A New Home
Tuesday, June 20
Wow, college..... It took a while for that to be embedded into my mind, as I'm still pretty shocked at how time has whizzed by and left me here in the distant future. And ever since I finished reading Malcolm Gladwell's Blink, I've been wary of my adaptive unconscious (whatever that is... (",) ) and I have chosen to reserve my snap judgements until such a time that I can unlock them and satisfy "skeptics" with an explanation. But then, of course, laziness also plays an important role in the delay of this entry, hehehehe... And thus, I decided that 20 days without an entry kills the soul.
The College life I was expecting and the one I am going through as of the moment isn't so different, save for the hassles of riding jeeps just to get to your classroom on time. I knew before that U.P. Diliman was big, but I never expected that it was as big as 500 hectares! As for culture shocks, I had only a small share of them, most of which was just based on appearance. But I think it would only be natural for any normal person living in the Metro to be surprised to see a guy with long gridlocks or see someone sport a Mohawk or a mullet with matching beard and double glasses to complete the look of a terrorist. Another surprise I got was from the warm welcome from the orientations. I expected it to be more like " You're a scholar, and so a goddamn freeloader scrounging on the already withered up government coffers, so get a life and save this god-forsaken country!", but instead we were congratulated on how we have passed through the eye of the needle that is UPCAT.
All that said, I think I'm gonna enjoy my stay in U.P..
thrown by A.Paul @ 05:45,
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Summer bids Farewell
Thursday, June 1
Alas! June is upon us, and with it, the unofficial end of summer. Thus, farewell to beach shindigs, week-long mall sprees, and countless hours of free time spent on indolent dozing and nonsense ponderings. I still, however, need to come up with a productive way to waste (pun intended) the remaining 12 days of my summer vacation, aside from being cemented in front of either the TV or the PC.
Summer has been a blast, and not in the sense of a good party, but instead in that destructive nuclear fallout sense. This year's summer is probably the worst I have experienced. So, the first week was absolutely fine, but then the remote broke down, and that was when things began to screw up. A week later, four of my cousins (all children), including the one I consider to be a nemesis (now I won't explain further as to why or how it came to be, but suffice it to say that this particular one is very annoying to the extent that not even my grandma could stand her and so the reason why she was spending vacation at our place), took a vacation at our house. Now we don't live in a big mansion, so for the next 15 days, our poor house was unbelievably packed. Aside from the issue of space, privacy is also a big issue, because I can no longer workout with my weights due to the lack of private space where I can exercise without anyone disturbing me. After that quite not brief misfortune, the TV broke down. Although there's another TV at my parent's bedroom, I can't watch the primetime shows anymore because once my father is home, he assumes control of the remote to watch his favorite koreanovela(I know, heehee). And then a week later, the service entrance wire was severed by the storm Caloy, which left us the only one in our subdivision without electricity for around 18 days. And more recently, the maid resigned without prior notice, and then suddenly begged us to take her back after only a few days, my mom refused but she is still pretty much pissed off . What a swell summer, eh?
So, in a matter of a few days, I will begin a new chapter of my life, College. I still can't believe that I'm now in college, and more so, I find my schedule unbelievably light compared to my hectic high school schedule. So, I must now prepare myself to meet new people and make new friends, and I must also brace myself for an encounter with social stigma, hehe...
thrown by A.Paul @ 11:58,
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