AWESOMENESS in the HOUSE!

Please pray for my cousin, Christian Digamon. He was 10 years old when he died today due to an asthma attack . . . He had pneumonia . . . Medyo mahirap lang para sa'kin kasi nung Christmas lang namin siya nakilala, as in 'yun talaga 'yung first time, and akala ko magkakahiyaan kami, pero sobrang friendly niya at mabait at masipag at matalino . . . He's like the little brother that my sister and I never had. Christian, wherever you are right now, I hope you're happy. We love you. :) May you rest in peace. We'll always pray for you.

Labels: Digamon clan

Jan. 18, 2011: Blessed.

Thank you Lord! I passed both my first and second choices in UST, ECE and Civil Engineering. It’s an honor for me to pass! Actually, my dad submitted my application form Oct. 24, six days before the 2nd USTET. Kung ‘di pa dahil sa constant insisting from my parents and friends, baka ‘di ko pa ‘to naasikaso on time. Pero buti nalang! Thank you Lord for guiding me, for helping me pass. :)

I took only one entrance exam aside from USTET. And that was the UPCAT. And the results?


Thank you ulit Lord! Thank you thank you thank youuuuuuuuu! I’m forever blessed. I passed my first campus choice and course choice in my dream university! Thank you Lord for giving me strength dun sa three months from May to August akong nagre-review gabi-gabi . . . Hay! Salamat talaga, Lord. I won’t fail you or anyone else who believes in me. Kakayanin ko kahit anumang pagsubok ang darating . . . :)

Labels: college, Senior Year, UP, UPCAT, UST, USTET

Family Reunion in Bohol: Dec. 24, 2011

After eating breakfast we started making the mango float already. Hahaha! I made it with my sister, Ate Jessica, Christian and Ate Joanne. It’s fun to make food for Christmas Eve when you’re with your family! :) Haha. After making two batches, nakatulog nanaman kami ng kapatid ko! :)) Well, I guess ganun talaga, grab every chance you can get to sleep lalo ‘pag bakasyon! When we woke up it was late afternoon, then we went to the other house, Uncle Junior’s house. They were singing kasi may karaoke, at may disco lights pa sila! Hahaha!

Ate Chona, Ate Ytette, Kuya Joemar (Uncle Junior’s 4th child and only son; he’s taking Architecture somewhere in Bohol I dunno the name of the university eh) and Maritcho (youngest, Grade 6) were there, along with Aunt Marsha (Uncle Junior’s wife), Kuya Ruel (Ate Chona’s boyfriend—yes boyfriend, ilang years nang magkasama ‘tong dalawang ‘to pero di pa rin nagpapakasal!) and Kuya Mark (Ate Ytette’s boyfriend). So yeah, kumakanta sila at nagpaparty . . . They were drinking champagne too. Tapos sabi nila uminom daw kami, tapos sabi ‘di naman kami pwede. Tapos sabi ni Ate Chona, pwede daw sabi ni mama! Haha! Pero onti lang. So she took two glasses then poured champagne, half full :p Onti pala ‘yun sa kanya :)) It tasted alright. Medyo lasang Sprite na pinatamis. Hahaha! Paonti-onti lang naman pag-inom ko, except nung paubos na . . . Didn’t go wild though, medyo sumakit lang ulo. :p Ate Cheche came too, but she didn’t drink much. We also sang in the karaoke haha. Then dad called us to prepare for the Simbang Gabi.

After having dinner, we walked to the church at around 10:10p.m. because the mass would start at 10:30p.m. Jam-packed na ‘yung church! :p We were standing and there was almost no room inside. We stood there for two hours, kasi medyo mahaba ‘yung mass tapos ang daming ginagawa, Simbang Gabi nga naman. The choir was lead by Tita Cora’s brother who is also a teacher and is gay, but he’s really good! As in. Haha. We left the church a few minutes before 12:30a.m. Grabeng tagal, noh? :))

We went home to our grandparents’ house first with Mama Choly. She brought pizza! Pero not known brand, at nakalimutan ko na rin ‘yung name. :)) But it’s delicious. :D I ate the lumpia that mom made. Hahaha! ‘Yun lang ata. There was cake too, but I told myself I’ll eat it the next day. Then I asked mom where the mango float was (because it’s my favorite dessert during Christmas hihi) and she said it hasn’t hardened that much yet because one of the two containers had no lid haha! So yeah. After that we went to the other house, Uncle Junior’s house, and ate there too. :)) They had barbecue, yey! :))

Ate Cristy, one of our cousin teachers I told you about, came with her husband Kuya Seglenn and their 1- or 2-year-old baby girl, KC! She’s so curly-haired and singkit just like her! Haha! As in, sobrang cute. They were playing some modern party songs, and she was dancing, copying the moves she’s seeing from around her! Haha! Cuuute!! Then they say “KC, lip sync!” and she would move her mouth around :)) But the cutest thing about her is that she’s always smiling!! Waa sobrang cute talaga :)) Cutest baby ever!! Haha!!

Oh, we also played some parlor games. Una, ‘yung dapat isusuksok ‘yung straw sa bote—but here’s the catch: Most of us there were girls, the only boys were Kuya Joemar and our cousins’ boyfriends or husband hahaha! So ‘yung bote nakaipit sa legs nila and we had to put the straw there using our mouths. But it was all good ‘cause it was family. B-) The second game was we put a toothpick each in our mouths then we had to pass a rubber band using the toothpicks. Ah basta! Ang galing nga ng strategy ni Kuya Ruel e hahaha!

After all that, Ate Joanne said goodbye and left with her sister and PJ and Ken. After a few minutes the four of us (me, Danielle, Ate Jessica and Ate Che-che) also said goodbye and went back to our grandparents’ house. Pero ‘di pa kami natulog!!! We played cards (‘yung paunahan at may iba-ibang actions ang King, Queen, Jack at Ace—‘di ko alam tawag sa game na ‘yun) and ate the mango float! Yey!! At success ang ginawa namin! Hahahaha! :p

We did all that until 4 in the morning. Grabe, nauna pa ngang matulog ‘yung kabilang bahay kesa sa’min. Hahaha!! Pero it was fun, welcoming the birth of Christ with your family. ;)

Labels: Bohol, Christmas 2011, Digamon clan

Family Reunion in Bohol: Dec. 23, 2011

So mom woke us up early in the morning and asked us if we want to go swimming. Yey! We prepared our stuff and left after eating breakfast, pero ‘di pa pala kami magsi-swimming, we attended the burial of our lola’s cousin’s husband, whom my sister and I have never met before. Kasi naman pinsan ni lola, eh far relatives naman na ‘yun ‘diba. We saw that the singers were Tita Cora (mom’s cousin) and her sister and brothers. We only know Tita Cora and not her siblings because she taught me how to play the piano when we stayed there for one summer (but I forgot na kasi chords ‘yun at ‘di ko na natuloy pag-uwing Laguna). She saw us there. Haha. And they buried the man and we left.

After that we went to a resort (I forgot the name sorry) and met our cousins from Uncle Yoven. Aside from the two I already mentioned, there are Kuya Ondoy (the youngest and the only son) and Ate Ekit, who is the only one staying in Cavite with her husband and daughter, Ysa. So Ate Lisa has two children, one is Ate Matet (yes she’s my niece but she’s older than me—she’s taking her first year of Med. Tech. in Cebu Doctors’ College) and the other is Anton, two or three or four years old? Like PJ, he was still a baby when I first saw him, and now he’s bigger! Ang cute pa niya kasi ang kulit at ang daldal. Hehe! Ate Yvonne also has two children, Angela and Ivan. Angela’s in first year while Ivan’s in grade five or six? The two of them along with Ate Matet and two more of our other cousins are our kalaro every time we come home in Bohol. :)) Kuya Ondoy also has two children, Hans, 7, and Halona, 2 or 3. Haha. Ayun, ang cute nila. :))

Sandali lang din kami nagswimming nun, we weren’t even swimming :)) Haha! We went home earlier than Uncle Yoven and the rest. Hehe. Tapos nakatulog pagkauwi. That was basically our day. :p

Labels: Bohol, Christmas 2011, Digamon clan

Family Reunion in Bohol: Dec. 22, 2011

We were actually awake 12a.m. this day, because our flight would be at 5:30a.m. I was surprised we were taking Philippine Airlines instead of our usual Cebu Pacific (which was the airlines that we used in two of our other trips this year—Iloilo and Palawan), though I can’t say it’s no better than the latter. The plane we rode on our way to Bohol had a screen at the top, and it also has a radio (I don’t think it really is a radio because it can interfere with the plane’s navigation or something) where you can put your headset on it. Hehe cool. We landed in Bohol a few minutes before 8 in the morning, and we waited like 30 minutes for our sundo to arrive. We headed to ICM (Island City Mall) to eat breakfast at Jollibee, while Mama Choly (our aunt and our grandparents’ eldest child, principal of our family’s school, Batuan Colleges Inc.) and mom bought food for Noche Buena at the grocery. (By the way, Uncle Junior, grandparents’ 3rd child, was our driver for the day. Haha.) That was in Tagbilaran, but our mom’s family lives in Batuan, which was a two- or three-hour drive from there. We arrived at around 12, and we saw lolo and lola, and we went to the next house and saw Ate Joanne (our cousin’s wife) and her two kids, PJ and Ken. It was our first time to see Ken, he’s the bunso. When we last saw PJ he was still a little baby with a big head!! Hahaha! Ang cute talaga, they’re all grown up!

We went to Balay sa Humay, kind of like a restaurant slash mini-museum of rice slash inn owned by Mama Choly, to have lunch with her and lola and lolo. They’re using red rice here na pala, I thought. I didn’t taste much of a difference from the white rice we use here in Laguna, but maybe it’s because I’m very matakaw and eat fast, since my cousin Ate Jessica (who is currently studying Nursing at the Adventist University of the Philippines) and my mom said that the red rice was sweeter. We also tasted their native chicken—that I tasted a difference from the usual chicken we eat, and it’s really tastier! After the hearty lunch lola took us to the huts or rooms where guests stay for a night—and guess what, we fell asleep there. My sister and I were in a different room from our parents’. Haha! I slept for one or two hours, but my sister was so knocked out so I just stayed with her until she woke up, which was at like 5 or 6p.m. Haha! Thank God for cell phone!

We went home to the house (it’s only two to three minutes away from the Balay sa Humay) and had dinner. We saw Ate Che-che, our 28-year-old cousin who I think has finished her master’s in Education. Woo! Oh, and by the way, a lot—as in A LOT of our relatives from our mother’s side are teachers! There are Uncle Yoven (our grandparents’ 2nd child), Aunt Feding (Uncle Yoven’s wife), Uncle Domie I think (our grandparents’ 5th child), Aunt Delin (7th child, her family lives in Pangasinan and we often see them when we go there; she’s a Science Coordinator by the way hehe), Aunt Baby (8th child and Ate Jessica’s mom; she’s not really a teacher but she taught for some time before she went to the US where they live now), Ate Yvonne (Uncle Yoven’s daughter), Ate Lisa (Uncle Yoven’s daughter), Ate Chona I think (Uncle Junior’s daughter, she taught for a while in BCI but she’s reviewing for the Bar Exam—yes, she took Law!), Ate Cristy (Uncle Junior’s daughter), Ate Ytette (Uncle Junior’s daughter), Ate Joanne, Ate Che-che, and others I don’t know or forgot haha. Hindi naman adik sa pagtuturo, noh? When I was younger I didn’t want to be a teacher kasi mao-overcrowd na. Haha! Hindi sa dinodown ko ang mga teachers, no, because I really do think being a teacher is a noble job. But I’m not one to join the flow and I know that teaching is not the right path for me. But I’m proud to say na wala pang engineer sa Digamon Clan, and if I do it well, I’ll be the first! Hihihihi!

So back to the real story where we saw Ate Che-che. She’s going with us to Jovit Baldivino’s concert at the Batuan Gymnasium. Haha! Christian (our 10-year-old cousin, Ate Che-che’s half brother; that was our first time to see him) went with us, too. We didn’t actually have tickets, but luckily Uncle Milan (6th child and youngest son, father of Ate Che-che and Christian) has connections and bought us tickets there. Ahahaha. The show was supposed to start at 7p.m. but it actually started at 8. Haha! Jovit was really good; he had a powerful voice for an 18-year-old. Nakaka-wow. He’s my idol na. Ahaha. But it was only for two hours, and we went home at around 10. We just walked; ok lang kasi medyo malapit lang naman ‘yun sa bahay. Wee!

Labels: Bohol, Christmas 2011, Digamon clan

Refresh. Refresh. Refresh...

Labels: college, Senior Year, UP, UPCAT

My 2011 in Link Form

January:

• LACASA
• Intrams
• Foundation Day/Foundation Night

February:

• Goodbye Louise :’(
• Retreat with Mirabello
• JS Prom
• YES Camp
• PE Practical Test (Social Dance)

March:

• Deciding to run for the ESC elections
• Last school day thank you’s
• EK trip with friends for Paige and Dada’s birthday
• Last Recognition Day for Juniors
• First day of Open College in DLSC

April:

• Last day of Open College
• I cut my hair short!
• NYSTESC 2011 @ Iloilo
• Deciding on which college to go to
• Brain Train UPCAT Review
• My birthday! :D

May:

• EK with best friends :)
• Brain Train UPCAT Review
• Palawan Vacation
• Finding out that I’m in Chofu

June:

• Filling my application form for UPCAT
• Last first day of school
• Last first week of school
• Sr. Teresa’s birthday (c/o ESC)

July:

• Moving on
• My very first (and probably last) SYALA
• SciDaMa @ Cavite
• Retreat with Chofu
• Rizal Trip (c/o ESC)

August:

• SLA Preparation @ DB Manda (c/o SC-Manda)
• Induction of Officers! :)
• SLA Preparations @ CDBS + Hell Week
• SLA @ DB Manda
• Buwan ng Wika Preparation (Chofu)
• Buwan ng Wika Celebration (Chofu)

September:

• CAT w/ my Tropang Pusa!
• Physics Trip @ EK
• Card Distribution, 1st Quarter :p
• Failed Trip, er, Field Trip
• Last YES Camp :o :(

October:

• Teachers’ Day @ CDBS (c/o ESC)
• Community Day + Cheering competition per batch
• Submission of Physics project lol (Lauren’s Letter)
• First (and probably last) Echoes lay-outing
• Math Acoustic 2011 w/ XYZ Band minus Louise plus Rorie :))
• 3-day Intrams
• USTET @ UST

November:

• NLTSGO @ Baguio
• 11:11 on 11/11/11 w/ Chofu :’)
• Academic Exhibit @ Cimatti Dome (Go Chofu!)
• Card Distribution, 2nd Quarter :p

December:

• YES Tree Planting @ Calatagan
• (Best) Christmas Party (ever) with Chofu
• CAT, 3rd Quarter