YES! I survived my 5th year and 1st semester in College with high spirits, but dampened by minor casualties. Allow me to enumerate the number of small injuries I've managed to sustain at this short period of time:
1. RED EYE
I'll start with the most visible injury I've managed to acquire. In my quest to try to be more economical I printed the notes, that my teachers sent via email, in very small font sizes. I was able to save at least 3 additional bondpapers which I may have had to use had I printed using larger script. However, after studying the material for hours for that subject's exam, I woke up the following day with my right eye sporting super red eye veins... =s
2. WOUNDS AT THE BACK OF MY FEET
I went shoe shopping sometime along the first semester because I was looking for a nice pair of black flats. I found a gorgeous pair in Ayala, which I excitedly bought (or had my sister buy for me =D ). That night, I had a birthday dinner to go out to. So excited-new-shoes-girl that I was, I abandoned my older pair of white flats and happily put on my new purchases!
That night, we ended up walking for hours around Ayala, undecided where to eat. And afterwards, walked around again, undecided where to hang out. We eventually hung out shooting hoops in Timezone, where we won three stuffed bears by the way. But by the time we finally decided to go home, it took every ounce of strength in me to finally TAKE OFF THE PAINFUL SHOES! I ended up putting band-aid over both wounds for weeks, since it hurt even when I wore other shoes. It doesn't hurt now...And I can wear my new black flats without pain...
But the scars, (sigh) remain...
3. CARPAL TUNNEL SYNDROME
Ironic as to how I could attain an ergonomic-related injury, when my thesis, which I have been living and breathing in morning-noon and night, is all about ERGONOMICS!=D
But it's true, my right hand is suffering from Carpal Tunnel Syndrome, due to unergonomic laptop use. It's not that annoying anymore though, so I'm hoping it will heal through the semestral break.
4. HEAVY MIGRAINES
... which means I have to visit my eye doctor very very soooonnnn.....
5. I'm actually doing a visible eye check on myself, and I can't seem to see and think of any other injury that I may have acquired. (Unless you count this growing pimple on my chin that may largely be due to stress..) =D Till then, let;s hope I make it out of the second semster ALIVE :)
Friday, October 09, 2009
I'm back... Again!
I've been feeling really guilty about neglecting my blog...again!
But school's just been so hectic lately... I don't even have to time to do most of the things I love doing when I have nothing else to do. Which enforces my point that, I just don't have that much free time anymore :(
Finals week is over, as we have an early semestral break for this half of the school year. I've discovered quite a lot this semester, which reminds me that I still have to write another sequel to my "things i learned in college" blog... That will have to follow. For now, allow me to have fun with my blog and write about the nonsense stuff I miss writing about. =D
I'll take a break from all the thesis, systems, and other projects where I feel like I have to squeeze my brains out for the words and ideas that I need to encode quickly considering the many deadlines I have to meet. I'll try and update my blog this semestral break, so I can remember and rediscover why I love writing so much... :)
But school's just been so hectic lately... I don't even have to time to do most of the things I love doing when I have nothing else to do. Which enforces my point that, I just don't have that much free time anymore :(
Finals week is over, as we have an early semestral break for this half of the school year. I've discovered quite a lot this semester, which reminds me that I still have to write another sequel to my "things i learned in college" blog... That will have to follow. For now, allow me to have fun with my blog and write about the nonsense stuff I miss writing about. =D
I'll take a break from all the thesis, systems, and other projects where I feel like I have to squeeze my brains out for the words and ideas that I need to encode quickly considering the many deadlines I have to meet. I'll try and update my blog this semestral break, so I can remember and rediscover why I love writing so much... :)
Saturday, June 06, 2009
What next??!
I've just lately been able to breathe after a long summer vacation of hectic OJT activities. I'm not complaining... I loved both my OJT's! Both companies gave me a chance to have a look at the world where I suppose I will probably be (hopefully) by April of next year.
But at the last day of my second job, I was awake all night till the wee hours of the morning, suffering from what I can only term as my "midlife crisis".
Wikipedia said:
Midlife crisis is a term coined in 1965 by Elliott Jaques and used in Western societies to describe a period of dramatic self-doubt that is felt by some individuals in the "middle years" of life, as a result of sensing the passing of youth and the imminence of old age.
Okkkkaaayyyy...
Being exposed to what life might someday be just made me think if it was all life was cut out to be. I'm afraid that after I've done everything that I have plotted and planned to do in my life, I'll one day realize that I've not done anything worthwhile...
Hmmm... after everything, what next? :s
But at the last day of my second job, I was awake all night till the wee hours of the morning, suffering from what I can only term as my "midlife crisis".
Wikipedia said:
Midlife crisis is a term coined in 1965 by Elliott Jaques and used in Western societies to describe a period of dramatic self-doubt that is felt by some individuals in the "middle years" of life, as a result of sensing the passing of youth and the imminence of old age.
Okkkkaaayyyy...
Being exposed to what life might someday be just made me think if it was all life was cut out to be. I'm afraid that after I've done everything that I have plotted and planned to do in my life, I'll one day realize that I've not done anything worthwhile...
Hmmm... after everything, what next? :s
Thursday, February 05, 2009
All Is Not in Vain
Rummaging through my old college stuff led me to an old essay that I wrote two years ago for my ReEd class that my teacher eventually submitted to the World Essay Competition. The requirement was an essay about corruption and your views about it. My composition goes something like this...
I am now 19 years old.
When I was a child, I grew up in a safe and protected environment in the comfort of a loving and supportive family. The security of my surroundings shielded me from the harsh reality that was corruption. Either that or I was purposely ignoring the realities I did not want to see. As a young child who was ignorant of the ways of the world, I was an idealist who blithely and purposely made my own self blind to the growing problems the real world struggled to overcome.
But many years have passed since then. I have gone to school, met and talked to different people, and I have seen many things. I have found out that the once ideal world I believed to have existed is not so ideal after all. Knowing that, I felt like the kid who just found out that Santa Claus was nothing more than a myth.
Corruption need not be something very dramatic. It is not only those blown-up cases where politicians are found guilty to accuses of corruption and plunder. Rather, it exists even in small, almost unnoticeable, ways. And because we somehow manage to get away with these little misdeeds, we feel confident to do them again and again. When people start to compromise for convenience, when they do things expediently, when they start twisting the rules to their advantage and when they compromise their ideals and principles, this will be a good breeding ground for large-scale corruption.
In my Religious Education class, we learned that the sin of the century is the loss of the sense of sin. Corruption is gradually eroding our moral fiber. We start justifying our actions and convincing ourselves that there is nothing wrong about the things we do because everyone else is doing it too. We shun the things we don't want to hear and make ourselves believe that we are not doing anything wrong. Thus, through our continuous practice of corruption, it integrates itself into our culture and blurs our sense of what is right and what is wrong; it becomes a way of life.
Corruption will eventually reach me. I am young and idealistic, but I am also young and easily enticed. Corruption will not tempt us with the word "evil" written all over it. Instead, it will come in a wonderfully-wrapped package that promises of easy solutions to all our problems. It will taunt us until we can no longer resist what it has to offer, and eventually succumb to the temptation. What will happen then to young people like me who are dubbed as "the hope of the land" and the "leaders of the future", when we are introduced to the prospects of corruption at such an early age? Will we not be tempted to consider the perpetuation of this practice in the guise of an easy and good life?
Imagine a world ten years form now when corruption will be so rampant that it will no longer be considered taboo in society. People commit dishonest acts for personal gain, leaders abuse their power and use it to get the things they want, and depravity and perversity become the norm. How do we achieve the hope that we are supposed to bring, how can we stop ourselves from committing these acts that have become a part of our lives?
Our kids will someday grow up to be part of the society we love, in the same society we are currently corrupting. Even if every corrupt act starts out small, it will eventually blow up to become a grand-scale corruption which will involve more and more people. One child that comes to this world will soon be one more corrupt citizen in society.
Wouldn't we rather have uncorrupted minors who will someday lead the community?
What can I do then, as an average 19-year old student, that can help combat this prevalent problem that has adhered itself to the lifestyles of so many?
I start with myself, and let it begin in me.
It is a solution we've all been advised and heard of so many times. But as easy as it is to say, it is not that easy to do. Human as I am, I have my weaknesses and vulnerabilities. But I find comfort in the knowledge that I am not alone in this struggle. As what has been said in the Desiderata :
"For the world is full of trickery;
but let this not blind you to what virtue there is;
many persons strive for high ideals;
and everywhere life is full of heroism",
that many people of high ideals are still willing to do and die for a righteous cause, so that honor and justice may live.
As how Anne Frank aptly put it,
"Despite everything, I still believe in the inner goodness of man."
I am now 19 years old.
When I was a child, I grew up in a safe and protected environment in the comfort of a loving and supportive family. The security of my surroundings shielded me from the harsh reality that was corruption. Either that or I was purposely ignoring the realities I did not want to see. As a young child who was ignorant of the ways of the world, I was an idealist who blithely and purposely made my own self blind to the growing problems the real world struggled to overcome.
But many years have passed since then. I have gone to school, met and talked to different people, and I have seen many things. I have found out that the once ideal world I believed to have existed is not so ideal after all. Knowing that, I felt like the kid who just found out that Santa Claus was nothing more than a myth.
Corruption need not be something very dramatic. It is not only those blown-up cases where politicians are found guilty to accuses of corruption and plunder. Rather, it exists even in small, almost unnoticeable, ways. And because we somehow manage to get away with these little misdeeds, we feel confident to do them again and again. When people start to compromise for convenience, when they do things expediently, when they start twisting the rules to their advantage and when they compromise their ideals and principles, this will be a good breeding ground for large-scale corruption.
In my Religious Education class, we learned that the sin of the century is the loss of the sense of sin. Corruption is gradually eroding our moral fiber. We start justifying our actions and convincing ourselves that there is nothing wrong about the things we do because everyone else is doing it too. We shun the things we don't want to hear and make ourselves believe that we are not doing anything wrong. Thus, through our continuous practice of corruption, it integrates itself into our culture and blurs our sense of what is right and what is wrong; it becomes a way of life.
Corruption will eventually reach me. I am young and idealistic, but I am also young and easily enticed. Corruption will not tempt us with the word "evil" written all over it. Instead, it will come in a wonderfully-wrapped package that promises of easy solutions to all our problems. It will taunt us until we can no longer resist what it has to offer, and eventually succumb to the temptation. What will happen then to young people like me who are dubbed as "the hope of the land" and the "leaders of the future", when we are introduced to the prospects of corruption at such an early age? Will we not be tempted to consider the perpetuation of this practice in the guise of an easy and good life?
Imagine a world ten years form now when corruption will be so rampant that it will no longer be considered taboo in society. People commit dishonest acts for personal gain, leaders abuse their power and use it to get the things they want, and depravity and perversity become the norm. How do we achieve the hope that we are supposed to bring, how can we stop ourselves from committing these acts that have become a part of our lives?
Our kids will someday grow up to be part of the society we love, in the same society we are currently corrupting. Even if every corrupt act starts out small, it will eventually blow up to become a grand-scale corruption which will involve more and more people. One child that comes to this world will soon be one more corrupt citizen in society.
Wouldn't we rather have uncorrupted minors who will someday lead the community?
What can I do then, as an average 19-year old student, that can help combat this prevalent problem that has adhered itself to the lifestyles of so many?
I start with myself, and let it begin in me.
It is a solution we've all been advised and heard of so many times. But as easy as it is to say, it is not that easy to do. Human as I am, I have my weaknesses and vulnerabilities. But I find comfort in the knowledge that I am not alone in this struggle. As what has been said in the Desiderata :
"For the world is full of trickery;
but let this not blind you to what virtue there is;
many persons strive for high ideals;
and everywhere life is full of heroism",
that many people of high ideals are still willing to do and die for a righteous cause, so that honor and justice may live.
As how Anne Frank aptly put it,
"Despite everything, I still believe in the inner goodness of man."
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