Dreams

I dreamed that I was free falling from a high altitude. I was scared until I looked around the blue sky and the vast range of clouds around me. That's when I felt it was really fun! But the problem was I had no chute with me. Luckily, they were floating somewhere and I had to pass through them and quickly grab on the way down. The chute-grabbing part was pretty odd, but everything else was so much fun. I landed somehow and ended up in a pool party with some people from high school.

I looked up the meaning of my dream on the Internet and I got pretty interesting answers:

SKYDIVING

To dream that you are skydiving, represents your high ideals. Sometimes you may need to compromise these ideals and be more realistic of your expectations (dreammoods.com)

Taking a risk, facing or conquering a fear, accepting or succeeding at a challenge (thecuriousdreamer.com)

PARTY
To dream that you are at a party, suggests that you need to get out more and enjoy yourself.(dreammoods.com)

Recent or imagined interactions with people around you. (thecuriousdreamer.com)

The skydiving interpretations really got me thinking. What are my high ideals? Med school? Folk dance touring team? Straight As? Are they really that high? I'm not really sure about that. And I did succeed in a challenge lately. I did pretty well on my Spanish dance test, which is by no means an easy task. As for other succeeding other challenges, I can't remember any.

As for the party interpretations, the one from Dream Moods was really fun. Is my social life really that bad?! (Haha) Yeah, maybe that's right. I've been hanging out with my friends more often now, but maybe I need a better social life? I am inclined to say yes. The Curious Dreamer's is quite true because sometime I think about seeing my high school friends again. But they just cross my mind every now and then, so I can't say that I mean to think about them.

Don't you think there's some sort of connection between these two? There could be, but I don't what it is. Help, anyone?

Exciting week!

I'm back from Salt Lake after a couple of days of taking a break from good old P-town. I was going to work on getting better arguments for a little debate I'm doing tomorrow in one of my classes. Since it's basically going to be a political debate, I am not very much interested in it. I am probably the most politically apathetic person.

This week is bound to be exciting for many reasons.

*drum roll*

1. MY FAMILY IS COMING OVER FROM MARYLAND!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! They tried to keep it from me until they actually get here, but my sister unintentionally spilled the beans. They won't be here for long, though, but at least I get to see them this week!!

2. My dad's best friend's daughter is getting married. This is actually why my family is coming over. I can't say I love weddings, but I like them. Weddings give you those I'll-make-it-to-that-point feelings, which actually feels good. One more reason why I like weddings is that I get to.. well.. eat free food :)

3. My friend, Preston, is getting hitched! I knew him from a Tagalog class at BYU thatI used to visit. He's marrying a nice, modest lady from the Philippines. They were in the same mission. Why their wedding makes my week exciting, I have explained it in #2.

4. There's this World Folkfest up in Springville. It's a folk dance show where the dancers come from all over the world, so they do the dances from their own country. Which makes this whole thing a lot more excitinggggg!!!

5. And this week is my self-imposed deadline for watching Harry Potter 6. I seriously have to watch it now!

Happy last week of July! (Could you believe it's been that fast already?!)

Pioneers Day!

Hello world!

This week has been busy, and a little frustrating. I had two tests this week--chemistry and Spanish dance. My chemistry did not go very well. I hate how the tests have twenty questions worth five points each. You miss a few items and you can forget getting an A in that class. Some questions are not as hard as the other questions, and yet each is worth five points. I don't think that can really show how well I know the material. I know most of the material well, but not so much the others. I think it's unfair and that my teacher is too lazy to write better tests. On the brighter side, my Spanish dance test went really well, a complete contrast to my chemistry test. I should get a B+ or an A- for that one.

It's Pioneer Day in Utah right now. This is to remember the faithful pioneers who journeyed about 1300 miles from the East Coast to follow God. Whenever I think about these pioneers, I always feel so much gratitude for what they have done so that I can have the true Gospel to bless my life, which situation is shared my millions of other people around the world. I am absolutely grateful for what they have done. I am forever indebted to these mighty pioneers. Yesterday my ward had a Pioneer Day Activity. It was a fun and relaxed night of clean fun, games and food! I did enjoy the three-legged race and volleyball. I pretty much forgot about my horrible chemistry test after the party.

We have this Friday off from school so this means we get to have a three-day vacation! My dad has many friends up here in Salt Lake, so I'm staying at Tito Chito and Tita Joy and their kids' house for the weekend! They really are an awesome family and they take very good care of me when I am here :) My dad, Tito Chito and Tita Joy all served a mission together in Cebu and they have managed to keep in touch. It's really awesome to take a break from my virtually monotonous apartment life and stay in an actual home.

HAPPY PIONEERS DAY!

P.S. My former roommate John Nuttall received his mission call and he's going to Anaheim California Mission and he's going to speak Spanish! YAY!!!

Interesting Saturday

I actually had a fun Saturday in a long time without my laptop having anything to do with it.

This morning, my friend Kyle and Yu picked me up to go to the Oquirrh Mountain Temple open house up in West Jordan. We had to pick up her sister first from the airport (she flew in from Texas), then we had lunch with his grandma, aunt and cousins. His aunt has all girls--about six of them, I was like, WOW. Kyle, Yu and I were actually the only guys there. As for the temple open house, it was my second to go through it. I can't describe it well, but it was so peaceful and beautiful! Truly a house of God, eh?

I got on Facebook as soon as I got back at 4:30 and I was planning to go to a movie with my roommate Andres and another friend of ours, Andy. They planned to go to party first, and they sort of dragged me into it. Andres' friend, Jessica, was in the live Mexican band playing there so we came to see her (although Jessica is Chinese). They weren't really bad. I wish they played some more! While the party was wrapping up we were hanging out with Jessica, her sister, and her friend Emily who was also in the band. They invited us to a dance but because we had plans for a movie we sort of declined. I know that's lame! But I wasn't really in the mood and that's not yet the end of the story!

Jessica invited us to an ice cream party, and this time we agreed to go. Now that's not lame! Except for Andy, because he had to run. Not run as in to go home, but actually run because he and Andres are running in a marathon next week. So Andres and I walked with Jessica and her sister to their home where they changed for a while. While we were waiting, I asked Andres what else his other interests are except for getting healthy, marathons, working out, biology and The OC. He said skiing, snowboarding, hiking... he's definitely an outdoor kind of guy. I was hoping he'd say more random things but that's about what I got from him.

After a short drive, we finally got to the ice cream party. The house was owned by artists, so it was an artsy house. They had interesting paintings and designs all over the house. And it was mostly light colors, so there was a nice cozy feeling in the house. It was totally astounding how creative the parents are (they were the artists, although the kids were too). Even the bathroom was amazing! I had to go the bathroom and I stayed a little longer than I needed to look around the bathroom. It was that amazing. There were surprises everywhere, and to sum it up, it was a different house but in a quirky and amusing way. Art was literally everywhere.

I don't have as much to say for the ice cream party. I didn't really meet anyone new except for the few who I didn't even talk to after I found out their names. Haha. Oh! Except for the girl named Talisa who lives in the house and I told her how much I liked the house and what I specifically liked about it. I should be more sociable than this. So it was a little awkward but I'm sure the people would've been nice if I talked to them.

Everything that I ate today was free! Yay! And Harry Potter already came out, and I have yet to watch it. I have waited for this for a looooong time (a situation in which, I'm absolutely sure, every Harry Potter fan had to go through). I'm just trying to find time that's most convenient by way of scheduling and not having too many people in the theater.

To keep things more interesting, here's a video I found in a friend's blog. The song is very catchy.. I would actually find myself singing a few lines from this song and then just humming to the rest. You'll see why.



Happy weekend!

Not made for sports

This week, I've been doing a great job at getting up for my 8 am chemistry class (*applause*). It feels really awesome... until my eyes get heavy and my head droops to my desk. Then I am asleep for about an hour, waking up once in a while for a few seconds. So my getting up early is basically nullified. I might have as well stayed in bed.

My racquetball class is fun. I was actually excited about this class because I've never done it before and hitting balls with a racket sounded like fun to me. However, I wasn't zapped with the magic wand of sports skills, so I really suck at this. My dad envisioned my future with sports in it, so he tried to get me into sports for a long time. Unfortunately however, I would always run away from balls coming at me. Back to racquetball, I always make it ridiculously easy for the people I play with. We quickly finish a game because my opponent scores three points in a minute. I actually want to have someone take me a video while I'm playing. I think I make different sorts of weird movements while playing. And as far as I can remember, there's only one other person in the class who sucks as much as I do.

Hey, at least I can dance!



P.S.
HAPPY BELATED BIRTHDAY TO MY DEAR FRIEND CLARINEL WHO I HAVEN'T HEARD FROM IN A LONG TIME.

Making pancakes like a German

Any tips on how to stay awake for a chemistry class that goes from 8 to 10 am? Apparently this was what was happening while I was listening to a lecture about ionic bonding and the VSEPR theory. Don't get me wrong, I love chemistry. But being a hardcore night person, it's so hard for me to function at that time. Add the fact that I was totally light-headed for some reason today (maybe lack of sleep?) so I spent most of my time in my chemistry class taking a nap. Which didn't really make things any better.

My roommate Andres and I were watching the Cash Cab just a while ago. For those who have been living under a rock, it's "a game show that takes place right inside a cab". The driver (who is comedian Ben Bailey) asks the gamers general knowledge questions worth some money (it starts from $50 and goes up to $100, $200 and so forth). There's a catch, of course, but I'll leave it up to you to find out. Not that it's a secret. Anyway, my roommate and I were trying to answer the questions and hey, guess what! We did a pretty dang good job at it. If we were in the Cash Cab, we would have probably won enough money to pay a semester's worth of apartment rent! We should go to New York and hunt for the Cash Cab.

Rewind to last night. Andres is currently taking a German class. Today they had everyone bring German food. He didn't remember that until about 10-ish last night so we had an impromptu bonding moment making German potato pancakes. It was pretty simple and it was the best we could make without having to go to the grocery. The first batch was quite a mess but the next batches got better. As luck would have it, his classmates liked it.

Here's the recipe if anyone's interested. I suggest adding a little more seasoning to that, because that would really make a huge difference!

Glückliches Kochen! (That's "Happy Cooking" in German, right?)

Ningas-kugon

Literally "burns like cogon grass," it is an idiom used in the Philippines to describe someone who is enthusiastically engaged in something for a short period of time. That's like me with blogging.

When I discovered the joy of blogging in my senior year in high school, it thrilled me. It created a humungous fire in me. It was exciting for me to talk about whatever I wish and post it on the Internet where everyone can potentially see it. After a while, the fire burned out. I rekindled it when my family moved to America and I didn't go to school for almost three months (I was waiting for a new semester to begin). I was bored and so I resorted to blogging. As you may have guessed it, the fire burned out again. I had this goal that I would write on my blog everyday, but apparently, the fire didn't last as long as I had expected.

Because of this, I have come to admit that I am not a blogger. Sure I can write, but maybe not for blogs. That's why I would only post something every now and then, or, as we Filipinos would call it, lulubog-lilitaw (sink and float).

So, while I still have the fire going on right now, I would like to tell the world what I have been up to lately. As always, I've been busy with school. I figured I won't be taking any break until December although you would hear me complaining about not having any break when I could have had it this summer. I thought about getting a buzz cut, but I chickened out. I wasn't sure how it would look on me so I decided to stick with the faux-hawk I have had since November 2006. Maybe I'll think about it again when it's time for me to get a haircut in at least six weeks. I have been thinking so much more about dancing lately. It's something that I absolutely love to do, and the more I think about it, it seems that I'm starting to see it in my future. Hopefully, the fire that I have for dancing will never burn out.

Keep the fire burning homies.