On Christmas

 

How was your christmas? I bet you had loads of fun getting richer and fatter. :) My cousins Arianna (5) and the twins Kitty and Cathy (both 6)

I diddnt really feel christmas this year, i first expressed these feeling to Mikee Tan after my exposure trip. "I dont feel christmas coming up..." We talked about how we stopped believing in santa, hehe... I wont tell you his story, you should ask it from him :D For me, i gradually stoped believing in santa. Well, it all really started out that one year when i just didnt send a letter for a gift, i dont really remember why. I got a gift still the same, a pair of shoes which i continue to wear until today. Along with these shoes came a letter from "Santa" saying that he was amazed at how much i have grown yada yada.... Basically it was sort of a goodbye letter saying that i'm too old for him and that letting go would bring me to the next stage of my life.

From that year onward i never looked forward to receiving a gift from anyone. Aside from a Ps2, an Ipod and the yet to be in my possesion laptop and super suave Suv/scooter i didnt ask anything from anyone. Dont get me wrong, i appreciate every gift given to me, from the oodles and oodles of underwear to the stacks of scientific calculators. Kitchie (my hamster) is living proof of how much i appreciate gifts. I appreciate gifts, i just dont look forward to getting them.

Now would be an appropriate time to add a paragrapg about my opinions on gift giving :D I like giving gifts, I just dont have the money most of the time. NUFF SAID!

Contrary to popular belief, Juan Miguel De Leon is almost always suffering from lack of money mostly because of his stomach which cleverly hides its true nature :P

I didnt feel christmas this year, there was really no excitement during september which i usually exerience. This excitement was mostly due to the fact of the many christmas parties coming up not to mention all the food that would be inbound!

There were christmas parties this year! earliest of which was my MeCo block party which was loads of fun, an experience i wont easily forget :D R21 also had one, with mam jasmine :D 4B didnt have a party mostly because of me, hehehe, It was supposed to be at my place but on the date they wanted to celebrate it (december 21) was the first day of the A-days batch A35. I couldnt miss that! Had another one with the "family friends" which was fun except for that weird bit with those hired professional karoke singers. Then the family parties rolled along. We celebrated in my Tito's vacation house in Tagaytay for my father's side. We had an "amazing race" thing going on there :D Me and Louie won 2nd place! bagging 15k home! which my mother took away soon after :P For my mother's side was the traditional "sa bahay ni lolo" thing with relatives coming back from the states. All the "apos" had to perform something, i played the bassline of "carol of the bells" for louie.

Staffing for A35 was fun :D ill go fulltime again next batch!

The food in all above mentioned parties were awesome!

I wasnt able to attend the days party because my mom wouldnt drive me all the way to commonweath :P

The parties were fun sure, but i didnt feel christmas....

I usually feel christmas at the end of september, but this year i hardly felt it at all. why? I mostly blame school :D the second long test in Ma20 really took up alot of my thinking time which i could have devoted to feeling christmas, that plus my en12 paper :P

I did feel it a bit, during days, but i wasnt able to stay full time because of other commitments...

Maybe its because we're growing older and alot more things preoccupy our minds too much. Life gets more complicated as one grows older.

Or the lack of quezo de bola... either or

Its very uhm.... disheartening ( if such a word exists?) Shouldn't i be extremely happy? since its my first christmas after days! Its Kuya Jess's Birthday!?!? I feel bad for not being happy enough for him on his day.

I spent the rest of the vacation at home, struggling to do homework. Stuff that could be done in less than an hour took me days because of my constant procrastinating and the existence of "Dawn of War: Dark Crusade" and "Marvel Ultimate Alliance" (thanks Don!, i finished it already! me n louie stayed up until 5am to do it too! but the PS2 hanged and well, you get the picture) Yuck, im still "totoy" after all. My annotated biblio is still missing one more source...

I really rediscovered my roots hahah

Well, my overall point is that, i wasnt able to celebrate christmas properly... maybe next year

If there is someone who really enjoyed christmas its the kids for obvious reasons... i really wish i was like that every christmas

So Christmas is still here, it'll probably end right before valentines or something... The lights still flicker outside my window and false stars stil attract passers by... Songs still echo throughout the halls and commercials continue to bother primetime viewing..

Do i have to be "isip bata" to enjoy christmas? I know alot more now than way back then, i think i have a better understanding of christmas for me to appreciate it now... but... i dunno

Maybe next year

Merry Christmas Guys

 

On being sick...

Its saturday morning of the long bonifacio day weekend. Sad to say that unlike the rest of the world, I've spent the first 3 days of this blessed break in bed. I'm sick, since tuesday's math LT.

I was perfectly fine that morning, but when the sun crept up into the sky at that certain point where it shine a specific ray of light specifically at me, it hit me. The sudden change in temperture from that cold early morning (my math class is at 7:30 am in tuesdays) to the baking heat of the sun plus the math test gave a cold attack like none I've ever experienced before. (My blockmates can tell you that :D ) I was sick the entire tuesday but got better during my last class which was in an airconditioned room, well enough to do some library exploring.

I was all better on wednesday, mostly because of the monster amounts of vitamin C in the form of the god like berocca tablets. On wednesdays i have PE. I'm enrolled in a running class, so thats pretty tiring. Those who have taken it before know what I mean. I ran the entire thingy our coach had prepared and went home pretty pooped out. Then i heard, no classes tom :D

Wow, no classes, but there was a typhoon! supposedly stronger than the dreaded Milenyo. I think Pagasa heeded my advice in giving it such a sissy name (no offence to people out there who share the name) My Milenyo entry :D

Although it was harldy felt here in metro manila, in the provinces was where the hurting was.

Thursday morning, and the cold attack returned. I was to tired to do anything but stay in bed and play FFXII and periodically passing out from fatigue and/or eye strain/ cerebral seizure.

Friday was like thursday, put into extreme mode all topped of with a helping of Happy feet :D

That night i finally told my parents that im sick, and now its official, I am Sick! Cough, colds, mild fever, the typical "im sick" scenario.

Well, sickness is somtimes attributed to misfotune. A series of events beyond the victim's control which causes him/her to become sick. The Environment and the changes it undergoes so that it may just upset one's inner balance and send him/her into an undesirable state. The sun and its stupid miggy hating powers started this!

Another way to get sick is by being extremely stupid. Even with the knowledge thjat you are vulnerable to viral attack or body failures one still continues to do things that will put one's health at risk. AIDS and "unmoderated" sex is a good example, me tiring myself out in last wednesday's PE is another.

I for one, abhor being sick.

I hate being sick, especially on a vacation like this! but i also hate being sick on days when theres work to be done. I'm not really a fan of cutting classes. I have a fear that i might miss something important and that i cant always rely on other people to help me make up for my misfotunes. Sickness hempers one's productivity, nuff' said.

In the old testament, when people got sick in those times it was considered a punishment imposed by God on sinners. Being productive back then was an important thing, a time when you literally reap what you sow. Remember the exodus? the ten plagues? or the various mini stories in the bible like that one guy becoming blind or leprosy and stuff like that? The afflicted were not able to participate in society properly and were either shunned as "dead weight", being unable to work their weight in productive output or "untouchables", people damned by God. Good thing we have doctors now dont we?

It is funny how some cultures in the past think sickness are symptoms of demonic possesions. In a way, i can see why. Other than God punishing you for being "sinful" sickness can be the physical manifestation of *ahem* not so good beings byond our comprehension. Instead of tempting you to do wrong, they do wrong on to you. Scary? :D

Sickness is a test of faith, like life itself

There were no medicines back then, aside from the usual plague, diesease and unexplainable viral out break, common colds could KILL! There are porbably a bunch of famous historic figures back then that could not continue their Legacy or what not because of sickness. Alexander the Great for one. He did not die in battle like many a great general of his time, but he died of a sickness he contracted. A Fever i believe. After His untimely death, Alexander's empire was destroyed as his generals fought over the spoils of war. Imagine If he did not get sick? How far would the Macedonian empire have reached? What kind of ruler could have alexander become? Maybe sickness is a history's tool for writing itself.

The world knows what being sick can do, extinction the extreme consequence of sickness. Thats why there is the ever evolving science of medicine and all the good people out there whom devote 10 or so years of the science to contirbute and practice it. Like modern day Jedi Knights ,doctors protect world health from word disease and the Ultimate zombie holocaust.

*back to reality

• Ma2o test results!!!!!!!
  
• a35 coming up real fast. excited :D
  
• en12 research paper has got me worried
  
• kat S.' and Anna K's debuts are coming up to, what to wear?
  
• What will i get, and who will i get it from in next week's H1 Kris Kringle?
  
• What will i get for the lucky/unlucky person who's name i got.
  
• Its almost Xmas :D
  
• I'm constantly reminded everyday that i'm 18 :D gonna vote next year! and hopefully, drive too !
  
• Will i ever find my heart song? and who will i share it with?
  
• I am a frustrated guitarist
  
• The search for the healty gonzaga cafe meal continues...
  
• Gotta remember to pray...
  
• Will someone actually read this blog entry with its unaatractive title and topic? any fans of "on crushes" out there?
  
• I'm sick, I'm afraid i did somthing terribly wrong to deserve this...

 

I hate being sick, its a proof of my ineptness...

"education cant make us all leaders, but it can teach us which to follow" - Kiko Machine, MAnix Abrera