Christmas is just around the corner and everyone sure is busy! Busy buying gifts and preparing for the holidays, and I’m also preoccupied as my teachers really let us experience the season of giving by handing us tons of requirements and setting exams before Christmas. So yes, I’m very busy drowning in a sea of schoolworks and lessons to catch up on.
I have reached my last leg of joining inter-school Bible quiz bees and God has blessed me with a first place tilt together with my 3 other schoolmates Esther, Japhet, and Gwen during the Federation of Christian Schools last December 4! All the skipping of classes were not in vain!
Victory Fort’s Appreciation Night was so nostalgic! I had to walk from One World Place to church (3 blocks away, so it’s fine lol) to avoid being way too late because wow my parents and I left home at 5PM (event starts 7PM) and I was still 15 minutes late? It was fun to be in the companionship of other ministry volunteers, knowing that there are a lot of people (there were so many youth!!) who are willing to serve God. I was also able to witness the performance of Trumpets’ Pamilya Maleta which is so inspiring and funny all the same!
A cliniquing was held two days after suspension so I was like lol still have to catch up on school how to breathe but I learned so much and met new friends! My batchmate KC and I, felt so much tension with our fellow journalists but during the last day I just couldn’t not talk to them so I took the chance and it all went down to good! They were actually all funny! David Franco’s line from 21 Jumpstreet is really legit where he said “Everyone’s a stranger until you give them a chance”.
*The nail art was made during our TLE class, I felt like a girl.
The word interim is stuck in my head because I reread City of Bones and William Shakespeare’s term in Julius Caesar was mentioned in the beginning of the book lol. Just some fancy words to describe recent good occurrences in my life! One of those occurrences is the fact that exams are finally over(!)
This was taken during the Centennial Fun Run of Boy Scouts at Quirino Grandstand last October 12 with my friends Louie, Gia, AJ, Micah, Neil, and JC!
This fun run was way more fun than the first run we had which happened the week before this maybe because the Bakood Festival Fun Run in our city happened just an hour after our Rover Vigil which means sobrang bangag kaming lahat 4th year bec it’s a requirement to attend the all-night investiture.
It was also more fun because my batchmate Micah kept on intentionally dropping her 100 peso-bill on the street while running to see if someone will not return the bill lmfao :-(( Also while running she suddenly screamed “Sino? Sinong bubugbugin natin? Yung naka-violet ba?” and we all threw fits of laughter because all participants were wearing violet so other running scouts looked at us and lmfao i just- HAHAHA! Even our scout master kept on scolding us because we were too noisy and not at all running but it was worth it!!
I AM FINALLY GOING TO SEE THE VAMPS NEXT YEAR OH MY GOD!!!!! SCREAMS!!! That’s the only thing I can say because gah!! I seriously love their songs they’re all so chill and spread good vibes all over uggghhh I’m so excited to see them perform! (and coughs I really want to see James and Tristan and Brad and Connor coughs)
These two, I guess, will be the last book haul I will have for this year because ipon gaming mode: on. I bought these when National Bookstore had its 20% off in all books and they were certainly worth it!
Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell justified my life as a fangirl who spends her time devoting her life to something/someone she likes. Though I used to read fanfics and not write them. And Levi ugh Levi!! He reminds me so much of Chanyeol because he’s all smiles and plaid flannel shirts!
We Were Liars by E. Lockhart was one hella mind-boggling read! Just by reading the title, it got me intrigued already. It is so tragic and beautiful that after you read it, you’ll have that burning sensation in your chest! This book taught me to be a little kinder than I have to be and kind of reminded me of Robert Frost’s poem, The Road Not Taken. I suggest this to everyone who wants to breathe a different kind of air; and according to the synopsis, if anyone asks you how it ends, just lie.
6 dreadful years of joining journalism contests, I have just won my first award on my last year of high school!! And it’s even a field I know nothing about–sports writing!! I am still so thankful and surprised because whut?? I won??
And what’s more surprising is that I’m going to regionals :-(( I don’t even know I even wrote Gilas players’ names all wrong lmfao I wrote George Norwood instead of Gabe (I am a horrible person because when I watched FIBA months ago I proclaimed that I have a crush on Norwood) :-((( and I told my classmate “Ay confident ako kay Pingris!! Mark diba?” “Oo! Ano spelling ng Mark mo?” “Letter K!!!” “HALA KA LETTER C YUN!!!" and all the confidence was drained out of me.
So I am still surprised that I won 6th place!! My co-journalists told me that it was my writing that made me achieve that award and I am so thankful because I was so close to feeling that maybe writing is not just for me but thank God because He really brings out the best when we least expect Him to!
The month of October really brought me good stuff and the month hasn’t even ended yet! Next up, sembreak and birthday!
i. Typhoon Mario, stop crying; you won’t find Princess Peach in the Philippines! Stay safe everyone, the sun will make its comeback soon xx
ii. The smell of homemade cookies and the sound of the pouring rain >
iii. Flair bartending next week using this recycled Mountain Dew bottle!
iv. Down to the last book of my favorite trilogy! I want to finish already but I don’t want to say good bye to Tris and Tobias yet; and they say I should prepare tissues?? Everyone is dying but pls, not my otp!!
v. Of all the 16 colleges and universities that visited our school yesterday, UST had the most impressive marketing strategy! The guy was boasting too much about the uni that we all wanted to punch him already but we were all laughing so hard! My uste feels went so high I can’t
1. Student Council campaigns brought a lot of lessons! One should never settle for mediocre, always for the best. Failure is an experience, learn from it.
2. It was National Dog Day yesterday and well, one of our dogs should have been named “Grey” because of his eyes instead of Baby Bambi Boy because my mom couldn’t think of a better name so she just added baby and boy to the name of our other dog. Lmao.
3. It is actually quite scary that -ber months are about to arrive (3 more days omegahd) and then another 3 months before I graduate from high school and go to college! I clearly remember whining how I want to work already because I am so tired of doing the same thing but then woah wait! Time …slow down, will ya?
4. I often judge a book by its cover. I really did not like how Jude Deveraux’s Remembrance looked because it looks so old (well, the book is old) and the enthusiasm of reading it faded away because of school but when I found the time to really read it, I couldn’t stop myself craving to know what happens next! This is one unforgettable read, and it is really true that the books we often neglect are the ones who are actually worth our time.
5. K-12 is exhausting. I am under the basic education curriculum but some of my subjects are using K-12 and I’m a graduating student so yay for my health! K-12 gives a lot of activities to students like video shooting (like in every subject) and istg one activity isn’t finished yet and they’ll give 5 more activities ugh [sings] why you gotta be so rude? Don’t you know I’m human too?
I received an anon msg a long time ago and another one yesterday so I’m going to talk about how I was the past few days. I’ve been moody. One moment I want to get to know everyone and ask them how their day went and talk about the songs they’ve been listening to and the movies they recently watched but then the next I just want to stay put and busy myself with my own thoughts. Sometimes I don’t talk to people not because I don’t like them, but because I just don’t really feel like talking at all.
I also learned how essential it is to surround yourself with people whom you can open up to because it’s really hard to keep everything to yourself. I don’t share my problems to others because I know they’re also fighting their own battles and that I may just add to the weight they’ve been carrying but I realized that once we let out our worries we will find people who are or were in the same shoes and they can be our source of inspiration to carry on.
