night time thoughts

night. you know, when the world is all black... well, not really black. just.... dark.

and i'm supposed to be doing all these work i've putting off (i really am the worse kind of procrastinator) and i've been thinking (something i shouldn't even be doing coz i should be getting my ass back to work... as in procrastinating..again!!) but a lot of thoughts are swimming in my head... if a lot of thoughts are swimming in your head... it's kind of hard to put together a language exam paper.

...... how come there are some people who think that ALL Deaf people are poor at English? i emailed this organization, you know... asking for some help to go abroad.... and they answer back saying that they're willing to help me. then later they suddenly stop emailing. when my aunt in america calls them, they rejoice, saying they are happy to know that i am not fake... because i have very good english. is that how hearing people identify who the Deaf are and who are not??? by their english grammar?????? sheesh.

....... i have half a mind to send these people my work that i've done, my ID, etc... just to prove that i am REAL. that i am REAL and VERY DEAF. ...hmm... i think i should do that...... shock the pants off these people. :0)

...... i admit though that not many Deaf people are skilled at grammar. i myself, believe there's still so much i should learn... but that is another story altogether. ... that is something a skilled linguist for the Deaf language should start doing a blog about...... hehehehe.....

... end of night time thoughts.

coolest potter wallpaper i've seen so far... the book does have really nice quotes in it. 

some really cool links

hello all. hope your weekend went better than mine. hehehe. well, anyways, have decided to do some links posting (coz everybody who has a website has one... so i'm joining the club here)...

HARRY POTTER WEBSITES
only coz i love and am addicted to the harry potter series

www.jkrowling.com -- this is really ms. rowling in the website. check out the mystery door.
www.mugglenet.com -- love this website. go here often. contemplating making it my homepage :0)
www.darkmark.com -- go here for links. they've got plenty.

TEACHER WEBSITES
coz well, i am one

www.teachervision.com
www.magickeys.com/books/index.html-- short stories (i teach reading and language)
www.bedtime.com -- more short stories

NEWS SITES
we all need to be informed, right?

www.inq7.net -- for my fellow filipinos.
www.yahoo.com -- just click on the news site.
www.bbc.co.uk --the british really know their news. a lot easier to use too.

GREAT 15 DAY ADWARE SPYWARE SOFTWARE
www.stopzilla.com
(not sure if this is it but you can go search for it in yahoo)
well, that's all for now... until later or some brilliant thing pops up in my mind and i come back here! hehehe! pag ayo ayo!

oh yes a word of advice... never download anything from sites like wallpapers and themes!! no matter how cool they are!unless you want to have adware and spyware into your system and enjoy formatting your comp!

love the rain

it's raining really hard in quezon city... internet connection is slow.... and my cellphone has no signal. turns out GLOBE has a down server. bummer... then i went online and tried chikka (this is free texting, guys!!).. good thing have got internet!!

saw CHRISTMAS WITH THE KRANKS today at robinson's galleria. got myself some BO's coffee too. it was good. i had to eat at burger king.. coz the movie was starting. well, let me tell you what happened at burger king. i ordered a WHOPPER JR with cheese (yum but not very healthy, i know) and the cashier got my order wrong. i paid 200 pesos at first ( i thought.. WHAT THE HELL??!!??) but turns out she thought i was ordering 2 orders of the WHOPPER JR meal. geez. so i corrected her and she was fuming (at herself or at me??) so i thought i at least owe her an explanation. so when she came back to give me my order... i said, "sorry for the misuderstanding, you see, i'm Deaf"(in tagalog, of course) and she went all nice to me all of a sudden (compared to a sullen snobby face earlier).. what a difference, eh? but let me tell you, i get that quite a lot. i guess even if you're Deaf and can speak, there are still things that will happen to you. so lesson here?? don't know. i still feel better not talking and telling instead that i'm Deaf straightaway than speaking and not letting the person know that i'm Deaf. there are certain advantages there. less miscommunication there. but in a country such as the Philippines, when you're Deaf and you're a girl, and you're in a public place all alone... well, you can't really just give away that you're Deaf. am i making sense here? i don't know.

anyway my rating review for CHRISTMAS WITH THE KRANKS --- a very good one!! even if without captioning i could get the gist of the story ... i even laughed out loud to myself... so yeah, i would recommend this movie if you need a good laugh. i always like tim allen's movies coz they're funny. i wanted to watch ALEXANDER but i was a bit pressed for time. between ALEXANDER, NATIONAL TREASURE, POLAR EXPRESS and XMAS WITH THE KRANKS... i went for XMAS coz i assumed i would understand it better.. never liked cartoons without the captioning anyway. so anyway this is all for now!!

thanks, jenna!!!! 

thanks, ethan!!!! 

ethan zohn and jenna morasca

     How could i know that meeting someone I only imagined meeting years ago would put some things back into perspective for me? 

     Ethan doesn't know it but i have this picture of him from a magazine that has now been in my work table for the past three years. he was one of those people whose lives inspired me.

     The SURVIVOR stars, Ethan, Jenna Morasca and Shii-Ann came to manila two weeks ago, i think. When i saw it on TV(STUDIO 23!!), i thought it would be cool to see them... do something i don't usually do.. go to see my inspirations in the flesh!

so i went, it was a HOT Saturday morning(Saturday, oct 26, 2004!) and I wasn't sure where the thing was going to be held. i thought there'd be notices pointing me in the right direction or a big crowd tight in the middle of Ateneo that would be easy to spot. I imagined Ethan, Jenna m and Shii-ann waving to people from a great BIG stage..... I imagined wrong. hehehe. there were no posts, no notices, no great big neon sign. I actually went to Ateneo High School's Father and Son day. SHEESH. so... I was lost. 

     Then.. a miracle happened(being dramatic here).. I passed a soccer field (why didn't i listen to Candy?) and saw all these people (I honestly thought it was a family fair or something).. I was going to the tent, to see if there was any food (hey, i was hungry).. when suddenly .. I spotted them!! you can't imagine how happy I was.. hehehe. I mean, FINALLY!! So, hunger forgotten, I was ready to line up... when... the bouncer was telling me that I couldn't line up. End of the line.. ah well. I thought that would be it.

      To make a long story short... i made a text message saying "I am a Deaf teacher. May i have pictures taken with them so I can show to my Deaf students. I had a hard time trying to find the venue." I would normally never do this kind of thing. but guess what, it worked. I guess sometimes you just have to be brave enough to try!

      So what did I learn from this??? Ethan made me realize that dreams can come true... if you do something about it. If I didn't go to Ateneo, I would never have met him and Jenna(she is very beautiful.. and very nice! She knew how to sign THANK YOU in sign language!I think the two are lucky to have each other! I hope one day I will also have a wonderful love story like theirs!). If I wasn't brave enough to approach the guy in charge of the thing.. then I would only have this leaflet thing which the pair had signed. Shii-Ann wasn't there so I wasn't able to take pics with her. This was one learning experience for me. Thank you, Studio 23, Ethan and Jenna!!MWAHHH!!