Eeeeeeeeeeeeekkkkkkkkkk!!!!!!
celine| 26 February 2008 5:35 pmTwenty-One
celine| 1 February 2008 10:59 pmOh crap I’m turning 21 tommz…. technically i’m already 21… just need to wait another day for it to become ‘Official’ well… as of now actually another hour…. so yes…. here is my last post as an official 20 year old…
So here it is….
Twenty-One things I am grateful for:
- My parents who have supported me through everything and whose unconditional love and support was so critical to me not freaking out too much over quitting Starbucks.
- My sister… for driving me places, for her patience and for introducing me to all things ‘cool’… she helped me get the job I’m in now.
- My best friend Linda, who has as like always shown me through unwittingly wonderful example how things are done… for her companionship advice and the confidence she inspires in me…
- My Uni-Girls Steph, Faith, Amanda and Eva… they have been so wonderful to me all through this year…. they never forgot me at all even when we didn’t hang out so much…. for their concern and the compassion they have shown me.
- Natalya… for helping me with my AMEB this year… how i would’ve gotten on without her i’ll never know…. for her friendship and kindness I will be always grateful
- For Paula… who has kept in contact with me, whenever I talk to Paula I see the person I really want to be… She’s amazing
- For new experience which enrich the human experience especially in the King and I… Finally I got a principal role and I always wanted.
- Totally random…. but for nice RnB/Dance music and Ramon Doringo and his spirit… far out… he’s freaking awesome.
- For my new job…. which provides me with time, money, good company and appreciation
- For uni… only because I’m still in it…
- For NIDA…. i know i was 19 when i went to it but who cares it really helped the rest of my year.
- For JK Rowling, whose Harry Potter series brought me together with more interesting people.
- Siobhan Pagdin another new friend who is so generous with her talent and compassion…
- For hail storms which bring my family together
- For Starbucks which helps me appreciate my job now even more than before, which has shaped the kind of person I have become and the work ethic
- For Lifei, for her friendship and her willingness to share her religious beliefs with me.
- For Christine Curray who has pushed and strengthened the limits of my patience and tolerance. For teaching me lessons which I couldn’t learn from a friend.
- For writers whose words of wisdom help shape my own thoughts
- For friends who stay in touch… Jess, Kirsten, Brad, Louie, Dexter, Bridie and Flick They remind me I matter
- OH and how can I forget Carlo and Kane!!!!! Carlo for providing me with the essential reference for my new job and for Kane for the heads up and while I’m at it for Nelly… who also taught me things no friend could… and also…. whose changing relationship with Kirsten reminded me of how there is always more to a person than meets the eye.
- You know you’d think this would be profound but its not… for the internet… which makes communication with my friends much easier
Ok and now for the hardest part
22 things I’d like to achieve before I turn 22…
- Get my P’s …. and for the sake of the driving population do the 120 hours in a short time
- Get a credit average with my subjects at university… honestly I don’t think that this is totally over reaching.
- Tone and flatten my stomach so that I can bring sexy back
- Do 10 weeks of consecutive dance classes
- Finish my Pilates classes with Sarah Ives
- Finish learning to play the Chopin piece
- Go iceskating more
- Start tutoring
- Finish my “Bringing him back” fanfic
- Learn at least 2 new difficult arias
- Compete in at least THREE singing competitions as in events….
- Have $5000 in savings by 22…. see i said 22 not by the end of the year…. so i don’t care that you’re going to America … have 5000 by the time you’re 22 OK????
- Buy a nano… the shuffle is driving me crazy…
OK…. this is getting difficult - Finish the last six weeks of the Artists Way…. I don’t care when…. just DO IT !
- Make new friends and never turn down that opportunity…. unless they are boring or they suck…. you know there are some people that do suck.
- Oh yeah… try to keep the bathroom clean…. for yourself and not for Jess.
- Pull off the murder mystery
- Do at least 5 singing audititions for paying jobs
- Buy souvies for the people who have shown you wonderfulness this year when you get to the Americas
- Get a terminus pen pal
- Be more adventurous… with things… i dunno…
- Be less reckless about important decisions
2mins till i officially turn 21
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME
The rains that bind us…
celine| 17 January 2008 12:31 amThere 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
Take My Hand
celine| 12 January 2008 12:46 amI 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…
Rowling about J.K.
celine| 8 January 2008 10:49 pmOrganizing Crap
celine| 6 January 2008 9:17 pmOk 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.
