WARNING: if you don't wanna hear my whine and complain and me and my life, feel free to skit down ahead to the next number 1. You can skip the emo stuff i write. that's where the not so boring stuff is at.
- Once again, i have another issue with Financial aid. dang man... seriously? when is it all going to end? i hate it. So i've been checking and continously logging on to my financial aid to see if anything was wrong. All seemed well, one day, i happend to come across my sumer session payments and it says that i haven't paid for my summer session classes. now at this point in time, i knew i paid my 364 dollars. so i check out the cashiers office in person to ask what's the deal. they said that my financial aid is on hold... once again. due to the fact that i am in debt. around 3k to b exact. ($3000) So with my financial aid on hold, the portion the financial aid is paying for my summer tuition (approx. 1000) isn't being paid for. I was soooo angry. i was on the verge of tears. i really didn't know anything about that. i was two months late on my payments. so i have more to pay off aswell. they claim that i was suppose to have paid the money back two months ago. why i wasn't informed of this at the financial aid website? I have no clue. They said it was shown on my Zot Bill account that everything was Not Fine. So why exactly am i in debt for 3k u ask? this is the situation. i was getting loan money, and financial aid was sending my parents a check every month. with a change in financial aid, they were suppose to stop sending loan money to my parents. It takes a while for the ppl. who send out the checks to get the memo and stop sending out the checks. so therefore, my dad was suppose to have returned the checks rite away. a few months later, next thing u know. im in debt for about 3k. : / so the bad news for me is that all the money im working for over the summer with GSA. all that extra cash i had in mind of spending on some nice clothes at H&M, a nice black pair of denim jeans, my own printer, or even that Creative Zen mp3player i had my eyes on *sound of toilet flushing* So i got really mad about that and i ended up cussing out uci financial aid in my head. but there's an upside to things. i ended up getting a payment plan, i pay sixhundred as a downpayment, and twohundred twelve dollars a month. so hopefully things work out. it's just that if i slack off for one month without payment... im doomed and financial aid is on hold all over again. so that's why i wanna use some of my GSA money to get my outta that debt. hopefully things all run smoothly. im sorry for boring u wiht that hella long story. movin on!
- At ate May's b-day party at the bowling ally, i saw Ate monique there. Ate monique is a really awesome person. she is my sister's ex-boss. but she kinda became a really great family friend. and ate may and i good friend aswell. so at the bowling ally, nearing the end of the night, i happen to be in between ate monique and my mom. i was cutting cake getting ready to pass it out to ppl. my mom looks over to me and goes(in tagalog) "so where is this girlfriend of yours at Ace? Why aren't you introducing her to me yet?" and in my head, im just like... "busted!" ^&#* ^$% *(^$&@! lol. anyway. i look at ate monique to my left, and try my best to play it off "wut girlfriend mom?" blah blah blah. iono if she bought it. good thing joyce wasn't there, or else things would have been really obvious. So im pretty sure Ate Monique told my mom about my gf... and i wasnt' too happy about that. Im not sure if Ate Monique slipped the secret out or if she just told my mom offhand and casually. but in any case. im sure my mom is more suspicious of me than ever. It's just that ate may and i trust in ate monique to keep stuff like that on the downlow. and when stuff like this happebns, it makes us not want to open up with her anymore. u know? oh.. and just in case of some of you ppl. reading this who is lost. my parent's don't know about my gf. they would say something along the lines of "your grades will drop and you should focuus more on you studies. a gf will cost lots of money etc." iono. if u got flip parent's im sure u feel me on that one. but what im more worried about is how my dad will take it. I think i'd b more comfortable letting my mom know that i have a gf that my dad. i think it's cuz i have this feeling that my mom will take it more positivly and my dad might take it as more of a neautral feeling or negative thing... so iono. i was talking wtih John and Ate Ann and they said that i should just come clean already and tell my parents. im not sure what to do. but im considering telling them already next time i come home and see them.
- Accounting minor is a no-no for me. lol. my summer session one class was mgmt 30A. it had accounting in there, and it looked hella tuff. i was not down to learn all that. i dun think i could even try to. lol. so i dropped that class and it made my summer session one a lot more flexible and free. : ) it's just that bad thing is that i dropped a class, and i was hella worried about it before. and the accounting book was 177 bux man! that's "ridonckulous" as a couple of my fellow loggers would say. lol. so as of rite now, im looking for another type of minor. maybe managment? who knows? now im just worried about my summer session2 classes with eight units. i hope things will go smoothly.
- so this incident made me cry. i was soooo frustrated. i got really really mad today. my final grade for classics mythology is a D. argh.... for some unknown reason, there is no hardcopy of my final. i took the final and everything. i studied soo hard for it too. i talked with my proff. and let's just say our emails back and forth with each other didn't end well. so im not sure what to do. ima try to ask someone in the classics dept. who has higher authority or somehting. iono what to do. im just kinda stuck. and i took the final. i know of it. so i have no idea why my paper isn't there. i just got soooo frustrated and angry. i hope i can find a solution.
- a month ago, and a lil bit now. i was kinda worried about myself and time management. i was debating whether or not i filled my plate up too fast. in other words. im hellla busy. GSA is almost like a 24hr job. but there's good stuff about it that i'll explain later. i have UCC meeting to hit up on the weekends. and i have to do mass every sunday and i used to have four units for summer session one. so i was really juggling things around, but now that i dropped my class for session one, i think im doing okay. i am just having a hard time seeing joyce. It's really hard to see and spend time iwth each other with GSA and all. we miss each other very much. with my week off this week, we'll try to spend as much time as we can with each other.
- Speaking of filling up my plate too fast, i am kinda worried about gaining weight. i've been eating at Pippin's for GSA, and im eating a loooooot. i mean a lot dude. i hope i don't gain weight. u guys let me know if i am okay? b honest too. i hope i maintain myself somehow. us RA's try to maintain oursleves by playing the sports and activities with the kids. hopefully that burns off enough to not gain weight. hehe
- Father's Day celebration was soooo fun. We went Long beach for father's day, went swimming, dad went fishing and caught mackrel. we bought some seafood along the pier and ate out. had fun as a whole family. i know this is late, but happy father's day dad. Speaking of spending time with my dad. i don't realy spend too much tiem with my dad. or even my mom on that matter. there just happens to be not a lot of thigns i can connect with my dad or do activities that we both share. but just reccently, i got back into Gunbound. oh man, it's been a really long time since i last played. and withing the past three weeks, i've been playing a lot. My dad really likes to watch me play gunbound on my laptop, i think my dad things the idea of gunboung and watching it is entertaining. and i kinda like having my dad watch over my shoulder and i play. It's one of the rare things my dad and i can enjoy doing togehter. : ) that made me really happy.
- Another fun thing that happend reccently is when jen-a-to, Joyce, Johnson and I (i just noticed that im the only one with a J as a start of their name) went shopping for ate May's birthday present. We went to Spectrum and had a great time walking around and shopping for Ate. hehe. it was fun to hang out with johnson and jen-a-to. i hardly get to spend time with them. i esp. liked the way i wrapped ate may's present. i used newspaper. : p it looks hella ghetto, but i acutally looked deccent. i was most proud of myself. haha
- so we went bowling for Ate may's b-day party, it was fun and we were loud as ussual. i scored pretty well that night. i got around the 160's or so. i was happy. and i ended up getting a starbux giftcard. : )
- (Note: i considered putting this story at the top half of the list of bad things) Following that in continuation to ate's birthday, we went to Seaworld, the four siblings (including me) and John and Daisy. John is ate Ann's boyfriend and Daisy is a coworker of ate may. it was really really great day. lots of great shows and attractions. so much fun. so this was the best part of seaworld tho. well... not really the best part for me... but anyway. so this is what happened. we were sitting underneath a roof with spikes on it so that way birds dont stand on the ledges. all of us were eating a lunch buffet. i saw a lotta birds up above and they were still perched on the spikes. it looks like the spikes didnt stop teh birds from wanting a deccent meal. so as im talking and starting up convo, i ask everyone at the table "who's be pooped on by a bird before? be honest." some of us raised our hands, and so did i. im not kidding when i say less than 20 seconds later. i feel a big plog on my upper back. i ask ate may to check for me and sure enough, it was a hug round circle of bird poop. it was like... the size of both of ur hands attempting to make a circle. it was huuuuge! it's so crzy too because i was just talking about getting pooped on. lolz
- What has also annoyed me reccently and has happend to me reccently is something that happens during the bathroom. Warning if you hav weak stomache's don't read the following bullet of number five. so during seaworld, i went to the bathroom, and i wet to pee in the stall next to some guy, i did the ussual male code and protocall. unzip, look straight ahead or atyourself only. don't look at the person next to u. etc. but what i didnt' like is that i was wearing flip flops. and i think i felt some urine platter on my foot a lil bit. it was just some small drops. but i was hella grossed out and i can't tell if it was either me or him that splattered on my foot a bit. it wasn't a lot tho! it was a small 'drizzle' so to speak. i mean, that is definately a con to wearing flipflops during the summer. some pro are my feet getting darking. bye bye sock tan. : ) hhaha. and yeah... well anyway, i just wanted to say that yeah, that incident really grossed me out and i've accidentally done the same thing to myself a couple of times already... okay, i've sed enuf. moving on! lol
- so GSA is one of the highlighs of my summer. it's really awesome. although i won't b using my money for myself, i am getting free meals for five weeks, parking, and i get to have some fun with the kids. it's really awesome. spending time and bonding with them is sooo much fun. there are a lot of really gifted students at GSA. i wish i was as talented as they were when i was a kid. some could play the guitar already, fluently speak a second language, and an infinite imagination. i like playing hte activities we set up for them, and what i like most of all is that fact that i see some of their faces, and how happy they are to be a part of GSA. it is really rewarding all on it's own. it's so wonderful. it makes you feel like you accomplished something other than a paycheck. hehe. I also enjoy working with all of the GSA crew. i knew Angie, Juliene, and Brentz frm LOG. but i also met chris, alex, guanying, rosanna, jason, and daniel. i really enjoy working with them all.
- So i have two stories about GSA that i'd like to share real quick. this one is a kinda scary story. So there was this one kid, who was kinda weird, he acted really funny. he'd always be lying down on the floor. and stuff. but he's really cool and smart kid. he really grew on me as the my first week of GSA went by. but when it was the last day of GSA and the parents were getting ready to pick up their kids, i was waiting and hanging out with this kid, and we start to talk for a bit, i ask him how he liked GSA and what's his fav. part. etc. then the kid goes "i really like this place. i don't wanna leave.... Could i got get a knife when my mom gets here?" and i am kinda shocked here and i go "wut?! why wouldn u say that?" and the kid goes "Because i hate her." so im a lil freaked out so i go "oh don't say that man. and i walk away." when his mother comes to pick him up, he picks up his small bag and starts hitting his mother with it and yells, get a knife, get the knife. All the RA's tell him to put the bad down and to stop doing that. he stopped immediately but, i just wondered what happend to him after he go home, or during the car ride. i was really scared for him at that point in time.
- so my other story has to do with duties. for GSA, we are suppose to do a certain amount of duties generally speaking it's about 8 duties per week. so now, Daniel, the head RA tells us of this tradition that they always do every thursday night. Poker Nite. We all bet 1 duty into the pot. 1st place gets five duties off, 2nd gets 3 duties off. so for example, if there are eight players wanting to play, there are eight duties up for grabs. if you participate and lose at the poker tournament, you have to do nine duties. instead of eight. now... it was really fun. texas holdem style. oh man... i got sooo lucky. i won for a bit, lost some, then i came bak and won the game. first place! woot. i was sooo happy. i think i got begginners luck or sumtin. haha it was pretty intense, my heart was beating sooo loudly. Brentz gave me some advice before playing on how to bet properly. so i owe him some of the credit for winning. thx brentz! i coulnd't have done it without u!
- so this saturday, i went to Roscoe's chicken and Waffles in Long Beach to celebrate John's birhtday. lotta fun man. such good food. sould food rocks man. haha, i got to meet John's parents too. they are a wonderful couple. they are great company. very funny ppl. haha. make me laff. so afterwards, we all went to the beach, the four sibs. my cousin edrik frm the filipinas, janette (john's sister) and Pat, a friend. we swam, snacked, tossed the football, had fun with a bit of dodgeball, more swimming. it was just a good day all in all. we followed it up with a movie. we watche Wall-E and ate panda express afterwards. it was such a great day : D i was really happy that day. And with the combinations of all the beach days and GSA stuff, i've gotten hella dark man. lol. every keeps telling me that i got darker.
- So there are a couple of things that im really excited for that is coming up. One of them is fourth of July. oh yeah! it like... tradition that we go to JR's place and watch the fireworks. they always have a party every year. tito and JR go to vegas every year before fourth of july and buy all the 'good' (wink-wink) fireworks. and theres always lots of food. so im really looking forward to that. i have four more GSA weeks to go! woot. GSA rocks. i luv working for GSA haha. i can't wait to start again. and there are Summer LOG meetings and i heard there's a summer retreat. im so excited! woot woot! i also wanted to mention that it is Slim-0's birthday coming up and so is Johnson's my two best friends! WOOT! HAPPY BIRTHDAY GUYS. so hella excited about that. hopefully they have a wonderful birhtday, and im excited to give them presents and hang out with them in general. hehe.
