Sarstericiousness

1) Thou must not fart, sneeze, burp or blow thy nose, lest thee inflame some asstwat’s olfactory or otic sensibilities. Instead, thou art expected to Politely explode with the flatus.

2) Thou art not to ask out anyone more attractive than thee, lest they are offended at thy caprice in attempting to date above thy station.

3) Thou shalt not say anything to a member of the opposite sex without hemming, hawing, saying “um” or being stupidly vague, lest they think thou art an over-eager loser.

4) Thou shalt never say what thou really mean(est? st?). Thou may skirt round the truth, dodge it, make out with it if thou so choose, but Polite Society forbid thou actually breaketh out the balls and saith I Love You, I Hate You, You Look Great Today, You Hurt Me.

5) Thou shalt not speak too loudly, for it is impossible for people to tune thee out. Polite Society forbid thy conversation is more interesting than theirs.

6) Thy panty-line shalt not be visible, for it is an abomination to Polite Society, who apparently doth not wear the knickers. Asscrack is permissible, but only if thou doth plumb the pipes for a living.

7) Thou art not permitted to appear as though thou hast put in too much effort. As a result, thou art expected to apply foundation, liner, mascara, nude lippy and peach-coloured blush to achieve the natural look.
Thou shalt never be a genuinely nice guy or gal, lest some fatheaded jackass think thou art flirting with them.

9) Thou shalt believe in nothing wholeheartedly. Therefore, when thou art asked for an opinion, thou art expected to make a HUGE show of looking at both sides of the argument, even though thou secretly believest the other side is full of shit.

10) Thou art not permitted to show interest in anything, lest Polite Society thinketh thou art a brownnosing loser who art trying to show up their lazy, uninformed, passion-free asses.

You claim to not care what anyone else thinks of you. I’m sure that in your head, you don’t. You express opinions you KNOW are volatile (because it’s sexy, au courant and dangerous), you say things that are controversial or stupid or hurtful (because you know people are listening), and you refuse to say or do anything that looks remotely like you give a damn (because caring about SOME people apparently means caring about ALL people).

Basically, congratulations, you follow the 10 commandments to the letter.

You, on the other hand, blithely skate figure 8s around social norms and graces, because they just don’t exist to you. You’re probably the kind of guy who’d randomly say “Hey, you’re really pretty!”, or answer a hard question in class because YOU CARED ENOUGH TO LOOK IT UP, or ask a girl out for coffee just because you enjoyed chatting with her, or when someone farts, you’ll laugh instead of staring at the floor, turning red and silently judging.

People laugh at you. People look at each other over your head, roll their eyes and silently mouth, “Did he really say that?!”. I did too, lord knows.

Lemmings and gent….sorry. Ladies and gentlemen, I leave the final decision to you:

Which of them really doesn’t give a shit what you think?

I was asked by one of my English professors back then when I was just a freshman to participate in a speech fest by English guild. It was my first to join such contest in CEU but it wasn’t my first to make a speech and speak to a crowd. So my task was extemporaneous introduction speech. Oh to the Em to the Gee.. I was prepared I have scripts for the 5 possible speakers to be introduced; President Ma. Christina Padolina, Benigno “Ninoy”Aquino Jr., Pope Benedict XVI,Chief Justice Reynato T. Puno and Emilio YAP.. While at the BMO (the place where the competition was held) I was pretty confident until.. Kuya Gino, ( the stage director and the overall chairman of the event) said don’tbring your script on stage.. we will be given a curriculum vitae for a particular speaker and have 3 minutes to prepare. I start freaking out cause even my adviser told me that I could bring my script on stage and glance at it once a while.. I thought I was prepared but I wasn’t.

On stage I go blank haha this isn’t the first time I blank out in a competition or on stage. I have this stage fright and public speaking issues that I’m trying to overcome. Ever since I’d carried the snake of Kuya Kim, I’ve been trying to overcome most of my fears. Thoughts and facts about Ninoy Aquino Jr. were flashing in my head randomly and I don’t know where to start. It wasn’t that bad cause I wasn’t expecting much of myself plus it was a good thing that I was able to speak and continue on with my speech yet alone finish it. It was incomplete but I manage to say the intro and the ending. =p

Of all the possible people that I could introduce, why Ninoy Aquino? I wasn’t familiar of him. All I know that he was known as a hero but why, I have no idea, he’s in the 500 pesos bill, he was assassinated, was the husband of the late Cory Aquino and the dad of Kris Aquino (a popular host in the Philippines). I didn’t say these facts on stage. I didn’t think about it then. I wasn’t expecting that he was the one to be introduced cause c’mon the guys’ dead. No offense but how am I suppose to introduce a dead guy?

Anyways I may not win and the people who won during the speechfest are all deserving, seriously they’re all amazing. I have no regrets in joining the competition cause I know somehow I’m conquering my fears and improving myself one step at a time plus I have a wonderful family and friends and that all that matter is that I’m a winner in their hearts. Dionne, Daryll, Jansen, Sonny and my sis and I all went out and ate at McDo. Seriously what more can I asked?

Poem by Edward Quinto,

President of the School of ELAMS

‘ Universidad

 na nasa mendiola,

Tabi ng Jollibee,

Tapat ng san beda.

Isang daang taon na

ang edad neto,

Ciencia y virtud

ang matatanging motto.

Tahimik na eskwela.

Iwas sa problema,

May klase sa loob

May rally sa kalsada

Gwapo’t magaganda,

Lagging iniintriga,

Magsawa lang kayo

Tsismosa’t inggitera!

D nyo b alalm

kami’y matatalino

Topnotchers Dentistry,

Pharmacy pati ang Opto.

The best pa sa lahat

Ang aming pundasyon,

Center of excellence

Ang edukasyon!

Marami pang achievements

Di lang nagyayabang.

Ngunit kapag may hamon,

Talagang super laban.

Dugo ay kulay pink,

Puso ay Pilipino,

Kami’y mga anak ni

Librada Avelino!’

Gooo CEU!

Pinay na ako! For those who don’t understand tagalog I just said that I’m now a Filipino! er… person. The thought have never crossed my mind that this will ever happen. Just kidding. The BS Biology 3rd year students together with their adviser Mrs. Virgino prepared a little presentation for the Career Orientation of High School students nationwide that was held at the PICC. It’s like ICC in Brunei but with a P in front that stands for Philippines.

Anyways we were there to promote our school CEU as well as our school/college, School of Sci & Tech and our course, B.S. Biology. We’ve made Acopulco (a herbal plant that is abundant here in the Philippines and has anti-fungal properties) ointment from our lab and distribute it to people who visited to our booth. The place was jump pack with high school students and faculty teachers from different schools and colleges. So why am I only now a Filipino?

That’s because I’ve presented the preparation and presentation of our product, the Acopulco ointment, that was on powerpoint in TAGALOG! So it was my first time to present something or anything for that matter in tagalong to large crowd. It was nerve racking but at the same time fun. A lot of the high students notice and are amuse with my “slang”. It may not be perfect but hey it’s a start. =)

After that tiring presentation that we have to repeat over and over again after new batch of students keep arriving to our booth, we decided that we deserve ourselves a break. So we packed our things, headed out of PICC and in to MOA! Our adviser Mrs. Virgino was with us the whole day at MOA! We ate lunch at Chief Angelo, had our desserts at McDo, fries and ice cream and at TimeZone where we played car racing, basketball, those shooting games, DDR and the most fun of all, the music room! Where we sang with Mam Virigino, wala na ba pagibig?, through the fire, mirror mirror, weak, heal the world and torete

It was such a wonderful day because first of all we didn’t have classes the whole day! =p the adrenaline rush due to the thoughts of presenting the presentation in tagalog to A LOT of people and most importantly we get to bond especially with our adviser. It’s not everyday where you get to hang out, have fun, lay back and sing karaoke with one of your professors. =)

Lots of love,
Sars

There are two tragedies in life, one is to lose your heart’s desires and one is to gain it. If it takes a lot of pain in order to gain my heart’s desire then I say give me tragedies. If you come to think about it, pain is temporary, it does goes away because time heals pain, and it can be cured but happiness last a life time and no one can take that away from you.

Being an overall student chair is hard work; being an overall student chair whose programs (Science Club 1^st General Assembly and Lecture Forum and The Search For Mr. and Ms. Science And Technology) are back to back is suicide! This is why I don’t join the circus. It’s hard to juggle two activities at the same time. Imagine your brain being split into two with a chain saw! That’s what it feels like to me. Fortunately I managed to survive and hold myself together. Fortunately I managed to lead both programs to success.

I kept saying, “If it’s meant to be, it’s meant to be”, the motto and favorite quote of B.S. Biology 3A. It’s different from the quote “bahala na”. The difference is “Bahala na” is hoping for the best while doing nothing or not giving your all while “If it’s meant to be, it’s meant to be” is giving your all and doing your best and whatever the result is, it’s up God to decide if we truly deserve it.

I wouldn’t say that both programs were a success all because of me. I got a lot of people to thank for. This wouldn’t be a success and all of this wouldn’t happen if it wasn’t for them.

First and foremost of course I want to thank God for giving me the courage, hope and strength to handle these two programs.

Secondly, I want to thank my family especially my sister Steph, yes you STEPH! Thank you for all the prayers, support and always being there for me when I need help which was ALWAYS and about EVERYTHING! Hahahaha..

Thirdly, the advisers, Mrs. E. Jean R. Ramirez and Ms. Chona G. Esposo, whose names I got to fully memorize, even their middle initial for all the endless letters we have to make. Thank you for all the advice, guidance and knowledge. I’ve learned so much from the two mentors during the process like giving importance to all the small details because they too are equally important and time management is always the key. Most importantly I am forever grateful to them for believing in me.

Lastly, I would like to thank “DRAMGCS”, classmates, B.S. Psychology 4A, committees and their members and the CEU Science Club’s officers, thank you so much for your time, help, cooperation and dedication to the two programs. Congratulations and a job well done!!!!!! I’m so proud of all of you. I am forever grateful. Till the next activity! =p May your continuous support never end.

By now, you may finally notice that I watch too much, “Golden Globe, MTV, The Academy, Teen Choice, etc….” awards on TV =p

okay the reason I’m blogging here is in order to say thank you to everyone that had prepared my surprise party just now.. and all you of you are in my friendster so yeah you guys have to leave early cause you guys got school tomorrow and i haven’t got the chance to really say thank you SO MUCH. I’m so sorry i ruined the surprise cause i kinda knew and if only i knew that most of you would be at my house at around 3p.m. i would have not have watched pink panther at the mall, BTW the movie was great, highly recommend it if you want to LOL. so i arrived home at around 7:30 :s I’m so sorry.. was at the mall with mae, uri and ice. played pool, ate at swensens and watched a movie. thanks guys so much i really had a great time. thanks so much to TITA AND TITO, TING, JHANNAH, NICK, NIGEL, NJ, VEIL, IVAN B., CHRIS, LA, AARON C., Jay-R and not forgetting URI, ICE AND MAE!! for coming plus i recorded all your honoring so i have it all in my phone and will be listening to it all over again. thanks for the video msg, everybody that i mention above plus AJ, Denise, Abigail, Adrian, Josh, John-D, Emmy, Tcher lata, Tcher Menchi, Tcher Connie, the Bishop and not forgetting the one and only SANGS and ED ( my two best friends in the entire world) what would i do without you two!!! anyways to cut this short, this is not good-bye, I’ll try to come back around the holidays and if not we’ll keep in touch. right?  and to everyone out there including you who’s reading this, thank you so much for everything one way or another you have touched my life in some small but special way. I’m going to miss you all so much and i hate it that i have to leave. You guys made it so hard for me to go. this time i can’t say "oh well" cause yeah it’s hard.

I’ve been playing the guitar for like 8 months now, well not really cause i have to stop cause firstly kuya mike (my guitar teacher/mentor) left to the phils cause he’s getting married and never came back to Brunei and secondly my o levels. i completely stopped playing around October till November and November i was in phils and i didn’t bring my guitar along.

I’m glad i was able to catch up since right now I’m  free (not really). Its the fact that I have no school and all. So we’re doing this benefit concert thing and I’m playing. Thanks to Constantine, we call him ting (I just like saying his full name cause its so cool. It reminds me of the movie.) anyways he taught me how to read tabs. at first i thought its going to be like this completely complicated stuff like reading notes and all but It’s not. i don’t understand why alot of ppl (my friends) hate or don’t know how to read tabs. It’s really simple, thanks to TING!!. I’m starting to get the hang of it. I’ve been downloading tabs on line and have been practicing it. It’s addictive.The thing with guitar is, when you start playing or learning, you’ll never stop practicing until you get it perfect. It’s 3a.m. and I’m practicing wake me up when September ends. I’m playing wake me up when September ends by greenday and deeply in love by united live. I can’t wait for Saturday.

anyways unfortunately i wont be able to bring my guitar along with me when i go back to the phils on Monday cause I’m traveling alone and my parents said it would be too troublesome. I "kinda" whine A LITTLE and my dad said i could buy a new one there but this guitar right here with me is my very first guitar! oh well. I’ll keep it here in Brunei.

It’s going to be freaky traveling alone cause thanks to Aubrey, Adrian and Aaron!! (hey all their name starts with an A)

Adrian: aren’t you scared traveling alone and your going to MANILA, Ma-Ni-La.

Aubrey: your traveling alone? whatever you do, don’t put your passport together with your money. always have your passport with you. never put your passport in your wallet. if they want your money give them your money. never your passport.

Aaron: and oh yeah your phone is like a signal or labels you the next hold-up victims.

thanks alot guys now I’m going to phils and expecting to get a hold-up

but Adrian made a joke. he said, "Just don’t go near guys with the name Rob…. and Aubrey."

basically right now I’m just whining and waiting for the time to pass. It’s 4:10 a.m. and i have to wake up in about an hour or two so i don’t see any reason why i need to go back to bed.I can’t sleep. I’ve been starring at my ceiling for 6 hours now. I’ve tried everything from drinking a glass of warm milk to counting sheep’s. Later i have to go to school cause I need to do the school yearbook interactive and as a terrible EIC (editor in chief), I skipped two days cause of various reasons; so I’m making it up for today.

I cant believe that this week is going to be my last week here in Brunei. I know I’ll be leaving, I’ve expected it but I never thought that it’ll be so soon and there’s nothing i can do about it unless someone burn down the university to ashes so i don’t have to go back and do the interview, guidance council, registering, the briefing, the dorm and the who knows what are they’re going to do with me. I know right now I’m whining and I’ve been doing it for the past few weeks now but I’ll get over it soon…hopefully.

Pros and cons of going back to the phils

1) I’ll be skipping A level and going straight to University. Yay! finish school early but then i don’t mind spending extra 2 years doing A-level and spending more time here with my friends.

2) I live here (Brunei) all my life. I was born here, studied here and everything is here; my friends, my family, my guitar lessons but going back to the phils can also be an adventure. Finding out where I really belong and learning more about where I came from (actually more about where my parents came from).

3) I have to start all over again! Making new friends, adjust to the new environment, having a room-mate, the school and the time schedule but as my friends here said "your nice, they’ll love you. who can hate you? Sarah you’ve survived SGS since kinder to form 5, being in SGS is not easy so hands down you’ll survive in UST. It can’t be that bad."

4) I still don’t know what course to take. People kept asking me why don’t i just do this, do that. I appreciate all their advice but i still don’t know what to take. They say do whatever you love to do and remember the three E’s (the energy, excitement and the economy). I still don’t know what i love to do. There are things that I’m good at but i just don’t see myself doing it as a carrier. I mean you can put me in any course and I’ll work hard and ace it but in the end, I’m just not happy with what I’m doing. I hate to admit it but at least i get to go back to the phils early and see their various course they offer and i have more time to think about it and decide.

5) I’ll be missing my friends ALOT but I know we’ll keep in touch. There will be more things I’ll be missing.. espeed, astro, my 24-7 air conditioning room and few of my stuff. Unfortunately I can’t bring everything back with me. I’m only allowed 20 kg. I hate traveling alone but its nice once in a while to be more independent.

sigh. oh well.

yeah i have too many blogs but i usually blog at http://princesssarahjournal.blogspot.com.

m3 (http://mysterymysticalmagical.blosgspot.com) is a group blog.

this blog? ahm.. its just for fun dont want it to be dead so am reliving it.

so what happen today…….

spent the whole morning in school… (tempest doing the school mag and taking advantage of the internet connections :p) ahm.. alot of the ex-form 5 (last year batch) was suprisingly there. When Sangs came at around 10-ish (she overslept) she brought cards with her. So Mae, Sangs and I played bullshit… reliving the alpha weekend program. I won the first round.. then Mae won the second round… Josh played too and he won…. Sangs stoped us from playing bullshit (cause she didint won, she losses three times in a row)  and challeged me to a round of speed. A miracle happen, it’s like the first time in history that i finally beat Sangs at speed. It felt so good!! hahaha. spent my whole afternoon with Sangs went home with her during lunch while Mir, Josh, Lyn, Shenny went to yayasan to eat. watched the practise while having lunch with Sangs at her house. aaron is so adorable but as they say looks can be so deceiving!

Then at around two Sang’s aunt drop us off at yayasan. then we went to dst for the dst ppl to check Sangs dad’s phone.. we went in the building and we were like okay what do we do now? I know we were suppose to take a number but where??? so we sat at where all the chairs are located and wait till a person walked through the entrance door and see what he/she do next. So there’s this lady who came through the entrance door and Sangs and I jumped up off our seat and watched her very closely. she was well dressed talked to this guy in the information counter and left.. so Sangs and I did the exact thing we went up to the information counter and the guy told us to push a button… i was like so sakai.. Sangs pushed the button and a number came out… okay so thats where you get a number!!! we waited for our number for lyk around 30 minutes.. to kill time Sangs and I just talked abt stuffs. when our number finally appeared to the screen Sangs and I went to counter number 2 and in the end ahm.. hey can do nothing abt the phone…

so sangs and I went back to yayasan and Sangs called her aunt. I heard her said on the phone "It’s okay auntie we can walk home if its convinient for you" and when she hanged up she was lyk "great now we haf to walk home!" haha and her luck wasnt getting better either… her sandals broke!!!! both of them i guess.. so she walked from yayasan to school with me barefooted! but she didnt care at all. she was just scared of stepping at broken glass. I thought it was super brave of her for walking barefooted all the way…!!!

in school the principal was so kind enough to lend Sangs her sandals…aww…  met up with the rest a few minutes later at the tempest… then we went to library cause the pra is going to be using the tempest so we packed everything and went to the library… shenny has to leave… then we were so bored that we played this game, making a sentence by just saying a word each… even recorded it on my phone and i kept laughing everytime i replay it over and over again. then at around four mir had to go… Sangs and I went to..

went back to sangs house.. then we watched transamerica only half way (the first disc) at 5 we went to pasar to get some ice-cream… after buying our ice - cream Sangs and I got scared well we basically squeel and it was all josh fault! he caught us by suprise behind us. He scared the hell of both of us and i almost drop my ice cream freak Sangs though he was some rapists. Luckily it was just josh. we went back to pasar and bought him an ice cream… we walked around jalan kumbang pasang (i think) then we get to seat at the park and chat… after that we got up and started to walk again! this time we walked all the way to st andrew. (i haf no idea why) saw some ppl playing bbal then we went and see some pictures at their bulletien board.

After that lyn call at josh’s phone then ahm.. we went back to school (SGS) there Josh went home…. so it was Sangs and I again. went back to her house. we were suppose to watch american idol but aaron was watching cartoons.. aww.. Oh vell will watch AI next time…

at around 8 i went home, eat dinner and started to create this layout for m blog featuring michelle branch so yeah its done… after that i surf the net for a while the usual stuff checking the mail sending mail and all. check my friendster profile and its been a long time since i last blog here so i just thought that i blog so yeah there i’m done.