too much to do in too much time

I was either in exam mode or way-too-early-sembreak mode this past week or two, so I’ve been away from my blog and attending to more urgent matters, like exams, other people, and my social life. Oh, and Command and Conquer 3, which kicks so much ass I replay the campaign cinematics in my head. It’s quite amusing to see House’s Dr. Cameron (Jennifer Morrison) play GDI’s instruction-girl.

Anyway, school schedule’s been screwy since the fire, so they held the postponed exams and canceled classes for a week, to let them sort out stuff. And I have so far bummed my way through the past ten or so days, almost always remembering to bathe before the day’s end, lol. A quick recap until before this Thursday’s events:

Thursday, Oct 9: School bumming. No classes, just finishing of quarterly requirements. Hastily videoed and edited our Health video on 3rd-degree concussions with subdural hematoma – yes, our Physics books really CAN induce severe head trauma.

Friday, Oct 10: More school bumming. Submitted the Health video, wrapped up my missed exams and quizzes. Went to Trinoma with friends, ate at Fish & Co. – Fish & Chips taste so much better when shared – and had fun at Timezone. I actually almost busted the Tekken machine button-mashing, but I was able to pop the button back in and luck my way through my friends until I got my ass kicked by Bea, resident gamer queen.

Saturday, Oct. 11: This day is fuzzy. I’m assuming I did nothing but bum at home, surf and play Flash games on Newgrounds (the C&C3 computer would be unavailable on Saturdays). This is probably one of the days I forgot to bathe.

Sunday, Oct. 12: Went to the province, visited my remaining grandparent, lola on the father’s side. I mostly slept the whole day, being stuck in a car and all.

Monday, Oct. 13: Applied for another 6-month British visa for the November awarding. Then I finally got a new phone – an extremely cheap one, this time – and a new number.

Tuesday, Oct. 14: Oh yeah, before this one, I was recently accepted into Pisay’s exchange program with the Singaporean Hwa Chong Institute, along with another senior and four juniors. The Singaporean students will be swinging by first, around mid-November, and we get to go over to their school in January. Anyway, went to school for the SixSing (that’s what our moderator/teacher-chaperone calls us delegates) pre-field trip to a few museums. Watched Neon play Phoenix Wright on emulator until we had to leave for the Bantayog ng mga Bayani along Quezon Ave. We were to follow it up with the Vargas museum in U.P. and with the Q.C. Memorial museum, but after Vargas we were way too tired, so we just had a trans-fatty McDo lunch and went home.

Wednesday, October 15: Went to the Division Secondary Schools Press Conference (DSSPC) at the QCSHS with a handful of other people. Saling-kitkit lang, TBH. Was entered into Feature Writing English and Editorial Writing English, and because I didn’t know anything about the second one I got to listen to a talk in Editorial by Manuel Quezon III, passing up a talk in Feature by Danton Remoto. Oh, and Kara David gave the keynote speech. I’m not much of a journ type, so I felt sort of out of place there. Ironically I screwed up Feature and did pretty well in Editorial; at least I think that’s how I did. Went to SM after, escaping the people my teammates called “my fans” at the PressCon; there I discovered the joys of The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf cheesecake with Icia. Mom and sibs and me Hypermarket-ed afterwards for the outing the next day.

So yeah, busy busy me. I’ll tell the long and complicated story of Thursday and Friday in a separate post, coz I’m currently catching up on my short-story reading: First Love by Faye Ilogon and Fragile Things by Neil Gaiman. More on those later, too.