lauraldanne's blabbernothings

eh bakit ba sya ganun?

ok...so my Friendster blog has always been my outlet for Tagalog posts and rantings. nakakapagod rin mag-ingles araw-araw noh. bwahaha. and besides baka may maligaw na banyaga dito na nakakakilala sa mga taong tinutukoy sa sa entry na to. ma-"you're Fired!" pa ako. i kid. but anyway, let the games begin.

kasi naman, magba-blog sana ako dun sa blogspot ko nung tuesday kasi galit na galit na galit talaga ako dun sa presidente ng association namin. as in gaga talaga yun. ang sarap batuhin ng upuan. seriously, i was THISCLOSE to throwing the goddamn chair at her because she had pushed my buttons in all the wrong places. yun nga, mag-blog sana ako pero na-busy ako eh. na-save as draft ko lang. haha. so dito nalang...since di ako maka-reply sa mga messages ko while im in school. no access eh, parang sira. haha.

moving on, biruin mong ipamukha sakin na hindi importante ang ginagawa ko para sa association namin. leche. kasi ganito yun, ok. treasurer ako. so pera lang supposedly ang hawak ko. pero lecheng VP at secretary namin mga walang kwenta. at dahil ako ang ever-bubbly, ever-friendly, ever-active officer, i end up writing the minutes of EVERY SINGLE meeting at pinapadala ko ang email. kasi namin mga hindi sila marunong mag-inglis. SERIOUSLY! they can't form coherent paragraphs that'll make them seem approachable. kaya ako ang nag-volunteer na gumawa ng mga emails. tapos nung tuesday, may inuutos sakin yng presidente na gawin at hanapin ko raw sa website. pero sabi ng coordinator namin na iba nalang daw utusan nya, like yung VP or Secretary, kasi marami na daw akong serbisyong nagawa. at putragis na lecheng inamaw na babae yun. sabihin pa nyang ayaw nyang utusan yung VP kasi nasa HEB at inaasikaaso ang donations namin. kasi daw "may ibang tao dyan na kahit kailan never inasikaso ang mga donations." aminado ako na never nga akong kumuha ng donations coz i have a very viable reason. i don't drive to school so how can she expect me to bring those donations and lug them around campus while waiting for the office to open? diba? yun nga...kaya naiinis ako sa kanya kasi parang ipinamumukha nya sakin na mas important pa yung kaisa-isang ginawa ng Bise-Pres na yun compared sa email na pinapadala ko para updated ang buong association namin. leche sya. at take note, pag may nakikita akong ISA member, nilalapitan ko at pinapa-alala ko na may meeting at sinasabi ko ang agenda ng meeting. mga leche.

tapos kahapon may fundraiser kami. leche tong Bise-Pres. apparently, naka-usap na sya ng Advisor namin and she was reprimanded for not doing anything. at ang leche, pa-epal ang bruha. when she was about to leave our booth, tinanong ako kung dadalhin ko raw yung pera. syempre naman dadalhin ko yung pera dahil yun nga ang trabaho ko at alangan namang iwan ko yun sa booth. eh ang ibig pala nyang sabihin ay kung iuuwi ko ba raw ang pera. HELLO?! bakit ko naman iuuwi yun?  eh sa ISA yun. bibilangin ko lang yun at iiwan ko sa ISA. kung di ba naman sya tanga eh. makes me think tuloy na buti di sya ang naging treasurer. so ayun, tapos the nerve to remind ME, hello ME kung ano ang dapat kong gawin pagka-bilang ko. kesyo, isulat ko raw yung buong amount at lagyan ng date at lagyan ng initials. ay leche ka, pa-epal ka.

basically the whole week, i've been seeing my ISA buddies. ang 'kada ko puro banyaga. Japanese, African, Indian, Korean. haha, puro halos asiano. well, yung Psychology class ko, cool ang tropa namin dun and they're from here. but i digress, ISA muna ang story ko.

on friday, magkikita kami ulit. punta kaming UTSA para sa campus tour. di na sana ako sasama eh, kaso sabi ni Teko na masisira ang rep namin dun kasi less than 15 nalang ang pupunta. ito kasing si Pres eh, may limit ba naman ang pinapa-punta nya. hmph. so anyway, that should be a pleasant trip, kaya lang pinipilit ni Pres na sumabay kami ni Rony at Noriko sa kanila ni Bise-Pres. eh ayaw namin. gusto sana naming hintayin si teko kasi matatapos class nya ng 1:30. sunod nalang sana kami. hmph. but we'll see. then on saturday namin, sasama kami ni Teko sa TSU campus tour. as in, ang bait ni Teko, sasama sya sakin. hehe. then i think, si Yuki rin ata and si Trihn sasama sa TSU.

ang busy ko itong weekend. i have to finish a summary for tuesdays psych class. may presentation kami sa thursday. the tuesday before that, may exam pa kami. then may exam rin ako sa tuesday in my government class. grabe! ito ata pinaka-packed kong weekend this semester. i think. at least, i can't remember any other weekend. haha.

ano pa ba? yun lang ata. basta naiinis talaga ako sa Pres at Bise-Pres namin. may pagka-mayabang rin kasi yung Pres namin. tapos inconsiderate ay may-pagka inconsistent at di marunong mag-delegate ng trabaho. wait a minute....parang magpapatulong syang gumawa ng proposal mamaya ah. lech. well, she doesn't have my number...malas lang nya. ahaha.

oh sya, later skater...

you're so weird

tange talaga yung president ng org namin.

ok, i'm being mean.

pero sa totoo lang, sinong di maiinis dun noh? may meeting kasi kami bukas. then nagpadala sya ng word attachment sa email. supposedly, dapat sa coordinator namin yun ipapadala. pero itong si manang eh pinadala sa email address na wala namang access yung coordinator namin. pano kaya ma-send yun?

so i ended up sending the email myself. wala nang time to resend it to or coordinator kaya i had to send it FIVE times. kasi ito ring lokong email address ng org namin abnormal. it can onnly send email to a specified number of people at a time. argh! buti nalang may access ako dun sa email na yun.

tsaka noh, parang loko...nagsusulat yung president namin ng email dun sa email address na yun. eh sya lang naman ang makakabasa nun. tapos naiinis sya dahil wala raw sumasagot sa emails nya. haha. nakakatawa rin sya.

tapos ang maldita nun. di sya friendly. masyado syang aloof. wala ba naman daw syang paki na walang nag-aatend na association members. what the?! masyadong negative mag-isip. mas suplada pa sakin. sus.

tsaka, kami lang ni noriko ang kumikilos really. tignan mo...bukas after ng meeting namin, kami ulit ni noriko ang gagawa ng email at flyer para sa next org activity namin. hmph. pero k lang naman samin yun. ayaw lang namin na nagrereklmo sya nang walang kwenta. sya rin naman ang my kasalanan. hahay.

Never?

You know what I absolutely hate?

People who say that long distance relationships never work. I would like to stress on the word never as it is a very harsh word that takes a ton of baggage with it.

First of all, you cannot use the word "never" lightly. Doing so just means that something is impossible and has not been proven to happen in the history of the universe. Never is saying not ever. Not on any occasion. At no time at all will be achievable. Impossible. Beyond imagination. Completely preposterous. Being the naive optimist that I am, there are certain things that ARE possible, the LDR being one of them.

Secondly, if you've NEVER (there is a valid reason I am using this one now) been in a long distance relationship, then you cannot blurt out that statement in a snap of a finger. If you've never been in a long distance relationship, you won't be able to realize what it's like to be in one and how, in fact, it is possible for it to survive the test of time and distance. That's just like criticizing a movie you haven't seen, or saying the Eiffel Tower is the most beautiful infrastructure when you haven't been to Paris. Get the drift? You don't have the permission to utter such assertion.

Let's say that you have tried the so-called Long Distance Relationship, and did fail miserably (ok, scratch out the miserably part if you will), that still doesn't give you the jurisdiction to pound your fist and indignantly say "it never works." So it's a matter of opinion, sure, but making it sound like it's well-proven and make this absurd generalization over the entire kingdom of love-stricken individuals is total baloney.

I'm not just ranting like a lovesick puppy, mind you. Perhaps being in an LDR adds to the feeling of contempt I may hold towards these moronic conclusions and their cynical masterminds, but it isn't like that.

Because should, heaven forbid, my long distance relationship abruptly end *knock furiously on wood*, I still wouldn't chant they don't work. I dare you to mark my word. I know several couples who made it work, many married, another planning a wedding. So take that!

I believe that for one to work though, there should already be a relationship to begin with. Not just some random "he's over there and I'm over here" kind'a thing. If ever that did happen, it would take a lot of time AND money to make it work. Granted, every relationship needs time, which is the point exactly. Maintaining a long distance relationship isn't easy. It's not a walk in the park on a beautiful spring day. It takes a whole lot of work and commitment.

It really has a lot to do with the reason as to why these failed long distance relationships of yesteryear went down the drain, too. Was it unfaithfulness? Deception? Trickery? Did they simply just lose interest in each other? Did one get tired of waiting around? Did they just decide to move on with their seperate lives and get a new love interest? These are simple facts that might have caused just ANY relationship to backfire, not just those seperated by oceans of massive acres of land.

So before you go all out and scream to the top of your lungs about LDRs never working, pause for a second and think if you have the authority to say so.

I Swear, I Don't Swear

Masarap sanang murahin ang sekretarya ng hayskul ko.

If only I could do that, I would. But of course, I have to be the bigger person and not reduce her to something less than human.

I've already blogged about how I asked my friend Eleanor to get Kuya and me new copies of our Form 137-A from our high school. Since Ronald had already gone through the arduous task a year before, I decided that he sit this one out coz he's been in such a rut lately. I had to call my high school and request it and then I sent the FAX letters for both Kuya & me (one for each of us) and had to call back to make sure they received it and that they read the contents of the letters properly. Well, of course, the secretary didn't even bother and insisted that she only make one copy for each of us. I repeated myself over and over and told her that we cannot open the envelopes because opening them would make them void and unofficial.

When Eleanor picked up our forms, she told me that the secretary told her that this would be the last time I could request for a form and that I was hard-headed and stubborn. Heck yeah, I'm stubborn, especially if people insist on not doing their jobs as they're supposed to.

I received one envelope a couple of weeks ago, to my dismay. I thought Len had forgotten to pick up a form for Kuya as well. Or maybe the post office lost it. I sent her offline messages on YM since I couldn't call her. When she finally did go online, she told me that there were two forms inside the envelope.

Crap.

I was furious because Len said the secretary insisted that they only send one envelope. Why the bloody hell? She clearly wasn't listening to me when I told her we aren't allowed to open envelopes. While I was in a phone conversation with the secretary, she said she can only make one copy for each of us, and it would be our responsibilty of having them photocopied. Uh, why can she not make more than one copy when these are my records? I seriously wanted to talk to the registrar when I was talking to her because she was just frustrating me. A form is worth 50 pesos, so naturally, that includes an envelope for each request, right? She isn't paying for them, so why be so tihik in giving an envelope. And it was only addressed to me. Hello?! That is the very reason why I sent them TWO AUTHORIZATION LETTERS, so that she would be aware that these are TWO DIFFERENT PEOPLE requesting for a form. Stupid moron.

I'm mad at her.

This morning, Len sent me offline messages apologizing for the mishap, and asked me if I was mad at her. I may be a little iffy at Len coz she didn't insist on separating the forms like what Ronald would have done. But bottomline is, it isn't her fault that the secretary is stupid.

She even had the gall to say I'm the stubborn one?! Well, she's the one who ignored my discrete instructions. Not thinking. tsktsktsk.

May God bless her.