7 - College Week

Our college week was pretty fun, yes I had fun, kind of, mostly because the cafeteria had lots of cool stuff! stressing at dairy queen, like, who wouldnt love ice cream? but I got tired of it eventually. So basically, 26th of October, we had our parade because the college week was about to start, it was cool because we get to wear casual clothes hahaha. It was also a great wek because we didn't have classes most of the time because everyone was so busy in preparation of the Mr. and Mrs. SOM, I wasn't able to attend though, but my full support goes to my blockmates in AC152 which is Latrell Sombilon and Steven Severo. I really do hope one of them wins the title because not only are they good looking, they're also very kind people.I would cheer them all the way. I attended the Holy Mass for school of management at the chapel last thursday to thank the Lord for a wonderful life and for a successful college week.  I didnt finish the whole SOM Night because its my curfew hahah but special thanks to our hosts for the night! which was Kuya
Dhaile Osh and Ate Jane Garcia. They were spectacular and funny,The night couldnt have been fun without them, such great hosts. Also, we love their costumes! A can of spam and a very gorgeous red witch! I enjoyed so much on our college week, hoping for another spectacular college week next year!!

6 - A Weapon of Mass Destruction

When I was a young girl, I would always see my dad smoking outside. I would always wonder why was he exhaling out of his mouth. A few days later, me and my brother were hospitalized because we inhaled too much smoke, I then asked what smoke was and my mother explained. She said smoking kills the organs slowly, I cried, I asked why was daddy smoking and she told me that my dad tried to stop smoking but sadly, he was already addicted to it ever since he was in college. Unfortunately, me and my brother had no idea, we were confined in the ho

spital because of too much inhalation of smoke, second hand smoke, is what they call it. We were getting worse, the doctor recommended medicine that could cure us, but unfortunately, it would make me and my brother gain weight. My mom didnt care of course, she bought the medicine and we eventually got better. Things didnt change though, I would still see my dad smoke outside and it would upset me every time because I was already aware that cigarettes are very dangerous to your health. according to wikipedia, Smoking most commonly leads to diseases affecting the heart and lungs and will most commonly affect areas such as hands or feet with first signs of smoking related health issues showing up as numbness, with smoking being a major risk factor for heart attacks, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), emphysema, and cancer, particularly lung cancer, cancers of the larynx and mouth, and pancreatic cancer. Overall life expectancy is also reduced in long term smokers, with estimates ranging from 10 to 17.9. years


fewer than nonsmokers. About one half of long term male smokers will die of illness due to smoking. The association of smoking with lung cancer is strongest, both in the public perception and etiologically. Among male smokers, the lifetime risk of developing lung cancer is 17.2%; among female smokers, the risk is 11.6%. This risk is significantly lower in nonsmokers: 1.3% in men and 1.4% in women. Historically, lung cancer was considered to be a rare disease prior to World War I and was perceived as something most physicians would never see during their career. With the postwar rise in popularity of cigarette smoking came a virtual epidemic of lung cancer. A person's increased risk of contracting disease is directly proportional to the length of time that a person continues to smoke as well as the amount smoked. However, if someone stops smoking, then these chances gradually decrease as the damage to their body is repaired. A year after quitting, the risk of contracting heart disease is half that of a continuing smoker. The health risks of smoking are not uniform across all smokers. Risks vary according to amount of tobacco smoked, with those who smoke more at greater risk. Smoking so-called "light" cigarettes does not reduce the risk. Hear that? it's already dangerous enough as it is. I still dont get why people risk their lives for temporary pleasure which will make them eventually regret it. I really try to stop my dad from smoking, he shifted to "E-Cigarette" which was less harmful, according to him. but I still think its bad for the health, smokers know that smoking is destroying them slowly but still, they dont care. I would like to tell the people that, don't waste your time and money on things that will hurt you, life is too beautiful to be wasted. Smoking is a classy way to commit suicide, only its worst because it starts with your organs. Believe me, love yourself, you cant love others if you dont love yourself first. People say its hard to quit smoking but if you really want to quit, then just love yourself.

5 - The Bald Soprano

We were asked by our professor to watch the play called "Tatay Mong Kalbo", well I wanted to use the English title because it sounds better than the actual tagalog title. Moving on, Tatay mong kalbo, in my opinion, is a completely ridiculous play, what others may call absurd but I prefer ridiculous because it actually is ridiculous in the sense that the main characters are completely absent minded with what is happening, they kept repeating the same words over and over again and yes they fought over things which dont make any sense at al, in other words, its nonsense which makes the story hilarious and a bit interesting. They exaggerate on things that aren't even worth exaggerating, which is kind of stupid but entertaining all at the same time. The story is basically about Mr.and Mrs, Santos who often argued about something at one point in their conversation. Maria, their housekeeper or what we call maid, feels really comfortable around Mr. and Mrs. Santos, who eventually told them that Mr. and Mrs. Reyes would come over. Later on, they all were conversing and they were funny until a local fireman named General Hepe, who Maria said was her love, randomly asked if there was a fire at their place. They answered "NO" which lead him to talk about something about firemen and fires. when General Hepe was about to leave, he asked "Nasaan ang tatay mong Kalbo?" and the play ended.



I love how they expressed their feelings, or roles rather, and stood  in front of us with confidence, There are flaws, which is okay because no one's perfect, but they executed the play really well for us to understand the humor of the play. A job well done to the people who acted in the play, we really enjoyed the performance.

I would recommend this to everyone because not only is it foolish, but it would brighten up your day in an instant.

4 - Love at First Sight

I have always believed that love at first sight is such a cliche thing, i mean i don't think its even possible because love takes months or maybe years to develop, not just in an instant.Falling in love with a person whom you just saw over the rainbow is a bit unrealistic, but when you think about it, it kind of seems nice to experience it. Falling in love in just a blink of an eye, what can be more fascinating than that? 

so basically my professor made us watch this movie called "Turn Left, Turn Right", its about a boy and a girl who met on a school field trip, this boy fell fell in love with a girl with just a single glance at her, what we now call love at first sight. There was a scenario wherein  the girl was reading and all of her paper work fell on the pond, she was struggling to get all of her papers back because the water was slowly drifting the papers away, and then out of the blue, this boy comes rushing in the water, trying to help her get all of the papers back, and when he did, he got so shy and just ran out of the water so he could hide or something. That was the start of their very cute love story. when then field trip was about to end the girl finally asks the boy his number, they were both beyond happy, but due to the tragic clumsiness of the girl, she left the number of the guy inside the train. Talk about bad luck, she never got to call the guy. 13 years later, both of them went back to the same place, to cut the long story short,they eventually met in the same pond where the girl got her papers wet, the same scenario happened, only they were older. they started getting really close with each other and ended up telling stories, to their surprise, their stories were somehow linked. and they figured out that they were the same person 13 years ago. Isn't that just an amazing story? I dont know but this movie made me believe that everything happens for a reason and your special someone might just be out there waiting for you. I am very thankful to have watched this movie because it has given me a really good enlightenment in life. I would recommend this movie to my friends and I am a hundred percent sure that they will love it as much as I do.

3 - Heneral Luna, A Forgotten History

Im not really a fan of filipino movies but this movie struck me, it portrays the kind of filipinos we have today. Heneral Luna was indeed, a hero. But the others thought he was too bossy or overly protective of the Philippines, rather. I wasn't interested with the Philippines in any way, honestly, but watching this movie moved me. The actors portrayed their roles perfectly, the showed impressive acting skills. The movie makes everyone want to watch, and learn at the same time because nowadays people watch drama movies that do not make sense. more like, "corny" movies are being made in our society today. But with the rise of Heneral Luna, everyone was able to learn and watch what really happened in our history, and thats something to be proud of because it became an awakening to the Filipinos, that the true enemy is ourselves if we do not know how to be unified.Whatever we do there's always something wrong, things wont always go the way we want it, Heneral Luna was indeed, an inspiration to us all. He was an arrogant man, but in the right way. Like I said, only a few people want to learn our history because it isn't so interesting at all, almost everyone knew Heneral Luna, but no one ever knew what he did for our country, this movie is so beautiful because we got a glimpse of what happened back then,

what we were all fighting for. that's the beauty of this movie, I actually watched this movie twice in the cinemas, first in mall of asia and the other was in greenbelt 3. It is a must watch because not only will you appreciate the beauty of history, you'll also learn so much more than you ever had a chance in our philippine history classes back in highschool. My mom and I don't watch tagalog movies or shows because she said it was too corny and I wouldn't learn anything, Heneral Luna was an exception though. I applaud the director for a job well done. He definitely brought the filipino spirit back.

2 - My Inspiration

My dad once told me that you can't buy true friends with happiness, well he was right, you really cant. I am beyond blessed to have everything I want, to be able to afford everything that I want. I mean like, what more can you ask for?

When my parents were young, they were really poor. My dad had 5 siblings and my mom had 4 siblings, and they were living an unwealthy life. My mom told me her allowance was only 5 pesos, and she had to travel from their house going to UST, but the most touching part is, despite her low allowance, she was still able to save money so she and my dad could go on a date, i know right my mom pays for their date cause dad had nothing to give. So basically when I went to college, I had to leave my dad in the province and study in manila and stay with my mom. We're a broken family now, by the way. It's really sad and I still cant get over it but that's life, you know. Moving on, me and my mom live in a condominium in Makati City, and I study all the way in manila. Every month I would go to my province and visit my dad, and he'd give me my allowance and extra money. Every time I would visit me, there would always be a father - daughter time. He would always tell, more like sermon, me about how his life was when he was a kid, it goes like this:

"You and your brother are very lucky, when I was a kid I never had this life that you have. I never had my own room, never had my own computer, never had television, never experienced an air conditioned house, never had everything that you have. When I was young, I really loved the tv show called "POPEYE THE SAILOR MAN" since we didn't have a TV, I would always go to my neighbors house and watch outside, I always did that for quite a while but when my neighbor saw me, he shut the windows and door so I couldn't watch and I cried so much because I really wanted to watch that cartoon. From then on I told myself that when I will have kids, I would never want them to experience this." it's a simple story but it made me cry a lot to find out that happened to my dad. he then added "When I was finally going to college, I wanted to be a lawyer, but we're too poor to afford it. There was also no colleges or universities in our province so I was forced to study in Manila. I took the cheapest course I could find, just to finish college. My life in Manila was really hard, every month my mother would give me P300 pesos a month, my dorm costs P200 pesos, so I only had P100 left and that was my allowance for the whole month. My dad was a farmer and my mom is only a house wife so we didn't earn much. My dad would always sell his cows just so I could finish. There was one time when I was in fourth year college and I only had 1 semester left to take before I could graduate, unfortunately, we had no more money. See how tragic that is? one more semester before I graduate but we had no more money left to give. I told my mom it was okay to stop, but she insisted for me to keep going on, my mom borrowed money from relatives, neighbors and to everyone that she knew. I was able to graduate and finish college, I worked as soon as I graduated because my family was in debt, we has so many debts to pay so I could finish college, what more with my 5 siblings? I never thought we would survive, but we did. I told myself that I never want to experience this, I dont want to be poor for the rest of my life. so I worked really hard to give you, my children and family, a life that you deserve, and you don't 



deserve that kind of life. So be thankful for everything that you have because this was all from hard work. I love you, your brother and your mom very much. Even though we're a broken family, I hope you will still appreciate the the things in life because we are blessed to have this life. I never want you to worry about money, all I want you to do is to study hard, never mind about me, I am always here for you and I'll be okay. I love you so much" so writing this is making me cry, my dad is my inspiration. And i love him to death, he gave everything that he could so me and my brother would have a beautiful life. I love you daddy, thank you for everything.

1 - The Beginning

Who am I? I actually don't know how to answer that quite yet. What I do know is that I am human, I make mistakes and I experience sadness; But I learn from all these things to make me a better person. I am actually one of the laziest persons you will ever meet in your life, like, literally because sometimes I'm too lazy to stand up or I'm too lazy to go pee or I'm too lazy to take a bath. My laziness is actually kind of a bad thing because it makes me procrastinate a lot and I hate procrastinating but I can never avoid being lazy so that's basically my life. My life is pretty simple actually, but I do have lots of complicated things happening in my life. College. When you hear that word so many universities come running inside your mind. The first thing I think about when I hear college is De La Salle University, damn, how i wish I study there. DLSU is actually my dream school, I've dreamed of studying there since I was a little kid. Unfortunately, my parents said that the tuition fee was OA and that I should go study at the University of Santo Tomas because they graduated there. And I was like sure why not, worth a try. But then again, I was upset because I really wanted to study in DLSU. I learned to love UST, I mean, the campus is amazing, there are lots of things to do inside the campus and I really had lots of friends.

 I was so overwhelmed and I didn't focus that much on my studies because I thought that no one really fails in college, but I was wrong, I failed. Not to mention the subject I failed at was Philippine History, don't get me wrong but I love the Philippines but I'm just not interested in its History. So yeah I failed, it broke my heart, I've never failed a subject before and now look, my parents were beyond disappointed, I was ashamed of myself because I was out having fun while my parents were working really hard just to give me a good education, I've never felt so horrible.so sophomore year came, I became a better person. I became more focused with my studies, I did my best. Sadly, I still didn't make it. My program was shifting me to management accounting, i told my parents, they didn't want that. They wanted me to take up accountancy, so I left UST and trasnferred to another school. That's basically the story of my terrible life, so yeah i'm still trying to make up for the mistakes i've done in the past. Hopefully I'll get there someday. besides, i'm only a 19 year old junior who basically screwed up my second chance. I do hope no one fails like me, but believe me, I will get better. I will become a CPA someday and make my parents proud.