Wednesday, May 28, 2008

they disapprove

Somehow I know that all in all they are just looking out for me.They want the best for me&&know me more than I probably think I know myself.With the way I am with the way my perspectives differ from those of others.I guess I'm waiting to grow up in a sense but at the same time,I like being my age&&rather thankful for all the experiences that occur in my life.Regardless of whether they are good experiences or not.Lately, I've been thinking that my mind has been too caught up in the summer that hasn't even arrived yet.Although the last few days have been reminding me of the summer daze that I had around this time last year when my cousins from Austrailia were here&&with all the debut practices. Sigh, how I miss both my cousins&&those practices.Needless to say, that I was distracted just the same as I am yet again within the same range of people&&since this yearr even more.More filipinos coming here to the States within the family friends of my parents&&within their Music Ministry here in Elmhurst at St. Barts.It's a change for me, but in a really good way.More filipinos that are around my age&&that are my age here within the limits of my reach of a ten minute train ride or five minute drive =).
I mean it's kinda funny because I've always prayed to have teens my age within my reach of the neighborhood as well as the ones I love within PNYM<33.Yet, another family I am BLESSED to call MY OWN!
Unfortunately, I am not as fluent in tagalog as I'd like to be&&here they are wanting to be fluent in english.It works out I guess because we're all learning. As weird as I am, someway I understand kapangpangan.Ask me how I understand, I wouldn't know but somehow I understand it as much as I understand tagalog (which is plenty).Still, I don't speak tagalog based on my self-esteem of sounding wrong&&well I am gramatically incorrect.I do have plenty of help so it's cool.Oh yeah and when I do say little phrases in tagalog, they always say aww so cute! and then they mimick what I say =]
All in all,my summer&&my recent months have been filled with being with new friends&&family(who I can call my own too)&&every other week just as before with my PNYMFAMBAM<3.I'm practicing my guitar chords again&it's pretty hard&&frustrating since I'm teaching myself so much as to being nimble&&relaxed with my fingers switching in between chords.But I think at least I hope by the end of the summer I'll be able to play well.
I'd like to say I don't regret a majority of my junior year...but what I do wish I hadn't done would be slack off ever so often which is now catching up to me.The year is ending the 10th&&I can't change that. The only things I can do is suck it up&pray I have the strength to do exceptionally well on my finals®ents.That in itself is a challenge. Let alone taking the exams themselves&&ohh I can't forget! A five hour test named the SATs which is in another week!
BOY oh BOY! I really have to gear up&&have some strength stored to accomplish all of theese sleepless nights of 'studying'&&hopefully I will really study! minus the quotation marks of not studying but either blogging talkin to ppl&&or being on the phone!!!


PRAYERS PLEASE&&I WILL PRAY FOR ALL THOSE WHO ARE TAKING SUMMER CLASSES
I ALSO PRAY THAT I DONT GO TO SUMMER SCHOOL FOR PRECAL OR US HISTORY&GOVERNMENT(USHG IDK WHAT I'D DO IF I GO TO SUMMER SCHOOL FOR SOMETHING STUPID LIKE THT)


WISH ME GOODLUCK&&I HAVE MY MISS FILIPINIANA DAY COMING PRETTY SOON IN THE MIDDLE OF IT ALL!

_ROXANNEMARIE_

Sunday, May 25, 2008

just to breathe

trying to let this pass
breathing in air until it lasts
trying to keep my faith growing
as of now in a mental state of not knowing

crying out yet no one hears
the sound of silence thats been built for years
tearing them away to a place where i cant stay
listenin to the beat of my heart thts fadin away

i'd like to die to myself
to live again,to cease this madness
in the hope of finding a new friend
one that might get me through all this pain
one that knows me for me&¬ personal gain.

this may be sad&&possibly true
but who are you to know&&decide if my day was in the blue.

dont worry too much about my well being
i will be great&&i will never say to you that it was too late.

just pray for me so i believe
a little more in myself&&find the time&&space just to breathe

Thursday, May 22, 2008

may 22

Well today was kinda productive&&funny to me =)
I barely had any classes today because no seniors where there&&I have a few senior classes. I slept in the hour period of earth science because my teacher didn't tell us to bring our books&&she wasn't feeling well either.In health we're learning about the female reproductive system which is both interesting to learn more about my own anatomy&&physiology of what concerns my body.However, I'd be fine without the pictures of vaginal diseases&&STDs.Last two periods of the day we're also free periods because my precalculus teacher is in chicago for a convention. But at least I actually completed my webassign homeworks which I had to re-do since he gave us all another chance.Raising my average to just passing =x! But as long as I'm passing, at the moment that's all that counts. Even though I know it's not entirely my best. Last period religion i wrote a poem on the time of my life which was an assignnment explaining what I'd like to have accomplished in learning a whole year around the basis of Morality. I'm pretty sure I was one of the only students who actually completed the assignment correctly since my teacher is laid back&&just told us yesterday that we could write BS as long as we were quite or had inside voices for our sub.But we really didn't.That's the way life goes though. The poem itself will be posted here once I get it back.

I went to work which is pretty boring and we were repeatedly told to be quiet but I mean let's be serious we're all girls who are just labeling envelopes folding letters&&stuffing them person after person. I get paid 7.15 each hour so that's going towards my college/austrailia trip fund =). At the moment though, I'm saving it to pay back my dad the 130 dollars that I went over on the phone bill using the internet&&checking my mail updates since it's direct. After work went with the girls&&their supervisor to the Italian Restaurant where the people were hispanic&&mind you no one was in there,was rude and had that attitude like "oh great, a bunch of girls who are all black minus me&&are probably loud" so we sat in the back of the restaurant since there was more room.I ate chicken parmagiana&&spaghetti. It was alright but there was so much cheese. It was still good though.
Then I went to Immaculate Concepcion&& arrived around 715 when it started at 6:45 but whatever I came in between the third Glorious Mystery.But I barely ate "like always" hahaa but I really did eat! no need for an intervention but it was pretty funny.Only becuase I do NOT have an eating disorder&& if I did I wouldn't deny it based on the mere fact of telling the truth as a cry for help.
June 7th is my SATs!
June 10th is my last day of classes&& I have exams the rest of the month.
June 21st is my MISS FILIPINIANA event! Dancing the tango with Joel.
Hopefully PNYM can come and attend,it's held at my parish here across the street from my house.However you pay 20 dollars =) It's basically fundraising through the Filipino Community at the church for funding the church's expenses.Hopefully YOU ALL CAN ATTEND&& Rowan is my escort as well. I'm just wondering what my dress looks like, it was supoposed to be blue but they made a wrong order&& yet again it PINK! Don't get me wrong Pink is my favorite color, however, when my mom told me that for once it wasn't going to be pink I was excited. It's coming in the mail or through my kuya when he visiits from the Philippines.


busybusybusy! College is coming around well Regents first,SATs, endless college essays&&if my Senior Year schedule goes as planned Psychology,the last part of the Gateways to Health program course, CALCULUS(if i score a 65 on the Math B [i was 10pts short the first time around]) but I think I could make it!, Crafts =), relgion, economics,government,a music course that I can't recall the course itself&&maybe if i receive a scholarship to this school of music to study voice,music theory,maybe compostion as well at Dillard-Quaile in the city as well.MAYBE.

The whole mdp deal is irritating me but I'm trying to prevent myself from having that after affect of feeling 'used&&being a fool'. Regardless though, I care about him no matter what anyone says&&whether or not he sees/knows. That never stopped me before&&its not going stop me now. Just like what Msgr. said tonight about Mary&&mercy...okay I can't exactly recall that either, but I believe it's along the guidelines of cutting them slack&&understanding a little better. Whatever the case may be, it's never bad to care about someone even if maybe when caring about them&&their perspectives on life may not necessarily include you in it. I have a long way to go anyway, well as long as I live this life that I don't claim as my own, but life in itself blessings within the greatest gift of trying to live,breathe,&love life as God intends it to be.



Tuesday, May 20, 2008

grounded

So now that I'm grounded, this sucks. well I ran up the phone bill with my usage of the internet&&thankfully not text messages because I have unlimited now. still I haven't really been grounded before as much anyway.I have a part time job now in the cardinal's appeal office doing paper workk do that's pretty cool.I'm trying to save up either for college or in general for whenever I'm supposedly going on vacation.Procrastination is still not a friend of mine, for that's exactly what I am doing now, avoiding my one page report for US History&Gov't comparing a show from the 70s and a show from today. Spanish was due today but barely anyone had done it so she moved it to tomorrow. I got lost trying to go to my friend's play&i got there on time, however, the people I was to meet up with got lost&missed the whole thing where I saw bits&pieces as well. I don't know if I will be allowed to go since my current grounding, but she will try to convince my mom because all the teenagers are going tomorrow. So maybe I will go. With the whole tango remake with Joel, it's coming along but I dont know when we will practice again since I'm pretty much busy this week. I don't know possibly before Thursday night's mass at Immaculate Concepcion which I also don't know if I will be attending since now THANK THE LORD my Dad is working part-time at my Tito's job helping out there for three weeks. Maybe it'll be permanent since my Dad is getting there to be old of age.Maybe we'll be lucky with everything, or rather blessed. Now the downside to that is that my Mom will have to take the bus for transportation&&she dislikes it very much. But then again, she'd rather have my Dad work instead. Sacrifices need to be made everyday&&this is one of them. I also have to gear up for everything since there are only around 12 days left of school until exams,which by the way scare me sh!tless. But it has to be that way. Good morning&&back to my attempt at my homework =)

note to self...
GET OVER MDP!
hahaha one of those easier said/read than done.

Wednesday, May 7, 2008

tango remake

so i may have not taken the SATs this past weekend,but i just wasnt meant to take it day of [=
the practices so far for the tango routine for being ms.filipiniana are coming along.mind you there has only been two so far,but we do have a number of strong moves&&the basics. we've named them all&&some of them we've made spontaneously on the spot which is an amazing feeling for not knowing what the eff ure doing&&making it work for that precise moment.somehow we seem to think the same thing or just go with what we feel&&move together. just like when the janitor came&&we moved in a tango movement in perfect position,timing&posture. hahahaha&&ppl were watching us but they didn't catch what we had just done.something so simple as to just move to the side,yet we danced systematically dancing as we moved. it was one of those things that you kinda just had to be a part of&&loook retarded explaining it.
now i just have to remember the names of the moves we made&the ones we took from a bunch of different videos. well one of them we're not too sure of bc its a bit difficult to keep my leg a certain position within the movement of us two so that's a possible 'no' or just one that we're going to cut out the picturee.
well theres the moves we've named called
-embrace
-puppet
-lift right leg (tuck in left) crossover ( when spinning ) the left over right&&&land with left
[hahhaa no name for tht one]
-"MA-RR-IA" some how end up with my left leg extended&&my right leg overlappin his bent knee. (there's a spin there somewhere&&how to get to tht spin)
yup yup! kinda hyped for it&&worried bout the whole speech&&idk what im singing either but those two arent so bad for my agenda day of the 21st of june&&farrah faye is also allowing me to borrow her red dress&&heels from tec's swt16.its going to be exciting! well for me&&whoever watches/those who are interested.
putting in some time for the basics&&complications then everything will surely be alright&&most of all i'll be doing me dancing away&&just having fun! end of story. as for those who watch,comment,disapprove,or just wonder either how i do the movements i perform or wonder why i dance in the first place, well i have a few things to say. "i'm being myself,enjoying life,not caring so much as to what you think bc what i'm doing is your concern; well im flattered&&i can only care about so many things at a certain place&&time. i'm having fun&&living my given moments,i know you care&&i love you too but as those who know, i just love to dance&sing to my own beat&own songs.accept me or not that's perfectly fine because your tastes&passions may not be even close to those that are mine. [=

forever&a day.mp3
_roxannemarie_

Sunday, May 4, 2008

more than a title

I was suppose to be happy today, well it was the night as I expected
I saw you after couple of days,somethings there but it feels like we just left it
Gone to church two times a day and we hung out just like i imagined
Something was missing and i know what it is
There's a hole in my heart can u feel it?

Chorus :
Will you be my girlfriend,swear I'll treat you right
Wanna be there for you everyday and every night
Will you be my girlfriend,I wanna be the oneyou come to every time that you're down

Talk to you like every nightI'm loving every millisecond of it
I see you almost everyday I hate when we're separated
I tell you you look pretty today and you reply by saying that I'm stupid
I know that you're just showing that you care and you're just afraid to show me

Chorus
Yes I'll be your girlfriend swear I'll treat you right
Promise I will love you everyday and every night
Yes I'll be your girlfriend,let me be the one to be your moon,your stars,your sun
And I know it's kinda crazy,but I hope that you can be with me
To take a chance for a lil bit of romance
And i'll take you on a magic carpet ride...
_aj rafael&heidi riego

Thursday, May 1, 2008

from SATs,researching colleges,miss filipiniana,boy drama with me included&&friends that are close and their familyfriend crushes [basically two families likin the other LITERALLY] thank you Lord for showing me my way to not get into that.not now.not with their family.even though they say im already part of the family =D....i share a "daughter" with one of the franciscos but we talk&&we have plenty in common especially on the whole our friendshipbased closeness thankyou verymuch.yeahh sure we talk everyday&&see each other at least two times a week gauranteed and more if there's a party which there usually is.their family is huge&&has a bunch of kiddies&&grownups.his family is cool,well minus his half brother bc of well personal issues with me&&blah blah blah and really himself.sucks to say but its true.then again if for 19years it was just you and your mom then you are blessssed with a stepfather&&four of his children&&their bigg filipino family.the one that lives in the same house with the lola and all the pinsans then alright i understand i have sympathy.plus their church friends and family including myself always together.then tough luck for you if you're not used to it&&want to know everything bout your family who well have their lives private from you&&may not tell them their current crushes or problems.so you told them your's when i was in the picture doesnt mean theyre going to tell you who they like when sure its maddd obvious but you dont know the underlying background behind everything bc you&&plenty of ppl like the rest of your family takes a whole new level of courtship or sum sheit. beetween me&&andrew is just a close trusted friendship&&we have that music passion shared,aries&&me have that sibling like relationship,gen&&me have tht girl thing,camille&&me have that well your my 'daughter'&&andrews ure 'dad' but thats a whole different concept that the three of us understand,kimztahhh&me im her oneechan japanese for older sister who she respects xD.i know more than they do suprisingly....

other than that.bout the whole miss filipiniana im getting a dress from the philippines from my tita norma which according to my mom is really for that.escort is rowan&&dance partner is joel.not exactly too sure bout what the heck im doing but according to my titas im everyone's "MUSE".if i recall im recieving a community service award,saying a speech,singing probably in tagalog&&english,dancing the tango[requested by my mom]&&whatever else i can come up with or whatever i guess joel is up for.i was kinda disppointed for rowan saying yeah he'll do it then change his mind,but i was kinda just anticipating that decision in actuality.but i cant force anyone to do anything&&well he still acts the same way just as before&&well most likely stay aacting that way.not complainin as much but it does irk me ever so often.but its the friendship we have that ive grown to be comfortable with&&accustomed to.sue me.

can't believe its already may 1st&& i fell like ive gone through almost a whole year learning nothing schoolbased&&all i did was waste my time.well not all of it.bc i enjoyed the whole cotillion/debut year of practices.a whole year of shiet happening with my bloodsisters.literally everything that you wouldnt want to happen within a friendship but its made all three of us stronger even at the crappiest/weakest points.its true,we 'hated' each other all at the same time.we chilled separately,we chilled together&&it was still semi-separated,we've argued,we've said all the things that cause a friendship to end,we've cried in front of each other which honestly i can never recall a time we did that.we've said what each others faults were,what we were jealous about&&envious only to find that what we said what similar to what the other envied.we know we're not perfect. no way near perfection....but in my perspective; "perfection comes in different ways,aspects,perspectives&&all what perfection to me may be endless flaws&&faults for you."...my aspect of perfection&&your aspect of perfection.you have your opinion&&i have my own.respected or not.i can stand on the ground.granted i've fallen.

in everything,in what i've done.
to choose my will than lead up to none.
You've chosen me at Your discretion
&&now ive somewhat come to realize.
Your will not my own, please be done unto me
&&forget those who cast the first stone.
You are perfect
&&have a plan for me.
to wake up each morning
&&wait for me to acknowledge you soo patiently.
i am human&&forget always,
that You should be my everything
&&through You saying 'thankyou' is the first step.
You endlessly bless me with everyone in diguise
to figure it out fully it's called compromise.
i just want to be with You,
in Your arms only
You hold me tight
&&caress my hair slowly.
You whisper in my ear saying
"Draw closer to me, if you believe,the possibilities will be abundantly"
NO ONE ELSE can come close when I am here guiding you
I've sent my SON,a DOVE from above&&your own ANGEL as well.
ONE MORE THING IS THAT "ILOVEYOU"
Never FORGET THAT&&all your troubles will melt away
&&drain out of a well.
-roxannemarie