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Hello, fashion week.
Actually, I already blogged about this on my tumblr account, but I felt like I couldn't really talk much there like I can here. Blech.
So, one of my closest friends(who's an FDM student in our school) got me a ticket for the first show of the day. Quite nice of her to get me a ticket when I didn't ask for it. She practically read my mind. I love her.
Anyway, the designs were awesome! Absolutely AWESOME.
I found it intriguing that when a model comes out of the white walls and they're wearing a dress that's either all sparkly, or maybe, some dress you can't really wear outside, all the more the crowd will cheer and clap.
Nonetheless, all the collections were amazing.

After the first show, I got to be able to talk to a couple of other FDM students and they were really nice. We ate at a seaside restaurant near the SMX Convention Center, after.
I find it a tad bit disappointing that all I ate that time was...
1/2 rice and beef with broccoli, while the others had a variety of food choices.
I shouldn't have shared with my friend.
She's too darn... stingy.

So anyway, went to watch the second show for the day after eating.
Actually, we didn't have tickets for the next show, but we were still able to go in the convention area and watch.
What's interesting though is that the guards do not actually look at your tickets, but at you and how you dress.
I will never forget that there were 2 girls, right in front of us, who were about to go inside, when the guards suddenly asked for their tickets. I can't exactly remember what they were wearing, but I reckon that one of them was wearing jeans... and chucks?
They both didn't have tickets, so the guards shooed them away.
Whilst, WE were able to go inside hassle-free(even though we also didn't have tickets).

Photo courtesy of Grace Yen
Lindsey, me & Grace

So that day, I gained a couple of new friends. It was a whole lot of fun. :>
Hanged out with Lindsey after that... Bad idea.
I was practically forced to shove down a couple of Shakey's meal down my throat by her father. :|
Also, whilst walking happily inside the mall, we were held up by a miss selling Dead Sea Salt Scrub and a 4-step imakeyournailshealthythingamajiga.
Because of her demo on my nails, oh wait slash that, my NAIL, this left thumb nail of mine is still epically shiny and smooth compared to my other nails... and, what's worst, it's going to stay like that for about a few more weeks. :|
Noice. It's getting on my nerves. I am too OC.

Wow, this is quite a long post... AAANNNNDDDD, I'm not done yet!

Yey! Just finished enlisting. I've been trying to enlist for 2 days now, but apparently, I needed to get my Dean's List Certificate from the Office of the Registrar before I could do so.
Hassle. :|

Here are my subjects for next term:
Death by courses.

In other news...

Last Sunday, I watched Paranormal Activity 2 with my aunt at Greenbelt.
I actually liked the film, though my aunt kept on complaining on how the camera's moving too much and it's giving her a massive headache. I told her it's part of the film that it's to make it look like a documentary of some sort, but of course, she did not listen and continued to complain till the next day. Yes, the next day.

For the record, I'm still looking and/or hunting down Shaun Tan's book, the Arrival.
I've been to more or less 8 bookstores and they all don't have it. How convenient.

Moving on.... again...

I thought I should blog about a certain person, but in my fear/paranoia that he or his friends might see this epically long post of mine, I shall leave or end this entry with a quote:

"If you start to miss me, remember, I didn't walk away, you let me go..."

xxxx

Labels: 3rd term, 3rd Year, Enlistment, long post, Lucban, missing, Paranormal Activity 2, Philippine Fashion Week 2010, PVW Workshop, Quezon, Seminar, Shaun Tan

Emergency rescue effort is launched for teen sailor Abby Sunderland

By: Pete Thomas, GrindTV.com

A rescue effort has been launched in hope of finding Abby Sunderland, 16, who set off her emergency beacon locating devices from the southern Indian Ocean early this morning.

Sunderland, who had been attempting to sail around the world alone, endured multiple knockdowns in 60-knot winds Thursday before conditions briefly abated.

However, her parents lost satellite phone contact early this morning and an hour later were notified by the Australian Coast Guard that both of Sunderland's EPIRB satellite devices had been activated.

One is apparently is attached to a survival suit or a life raft and meant to be used when a person is in the water or aboard a life raft.

Abby's father struggled with emotions and said he didn't know if his daughter was in a life raft or aboard the boat, or whether the boat was upside down.

"Everything seemed to be under control," Laurence Sunderland said. "But then our call dropped and a hour later the Coast Guard called."

Abby is hundreds of miles from land. The nearest ship was about 400 miles away. The rescue effort is being coordinated by the French-controlled Reunion Islands and Australia. Sunderland had been sailing in 50- to 60-foot seas and it was dark when the EPIRB devices were activated.

The Sunderlands are asking people to pray for their daughter, a high-school junior from Thousand Oaks, Calif.

Charlie Nobles, executive director of the American Sailing Assn., said, "We're all praying for her and our thoughts are with her. If she's got the survival suit, and she's got the EPIRB and she's in pretty good shape, she's just got to try to hang on. And when they get there, these guys... they're going to hopefully send the best that they've got to try to do a rescue and it's definitely possible. They're amazing people who do those rescues. They know exactly what they're heading into."

Nobles said a scenario whereby a sailor has to abandon ship might go like this: Water flooding the vessel automatically inflates the life raft, which is tethered to the sailboat. The sailor, if the sailboat is sinking, would grab the boat's EPIRB device and stuff it into a ditch kit, take the ditch kit and deploy and climb aboard the life raft. The sailor would only cut the tether if the sailboat is sinking, pulling down the lifeboat.

Abby was for several months one of two 16-year-olds attempting to sail around the world alone. Australia's Jessica Watson completed her journey last month, just days before turning 17.

Abby's brother Zac, who graduated from high school, completed a solo-circumnavigation last summer at 17.

The timing of Abby's trip was criticized by some because it was going to place her in the middle of the Indian Ocean when the stormy Southern Hemisphere winter was at hand.

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