World Championships of Performing Arts in Hollywood, California :)

So I haven't told you about ANYTHING for the past month. GOSH I can't imagine how I'm so irresponsible neglecting my blogger. I AM SO SORRY :)) I know I was a bit preoccupied by Tumblr and Facebook so yeah, I nearly forgot that I even have a blogger account.

So first off, I ALREADY HAVE MY US VISA APPROVED! YAY FOR ME! Here it is:

Isn't that beautiful? :D So that just means that I am now able to join WCOPA or World Championships of Performing Arts to be held in Los Angeles, California in July. I AM SO EXCITED THERE'S NOT ENOUGH WORDS TO DESCRIBE IT. I can now show the world that I've got something to say. :)

And yeah, I also joined this inter-school Vocal Duet which was held last November 12 in the Golden Tulip Hotel here in Jeddah with my partner Coline Fernandez. :D We were the 1st runner up. WE ARE SO COOL. :)) Even though we didn't make it, I am confident enough to say that we did a great job.

Oh and I learned one thing, if you're getting REALLY REALLY near to your dreams, there's always this villain who will try his/her best to pull you down. They are just envious of what you are having or achieving to the point that they already embarrass themselves because of whatever they're doing. What a pity.

Anyway, there are still lots of things that I wanna write about but it's getting late and I still have to wake up early tomorrow because we're gonna have visitors. :D GOODNIGHT!

Durat Al Sharq International School.

I guess I haven't told you about this, but I'm transferring to another school.

NSIS have been through a really rough situation these past few weeks and I'm getting enough of it. Not only me, but my school mates too, I assume. I know I tried my best with all my wit to be as loyal as I can but this is just too much. I don't even know if I will be able to graduate if I continue and stay. The bottom line: TRANSFER.

Transferring doesn't mean I hated my school. I just wanna make sure I'll have a smooth studying flow and have decent and genuine grades with me. Moreover, I'm SICK of vacations already! I want activities. SCHOOL activities. WITH my mates. It really saddens all of us. And the events are breaking our hearts. We can't imagine it suddenly came to an end.

Now, almost half of the class will be transferring to POIS, or Pearl of the Orient International School, now known as DASIS, Durat Al Sharq International School.

I love my school, but something just don't seem right.

UPCAT!

So yeah! The UPCAT will be on October 11, the day after tomorrow, and there will be an orientation tomorrow at the test venue.

YES! I know this is gonna be so exciting but at the back of my mind, I still worry about the test questions that will come up in the exam. Is it THAT hard? My friend told me that it's more of a "STOCKED KNOWLEDGE" questions. I can't imagine what she meant but I'm looking forward for it. Although it sounds like pretty much an oxymoron for me. :))

For now, I would like to thank all my mentors, Kuya K, for giving us tips and advices for the UPCAT, Ma'am Sebastian, Ma'am Atienza and Ma'am Japson. Thank you so much. I would also like to thank Ma'am Laguardia as well as Tito Eli for supporting us. I wouldn't forget my family who always pushes me when an opportunity pass by. I owe you all so much.

I will try my very best not to flunk the test!

Card Day. Uniform. Building.

Today's Card day, which means I will be able to SEE how well I did this Quarter. I know I kinda sucked at 2 or 3 subjects, but it's entirely not my fault. Especially now, when I'm focused and all because of the upcoming UPCAT or University of the Philippines College Entrance Test. It's really depressing to learn that I almost fail on some subjects. And it wasn't ONLY ME who flunked, almost 75% of my batch. And it's not our fault, our grades depend on how the teacher appreciates our efforts. K?

Yesterday, I got my uniform and guess what? I'm gonna wear today! It's not about being excited or something but my classmates and I agreed that we're gonna try wearing it starting today, since we only have like 5 or 6 months left before we graduate. And at last! I am now able to use my LEATHER SHOES that match with my blue uniform. :)

Anyway, we will be moving buildings again next week. On Saturday, to be specific. In addition to that, we will be enrolled to an American Curriculum School! How cool is that? I know I sound aggressive, posting all these kinds of news on my blog. But it ain't easy to keep it all inside my head. It's like occupying almost 50% of my daily problems! Not really problems but how can I say it? :))

Sooooo, I'll try to post my grades later when I get home. :)

I HATE COMPUTER. I HATE CALCULUS.

Rush post!

So this is a rush post because any minute now the car pool will arrive. We're having review classes at school because the entrance examinations for almost all the prestigious Universities and Colleges in the Philippines is coming near. University of the Philippines College Entrance Test or UPCAT will be around October 10-14, I don't exactly know when. Some of my friends went back to the Philippines just to take the Ateneo Entrance Exam and it was last Sept. 18. They said it really drained their brains. If Ateneo Exams drained their brains, how much more if it was UPCAT? Now this one's terrifying.

I just hope I pass UPCAT and take up BA Journalism in Diliman. Please, I need this. :))

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