My attempt at the 2009 100+ Reading Challenge starts here.
Fate has brought you to this sketchbook - a slice of life behind the eyes of a seventeen-year-old Filipina residing in sunny England.
The Feeling - I Love It When You Call
I’m tagged! By Ate Cleo. Lol :]
Okay - she didn’t tag me exactly. But she said anyone could do it so here I am doing it.
People don’t get on my nerves that much, really. Pasensyosa at mabuting bata kasi ako - or so I think. Lol :] No, seriously, I get pissed off sometimes. And here’s fifteen reasons why…
1. Feeling Foreigner - I mean, is it that hard to recall how to speak in your native tongue? You go to a foreign country and a few days later you’re already bulol with Tagalog. Or trying to be. Lol :] It really annoys me when I talk to Filipinos my age in Tagalog and they talk back in English (when they know perfectly well how to speak in Filipino and can understand it just as much). What annoys me even more is when they talk in Tagalog but have that pseudo-American accent to it - but when you hear them talking to their parents, eh magaling naman pala mag-Tagalog.
2. The Uninvited - People sometimes turn up on my doorstep uninvited. Seriously - and I hate that. I’m no goody-goody when it comes to surprises so I really don’t appreciate the unexpected visitor. And (and!) you know those people who knock on your door but you don’t really want to let them in because the person they want isn’t home (gawin ka pang entertainer, eh noh)? At pinagpipilitan pa nilang pumasok? Aargh - manigas ka diyan sa labas. Lol :]
3. Excess Helium - Yeah, the ones with annoyingly loud and witchy laughs. Lol :] Agawan pa ng eksena si Ursula?
4. Rong spilleng and grammers - Okay, I admit that the way I spell things or construct a sentence can be wrong sometimes. But to see other people guessing where an apostrophe should be included can be a little funny. In addition, ‘a’ and ‘an’ are used for singular nouns - am I right or am I right?
5. Photocopiers - It’s bad enough that people copy your ideas - worse when you don’t get any credit for it. There’s a certain boundary between being inspired and plagiarism. I usually get ‘photocopied’ in my ICT class. One minute I’m working on a design, the next minute it’s already on another girl’s screen. Annoying still, they don’t even tweak whatever they’ve copied to show at least that they’ve got a mind of their own.
6-15. As mentioned earlier, isa akong mabuting bata kaya hindi ako masyadong naiirita sa mundo. Lol :] I really can’t think of other kinds of people who annoy me so I’ll just leave it at this (or maybe my creativity, whatever creativity, is not at its productive stage at the moment so I just can’t seem to think of anything sensible to write).
I tag whoever is reading this. Go on, it’s fun ^_^ (Fun is the new term for heart-attack-inducing).
My birthday blog entry is pending. I’m really just busy with school at the moment. I have a lot of updating to do.
