Ramadan Schedule and Chocolate Truffles

I just got home from Sarawat grocery which opened very very late. It's because of the Ramadan Holiday that made all of the establishments open late and close almost past midnight here in Saudi.

When we got there, at almost 8pm, the mall was still close and a lot of people were waiting outside the automatic door of the building, amazingly sweaty because of the hot weather. We waited for at least 15 mins until the glass automatic door opened at last. It felt so good when the cold air from the air conditioner of the mall touched the wet parts of my neck and face. :)) I can almost sleep comfortably. Anyway, when we got in, all of the stores inside were still closed, none of them were open. So again, we waited, we strolled and we window shopped from the closed dark stores. The good thing is, Jollibee was already opened so we helped ourselves! :>

I won't elaborate much further on that but I just noticed that THERE WERE A LOT OF CUTE BABIES WALKING AROUND! Like nooooo they're so cute, I'm gonna die! :))=)) And when the grocery store opened, we rushed inside and I grabbed a bag of semi sweet chocolate chips and a bottle of milk for my very first experiment, Chocolate Truffles de Karla. :)) Well, there's nothing special about it actually. I just wanted to do it and it will be my very first time making a sweet like that. :) I decided to just do it tomorrow because as said in the instructional video on Youtube, we have to use HEAVY CREAM, not MILK. I wasn't just paying enough attention to the ingredients. :))

So bye for now. I'll post an entry tomorrow about what will happen to my Chocolate Truffles. :)

Facebook's App Baking Life

So there's this game on Facebook that's like Cafe World and Farmville. I got hooked AGAIN.

Actually, when I was in 3rd year high school, me, my classmates and my teachers themselves, got addicted in playing facebook games which are really addicting in the first few months of playing it. For example, Cafe World is a game where we cook food and serve them but there's a little twist. When you cook food, there's a time duration where you have to actually wait for the food to finish cooking and serve it in time before it spoils out. There are 3 mins, 5 mins up to 2 days. You have to be really patient with this and you have to have a really good internet connection, since you have to keep up with the time duration of a specific food in the game. It's also the same with Farmville, but instead of cooking, it's farming.

I won't elaborate further on Cafe World and Farmville because we all know about it, but Baking Life is new to me. My mother was playing it and I got a little intrigued about it. A little trivia about me is that everything concerning BAKING or making pastries and cakes catches my attention. So since Ramadan Break is coming, and there's nothing to do, I decided to try the game out. It turned out to be really addicting and I started playing it the day before yesterday. What happening now is I am reminiscing my 3rd year life because the addiction I'm feeling right now is a hundred percent the same with what I felt before. My mind's telling me to stop this and focus on my studies this coming holiday but my heart's telling me to enjoy the break and give my brain some rest and have fun. Well, what will I choose? :)) I'm being torn apart. But I guess it'll be a 50-50 decision, since both are parts of my system. :)) And I can't get on with the saying ALL WORK AND NO PLAY. That'll just kill me instantly.

And it's already quarter to 11pm here and I just signed out my Y!M because I'm getting ready to sleep, even though exams tomorrow will start at 2pm. I haven't reviewed ANY of the exams for yesterday because I know I still have time tomorrow morning for a light review and I know I'm good at cramming. :)) And yes, I almost forgot, I'm also good at PROCRASTINATING. :D

Ramadan Kareem!

Our quarter exams supposedly should end tomorrow. But things were tentative and the King decided to cancel all classes tomorrow because Ramadan will start tomorrow night. It was a bit odd to cut off the last day of exams. I mean, our minds were already fixed that the exams would finish only until Wednesday, but because of the sudden change of schedule and the sudden movement of the moon [lol :))], our scheduled was messed up. But it's quite fine because there will be extra time for me to review for Filipino, which I haven't read even a single chapter. :))

Anyways, there was a rumor that the Ramadan break will be 5 weeks! Or 1 month and a week! Honestly, I have this two side me which one agrees and is happy because of another long vacation, and the other that disagrees because once the break is done, I'll be lazy again when the classes starts. :)) And yeah, the MOE keeps on visiting our school for some reasons. Maybe because they're a bit bored since the Saudi schools are on vacation. :))

That's all for today. Actually, I'm too lazy to make a blog entry but I know this will help my English proficiency. xD Geez.

First Quarter Exams -- STRESS!

Tomorrow will be the very first day of our first quarter exams. And it will be up until Wednesday. Calculus and Computer will be the subjects for examination tomorrow and I just finished reviewing for Calculus. It's quite easy when reviewing for Math subjects like this but seriously, my teacher in Calculus is a bit of a terror *peace sir :))* and gives problems which you have to really really use your head, in almost any way.

You have to like expand your thinking capacities and look over every bit of the given information and see if you can find a way to either solve it or label it "Undefined" :)) I just love our teacher in Calcu, he turns my brain into soup.

While the other subject, Computer, which I haven't reviewed yet because I'm so irresponsible that I left my hand outs at school, is quite difficult. It's all about programming and the total items for the exam tomorrow is 100, 30 points for the written and 70 POINTS for the storyboard we were asked to do. And guess what? I'm not yet done with the storyboard that was supposed to be passed today! Fortunately, the deadline was extended and was moved until next week. Thank Goodness. :)

So yeah, I'll try reviewing for Computer right now because I have the book. I'll just continue reviewing it tomorrow once I get back to school. My handouts are actually compiled in a folder together with my Advance Chemistry hand outs. :) So, good luck to me. :)

You and I by Park Bom Cover :)

So this is my cover of You and I by Park Bom. :) I enjoyed a lot in covering this song because of the harmonies. Well, I also did the backing vocals so yeah, I had fun. :D Hope you like it!

Here's the link to youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qYClLvQDNg

School Newsletter -- First Publication!

I'm going craazaaayyy~

Since our first meeting, I already made 3 articles entitled "Better Discipline for a Better Learning", "New SSC President's Speech - A Controversy" and "Teachers' Seminar for a Better Learning Experience." As much as I wanted to post those articles here, I am not allowed since our first publication isn't issued yet. And my articles were not yet edited by our Editor-in-Chief. Well, I'm proud of being a Newsletter Staff. I know I'm nosy but I make sure I keep my mouth SHUT. :)) As long as the news are juicy, an article should be written. It should be hot. Thanks to Mrs. Zeres Sebastian, our Newsletter adviser, for giving us pointers and guidelines about Journalism. We love you Ma'am. :) And honestly, I am more afraid of her than my other terror teachers. I just don't know why. :)) She's not terror by the way, she is a soft spoken person. :) But every time she asks me about the progress of the staff, I shake when I can't say anything. :)) And I really don't have any idea why!

Oh well, back to work!

PS: I plan to make a story, well, a fictional one. :)

Whew. Senior year.

WHEEEEEW. I haven't been updating this blog for a month I think. But anyway, it's already the 2nd month of our classes and honestly, a lot of things happened. I won't enumerate all of it but seriously, it was really tough.

We just started our Review Classes for SAT and ACET or whatever you call it. My dream is to pass SAT or UPCAT so I make sure that I do my normal studying system but, in this case, I should DOUBLE IT! >:) I'm currently liking my handwriting. :) It has become really neat because of this ballpen brand called SARASA 0.5. I don't where it's made:)) But for me, if there's a G-Tech in the Philippines, then there's a Sarasa here in Saudi. LOOOOL.

And exciting things happened just last month. I finally have my very own iPhone 3GS 32GB! I KNOW! SRSLY! OMG. :)) It was really a surprise. It was my motivation to study harder. :)) Or more like incentives from doing a good job and making decent grades last school year. >:) I promise and swear to myself that I will be a better student this year which, unfortunately, my last year in my high school life. It feels like time is pushing me at the edge of something I don't know. Unexplainable, really. But anyway, there's more to life than counting my last few months of being a senior. :)) I should really really really forget about this stupid count down and just concentrate and have fun. WHATEVER.

So back to my school life. I took the examination in our school newsletter and thank goodness I passed. I am now the News Editor in the Newsletter staff and I'm so having fun with it! We have Workshop and Seminars for the newsletter every Wednesday. And oh, I'm also running for the position of the President for the Student Council. :) Now this is what you called "NO TIME FOR OUT-OF-SCHOOL THINGS." No srsly, I don't even have time for myself. I compress my time for studying and of course, there should always be a LEISURE TIME. 8D Favorite time of the day I suppose.

So yeah. I still have classes tomorrow and it'll be a very busy week ahead of me.

I LOVE SCHOOL. :)

Lazy!

Long time!

Yes! After a long span of time, now I’m able to post another blog entry again. Pardon me for doing so. It’s been almost a month since my last post, and honestly, I was really lazy that I drove myself to forget that I still have a blog. lol.

Anyway, it’s June 16 and it’s Wednesday, perhaps the last day of the weekdays. 1 week of classes is over and I have a bunch of stories to tell. Let me start from the very first day. :)

You see, I’m in my fourth year in high school. I’ll be leaving sooner and I still can’t accept it. :)) So the first day was very exciting that I had butterflies in my stomach. I entered the room and saw Cyril, Joshua and James. I was so happy to see them, and unconsciously, I hugged them. :)) Then we started talking about Sam, who WAS, as I thought, not be able to enroll in the school again for some circumstances. Later on, one by one they came. My old friends, my old classmates. I really missed them.

The teacher came and started pointing out the transferees and told them to introduce themselves. The transferees, especially the girls, were a bit hesitant to introduce themselves in front of the class cause maybe, I was thinking, they are still shy. I understand them since I was also a transferee after I came here in my school. At the first day, there were only 4 of them. But now, there are 7 transferees in total. :)) All from Badr International School except for one.

Now, the classes started. I was surprised because after a little while, Sam entered the room! I was a bit irritated with the the creaking of the door that I didn't noticed it was him. Then after days of being together again with my old classmates together with the new ones, I told myself "This year's gonna be a lot more fun than the previous years I've experienced here. I'm looking forward for this." I expect a lot now. Although I believe that less expectations, less disappointments, I can't help but dream of the upcoming days to spend with the rest of my mates and ending our fourth year together, living it to the fullest.

The New School Building

I went to our new school building yesterday and yes! It was bigger than I expected! Too bad I wasn't able to bring a camera to take pictures of it. The school opening is coming near anyway, I can take pictures of it everyday when school starts. :)

So when we got there, we had a little tour around the school campus. I was planning to go upstairs and just take a peek to our own classrooms but I didn't, it was too dark. X_X My fear overflowed :)) Maybe because I just finished watching Ninja Assassin the day before going to that new school building. If you don't know what Ninja Assassin is, I'll spoil you a little bit. :> Well, basically it's about Ninjas, clans, money, assassinations and etc. but the story revolves around a Ninja who rebelled from his own clan. So for short, the reason why I'm afraid of the dark is that Ninjas appear from shadows. :)) Childish, I know. I'm too old to believe it but oh well, avoiding shadows doesn't hurt. :))

SO yesterday, I was happy to bring home my newly bought school books that were ORIGINAL, not a photo copy at all! It was my dream! ;)) No srsly, I was dreaming of owning original copies of books. :)) Now the only thing I don't have is a new school bag! I need a new one. ;;

Al Shallal!

We went to Al Shallal Theme Park yesterday and I'm with the Rufino Family, tito Eli, Alex, Hisham and Abie. :) It was the 2nd time I've been there this year since it was the venue where our field trip last February 4 took place.

Yesterday, before going to Shallal, we attended Michelle's church. After that, we went straight to their home to rest a little bit and went to shallal after, I think, 30 mins. When we got to shallal, we thought we bought a ride-all-you-can ticket but it was actually just the entrance ticket only. It was so embarrassing when we tried to ride the Roller Coaster :)) It was really funny. So we had ourselves the ride-all-you-can ticket and rode the rides until we got all dizzy and hungry so we got back inside the somewhat like mall in shallal where there is a food court.

After the dinner in the food court, we were full so we decided to not to ride the rides yet because we don't wanna waste the food we ate :)) So we went to the arcade and kept on walking and seeing teddy bears, and guns, and all the games out there. Then we decided to go outside again and it was already dark. We rode the octopus ride and the Flying swing and the PIRATES! WHEW! It was really fun, we enjoyed it a lot.

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For the video where we rode the Pirates, Click Here.