The Ego Episodes

Friday, Apr. 08, 2005

December and Desserts

To my friends, I really wanted to update sooner but there are always other important things to do and I keep on postponing it until before you know it, my finals are here. I will take the last four papers of my university life starting from April 20. So I've been studying my butt off. But if you see an update here, then that means I'm rewarding myself with a study break. Really, this is (has been) rewarding for me. All two years (plus) of writing and I'm still here. Anyway, enough of the drama. (But wow. Two years! And counting!)

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This entry was originally written on March 22, 2005 but I couldn't finish it so half of it was written today.

My eyes have been killing me lately. I do not think this is because of my mugging till dawn because I HAVE NOT DONE THAT YET THIS SEMESTER. And this is something that worries me. I cannot stay seated, working on my desk for more than 30 minutes. When I update, or read a novel, however, my butt can remain glued to my seat (or any flat surface) for at least 2 hours and I do not even feel the urge to pee. Is this familiar to you? Tell me I'm not the only one suffering from this variant of tamaditis (Tamad is Tagalog for lazy). Anyway, my eyes. Not even sitting at the front-est row could improve my resolution of words on the projected lecture slides. And I refuse to wear my glasses simply because they don't work anymore. My degree has worsened since I last had my eye check-up (way back in 2003) that when I put on my glasses, the words still come out as blurry and unresolved. So now I don't bother putting them on. Sigh. I can't wait to get a job and get a proper eye check-up. In the meantime, I just have to get enough sleep, which is impossible, so strike that. This leaves me with these options: Ease up on reading novels and shorten time spent on looking at the computer screen. Hahaha! Like I'm going to do those. I believe the devil floating on the left side of my head is laughing with me.

I actually scared myself with that. Anyhow, on to more cheerful stuff. In my last two entries, I was seething. And it was exhausting. So I figured, there must be some happy memories I haven't talked about. As a matter of fact, there ARE plenty.

Let's go back to 2004 for a while. I told you about the surreal picture we took beside the Godzilla-sized christmas tree at CHIJMES.

Gah! That's not how I look in person, ok? Anyway, we stood far from the tree (nearer to the kind stranger taking the photo) so that the tree (or at least the tip of the tree) will be inside the frame. We didn't magically become taller, if you're wondering about that.

Remember I told you about Donny's birthday? How I was broke so I couldn't buy him a big cake and instead used my creativity (and Google skills) to churn a strawberry cheesecake in stemmed glasses? Well, they looked great. Unfortunately, I didn't (still don't) have a good digital camera so it's kind of blurry. But trust me, if there's a beauty pageant for desserts in glasses, they'd win.

Oh, and that's Donny. He's all, "Huh? I thought you only want to take the desserts?"

And then that's me serenading Donny for his birthday. Notice the guitar. Notice I'm looking at the guitar. I tried to look at Donny while singing because it is, after all, for him, but I had to check whether my fingers are pressing the right strings at the right fret and stuff. So at least half of my performance was done this way. I looked like a malnourished kid in the picture. Those arms are not stick-thin in real life. Oh, and my hair was a lot longer then that I could still secure it with a chopstick that does not fall off even if I dance with it.

Fast-forward to 2005 and I mentioned something about our New Year's get-together. For dessert, we had chocolate fondue in three variants: Ghirardelli, Hershey's and Toblerone. If you go and order this at a fondue place, it will cost you at least $10, with just one pot of fondue and one plate of dippers. But if you make it yourself, not only is it cheaper, you get to (a) decide how much chocolate goes into your fondue, (b) shop for whatever chocolate you like. Lots of choices out there, (c) shop for the dippers you want and not just the usual strawberries/banana combo. You want durian? Why not? Be as weird and adventurous as you want.

That's jussy's cute chubby cat. A reminder of how we're going to look like if we do not limit our chocolate intake.

And at midnight, we had fruity wine served in the most petite mugs ever. You almost feel cute drinking from it.

(To be continued (promise)... because it's getting too long.)

{ joycie at 1:55 p.m.}