The Past Weeks

As update to my last entry, my classmate who was offended by my silly joke and I are doing fine. When that incident happened, I was so scared, that the smooth bonding that was then starting might lost, but then she said she understood it. So, back in gaining cool bonds, but this time, as I said, I'll watch my words :) Yup, she's one of my group mates in my thesis group that I've just met this Semester, and we're just starting a cool smooth bonds. I'm getting to know them more and so are they to me.

Well, since I've mentioned about it, the thesis, my group is approaching to the fifth, and as my old classmates, who finished the course already, are saying, the most difficult chapter. After chapter 5, then two more to go, and we're done. We're not completely done with chapters 3 & 4, though. Chapters 3 & 4 was no joke. The past few weeks were so hectic. My group was so worn-out on our individual tasks. We submitted the said chapters for re-checking, but only chapter 3 was checked. And, as what we had on our first report, back in late June, our teacher found a lot of corrections and mistakes, but this time, just the little ones. More on typographical and grammatical errors, so we were not the upset anymore.

Well, about the problem with my group mates that I mentioned before? Uhmm..I would say that it's not that big anymore. Most members in the group are having cool bonding, that makes a great communication within the group. Everyone is doing their part and tasks. But not completely, as I said. There are still ...some who don't give their best 100%, not even close to it. How would a group workout and would have an excellent outcome if one of their members is not functioning? If he/she is not doing his/her tasks? If he/she doesn't have the initiative? That is the big problem of my group.

One of my group mates is not participating. She just enters the class, secures her attendance and sits on her chair all 3-hour long, while the rest of the group are haggard on their tasks. The group doesn't know how to motivate her anymore. We gave her two assignments, but neither were correct. There was a lot or... I would say that all of them were erroneous. And we had to repeat all of those by ourselves, which was so time consuming. I don't understand why she doesn't see the benefits of doing her part in this project, it's for her own good, too.

As I said, THESIS is the hardest part in the college life. We have to make a 7 chaptered book as the result of our feasibility project. When the book is finished, we still have to defend its contents to the selected expert panelists. The grades will be depending on how we defend. The grade of a particular member will be the grade of the whole group. If one doesn't know the details about the project, and was asked by the panelists, which is inevitable, it would affect the grades the group will get. Now, how this girl would know the details, if she doesn't participate and usually doesn't attend the outside the school meetings? We are almost done with the first 4 chapters, but she hasn't shared anything. Not even thoughts or ideas. She's good in contributing financially, though. But we need mental! Well, I will send her a letter, a motivation letter. I will try to motivate her. So, wish me luck, guys. This is the only problem my group is having right now. If we couldn't solve this, we wouldn't get the grades we are aiming, or much worst, fail, because of her!

Anyway, still about the past weeks. Our country was experiencing from droughty. Yup, I said on my previous entry that this season the rain and typhoon was supposed to come, but nothing came. A lot of farms and major water sheds are shorting water stocks. The government sponsored a cloud seeding, but it was not enough. It was weird to have drought in the rainy season.

A cardinal called for a prayer request for the rain to come and supply farms and dams. Few days later, a heavy rain came, brought by the two typhoons. With that, farms were watered and water in major dams are back in to its normal volume. If the rain didn't come, the major water company was supposed to shortage their supply to households starting this week, which was a bad news.

Mum said that it's true, the rain came because of the prayers. I was amazed with how powerful prayers are. But then, that requested rain brought calamities. Some provinces were drowned by overhead floods, there were casualties, minor landslides, and floods, floods and floods in the Metro Manila, and of course, classes were suspended. It's nice that prayers was granted, but so sad when there were lives taken :(

Lastly, yeah, I will mention it. I've just turned a year older exactly a week ago. Just want to thank my linked friends who remembered it. I appreciate it, guys. Luckily, all of the people I was expecting to greet me have greeted me. This is a late thank you, but still, thank you :) For those who didn't know my birthday or have forgotten to greet me, you can still do so, hehe :)

Anyway, hope you guys are all doing great. Have a great and a wonderful time there :)
Huggies :)

P.S. : Of course I wont forget about it. Happy 20th Birthday to my dear friend, Ira Roslan. Whom I promised to write a letter to, but I haven't been yet, hehe. Happy Birthday, my dear sis. Hope you're having a great day wherever you are right now. I wish you all the best and of course, good health. I love you :) Big hugs. Leo RuLz! \m/