Several singular events these days have been flashing by, so I guess this is a good time to try my first real blogging experience on the famous www.blogger.com - I gotta write them down while they're still fresh.
So I was chatting on MSN tuesday afternoon, and Scarleth was telling me about how her computer had caught an ugly virus and how it was deleting all of her and her family's documents, and how she couldn't work on her lab reports anymore. I offered to help by installing Windows XP on her computer. So I prepared my computer tools and laptop, and visited her on Wednesday at noon with the purpose of fixing her computer. I did a backup of all of her documents on my laptop and tried to install Windows XP SP2 on her computer. I failed miserably - her computer (motherboard, I should say) was either so weird or so old that it wouldn't either install or run Windows XP, by any alternative. And I tried a lot of them. It's such a long, technical story, but in the end, I used up both my Wednesday and Thursday failing to install Windows XP into an old computer, and couldn't do any abacus, japanese, chinese, piano, or parkour practice during that time. And I loaned Scarleth my laptop so they could still work on their reports and stuff. So now I have no laptop and no way to get my pictures out of my K310 cellphone :). But Scarleth & family can still do some work, and that's good :).
OK, lesseeeee... on Friday the 11th, I had Japanese class in the morning, went back home to have lunch, and had this other meeting representing AIESEC @ a project called "La RED" @ the AFS offices I mentioned in my last entry. This girl from AIESEC called Marylena told me she would go with me to the meeting, but cancelled on me about 30 minutes before. Fortunately, Naty called me like 20 minutes before the meeting and went to the meeting with me. While we were reunited at the reunion, we reunited our ideas by talking a lot about stuff I honestly didn't care much about, but feigned that I did. After the meeting, Naty gave me a ride to UFM, where I had this meeting with a so-called "Junta Revisora", which would evaluate my personality, abilities, and overall adequateness to participate in an AIESEC international work exchange. There were four people evaluating me, and I could drink all the 7up I wanted during the interview. I guess this second meeting went OK... I didn't act nervous or anything... though I did stutter a lot. But I guess that's just the way I talk, so no big deal.
After all that, I left the UFM, took a bus, the Transmetro, and was picked up by Elisa @ Pacific Center... I went back home and migrated my whole old blog from Live Spaces into www.blogger.com. OK, this isn't exactly an event caused by the alignment of the planets, but it was quite a massive task that took me between 5-8 hours total, so it's at least worth mentioning.
Saturday, I went to my Mandarin class from 8-12. I arrived 15 minutes late, but since the teacher got there 38 minutes late, it was no big deal. Not much happened during this class. We were given the copies we had paid Q30 for last week (and we were all very upset to find that this consisted of only 18 pages). Since both levels Mandarin 1 and 2 are present in this class, time should ideally be divided into 2 equal parts for both levels. This was definitely not the case. The teacher spent the first hour (after she arrived) correcting the Mandarin 2 students' homework, one by one, while the students in the newbie level (myself included) counted the wasted minutes and criticized the teacher's sloooooowness between themselves. Well, I met this cute, outgoing 13-year old girl from Capouilliez school called Josselyne. She seems a little older, maybe 15, has neat and almost flawless handwriting, and likes to color all of her notes green, purple, orange and colors like that, and draw all the titles in her notebook like little dog paws (it's hard to explain, but her letters really do look like dog paws). Between talking to her and Silvia, class time passed on fairly fast. We, the Mandarin newbie students, maybe got to have about 10 minutes of class with the teacher. The rest of the four hours was dedicated to the Mandarin 2 students. This teacher's popularity is very low between us newbies right now, and the overall comment going around between us was that we were being totally ripped off.
I can't remember what happened on Saturday afternoon, so I probably just came back home, ate, chatted, and did some other kinds of procrastination. (Later edit): Oh yeah! I remember now! I found Maia on GTalk at about 4:30PM, I asked her to go to see Spiderman 3, and she agreed! And we went to see the movie to Pradera Concepcion (a really long way away from my house - it was the first time I've ever driven so far in that direction). She seemed really tired, she had just come from an activity with children at the art gallery where she collaborates. She didn't talk much, and she had dry acrylic paint of write, orange, blue, and green on her hands. We made the long line to watch the movie, we went in, and watched it. We didn't talk much while we were inside... we just watched the movie. It was really good, FX-wise, though the acting was a little overdone. Too much drama and metaphor... action movies and metaphors don't mix well.
Sunday - oh Sunday. Sunday May the 13th, Joel's birthday. I had my day kind of planned: my aunt had organized a little family get-together @ her place at 1PM to celebrate Joel. And I had a Fundaniñas activity (Fundaniñas is a home for homeless girls, if you'll pardon the illogicality, at which we the scholars in FJBG sporadically go and do some social service) in the afternoon, at maybe 2 or 3 in the afternoon as it had always been.
It turns out I was woken up at 9:20 AM by Paula, who told me she wasn't going to Fundaniñas because she was sick, and asked me to buy her collaboration for the event (2 2L soda bottles) for her, and told me she would pay me back later. Somewhere in the conversation, I picked up the hint that the meeting was not really in the afternoon, so I asked her exactly at what time was the meeting supposed to be. It was at 10AM. A little shocked, I turned my computer on and checked all of the emails I had gotten on the subject. Not one of them mentioned that it was at 10AM. I called Aceytuno and asked him about it... yup, it was @ 10AM. "Oh well", I thought... I better get going. It was 9:46AM by now, and I was calling everyone to ask for a ride all the way to Fundaniñas. Victor Flores, very kindly, agreed to go to San Cristobal and pick me up @ Burger King. I didn't take a shower, I didn't shave, I didn't pick my clothes. I just ran to BK as fast as I could and got to Fundaniñas about 30 minutes late. It was no big deal, though... the girls weren't there yet cause they were at the Sunday mass, so I had lots of time to chat around with the other FJBG scholars, catch up with recent events, and stuff.
The girls got back at about 11:30AM, and we began doing lots of activities. Oh, we did a lot of things. We jumped, we danced, we singed, we clapped, we played, etc... Two of the FJBG scholars dressed like clowns and made the girls laugh a lot. Then we prepared the food (tacos and tostadas), and gave it away to everybody. Then I played some more with the girls (One of them had her birthday coming up soon (May 18th), so we sang for her and ate cake with the girls). And then we left at about 3PM :O... I took a ride with Alejandro, who left me off at the Muni, where I took a Transmetro directly to my aunt's house. The meeting she had organized was already halfway, but I still managed to greet everybody, eat lots of food, drink lots of drink, play lots of XBox with my cousins, and have a pretty good time till about 9PM. Then Elisa and I went back home, and my day ended.
Monday the 14th, however, was probably the most singular of these days. Alicia, one of my little sisters, came back from Chicago at about 6:30AM. Though not emotional for me or anything, it's not something that happens every day. Probably more surprising is the fact that she came for a purpose: she's getting married to Condor in about two months. Poor her. And poor him, too. Why do people do such dumb things? Worthy of mention was also the fact that it was Bidkar's birthday, Ania's birthday, and Alberto's birthday (him I haven't heard of in a long time). And during the morning, I found it that it was Matzdorf's girlfriend's birthday, too! That alone made for a pretty singular day. I think it's the day on which the most people that I know of has their birthday. AND, Richard asked me if he could come on over to my house to sleep over, cause he's having some family problems/arguments/issues. I agreed, of course. But isn't it funny that all this happened on the very same day? Bidkar's birthday seems to be special.
Besides that, I had made an appointment with Mimi at 11AM. So I went, got there 5 minutes early, but had this urge to urinate when I got there. Mimi wasn't there yet, and the bathroom was being washed when I got there, so I had to wait like 10-15 extra minutes just to get into the bathroom. Coincidentally, during the scarce 30 seconds that I was in the bathroom, Mimi got there and went into her room. I then went and greeted her, and we talked a lot about a lot of things. It was mostly about me, but it was also a little about her, and a little about our mutual acquantaince, Maia. Details are omitted for the sake of respect, but let's just say it was also a very singular event.
I then took a bus to FJBG @ Torre Empresarial. Oh, it's both so funny and so extraordinary that little things come together so coincidentally. Who should I met on the way while walking but Matzdorf, the birthday girl's boyfriend! I spent a lot of time talking to him while he bought his lunch (2 hot dogs), and just when I thought "hmmm, we are done talking", I said goodbye, and kept on walking to Torre Empresarial. Then, during this exact same walk, as if timed precisely to meet with him, I met Bidkar, the other birthday boy! I gave him the usual birthday hug, and spent a lot of time talking with him too. We talked mostly about the thesis project and about him being sick. Then he had to leave for lunch, and I went to FJBG. I was admitted inside by a security guard, I waited for the secretary to finish her lunch, and OH SURPRISE SURPRISE, I was a given a check! My last stipend check from the FJBG, dated January 02, 2007! Wooow, I thought that, as ex-scholars, we weren't supposed to get any more stipends! Seems I was wrong! I signed the receipt, put the Q1000 check in my wallet, gave her a copy of my thesis project, received my FJBG diploma from her, and left. Elisa and Alicia were waiting for me at Tia Aury's, so I went there. I drove them back home, but when we got there, I waited in the car, in the garage, just to continue listening to some music from Elisa's MP3 Player. Coincidentally, during these 2 or 3 minutes, Richard came and knocked on the door. So THEN I turned off the car, opened the door for Richard, helped him in, and took him to my room. We then spent talking about what had happened to him, his laptop, how to install Windows Vista into it, girls, and stuff like that. I tried to do my abacus exercises, but Richard's presence and music were kind of distracting, so I only managed to finish one of them. Oh, we spent the afternoon and night just doing nothing, and then we went to sleep. I wrote a journal entry (with pen and paper) that night, just before going to sleep).
Yesterday, Tuesday the 15th, Richard left very early (about 7AM) for his classes @ BANGUAT, and I went to my japanese class at about 10:20AM, together with Elisa and Alicia on the bus. I got there late, as usual, so I had to scoot an extra desk inside and sat down surrounded on every side by other late students like me. The class was OK, as always, and we learned to say the numbers from 11 to 99. While we were doing an exercise of saying all the numbers from 1 to 99, each student saying one of them, in order, another girl came in and sat down right next to me. She asked what we were doing, so I told her, and explained to her how to say the numbers from 11 to 99. She's a real japanese enthusiast - she knows how to say her own name correctly in Japanese, watches lots of Anime, knows about cities in Japan, and explained to me several things I did not know. We did some exercises in couples, and I did them with her. We presented a third person between each other, and asked about another person (at a party, supposedly. "Anokata wa donata desu ka?" "Harry Potter-san desu. Hogwarts dakugai no Gakusei desu.", or something like that). Yeah, and she turned out to be a Harry Potter fan too (she was using a Harry Potter backpack). And she's called Cindy (Shindi in Japanese, according to her :) Shindi Tachiana). She' s nice. She seems kinda interested in me, and I like her too, so it's possible that we could hit it off. Next meeting, Friday @ noon, same place. Then Pedro gave me a ride back home. I got into his new blue Jetta :O. He told me he had JUST GOTTEN IT YESTERDAY (Monday). So it was ANOTHER singular thing that happened on Monday the 14th. Maybe that day is (or was?) a strong energy center or something. Oh well... thing is... it's another coincidence to add to the list. I deposited my newly-acquired check into my G&T account, so now I'm officially Q1000 richer hehe.
After my day-activities, Richard came back home, and he spent last night here too. He's actually still laying down, about 1 meter away from me, on the auxiliary bed I got for him, postponing his getup time. I gotta wake up him soon... he doesn't want to be late for BANGUAT.
Hmmmm, I guess that's it. Oh no, wait, last night I also did one more abacus exercise (YAY), and graded 19 essays ($19 cha-ching!). Not too bad, huh?
Now, I gotta figure out how to ornament my blog entry appropriately in here. No sample emoticons like in Live Spaces... maybe I can only add color to it? Maybe I'll upload lots of pictures from my cellphone too, and attach them everywhere so it looks a bit nicer. But for now, I guess text's what I have to work with. Maybe I'll do those images with text that have become so popular in hi5, zorpia, and all those sites.... hmmm... maybe blogger should have a little scrap-page to draw on. I would definitely use it if it did.
So I was chatting on MSN tuesday afternoon, and Scarleth was telling me about how her computer had caught an ugly virus and how it was deleting all of her and her family's documents, and how she couldn't work on her lab reports anymore. I offered to help by installing Windows XP on her computer. So I prepared my computer tools and laptop, and visited her on Wednesday at noon with the purpose of fixing her computer. I did a backup of all of her documents on my laptop and tried to install Windows XP SP2 on her computer. I failed miserably - her computer (motherboard, I should say) was either so weird or so old that it wouldn't either install or run Windows XP, by any alternative. And I tried a lot of them. It's such a long, technical story, but in the end, I used up both my Wednesday and Thursday failing to install Windows XP into an old computer, and couldn't do any abacus, japanese, chinese, piano, or parkour practice during that time. And I loaned Scarleth my laptop so they could still work on their reports and stuff. So now I have no laptop and no way to get my pictures out of my K310 cellphone :). But Scarleth & family can still do some work, and that's good :).
OK, lesseeeee... on Friday the 11th, I had Japanese class in the morning, went back home to have lunch, and had this other meeting representing AIESEC @ a project called "La RED" @ the AFS offices I mentioned in my last entry. This girl from AIESEC called Marylena told me she would go with me to the meeting, but cancelled on me about 30 minutes before. Fortunately, Naty called me like 20 minutes before the meeting and went to the meeting with me. While we were reunited at the reunion, we reunited our ideas by talking a lot about stuff I honestly didn't care much about, but feigned that I did. After the meeting, Naty gave me a ride to UFM, where I had this meeting with a so-called "Junta Revisora", which would evaluate my personality, abilities, and overall adequateness to participate in an AIESEC international work exchange. There were four people evaluating me, and I could drink all the 7up I wanted during the interview. I guess this second meeting went OK... I didn't act nervous or anything... though I did stutter a lot. But I guess that's just the way I talk, so no big deal.
After all that, I left the UFM, took a bus, the Transmetro, and was picked up by Elisa @ Pacific Center... I went back home and migrated my whole old blog from Live Spaces into www.blogger.com. OK, this isn't exactly an event caused by the alignment of the planets, but it was quite a massive task that took me between 5-8 hours total, so it's at least worth mentioning.
Saturday, I went to my Mandarin class from 8-12. I arrived 15 minutes late, but since the teacher got there 38 minutes late, it was no big deal. Not much happened during this class. We were given the copies we had paid Q30 for last week (and we were all very upset to find that this consisted of only 18 pages). Since both levels Mandarin 1 and 2 are present in this class, time should ideally be divided into 2 equal parts for both levels. This was definitely not the case. The teacher spent the first hour (after she arrived) correcting the Mandarin 2 students' homework, one by one, while the students in the newbie level (myself included) counted the wasted minutes and criticized the teacher's sloooooowness between themselves. Well, I met this cute, outgoing 13-year old girl from Capouilliez school called Josselyne. She seems a little older, maybe 15, has neat and almost flawless handwriting, and likes to color all of her notes green, purple, orange and colors like that, and draw all the titles in her notebook like little dog paws (it's hard to explain, but her letters really do look like dog paws). Between talking to her and Silvia, class time passed on fairly fast. We, the Mandarin newbie students, maybe got to have about 10 minutes of class with the teacher. The rest of the four hours was dedicated to the Mandarin 2 students. This teacher's popularity is very low between us newbies right now, and the overall comment going around between us was that we were being totally ripped off.
I can't remember what happened on Saturday afternoon, so I probably just came back home, ate, chatted, and did some other kinds of procrastination. (Later edit): Oh yeah! I remember now! I found Maia on GTalk at about 4:30PM, I asked her to go to see Spiderman 3, and she agreed! And we went to see the movie to Pradera Concepcion (a really long way away from my house - it was the first time I've ever driven so far in that direction). She seemed really tired, she had just come from an activity with children at the art gallery where she collaborates. She didn't talk much, and she had dry acrylic paint of write, orange, blue, and green on her hands. We made the long line to watch the movie, we went in, and watched it. We didn't talk much while we were inside... we just watched the movie. It was really good, FX-wise, though the acting was a little overdone. Too much drama and metaphor... action movies and metaphors don't mix well.
Sunday - oh Sunday. Sunday May the 13th, Joel's birthday. I had my day kind of planned: my aunt had organized a little family get-together @ her place at 1PM to celebrate Joel. And I had a Fundaniñas activity (Fundaniñas is a home for homeless girls, if you'll pardon the illogicality, at which we the scholars in FJBG sporadically go and do some social service) in the afternoon, at maybe 2 or 3 in the afternoon as it had always been.
It turns out I was woken up at 9:20 AM by Paula, who told me she wasn't going to Fundaniñas because she was sick, and asked me to buy her collaboration for the event (2 2L soda bottles) for her, and told me she would pay me back later. Somewhere in the conversation, I picked up the hint that the meeting was not really in the afternoon, so I asked her exactly at what time was the meeting supposed to be. It was at 10AM. A little shocked, I turned my computer on and checked all of the emails I had gotten on the subject. Not one of them mentioned that it was at 10AM. I called Aceytuno and asked him about it... yup, it was @ 10AM. "Oh well", I thought... I better get going. It was 9:46AM by now, and I was calling everyone to ask for a ride all the way to Fundaniñas. Victor Flores, very kindly, agreed to go to San Cristobal and pick me up @ Burger King. I didn't take a shower, I didn't shave, I didn't pick my clothes. I just ran to BK as fast as I could and got to Fundaniñas about 30 minutes late. It was no big deal, though... the girls weren't there yet cause they were at the Sunday mass, so I had lots of time to chat around with the other FJBG scholars, catch up with recent events, and stuff.
The girls got back at about 11:30AM, and we began doing lots of activities. Oh, we did a lot of things. We jumped, we danced, we singed, we clapped, we played, etc... Two of the FJBG scholars dressed like clowns and made the girls laugh a lot. Then we prepared the food (tacos and tostadas), and gave it away to everybody. Then I played some more with the girls (One of them had her birthday coming up soon (May 18th), so we sang for her and ate cake with the girls). And then we left at about 3PM :O... I took a ride with Alejandro, who left me off at the Muni, where I took a Transmetro directly to my aunt's house. The meeting she had organized was already halfway, but I still managed to greet everybody, eat lots of food, drink lots of drink, play lots of XBox with my cousins, and have a pretty good time till about 9PM. Then Elisa and I went back home, and my day ended.
Monday the 14th, however, was probably the most singular of these days. Alicia, one of my little sisters, came back from Chicago at about 6:30AM. Though not emotional for me or anything, it's not something that happens every day. Probably more surprising is the fact that she came for a purpose: she's getting married to Condor in about two months. Poor her. And poor him, too. Why do people do such dumb things? Worthy of mention was also the fact that it was Bidkar's birthday, Ania's birthday, and Alberto's birthday (him I haven't heard of in a long time). And during the morning, I found it that it was Matzdorf's girlfriend's birthday, too! That alone made for a pretty singular day. I think it's the day on which the most people that I know of has their birthday. AND, Richard asked me if he could come on over to my house to sleep over, cause he's having some family problems/arguments/issues. I agreed, of course. But isn't it funny that all this happened on the very same day? Bidkar's birthday seems to be special.
Besides that, I had made an appointment with Mimi at 11AM. So I went, got there 5 minutes early, but had this urge to urinate when I got there. Mimi wasn't there yet, and the bathroom was being washed when I got there, so I had to wait like 10-15 extra minutes just to get into the bathroom. Coincidentally, during the scarce 30 seconds that I was in the bathroom, Mimi got there and went into her room. I then went and greeted her, and we talked a lot about a lot of things. It was mostly about me, but it was also a little about her, and a little about our mutual acquantaince, Maia. Details are omitted for the sake of respect, but let's just say it was also a very singular event.
I then took a bus to FJBG @ Torre Empresarial. Oh, it's both so funny and so extraordinary that little things come together so coincidentally. Who should I met on the way while walking but Matzdorf, the birthday girl's boyfriend! I spent a lot of time talking to him while he bought his lunch (2 hot dogs), and just when I thought "hmmm, we are done talking", I said goodbye, and kept on walking to Torre Empresarial. Then, during this exact same walk, as if timed precisely to meet with him, I met Bidkar, the other birthday boy! I gave him the usual birthday hug, and spent a lot of time talking with him too. We talked mostly about the thesis project and about him being sick. Then he had to leave for lunch, and I went to FJBG. I was admitted inside by a security guard, I waited for the secretary to finish her lunch, and OH SURPRISE SURPRISE, I was a given a check! My last stipend check from the FJBG, dated January 02, 2007! Wooow, I thought that, as ex-scholars, we weren't supposed to get any more stipends! Seems I was wrong! I signed the receipt, put the Q1000 check in my wallet, gave her a copy of my thesis project, received my FJBG diploma from her, and left. Elisa and Alicia were waiting for me at Tia Aury's, so I went there. I drove them back home, but when we got there, I waited in the car, in the garage, just to continue listening to some music from Elisa's MP3 Player. Coincidentally, during these 2 or 3 minutes, Richard came and knocked on the door. So THEN I turned off the car, opened the door for Richard, helped him in, and took him to my room. We then spent talking about what had happened to him, his laptop, how to install Windows Vista into it, girls, and stuff like that. I tried to do my abacus exercises, but Richard's presence and music were kind of distracting, so I only managed to finish one of them. Oh, we spent the afternoon and night just doing nothing, and then we went to sleep. I wrote a journal entry (with pen and paper) that night, just before going to sleep).
Yesterday, Tuesday the 15th, Richard left very early (about 7AM) for his classes @ BANGUAT, and I went to my japanese class at about 10:20AM, together with Elisa and Alicia on the bus. I got there late, as usual, so I had to scoot an extra desk inside and sat down surrounded on every side by other late students like me. The class was OK, as always, and we learned to say the numbers from 11 to 99. While we were doing an exercise of saying all the numbers from 1 to 99, each student saying one of them, in order, another girl came in and sat down right next to me. She asked what we were doing, so I told her, and explained to her how to say the numbers from 11 to 99. She's a real japanese enthusiast - she knows how to say her own name correctly in Japanese, watches lots of Anime, knows about cities in Japan, and explained to me several things I did not know. We did some exercises in couples, and I did them with her. We presented a third person between each other, and asked about another person (at a party, supposedly. "Anokata wa donata desu ka?" "Harry Potter-san desu. Hogwarts dakugai no Gakusei desu.", or something like that). Yeah, and she turned out to be a Harry Potter fan too (she was using a Harry Potter backpack). And she's called Cindy (Shindi in Japanese, according to her :) Shindi Tachiana). She' s nice. She seems kinda interested in me, and I like her too, so it's possible that we could hit it off. Next meeting, Friday @ noon, same place. Then Pedro gave me a ride back home. I got into his new blue Jetta :O. He told me he had JUST GOTTEN IT YESTERDAY (Monday). So it was ANOTHER singular thing that happened on Monday the 14th. Maybe that day is (or was?) a strong energy center or something. Oh well... thing is... it's another coincidence to add to the list. I deposited my newly-acquired check into my G&T account, so now I'm officially Q1000 richer hehe.
After my day-activities, Richard came back home, and he spent last night here too. He's actually still laying down, about 1 meter away from me, on the auxiliary bed I got for him, postponing his getup time. I gotta wake up him soon... he doesn't want to be late for BANGUAT.
Hmmmm, I guess that's it. Oh no, wait, last night I also did one more abacus exercise (YAY), and graded 19 essays ($19 cha-ching!). Not too bad, huh?
Now, I gotta figure out how to ornament my blog entry appropriately in here. No sample emoticons like in Live Spaces... maybe I can only add color to it? Maybe I'll upload lots of pictures from my cellphone too, and attach them everywhere so it looks a bit nicer. But for now, I guess text's what I have to work with. Maybe I'll do those images with text that have become so popular in hi5, zorpia, and all those sites.... hmmm... maybe blogger should have a little scrap-page to draw on. I would definitely use it if it did.
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