Summer

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I’m officially on summer break, I survived the first year of uni. woohooo.. As of now, I’m exhausted. For the past couple of weeks I’ve neglected pretty much everything, dishes and laundry basket is stacking up, there are post-its, papers, and books all over the place, and I haven’t eaten a decent meal in almost 2 weeks. I AM TIRED. 65 pages, 20 something litres of coffee, a written exam.. and 2 oral exams later I’m finally DONE. I have to say I was pretty nervous, I hate oral exams, my mouth and brain never seem to function together, my heart feels like its pounding its way through my oesophagus and onto the exam table. Man, just thinking about it makes me nauseous. And hearing that around 50% of the students failed and said they were pretty much slaughtered in there didn’t help at all. Anyways, I made it out the exam room alive, the first one not soo good but still a pass. The second one was weird.. in a good way. In the end of the exam I found myself laughing with the examiners and making small talk when we finished, I don’t really care if they were laughing at me or with me but it made me feel at ease.

So, so far soo good. I passed the first year! I have 3 months of summer break to recover from this.. I’m now back to 10% brain activity. My parents are coming to Denmark in a couple of weeks which I’m pretty excited about and in less than a month I’m off to the Philippines.  But for now, I’m gonna make myself a big ass dinner, take a long and hot shower, and catch up on sleep.

I hope everything is good wherever you are!

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Filipino cooking at its worst

For the three of you who still care, I’m sorry I haven’t posted in a while. I’ve been so busy in school.. it’s the time of  year again where we gather pretty much everything we’ve learnt for the past 4 months and cram it all in a 36 page report and prepare for exams.  I’ve been stressing over it for the past couple of weeks if we’d finish on time, but yesterday at 7pm when the last piece of paper was printed and bounded was assurance that we’d make the deadline. You’d think after 12 years of primary education and high school we’d be good at this by now but really it just thought us to get used to stress.

Anywyas, apart from the school related stuff, I’ve been playing around in my kitchen trying to cook Filipino food or something that resembled it. I started off with Palitaw (rice cake patties covered in sugar and coconut shreds), which was kind of a success, I can’t say it’s my favourite Filipno snack but it was the easiest one I found online.

And yes, it come with pictures.. that’s a warning, not for viewing pleasure :P

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siesta

afternoonsAfternoons are probably the worst time to try doing anything productive, particularly on a Sunday. The way the sun is shinning through my window, I can’t seem to get my ass off my bed and do anything. The Filipino in me want to just keep sleeping, it reminded me of the time when I was little, our house in Palawan is on a mountain, so during he afternoon when the sun was shinning the most, everyone just lounged around at home having their marienda, watching TV, or sleeping…basically it was way too hot to do anything that involves leaving your spot for more than a 3meter radius.  I know it’s not too hot right now, but still, the sun in the afternoon always makes me soo lazy when I’m indoors.

Speaking of sunshine, Denmark  has been experiencign good weather lately, I don’t want to jinx anything, but I’m pretty sure this won’t last too long. I’m not being pesssemistic, it’s just how it works here. But yeah, it’s been soo nice lately, for what? 3 weeks the weather has been awesome and when it does go away, I’m gonna miss it soo much.

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For now, I’m gonna keep lying in bed doing absolutley nothing.

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three months

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I’m a vibrating ball of excitement!

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24 hours

07:30 No internet.. What to do??

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-Go to school early and use their free internet. When you start looking like a freak sitting in the corner for a couple of hours after class, it might be time to go. +8 hours

-Take the slowest way home. +1hour

-When you  get home make dunch and then eat. +45minutes

-Go to Language centre and pass Danish exam. +2 hours.

-Use the free internet in Language centre until you get kicked out. +20 minutes

-When you get home, eat left over dunch while trying to figure out which homework you need to do. +15 minutes

-Set up desk to create a study environment. +10 minutes

-Make tea. +5 minutes

-Pee. +1 minute

- Clean the bathroom, starting from the shower, to the sink, and finally to the toilet. +1hour

-Programme TV, all the good channels first, then news, then cartoons.. just don’t programme the Swedish or German channels. +30 minutes

-Since you programmed your TV make a channel list, so you know which channel goes with which button. +30 minutes

- Watch TV. +2 hours

-Look at desk and contemplate whether or not to do home work. +0.5 seconds

-Play solitaire. +20 minutes

-Call friend. +17 minutes

-Look at desk again and contemplate whether or not to do homework. +0.05seconds

-Keep playing solitaire +30 minutes.

-Sleep + 5 hours

I really need a hobby or something..

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boxes

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I haven’t blogged in quite some time, but I have a good excuse. I finally moved in!! yeah well I moved in 5 months ago, but a couple of days ago I finally managed to get all my stuff from storage to my apartment.. So I’ve been busy sorting things out or get caught up reading old magazines. Anyways, it’s nice to have my things back, I’m not living off a suitcase anymore! Plus I have more things to do now.. but at the same time most of my things reminds me of the boarding school. I’ve had my fair share of not so nice memories there, but the good memories haii.. yeah, I miss my old friends, those 3 years I spent living there was awesome.. While looking at pictures and things as little as scissors and a left handed glove, I can’t help but feel this lump in my throat.  I don’t have that many close friends due to my constant moving, but yeah, the boarding school made up for it, we were each other friends, brothers/sisters, and occasionally  parents :)

Oh, I hate being nostalgic…

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nineteen

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So, another year has passed. I can’t say I’ve grown wiser, so no wisdom points for me! But soo much has changed, that when I try to sum it all up, it’s impossible, but it’s mostly for the better. So I’m gonna keep this short and sweet. Life is too short to be so negative about things and be angry with people, don’t dwell on the past/mistakes/failures.. and instead of simply existing, live. That’s what I’ve learnt so far, not much but I was a dumb kid, stepping stones!

My parents, Kristian, Nabs, and all my friends have been awesome and for those of you who’s been following my blog for a while now, thanks for keeping up with all my..err. crap?

I’m gonna continue being 19 now, have a good day everyone :)

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Living alone fears/concerns

Before I moved into my own apartment I had some concerns, for now I’ve only done/experienced a couple.

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-Something catching on fire.
I really like those scenty thingy’s with the oil and 3 hour candles and I’m scared one of these days I forget to turn it off before going to bed or leaving for school. So far, it hasn’t happened yet.

-Leaving the stove on
Urgh, this was one of the things I was soo paranoid about that one day I’d leave it on. And I did, BUT it was right after I made food, so when I went to the other room to eat it I forgot to turn it off. So when I went back to the kitchen it was sooo hot and smelt kinda funky then saw the stove still open. ?!?!?!??!??!?!. Yeah, thankfully nothing bad happened.

-Leaving the fridge open
This has happened soo many times.

-Passing out/Die and no one would know.
You know, when you’re living all by yourself and with no close friends in the same city, I’m so scared one day I’d pass our or die and my body wouldn’t be discovered until I get evicted for not paying my bills for soo long. Freaky yeah?

-Psycho killers

I’ve seen enough Asian horror movies to put weird ideas in my head. What if there’s this person who goes on a killing rampage.. and breaks into my place and kills me? No matter how much I scream by the time anyone notices I’d be dead!

-While in the toilet someone knocks on the door.
This hasn’t happened to me yet, since no one really knock on my door.

-Forgetting to lock the door.
Automatic locks in the boarding school made me ignore locking doors, so sometimes when I leave the my apartment I find myself climbing up the stairs again to check if I did lock the door. I’ve never left it unlock yet… I think?

-Fridge
See, I’m not good with expiry dates, I mean sure if it’s expired I wont eat/drink it, but since the whole recycling things right, I can’t just throw it in the trash. Solution: leave it in the fridge until the smell gets unbearable. Until this one time where I had about 3 cartons of milk and I almost drank out of the one which has been in my fridge way past it’s expiry date.

-Clogged toilets.
I don’t know how to unplug plus I don’t have a plunger. Thankfully I have good pipes ? :P

-No one to run to when something bad/scary happens.
I remember one time there was this REALLY loud explosion outside, flash of light and a car driving away really fast. I got soo freaked out I started shaking, I wanted to go run to my neighbours, but yeah, we’re not that close so I decided to lie in bed, fetal position.

This is all I could think of for now, if you have any more things to be freaked out about, tell me. Add to my paranoia.

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Sabang, Palawan version 2

img_7609After new years, Nabs and I went to Sabang and decided to stay there for 3 nights. Public transportation both ways, which was scary but quite fun I must admit,  I even got to ride at the top of the jeepney along with the bags of coal, rice, and chicken (which almost fell off on the highway). It was really nice, I’ve been to underground river before but never really got to explore Sabang that much.

What I didn’t know about Sabang was that electricity doesn’t run 24 hours, like in El Nido, it only comes at certain hours of the day. In Sabang it was from 5 or 6pm to midnight, luckily the cottage we stayed in was by the beach, so it was pretty breezy and sometimes even chilly in the morning. The weather was nice, the sun was shinning and the temperature was fine, not too hot, although it did rain a little bit.

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Day 1, all we did was swim at the beach, the resort we stayed in (Mary’s) is at the very end of Sabang beach, but if you go further down the coconut trees you’d see another beach and a river where they have mangrove tours. I really like the beach there,  less people. Scary thing about the beaches in Sabang is the undercurrent, it freaked me out a little bit and the waves, so trying to look all baywatch and all nah..  trying not to get sucked out into the ocean will be your main concern :P

We heard there was this place with waterfalls near by, so we decided to check it out the next day. I think it took us about 45 minutes to find the place, it wasn’t really that easy to walk through big rocks in flip-flops. The waterfalls was smaller than we expected, but it was really pretty. It was right by the beach and after walking through those big rocks it was nice to take a dip and enjoy the place.

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So, apart from that all we did was bum around. We were planning to do the mangrove tour but we were too lazy, instead Nabs gave me a massage right by the beach. Mangrove tour VS massage by the beach?? easy choice. It was soo perfect, the beach, the wind, the beers, being away from the city, and being with Nabs.. it was just way too good to be true.

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back to reality…

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What a sad day it is. I’m back in cold and rainy Denmark. This is the worst part about vacations, when it ends and you have to face reality again. Bills have to be paid, school, and being alone. I miss Philippines already and I can’t wait to go back. The month I spent there was awesome. It has been a good start for 2009 so far. New memories made, issues resolved, and stronger relationships is what I bring back with me here today.

I miss Palawan soo much, especially the dummy that keeps up with all my crap. I miss you!

See you in six months.

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