steaming off and trying to forget a bad day
1. i am reading another person’s blog. and i am enjoying what i am doing. it is always interesting to read another person’s thoughts, the events in his/her life, his/her perceptions. i wanna know the things another person categorized as trivial or important. i wanna know things that i normally am not aware of if not for that blog. i wanna know what are happening to another person’s life. in simple words, ang tsismosa ko lang.
the only thing that i am wondering about is this: why is it that other people’s blog always seemingly more interesting than mine? whenever i read my blog, i can’t help but rate it inferior of another person’s. is it because i already know what my blog has to say [malamang, ako writer ng blog na'to ee.] or my life is simply uninteresting? whatever. i’ll try to figure this out then i’ll let you know the answer.
2. i went to UST Central Library today. they call the building Miguel de Buenavidez Library. it is a huge building with six or seven levels. the fee is one hundred for off-campus users [namulubi ako. ang mahal, di ko naman nasulit kasi less than two hours lang kami sa library na yun]. i can’t really say the library is beautiful though. fine, it is a bit superior than the UP Manila Main library if you want to talk about the facilities. And yes, it is superior with the UPM main lib if we are pertaining to the number of books the library has stored. but the service is kinda well, how do we say it, uhm.. slow. and i really mean slow here. one has to undergo long process just to get a book. if you want to photocopy a part of the book, you have to ask for a form from the counter and fill it with the needed information before you can go back to the ground floor where the photocopying booth is located. unfortunately, the section i went to was in the sixth floor [in fairness, may elevator naman sila so di ako napagod magakyat-baba. kaya lang, katulad ng serbisyo nila, naknakan din ng bagal nung elevator].
BUT i have to give it to them. panalo ang koleksyon nila ng journals! sobrang nagenjoy ako dun sa mga journals nila. kung di nga lang ako nangangailangan umalis kaagad [dahil sa job interview na di ko rin naman napuntahan, mananatili ako doon para lamang magbasa ng journals].
3. Ryan and his girl friend broke up yesterday. he just texted me about it today.
4. feb 16 pala birthday ni ralph. this info is for those who are fond of him. like some people i know.=)
5. i asked the thesaurus in MS Word for another term for “crush”. all the words i saw fell under these categories: squash, defeat, devastate, press, and suppress. no terms nor a category for “like”. funny, after twelve years of using the word crush, it is only today that i realized how the word “crush” to mean “like” is nonexistent.
i remember my philo I class this college. how a word is arbitrary and the nonexistence of the logical connection between the word and the thing or idea this word is pertaining to. our professor made it clear that it is the convention that gives a thing or an idea its name. [eg, people call the thing with four legs and can be seat on as a chair because the convention dictates that it is a chair. otherwise, the convention can also dictate the-thing-we-call-now-a-chair to be named hotdog if the every one agrees on it. ]
after a decade of saying “i have a crush on ___.” and after many years that english-spokening people use the word crush with blushing cheeks and after almost everyone recognizes the word “crush” to mean like [and usually in conversations, the term like is the only term associated with the term crush], why doesn’t the thesaurus do the same?
6. i bought a new [ and my third] pair of red shoes. which lea insists on calling “happy shoes” because it has ribbons on the back. whatever it is called, i am definitely happy to have it.
7. i like the song “mood 4 Lovin” in the pringles u pop contest. i do think it is good. watch it and vote for it. i am no musician but i know how to appreciate good music. go, dreadspot!
8. i hate the key board in this net cafe. [wag na yung name nung net cafe. baka awayin ako. kilala pa mandin ako dito].
9. swear, yung next post ko, tagalog na.
