28 October 2004
After getting our grades, Jing, Tin, and I went to Greenbelt to just let loose.
We didn't do much at first actually, just regular Jing-Tin-Rache activities.
* We stuffed ourselves with giant burgers. "Food!!!" our tummies were screaming the minute we left school.
* We let our inner biblioleps loose in a bargain book shop. The three of us are the book addicts in the barkada. Between ourselves, we can run a book store. (Oh, I couldn't resist. Even if I still have tons of new books by my bedside, I bought two more hard bounds. They were cheap anyway. I really think money is better spent on books than movies. Anyway... One is about horsing. I don't know but I suddenly got interested in them noble steeds. The other is a Japanese thriller. Why I have a penchant for Japanese honor mystery artsy stuff baffles even me.)
* We walked around and shopped around.
So as you see, things were just ordinary until... Jing suddenly blurted out, "Why don't we get our eyebrows fixed?" Because I'm kikay, I said yes immediately. We all got hyped up. You see, my barkada is not exactly your all-girls-parlor-makeup-boys-bars barkada. I go out with different friends when I want to do one of those other things. We're a weird but always interesting definitely-not-your-usual bunch.
Bear in mind: Threading. Painful. Fabulous.
I have plucked twice before and I do shave my eyebrows sometimes but I've never had them threaded. I prefer shaving because it only takes a few seconds and it's free. But I like trying new things so threading it was. I'm really impressed by the parlor people who know how to thread. As I watched how it was done to Jing and to Tin, I couldn't help but appreciate the precision. There really are certain tricks people can do to improve their appearance and having perfectly-shaped eyebrows is one of them. Minimum change but maximum effect. People often take their eyebrows forgranted but the right thickness and slant can really open up the face and make it livelier and friendlier.
Jing's Story: The girl is used to spending Php 120 for her brows so there isn't really much of a story to tell. Trivia though: Jing cries each and every single time she gets her eyebrows groomed. But even so, she does the deed regularly. Weird, huh? (Jing dude, masochist ka ata?!? Hehehe... Joke!)
Tin's Story: Now this is THE story. Tin's eyebrows are virgin. Like their owner, haven't been touched. Think Oscar the Grouch in Sesame Street or okay, Rachael Leigh Cook in She's All That. Because the girl is no kikay, it was really an experience for her.
Just imagine, I had to hold her hand all throughout the "operation" because aside from crying, she was also squeezing (really hard if I may say so). I must say, she was so adorable and so funny! Kulang na lang she cries out, "Mommy!" Oh, I love Tin! If only I could have videorecorded it.
My Story: I knew what I wanted so I told the parlor person that. A little higher. Arch near bottom half. Thin. Defined edges because I think I shaved a little too much the last time. I'm happy because the girl got my instructions. But I didn't expect it to hurt. I was totally not prepared (mentally as well as physically). I sat there relaxed (read: hot oil position) when I felt a sting in my eyebrows. Ouch! It was painful! Bearable pain but pain just the same. It's like ants biting you in one clear line all at the same time several times.
Oh, the price one has to pay for beauty.
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18 October 2004
heto issues na.
i think the ACP issues have been unresolved. we really didn't have a chance to take the KAMPO by storm, i mean, derr! we had finals. parang sinadya ata nila yun eh.
seriously.
not everybody can go. do we still go? or do we just make plans out on that day? like instead of going with the ATENEO bus, we go on our own so that everyone else could go. i mean, since it's been the biggest SANGGU secret, that ACP isn't really required right? they just scare students off with cuts -- subtle coercion -- so we could just plan our own excursion all to ourselves right? kasi our point of going to ACP aside from getting away from school is to spend fun times with each other. and since theoretically not everybody is in the class we want, we have to improvise and take action.
and to get back at them for their incompetence and unmagis-like behavior, we just have to spread the word around that: "ACP isn't required, so go ahead and cut the classes people" do your own thing. let ACP fail this time around. it has failed us. not we will fail it.
does this sound like a plan?
i need to know other opinions. i have a scheming mind right now. and frankly i'm royally pissed at those A-holes who don't know how to manage and serve people right when it's their BIG ASS MISTAKE TO DISPLACE PEOPLE BECAUSE SLOTS ARE "FULL", WHEN IT's REALLY THEIR FAULT CAUSE THEIR COUNTERS DIDN'T WORK RIGHT AND THEY LACKED FORESIGHT.
Don't make the individuals suffer from the incompetent system. I mean can't they improve the system. It's not like we're not paying anyway. Why couldn't they just rent another bus? PUTANGINA. WHERE THE FUCK IS TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT OR MAGIS HERE? It's not about who came first anymore. It's a matter of being prudent and just. AND IT SUCKS CAUSE THIS IS OUR BATCH HANDLING ACP. Aren't we rational beings to conjure up a plan that will solve this and MAKE EVERYONE HAPPY especially when it was their mistake?
I'm really pissed. I need your brains. I need your opinions. Tell me what you think.
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17 October 2004
alright chickeedees. i haven't posted here in a while
just wanted to say hi and that we have to go out like watch a movie sometime within our wee little brain-break.
whassup wit' yall?
my laptop's broke and i feel bad, not really broke but the monitor's all funny cause there's a crack. i don't want to worsten the crack, ergo i have to stop using it and must bring it to the shop. i just can't work on another computer. i'm so attached to it. and that my eyes hurt a lot.
oh well.
computer-issues aside. *ahem*
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16 October 2004
it's the g-blog. am trying it out. haha. i need a camera phone, though, to make it more interesting...
check it out, kids:
g-blogs.com/emptycanvas
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