J is for joyce.

i was listing down codes for all that happened around me since my last blog post (so i'd know what to write about this time), and i noticed that the people whom i listed down are all J people. haha. funny coincidence.

okay, so j is for..

jc. i have my hands up for this guy, who handles music notes so well that i can't help but get carried away during himig kalai rehearsals. before i knew it, i was swaying beside him. (and mcdo was laughing at me. rar.)

jerson. the ever-enthusiastic app head of laong laan is always on the go, especially during the fund run. (i ran an extra half-lap, for more burning of fats! XD)

jena. yey, she's eighteen na din! as usual, i dreaded talking up front (as part of the 18 gifts), but doing it for her made it so okay.

jopay. my cutie cousin loves joining in, and in last sunday's game of donkey, she was perpetually smiling even if she and ate jo were losing.

joanne. my elder sis (with me, actually) picked up the wrong visitor last fiesta and brought him to my uncle's house. good thing we found the right person the second time around.

justin. when i went to the lib for the second time (i looked stupid during the first; i didn't know what to do), i met LL co-app justin. had so much fun chitchat-ing (and secret fishing)!

jeff. friday night, i was asked to sing for the birthday of a person i've never met. as the gossips went, he is a handsome guy. happy 18th, jeff!

jo. after bringing me to jeff's birthday bash, she suddenly appeared in my room and asked to sleep over. She was so engrossed in sketching evan (and she was good), and we chatted until 3.

jp. i never knew he'd be one hell of a nice guy. he introduced me to his floormates (again, during jeff's party), just so i'd gain new friends. and he's so fun to be with.

jim. it was fun having conversation with my canadian uncle. his voice is waaaay softer than mine.

plus,another J is for...

jma. again, there were lots of jma get-aways. firstly, i had fun talking about starbucks coffee during branded gold, a seminar about marketing and branding. and then came the crazy first interviews, apps gone wild, where i did do some insane things while dressed up as a pig. right after my interview was a three-hour nonstop tambay, after more than a week of not showing up at the tambayan (i dropped by the afs office afterwards as well). lastly, there were two activities that got me involved with kids yet again - olympicnic, a day of games with the beneficiaries of jma, and art champ: i can sur-5!, an art camp for children who are battling against cancer. This has been one of the most satisfying jma events so far, especially because i am easily drawn to youngsters.

shamelessly posing during my english 11 class.

of course, there is one J that cannot be separated from me no matter what happens: joyce.

for a couple of days, the right side of my face and neck has been sore, and i've been so sick that i wasn't able to leave bed for meals. but i am thankful to my floormates who cared, especially to jonah and lalet who gave me medicine.

still, there are a lot more fun events around me. there was a friday when i went hav-hunting with bea at midtown near upm, and had dinner with knet and rebby as well. and also, i got well enough later on to dress up for the photoshoot that we had for our corridor exhibit. i'm going for the japanese schoolgirl in winter clothes doll outfit. ha!

yet, some things still hurt. like not knowing how to write my reaction paper for a black-and-white movie with a weird ending (at least for me), cutting philo to review for my bio exam, and feeling like i didn't do well at that same exam. argh. and also, something more, and much deeper than all these things. haii.

anyways, i hope this week turns out all right. good luck to ate jo who will be starting work at medical city tomorrow. and to my mom who will be having her chemo. God bless! smile, smile. :)

"joyce will be joyce, no matter what."

thanks trinabear. i just hope it's still okay to remain as me. (=,

the usual mess.

ha! funny 'coz i'm blogging again. special thanks goes to all that happened during the past 24 hours and to kat's doodle notebook for inspiring me. teehee. oh well. this post is too unorganized for a start, but bear with it na lang.

okay.. i was eating dinner with jonah kanina, and before my first spoonful of rice and spicy ulam, i just typed into my reminders a quick outline of what to blog about. (okay, i'm a bit of OC). forget creative writing. i'll enumerate them nalang. plus details. boo.


number one: trust.

last night was just one of the nights when my floor conducted a surprise party. "surprise" because i'm always not updated about the activites. anyway, there's this part when they drew lots and had the lucky drawn name's bearer do some sort of stunt. they call it trust fall, and i didn't know what it was. as you may have predicted, my name was drawn. the whole activity made me high. not because of the height nor the achievement, but because of the realization that my floormates trusted me so much that after all the months we spent together, i would trust them. and i did.

number two: phlegmatics.

another highlight of last night was the quiz-type activity that we had, to determine our leadership styles. and based on the results, i'm 100% phlegmatic. no, this has nothing to do with phlegm. *ehem, ehem* phlegmatics are the kind of people who lives to give, and in their kindness, ends up being doormats. but they aren't so bad, kasi nga i'm one of them. (haha. 'yun 'yun eh!) kidding aside, the activity last night made me realize why i'm this sort of person that i am: slow in making decisions and fond of following just what other people directs me to do. i realized that i ain't that bad naman pala, because this is my style. and there are a lot of other people like me. watch out for my post about phlegmatics (i'm obssessed with the quiz, alright). i'm just too lazy to type right now.

number three: starbs.

i always told myself that i wouldn't pay for anything at starbucks until i'm working, or at least until my family becomes financially stable and out of debt. well, i guess plans are always made too early. just this afternoon, i spent for the first time for starbucks coffee. and actually, it felt good. like i'm one of the rich people i'm not. anyway, the best thing about it was the time spent with best buds bea and kat (so sad that mica wasn't there). our goal for the coming year: get ourselves the starbucks planner. haha!

number four: friendship.

if i'm phlegmatic, then kat is probably a choleric. generally, it's more of the leader, assertive type. just this afternoon (before coffee), we had sort of an argument. and it was bea's fault. haha, kidding! it was about bea, but not her fault actually. anyway, though kat didn't mean to raise her voice (which was naturally loud when she argued), i couldn't help but take it personally as a phlegmatic. (i told you, i'm obssessed with the quiz) anyway, i was pissed for a few moments lang naman, and when she said sorry, i told her i'm not angry. i guess friendship conquers all anger. or it's probably love. it is love.

number five: hurt.

there are things, and even people, who are not really for you. sometimes you know it, but don't actually believe it, until you come to a point when the realization is sudden and you just don't know how to react. do you get what i mean? no? good.

oh well. five minutes to curfew. i'm out.