My Life in Review 2009

Although in general, my 2009 was not that of a bang in terms of events but there are spectacular moments to reflect on. 😀 I seriously wanted to end 2009 as it was my laziest year of all. Now, I wanted everything to change and I’m quite desperate. 😀 But first! let me recall some of the greatest events of my 2009 life. 😀

1. the ELC COMPLEX – It still pounds on although with a different teacher. But the toughest ELC major and second to it was clearly remarkable as it nearly killed me. ELC 102 and 106 really do ring the chillzzz in me as these are the majors that nearly took my scholarship away. Why? Both majors have the same scenario: there were only four exams given but because of the shear number of failing students, both majors have to give up one exam to save the peepz. My standing on both majors was “F” before the fifth exam and I always prayed to God not to give my mom a heart attack. God listened, mercifully, twice as I managed to bring both subjects from the killer “F” to “C”. take note, “C” would be the base especially for the toughest because the toughest subject was placed on my junior year which requires a QPI equivalent of “C” or 2.0. Even up to now, I still cannot believe how I did those, mixing in my mind maybe the professors pulled strings or I simply did a good job.

2. MixMas 2009 – I am now a huge fan of UP’s Lantern Parade, largely because it pulls me away from Ateneo and brings me to my barkada way back in high school. It’s my second MixMas and happily, those who were not in my first mixmas were already there and those who were there in my first mixmas was not there! :D:D:D But still great fun. I really love the fireworks routine and this time, I managed to sneak beside the launching area and get to record the display directly underneath the stunning art of explosives. After that, an overnight with my friends which I missed a lot. So nice and I wish we can be complete next time. 😀

3. Loyola Schools Assessment Team – It bothers me a lot, actually, as I am a person who’s very curious on how people think about me and being a team head in this group makes me think, most of the time, that I don’t look as good as anybody else, feeling inferior in short. But in the end, it did not matter as one person told me that being in LSAT is a professional work and I have to be professional in every way, set aside all of the obstacles, if there are any, and fulfill your job at your best. I love LSAT this year largely because of the addition of new members into my team, how a close member of mine bonded them and in the end, I was proud to reeeally call my team a TEAM. and oh, take note, new people, new faces and new bunch of intelligent minds calling me Kuya.

4. Life Coach in University – Life coach that I met when I entered LSAT, Summer of my sophomore year. 😀 Until now, he’s still beside me despite my annoying declines of requests because of other priorities. He’s responsible for my team head position in LSAT. In fact, he was the first Grad Assessment Team head, when the team finally held their separate team when I entered the commitment. Mom knows him well because they share the same field of expertise: Chemistry. 😀 He worked in PIPAC for some time and after graduation for his second degree, went as a teaching assistant for one of the professors in the Chemistry department. He’s also taking his masters and I think he’s the most patient Grad student my team encountered because he knows our agony. Yup, It’s Sir Lord Alec Pasion. XD

5. SINGLE! – No other word for it, really. 😀

6. SCHOOL DIFFICULTIES – Yep, I’m having a difficult time matching the wavelengths of the people around me in school. Really… But STILL, alive here and pounding on!

7. THE TERM “KUYA” – Kuya Pau as most of the people around me call me. And their number became bigger! But, this is the year when I felt that being kuya more, more during high school. I thought people only call me kuya because of my age but there are people who proved me wrong, who made me appear as a “person” in front of them. It was a different feeling and I loved it more than being called Kuya because of my age.

8. BLESSINGS – Here’s one:

Captured by the phone inside that box. It’ll be my phone for the next 5 years. 😀 Unless I decide to change again when I get a decent job. 😀 Thanks…! 😀 Also for the saved grades for this year, I am really thankful, all of those survived near-acad-death experiences, family issues that were solved and more. 😀

9. PEOPLE – People who slapped me in the face…joke… that made moments!

1. Kuya Mark – Santa Clause. 😀

2. LSAT GRAD TEAM – ANG KULET NIYO!

3. Ate Ja – Wanted me to go back to Gabay but I reserved the request. And now I will be using it. 😀 Unless it had an expiration date. x_x nevertheless, Thanks, ate Ja.

4. Jan – An assessor of mine who was most known for bonding newly assigned members in my team. I think it was the best job done so far because I admit…I can’t do that in a fraction of a day…and he did. XD

5. Mom – Still supportive despite me being a deviant sometimes. But of course, I have to compensate for all my wrongs. and now she gave me something that makes in more mandatory to maintain my grades. I think most of the reason why I’m still standing up, was her. (My, my, whatta drama)

6. Gabay Peepz – I think it was Chard who called me “THANK YOU KUYA TOM!” after handing the people there a bag of Lays. 😀 Hahahaha~! still that curiosity I had in LSAT was a syndrome I have in this org. Crossfingerzzz. Oh yeah, I’ll do more of that Lays dropping. Maybe I’ll get Cheetos next time.

7. Jegay – that bet still has two years to go. 😀 and I’m still in the podium. XD Belat.

8. Jesse, Alvin, Amor, Arvin, Carlo, Nestee and MARKY – Grilla Moments. 😀 Can’t say more about it, they might kill me. Oh yeah, the BBZ pioneer, cheers.

9. Manfred – Partner in Crime. 😀 get someone you can court dude!

10. Paul – Partner in Crime, in vacation…in Canada…most of the time. 😀 Hey man, go back here. PILIPINAS NEEDS YOU!

of course, the best would be my FAMILY and BARKADA and there are so many moments to write that I’m too lazy to put here.

and because of my Short Term Memory, I cannot write more! and I declare welcome 2010.

BRING IT ON!

My Barkada.

Yes, my beloved barkada. This is where I felt the true “friendship”. Like I said before, my barkada is like a family to me. We rarely see each other, mostly on holidays and we enjoy our meetings so much because of the busy days of college. I am just happy that we get to meet once again, especially during the Christmas season. Although there were a few people missing in the pack but still the fun continued. We miss those people a lot. We celebrate this particular reunion during the Lantern Parade in the University of the Philippines Diliman. This year, we get to do an overnight although only four of us went, and I’m the only guy. Hahah~!

I wish events such as this will continue as I rarely see a chance of finding decent friends in my school, my barkada is the only group of true friends that I have. I remember what my Philo professor said that the true barkada is the barkada that’s only few in number and very close to each other. Close in the sense that we treat each other as a brother or sister rather than just a mere friend.

OoOOh I so love my barkada. and I hope I would see friends as decent as them in my school and everywhere else.

Few more days…

Yes, few more days and I will be able to see my closest friends. 😀 I don’t know but it feels like we’re family, can’t see each other or rarely see each other in our busiest part of the year and can only see each other as a whole during holidays. WELL! I think it’s always Christmas when we always see each other as a whole, spend more time than movies or lunch or dinner.

And few more days, vacation’s coming so I need to top up my so small reserved spending power and try to see what I can get myself after um…..100 years? 😀 I want to spend something I like but debates are coming along the way.

If I prefer spending on hobby, I need at least 3K to get a small drifting machine, particularly a Nissan GT-R and I hope prices go down by vacation so I can spend more on smaller stuff like for instance, food on the streets!
If I want something that I can carry everyday, I suppose I cannot afford one and give a request to my mom to get me either a new bag or a second hand Sony Ericsson phone. My bag’s suffering from a monumental damage and my phone’s having quite a difficulty catching up signal. At least that’s something important than what I want for my hobby. And I think my mom will prefer those things rather than an expensive drifting machine.

Wah, can’t wait to rest!

High School Information Deficiency~!

Man, I cannot believe things right now. I think it was a mistake being quiet during high school days. A bunch of Batch 2009 from my high school went to where I’m studying, which is Ateneo, and they’ve given me quite a number of revelations together with my other batch mates who were within the web of connections. The first two students were high-end ones, high caliber, I should say. They’re from the highest ranking section in the school. 😀 ANYWAY~!

Yup, this is about relationships again and I’m just staggered to know that my batch mates were courting the lower batch, by two years younger I guess…. (counting from batch 2007 to 2009…….) I do know two of my batch mates who had been with two in the lower batch. Guess what, they were so great that they were courting high ranking students, well performing ones. I won’t mention their names here but I’m soooooo surprised. And guess what! one of those girls was under the team where I’m working with during registration period. And she told me a lot of things that I think I should know a bit. I mean, things that someone in the same school should know and things that I really don’t mind since I don’t care much about other people’s lives. Moreover, I was talking to a close friend of mine a while ago and he’s actually a classmate of the boy who courted that girl that I work with during the registration and my, he revealed more things about the connections and so on. I’m shocked, to be honest, wondering why my batch mates were courting on the same lower batch. It just left me laughing as I cannot say anything about it.

Hahahah~! Cheers to you all then. 😀

of Jokes…

When will you know if a joke goes beyond its limit from the other person’s point of view? It’s killing me, that’s why I’m trying for the past few years to be as serious as hell. I mean, I know when people really tell jokes or when I know that they’re going beyond the limit and I know the others feel the same way but it’s difficult to know your limit as the person who gives out the joke.

In the past, I kept on tolerating stuff being told be people who don’t know that they’re saying offending things to me. However, I realized that not all people are like that, high tolerance. There’s actually a lot in my school, Ateneo, as well as in other places I’ve been for a long time.

I don’t know…

I do have a ton of assumptions on how people act towards me, in Ateneo, high school, other places and so on… and I’m so hoping that I see the people, aside from my barkada, that would prove those assumptions right or wrong.

Yay~! It’s Christmas!

Indeed! I’ve changed my head this time with simple Christmas theme. This is because I saw wordpress having a snow feature on their blogs until January 4, 2010. 😀 When I activated my snow feature, I can’t see the snow since most of my blog is white. Now I changed it with Christmas theme and it looks nice.

I haven’t thought of a wishlist although pessimistic, I won’t be able to get them anyway. XD But I will still make one, it’s just a wish list.

Man, I’m starting to smell this Christmas breeze!! Love is in the air~! Romance is everywhere! Although bibingka ang other Christmas season food is not yet around. 😀

I’m so dyying to see my barkada. The TRUE barkada I have right now. I remember what my Philo Professor said today that the small group of people are the ones who are in the true barkada and with that I’m very happy that it is very apparent in this barkada of mine. Despite being away from each other for most of the year (though only two of us in the barkada are the only ones that are not studying in UP. :D), we are still intact as if we are family. We still contact each other when problems come or we just want to see each other, watch a movie, eat somewhere nice and take our big smiles home. And now, before we spend Christmas with our families, we are so excited to see each other again.

Ateneo stuff? Well, I’m trying my best to make new friends this time though it’s harder than I thought. But I don’t care really. 😀 Someone else has to comply if you’re doing your part well. 😀

Life’s a #$%^*()!

Man, I can’t believe these things are happening to me. Life’s unfair especially if you’re one of the unprivileged one. I wonder if there are people from my school who reads this blog because I don’t want to spill out rants that would cost me something big, say for instance, my education. I’m just so depressed about the things that I hear for the past few days and kept on destroying my day.