Of High Hopes and Faded Dreams

Although it doesn't fit me,I still bought this floral dress in the hope that someday I'd be able to make a dress or a top out of it. I love the design so much,well I love anything floral,but this one is something different. I got this dress from a thrift store but it was a new dress,it even had a price tag when I bought it. I detached the top from the bottom using a makeshift seam ripper. After that, I took the sleeves off the top by still using the makeshift seam ripper. I folded the bottom part of the dress as that part should not be used unless it's for a DIY of something grand. When we arrived in this apartment,we only had one big and wide curtain. There's a window beside the door and the sun's 3PM rays pierce through the window pane which is not good for our TV set. I can't think of any thing to cover the window pane but the floral fabric which I set aside for future use. I made a mental note to buy a new fabric to use as a makeshift curtain and replace the floral fabric. But lo and behold, almost two years in this apartment and it is still being used as a curtain. The fabric is no longer as 'lively' as the first time I saw it,rather it is now a little faded.Time to just let it be. :)

Coffee Break---Not!

I am currently on a semestral break from school.School's out for a couple of weeks! Yehey! So much time,so little to do! In this connection, I thought of taking a break from coffee. Lately, I realized that I have been drinking more cups of coffee compared to my usual two cups a day. Usually, I only drink coffee right after I wake up and after I eat my supper. Since this path I'm taking is requiring so much of my time, I have to do something to keep me awake for more than twenty hours. This more than twenty hours of waking day also include hours of tweeting and pinning and lurking and stalking and procrastinating and watching tv. So from two cups of coffee I was up to four cups. I drink once I wake up, after I eat my brunch,once I arrive in school and after supper. Sometimes it goes up to six cups whenever I feel the need. This, I think, is the main reason why I sometimes catch myself zoning out from the class discussion and sometimes I wake up feeling restless because I thought I was somewhere else.Coffee triggers sleep disorder! So there,I planned on not having coffee and drink milk instead for the whole semestral break.The plan took off on Saturday and ended the next day! HAHAHA What a failed attempt! And this is what prompted me to abort the plan:I dozed off while I was attending the Sunday's mass.I don't want the same thing to happen again while I'm in public places. Someone might catch me doing that,take a picture and upload it somewhere. That will be so embarrassing! HAHAHAHA I couldn't live without coffee in my system! Yes I can live a day without it but not longer than that! Milk is now stricken off my grocery list. I'll try again next time. :)

Happy Sembreak, everyone!!!

HIGH SCHOOL ALUMNI HOMECOMING

High school alumni homecoming is one of the things I look forward to every year. Although at many times personal circumstances didn’t allow my attendance to the said event, I still feel that, by looking through pictures posted by batch mates in social networking sites, it more than enough transports me to the time when we were still in high school. Physical attributes may have changed a bit, but the smiles and antics are still there, all too familiar from each and every person I see on the photo.

This year, our batch turned ten from the year we graduated in high school. Yes, we have reached that far! Fifteen years more to go and we’ll be hosting the homecoming! Yikes! Hosting such event is so big a responsibility I can’t imagine how we’d do it! Our tenth year from graduation prompted me to attend this year’s homecoming. I thought, after my last attendance in 2009, it’s time to reconnect with my high school again and just be young, wild and free. Chos! Never was a time that I didn’t enjoy any previous homecoming. It was always loaded with fun, laughter, antics, bantering, ‘chismis’ and booze, and shared with the homegrown friends.

But this year’s quite different. I’d like to say that this is the first homecoming where nary a hint of boredom was felt. No one thought of ‘change venue’ because we had a super great time! Whoever from the host batch 1987 who thought of inviting The Bloomfields to entertain us for the rest of the fellowship night should be given a warm resounding round of applause from all of us. I am not kidding. He/She deserves it. Of course, we also have to thank the host batch as a whole, because if not for the cooperation of each and everyone, they would not had been able to come up with a bigger budget and we would not had been able to have The Bloomfields there. In hindsight, their scrimping on food was okay because it was compensated with a great band and six thousand bottles of beer. Thank you SNC HS Batch 1987, The Bloomfields and San Miguel Brewery.

The Bloomfields

We went up and down the stage a number of times and I always had a hard time going down because of my 4-inch heels! Mirisi LOL

And at times I couldn't take it anymore I took off my shoes and danced barefoot. LOL

After the fellowship,we decided to go to our batchmate's bar but it was jam-packed so we just sat down on the other side of the road. Homegrown inom,with the motorboats and sea as backdrop.

We went on to finish the case of beer that we managed to sneak out of the venue while others went to buy every Surigaonon's favorite: barbecue sa Pier

Beer has taken over my sense of balance that I kept on leaning on my friend's shoulder. Pagkabug-at na uyo!Apil lawas! HAHAHA

Beer has finally took over and had me feeding the fish very early! HAHAHA 'Lex,gunita ako kamot kay basin matabog ako sa dagat.' HAHAHA Thank you everyone for the super great weekend. See you next year!