GO USTE!!!!
Talk about mindblowing.. I don't know about you guys, but I watched the UAAP Cheerdance Competition this year, and it's definitely off the chart.. Last year's cheerdance paled completely to this year's, where mediocrity was like a thing of the past.. (for seven of the schools anyways, with the exception of a certain one that sports a secondary color...) New moves.. new gimmicks... and of course, the side bonus of having won for the fourth time (and also with that aforementioned school shooting an arrow off the target).. ^_^ Yeah, it's pretty much obvious what school I'm talking about, and what the hey?! The school pretty much deserves the animosity I feel toward it... Now I want to make it clear that I don't share the same hatred towards my fellow bloggers who actually study in that school.. But puh-lease... "It's better to be green than to be blue"??? Preposterous!! And besides, I don't even hear a single breath coming from the Atenistas, since as a point of fact, they're TOO BUSY STUDYING to make up jingles like those, unlike these complete idiots who seem to have nothing else better to do than make wisecracks that are completely abhorable.. Well, seeing how much they seem to like jingles, how about I relay a good one I heard just a while ago from someone who shares the same loathing as I do... "INAMO *******!!!" But enough about that school, aside from the price of their tuition, there's pretty much nothing else that's high about them...
I just want to congratulate both UP and FEU for victories as 1st and 2nd runner up, respectively, and also to AdU, ADMU, NU and UE for excellent performances.. If only I were one of the guys in the panel, I would have tied UP and UST up on the first spot, because they were both superb... Of course, being a Thomasian, I could never have wished for anything more than this, (what with the rather ugly ranking in the basketball game) as it is actually another feather in our caps, but the fact that UP exemplified great energy coupled with great moves is surely a thing to consider...
As for all Thomasians out there, CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL OF US, especially to the SALINGGAWI DANCE TROUPE.. Great ideas, tell you that much.. And I also heard one of my most favorite instrumentals ( though it took only a second or two at the most ) as part of their medley... I could have never imagined that bell to toll, and yet they put it there.. ^_^ The mascot was too cute not to mention here.. And the idea of having girls wearing blue and white whatever-you-call-thems emerging from a seemingly all-black background ( as part of the non-stop cheerdancing section) was downright genius.. ^_^
All in all, I'm positively exhilirated.. No words can describe how proud I am to be a Thomasian.. (and not a you-know-what-ian) I guess I have to count not going "there" a blessing in disguise, because truth be told, I actually considered studying "there".. Imagine that... I'd go insane if I took part in their inamo.... er.... I mean.... animo jingles...
So til here.... I have to check up on some things first...
Tata.. God bless us all.. ^_^
Before Everything Else....
My sincere apologies for snapping the way I did the other day.. Guess I was too annoyed over "that" that I vented out my anger to my visitors.... Again, sorry... And, no, I'm not going to shut this blog down.. Not yet anyways.. So with that and the apologies out of the way, I have one more thing to say... ON WITH THE POST!! ^_^
Welcome back????
It's been actually awhile since I last updated, that is if you call that short "prayer" an update at all... Almost two weeks as a matter of fact, but I daresay nobody has ever noticed my rather lengthy absence, seeing how barren my tagboard is... Not "barren" per se, but rather "barren" in the sense that only one has cared to tag in since my last update... *My apologies if the last two sentences sounded edgy; I'm just not particularly happy today*
Well, as for why I was absent for a long time?? I'm not really busy, although my professors are more brutal than they have ever been.. In fact, we're nearing our finals, and I rather expected them to be like this what with the three weeks that remain until that "final hurdle"... I'm not really bored either. In fact, I've been toying around with "some of the more common elements" (go figure what I mean) and I'm actually interested in reviving old hobbies and stuff, although of course, I'm still trying to squeeze in those "flash tutorials" that I've been planning to do for some time... As for color/spices/zests in this life of mine, I'll say I have a lot of things going on, although I'm not particularly happy enough today to actually give a recap of everything....
Well, to make things short, I just wanna say "Welcome Back" to myself, and I just wanted to clean the dirty cobwebs that's been growing on my blog due to "my laziness" ... *forces a painful smile on my smug face*
Be updating soon, but then again, maybe not.. I may as well delete the thing the next time I come online if I see too many cobwebs again.. I don't like cleaning, you see??
Til here, cos I don't think I could keep the edge off my tone for any bit longer....
Tata..
Prayers..
My prayers go to those poor victims in the United States, who were unfortunate to have their homes destroyed by hurricane Katrina... May Almighty God bless them always....
Sailing Back Through Time
"It seems like just yesterday......."
Yes, I know.. This is probably the most tired cliche ever in history... But proverbial as it may seem, I cannot but help but be amazed at how time flies so quickly...
It seems like I had just failed some major exams in physics the other day, and had tried to rally and cram in hopes to save my measly grade of 77 into a line of 8-er...
It seems like I had just finished my brutal thesis on cannabis the other night, and had grown deep eyebags during the process...
It seems like I had just finished reading the very very very long epic, Odyssey yesterday morning, and appreciated the greatness of Homer...
....and yet here I am, already months away from my reminiscence, in another cool and solemn September afternoon, the sun barely peeping out of what seems to be an azure blanket that is the sky....
Perhaps, it's just this sort of sentimentality, this sense of reflection that I am fond of, that's creeping its way back to my present reality... Quiet, and perhaps maybe even mysterious..... That was me.... No... it is still me... The ever reflective, and rather boring non-conversational type.. Yet, perhaps this is what makes me appreciate the things that others take for granted..
I have gone a long way.... A long long way since then.... And yet, the vividness of yesteryear flashes to me as detailed as it has ever been...
September has always been the month wherein I sail back through time... For me, September is the coolest month of all... There's a sense of magic in it; and I do not mean of it being the first "ber" month that would signal Christmas time... There's something deeper than that for me.... When the first leaf falls over the other half of the world..... And a sense of cool, cold impends.. I really can not explain it... What can I, a mere mortal, express anything of the beauty of God's miracle??
But whatever it is, it is just so wondrous, that I get into the mood of reminiscing... of reflecting... of contemplating the past... searching for the truths and learning from them, to the best that I could.... It's as if time turns its hands for me, so that I may become more appreciative of what I am today, of what I have earned..
The people... the events... the places... I have lost much; I have bid goodbye to friends I thought were forever and to places that I never imagined would fade.. I have been buried and reburied alive, with adversities some may only think of... with failures that made a hopeless heart.. But those are the things that made me... Whenever I would come to think of the past, I am gladdened that God gave these walls for me to climb... For whenever I rise, I earn a new self... a better self....
...and with each recollection, I come closer to my dream of "immortality"... to creating a legacy.... to achieving the epitome of what I can become....
What I am today I owe to a lot... And although I winded a bit, I just want to say that I have never forgotten who made me today.. what made me today...
Thanks be to God.... and thanks to all those who TRULY support me.. (you know who you are)
Good News
We had another practical test in volleyball this afternoon... And guess what... Somebody got flat 1.... And guess who it is... Wahahahaha!! ^_^
Dang of course it's not me! There are just some things that don't mix in this world... The ever proverbial water and oil... And of course, me and sports...
Of course my P.E. prof is just so nice that he gave 2.5 as the lowest score for the test... I quote, "Kung mambabagsak lang ako, marami akong masisingko dito; pero ilang linggo na lang hindi na tayo magkikita. Kaya ang pinakamababa kong binigay, 2.5" NAKS!! Of course, from this context, you could already guess what my grade is, right??
Still, I'm happy to have this grade, however low others may consider it.. Honestly, if I weren't able to restrain myself, I would have leapt as tall as Taipei 101... Because this was one thing I dreaded the most... The humiliation.. the anxiety.. the nervousness... You know me.. P.E. was never my forte.. Never was, and perhaps never will... And although I was certain some classmates of mine were pointing and laughing at my blunders, at least I am able to breathe in a rather more relaxed and unheavy manner...
I sometimes find myself very eccentric... What others find easy, I dread the most... I mean, come on... When did you ever hear a person who grew nervous of P.E.??
Still, the object of this post is to thank God.. Because I daresay God destined me to have this wondeful professor.. I know, if I were in some other class, handled by some other professor, I would have failed dismally... My dreams would be shattered... Everything I toil for would be lost... But I am here... BVC 19, handled by Prof Cruz.. Chances of getting volleyball was one in ten perhaps, of getting in this section perhaps one in six, and of getting Prof. Cruz as professor was one in five.... Statistics would tell us my chances were one in 300.... This is serendipity.... No... this is a miracle....
And I really thank God.. Honestly.. Sincerely... From my heart... Without His blessings I know I could have never survived this ordeal... And I humbly thank HIM for bestowing upon me such gifts, such beauty.... ^_^
Thanks be to God...
On another note, I am very pleased with other things as well... Firefox seems very very effective as I have just installed it..... It's working fine, really, and I think I'm sticking to this until another more effective browser pops up in the future...
I'm very eager to learn a lot of things... Suddenly, the urge to gorge in some stuff has become my motto for the last few days... Let's just say I want to:
1. learn to design and create a web site
2. learn to make an interactive game (however simple it may be)
3. learn FLASH
Of course, I daresay these would be put aside to.. I mean, what happened to my "What to Do list for the first two years of college"?? Nothing!!! I could barely meditate, I have never engaged in a sport, I have not learned to play an instrument... Nothing... (Sighs)
Anyways, gotta review for my test in English tomorrow.. God bless you all... Thanks be to God.. ^_^
