it's a no-class morning here in up. i'm also not yet sure of the schedule of my exams. that's why i left dagupan early this morning, around 2 am, so that hopefully, i could find out when our finals for food micro and fn 11 will be held, and hopefully, i could study already. for real, that is.
mtv's on the background. the program is onboard and dj vitto from klite 103.5 is currently the one being featured. same voice, toned body. it's kinda weird seeing him at the same time as well as hearing him, and not just hearing him.
there were so many thoughts in my head yesterday, but then when i already have the time to write them down, nothing comes out. like now. sana may pc rin ako dito para spontaneous parati. inggit ako kay ate jonnah. sana nasa bahay na rin lang ako. masaya dun! dami pang pagkain.
kahapon pala, we ate lunch at the malimgas market. hehe, kala mo magandang place pero no, it's just the former public market na nalipat lang ito one building. at least, it's cleaner and more organized. dad had been planning on buying pizza from pizza hut. so we thought we could eat some yesterday. and since we were still full from our lunch of rice and sisig/egado/beef (just one putahe for each person, mind you), we just walked all the way to pizza hut. so mom's sandal got unstrapped along the way and she had to buy one from footsteps. mahal nung nasira pero, that's a mario d'boro. anyway, after cguro of about an hour of walking, we finally reached pizza hut. siyempre, kung minadali namin di busog pa rin kami pagdating dun. we had the supreme family-sized pizza plus ice cream sundaes. the total: Php 658.00. and that's not even a full meal. so they think we shouldn't go back there anymore.
speaking of dad, he always makes me spend. it's because everytime i leave for manila, he would give me additional money. for my birthday, he gave me Php 1,500.00. so i would often have extra money and i would buy stuff for myself. which translates to my looking rich or with extra cash because of the possessions that are piling up here. he gave me another bill this morning. sweet naman ni daddy. anyway, i never got to kiss nor wave at him goodbye. when we reached the terminal, the conductor said i needn't buy a ticket from the booth. so i just went up already. and usually, dad follows but since there were many people already or i wasn't sitting up front, he didn't go up. and i didn't see him anymore. so those probably were the reasons. and when the bus was on its way to calasiao, i was thinking about this and dad and i was quite saddened by it. dad's really underappreciated in the family. usually, pag kwentuhan sa table, si mommy yong nagsasalita, nakikisama sa kasiyahan namin. well, siya naman kasi usually kasama sa bahay so sa kanya kami close. kaya pag ganun - usually after kumain - lahat ng ulo ang direksiyon ay sa side ni mommy. tapos nakakaguilty lang na paglingon ko sa kabila, andun lang si daddy, tahimik, nakikinig na lang, di ko alam kung anong iniisip. mejo softspoken kasi siya. kahit na gusto niyang makisama, baka wala naman siyang masasabi para makuha attention namin. mukha nga siyang parating kontrabida e. ewan ko kung ganun talaga tingin ng mga kapatid ko. pero pag nangangaral siya - na usually naman ay echoes lang ng mga sinasabi ni mommy - ang itsura parang di siya pinakikinggan. parang sa case ko din minsan. magjo-joke naman siya, yong bulok na o mejo corny kaya i just try to look like i found it funny. yong mga kapatid ko naman, wala lang. kung funny di tatawa sila, kung hindi, wala. i don't really know what they feel towards him. malamang mahal din nila siya pero dahil mahiyain din silang lahat, si mommy lang ang hindi, di rin nila masyadong napapakita. ang lungkot nung mahiyain no? mahal mo na nga, wala ka pa ring way para ma-express mo yong nararamdaman mo. alam naman siguro ni daddy na naaappreciate namin siya. sana hindi siya magsawa. mabuti nga siyang asawa at ama e. masipag, tapos kami parati ang iniisip. iyon nga lang, may konting reklamo sa kanya si mommy dahil nga di siya gaanong nagsasalita. for example kung pinagde-decide siya, parati niyang sinasabing bahala kami. so pag minsan, napupuno si mommy at sinasabi niya sa akin. or kung ginagabi, pag minsan di nagtetext tapos di namin alam kung asan siya. he doesn't really have a good way with words. pero, nevertheless, mahal namin siya. sana maramdaman niya iyon. kung hindi man, sana naman maipakita namin. mejo sumasakit ang puso ko, naiisip ko itong ganito. pero sana hindi pa huli ang lahat. dapat nga itetext ko siya, kaya lang, masyado nang late. sa pag-uwi ko uli. hinihintay na ako ni kristia. at nature's calling. ang aga kasi ni kristia. gusto ko pa sanang matulog. hay, 08:33 am na po and this is funky*soul, signing off. peace!
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Sunday, March 27, 2005
drumline
i caught the movie drumline this afternoon. here's something new from the highschools of america, apart from the jerk and loser stereotypes, blondes, cheerleaders and the whole courtship-love thing. yes, it's another competition-type movie but its focus is on one of the more unpopular, or might i say loser, classes in american high school: band. almost all i movies i saw had hte losers being members of the band class. in this case, the schools were black, with a few - i think, only one - white member. the admin and faculty were also black, at least from what i was able to see. so, whatever could be interesting about band? competitions have been going on for years among schools and the school who started all this has in their ranks a great drummer though he couldn't read notes/music, which was a very negative blow on his part. anyway, the differences between him and the band leader and between him and the coach/teacher were soon resolved, and he along with the rest of the team amazed a football stadium-full crowd and won the championship. aside from music-playing duties, the instrumentalists also have choreographies of their own, whether moving from side to side, around, bobbing up and down, along with some dancers. the drummers are the stars because they do lots more stuff and are easily the most noticeable because they have choreographies with their sticks and feet and with their drums. when there was a tie, only the drummers performed for the tiebreaker. there were good beats, some fusion of old and new. the teacher initially wanted the band to play cultured music even during football games so i heard a full brass section of flight of the bumblebee. how about that?
there's nothing different with the storyline. you'll just have to let yourself delight in the sights and sounds of the band with a new face. no i'm really wondering if this is the case in america.
there's nothing different with the storyline. you'll just have to let yourself delight in the sights and sounds of the band with a new face. no i'm really wondering if this is the case in america.
Wednesday, March 23, 2005
musings on an early dawn
the time, and the fact that i'm typing in front of a computer tells me that i'm really back in familiar ground. yes, folks! i'm home!
it's a thursday dawn, and it's common during situations like this that i haven't gotten a wink yet for wednesday night. haha.. it's really a nice feeling..
rj was with me awhile ago dictating mp3 files he wanted to be burned. yes, the wonders of cd burning. it's no wonder cd sales are plummeting. and speaking of which, i was able to buy two mp3 collections. the first one was a piano player collection containing songs from maksim's first and second album, diana krall, norah jones, kevin kern, jamie cullum, richard clayderman and george winston. among those seven artists, the only ones i haven't heard about are kern and winston. i got the idea when my roommate alessa (who still hasn't given me the url of her blog) was able to buy mp3s at gale. she had a bossa compilation, as well as a jazz/bossa album. she had michael buble's songs in the other, and i must say i really enjoy his songs. before, i used to dismiss them but upon hearing his songs of late, i actually do like to hear them over and over again. it must be the variation in his way of singing or the instruments used but well, there's something different and it's really quite hard to let go.
i didn't really go out intending to buy mp3s. but since i was waiting for madel at the araneta center in cubao - i had asked her to accompany go to the ukay-ukay nearby to look for a pair of soccer shoes of which we've been unsuccessful - and i had lots of time to spare, i looked around, up and down and found this shop that was selling lots of mp3s. these were my top two choices as i was really intending on discovering and learning about the beatles. however, i found out later on that even though the beatles mp3s contains 26 albums plus lyrics, the cd doesn't play on cd players, but rather, on PCs. so that's what i'm doing now. yes, they do have lyrics.
and it's amazing that all their 26 albums (there were plenty of compilations) fit into the cd. when i checked it out, it was actually in wav format. i had been looking through beatles albums in tower records and all of them exceeded P500. where could i get that much money if only to spend on a luxury such as the beatles albums? that's why i was so happy when i found this mp3 cd. however, i do want to transfer these so that i wouldn't need a pc when i want to listen to them. how do wav files get converted to mp3? that's the ticket to my ultimate enjoyment of their music anywhere.
i arrived around 11 pm here. it wasn't much of a swell day as i wasn't really sure with most of my answers for my chem 31.1 exam, our finals for the lab class. however, i found out that i am exempted from taking the finals for the chem lecture class! yipee! yesterday, i knew there was no chance of me being exempted and i have actually been preparing and psyching myself up for the weekends since that would be the time that i would get to study. and then sarah and i go to the director's bulletin - our prof is the director of the institute of chemistry - and happily, i'm
on the list, with a 2.5, the lowest grade among all those who've been exempted. well, at least i've been exempted. sir told me last tuesday that i lacked 28 points to be exempted. then everyone i think had an increase in their grades so the number of students on the exemption list increased. there was even one student who had a grade of a flat 1. imagine that!
this morning, i tried calculating how many points i needed to get for the finals so that i would at least get a grade of 3. i found out that i needed at least 102 points. it's not often that i get this kind of score, and it's pretty difficult to attain considering the fact that i have to review everything that was covered. my grade during the second exam was 68% or 102.5 out of 160. i was even surprised when i made it to the top 10 highest in class, sharing the spot with another classmate. but he had a correction on one item so that means i'm eleventh already. anyway, it
surprised me because since college started, i don't think i've been involved in an achiever's list of any sort. anyway, what i'm really saying is that i'm very thankful that i don't have to take the finals exam for chem31 on tuesday. that's one big load less for me, thank goodness!
now, i only have to prepare for the finals for fs 116 or food micro which i'm sure everyone in class will be taking. and if i'm unfortunate, the finals for fn 11. will you look at that? it's another sem that's about to end and another year that's turning for all of us. i'm gonna be in 3rd year by june and i don't wanna graduate yet. i wanna stay here in up. jezrel , my coursmate, and i agreed on that. kirth, another coursemate who had her birthday yesterday, treating her friends with some food at the grandstand, however, wanted to get out of up as soon as possible so she was glad that we're going to be juniors already. it's the first time that i got to talk to someone outside of the boarding house who shared the same views as mine on staying in up and taking up ge courses. i really love my ge courses. that's why i'm very glad of the rgep because i could choose which subjects i would like to take. jezrel said that others only see ge subjects as
additional burden but she says she doesn't like a sem without a ge course, like me. it's her only means of acquiring other information besides those that are related to her course. and i do agree with that. wholeheartedly, indeed! however, for our course curriculum, there will be no more ge courses during our third year until we reach the first sem of our 5th year. and on the second sem, we have to complete our ge subjects already. it's quite sad actually. i'll have to be holed up in the college of home economics for some two years, with no other food for the brain
except microbes, various food processes and our social responsibility.
it's a thursday dawn, and it's common during situations like this that i haven't gotten a wink yet for wednesday night. haha.. it's really a nice feeling..
rj was with me awhile ago dictating mp3 files he wanted to be burned. yes, the wonders of cd burning. it's no wonder cd sales are plummeting. and speaking of which, i was able to buy two mp3 collections. the first one was a piano player collection containing songs from maksim's first and second album, diana krall, norah jones, kevin kern, jamie cullum, richard clayderman and george winston. among those seven artists, the only ones i haven't heard about are kern and winston. i got the idea when my roommate alessa (who still hasn't given me the url of her blog) was able to buy mp3s at gale. she had a bossa compilation, as well as a jazz/bossa album. she had michael buble's songs in the other, and i must say i really enjoy his songs. before, i used to dismiss them but upon hearing his songs of late, i actually do like to hear them over and over again. it must be the variation in his way of singing or the instruments used but well, there's something different and it's really quite hard to let go.
i didn't really go out intending to buy mp3s. but since i was waiting for madel at the araneta center in cubao - i had asked her to accompany go to the ukay-ukay nearby to look for a pair of soccer shoes of which we've been unsuccessful - and i had lots of time to spare, i looked around, up and down and found this shop that was selling lots of mp3s. these were my top two choices as i was really intending on discovering and learning about the beatles. however, i found out later on that even though the beatles mp3s contains 26 albums plus lyrics, the cd doesn't play on cd players, but rather, on PCs. so that's what i'm doing now. yes, they do have lyrics.
and it's amazing that all their 26 albums (there were plenty of compilations) fit into the cd. when i checked it out, it was actually in wav format. i had been looking through beatles albums in tower records and all of them exceeded P500. where could i get that much money if only to spend on a luxury such as the beatles albums? that's why i was so happy when i found this mp3 cd. however, i do want to transfer these so that i wouldn't need a pc when i want to listen to them. how do wav files get converted to mp3? that's the ticket to my ultimate enjoyment of their music anywhere.
i arrived around 11 pm here. it wasn't much of a swell day as i wasn't really sure with most of my answers for my chem 31.1 exam, our finals for the lab class. however, i found out that i am exempted from taking the finals for the chem lecture class! yipee! yesterday, i knew there was no chance of me being exempted and i have actually been preparing and psyching myself up for the weekends since that would be the time that i would get to study. and then sarah and i go to the director's bulletin - our prof is the director of the institute of chemistry - and happily, i'm
on the list, with a 2.5, the lowest grade among all those who've been exempted. well, at least i've been exempted. sir told me last tuesday that i lacked 28 points to be exempted. then everyone i think had an increase in their grades so the number of students on the exemption list increased. there was even one student who had a grade of a flat 1. imagine that!
this morning, i tried calculating how many points i needed to get for the finals so that i would at least get a grade of 3. i found out that i needed at least 102 points. it's not often that i get this kind of score, and it's pretty difficult to attain considering the fact that i have to review everything that was covered. my grade during the second exam was 68% or 102.5 out of 160. i was even surprised when i made it to the top 10 highest in class, sharing the spot with another classmate. but he had a correction on one item so that means i'm eleventh already. anyway, it
surprised me because since college started, i don't think i've been involved in an achiever's list of any sort. anyway, what i'm really saying is that i'm very thankful that i don't have to take the finals exam for chem31 on tuesday. that's one big load less for me, thank goodness!
now, i only have to prepare for the finals for fs 116 or food micro which i'm sure everyone in class will be taking. and if i'm unfortunate, the finals for fn 11. will you look at that? it's another sem that's about to end and another year that's turning for all of us. i'm gonna be in 3rd year by june and i don't wanna graduate yet. i wanna stay here in up. jezrel , my coursmate, and i agreed on that. kirth, another coursemate who had her birthday yesterday, treating her friends with some food at the grandstand, however, wanted to get out of up as soon as possible so she was glad that we're going to be juniors already. it's the first time that i got to talk to someone outside of the boarding house who shared the same views as mine on staying in up and taking up ge courses. i really love my ge courses. that's why i'm very glad of the rgep because i could choose which subjects i would like to take. jezrel said that others only see ge subjects as
additional burden but she says she doesn't like a sem without a ge course, like me. it's her only means of acquiring other information besides those that are related to her course. and i do agree with that. wholeheartedly, indeed! however, for our course curriculum, there will be no more ge courses during our third year until we reach the first sem of our 5th year. and on the second sem, we have to complete our ge subjects already. it's quite sad actually. i'll have to be holed up in the college of home economics for some two years, with no other food for the brain
except microbes, various food processes and our social responsibility.
Sunday, March 20, 2005
foreign language
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Friday, March 18, 2005
a little something for today
i'm sitting here, surfing for a while, blogging for a while.
i just came from class, it's been a hectic day, what a very long day.
i have an exam tomorrow, one that i'm not yet prepared for, something that i'm really dreading.
i really hate this feeling. but it seems the reality of what will happen tomorrow doesn't hit me yet.
how long will i be staying here? the place seems so fine, the keys flexible under my fingers.
tonight i will not sleep, i shall stay awake, i shall join the moon in its journey tonight.
i just came from class, it's been a hectic day, what a very long day.
i have an exam tomorrow, one that i'm not yet prepared for, something that i'm really dreading.
i really hate this feeling. but it seems the reality of what will happen tomorrow doesn't hit me yet.
how long will i be staying here? the place seems so fine, the keys flexible under my fingers.
tonight i will not sleep, i shall stay awake, i shall join the moon in its journey tonight.
Monday, March 14, 2005
oh well..
i've been sitting in front of this pc for close to an hour already, trying to look for the specific reaction of barfoed's reagent. but i can't find anything else more specific about it other than it being a solution of copper acetate in dilute acetic acid and that it is used as a test for reducing sugars. haha! what an idea to post here.
**
so, i've a short story due tomorrow, that freaking report on barfoed's reagent and post-lab reports for both the experiments on carbohydrates and proteins. i'm looking forward to the gpoa presentation in up subol tomorrow, the second long exam on chem31 on saturday, an oral exam and paper in philo plus the second exam for food micro on monday, the fourth exam for fn11 on tuesday, plus the final exam for my lab class in chem 31. all that in just a week or so. and guess what, it's probably much of my fault.
yeah, if i just did some of those things during the weekend, i probably wouldn't be rushing now, trying to do all those things at once. i just slept last night and instead of having a short story that could have been workshopped in class a while ago, i don't have one. dreadful, dreadful..
**
on the other hand:
good thing i didn't win the elections for upmc fincom head. i just found out awhile ago on the e-group. i was really hoping i wouldn't win. thank God i did not. i'm sure i'll be really busy next year..
**
oh crap, my time is up! and i don't have much to show for it when i get back to the house. whatever, till the next.. ciao!
**
so, i've a short story due tomorrow, that freaking report on barfoed's reagent and post-lab reports for both the experiments on carbohydrates and proteins. i'm looking forward to the gpoa presentation in up subol tomorrow, the second long exam on chem31 on saturday, an oral exam and paper in philo plus the second exam for food micro on monday, the fourth exam for fn11 on tuesday, plus the final exam for my lab class in chem 31. all that in just a week or so. and guess what, it's probably much of my fault.
yeah, if i just did some of those things during the weekend, i probably wouldn't be rushing now, trying to do all those things at once. i just slept last night and instead of having a short story that could have been workshopped in class a while ago, i don't have one. dreadful, dreadful..
**
on the other hand:
good thing i didn't win the elections for upmc fincom head. i just found out awhile ago on the e-group. i was really hoping i wouldn't win. thank God i did not. i'm sure i'll be really busy next year..
**
oh crap, my time is up! and i don't have much to show for it when i get back to the house. whatever, till the next.. ciao!
Wednesday, March 9, 2005
mr. brightside
this is the lyrics of the killers' mr. brightside. i liked it the first time i heard it. and now, they've got a different version of the video which was so emoish, the vocalist was actually doing some emoting. he also cut his hair, and the leading lady is cute; looks like a doll as my roommate remarked. it's got a Britpoppy sound to it, that's why they made it to no.1 in the UK, but the song's really simple enough, with a bit of, hmmm, heartfelt lyrics. however, i dunno what's the significance of the name mr. brightside. so here:
I'm coming out of my cage
And I've been doing just fine
Gotta gotta gotta be down
Because I want it all
It started out with a kiss
How did it end up like this
It was only a kiss, it was only a kiss
Now I'm falling asleep
And she's calling a cab
While he's having a smoke
And she's taking a drag
Now they're going to bed
And my stomach is sick
And it's all in my head
But she's touching his-chest
Now, he takes off her dress
Now, let me go
I just can't look its killing me
And taking control
Jealousy, turning saints into the sea
Swimming through sick lullabies
Choking on your alibis
But it's just the price I pay
Destiny is calling me
Open up my eager eyes
'Cause I'm Mr Brightside
I'm coming out of my cage
And I've been doing just fine
Gotta gotta gotta be down
Because I want it all
It started out with a kiss
How did it end up like this
It was only a kiss, it was only a kiss
Now I'm falling asleep
And she's calling a cab
While he's having a smoke
And she's taking a drag
Now they're going to bed
And my stomach is sick
And it's all in my head
But she's touching his-chest
Now, he takes off her dress
Now, let me go
I just can't look its killing me
And taking control
Jealousy, turning saints into the sea
Swimming through sick lullabies
Choking on your alibis
But it's just the price I pay
Destiny is calling me
Open up my eager eyes
'Cause I'm Mr Brightside
feeling romantic
in the morning, i did some of my laundry to lessen the load on the weekend. then i went to the library and i ended up with borrowing four books, all, should i say, for leisure reading. but i did borrow the two books with short stories because i needed to bring a favorite short story for my cw10 class. i also borrowed fast food fiction and jerry spinelli's stargirl which ate jhet had recommended to me.
then i went to cubao to exchange an mp3 cd, supposedly containing all the albums of the beatles , because it wasn't playing. the guy there said it doesn't play on cd players but on computers. i didn't reply anymore, just accepted what he told me, with only a face, and the realization that the whole trip was nothing much because i didn't get to do what i intended. so i boarded the mrt once more and decided to go to sm north, with the intention of looking up the ukay-ukay there if i could chance upon some second hand soccer shoes. however, not being so familiar with the surrounding and being plain soft-spoken myself, i ended up paying for a ticket worth P13.50, beyond the fare to north ave. from the cubao station which i think was P10.50. the guy at the booth probably heard it as taft avenue. then when i went up to the platform, i asked a woman whether this train was going to north ave. and she said yes. so there, i boarded the train, and then it turns out, the next station is santolan. oh my gosh! next was ortigas so i decided, what the heck, just go to megamall.
and so i did. i just stayed inside powerbooks. i've been browsing through the philippine publications section which was near the sofas. there were actually many recent ones, usually essays or poems. and the anthology of Palanca award-winning works. then i chanced upon the various chick lit that have been produced by summit publications and i found mr. write, the one with the orange colored cover. i didn't catch the author but i read the ending and was quite intrigued so i started from the beginning. good thing i got to sit down. anyway, i finished the whole book and it left me feeling well, happy that it turned out well for our heroine. of course, this is chick lit so expect the typical love story, written in a way that will leave the reader feeling for the heroine who has a problem with guys from her past and present, and in the end, the girl realizing what she truly wants and getting the boy of her dreams. so yeah, after reading that, it once again impressed on me the great feeling of people who are in love with people who love them. and is the author cited there real? the guy uses lines from some ronald barthes' book "a discourse on love" and they've got to be romantic or otherwise, extremely cheesy. consider the line:
i know no end to desiring you -->i'm pretty sure this is correct - peace! <--
yes, and of course, our guy here is the super sexy, handsome and intelligent one, and he's been mr. x, the one who's been sending unsigned love letters to our still undeflowered heroine, which the author doesn't put plainly but which you realize in the end.
anyway, enough about this. the story doesn't sound as glorious as it did when just read it. and there you go, after that, i made straight to the mrt station as it was already two o'clock in the afternoon and i need to get to the sunken garden by 4pm.
then i went to cubao to exchange an mp3 cd, supposedly containing all the albums of the beatles , because it wasn't playing. the guy there said it doesn't play on cd players but on computers. i didn't reply anymore, just accepted what he told me, with only a face, and the realization that the whole trip was nothing much because i didn't get to do what i intended. so i boarded the mrt once more and decided to go to sm north, with the intention of looking up the ukay-ukay there if i could chance upon some second hand soccer shoes. however, not being so familiar with the surrounding and being plain soft-spoken myself, i ended up paying for a ticket worth P13.50, beyond the fare to north ave. from the cubao station which i think was P10.50. the guy at the booth probably heard it as taft avenue. then when i went up to the platform, i asked a woman whether this train was going to north ave. and she said yes. so there, i boarded the train, and then it turns out, the next station is santolan. oh my gosh! next was ortigas so i decided, what the heck, just go to megamall.
and so i did. i just stayed inside powerbooks. i've been browsing through the philippine publications section which was near the sofas. there were actually many recent ones, usually essays or poems. and the anthology of Palanca award-winning works. then i chanced upon the various chick lit that have been produced by summit publications and i found mr. write, the one with the orange colored cover. i didn't catch the author but i read the ending and was quite intrigued so i started from the beginning. good thing i got to sit down. anyway, i finished the whole book and it left me feeling well, happy that it turned out well for our heroine. of course, this is chick lit so expect the typical love story, written in a way that will leave the reader feeling for the heroine who has a problem with guys from her past and present, and in the end, the girl realizing what she truly wants and getting the boy of her dreams. so yeah, after reading that, it once again impressed on me the great feeling of people who are in love with people who love them. and is the author cited there real? the guy uses lines from some ronald barthes' book "a discourse on love" and they've got to be romantic or otherwise, extremely cheesy. consider the line:
i know no end to desiring you -->i'm pretty sure this is correct - peace! <--
yes, and of course, our guy here is the super sexy, handsome and intelligent one, and he's been mr. x, the one who's been sending unsigned love letters to our still undeflowered heroine, which the author doesn't put plainly but which you realize in the end.
anyway, enough about this. the story doesn't sound as glorious as it did when just read it. and there you go, after that, i made straight to the mrt station as it was already two o'clock in the afternoon and i need to get to the sunken garden by 4pm.
