Promenade 2011

So these are my friends during the Prom night last January 25, 2011. I know it was a bit early for a promenade, I mean WE all know, but our school was looking for a cheaper amount of booking and they ended up booking for the earlier date. And the usual thing, it was held in Al Waha, Elite hotel. Almost every year, the prom is held in that hotel and not only the prom but also some other school activities and the non-academic activities as well.
So talk about the photo. All of them are seniors and they are what we call my "barkada". I've been with them since I came here and I know I will still be when I left this country. This is actually my last prom, since I am a senior.



And these are my girlfriends. :> I'm the one in pink so yeah, I'm a bit alienated. lol. The one in the farthest left is my best friend. And the rest are my COOLEST FRIENDS. I mean, I have more cool friends that are not in this picture. It just happens that the rest of them are busy with their own business at the moment this picture was taken.



And what's this? You asking? These are my buddies, trying to revive my dying shoes. My shoes are pink and it has a bow in front of it. And that night, unfortunately, one of the bows loosen up and eventually fell apart from my shoes. I was panicking. I was looking for at least a glue or something sticky to put it back together. But then the boys saw me running back and forth the hall and lend a hand. They saw a red ribbon just beside our line and decided to tie it around to settle it. But then I thought, "How about the other one? It doesn't look like they match if it doesn't have the red thingy too." So, out of their creativeness, they tied the red ribbon to the other and it was already balanced. Aaaaand..


I proudly present to you! THE FINISHED PRODUCT! LOOOL. It looked pretty much okay to me. I wore it like that the whole night but when the party started, I decided to just remove it and keep the ribbon. I was afraid that maybe when I'm partying hard, it'll just fall off and I can't find it.

This is my partner, well, 3 years partner actually, in the social dance and pretty much my prom date. LOL. He's a good guy, actually. He's been my partner since I started joining the prom and I comfortable with him only too well. And he dances pretty good. Must be because he's a hip hop dancer and a music lover. He goes with the beat. But honestly, the music that we used in the cotillion was far too hard to follow. At first it's like so damn slow but suddenly goes a lot more faster than normal. So our social dance was a bit wrecked up but I still liked it.
Anyway, he's got a hat and everybody mocks him. They call him Jose Rizal. But he doesn't mind. LOL. They didn't notice he was wearing contacts.


During the candle lighting ceremony. :) We sang Firework by Katy Perry. :)
Aaaand during the social dance. :D


Followed by the PARTYYYYYY. PARTY HARD!


It was a very lovely night. But I admit I sort of hated the last part since I went home early and I'm not yet satisfied. LOL.
I will miss all of these. I will miss of the Seniors. I will everyone. And I will miss HIGH SCHOOL.
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December. Lovely.

So I just got home and I had such a lovely day at school. >:)

It is PE day, and we are suppose to wear our PE uniform. I wore mine but I didn't get to play with them in the ball games today since I'm having my period. :| And I hate it.

I am also preparing for LOADS of reports. Thank goodness I already finished reporting my Economics report and English report. One more to go, and it's about which should we call musicians among Balladeers, Rockers, Punks, etc. Honestly, I DON'T HAVE ANY IDEA. For me, anybody who appreciates music and can play ANY instrument or can sing is a musician. I can't understand why my Music teacher tells us "How can I call you a Musician if you're just singing?" I mean, she's obviously talking about me but little did she know, I also play the piano and the guitar. MEANIE.

Oh yeah, I definitely forgot about the thing that made this day lovely. My friends and I, during our vacant, played around a bit. Like running around the room, shouting and acting childishly. I mean that's brilliant. 'Cause we will never get to do that during College. We're making the most out of our High School life, and this is our last year, unfortunately.

OH MY GOD. I can't believe I'm being so random at this moment, typing about almost everything. Forgive me, please. I'm just too excited about things.

And yes, I remembered. There's this one girl from 2nd year, who bitches every boy and destroys everybody who's on her way. Every girl in our school hates her, and for some reason, she HATES me and I don't even know why. She said she was the MOST FAMOUS girl in school, well, until I enrolled. >:) Sorry but if you're reading this, not trying to lift my own chair, but try to look for a mirror and observe yourself. YOU ARE NO WAY NEAR AS FAMOUS AS ME. Get it? So don't hate on me, you don't know me yet. :) And oh, you're crushing on someone whose heart belongs to me? THAT IS COMPLETELY OUT MY HANDS. :) It's definitely NOT my fault.

There are STILL a lot more things I should blog about but since I'm lazy enough to stop typing, I'm gonna have to stop now. :)) I'm gonna have to relax before I break down because of all the events currently happening. So yeah, maybe tomorrow, expect me to write about something. :)

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.