It's Friday

It's Friday and I think I feel like it's not Friday. I'm inside our library right now thinking about how to finish this project of ours in Socio-Anthropology. Socio-Anthropology is one subject in our course which stresses me the most. I don't even know why we have to study this. I apologize for venting but I just can't take the hardness of this MINOR subject. So, yes sorry again for venting.

This morning we had our tournament in Volleyball. it was tiring but at the same time I really enjoyed. Even though we were beaten by the first group, we have put great effort to win. It's just that our service didn't work out that well. In our second game, I'm glad that the tension among our team was gone already since I've scored 18 time immediately because of service, so then we won the first set of the game and it will be continued next week.

It's not actually our break when we had our one hour break between Trigo and PE since we have to clean ourselves up because we're all sweaty and dirty from playing. We were all thinking about the quiz in Trigo and our dance in Filipino so we were all stressed.

It feels like we never had a break or we were not given time to really rest our mind or body since the next subjects are really scary. The quiz was fine, I handled it well so I hope I can finally get a perfect score in Trigonometry, next class was Filipino. It was like a feast with all the dances and food everywhere. But we disappointed Ma'am Au, she's really our favorite teacher and I wish we can go back in time and redo everything we did. She was really expecting us to do a program but we didn't I hope I just made an ad lib so it would look like we really prepared for something grande.

I really just want to vent because our class really was taking care of how Ma'am Au would look towards us. I hope there's no other disappointments we would commit in the latter parts of this semester. We're really trying our best to reach her expectations.

Exhausting day and it didn't stop with our Filipino class. After our one-hour break, we had English classes, which was also tiring because we had a game in which we have to for 2 circles and face each other to ask 6 different questions towards 6 different people. With all the loud conversations and giggling, I don't know why it drained my energy.

The next period comes afterwards which is Philosophy and again our mind is tested. We were asked to memorize 8 syllogism rules in 10 minutes, luckily, I wasn't called. I'm not used to memorizing fast. And I don't want to think anymore. The class ended right on time, so we immediately packed our stuff, looked for a quiet place and began our shoot for Socio-Anthropology.

Jhoana Pe Manuel Lualhati

I've been attending a lot of debuts for the past weeks. It was almost every week that I go out for debuts. But the debut that's gonna happen on Friday is no similar to the ones I've attended. It's for Jojo Lualhati. She's my friend since 3 rd year high school and now, she's going to celebrate her 18th birthday <3

This is a part of the invitation she gave me. <3 It says there that her debut's theme is Grecian. So cool. I still can't believe she's turning 18 already :( I'm still 16, you know. How come time flies so fast I didn't even notice. I'm really nervous about her debut since I'd be performing an intermission number. I will just sing 2 songs, and it's gonna be a surprise, she has no clue what the songs are. I'm nervous because I don't wanna mess up. I've been practicing these past few days while I'm studying for preliminary examinations. 

It says there that the ladies' attire should be a long gown and in capital letters; NO BLACK or COCKTAIL DRESSES. So, luckily, I have this long gown I last used almost 3 years ago. I decided to use it once again, and since I have a lot of high heels, I didn't really think about that that much. The guys' attire also caught my attention, because they are not allowed to wear black suits. HAHA. It's really hard for them if that's the case. Tuxedos or suits are really expensive that's why they usually repeat it everytime. I just hope my royal blue long gown would suit the theme of Jojo's debut. 

Songs of the Nymphs, Dance of the Titans, Gifts from the Gods

Awesome names really, it's all related to the theme. She really did plan this very well, I didn't want her to stress herself so I helped her by giving out some of our mutual friends' invitation. It was nice that I was able to do that because some of our friends are our friends that I haven't seen for a long time, and now we've broken the streak. Anyway, I'm part of the 18 Songs of the Nymphs. I asked my friend what will I do. She said it was a secret, just prepare. I don't even know what to prepare. HAHA. So, I overheard that it was like the 18 candles of a regular debut. We have to say all our wishes for her. I'm not really sure what to say. Oh well, the less I think about it, the better.

Here's a picture of me and my friend <3 Yes, we're vain, and we have a lot of pictures together. But I choose not to put everything here, and just made a collage. 

That's Jojo Lualhati. I really miss her, and I'm looking forward to seeing her very pretty this Friday.

By the way, the reason why I made a blog about her today is because today is her actual birthdate. So yes, I just want to share to you how much I love her. Happy Birthday Jhoana Pe Manuel Lualhati <3 I love you so much. I miss you like woah.

Good Samaritans

Just recently, I came home from my meet-up with my friends and somebody helped a person along her way for which she is not familiar with. I was there when they were talking, he was really directing the girl; telling her some possible ways to get to her destination. I was really happy that there are still people who actually care for those whom they don't even know their names. I was grinning that time because I can't sustain myself since I kept on remembering some time during my emotional days before summer even started. 

I was on my way to my soon-to-be new school, which is now my school and guess what I just commuted. I took a jeepney as what my mom told me, but I was really scared that time because my college is really far from our house compared to my high school campus. I am not used to the place and I have heard a lot of stories that crimes happen to which the jeepney passes through. I can't really hide what I'm feeling so I kept on asking the driver if UST is near already.

But then, he was too busy driving and not paying attention with so this lady infront of where I am sitting told me that it's far from where I've asked. She even gave me details of what I should expect it may look like. She told me that she'll go down of the jeepney before me, so she's like telling me that I should be attentive of the road once she gets off. 

I got really teary-eyed because that was the day my friend, Moze, will be celebrating her debut and also me and my mom were in a fight so she didn't go with me to reserve a slot for my course. I was really emotional so it didn't really matter if I was alone. I was just really overwhelmed that some stranger will care about where I am going compared to those people I've known already. Maybe, it was just me, it was really a bad day but I managed to hold on my tears and by the time I saw Moze already, that's when I really cried a lot. 

So, those good Samaritans out there, I salute you all!! You've inspired me and helped me. <3 I hope I can do that to other people too because sometimes you wouldn't know there's a deeper meaning below those simple actions you do. I love the Philippines. <3 People would really feel cared about and loved even those strangers you never had seen before. Simple actions help.

Rainy Season in the Philippines

Recently, the Philippines has been under a state of calamity. Our school even suspended classes for the whole week. Actually, almost all of the schools were suspended the whole week. Things got scarier after 2 days because it never stopped raining. There wasn't even any typhoon called upon by PAG-ASA it's just plain rain. So it rained for 4 consecutive days. And yes, after it rained a lot of streets were closed due to flood. Our school also closed down because there was flood in the whole campus. Our hospital's generator even was damaged because of all the water coming in.

After the 4 days of continuous raining, our electricity shut off. Unfortunately, even though they turned it on again, we were one of the few who didn't get the right amount of electricity so yes until I slept we didn't have lights and air conditioning. It was really dark and hot. The moment I woke up, electricity was back on. 

This whole week, I was able to sing and record. I managed to post everything in Soundcloud. I really had a lot of free time, but I wasted it in social networking. Instead of me studying, I continued browsing through some pictures of our flooded school and pictures of how the Philippines manages to smile despite this very heavy rain. Maybe, God gave this opportunity for us to study or in my case, rest.

But, I ended up getting used to sleeping very late and waking up in the afternoon, which is I think bad because I have school early in the morning. I have to give a very big allowance for the duration of me going to school. Oh well, I know I can just adjust immediately. 

Our midterms are next week already and I haven't studied anything yet. Our field trip got cancelled, sadly. And our supposed free day on Monday was also cancelled, so we have classes that day now. I'm also helping my friend with her debut invitations, I'm like a messenger. But I want this errands anyway. I'd be able to see my highschool friends once again. 

Just like my ex, I'd be meeting him tomorrow afternoon. I just hope I'd have the time. I hope he talks to me properly now and I hope its more normal than before. I'm also preparing some songs for my friend's debut. I'd be performing, I suddenly felt nervous awhile ago. I need to practice and burn some minus one CDs already. 

This week hasn't been academically productive for me but rather a virtually productive week. I will have high scores for next week's mideterms. I can feel it. HAHA

Pray for the Philippines everyone :) We're trying to stand tall once again and beat this calamity. <3