Future Designer

1:06:00 AM ivannejuare 0 Comments

As I was scanning my old stuffs this weekend, I came across my notebooks and found this amazing design sketches by my friends Rene. He's the one responsible for the various designs that our batch used for some modeling competition. If I'm not mistaken, I remember asking him to draw this sketches during class hours, particularly Econ11 and NatSci2 classes. Haha.







This is my favorite because it's pretty much a Card Captor inspired design. 

Its Raining Blessings!

11:53:00 PM ivannejuare 0 Comments

Every year, on the 5th of August, the sky always weeps for me. They call it rain. But I prefer to call it a blessing from above. It sort of lets me know that God never forget that it's my special day, so he's sending the rain to make it more special coz he knows I always loved the rain.

Early in the morning I was greeted by a faceless Christian Bautista note made by Nadin. This one definitely started my day right.


My mom and brother celebrated my birthday here in Iloilo. It was just a simple one. We just had a lunch and spend much time window shopping. Then I went to back to my dorm and found time to sleep. When I woke up I saw this big and cute bear sitting on my table. I seriously took a double look at it just to make sure I wasn't just dreaming or hallucinating. It's real. I've got a new bear. Haha. All thanks to Donna, Lecza, Dianne and Nadin.


After several name changes and suggestion, we finally had a name for my new bear.
Meet DENDI. A combination of the initial letters of our first names. How creative!:)

For my birthday dinner, we ate at Matthew's Burger which is just a few walks away from our dorm. Here's what we had for dinner.


A simple celebration, greetings from people who you love and God's love is all it takes to make a day super duper special. Well, the gifts are sort of just like a bonus. haha.

One more year and I'll be out of the 'teen' bracket. But who cares? I only intend to have a blast for my 19th year in this planet. So goodbye 18! Hello 19!:))

Poetry by Pablo Neruda

3:39:00 PM ivannejuare 0 Comments

And it was at that age ... Poetry arrived

in search of me. I don't know, I don't know where
it came from, from winter or a river.
I don't know how or when,
no they were not voices, they were not
words, nor silence,
but from a street I was summoned,
from the branches of night,
abruptly from the others,
among violent fires
or returning alone,
there I was without a face
and it touched me.

I did not know what to say, my mouth
had no way
with names,
my eyes were blind,
and something started in my soul,
fever or forgotten wings,
and I made my own way,
deciphering
that fire,
and I wrote the first faint line,
faint, without substance, pure
nonsense,
pure wisdom
of someone who knows nothing,
and suddenly I saw
the heavens
unfastened
and open,
planets,
palpitating plantations,
shadow perforated,
riddled
with arrows, fire and flowers,
the winding night, the universe.

And I, infinitesimal being,
drunk with the great starry
void,
likeness, image of
mystery,
felt myself a pure part
of the abyss,
I wheeled with the stars,
my heart broke loose on the wind. 

Getting To Know the Blue Bloods

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Productive. Particular. Perfectionist. This is what distinguish Skousen from the other house. For the past 3 years, I have been an unproductive member of the House of Skousen. I wasn't been a particular housemate, so much that only a few people know me and I know my housemates only by their faces. In other words, I failed to meet the standards of perfection.

This year, I spend a considerable time lending a hand to my house, as I was forced by the thought of having to model for the house. Since I'm not so comfortable on the stage, I preferred to work on the sidelines, helping make the house symbol and sewing costumes. It was fun getting to know my housemates while at the same time accomplishing the task that lies upon us. 

The Sorting Stage

Our House Symbol.
House song performance.

Other house symbols.

We might have lost again in the overall ranking during the JPIA Acquaintance Party but I'm proud to say that we lost by only a small margin and we did all the best we could. 


Oh! and don't forget the Retrosci:)