*yawn* I’m still feeling tired from yesterday’s events. I bumped into Bea at Xavier Hall. It’s been such a long time since we saw each other. We finally got to catch up on each other’s lives. She’s transferring to Ateneo from La Salle.

Marge, Dianne, hunbun, and I had a super major gimik last night. Rather, it’s a very tiring night out for our Filipino project. Our first stop was Roxas Blvd for all the restaurants and grills by the bay. It’s a “couples zone”. There were even little rocking love chairs to sit on. The sad thing is that Manila Bay is very over-polluted. There were slippers, newspapers, and all kinds of trash in the water. *ugh* Not to mention the portalets were drop-dead stinky. So, we opted to stop over at my house for a short comfort room break. Afterwards, we ate dinner at Teriyaki Boy - Tomas Morato branch. Dianne had some camera un-shy moments there. *haha* We cruised up and down the Tomas Morato strip to take pictures of its highlights. Oh yeah, there were these 3 weird old guys at Pier One standing directly in my camera path. They were accidentally included in my picture. They were so egoistic that they actually posed for the picture. Eh?!

The night was a success since we’ve managed to finish all assigned spots: Roxas By The Bay and Tomas Morato. The guys, Francis, JV, and Felix went to Malate and The Fort. All 6 of us met up at Eastwood to wrap things up. Us girls had some minor mishaps. *hehe* Marge’s digicam as well as mine had battery problems. But I managed to get more or less 80 pictures. The more the merrier.

Yey! I finally had my much-dreamed-of mushroom soup at Jack Loft’s again! *yum* Hunbun had his fishbowl iced tea as usual. The shops in Eastwood were still open so Dianne and I opted to window-shop a little. *hehe* She finally found a cute little hand-made-paper scrapbook. And I saw a little black shirt which I loved. I’ll buy that next time. All in all, I had so much fun.

The new Gossip Girl book is out! I want !

I have so many projects, orals, long tests, and exams next week! I really need good grades in order to get exemptions in both Jap1 & Psy101 finals. That would be such a huge help.

• Jap LT2 (May24)
• Psych LT4 (May24)
• Fil14 Coffee Table Book
• Jap Orals (May27)
• Jap Paper (May27)

Rosy and I are partners in Jap for both the orals and final paper. We’re still in the brainstorming stage but we’ve made a lot of progress already. We’ve chosen to feature Japanese festivals and Philippine festivals for our thesis paper. We plan to pick about 3-4 of each and juxtapose them against each other, like the Cherry Blossom Festival and the Baguio Flower Festival. I am really satisfied with this topic since it’s unique yet not too unheard of that there would be no research materials. For the orals, we’re still thinking of a conversation topic. This is going to be easier, I hope, since the effort involved will be minimal.

Dianne, Felix, Marge, JV, Francis and I are Filipino groupmates. Our “Philippine Nightlife: Cities Within a City” proposal was approved. Yehey! It’s going to be one major gimik. I hope our coffee table book turns out A+. *hehe* Wishful thinking.

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I just downloaded wp-stats.php a few days ago. I finally modified it to suit my layout. You can view here or through the statistics menu under meta in the sidebar. I did encounter a bug though. All the 10 Recent Comments and 10 Most Commented Posts were invalid. They all pointed to the date today.

Ex: Invalid Link instead of Valid Link
(I did a mod_rewrite to my .htaccess file some time ago so my permalinks appear this way: /%year%/%monthnum%/%day%/%postname%/ )

Oh, after a few tweaks here and there, I finally figured out how to get around that problem by adding get_permalink($post_id). Yey!