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Swerte October 11, 2006

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Never ever ever ever pa ako nag-exam na hindi ako nagdepende sa hula. Proof na ang mga huli kong exam na ako ay guess-wise, kung meron mang ganon. Physics 3rd Long ay napasa ko na ako ay totally nanghula. CS21 Finals ay aking nachambahang mapasa dahil sa swerte. Hindi ako nakapagaral o nakapagbasa man lamang ng kahit isang page ng lectures/libro before ng finals dahil gumawa ako all night ng take-home 6th long exam namin sa Math54. Weird lang naman na ang mga nasagutan ko sa take-home ay walang kaparehong sagot sa mga sagot nila Marie nung nakita ko ang papel niya kanina sa Math building bago ako nagpasa ng akin.

Hai. Di ko alam kung bakit pa ako gising ng ganitong oras samantalang kanina ay hindi ko na maiwasang pumikit dahil sa sobrang sakit na ng mata ko kasi nga hindi ako nakatulog for more than an hour dahil sa nakakainis na exam sa Math. Dapat nga di na ako natulog. Late pa tuloy ako nakarating sa CS Finals. Kasi, 10am ang actual na deadline nung exam sa Math kaso kinailangan ko magpasa ng before 9:30 kasi 9:30 ang finals sa CS. Past 9 na ako nakaalis ng dorm kasi nga nakatulog ako after ko sagutan yung exam.. tapos naligo pa ako and everything. Ayon, late na ako nakarating ng Eng’g.. buti na lang di pa nagsimula yung exam pag dating ko.

Anyways, after nung finals na-post na kaagad ni Mam Florence yung final grades namin. I passed, thank God. At! naka 2.75 pa ako believe it or not.. That’s good enough considering bagsak lahat ng written exams ko at 24 days late ang MP ko. Golly gee, akalain mo nga naman. Swerte talaga. Pero sabi kasi nila, ang swerte daw sa ganyang bagay, malas sa pag-ibig. (reader: aaah kaya pala)

Ang susunod kong problema ay ang Math finals (Friday the 13th..) ng 7:00 my gulay. 7 am!! Por kraying awt lawd! Matutulog palang ako nun. Knowing me, cramming na naman ang time na yun. Di ako naniniwalang kaya ko mag-aral ng seryoso ng more than a day before ng exam. Sana oo, pero malamang hindi. Kaya ayon, walang tulugan na naman most likely. Tapos after nun, Physics finals the next day. Pero di ko masyadong pinoproblema ang physics dahil multiple choice at pasado naman ang standing ko dun, but still.. magaaral ako.

Nakapag-CRS na ako. sana makuha ko lahat ng subjects ko. Strategically arranged na yun.. nag-risk akong kunin ang mga klaseng TBA at CONCEALED ang prof kahit alam kong malamang-lamang terror yung prof para lang siguradong makukuha ko yung slot ko. I don’t really care kung sino maging prof ko. Depende lang naman sa estudyante kung magpapadala siya sa isang terror na prof (EXCEPT KUNG MATH ANG PINAGUUSAPAN, PROF talaga ang problema mo diyan). Ang mga subjects na inenlist ko ay: Math 55 (assuming pumasa ako ng 54), Math 157, Physics 72, CS 32, Eng 12, ES 10, PE (marami.. bahala na kung ano makuha ko). I seriously hope na maayos na ang next sem. Palagi ko na lang sinasabing magbabagong buhay na ako. Sawa na akong magpromise sa sarili ko at sa ibang tao. Disappointment lang ang kalalabasan. Kaya mabuti pa, gagawin ko na lang ang best ko. Kung mag-improve edi okei, kung hindi, walang madidisappoint diba? Pero siyempre ayoko namang bumagsak. Wish ko manatili na sa 1 subject failed ang record ko. Ayoko rin madelay. Please lang. Pahirapan na ako ng todo, wag lang madelay. Ayoko. Ayoko.

And on the other side of things, naiirita ako sa mga tao. Sa mga taong demanding. Sa mga taong hingi lang ng hingi at nagagalit pag di nakuha ang gusto. You cannot always have it your way. At mas lalo lang akong naiirita sa mga bigay rin ng bigay na hindi na nakikita ang kalokohan sa ginagawa nila, at magsasabi pang masaya sila. Is it just me or is the world just plain messed up?

Ewan. Basta yun na yun. I shall doze off now. My mood is being aggravated by my lack of sleep. Bukas na ng hapon ako magigising. Bawi na ako before pa ng Math finals. Good night/morning whatever.

Irregular October 7, 2006

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Hi. I have not been able to update regularly these past few days.. Daming gawaing dapat ginagawa. But anyway, my schedule’s less hectic now, (apart from the upcoming finals week haha). I found out yesterday that my standing in CS21 is not enough to get exempted from the finals (due to my late MP). So I have to take the stinking finals on tuesday. On the brightside though, I just need 20pts to pass. I do think I am capable of 20pts out of a hundred. If not I am going to commit suicide. See you at my funeral.

Anyway, this last week has been one heck of a hellweek. I did not get an ounce of good sleep. Goodness gracious. Tuesday I had a long exam in CS21. That was a big pain in the neck. I failed by one friggin point. Tuesday night we had overnight “study” sessions with Joelle, Moe, and Rab at McDonalds Katips. Well actually, we had dinner at McDo, then we went to Seattle’s Best so that we could plug-in our laptops. Since I had Physics AND Math (while they just had to worry about Physics) I was studying vectors and I left all the Physics to them. I did not get to memorize/remember one single formula. And to think I had no clue in Physics for our 3rd long. I mean, I did not understand anything in class, I did not read a single page from the book.. Oh how I love lady Luck. Well anyway, when Seattle’s closed (I think we got Lung Cancer from all the smoke from the smokers there), we went back to McDonalds to spend the rest of the night/morning. I wasn’t really sleepy during the whole thing, I was just super bored. It’s not really enough studying to keep one from getting bored. But at least I did get some more studying done in math. I really didn’t attempt studying for Physics because I knew I would just CRASH from information overload. At around 6:30, we went home.. had a few hours of shut-eye.. then yun, Physics exam 2-4pm then Math 5-7something. After that I was just plain drained.

Then I can’t remember anything more from last week. Parang dumaan lang ng wala lang.. tapos dami pang kaartehan ang academics.. kaya wala akong tulog. In fact nakatulog ako for fourteen hours kanina. slept at 1 this morning then got up at around 4pm. And now I am sleepy again. What the fudge is wrong with me? Waah. I want the sem to end…

So this upcoming week’s gonna be hell, I guess. Math exam on Monday + English 11 something, CS Finals on Tuesday.. Math finals on Friday (FRIDAY THE 13TH PA, 7am!!), then Physics finals on Saturday. Fudge. Tapos Sembreak na. Yahey.

Yun lang.

Flashback October 2, 2006

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I was reading through my old journals, and I came accross one of my favorite entries.. it was a little over a year ago when I wrote this, and somehow the memory is still very fresh:

si lolo

Posted by mayee at 11:32 am on September 20th, 2005.

i decided to take the bus home from the mrt station yesterday, instead of the usual shuttle that goes straight to bf. i dunno, i guess i was just too lazy to walk the fair distance. well anyway, i was on the bus when this lolo sat beside me and just smiled. it wasn’t the scary stranger-smile that would often strike an everyday-commuter, it was one of those smiles that would remind you of the close-up commercial (which is supposedly an everyday thing). so then he starts lecturing on how hard life is these days, and how i have to just work hard and study extra well so that i could graduate and help my parents. it was a pleasant conversation (a bit one-sided though cause he was the only one doing the talking alangan naman kausapin ko eh di ko nga kilala). when we got off the bus at sucat he kept reminding me to take care (even gave me some commuter advice on where to ride the jeep..). then yun, he had to go the nearby 7-11 shop and i rode the jeep. well di ko maiwasan talaga mapa-smile ako sa jeep (mukang sira) coz it was really nice to think na may ganun pa palang tao sa pilipinas.. sa mundo. my mom always tells me to be paranoid and think everyone’s a robber or something (better-safe-than-sorry mentality) but i really think otherwise. there are more good-hearted people than not-good-hearted people in the world. victims of street-crimes are only victims of circumstance, in the wrong place at the wrong time.. but that’s just one person’s opinion.

hai.. the sem’s almost over. i could already get away with cutting all the rest of my classes till next week coz it’d be our last week for the sem.. but then again, i’d fail the finals and i’d have to repeat some stuff next sem.. i’m not that retarded.. so anyway.. i suddenly have the urge to like start-out-new and stuff.. that start-of-the-school-year feeling people get when they think they can try their best, do homework, study hard and stuff. well that’s it. but i think that’s just a feeling. palagi namang ganyan eh, tignan mo nangyari this sem.. haha! tanong na lang sa mga kaklase ko.. blah..

what do i have to say on:

politics: nada. i don’t give a shit.

the state of the nation: well i do care about that.. but i really don’t have a clue how this place’s gonna fix itself up. pinas is beyond repair. let’s all migrate.. like them ducks flying to the south.. it is winter.

friends: i love my friends. i love those who love me. i love those who haven’t forgotten that i still exist.. i love those who keep in touch. i love those who make me feel that they’re still there for me, coz i’m sure as hell there for them. oki?

school: nasabi ko na. oh and yeah, next sem i think i’m gonna join an org or something. para naman di ako totally WALANG GINAGAWA. yun lang

lovelife: ha! don’t ask.

showbiz: a dirty game i’d never want to be an audience of. bahala na yung mga nauuto ng bwisit na showbiz na yan, lalo na pag dito sa pilipinas.. haha!

.. uh, la na eh.. yun lang. catcha next time! *mwah*

And in the Darkness.. October 1, 2006

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you shall see nothing.

Waah. Finally, I am reconnected with the civilized world. Typhoon Milenyo has passed, I hope. It has left Metro Manila, and some immediate regions, in utter chaos. Street lamps bent over, trees uprooted, wires in mad tangles, billboards toppled over, and worst of all– no electricity for at least 24 hours in most places. I never realized how helpless we would be without electricity. There was nowhere to charge our cellphones, no tv, laptops were unusable, even just plain not having light sucked. I was left with my cellphone (hoping beyond hope that my batteries would last me till the end of the blackout), and my piano, which after a few hours seemed boring already. Then this afternoon, God Almighty! Electricity! It was as if I saw the light from the clouds and the hand of God reaching down toward me! I hurriedly rushed to plug in my laptop, charge my cellphone, and oh my gooshnit! There was light! I was actually supposed to go out and do some last minute shopping in preparation for Joelle’s debut, but then of course the lure of the online world is too strong for simple shopping to overcome. So I bonded for a few hours with my laptop.. (how I missed it so), and then at around quarter to 6 I started getting ready for Joelle’s debut.

It’s really lucky that I was here at home during the whole typhoon. It was actually just coincidence that I went home last Wednesday. See I accompanied Joelle to Makati to pick out a dress and some other stuff for her debut. I was surprised to hear that there would be no classes the next day because of a strong typhoon that would be blowing in. It hadn’t crossed my mind that it would be safer to just go home and sit the typhoon out there.. I was just thinking that it would be easier for me to go home than back to UP. Besides, it was already around 9:00 when we had finished our shopping. So I went home, thinking that I would go back to the dorm the next day and finish studying for our math exam, and cs exam.. but then lo and behold, the wind was blowing so hard, and there was no electricity the next day. Turns out the blackout would last more than 24 hours in our place.. more than 48 actually. So yesterday (there was also no class), dad accompanied me to UP to get the PC and my other stuff from the dorm.. Wow, was the campus a mess. Trees uprooted here and there, big posts fell over, even the gigantic tree in front of Molave where people wait for the Toki had been uprooted (or was it cut down?). I don’t think UP would be back to normal for at least a few months. It was really a horrid sight. Like I was in an alternate dimension or something in a cheap horror movie. So anyway, after we had gotten my stuff from the dorm, we went to eat lunch at Kenny Rogers, Katips (there was already electricity there). I wanted to stay at Seattle’s Best and charge my laptop there but there were so many people doing that. I even bumped into Dy, my orgmate, who was also looking for a place to charge her laptop and get some work done. So, hopeless as it was, we just decided to go home. Then, after being bored to death, we decided to go to ATC and hopefully watch a movie and eat dinner out.. but nooo.. the Cinemas were closed… probably because they were saving on Generated electricity. Boohoo. So we just ate snacks at Ice Monster then went home, where, of course, there was still no electricity.

So back to Joelle’s debut. A lot of people came, despite the fact the weather had been acting up these past few days. It was fun.. the food was good, Dencio’s eh. (Salamat, Joelle! hehe) I was one of the emcees (and was doing a sucky job at it if you ask me haha).. it was fun seeing college-friends here way down south (A rare delight). Dad picked me up at around 11:30. And now I am home, enjoying the creations of human genius — the internet.

So yeah, we have electricity now.. and I have to get back to reality. (That was a LONG weekend there..) Math exams, CS Exams, Physics recit, finals.. ohmaygoodness. Whattamess.

A nice lesson I picked up from Joelle’s Lolo who spoke at her 18 treasures: Time is valuable. We should learn to take time seriously and not act as if we have all the time in the world. We can accomplish more if we do.

Hai. Suddenly I want to have my own debut. Next year seems so far away. I want dancing at mine. :D

(Back to acads.) Good night.

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY, JOELLE! =)
BEST FRIEND FOR LEVER!
18 KA NA!!! LUVYAH!

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