gabriel garcia marquez books are on sale. 65% off. i bought two for about 400 pesos and if they were sold regularly, they'd cost around 1,200 bucks. i feel great. lucky, even.
i'll write a longer and - hopefully - a more interesting post soon. busy busy busy.
aiess told me to do this weeks ago and i said i would after i finished something that i had to do at that time (something important and school-related, i think). now i have all the time in the world! so so so here i go with 7 random facts about me:
1) i'm home alone right now. my whole family is in davao and i'm the only one left in cebu because i had to take an unmissable microbiology test a while ago. i could throw a house party and get wasted and puke all over the place or burn the house down or disarrange the furniture for lack of something fun to do, but i can't because i'm hot. LITERALLY - and figuratively, if you'll agree. haha. i have a fever, fools. of all the times to get sick, my immune system had to choose now. sucks. PLUS the fact that my "friends" refuse to bring me pizza when i ask them to since it's almost midterms. hahahaha.
2) maybe i come off as stupid and slow and dumb sometimes (do i?), but - and i don't mean to brag - i actually have a superior iq. according to this one entrance exam i took, it's 139. yes yes who cares? well i guess you do since you're the one who clicked this open. hahahaha joke. *i have a strong feeling that i am going to delete this entry. hmmmmmmmmm.*
3) i don't smoke. many people think that i do, and most even claim that they've seen me puff on a cigarette. totally outrageous. to set the record straight, i hate cigarettes and how they smell. but i will admit to one thing: i have only smoked a whole cigarette once in my life and i am never doing it again.
4) fact number 4! 4 was the age that i started studying. my first school was st. paul's where i studied for a year, then i skipped kindergarten one and transferred to little angels! yes, LAMS, believe it or not, where a teacher named madam auring - it's taking me all my guts to say this - would nibble on my ears. FUCK GROSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS! but i wasn't sexually harrassed or anything, okay? hahaha. oh and i was supposed to be the first in my class but i missed one sinulog dance presentation because of, ummmmmmmmmm, unfortunate circumstances and the crazy woman made me 3rd place. B****! i still haven't gotten over that. anyway, when i was grade 2, i moved to gloria maris where i had the best grade school life spent in classrooms where i had to call teachers "tita" or "tito", where i only had 3 or 4 other classmates, where i was terribly fat and drank iced tea from my huge water jug every single day.
5) contrary to popular belief, i do know how to play a sport. i learned tennis when i was 10 years old and i won a runner-up doubles trophy the first summer i started playing. so if my calculations are correct, i've been playing it for roughly seven years now but i'm not exactly good at it because i only played during the summer and close-to-never during school days. i must have disappointed my summer coaches - saias who believed in my backhand (haha) and tope who thought my serve was pretty good. tsk, i should have exerted more effort in tennis. after all, it is the main reason i lost weight and fueled people's speculations about me being a drug user (whispers during family dinners: "naunsa na man nah si paolo?").
6) in high school, i was 130 pounds. college started and i became 160. i haven't weighed myself again since i learned that i was 30 pounds heavier, but i'm quite sure that i've been gaining and gaining since then. it baffles me, why i can't stop eating because in sacred heart, my lunch consisted of the following:
a banana and 3-5 bottles of water OR a brownie and 3-5 bottles of water OR a pack of crackers and 3-5 bottles of water OR a cup of yogurt and 3-5 bottles of water.
whenever i ate real food (which occurred about 5 times a month), people would say,"ning kaon lagi ka?". well, now i eat nothing but real food. i mean, come to think of it, what's the point in living if i avoid all the good, fattening, edible things? i might as well be fat - no, not fat, i mean HEALTHY and satisfied than thin and starving. hahahahaha.
7) last one! i, together with 5 other classmates, was suspended for a day in 3rd year because of pornography. when i put it that way, it sounds so immoral haha but really, we were caught reading FHM, the one with aubrey miles on the cover. 50th or 100th issue or something like that, i think. i wasn't exactly reading it, just so you know. one of my classmates *ehem a GIRL, mind you hahaha you know who you are* just suddenly occupied the seat next to mine and said' "tanaw ta na!" (hahaha) and the next thing i knew, the teacher stopped the class, we were sent to the DOSS (department of student services) and made to write essays about pornography and why it is bad and evil!..
