my new goal.

Oh yeah! After watching Adam Brody (I'm sorry if his name has to keep popping up like this. Forgive me, I haven't had a new celebrity crush in a while! *laughs*) on the 10 episodes of the OC's first season I've viewed starting Monday, I have been reintroduced to a piece of transportation that has long been forgotten and thrown into our dark and napthalene-ball scented bodega. My blue skateboard! Yes, I do have a skateboard stashed away somewhere.

When the Mighty Ducks were all the craze, I decided I wanted to try out both rollerblades and the skateboard. I did pretty well with the blades, but the skateboard was a whole other story. And since nobody around knew how to work it, I never had the chance to ask anybody how to ride it. All I could do was stand on it and lean slightly left or right for a really wide turn. Not much of anything really, so I sort of gave up on it.

BUT, now that I've seen Adam Brody cruising along through Orange County's portwalks looking all cool, not to mention cute(!), inspiration has yet again flowed through my veins! So, one of these days, I'm gonna go get that skateboard (although I'm sure it's pretty tattered by now), find some kneepads and get out on the streets to try it out again. I know the kneepads will look kinda geeky, but then, better safe than sorry! I don't want any more sports-inflicted scars on my knees. I've had enough, thank you very much. I've got one from tennis, one from cycling, one from basketball... and the list goes on. *hehehe* I'm so excited to get started! Who knows, if I get good enough, I can buy one of those cool skateboards with the neat designs! *excited by the thought of cool wheels* Who wants to learn along with me?

am i a nerd?

I should really be studying for my History test tomorrow but I still haven't gotten ahold of the outline I'm supposed to be using for my review. Oh, wait! Yipee! Well, it seems I just haven't been checking my e-mail in a bit. Someone sent it through Yahoogroups, alleluia! *smiles* Now I have a 14-page outline to drill into my head. After that, 2 pages of Theology notes to review for our quiz tomorrow. I hope the question tomorrow won't be too hard. I just got an F in our quiz in Philosophy. And here I was thinking I could climb my way to a C, whoopsie, I guess not! *laughs* Oh well, I'll just have to make sure I'll get only A's and C's (preferably only A's) from now on. Cancel the lowest quiz naman e.

Anyway, I'm beginning to think of myself as a nerd. All I ever write about here is school, school, school. But hmm.. nah, I'm not a nerd. I just find it easier to write about these mundane things than about anything that really has to do with me. Not that this has nothing to do with me, but.. I don't know... I just feel like, anyone who reads my blog won't really get a nice clean look at who I really am. Yaks, nagdrama! *laughs* Ah well, who says you have to paint a picture of yourself through a blog anyway? Then again, isn't this the whole reason we're blogging? To let others see a piece of ourselves? A piece of me, yes, but they'll never get to put the puzzle together if they don't have all the pieces. (Goodness, that hour and a half of Philosophy must have really gotten to me, huh?) *hehe*

frustrating...

I never thought this html business could get so frustrating! The computer I'm working on right now has two browsers, Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox. On Mozilla Firefox, I don't get to see the fancy scrollbar colors, but the size is perfect. On Internet Explorer, the scrollbar's perfect but the size of the box is too small. I don't get it! Which browser should I use as a standard? A lot of people are shifting to Firefox nowadays. Anyway, while I was able to figure out a solution to the "Comments" problem, I still haven't fixed the archive pages. I don't understand why they won't work, I just copied and pasted the same codes from my old design template. Waaah. Anyway, for now I guess the links for "Other Reads" will have to do. *teehee*

whoopee!

After a few hours of tinkering around with Photoshop and prowling through the net trying to find out how to produce the scrollbar thing on the side, I have succeeded in giving birth to a design that seems functional! Well, I had to forego the Tagboard, but oh well, I guess that's what the "Comments" option is for! When I find the time again, I'll have to fix the links on the sidebar.

Hmm...does anyone know how to make links around images transparent? I mean, so that there won't be another border that signifies it's a link? Am I making sense? *laughs* Anyway, I really should get to sleep now! Have to get rid of this nagging cough! It's going to be another boring day of school tomorrow. Good thing classes end at 10:30 for me! I get to go home early and watch a few more episodes of the OC! I got the inspiration for this design from the OC! You'll never guess how! Well, actually you could... all you'll have to do is take a look at the curly hair of the guy on the picture to your left. *nods head* Adam Brooooooody! *grins like an idiot* He's just too darn cute!

the aftermath.

Listening to: April Sixth- Dear Angel

Aaaaah! I can't stop thinking about that horrid Statistics test we had last Friday. And now, I don't understand some things about our case in Finance. I can get the answer if I use mathematical tricks like the geometric series, but I can't solve the questions using the formulas I got from our teacher. I don't understand why! *argh* I've tried using the formulas, with a little tweaking, and I've gotten the answers, but I don't understand yet why they worked. *laughs* Oh well, whatever.

Anyway, I'll have to remember to download the following songs when I have the time:

1. Bad Day- Daniel Powter
2. Stay- Cueshe
3. Pag-ibig Ko Sa Iyo- Moonstar 88
4. The Mixed Tape- Jack's Mannequin (sounds like Matt Nathanson)
5. Wordplay- Jason Mraz
6. Over My Head (Cable Car)- The Fray

Hey hey hey! *laughs* I decided to search for the formula for the calculation of future values for annuity due, and hey it works! And my formula works too, although I don't fully understand the reason why the formula I invented works! *laughs* I haven't gotten around to figuring out what to do with uneven cash flows yet though. I'll deal with that next time. *hehe*

Hmm.. I wonder if I should change my blog layout to something I cooked up. My brother says it looks nicer than this one, but then someone else said that this one's still better. So hmmm, whose opinion should I trust? :p *laughs* I'll decide one of these days.. besides, I can always change it back to this if the layout doesn't work out nicely!

dumdeedum...

I just realized that I haven't written here in a while! For the past week, it's probably because of that MEAnual I had to design and layout in just 5 days! Goodness gracious, it's a miracle Ferdie and I finished it with just enough time to get it printed for Wednesday's release! I can't wait to see my "baby" in print! *grins* Yeeeeey! I hope it turns out nicely! If it doesn't.. booo... I sacrificed precious hours of sleep for that thing! *hehe* Here's the cover!




Anyway, I still have around 60 pages of my Finance book to read but I'm really not in the mood for it. We're watching a movie in 2 hours so I'm kind of looking forward to that instead. Still, reviews for "War of the Worlds" haven't been good so I'm not expecting much. At least I get to stare at Tom Cruise the whole while. Still, I wish it were Brad Pitt instead! *swoons* I saw an old movie he starred in called "The Devil's Own" (with Harrison Ford) and he looked so handsome there, without the slightest signs of waning youth.

Babbling yet again. I wonder why I never get to write interesting things! All my writing skills have mysteriously disappeared. My brain is mush. I seriously do not want to read my Finance book! *whines* But I better get to it... read at least 10 more pages! Fine, fine. I'm off to torture myself with boredom now. *grabs Finance book grudgingly and plops down to read it*