Birthday

Tomorrow (November 1) is my sister's 13th birthday.

Today, I was supposed to treat her out at a mall (she likes malling) and buy something she likes which will be my gift. But too bad it's raining hard and we woke up late.

What will be a nice gift for her?

Happy birthday Tin-tin. =D

In My Dreams

Having a misunderstanding with your best friend is normal. After all, this can really help your relationship to be stronger as both of you become more open to accepting differences and mature with regard to handling such a thing.

But still, too much of everything can be harmful, and too much conflict can obviously destroy any kind of relationship, especially if one of you is not willing to fix the problem at all.

Will I ever have you back again?

Travel and Pain

These past few days I'm constantly going back and forth between Antipolo and Katipunan for my advanced accounting lessons. It is only this semestral break that I was able to commute again that far, since I am staying at a boarding house during school days.

Travelling can be very stressful, since there are many things that you need to keep in mind like constantly attending to your belongings, knowing where you are already during the course of the travel and even struggling to just have a ride during rush hours.

But there are other things that caused me more stress during travel. One of these is the seemingly unstoppable infestation of the smoke-belching vehicles on major roads. Being in an academic institution that is very concerned about the environment just made me more concerned and even paranoid to this situation. I wonder when will people start actually doing something about it and other things having similar effects to our environment. Truly, a lot of institutions are already doing something for these, but all their efforts are useless as the majority simply ignore these pleas.

But the pain is yet to be intensified as I finally arrive in Katipunan. Truly, this is one of the places in the country where some of the richest people reside, but this image is yet to be completed by the poor people walking along the streets, bringing along with them their small treasure of collected plastics and other recyclables to be sold at a small amount to nearby junk shops. There are also beggars who can be seen staying at the sidewalks, eating the food which they got from trash - their sumptuous meal for the whole day. Some do not even look that they have eaten for days. And there are these children constantly running after the commuters and other well-off people walking in the street asking for money, as if they are playing habul-habulan with them.

I guess our nation still needs to travel farther to overcome all these obstacles.

At the end of the day, I was able to do nothing, but go back to my little yet warm home, where my caring mother and kind sister wait. I looked fine upon arriving home, but the wounds I got from my journey are still stinging.


When will travelling be more enjoyable then?

A day with Poo-poo

For almost 2 years, I have been complaining with my laptop's poor performance. Despite its relatively good components, I still find him very inefficient - his battery won't even last for an hour and a half in its normal power plan - and working huge applications and files with him feels like having a walk with a turtle uphill under the cloudless sky at noon (0_0).

The problem with it is not really hard to determine - operating system. Even before having Poo-poo, I already know the disadvantages of the Windows Vista. But unfortunately Poo-poo was given to me having it already. Only if the Vista installed at him had not been a genuine one, I would have removed it from his system long ago.

So what I did is just put an XP on him. But it took almost the whole day for me and Jacky to be able to fix the partition and do the file back-up (That's how slow he is, or maybe I just have too much files in my hard drive). There are also some problems that we've encountered during the installation of the latter, and up to now I'm still not done with installing drivers and stuff :'(

And so, I was not able to do all the things I'm supposed to do today because of Poo-poo.
Sigh.

Sembreak | Grades and Learning

Everytime sembreak arrives, I always have this dilemma of looking for something nice to do. While most of my friends actually enjoy doing nothing during vacation (e.g. movie marathon, malling, out of town - yeah, that's nothing for me) I, on the other hand, keep on making myself busy with - guess what - academics. I do this because 1) I want to be prepared for the next semester; 2) I wanted to be productive and; 3) I simply want to study.

Most of my close friends tell me that I'm overly grade conscious because of this. Well, I'm actually fine with it. After all, studying is a very nice thing to do, but not really easy when you are in school and everything happens very simultaneously. I think that is why it is important for me study every now and then and have good grades in school because it constantly motivates me to do better on it and it tells me if I am actually good with what I am doing. Failing and even Mediocrity is never in my vocabulary. Good grades bring me satisfaction, or that's what I thought.

Last semester, I was able to get "the grade." Actually, this is already the second time that I was able to make it (the last one was during summer sem though, so I really don't consider it. But hey, I had a really tough summer). While my blockmates were happy for me, I was shocked to realize that I felt nothing towards it. Yes, I'm satisfied with my grade (what could get any higher?) but I think there's something missing.

Perhaps I was too much anticipating for this that it killed all the excitement and thrill when it actually arrived. Or it can mean another thing: I am not satisfied with what I've learned, which I think makes more sense.

I'm not saying that Ateneo is not teaching that much. I think that because I was too focused on academics I actually forgot to give time to myself to learn more about other things. Friendship is one of those.

I guess I should give focus on this one. I don't want to fail on it.

Another Commitment

I'm new into this one.

I hope I can be able to post here every now and then.