my 2011 Christmas Wishlist

Christmas is fast approaching. it's actually just less than a month before the celebration of the birth of Jesus. personally, isa ang pasko sa mga bagay na pinakahihintay ko. masaya, makulay, kumukutikutitap ang mga ilaw, people on a Christmas rush, Christmas songs, priceless smiles and happiness of the people around, cold air at napakarami pang mga bagay na kahit anong liit ay sapat ng rason para maging maligaya. at dahil pasko, i deem it timely...

#mmk

i wasn't able to watch the mmk episode today but i was able to see it's ending. timely with the agency visit we had at Holy Face Rehabilitation Center for Mental Health in Tabiguian, Tabaco City, the episode was about a girl suffering from mental illness specifically with schizophrenia and was being accused by the people as being the 'aswang.' i took the courage of posting a simple and similar message both in facebook and in twitter. the one i posted...

Six Odd Ideas That Are Not Really Odd for BU

i've been a BUeño for almost six semesters now or three academic years. since the first year of my stay in BU, i've been exposed to a lot of things, both good and bad, admirable and disgusting things about the regarded premier state university in the Bicol Region. good thing such as the drive of the administration, staffs and students to make things better for BU despite its limited resources and bad things such as the mentality to only fix and...

eerie twenty-fourth

today is november 24, 2011, thursday and there seem to be an eerie (at least in my perspective) atmosphere in Bicol University. classes in MP/CAL building are said to be suspended tomorrow, the fences, gates and even buildings are re-painted, light bulbs were replaced with new bulbs, the facade of MP Building was well-lighted at night same with the four pillars of the university - all because of the ISO visit and the visit of President Noynoy Aquino for the Inauguration of the Climate Change Academy of Albay which is located at Bicol...

siyanasiBUDOY

haha. madali akong kausap....

PuregoldAtKaligayahan

wednesday is a mass day for MnT and after such a long time of not attending mass on the said days for the previous months, i am happy that we were able to attend our first wednesday mass for the semester. after attending mass with friends, mean, ja'de and i decided to eat at Wah Foo Chan. yumyum. salap! haha. and since it was also the opening of Puregold Embarcadero we went there for the sake of pakikiusyuso. what happened next? almost hundreds...

mntSPECIAL

kami ulit ang MnT. haha. usual intro? wala lang. naalala ko lang ang dalawa sa 'special' events ng grupo na hindi ko pa nashshare kaya para madali, puruphoto essay na lang. haha. :) nagswimming para mag-unwind pagkatapos ng nakakapagod at nakakastress na first semester. walang camera kaya sa laptop lang. walang pera kaya 50 pesos per head lang ang contribution na ibinili ng de lata, pancit canton, ambag na bigas lang na ako ang nagsaing,...

experience

11/19/11 been to the beautiful town of Casiguran in Sorsogon province to facilitate a personality development training for children and youth beneficiaries of the Green Valley Development Program and World Vision Development Foundation, Inc. the experience was exhausting and the hardest sa lahat ng training na nagfacilitate ako. but the tiredness is all worth it seeing from the children's faces that they learned something. plus, mas masaya dahil kasama ko ang mga kaibigan and i have received my first token as a facilitator. haha....

#JaRuMaRoKa

11/19/10 - 11/19/11 isang samahan kami na nabuo dahil sa simpleng rason na kami lang ang MnT members na nasa isang block at karamihan ay nasa kabila. sa isa pang simpleng rason na naisipan lang namin na pangalanan ang grupo matapos mabore sa paghihintay ng mahigit isang oras habang naglalaro ng Mystery PI. ngayon, one year na kami. kaming jarumaroka. and i guess we're getting stronger. haha. salamat sa napakaraming bagay ja'de, mean,...

u-turn slot

after thinking for sometime, i think i announce my retraction of the statements i made about "maturity" and MnT after a short talk with Kuya Bjorn. moreover, i stand by what i said in the entirety of the statements i had made. come to to think of it, masarap din naman sa feeling ang mag-burst out at some point in time....

kasuhan na!

i think i must sue melvin for breach of privacy for posting a link of my previous blogpost in the mababangis.wrar group page in facebook without consent. however, i think i will lost the case because my blog is public. tsktsk. my point is, while it is okay to promote my blog and encourage others to read my posts, i will very much appreciate if my consent will be first asked. bow. haha. nonetheless, ayos na ako dun. haha....

my RANT

kami ang MnT. We're friends since first year college up to now and this is what i am proud and happy of. our growing and strengthening friendship despite our differences is something to be celebrated. well, everything's fine within the group i suppose. there are no internal problems because we value smooth interpersonal relationship which honestly becomes bad at some point. however, we have proved that we can stood with whatever stands in our...

blogmates

:) i'm just happy that my friends started blogging here in blogger. haha. latest was laisa who was inactive for almost a year, then melvz and sime who were just starting plus kuya bjorn who blogs occasionally these days because of his hectic working schedule as well as mean and roxanne who have their blogs but are inactive because of the lack of motivation. haha. to my new blogmates and old friends, WAY TO GO! may you be motivated to stay here and express yourse...

umpisa ng laban?

MY FIRST "HOMEWORK" FOR THE SECOND SEMESTER! but not technically though, it's somehow a requirement for an extra-curricular undertaking i had way back July. haha. anyway, good thing i was able to produce a 25 pages reflection/insight paper for my art therapy experience. haha. well, joking aside, 3 pages lang ho. at nilabas ko na ang saloobin ...

second semester schedule

second semester is up and running. this time, all my subjects are MAJOR! first week of classes, pagod na ako sa list of requirements! haha. anyway, i'm up for the challenge. i know i can do this! haha. ALL WILL BE WELL FOR SECOND SEMEST...

#DaBestPasko

I believe that this is one of the things that ABS-CBN is consistently very good at - Christmas Station ID. Throughout the years, ABS presents new concept and theme of Filipino Christmas. for sure, the Da Best ang Pasko ng Pilipino song will be a hit comes the Christmas Party or Christmas Celebrations in the country. WELL DONE ABS-CBN! ps. but i still believe that their most successful station ID is the Star ng Pasko way back 2009 because of ramdam na ramdam yun ng mga tao and my personal favorite, Tuloy na Tuloy pa rin ang Pasko some years...

realization 5

One time I got angry with a very dear friend of mine because I thought she hurt me with her actions and that she broke her promise to me. However, I realized that she did not do something wrong because in the first place, there’s no promise to fulfill except that she failed to inform me on her whereabouts one night when she was supposedly homebound. I realized that my sky high expectation which she seldom meet sparked my anger. Marasapang expectation ko to! Bottomline, I should start lowering my expectations to prevent situations like this from...

Pilipinas, Tara Na! v.2 and v.3

last time, i posted the newest version of Byahe Tayo made by the department of tourism in line with the launching of their domestic tourism promotion campaign (?). haha. well, that was the first version. now there are two other versions, obviously, it's the second and the third version and should you be interested to watch please do so below. haha. (parang may mali lang. basta yun na yun) ps. i found out about the second version through alfred's blog. :) ...

second semester worries

the second semester for this academic year is dawning. new set of classmates, new professor, new and harder course or subjects to attend to, same old notebooks, new schedule that i personally don't like so far and i guess a different me. i don't know but i guess i should step up my game in academics thinking that mama personally said that she wants me to graduate with a laude honors. sabi ko, ayos lang yan ma miski mayo basta maggraduate but she insisted. i said i am worrying because i think my grades for the first semester are low and thus, i...

Aquino Facts and My Perspective

my curiosity was aroused when i saw a link of a youtube video which was entitled, Aquino Coquangco, facts they don't want you to know. actually, hindi ko ikakaila na i would have voted for noynoy during the 2010 presidential elections if indeed i was allowed to vote because of my belief that he is the most viable lesser evil among the presidential aspirants. ang ibig kong sabihin ng viable ay ang mas may malaking posibilidad na manalo and lesser evil because he and his family is known to have a clean record and a hard stand against corruption....

realization 4

interviewing is never easy. right question should be asked, good follow-ups should be raised and non-verbal should always be guarded. this photo on the left are some of the moments captured while we are interviewing in line of a requirement in Communication in Social Work course. i interviewed an alumna of the department while melvz interviewed street children who sells sampaguita in front of Pacific Mall. share lang....