january 30

i forget the chinese of happy birthday, ma! but i am happy in ITALIAN is---IO SONO FELICI (pronounced, fi-lee-chi)...regarding my exams, I was trying hard to be good, but Makabayan and Filipino are my "waterloo", my "nightmare"!!!! in Science, we had REFRACTION, REFLECTION, AND SOLID,GAS,AND LIQUID PROPERTIES and Choi told me like solid, Gail remember that letter O in Solid means Occupies space!!! and the particles r compact, liquid is LOOSELY ARRANGED!!!anyway, happy bday, ma!!!

birthday ma

happy birthday, ma!! well, my exams have just passed. we have a special dinner at Nanay's house to celebrate your birthday! Choi eats liempo and he cautions me to drink moderately some Pop Cola. Gail, pag inum og tubig pag ka human og inum sa softdrink.

my red crocs

thanks, ninong michael, for my footwear and I swear, Choi is green with envy about my CROCS!!!The backstory of my Swiss-red Crocs is...of course, my Papa Ian who Im sure perpetually pest my Godfather Michael to buy me---as a Xmas gift or was it Bday present?---we bought it in some boutique in Divisoria. Usually, I match it with my white socks or those socks which my dad and Mommy Wilma gave me. Do I have the right to have this brand of ---well, Ninong Elpons told Choi that in China, only the farmers wear Crocs! Fabulous piece of information! Ma, do you have Crocs there in Canada? or did you already wear one?

DO I HAVE THE RIGHT TO BUY CROCS?!!!

guys, i am (swear, choi-choi's 2nd year students do not know that: i am and I am are totally different bananas. choi is an english teacher in a public high school and he has felt sad since the first day of school because the PRONOUN "I", ladies and gentlemen (and 'panauhing pandangal'---guest of honor in English, right?) is reduced to an ordinary letter I. Everytime, he checks papers, especially the paper of a certain Rizalie, the red ballpen mark of the capitalized letter I is superimposed to Rizalie's mistake on the i-thing!!!)...anyway, guys, I am the latest patron of Crocs. I have a pair of red Crocs. Choi matter of factly revealed to me on its price. Around a thousand pesos

HOLY PUTO MAYA, MY EXAM DAYS!

Fret day, I mean, First Day of Exam. I ask Choi: ngano man ang mga lisod kay sa Second day [Y Does the hard subjects fall on the 2nd day?!!] ? I TOTALLY AGREED with her. Ponder this: FIRST DAY (PIECE OF CAKE) are READING, GMRC (VALUES), WRITING---I forget what's the other one; SECOND DAY (PIECE OF HARD CAKE!!!) are Maths, Language, Grammar, Filipino and Makabayan (she is a moron in those two last subjects!!!I mean, well, it shows and figures. people like me with glinting high competency in English is despairingly disgusting in filipino and Makabayan!!!

abigail and her january exam

the first day: READING, MATH, WRITING, COMPUTER, and for the second day: (abigail commented CHOI WHY DOES THE 2ND DAY HAVE DIFFICULT SUBJECTS?!!! I TOTALLY AGREED WITH HER. the 2nd day is repleted with, brace urself, hard topics from hard subjects---GRAMMAR, and her most-hated subjects---MAKABAYAN AND FILIPINO!!!well, it is normal according to statistics that people like abigail with a high competency in english is sadly a moron when it comes to filipino

I HAVE MEMORIZED THE POEM

CHOI (still on his bday...unsay imong gusto,choi?...u giv me a gift, gail? u r so solicitous, gail!) says: gail, ayaw paglihok sa ulo---no unnecessary movement!
choi decided to have less actions for my poem so when the line that says: O GOD HOW GREAT YOU ARE...i just make a palm-to-palm touched of my hands so when I say Oh GOD---i moved or put my clasped hands--no, wait, rather...I RAISED my clasped hands in the air...in front of my forehead (GAIL, ayaw ug salipdi imo dagway,ok, ibutang imo kamot dapit sa agtang or ..basta ayaw salipdi ok!)
first stanza has the lines: I LOOK AROUND AND SEE THE FLOWERS/I COULDNT HELP BUT SAY/HOW WONDERFUL THEY ARE/O GOD HOW GREAT YOU ARE.

january 18---choi choi's birthday

i went to nanay's house early; happy bday choi!!!; u got big hair, gail!!!
GAIL: DO U HAVE MILK?
CHOI: MURAG WALA NA, GAIL.
(later, around 10 minutes, kitchen)

CHOI: AY!!!GAIL , NAA DIAY O (choi has just opened the fridge) (a sachet of Bear Brand powdered milk)

then, choi2 makes a glass of milk---

GAIL: DAGHAN ALIMIGAS (ants float in the milk)

then, choi2 turns around from the counter and gets a spoon from the utensil canister beside the microwave of daddy bobong...

then, choi2 calls me to have breakfast, so I open the plastic, orange food cover and see the wafer-thin slices of longganisa! choi2 and i eat and i ask him about the action of my poem, OH GOD HOW GREAT YOU ARE!!!

POEM and OTHER CHUVANESS!

gail and her poem HOW GREAT YOU ARE! by... well -i forget -the poet but definitely so, i know the hand gestures because ABIGAIL will perform that poem; in her class today.

i told her: Gail, no lavish hand gestures as if you are singing I have two Hands! let's do like Japanese like very simple and controlled!

the first line of the poem is: I LOOK AROUND AND SEE FLOWERS!