2am

blog about it daw. o sige. :)
in full detail ba? no. aftermath na lang.
home at 2am, with half a loaf of bread in me, a few strawberry nerds, a frozen margarita (decent one this time!) and FOUR shots of cuervo gold. lord. ako lang ba o tuesday? it's not right! moo. you can't condemn me. not after your own stint with pizza and beer.
funnily enough, i didn't wake up with the "measels", PLUS i woke up hungry. v weird.
even more weird, he can't wait to see me again. cool. in the words of liza, "ang haba ng buhok ko". no more drinking though. have enough to last me for a real long time!
points for him: did not flinch when i asked to order JUST bread and asked for tape to tape up my box of strawberry nerds. kaya ako nito. hehe :)
am just not gonna overthink it. one thought lang, that at 25, i've JUST started dating!? ;)

the earth is MOVING!

just got back late last night from a great liveaboard adventure. amazing dives! there was this one dive at san agapito, verde island, where we were fighting the current sometimes, drifting with it during other times, huge pelagics around us, v good coral cover too. plenty of great memories.

friend of mine was saying, diving was 1/2 diving, and 1/2 the company. it's entirely true. and it was great being among old and new friends. good food too! what more does one need on a dive trip?? :)

downside: i feel like i'm still ON the boat. did not get seasick on the boat, but once i got back on solid ground, i felt like i was still swaying. still feel slightly like that now! it goes away when i walk around though. so i'll be doing a lot of that today ;)

changE

funny thing about life hit me today. this has obviously come to mind before, but anyway: in the back of your mind, you know things change, and yet when it happens, you end up (most of the time) resenting it.
how do you reconcile your need for stability and "something you can rely on" with the ever present "threat" of change?
how do you build when you know FOR SURE it'll change?
maybe the better word is growth? it has a more positive ring to it huh?
fine. growth then. and i'm nowhere near all grown up.

TGGE woes

it broke down. can you believe it? ugh. so we're going to do a test run today. but yesterday it kept on turning off by itself. telling us that there was no current or that there were cables wrongly attached. weird. i hope it can be fixed.

hello?? parang diyan lang naman umaasa yung thesis ko diba? :(

and i'm gonna file for graduation this october. so. ugh. not a good day at all.

making up your mind

weather today is v weird. it's being very sunny and bright right now. but a while ago it was raining cats, dogs, saw some chickens in there... bigla lang. wala lang. feel lang niya! co-worker of mine was walking along outside. and she got caught in the sudden pour. she had an umbrella so it was fine, but then when she got to the next block, (as in next building) there was no rain!
MAKE UP YOUR MIND! :)

my gel is still thinking about whether or not it wants to polymerize. i should know in an hour or so. pleeeease let it polymerize.

yesterday was apparently a great day for a lot of people in the lab. not just me. was having great cool weather yesterday. and my PCR worked extremely well. and we all ate Chow-King take out. mami, lomi and stuff. bagay sa panahon diba? anyway, v good day.
but this morning we were all talking and just realized that all of the stuff we were working on yesterday went really well. products, gels, assays... all successful. and they all tell me it's my double distilled water. may basbas kasi yan sa simbahan ;P great start of a day.

i'm glad to have made up my mind. and looks like the weather has too! sunshine!! we'll see how the gel goes... but i have a feeling, it will ALL be ok :)

in traffic... sunset... the camera doesn't capture how lovely it was then!!! 

blue buildings 

Strangely enough

Strange things today..

1) This morning, I woke up without the help of my alarm clock at precisely the right time I meant to wake up. Now this is a feat because it was EARLY in the morning. But, I probably wasn't really properly awake because after driving to my spanish class, attending it (3hrs) and driving to work in the rain... (all tasks requiring concentration) I just realized I have my shirt on the wrong way! nice. must have made quite the impression! :D

2) The lab was flooded. Kaya mo!? When I got here, there was a puddle of water on the doorstep of the lab. And when I walked in, I felt like I had stepped onto a set of Enterprise gone wrong. Water on the floor (at least we don't need it swept now diba?), mist hanging over everything! Eerie. PLUS my TGGE machine was having a fit (a high pitched beep in the background), basically telling me or anyone within hearing range that it was done working ...((weekend na daw)). Sci-Fi no? Shock.

3) My TGGE didn't work (am not surprised). Or at least I don't think it did. Took a picture. Will show Knong on Monday. But I'm not the least bit upset. Now THAT is strange. But refuse to overanalyze. (uuy)

So. Gonna go now. Reverse my shirt, eat lunch, drive to LP AND most importantly, have a good NORMAL "rest of the weekend".

People always say...

People always say they "woke up on the wrong side of the bed". WELL. I wonder which side I woke up on... and what sort of qualities your "waking up moments" should have to classify the day as starting on the "wrong side" or the "right side". Just wondering. Shall do a proper experiment on it. My scientific background is asserting itself! :)

I guess people who woke up on the "right side", don't feel compelled to figure out which side they did wake up on. Which leads me to believe I did not wake up anywhere near the right side of the bed today. Oof.

Listening to "Yellow" on the radio while waiting for the gel. Wonderful world of PCR. Please let there be bands today. I guess a lot of this blog will be written while I'm waiting for something. Some protocol to finish. Some television show to start. Something.

So it should be interesting to look back at this in the future. Cause people are always waiting for something to happen. Waiting for the raise, waiting for the vacation, the right person. Something. And this blog will be about everything "in the meantime". Which is, where I believe, real life is lived.

First Post

Watching American Idol. Not exactly the sort of thing which inspires blogging genius! Should this first post set the tone for the rest of the blog? Ok... Pressure... Nah. Di bale na!
Purpose of blog... for the people who know me and my seemingly strange connection to the word "moo" to keep updated. We'll see how things go!
Oh. I got a "meow". I better wrap this up... blog more later :)