End the year with a bang or boom

It’s been at least half a month since I last played RockBand, about half a year since my last Con, 2 and a half years since I last played with my guitar and now here I am typing this entry on my blog New Year’s Eve. This blog hasn’t been online for long but since I first started it, it has changed my life in a number of ways unimaginable. I feel kind of bipolar and schizophrenic at the same time whenever I write on this blog. One moment I’m ranting about this thing that happened and the next I’m being all emotional and thankful for another. I feel different at times. Lighter in the least whenever I write here. Typically, I’m not one to shy away from how I truly feel when it comes to writing. This blog has served as a part of my journal that I am willing to share and relate with others. I fear no such criticism and anger with what I write here. And if I acquire readers that I am not in close relations with, please forgive my honest and seemingly shocking language. I do not mean to harm anyone or anything. I am here simply because I want to express myself in the most truthful way possible. I may not always share everything that happens in my life but I will write things that I think are beneficial to others. I may seem opinionated and selfish and I do apologize but please be cautious with judgment since what I state is merely a personal opinion and it does not reflect my whole being in the most one-sided manner. I do thank all those people which have made my stay here an enjoyable and I do hope to become more active with managing my blog. I have other online work places you see and with the hectic time in school , I cannot promise a regular update. Still, I want to make an effort to update. My time here means time for myself. I am a workaholic and sometimes I tend to work too much. And this year, I will avoid at all costs overworking myself for I’ve learned that the hard way.

It’s the New Year and seriously, I would like to start fresh in a number of ways. Believe it or not, at 18, I still make a list my New Year’s Resolutions. Sad to say, for the past years, I honestly never fulfill the whole list but I do try. I guess what my list is trying to tell me is to be more REALISTIC XD haha! FOINE!

Anywho, hopefully my more realistic list will get more checkmarks this coming year. Hey couldn’t blame a girl for wishing to go to AFA LOL.

This year has been quite a ride. From almost making it to the Dean’s List (BITTER!!!), to my 18^th birthday, wowza, I can’t believe how time has passed by so quickly!

Posted below are a few pictures and screen shots of what I’ve been up to the whole year.

Alice In Wonderland Photoshoot (c)fayerayosphotography and postprocessing

Pandora Cosplay Cirque's First Anniversary

Backdoor Venture's Arts And Music Fashion Show

Fictionpress story updates

Summer Cos-Tour

Vamp-ed Shoot

Volturi Reunion

18th Birthday

Paskuhan 2010

Christmas 2010

To the people I’ve shared a wonderful year with, thank you! I wouldn’t have survived without you. I will leave 2010 without regrets no matter what and I look forward to 2011. And as I go back to regular classes in the Main Building of UST, I give a toast to the next 400 years!

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Let’s all be a firework and give light and joy to everyone J

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The eyeliner wearing bully, faye

AS THE DRAGON FIRES ITS BREATH (c)fayerayos

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

You're never too old for Santa

PICTURE BLOG

Every year, we plan a day where we go stuff ourselves, go shopping and basically just relax for a at least a day or two. The whole trip was quite something alright but it didn't exactly start of in great terms.

Our car got a flat tire from all of the things that we brought with us, including the live chickens that my dad's friend ordered. We were already at mid-SLEX when it happened. Thank goodness though that my dad, ever so prepared, brought with him 3 jacks XD Yes, his spare has a spare :D Our driver, Kuya Santi, was also able to change the tire within a few minutes. Thank goodness we were close by a gasoline/vulcanizing station and we were able to arrive in Manila safely. Our first stop was at Burger King in E-rod where we waited for my eldest to arrive. We had breakfast there and I took a few family photos while waiting. (More photos can be seen on my FB account. I won't be posting a lot of fam photos here for privacy reasons.)

I took this photo when my dad was giving an alternate direction towards our favorite mall. There was bad traffic that afternoon. I took us an hour or so to arrive.

The day was a success and the best part of it all was when my nephew got to meet Santa for the very first time. (And yes, it's okay for kids to believe in jolly 'ol St. Nicholas. :D) Anything to light up the face of your loved one :3 That's what I always say.

The ride back to the place we were staying that night was reasonably fast. I was able to practice a bit of lightpainting and fractional photography on the way. I'm still a little rusty with my new baby EOS 500D. I think, the camera that I got as a debut/surprise Christmas present suits me well. It's handy, practical, and I can point and shoot photos as well as film. ;)) barely read the manual, bet hey, my old de-film photojournalism days sure are coming in handy.

Happy Holidays!

Will post more photos soon! :DDDDD

Out of this world

doodle by yours truly
By popular demand XD

According to the ever trusted Wikipedia,

Alien or Aliens may refer to:

• Alien (law), a non-citizen inhabitant of a country
• Extraterrestrial life
• List of alleged alien beings (ufology) <- confidential XDDD
• Any introduced species

In short SOMEONE WHO DOES NOT BELONG OR CLAIMSTOBELONGWHENINFACTNOONECARESABOUTTHEIRSELFISHTAKEOVEROFMANKIND'SHARDWORK.

I've met a certain ET who should most definitely take a rocketship home. I'm sorry but whoever you are, you are getting on my nerves. It's bad enough that you (among your kind) claim to be this highly intelligent hardworking species but you just won't stop at that. You want to take over the world and all its glory and claim that you've done it all on your own and benefit from your own hard work. That's bull. Take the movies perse, is not through observation of these supernatural beings on humans that they are able to conquer the planet? Is it not that they change their skin in order to blend with our species? To belong? (Yeah, you can trash the thing about the movies shit but I will state my point.)

There are just these annoying people with weird faces who love basking in reflected glory! I mean who does that? Say for example, lie in front of your professor and be all high and mighty about an assignment that you contributed little to? Hello! Modesty aside, I WAS APPOINTED THE LEADER. And I was even considerate enough to give you little work in order for you to meet the deadline of another project! And to think you were the last person to send me your share of the work which turned up WRONG. I didn't bother letting you correct it because of the lack of time, I wasn't even able to study well for a quiz because of said homework. YOU really boiled it all when you went all "jolly-airhead" when you volunteered to talk about our assignment. Your pretentious explanation of what our homework is about sickens me. Why? Well first of, it's a RESEARCH work, YOU were supposed to READ the JOURNALS that YOU DENIED and IMPATIENTLY didn't WAIT for. All that false passion shit, does not work well with me. And guess what, you would've compensated if you asked for me to HELP you. Damn it. YOU ARE A SELFISH CRETIN.

I say,

Take YOU and YOUR EGO home to OUTERSPACE.

You do not belong.

No human would ever be so vile.

Modesty aside once more, I am generally a patient and nice person and considering the amount of ethics that I gave to you because of "issues" with others, you disgust me to the core.

I am trying to just be casual with you because you are still "allegedly" a person.

But do that again and you'll see STARS :))) And I promise, that one's gonna take you home >:D

P.S Have you ever watched Mars Attacks, you know the Burton Classic? Well, I've always wondered if you listen to this music on you overly used earphones, that one day, your permanently tipped head will explode.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TxzIOMS2zzY

Yes. I get mad but only for good reason, because you stupid alien, most definitely did NOT COME IN PEACE.

December

*LATE POST (Dec. 1, 2010, 12:08 a.m)

It’s officially December and I’m having a personal debate (yes, between myself) as to reading my aunt’s long overdue book (Cross Fire by James Patterson), and typing this entry (When I say type, I mean just document. I don’t think I’m in the mood to post this right away and if I do, just scratch the last part.

Things are getting crazy around here, in both good and bad ways. First off, I missed Laurent Kate when she arrived for a signing last Sunday and second of all, NSTP ruined my weekend and I ended up cramming for our novel like homework for social psych WHILE I was still recovering from slight fever and major fatigue. These proved to be inevitable obstacles and when my sisters and I decided to start with Christmas shopping. But hey, at least my ate was able to check on me and anyone who knows me would know that Malls are instant panacea to my sickness (at least for a while). We actually thought that the Malls would be so packed and traffic would be crazy because of the Holiday, luckily, time was on our side and we breezed through the trip successfully. Hopefully, I can say the same with PE (Ahem, JR!).

I love keeping busy and all, what with all the markings on my planner tainted in red and green (and pink), and school work is the same old load (heavy load but hey, I’m gettin’ by), I am sometimes bothered by something that I can’t seem to figure out. And I think it’s just now that I’ve come to realize that what has bothered me all along, was thought of not having anything to do and not having anything to look forward to. And when I say look forward to, it always has something to do with an eventful and productive vacation. I guess, what I actually fear is coming back to the dorm after the Christmas break and having nothing to look forward to for like the next few months!

Ever since the second sem started, we’ve been having a relatively busy start. Colleges are celebrating their weeks as well as departments, holidays, professors on leave (or missing), etc… And now that the Christmas Concert is coming followed by the Paskuhan week and other (surprise) events like the Q-rosary and all, I’m expecting more crammed work and fast paced lectures and more takehome paperwork before the Paskuhan week comes. Don’t get me wrong, it may seem like a hectic time, and it is, though, I have to admit the hype is getting to me early (no wonder, I can’t concentrate well in Chem XD). I guess I just like planning for something productive and stress free at the same time, I mean come on, once school starts again in January, I wouldn’t be caught doing much of the intricate planning as much as I had during December. I don’t think counting down the days to Summer vacation at the start of the year is healthy anyway.

It’s gonna take a lotta space for me to enumerate the things I’ve got planned for this month, but one thing’s for sure, I’m gonna love every bit of this season.

Wow, I’m sounding more positive than usual. This post isn’t really a rant or anything. ( I guess I needed this after…uh…some STUFF that’s been going on). It must be my returning addiction to Friends (all seasons J) and the bunch of Christmas songs I’ve been adding to my iPod.

Ahh….It’s the most wonderful time of the year! (The most epic Christmas song evaaaaah!)

P.S The Gwyneth Paltrow ep of Glee was epic. Can she be anymore cool? XD (I guess it comes along with being married to the pioneer of Coldplay, Chris Martin.)

Next Agenda: Watch The Grinch.

On the 4th day of Christmas

Disclaimer: This is just a pre-Christmas post to blow off some steam. A post with better enthusiasm will follow.

I am typing this at my sister's place right now and I have to say that I am not happy. Just when I thought things couldn't get any worse, it did.

My sister and I went to gateway to scout for gifts and then meet-up with our eldest sis after lunch. While waiting, I took the time to stroll and buy gifts for my best buddies. I went from store to store in a relatively fast pace it was only at around 1:30 when things slowed down. I had a number of the what I call, youdon'tlookrich/you'rejustakidwithnomoney treatment. I have made a conclusion that it doesn't matter if you're inside a high-end store or a local one, there are still ill-mannered salesfolk. Though I never expected a high end department store to to look down on me and my sisters so much. No offense to the whole store, I mean majority of the salespeople there were great! But those in the gift wrapping section have issues. Especially the middle aged guy wrapping the gifts, I mean, it was fine when we had to wait a while because ofthe stack of gifts on the counter but seriously, the guy didn't have to be so rude and make side comments when my ates where waiting. What ticked us off was that the second time around, we thought we'd get faster service and all but no. The overmanned station was getting slower just because they were too busy complaining.

The worst part of the the day was when we were already on our way home. When we were getting a taxi,a bunch of guys cut us off and the lady in the dress got the cab that we signaled just because she was next to us and was wearing a skimpy outfit. The cab waved back at us but then swerved off toward the lady. Talk about frustrating, we were trying to catch the 6pm mass but clearly it wasn't an option anymore. The silver lining of the long wait was a nice gentleman gave us his cab. See? There's still courteous people in the spirit of the Holiday.

Or so we thought. The cab driver asked us immediately that we were supposed to give an additional fee because of the distance. We figured that it was already late so we obliged. The driver was the most annoying/disturbed person of that I've ever met. He was babbling questions at my ate about Myoma regarding if it was cancerous or not, my ate answered his questions in the best possible way that he could understand. When my ate asked if it was his wife who had it, he said that it was actually his indeed although they were already newly separated since a month ago since his wife allegedly cheated on him when she was abroad. He said that she married his lover while they were still together as well. He said that he was 80% moved on and recovered even though before that he was drinking for three days nonstop making him unable to drive his taxi and indebted to alot of people.

Now what would you do if you were his passenger at that time?

Naturally, his statement would alarm you. And believe us,it did so we decided to just get off and stay at my sister's place for the night. Thank goodness it was near the mall!

We opted not to take another taxi because the day was showing signs of uncertainty. Better safe than sorry.

There are a number of more unfortunate details that I refuse to enumerate but I am just happy that we got a lot of warning signs. Thank you so much God.

Despite the events that I stated, it was a fine day.I got to see Issa, Ienne, Jerina and Sherwin at the mall with my sisters. I felt better since. :))

I'm so happy I got to be with my sisters and I was able to accomplish half of my Christmas shopping.

Lesson learned: People get crazy during Christmas season.

.....and I think cab drivers are great thesis subjects for Psychology.

+~thecabdriverbully