r e c e n t l y ;

i. spent my valentines day by watching That Thing Called Tadhana with Gia! The movie is the best I swear it made me laugh so hard with all the punch lines Angelica Panganiban and JM De Guzman are throwing at each other! (non-verbatim eg. JM: “Ang bottomline, hindi ka na nya mahal.” Angelica: “T*ng*na close ba tayo? Ang sakit mo naman magsalita!” and when the credits started to roll my tears started to roll on my cheeks too because I didn’t want the movie to end it was just starting! 

ii. when I didn’t pass upcat, I felt the world lay everything on my shoulder. I’m still sad whenever I think of it because UP is my dream school, although there’s recon, maybe God is telling me that UP is not just for me. And just when I thought I’m just going to sell sampaguita flowers in front of Quiapo, I found out I passed ustet! I was in Batangas for RSPC the day of the results, I texted my dad I didn’t win and he replied me with “pumasa ka ust” and in that moment I was the happiest journalist who just lost a contest!

iii. defense week this week! Ugggh it’s what every graduating student tries to run away from–thesis. I am so agitated because I don’t know how defense works and I am just so nervous!! I was actually glad for the Chinese New Year on Thursday because it means no classes and rest day for me but ta-da! they decided to move the honors’ thesis defense on that day. But still, it means more time to study and practice defending my research! I am crossing my fingers and hoping for no re-defense though. 

iv. i’ve been reading Haruki Murakami’s Norwegian Wood for 24 days already. Gahd, I am taking so long to finish this book because I’ve been hella busy and preoccupied with school! I think I can finish it this Saturday because I’ll be done with defense by then (hopefully) and I seriously just have to finish this. Murakami’s writing is astounding and it’s actually okay that I’m reading it too slowly because I get to absorb his words more. (a/n: earphones included because of The Beatles’ song with the same title as the book!)