Enchanted!

Watched Enchanted with Pia yesterday. It was super fun! The film was good though a bit childish in orientation.

Patrick Dempsey (from Grey's Anatomy) and James Marsden (from X-men series, The Notebook and Hairspray) were both Prince-Charmings! I was so torn between them. It really pays to be a beautiful princess like Giselle (Amy Adams) to be wanted by both of them. Haha!

The movie was good and I got really smitten by a few moments. I wish something enchanted can also happen to me. Gesh!

Haaaay

You can tell people to let things just flow freely and just let other people be. You can tell them to just smile and leave their problems to solve by themselves. You can tell them to be strong and hope for the best.







Sadly, you cannot tell that to yourself. Or if you can, you cannot make yourself believe that.

How much would you pay for a KID?

Moda moda moda (repeat ad infinitum)

Tell me, is there anything wrong with me that keeps you away?
Damn. This whole insecurity thing is kicking again. Maybe it is that time of the day again.

Genius!

Got this from one of my Multiply contacts' homepage. I don't know who made this, if she made this, if she got this from someone else, or elsewhere. But when I first read this, I realized how true it is.

Randomness is uncertainty.

countdown

11 days to go!

CRS, oh CRS!

I am so happy!

The CRS have been so nice to me and had granted me the full 17 units that I need, with (almost) all the professors that I want to have in tow. I said almost because my Sociology 180 (Social Statistics) professor was (as far as I have heard) the lesser able instructor of the course, but the better one's schedule is in conflict with my Sociology 182 (Qualitative Methods) class. 182 would be handled by a better professor than that of the previous semester's so I am taking advantage of this opportunity to get him. Well, maybe this setup is better since, as I have heard, my 182 prof is OC and matrabaho so my 180 (with the prof who doesn't require much) wouldn't be a hassle. *Plus, my Spanish 11 (Elementary Spanish) professor is still concealed in the CRS. :(*

Another reason why I am in a good mood is that I finally got (or seen, rather) all my grades from the previous semester. And my Sociology 101 (General Sociology), which I have been anxious all along, turned out fine! Yey! After a semester of haggardness, I am very relieved to say (with my computations) that I have maintained my College Scholar standing. Whew. What a relief. :) But pressure's on me to maintain it further this coming semester. T_T

A new semester's coming. I am still reluctant to leave the break behind. :(

track back: naman naman naman

Friday, October 19, 2007

Attended my niece's school program today. United Nations as the theme. It was okay, and my niece was really pretty.

I was okay during the program and all, but got really annoyed with my mother when everything was over. She was talking to some of the students' parents while I was taking pictures of my niece and her classmates. I heard someone ask my parents what school I am attending and she proudly answered that I am going in UP. Follow-up question of course was what course I am taking. And ged, she answered that I am taking Economics! I wasn't bitter because I am frustrated about getting in that degree program or anything because I already love Sociology and discovered the flaws of the BS Economics program. But what really annoyed me was that she said it with flourish as if she really knew it as a fact. Annoying, right? She is fully aware that my course is Sociology and I have no more plans of shifting out. But she still insisted on what she wanted me to be. She wants me to take a big-income-generating degree program though she doesn't tell me that. Okay, I am fine with that hope of hers because it is her prerogative to wish whatever she wants for her child. But please, if in that moment last morning that she forgot what course I am taking, she could have asked me, right? She shouldn't have assumed she knew when she didn't. And if she lied on purpose, I saw it as an insult, I'm sorry. She made me feel that she doesn't approve of my decision and that she is ashamed that I am taking a not-so-famous course. Wateber, I said. This will pass.

track back: exams

Wednesday, October 17, 2007

Had my last exam today, yey! Sembreak, here I come!

Last Monday, I had my exam on Sociology 11 (Contemporary Philippine Social Issues) and though I knew I sucked at the objective part ("Objective talaga kung objective!" --me), I know I'll pull through. I am confident with that subject, knowing that I love the course and understood it. And my Praxis orgmates told me (who had already taken subjects under the same professor) that she (the prof) doesn't believe in the grading system and sees them as repressive. One of the best professors in the department, I must say, and I am very much happy to have taken her. My performance in the subject was exemplary, I might say, and I guess I shone. Haha

Yesterday was the complete opposite. I had my final exam in Sociology 101 (General Sociology), and I knew I was hanging by a thread. My long exams' scores were always "bitin", heytdem. My paper, though done with full effort, was still, uh, making me nervous. My final exam... ged. 115-point essay? WTF, I said. Almost 3/4 of the exam was the essay. Aheytet. Thanks for the bonus -0.25 that I'll get in my final grade because of my perfect attendance (no absence, no tardiness recorded!) that I worked for so hard because I know that I am facing a cliff. Gesh. *breathe in, breathe out*

And today... I had my oral exam in Sociology 114 (Philippine Social System), and it was quite fine. Though the questions were given a few days before, I still crammed my answers this morning (what's new?) and still have researched decent information to give me a decent grade. Well, the exam turned out okay. I was supposed to take the exam at 11 AM, but was called at 11:50. Fastest 10 minutes of my life. Just finished giving my objectives, theoretical framework, etc and my 6 minutes were already eaten up! Had to squeeze in all the necessary information in the remaining 4 minutes. I knew we extended and my professor wasn't competent in timing me, so we still managed to chat up after. Haha. Oh well. At least it was my last exam and I can go to Cavite after! Yey.

So my sembreak's here! I just have to wait for my grades online on CRS. Anxiety might invade my mind, but at least I am in my comfort zone. Haha. Got to keep up. And still hoping for the best. Haaaay.