One year since I last updated. Weird. But a recent check on a friend's Listography has me wanting to update my own. So here I am.

A gratitude list:

• Jasmine and her patience. Lord knows what I'd do if she got fed up with me. I'm so whiny it's a wonder she gets by.
• Q and closure. Ifs and thens are all good, but this is still an apology and a reminder for the books.
• Artoo and his comic fanboyness. It's nice to be shown a world outside Batman and the odd Vertigo comic.
• Books and their existence. They calm me down, they pick me up. Books are my oxygen.
• My sister and her insanity. She's just as random as I am and I love her for it. It's nice to be stupid every once in a while (although sometimes it ends with a nasty bump to the head -why did I try to bite my ankle again?).
• Music. My "of the moments" playlist matches my ...

Some awesome things over the last few days that I am thankful for.

• I got to take a nap. And a nice, long one! I went home early on Thursday coz I didn't have class, so after a nice good lunch I curled up in my duvet and fell asleep to the sound of raindrops. And woke up to them too. Absolutely beautiful.
• On the topic of lunch, I got to cook again! :D Something else I've missed a lot.
• I finished my Arch10 (architectural design class) final plate --and I love how it looks. AND AND AND. My teacher said it looked cute, and he liked it. 8D
• A drive at night with the windows down, after a rainy afternoon. The world is cool and smells nice and the street lights reflected on the road are so pretty.
• I GOT TO READ SOMETHING IN A LEISURELY MANNER.
• Sleep tonight. AS LONG AS I LIKE.
• Five months together with Kia! :D I am happy.

This is basically just a random list of makeup I want. Or rather, makeup BRANDS I want. Haha.

• All forms of DuWop Lip Venom. Argh, these things are sexiness in little, P800 tubes.
• Max Factor eyeshadow palettes, especially the new brightly colored ones.
• L'oreal foundations and powders.
• MAC lipgloss tubes, eyeshadow palettes, nail lacquer (EEEEE) and eye pencils.
• Oh, and this GORGEOUS shade of Max Factor silvery-gray eye pencil.
• Body Shop lip butter in cherry, and lip balm in strawberry.
• All things Shu Uemura.
• Face Shop nail polish (in mostly non-matte, since I like how theirs are just subtly glittery).
• Max Factor liquid eyeliner.
• Random sapphire blue, emerald green and shimmery silver falsies (just for kicks!)....

• red plaid polo shirt
• yellow plaid polo shirt
• black jeans
• soft gray ankle boots with low heels
• yellow and white stripe shirt or cardigan or sweater
• black collared jacket ala Zara
• starry tank (ala Zara)
• plain white tshirt (round and v- neck)
• solid color boy shirts (like from Topman!)
• Espanya or Brasil jersey shirt 8D
• black plaid skirt
• Japanese school girl-type outfit
• ...okay I'll just update when I remember what else I want. :))

I have just remembered the existence of this listography. It's so old and unused, my display pic is still a shot of me working during Parish Involvement in third year high school. (I should mention --I'm now a freshman in college.) Time to revive!

• As Long As You Love Me by The Backstreet Boys.
  • It makes me snap my fingers and sway to the beat. Haha!
• Sweet Disposition by The Temper Trap.
  • Actually, most of the 500 Days of Summer soundtrack, really.
• Two Of Us by Aimee Mann And Michael Penn.
  • Along with Sarah MacLachlan's "Blackbird," and Nick Cave's "Here Comes The Sun," all three from the soundtrack of the movie "I Am Sam."

To honor Lynne Truss and her incredibly witty, nonsense book: a gratitude list, even if my earlobes are small.

I am grateful for:

• Kia, even if she wakes me up so incredibly early in the morning and doesn't make libre me kapag recess.
• Jasmine and her ever-present self. I will always love my best friend. :)
• Yani and her patience, understanding, and hope. :)) For some reason, she always seems to hope. Makes me hope too.
• The existence of good authors like Lynne Truss and Margaret Atwood, who write brilliant books like "Tennyson's Gift" and "The Blind Assassin" respectively.
• Cold December mornings because they're just so romantic and heartwarming (ironically) and soft.
• Technology. Especially cell phones and the internet.

Since I'm still a bit hungover from school (every time I click open this laptop I find myself opening Microsoft Word, thinking I still have to edit my paper), I will randomly list the things I will do over this break. I will milk every fucking day for all it is worth, since come January it's back to work, plus there's the results of the CETs to be anxious over. Might as well get what happiness, rest and laziness I can.

• Catch up on my L Word viewing. I'm one episode away from Season 3, and I want to be at least a quarter through Season 4 by the time the school year comes back. I don't care if I get fat from all my couch potato-ing. Shane is worth it.
• Write. And not write for school or for the Magni or anything. It's been a while since I've written on a whim, and written well, and written something worth posting....

Yes. I don't actually know if I'll look back at this but it's nice to know I did something that leaned towards productive for a change. (Coz, uhm, lately I've been promising myself to be productive and then failing miserably.)

• Actually study for the ACET because there is no guarantee that I will end up in UP. I need to pick up on my math. I still don't get conic sections!
• Actually read MIM because I've just started chapter freakin' two, and my second quarter grade depends a lot on my knowledge of this book!
• Play around and act girlfriend-y with my best friend just for the heck of it. :)) We've been doing it on and off for a while now, for no reason whatsoever. Except perhaps amusement.
• Jog a little more because I've been a lazy slob these past few days (or weeks). I need to stay fit! (Or, at least, move every once in a while. Apart from the walking I do at home an...

Things that always make me smile, no matter the situation.

• Novels. Any decent novel will always make me smile. There are a lot of books I associate memories to, like my attributing Clockwork to laughably sleepless nights caused by the noisy clock in my parents' room. Every time I open one of the books on my shelf, I can't help but remember the circumstances in which I read it. I remember reading books on hammocks by the beach, or on hotel beds at midnight by the light of my cellphone. I remember using receipts and random notes as bookmarks. These memories make me smile.
• Songs from my childhood like those by the Backstreet Boys and LFO. When I hear them I remember the lazy days of my youth (like I'm so old, haha), the laughter and excitement that only a little kid has. I remember splashing around in the river, or playing dodgeball on the street, or poker games up until 2am. O...

• I tend to think a lot. No kidding. It usually takes a few tries, snaps and/or yells before I fully realize someone's talking to me because I'm usually wrapped up in whatever's running around in my noggin'. A lot of people say I think too much, and strangely I kind of like it. Though it does make me sound like some uber-nerd. (I'm not. God forbid.)
• I read a lot. Maybe too much. I remember this one time when I stayed up until 5am because I didn't want to stop reading Minette Walters' The Breaker. I've done it on more than one occasion. I even read when I'm eating.
• Random facts and fancies amuse me. There was this one time a friend of mine suggested we might all be reincarnations of people from earlier centuries. I found this quite funny.
• I am very opinionated. This also makes me rather stubborn. I usually have an opinion on most things I encounter, from politics to muddy patches of field.
• I talk a lot. Loquacious, so to say. It's pretty obvious from this entry, so ...

• SLEEP. THE BEAUTIFUL SLEEP OF THE UNDISTURBED WHO WILL WAKE UP AT 12 WITHOUT A CARE IN THE WORLD BECAUSE NOTHING WILL HAPPEN THAT DAY.
• Doodle more. I'm in Arki. I need to unleash my creativity!
• Write. Even if just in a journal or serious blogs on my Tumblr.
• Fix my stuff. I have a LOT of papers to put away, and my closet is an absolute explosion of clothing.
• Decorate my wall. I have some plates I'd like to display. :D
• Mix and match my wardrobe. I need to be more imaginative with my outfits!
• Rekindle my social life. I miss my friends. :<
• READ. I have missed leisurely reading so much.
• Get into painting! Because that seems to be my art forte.
• Sketch! People, plants, houses.
• Baaaaake. OMG COOKIES AND LEMON SQUARES.

Title is self-explanatory.

• Crunch bars
• KitKats
• Fully Booked notebook with black paper
• Sony Ericsson Kita
• Dark chocolate truffles
• I Am The Messenger by Markus Zusak
• a revolver-type Nerf gun
• kinky dice (HAHA)
• Red Chippy
• stuffed toys (a teddy bear and a Cookie Monster toy and an Eeyore and a Heffalump and an Elmo and a Taz and a Woodstock one)
• a Cookie Monster cookie
• freshly baked chocolate chip cookies 8D
• a strawberry milkshake
• pancakes from Pancake House
• froyo from PH or RM
• pasta and pizza from Amici
• salad, pizza and pasta from CPK

• Jasmine and her constant presence. Even if we don't talk much these days, just knowing she's there makes life all the more bearable.
• Kia. Enough said.
• CW 10 and all the wonderful readings we've discussed. Diane Ackerman's Smell is still my favorite by far.
• Socio 10 discussions. I love Sir Cardenas. I am allowed to be bitchily opinionated in this class!
• Stupid Arch 10 HW. I just had to design a super toilet. I loved it. :))
• Arch 1. I will admit, I am liking mechanical drafting! I feel so... I feel a sense of achievement whilst moving around my Tsquare and triangles. xD
• Good food in UP! I love food places like Iana's (at Music), Rodic's (sa may SC), FA (their siomai!) and the vendor outside Arki (QUAIL EGG SIOMAI PEOPLE).
• Commuting! HAHAHA. Yes, I'm slowly gettin...

First, a list of things I REALLY should be doing now but am not (aka things I am procrastinating):

• finish writing my Kas1 paper. I HAVEN'T EVEN FINISHED THE SECOND READING. Which brings me to the second item,
• FINISH READING THE KAS1 READINGS. Haha, redundancy.
• study for the Math 11 exam next week!
  • solve practice problems
  • read through notes
• blogging for Socio 10
• reading the files sent by my CW10 teacher

Instead, though, I am:

• planning my outfit for tomorrow. I get to see Kia again and it's our second monthsary --I want to look good!
• reviving my listography

A list of some of the best books I've read this year. Or, the ones I can remember having read this year. I'm a book fanatic. Not obvious, ain't?

• The Athenian Murders. It makes you feel like someone's watching you. Totally freaky.
• The Breaker by Minette Walters. Had me up until about 5am because I couldn't sleep --it was freaking me out that much.
• Bakit Baliktad Magbasa ng Libro ang Pinoy? by Bob Ong. Utterly hilarious.
• White Oleander by Janet Fitch. Poetry and brilliance.
• Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood. A bit hard to get through, but worth it.
• Tennyson's Gift by Lynne Truss. Nonsensical fun.
• Book Thief by Marc Zusak. I am now in love with Death.
• Alice in Wonderland, and Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carol. Why did I wait so long to read these?!
• Stargirl, and Love, Stargirl, both by Jerry Spinelli. So pretty. :)
• Sexy by Joyce Carol Oates. Kinda disturbing, but pretty good.

A list of New Years' Resolutions. Might as well get a head start. Maybe this time I can keep some of them.

• Be more academically responsible. I do have some remnant of work ethic in this lazy, procrastinating body of mine. Might as well put it to use. Even just slightly (like, say, doing homework AT HOME every so often).
• Read and write more. I am a person of words, first and foremost.
• Use the computer less. There is a world outside of Facebook, o internet-addicted self.
• Learn to play things down. Yes, my life is boring. SO LIVE WITH IT.
• Learn to take things as they come. One thing I have sadly not learned yet is how NOT to make a big deal out of things. I really just have to go with the flow, shrug things off, just take them.
• Come to terms with my sexuality.
• Be more considerate. I have other friends aside from a certain someone. I have to stop letting her mon...

Okay, I know it's still a bit early, but it's Christmas in less than two months. :D And I thought I'd make a list for when my friends start to bug me about what I want for the occasion.

• Relatively cheap, decent earbuds for my iPod nano
• A cute stuffed toy
• Cheesy jewelry (but no more anklets!)
• A journal-type notebook
• A FIFA Brazil or Spain lanyard (FIFA is coming up, people!)
• Random food (that I like, of course)

So yes. :)) Presents would be nice?

• Twilight and most horrible, plot-less books in general. Seriously. Sometimes the book gets so bad that I chuck it across my half of the room.
• Being online and having no one to talk to because I get bored and frustrated with life. It also makes me feel a little like a loser. It's even worse when I'm in need of someone to talk to and no one's there.
• Being used and backbitched because a) it makes me feel moronic for having trusted those people and for being naive, b) it makes both of us look like idiots and c) it makes me hate people and become distrustful.
• Thunderstorms that cut the electricity because I can't use the internet. :(
• Plastics. The people okay, not the material. :))
• Miley Cyrus and most contemporary music in general. At least, the mainstream kind. Especially pop and R&B trash. Ick.
• Bad games where I end up feeling like I could have...

• Any song of The Killers.
  • example: Spaceman. (And the zipping white light beams disregarding bombs and satellites.)
• Sunday by Bloc Party.
  • See giant proclamations are all very well but our love is louder than words. (Plus the guitar parts are awesome.)
• Sleeps With Butterflies by Tori Amos.
  • (Probably the Tori Amos song that's closest to my heart.) You say the word, you know I will find you or if you need some time I don't mind. I don't hold on to the tail of your kite.
• Great Romances of the 20th Century by Taking Back Sunday.
  • And I love the way you roll excuses off the tip of your tongue as I slowly fall apart. (Slowly, quietly fall apart.)

So I am making a Christmas wishlist. :D It's a mix of things you can and can't get me. HAHA.

• Things Fall Apart (Chinua Achebe, I think?)
• V For Vendetta, the graphic novel
• MAKEUPPP!!!!! D: Consult me first HAHAHA.
• Face Shop nail polish! Baby pink and dark purple and a black Nail Dot Pen and EEEEEE! (Consult me first as well HAHA.)
• A Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy (Douglas Adams). Surprisingly, I don't own this for myself.
• Listography 2011 planner (found at Powerbooks).
• slouchy (oversized) off-white sweater
• red (cashmere HAHAHA) scarf
• boyfriend polo (a white one, a black one, and a funky colored one)
• Lie To Me season DVDs

• Normal sleeping habits. (Because right now my sleeping habits = getting four hours of sleep every night on good days.)
• Being a legitimate bum. And by that, I mean not bumming to procrastinate. I mean bumming because I seriously do not have work.
• Sitting on my bed, not at my desk. I used to be able to lazily work on my bed, all comfy with mah pillows. Now, I spend most of my time at a drafting board/table.
• Having enough time for non-major subjects. I've cut my non-majors a total of 5 times (I have 4 non-majors) for work. I've had to sacrifice work in those classes for work in Arki because I can't fail my majors unless I want to be epically delayed. Sucks.
• Drawing and writing for leisure. It's been ages since I've done something artsy just for myself, because I want to.
• Going out on no-class days. Yes, I don't have class every Monday. Do...

A random list of mostly-unattainable items that I want for my birthday.

• Watchmen, the graphic novel (Alan Moore, Dave Gibbons, John Higgins). I NEED this in my life. NEED IT.
• Maus (Art Spiegelman).
• The Joker (I forget which edition, but I always fangirl over it when I see it in Fully Booked).
• The Dark Knight Returns (Frank Miller, I believe). And basically lots of Batman comics (that are not from the 60s-70s because those were mostly shit).
• The complete Sandman series (Neil Gaiman).
• The DC Trinity series (I forget the author/artist).
• Complete Asterix and Obelix series.
• Complete Bone series.
• Complete Tintin series.
• Various manga series that I am too lazy t...

A random list of film scenes I have in my head.

• A denouement scene where the girl looks into the guy's eyes (after he asks if she still loves him) and says "No. Not anymore." She'd then turn around and walk away and Secrets by One Republic will play. HAHAHA.
• Or a cathartic scene where the girl bursts through the doors of somewhere or breaks from something that holds her captive. Secrets will play, too.
• Basically, I want a scene like the end one in Cruel Intentions when Kathryn steps out of the doors and realize everyone hates her and Annette drives off in that sexy convertible. Except I'll play Secrets instead of Bittersweet Symphony. xD
• A scene where the leaves are falling and the lead girl is sitting under the tree and watching them then she stands up and looks around and her ring drops from her f..._Move Along_ by The All-American Rejects this time.

Now that I'm headed for college I've got realistic, practical job ideas in mind. But when I was small, I definitely didn't think realistic or practical when I voiced what I wanted to be when I grew up. Now I make a list of all my dumb (or ambitious) aspirations.

• rock star
• surgeon (the really big, fancy, top-notch kind. maybe a neuro.)
• firefighter
• princess
• teacher
• detective
• CIA agent
• Pokemon trainer
• Yu Gi Oh master
• novelist/writer
• pilot (damn glasses)
• knight (or soldier)
• CSI agent

A list of my current favorite songs.

• Silver Lining by Rilo Kiley.
  • As the story goes, I was your silver lining but now I'm gold.
• Simple by Katy Perry.
  • (You over-think it.) Life should be that simple.
• Tik Tok by KeSha.
  • My heart, it pounds, and you got me.
• Blackbird by The Beatles.
  • All your life, you were only waiting for this moment to arrive.
• Cars and Guitars by Tori Amos.
  • Still the rain can't confuse the thoughts that come, come in rhythm.
• Waiting in Line by Raygun.

I can never keep track of what I'm supposed to be reading. I'll be reading one book until I go to bed, and leave it next to my pillow when I fall asleep, but pick up another book when I wake up in the morning and head down to breakfast. Sometimes I just find a book, randomly open it to some part in the middle and start reading, and forget all other things.

So now I'm making a book list. Just in case. A list of books I want to or have yet to read.

• Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Doestoevsky. Still have not gotten through this book!
• The Unbearable Lightness of Being. WHO HAS A COPY?!
• Anything Bob Ong. He's becoming my favorite Filipino writer.
• Macbeth, Hamlet, The Tempest, and Twelfth Night by Shakespeare. Just because I really like the Bard, and I want the whole panache thing. Y'know, ...

Okay, so I just finished watching Cruel Intentions , the end scene of which is one of my favorite movie scenes of all time. xD So I decided to make a list of my favorite movie scenes. This won't be very long because I'm distracted, and so don't really remember many movie scenes. I might update when I remember more.

• End scene of Cruel Intentions when Kathryn is standing on the steps of the church with everyone glaring at her. I really like that movie, even if it makes me a little...anxious? Guilty? Something. xD It doesn't hurt that Sebastian (Ryan Philippe) is damn hot.
• End scene of Jawbreaker where everyone's flinging their corsages at Courtney and her makeup is running and Julie takes her picture. I love denouements of movies --they're always so... passionate.
• Cooper's ballet at the end part of Centerstage , on of my all-time favorite movies. I love the dancing; it's so... charged. I'd love to be able to dance like that.

A list of my favorite books and escapades.

• The Princess Bride by William Goldman.
  • Absolutely one of the wittiest books ever written. The narration is brilliant. I fell in love with the whole book, particularly Inigo Montoya the Spanish fencer. Sheer brilliance.
• The Haunting of Alaizabel Cray by Chris Wooding
  • Every time I read this book I can't sleep afterward. :)) It's scary and frightening, but really, really good. It makes you not want to stop reading it so you don't have to close your eyes. xD
• Clockwork by Phillip Pullman
  • The scary in this book is ve-e-ery subtle. When I read it, I couldn't stay in a ro...