my second year as a law student will begin tomorrow. normally, i get super excited when classes start. but somehow in light of all that's happened, i don't feel like quite the eager-beaver student i usually am.

in all fairness, i feel better what with a weekend and a half of pure and blissful hibernation from all things law school-related (ok, i may have cheated a couple of times by doing work and overthinking but hey, my "break" was better than nothing). last saturday, my friend lynnie treated father (eduard pala..haha), christine, and me to lunch on her first paycheck (sorry, guys, you'll have to wait til i get my first paycheck til i can reciprocate. don't know when that'll be. haha). we went to ran's somewhere in fort bonifacio. it's literally a small, hole-in-the-wall type of restaurant but the food is WOW and it was super super cheap. talk about value for money. i'm definitely going back there. after stuffing our faces with yummy japanese food, we headed to serendra for some cupcakes. a trip to the fort is definitely not complete without a visit to sonja's cupcakes. lyn made us choose one cupcake each (bunny huggers i.e., carrot cupcake with cream cheese icing for me) but being the low-EQ, low self-control person that i am, i proceeded to buy three more (i have a new favorite cupcake -- banana cream pie! absolutely heavenly...though i also love the peppermint chocolate and carrot cakey ones) and resolved that i will learn how to bake my own cupcakes in the process. christine brought up happy places. sonja's is definitely one of mine. we then headed to christine's place and ended up DEVOURING our cupcakes and krispy kreme donuts (my blood sugar level must be out of bounds, but who cares?).

yesterday morning, i had a muay thai training session for the first time in the longest time. i thought it wouldn't turn out well because i'm out of shape. my instructor's been out of the country and i've been busy, but in fairness, i realized stress, depression, and annoyance do wonders to my muay thai. my intructor commented that he thought my kicks were quite good and in all fairness, it took some time for me to feel the exhaustion muay thai usually brings. plus my punches were stronger and snappier than usual (or maybe that's just me. haha) i was actually quite happy when he made me do six rounds of boxing the speed ball. i usually don't like it because i'm not very coordinated but i realized that it was actually a good stress reliever. it was an additional bonus when i realized imagining CERTAIN PEOPLE taking the place of the speed ball made my punches more accurate and strong. hahaha. evil me. and i did feel much better albeit sore afterwards. then in the afternoon, i met up with lyn and christine and we had our hair cellophaned. i've realized that whenever something happens to me, i end up doing something to my hair though i still don't have the guts to cut it really short or dye it blue. haha. then i went to another happy place, powerplant and engaged in retail therapy shopping. then after dinner, my dad and siblings went to yet another happy place, kozui in morato. it's this green tea café which i love because i absolutely adore all things green tea-ish.

today, i'm just enjoying my last day of acad-free (non)existence. finishing up some work for my internship, watching episodes of grey's anatomy, fixing stuff for barops, wishing time could move slower. today i'm quite relaxed and happy. things are quiet. pessimistic me is scared that it's just the calm before the storm. optimistic me hopes no storm is coming. (ok, now i just sound schizo. haha).

Labels: life, summer

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