this is the new brainchildren of a misconstrued teenager.

2006-10-29T23:29:00.000+08:00

lareyn's debut!!!!
wah!!!!
it was one of the most nerve-racking days of my life!!!!! i was supposed to play one day maybe and so bad on the guitars... so i was all muddled in learning the songs since they ain't my composition or whatever.

i got to the venue quite early and almost the whole time i was there, i was just practicing.. cos well, obviously, i was nervous!!! and i felt like i was back to scratch from learning the songs when i got there. but thank goodness lareyn decided to do the 'so bad' all by herself so all i needed to worry about was 'one day maybe'...

so the performance (huhu)...
thank goodness we had the acoustic, but.........

a
uhm
err
well
hmm

i sucked.
that's it. huhuhu..

hehe, but still, wanna thank lareyn for the experience and well, theimpossible-to-forget night! muwah! :)

2006-10-28T23:47:00.000+08:00

i spent the whole day here at my house with my "bandmates" + iris! i kind of had a birthday party here since the food prepared by mom was superb! loved her pork steak and baked mac... and granda also had pizza hut delivered us some pizza. :)

anyways, we had practiced for lareyn's debut that would happen tomorrow.

**wah talk about being nervous. demm.

the night was for arlene. she had her birthday dinner (or should i say birthday inuman?) at her house. i met new friends there. they were arlene's YJ (yellow jackets) friends! one of them's a fellow adver student. he gave me his number, telling me he would let me borrow his camera for my photography class next year. wow, how nice. :)

2006-10-26T18:28:00.000+08:00

enrollment day.. nothing really cool happened. oh, there was one!!!!! i, along with "pogies", didn't experience such a big queue when we were enrolling!!! the feeling was heaven-like! haha. afterwards, attended a gintong susi seminar, having kuya jovenz, an alumni of cfad and our cfad f.c., as the speaker. twas about how to make teracota. he gave us brilliant tips, really didn't know he was good at giving talks!

anyways, there was an unofficial training afterwards. but didn't attend anymore since maica had to go somewhere and ate kit had no training stuff. so there, thought of going home with them instead.

2006-10-22T20:17:00.000+08:00

i had so much fun in this year's team building! twas held again in pangasinan, but no longer at bog's resort but reno's... i learned how to skateboard and skimboard! and that was the first time i got myself so focused onto grilling! i so much put my heart into it, making my fave dress shirt tinted with octopus and squid's ink!!! aww... :( anyways, we all had a blast, no doubt bout it.. and they said we'd be going back there this december. too bad it's way impossible for me to join them again.. :( the team building 06 was my last getaway, said my 'rents. :( 10/19-21/06

2006-10-22T20:08:00.000+08:00

lara, who turned 18 last october 10 celebrated her birthday last night at her house! almost all of her closest high school friends graced the event! we all missed each other and each had lots of stories and updates to tell... thanks, lara for the delicious food! love you!!!!!!!!!!!!!! october 18it's been weeks since milenyo attacked, causing our landline to not work! so here i am, at a computer shop in blue wave with my mom... quite excited for tomorrow! it's the start of the annual 3-day team building of cfad f.c.... but still thinking if i'll join or not. it's cos my mom gave me conditions.. that i must wear cycling shorts, tshirts only, no drinking, and it will be the last escapade of mine for the whole sem break. that's such a no-no, right? ugh, what should i do? hah... i'm confused!!!! here's the tentative list of my gimmicks: -lara's birthday party (/a success!/) -team building with cfad fc -g4/the fort with pogies -birthday celebrations/reunion with my high school barkada -longest painting for guiness book of world records -play soccer in up with scholasticans who are now into the sport (such as olga, angela e...) -lareyn's debut at dominguez garden wah... what should i do?? WHAT!!!!!!!!!?????????

2006-10-08T23:03:00.000+08:00

finally, the formal opening of Cross My Art, a Gintong Susi exbition, was held a while ago at around 7pm in PhilamLife, U.N. Avenue...this was a very important event for me since i pretty much launched myself here as a painter. "wow, at last, 'i' already have an exhibit!! wohoo!! dream come true!!" along with a number of young, talented, new artists, i came with a contribution of a painting that had gone with the title, "The Amputation Through False Capitulation". the title seems complicated but when you see the painting, you'll have a weird feeling about it. it's cos the color scheme is not heavy compare with others, making the observer find my painting pretty vague. but you know, every part of it has its veiled meaning. and i just can't explain each clearly to anyone... anyway, the experience was wonderful! the food was great, the speakers were great, the place was great, the people were great... everythings's great.. plus! i had pictures taken with my idolNESS, IVAN ROXAS! wohoo..!! hehe.. thanks GS for the unforgettable experience! proud to be your member! ;-P

2006-10-02T21:45:00.000+08:00

sir zamora cancelled our class and the rumors started spreading that ust suspended the afternoon classes in order to show support for the ust tigers. so don, chris, and i decided to go to araneta, and well, hoped to get a ticket for each. there, we saw ianne, marivic, and k-anne... along with them and reno, we decided to try our "singit" skills!!! we're so lucky! we got one for each without even noticing we'd been perspiring overly! anyways, "it was worth the singit!", as what we'd been blabbing.. and really, sorry for those who lined up patiently and weren't given tickets... (we fell in line naman e, but we knew that falling in line properly wouldn't get us anywhere but our respective homes... hehe) the game was intense! there were dozens of times i'd feel like fainting whenever ateneo's ahead of ust in terms of score. and there were also times i almost fell from my seat cos of going crazy whenever ust had taken the lead, or at least a tiger shot a ball! hehe.. owell, all's well that ends well.. ust won over the ateneo, making them the season 69th champion in the men's basketball, senior division... =) permita que le dé la enhorabuena a ustedes, ust tigers! (an attempt in translating "let me offer my congratulations to you, ust tigers!" in Spanish.. haha)

2006-10-01T19:24:00.000+08:00

okay, the things i was supposed to do last saturday had reversed to what i never expected of me doing at that day. yes, guess you guessing it right... i trained!!!!!!!! haha... what really irritates me more was that i didn't really enjoy it. but you thinking how it happened? arlin cancelled the party at the last minute and my sister thought they failed to get me a ticket. she just texted me, while i was already in school, telling me she already got me a ticket. and well, i found her message too late! and maica had been begging me to just train instead of watching uaap.

2006-09-30T22:23:00.000+08:00

I hated Milenyo for actually causing "the ruins" of our garden, making me not use the computer even i so badly needed it, and cancelling the ateneo vs. ust game2 last thursday.

but why am i now so thankful he has thought of dropping by at our seemingly hopeless country? pretty much because i've just had the laziest but most satisfying two days of my life!! i haven't been productive, really.. but i'm just so happy i've been able to sleep whenever and wherever i want to! and also, aside from sleeping, i just pigged out! hah! those are what you call a-busy-girl's-CHEAP-THRILLS-when-she's-stressful!! orayt! haha.

anyways,i'll be going to school later to pass my painting to kuya marius. and hopefully i'll be such a help in preparing stuff for our exhibit tomorrow at philam life. (oh my gawd. is this for real? ...me? ...my artwork? ...in a REAL exhibit?! wah, dream come true! orayt!!! haha. gosh, can't contain my excitement.. wahhh!!!) owell, afterwards, i'll be going to araneta to (finally!) watch the ateneo vs ust game 2! my sister's got m
e a ticket! aye!

after the game, i'll be going to arlene's pad to par-tay! aye, i'll be seeing my s8anne-ic friends again! haha.
**the only thing that makes me sad right now's that i can't attend later's soccer training. aww, gon' miss my sport.. and of course, the team. =S
**sigh** wasn't able to watch the game 2 wherein ust reigned in the ust versus the ateneo championship games.

2006-09-27T23:21:00.000+08:00

the 27th of september is the "real" jarra day! obviously cos it's her birthday, blech. haha. anyways, we had her hunt for our birthday gifts. first of was the one from minnie, am guessing it's a super fit shirt from bayo, her station was on the 5th floor... next stop was our locker. inside it was coy's gift which was full of chocolates.. yummm... the last stop was the 3rd floor restroom. there, pat was waiting, and she handed to her our gift, whic was an eeyore (PURPLE!) pillow... oh, had i mentioned? i was guiding jarra at that time.. he, he.. we afterwards had a picture plenteous in the restroom. several hours after that, jarra treated us, pogies, to pizza hut along with chia, sky, and dax---highschool superfriends of jarra. we had so much fun eating....! yummm, again... haha.

2006-09-26T10:56:00.000+08:00

there's another fogging session going on here in our village. at first, when strange white smoke came in our house, i thought there's a fire nearby or something.. or we were being suffocated by burglars so they would invade our homes after! haha, silly me. but reaaly, good thing they did such. mosquitoes would be lessened (but i was hoping it would be gone forever!) and the lives here would not be at risk.

anyways, want you to check this out
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that's a draft of our cali shandy: take the lead ad. What do you think? is it not okay, okay or nice?! Oh well, why am I wasting time to post it here? no one’s reading my blog anymore anyway.. haha, guess I have to do some plugging, eh?

2006-09-24T22:20:00.000+08:00

cfad fc joined a football tournament in pup. we (cfad women's) came home 4th-placer. **this day was not that good since i flopped in our games and coach mickee made me cry so hard! ='C

**the ateneo won the first of the best of 3 uaap basketball championship games versus my school, ust, by 1 point! We were supposed to win but Kramer got a miracle shot in the last 1 second. Aww, sad. =(

p.s. HAPPY BIRTHDAY, ARLENE!!

naks, you're now a CERTIFIED WOMAN.. yuck, doesn't soothe you.. haha, kidding =P

2006-08-30T19:18:00.000+08:00

Went to galle with jarra, coy, minnie, and pat. There, we met up with chia, jarra’s bestfriend. Then we ate at burgoo.. and I still couldn’t believe I wasted almost 500bucks just for the food. Owell, we had a great time eating though. And that resulted us to be very lazy.

2006-08-27T18:15:00.000+08:00

My grandma was asked by the area managers of pizza hut if she could help them in evaluating their delivery boys. So my granny contacted us to accompany her at her house, and well, eat the free pizza with us. Haha.

2006-08-20T15:07:00.000+08:00

i attended an art talk that was conducted by some of the members [the curator, miss jocelyn calubayan, along with ivan roxas and sir buen calubayan] of the Young Thomasian Artist Circle inside the beato angelico.

the exhibit is entitled, "dog god". for me, the meaning of the title was to express how the artists mirror their faith in God.well, i was sort of right, i guess.finding out that the goal of this project was to interpret the Man's eternal quest for reason and his grasping for meaning, centering on man's passion.

the YOUNG THOMASIAN CIRCLE is composed of 9 undeniably good artists that has been selected well by the guidance of Miss Jocelyn. they are Andres Barrioquinto, Lawrence Borsoto, Buen Calubayan, Lindsey Lee, Mark Magistrado, Jaime Pacena II, Ivan Roxas, CJ Tañedo and Wesley Valenzuela.

each of the artists were recognized along with their works and gave us sneaks of how they express their passion by their style. what set of artworks i liked best was ivan roxas's. they seemed so real, as real as photographs. and it was amazing to know that he just made that with just limited strokes and layering.

the exhibit is inspiring me to become a good artist, especially on becoming painter/graphic artist. the postmodernism era we are in now, inspires me more to develope new style and be able to deliver my art to a wider audience.

hopefully, my perseverance with the help of Gintong Susi, a painting org at the CFAD, will lead me to my goal- to inspire others like the YTAC is inspiring me now. gotta go, hafta make myself productive... =)

2006-07-23T06:08:00.000+08:00

i deleted my most recent post before this. it's cos i no longer see any reason why i should talk about and bring back that feeling again. it's sick, he's dumb-- that's it. ha, ha..

i'll be going to the ateneo later at around 7 in the morning. my teammates and i will be joining a football tournament there. hopefully this experience will be exceptional... and our bracket will no longer be under with feu and the likes.. oh, please.. give us easier opponents!!!! ha, ha..

owel, good luck to us! God bless y'all! ;P

2006-06-29T09:23:00.000+08:00

i haven't posted anything since the classes started, have i?

o, well.. sorry for that, ami.. it's just that i've been very busy with school the past weeks. everything happens really fast.. though the world seems to be moving really slow whenever we're having our 7-hour break.. damner.

anyways, school's been very different from before.. it's simply because my dear tanday isn't schooling this year. and that means, no more running to ej whenever i'm upset with things. also, i have a new group of friends in class.. still friends with some in my old group though.

i joined the freshman walk tour happened on the 3rd day of the school year. i was the tour guide along with hazel, dimple, pat, and ralph, the class president of ad 2-10 who also happened to be a very good friend of dimple and mine. the tour really worn us out! but it's okay.. cause we'd enjoyed talking to the frosh.. they're fun and cool.. ;P

what's going on inside our classes? well, same ol' things.. bry and his group do the laugh trips. and dimple, still being the class president.. wonder if she now loves the position.. hmm..

go to the football team.. hmm, lots of new stuff in the team. new captain and co-cap, new balls (though they're the old balls of the ust tigers), and of course, new try-outs..

most of the try-outs in the women's team are already in their last year and almost all of them came from the cfad basketball team. uhm, what else? oh, the men's team have their own set of try-outs... some are old members' friends and some are frosh... most of the newbies are already friends with me. and i actually still can't believe how friendly i am to them... ha, ha!

o,well.. til here ami.. still have lots of fixin to do in my new room. ehe. (btw, we already moved from our antipolo home to our marikina home.. ) ehe.

2006-06-10T18:06:00.000+08:00

this day has been one of the most terrible, ever!

okay, take time to read:

i arrived at jollibee, katipunan at around 7:20am. some of my teammates and i met up there to eat first so that we'd get enough energy for the football tournament that we were about to join in. since i arrived kind of late and had no chance to eat the food i had ordered there, i just had it taken out. and dumb me, i forgot to eat it and inserted it on my bag that was left inside mark's car. with the fact that i couldn't eat because we got games every now and then. so yeah, i really had a friggin hard time dealing with my tummy ache .but since the whole team's performance didn't go quite well, we were out of the competition after 3 games [[same teams: sbc2-0, pup0-0, feu1-0]] at around 1:30pm. both men's and women's were eliminated.

the women's team ate in mcdo. i had the turbo mcnuggets(?)! yummmmm.... ;)

anyways, we finished eating at around 2:30. i went back to the ateneo with cory, ate yoh, ate kim, and ate carla while others went home or somewhere else but not the aforementioned university.

kim p. (my high school bud and uhm, band mate.. ehe) and i talked on phone and she decided to meet up with me at jollibee.. she said she'd accompany me in going home.. when i was on my way there (was almost near the overpass at that time), i thought of calling her first. but then a super shocker shocked me! i lost my phone for SUN!!! ogawd. i panicked and i really didn't know what to do... i left my bag at the bench where kris (my teammate) and probably her girl/friend (gossip!!) were staying and looked for my phone. i went back to where ate carla and the rest of girls were staying. ate carla accompanied me in searching for my phone. wow, she's so cool! she approached people and asked them if they had seen any celfone. a group of people said they had encountered two girls asking if they knew who the owner of the phone was. then ate carla had asked a guy friend of the two girls to talk to them on phone and ask where they wanted to meet up with us so i could get my phone back to me.

and kim arrived at the ateneo (i called her up via kris's fone). she joined us to the shower room to look for the two girls. voilà! thanks to those nice people.. i heard they're from pup... salute to all PUP people! (esp. the ones who showed kindness to us) and the group of guys who informed us about the two girls! and ate carla (SOOOOOOOOOOOBRA THANKS!), kris, his "friend", and kiM!

so there, kim accompanied me till ministop, katipunan. and went home alone afterwards..

what a day..................

2006-06-06T12:57:00.000+08:00

i hate it when strangers text or call me.. when i ask who they are, there is an 80% possiblity they will say they've gotten my number because someone has sent it to them. like who the schmuckin freak's sent my number to those strangers? are you frigging kidding me?! actually i think they all have come from the same root.. because when strangers text me, i speak to them in straight english and they've all got the same reaction "whaz dat?" ha, ha.. how conicidental is that?

2006-05-30T22:55:00.000+08:00

FRIDAY may 26, 2006
s8anne berx reunion finally pushed through. though it's no longer held at pepa's condo in taft like the original plan and instead held at starbucks, bluwave, still, we all had a schmuckin fun! the kaberxadas who came were arlin, lara, tins, leah, lareyn,
and faith (together wit her cousin, pam).. we talked about anything under the ~~sun~~ starbucks' ceiling (?? hehe)!! like how we all were fascinated over gerald's cute face and how we hated kim so much! --->do you agree wit us? she's really got a
bitchy conduct but well, it ain't obvious.. and that's so much worse!!! don't you think so, too? i mean, loud bitches are better than the silent ones.. that's what i've always been saying to people.. man, hypocrisy no more! PLEASE?! <--- haha.. back
to the s8anne berx reunion.. we also reminisced a little about how wacky we were each time we we'd go to s'mall and search for the cutest and duh-aw-never-mind guys.. haha.

faith and lara bought a grande of a green tea something frappe.. at first, the taste was okay but it got an aftertaste that really made us want to puke! ((i'm serious!)) they readied the cameras to get pics of me when it was my turn to taste it.. so i
tried to control my reaction.. but it was really unbearable. and they all had a big laugh while viewing my pic of disgust. argh.

i hope we'll see each other again anytime soon. you know what, i've realized that things we think are so high school are actually the things we know inside ourselves as the most unforgettable ones.. aww, how cute would it be going back to stscho and act like highschoolers again? wow, that would be very NOT challenging. haha.

leah.arlin.gee

tins.lareyn.lara (ginawang bahay ang starbucks)

SATURDAY may 27, 2006
the cfad women's football team joined a tournament organized by the German Embassy in promotion of the upcoming FIFA WORLD CUP 2006 to be held in their country this june. the tournament was held at marikina sports park in marikina, said
to be identified as the football capital for women... the cfad players were maica, cory, tri, flip, bianx, ate yoh, ate ginny, ate aisa(?), and of course, me. the people who supported were sean (our CAWCHED), jeff, jessi, dj, mark, and the clarino
family..

our first game was against ateneo de davao. they were pretty good but unfortunately for them, we won (2-0).. the second team we needed to beat was pup. man, they were all big and fast. i remember jeff saying, "parang mga bulls, pare".. and luckily, we won again. the third game was versus the losers football club; we tied (0-0). the last game was against feu.. sad to say, we lost (1-0) but we didn't fuss abot it because before the game against them started, "cawched shun" already told us that we qualified to play in the quarterfinals, which includes different "elite" football teams.

before the quarterfinals started, the "formal" opening of the tournament came about that was lead by the German people who spoke about the upcoming world cup and how grateful they were to have us and for making their event on the cards.

here's the nightmare here. we had to battle against the ust tigers for us to qualify in the semifinals. man, UST TIGERS? are you kidding me? that's like david battling against goliath! but yeah, david was able to defeat goliath, right? in our situation, we were VERY close to that. the 30-minute game ended with a 0-all tie. the tie-breaker was also a non-breather. both teams had 2 goals. so we had an extension of the tie-breaker. unfortunately, tigers were able to goal the kick while ate ice wasn't. afterwards they realized that coach jade, the coach of ust tigers, knew how ice kicked. so we all assumed the goalkeeper of tigers was informed where the ball would go.

but it's okay. we really had fun and we all wanted to go home anyway.

oh, i loved the fact that olga and tere, st scho schoolmates, were also there. they both played for miriam college =)

cawched shun-giving pointers

father fu-ker -- jeff

versus ust tigers

MONDAY may 29, 2006
tatoes had a band meeting at amy's pad. we wrote and composed almost 6 songs!

can't wait till our next meeting..

kim.lareyn.amy -- composin..

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ogawd. i have a very terrible sched for the coming semester =)
i have three 7am-9pm class, and a saturday till 5pm? how exhausting's that?! argh! hopefully mom will eventually allow me to rent an apartment near ust. i won't stand dealing with such sched! huhu..........

anyways, tomorrow's my enrollment. hopefully things will turn out great.. and also, hope that i won't have a hard time deciding what pe class i'll take up.. garrrrr...

2006-05-23T17:25:00.000+08:00

this is my 2nd post of the day. am i being too functioning now? ha, ha..

anyways, i've just arrived home from a futile trip to my school which seems to be never tired from constructing new structures. and these structures actually make the community really crowded. oh, whatever.

going back to the futile thing, i actually felt bad to find out that it was not really a requirement to personally go to school and have my test permit be signed by my prof. i just learned about it when my teammate who happened to be my blockmate as well in the class i summered texted me saying: wag na pumunta.. ayos na. grr, i was already inside the pedicab headin to ust at that time! darnation.

but then again i just looked on the bright side... i saw punky, my teammate/fellow scholastican/cfadmate! everyone in the women's team misses her. ha, ha.. sorry teammates, you may die of enviousness now! weh.. now i'm overstating. ha, ha

2006-05-23T10:36:00.001+08:00

last sunday was a granny day. my grandma picked us (me and my two sibs) up at 10am.
our first stop was megamall.
we first had lunch at shakey's then after that, we headed off toward the movie house.
(are you now expecting we've seen the super famous THE DA VINCI CODE?)
more's the pity we had not. since it's a ~~R-18~~ movie, obviously a thirteener (my little sister) could not get in. and sigh to me, i still ain't 18. darnation!
we saw poseidon, a movie about a sinking ship. sinking ship.. hmm, it didn't sound original to you, right? and i thought when you learned there's a new sinking-ship movie round the corner, waiting to be seen and enjoyed, you might have as well thought of titanic. but this new movie had lots of difference from the aforementioned movie.

poseidon sank because of a big wave ( i forgot the right term) while titanic sank because of THE famous iceberg.
poseidon did not have a "story" unlike in titanic, they got loads of drama in it.
the main objective of the movie was pretty much about how these unwavering people would escape from the sinking ship and not like in titanic where the main objective was how their love would battle against their crucial fate.
also, there were no big squabbles and erotica included in the movie.

**o, fergie of black eyed peas was also there in the movie! i so loved the dress she wore there.. sigh..

o well, the movie was good, really. you'd soon notice your butt stitched on your seat! you'd anticipate every move they'd make. but the end was really surprising. the people you thought would live till end because they seemed to need it the most, were actually the ones who died.

anyways, we went to jollibee to have a snack. i had a chocolate sundae!! yum!

after jollibee, we went inside the department store and bought some stuff my grandma needed for her house.

after dept. store, we already went out of the mall and headed to tiendesitas.

tiendesitas is a good shopping haven but i rather go to any mall near my place than there. i mean, tiendesitas is a non-aircon place. it's so hot there...! maybe the best time to go there is at night, hmm?

anyways, what i loved about tiendesitas were the clothes! they were really cheap! but we were too weak and bored to try them on. we went home after a few minutes. yes, we weren't in the mood to enjoy the heaven that was shopping.. *but hopefully i'll be able to ride on one of the kalesas the next time i go there..

**later, am going to school and get my test permit from the office.. hay, what a time-waster.. hehe...
**wah, don't know what to do...! i've been loadless for more than a week now! it's so frustratinggggg!!!! i actually blame my being loadless for not pushing-through my supposedly movie-going with coy, jar, minnie, etc.. hay, sad.. :(

nga pala, ho do you like my new header? hehe.. ok lng ba? :)

2006-05-18T23:19:00.000+08:00

hi ami.. at last! summer shool's over! yaynesssssssssssssssssss! ehe.. that's all. *am i becoming senseless again? haha.

2006-05-14T19:17:00.000+08:00

ogawd.i have already forgotten how to make my writing sound like a blog! haha..
but ok,ok.. maybe i'll just go back to scratch and start refreshing my blogging skills!

oh, maybe treating this blog like a new best friend would help? whatcha think? i'll be talking to this blog like others do with their diary.. the dear diary thing? hmm.. that might work?! haha..

hi blog!hmmm.. ok.. i'll be calling you... "ami" short for amica-- girl friend in italian lingua. ;P don't be at odds with me, you've got no right! kiddin!

first of, i want to ~~promise~~ you two things..
1) i'll update you like at least once in two weeks! he, he... it's cos i've been very busy with my college life! it's hard for me to balance but really, i'm trying my best to take things easy... ;P
2)i'll be honest with you.. nuff said.

ok, change off! let's go talk about... my adprac1 summer class.yay! it's almost over! 3more meetings, few more assignments to finish, and a finals exam to pass.. and i'm so done worrying my not-so intolerable failure in that subject! haha.. just hope i still have a chance to make it to the dean's list again. sigh...

anyways, hope i can attend our soccer training this wednesday since i really can't on saturday.. it's cos berx, a group of amaaaazing people produced by s8anne 0203-that includes ehem--me, will have a reunion on the 20th at pepa's condo in taft. we're gonna swim, dine out, talk, talk, and talk!!!!!!! ohmygawd!! i can't contain my excitement!!!!!!!!!

ok, till here, AMI!!!!! if i don't stop, i'll be a schmuck. mua-mua! ;P