I super love our ChE 134 instructor!

That obligatory Christmas-y post.

So, how’s your Christmas vacation so far?

Mine has been a pretty good one, I suppose. I’m the type that really just likes to stay at home, watching re-runs of American TV series and rolling in the bed. So basically, I just stayed home with my siblings. We watched TV all day and depleted our holiday supply of food. Fun.

I’m actually having a hard time doing the exercise program my PE teacher required us to do during the break. It would start with warm-up exercises of jumping jacks and running knee-high, followed by a set of stretches including Indian curls, then the main workout consisting of push-ups, squats, bent-knee sit-ups and lunges, plus a 15-minute brisk walking, and finally ending with tapering down. Yes, she said we had to do it every-frickin’-day.

The increasing repetitions makes this workout increasingly unbearable. We’re required to take note of our heart rates, so I guess I have to some interpolation and hocus-pocus. Hehe.

Christmas Day was okay. I attended mass (after 10 years) with the whole family. Then we headed to our paternal grandparents’ for the annual reunion. We left for a while to visit my mother’s relatives, then we came back. Thinking of all the calories I consumed that day makes me wanna cry. Kidding.

I have not yet started studying for our exam in ChE 131 (Transport Phenomena). And I still have to go to the Metropolitan Museum to view the Suite Vollard collection of Pablo Picasso for my Creative Writing class.

New Year’s eve is fast-approaching. Forget those bullshitty resolutions. If you want to be a better person, do it now! Hope for the best, and keep moving forward.

Kiss 2011 goodbye, and welcome 2012 not with a fizzle, but with a BANG! An advanced happy new year, mi amigos!

To infinity and beyond!

The new semester has already begun, and I’m actually enjoying it. I enrolled in only 15 units, the lightest I’ve had so far, so I now have more time for my academic requirements and myself and love life (yikee!). I’m actually avoiding additional commitments from my organizations so as to really focus more on my studies. I’m now dedicated more than ever to get higher grades and improve my General Weighted Average (GWA).

With regards to blogging, I still have high hopes that I could revive the one in blogspot but I think I’m going to be more active here in Tumblr. I’m taking Creative Writing (CW 10) which obliges me to sharpen up my writing skills. And, with my new Tumblr theme, I’m now more inspired to release more quality posts.

That’s it for now. Shabba!

Sick.

The start of this semester has been pretty much uninspiring. Going to school has become a chore, and the only thing I’ve enjoyed so far are being a part of the CSIW 2011 Core committee and my occasional visits to Colleen’s boarding house along Tandang Sora. A reason to celebrate is the approval of our event’s working theme and the brochure design that I did until three o’clock in the morning.

Now, both of us are sick. Well, I’m kind of recovering from the good ol’ colds and cough. But Colleen’s condition aggravated that her mother needed to fly from Butuan City to assist her needs. She’s now being admitted to a hospital in Pasig City. She experienced pain in the hips that radiated downwards to her thighs. I really hope that the doctors could properly diagnose her condition right away, and that she gets well soon.

Uhh.. I need some sunshine.

Free day!

I’m supposed to be doing an encoding job for the UP College of Education today, but they said the program won’t even start up because of a system error. The programmer would be arriving today, but that would still be around 4PM. My shift is 8AM-6PM. And that wouldn’t really guarantee that the system will be fixed sometime soon since they still have got to find out what the bug is.

I’m earning PhP50/hr in this encoding/archiving thing. Not bad, actually. It’s actually higher compared to the compensation for student assistants in UP. At the end of this typing gig, I’m planning to buy an 1 Tb Seagate external hard drive. It’s finally arriving this Thursday. Yey!

Now I’m at the Engineering library, randomly surfing the internet. Later I’ll finish my problem set in Chem 154 (Physical Chemistry). Plus we have a meeting, a photoshoot, and a General Assembly in UP ALCHEMES. I’m thrilled.

The Rose Tattoo

Back in highschool, we were made to draw lots to know which novel would be assigned to us for the book review, a major requirement for our junior English Literature class.

I picked The Rose Tattoo.

I did not have the slightest idea what it was. It was only accompanied by the name of its author, Tennessee Williams, whom I have not even heard of. How could I write an effective book review if I don’t even know where I could get a copy of it? The title was obscure, and attempting to search for it in the corners of Recto would have been a nightmare for me.

Good thing the teacher was considerate enough to have it replaced with another novel. We were assigned to review The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas. My partner and I (yes, we did it in pairs) were pleased. The road to the book review’s completion was not an easy one, but I think we were able to produce a decent one.

After more than four years, I’m now pondering on what could have happened if we pursued our original title.

Since I’m now more acquainted with the Internet, I searched the title on Google. I read the overview in Amazon.com, and I kind of wished that I should have just braved all the bookstores (and maybe the Internet, too) to look for this book. But I doubt if I would have been able to grasp the whole story if I read it when I was still 14 years old.

Maybe I should find a copy of it in the future. That would be nice.

Oh, here’s an introduction from Bookrags.com.