Persons are complex beings.
Sweet Little Ice Queen
I love analyzing people and situations, people say its a gift. Unfortunately, I have great difficulty analyzing who I really am and I'm already in my early twenties.
I hope this online journal will help me sort myself out or this would be the best venue to vent out pent up cold anxiety...and share the things that make me warm, sweet and happy (or sappy!).
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* Saturday, September 30, 2006 *
Basketball and Blackout
Nothing beats the feeling of coming come after more than a month of being away! I'm not exactly a homebody but when electricity disappears from your boarding house for 48 hours (your fone and laptop is dead) you suddenly miss a lot of things.
I was away from home for one whole month because of bar ops season. I promised a dear friend and mentor that I would be her "angel"/slave during her preparations for the bar exam. My saturday nights and sundays were quite stressful. I would volunteer for hotel operations and then go back to school (makati-manila-makati) to get the "controversial" blue tips of ateneo law and then deliver it to my friend's doorstep. My sleeping hours were erratic plus there were sundays that I would do this routine while I was barely sober.
This would be the last bar season that I'm actually helping out barristers. Next year it would be me who would be in dire need of help and prayers. Time flies so fast! I attended the SALUBONG at taft avenue last sunday. The Salubong is the big after-bar exams party where everyone cheers and get drenched with water and beer. I felt my heart sink after the salubong...I realized that next year I would be coming out of the gates of DLSU relieved and hoping to become victorious.
* * *
Today I went to my first ever UAAP game.
It is a known fact that a very small fraction of UP students care about the UAAP games...except of course if they are players or the PEP squad (or friends thereof).
In ateneo its a BIG DEAL. My bestfriend convinced me that it was time for me to be immersed in the admu culture. I felt that since it was my last year I should try it. So off we went to the Big Dome in Cubao 3 hours before the finals between ateneo and ust. It was game 2. Its amazing how the ateneans of all ages, shapes and sizes spend time and effort to cheer and support the teams. I found myself amongst them. I guess 4 years of hell in ateneo law somehow teaches you some school spirit...not to forget a little pride and arrogance. haha.
Ateneo lost to UST bigtime. I wasn't really surprised considering they won the last game by only 1 point. It was a very sad sight that the ateneo players missed more than half of their freethrows (more than 20 points least) and a good number of lay ups. I couldn't believe that they were in the finals with that type of performance. Oh well...I'm no basketball genius so I might not be in the proper position to diss...BUT i am a very disappointed spectator.
Nonetheless I enjoyed watching the live game immensely. All that energy just rubbed on to me.
* * *
September was saying goodbye to 2 people and both goodbyes were inevitable. However, despite the fact that I knew the temporary nature of my relations...saying goodbye isn't easy. Especially if you don't actually get to say it to the other person and you just disappear from each other's lives as if one was never a part of the other's. One day you create a bond...the next day you destroy it just like that.
I was away from home for one whole month because of bar ops season. I promised a dear friend and mentor that I would be her "angel"/slave during her preparations for the bar exam. My saturday nights and sundays were quite stressful. I would volunteer for hotel operations and then go back to school (makati-manila-makati) to get the "controversial" blue tips of ateneo law and then deliver it to my friend's doorstep. My sleeping hours were erratic plus there were sundays that I would do this routine while I was barely sober.
This would be the last bar season that I'm actually helping out barristers. Next year it would be me who would be in dire need of help and prayers. Time flies so fast! I attended the SALUBONG at taft avenue last sunday. The Salubong is the big after-bar exams party where everyone cheers and get drenched with water and beer. I felt my heart sink after the salubong...I realized that next year I would be coming out of the gates of DLSU relieved and hoping to become victorious.
* * *
Today I went to my first ever UAAP game.
It is a known fact that a very small fraction of UP students care about the UAAP games...except of course if they are players or the PEP squad (or friends thereof).
In ateneo its a BIG DEAL. My bestfriend convinced me that it was time for me to be immersed in the admu culture. I felt that since it was my last year I should try it. So off we went to the Big Dome in Cubao 3 hours before the finals between ateneo and ust. It was game 2. Its amazing how the ateneans of all ages, shapes and sizes spend time and effort to cheer and support the teams. I found myself amongst them. I guess 4 years of hell in ateneo law somehow teaches you some school spirit...not to forget a little pride and arrogance. haha.
Ateneo lost to UST bigtime. I wasn't really surprised considering they won the last game by only 1 point. It was a very sad sight that the ateneo players missed more than half of their freethrows (more than 20 points least) and a good number of lay ups. I couldn't believe that they were in the finals with that type of performance. Oh well...I'm no basketball genius so I might not be in the proper position to diss...BUT i am a very disappointed spectator.
Nonetheless I enjoyed watching the live game immensely. All that energy just rubbed on to me.
* * *
September was saying goodbye to 2 people and both goodbyes were inevitable. However, despite the fact that I knew the temporary nature of my relations...saying goodbye isn't easy. Especially if you don't actually get to say it to the other person and you just disappear from each other's lives as if one was never a part of the other's. One day you create a bond...the next day you destroy it just like that.