Wednesday, April 05, 2006
Impatient and Ready to Blow!
This was a day of promise. I was finally going to finish my clearance and I'd be going home! I woke up at around 11 am thinking taht this was my day. Nothing could spoil it. Nnot even over-sleeping.
As I was riding the "trike" towards school I saw the school's service vehicle going the other way. Curious. When I arrived I saw my friends mother. She said that all the teachers went somewhere to eat! I was flabbergasted! But I decided to wait. It was time to practice a little paitence anyway. I was without lunch, by the way.
At around 2:30 in the afternoon the teachers finally decided to show up! Thank God! I can finally go home. SO I went to the faculty center and waited for my teacher to attend to me and my groupmate. The subject that's in the question is Research, by the way. The universally hated subject. A fact rather well-established.
So I was all smiles, thinking that I can finall have my stipend and go home! Yey! BUt my teacher said that she can't sign our clearances yet! The world went black. Whe cant open our powerpoint presentation! Urgh! So I rushed back to the classroom and decided if her words were credible. I was then cursing her Pentium-2-very-outdated-and-thick-ugly-laptop. I wanted to see for myself if there was really something wrong with our slides so I borrowed my friend's laptop. My gosh! She spoke of the truth! There really was something wrong!
So I decided to rush home and decided to burn another CD. Good I had a rewritable one at home. SO after correcting the mistake (it was pobably a reference to a bogus database), I decided to burn. After that I had to peel off the sticker label of our old CD and transfer it to the new one. We only had one label so we had to reuse it. After sticking the label, by some compulsion, I read the precations on the new CD's label. It said that stickers cannot be used on the CDRW. My God! I just did that! So I guess I destroyed the whole damn thing. I decided to check. It really was useless now.
I rushed to the mall and bought another set of CDs but I guess I was out of time. So tomorrow might be the day. I hate this! Why does Research have to be so painful? I do not understand this phenomenon...
Saturday, April 01, 2006
Grad Day
My God it's been so long since I've updated my blog. My life for the past few weeks has been so busy. But all of the past few days was a blur and in a little while I'm gonna march my way up the stage to get my diploma. Graduation at last!
This morning I attended my second baccalaureate mass. It was nice. The celebrant was Archbishop Lagdameo. The homily swept everyone away that most applauded after it. They thought it was a speech of some sort.
After the mass everyone was detained. There was going to be a tribute of some sort. The teachers sang 2 songs! Goodness. And while they were entertaining us with their golden voices, our eyes feasted upon our pictures over the years we have stayed at Pisay. I was a little disappointed. There were so little pics of my class! There were about three or so... All the others belong to the other 2 sections. Anyway...
Ma'am Biyo (you might have heard of the planet?) gave a little talk after all that and some of the teachers (including Ma'am Biyo) were teary eyed. It was so moving, but of course I had to keep a smile plastered on my face so others might not make fun of me on such an important day. Ma'am Biyo said that she was going to give each one of us a copy of the book she wrote! An additional graduation gift...
My family came. Including my bother. Two of my girl classmates wanted me to introduce them to him. They never saw him before, so they really wanted to fing out if ugliness really is a family trait. LOL. It was really awkward. They were like 7 meters away from each other and I was in the midlle shouting out names. My gosh.
We had lunch at Sunburst. We were the only ones there! Imagine that.
Now I'm in a local Internet cafe. I'm supposed to print out my class prophecy for the dinner tonight, but I really had to write something! Naughty me...
Tonight's the big night! Finally, after four years of hard work. I'm off to college soon, and it's scaring me. Kind of. But I really want a new life and moving to Manila might give me what I've been looking for. I just hope I survive 6-7 years of hardcore studying! Of course I will. It runs in the family.
What do I really feel right now? I don't know. I can't explain it. Maybe it partly beacause we can still each other for one more week. Clearance. Dont' ask. Pestering bloody thing!
Okay. So I have to stop being naughty. I have to do my job! SO this ends here. Until then!