AJ

Antonello Joseph "AJ" Sarte Perez
Feb. 17, 1993- Apr. 17, 2011

I may not know him personally.. I'm not an avid fan of AJ.. I just admired how he managed to move up and soar high in the showbiz industry.

Last, April 17, 2011 at around 2AM.. while spending hours sitting in front of my computer doing nothing, my aunt messaged me through facebook.

It was a shocking news for us (Me & Manang Cherai, who by the way stayed in our house for days).. so we tried to google about the news for we just thought it's just one of the "silly rumors" from those unnoticed reporters.. There are news, but it was never confirmed by authorized people. So I tried to ask AJ's first cousins whom I met 2 weeks ago during Tito Bit's wake & funeral, Crysta & Budoy. I messaged them through facebook just to confirm the news and everything.. so yeah, it was confirmed. He's dead.

I remembered them talking about their cousin during our last dinner together before they flew back to Manila.. 

Aahh Life.. you really wouldn't understand it unless you're at the point of almost losing it.. AJ's death  brought so much impact to me.. not only me, also to Manang Cherai.. and maybe millions of Filipinos out there.. Life is indeed very very precious. We need to cherish it, make the most out of it.. because we'll never know what we have until God says, OUR TIME IS UP. As what they usually say, do what you can do for today.. for maybe tomorrow will not come.. and another one goes like, the worst regret in life is not doing what you can do for today.. and so on..

Once again, condolence to the Perez family. We'll be praying for you.. I know that AJ is at a better place right now.. where there is no pain & sorrows. He'll be watching over you.

My Top 5 Childhood First Loves

Hah! You might think I'll be posting some pictures of people from my past, but NO. :| As a child, I love eating.. well until now I guess. While back reading at my tumblr dashboard, I saw a post that reminds me of my childhood. The foods I usually eat when I was young.. Up to now, I'm still eating some from time to time. :)

TOP 5. Muncher (Green Peas)

Up to now, I'm still eating this.. I'd usually pair it up with coke. I used to buy 4 pieces of muncher and eat it all by myself.. if I'm not satisfied, I'd add another 4.. 10 pesos won't hurt, right? :)

TOP 4. Mik-Mik MILK POWDER

Hahaha.. I remembered when I was still a kid, my mom would usually buy this for my birthday party favors and stuffs to be included in those loot bags... but instead of placing it to the loot bags, I'd secretly open it at one corner and eat it, and my mom would usually say, "Ta, ang Mik-Mik gin ubos mo naman ay?" at first, I'd try to deny it.. but later on, I approached her and told her my dirty little secret. XD And she would just smile at me. SAVED!

TOP 3. Hany

This is my "dessert" after dinner. :) When I was younger, my mom & I would usually go for a walk after dinner.. and I would ask her to pass by the nearest sari-sari store to buy some chocolates, and it'd always be Hany. Our favorite.

TOP 2. Haw Flakes

RF: It was just last year that I found out that this stuff was called, Haw Flakes. Thanks to Tumblr. :) I'd usually call it, "Oschas" (the host used in communion).

Me & my friends eat this stuff every afternoon when the "pedicab" vendor would pass by our street. And we end up playing roles.. the scene? Holy Communion. :)

tentenenen...

TOP 1. Choko-choko

Nomnomnom... This is very very NAMIT! (Yummy) Last year, during our team building, I bought one pack of this.. I only shared some sticks to my friends and the rest, I finished it all by myself. :) During classes, I buy some of this and eat it secretly.. XD

Now that I'm all grown up, i'd stick to my one and only love..

MARS..

err.. I mean this one,

But yeah, I love them both! :)

Busy April

Not because of SUMMER CLASSES, and definitely not because of some SUMMER ESCAPADES.. Here are my MUST ACCOMPLISH LIST for the month:

• START Summer Magazine Layout
• My Cousin's Wedding (Planning & Prep Stuffs)
• Gowns
• Invites
• Guestlists
• Look for MUAs. (Suggestions?)
• Look for some Moolahss for my Manila trip. (Hopefully.. I keep my fingers crossed.XD)
• Print Grades (Tomorrow.. I mean later)
• General Cleaning- BEDROOM!
• Lose Weight 101
• Jog every morning (5AM)
• Minimize food intakes. XD NO IN BETWEEN MEALS (Will I survive?)
• Minimize COKE (OMAYGAHHHD.. I CAN'T!)
• Must have proper DISCIPLINE. (Uhm. Whazz dat?)
• dit... didit... SYSTEM ERROR... ERR... RORRRR.. 

So yeah, GOOD LUCK.

An Uber Cute & Cheesy Song

By Chance (You & I)

JRA

While going over some unfamiliar songs, this quite caught my senses. I find the song really cute and in a way cheesy.. but still cute. XD

At the moment, I'm trying to memorize the song.. I've been playing it over and over again since this afternoon.. I dunno.. but I really like hearing it again and again and again.. :)

Try listening to the song. I'm sure you'll love it too.

Tribute to the Bosses

I'll be photo-spamming once again. Peace yo!

Last night, another chapter of someone's life came to an end.. their life as a Spectre. We prepared a tribute for the editors who just graduated. It was a night filled with fun, sadness and hesitation.. Fun in a way that we get to bond with each other again. Sad & hesitant because someone will be leaving the pub.. Manang Celine (our EIC), Manang Cherai (our Managing Editor) and Manang Czeka (our Newspaper Editor). For 10 months, I have been with them.. as co-spectres, as friends, as a family.. and I can say that it's not that easy to see them leave our beloved publication. I'll surely miss them..

At D' Rasa Pub & Restaurant.. dinner and karaoke party mixed with awesome presentations. XD

Coleen, Epi, Isabel, Celine, Juko & Carlz

with Rupert.. our soon to be EIC? Lol. Just kidding,

Dinner. The food was great minus the iced tea.

with Kats. I missed her so matss!

and by awesome presentation, I mean this:

The Night's STARS

Our boys, impersonating our editors. XD
Ronald as Celine, Rupert as Czeka and Jayrick as Cherai.

Danced GEE by SNSD.

after the tribute we went to PANAAD..

after Panaad, we decided to go home.. and yeah, they all spent the rest of the night at my place.. except for Rupert (the guy in yellow). We watched the movie, 3 idiots.. I mean, they watched the movie. While me? I've passed out.. I was so tired last night.

But, before ending this entry.. let me show you my favorite picture:

This photo was taken by:
Mr. Julius Mariveles
(Thank you, Sir!)

To our outgoing editors, thank you for the experience, the fun and the bondings.. See you around! :)

WHAT'S INSIDE THE BOX?

When you think outside the box.. you literally end up finding yourself inside the box (confusing.. right?) Yeah.. Me too was confused with that line. Anyways, last Thursday (April 7) while secretly meeting for a surprise presentation for our outgoing editors, we saw pile of boxes outside the yearbook office (our neighbor). Out of the blue, Rupert started to "wear" the boxes.. and we all resulted to this:

We box raced, with "power2x" effects and all. We act like kids. I wonder if the security office do have files of us playing around the lobby through their surveillance camera.. how do we look back then? Do we look stupid? Anyways, I don't mind looking stupid at all as long as I'm having fun with them.

Doing crazy stuffs with them is an experience that I'll treasure for the rest of my life. With them, I was able to think really random scenarios and act it out.. With them, I can totally be myself. :) I love the spectres.

Lucky Her

Well, to be honest.. I envy her. Who wouldn't? Most of your tweets were all about her (whoever that girl is). Sighs.. I wish I was her. I'm not the type of girl who would wish to be someone else but at this very moment.. probably I am.

This afternoon, I asked some of my friends in the office.. Why is it too easy for others to move on while for me, it's too impossible? I'm not holding on, I'm not keeping my hopes high. In fact, I wanted to give up, I almost gave up. I've lose this battle ever since I've started it.

I AM NOT HER & I CAN NEVER BE HER.. I wish I was.. Yet, you can never love someone like me. Not ever.

P.S. Not Ever in short, NEVER.

And then my heart tried to speak up..

Please don't be in love with someone else
Please don't have somebody waiting on you..

I was kinda caught by this line in T. Swift's song, Enchanted.. I really wish I could say those words to him.. If only I have enough courage and guts to say it, I've done it a long time ago.. I guess.

This is crap.

Yeah, found myself stalking his FB page once again. Deyyym! Why can't I just get over him and move on with my life? Why does he keep on visiting my thoughts every once in a while?

I better stop this before everything's too late.. I don't want myself to fall again.. Not this time. Not ever.

NEW BLOG SKIN

That was tiring! Changed my layout theme and viola, here it is. :) I'm kinda satisfied with the looks and everything. I really find it coooool 8D. So thasss it, enjoy my new theme! :)

LAYOUT EDITOR

Last Monday, the new set of Editorial Board was finally announced.. and OMO, my name was thurrr. :)

Yeah, I'm the new Layout Editor of The Spectrum. Yey! Goodluck~ We can do theeeessss.

Parteeey!

WHAT KEEPS ME BUSY

This past few days, I wasn't able to keep in touch because of one main reason: FUN SHOOT


I was too engrossed with some photography stuffs and my very own "Cherai Collection" wherein the model is Manang Cherai.. Everyday, we'll be shooting from different places in the university and later on, I'll be uploading it on Facebook. So to keep you on track on my daily activities, here are some of my shots. :)

KAYJUDIENI Photography is my watermark.. These photos are my recent shots.. Visit the full album at my Flickr site.

Link:

Cherai Collection

MY WEDNESDAY TREAT (Late Post)

I miss my daily rants.. Sorry guys if I haven't updated this past few days. I wasn't busy with something or someone.. I just don't have anything to blog about.. My mind has been blank for days. :) So here I am right now, I've got lots of stories to tell. This is going to be about my Wednesday treat at Negros' Summer Capital, Don Salvador Benedicto.

Don Salvador Benedicto is known as the "Little Baguio" of Negros Occidental.. the temperature ranges from 16-27 degrees Celsius.. imagine. While we're there it reached 19 degrees plus the fact that it was raining.

Blame the rain for the crappy pictures.. Lol.

It's fogging.. Coooool. ^_^

The place was so cool.. literally. Good thing Tito Martin reminded me to bring my jacket. We arrived at the place at around 9:30 PM because I was one of the late comers.. (Yeah, they forgot to pick me up during the morning :[ ) So upon arriving there, we just had dinner and spent the rest of the night playing "tong-its" (a card game)..

Morning came, it turned out to be a boring one at first maybe because all of us were still freezing.. we're not that used to that kind of weather. We just chatted and took some pictures just to kill the time.

Manang Ems, Crysta, Tito Martin (our adoptive "papa" LOL) and me..

My boredom faded when I finally get to meet this cute angel, 

Baby Mogley.. He's two years old but he weighs like a four-year-old.

We had spaghetti for breakfast then Tito Caloy took the guts to invite us all to go swimming.. Despite of the cold weather... So yeah, we froze inside the pool.. It's very very very cold. It's like bathing in a water filled with a bucket of ice.. Drat!!

The best part of this adventure was the rainbow. I was able to take a closer look of the rainbow.. It's like a hundred-meter distance.. I was on top of the hill while the rainbow was just along the bridge.. I even joked about finding a pot of gold and a leprechaun.. What if that was true? Maybe, I'm the richest man alive right now. Mwehehe.. Take a look:

ZOMG! A RAINBOOOOW!!

Yeah! I acted like a kid upon seeing that rainbow.. It was just soooo beautiful that I cannot just stare at it and not admire the view.. Feels like heaven.. Aahh..

After lunch we went home.. on the way, we stopped at the falls' viewing deck.. and took some pictures, AGAIN.

And the road trip adventure was over.. Ahh. Thanks to the Bibit family for inviting me to join their Wednesday excursion. I've been wanting to go out of town since summer break started, and finally I've had it. :) More adventures to come! XD