"long day" is an understatement

"does mathematics mirror reality?" that's the title of the seminar i attended this morning (it was held at the nismed auditorium). dr. fidel nemenzo was the resource person.. and he was great :) good way to start my morning, haha. too bad those two teachers from some god-knows-what school missed out on the fun. one fell asleep.. the other kept fiddling with her oh-so-loud celphone.. and both yapped on and on about how "weird" the talk was.. blah blah blah. sheesh. makes me wonder why they even bothered to attend the talk in the first place..

anyway. this morning's talk put me in a sort of mathematical/nerdy mood haha. i found myself thinking of fibonacci sequences (found in sunflowers, pineapples and nautilus shells), fractals, and other math stuff throughout the day. so it was with excitement that i went with friend mich to the book fair (world trade center) in the afternoon. we browsed through all sorts of books there - from teacher resources (for math, naturally) to children's activity books to novels, to nonfiction to religious magazines. and to top it off, friend laya (and the others from c&e publishing house) treated us and some of their authors to this yummy "ihawan" place nearby. it sure was fun! :)

i wish we had more time to look around. it was just too bad we had to be on our way back to qc before 5pm. i had to attend the grade 10 pta's parents' night (held at the executive house, up). traffic was terrible.. and mich and i were stuck for hours on the road. oh well.. at least we had some "bonding" time haha :p

so, as expected, i arrived at the executive house late. very late. about 1.5 hours late. tsk tsk. talk about punctuality :p my only consolation was that i wasn't alone in my predicament. some of the parents got there late, too (mostly due to traffic). some weren't even able to make it. but the gathering turned out to be okay. i thought it would be awkward, mingling with parents of the seniors.. but i survived (along with ma'am joanne - the only other teacher there) hehe :p

tired but feeling accomplished, i headed home (the folks picked me up at around 9.30pm). i was looking forward to an early shuteye.. but cousin almi dropped in unexpectedly from choir prax. apparently, she and choirmate john got stuck in traffic in aurora.. and she was *very* hungry.. so she decided to drop by our place first to have dinner :p hahaha. well, that was a nice surprise. it's been a while since almi came for a visit. and in spite of the exhaustion, i had fun talking with her :)

so there. guess that's the end of my (long) sharing for today. tomorrow's another day. i wonder how it's going to turn out..