<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3267032899006172558</id><updated>2012-02-16T02:45:29.777-08:00</updated><category term='blogger'/><category term='Youtube'/><category term='personal'/><category term='Stardust'/><category term='New Moon'/><category term='random'/><category term='3DS'/><category term='Tales of the Abyss'/><category term='games'/><category term='Guy Cecil'/><category term='TOA'/><category term='school'/><category term='Twilight'/><category term='rant'/><title type='text'>Melodies of Life</title><subtitle type='html'>The life of Norika Hiwatari</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://norika-hiwatari.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3267032899006172558/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://norika-hiwatari.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>Norika Hiwatari</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16296123493987897557</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='18' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_caHrLWu8Pks/SrYQs2PS8II/AAAAAAAAAAM/wfbl6JKoTCY/S220/Dissidia_ED___Zidane_Tribal_by_Moluscum.jpg'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>9</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3267032899006172558.post-4261583390937116949</id><published>2011-10-26T07:00:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-10-26T07:00:14.604-07:00</updated><title type='text'>An old pic I stumbled with in Picasa</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-KugtJVl23AA/TqgSCu2D79I/AAAAAAAAAJM/5IpaMZR4ObM/s1600/IMG_4564.JPG"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-KugtJVl23AA/TqgSCu2D79I/AAAAAAAAAJM/5IpaMZR4ObM/s320/IMG_4564.JPG" style="clear: both; float: left; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; It's really interesting that these two were best friends. :P Wanna know what happened to them now? Well, I'll tell you what. These two just graduated :)) hahahaha but I'm sure both of them knows what REALLY happened. :D&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="clear: both; text-align: LEFT;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://picasa.google.com/blogger/" target="ext"&gt;&lt;img align="middle" alt="Posted by Picasa" border="0" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/pbp.gif" style="-moz-background-clip: initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: initial; -moz-background-origin: initial; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 50%; border: 0px none; padding: 0px;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3267032899006172558-4261583390937116949?l=norika-hiwatari.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://norika-hiwatari.blogspot.com/feeds/4261583390937116949/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3267032899006172558&amp;postID=4261583390937116949' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3267032899006172558/posts/default/4261583390937116949'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3267032899006172558/posts/default/4261583390937116949'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://norika-hiwatari.blogspot.com/2011/10/old-pic-i-stumbled-with-in-picasa.html' title='An old pic I stumbled with in Picasa'/><author><name>Norika Hiwatari</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16296123493987897557</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='18' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_caHrLWu8Pks/SrYQs2PS8II/AAAAAAAAAAM/wfbl6JKoTCY/S220/Dissidia_ED___Zidane_Tribal_by_Moluscum.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-KugtJVl23AA/TqgSCu2D79I/AAAAAAAAAJM/5IpaMZR4ObM/s72-c/IMG_4564.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3267032899006172558.post-681946217155126355</id><published>2011-09-11T23:06:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-09-11T23:06:16.772-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='personal'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='TOA'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='3DS'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Tales of the Abyss'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Youtube'/><title type='text'>Tales of the Abyss for 3DS</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Well, I don't really have a 3DS but I'm planning to get one. Do you guys think it's alright to buy the game despite the fact that I'm playing it in the PS2 (via PS2 emulator)? I'm not really sure I haven't researched on it well, but did they impose new features to the game? Other than I get to see Guy in 3D~ Hehe. Well this isn't really new news. Ahahaha&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;object width="320" height="266" class="BLOGGER-youtube-video" classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0" data-thumbnail-src="http://2.gvt0.com/vi/Ly50A7ce5go/0.jpg"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/Ly50A7ce5go&amp;fs=1&amp;source=uds" /&gt;&lt;param name="bgcolor" value="#FFFFFF" /&gt;&lt;embed width="320" height="266"  src="http://www.youtube.com/v/Ly50A7ce5go&amp;fs=1&amp;source=uds" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;This is one of the reasons why I want a 3DS and also I want to play Phoenix Wright x Professor Layton! I've been dying to get that game as well. Ahahaha I just hope that I'll be able to save enough money to buy a 3DS and also able to save in my bank account as well.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3267032899006172558-681946217155126355?l=norika-hiwatari.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://norika-hiwatari.blogspot.com/feeds/681946217155126355/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3267032899006172558&amp;postID=681946217155126355' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3267032899006172558/posts/default/681946217155126355'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3267032899006172558/posts/default/681946217155126355'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://norika-hiwatari.blogspot.com/2011/09/tales-of-abyss-for-3ds.html' title='Tales of the Abyss for 3DS'/><author><name>Norika Hiwatari</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16296123493987897557</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='18' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_caHrLWu8Pks/SrYQs2PS8II/AAAAAAAAAAM/wfbl6JKoTCY/S220/Dissidia_ED___Zidane_Tribal_by_Moluscum.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3267032899006172558.post-8613657907698531348</id><published>2011-09-11T09:33:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-09-11T09:36:57.786-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='rant'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='personal'/><title type='text'>Is It Wrong to Care?</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Sometimes, it's really hard when you see your sibling growing up already. There are times that as much as you want to help him, you don't have the enough courage to tell him. Why? Because in the end you'll know he won't listen. He'll end up getting mad or disappointed with you for "ruining" his plans.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Well, I guess this all started when he got a girlfriend. I don't really have problems with that but I guess it is his first girlfriend... He's so in love that he's spending a lot of money to her. Recently, my brother went to me and asked if I still have some savings because he wants to borrow Php 3,000 from me. I asked him why and what was it for. His answer was, "I want to join this&amp;nbsp;networking&amp;nbsp;business." I asked him, "is it safe?" Obviously, I didn't got an answer... He just said, "Well, if we don't take risk we can't move on in life." "Yeah... but still... is it safe?" "Just lend me money."&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Obviously, from there I hesitated already and asked some help from my friend. According to him, "networking business are illegal and he might get to jail. Next time, if I have the chance, I should tell my brother about it. If he doesn't listen, it's his fault already. Just don't lend him money." Well of course I'd listen to my friend because this friend of mine is someone I could trust and who listens to my problems and gives me insightful and moral lessons in life.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Anyway, just a few hours ago, my brother came to me and asked for the money. He said that he'll pay back half tomorrow. I told him "I don't want to... Is it even safe?" He said, "Come on." "Well, it's your call." "Of course. I'm responsible for it and in the end, I'm the one who spend on it right? I'm just asking money for you for now." "...No, you're on your own." Then the nerve of him! He went to ask our other brother, Marc, for money and of course Marc just agreed and said, "just make sure you pay me." I got worried... of course I don't what to get my brother into trouble but this is just going out of hand. So I went up to my mom and told her the situation. She told me that to tell Marc that just to lend Third half. So I did. Also, we don't know if he's really going to spend it on the networking business or to buy a gift for his girlfriend since the girl's debut is coming soon.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Of course I was still half worried and Marc, even if he doesn't show it, a part of him was scared that our dad might get mad and we don't really want to add stress on him. But happily, maybe an hour has passed my mom went to my dad and told him everything. According to my mom, my dad said to her, "why did you just told me just now. Well, nonetheless, at least you told me before it happened." So there my dad scolded my brother and lectured him. Apparently, this is the only conversation I heard:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Dad: We don't want you to experience the things we know is wrong.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Third: But it's better if I experience it so that I can learn!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Dad: We're already telling you what's wrong. Do you think we want you to experience what is wrong?&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Then my mom closed the door. Me and Marc can really eavesdrop even if we want to. Ahahaha. Anyway, after the sermon, my brother posted this on his Facebook wall:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-BtRMZ8P1Hag/Tmzgh0JZbhI/AAAAAAAAAJA/TZP4FXxUC3A/s1600/Capture.PNG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="70" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-BtRMZ8P1Hag/Tmzgh0JZbhI/AAAAAAAAAJA/TZP4FXxUC3A/s320/Capture.PNG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;What I hate the most is when someone ruins my plans. It's already flawless.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;So does that mean that he really plans to buy something for his girlfriend instead? Well, I'm not sure... but I'm sure that he's desperate to have that Php 3,000 tomorrow.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;How about you guys? What do you think? If you were in my situation, would you guys do the same thing?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3267032899006172558-8613657907698531348?l=norika-hiwatari.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://norika-hiwatari.blogspot.com/feeds/8613657907698531348/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3267032899006172558&amp;postID=8613657907698531348' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3267032899006172558/posts/default/8613657907698531348'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3267032899006172558/posts/default/8613657907698531348'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://norika-hiwatari.blogspot.com/2011/09/is-it-wrong-to-care.html' title='Is It Wrong to Care?'/><author><name>Norika Hiwatari</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16296123493987897557</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='18' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_caHrLWu8Pks/SrYQs2PS8II/AAAAAAAAAAM/wfbl6JKoTCY/S220/Dissidia_ED___Zidane_Tribal_by_Moluscum.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-BtRMZ8P1Hag/Tmzgh0JZbhI/AAAAAAAAAJA/TZP4FXxUC3A/s72-c/Capture.PNG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3267032899006172558.post-6688181602846423466</id><published>2011-09-10T10:24:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-09-10T10:24:36.093-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='games'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='personal'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='TOA'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Guy Cecil'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Tales of the Abyss'/><title type='text'>Tales of the Abyss Addiction</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Alright so it's almost 1am here in my place as I type this and I've been playing Tales of the Abyss... well, not for the whole day today, I can assure you that (I did my homework). Moving along, Tales of the Abyss, I must really say, it's really addicting. I thought I wouldn't get addicted to it or something since I've been into Tales of Vesperia before. With all honestly, I'm blaming myself for playing this wonderful game just now. I love how the story can make you bring into a lot of emotions. Not only that, it was able to show everyone's back story and how they were able to bring it to the current situation each of the character is facing.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://img3.lln.crunchyroll.com/i/spire1/07302008/3/1/0/3/310366ba916c40_full.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="200" src="http://img3.lln.crunchyroll.com/i/spire1/07302008/3/1/0/3/310366ba916c40_full.jpg" width="142" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-size: small;"&gt;"*Shudder*... Women are scary!"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;My personal favourite would be Guy's back story. I never imagine that his past is that sorrowful it was really the reason for his phobia with girls. Well, I don't want to really add hard spoilers here but seriously, I also felt sad and sorry to Guy. It's one of those "who would knew..." moments. Well, other than his back story, I really love Guy's personality as well. He is very natural when it comes to girls. He's sweet, honest, and best of all, he can really be anyone's friend once you get close to him. I guess, he's one of my dream guys. I'll let his slight pervertedness pass. He's good very good looking anyway. Oh! Not to mention, he's really smart when it comes to fon machines which I would equivalent it to technology in modern society~ Ugh~ He's just perfect to fill my dreams~&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Ahahaha ok enough fangirling, right now, according to the &lt;a href="http://www.gamefaqs.com/ps2/929343-tales-of-the-abyss/faqs/51814"&gt;&lt;b&gt;walkthrough&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt; I'm looking at from time to time (hey I get lost... so yeah I need some guide at times), I'm in chapter 2 going to the 6th section which means that I'm going to Daath next after convincing Natalia's father about the peace treaty. I'm excited to finish and found out the ending of the game~ A part of me is thinking that maybe there would be some twists in chapter 3~ Oh I can't wait to get into it already!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Well, that's all for now~ I guess it's bed time for me!&amp;nbsp;Cheerios&amp;nbsp;~&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3267032899006172558-6688181602846423466?l=norika-hiwatari.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://norika-hiwatari.blogspot.com/feeds/6688181602846423466/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3267032899006172558&amp;postID=6688181602846423466' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3267032899006172558/posts/default/6688181602846423466'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3267032899006172558/posts/default/6688181602846423466'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://norika-hiwatari.blogspot.com/2011/09/tales-of-abyss-addiction.html' title='Tales of the Abyss Addiction'/><author><name>Norika Hiwatari</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16296123493987897557</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='18' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_caHrLWu8Pks/SrYQs2PS8II/AAAAAAAAAAM/wfbl6JKoTCY/S220/Dissidia_ED___Zidane_Tribal_by_Moluscum.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total><georss:featurename>Alabang-Zapote Rd, Las Piñas City, Philippines</georss:featurename><georss:point>14.444546 120.9938736</georss:point><georss:box>14.442624 120.9914061 14.446468000000001 120.9963411</georss:box></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3267032899006172558.post-5790442150777148846</id><published>2011-09-08T03:12:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-09-08T03:13:01.005-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='personal'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='school'/><title type='text'>First day of classes!</title><content type='html'>Yay! So it's my first day of classes for the second term. Right now, I'm still in DLSU waiting for my driver. I don't have much to do for today and I'm really tired and sleepy now. Ahahaha. I need to fix my sleeping schedule. So what happened to me during the first day? Well, I'll try to&amp;nbsp;separate&amp;nbsp;it per subject.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Arrival in DLSU&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I came to school really early at 8:40, which is 1 hour before my class would start. So first things, first. I look for a table and opened my laptop and post a status message in Facebook. Well, there's nothing much in there but it was really boring, and I don't feel like it's really the first day of classes. After some time, Rene came and hanged out with me and also with one of her thesis groupmate, Micheal. They were fixing and talking about their lab reservation and trying to fix things while I was browsing on the ST-THES groups for the requirements needed to accomplish for this term. Then Gigi came as well and asking how we are and talking about typical 1st day expectations.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Yes yes, I might look studious but no. I was really bored and I don't feel like playing Tales of Abyss yet. So anyway, they've given out who is our panelist and to my surprise, Dr. Rachel Roxas is one of my panelist... Seriously, that's kinda scary because she happens to be the &lt;b&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;i&gt;dean&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/b&gt; of CCS.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Then it's almost time for me to prepare for my first class, MODESTA. So I went up an somewhat escorted Rene and Gigi and went in the room G209. As for me, I went in G211... Apparently my MODESTA class is in G212... I got disoriented already... Hahaha! Well, at least I was still early to move to the next classroom.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;MODESTA&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So MODESTA time! I went to class and wait for my prof. I was hoping that the prof I'll get is either miss Nellie Chua or sir Migs Cabral... Sadly, I got Doc Mac. I was really shocked... well, everyone is. Sadly the reason why he was the professor is that CCS apparently lacked faculty members and they really needed someone to teach this subject... So there he is.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There's nothing really interesting that happened during class time so moving on to break time!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;3-hour break time&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Yay! So I got 3 hours of break, what should I do? Play time! \o\ But no, instead I aimlessly browsed the internet and Facebook. Oh and guess what? I saw my *favourite* friends, Kenneth and XL. I never expected them to come to school very early. So I found out that they're going out with Shiela and go to MOA and of course they asked me what time is my next class. And the usual conversation would go like:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Kenneth: Cara! Anong oras next class mo?&lt;br /&gt;Me: 2:40&lt;br /&gt;Kenneth: tama! 2:00 'o clock pupunta kami ng MOA.&lt;br /&gt;Me: AMP =)) malalate ako!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Well, there's really no hope for them to change that. hahahaha Oh well. So I ate lunch with them and kept on laughing and still get teased. I wonder when will I learn to get used with them. Hahahha Oh yeah, I kept on slapping XL's arm at some point! hahaha I also ate lunch with them along with Ali and Paolo. Yes, I think I died during my break. And again, I missed the change of playing Tales of Abyss. T^T&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;TREDFOR&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For TREDFOR, well nothing much happened. Oh! It's actually my first time to cross enroll. So it's my first time to get in a different college environment. Ahaha it feels kinda awkward and weird. Luckily, I have a friend who took it with me. The class was kinda boring. Oh and the prof speaks up and down and emphasizes some words as he speaks. Hmmm it's like he was delivering a speech.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;INOVATE&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ugh finally almost done! Well, I think I don't need to emphasize how boring that class is. I just want to get out of there and go home hahaha&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Well, that wraps up my first day of classes. Right now, I'm waiting for my driver to pick me up so I can go eat already and most importantly, sleep.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3267032899006172558-5790442150777148846?l=norika-hiwatari.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://norika-hiwatari.blogspot.com/feeds/5790442150777148846/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3267032899006172558&amp;postID=5790442150777148846' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3267032899006172558/posts/default/5790442150777148846'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3267032899006172558/posts/default/5790442150777148846'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://norika-hiwatari.blogspot.com/2011/09/first-day-of-classes.html' title='First day of classes!'/><author><name>Norika Hiwatari</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16296123493987897557</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='18' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_caHrLWu8Pks/SrYQs2PS8II/AAAAAAAAAAM/wfbl6JKoTCY/S220/Dissidia_ED___Zidane_Tribal_by_Moluscum.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total><georss:featurename>Fidel A.Reyes, Manila, Philippines</georss:featurename><georss:point>14.5653517 120.9930318</georss:point><georss:box>14.563430700000001 120.9905643 14.5672727 120.99549929999999</georss:box></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3267032899006172558.post-9222511501887455903</id><published>2011-07-26T01:01:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-07-26T01:01:16.906-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='blogger'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='random'/><title type='text'>Back to Blogger</title><content type='html'>Wow. Seriously, Blogger has improved a lot. XD hahaha I didn't expect it. Well basically, it's easy to customize the layout and the posts.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hmm, hopefully, I'm able to fix this blog more and hopefully, I'll be able to post some interesting things here. :D&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Cheerios~&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3267032899006172558-9222511501887455903?l=norika-hiwatari.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://norika-hiwatari.blogspot.com/feeds/9222511501887455903/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3267032899006172558&amp;postID=9222511501887455903' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3267032899006172558/posts/default/9222511501887455903'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3267032899006172558/posts/default/9222511501887455903'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://norika-hiwatari.blogspot.com/2011/07/back-to-blogger.html' title='Back to Blogger'/><author><name>Norika Hiwatari</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16296123493987897557</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='18' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_caHrLWu8Pks/SrYQs2PS8II/AAAAAAAAAAM/wfbl6JKoTCY/S220/Dissidia_ED___Zidane_Tribal_by_Moluscum.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3267032899006172558.post-2222873334691057708</id><published>2007-08-20T06:35:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-08-20T06:40:39.829-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Stardust'/><title type='text'>Stardust (I have finally finished reading!)</title><content type='html'>Finally. XD Nyahahaha I've finished the book~ I love it so much! I can't wait to watch the movie. XD; I'm already ranting that I find the guy actor of Tristan Thorn not that... attractive. XD I was imagining he's way more dashing than that guy. ;P Ah well.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a name="cutid1"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="ljcut" text="Under this cut is a spoiler to Stardust"&gt;I'm really happy that the star, Yvaine, and Tristan got together in the end. Nyahaha they're my OTP. XD I was also all, "Nooo don't go to the wall and turn into a rock! &gt;&lt; Just stay behind the wall and tell Tristan!! D:" Hehehe and I'm glad they stayed behind the Wall. :P I laughed when Yvaine asked Victoria if she's not going to marry Tristan. She was all, "Good." XD Wahaha&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It was surprising that the slave was the one daughter of the Stormhold family. XD And to think that slave had a relationship with Tristan's father, Dunstan.  O: So yeah... Tristan had the Power of Stormhold and ruled that country since he's the only guy left in the family while all his uncles died. It's kinda sad that Tristan didn't knew that Primus was his uncle.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The epilogue was so sad because Tristan has to die due to old age while the star doesn't age at all. ToT I wish the could meet again. Though if she left, no one would govern the land of Stormhold since Yvaine and Tristan couldn't make a child because Yvaine is a star and Tristan's a half mortal. Saaadd, I tell you. Saad. D:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So for me, &lt;b&gt;Stardust &lt;/b&gt;has a twist in a way and some surprising events at the last chapter. Everything went well for the star and Tristan which is really good. :3 Though I hope there's a continuation of the story or something. Haha XD Yeah... Mido got addicted to the story.. &gt;&gt;; It's my sickness to get addicted to something so easily. ._.;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Though really, I recommend this book. It's really nice and adventurous. Also it has some sap in it. Nyahaha me and sap. ;P It's also really magical and the way Neil Gaiman used his words are really kind of different in some of the books I've read. :3 (Not only that this is the first book I've ranted in the internet XD)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Anyway, time to do some duties and start reading &lt;b&gt;Twilight&lt;/b&gt;~ &lt;3&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3267032899006172558-2222873334691057708?l=norika-hiwatari.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://norika-hiwatari.blogspot.com/feeds/2222873334691057708/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3267032899006172558&amp;postID=2222873334691057708' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3267032899006172558/posts/default/2222873334691057708'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3267032899006172558/posts/default/2222873334691057708'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://norika-hiwatari.blogspot.com/2007/08/stardust-i-have-finally-finished.html' title='Stardust (I have finally finished reading!)'/><author><name>Norika Hiwatari</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16296123493987897557</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='18' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_caHrLWu8Pks/SrYQs2PS8II/AAAAAAAAAAM/wfbl6JKoTCY/S220/Dissidia_ED___Zidane_Tribal_by_Moluscum.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3267032899006172558.post-1949241093380939646</id><published>2007-08-18T08:37:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-08-18T08:53:12.303-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Twilight'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Stardust'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='New Moon'/><title type='text'>Stardust</title><content type='html'>Okay.. this one was pure temptation. XD I couldn't control myself; I'm still addicted with the internet. XD;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So anyway, today was fine. My siblings and I went to ATC this afternoon since I wanted to go to PowerBooks that badly just to buy &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;New Moon&lt;/span&gt; by &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Stephenie Meyer&lt;/span&gt;. Yeah, I'm collecting her books for now even though I haven't even started reading &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Twilight&lt;/span&gt;. XD; Though good thing that we went to PowerBooks today because &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;all&lt;/span&gt; their books (no kidding, even the new ones) is on sale. And guess what? The sale is up to August 31. Fun, isn't it? ;P&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So just a while ago when I went back home, I started reading &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Stardust&lt;/span&gt; by &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Niel Gaiman&lt;/span&gt; and I tried to finish it by tonight but well... haha I'm online now. :P Well, I stopped reading at Chapter 7. XD;; (shucks, I feel like I'm still so slow at reading) Though currently, I'm starting to like Stardust. :3 I find it amusing and very adventurous. My favorite character there was the star. XD Hehehe to tell you the truth, I imagined her as Naomi from &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Kingdom Hearts 2&lt;/span&gt;. (Wait... was her name Naomi? :/ Ah well, as long as that girl in white. Who drew Sora and the gang. XD; ) I love the personality of the star so much. As for the main character, Tristan, well, I find him cool because he knows where to go even though he it's his first time behind that Wall.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So maybe tomorrow, I'll do my best to finish the book. XD Oh, and also, I have to review for Chinese. &gt;&gt;; I forgot to review for today. XD;; Looks like I'm not following my schedule once again. Yay.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Well, I have to go to bed now. XD I just feel so talkative right now and I just need to write/type that. XD haha&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;P.S.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Jas-sama, if you're reading this, I just want to thank you for informing me that PowerBooks doesn't update they're website, or else I wouldn't have gotten &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;New Moon&lt;/span&gt;. Hehe &lt;3&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3267032899006172558-1949241093380939646?l=norika-hiwatari.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://norika-hiwatari.blogspot.com/feeds/1949241093380939646/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3267032899006172558&amp;postID=1949241093380939646' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3267032899006172558/posts/default/1949241093380939646'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3267032899006172558/posts/default/1949241093380939646'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://norika-hiwatari.blogspot.com/2007/08/stardust.html' title='Stardust'/><author><name>Norika Hiwatari</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16296123493987897557</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='18' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_caHrLWu8Pks/SrYQs2PS8II/AAAAAAAAAAM/wfbl6JKoTCY/S220/Dissidia_ED___Zidane_Tribal_by_Moluscum.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3267032899006172558.post-3844688812221322689</id><published>2007-08-13T06:48:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2007-08-14T02:44:34.466-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Exams Finally Done!</title><content type='html'>Okay, so not really done but for the first quarter. :3 My friends and I went to Glorietta after the exams since we're half day while our siblings had their normal classes. &gt;XD&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ahh Timezone. XD I miss it so much! And I'm not that afraid to dance DDR in front of people... though there are only a few people there. XDDD Wahahaha But me and my friends still enjoyed our quality time together. :3 That's what matters.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Well, since I got a lot of blogs right now. I'm not sure about this one. ^^; This might end up into my personal fic site. XD; Still not sure. :P Wahaha XD;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3267032899006172558-3844688812221322689?l=norika-hiwatari.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://norika-hiwatari.blogspot.com/feeds/3844688812221322689/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3267032899006172558&amp;postID=3844688812221322689' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3267032899006172558/posts/default/3844688812221322689'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3267032899006172558/posts/default/3844688812221322689'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://norika-hiwatari.blogspot.com/2007/08/test.html' title='Exams Finally Done!'/><author><name>Norika Hiwatari</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16296123493987897557</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='18' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_caHrLWu8Pks/SrYQs2PS8II/AAAAAAAAAAM/wfbl6JKoTCY/S220/Dissidia_ED___Zidane_Tribal_by_Moluscum.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry></feed>
