“Turn-over” files

Starting the inevitable. Four years. How and where the hell do I start?!?

School is cool

Finally completed my grades this week. Can’t believe I totally survived 6 units while simultaneously working on a campaign.

I never really thought I can make it. Like really go back to school. And this is just the beginning. ;)

Things I learned in 1 term:
1. When you choose to go back, you go back. And when you’re in, you’re in. Unless you’re just there to waste money, no matter how lame the session for that week is or how brutally torturing it is to come up with reasons why you need to attend class, you deal with it. At the end of the day, it was YOUR choice. Highschool and college can be something your parents force you to do, but anything after that is yours to make, or break.

2. In Graduate school, you compete with yourself. Because before you can even think of competing with others, you’ll already be filled with decisions on what to prioritize - all by yourself. Nobody said it’s going to be easy, so before you even fill-up that application form, you set boundaries, you set your limits. — And that’s coming from someone who got a lower grade because of attendance and missed quizzes. Bow.

3. You can say your gazillion of friends is enough to last you a lifetime. But having couple of new ones in Graduate school is not bad at all. After all, the ones who can understand why you need to miss a group discussion/meeting are the people who also have OTs and projects in tow. So, open up, give these new people a chance because you can’t survive a degree alone. Plus, you need them for hand-outs and research! Chos. ;)

4. When Negastars keep telling you that you can’t do it, just ‘flip your goddamn hair’ and raise a finger. ;) Because you can. You passed a 3-hr entrance exam with a second wave of interview and all these, maybe while you’re working! So, whatda, you can! :) Because, again, unless they are the ones going to class every night or sacrificing weekend night-outs, then they should back-off.

5. I learned from a good mentor that ‘at one point in your career or work, you’ll stop learning. You’ll get to master the basic, get enough expertise to handle the key tasks and enough knowledge to work on bigger challenges. It becomes all the same.’ So it still ends. One day, it becomes routinary and your only key is a change in environment.
So, I’ll continue learning. I still have 2-3 years to work on that. Wish me luck. ;)

—
Me: Libre mo ko ice cream, got 3.50!
Shi: English yan noh?
Me: Pakyu. La kong Accounting! :))

In the end, she treated me to a movie. 3D. ;)

Stopping

I’ve always said that I live by this: “I don’t stop when I’m tired, I stop when I’m done.” But I find myself often contradicting this by asking when do one really finds out if he’s done. If that’s the best he can give? And in doing so, how sure is he that he’s not doing it because he’s just tired?

Now, I think everyone should be allowed to stop. For whatever reason. For even with reasons he cannot explain nor define. Just go ahead, stop.

More than 140 

I should get used to writing in more than 140 characters. The beauty that is Twitter, pulls me from writing more because why rant or rave in a paragraph when you can absolutely sum up what you feel in few words. :) But since I would like to treat this as a therapy (yes, in preparation of the coming months when I’ll be waking up and will not be worrying about hurrying to a meeting or checking emails that I get as early as 12am! Hello, Mediabanc! And I might have a withdrawal syndrome!), will try to push myself to make an exciting life out of writing again. Yey! :)

The highlight of my week is appreciating the power of patience. Haha. Again I would say, trying to find the good in people is such a challenge. There are just people that would disappoint you, hurt you and worse, put you down. But if see through whatever ka-epalan they are showing, you’ll just say: “Taena, ang lungkot naman ng buhay mo!” Hahahaha. Seriously, I just realized at that moment that you can’t expect people to change. But you can - you can change the way you look at them. In the most mature grown-up way that you can. :)

When all else fails, you can just put them on your ‘to kill’ list. ;)

Side note: While I was typing this, the epal that he is, Shine asks:

“Ano yan?
Me: I’m blogging.
Shine: Tungkol sa’kin?!?
Me: Hindi! Epal!
Shine: E saan? Buhay mo?

Ay, hindi! Tungkol sa weather! :))
Note to self: I should write about him soon. :))

Happy weekend!

Start of something new.

This is an attempt to do so. 

I chose today since it marked my 4th anniversary as a graduate. That moment when I told myself, “Let’s rock this!” Thanks to Gege who conveniently reminded me of the exact date when we graduated. :) Four years and 27 lbs later, here I am - back to square one. Although I think we always go back to the start at one point of our lives. This includes dropping some of the balls we’re juggling and getting another one. Or in my case, completely dropping the ball and not yet deciding which new one to pick. So, I’ll start by picking the one closest to my heart - writing, which I consciously forget for the past years. Yes, there were several attempts, but I still feel I can give more attention to it. 

I’m still figuring out the best theme for this space. Maybe in the next few months I’ll be able to do so, by the time the only things I can be busy with are sleeping and eating. :)

Until such time, this would just be some blurbs.