what? I've never ever lived in an apartment before~ and there are some nice perks! It's smaller overall, but more organized -- and yesterday I went to the gym downstairs. It's feels quite different running on a treadmill, compared to jogging around the block, sometimes having to dodge cars. Afterwards Joyce and I immediately jumped in the pool and it was so pretty at night *sigh* tis quite nice. Now I can workout everyday!

So, how's everybody? Josie and Adhira, I shall be giving you a call tonight :D

love,
Margie

I'm back!

hey!! I just got back today. It was raining quite heavily when arrived.

So, how is everything going on? Is everybody still playing tennis? if yes, I'm joining on monday (let's hope it won't be raining!!)

I'm going to go to school some time next week -- I want to see IB scores too! and I'm wondering if the school already receive AP scores as well (hehehe... I want to find out if I really got a 1 in compsci : P). Tani, did you call the school already? If not, maybe I can ask them about that.. Anyone else coming?

okay.. I'm really hungry now. : S bubyee!

Thunderstorms

Josie:  The shuttle request form (have you seen it? it's so cute! they say stuff like "congratulations! You have just won an all-expenses paid, one-way trip from ontario int'l airport to Harvey Mudd College!" Heehee. And they ask stuff like "what's your favorite word", and promise a driver with "an interesting t-shirt". :) Also, stuff about hotels around campus, bank info :P The roommate/sponsor information is all that's left!

You know what's been driving me crazy? Asako and I haven't been playing tennis this week because of the rain. And the thing is, it always STARTS RAINING TEN MINUTES BEFORE WE BEGIN, so we're already *in* ortigas when Coach calls us to say the lesson's cancelled. Argh, it's happened several times already! So I've called off lessons (just for me) out of frustration, really because we're moving this saturday (earlier than originally planned) There seems to be a thunderstorm everyday :(

I'm pleased however, to hear you're having so much fun! I've never been to Bali or Phuket. That said, my family's planning to go to Rombon (it's an island, I'm not sure about the spelling) and Boracay in the beginning of August, before school starts for my sister :) I hope plans come through -- but the weather has to clear first :P

Greetings from Phuket!

Hello everybody!! I miss you guys!! and tennis too =P
 
I was going to post something from Jakarta, but blogger was down at that time!! (annoying!!)
 
although the post is obsolete already, I'll still post it down here:
 
I just got here yesterday morning. We spent one night in Bangkok since the flight was on the next day. The terrible thing in Bangkok: we spent like half an hour looking for the hotel, which no taxi driver knows where it is -- it turns up to be a really tiny hotel close to the airport.
 
Here in Jakarta we're also staying in a hotel. It's a modest one, not expensive, and the exciting thing is, it's located near the pretty well known area ('Jalan Jaksa' -- translated as: 'Prosecutor Street') filled with backpackers' hotels, complete with the cheap bars and the ... 'women' =) . It's kind of ironic, since I don't think that prostitution is legal here (I'm not sure about this..).I got to eat lovely yummy tasty delicious spicy-hot Indonesian food for lunch and dinner yesterday. I want to take pictures of them, but my sister's digital camera wasn't working very well.Anyway.. I'm going to see my relatives today. Things will be pretty much just like that. I'm not even sure if I'll have time to see my old friends..Anybody wants anything from here? =)
 
Note for Gracia: You're coming here on the 15th, right? I'll still be here! So if you have time, maybe we can do something together for a day or so. I'll be leaving for Bangkok on the Saturday 17th morning.
 
//end of the outdated post ------------------------------------
 
back to today!!  my relatives were quite annoying at some point.  Basically, they didn't really share my excitement in going to college and taking up physics and/or math.  (that sentence might be an understatement).  but... I guess math and science are not really the thing.  they're more of the trade people.
 
I'm in phuket right now.  things are great!  I got those little braids yesterday, rode jetski today, and going to have dinner plus some shopping after this.  We're going to leave for Bangkok tomorrow morning and will stay there for 4 nights, I think.
 
I hope things are going great for you guys too!
 
Margieee:  is there any new mail from Mudd?
Tanii :   I'm not sure... but I think the school has told IB to mail the results to the university automatically, right?  (i mean.. we told the Mr. Knight and he told IB).  Hehehe... let us know how it's going with LSE!
Adhiraa:  how is tennis going??  I'll probably forgot everything i've learned by the time I get back to manila!
Grace:  Uh.. I wished we've met up in Jakarta...  Relatives are not the best thing in the world : P

Two is the loneliest number...

Hey there fellow jeeks. Adhira and I are both doing great. NO, WE DON'T FEEL ABANDONED. HOW COULD WE?
 
Josie, Gracia--  we know it was terribly important for you to go back to Indonesia. Tani --  you just had to return to Eddy, your bike rides and picnics in the meditteranean sun. No (sniff), don't mind us. Don't return our calls, our desperate requests for updates about your shiny, polished lives in lush tropicalia /maritime weather... (swoons in drama)
 
Love, Margie
 
p.s. I'm only kidding :)
p.p.s. I'm playing tennis with Asako these days. It's quite fun, actually ;)

IB Night

I forgot to take pictures of the food (for you Tanika), but just take my word for it, it was really good Thai cuisine :)











The guy next to Adhira is Vishu, her cousin (he's into metal like Black Sabbath, Linkin Park, er.. now I've forgotten) [Adhira, show him your mp3 cd thingie, he expressed interest in hearing it] And the other girl with Josie is Crystal, an old friend of ours who used to go to our school. She's nice, but nowhere as cool as you Tani~ we miss you a lot!

I have merely been *busy*!

Okay, new very good update :) Adhira how was Cebu? My dad has agreed to take us down to the Pagsanjan waterfalls, but after August 1. Who can come? I know Gracia can't -- Josie are you still going to be here? It has to be after Aug 1 because it'll be after our move to the new house (which is currently what consumes all my time, packing).

Adhira, everyone is running away from you! :) I agree though, post post post!

What is wrong with everyone!

I finally start using this thing and everyone disappears! One month into our holidays and i am already losing touch with all of you! POST SOMETHING U GUYS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

IB!,

It's today!! I was afraid that the IB server would somehow crash since people all over the world would try to check their scores at the same time. It turns up that the assigned GMT time for checking the results is different for each school -- or maybe for each time zone, so there shouldn't be any problem when we are checking ours. hopefully.

AAAHHHH!!!

Good luck everybody!!

Where's Tani?!!

Hey Tani!

What are u up to... not too much mischeif i hope ;) EXcited about teh IB scores? I just felt like talking to you... So hows life? hows eddy? hows Rome? I want to know everything!! U r not too busy for us, are you? ;)

How come I never catch you online?

Bloody Americans!!!

I have to go to the U.S. embassy tom. Quite nervous about it... what really annoys me is that they asked me for a document that is not even completely official at least not as much as the I-20 and has no extra info if not less. I dunno, seems to me like they are making up excuses to not let me go! Maybe I am just being paranoid, but what if I am not... AAARRRGH!!! Those @#%$^!&@"$!!!!!! I can now understand why they have thick glass between us and the interviewers... because if I could I'd probably strangle him! I dont think its human to make people wait for 3 bloody hours for a 1 minute meeting!!!! And even more outrageous if you have to go back and wait another three hours to show a paper that I could have as well typed up myself without anyone realizing it... seriously, the paper they want is not even signed by anyone!!!

P.S. the guy who had interviewed me sounded just like Gilmore!! I am starting to think a lot of people in 'u know where' talk like him! A rather depressing thought...

Tennis fotos :)

At 8 this morning I went to play tennis at Valle Verde 1. Gracia didn't show up. Dunno why, but I just went on and played with the coach anyway. At about 9:30 I finished -- and Adhira, Josephine and Francesca came! They have their lesson after me you see! Anyway, some very cute pictures of our little tennis beginners! you guys are in pretty good form, as can be seen from the pics :)



















I also have a quicktime video if anyone wants it~
maybe I'll host it up sometime this week~
(meanwhile, here's the photobucket link for em big-sized)

see you all this July 7! remember remember to post up those dreaded scores :) Anyone have any nightmares about scores yet? (me! me!)

p.s. Josie may I please borrow copies of your sims expansion packs! i wanna copy~ also, the IB countdown script is kooky -- it says "35 days, 7 hours, 12 minutes and 58 seconds" for me...