There are a lot of doors in our house. We also have, four computers, wireless access and three TV’s, its pretty sweet…So I’m pretty sure if my family tried we could probably all go a day living in the same house without seeing each other. I mean our family gets along really well but like a regular day in the life of us means that Jess and I (whichever one of us was at home) would clean the house at around 4.30 (just before mum and dad come home) then we would retire to our respective rooms with a mutual agreement to ignore each others existence until our parents come home. When they do we give them a hug, then retire to our respective rooms, me to my study, Jess to her room, Mother to the kitchen and Dad to his solitaire. (Yes Dad the secret’s out we know that’s all you really do )

The point is solitude – giving each other space… well its just part of our family culture… (‘Family–time’ usually consists of A: packing the car and going on a trip to somewhere at least an hour away from home (Usually Dad will get mad at me at one point during the trip) or B: sitting on the couch and watching TV – our latest obsession was ‘Gulong ng Palad’:: Neither of these activities require large amounts of talking ). In fact, I think our ability to give each other ‘me-time’ contributes greatly to our success as a family unit In this sense the doors are important

Anyway…. with the blackout that happened yesterday (There was a massive storm that hit us at about 4.30 yesterday arvo and pretty much knocked out the power for ages… for full details and video visit: www.rommelpascual.com – I’m not kidding we filmed it)

We couldn’t very well just decided to hang out in different rooms all night… (sitting alone in a dark room willing the computer to turn on wasn’t particularly enticing option for any of us) so our family chose to…. Horror of horrors… hang out.
hehehe…

It wasn’t so bad… we ended up playing 2 games of Cluedo, Pekqua, Crazy 8, Poker, BS, Pusoy Dos and Good, Best, Better (I don’t even know if that’s the right name…)

The scores were as follows

Cluedo Game 1 – Mum won: It was Mrs. Peacock in the Library with the Rope

Cluedo Game 2 – Jess won: Mrs. Peacock in the Hall with the Candlestick

Pekqua – hehhehe… I won both games

Dad won Poker and Crazy 8 and lost at BS

And I can’t even remember who won Pusoy.. and that last game…

As you can imagine card games can get boring after three and a half hours… And well, we weren’t about to break out the Monopoly (at best it would’ve taken 3 hours to play). At this stage Mum had spilt two glasses of water on the table… (near Jess ) and there was so much dripping wax on the table (from the candles) it wasn’t funny… By this time, I decided that it would be a good idea to go out; Coz lets face it… it’s 10.30 in the evening, we’re bored and it’s too early to sleep… so naturally we went to Starbucks…

As we walk out the door… that’s when the lights came on but we left anyway for a night of coffee, chai lattes and a debate on what a ‘miracle’ was exactly… Jess, Dad and I were quite specific… however mom refused to tell us whether her use of the word ‘miracle’ was a poetic synonym for ‘statistical anomaly’ or if it had it’s own special meaning… (I’m beginning to think that I have inherited my partiality to ambiguity from her – especially since dad is soooo unambiguous) …I think I can respect that she refused to give a black and white answer…

We tried to culminate the night by writing a family blog… which didn’t pan out too well – there are just some things that need to be done on your own – but by then mother had already decided that her computer screen was more interesting than Jess, Dad and I …

So yes, my house has a lot of doors. But I’m glad that we don’t always have to use them

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I spent the the 10th and 11th of Jan 2008 with my Uni girls at the Meriton Apartments in the city… they are so wonderful and I’m so very lucky to have them.

It’s just hit me now how much I’m really going to miss them once everything changes. With Manda going to Mac I won’t bump into her anymore at the JDV or on the bus or train to Uni… The other girls will still be there and I love them to bits. But I especially will miss Manda only because she was the first person I had connected with when I had gone to Uni.

 I remember we were on the line to get something for orientation day and Amanda’s mum had said something like…

“Now you have to make new friends”

and she was like

“Oh man! Why?”

and I went up to her, said something like,

” Don’t worry it’s not that hard…” and smash, bang, alacazam we were friends

 2007 was a whole new experience of Uni for me without them constantly by my side. In 2006 I pretty much relied on them all the time Amanda was especially good at the times and places of all our classes and Steph with all the study notes. Faith the wonderful entertainment in class… you make life less boring! and Eva… seriously no one listens as well as Eva does when we’re having a serious conversation about God… something I take for granted… but which she should know I appreciate.

And I realized although I am about a year older than them, I rely on them alot! During the first year of Uni I pretty much didn’t mind closing my eyes while they took my hand and led me while I quite obligingly and blindly followed… I’ve not had that experience with alot of friends and I think it is a rare thing, indeed to be able to do.

 This epiphany came to me after we had already split up and gone our seperate ways… I noticed that the entire time we were there I stuffed my glasses into my bag (my eye sight is pretty poor) and just followed them around, trusting that they knew what they’d be doing… i could see very little but hey, they’d never steered me wrong before!!!! but once we had split up and I had to wander around on my own I had to stop reach into my bag and put on my glasses…

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Ok first of all my Shiseido toner spilt!!!! FAR OUT!!!!!! That thing was bloody expensive!!!! grrr…. i wouldn’t be so peeved if i hadn’t JUST bought it… but I’m going to think happy thoughts and talk about the wonderful successful podcast that was tonight…

Actually really I just want to harp on about JKR and all her add on’s to the HP books. I mean I know the woman thought it through but man why disclose it?!?!?! and WHY oh WHY  do people have such an affinity for asking questions about a world that doesn’t exist as though her answers were the be all and end all… I swear this is how Religion was made… some random person came up with some Random god and the fans went out of control and started thinking it was real.

 Why is it people can’t use their imagination!!! I mean obviously JK isn’t the only one with ideas right???? I mean fans have got them!!! why can’t they come up with their own Horcrux making thing…. far out i don’t think i can read that freaking Encyclopedia…. it’ll just crush me and my hopes… oh well… it doesn’t make my fanfic any less valid or any crapper…. i’m going to maintain that Harry went to school thing though I do think that he should get some outside Auror training…. far out here I go rambling again…. I so don’t want to listen in to JK’s interviews anymore though…. its breaking my heart!!!

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Ok the very first freaking post here is going to in retrospect as to the efficacy of the organizing system I did last year. This weeks schedule which I have written up in a relatively minimalist manner hopefully will help develop a more sophisticated organization system… if anyone is actually reading this I’m actually just talking to myself…. it’s what i do when I lack people with enough knowledge of what the hell i’m harping on about… so you’ll proabably be bored from this point on and not read forward….

 Anyway… I’m hoping to gradually add things to my weeks “pilates” hopefully will be the first of many since offcourse it helps strengthen my core and in the end makes me look sexy and helps with the singing… are you still reading this dad??? yes i know its you

 Ok …. NEXT… I’m not sure what is next… I’d probably see if I can do more of the money management stuff… yeah… well that’ll go hand in hand with the new years resolution to ‘not eat out too much’… ok… so the plan is to add stuff gradually to the point where you are used to doing these things already and make them a habit… sigh… Sometimes I’m just so sick of trying!!!

 But I gotta try otherwise i’ll start becoming existential and if that happens then it really wouldn’t matter if the world was hit by a gamma ray or gets swallowed up by the sun… or if religon really will kill us all because i won’t care… because everything is going to be the same and i’d be fate’s bitch being pushed and pulled by the tides of chance.

And that simply won’t do.

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