I celebrated my 21st birthday last Monday, December 16. Man, I can't believe that I'm actually 21. I don't really feel my age.

Speaking of birthdays, it's Rosa's birthday today. HAPPY BIRTHDAY, ROSA!!! Luv yah, best friend!

We also had our INTROPD exhibit opening that day. All the groups had to finish setting up for the ribbon-cutting at 1:30 in the afternoon. Arg, and my TECTHE2 class was at 1:30, but Sir Mike usually arrives an hour before that. We even delayed the ribbon-cutting until 2pm because Miss Bautista still wasn't around (she was the one who cut the ribbon along with our chairperson, Sir Manolet). Eventually, we ended up having the ribbon-cutting at 2:30. We even had to LRC videotape the whole thing for us. Each group was supposed to explain the design concept of their play, and we were the last. By the time the group before us was about to finish, Kat finally called me to say that Sir Mike had already arrived. Nyak, I didn't get to stay for my group.

My brother arrived on the same day as well. Actually, he was supposed to arrive at 10:45 pm on my birthday, but his flight got delayed so he arrived at midnight. Yay, he brought the X-Box/DVD player as a birthday gift for me. Goody.

I got my MUSSTUD course card yesterday afternoon. I was supposed to meet Ari right after I got my course card, but we ended up staying in the classroom way longer than expected because Sir Jed hadn't finished checking our final exams, so we had to check each other's papers, then count final score according to Sir Jed's crazy point system, then we had to wait for him to enter all our grades into the computer, print it out, and then write our final grades on our course cards (I got a 3.5, yay!). I got outta there at around 5:30. Unfortunately, that was the time that Ari had left, so when I went to our meeting place, he was already gone.

So instead of going home right away, I accompanied Me-Anne to Sir Jed (he's her orchestration teacher) because he was looking for her. I had to sit with her on the couch at the SDA office while she had to defend her orchestration or final paper orally because she forgot to bring her papers with her. She sounded pretty unsure of what she was saying, and I was dying to leave so she wouldn't be so embarassed, because Sir Jed was already pressuring her so much. Nyak, I was already thinking about it when Sir Jed threw a certain question to me because Me-Anne couldn't answer it. He just went like, "Si Christine alam yan," ("Christine knows that.") and asked me the question, and I got to answer it correctly, so he directed another question to me. Oops, sorry Me-Anne.

Had HISTORY final exams today. I thought I was gonna be late, because I slept through the alarm clock, damn it. Fortunately I got to the classroom just in time. One final exam to go.

Gotta get my HISART2 course card this afternoon. Gee, I wonder what my grade will be. Miss Dayang said that I was one of the candidates who might get a 4.0, but after that mental block in the final exam, I don't think I'll get it. Darn it. And I was sort-of aiming for the dean's list this term.