• White wine + iced tea
  • Guy talk at Jollibee -- even when you're the only girl in the conversation
  • Joining the Sinulog dance during a Novena Mass for the festival
  • Eating ice cream with friends at a convenience store at almost-midnight
  • Experiencing the Sinulog of the party people (which I probably won't try again)
  • "Good morning, Christabelle Escudero!"
  • Casa Verde! And Bubble Bee Tea House and a midnight Monopoly Deal game
  • SURVIVING COME WEEK 2015
  • Going to Moalboal with the Council
  • Friday the 13th, high school friends and apple-flavored beer
  • First published article in Today's Carolinian magazine
  • USC SSC Elections 2015 -- interviewing standard bearers, interacting with more people, bearing witness to an "Election of Change"
  • "Nagtuo ko'g taga-CAFA ka!"
  • "It's very rare to have a walk-in with so much potential. It's a sad day for us today."
  • Getting a flat one in a subject in which you thought you'd fail
  • Surviving one of the worst semesters of ComE without an extension week
  • GADJA 2015 -- singing in a car ride, books for twenty pesos and a jumping rope made of glowsticks
  • After-midnight talk over beer with guys with deep thinking
  • Today's Carolinian Summer Workshop and Training -- new friends, better friends, new lessons, new memories, new responsibilities, new things to look forward to
  • TC EDITORIAL BOARD 2015-2016
  • Being asked out by a guy to dinner
  • JAPANESE RAMEN
  • Getting very good feedback for an article you wrote
  • Talking to Japanese people for real (even when it's just through Skype)
  • Acquiring a better phone that has improved your life by 125%
  • #Justice4Christa, Shin Yey All the Way, The Legend of dAang, #DarlingGoals
  • A good first day in your part-time job
  • Seeing a press release you wrote get published in the local newspaper and in the public information agency website of the government
  • Beer sessions with the editorial board
  • Yakski BBQ!!!
  • Very good ratings in the first few months you're in your part-time job
  • "Hahahahaha, happy kay ko kay nagkaila ta"
  • Getting shortlisted for a job you're interested in
  • People getting into conversation because of an article you wrote for the publication
  • Subjects in school getting interesting once more
  • Touching the tummy of a six-months-pregnant woman
  • Walking under the blue moon sky at 2 a.m.
  • "SURPRISE!!!"
  • "Nice kay ka mu-write," even when the writeup of yours that she read was on-the-spot and messy
  • Renewal of your work contract
  • Having your eyes described in detail
  • 19th of August
  • Cold apple beer in a mug
  • The first (and hopefully the last) cigarette
  • Getting drunk for the first time and only realizing it after the said drunken experience
  • First original Siomai sa Tisa experience and being in an old place for the first time
  • First balut experience
  • Your elder sister opening up to you
  • Seeing your GPA increase for the very first time
  • Today's Carolinian October Team Building and that revealing and liberating game of Never Have I Never
  • Being able to talk things out with someone before the day ended after getting into a "fight" with him
  • Bantayan Island escapade -- renting a bike and biking along the main road, vomiting the vodka you drank, being brave
  • 3rd of November
  • How I Met Your Mother
  • "They are keepers"
  • Feeling bloated with high school friends and being noisy in a restaurant because of one reminisced high school memory
  • 26th of November
  • Renewal of your work contract for the second time
  • Knowing that you can actually take a guy shopping without him just sitting in the waiting area
  • Someone taking effort to let you know she admires your work
  • "You know that I always, you know."
  • Last day of being 20 and celebrating it with three first times
  • First day of being 21 and mamon, ice cream and being Robin Scherbatsky-zoned
  • Moments whose photographs are developed not through the camera, but in your brain
  • Papa being home for Christmas and New Year
  • Sudden cheesy text messages that make you think what are you doing to deserve those
  • Finding new (young) friends in a subdivision party
  • Family Manito Manita at the final hours of the year
jan 2 2015 ∞
dec 31 2015 +