The past few days, it's been haunting me. For some reason, I've been asking/hoping for it and now what I hoped for was granted. Thank you! It was short but at least for now, everything is ok. Well..we'll see.

Happy Birthday to my Dad! It's also Boomer's death aniversarry. I miss him.

In a few hours, another year will end. I was quite excited for the year to end because I want to have a new start. I believe that this year is not a very good year for me. Like what I told my friend, it's been a very colorful year. A lot of ups and a lot of downs, a lot of trials, a lot of issues, a lot of persons involved and the list of "a lot of" goes on. It's been a really colorful year.  I'm looking forward for the coming year, a new start.

Some of the things that happened in 2007..

- I welcomed 2007 with the family then the younger ones went to Pops after.
- During the first Wednesday of the year and first day of class, played poker with my cousins, nieces and some friends then went to Pops to grab a drink not thinking that there's still class the next day.
- A lot of family bondings because a lot of relatives arrived.
- The year I turned 20 years old.
- There are new members in the family.
- I lost some people close to me.
- The year Mommy Heidi arrived from Canada.
- Spent my summer vacation here in Davao but I was house-hopping. Either I stayed with Daddy or with Mommy.
- The year I attended a lot of 18th birthday patries.
- The year I visited our fish pond. The last time I was there was 8 years ago.
- Beach trip with the family then it's also bye bye to my camera.
- Summer gimiks with my friends.
- Sally gave birth.
- My best friend arrived from the US.
- The year I met my crush.
- The year for drinking and gimiks/parties.
- The year I experienced being tipsy and not too drunk haha.
- Overnight at Samal with random people.
- 3rd year and 4th year retreat.
- Attending 2 parties in just 1 night.
- The year my grandmother passed away.
- We had our thesis defense.
- Macau, Zhuhai, Shenzhen and Hong Kong trip with my classmates.
- Manila trip with my friends.
- The year I felt the pressure because graduation is coming up.

And the list goes on and on. So many things happened. Some are even unexpected. I'm looking forward to the coming year. Happy New Year everyone!

I'm leaving in a few hours. I should be sleeping by this time but look at what I'm doing. Im blogging. I haven't blog for a long time because something's wrong with my tabulas account and I've been so busy. I needed this trip. Actually, we all do. All the sleepless nights and the endless school requirements. I'm excited since it's my first time to be out of the country with my classmates. Almost all of us are coming. And it would be our reward for finishing our thesis and for the success of our defense. I still want to blog about a lot of things but I need to rest. I hope you guys enjoy your sembreak. I'll be back in 2 weeks.

Dinner with the family before I'll leave

Today is the 19th birthday of my niece and I told her that she's not the only one who's surprised. I've been seeing people I never expect to see. People I haven't seen for a long time. This day is full of surprises huh?

A lot happened lately and I also lack sleep ever since my lola passed away. I want to blog about a lot of stuff but I don't have the time. Probably during the weekend.

They surprised me. Taken at my Lola's wake. Thank you for coming guys. I appreciated it. "Full force ang friends ni Nicole" according to my relatives.

My grandmother already passed away. As for my weekend, I've been spending it at her wake. Except for Saturday night since I attended the joint celebration of my friends. Tomorrow, no make that later since it's already 2 AM is her last day. Her burial will be on Monday. I'm still thinking of how to study since I have an exam on a major subject on Monday and I don't have the time. Aside from lola's last day, relatives are arriving and Daddy's friends too. Usually during the last night, there are a lot of visitors right? So it's good luck to me. The things happening now is just like 2 years ago. Similar incidents. I'll just blog about it next time. I'm so sleepy.

Today, my grandmother passed away. I only knew when I asked permission from my Dad if I could go to the mall after doing our Thesis. He allowed me and told me about my grandmother. All along, he thought I knew about it because my Mom sent me a text message but for some reason, I didn't receive any message. The last time I visited her was last Wednesday and it hurts to see her suffer. May she rest in peace. -My September 7, 2007 entry at multiply.

I'm chatting to my friend and she said “sus..pagka nalang gugma.” It is related to the incident that happened in school, the stabbing issue.  

I want to write about a lot of things since so many things happened over the past few days but I don't have enough time plus there's something wrong with my tabulas account.

This week is our exam week and I can say I didn't pressure myself to study. I don't know why. It's just that I'm so lazy and tired to do my school requirements. Like my Mom said "How come I don't see you study. Diba exam week niyo?" Then I would tell her that I don't want to go to school anymore and she would say it's only a few months left. I saw some of my grades and it's an ok grade. Yung tipong pwede na. Mapagtiyagaan.

We visited the other side of the family. Until now, I guess my lolo is not ok with my course. Yes I'm the only one who didn't take a course related to medicine. Medicine, nursing or anything related to that is not me. So why pursue a course where in I could not enjoy? He told me stuff about my chosen course and he made a comment on the upcoming trip. If only he knows how hard we work to remain to be on our course. Except now since I've been lazy. Oh well. I can't do anything. It's his opinion. He's also forcing me to proceed to law since most of the members of the family are doctors. Again, it's not me. So I told my friends, I'd just say YES to the discussion would stop because if I say no, there would be a lo0o0o0ong discussion.

This week, there are also so many family issue. When will this stop? We never ran out of family issues. But they said, this would make our family stronger. Sometimes I'd rather not think about it because it's so complicated.

My friends and I ate dinner on a school night and at the same time made our scrapbook for Theology and we saw someone. February 10, 2005 was the date I remembered. I was shocked when I saw him. And after a few days, he was included in my dream. Bringing back the past as my friend say. Since we saw another person related to a friend.

I'm home on a Saturday night and people are asking why. Like my classmates said, we need to be good girls to our parents so we could join the trip on October. That means no more gimiks and all that.

School equals stress. Agree? Midterm exams, reports, papers, requirements and the list goes on. And because of that, four pimples for me. Argh. I hate it. I also have new set of wounds and I don't know where I got it. And I'm still waiting for my nail to grow because I broke it.  I never knew it could hurt that much.

I wasn't able to watch my cousin perform. I was exausted. Like my friend told me, she's exhausted physically and mentally.

Today, we had our photo shoot and video shoot. Tiring but fun. I can't believe we'll be graduating soon (hopefully that is) and we'll be facing the real world. We discussed it during our Econ class and it's actually scaring us. Our teacher told us she's not scaring us but that's reality.

By the way, I found out something from my friend last night. It's actually connected to the previous entry.

Since we're International Studies students (major in Asian studies), our theme for our photoshoot is to wear a national costume of one Asian country. I'm the representative for the country Cambodia.

What you see on my page on multiply. It reminded me of our Japanese presentation last week. One part is when my friends and I were hanging out at a bar, drinking and holding a cigarette. After, a friend told me, “Halatang halata na gimikera ka and yung paghawak mo ng sigarilyo. Expert ka ah!” And I told her it was just acting because I don't really smoke.

Today, we had a play again during Japanese class then we talked about this song our teacher asked us to translate. It's a song about lovers. It's quite sad because they separated. Our question is whether they bumped into each other in the future or if they ended up together. It's hanging. Or maybe we need to translate it more to get the meaning. Since it was about love, our teacher asked the class a question and my friend sitting beside me can relate when she was asked. After our Japanese class, we had our Philo exam. In the last part of our exam, there's this application part. A situation was given. It's about a boy leaving after graduation and all that. Then after class, my friend told me that if during Jap class, it was related to her, our Philo exam was related to me. She asked about him but then I could not answer her questions not because I don't want to but because I have no idea. I have no updates.

Dinner was good. My Mom's sister and her family was here plus Daddy's visitors. Then my parents told me that they're allowing me to join the trip on October.

I am currently chatting with my classmates. We're talking about the tour on October and some stuff. They're influencing me to sign up at facebook. Right now, I'm trying to figure it out. Confusing but it looks fun. Like they said, we will discover it together. Today is an interesting day. After class, I was able to bond with some classmates and we shared some chikkas. Shocking news for some.

Me, Eunice, Gala, Lynette, Noelle, Honey, Magsy, April and Matet. Ariane left.