observations and whatnots

i stayed up all night trying to figure out how to amuse myself. i also helped a friend sign up for a Livejournal account and set it up with background and all. i realized how much of a geek i am when my friends or just people i know run to me and ask how to set up their blogs or what codes to use when they want blah blah blahs on their blogs. but i love helping out (yeah, so if you need help with yours... i'll help you!) and it makes me happy teaching people about things i know.

then i spent hours chatting on YM with this same friend. you know, having a lot of guy friends and girl friends helped me see how guys and girls are different. i've talked with mostly all of them about the most trivial things and the more serious of conversations. i realized that

1. when girls have problems, they tend to dramatize (okay, i refuse to use the word "exaggerate" because i'm a girl too and i'm guilty of that) a lot about their situation. guys, on the otherhand, go straight to the point. meaning, they'll say "this is what's wrong...". they acknowledge the problem and deal with it so fast. it's not that they don't care. they just don't dramatize too much or whine about things that can no longer be changed! girls tend to wallow in self-pity for a LONG period of time before finally accepting the situation.

2. girls are good at voicing out or expressing what they feel when they're in a rut. guys, on the otherhand, hesitate to tell that they have problems because they feel like it's not too "macho" to show their weak side and they feel like they can work things out by themselves.

3. when girls give out advice, they usually go round and round and not go straight to the point. when you ask a guy for advice, WHAM! they'll hit you (figuratively, of course) with reality on the face. this is the situation. deal with it. this is what you do. they give solutions right away. girls do give sound advice and resolutions but sometimes, well, we tend to rant and rant and end up with... "it's up to you."

4. when you ask girls what they think, they usually answer with "it really depends on you. what do you want?". when you ask guys what they think, they'll be frank about it.

5. we over analyze too often when sometimes there's nothing more beneath the surface. what you see is what you get.

i'll add to the list but so far, these are my observations. so that makes me a lucky duck to have plenty of guy friends and girl friends. i get to have the best of both worlds. HAHA! don't get me wrong, of course, i love my girl friends. they're the best! but we have to admit, girls. sometimes we're drama queens. i don't know, maybe it's in our nature to be fragile and emotional all the time. we tend to over analyze a lot.

anyway, so much for that. i decided to change the layout again (yes, go ahead and roll your eyes). but this time, i'm not the one who designed it. credit goes to Becarry who gives out free templates for blogger. i was just too lazy to start from scratch all over again and i need the change because i want something brighter that's cool for the eyes. i just hate it when i use templates that i didn't design because it's a different feeling when you yourself create templates. oh well. this is temporary. i hope.

i'm going to get my glasses tonight (hurray! no more blind gail!). i'm near-sighted, you see. i have bad eyesight since i was 10 years old but it has gotten a lot worse from correctional to astigmatism to nearsighted AND astigmatism. i don't wear my glasses all the time, though. just when i'm in class (because i cannot see what's written on the white board and i hate pestering seatmates to dictate the lesson). i should wear them more often than i used to because 1.) i end up losing them 2.) misplacing them and of course, 3.) worsening my eyesight. i don't want to use contact lenses because i'm not up for taking them on and off, cleaning them, then wearing them again in the morning. it's just too much for me. i opt for spectacles so i might as well discipline myself to wear them more often because i've been squinting more often these days and i think my headaches aren't migraine attacks anymore. they're my eyes screaming "WEAR GLASSES AND HELP US SEE!". and then i'm going to have dinner with my father (my sister is still in Baguio unti Saturday, that lucky duck).

my glorious days of bumming around watching tv shows like House, Medical Investigation, C.S.I., Everybody Loves Raymond, King of Queens, Married to the Kellys, Wonderfalls, Worlds Apart, The Practice, and F.R.I.E.N.D.S. have ended. oh, and lets not forget the death of my reigning days as the Couch Queen. i bid farewell to sembreak, hello school.

have a great afternoon!