Me

I've been thinking the past few days. Wondering about what I am going to do now that I am back in Manila, pondering on how I am as a person. I'm the type of person who will never tell a person his bad habits in front of him/her. I'll probably just post it in my blog or tell it to my mom, then remind myself never to commit those mistakes other people are doing.I know that nobody's perfect, so who am I to tell others of their mistakes, right?

I feel that I've changed after 50 days in Beijing. I learned a lot during this trip. Somehow I feel that I learned more about myself than what the teachers taught in the classroom. I'm now more mature, more open-minded and liberated in dealing with things. I've become wiser and more reasonable(not that I was unreasonable before, haha). I now think before I speak. I think farther, plan ahead...It's great!

One thing I regret most about the trip is that the 50 days was just too short...wish we could've extended for a few more days.
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sidetrip!
I'm ranked 8th in our class, Candee is 5th. But It doesn't matter about the ranking, what's important is that we are in Level 6!!!Yeah!!!! =)

Posted some pics in my multiply and flickr accounts!

back home!

I'm finally able to blog again! hehe Just got back to Manila last night...Still in jetlag mode today, but I still had to go to CKSC for our rehearsal for tomorrows performance.

I've got loads of stories to tell. I've met a lot of different personalitites during our stay there. Different kinds of people that I never imagined ever existed. There are people who just like to butt into other people's conversations, and those that take over the bathroom for hours at a time, people who just feel that they "own" their crushes, moms that think money makes the world go round, etc etc.

Even with the weirdo's I've encountered, I still miss my life in Beijing! I miss the freedom I had to go around at night, taking a stroll around campus in the morning and at nite, eating bbq mushroom or "ji pai", talking with our neighbours till super late while eating Lay's, etc etc. Somehow I feel, that I've grown roots there. 50 days was just too short...We were getting ready to leave just when everybody was starting to get used to life there. We were alwasys saying "bukas na lang" but we never realized that every day that passed meant that our Beijing life was getting nearer to its end. I wished that we could have extended the trip for a few more days. Now, I feel that UIBE-ISC is my home. Although yeah, my home here in Manila will always be the place I go to after I end a journey.

I feel that it is about time that I go out and live on my own. I have to learn to stand on my own, making decisions for myself. I may fall on the way but this is my life. At least I know that I have lived my life to the fullest.

That for me is what matters most.

Life in Beijing...

Hey there everybody!
It's been ages since I've laid my hands on a computer keyboard! Although the net cafe here in school charges only 3 yuan for a half hour of use, still I still tend to not go online.

Anyways, we just finished with our midterm exams today. We had exams in two subjects, speech and qing du(sort of like our hua bun in high school). I got a grade of 79 in speech. We had the written test in qing du today so I still don't know the results. All I know know is I have at least one mistake.

I've got loads of stories to tell about my experience here. But one stands out from all the rest...I've got this rommmate who is oh so weird. She doesn't talk (as in it's like talking to the wall). She looks like a member of the addams family, except that her skin tone is like Pocahontas'. I've given up talking to her by the end of our first week here. Anyways, her mother called the other day, and screamed at me, Candee and our other dormmates...We have no idea why...Although she was complaining at why we talk to her daughter and she feels "nagpplastikan lang kami"....and she claims that their family is very influential, that they own 3 franchise outlets of a popular fastfood chain in Manila, and they own this big hospital in Greenhills(I think,I'm bad with locations)...Is her mother trying to scare us into befriending her daughter? The mother is an ob-gyne(Dra. Liao) by profession. Which probably means that they pay a lot of attention to hygiene, but this is not the case, the little princess is always mixing the dishes with her chopsticks searching for who-knows-what. There are a lot more stories about her...I've been observing her, and I've come to the conclusion that I'm not going to try communicating her again, lest her mom calls and screams at us again. It's better to avoid trouble.

I've got to go...30 minutes are up. Tell you guys more when I come online again.

Take care everybody!

mixed emotions again

We're leaving for Beijing tomorrow morning. I'm not sure what I'm feeling right now...I feel kinda sick (sine last night), must have been something I ate. I feel better now, although I still get this feeling of being dehydrated even when I drink more than the necessary 8 glasses of H2O a day.

I'm excited, yet scared of what is awaiting us in Beijing. I saw the dorm rooms on the school website. Its not exactly a room in a 5 star hotel, but it looks livable. I just hope that I don't get sick(ie allergy, diarhea, flu,etc) during the trip... If the truth be told, my dads even more scared than us. He keeps on giving us these reminders of what to do and what not to. typical parent...

We're not allowed to bring any personal gadgets...Waaaah! I'm going to miss my laptop! and adobe photoshop and illustrator, etc etc.


Actually, I've been thinking, if Candee and I survive this trip unscathed, does this mean that I get to go to YVR after the trip? I'd like to go back to studying again...hehehe

nothing to say...

It's one of those moods wherein I'm typing here just for the sake of having an entry...hehe I'm taking a break from packing my stuff(still haven't put in my clothes, I'm still trying to take out the stuff I feel won't be of use there).

ANyways, I tend to ramble just about anything when I get bored and I talk too much too when I get excited. Then when everybody is all high about something I just shut up and listen. And then people suppose that I'm not interested in them, but it's nothing like that...I just let people talk, listening to people talk rather than join in the conversation. I talk when I have something to share though, so that doesn't necessarily mean that I am not at all out of the conversation or uninterested at all....

See? I told you I tend to ramble...hehe

ANyways, I'm leaving for Beijing this Sunday. Pretty excited, pretty scared too. I have no idea what I'll be facing there.

You know?I have this dream...I want to be able to travel around by myself for awhile...see the world while I'm still young. But then again, my parent's will probably never allow it since I'm a girl.