everything is just too stagnant and ordinary and nothing seems to have meaning anymore. I need to have a goal, i need to have something to strive for, and what’s more, i need to succeed, and more importantly exceed.

Today started at 3 a.m. for me. And quite a number of people irritated me as the day passed.

Cebu pacific had some really nice stewards on the flight. It was cool that one of the stewards bothered turning on my reading light when he noticed that I kind of needed it. It’s really nice when people working for a service actually do the things their supposed to do in an unexpected way.

I left my glasses in manila so Mom and I went to have a pair of glasses made for temporary use here. When the sales lady found we were looking for something temporary, she promptly offerred something that was really cheap for a pair of gasses. I’m not sure if it’s cmmon for sales people to offer cheaper alternatives to  their customers voluntarily but it was definitely much appreciated. I would now very much purchase from that store, because I know their salespeople aren’t just there to make a sale, but they’re there to make sure the customer gets what he needs.

I don’t like what I’m wearing right now, I’m wondering if I should change…

I had a few more things to finish last night before going home to prepare for my flight earlier this morning, and because of my Papa’s wishes, i had to take my stuff to my aunt’s so they could drive me to the airport the next day. My flight was at 4:55 which meant i had to be at the airport at 2:55. I finished doing my stuff at around 10:15, ritchie was kind enough to take me home (one less taxi ride to spend on)when I got home at about 10:30, i procededed to packing my clothes up, and I was done in 5 minutes! I was also in quite of a hurry since i didn’t want to keep my aunt up waiting to open the gate for me. And so i rushed out of the house to hail a cab (which took longer than the actual packing of my stuff) . When i got to my aunt’s house, it was a good thing they were still awake. I went t obed at 12, woke up at 3, dragged myself out of bed and proceeded to the airport.

Up to the point I am now, in my bed in cagayan de oro, my mind has beed groggy from no sleep these past few days. Must get some rest! I can barely see what’s on the screen, good thing i can touch type :p

A really really bad cold. Grrr two days of this is hell! I haven’t been able to do anything productive in two days. I’ve been sleeping the whole day! 😦 must wake up tomorrow morning, I need to see civilization. *sniff*

no this time, it’s the real-life one. I was knocked out by a mean virus all day today. I stayed at my aunts expecting a storm to hit manila today, not wanting to be alone at my boarding house in case the storm blows the lights out again. The entire day I lay sleeping, sniffing and sneezing.

when i got up, i got back to experimenting with ZAM3D and iBloks, and came up with a pretting lame mod. The XAML animations exported from ZAM3D are a bit limited: no shadows, no reflections, etc, but it’s workable. Working on this reminded me of my RZR days back in college. We were using 3DS back then. My skills have gone rusty, but now I remember why I loved it and hated it so much. Love? because it’s fun to be able to create stuff with your computer. Hate? Because my computer will never be fast enough for me to have a seamless and pleasant experience animating and rendering my projects :p Oh well, maybe sometime in the future.

Which reminds me.. Oyster is still being held for ransom. I need 5.8k. Where on earth do I get that money on christmas time *sob*

 I just realized i was in the middle of some sort of spaces update.. and i thought there was something wrong with my network connection.. or my brain.. 25 hours of no sleeping.. stayed overnight at office, and went to the gym early morning.. lifted some weights.. this is my cat.. this is my dog… this is my pet fish…

Oh, i bought coffee at Starbucks, and today was one of lucky days when the barista spells my name right. Aimee. With an A. And that makes me happy. I don’t care how you pronounce it, whether it’s "Aymee" or "Eymee", as long as you spell it right.

Dumdee doo.. Today is officially "bangenge day". It happens once in a blue moon..

I just found out today that the Starbucks at 6750 is now open 24 hours, 6 days a week till february. Now isn’t that great news?! I’m actually at Starbucks right now, surprisingly, there aren’t that many people.. I wonder if there are other branches that are open 24/6… They should do this during finals week. Surely, this place would be filled with law students and the like. Well, at least I don’t have competition for my spot :p

The Starbucks planner tradition goes on.. I have 3 stickers so far :p expensive luho. *sob*

and it expired yesterday.. so now i’m locked out of our exchange server.. 😥 i can’t work!! what to do what to do… boo ness…

So many people are concerned about the smallest things.. I’ve been listening to a few people over the weekend and learning quite a bit.. Well actually, i got reminded of certain things that i’ve taken for granted for quite some time now.

Yes there is more to life than the thiings that we see in plain view. However big our problems seem to us, there are thousands who have got it worse off. So none of us have the right to mope and dwell on how bad things are or rather seem to be. Moping can achieve nothing. there’s more to life!

 What a way to start the day, right? I don’t know whether it was because I was still sleepy, or whether I was innately clumsy. That was the first time I actually hurt myself. It’s always been, "almost tripped" for me and my bruises usually come from accidentally bumping into something. So this morning, it was the first time I was brought to my knees in front of about 20 people because of my clumsiness. 5 minutes before that, I "almost tripped" because I was walking on the sidewalk reading my notes for the presentation I had to do earlier. What are the chances of me "almost tripping" again right? None. Cause this time, i REALLY tripped. It hurts when i walk *sob* I can’t wait to see when this knee turns blue and green.

Key learning from the experience: never put your attention on anything else when your walking on unstable grounds. Or maybe: focus attention on walking properly especially if you lack sleep. and another: just because you always just "almost trip" doesn’t mean that you’ll never actually trip, not even 5 minutes after. Oo, that sounds profound. I’m sure most of you are relating that to life’s learnings now so I won’t even bother. :p

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