*** I love BPI World of Conveniece!  so many atms, reliable expressphone banking to pay bills with, internet, and intelligent service!  with regard to atms:  one can deposit cash in envelope at any atm machine; one should deposit checks (where in the depositor is the payee) in an envelope at the atm of your account’s branch (that is, if you’d do the deposit after banking hours); there are certain machines in glorietta that can receive cash deposits even without an envelope — smart machine, it knows what amount of bill you’re feeding it after inserting so in the provided slot. cool! (hahaha, namangha ang bata!)

*** i believe you, lance armstrong, against your accusers stating your alleged use of  drug enhancer in 1999!

*** i got my bar permit already.  gocongwei bldg again…

*** yahoo, THE BLUE EAGLES won over UE yesterday!!! go team!

*** whew, i’ve replaced two leaking flappers at home. handywoman at work.  conserve water!

*** i passed by the house of piper and ron to return the former’s favorite stuffed toy she left in the xwind last week.  piper happily exclaimed, "tweety, you’re back!"

*** one week na lang, bar na!

sometimes, posting here in friendster leads to errors.  when so occur, log out then sign back in again.  most often than not, it works for me.

*** ATENEO won yesterday sa UAAP. i’m sooooooooo happy!!! BLUE EAGLES, the KING!

*** i have a semi-old cause to propagate amongst friends: GREET THE CARPARK TICKET GIVER/TOLL PERSONNEL whenever passing them.  imagine how boring  and disastrous to their lungs their job is; so let’s brighten up their day and give dignity to what they are doing.

*** it’s so interesting to read about other friends’ lives in their blogs.  but pause muna due to pre-week.

*** U.S. open is near already.  despite his age, i still cheer for andre agassi! been doing so since high school!

*** i had a eureka moment while reading my codals: it is so amazing how a page can handle multi-layers of highlights, encircling, underlining, and notations!

*** whoooppppeee!  the clog at the back drainage has been fixed by our plumber. whew! 

*** i almost didn’t get to read the reply of botswana post re my query about usage of zipcodes in their country ‘coz their email landed in my bulk mail.  i am scared to, thus hardly, open stuff from my bulkmail inbox due viruses.  heck, i don’t even read forwards for that matter (confession!).  when i see "FWD" in the message subject title, sorry but delete button agad.  protect the PC. my bro is not here for instant repairs.

oh wow, BOtswana post replied to my email.  here it is below:

Naiye Kgetse <NKgetse@botspost.co.bw> wrote:

Dear Ria,

If you are sending aletter here you need to write the name of the person you are sending to. The box number,  the city and country of destinstion. We dont have zipcodes.

Thank you.

N. Kgetse

i can’t believe the disastrous rains/floods in about 7 European Countries…especially sa Romania!  (comment ni nanang, "nagkakabaha din pala dun!")

and then, the terrible drought and forrest fires in Portugal! (comment ni nanang, "malapit na talaga magunaw ang mundo, totoo."

there were lots ot airplane crashes pa lately…greece, venezuela…

indonesia has polio outbreak, we got dengue outbreak, and india has encephalitis (caused by mosquitoes also) outbreak.

typical that we get a lot of killings in Iraq.  now there is another Filipino who died and about two injured (sigh, i bet, super react na naman mga leftist nito).

there are sooo many things going on around the world; yet being a barrista with the month of september fast approaching, i’m being ’self-centered’ lang with my studies.

i think i will light a candle and say a prayer for all of these happenings today.

***i got this call for a job i really want…dang the bar!

***so touched that some friends of my dad was asking directions how to see his place in Loyola Memorial Park.  happy that they remember him.  they were so concerned during my dad’s hospital days; and now, they are still. wow.

***does botswana have zipcodes?  arg!  so having a hard time to send a package to my aunt there! (my aunt says there is none and my searches in the internet is going no where.  heck, i even emailed botwana post already — wow, they have a website, ha!)

***how does one properly "beso"? for the life of me, i truly don’t know how…yet my friends at this age seem to be so inclined doing so.

to real and possible near-future hex-ers/witches……….please stop jinxing me.

wow, they announced until 12am na MRT/LRT operations.

SpaceShuttle Discovery is back in Florida (piggy back sa isang jumbo airplane…so cool and cute!)

sigh, so noisy outside the past days.  mwss diggings.  surely after, i’d have additional problems — connecting pipes, drainage.

double sigh, the ceiling light in one of the rooms at home got busted again!  gotta fix. prior, already contemplating how to change flapper sa toilet eh. now another fix-up!

just attended jack lectures on commercial jurisprudence updates.  i can’t believe this but, i somehow missed his boring voice and weird humor.  great to have heard both yesterday! haha.

Why is it that when i text or email friends/relatives about Kris (yes, spelled with a "K"), they still reply and refer to him as Chris (spelled with a "Ch")?

Dang, i’m stressed out.  i’m getting pimples, upset and acidic tummy, falling hair, and even falling eyelashes!

Double dang, i feel so fat just being cooped up at home and sitting on my study chair all the time.  my relatives said i’m gaining weight pa. tapos kris is in his psycho-healthy living mode pa so beside him, parang i’m sooo much fatter.  i know i’m not fat-fat; heck, my wrist is freaking thin kaya siguro walang protection yung mga tendon ko dun. but comments (expressed and implied) add insecurities y’know.

Alrighty, this is my last week to super blog.  next week is pre-week already.  although, i’m using the internet the past days during wee morning hours as i practice waking up early for the bar.  practice lang kasi i’m a problematic & grouchy wake-r. but waking up while it is still dark outside makes my eyes rebel to study agad; and so, blog and email (gotta regularly check for communication purposes; almost all my family and immediate relatives are abroad) muna.

some ria quirks 4:

i just had prescription glasses in second year of lawschool!  to think i was so smug during college about having clear vision!

i prefer using dermatographs than highlighters (jove, they work better with mimeo paper)

me, super serious? hahahaha.

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ria-isms 3

Marvi: bakit hindi kayo tabi ni Kris (sa audi during lectures)?

RIA: kasi hindi ako clingy.  he’s got his own friends; i’ve got mine.

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Mel: na-meet namin si Christian!

RIA: Ahuhuhuhu; ingget ako. mas na-appreciate ko sana!

my tita was inviting me to watch a movie at gateway (the theater with la-z-boy seats and eat-all-you-can popcorn).  i told her after the bar na. 

it’s such a wonder how good cubao looks now.  i remember in college, my friend jing and i truly wanted to bomb the place so the Q.C. government and the private establishments would be forced to reconstruct cubao. we hated passing by cubao then due to traffic and it was such a dark, creepy place before!

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commuting all four years of my college life was hell (tiis lang talaga kasi i super wanted ateneo for college even though we lived opposite it in Manila). i still didn’t know how to drive then…but then again, there was no car for me to take anyway!

during my early years, i carpooled with Abe.  wake up at 5am and set for Q.C. by 6am (later than than would mean being caught in rush hour traffic).  going, home, sometimes i get to hitch with her…but most often, commute talaga. latter years with different scheds, i hardly get to even see Abe. 

commuting home entailed riding a trike or walking from the campus to aurora-katipunan; then taking a jeepney to cubao-edsa;  then taking a bus to ayala-buendia;  then taking a jeep by the makati firestation to zobel roxas extension; and finally walking the length of our street to our house.  these took about two hours…even more when i left school at around 5pm.  that time, the whole length of EDSA was in chaos due to the construction of the MRT!

good thing i learned jing and gara (and sometimes pixie) also commuted until EDSA.  and so, commuting until that point became atleast bearable with friends (but the smog along Aurora Blvd prolly killed half my lungs!) However, despite our number, we still kept our guards and walking speed up due to the high rate of snatching incidents in the old and dirty cubao. I’ve been victimized by snatchers around 3x in cubao.  but the only stuff they ever got from me was my nappy pouch (hehehe)! the other times, i felt them opening my bag before they ever got anything (but then again, there is nothing valuable in my bag anyway — except my big old analog cellphone na uso pa back then). however, i was victimized by a teenager snatcher in Katipunan; he swiped my necklace that i forgot to remove going home. dang.

then, when we moved to Paco (due to my mom), my commute route involved riding a trike or walking from the campus to aurora-katipunan; then taking a jeepney to cubao-edsa; then taking a jeep to San Juan; then taking another jeep to Mandaluyong; then taking another jeep to Sta. Ana (once, i walked the length of this segment ‘coz walang masakyan sa dami ng tao!  imagine, the whole length of Kalentong, past the Sta. Ana bridge, until the Sta. Ana church!), and finally walking some blocks towards our house. this route took away the EDSA stretch and i was with gara half the time; but it entailed more jeepneys and battling with more people fighting to get a ride.

then, we moved again to malate (to get away from my mom).  my commute route entailed riding a trike or walking from the campus to aurora-katipunan; then taking a jeepney to cubao-edsa;  then taking a bus to buendia-dian;  then taking a jeepney to Zobel Roxas (if i get to Dian by 9pm, there are no more jeepneys plying the area so i either took pedicabs or walked the whole stretch) and walk a block to our house.  by then, hardly do Abe and i get same scheds so i also commute going to school.  sometimes i take the reverse of my route going home to school; or somtimes i take a jeep to Taft, then FX to Aurora, jeep to katipunan, and trike/walk to ateneo.

when we get departamental management exams until 9pm, i sometimes sleep over at my counsin’s house in Project 2, Q.C. —- one long tricycle ride from Katipunan through Xavierville until Langka Street. 

A few months before graduation, the MRT finally became operational! wow, my EDSA-stretch commute in just 20mins (by bus before, a little over an hour)! cool aircon, lots of seats, and hardly anyone yet using the train! however, we didn’t get to enjoy the new MRT long because the chapter of our lives in AdMU, Loyola Heights soon ended. 

But then, commuting to Ateneo, Rockwell is another matter all together.  good thing there was a car assigned for us kids then, so the driver of my dad can bring me to and fro school already! i commute during saturdays then (as we are not mandated to be in dresscode and lighter bag load).  a 20-minute car ride equates to 1 hour commute travel (5 jeeps going to Powerplant kasi, with one segment na may pila ang jeeps filling up their seats before moving)!

Commuting was such a experience — learning how to deal and battle with the ‘taong masa’ for a seat in jeepneys; toughing it out against snatchers/exhibitionists in the buses; fighting bastos men; and being super stressed and bone tired at the end of the day (everyday)!

To the commuting generation today, be thankful you got the MRT and Cubao is such a great place now.