I just want to write

Sometimes I can be really shallow when it comes to happiness. My life isn’t getting any better this summer. Little things seem to have made my day this summer which include:

Archive reading:

• I’ve found out that my old t35 blog is still up and running. I decided to take a trip down memory lane by reading all previous blog posts. But before I go into that I just realized how crappy that layout was. Anyway it’s so nice to read something that happened during first year.
• I also looked at rizals_retreat (English Yahoo group) archives and saw how mischievous 1F really was last year. It’s nice to reminisce the past.
• Look at Yahoo! Archives and enjoy your funny conversations with your friends like it happened just yesterday! It’s really fun reading all of those wacky things we talk about in conferences or the topics we talk about to other people.

Little facts that made me happy

• Barbie Almablis is from DLSU!
• I’ve added an extra 512 MB ram on my computer. So it’s now 1.2 GB RAM
• I finished The Broker by John Girsham, Angels and Demons and The Da Vinci Code both by Dan Brown.
• Summer classes aren’t that bad.

Things that made me sad

• DLSU’s suspension. Surprisingly it didn’t affect me as much as it was supposed to. Supposedly, I should be in comatose right now.
• Geometry is boring. Chemistry seems more interesting than Geom. I always though Chemistry would be my weakest but Geometry is on the way to ruin my 3^rd Year.
• Forgettable first lead guitar stint

Summer classes are not as enjoyable as I had hoped that it would be. Aside from that fact that Jet keep on passing notes during Geometry time, or Malvin and I copying each others stuff, just like what we did during first year, it’s pretty much the same C2, Yakisoba and proving that we endure everyday. Aside from that I am forced to wake up early everyday just to get a head start for next school year. Am I really that serious?

According to Wikipedia:

Murphy's law (also known as Finagle's law or Sod's law) is a popular adage in Western culture, which broadly states that things will go wrong in any given situation. "If there's more than one way to do a job, and one of those ways will result in disaster, then somebody will do it that way." It is most commonly formulated as "Anything that can go wrong will go wrong."

I’ve always been interested with this. It really answers why life is being cruel to me at times? Example, one day is searched for my wallet high and low, left and right all over my bedroom. My search was in vain, I concluded so I checked my parent’s room yet no avail. After remembering Murphy’s Law, I forgot to check the first place where I am supposed to check, the pocket of my pants. Murphy’s Law is amazing and I propose a study on this law. Maybe that should have been my ERD last year, the study of a psychological law, namely Murphy’s Law.

La Salle Green Hills Murphy Law:
· Homework will be given on the worst possible time
· Projects will always come in groups (Science and Math projects, English and CL projects and the like)
· During a graded recitation in which you didn’t prepare for, you will be called first.
· The most important part of your notes are illegible
· You will be pulled out when you are taking down important notes
· 90% of your test covered the illegible notes and the notes which you missed
· When you want to copy assignments from someone, everyone expected that they could copy from you

These are some things that happen at LSGH to a lot of students. Take my word, anytime within your stay at LSGH, you should have at least experienced any of these.

Should I have any violent reaction because of the UAAP Board’s decision? Not really. I just want to know a few things:

• Why won’t the UAAP Board release the findings?

I miss writing. I read somewhere that you are a writer if the first thing you want to do once you get out of your slumber is to write. What if you want to write but can’t write anything, are you considered as a writer?

We’ve often heard the term it’s easier said than done, which is true actually. How many times have we said to ourselves that we will do something yet end up falling behind? How many promises have we broken to ourselves because of infinite reasons? How many times have you said that you will study harder this school year? I will finish my work by this particular day? I will ask her out by this time? I will learn how to do this by this time? Countless goals, and yet, only a few get accomplished. Why set goals you think you are incapable of doing but you know you can do it? Why set goals if you know you won’t accomplish it but feel you’ll be able to surpass them? Sometimes, I think it’s just a matter of time when a person will finally step up.
Stepping up; a term used in sports when a player suddenly catches fire when it’s crunch time. A term used when you know your teammates are struggling and someone needs to emerge as a leader. In other words, it is to rise above yourself, to exceed your potential.
For next school year, whatever happens I have once again my regular sets of goals to try and do. As usual, the stuff like get better grades, meet new people, play more instruments, and the like are there. But, I figured out why I can’t accomplish goals per year. I think I’m too stuck up to accomplish multiple goals all at the same time. How can I study if I’m trying to concentrate on the guitar or vice versa? How can I meet new friends if I’m busy practicing for chess games? These are the stuff that I started to think about. Why not set 1 long term goal which we can focus on instead on looking at other goals? You know why we can’t do that? Because we are ambitious, we want a lot of things in life and we know we can’t have all of them. I guess I need to get rid of that mentality now so I’ll be able to move along. So what goal should I really aim for this year?

My journal is collecting dust. I have my own diary hidden in my room using simple notebook given to me March 2005. I’d usually find something to do with notebooks but I couldn’t find anything that this notebook could do. A diary is more like it, a notebook made out of recycled paper.

I discussed with my dad one time about the possible courses I’m going to take once I graduate High School. Computer Science, Literature, Education, Psychology or Philosophy should be the courses I’m going to take once I graduate. Unfortunately dad narrowed down my choices to two, Computer Science and Business Management.

I spent Holy Week in Bacolod. Talk about a long term sacrifice on my part. Aside from the fact that I don’t have anything to do there, my mom’s Lenten rituals made my stay more of a sacrifice than a vacation.

I’m going to Hong Kong this May. Personally, I don’t want to. Vacation for me is staying in the comforts of my own home enjoying summer as a kid. It’s not going out of the country and seeing Mickey Mouse running around the place. But honestly, I need a break.

SOS is coming up and we’re just getting busier. My head hurts, I spent the afternoon continuously coding stuff in Flash. Right now, I just want to rest!

Phew, what a long blog post.