My campus ghost (?) stories

I have heard of so many campus ghost stories but it was only this semester that I began to experience something that made me consider that maybe the stories were true.

First story
I attended a media elective class last night. Since it was an elective outside comres, I expected not to know anyone there except the professor. Upon entering the classroom, there were already about 7 people there at wala nga akong kilala. So I sat down quietly and immediately noticed the strong scent of.... flowers. The scent of flowers I always associate with funerals and wakes. Ano nga palang bulaklak, I looked around and saw that the other students seem to be oblivious to it so I shrugged it off and just texted some friends. After 10 minutes the prof came in and slightly shrieked. She said, "Oh my, it smells of flowers in here! Why does it smell flowers here?!" Walang umimik. Ako naman nakatitig na sa kanya wondering why she was freaked out by the smell. Then she said, "You see, my mother-in-law died last night. Kaya I'm just going to talk to you guys for an hour then I have to leave na." I didn't freak out or anything. Probably because I've had several experiences of smelling flowers and candles when somebody I know just passed away. Ang iniisip ko kasi, it's better to smell something than actually SEE SOMETHING... OR SOMEONE.

Second Story
Speaking of seeing something or someone, I met up with some comres classmates for a research elective tonight. As soon as we entered the classroom, a classmate whispered, "Alam niyo, may multo talaga sa building na ito." That's when I shrieked and told her about the flower scent last night in the other classroom. Then she goes, "Well, this is worse. I actually SAW someone." Last week, her Thursday class was held inside the comres department, since lilima lang naman daw sila sa class. As they were seated by the conference table, she looked at the farthest side of the department office (this was around 6 to 8 p.m., so all of the other offices of the professors were vacant already). According to her, she saw a man standing at a dark corner of the room. Although she couldn't see his face, she was sure it was a man since he was wearing a native hat, checkered shirt and pants. She didn't say anything to anyone but she did ask the professor if there were ghosts in the department office. Sabi niya, meron daw.

Naku, puro gabi pa naman ang classes ko this sem. Yung Saturday class ko, sa hapon naman. Scary.

Dadoo

Happy Father's Day, Dadoo! Hope you like the Coco Vino!

anti-aging magic

My friend Tiffany recommended this (Nivea Goodbye Cellulite Gel Cream) to our college barkada. She said it works! Siyempre, kailangan mag-exercise and mag-diet din. But according to the packaging, there will already be a difference in 2 to 4 weeks! It isn't that cheap, but hey, anything to stop the aging process is worth the investment. Hehehe.

Gladys, Chet and I spent about half an hour looking at all the products at Watson's yesterday, trying to find the fountain of youth in a tube or a bottle. We laughed ourselves silly since we realized that we didn't really do this kind of shopping 10 years ago, for obvious reasons. Kakaloka.

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Pay-day Fridays means heavy traffic everywhere. But my goodness, record-breaking yata ang traffic kanina!!!!!!!! It took us an hour to reach The Podium in Ortigas when it usually takes us 20 minutes to get there from our house. My friend Julie who was coming from Pioneer St. (which was less than 10 minutes away from Ortigas Center) reached San Miguel Ave. after 2 and a half hours! We were already having dinner at Roma Mia (super gutom na kami) when she called to say that she was giving up the fight (and she did try her best) and will just go home as soon as she reaches Edsa. Sayang. We ordered pa naman our favorite dishes (Spinach and Mushroom Dip, Carlito's Way Deep Dish Pizza). Hindi rin niya nakita tuloy ang bagong hairstyle ni Chetski.

We had yummy Butterscotch Frappe at Figaro-Emerald (c/o Ma'am Cristina as usual) and met up with Chet's sisters, brother-in-law and super cute niece. Can't believe that it's been almost 3 years since we coordinated Donna and Christiane's wedding and now they have a pretty little daughter! Can't believe single and childless pa rin kami!!!!!!!!!!

June bride .... magazines

Got 15 new bridal magazines from my close friend (thanks, Min!). Groom na lang ang kulang ko (hindi ata naka-order si Min sa Amazon.com for me, hehehe).

there's always room for dessert

After pigging out at Superbowl, we looked for a place where we can have coffee (Maricar needed something to keep her awake in the wee hours of the morning while she does some paperwork) and talk some more. Super dami ng tao sa Starbucks so dun kami sa Cheesecake, Etc., na super ganda ng decor, super sarap ng cheesecake and super konti ng tao.

I can't remember all the stuff we ordered but I do remember the New York cheesecake, Banana Cream Cheesecake, the Mondo Affogatto (d-uh I don't know if I remember this correctly) na super strong ng caffeine. Di ako nakatulog buong gabi. Hehehe.

We did remember to avoid the juice drinks na hindi masarap the last time we went there.

Super saya sa Superbowl

Let the game begin!

My close friend and fellow-blogger Min and I have decided to hold a "can-you-match-this?" food challenge. She'll find good food in the U.S. and talk about it on her blog, and I will do the same here in Manila. Since her last post was about a resto in Chinatown, SF, I am of course challenged to post a Chinese place din. Good thing my college barkada Maricar treated us to a birthday dinner at Superbowl of China at Blue Wave Mall (that's in Macapagal Ave., near Mall of Asia).

Superbowl branches everywhere are always full of people coz totoo namang yummy talaga ang food nila. Dinner was at 7 but as per barkada tradition, one person came on time (this time it was me) and the rest trickled in at different times. Maricar called me ahead and tasked me to start ordering food if she came really late. Scared of which dish to order, I waited till half of the group arrived and assigned them to pick one dish each... and told one of our resident accountant-barkadas (there were several in our group) to monitor the prices just in case Maricar failed to arrive and we have to split the bill among us (Mind you, Superbowl food has huge servings but they ain't cheap. Hehehe).

Anyway, I can't remember the exact names of the dishes but we had dumpling platter for our appetizer, then crispy spicy crablets, fish fillet in garlic sauce, superbowl fried rice and lemon chicken. Maricar did arrive and was happy with what we ordered. When Cindy came in an hour and a half later, Maricar added yangchow rice and some kinda noodles (didn't know what it was -- sorry. Hehehe.).

And that's the end of the food challenge for now. Later ulit...

Dinner with my college barkada is always filled with katatawanan kaya super ingay kami as usual. Good thing there was a band singing just outside the resto so hindi kami ang pinaka-maingay (for a change) sa Blue Wave. Hehehe. (Note: A few years ago during a Davao vacation, a lounge singer in a famous hotel actually stopped singing when she got distracted by our noisy entrance at the hotel lobby. It was supposed to be embarrassing but am amused to say we laughed our heads off even more when we she stopped singing. Nope, we weren't drunk. Bad girls lang talaga. Hehehe.)

Aside from the birthday gift-giving thing (I recycled an old Sex and the City calendar and made it into a gift tag. Knew Maricar would get a huge kick out of the tag alone since she's a fan of the show), dinner topics ranged from Michael Buble as my mystery international singer, EO's plea to have the weddings of the remaining single girls be scheduled in the same week para sulit ang travel niya from Davao to Manila, all our injuries (my sprain, Cindy's sprain, Luisi's sprain), Spiderman 3, Sally as the supermom (getting her MBA degree with top honors from DLSU), the possibility that Cindy actually went to Superbowl at MOA instead of Superbowl at Blue Wave, and Luisi's most recent U.S. trip.

Kulang ang oras sa kuwentuhan kung sa dinner lang kaya we transferred our noisy selves to Cheesecake, Etc. a few doors down. Will post the food dun and the kuwentuhan another time.... maybe tomorrow. Ang haba na nito eh....