Fool's Day
Yep, today is the perfect day for me to resume blogging. It's time to stop being foolish and get my life back on track. You see, for the past 2 months I've been Lazy - capital "L" because it's not the normal kind of laziness. I felt like I was depressed - without the emo-sadness, just the lack of motivation to do anything. I haven't even blogged, and that's not because my life has been uneventful. See that; my last post has been at the start of February about a joke music survey when I've spent Valentines Day alone, did my long-delayed electronic waste drive project, swiped 5-pounds worth of freebie reading materials from World Bank and Asian Development Bank, got showered by ashes watching a fireworks display in San Beda after parading around the Malacanang area for 3 hours, watched the foolishness that is the House of Representatives in person, became bartender for a night, became inducted as the new ESS Finance officer, survived swimming class, hopped through 14 different churches in a single day, finished the second year of my College life and so many more. I didn't write anything down because I lost my driving force, my enthusiasm, my inspiration or whatever you called it. I wanted to express my thoughts, but I couldn't get myself to do it. Pure laziness. I couldn't even care less about school anymore, which was foolish because it left me in a bad situation in some of my classes grade-wise. I have a stack of books I've wanted to read and I haven't touched one yet. My religiosity even waned. All that was in my mind was watching anime and playing DotA. Foolishness I tell you.
Well, that phase ends today. I'm forcing myself to breakout of this foolish Lazy-motivationally-depressed state, and the first step is this: forcing myself to write this new blogpost, and I tell you that took some intense self-talk before I got my butt in front of my computer and start typing. I've got so many things that I want to do, so many things in my mind and so many things I want to say. And it all starts with this post.
Tuesday, April 01, 2008
Friday, February 01, 2008
Ewan - Musings and another Music Survey
I'll take this opportunity to blog since the next thing that I will post will be promotions for my upcoming ESS project and also since I'll probably be swamped by schoolwork for the next week or so. Another academic cycle is starting once more.
Like in economics where there is a business cycle of expansion-recession, academic life (at least, mine) is also marked by a cycle - a cycle of stress and slack(ing off). And it so happens the slacking stage is ending after the stress of our polsci report and 2 long test from my major subjects. The stress stage is coming once more - this time in the form of both acads and extra-curricular activities. I have about 12 pounds worth of readings to go through including a book for our report on Wednesday.Also my long delayed project is finally approved and set for Friday and Saturday. I must promote that vigorously and I don't know how or if there is even much time. Gah I hate being a project head.
Another month has blurred past me again. And now it's February again. Oh how time flies.
And now to the music survey I saw from Jacky's site. I did a different music survey last September (wow, so long ago) that was really funny (http://stargazerspoint.blogspot.com/2007_09_01_archive.html) so I tried this one too to see what the weird, often accurate and funny results will be.
1. Put your music player on shuffle.
2. Press forward for each question.
3. Use the song title as the answer to the question
1. What does this year have in store for me?
I Could Not Ask For More - Edwin Mccain (This must be a great year. haha)
These are the moments I thank God that I'm alive
These are the moments I'll remember all my life
I've got all I've waited for
And I could not ask for more
2. What does your love life look like?
Come Around - Rhett Miller (God that so hit the mark. hahaha)
Am I gonna be lonely for the rest of my life
Am I gonna be lonely for the rest of my life
I'm gonna be lonely for the rest of my life
Unless you come around
So come around "
3. What do I say when life gets hard?
Sampip (solo)- Parokya ni Edgar (Another good answer. hehe)
"I'll just close my eyes and just go to sleep" <- Perfect me
But a better line will be -
"call me crazy i just don't care
I'll never quit it so you better beware"
4. What do I think of when I get up in the morning?
Martyr Nyebera - Kamikazee (My parents)
"paggising sa umaga
mukha mo ang nakita
wala pang nagawa nakasimangot na"
5. What song will I dance to at my wedding?
Wag na Wag Mong Sasabihin - Kitchie Nadal (Well, the survey is bound to miss sometime.c'mon, you can't dance to this song. hehe)
6. What do you want as a career?
Tulog na - Sugarfree (What's with me and sleeping? )
7. Your favorite saying?
Cruisin' - Gweneth Paltrow and Huey Lewis ( I love this song)
"and if you want it you got it forever"
8. Favorite place?
Broken Sonnet - Hale ( The only good song Hale made IMO)
"Cause tonight I leave my fears behind
Cause tonight I'll be right at your side"
9. What do you think of your parents?
Chicksilog - Kamikazee (Guess that's another miss)
10. Where would you go on a first date?
Chasing Cars - Snow Patrol ( Could be - I'm lazy (or broke) to go out. Hehe)
"If I lay here
If I just lay here
Would you lie with me and just forget the world? "
11. Drug of choice?
Ikaw Lamang - Silent Sanctuary (yeah. Perfect answer haha)
"Sa lahat ng aking ginagawa
Ikaw lamang ang nasa isip ko sinta"
12. Describe yourself.
Akin ka na lang - Itchyworms (Well, at least it's consistent with the other music survey - still says I'm jealous. <_< )
13. The song that will be played at your funeral?
Bulong - Kitchie Nadal (I must have left some sad people. Hehe. Also the chorus sounds supernatural since this is supposed to be for my funeral)
"Ikaw ba'y nalulungkot?
Nababalut pa ng poot,
maraming hinanakit sa mundo.
Di alam anong gagawin kundi ubusin ang oras sa gin.
Akala mo'y iya'y may mararating.
Hoy kaibigan ko!
Pakinggan mo ang mga bulong sa ‘yo.
Ito'y di galing sa mundo.
Patungo sa pangakong paraiso."
14. What's your pornstar name?
I wanna be with you - Mandy Moore (I sound like one needy desperate pornstar)
15. What is my state of mind like at the
moment?
It Ends Tonight - All American Rejects (Emo? Meh - sabaw lang sa schoolwork)
16. How will I die?
Para Sayo - Parokya ni Edgar ( Perfect. Well, it almost happened once before [ and no, that wasn't cryptic love life talk]. Ask the ES freshmen. hehe)
17. The song you'll put as the subject?
Ewan - Imago
I'll take this opportunity to blog since the next thing that I will post will be promotions for my upcoming ESS project and also since I'll probably be swamped by schoolwork for the next week or so. Another academic cycle is starting once more.
Like in economics where there is a business cycle of expansion-recession, academic life (at least, mine) is also marked by a cycle - a cycle of stress and slack(ing off). And it so happens the slacking stage is ending after the stress of our polsci report and 2 long test from my major subjects. The stress stage is coming once more - this time in the form of both acads and extra-curricular activities. I have about 12 pounds worth of readings to go through including a book for our report on Wednesday.Also my long delayed project is finally approved and set for Friday and Saturday. I must promote that vigorously and I don't know how or if there is even much time. Gah I hate being a project head.
Another month has blurred past me again. And now it's February again. Oh how time flies.
And now to the music survey I saw from Jacky's site. I did a different music survey last September (wow, so long ago) that was really funny (http://stargazerspoint.blogspot.com/2007_09_01_archive.html) so I tried this one too to see what the weird, often accurate and funny results will be.
1. Put your music player on shuffle.
2. Press forward for each question.
3. Use the song title as the answer to the question
1. What does this year have in store for me?
I Could Not Ask For More - Edwin Mccain (This must be a great year. haha)
These are the moments I thank God that I'm alive
These are the moments I'll remember all my life
I've got all I've waited for
And I could not ask for more
2. What does your love life look like?
Come Around - Rhett Miller (God that so hit the mark. hahaha)
Am I gonna be lonely for the rest of my life
Am I gonna be lonely for the rest of my life
I'm gonna be lonely for the rest of my life
Unless you come around
So come around "
3. What do I say when life gets hard?
Sampip (solo)- Parokya ni Edgar (Another good answer. hehe)
"I'll just close my eyes and just go to sleep" <- Perfect me
But a better line will be -
"call me crazy i just don't care
I'll never quit it so you better beware"
4. What do I think of when I get up in the morning?
Martyr Nyebera - Kamikazee (My parents)
"paggising sa umaga
mukha mo ang nakita
wala pang nagawa nakasimangot na"
5. What song will I dance to at my wedding?
Wag na Wag Mong Sasabihin - Kitchie Nadal (Well, the survey is bound to miss sometime.c'mon, you can't dance to this song. hehe)
6. What do you want as a career?
Tulog na - Sugarfree (What's with me and sleeping? )
7. Your favorite saying?
Cruisin' - Gweneth Paltrow and Huey Lewis ( I love this song)
"and if you want it you got it forever"
8. Favorite place?
Broken Sonnet - Hale ( The only good song Hale made IMO)
"Cause tonight I leave my fears behind
Cause tonight I'll be right at your side"
9. What do you think of your parents?
Chicksilog - Kamikazee (Guess that's another miss)
10. Where would you go on a first date?
Chasing Cars - Snow Patrol ( Could be - I'm lazy (or broke) to go out. Hehe)
"If I lay here
If I just lay here
Would you lie with me and just forget the world? "
11. Drug of choice?
Ikaw Lamang - Silent Sanctuary (yeah. Perfect answer haha)
"Sa lahat ng aking ginagawa
Ikaw lamang ang nasa isip ko sinta"
12. Describe yourself.
Akin ka na lang - Itchyworms (Well, at least it's consistent with the other music survey - still says I'm jealous. <_< )
13. The song that will be played at your funeral?
Bulong - Kitchie Nadal (I must have left some sad people. Hehe. Also the chorus sounds supernatural since this is supposed to be for my funeral)
"Ikaw ba'y nalulungkot?
Nababalut pa ng poot,
maraming hinanakit sa mundo.
Di alam anong gagawin kundi ubusin ang oras sa gin.
Akala mo'y iya'y may mararating.
Hoy kaibigan ko!
Pakinggan mo ang mga bulong sa ‘yo.
Ito'y di galing sa mundo.
Patungo sa pangakong paraiso."
14. What's your pornstar name?
I wanna be with you - Mandy Moore (I sound like one needy desperate pornstar)
15. What is my state of mind like at the
moment?
It Ends Tonight - All American Rejects (Emo? Meh - sabaw lang sa schoolwork)
16. How will I die?
Para Sayo - Parokya ni Edgar ( Perfect. Well, it almost happened once before [ and no, that wasn't cryptic love life talk]. Ask the ES freshmen. hehe)
17. The song you'll put as the subject?
Ewan - Imago
Monday, December 31, 2007
Wednesday, December 26, 2007
Discovery
It's been more than or almost a month since my accident, my birthday, Christmas, New Years and our Bataan Ecotour. Now that's procrastinating. It's not that I don't have anything to write about. When school came back it swamped with work and stress so I put off writing about this year's Christmas until now. Add the fact that we have Discovery Channel back in our cable, it's been difficult for me to get away from the TV. I love watching Discovery
A month ago I was in an industrious mood - all I've been doing before Christmas was keep busy - play games, watch the new season of Avatar, watch TV, even read schoolwork just to keep my mind busy and not bothered by troubles. So I was surprised when I discovered that I lost my drive after Christmas day. Industriousness has always just been an excuse for me, work just a distraction. I hate idle times like vacation, it makes me think. Christmas this year was better than last year.
Our Bataan Trip was fun. I discovered alot of things, like facts about turtles, how incredibly bad the feeling of being wasted is, but what amazes me until now is the awesome power of the Law of Attraction. If you've heard one of my motivational speeches then you'd have an idea of what I'm talking about. I mean, it cannot be coincidence anymore!
This post is made just for me to put into writing most of my thought this past two months. It's very cryptic i know, but that's for the off-chance someone actually got to reading this. Don't worry, I'll understand what I wrote about, even if you wouldn't.*insert sly smile here*
It's been more than or almost a month since my accident, my birthday, Christmas, New Years and our Bataan Ecotour. Now that's procrastinating. It's not that I don't have anything to write about. When school came back it swamped with work and stress so I put off writing about this year's Christmas until now. Add the fact that we have Discovery Channel back in our cable, it's been difficult for me to get away from the TV. I love watching Discovery
A month ago I was in an industrious mood - all I've been doing before Christmas was keep busy - play games, watch the new season of Avatar, watch TV, even read schoolwork just to keep my mind busy and not bothered by troubles. So I was surprised when I discovered that I lost my drive after Christmas day. Industriousness has always just been an excuse for me, work just a distraction. I hate idle times like vacation, it makes me think. Christmas this year was better than last year.
Our Bataan Trip was fun. I discovered alot of things, like facts about turtles, how incredibly bad the feeling of being wasted is, but what amazes me until now is the awesome power of the Law of Attraction. If you've heard one of my motivational speeches then you'd have an idea of what I'm talking about. I mean, it cannot be coincidence anymore!
This post is made just for me to put into writing most of my thought this past two months. It's very cryptic i know, but that's for the off-chance someone actually got to reading this. Don't worry, I'll understand what I wrote about, even if you wouldn't.*insert sly smile here*
Wednesday, December 12, 2007
Tough shoes
A tough shoe makes all the difference. I would know, I put mine through tests that would make any terror prof blush and my shoes never failed me. I walk miles in my shoes. I like walking. I walk from Petron Katipunan to campus and back everyday, not to mention the walking that happens going from point A to B to J within campus. I don't even mind walking all the way home from Ateneo. It's becoming often that traffic jams so bad occur that I can practically walk faster than the vehicles. So I just press on from Katipunan past the bridge, past the LRT station and onwards on foot until I see that I can get a ride when traffic is gone.
I'm not really a shoes kind of guy. That's my dad. I'm more on shirts. That's why I volunteered to help in the Ateneo alumni homecoming last Saturday as a marshal. Free shirt, free food, free beer and good music, not to mention what must be a very expensive fireworks display. Ateneo sure knows how to throw a good party.
Speaking of free stuff, my tita gave me these rubber shoes from the States a month ago. It's kind of too rugged for me. It's a little on the hard side. Maybe because it's still quite new. Anyway, I was wearing these shoes on my way school this morning. Because of that darn traffic I got a little later than usual so I decided to just ride a trike to make it to class on time. There was a cute girl in the trike so I rode on the back. Now instead of getting to know that girl, I got to know my tricycle driver instead. Mang Rueben the trike driver and I got chatty after something got stuck in between the shock absorbers and the rear wheel of the trike after entering gate 2 that brought the trike to a halt. The girl in the cab went down to see what happened and while we were waiting for Mang R to get the wheel removed I saw that I wasn't making much of a good first impression. Maybe because I had this stupid look on my face, or maybe she saw my dirty shoes. Yeah, I think it's that.
So since Mang Rueben's trike is lying in the middle of the road wheel-less, he and I got on another trike and that is where we got to know each other. He seemed troubled so I tried to calm him down with some small talk. I think that helped. So we went to the HealthDev building (across ISO) where I got to sit in a wheelchair for a while. that's because that was my foot that got stuck.
If your thinking it's impossible for something to get stuck in between the shocks and the wheel of a trike, believe you me, it can. It happened once with my camera, now it has happened with my left foot. It's not as bad as it sounds, or might have looked. Slightly embarrassing cuz it happened in the middle of the road. At least got to practice my wheelchair driving skills. Now I'll need to practice my crutch (saklay) handling skills.
It's my shoes that saved my foot for the most part. Those thick shoes took the brunt of the damage that would have torn any lesser shoe and my foot to shreds. My foot essentially stopped the forward motion of a speeding trike with sheer friction. It took one hell of a beating. Some of the designs on both sides of the shoes were shaved off. I shudder to think what might have happened if I were wearing chucks instead of those hard-ass shoes.
And these Ateneo kids bitch about not being able to wear slippers anymore because of the dress code. Thank God I wear shoes. Because by the end of the day, a tough shoe makes all the difference.
A tough shoe makes all the difference. I would know, I put mine through tests that would make any terror prof blush and my shoes never failed me. I walk miles in my shoes. I like walking. I walk from Petron Katipunan to campus and back everyday, not to mention the walking that happens going from point A to B to J within campus. I don't even mind walking all the way home from Ateneo. It's becoming often that traffic jams so bad occur that I can practically walk faster than the vehicles. So I just press on from Katipunan past the bridge, past the LRT station and onwards on foot until I see that I can get a ride when traffic is gone.
I'm not really a shoes kind of guy. That's my dad. I'm more on shirts. That's why I volunteered to help in the Ateneo alumni homecoming last Saturday as a marshal. Free shirt, free food, free beer and good music, not to mention what must be a very expensive fireworks display. Ateneo sure knows how to throw a good party.
Speaking of free stuff, my tita gave me these rubber shoes from the States a month ago. It's kind of too rugged for me. It's a little on the hard side. Maybe because it's still quite new. Anyway, I was wearing these shoes on my way school this morning. Because of that darn traffic I got a little later than usual so I decided to just ride a trike to make it to class on time. There was a cute girl in the trike so I rode on the back. Now instead of getting to know that girl, I got to know my tricycle driver instead. Mang Rueben the trike driver and I got chatty after something got stuck in between the shock absorbers and the rear wheel of the trike after entering gate 2 that brought the trike to a halt. The girl in the cab went down to see what happened and while we were waiting for Mang R to get the wheel removed I saw that I wasn't making much of a good first impression. Maybe because I had this stupid look on my face, or maybe she saw my dirty shoes. Yeah, I think it's that.
So since Mang Rueben's trike is lying in the middle of the road wheel-less, he and I got on another trike and that is where we got to know each other. He seemed troubled so I tried to calm him down with some small talk. I think that helped. So we went to the HealthDev building (across ISO) where I got to sit in a wheelchair for a while. that's because that was my foot that got stuck.
If your thinking it's impossible for something to get stuck in between the shocks and the wheel of a trike, believe you me, it can. It happened once with my camera, now it has happened with my left foot. It's not as bad as it sounds, or might have looked. Slightly embarrassing cuz it happened in the middle of the road. At least got to practice my wheelchair driving skills. Now I'll need to practice my crutch (saklay) handling skills.
It's my shoes that saved my foot for the most part. Those thick shoes took the brunt of the damage that would have torn any lesser shoe and my foot to shreds. My foot essentially stopped the forward motion of a speeding trike with sheer friction. It took one hell of a beating. Some of the designs on both sides of the shoes were shaved off. I shudder to think what might have happened if I were wearing chucks instead of those hard-ass shoes.
And these Ateneo kids bitch about not being able to wear slippers anymore because of the dress code. Thank God I wear shoes. Because by the end of the day, a tough shoe makes all the difference.
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