Hey, I Think I Did Great!

I was still depressed about the rejection of our report last Tuesday, but when I woke up yesterday morning, I felt a bit pleasure when I realized I've dreamt of Miss Julia Campbell. I forgot about the whole details, but as far as I could remember, she was there as a judge. She was there (I don't know the place) along with the U.S. Ambassadress to the Philippines, Miss Kristie Kenney to judge -guess what- the coolest and graceful bungee jump move. Yup, I was one of the bungee jumper. That was funny, because I'm scared of heights. I wonder if I could do that in real life. It's funny, too, to see the U.S. Ambassadress there. Well, I couldn't recall it how my routine was, but I think I did great, hehe.

I don't know, though, what does that dream mean. Anyway, I'm happy to have her in my dream. Nope, I haven't recovered yet. I'm still a bit depressed.

P.S. You might be wondering why a photo of a duck. Well, I found it on Miss Julia's Flickr Account. It's cool, isn't it? :)

We Can Do Better Next Time, I Know We Can

Wow, it's been a while since the last time I updated my Blog. Well, I would supposed to still take a lot of time more for me to do it again if not with this thing that just happened earlier. I really needed an outlet to over come what I'm feeling right now.



I have mentioned in my last entry about my courses this semester. One of those is the feasibility study, which is, as they say, the hardest part of being a college student. Hardest, because it needs careful study for every details in our research project. Our group, by the way is doing a research on establishing a restaurant, since we are taking up Hotel and Restaurant Management.

Earlier this evening, our group has experienced how it is being rejected. Nope, it was not really our group, but our work. It was when our teacher found so many mistakes and corrections in our report. Every night during my summer vacation, I always prayed to God to give me a nice group to be with. A group that is dedicated to its work. It's not that I'm complaining with my group mates, but I think it was our fault why our work got rejected. I noticed right from the start that we are lacking communication, weak in sharing thoughts and ideas. Maybe because most of us have just met this semester. We still don't know each other that much. Each member, though is cooperative.

Our group was also pissed off, because we were embarrassed by our teacher. The way she rejected our report was so derogatory. She blatantly embarrassed us to the whole class. Couldn't help ourselves, but smiled sarcastically. Why did she has to say out loud our mistakes? She could have just called us and told us her comments and bad remarks silently, as how she does it with the other groups. Actually, I do not want to have a weird feeling on her, I don't even want to think that our group is her least favourite, but that's what we feel. I don't know. Or, maybe I'm just saying this, because I'm so disappointed. A part of me is saying that I'm just misinterpreting her. That somehow I'm still thinking she still observes fairness and impartiality. Well, we'll see in few days. Anyway, I still love her, she's still one of my favourite college teachers.

Earlier this evening when I came to class, I was in good spirit, but when our teacher has checked our report, I was disappointed. I was discouraged. I wanted to give up. I was sharing the same feeling with my group mates. I wanted to give up, I was like.. "If we have been rejected with the very first part of our reports, what more soon?" I was discouraged to go through, but I thought of Miss Julia Campbell. Nope, she didn't mention about her feasibility study when she was schooling on her Blog, but I just thought of her to go through. She was a brave girl. I'm not giving up. I know our group can do better next time.

So good luck to me and to my group mates. I will do my best to have a good communication within the group.

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"Araw Ng Kalayaan"

I almost forgot to mention our Independence Day. Yup, it's today. And, we're celebrating our 109Th. Don't have anything to say about our history, sorry. Anyway, happy Independence day to me and to my fellow Filipinos world wide.

By the way, I wanna share with you guys, why I came to school with two minutes earlier to my schedule. As I've said, I left home early, but I was stuck in traffic. Maybe it has something to do with the celebration of the Independence day. Yesterday was the holiday, because our president, GMA, moved it, as extension to the weekend, but the actual Independence day is on June 12. I'm confused, because if she has moved the holiday to yesterday, why today is the celebration? It just caused traffic to the people who gone to work and to the students to their schools. Nope, I don't hate GMA, I love her. I love her, because she just conferred the Golden Heart Order on Miss Julia, hehe.

Happy Independence day :)
Big hugs,

On The Other News..

Today is my first day of class. My first class started at 7:30 AM. Thank God I was not late, I was two minutes early. Well, I left home early, but I was stuck in traffic. Anyway, I came to class a bit nervous, it's not because of the fear of how difficult my semester's course is, but fear of my classmates not liking my new hair-style, hehe.

Ofcourse, I'm just kidding :p I wasn't nervous when I came to my class, cuz I knew that I would be having my old cool classmates again. And, indeed,they still are, same faces, coolest as ever. Anyway, I have mentioned about my course, yeah, it is difficult this semester. In this sem, we will be having the hardest part on college life, the Thesis! Wish me luck, guys, that I would find a nice group to be with and to make our feasibility research well. Well, this is my last sem with difficult course, so, goodluck to me :)

Hope you guys are all doing good :)
*Huggies*

--Correction--

My bad. I really didn't catch the whole story about the news that I stated in my last entry about Miss Julia Campbell. I'm sorry, it is not a 'tree planting' like what I've first said was dedicated to her. Please, bare with me, I've just heard the news on an AM station with a choppy reception.


Anyway, the program was about a community in Baranggay in the municipality of Asipulo in Ifugao, ("baranggay" is like a district here) dedicating 12 hectares of forest land to Miss Julia. They built a memorial park in the name of her. It is the Julia Campbell Agro Memorial Park.






---STILL ABOUT JULIA---


Yesterday, June 11, our president, Mrs. Gloria Arroyo, GMA as she is known here, awarded the Golden Heart Order on Miss Julia, for her dedicated service to the Philippines. The Order of the Golden Heart award was established in 1954. It is given to government officials and civilians, including foreigners, who have helped improve the plight of impoverished Filipinos.

It is heart-warming to hear that people keep on remembering her. Hail to those who keep on doing so. I'm really hoping that she's happy wherever she is right now.


"We want more than this world's got to offer
We want more than the wars of our fathers
And everything inside screams for second life
We were meant to live for so much more
Have we lost ourselves?
We were meant to live"

"60th Day"

It's exactly 2 months now since my inspiration for having Blog, Miss Julia Campbell, passed away. Just wanna dedicate this simply entry to her.

Hope she's happy wherever she is right now.

"Sense of joy fills the air,
And I daydream and I stare
Up at the tree and I see
Your star up there"









---STILL ABOUT JULIA---



Five days ago, a tree planting was dedicated to the late Miss Julia. It was in Asipulo, Ifugao, the municipality where she was killed :(

Too bad, I didn't catch the whole story about the program. Anyway, we, her fans, (I'm not sure if "fan" is the appropriate term) appreciate that kind of program. I'm sure she would be happy if she could hear about it.

Rainy Season

Yup, summer here in the Philippines is officially over. And what's next? Of course, the rainy season. I could say most of the people here are longing for this season, (except me, I hate rain!) since we had been in the scorching heat of the sun on summer.

But rainy season comes up with negative stuff, like the flood! And with flood, a lot of diseases are attached on it. Like bacterias are in the flood and when people go directly to the flood without using any protection, bacterias could enter into their bodies and would result to some certain diseases.

Well, the main cause of flooding? The garbage! Most of the major drainage here are not functioning because they are full of garbage! I could say it is one of our country's major problems. Nope, I wont talk anything against the community here, about who is liable and anything. Just wanna be safe on my thoughts :)

Well, rain is not just about floods and diseases, it has also a good thing. It helps run the electricity. The water that would be collected from the rain will be using to help run the electricity, and sooner, the electric bills will be lessen, which is a good news to households earning quite little. As preparation for the rainy season, families here are now starting fixing their roofs with leaks, clearing their drainage and buying new umbrellas and other rain protections.

Also in this season, school starts. Most of the schools here are starting their classes tomorrow, June 4. Good thing at my school, our classes will start on June 12, but still bad because of the rain. Plus, inevitable traffic is now everywhere!

Let's just hope that typhoons that will be hitting our country are not as strong as the last two that struck us weeks or a month before the year 2006 had ended. I remember with those typhoons, a lot of giant billboards and big trees around Metro Manila and in the provinces fell down. Also, there was a nationwide blackout. It was really a disaster. Oh, not to mention the huge number of deaths and missing person. Of course, flood was a part of those typhoons. Aww, *sigh* I remember the late Miss Julia Campbell, she had also experienced those typhoons when she was still here in the Philippines living :(
Hope those kinds of calamities will not happen again :(

"It's just one more day,

No one said there would be rain again.

Wont blame it on myself,

I'll blame it on the weatherman"