first day of class...

...woke up around 7:30 am... ate some breakfast... put some warm water on my bath and there i went. I dressed up, wore my Chucks and prepared myself. Ready to go...

My first class was Soc Sci 197. Our Prof, Ma'am Lelet, just introduced herself and gave the requirements for the class. It was also an SOP during first days to give our classcards, and that was it. We were dismissed early.

Next class will start by 1 pm. Econ 171.

So i have to go and eat some lunch first.



BAD NEWS:

Since class just began... there would be less time for blogging.
Oh no...
*sad face*

super busy...

(Photo from: kingfishpiesflickr.com)

I can't even post a nice blog.

Ilang araw na.
Malapit na kasi ang FINALS WEEK. Lots of requirement are given. Exams are scheduled everyday. A couple of term and critique papers are due.

Wish I could finish this semester alive.
Or even sane at least.

carelessness,,,

...last Tuesday, the exam results of my Econ 106 (Mathematical Economics) {most difficult exam i had, so far} was given by our Prof, Ma'am Gladys.

Good news: Yes. I passes the exam.

Bad news: Sh*t! I lost a lot of points due to a wrong transfer of equations. The positive sign became negative, thus, making the rest of my solutions a big, wild mess.

Ok. Pumasa ako. Pero sayang pa rin yung points. I should have gotten more points for those wasted items. I hate my self for that.



Moral Lesson according to Prof. Astudillo:
(something like this, kasi sinabi lang din sa'kin to eh...)

"There is no cure for carelessness because it is not a disease."

Yeeesssss! Very true, di ba?

Lagi naming nireremind ni Ma'am Gladys pero di pa rin natutulo...
hay....

please pray for my Econ 121 (Monetary Economics) Exam!!!!

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Today is the scheduled date of my Econ 121 1st long exam. It took us so much effort to study the lessons. After my class last Saturday morning, we had a group review 'til late in the evening on Ate Lean's crib.

A large part of the exam would be calculation because it is more on banking and finance (we looked like accountancy students).

• Balance Sheets
• Income Statements
• Funds Flow
• Profit Margin
• Turnovers
• and many, many more!
  

I almost didn't have time to sleep last night. Exam would be 4 - 6pm.

Hope to have more time to review after lunch (after my duty this morning).

Please pray for me guys.

Prayers are deeply appreciated.

Thanks!

Hope to survive this one!

Butterflies are wandering in my stomach for days due to this.... ugh!

no classes on Aug. 5...

basta yun..
ewan..
i'm not really sure why...
special non-working holiday daw..
basta i'm glad to have a break that day!
walang submission ng major paper on Econ 141 (International Economics)!

great!

Who Am I?

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I'm the daughter of the bestest parents in the world.
I'm a sister, I'm a friend
I'm a student, I'm a teacher.

I'm a ruler.
I make my own rules -
Rules that I can live by.
I have my own principles...
...built through time,
...tested with courage,
...shook but not brought down.

I'm a writer.
I write my own story,
Page by page...
Chapter by chapter.
I'm a dreamer.
I can see things in my sleep.
I dream of what I want.
I dream of what I fear becoming.

I'm a child.
I'm in need of protection.
I'm searching for love.
Warmth is what I long for.
I can give what I have.
As long as it matters.
As long as I'm here.



(Just answering the question "Who Am I?"
SELF-CONCEPT, Psych 180)

poems or not? beginning to study poetry in a deeper sense...

My Humanities class a few hours ago was just alright. We had a quiz, some discussions and group activity.

We were divided into 8 groups where a piece of literature to identify as a poem or not. All of which are presented to the class in the form of a song (kasi kantanga naman), music videos included. The pieces are:

Where Have All the Flowers Gone?... Peter Seeger (our piece)
Kaleidoscope World... Francis M.
Colors of the Wind... Lea Salonga
Journey... Lea Salonga
Heal the World... Michael Jackson
Angels among Us... Alabama
In the Name of the King..
I Need a Hero... Bonnie Tyler

Unfortunately, there wasn't enough time for our presentations so we just had our group discussion and we will be presenting next meeting. At 2:30, class ended.

I think our group had a nice discussion. Hope the reporting would be nice as well.

now studying poetry in my Humanities class...

...discussions on Short Stories just ended...

next stop:
POETRY

Poetry which is:

• full of interpretations...
• colored by personal meanings...
• fueled by powerful words...
• scripted by creative hands...
• and when once lived, continues to live forever...
  

and

• either sinulat lang kasi walang nagawa...
• labasan ng sama ng loob...
• corny pero sweet na alternative or kasama ng love letters...
• at extension ng sarili...

Poems...

• which i also love doing more often when bored rather than inspired......

you can click this to see samples...(*wink*)

hope i would be able to enjoy the lessons...
our 1st poem to tackle is the Son of the Sun...
(and I'm assigned to research on the meaning/ relationship of the words Shatila and My Lai to the poem...good luck naman sa'kin..)

ano bang masarap gawin kung walang magawa?

...Well, pinapauna ko na...bihira lang ang ganitong moments for me. Pano ba naman, lagi na lang may ginagawa. Lalo na ngayong mas nagiging busy na sa school. And additional work pa na dalawa lang kami ng friend kong si Elaine na may minor na Psychology sa Humanities class namin - ang mga discussions kasi namin ngayon on short stories ay human behavior-related... so, kailangan namin i-explain sa class yung FREUDian and JUNGian approach nung situations sa stories next meeting... oh my!



Anyways, balik sa original kong tanong...
Ano nga ba?



Since bihira lang maging di busy, pinaka-enjoy ko nang gawin yung matulog. At matulog pa. Lalo na dito sa Baguio ngayon, ulan ng ulan. Di naman makagala.



Syempre, trip ko din naman magbasa kaya nga marami akong blogs about sa mga natapos kong basahing books. Samahan pa ng music. Nakakarelax kasi pag nakikinig ako ng music... kahit di ako talented sa singing, who cares... buhay ko 'to no.



Nga pala, masarap din kumain... at kumain ng kumain... yun eh kung may kakainin. Dito kasi ngayon ok pa naman ang supply ko ng food. Kung di kasi nakapaggrocery, parang nakakawalang gana ring mag-aral..and mabuhay. Food for the life and soul!



Or TV... eh since may cable naman... nood lang hanggang antukin.



And ang pinakanamimiss ko sa lahat... yung internet na unlimited. Dito kasi, ang access ko lang sa library and internet room (kung san tinanggal ang access sa social networking sites, buti na lang may blogger pa rin) at sa nga net cafe sa labas na sobrang mahal kasi di naman ako sanay ng 2hrs lang nakaharap sa computer. Chat til you drop!


Kaso wala eh. Lalo na talaga yung internet. Demanding kasi talaga ngayon ang studies sa oras ko. Feeling ko nga i'm not living a normal life anymore. Pero ganito talaga. I chose to be here kaya I need to live with it. Hay... konting tiis pa.

enrolment's done...=)

I woke up around 5:30am..wow..sobrang aga..i can't believe i just made it. After using the heater and finished preparing the stuffs to wear, I took a bath and finished in 15minutes. I dressed, ate breakfast, brushed my teeth and walked to the school.

7:30am
We were in a queue to get our clearances...

8:00
The office opened. i got my clearance and found out that i had an accountability in the dorm. Gosh! Our building is really, really sort like "underworld" in the university because there's this 'abortion stairs' which we first need to pass through. Well, it's easy the way down, but the ascent is hell. Still, my friend, Jenica, and I rushed our way out to proceed to the dorm. We waited for about 10mins. and paid something at the office there. Now back to the school.

A very long, crowded line of Juniors could be seen when we arrived. Of course, we were almost at the back. The line hadn't moved yet. This is for the CRS results for the admission.

After this, another stop in alone of the rooms for advising. In less than 3omins. I got my turn. I raced to the JL Auditorium to get 2 more subjects only to find out that what i was looking for were both closed. Good thing i saw a friend who as about to cancel his Econ 106 slot and gave it to me. The pother subject, Hum 1, I was able to enlist due to the teacher's prerogative (but i needed to proceed to the CAC building first). I was so tired.

Then, i filled my Form 5 and went back to my adviser, Sir Toto. And up to the Audi again. I had my subjects checked and assessed. Then paid at the cashier. Then got my class cards.

I was able to finish all the processes before lunch time. So i was able to go home to Tarlac on the afternoon.

So, my subjects for the coming semester are:

• Econ 106
• Econ 121
• Econ 141
• Psych 180
• Hum 1
• Media Studies 11

All subjects scattered from Tuesday to Saturday. Hoping this sem would be great as the previous ones.

Baguio-bound again..=(

..oh no!!
In just a few minutes, I'll be going back to Baguio again to get prepared for my enrolment tomorrow. I still don't wanna go. But i need to get my things from the dorm and carry them back to my boarding house.
Another 5 hours of travel. Hope to catch a bus as early as possible. I still have to go to the university to get mt clearance and ask my scholarship bracket.
Wish me luck!

enrolment, just a few days from now...

Hay...

I'm heading Baguio on June 1. I still need top go back to the dorm and get my things there so that i can fix my stuffs to our original boarding house again.The next day would be our enrolment (Juniors). I just can't believe that I will be on third year this coming semester. Time burns really fast. Really fast. I hope i can have it fast-forwarded.

I'm just beginning to feel my less-than-two-week vacation right now and I'm feeling sad that class will open again soon...

I'm wishing that vacation would stretch for more days...

(and I'm also fearing the spread of Influenza A (H1N1) virus in the Cordilleras, but i know the DOH is doing something to prevent this from happening again...=) )

Final Exam....English 1

By 5pm, I will be having my final exam -- since there are three batches due to conflict in schedule - 1pm, 3pm and 5pm -- on English which would cover all the lessons that we tackled during the whole summer. This includes sentence revisions and constructions, editing, detecting parallelisms, etc.
This would serve as our last meeting as well.

I hope to pass then exam,,,
I've been reviewing for nights for this one.
And praying that God will guide my hand to write what is correct...

So be it.

LAST Day of Summer Class

Oh...
This is the last day of summer class. And I still don't want it to end. I really enjoyed my summer here... and again, except for the daily rains.
I guess I've been enjoying since my classes were a lot of fun as well.
I'll miss my teachers and classmates...
Really...
And my roommates, too, since this is my first time to live in the dorm (with the usual sleepless night due to noisy neighboring rooms, of course). We shared a lot of funny and happy memories here.
But everything has an end.
"Sooner or later, it all comes crashing down..." like what NERD said.

Well... at least i learned so much during the 5-week term.
So now, I'm getting ready for tomorrow's field trip in Sagada, Mountain Province ans my Final Exam on Physics on Monday...

Please pray for me...
haha....

Then, I'm ready to go home...
Back to Victoria...

done with physics project...got a perfect score for it!!!

Sa wakas natapos din...
We made "something" out of straws and put a fresh egg in it.
The experiment was done a few hours ago.. during my English class, that's why i wasn't able to really see what happened. ='(
But after the class, i saw Sir Ian and asked for the grade of our group.
He said we got a perfect score...

The experiment was like this:

"Save the Egg Project"
(Egg drop)

• The egg will be placed inside our "creations."
• It will first be dropped from the 2nd flood of a building and will be checked whether the poor egg survived the fall.
• If there were no cracks, it will proceed to the next stage... a fall from the 3rd floor.
• If the egg still remain uncracked, the group would be given a passing grade.
• Plus, the construction and design of the "creation" will have respective points as well...

Di kami nanalo sa design... they said the other class got this award. Anyways, at least natapos na... no more problems... Exam na lang sa Lunes... right after makabalik ng Sunday from Sagada...

Exhausting summer.... indeed!

as i quote Sir Popoy....

Hmmmm....
I'm really enjoying my summer classes (excluding the fact of the frequent rains).
I'm learning so much and i love it...!
I became more active and felt less nervous when it's my turn to answer some random questions even though most of the time I'm not really sure of what to say.
Like what Popoy said on the 23rd of April,

"Force yourself to think.
I know you have the answer,
you just have to let it out."

He said this when no one wanted to raise his hand to answer Sir's question. I wrote these words on my filler and read them every time I'm feeling confused.

Yeah, I guess we know the answer to most of the questions that we frequently ask ourselves or some of which that are asked by others unto us. We are just afraid of being wrong or by the concept of rejection once we utter our answers. Maybe we are just confused of what we know and what we feel. We are just confused; on the edge of self-denial. This makes things difficult for the people around us as heavily as how we sink unto them.

Maybe we just have to push ourselves more - to have more courage; to know when it's time to cross the bridge.
Our existence is accompanied by a lot of risks and doubts... we just have to know if it's the right and moral thing to continue with the current... and to keep on fighting for whatever is important to us.

buhay DORM...food chaos!

!!!oh noh..!!!
as i woke up around 7am kanina...
nagmadali ako na maglagay ng heater sa tubig na paligo ko sa 1st floor (by the way, i'm residing at roon 207, 2nd floor, UPBaguio Residence Hall ) kasi ang daming nakapila sa 2nd floor (as usual) hoping to have a warm bath kasi lagi na lang malamig yung paligo ko...eh pag umaga, ang lamig-lamig sa dorm...

after nun...i checked my grocery kasi i was planning to cook canton (as usual uli) for my breakfast plus some hot chocolate to pair it with...
as i was tring to find a pack of pancit canton at the SM plastic bag sa upper shelf ko...i discovered na wala na pala akong stock!

oh no talaga!

nakakainis...!
so i ended up making a hot Milo drink and eating a pack of 3-piece Presto Creams...so light...
hay....

sana makapaggrocery na ako mamaya....
di ko pa naman hobby ang magpagutom...
di kasi ako sanay ng walang kinakain kung walang magawa...
hay....
pero so far enjoy pa naman sa dorm..
di lang nga ako masyado nakakanuod kasi i prefer to read upstairs than to watch TV programs na di ko naman gusto...(pero usually come to watch the news for some updates)...

newly borrowed books...

even though i recently bought some books...
i just can't keep myself from looking over other books...
especially I'm now here at the library and have nothing to do for 2 hours... (i already reviewed my lessons for the next class - English).
as i was looking for some books in the shelves at the back... i saw the book entitled Illusions and took it out... Richard Back wrote it, and i expect it to be good like what he did with Jonathan Livingston Seagull...

as i went to the other side... i picked another book which i once borrowed before - paradoxes from a to z.

i checked these books out and hope to find new insights from them.

after the storm...

haven't blogged for a couple of days...
the system was down... good thing it's back to it's condition today.

AYER (Spanish, yesterday)
Typhoon EMOng stroke last yesterday... from signal no. 2 to signal no. 3...
it's so nice that i had classes during the morning that i was able to attend and enjoy despite the cold rain that made my feet wet (it was only signal no. 2 then... well i really didn't know that a storm was here until i woke up and a friend from Quezon City sent me a massage telling the news...).
by lunch, it was announced that the intensity of typhoon Emong reached a higher level which made it signal no. 3, thus, classes were canceled.
nice to be inside the dorm and eating lunch by that time...
by night..i was doing my assignment in English while all my roommates went down to the reception hall with the others to watch TV... the lights over there went off while the ones in the room dimmed a bit... all of them rushed screaming to their rooms. Elaine, one roommate, said that the power was down in many areas in Baguio... including our neighboring building.
i slept by around 12:15 am.

HOY (Spanish, today)
i woke up seeing the light from the window opposite me.
the storm was gone.
the sun is smiling again...
i put the heater, cooked my food, fixed my bed, ate my breakfast, took a bath, got dressed, grabbed my bag, walk to the school and signed the attendance in Physics...
no class today...
so i went straight here at the library doing this blog...
sooner or later I'll be signing out to go to my next class...

hope it would be sunny the whole day!
I'm just wearing a jumper-shorts and a blouse...
cross-fingers to that!

paranoid about the Black Hole

when we were in our Physics class early this morning, we had a few clips to watch about the space - it's discovery and age - in relation to gravity...
plus we got to watch a special episode from The Discovery Channel some sort about the Black Hole...
the sound effects and the narration were great as if we were watching a horror film..and the sound just terrified me...and also because the narrator really did well in scaring me.

i learned that Gravity is not a force but some kind of a curvature within the fabric of time and space...

and the thing that makes me feel so creepy about the idea of the Black Hole was that it was a dying star that was gathering enough energy...

it whirls and whirls until a thick cloud of gas surrounds it like a galaxy itself. This huge star whose size and mass is indescribably large (could be half the size of the galaxy it is located) would then shrink into a very small body while retaining its how heavy is was. Thus forming a seemingly endless abyss...dark and powerful thing that can attract other celestial bodies to its depth... depth that is unknown to human... a void that keeps so many mysteries in the billions of years that the universe had existed.

This just made me shiver... Thinking that i am lucky enough to live in this age where the possibility of being eaten by this monster is far as the sky. Good thing the Black Hole in this galaxy is said to be dormant (well I'm really not sure about this..maybe i didn't hear it right) and the Sun is still young as well...

i know the earth can still survive for thousands and thousands of years (hopefully). but the next problem being faced is not about the death of the sun or the Black Hole yet...but the thinning ozone layer and global warming..
i hope people would be concerned with this issue as well...
now that i believe something can still be done...