a few online quizzes!!!

Your Brain is 80% Female, 20% Male

Your brain leans female You think with your heart, not your head Sweet and considerate, you are a giver But you're tough enough not to let anyone take advantage of you!

What Gender Is Your Brain?

You Are 80% Open Minded

You are so open minded that your brain may have fallen out! Well, not really. But you may be confused on where you stand. You don't have a judgemental bone in your body, and you're very accepting. You enjoy the best of every life philosophy, even if you sometimes contradict yourself.

How Open Minded Are You?

Happy Anniv!!! + survey

Happy Anniversary to my loving parents! 29 years and counting! Woohoo!!!

I'd also like to greet my in-laws, Tito Marc & Tita Del who celebrated their respective anniversaries as well.

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Got this from Joan

1. Are you a child of the 70s, 80s, or 90s?
- 70s, love their music!

2. Where were you born?
- I forgot what the name of the hospital was, but was born in Gainesville, Florida

3. What city did you grow up in?
- Quezon City

4. Did you enjoy your childhood?
- there were rough times, but over-all I must say that I did

5. When you were a kid, what did you want to be when you grew up?
- a robotech fighter pilot!

6. What do you want to be now?
- a tenured professor with a consultancy on the side :D

7. Were you a fun little kid?
- I was usually up to something

8. What was your first best friend's name?
- I really don't remember. I just remember hanging out with this other kid at the playground in school

9. Is he/she still your friend?
- nopes, I guess this was obvious given I don't recall the name.

10. Can you name all the schools you ever attended?
- I'm not senile yet -> St. James, Ateneo Grade School, Ateneo High School, Ateneo de Manila University, lastly, Fordham University

11. Were you closer to your mom or dad as a kid?
- I think dad, cause he scolded me less. hehehe!

12. What was the first record, tape or CD you remember buying?
- first tape, I think it was the Metallica Black album cover,
- first cd, it might be the Eraserheads UltraElectroMagneticTop album

13. How old is a good age to have kids?
- around my age =)

14. Are you scared of anything?
- needles, though not as much as before. Ghosts!

15. What was your favorite class in elementary school?
- aside from the usual answer of P.E., it would be math

16. Did you buy school lunch or bring your own?
- I think I always brought until I was in grade 5 since we had the meal card then.

17. Broken any bones or had any freaky accidents as a kid?
- fell off pedicab and rolled down the road for around 10-15 feet.
- broke my left wrist, when I slipped while playing soccer and it landed on a nice rock

18. Were you a mean kid?
- not really

19. Favorite board game of all time?
- chess!

20. Did you play house or pretend to be a super hero?
- I think every kid does (the latter)

21. Seriously, are you still just a kid at heart?
- I try to cultivate the kid in me!

Happy Birthday Ma!!!

To my wacky mom! Happy Happy Birthday!!!

I just love this pic! hahahaha!

another visit... this time to the high school & the Gesu

I had the opportunity to check out the high school campus a few days ago. A lot has changed with the old campus as you will see from the pictures. There are now more buildings all over, most of them are 2 or 3 stories instead of the single level buildings we had when I was still in school.

This is the new walkway that they put up. I personally am not so fond of it, since it really cuts the amount of lawn space. It's not like there isn't any other way to get to the Mother Mary statue in the middle given that the corridors on the side have a small walkway to the middle.

Here are two more memorials or statues that I saw that weren't there when I last visited. The first one is located between the college courts and the row of building on the right (if you are facing the chapel). I forgot the name of the priest whose statue stands near the back. The next one, which is St. Ignatius with a book. A friend of mine commented that its like he's blind and he's trying to read braille. You see this statue if you keep walking on the pathway which cuts through the right side of the high school grounds.

This was our batch's contribution/legacy to the high school. If I remember correctly, it's a statue of a young Jose Rizal. I must say that the whole thing is in pretty good condition. It's like they just cleaned it recently. On the bottom, is the list of those in the class. Unfortunately, they had this rule that if you didn't donate a particular amount your name wouldn't show up. It's something my friend Mark has suggested, that we replace the plate and just include all our other classmates who were omitted from the list.

I also got to check out the Gesu as well. It's really impressive and really nice. Though as many have told me, its very similar to camp big falcon. If you don't know what that is, just google it. What it reminded me when I stepped in was De La Strada along Katipunan, but a much nicer version of it. Hehehe!!!

Unfortunately, something is up with blogger that I can't upload any more pics. So I'll just post them next time instead.

Happy Mother's Day

Happy Mother's Day!

Just wanted to greet my dear mother, my mother-in-law and to all mothers out there!!! May your children show all their love and appreciation for all the love and care that you have given us through the years.

Thanks for everything Ma!!!

A birthday greeting to all May celebrants

I would like to greet all those celebrating their birthdays this month of May. I'm sure you all will have a wonderful time spending this special day of yours with family and friends. May the good Lord continue to shower you all with His blessings.

3 - trinka l.
4 - lyn p.
7 - timm r.
10 - mae m.
12 - tristan s., erika t., dos q., ysabel b.
13 - tito marc, francis f., debbie s.,
14 - abi g-h., vincent v.,
15 - ben a.
17 - mom, sammie h., tina k.
19 - dina d., ren a.
24 - pat g.
28 - gian c.
29 - nowie m.
31 - ur r.

Enjoy and God bless

Back in Manila...

It's been a few days back here in Manila, and I must say that the heat isn't really that bad. It's obviously warmer here than in New York. But it is still manageable, though pretty much everyone told me that I came at a nice time cause just the week before was really nasty. Lucky me!

The past few days have been nice, I got the chance to play some ball with some of kuya jofel's friends last sunday. Meals are always fun in the company of family which was the case Sunday at Little Asia in Tomas Morato. A few days later, went north to Malolos to visit Lolo. Unfortunate we had a bit of a mix up, he thought that we were coming in on Friday (the original plan), but we had called and told him that we were moving up a day. Aside from spending time with lolo, I always love driving along the North Express Highway. It's such a lovely drive going there. If you haven't tried you must at least try it once. Hehehe!

everyone together!

dad, mom & me

me & tom

lolo, tom & me

visiting the old stomping grounds...

Went back to Ateneo earlier today. It was really nice being able to visit where I have so many fond memories. Things have really changed since I last visited. Below are the pictures that I took during my quick stroll.

The new student center! It was a bit amusing when I walked into the new sanggu. The rooms are nice and spacious, all orgs have their own room unlike before where 4 orgs had to share one room. Though what I found amusing with the sanggu room was that they were still using the same old tables that we used to use in 2001. Those tables were really old when we were using it. I'm surprised they didn't throw it out and get new ones.

The new Horacio De La Costa Hall. It was nice to see that there is finally more space for the various departments situated there. I remember during college how cramped up the whole place with be with students trying to file in to meet their professors for oral exams or to pick up papers.

I remember how it was in this area there would sometimes be fishball and "dirty" ice cream vendors during certain times of the schoolyear (usually during festival season).

Actually I was still in college when they renovated the college chapel. I really like how it looks. Even though its right next to the cafeteria, it's surprisingly quiet inside it. You can really spend time there in silence in prayer and reflection. The wooden figures are the chapel's stations of the cross.

It was really nice getting to walk around the campus. The next thing I have to check out would be the Gesu!