Agh, I hate YouTube. Ever since my laptop could play the frickin' videos, I've been doing nothing but watch watch watch... I've got stuff to do, darn it ( Read more... )

thesis updates:I'm encoding tables of the repertoires of the three ballet companies, which isn't as easy as I thought it would be. Well, it's not hard, it's just a long process and it makes you check, double check and triple check your sources and research material until all you want to do is lie down and eat popcorn. But I can't so I'm taking a ( Read more... )

I'm supposed to do freeimprov's alphabet-song meme, but I'm a little short on songs that start with B. I'll do that tomorrow ( Read more... )

That Pamanhikan may have put ideas in my Mom's head. Tonight, she pointedly taught me how to clean a fish, where to pull out the gills, the spine (if it's bangus/milkfish), all the blood and all the icky parts the supermarket may have overlooked. Before tonight, I had delusions that I would cook fish regularly. Now, I'm seeing a fishless future ( Read more... )

When I started writing my thesis, I wanted to defend Ballet as an artform that has transcended nationality and has been embraced by Filipinos. People always see Ballet as a foreign art form, but I never did, I guess because I grew up dancing to Filipino-themed ballets and quests to discover the incorporation of our Philippine indigenous forms into ( Read more... )

but first
The Great Thesis Adventure

Wherein the hapless Joelle decides to finish her thesis in four days, while at the beach, in an island off the coast of Quezon. While doing so, the hapless Joelle realizes, this would be a lot better if I wasn't rushing it. And so..."Are you hapless?" asks Joelle's significant other who hates to be adored, " ( Read more... )

joelle --

[noun]:

A person who is constantly high

'How will you be defined in the dictionary?' at QuizGalaxy.comIt's like this quiz really knows me personally. How creeps ( Read more... )

Hooray! I just finished my history chapter, yay!!!! Now, I'm to email it to Ma'm Mirano and hope I don't need to revise much. While waiting her opinion, I start on the meat of the repertoire of the three companies. So exciting ( Read more... )

Having siopao at Flavors of China in Southmall...
Me: Ma, tama diba, pinaglihian mo ako sa siopao?
Ma: Yes, I did. And dinuguan.
Jacqui: Eh bakit ako yung mukhang bola-bola?

I'm sorry, a translation is impossible.

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( our regular dose of thesis ramblings, but hey there's progress, really there is )

Totally blowing American Idol out of the primetime ratings (partly also because the girls this year suck) is Rustom Padilla's coming out on Pinoy Big Brother. He's having a heart to heart with Keanna Reeves (who's actually one of the cool people on the show, who would've thought?) and building up to it, all the while my siblings are going nuts in ( Read more... )