and the unexpected happened

April 8, 2010

As i’d mention before, we had our retreat last monday until the day after that. I was freaking out the other day ‘coz I really didn’t want to go but you know what, I’m glad I did. Even though the retreat wasn’t the go-for-the-banal-state, it was memorable. The first few sessions were boring and corny but the open forum aka heart-to-heart part was a real tear jerker! It feels good to hear from other people what they think about you and also to know that they appreciate you and thankful for the things you do to them.

The retreat was supposed to focus on goals, breaking barriers, setting bridges.. but at the end of the retreat, I wasn’t enlightened on things like that but instead I was/became thankful.. grateful for everything that happened to me, to my friends, classmates.. between everyone of us. If I was given a chance to change something or choose who my classmate would be.. I wouldn’t change a single thing and I wouldn’t add or unadd any one. I know it sounds corny but it’s true. I couldn’t ask for anything more.. those people, my classmates, whom I have been with for the past four years had touched, changed, transform me to who I am right now–the best version of my self.

In summary, the whole retreat was an experience. It was an experience not only will I remember for the next few years but an experience that will be stuck inside me for a lifetime. And thanks to my classmates and especially to these people..

..for making retreat more special and exciting for me.

What’s Plan B and C?

November 22, 2009

Hello blog,

Did you miss me? I haven’t been able to post entries lately because of my laziness. It’s been quite some time since I last post an entry and many things had happen since then. I’m on my last semester in college and up to know it still doesn’t hit me that soon I will need to take the board exam and find a job after. Honestly, it scares me—the whole graduating thing, whoa! Scares the hell out of me! I think it’s normal though, it’s normal to be scared to something that you weren’t familiar of.. like finding direction after graduating(college)? You know it’s not like graduating from elementary because the whole schooling thing is like a flow chart. After elementary there is high school then after high school.. college but after college what’s next? When I started college, my original plan is to go to med school after graduating from my course but now I can’t find a reason in pursuing that plan. I had focused so much with plan A that I didn’t thought of making a backup plan. On the other hand, there are still a lot of choices laid before me and all I have to do is to choose. And besides I still have my parent’s assurance—assurance that they will support me to whatever decision/plans that I’ll do after college. So yeah, that’s quite comforting.

Aila ^_^

update. update. update.(my first tagalog entry. woot!)

June 16, 2009

June 11(thursday)

lakwatsa with some friends. last lakwatsa kasama sila bago magpasukan

10-11 - meeting place(nat’l)

11-12:40 - lunch (pizza hut). syempre kasama na dun yung chismisan at asaran.

12:40-2 - nag-stroll/namili/nag-window shopping sa mall.

2-3:30 - merienda. starbucks + go nuts donuts = gastos!

3:30-5:30 - arcade habang nagpapa-salon yung isa nameng kasama

5:30-6:40 - dinner (chowking)

tapos uwian na dahil ubos na mga pera namen at malalayo pa uuwian namen tsktsk ako pala pinaka-malayong uuwian sa kanilang lahat. hai. medyo malaki din nagastos nung araw na yun ah.. more or less P1500 siguro. kaya medyo tipid mode ako ngayon.

 

June 14(Sunday)

dapat ipopost ko na yung continuation nung “what a.. coincidence?” entry ko kaya lang.. ayaw nya maload ewan ko ba kung bakit. try ko nalang ulit ipost by the end of this week nandun kasi sa isang laptop yung draft.

 

June 15(Monday)

first day of class. ok lang. wala namang significant na pangyayari ang nangyari(wow. ang cute nagrrhyme). same classmates pa din, isang section lang kame e. ay. ay.. oo nga pala. nagdecrease ng almost 60% ang mga nag-enroll na first year nursing sa school namen(buti naman natauhan na ang mga tao na hindi na wise choice ang mag nursing ngayon. ang dami na kaya nila–sobrang dami na!) at nag-increase nman almost 95% sa college namen. btw nasabi ko na ba na hindi ako nursing student pero nasa field ng medicine course ko. ano? hulaan niyo. haha. clue: next sa mga doctors pagdating sa heirarchy ng mga healthcare providers.

 

June 16( Tuesday)

hmm.. mineet na kame ng iba nameng mga teachers at sa sobrang sipag nila nagbigay na sila ng assignment at nag-discuss na rin kame at may nag-extend na nga ng time. hehe.

nagluto ako ng miso soup kanina dahil nung weekend ko pang gustong kumain kaya lang walang chance na mkabili dito sa malapit.