The first term started out fine and ended fine for me this year, which is quite odd because usually, the term would start sucky and ends up being suckier than ever. LOL hehehe.
Well anyway, the term is coming to an end and yes indeed, it is that time again when all of the students gather in all the three major campuses of CSB to get their course cards. I for one am excited on how I fare this year. In fact, it was quite a productive term for me, having to do stuff that I love and do stuff that I get to love.
As what my friend would always say, this is so "f**king awesome"! Indeed it is.
Another reason why I like the turn-out of this term is that I finally entered the big TWO-OH/Beinte/Twenty. Lots of people greeted me on my special day last week (August 31) and I was really flattered. In fact, I even received the best gift I ever had, a special greet from a very special someone.
:KILIG!!:
Weh it's true. I know I'm out of her league by this point but still, it really made me smile to think about it.
In addition to that, I manage to see what I think I saw whot I thought I saw two days ago (September 9). Barney is the name and I look up to him as one of my lifetime role models. He is one of the many reasons I took up my course, one of the many reasons why I pursued CSB as my college of choice, one of the many reasons why I wanted to be a good designer.
You and I may know him but he may not necessarily know us. But nonetheless, he inspires a lot of people without even trying. He's in for bigger and better things and I wish him well.
Although I don't want to exactly follow in his footsteps, I do certainly want to live by his example and wisdom. I want to get out and prove myself that I can do what I can do. For the last two trimesters, I'm going to out-prove as I make it through the most difficult stage that a college student would have to endure: thesis work.
I'm supposed to graduate this year but I have to extended a term more to accomodate 3 units for this term and push back my thesis for the last two. This will give me chance to take a breather for a moment and prepare for what could be the biggest fight yet in the four years that I have been as a college boy.
I'm itching to graduate and I'm itching to find my place in this world.
PEACE!
Friday, September 10, 2010
Sunday, August 29, 2010
The Last Day of a Teenage Life
The clock is slowly ticking, the sands in the hourglass going pass one more day, and the PC-generated e-clock is telling me the 30th of August is near. To some, it is just an ordinary day, a civil holiday at the least in the Philippines. But for someone like me, it is more than just a civil holiday, it is the last day of my teenage life.
Yes peeps, I'll spend the last 24 hours making the most of what is left of me being a teen.
Scary thought that afterwards, I'll be hitting the big 2--0, BEINTE or what I've been branding this since I started my birthday countdown last July, 20@10. I'll age a year more, a year more wiser, a year more experienced, and so on.
So what I've been up to for the last 10 years? Nothing much except maybe had some of the most wackiest things to ever happen in my life during that period. I could list it all down if I could but so far...:
1)Wore my first pair of eyeglasses
2)Went and lived abroad for a year
3)Became a school athlete
4)Participated in a musical recital
5)Went "gala" all by myself which led me to places like MOA, to Paragon Plaza to the Philamlife Theater in U.N. Avenue.
6)Went to a school trip to Mount Banahaw being the only high school freshman in a batch of seniors.
7)Traveled to Singapore alone
8)Was dance partners with his Grade 6 crush for a charity event
9)Knocked out but ended up winning a medal in a competition anyway.
10)Became an intern of a radio station
Crazy huh? The list goes on and on and I could not remember them all.
I always fear that I'll reach that point in life that the end of my life is drawing near as I don't know if there is life after death. Being a devout (but not necessarily a really zealous) Catholic, it's hard for me to accept that everything has an end date but I know there's a reason so I have to suck it up and face it.
Like what my kuya said to me 10 years ago, "live life to the fullest".
I need to live a life well lived, I need to make sure that I lived a life that fulfilled my purpose on earth. Because after all, we only have "ONE LIFE TO LIVE".
I think I've already gone far from being this kid who loves to read history books and being a geo-know-it-all to someone who still loves to read anything historic and still somewhat of a "know-it-all". It really helps that I am with people who continue to support me, to love me, and see me as what I am and what I will continue to shape up to be what I am in this lifetime.
As I enter my 20's, everything will change. May it be for better or otherwise, I'll face it, I'll conquer it.
20 at '10 baby!
Saturday, August 21, 2010
10 Things to Wish for This 20@10
The following are the things which I wish I could have when I turn 20@10. Simple well-wishing lang on the first 5 as I don't want to expect to get this much material stuff. The latter half is a little something that I wish to do when I turn 20, since I they aren't that impossible to materialize as long as I push myself to it. Mangarap ba? :D
1. A Nikon dSLR D40
2. A Mac laptop
3. A New cellphone FM-radio and Wi-Fi capabilities
4. A new bag that can Handle my demands
5. A bicycle
6. Go to Enchanted Kingdom
7. Join a Fun Run
8. Go on a hiking trip
9. Achieve a fit and healthy body with a set of six-pack abs :))
10. Graduate from school
As the saying goes: "Dreams really do come true if you believe...".
10 Days to Go!
1. A Nikon dSLR D40
2. A Mac laptop
3. A New cellphone FM-radio and Wi-Fi capabilities
4. A new bag that can Handle my demands
5. A bicycle
6. Go to Enchanted Kingdom
7. Join a Fun Run
8. Go on a hiking trip
9. Achieve a fit and healthy body with a set of six-pack abs :))
10. Graduate from school
As the saying goes: "Dreams really do come true if you believe...".
10 Days to Go!
Thursday, August 19, 2010
The CSB Experience 4: The Characters of "An Almost Affair"
I'll be posting a casting call real soon but for now, here's the lowdown on what the story is about and the characters dictated by love, passion, devotion and betrayal.
A story about love challenged, a story about views in contrasts, a story about relationships rekindled, a story about trying to forget the past in order to move on to the future.
At a time when family dynamics is in the middle of a major overhaul in modern-times, a recently-married couple sits in the dilemma of going either against or along the flow. A husband who tries to be supportive to his wife whom he encourage to do what she wants to do in life thinking that settling downy and start a family can wait.
The wife however is the complete opposite, who despite having a very promising future ahead of her, decides that being a housewife and a mother is what she wants to do as she tries to be the perfect wife to her husband: loving, caring, loyal, and everything else. Despite their differences, their love for each other have helped on keeping their marriage an almost unbreakable bond...until she came.
A brief encounter with another woman led to events that served as challenges to the husband and wife. The "other woman" is a co-worker of the husband whom he barely notices until the day they crossed paths. The husband saw in her something that his wife isn't, things that he wants to see in her and yet doesn't. He and the other woman became very close to each other, but unknown to the husband, the woman hides a past that continues to haunt her.
The wife feels the pressure of trying to please her husband, thinking his is slowly slipping away from her.
What follows after is a tale of decisions leading to events that will either break the bond the holds the husband and wife forever or give them a reason to find the will to trust each other again.
Character characteristics are as follows (No final names for the characters just yet):
1. "Husband" = In his mid-to late 20's. Married for three-four years. Liberal-minded. Does not expect to form a family just yet and encourages his wife to become a career-woman. He led a crappy life before meeting the "wife". Knows how to drive.
2. "Wife" = In her mid-to late 20's. Married for 3-4 years. Highly educated with a promising career ahead of her but gives it all up to become a devoted housewife and mother.
3. "Kerida" = Late 20's to early 30's. Liberated working girl. Shares a lot of things in common the husband. She has a mysterious past that continues to haunt her despite her efforts to move on.
Instrumental characters:
1. "Magnanakaw"
2. "Little Boy"
3. "Little Girl"
*This will be an interative photo-based web comic where visitors have the power to dictate the events of the story by voting what will happen next after every chapter's cliffhanger. Chapters will be updated every 1-2 weeks until it leads up to the final story arc. Past issues can be viewed on an archive webpage.
The entirety fo the project will be unraveled later on. :D
An Almost Affair
A story about love challenged, a story about views in contrasts, a story about relationships rekindled, a story about trying to forget the past in order to move on to the future.
At a time when family dynamics is in the middle of a major overhaul in modern-times, a recently-married couple sits in the dilemma of going either against or along the flow. A husband who tries to be supportive to his wife whom he encourage to do what she wants to do in life thinking that settling downy and start a family can wait.
The wife however is the complete opposite, who despite having a very promising future ahead of her, decides that being a housewife and a mother is what she wants to do as she tries to be the perfect wife to her husband: loving, caring, loyal, and everything else. Despite their differences, their love for each other have helped on keeping their marriage an almost unbreakable bond...until she came.
A brief encounter with another woman led to events that served as challenges to the husband and wife. The "other woman" is a co-worker of the husband whom he barely notices until the day they crossed paths. The husband saw in her something that his wife isn't, things that he wants to see in her and yet doesn't. He and the other woman became very close to each other, but unknown to the husband, the woman hides a past that continues to haunt her.
The wife feels the pressure of trying to please her husband, thinking his is slowly slipping away from her.
What follows after is a tale of decisions leading to events that will either break the bond the holds the husband and wife forever or give them a reason to find the will to trust each other again.
Character characteristics are as follows (No final names for the characters just yet):
1. "Husband" = In his mid-to late 20's. Married for three-four years. Liberal-minded. Does not expect to form a family just yet and encourages his wife to become a career-woman. He led a crappy life before meeting the "wife". Knows how to drive.
2. "Wife" = In her mid-to late 20's. Married for 3-4 years. Highly educated with a promising career ahead of her but gives it all up to become a devoted housewife and mother.
3. "Kerida" = Late 20's to early 30's. Liberated working girl. Shares a lot of things in common the husband. She has a mysterious past that continues to haunt her despite her efforts to move on.
Instrumental characters:
1. "Magnanakaw"
2. "Little Boy"
3. "Little Girl"
*This will be an interative photo-based web comic where visitors have the power to dictate the events of the story by voting what will happen next after every chapter's cliffhanger. Chapters will be updated every 1-2 weeks until it leads up to the final story arc. Past issues can be viewed on an archive webpage.
The entirety fo the project will be unraveled later on. :D
The CSB Experience 4: Fear Itself, Proj is Real
Supposedly, if I have taken MMAOJT in the summer, I would have been taking MMAPROJ1 this term. But unfortunately, circumstances forced me to take long break from proceding with my thesis and at least put focus on my OJT first.
Proj1 is the second stage for my thesis. The first is getting into the planning stage via MSCIETY. This is where you start production on your project based on your chosen topic and medium. In my case, I'm making an interactive web comic with a topic that addresses marriage-related problems. The tentative title of the project is "An Almost Affair", based on a 20-page manuscript I wrote as my finals work for VIDPRD1.
In Msciety alone, I took me half a dozen topic revisions and several changes in medium to finally have one approved across the board. The hitch? I won't be making illustrated panels but will instead make use of photographic stills as panels for my comics. The web comic will be more than 30 "pages" long so I'm planning on dividing it to 10 "chapters" of 3 or so.
I still have to make my storyboard though as early as now before I formally take my Proj1 class next term as well as start assessing the story itself. It's fortunate that my basis of the whole project, titled "Ang Pagmamahal", is still stacked up in my room. Hehehe...
Nonetheless, there's still a reason for me to fear Proj1. No preparation is enough for me if in the end my fate lies at the hands of panelists that can either make or break you. Just yesterday, I found out my friend didn't make the cut and was forced to repeat everything from scratch. It made me more fearful and careful on what to expect on the second trimester.
As if it's not bad enough, this whole "tri-media" thing is driving me crazy. Why couldn't I have thought of something more simpler, more easy to do? I blame not just myself for ever conceiving such an idea and for my old Msciety professor, Ms Javier who makes the process all the more confusing.
So okay, here's what I'm planning for "An Almost Affair". I'm hoping of making use of shooting exteriors outside school, and I need at least several locations to do the shots: A house, an office, a cafe (hopefully outdoor), a neighborhood street, a cemetery and a mall/palengke.
Casting models is also a priority. Basically, I need three models to portray the story's three major characters. Supporting characters will be needed depending on each "chapter".
A lot of details though is needed to further explain what I intend to do so I'm putting the discussion further on my next blog. Here's to hoping I could survive this next storm.
Proj1 is the second stage for my thesis. The first is getting into the planning stage via MSCIETY. This is where you start production on your project based on your chosen topic and medium. In my case, I'm making an interactive web comic with a topic that addresses marriage-related problems. The tentative title of the project is "An Almost Affair", based on a 20-page manuscript I wrote as my finals work for VIDPRD1.
In Msciety alone, I took me half a dozen topic revisions and several changes in medium to finally have one approved across the board. The hitch? I won't be making illustrated panels but will instead make use of photographic stills as panels for my comics. The web comic will be more than 30 "pages" long so I'm planning on dividing it to 10 "chapters" of 3 or so.
I still have to make my storyboard though as early as now before I formally take my Proj1 class next term as well as start assessing the story itself. It's fortunate that my basis of the whole project, titled "Ang Pagmamahal", is still stacked up in my room. Hehehe...
Nonetheless, there's still a reason for me to fear Proj1. No preparation is enough for me if in the end my fate lies at the hands of panelists that can either make or break you. Just yesterday, I found out my friend didn't make the cut and was forced to repeat everything from scratch. It made me more fearful and careful on what to expect on the second trimester.
As if it's not bad enough, this whole "tri-media" thing is driving me crazy. Why couldn't I have thought of something more simpler, more easy to do? I blame not just myself for ever conceiving such an idea and for my old Msciety professor, Ms Javier who makes the process all the more confusing.
So okay, here's what I'm planning for "An Almost Affair". I'm hoping of making use of shooting exteriors outside school, and I need at least several locations to do the shots: A house, an office, a cafe (hopefully outdoor), a neighborhood street, a cemetery and a mall/palengke.
Casting models is also a priority. Basically, I need three models to portray the story's three major characters. Supporting characters will be needed depending on each "chapter".
A lot of details though is needed to further explain what I intend to do so I'm putting the discussion further on my next blog. Here's to hoping I could survive this next storm.
Wednesday, August 18, 2010
The CSB Experience 4: The August Blues
This month have been a bit rocky at the start for me when things got out of hand but I managed somehow to fix it to some degree. I've been thinking at the time of doing the ultimate sacrifice but at the last minute, decided to see what happens next.
It didn't took long before everything I worked for in the past couple of weeks all went to waste. What occurred definitely hit a nerve and I was in this state of sadness and loneliness. I began to think about the things I want to do in my life, the things that I want to be a part with, the things that I wanna be with and the things that I want to learn from the very best.
And then there's the thought of graduating. It's so close yet so far. I can't even give a sure guarantee that I'll manage to weatehr the storm once I'm in thesis mode. The medium hat I'll be doing seems okay but because of that dang tr-media thing that TPTB wants to impose on us, I'm forced to put a spin on that medium so as to appease my advisors. Boo....
I wrote this on my Facebook not to long ago when I was inspired by that mountain hiking trip I participated last weekend:
"College is like a mountain: From the bottom, you have to climb up until you reach the very top..."
I feel a bit burned out already after more than 3 years in CSB but it doesn't discouraged me from going further to reach my goal. Whatever blockades I face, I know I could overcome them if I have the will and strength to live the life that I want to live.
The real world is harsh, the powers that be can be ruthless, the promise of youth is drained when you're sucked into this vortex of no return. I get it, I've seen it but I've yet to experience it. I see friends already dealing with it, having to resort to being around with a guy who wears a black shirt and they never seem to want to let go of him.
But I know I can get through it, I know the odds are against me but I don't care. Even it means losing everythng I worked hard for, every hope and dreams that gets stashed away. They can never take away my continuing will to dream, to look on the brighter side of things. Critiscism are what shapes me into what I am, what I will, what I want to be.
They see my qualities as my greatest weaknesses, but I say that these are my sources of strength. I could blab about this all day but I stand by my principles, if you call them principles that is.
I'll strive when I'm down, I'll shout for joy when I'm yelled at, I'll smile when I am scorned, and I will walk when I get screwed.
The blues are hitting me like crazy but that's what I get when I feel the need to make myself happy now that in a few weeks, I'll be celebrating 20@10.
:)
It didn't took long before everything I worked for in the past couple of weeks all went to waste. What occurred definitely hit a nerve and I was in this state of sadness and loneliness. I began to think about the things I want to do in my life, the things that I want to be a part with, the things that I wanna be with and the things that I want to learn from the very best.
And then there's the thought of graduating. It's so close yet so far. I can't even give a sure guarantee that I'll manage to weatehr the storm once I'm in thesis mode. The medium hat I'll be doing seems okay but because of that dang tr-media thing that TPTB wants to impose on us, I'm forced to put a spin on that medium so as to appease my advisors. Boo....
I wrote this on my Facebook not to long ago when I was inspired by that mountain hiking trip I participated last weekend:
"College is like a mountain: From the bottom, you have to climb up until you reach the very top..."
I feel a bit burned out already after more than 3 years in CSB but it doesn't discouraged me from going further to reach my goal. Whatever blockades I face, I know I could overcome them if I have the will and strength to live the life that I want to live.
The real world is harsh, the powers that be can be ruthless, the promise of youth is drained when you're sucked into this vortex of no return. I get it, I've seen it but I've yet to experience it. I see friends already dealing with it, having to resort to being around with a guy who wears a black shirt and they never seem to want to let go of him.
But I know I can get through it, I know the odds are against me but I don't care. Even it means losing everythng I worked hard for, every hope and dreams that gets stashed away. They can never take away my continuing will to dream, to look on the brighter side of things. Critiscism are what shapes me into what I am, what I will, what I want to be.
They see my qualities as my greatest weaknesses, but I say that these are my sources of strength. I could blab about this all day but I stand by my principles, if you call them principles that is.
I'll strive when I'm down, I'll shout for joy when I'm yelled at, I'll smile when I am scorned, and I will walk when I get screwed.
The blues are hitting me like crazy but that's what I get when I feel the need to make myself happy now that in a few weeks, I'll be celebrating 20@10.
:)
Tuesday, August 17, 2010
The CSB Experience 4: The Malarayat Fieldwork
I'm starting to think that going out new and different places have become a sort of my thing. I always crave for that certain level of adventure and excitement as I step on new unexplored lands.
Never did I expect that last weekend would bring that level on a higher notch than I would have imagined otherwise.
Last Saturday, August 14. I managed to hitch a ride with Ren and Rachel and caught up with the rest of our classmates in Natsca2 for our Batangas fieldwork. Earlier that day, the three of us had to attend an equally important seminar, the practicum seminar workshop conducted by the CPO. Important in the sense that it's a requirement for sstudents undergoing their OJT's to attend to such.
Fortunately, luck was on our side and the next thing I knew, I was in my hotel room at the Mt. Malarayat Gold and Country Club in Lipa, Batangas at 8pm in the evening.
We have to get up real early the day after since me and the rest of the Natsca2 sections were supposed to go bird-watching at the mountains before climbing the summit planting tree-lets/seedlings.
We left at around 6am and started our trekking around more or less, a quarter before the hour of 7. On the first leg of the trek, we stopped by a certain point to catch some birds flying. Using binoculars (or binocs as how eco-people would say), i was able to see some birds although I have no idea what type, variety or kind of bird we saw although Philippine hornbill birds have been the most commonly sighted bird for others in the group.
We spent about 3 hours trekking 8 kilometers of dirt, plants, and rocks up in the mountains, passing by poachers (yes, poachers), rural folk, and locally-domesticated horses and their horse poop.
The moment we reached the summit, I was amazed by what I saw. It's like we're in a freakin' Lord of the Rings. Can;t desrcibe it in full detail but you can imagine Frodo passing by this area hehehe. Not soon after, we got ourselves wet and dirty planting seedlings on poked holes on the ground and on the mountain side. I actually have to climb one to plant several plants over there.
I would have gotten myself tired by that time already but obviously, I just reached my peak as I breathe the fresh poopy air touching my face as I gazed upon the mountaintop.
But it quickly got drained out when we spent 2.5 hours going down the mountain. By the time we reached the foot, that's when I felt a sudden drop of energy.
Nonetheless, trekking a mountain indeed was an exciting experience. It made me think of doing it again for the sake of keeping the spirit of adventure alive.
This is one trip that I will never forget. This surely equate the fun that I have 7 years ago with Banahaw.
Woot woot!
Never did I expect that last weekend would bring that level on a higher notch than I would have imagined otherwise.
Last Saturday, August 14. I managed to hitch a ride with Ren and Rachel and caught up with the rest of our classmates in Natsca2 for our Batangas fieldwork. Earlier that day, the three of us had to attend an equally important seminar, the practicum seminar workshop conducted by the CPO. Important in the sense that it's a requirement for sstudents undergoing their OJT's to attend to such.
Fortunately, luck was on our side and the next thing I knew, I was in my hotel room at the Mt. Malarayat Gold and Country Club in Lipa, Batangas at 8pm in the evening.
We have to get up real early the day after since me and the rest of the Natsca2 sections were supposed to go bird-watching at the mountains before climbing the summit planting tree-lets/seedlings.
We left at around 6am and started our trekking around more or less, a quarter before the hour of 7. On the first leg of the trek, we stopped by a certain point to catch some birds flying. Using binoculars (or binocs as how eco-people would say), i was able to see some birds although I have no idea what type, variety or kind of bird we saw although Philippine hornbill birds have been the most commonly sighted bird for others in the group.
We spent about 3 hours trekking 8 kilometers of dirt, plants, and rocks up in the mountains, passing by poachers (yes, poachers), rural folk, and locally-domesticated horses and their horse poop.
The moment we reached the summit, I was amazed by what I saw. It's like we're in a freakin' Lord of the Rings. Can;t desrcibe it in full detail but you can imagine Frodo passing by this area hehehe. Not soon after, we got ourselves wet and dirty planting seedlings on poked holes on the ground and on the mountain side. I actually have to climb one to plant several plants over there.
I would have gotten myself tired by that time already but obviously, I just reached my peak as I breathe the fresh poopy air touching my face as I gazed upon the mountaintop.
But it quickly got drained out when we spent 2.5 hours going down the mountain. By the time we reached the foot, that's when I felt a sudden drop of energy.
Nonetheless, trekking a mountain indeed was an exciting experience. It made me think of doing it again for the sake of keeping the spirit of adventure alive.
This is one trip that I will never forget. This surely equate the fun that I have 7 years ago with Banahaw.
Woot woot!
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