Midterm is taking its toll on me now, I 've got to review my lessons, as well as familiarizing and understanding the concepts. Sunday, i've got only 1 day left, and the examination is officially effective. The past few days, I wasn't able to review my lessons well, but promised myself to study on the scheduled Sunday.

I really hate having exams. Although I'm used to it, but it's quite annoying to hear the word "exam". You know, exam=study and tuition. Sunday: there goes my old routine, but promised to break it by studying. I must say that Sunday, is a productive day, I guess.

My Sunday ended with things brougth into accomplishments: newly laundried shirts, studied comfortably, and sketched an anime character (I guess) from the pigment of my imagination.

It's quite alarming to know that I've got to take up 3 subjects simultaneously, including my Basic Programming subject, and two minor subjects: Religious Education, and English. After a few hours of confinement in the computer, I was finally off for a soft breeze outside the house's vicinity, and it's very comfortable sitting with my mom's beatiful grown plants. Nothing beats the nice scenery I can see that time: children playing and NOTES TO STUDY. Damn! Surely, it's beautiful enough.

Later on, I was off from the outside air and transfered inside, because the ambience is getting humid, along with my sister's sprinkling on the the plants, it pissed me off. Having a comfortable setting outside while being driven off with those water sprinkles your face could probably get.

The bad thing about studying inside the house's vicinity, is that music distract me, and I hate it. I am usually tempted to sing and listen to music than studying. Fortunately, I am more than halfway through studying the two subjects and what was only left is my Programming Subject.

Knowing that i'm already finished, my habit of sketching out different things occured. I usually sketch whenever i'm already finished, but not yet finished. Pigment of my imagination came to life, when I fancied sketching this character, and I even don't know who the hell he was. This explains my love for art. As my sensei (japanese term for "teacher"), Rammyboi, said, there are two types of people, one is closer to art, while other is closer on his analytics side, and I'm the one who see myself better in art.

Remember the Crocodile Hunter, Steve Irwin? Carefully grabbing the snout of the wild gator. The fat girl who stars in the musical comedy, Hairspray? Paving her way just to be on-cam. These are just few of the icons who share somethine similar, courage.

I've got to know these people on-screen which truly amazed me. While making a documentary report, Steve Irwin died after being stabbed by a stingray in his heart, but one thing is emphasized, he had the guts to do such things. The fat girl in Hairspray (I forget her name), tried her best and beat the other to be in a variety show, even if she was discouraged with the fact that she had the different size among the other.


Most people live ordinary lives.

Tulad na lang nitong vase, pandagdag kulay sa haligi ng bahay. Nagbibigay ng atraksyon sa bawat pumapasok, dahil na rin sa pulang vase na napapaligiran ng dalawang puting vase. Malinis na malinis na ang bahay, ang family pic na dati'y naisantabi lamang, ay ngayo'y nagkaron ng pwesto. Teleponong bagong pagpag, at and telebisyong nagkaron ng pantakip at ang orasang may bagong baterya.



Nabawas-bawasan na rin ang sa tingin ko'y di nauubos na Coke cans na nakatambak sa likod ng bahay. Nagkaron ng kaunting pagbabago at naging malinis tingnan pag maraming naisantabing di kinakaiangang makita.

O, kayo? Ano-ano bang mga pagbabagong ginawa nyo sa inyong mga tahanan? Pulang vase at itinapon ang mga pulang lata ang inilagay at ginawa namin sa unang linggo ng taon.

Maligayang LP!

Port Café has never been an uknown dining experience since I was on my last year in high school. Aside from the fresh air on its veranda along with the relaxing seats, the restaurant also offers cheap foods, such as buy-one-take-one shakes and mild appetizers like, moise cakes. The "port" interior design would really catch your attention while you can relax and groove with the catchy tunes of the restaurant's jazz music.

After an hour of a stressful walk, the group decided to take on the shakes as the appetite starters then off to the main order: Spaghetti for 69 pesos. The thought of planning a late lunch was put to test, looking back at their Port Meals Menu, I decided to add Garlic Chicken for only 60 pesos in my list, along with its stunnig gravy dip and the iced tea. While waiting for our queue, we decided to order something sweet and sour, so we go for the Calamares, fried and breaded squid and it's just something hard to resist especially the dip.

After a dose of milk shakes, grilled pork chop, and ice tea spilling all over the places, we decided to rest for a while, letting those calories shake off a bit, and headed for a photo-op session. All these camwhores are exhausted from eating out the whole bunch of food galore.




So, If you're a traveller, and was blown here in Gensan, try one of the city's tastebuds, surely you'll be hook to it's good service and good foods. This is just one of many delicious food experience here in Gensan. Try it!

Marami na tayong naranasan bago nagtapos ang 2008, at isa na namang bagong karanasan ang aking nasubaybayan sa pagsimula ng unang araw ng bagong taon. Mga litrato ng mga bata, at pagsisimula ng 2009 sa Lake Sebu:

Ang aking bunsong kapatid na mistulang pagod ngunit nagawa pa ring ngumiti sa harap ng kamera. (My little brother who seemed tired but still managed to smile in front of the camera.)

Ito'y isang napakahabang araw, at iginugol ko ang oras sa pagkukuha ng mga litrato sa Lake Sebu, marami pang aabangang litrato ngayong 2009.

Ikaw? Paano mo ba sinimulang ang unang araw ng bagong taon? Maligayang LP, at Manigong bagong taon.

It's been a long year. 2009 is already at its peek, while we left the memories we had in 2008. It's been a year of hardship, not just for a Frustrated Student™, but also to the country. I can barely remember what I have done the past months of 2008, all I know is, my bad deeds outnumbered my good deeds. Really. From the start of 2008, I started collecting photos, documented the moments, and recap the memories I've been through by seeing right through the photos. So how did you live 2008? Here's how I ended 2008. Are you up to read my activity highlights of the year 2008?

January THE SLEEPYHEADS and the HARDWORKERS: I've always wanted to sleep and sleep and sleep. I guess that's one of my good old times, but I wasn't able to beat my seatmate from sleeping and snoring out loud in a big classsroom discussion. While here goes the hardworkers, finding every inch of answer they could get when the professor gave a nosebleeding assignment, and quiz.February PROM NIGHT: I guess everyone enjoyed their prom, except me and the Apocalypse. Everybody's boring, the sick-sounding band the organizers acquired and the food served tasted like sea-water.

March GRADUATION: everybody cried their emotions, well, I guess I've included myself in the one night drama we had in our Graduation Night. Everybody's eyes were bulging, while bidding temporary goodbyes.

April FIRST PIERCING and SUMMER FUN: I was shaking when the ear-piercing professional draw her hand on my piercing spot, my brain stopped working, but later, I was in great relief knowing that it is already finished. This month was also a month for our class section, making the most out of the summer, we decided to have a farewell party. I also got the chance to have my first set of Photography.

May COLLEGE and the CALLING: I enrolled my self at NDDU, with the course IT. I guess I have to live up the course which my sister really wanted. Nothing interesting

June LIFE AS A FRUSTRATED IT STUDENT™: The first semester began and life as a college student started. Meeting up the different faces of the University while making up the faces of those terror profs!

July PRINGLES AND LAKE SEBU: a combination of Pringles for the travel and experiencing the juicy tilapia of Lake Sebu for lunch, what more I could ask for? I'd consider those moments, a great time.

August INTRAMURALS AND MY MEDICATION: having the great time during intramurals as a freshman while being interupted by my asthma attacks which led to confinement in the hospital.

September STARTED TO BLOG: i don't know what pushed me to blog, but there's a sudden urge to write my personal experience everyday, so I started this blog.

October JOINED MBS2 AT GENSAN: I got the chance to participate in the summit's second year. Altough I'm new at this event, I got to meet new faces, including Joanna of Evexjux, and Sir Avel of Bariles Republic. I also learned a lot of things about blogging, while it helped me to create blog posts endorsing Mindanao, especially Gensan.

November HALLOWEEN AT GRAB-A-CRAB: we spent an unusual halloween eve at Grab-a-Crab and gathered sometime in Coffee Club 101. The place was camouflaging the halloween season, besides, there are also roaming group of weirdo vampires and a petite sadako in line with their trick-or-treat promo.

PLURK CITY: I was influence with those widgets I see in everyone's blog, so I explored plurk, and started enjoying it. My karma number is 71.

December EARLY CHRISTMAS CELEBRATION WITH THE APOCALYPSE AND LOGO REQUESTS: I recently took a night-out with the my group, Apocalypse, to have our early Christmas celebration so that each of us could celebrate with our respective families. I guess the old times were put back to life again during our city-strolling.


Here's just few of the many things I experienced as this year is about to end, so what's yours? Comment on me, so I can read yours too. Be sure to capture every moment you had in 2009 by joining Project 365, ok? Happy New Year.

The young man was sitting on a cold, broken chair, with light barely passing inside his cell in Fort Santiago. Knowing that 2 hours from that time, dawn would crack, and it would be the last chance to witness the new morning for his country. December 30th 1896, was a history for the country.

Jose Rizal, clinging on as the ink of his feather pen was already fading, the chance to finish a poem was at stake. With only a small slip of torn paper to write on, he began writing his farewell poem with his tiny handwriting. Bidding goodbye to the country his fighting with, his family, and his fellow countrymen. Then ended his last message while folding it inside the fading light of the lamp.

As dawn breaks over Manila, He knew he would end his 35 years of fighting for freedom. Being a docro, a historian, a novelist, a sculptor, and a swordsman, fear never consumed him. That's why he was remembered as the country's greatest National Hero who inspired the struggle against Spanish Rule.

At seventeen, Rizal devoted his life to help Filipino people. Later on, the on growing urge for freedom made him speak out for some positive changes and reforms in the Philippines, thus making the Spanish government threaten. His speeches and views angered the Spanish Governors, who were frightened by the people's growing demand for revolution. In result, Rizal was arrested after the revolution breaks. By the year 1896, Rizal was arrested and condemned to death.

As years passed, the heroic virtues of Jose Rizal is brought back to life by annualy celebrating Rizal Day every December 30. This celebration has a huge part on Philippine's history, the deeds of our National hero, Jose Rizal is one way of making us, Filipinos, proud of our heritage.