Hehey! Been a week or so since my last blog entry. To my beloved readers, please understand that this absence was for good reason. I am certain that we all share a lot of these reasons. Anyhow, I am more than grateful for the success of what I have accomplished over the past few days of my dormancy here in blogpsot.
What's done is done. A looooooooong term paper in PS 171 (reminds me of a shampoo commerical where this girl says "loooooooong hair ko"), an enrichment activity in Geog 171 which required me to draw a world map bigger than a typical whiteboard (and I think I need new glasses with higher grading or maybe contacts if I just were more careful than clumsy), a draining encounter with GSIS (that's still frustratingly ongoing), econ exam which thank God went above boundary but less than expected, I don't want to recall other dealings for they will just make you think I have nothing good going on with my life. Bottom line, what's done is done. And I am glad about what I have done. Not perfect, more than satisfactory.
It just disturbed me when Celine and Farrah brought up their academic status and said that they screwed up this semester. Now, a lot of batchmates tell me the same. And I go, "Whoa?" At the back of my head, I thought, sure enough they may just have struggled this semester. BUT, surely, they are blessed still that they did not incur a 5 in math, and a 4 in another math subject. Of course, I was trying to make these to damzels "never in distress" feel good about themselves. Because, come on, Farrah is so up there in the laude board with the likes of Louie, Rania, Dominic, Mara et al. and I am living to meet the MIS GWA of 2 flat.
By the way Celine, thanks for your request. I have carefully considered it. Sure enough I will comply. Heheee.
A happy birthday to all y'all celebrants this coming month!
And so my reminder to these friends who share this concern over grades tipping below such laude standards this: "It's not how you start, but how you finish." It does not matter to me if you screwed up, if you ever did, at the middle of the sem as long as you hold your held up high come graduation time.
My only consolation is that, my GWAs of late are finally hitting the extreme north in the absence of a math subject. Sorry Christian, I am NOT overly grade conscious.
My typical life went on with this busy new time fixture called deadlines. Typical meaning, thank God, I was still able to attend to org work and more importantly church work. October is anniversary month of our ministry, and God are we trying to make it a big bang. Hmmm, maybe I should volunteer to be mascot or something...
When it comes to organizations, I don't know I have this tendency to be really serious about it. Like in the JPGS thing last month, I was like the one with the royal flush face instead of the poker face. I was pretty stern, perhaps too much for a orientation party. Well, at least it can be said that Political Scientists can be Geographers as well. Hehe, am just glad that they consider me an "adopted" major. They have a wonderful small community in that department. I believe our batch can be the same. Actually, we are the same in many aspects!
By the way, I felt so stupid in PS 167 when I found out that the expression "since time immemorial" is not "since time in memoriam" which I thought it was spelled like. How many more words in my vocabulary have to be corrected or expelled?
Speaking of 167, I just had a blast with Sir Jamon. He truly lives up to the title attorney. His insights, his principles, they all jibe. What makes him all the more believable is his life story. A handful can back their bark with bite, and I wish the same could be said of us. What an honor indeed. What I like more about him is that he doesn't try so hard to convince you to become a lawyer. He even at times wants to hate his own profession. He instead inspires you to think openly, critically and take on the path you should take. Sir, hope to see you next semester.
Sure we all want lenient professors at times. It just so happens to me that, all of my so-called linient goody-goody professors did leave a mark on me. So if I take them again, and again, then I am not at fault of having no nobler reason. I take the likes of Sir Jamon, Naval, Carlos, Ortega etc. just as I would take a so-called terrors like Mam Barrameda in my Soc Sci 1 because they leave such a mark on me. Convenience in getting good grades, no, great grades from both types of teachers hardly becomes apparent to me. Just sickens me when people say that some of us take these inspiring professors just to escape the objectivist, terror types and get the easy way out. And mind you, I loved my terror professors. I credit them for my GWA. Hehe.
I am irascible nowadays. I am petulent. I am a bit too sensitive about things. Thank God I am not the same about people.
Hey guess what? I may just be a part of UP's inaugural bowling team. The thing that is saddening is that the CHK administration may think we bowlers are rich kids hanging around in Libis. Well guess what? We ain't! Bowling, as any sport is, should be for everyone. Well, UP does not have a varsity team for this unless it becomes a UAAP event. Okay, I can live with that. Marketing here and there should bring in sponsors. I like bowling for two reasons so far aside from having great company and this talkative cute girl who calls you Moja-moja (I love her for that hehehe). (1) it's far less non-contact than basketball which I last played in full court God knows when and (2) it gives you the same satisfaction as basketball and badminton especially when you're 2.a elated and 2.b outright angry. Right now, I am a combination of both. If only I knew how to strike consistently =).
I told Grace this plan of mine starting next week. By the beginning of next year, I do hope this plan takes full effect.
Arianne, chingky, you always wanted to kill yourself after exams. It should come to no surprise that you will want to eat your heart out after seeing the results!
Jason, you still owe me one. Why did you have to keep that detail from me? Anyway, I understand. We have to be classmates soon. Lots to share with you dude.
Sembreak. Ah yes, sembreak. How do I make good use of you? Let me count the ways. Or maybe I should not. We all have been doing that the past semester. Honestly, this by far has been the toughest semester ever. That is why we are the Juniors now. Time comes, we will be the Seniors. I just don't like it when Seniors try to lord it over and say that their time has come. Your time doesn't come, even in love you work for it (now I am contradicting the romance hehe). It's always there, you just felt so inferior as a freshie perhaps?
My advise? DON'T BE PART OF A SYSTEM YOU SO DESPISED BEFORE IT ATE YOU. Thing is, it ate you, now you're part of that system. Sad thing is, everything you fought for will become meaningless if revolution does not come from you.
I have no right to preach. I have no credibility, after the stupidity I have done. I am not sure what some people think of me right now. Am I the victim? No, I love to take the blame. Am I now the suspect? Let's say right now, I am the irascible.
By the way, last Saturday I had the near perfect movie experience with family---watching the Phantom of the Opera. I had this wrong impression that this was a gruesome horror flick. Quite honestly, it made me shed a tear or two. And I hated it (shedding a tear or two). It was too tragic. The music, the characters, the fatal flaw of the poor phantom. That song: "...Christine that's all I ask you." rings bells. Change topic! Change topic!
I have to have my looooooooooooooong bushy hair cut. My mom kids me saying my hair is curly. I like to call it wavy!
Marian, SIKAT, congrats sa debut peformance.
God extend your patience.
