Week 6

I look stupid, I know. Lol

Ate Iya's birthday!

Week 5

Week 4

It took me forever to chop garlics and onions

Pansit for Macky

DIY birthday hat

Shell vs. Customs

Forum with people surrounding Shell Tabangao refinery

Week 3

Bryan, the SK Chair of Libjo

Danna assisting the enumerators we hired

Fooling around while Ate Iya is working her ass off. Lol

My girls

Siesta

Week 2

Tulay

Macky, my survey buddy

Batangas State U + UPLB practicumers

Yung ilog parang baha na lang

My survey buddy is Eminem

Week 1

I miss blogging. Unfortunately, I don't have the luxury of time and luxury of resources (I'm using prepaid internet) to blog. =( And I don't know if we're allowed to share what's happening in our practicum...at least not until the practicum ends. So lemme share some pictures na lang. Low res though to save time in uploading.

Bye Elbi

After more than a week of waiting and feeling exasperated, I am now relieved. Relieved because finally I'm certain that I'll be doing my practicum this sem. Though I was not assigned to the firm I like most (Blacksmith Institute), they placed on my second choice - Pilipinas Shell. What happened to Globe? I dunno and I don't wanna talk about it.

I'm with three other practicumers. Fortunately, I know these three and I had the chance to work with them before. Two of them are like one of my super friends. So I think we have a very promising team.

We'll leave Elbi on Wednesday. I'm gonna miss Oble and my fellow Isko. *sigh*

See you on March.

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Dear Ma'am Carla and Ma'am Emy,

I doubt if you'll be able to read this but I just want to say sorry for the long face kanina. One week of waiting and feeling exasperated really took its toll on me. I could have been worse. But our relationship is more than a teacher-student type and with that in mind I reminded myself not to be a total pain in the ass. I know you worked so hard to strike a deal with them and I'm really thankful to you. You know how long I've waited for this to happen and so I just couldn't bear the idea of being the one of the last students to be assigned in a practicum firm. Again, I'm really sorry.

I promise that I'll do my best there and all your efforts will not be put to waste.

Chitchat

I had a pretty interesting and productive day today. I woke up early to go to school and pick a form I need for my practicum. Stayed in our department for a while hoping to have some a chat with some random people. Too bad no one was around since today is Monday - our classes are from Tuesday to Friday. I left for lunch 11ish and decided to just eat at home. I bought a slice watermelon, my favourite fruit in the world! Hehe. Seriously, I <3 watermelons. Watermelon is the next best thing to chocolate.

I asked Johnny Depp to join me over lunch and he obliged. He said he's not hungry though and just watched happy me eat my watermelon-chan. Halfway through lunch he decided to tell a story. "Once Upon a Time in Mexico", he started. I wasn't paying much attention since I'm not into guns and stuffs. But it got pretty interesting when he and Enrique Iglesias came into the picture. Johnny is really good as always while Enrique is boyish and cute.

Around 1pm I decided to go back to school to do some research for my practicum. I saw my friend DJ and decided to ditch research and have a little chit chat with her. Our little chit chat lasted till 6. Lol. Macky joined us around 4 pm. Btw, our chit chat was about our practicum. We three are potential practicum mates if British Council (DJ) and Globe (me) decides not to take as practicumers/interns. We'll be joining Macky in Pilipinas Shell. And yeah, I think I'm favoring Shell over Globe because I'll be with these two funny girls.

Our chit chat also revolved on how we would try not to get into each other's nerves since we'll be staying in one place if we become practicum mates. Hehe. We're good friends but then again we know that living in one place is not the same as hanging out with each other outside.

Next to not getting into each other's nerves, food is next main concern.

DJ: Sino magluluto?

Ako: Di ako marunong.

Macky: Marunong ako!

DJ: Ayun!

Macky: Kaso prito lang.

Ako: Prito lang din alam namin eh - hotdog, itlog.

Macky: Pero pag di masarap yung niluto ko ok lang naman na sabihin nyo.

Ako: Sa labas na lang tayo kumain.

DJ: Jollibee everyday.

Then, cleaning.

Macky: Sino maglilinis ng C.R.?

DJ: Si Pipo marunong daw.

Ako: Ha? Eh...

Macky: May schedule na lang dapat.

Ako: Oo nga!

DJ: Sige Mack, ikaw first two months sa C.R. Si Ate Iya (another practicum mate) magluluto.

Come Wednesday we'll know our final assignment. I do hope it's Shell for me.


And oh, Macky, your suitor is a hawtee. =p

Just My Luck

Do you believe in luck? I do. I'm not a fan of that fate thingy and that everything-happens-for-a reason philosophy.

Methinks somebody robbed me off of my luck today. Or maybe I left it somewhere.

We had our photo shoot for the graduation...and I look like crap in the pictures. My "creative shot" is mediocre at best. Mediocre may even be a bit of a stretch. >_<

And I thought the practicum firm where I will be assigned is just a toss between Blacksmith Inc., and Pilipinas Shell. I was actually 101% confident that Blacksmith will choose me. But it's neither Blacksmith nor Shell. It's Globe. I didn't choose Globe. How can I choose Globe when it's not even in the list of choices. I have nothing against Globe though. Globe is Globe after all and I've heard their CSR projects are award-winning. I just don't like surprises.

I'm gonna stop whining now as I have this feeling that I'm already contradicting myself.