Bellarmine

yey! uwian na tomorrow! feel the cool of lipa under my skin, oh yeah!

for the first time in months, i practiced my pastoral rights... or is it really a right to attend mass, specifically simbang gabi? is it not an obligation for a very traditional christian? well.. im non-practicing so... no regrets. i just feel like it's so hypocritic.. attending mass. you know you have to dress up like there's some gimmick or whatever. that doesn't work for me.

but im still christian, the plain old christian me. i still believe in the existence of a higher being, which is proof to the saying that the strongest forces are the things we cannot see. i still believe that the Bible is an inspirational book, and that the shortest and most powerful word in my vocabulary is... God.

well anyhows, i went to the Church of the Gesu in Ateneo to have my first simbang gabi this year. was with lynnie. before mass started, i shot some photos first. salivated when i first saw the bright lights ateneo spent time to put up. the bell field was awesome, what can i say. the lanterns are even better:

the ambience was really romantic, should have brought a girlfriend there and kissed french in the middle of the cold night. made me realize that it's better to shoot a photo by urself than download it on the internet. so we went to mass, then went to starbucks to increase my collection of stickers so i get the starbucks planner for 2006. 5 more stickers to go. then mcdo, still with lynnie, ordered some fries. met jejo while eating. talked about something lynnie was planning for something. go you!

just felt once again the spirit of christmas, haha, like what i always said. i wish UP could muster some effort to at least put some christmas lights on the barren gray buildings. but then UP has to remain as secular as, say harvard, to maintain it's name. putting up christmas lights would have meant invasion of free lands for the muslims or the buddhists or the others.

i wanna have a laptop for christmas. better yet, i want to learn the keyboard this christmas. can i do that in two weeks? i hope so. i have the drive, yeah! geez, i really want to play the keyboard. i had this music teacher way back in elementary and she said my hands are fit for playing the piano because my fingers are long and thin. they could easily grasp the keys. since then i had this little inkling to play the piano. but then i realized that the piano is hard to play because its keys are, sort of, manual. so id hit it on the keyboard instead.

for the last time before the day arrives, everyone... Happy Christmas!

too bad i'll spend another cold white christmas this year. hay. cheers for a better love life next year! si len kasi eh! panira. haha. bleh. bya! till next year.

-heureux-