jem

6:03 AM

Good morning.

I have early morning drills and then class until 2. I'm free after that hanggang training.

See you later, Mai. :)

jem

7:47 AM

hiiiiiiiii

paalis na ko

i have class until 12

Yeah, I know. Your sched's in my calendar na also.

Tapos na rin kami, I'm gonna take a shower.

calendar???

I told you that's what I do with commitment.

Can I see you at 2? Kung saan ka man? I'll help you with Philo.

jem nababaliw na talaga ako

this is weird

weird good and weird new

you need to stop

Hahahahahahaah

I thought it was good?

SHUT UP

GOODBYE

Laters, Yvanna. 😂😂😂

Go get your caffeine fix.

wag mo kong utusan

Go get your caffeine fix, please, baby.

SASAKTAN TALAGA KITA PAG NAGKITA TAYO

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHA

😁😁😁

gc ng mga walang papa

11:13 AM

gwenny

san kau my frennies imy all pagod na ko sa volleyball

tinatanong na ko ano meron sa inyo ni vargas @Yvanna

lf kaholding hands din kahit si yape o

Ronnie

Si fuckboy suplado? Yeah, right.

gwenny

sige si piencenaves na lang

Ronnie

Well

Mabait naman yan si Matthew.

gwenny

sino yon gago

Ronnie

Si Teo Piencenaves nga hahaha.

gwenny

AH OO NGA PALA DI KASI BAGAY E

wag na parehas kaming maingay 😞

may pimple patch ba kayo ang pangit ko today dzaiiiiiiii

Ronnie

I might have!

Yvs and I are getting lunch sa Ella and then Bo's kami but I have an RL shift, I might work sa HQ there na rin ng RLA. But Yvs will work na daw sa Bo's.

gwenny

oki sunod meeeee

Yvanna

ha

ano

ewan ko

masaya

gwenny

anong masaya

Ronnie

Importante ngayon, masaya.

'Di bale nang conflict ang athlete x journalist.

gwenny

ano feeling ng hawak kamay niya teh @Yvanna

Yvanna

like my organs were twisting and wringing themselves out like a wet towel.

like my stomach dropped somewhere around my knees.

like i lost hearing in one ear.

gwenny

gusto mo ba siya o nandidiri ka teh ano ba

Ronnie

Gusto niya.

She just feels things everywhere.

gwenny

beh baka ma-ospital ka pag hinalikan ka ah kayanin mo wag mo kami ipahiya ma

🔒 @yvannugh

the first time he kissed me i was so caught off-guard and wala pa akong feelings non. im doomed.

jem

12:03 PM

we're going to Bo's

Who's 'we'?

ronnie and i

susunod si gwen

si strict 🙄

Curious lang. :)

I'll be there after my class.

okay

um

medyo puno ng students

Do you care?

weirdly enough, not as much as i used to

Then I'll be there after my class. :)

The Loop PH

Direct Messages

Lillian Duenas

1:05 PM

Yvanna Adriano

yape draft finished, boss!

Lillian Duenas

You've been getting really good at submitting things at a reasonable time.

Your Marciano Spotify didn't do as well, but that's okay, support lang naman.

This Yape piece will pull up our numbers. I'll check this and leave my comments.

Yvanna Adriano

okay, thank you boss

i have other pitches pa po, can't wait for your thoughts sa pitch meeting!

Lillian Duenas

Excited to hear them. :)

How's your progress with your Vargas article?

I'm assuming you've gotten ahold of him by now.

🔒 @yvannugh

gotten ahold of him and more po ptangina k talaga /kamot ulo

The Loop PH

Direct Messages

Lillian Duenas

1:09 PM

Yvanna Adriano

yes po

it's coming together

Lillian Duenas

I never doubted you, but how'd you get him to finally reply to you?

Yvanna Adriano

um

persistence? i think he realized i wasn't going to stop until i got my answers

Lillian Duenas

Ah, that's the Reporter Barbie spirit. 😉

This Vargas exclusive is going to do things for our traffic we haven't seen in a long time. His fanbase alone will share it everywhere—that's organic reach we can't buy. Brands have been asking about ad placements. And if we're the publication that gets him to finally talk, that's credibility no other outlet in the UAAP circuit has.

Our readers are going to LOVE this one, it's our most anticipated one yet.

Don't let me down! Remember your internship review. 😉

Yvanna Adriano

yes po, noted

Lillian Duenas

For now, I'll let you know once I have my comments.

Thanks Yvanna!

Yvanna Adriano

🫡

🔒 @yvannugh

why do i feel

🔒 @yvannugh

agh

🔒 @yvannugh

she's excited about the content, the engagement, and numbers. months ago, i was, too.

🔒 @yvannugh

but months ago I didn't know him like i do now.

jem

1:15 PM

san ka na >:(

all of this philo shit are just words to me, my head hurts

Klase pa po.

I pulled up my old Philo notes, got me a B, so they should help you.

makikita mo na na bobo talaga ako

Stop calling yourself that, don't piss me off.

ANO BA KASI PINAGSASABI NI PLATO

He basically is saying that everything in the physical world is already a copy of something truer. Like the perfect version of a chair exists somewhere untouchable and the actual chair you sit on is just an imitation of that. And then a painting of that chair is an imitation of an imitation.

so everything we see is already a copy?

Basically, yes. And art is a copy of that copy.

bat hindi na lang kasi ganon ang pagkakasabi hushushuhuhu

ok and kant?

Kant says when you judge something as beautiful, that judgment feels objective to you. Like you're stating a fact, but it's actually just yours. It's subjective dressed up as universal truth.

so everyone thinks their opinion is correct.

tama ba????

Yes, good girl.

You learn fast.

🔒 @yvannugh

ayoko na halikan mo na ko napakabagal amputa

jem

1:26 PM

pasikat, pabibo, papansin

Hahahahahahahahaah 😽

STOP IM TRYING TO FOCUS

si emerson?

His main point is that you're the best judge of art for yourself. Not critics, not other people—the art wasn't made for them. It was made for you. So stop listening to everyone else telling you what to see and just look.

i think you need to listen to emerson

I think so too.

ok parang gets ko na yung gist niya, e si plotinus?

Beauty isn't physical. it doesn't live in symmetry or proportion or any measurable thing—it comes from the soul. And the only way to actually see beauty is to look past the surface, past the physical. The soul is what perceives the real thing.

what the putangina does that even meaaaaaannnn

Okay. See it this way.

You know how when you look at someone and you think they're beautiful? Plotinus says that's not actually about what you're seeing, like your eyes aren't what's doing the work.

edi ano?

Your soul recognizes something in them. Something that isn't physical—and that's the real beauty. The face is just the surface of it.

so beauty is underneath

Yes, the physical thing just points you toward it. But it's not the beauty itself.

read

Okay, how about if I say it like this:

You've been covering me since your first year. Stats, performance, what I look like on the court. King Eagle. The measurable, physical, statistical thing. The version of me that exists on the court and in your articles. That's real.

yes, correct

And before our one-on-one interview, I've only seen you as Reporter Barbie who uses words like weapons. The byline, the press pass, the criticisms, the nepotism piece. The surface version of you.

Plotinus would say we've been seeing each other wrong.

wrong how?

Well, not wrong like incorrect. Wrong like incomplete. We've been using just our eyes, and Plotinus says the eyes only get you so far. They see the surface, the physical thing, and they stop there. But the soul doesn't stop there. The soul bypasses all of it.

bypass how? like i started seeing you differently kasi mas nakilala pa kita?

Not exactly, it's not about getting to know each other. It's not like you collected enough information about me and then decided okay, we're past the surface/physical now. That's not how Plotinus says it works.

nabobobo na ko jem

The soul doesn't accumulate. It recognizes. So Plotinus says the soul recognizes beauty not through accumulation of information but through a sudden moment of recognition. It's not gradual. It just happens. And you can't always explain why or point to the exact reason.

🔒 @yvannugh

oh. when you fell asleep on facetime. an unguarded, private, accidental thing.

🔒 @yvannugh

it wasn't a conclusion i reasoned my way to, just recognition.

🔒 @yvannugh

plotinus patay ka na diba hahahahah

jem

1:47 PM

Nung tinanong kita if pwede kitang ligawan, I did it out of nowhere. But you sent me a photo of you.

that photo was terrible

No, you looked like yourself. You were just at lunch with your mom. And I couldn't explain my sudden urge then and I still can't really explain it now except that's what Plotinus is talking about. It wasn't because I'd collected enough good experiences with you. It wasn't gradual. I looked at that photo and my soul just kind of knew.

know what?

You know what, Yvanna.

yeah

yeah i know

so plotinus said all that?

I'm paraphrasing, but yes, essentially.

ok

thank you

UAAP Blue Eagles Basketball Captain Uses Dead Philosopher to Flirt

Hahahahahahahahaahaha

If it helps you understand Plotinus and helps my case at the same time, I don't see the problem.

wag ka na pumunta dito

I'm actually running to you now.

STOP

Hahahahahahahah

gc ng mga walang papa

2:09 PM

Ronnie

Gaga, ba't mo sinapak pagkaupo niya sa tabi mo?

Yvanna

ang pogi niya kasi nakakairita

gwenny

si ate koh ay nanhahampas pag kinikilig

Yvanna

tsaka andaming nakatingin naiinis ako

gwenny

maam you are literally with the most popular guy in the whole league

otw na ko mga maries at maes got held up by my other classmates

Ronnie

I'm going and leaving these two.

Inaasar siya ni Vargas and she's screaming at him and he's just laughing.

gwenny

he's right where he wants to be

Ronnie

Yvs: You're a dumbass

Vargas: Say it again, that was hot

gwenny

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAH PUTANGINA NYO PATAYIN NYO NA KO KINIKILIG AKO

gc ng mga walang papa

2:16 PM

gwenny

b

@Yvanna

Yvanna

yes?

gwenny

you do know what you look like right

Yvanna

haggard, utterly stupid trying to learn this module, probably have ink on my face, definitely have not combed my hair since this morning, actively angry at men who have been dead for centuries, one philosophy reading away from dropping out, annoyed in several directions simultaneously, also annoyed at the 12 women in this cafe who kept staring at me/us in the last hour (yes i counted), inexplicably annoyed that he's sitting beside me being helpful and lovely and warm and

gwenny

you look like you're in love

gc ng mga walang papa

2:18 PM

gwenny

sorry, did you not know?