Pourrais-je se lever à 6h du matin?!

So I just found out my class schedules for this semester...

• French 10-11, TF 10-1130
• French 11, TTh 7-830
• French 10, 7-830

Cela veut dire que j'ai une classe qui commence à 7h du matin tous les jours. :(

Wedding Pictures from Dikong's Camera

Wedding - First Day

Wedding Reception Pictures from Miki's Camera

Bridal Shower <3

Quelque chose ne va pas

This is the closest French idiomatic expression for "I think I'm coming down with something".

I've been taking care of J for the past two days and I may have contracted what he has. I hope not though.

Le temps est à la pluie.

It looks like rain.

The French equivalent for the idiom "It looks like rain" is "Le temps est à la pluie". Literally translated, it means "The weather is to the rain".

It has been like this for the past few days and it may be the reason a lot of people are coming down with something. For the French equivalent for the idiom "Coming down with something". Please click here.

Silver shoes <3

UPDATE: Why should cute shoes be so painful? :(

Pretending I'm an interior designer :)

I taste blood

I was putting off going to the dentist for a couple of months now that when I finally did, I was willing to do whatever the dentist tells me. Long story short, I'm here in m room with a numb cotton-filled mouth hoping that when the numbness goes away my dad will be back here with the pain medication.

This is the first time after so many years that I got a tooth extracted. I can't believe I didn't cry before. It was sooooo painful! Like my whole jaw is going to be pulled out.

Now they say that oral surgery for impacted teeth is so much more painful. I have 2. Double the fun!

Tagaytay with Ate Ching, Kaye, Kio and Jeff :)

Photos grabbed from Kaye. :)

Emoticons!

Sweet daw. :P

It's a blue day! :)

The first themed day at the office c/o Noey. :)

I don't like...

It's an emo day... NOT!

Avant, je t’avais toujours soupconné. J’étais toujours le type jalouse. Mais de plus en plus, je m’en fiche. Maintenant, je ne pense pas autant qu’avant. Je n’ai plus des théories. Je ne suis pas sûre pourquoi. Il se pourrait que j’ai plus de confiance en toi maintenant. Mais il se pourrait aussi que je n’aime plus autant qu’avant. Bien sûr, je préfère le premier.

Aujourd’hui, je me suis senti encore une fois l’ancien soupcon. Je me demande pourquoi. Est-ce que mon intuition s’énérve ?

Anyway, enough emo-ness. On with life!

As you know (or not yet know as I haven't posted about this in my blog), I am translating Anatole France's "La Vie en Fleur" to Tagalog with my MA classmates Sofie and Mariam. It's very, very difficult as this is the first time I'll be translating to Tagalog. I'm not very used to it. I speak Tagalog but of course not the literary kind which adds another difficulty dimension to this project. I have finished tan-tanan-nan!! One chapter. I have yet to finish three more and the deadline is fast approaching.

This weekend, if everything goes well, we will be able to meet the deadline next Tuesday. I've "rented" one of Jeff's brother's condo units so that me and my groupmates may be able to work together on it. Gah!! So little time, so much to do.

To give you an idea how much I suck at translating from French to Tagalog, I'm posting the first paragraph of the first chapter below. Anyone is free to critique

Nakapanglulumo ang mga nakuha kong marka ngayong linggong ito. Masama ang asal ko, walang kwenta ang trabaho ko. Naghihinagpis ang aking inang lumapit at nagmakaawa kay Ginoong Dubois.

“Sapagkat may interes ka sa batang ito,” ani ng aking ina, “nararapat na siya ay pagsabihan mo. Mas papakinggan ka niya kaysa sa akin. Ipaintindi mo sa kanya ang kamaliang nagawa niya sa pagbabalewala ng kanyang pag-aaral.”

“Ngunit paano ko ipaaabot sa kanya ang kanyang pagkakamaling ito kung hindi ko naman ito nakikita?”

Pagkasabi ng mga katagang ito, hinugot niya ang isang aklat mula sa kanyang bulsa at binasa ang mga linyang ito:

“Hindi nagpakasakit si Homer ng sampung taon sa eskewelahan upang matuto ng mga salitang maaari naman niyang matutunan sa kanyang sariling tahanan sa loob ng lima o anim na taon.”

“At alam niyo ho ba kung sino ang nagsabi niyan Ginang Noziere? Isang probinsyano ba, isang ignorante, isa ba siyang mangmang? Hindi. Isa itong mabuting kaluluwa, isang lalaking ubod ng bait, ang pinakamahusay na manunulat ng kanyang panahon na panahon rin ni Chateaubriand, isang walang kapagurang propagandista, isang tagahanga ng Griego, ang walang kaparis na tagasalin ng pastoral na Daphnis et Chloé. Walang iba kung hindi si Paul-Louis Courier, ang pinakamagaling na manunulat sa buong mundo. ”

Gulat at may bahid ng lungkot na tiningnan ng aking ina si G. Dubois.

And here's the same paragraph in the original French:

J’avais eu, cette semaine-là, des notes déplorables. Ma conduite était mauvaise, mon travail nul. Ma pauvre mère, accablée d’affliction, implora M. Dubois.

- Puisque vous voulez bien vous intéresser à cet enfant, lui dit-elle, grondez-le. Il vous écoutera mieux que moi. Faites-lui comprendre le tort qu' il se fait en négligeant ses études.

- Comment lui faire concevoir ce tort, chère madame, répondit M. Dubois, si je ne le conçois pas moi-même?

Et, tirant un volume de sa poche, il lut ces lignes :

« Homère ne passa point dix ans dans le fond d'un collège à recevoir le fouet pour apprendre quelques mots qu' il eût pu, chez lui, savoir mieux en cinq ou six mois. »

« Et savez-vous qui a dit cela, Madame Nozière ? Un rustre, un ignorant, un ennemi des bonnes études ? Non, mais un gentil esprit, un homme très docte, le meilleur écrivain de son temps qui était le temps de Chateaubriand, un pamphlétaire plein de sel, un amateur de grec, le délicieux traducteur de la pastorale de Daphnis et Chloé, l' homme qui écrivait les plus jolies lettres du monde, Paul-Louis Courier. »

Ma mère regarda M. Dubois, surprise et désolée.

Shite... I miss my daddeh so much. Hey, J, I need my daily dose of inspiration!!

No Coffee Week

Since the start of this week I've shunned my daily cup of java. What for? This will serve as my penitence for Holy Week.

If you know me well, you know I love my coffee. I even touted it as THE panacea for headaches. At the onset, I really felt like I was depriving myself. I'm drinking black tea though so I still have my daily dose of caffeine so it's all fine. I don't get the aroma though so I content myself with smelling the aroma in our office pantry.

As soon as Jeff got wind of this penitence of mine, he tried to tempt me to drink coffee and he even enlisted Miki's help.

Jeff and Miki can tempt me all they want but I'm going to see this penitence to the end! Aja!

I can't wait for Easter Sunday though so I can drink all the java I want . :P

How to create a table in Google's Blogger

I think I found a way to create posts in a table. This will make the agit standings taste like eye candy. Please remind me to implement it. Hehe. :P

Automatically updating agit standing/castle watch

If you have been going to this blog for the past few weeks, you would have noticed that I've started doing a Castle Watch for all the servers of Philippine Ragnarok Online. This is no small feat as this should be updated almost everyday. Castle ownership changes every siege day so that means every Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Saturday. So I am really curious as to how the Windfall Guild website is programmed to automatically update the castle ownership for both servers of the International Ragnarok Online.


My brother who's currently studying an IT course for college said that it is very easy programming. But for me, I think it would be a royal pain as I don't know a thing about programming. I don't even know how to bot. (I ask other people to do it for me haha!)

If anyone playing in pRO can do this, that would be great! But for now, please continue on visiting my blog for agit standings. Hehe.

Dreams should have a deadline

D... and I are planning to open our very own computer shop soon. Lots of things need to be done before this is concretized though.

We've taken into consideration many many tips on how to make it work. Hopefully, our friendship doesn't get destroyed in the process as some of them warned though.

So far, we have not yet started on anything yet except on planning and uhmm planning. We need more capital!! Hehehe.

Dreams should have a deadline. Must... raise... capital!

I need to travel more (world version)

I previously posted here that I need to travel more. With it, I posted a map of the Philippines with the places I visited highlighted. Admittedly, I haven't gone to somewhere new in the Philippines lately. I have so much more traveling to do!

Now I am posting a world map with the countries I have already visited:



create your own visited country map
or check our Venice travel guide

So far, only one other country except for where I live which is Vietnam. Hopefully, when our Indochina trip pushes through in November, I can put in three more countries: Cambodia, Laos, and Thailand.

Other countries I am planning to visit are:

1. France! ^_^
   
2. Spain
3. Italy
4. Germany
5. Portugal
6. Canada
   
7. Australia
8. China
9. Hong Kong
10. the UK

Here's to hoping I get to visit more countries aside from the 10 above in my lifetime! :P

Bonne Saint Valentin!!

Happy Valentine's Day everyone!!

Philippine Ragnarok Online has two events lined up this Valentine's season. None of the traditional quest-based events, or Love RoKs events of years past. This year, Philippine Ragnarok Online obliges you to spend money on Valentine's hehehe.

1. Tokens of Love
2. pRO Valentine Sale
   

On the other hand, Lineage II has several in-game events for Valentine's:

1. Be My Valentine
2. Declare your Love
3. Toughest Couple
4. Date with the Guardian

Please click here for the mechanics for joining these Lineage II events.

Credits goes to Queen of Dorks for the picture.

Gong Xi Fa Cai!