SURVIVOR Tan Yan Kee

Would you opt to go to class and have the scheduled quiz despite the non-stop rain or would you opt to stay at home, be safe but miss the quiz?

In the middle of Gender Issues, our surprised classmate broke the news that our college building was already flooded. We got unruffled calmness from our professor who went on lecturing his (more or less) 40 troubled students.

It was a matter of deciding and sticking to that decision in the coming hours. Some of our classmates braved the continuously rising flood just to get home but some stayed inside the building to hopefully wait for the rain to stop and the flood to subside. I, unconsciously, stayed inside our building. I was really thinking of going home but a lot were saying that streets outside our University were impassable and devastatingly flooded. So I stayed...

...wait. My story can wait. Changed my mind. I'll thank people first:

! Thank you Commerce students for giving out free bottled water. It was the first thing that we got in our stay.
! Thank you Marice for letting us 'live' at Tan Yan Kee. Taking care everyone plus updating us every hour. You're one tough woman! I hope you and your family are doing fine in Rizal.
! Thank you SOCC for the support, the food and the assistance. All of you stood as our parents who stayed awake for more than 24 hours just to know that every student were safe and sound.
! Thank you Doy & ABSC. I saw your huge effort in taking care of the Arts and Letters' teachers and students who were stranded at the AB/Commerce Building.
! Thank you Manong Guard, Ate and Kuya. I may not know your names but I know your faces. You're all heroes.
! Thank You Bigtime! My 4CA1 CLASSMATES..who weren't stranded and safe at home but still updated us if we're doing fine. Thank you. My 4CA1 Co-Tan Yan Kee Survivors (plus Joyce!) who became a good and absolutely fun company. We stayed together and we made the most out of our not-so-good condition. The white round table will always be our table. Always! Haha.

[7:00 pm - In front of Tan Yan Kee, a van was slowly being submerged. This served as our flood ruler! 'If the flood went below the plate number, we can leave and go home.' Joke lang! Mataas pa rin!]

[My literally crappy noodles. Nagmuka na ngang alambre, naglasang donut pa. I'm the Best Instant Noodle Maker in the history of Noodle Making! \m/]


I like this picture because it shows our tightness despite everything. NOT. LOL. We're just playing cards. Cards made out of the school's official paper. XD (Thanks for the improv Glenda! And all the photos were grabbed from her.)

It Breaks My Heart

I thought I was living one of the worst life when I was stranded:

! I had to be barefoot inside the building the whole time since my shoes were wet.
! I had to eat my..noodles, if that's how you call it when you saw how mine was cooked. Well, twas my fault anyway.
! Around 8 pm, I decided to take my school pants off to dry it and ease the uneasiness. I was left wearing boxers so I was limited with my legwork. One wrong move and my balls would make an inappropriate scandal.
! I badly missed Toby, our dog.
! I had to sleep on the cold hard floor. No, scratch that. I had to not sleep since I was wearing my contact lens and I didn't have my solution and caps with me. It's hard to fight Optimusleep if you're really dead beat but I surprisingly slept for 3 hours. My lens were dried and glued on both my eyes.
! Woke up 5 am and I was coughing like there's no tomorrow but I had to suck it up. One cough and it echoes through the whole 2nd floor. Everyone was sleeping so I had to cough like a dwarf. That was the toughest.
! Equal cramps on both my arms because I had an abnormal sleeping position. Like I just had 60,000 push ups.
! I had to not eat breakfast because there was a Pacquiao match inside my stomach.
! I was barefoot going out of the building to Adie's car then from the car to 7eleven to buy freaking wrong sized slippers.

When I went home, I tweeted 'my eyes are void of rest..throat still hurts and cough got worse'

But it was only then when I saw and heard the news.

It was nothing compared to my experience. I was fortunate enough.

(FLICKR PHOTOS)

(LRT2 V. Mapa Station. Dear SM Centerpoint, you're just beside this. I hope you're okay now. Same to the 2 guys there.)

(My heart, she saved her rosaries and Mama Mary. God bless her.)

Gahd. One man can barely be seen. And dogs..poor dogs. Helpless and can't shout for food nor aid.

iPray for my country.

Stranded

September 26, 09 (Saturday morning) til September 27, 09 (Lunchtime):

I was stranded at Tan Yan Kee because of the flood that Typhoon Ondoy caused.

I missed the COMFORTS OF HOME! BIGTIME!

I never knew what was happening outside the University, around the Metro. It was really worse and I felt more fortunate that I was stranded in a school building. Good thing there's SOCC and a few coordinators. But to be stranded at home could've been better. Really. XD

500 Days Of Summer

'..this is a story of boy meets girl, but you should know upfront, this is not a love story. '

It's witty, it's funny, it's fun and it's very human..bitch.

Nice. Even though the author said that it was a work of fiction, the movie felt like it just happened a year ago and Tom was the writer. The expectations and reality and the thin line that divides the two was a good concept. Even the musical scoring exudes good taste.

[I thought Summer refers to season. How can you fit 500 days in just one season?]

Well, she looks like Katy Perry. Hmmmmmmm.

Autumn was a bad move. Tsk.

Narrator: Most days of the year are unremarkable. They begin, and they end, with no lasting memories made in between. Most days have no impact on the course of a life. May 23 was a Wednesday.

Tom: I don't know how to say this, but there's a Chinese family in our bathroom.

Vance: [reading one of Tom's cards] Roses are red, violets are blue...fuck you whore.

"The coolest romantic comedy of the year!"

Right on.

Dead For 3 Days?

Feels like half a century.

My internet service provider was having a bad week and was feeling overused so he/she/it retaliated by not letting me connect to the time-consuming wide world of webs. It was 3 freaking internet-less days. I felt troubled.

Fascinado

This greeted me yesterday:

Initial reaction: 'Wow. New theme for Twitter. Easy on the eyes. :)'

[Bad photo baked using Print screen, Paint and Poor editing skillz]

I realized, after an hour, that maybe I was being subjective because there was the presence of clouds. Cool blue clouds.

I have a thing for clouds (not sexually). I just really like to look up in the sky.

One awesome experience:

• Summer season
• School ground
  
• Sun shining bright
• 10 in the morning
  
• Under the tree
  
• I, doing the Indian sit, was talking with my friend (who also had the same sitting position)

..and then I decided to lie down. That very moment where my head felt the ground was glorious. I flawlessly saw the sight of authentic blue clouds and it was so surreal and heavenly. Then there was the presence of comforting breeze. Perfecto!

Something like this:

Only, this isn't my feet and this belongs to Tumblr, again.

And again. :)

It's Official!

My teeth are now fully wired. Silver bling-bling from up-down left-right. Much pressure and pain on the lower left. =|

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I'm a dim-witted klutz. Boo those bruises (slipped in our bathroom..one in my right ankle and one in my right shoulder), scratches (in my left knee..from the keyboard sliding case), and minor random abrasions. Plus! At the photocopy store, I was standing on a corner (roughly few inches away from my 2 classmates) and I dreadfully found a generating anthill right smack in my left shoe. EPIC FAIL.

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(Credit: fuckyeahchristmas' tumblr!)

100 days til Christmas! Starbuck's Season [for me & my brother] too!