Tuesday, March 20, 2012

Time to Reply

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*link*-> http://youtu.be/zPzCH4RAe2w

I found you this morning
When I was on break
Thought you were funny
If a little insane

I quickly forgot you
And got on with my day
But then there you were
Back in my mind again

Figured I'd find you
To see what you've done
It's very impressive
Looks like you have fun

I wanna say thank you
For brightening my day
I hope that I
Could do just the same

For you
For you
And I know that you're busy
But I hope you find the time to reply



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Sunday, March 18, 2012

Cadena de Amor | because love keeps us afloat

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Cadena de Amor (\ Antigonon leptopus \) is a philippine herbal plant. The name is of spanish decent, which translates to 'Chain of Love/Hearts' in english.
The struggle in trying to even start this post is unforgiving...X_x This is the last reflection paper I have to submit before I can finally slack all day and wait for graduation to happen. *must fight lazyness* @_@!!

It sucks that I can't yet feel the confidence to post status updates about graduating from Uni... For some reason, I feel hesitant because I haven't yet submitted the hardbound copy of my senior project to my adviser. *insert lazy college senior meme here*. But first things first.. This reflection paper.. *focus neith...focus, you can reply to all the messages in your inbox when you're done with this*

COP - Community Outreach Program

UNDERSTANDING THE JOURNEY
The most striking realization during the Basic Orientation Seminar was that (1) I co-exist with the poor and (2) if my 12 year old self would have been exposed to this reality, he would've already killed himself out of the depressing truth. *exaggeration added*

It bothers me to think that while I am living my childhood days watching television, kids my age are working to feed themselves. However, as I will explain in depth in the succeeding paragraphs, the COP affirms the mission that I set for myself years ago; "Make my part of the world better, since aiming to fix the whole of it isn't possible".

THE ROADS I HAVE TAKEN
I was honestly expecting that what would propel me to work come the time when we'd be at the outreach site would be the thought of planting the mangroves as fast as possible in order not to be under the sun for too long.

Halfway during the jeepney ride i noticed that my mindset transitioned into a somewhat unfamiliar state. I recall that this transition, during the jeepney ride, regarding my sentiments toward the outreach activity happened when I noticed that what's around me are not anymore concrete buildings but huge trees that shaded us as we traveled. The familiar noise of car horns and downtown generators were replaced by the deafening bird chirps and soothing rhythms of the cool morning breeze hitting my ears. The odor of livestock animals grazing through the grasslands made me somehow, for a time, forget the scent of processed meat I was accustomed to smelling when in the city.




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Thursday, March 8, 2012

Christopher's Magic Cigarettes

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I have this weird way of rewarding myself. For some reason I think that I shouldn't be blogging while in the middle of an academic endeavor. This is my unorthodox way of ensuring that by the time I get to have my fix of blogging again, it's gonna feel a lot fulfilling.

I pay attention to the analytics embedded in this blog. However, although I know that the numbers tell me that people read and read and read the stuff that isn't about me, my day, or how life is to me at the moment, I cannot find any other way to go about the feelings that are consuming me right now but to blog about them in the hope that it would make me feel better before the start of the event that's to be held today at Uni wherein my friend and I were invited to be speakers. I believe in the importance of roles and how (when roles are given to you and you accept them) they should shape how you carry yourself. In my world, this should hold true despite personal circumstances... For now, the goal I carry is to make sure the guys who paid for the seminar feel they learned things proportional to the money they spent.. I wanna bring my happy self to the seminar..

Part of me that was fighting to finish Uni has always been fueled by the admiration given to me by people who I claim to be important. I draw strength, that I can't find inside me, from their rumors and unvalidated gossips.

The good one year and six months of being inspired finally came to an end last night over a butt of cigarette. As I was walking down the avenue where Uni was, it felt clear that the flame isn't anymore what it once was. It isn't anymore the same flame that warms me when I'm freezing. It has become fire that consumes, merciless and daunting. It felt as if the dimly lit road was telling me it was too good to be true anyway. It's just awful that it ends a night before I really really needed to be inspired. A night before I really really needed to know that I matter. A night before I reap something I deem to be a personal success and be all pious in crediting you for being the flame that fueled me.

I can't work with mixed signals. As gossip begets gossip, I tend to rely on it again. It's funny *what? It's not funny you moron it's pathetic! Get your shit together*slaps self** that I'm aching because of something that I'm not sure about and that's stupid. I do not anymore know how to behave. How should I take things and react? I'm laughing now, because I can't understand why I let myself into this rut. That's how mixed the signals are, it's messing me up inside.

Where on earth do you buy your cigarettes Christopher? Coz they seem to make your troubles go away... Why is it that in my case, it just makes me succumb to depression. Why is that? I'm fascinated by the light the cigarette emits... I was looking at it and still can't figure out why it has been the reason that I've been a battered child during highschool. The light on that cigarette is the last thing I see every night whenever my eldest brother would come home drunk and would beat me up... The last scene being me, lying on the ground half-conscious, staring at the cigarette in his right hand as the sparks come off from its tips whenever he would thrust his feet towards me to deliver a kick. Why is that Christopher? You must know a secret store where the cigarettes they sell make people who smoke them happy... Can the smoke really cure the hurt inside? Anyway Chris, thanks for bearing my stories and for letting me discover who she really was for me, I'm waiting for the thing you call the 'next bracket', hopefully that's where and when I'll do things right. I'm sorry that death scared me a lot and that the attempt I made because of her was a bold move to unburden myself of all the unspoken thoughts before the thing that I thought would come comes. I promise not to cry over her anymore, but you have to promise to tell me where you buy your magic cigarettes.

It's 3AM, and i need to finish the slides for the seminar... Good morning Angels, have a good one.

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Friday, March 2, 2012

The Final Module

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I found this gigantic sketch pad in my room... O.O so I used it as a canvas to write on it, the final pseudocodes to my senior project...
Goodevening Angels!

I'll be having my senior project defense this Monday. X.x So today I decided to skip being at the school's software festival.  The good thing is it's scheduled to commence up until tomorrow. Granted that the final module seems to be working... (though not that flawless... it still quite works.. i guess.,.XDXD) I think I'll spare some time to have fun...

The past weeks have been all about me being overpowered by mixed-emotions... I'm on this roller coaster ride of feelings... I discovered I've been misinterpreting things I found matter-some for the past months (years?) I dunno... So, majority of what I believed in for roughly a whole year was a lie., haha.,XD **trying to move on*

Oh Btw... Have you guys heard of binaural beats? I just found out about them this morning... I wouldn't wanna spoil you to what it is so.... go on... google is a friend., ^^

**hugs!*

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