wanderlust

i changed the title of my blog from "the klutz jumped over the loon" (gee, what a mouthful!) to "wanderlust"

see, that's why the url of my blog was itchyfoot in the first place. i did try wanderlust, i think, but it was already taken. anyway, i bring this topic up because i've been thinking about my life. yes, folks, i'm not wasting my summer (well, maybe a little).

i've thought about what i want to do after college a lot, and i wanted to concretize it. i don't know how i'm supposed to accomplish them all, but i damn well will try.

so here's the list, ladies and gentlemen: tell me what you think!

What I want to do after college:

1. travel the world
* become a tour guide?
* become a flight stewardess? (check height requirement)
2. live in hawai'i
3. be a dedicated environmentalist
4. write and illustrate children's books
5. learn kickboxing
6. undergo training for adventure racing (i.e. become a mountaineer)
7. write for a tech magazine and get to try out those cool new stuff and write reviews
8. put up a second hand bookstore/cafe

i was actually planning to write a long, in-depth blog entry on this, but... my energy escapes me. maybe later?


ok, no, never mind, my enthusiasm has been awakened. see, at the top of my list is "travel the world"
i don't know why, but... i just want to get out of here. not that i don't like my life as it is now, but... it's... lacking. or maybe i just want the freedom of choice: before i settle on what i really want, i want to get a look at the rest of the buffet table. right?

the problem with "travel the world" is that there really are very few jobs that can be adapted to moving around a lot. i mean, sure, maybe i can write for a guidebook or something, but... i dunno. that's one possibility, i guess. another possibility is writing. and oh man, is that hard or what?! i haven't really written in the longest time. not even my blog much, see? so where's the experience??? i could write and illustrate children's books--at least, i can try. the thing is... again, i don't have experience. i'm soooo GREEN!!!

ah... my energy has left again. more on my plans... sometime later.

subic

got home from subic this afternoon. oh what fun!

swam, kayaked... not much to see, though. wish i could get to a really scenic beach. (hawai'i!!!)

anyhoo, i saw this skimboard thing on TV that they're doing... uh... somewhere in the philippines. it's kinda like surfing but not. they do it in on the shore on the small waves, using a smaller and wider and flatter board. wanna try it. wanna try MANY things.

when will i get to?
when i haul my ass and get going, i guess.

cousins abound

my little cousins from cavite are here. and although i enjoy their company... it's just a lot to take on 4 kids at once when you're used to being alone all the time.

hmmm... on the other hand, maybe i can recruit them to help me clean up my room. there are times, though, when I, the queen of mess, pick up after them, so i'm not sure about that idea.

we're going out to watch peter pan in a while, and all i can say is... i hope i can control them in the mall. it's not that i don't trust them: they're very smart and together kids. i'm just terrified of the responsibility if they get kidnapped or whatever. hey, it happens! i won't know what to say to my titos and titas if anything happens.

so, kids, pray for me.

and give me ideas on how to entertain them. we don't have board games. all we do is bunch up in front of the PC and watch each other play gunbound. the youngest kid feels left out--i really don't know what to do with her except give her a pen and some paper and tell her to draw. i am soooo not experienced with kids. i just hope they don't start a mutiny.

*bleah*

had the most wonderful time yesterday when my friends came over. awww...

grades

i got my grades yesterday and... i'd have to say i'm pretty disappointed. ack. i should've guessed when i didn't feel as stressed as i did last year when i actually broke down crying in the middle of the mall. given that, then maybe i don't feel all that bad about my grades!

i'm happy that i got a C in arcilla's class. way low by my standards, but... damn, he's a hard teacher to please. as much as i love history, i really didn't feel all that good about this class. agh. i'll stop talking about that now.

i got a B in philo with dr rodriguez. although that's still not "woohoo" good, i find that i don't really care, since i got a 3.75 on his oral exam (yay!!!). and even though that won't be reflected on paper, i still feel pretty good about it and proud of myself.

so even though i didn't get the grades i wanted this sem... no regrets. i didn't do the best i could, and that's my fault. i did slack off a lot this sem. so the lesson has been learned, and i hope to never repeat it again.

burning rom

right now, i'm burning my friends, will&grace, and charmed episodes that i downloaded cos they're eating up SO much space on my PC. i'm avoiding using kazaa now because it really really slows down my PC. yech!

gunbound

mau got me hooked last night (or should i say this morning?) on gunbound. it's this gun shooting thing where you have to take into account wind change and stuff. it's pretty addictive if you have a competitive soul. agh. people are pretty nice over there, but pretty bloodthirsty too, from what i've seen. anyway, it's fun. try it!

the room of doom

my room is a mess! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!!! my books are everywhere, i have loads of paper that i have to sort through... oh man. i don't want to move a muscle to fix it, but i can't stand it! (yeah, i have a neat bone in my body, too. so what?) besides, my parents have been bugging me to do something about it since... i dunno. they're always bugging me about it, i guess.

new blogback

i've got blogback! yay!

a new blog

oh wow! a new blog! wheeeeeee!!! this is my third. heehee. i guess i didn't want to disturb the ancient ones, and i haven't exactly updated them. it kind of feels like eating really old food. i dunno... maybe it's just me.

anyway, i'll start modifying this soon, i guess. but not too soon. i'm still sooooo lazy.

summer plans, 2004

it's the last summer vacation of my life. NOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!

given that, i have to make this summer count: as in be as productive and have as much fun as possible. gawd. that's going to be a bit hard.

but at least i've made some headway, since i went to singapore and mau, mitzi, jing, and maybe rachelle are coming over here tomorrow to A) do Antet's flash project, and B) to have fun fun fun!!! and it's possible that our plans to go to boracay will push through. my parents have already said yes (and they also promised me a trip to cebu, too. haven't been there, sorry!). and we'll probably go to laguna or something, too (the barkada, i mean).

as for being productive, i've decided to enroll in a advanced flash course this summer to learn about ActionScript. I mean, i downloaded a lot of flash books already, but it's really REALLY boring going through it alone that i have already abandoned all attempts to do so.
i'm also probably going to be helping out my tita on a marketing package she's working on for my dad. paid work or not, i'm willing to do it. it would look good on my resume!
and then there's namfrel, in school, which i don't really know the details to. i think i'll let mau work that out (parasite! sorry!). there's also this leadership seminar thing for blooey that i'm going to help out with at the end of the summer, not to mention that i'm going to be trying out for TNT.

wow. now that i've written it all down, i just realized how full my summer is really going to be. hehe. wow. well, at least i won't be bored, right? i just hope i won't be so burned out when school starts.

books!

i REALLY REALLY want to push through with my plans for the second hand bookstore thing. REALLY. argh!!!

anyway, right now i'm reading The Farthest Shore by Ursula K. Le Guin. why i haven't read her before now, i have no idea, since i've been hearing a lot about her a long time ago.

reading all these young adult fantasy books, a person can really piece together a lot of ideas that these authors have about how magic is done, the principles of magic and who can weild it, what kinds of creatures dragons are, etc. i mean, i'm even thinking that this could be my senior thesis! but then it would be lit and my tracks are comm and CS. jeez, what a dillema. or maybe i could just do this for fun. hah. well, i could, but then it would be taking time away from what i should really be doing, school-wise (cos if you ask me, THIS is what i should really be doing, and not stupid school stuff).