Friday, February 26, 2010

Checking Stuffs

I was looking for my old Chemistry notebook in my cabinet after a 20-minute nap after I checked my to-do list on my cell phone and saw that our exam in Chemistry 11 is approaching. The books and some of my high school notebooks are placed on top of our shelves but I was quite lazy to look for it  in the highest shelf since it was a hot hour and I just don't feel like climbing; so I checked my boxes on the lowest shelf first hoping I could see it there. As I was looking for it, checking each item, I found my Participant I.D. last year when I joined the Intel Philippines Science Fair (Regional Division) in Cagayan De Oro City. I paused for a while and then smiled. In that moment, I remembered the unforgettable memories I've spared  as a researcher in the said event.

I learn to talk in front of people with new ideas confidently; hared some related facts with regards to technology and most especially, in my research; presented our school in the regional level; done stuffy and some never-happened things; mingle w/ the people around, both known and unknown ones; live without the family for 3+ days; and most of all, proved our school's excellence and made its mark in the field of Scientific Research..

 I was busy reminiscing those wonderful moments when my brother suddenly opened the door and showed a new DVD on me with his tongue out. My reminiscing moment then vanished as I stared at the DVD and run towards the living room to see what movies are in that DVD. Well, about the chemistry notebook? I'll just look for it tomorrow after my class.

Quite Exasperated

What a day! Although It's a holi-holiday, I woke up early in the morning for our practice in our P.E. festival this coming March 8, 2010. Come to think of it, 7am??
I tried my best to wake up as early as i could for first, I have slept already at about one in the morning for i have been editing our tarpaulin design and second, I live in Fuentes, Iligan City, which takes about thirty minutes of time travel. It also happened that this day is also the start of our Psych Days, and when the clock strikes at seven in the evening, We will be going to watch the MusiCause of the Echoes at the gymnasium; so I was quite sure that this will be a exhausting day.

I was quite mad when i reached the gym at almost 7:15AM for i found the gym closed, and there were only few people sitting, chit-chatting, roaming around and whatsoever.. without ma'am PE's presence or the sight of her turtle car at the corner of the gym. We've been waiting for an hour for our PE teacher, some of my classmates get mad because they haven't eaten their breakfast for the fear of getting late and be scolded by our ma'am. Our practice started past eight already and some of us Psych students in our PE class are getting uneasy for the Opening of the Psych days is already getting started at the ground floor of CASS. Just right after we finished performing inside the gym (We were having a hard time in adjusting and we lacked coordination due to the music we had which is only a tape), we were scolded by our ma'am PE and made us practice outside the gym, under the heat of the bursting sun. I was feeling bad at that moment for I did not like the way she utter those discriminating words on us for I find it irreverent or wrong. "Of course how can we adjust properly  at the big space of the gym ma'am that we don't even have a practicum on our presentation on the gym ever since you announced about the PE festival? and you're also using a tape which is almost obsolete or rarely used nowadays especially when performing dance presentation, and etc. wherein, when placed in a radio, only the two rows of the performers( in front of the radio) can only have the chance to hear the music itself, for the fact that the gym is so big and so noisy; and you're there, shouting at us this and that without thinking this things and realizing your faults..!", I said to myself. Another thing that made me quite confused is why she's so fond of the boys who only perform on the mass dance that she even announced that all boys will be given flat one for they are only the ones who performed well. how absurd! Well, to cut it short, we did our best to prove her wrong and soon we were dismissed at about ten in the morning. After the practice, we went to the CASS grounds for our Psych days until past four in the afternoon. It was fun though exhausting (Especially the Amazing Race that made my throat itchy and made my stomach grumble because of disgust or whatever). The concert as i said earlier, will start at seven, so we decided to roam around the city and buy some stuff. I went home at past ten in the evening and sleep soundly as I lie down in my bed after eating for today was enjoyable yet  quite exasperating day.

Thursday, February 4, 2010

Expect The Unexepected

It was an unpredictable day. The weather was fine (Thank God! It didn't rain!), but I don't feel like going to school because first, I went home exhausted from our P.E. class yesterday; second was able to sleep at around twelve in the morning already for using the computer for motivation before I study and reading the "Prince of Tides" before I retire to sleep; and lastly, we will be going to have our mid-term examination in Mental Hygiene today.

As i was walking in the corridor in our college just before our classes start, I noticed that a lot of students is feeling panicky about their school works. It felt like they have been wandering in a domain of abyss. In that moment, I sensed that I will be loaded again with too much pressures not to mention the lessons that will be covered throughout the exam. I just scan and skim notes, definitions, and some topics from chapters seven to twelve after lunch break. It's not just merely to avoid cramming but honestly, I just don't feel like studying it thoroughly at that time. Three o'clock came, and we soon nervous that some of us prayed that our teacher won't come. But unfortunately, she arrived 25 minutes later--and it surprised us a lot for we never expected she would come from her travel in Kauswagan where she fixed a certain case at the said place. Worst is, the exam goes like this: "Write everything you have learned" given eight main topics  below the said instruction. And believe it or not, it covers the chapters one to twelve!! As of now, it seems that I still haven't felt my Adrenalins and other neurons rushing throughout my system recalling that the exam's over and i missed some topics which i must have written in my paper after I have submitted it to our teacher. I only consumed two pages back-to-back in a hour and half. But it's okay, at least I've written 80% of what I've learned in those chapters-- whole book to be exact.. Nobody knows, I'll bring the bacon home...