0134: My Carabao-Winning Friend
This is late by two days, but ah well. I'll still do it. Not that I think he reads my blog or anything, but hey.
From the first contest:
"You know me better than I know myself. I think you already know who the person I love is, but you're waiting for me to be able to admit it to myself before you bring it up. Your third year section was Potassium. We don't agree on the anime we like to watch, but you have good taste in anime songs. I was mad at you for a while in first year because of a certain person we were both classmates with. We play the same musical instrument."
And the second contest:
"I want to see the carabao, the carabao, the carabao! :)"
Well, you've just turned seventeen and I'm happy you seem happy where you are. I wish we had become classmates, but well, our paths may diverge but we'll always be friends wherever your intelligence brings you.
Happy 17th Birthday Inzo-sama :) Thanks for the thing with the carrots at the prom. And I still want to see the carabao you won, even though it's in a glass case. :( I wanted to ride on it =P
***
Vinni-san, I saw your ad in the Philippine Star :)
***
I don't like what the Justice Secretary said.
Honestly, what he said is uncouth and generalist, bordering on silly and petulant. Makes me think he's bitter about something. (Maybe he failed the exam, lol.)
Funny he should say that, though, since UP Manila is very very near the Department of Justice. (I walk past it everyday on the way to one of my buildings.)
Not that I'm hearing any major uprisings, but maybe the PolSci people here (I think there are some, anyway) will do something.
***
Here we go again, and I've added ten more people just for the heck of it (and to possibly forestall any ties that may happen.) I also added some more bonus point opportunities. :)
I also changed 14, since with the help of my 2nd year scribblings I realized that it was more of a hit-and-run accident thing than described. So now that conversation is quoted verbatim.
1. Sometimes I wonder if I could go back to those days when it was just me in that dark classroom and you visiting your old classmates before class started. Life was so much simpler when we were in first year. If ever we became seatmates at any point in time (and I think we were), it isn't because of our respective heights.
5. Honestly, I'm tired of all your DeathDay predictions, Trelawney. >_< I hear that you're doing well in Diliman. :) I think we took a Chem makeup exam together because of my illness and your STR project. Donk. You took Robotics in third year. I won't forget your unfortunate encounter with the printed word in first year.
8. I'm sorry but I'm not sorry that my parents are accountants. =P
14. Our first conversation:
You: "Hi Lorraine, I'm _______." *holds out hand*
Me: *confused* "Erm, hi ______." *holds out hand*
*we shake hands*
*you run off, being busy*
Honestly you'd think it was a hit-and-run accident, except I don't think you shake hands with the one who erm, attacked you. I'm glad I was sort of forewarned by one of my second year classmates though, or I'd be even more confused.
18. We bonded over our disgust concerning the "La Blue Girl" OAV in third year. You were known pretty well for your voice in first year, and the years beyond. Your second year section is Rosal. I'm surprised you came from your elementary school, considering that your surname is a great contrast to those that are common there. (Bonus points for naming the person's elementary school.) Aboom (from Xavier), by chnzo
20. Meep meep meep. Meep. Meep! Hi meep :)
22. On the first day of classes, you introduced me to your family. Would have been intimidating but you were a girl too. :) Your third year section is Rubidium. I'm sure because I saw it when we studied the Iliad, your third year prom gown is purple.
23. It was our mutual desire to be AdProg partners, but two people beat us to each other. Did that make sense? Well, either way, I think we did well with AdProg :) I don't know if you still play Ragnarok, though. You were in a Pure Sci section in second year. Jean-san (partner is Kido-san), by polayn_jap (Bonus points if you state the two people who beat us to each other.) // Note: One bonus point still up for grabs (whoever was my partner).
24. I don't think you have Down's Syndrome, even though your palm says otherwise. :) We both don't like a certain chemical substance. Your second year section is Dahlia. I was one of the people who helped in giving you data for your fourth year STR project. Hmmm, you had a certain secret deal with one of my classmates about STR... Josef-san, by chnzo (Bonus point for the name of the classmate who you had the secret deal with.) // Bonus point still not won. Andok-san (was the secret deal person), by josef_enigma
29. You like to sing that song from the CardCaptor Sakura Movie. It's very odd, seeing as it's a high-pitched song and you... well, it doesn't really fit your outside appearance. I won't forget those moments you erm... made high-pitched surprised sounds (tili). Your first year section is Opal, I think.
30. I know what advanced bloodline trait you'd want in Naruto. :) Sometimes it's your parents that text me instead of you. O.o (Bonus point for the name of the advanced bloodline trait.)
38. We bonded over the ineptitude of one Schumacher during second year, trying to remember what the heck her favorite movie of all time, 8MM was all about. When we were classmates, there were at least 20 people between us. It's funny that while you seem so much of a man, when you seem to not mind cross-dressing during class/group presentations. Or maybe that's just good acting. Your first year section is Ruby. Karlo B., by chnzo
40. You don't look it, but you know a lot of chismis. >_< It's nice that we got to talk during our mutual cramming of STR in fourth year. Your second year section was Adelfa. You wanted me to go to Ateneo like you were, but in the end neither of us did. O.o
42. A conversation in third year:
You: "Hindi na istrostroll ko si Lorraine, iba na ang iisipin ko kung ganon."
Me: "Sino ba nagsabi na gusto ko na istroll mo ako?"
Obviously, we both sang the same song in the English presentation in third year. I think you have a problem with your hair... rather, your tendency to put your falling hairs in your Physics notebook. >_< You had Tech Skills in 2nd year.
44. I wish I was as brave as you, Rosal girl. :)
45. I didn't really believe in handwriting analysis (even though I did study it avidly) until I analyzed yours. Your second year section was Rosal. You know more about Filipino foods than me, which is funny given our early childhood days and environments. :) Tessa-chan, by chnzo
51. In a sad, sad way, this livejournal of mine is a testament, a monument, to you. But I'm happy, because in a way my livejournal, nay, our interactions, have helped me grow and change and become someone different yet still essentially the same.
New numbers:
52. You finished off 142 pesos of my load in first year, and never paid it. Waaah. But honestly, I don't mind my not collecting it ever, since I guess you had more problems than that come another year. I'm not sure what to call you, because of certain other people that exist.
53. We never really talked, even though I knew a lot of people from your 1st year section and I think we even had the same elective in third year. Well, I remember seeing you in my 4th year classroom once, lost to the world, embraced by the need to well... that would be telling. Your full name, I'm not sure of it, but I'm sure a lot of people know it because of your erm... "charms"?
54. With the Ruby styro board of stars, it was yours that got lost first, I think. >_< With that, my nickname for you became "Lost Star." I hope that you got a good grade in STR2, since sometimes I would see you observing your set-up many an hour in the lab, your groupmates nowhere to be found. And hmmm, I don't like Le Morte De Arthur much, but I also finished reading it like you, I guess. (At least I think you told me you finished it.) :( Miel-san, by josef_enigma
55. You used to question and laugh at my first year confused verbalized expression (complete with eye movement). Your third year section was Beryllium. We've known each other since first year, but I've never been your classmate. :( I thought about taking your current course a lot in grade school, but realized that I'm not cut out for it since I don't have the gift you (and a lot of people) have. Silly me, but I'm happy now, I think. Arvin-san, by chnzo
56. I feel sorry for your bunny, Diamond boy. Eep. I wish you had not told me about what you did to it. But then, I guess it is my fault for asking in the first place. We had the same grade school instrument at one point, I think. But I guess it is relatively common. And hmmm, I talked to you many times in 4th year, though I guess I talked to your erm, classmate more because of a certain subject teacher's requirements.
57. On a certain day in July or August or September or October, you declared us friends. Wow. And I wonder why I wasn't shocked when you told me the name of your date for the 4th year prom (and how you got the date). Well, I'd heard something from the "date" herself when my hair was at its shortest, that's why. Your second year section was Dahlia. Monch, by chnzo
58. We've spoken many a time as of now, but our first first encounter was late in fourth year. Talk about delayed meetings. I know a lot of people who know you, and you me, but I guess we just never really got to know each other. I like that you have a steady hand, but I guess I just don't have your patience. I believe that you had WebDev as your 4th year CompSci class.
59. I helped cut/process your dead erm... materials for your STR2 project because I just happened to be in the area along with my similarly-signed groupmate. If we walk, we walk and walk and maybe we'll stop for a nice snack. I don't want to watch a movie with you that involves the actor who played a certain marked man ever again. (Bonus point if you name the actor.)
60. I wish I had met you, so that I could understand why people had such strong opinions about you. I almost did, but fate and people I never met got in the way. Your last name rhymes with my dormmate's last name. (Bonus point for the dormmate's last name.)
61. My first encounter with you was when we both had to take a certain post-quarter test in Pisay. (Not that it was much, considering that we both had to bust our brains out answering the danged thing.) Would you believe that it was also our last encounter? It wouldn't have been, and our proximity would have been really minute at a certain time if not for certain 11th hour developments. Ah well, my friend who worked with you once (because of what, I'm not sure, but it isn't because of height or grades) in second year told me you were ok. (Bonus point for naming the friend who worked with the person.)
Already answered (correctly) numbers:
Rank 1: chnzo
Total: 16
18 = Aboom (and the bonus point, Xavier)
21 = Jman-san
23 = (one of the bonus points, Kido-san)
24 = Josef-san (but not the bonus point)
26 = Alvin-san (A. V. C.)
32 = Francine-san
34 = Franz-san
36 = Clao-Clao
38 = Karlo B.
39 = Xavier-san
45 = Tessa-chan
49 = Piuse
50 = Alba-san
55 = Arvin-san
57 = Monch
Rank 2:polayn_jap
Total: 10
4 = Clar-san
10 = Leo-san
11 = Kel-san
23 = Jean-san (but not the bonus points)
25 = Tatat-san
28 = Alvin-san (J. A. P.)
33 = Sam
37 = Desa-san
47 = Alyssa-san
48 = Kido-san
Rank 3: oatmeal_cookie
7 = Vinni-san
9 = Bea-san
12 = Joan-san
13 = Julia-san
17 = Nico-san
43 = Lara-san
Rank 3: spikedcarapace
3 = Jhud-san
16 = Hopia-san
19 = GJ-san
27 = Abuzo-san (and the bonus point, Gem-san)
31 = Dingdong
Rank 4: quickerbrownfox
15 = Gelyn-san
41 = Andoki-san
Rank 4: prettierdanpink
2 = Ruth-san
35 = Eric-san
Rank 4: josef_enigma
24 = (the bonus point, Andoki-san)
54 = Miel-san
Rank 5: bottled_ether
6 = Abellar-san
Rank 5: twisted_rebel06
46 = Elmar-san
Well, if there's still a tie, we'll see about tie-breakers. :)
PS: Hmmm. I guess I can't do this if the yearbooks come out, ne? Or I'll just keep making clues like 52, 59, and 61. >_< We'll see if Intarmed and my overloaded brain permits me. :)
And right now, Vinni-san's leading :)
Note: Please don't comment here, use the next post. :)
From the first contest:
"You know me better than I know myself. I think you already know who the person I love is, but you're waiting for me to be able to admit it to myself before you bring it up. Your third year section was Potassium. We don't agree on the anime we like to watch, but you have good taste in anime songs. I was mad at you for a while in first year because of a certain person we were both classmates with. We play the same musical instrument."
And the second contest:
"I want to see the carabao, the carabao, the carabao! :)"
Well, you've just turned seventeen and I'm happy you seem happy where you are. I wish we had become classmates, but well, our paths may diverge but we'll always be friends wherever your intelligence brings you.
Happy 17th Birthday Inzo-sama :) Thanks for the thing with the carrots at the prom. And I still want to see the carabao you won, even though it's in a glass case. :( I wanted to ride on it =P
***
Vinni-san, I saw your ad in the Philippine Star :)
***
I don't like what the Justice Secretary said.
Honestly, what he said is uncouth and generalist, bordering on silly and petulant. Makes me think he's bitter about something. (Maybe he failed the exam, lol.)
Funny he should say that, though, since UP Manila is very very near the Department of Justice. (I walk past it everyday on the way to one of my buildings.)
Not that I'm hearing any major uprisings, but maybe the PolSci people here (I think there are some, anyway) will do something.
***
Here we go again, and I've added ten more people just for the heck of it (and to possibly forestall any ties that may happen.) I also added some more bonus point opportunities. :)
I also changed 14, since with the help of my 2nd year scribblings I realized that it was more of a hit-and-run accident thing than described. So now that conversation is quoted verbatim.
1. Sometimes I wonder if I could go back to those days when it was just me in that dark classroom and you visiting your old classmates before class started. Life was so much simpler when we were in first year. If ever we became seatmates at any point in time (and I think we were), it isn't because of our respective heights.
5. Honestly, I'm tired of all your DeathDay predictions, Trelawney. >_< I hear that you're doing well in Diliman. :) I think we took a Chem makeup exam together because of my illness and your STR project. Donk. You took Robotics in third year. I won't forget your unfortunate encounter with the printed word in first year.
8. I'm sorry but I'm not sorry that my parents are accountants. =P
14. Our first conversation:
You: "Hi Lorraine, I'm _______." *holds out hand*
Me: *confused* "Erm, hi ______." *holds out hand*
*we shake hands*
*you run off, being busy*
Honestly you'd think it was a hit-and-run accident, except I don't think you shake hands with the one who erm, attacked you. I'm glad I was sort of forewarned by one of my second year classmates though, or I'd be even more confused.
18. We bonded over our disgust concerning the "La Blue Girl" OAV in third year. You were known pretty well for your voice in first year, and the years beyond. Your second year section is Rosal. I'm surprised you came from your elementary school, considering that your surname is a great contrast to those that are common there. (Bonus points for naming the person's elementary school.) Aboom (from Xavier), by chnzo
20. Meep meep meep. Meep. Meep! Hi meep :)
22. On the first day of classes, you introduced me to your family. Would have been intimidating but you were a girl too. :) Your third year section is Rubidium. I'm sure because I saw it when we studied the Iliad, your third year prom gown is purple.
23. It was our mutual desire to be AdProg partners, but two people beat us to each other. Did that make sense? Well, either way, I think we did well with AdProg :) I don't know if you still play Ragnarok, though. You were in a Pure Sci section in second year. Jean-san (partner is Kido-san), by polayn_jap (Bonus points if you state the two people who beat us to each other.) // Note: One bonus point still up for grabs (whoever was my partner).
24. I don't think you have Down's Syndrome, even though your palm says otherwise. :) We both don't like a certain chemical substance. Your second year section is Dahlia. I was one of the people who helped in giving you data for your fourth year STR project. Hmmm, you had a certain secret deal with one of my classmates about STR... Josef-san, by chnzo (Bonus point for the name of the classmate who you had the secret deal with.) // Bonus point still not won. Andok-san (was the secret deal person), by josef_enigma
29. You like to sing that song from the CardCaptor Sakura Movie. It's very odd, seeing as it's a high-pitched song and you... well, it doesn't really fit your outside appearance. I won't forget those moments you erm... made high-pitched surprised sounds (tili). Your first year section is Opal, I think.
30. I know what advanced bloodline trait you'd want in Naruto. :) Sometimes it's your parents that text me instead of you. O.o (Bonus point for the name of the advanced bloodline trait.)
38. We bonded over the ineptitude of one Schumacher during second year, trying to remember what the heck her favorite movie of all time, 8MM was all about. When we were classmates, there were at least 20 people between us. It's funny that while you seem so much of a man, when you seem to not mind cross-dressing during class/group presentations. Or maybe that's just good acting. Your first year section is Ruby. Karlo B., by chnzo
40. You don't look it, but you know a lot of chismis. >_< It's nice that we got to talk during our mutual cramming of STR in fourth year. Your second year section was Adelfa. You wanted me to go to Ateneo like you were, but in the end neither of us did. O.o
42. A conversation in third year:
You: "Hindi na istrostroll ko si Lorraine, iba na ang iisipin ko kung ganon."
Me: "Sino ba nagsabi na gusto ko na istroll mo ako?"
Obviously, we both sang the same song in the English presentation in third year. I think you have a problem with your hair... rather, your tendency to put your falling hairs in your Physics notebook. >_< You had Tech Skills in 2nd year.
44. I wish I was as brave as you, Rosal girl. :)
45. I didn't really believe in handwriting analysis (even though I did study it avidly) until I analyzed yours. Your second year section was Rosal. You know more about Filipino foods than me, which is funny given our early childhood days and environments. :) Tessa-chan, by chnzo
51. In a sad, sad way, this livejournal of mine is a testament, a monument, to you. But I'm happy, because in a way my livejournal, nay, our interactions, have helped me grow and change and become someone different yet still essentially the same.
New numbers:
52. You finished off 142 pesos of my load in first year, and never paid it. Waaah. But honestly, I don't mind my not collecting it ever, since I guess you had more problems than that come another year. I'm not sure what to call you, because of certain other people that exist.
53. We never really talked, even though I knew a lot of people from your 1st year section and I think we even had the same elective in third year. Well, I remember seeing you in my 4th year classroom once, lost to the world, embraced by the need to well... that would be telling. Your full name, I'm not sure of it, but I'm sure a lot of people know it because of your erm... "charms"?
54. With the Ruby styro board of stars, it was yours that got lost first, I think. >_< With that, my nickname for you became "Lost Star." I hope that you got a good grade in STR2, since sometimes I would see you observing your set-up many an hour in the lab, your groupmates nowhere to be found. And hmmm, I don't like Le Morte De Arthur much, but I also finished reading it like you, I guess. (At least I think you told me you finished it.) :( Miel-san, by josef_enigma
55. You used to question and laugh at my first year confused verbalized expression (complete with eye movement). Your third year section was Beryllium. We've known each other since first year, but I've never been your classmate. :( I thought about taking your current course a lot in grade school, but realized that I'm not cut out for it since I don't have the gift you (and a lot of people) have. Silly me, but I'm happy now, I think. Arvin-san, by chnzo
56. I feel sorry for your bunny, Diamond boy. Eep. I wish you had not told me about what you did to it. But then, I guess it is my fault for asking in the first place. We had the same grade school instrument at one point, I think. But I guess it is relatively common. And hmmm, I talked to you many times in 4th year, though I guess I talked to your erm, classmate more because of a certain subject teacher's requirements.
57. On a certain day in July or August or September or October, you declared us friends. Wow. And I wonder why I wasn't shocked when you told me the name of your date for the 4th year prom (and how you got the date). Well, I'd heard something from the "date" herself when my hair was at its shortest, that's why. Your second year section was Dahlia. Monch, by chnzo
58. We've spoken many a time as of now, but our first first encounter was late in fourth year. Talk about delayed meetings. I know a lot of people who know you, and you me, but I guess we just never really got to know each other. I like that you have a steady hand, but I guess I just don't have your patience. I believe that you had WebDev as your 4th year CompSci class.
59. I helped cut/process your dead erm... materials for your STR2 project because I just happened to be in the area along with my similarly-signed groupmate. If we walk, we walk and walk and maybe we'll stop for a nice snack. I don't want to watch a movie with you that involves the actor who played a certain marked man ever again. (Bonus point if you name the actor.)
60. I wish I had met you, so that I could understand why people had such strong opinions about you. I almost did, but fate and people I never met got in the way. Your last name rhymes with my dormmate's last name. (Bonus point for the dormmate's last name.)
61. My first encounter with you was when we both had to take a certain post-quarter test in Pisay. (Not that it was much, considering that we both had to bust our brains out answering the danged thing.) Would you believe that it was also our last encounter? It wouldn't have been, and our proximity would have been really minute at a certain time if not for certain 11th hour developments. Ah well, my friend who worked with you once (because of what, I'm not sure, but it isn't because of height or grades) in second year told me you were ok. (Bonus point for naming the friend who worked with the person.)
Already answered (correctly) numbers:
Rank 1: chnzo
Total: 16
18 = Aboom (and the bonus point, Xavier)
21 = Jman-san
23 = (one of the bonus points, Kido-san)
24 = Josef-san (but not the bonus point)
26 = Alvin-san (A. V. C.)
32 = Francine-san
34 = Franz-san
36 = Clao-Clao
38 = Karlo B.
39 = Xavier-san
45 = Tessa-chan
49 = Piuse
50 = Alba-san
55 = Arvin-san
57 = Monch
Rank 2:polayn_jap
Total: 10
4 = Clar-san
10 = Leo-san
11 = Kel-san
23 = Jean-san (but not the bonus points)
25 = Tatat-san
28 = Alvin-san (J. A. P.)
33 = Sam
37 = Desa-san
47 = Alyssa-san
48 = Kido-san
Rank 3: oatmeal_cookie
7 = Vinni-san
9 = Bea-san
12 = Joan-san
13 = Julia-san
17 = Nico-san
43 = Lara-san
Rank 3: spikedcarapace
3 = Jhud-san
16 = Hopia-san
19 = GJ-san
27 = Abuzo-san (and the bonus point, Gem-san)
31 = Dingdong
Rank 4: quickerbrownfox
15 = Gelyn-san
41 = Andoki-san
Rank 4: prettierdanpink
2 = Ruth-san
35 = Eric-san
Rank 4: josef_enigma
24 = (the bonus point, Andoki-san)
54 = Miel-san
Rank 5: bottled_ether
6 = Abellar-san
Rank 5: twisted_rebel06
46 = Elmar-san
Well, if there's still a tie, we'll see about tie-breakers. :)
PS: Hmmm. I guess I can't do this if the yearbooks come out, ne? Or I'll just keep making clues like 52, 59, and 61. >_< We'll see if Intarmed and my overloaded brain permits me. :)
And right now, Vinni-san's leading :)
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