I can't believe it's Friday. In 48 hours' time, it's gonna be Monday so I have to make the most outta my weekend. I repeated Final Fantasy 8 all over again. As in from Disc 1. See, I made an error which would've been repairable earlier in the game but now that file is deleted so I'll have to start from the beginning. I don't really mind except that I have to level up all over again, which is so boring. I'll have to buy another memory card so when I feel that I made a mistake in the game, all I have to do is go back to an earlier file instead of doing the game all over again.

I think I'll just be staying home tonight. I dunno, I'm not in the mood to go out. For one, the driver left already and I think my parents are too lazy to drive me to where my friends live so that means I'll have to walk. I don't really mind cause I live a few blocks away and all that but see, it's already dark outside (it's 7 pm already!). And you know, I'm kind of paranoid about being kidnapped and raped and all that crap. I mean, that's what usually happens to all the girls who walk around the streets alone. Even in a village like this, with lotsa paranoid security guards and everything, I don't feel safe at all. I don't know why. Maybe because my dad keeps scaring me. But then I also understand because he is a lawyer and his law office has some morbid cases on young girls. Ugh. Someone has to walk with me to my friend's house. A passing car can just pull over and grab me.

"Safe" is the last thing you feel in this country. I am not allowed to take public transportation and have never taken the bus or anything like that in my life. I think that would have been fun, though. Then if you're an RK (slang for rich kid), it's tough luck because you are the target of kidnap-for-ransom . (I am not an RK.). Like for example, one of my friends had to take a separate car when we went to the mall last saturday because his parents were afraid he would be kidnapped and he had to have a bodyguard. His uncle got kidnapped the week before, which explains it, I guess. God, so many lazy people in the Philippines who have nothing better to do than kidnapping people and asking for ransom money worth millions of pesos. It's so sad when you come to think of it. What's even worse is that it's usually the police who are behind it, so you're on your own. And this never appears in the newspapers or else you get killed.

I'm going on a liquid diet on Tuesday so I'll be able to indulge on amusement park food guilt-free on Wednesday. Plus I'm already gaining weight, thanks to the chips Stephen brings to math tutor, so this liquid diet will probably help prevent me from gaining more weight. I got the diet idea from Mary Kaye because she was on one herself last week. She did it for two days though. What a tough girl. I don't think I'd be able to handle two days of having reduced-fat milk only.

I just got a phone call from Nikki and we talked about our crushes and stuff for awhile. Then she goes, "Have you noticed anything new about Gayle? Like she's changed or something?" I thought about it for awhile and said, "yeah" because Gayle really had changed. She started hanging out with the popular group recently and I've noticed that she's been more noisy and wild ever since then. I dunno if she still gets good grades but she definitely was not the same person I knew before. She used to be so down-to-earth but now, she's already acting like them. Anyway, Nikki told me that she and Gayle talked this afternoon and she told Gayle frankly that everyone thought that she was changing. That she had been become more superficial and snobby. I was surprised when Nikki said that Gayle actually cried when she heard that, because I expected her to roll her eyes or give some typical, popular girl comeback to that. I mean, that's what I would do if I were a superficial, snobby, popular girl. But it's really good to know that she still cares about what her friends think about her. I don't know if she's going to start hanging out with us again or what, but I hope she will!

I'm gonna play FF8 now. Enjoy your Friday night.