Reflections

Unfair.

Sometimes, no matter how much you put into something, once you commit a mistake, all your efforts will be ignored and the mistake you did will be the only one that people will see.

Painful.

Real giving happens when it starts to hurt, but the happiness and contentment that comes after that is one of the most wonderful feelings one can ever experience.

Economics

There are lots of opportunities out there now, and all are really good.

But the question is which are the ones I should grab, because its impossible to get all, unless I'm a god that can play with time and get all the resources in a snap.

Trade-offs can really make you crazy, and being too rational can lead you to frustration.

Sick

This semester seems to be dragging right from the start, and my body's beginning to dislike it.

But then, the subjects are interesting, I like my set of lecturers so far, and I love reading a lot of their course materials (this part's quite ironic).

Wish me good health for the rest of the school year, I hate having colds.

The essence of education

Recently, I'm digging myself into research about the current situation of the Philippine education. The facts are overwhelming, the numbers are stunning. Like what most people say, these problems seem improbable to solve, especially that we also have serious economic and political crisis in our country.
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Last Monday, I woke up early just to have my online enlistment for the second semester. The process went smoothly, and I was able to finish it in less than 3 minutes. And this is the result of my enlistment/assessment:

Every enrollment, I can't help but be overwhelmed by the sum of this assessment (minus the LESS portion). Aside from the expensive cost of units, (I think each unit costs around 2,300 pesos, some say it's 2,500, and they say that Ateneo has the most expensive unit cost), there are still lots of other fees to be paid. Just imagine how much the school gets from all the students (except to some like me of course, and thank you for the scholarship by the way) so the former can provide good education to the latter.

But, do we really need to pay that much just to have good education?

We all know that it's not, but it seems that most of us are not doing anything to make this happen.

Education is a right, not a privilege. Let's do something to make this a fact.

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And wish me luck about my research, I'm doing this with my group hoping that it will help us help our country solve some of the education sector's problems. More on this soon, hopefully.

Second semester is fast coming. I might not be able to update this site every now and then already.

Is this for real? Thank you so much

I just had the courage to ask him again.

He finally accepted my invitation.

Good thing I did it. I'm just so afraid to fail again I almost lost the courage press the button.

I am so happy.

Will I talk to him? I'm still quite hesitant. What if he does not want to talk to me yet?

What if it's just a server error? I did not receive any notification message that he actually accepted my invitation. I'm getting paranoid.

There's hope after all.

Thank you so much.

Dreaming and Missing

I am being tortured by this thought like a nightmare.

I just can't help but to think of my dear bestfriend these past few days, and even in my sleep he's inside my mind. Just like what's happening at present, he keeps on avoiding me in my dreams. And when the scene comes to the point that I'm getting near him to try to talk to him, my dream would abruptly stop and I would suddenly regain my consciousness.

Kahit sa panaginip bigo pa rin ako.

Yes, I've tried reaching out to him for a couple of months already, but all my attempts simply failed.

Very frustrating.

But at least these dreams made me able to see him and be with him even just for a short time, and even though it's not real.

Sorry if I sound very pathetic.

I miss you.

A Happy Halloween | Poor Souls

Every Halloween, my family simply stays at home and just celebrates my sister's birthday. We don't go to cemeteries simply because we don't have the means to, and even if we have, we would still opt to stay at home than go to cramped places such as those during this time.

The birthday celebrant

Some of the foods we had for Tin-tin's birthday

Mommy

Indeed, we do always have a happy and hassle-free Halloween.

Hope that you also had a happy one.

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Let us pray for those who died at the NLEX accident which happened earlier this day.