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Saturday, June 30, 2007

Why does life have to be so complicated?


Sunday, June 24, 2007
Of Signs and Sunsets

I just witnessed the most majestic, the most beautiful, the most awe-inspiring sunset ever.


Sunday, June 17, 2007
FYP and Design Project

Gosh I don't know which topics to choose for my final year project (FYP) and Design Project.

Biofilm Microbial Consoritium in an Ultra-Compact Biofilm Reactor

The Operating Characteristics of an Ultra-Compact Biofilm Reactor

Removal of PFOS and PFOA by hybrid MBR+PAC process

Ballistic performance of epoxy matrix composites

Stress intensity factors for surface cracks in the welds of a rack-plate chord in a V-joint

Evaluate the carbonation and chloride-ion penetration in MRT tunnel segments and the effectiveness of using a migratory corrosion inhibitor to control corrosion of steel reinforcement

etc etc etc....

haha what a joke ;)


Friday, June 15, 2007
pff.

I really

HATE it

when people

ignore

my emails.


Wednesday, June 13, 2007
Road Trip

On our way to Lake Powell =)



Tuesday, June 12, 2007
A Thousand Words

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At Lake Powell

There's a good reason why my tummy is like that. Later.

Acting cute by the lake.

At the Gangster Party

With Chee Min

With Daphne Duck

With Kai Lun

With Hui Jun

With KY

Tonight's dinner on my bed while watching Fearless starring Jet Li (because Sen does wushu, thus the sudden interest haha)

Some sort of burger, veggies, fries, chicken

My perpetual dessert: Cookies + Ice cream

I finished the ice cream but not the rest. Hee.



Monday, June 11, 2007
Don't give up on us baby

said my toil-haggard right black shoe to its mate.

It's been my second pair of SG$10 pair of "leather" shoes I bought from the store adjacent to NTUC Clementi (Singapore). Frankly I don't know how much longer my second pair of working shoes will last. Hope some super glue could save the pair from their destitute state.

Yes I know I still haven't uploaded the photos from the outing at Lake Powell, and there's more from last night at the "Gangster Party" at our very own employer's pub here. Yes we do have a pub here, where the ang mohs go to every night to drink, play pool, and just chill out. The Asians also go there sometimes, and it was my first time to go last night because Bethany ( my Deli crew mate) very enthusiastically invited me (and everyone else) to the said party (even though she's not allowed to go in until 1 AM because she's underage - must be 21 or older). We had fun dressing up like gangsters, and I believe the ang mohs found it weird or amusing that we went there just to take photos of ourselves, and that's it. We didn't even order drinks. We also left early, when the "real party" hasn't even started yet.

Earlier that night, we went star-gazing by the way. I have never seen so many stars before in my life. Okay maybe I have, but this is one of those rare occasions I could marvel at a truly star-studded sky. There were telescopes and binoculars set-up at the sun porch at the Grand Canyon Lodge. I got to see Jupiter and its moons Io, Europa, and Ganymede. I didn't see Callisto though. Finally I am now able to recognize Draco the Dragon with parts of its body in between the constellations Big and Little Dipper; Virgo; Leo; and we also examined the binary star system Kuma, and the one near Vega (which I forgot). I had an engaging conversation with the man who owns the binoculars and who gladly shared with us his knowledge about stars and stuff, and it ignited once again my passion for astronomy that seemed to die down when I was shoved by circumstances to study other things.

I almost fainted when I realized we were having a debate about the order of the planets from the sun. I thought it was common knowledge, like the order of the solfege syllables as we know it is Do Re Mi fa Sol La Si/Ti. Someone even stated with conviction that Venus is the fourth planet from the sun, and another one said Mars is the first. Then I told them I would jump off the cliff if it wasn't true that it's Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto - and that sometimes it's Pluto, Neptune. (And I only learned last night that Pluto was demoted from planet status to being a dwarf planet since last year. The news didn't reach my radar quick enough.)

Anyway, I kind of got high emotions as signified by the way my voice turned to high pitch sound waves while conversing with them, because I feel strongly about my basic astronomy ever since I was six years old, when I've first conjured images of myself as a grown-up astronaut. Anyhoo.

Children, when your parents tell you eating green leafy vegetables like saluyot is a surefire way for you to go to the moon or anywhere in outer space, they are bluffing.


Sunday, June 10, 2007
Lake Powell

Today's my day off and I went to Lake Powell with a bunch of my new friends here. It was super fun! I took loads of photos but I've yet to download it from my camera to my laptop, and then upload it here or in my Multiply account. When we came back here at Grand Canyon North Rim, we made a mad dash (ok, not really) to the EDR for our food, because dinner stops at 6:30, and it was already 6:25 or something. Thank God I still managed to get some food, unlike some of my companion who went back to their rooms first to unload their stuff, and when they came here at the EDR, there was no more food left.

Anyway, it was my first time to swim in a lake!

SO NICE, CAN!!!!

I like it so much compared to swimming in a river (super muddy), or sea (super salty). It's like swimming in a swimming pool, but this one is natural! (okay not entirely, it's a man-made dam but it's huge). What's so great about it is that it's a lake in the desert, so the scenery is like all desert sand, rocks, and the super cold body of water. Oh, plus blue skies and whisks of clouds with silver lining!!!

The lake doesn't have any sand at all. It's a body of water in a rock surface, so it's not at all slippery, no moss or algae or whatnot haha. I really like it=)

And, for the first time in my life, I sunbathed!!!! As in you know, lie in the rock surface and bask in the glare of the hot shining sun after I took a dip in the super cold water=) I was wearing my bikini top some more, so cool! Like in the movies. Haha=) But my belly was super fat okay. Who cares.

Photos to be uploaded. =)


Wednesday, June 06, 2007
Happy Birthday Papa=)



Tuesday, June 05, 2007
MeTube

My First Video of the Grand Canyon!

**Erm, sorry for the s-word.**



And...drumrolls....

Okie a little intro first. It was my day off and I didn't sign up for any hikes or shopping trips or anything that would take me out of the Grand Canyon North Rim resort. After rearranging the furnitures and cleaning the bathroom of the room I share with Daphne Duck, I starred in my very first MTV!!! Woooohoooonessssssssss hahaha=)



Six-Pack and More

Completely Incomplete

"i have always been complete; even before you came into my life, even before i met you, even before i knew you. but why do i feel that even such completeness feels so empty? i guess you hold the air that makes me breathe, makes me live. you possess the smile that starts my day, and the loving arms i run to when i come home.

did i say i was complete? i take it back. because without you, i can still exist, but i can live no more... "

-kit


It's Your Damn Right to be Loved

if i see her,

if i meet her,

if i get to know her;

and if i get to make her mine;

then i'll say to her:

"from now on, you have my heart, hold it, it's yours. and i'll hold your heart, i'll never let go; and from this moment, i will love you, because it's just your damn right to be loved... "

-kit


It's You, Really...

i never imagined it to be you, really...

why has love led me to you?

does love know who should love who?

is her decision that you be with me a right one?

do i deserve you?

i can ask all the questions in this universe, but i don't really care...

all i know is that as long as your heart beats in the same way as mine, then i guess i'm home...

-kit


Love Me...

just a simple conversation:

boy: would you still want me to love you?

girl: no...

boy: [ kneels. breaks down and cries in front of the love of his life...]

girl: no... i NEED you to love me...

@};-----

-kit


My Intuition

it's like this:

i have a pretty accurate intuition when it comes to determining whether a girl's into me or not; i guess it's 100% accurate, no kidding. but with you, i guess all my confidence means nothing. i have that feeling, but it seems that this time around, i have a doubt, a real big one.

so if i confess to you, only two things can happen: it's either you incinerate my heart into oblivion for the first time, or you make my heart beat, to let me love you, for the first time...

-kit


You Have Mine, I Have Yours

now i know why you and i feel so much better, so much fuller, so much happier, so much US.

when i came into this world, part of my heart was stolen from me. i lived, but still the feeling of that incompleteness still lingers, each and everyday i feel it.

but when you opened your world into mine, i guess that piece i was searching for all my life was right there, there in your heart.

and i don't know if it sounds serendipitous but, you found the same thing right inside mine...



***

Gosh.

The author of all these beautiful musings is none other than my high school researchmate, Jose Carlos Go. He's a good friend, and I've kind of always known him to be a hopeless romantic. I remember those times when he'd use to share about the then(?) love of his life, who in my opinion is the prettiest girl in the cohort.

Anyway, now he's obviously in love again.

I agree with Ivy that it's really nice to be in love haha=)

JC is an eye-candy too (see photo below) but sorry girls, maybe he is single but clearly not available hahaha=)




I swear JC was sort of flabby in high school and no sign of hunkiness whatsoever. Haha sorry but it's true what!!! I remember me telling him about how Brice and Boat goes to the gym and takes protein supplements and stuff, and now this! Congratulations dude.

Okay probably his love life is none of my business, but I find his written thoughts very sweet =) Hope it works out well for both him and his girl. =)


Sunday, June 03, 2007
Happy Flif


I tried calling Papa and Mama's cellphones, as well as our home, but I got no answer using all of their numbers. I just wanted to say hi and greet my sister a very happy birthday. I was so excited at first, but after at least two tries in all of the numbers and to no avail, I almost ended up in tears. I just got off from work, was tired, became disappointed, and the frigid night air wasn't helping at all, since the payphone was located outside in the open air. I didn't have my sister's number since my cellphone is still in Los Angeles, where I stupidly left it.

Actually it is still June 2 here, 10 PM+...and so it's June 3, 1PM+ back in the Philippines. I edited the date of this post so it would reflect June 3, my sister's birthday.




Anyway,



Friday, June 01, 2007
Sticks and Stones


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I really do. =)