Blooming and Thriving Just Like A Flower
I have more problems that are dealing at the same for now but it feels like it doesn't exist because through God's providence and guidance, I can solve them all. One by one and one after another, slowly but surely, those problems will get eliminated as time flies every day. It doesn't feel heavier now as much as I was experiencing before, because when you know that God will not ever forsake you, it just feels safe and you're always relieved from all of the pressure.
Just like this pink flowers in our graden. It almost withered from the blazing heat of the sun and the burned spots in its leaves are visible. Yet, it patiently waited for its master to get watered because it knows that it wouldn't get forgotten. Grateful for the blessings despite the challenges it faces.
Despite feeling alone, it did its best to bloom and thrive to where it is planted. Shine as brighter as the sun, and giving smiles to the faces of people who can see it. It's a matter of what you can give to the community than what can you benefit, 'cause you know, ***"It's better to give than to receive."***
See this wild flower? It thrives and bloom among the grasses despite its difference from the others. It's because we are beautiful in our own way and we don't have to force ourselves to fit in a group just to belong. We can grown on our own if we are determined and we can accept who we truly are. It's what had God gave us, therefore, we should nourish it, nurture, and use them for the greater good.
Having a group that has the same interests as you and have the good mindset is also good. You grow together despite the challenges that you all can encounter. For better or for worse, you have a group that got your back and will help you bloom. It's to strive and to thrive in whatever situations you face, it's get easier to fight when you are many.
Either red,
Or white, the color doesn't matter but the beauty it shows to the world. A rose symbolizes a beautiful prize to me. Before you could get the flower, you have to get through the thorns first. Deal with the painful experience first and all the hardwork before you could finally pick the beautiful flower and admire its beauty in your bare hands. It's the prize that pays off all of what you have went through because when you want to earn something you have to work hard for it. Endure every pain and hardships, then persevere to attain whatever goals you had in mind.
Sometimes, those challenges will also test our patience just like this Dahlia flower. It will take months to take care of and it is very sensitive to people's touch. If you want to see it bloom in its fullest and brightest of colors, it will test your patience. And, that's how blessings work, too. Your patience and virtue will get tested in any ways possible before you achieve domething that you want. If you gave up, then you're not worthy of the prize. If you keep on fighting and surpassingevery hurdles, then all of your efforts will paid off finally when you reach the end of the challenges.
It's not easy to pave our way to the top for sure! However, through our faith in God and believing that He will always have our back, we can do it. That's why, despite it all, the hurdles, hardships, challenges, and hindrances, never give up and be grateful for everything that you have received until now. Don't count your problems but count your blessings. Everything will be fine, and in God's time, you'll going to overcome whatever it is that you're going through today.
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Noise App And Some Questions
Recently, I started to use the noise app. I have linked my wallet for possible donations, not expecting for this but just joining the fun. I made a few posts but not that many since I can't handle my studies from social media that much for now. I made few engagements in there and seems to be little fun. I also gained few subscribers but maybe, I can have more if I would be a little active. Also, didn't really expect to receive little donations from users there. Thanks for that, whoever you are.
Anyway, for now, I'll be answering some random Halloween questions that I looked up in Google. I still have a bunch of some untouched photos from my gallery but I don't really have the energy to compose an article out of that after our Math Class. I figured to just chill a little for now and maybe do it later or tomorrow. So yeah, here I go...
Have you ever said Bloody Mary in front of the mirror?
I remember a movie with a name concept to this. I have watched that when I was still a kid. Though I couldn't understand the movie completely, I still couldn't forget it. The dare with a group which you will carry a candle in front of a mirror in the middle of the night and say ***"Bloody Mary"*** for three times. It is believed that she will show up in the mirror in a bloody face. But No, I haven't tried to do this one. It sounds exciting, though. I feel like doing it in the future.
Would you spend a full night inside of a haunted house if someone paid you?
It will depend on how much will be the pay and how desperately in need I am with money. If the offer is good, then why not? I'm not afraid of the dark but with unusual forces, dunno about that. As long as they are not hurting people, I'll be fine with it and I guess I can handle the whole night trauma that it will cause. I can also just pull @Ruffa with me and for sure the scary night would be a fun night. And maybe, instead of us getting scared of us, ghosts would get annoyed by us and will throw us out the haunted house.
Have you ever had an unexplainable experience with the supernatural?
Oh well, yes! I even have written down a post about it on Hive as an entry for a contest, labeled that as **'Encounters From The Unseen'**. I have shared two spooky stories from my childhood and from my working experience. I have encountered lot since I was a kid but just forgot them over time. There is still another one that I haven't in the post. https://peakd.com/hive-188409/@ayane-chan/week-1-contest-encounters-from-the-unseen
When I was in high school, my grandmother attended a wedding at Ilo-ilo and I was the only one left at home because I have a class. It was the first time that I was alone actually and the house did experience a night peacefully from my relatives. I was randomly waking from time to time since I wasn't used that I didn't have anyone with me. I woke up one time at 2 am, and saw something strange sitting in my grandmother's bed.
We share a room together but just divide the room with a curtain in the middle. There is also a window above her head, means facing the curtain and I have forgotten to close it, so the light was getting inside the room causing the curtain to be a bit transparent. There, I saw a silhouette of a man sitting in my grandma's bed. I felt like panicking since I know that I have locked the doors but a man have got in. I remained silent and didn't move an inch for the fear of getting found out but a little while later, it disappeared.
That was some kind of an unexplainable thing to me until now. But whatever that might be, I don't have the slightest interest to know more. It was etched in my memory since it happened but it will only just stay as a memory forever. I almost have forgotten that experience but I get reminded of it again this Halloween.
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Blue Skies and Greeneries
It seems like I'm being left behind again from the progress of my activities here. The goal is to write every day but now it feels so hard to achieve it. I'm getting amazed of my past self of how I was able to do it back then. Where's the motivations? Where's the drive? Where are the goals? I have the will to write but after clicking that ***"Write an Article"*** button, I was just staring at the white screen of my phone for a few minutes with no words to compose.
Then, I remembered some photos that were left untouched in my gallery. I'm not really sure where I was intending them to be posted to, but if where else it would fit, that must be it, I think. Here's some of them which I had taken in our countryside during my previous visit.
This part the road from the highway where tricycle can only passed by. From there, I have to walk to our home using this rocky and muddy road. I'm not sure what kind of tree was that but I think it is as old as me. I have been seeing it since I was younger every time I passed by this, yet it is still there and thriving. Amazing, right? I'm hoping for it to last there for more years to come and continue to give shade to people passing by from the heat of the sun.
*And here are the greeneries*...
I took this out when I was wandering beside our ricefields in the countryside. I was sitting on a fallen trunk of a tree that was caused by Typhoon Odette. It was relaxing seeing such greeneries under the blue skies in a blazing heat. You can only hear the wind, the birds, and other domesticated animals in the farm. I was just savoring such moments as this every time since I can no longer find this kind of serenity at the city. Where the first thing I could hear was the hustle and bustle and it would be the same sound that I can hear before I sleep at night.
I was trying to do macroshot photography and found this flower as my subject.
*Here's another one*...
...*and another one*.
They were raw photos from my Samsung A10s phone that was already broken and unusable right now. Those picture were my last memories from that phone. Anyway, that was my first trying its macro lens. I don't know if I did it right, but maybe not.
I left that in my sister's case since she knows how to take good photos but when she gave birth at the hospital and left it at home. They forgot to charge it, then when came back, it wouldn't be opened anymore. Such a waste, but maybe that was just its life ends. I already had it fixed for three times when I was in Manila before. I'll just it rest in peace and treasure its memories. The camera of my current phone is also good, but the previous one is still better. I don't have a spare cash to buy a new phone, so I'll just continue to use what is still here instead.
I took a shot of those two months ago already, but I just found them again in my gallery now when I can't think of a content to write. Aren't they really meant for this? Life-saver!
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Two Sleepless Nights And On Standby
Classes were suspended before the landfall of Typhoon Paeng, so I have a lot of time to rest at home. I woke up late in the morning, and got a bunch of messages in my messenger as I opened it. They were talking about the one who will volunteer to be on duty at the safehouse of the rescuers. The expected landfall was at the afternoon and the safehouse were asking 10 people to help at the operation.
I badly wanted to go but they said that they were only looking for boys. I just set my schedule to write more that day instead and be safe on my room. A little while later, they submitted the list and there were girls also, but the team was already complete, so I can't have a chance anymore. Few minutes passed before the call time, my Instructor messaged me, asking why I didn't go. I told him that they were already complete and I have a lot of work to do. Yet, he insisted and I agreed in the end. I went there traveling in heavy rains and fortunately, I have arrived safely.
We were given instructions of what to do if we were called to respond. We got ourselves ready, just in case we would have a call from the radio transmitter. The class marcher also have divided us to be on duty. Every two hours, there was a certain group who will be vigilant and keep the team updated to what's currently happening. The one's on duty would be awake during the period and the rest would sleep for a while. Luckily, there was a lots of stocks of coffee in the safehouse. I was like making a cup for thrice at night.
Here's an incident check form to list down the possible incidents that may happen during the rage of the respond and wherein we were going to respond. Gladly, we don't have something to put in that sheet since we haven't been called by the DRRMO to help them in the operations. It was also good to know that the situations are under control of the authorities.
Coffee, food, and a radio was on the table on the whole operations. My other team mates were a bit excited to join the operations and rescue the people that were affected by the typhoon. They were eager and hyped to watch out on every transmissions that we were receiving on the radio, then get disappointed when it was for another team, not for us.
A night have passed and we were still not called to respond. The DRRMO have handled the situation well, that they didn't asked for our help. However, we still stayed for another since the typhoon signal wasn't lifted yet. We also didn't got a call from the city hall that we could now terminate the team from the operations.
Under the dim lights since some were sleeping on the floor, we still executed the same pattern of duties until the morning. It was another sleepless night for us again and another non-stop transmissions from different hotlines all over the city. And still, we didn't a call.
The next morning, we already had a permission to terminate the team from the operation. After asking permission to leave the safehouse and have heard a lot of instructions from the instructors, we can finally go home. Though we didn't get to witness and act on the real scenarios of the operations, we still have learned a lot. We created memories and a bond that surely will last.
There's another typhoon to watch out for even though Paeng have left the country. Stay safe always, everyone!
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Typhoon Paeng and Some Random Thoughts
We are now again in that usual time of the year where typhoons are passing by the country with its cold and strong winds and heavy rainfalls causing calamities, disasters, and worst, *casualties*. Yet, let's hope and pray that we wouldn't come to the worst part and would wake up the next day safe and sound with our loved ones. As you might have noticed, every body in the government and every one in your local area, they are all preparing, on standby, and alert for the every possible worst case scenarios that will happen in the next few hours. Well, it's a tropical storm that we are talking about, you can't expect it to bring anything good to us except for the volume of rain that it could add to our water supplies in your local reservoir. Aside from that, *nada*.
The localities in my place hasn't relaxed ever since yesterday morning. At first, we were just experiencing light rains and it was still tolerable at noon until the afternoon but at around 4 pm in the afternoon, the school had announced that all classes from 5:30 pm onwards were suspended due to heavy rains. All of the students are urged to go home early and keep safe in their respective homes. Online classes are ongoing but those who have poor connections were given considerations not to attend the class at that hour.
The **NDRRMC** keeps on sending us warning messages to be kept updated of the situation which is currently happening in the neighboring towns and in the whole region. Yesterday, it was only the an orange warning, but just this afternoon, the warnings was lifted to red, which means the situations are worse and some places in the regions are experiencing floods and probably landslides. I wanted to read some news to keep myself updated but seeing it unpleasantly, I can't take it. The more I heard of their situation, the more I thank God that He has put me in a safer area where I can't experience anything like that and the same to my family.
Instead of being sentimental as I hear the heavy rain drops outside my room, I have been pondering instead. The trainings that I have trying to learn right now are meant for this kinds of situations. It's not an easy job, and will require all of the courage and determination that I have within me. Am I built for this? Is this really my calling? These are the questions that popped up in my head as I was staring to nowhere.
I'm not sure if I can rescue all of the people in need in the future but I'm sure that I have the heart to help them. Every time I see those ambulance and the team that were deployed, I feel like being a part of them. Perhaps, the dreams that I have long been burried since 4 years ago when I gave it up back have been resurrected and haunting me. I don't need to escape from, but I'm following its call and making myself better and be ready to take the assignment.
Seeing the responsibilities and knowing how hard they are, and also to risk my life in the line just to help and rescue people from this kinds of danger is fulfilling. Knowing that I can have some abilities to be of help to community is my motivation to continue this training, no matter how draining and tiresome it would be in every session. And take note, I'm a volunteer and if I could make until the end of the training, I will be a reservist. I could be also a full pledged instructor for the next batch of rescuers. That thought alone is enough for to keep going but if there's a compensation for all of my hardwork, then it would be nicer.
Perhaps, it was the cold weather that's making me blue all of the sudden but let me still remind to be alert and ready anytime as we are experiencing heavy rains and string winds. Be vigilant in your surroundings and keep an ear for the upcoming news in your local area. Charge your batteries and powerbanks. Prepare your flashlights for the possible brownouts. Stock some groceries, so you wouldn't have to go out in the rain to buy your food. Prepare your ***go-to bag*** if you will be requested to evacuate in a safer place.
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What is my Golden Rule in Living Life?
Currently, it's still a busy week for me. Maybe, I should already consider this as a usual day and adapt to the new routine as soon as I can. I always have a piled up topics to study, review, and report. Class after class, projects after projects, and events after events, it's like a never-ending cycle of tasks that I need to do immediately.
It's just my first year but it feels like a graduating student from the workloads that I'm having on my plate. Perhaps, this is the usual life in college and I'm still not just used to it. For a while, I'll be answering these random questions. I can't skip the grind despite the hectic schedule.
**How do you entertain yourself when you're bored?**
When I'm bored, the first that I'll be doing is pull out my phone outbof my pocket, browse on social media, and listen to the music. If I get bored of it all, it's the time where I will be going outside and take a walk. I'll go somewhere quiet and peaceful like parks, coffee shops, or at the Baywalk Area.
Nowadays, my boredom isn't like I'm losing interest in things that I usually or I don't have anything to do, but because I feel like I'm almost burned out and not just drained. I'm overwhelmed with everything I do that I can't focus, then I just tends to divert my attention by doing other things that aren't my priority though I don't have much interest with it. After going out and having to see other things aside from my school works, extracurricular tasks and side hustles, I feel refreshed and recharged. Nature has indeed a therapeutic element which can help us unwind and destress.
**What's something that you thought you'd have already done by now, but haven't?**
I have should have done a lot of things by now, but I'm procrastinating and doing other things instead. I just wanted to relax from time to time, so I wouldn't get myself pressured from my tasks but I always ended up not doing the things that I should have done first or the things that I should done on my vacant period to maximize my time.
Firstly, I should have edited all of the photos that I will be uploading on my future blogs but I still haven't done it yet. Secondly, I still have a lot of topics to be written on a blog and if I already did it, I should have made 3 drafts by now, then just schedule it for publishing. Third, I should have written an essay and memorize a Republic Act as one of the requirement on our signature hunting for the initiation form but I havent't done a thing now.
If I would list down all of them, I could even write a whole blog about how I enjoy my procrastination that much. I want to do them all and do some extra mile to be more productive, yet my body and my mind is already sending a ***time out*** signal to me. I always ends up lying on my bed and listening to some music until I can sleep soundly whenever I feel like doing so.
**How long does it take you to form an opinion about a person?**
I'm not good in dealing with people and as well as observing their behaviors or personality. I can have an impression of that person minutes after I met them and have an initial opinion but it would still change gradually depending on how much exposure that person can show me every time that we can have some encounters. I admit, I'm also guilty of judging people right away but not in a way that I will vulgarly slap my opinion of them in their faces. I would just be silent of it or just let it out if someone speaks of it first. I'm not that judgemental but it's entertaining sometimes to do so. 🤪
**What's your current Golden Rule when it comes to living life?**
***Don't pressure yourself.*** Just this, actually. I meant to get out of my comfort zone, trying to explore new things, learn and build a skillset, then chase my dreams but I don't want to pressure myself on achieving all of them. I'm emotionally unstable to begin with. So, if I pressure myself and stressed over it, I'll be digging my own grave instead of improving and achieving the things thag I'm aiming for myself.
I can work under pressure but pushing myself to the edge and putting weights above my shoulder, then I can't just handle them, I'll breakdown for sure. That's where the anxiety and depression kicks in, bringing me to my doom. It's why, as much as I can, I don't want to get pressured. I'm doing it as a practice to just chill in every situation where I am in.
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Walking At Night To The Downtown
It's not my usual time to go out but I have a lot on my plate at the day and I have to go to the downtown to meet up with my cousin. Though tired already from washing my laundry, I still prepare myself and set off after I have done all of my chores. Her laptop isn't yet in good condition to be used, so I let her borrow mine to make her assignment in an Excel Spreadsheet. I don't have much things to do with it anyway aside from blogging, learning new codes, and online classes. I still can do all of that even though I don't use a laptop for a while and it's really fine.
Also, it's just a day but we forgot to tell each other's schedule before we parted. Now, I have to go to the downtown to meet her up and take back my laptop. I also have to buy a green folder for a school requirement. I just made it as another reason to urge myself to go. Just when I was all that ready and was already at the street wherein I often catch a ride, I forgot that the street is closed for the events of Masskara Festival. If ever I would insist on catching a ride, I would be walking back to another street and I was too lazy to do so.
Yet, I choose to walk to the downtown. I didn't feel tired from doing so, though. I get to see things along the way like the preparations of some business establishments to build their canopies, stalls, and kiosks on the side of the road. Also, there are a lot of stages that was set up for the street disco for the highlights.
I have walked 17 streets away from my house without noticing it. I got amused by the decorations and the preparations that I have seen on the way. I only have realized that I was near at the downtown area when I arrived here at 888 Chinatown Mall. I stopped on the side because I have meet a crowd and there are cars passing by. I let them pass first and took a picture before proceeding.
Every where I turn, there's always a Masskara decorations. The Festive spirit is really in the air. As I walk farther, I can hear the sounds coming from the speakers at the downtown. Just a few more steps and I'll be there.
Food stalls by food stalls are side by side on the street. Each of them were crowded by people, some are locals and some are tourists. I can even some foreigners in here.
Since my cousin can't still make it here because she has an ongoing class at the campus, I went directly to SM City Mall. I walked that far and now I was starving as I reached the downtown area. I meant to eat at the food court and order a Korean Bibimbop for Php 149 with drinks already but they have a lot of orders. I had to wait for 20 to 30 minutes if I insist, yet I was already starving. I just declined and got out of the queue, then went to the South Wing and find some fast food chain that has vacant seats.
After that, I waited outside for her in the intersection where jeepneys turn to the right towards SM. Just a few minutes more and she got off. She handed the laptop to me and we walked to another terminal near the market to get her on another jeep that is enroute to her home.
We passed by the public plaza. There was an ongoing event which was the ***Bacolod For Jesus Concert***. It is free and open for public but I'm on a hurry to go home since I have something to do and I still have an early class for tomorrow. Good to know that they still has another concert the next day which I have tried to attend. As of now, the whole downtown area was full of festive decorations, music, food sellers, souveiners, and the crowd of people wandering around looking for what the Festival can offer.
Yet, here we are, in a bad timing because we are currently having our midterms exams. We can't freely wander and enjoy the events at the festival as much as we wanted. Better luck next time, it is!
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Shawarma Rice and Some Random Updates
***Heyaaa! What's up?***
I'm still alive and kicking after that much stuff which is going around in my life online and offline. I haven't written any blogs for like 4 days now. It's just okay, though it's really not. I miss writing down any random thoughts that I have in my head here, letting my fingers play on my keyboard every day to make a blog and interacting with my fellow writers on the platform.
Well, life is kind of hectic these days and I need to focus on some things that requires my attention. Yet, in fact, I don't quite need them if I would view it on the practical side. I can just make a blog and do some side hustles and I can get by but I also have that desires of making myself better. Now, I'm currently building some skillsets, studying new learnings, and making connections.
Exploring things which is unknown to you is surely quite difficult. It's like unveiling every mistery that a chapter has every day and analyzing every details, absorbing the new learnings, and determining if you can apply it in real life in your current situation. It's boring actually, but I have meet a lot of different people every day which make things quite interesting along the way. Surely, studying alone is quite boring. If I'm alone, I can only just open a pdf file, power point presentation, or a document, then feel sleepy just a few minutes after reading a few lines. Brainstorming with the right group wherein giving a helping hand and uplifting each other is the norm, topics that I initially thought difficult becomes much easier to understand. I admit, studying is much fun when I'm with them.
I'm enjoying this new life which I'm trying to build and figuring out at the same time. The future is unsure and still hazy but it's nothing to worry about. Now, I'm about to take a new step to the new chapter but I have a series of assessments to go through before that. Well, you know that already, right? College life has a lot of exams. And yes, now we are currently taking our midterm exams. I don't want to be such a frantic about it. I just want to chill as much as possible.
I know myself better now. I surely can't review effectively if I'm putting pressure upon myself. Subjects after another subjects which I'm reviewing, I'm taking a breather to relax myself for a while and let it refresh to regenerate the energy it exerted. It's a pain to review a lot and compressing all of them in one sitting, but I don't like to bring pain to myself or else all of my time that I wasted on studying would be in vain.
Just looking at the four corners of my room for the whole day isn't quite realxing at all. I tried going out and walk around the downtown if I can. Then, eat foods which I was craving to reward myself for my hard work. Just like this ***Shawarma Rice and Iced Tea.***
*Niceee!*
Perhaps, I just grow up in a family which loves spicy foods so much that I have been unfluenced, too. Iced tea is what I always prefer over any juice. If there isn't one, then I'll settle for coffee. Just seeing something new and discovering things that I find interesting is the kind of relaxation that I want when I took a rest from other stressing stuff. Just wandering around, amusing myself to things which is just random but I admire them anyway.
Then, after wandering around and satisfying myself with things that interest me, I flee back to my headquarters. I'll get back to the usual stuff which I was currently doing but left hanging. It felt different in a way, because I already felt recharged and have the drive to finish the tasks, and face the next challenges that can exhaust myself again.
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Talents, Passion, and Dreams
Just a few hours more to go and I will be taking my exam for this midterm, yet I haven't reviewed any of my lessons. I don't intend to cram but maybe just a little complacent that it is a minor subject and not that hard to understand. Yet, I still have to review them tonight, just to be sure that I surely have understood anything in that subject. I even plan to pull an all-nighter and go directly to school without any sleep because I'm too anxious. It's bad, I know. Well, maybe a power nap will do but let's see.
I have a hectic schedule until next week after the exams, but I have to earn. Who else don't want it, right? Let me just pull some of these random questions that I have discovered here in ***Brightful***. You can also answer them if you want. Just feel free, no worries. https://www.brightful.me/blog/random-questions-to-ask-start-a-conversation/
What Talent Would You Want To Possess If You Could?
I really like to have a talent in singing, if I could. I can sing acoustic songs, I think but it's more wonderful if I could reach those high notes. I got amazed of those people who can sing well and sing whatever song they like. Like, how can they have such a voice? Unlike me who likes to sings but singing doesn't like me.
The second talent that I wanted to acquire is in drawing. I really admire people who can draw, whatever their drawing style is. I often seek advice on how to do that, but I can't find time to practice and it's hard to do it if I would. It really sucks if you aren't born with that skill. Awts.
Would You Rather Have 10 Hobbies Or One Passion?
Having one passion is enough. I'm good with that. Hobbies are kinda seasonal and just when will your interests lasts. It's just like a thing you like to do in your pastime while your passion is the one which you put your heart and soul into while doing that thing. It lasts a long time than a hobby.
And yeah, I'll prefer one passion that having 10 hobbies. Like in my case now, the only thing that I'm passionate to do is yo write but I also have a lot of hobbies that I'm doing during my leisure time.
What Are Your Dreams And Ambitions?
My dreams aren't changing though I'm loosing hope sometimes if I can make it or not. Up until now, I'm still working hard to reach them. The first one that I ever dreamed to back then is in the Navy. I'm not really sure for myself why I have this dream among all the things that I'm capable of doing. I'm just wondering about ships, the waves, and the radar with their uniform ever since then. Patroling in the seas of our country, guarding our territories, and protecting it along with the fishermen.
I tried taking an entrance exam for the Philippine Military Academy but due to lack of preparations, I haven't passed. I forced myself to forget the idea since then until an opportunity have appeared in front of me these last few weeks. Guess what? I have been invited to join the Rescue Recon Training and be a Navy Reservist. I'm just restraining myself to scream my happiness when I was informed at the NSTP office. I never thought that I'll have this kind of chance. This is maybe one of the reasons why these days I felt like the sea is calling me to come and visit it.
I feel enticed everytime I see it. This week, I fulfilled my heart desires. I went to the sea twice. I don't swim nor touch the waters but just feel the breeze of its salty air, hear the waves sings as it meets the shore, and watch the tides went high then low. I don't see any important purpose nor benefits in what I have done but it's fulfilling everytime. I guess, it's really my calling. I'm still not sure but let's see after the training.
Just three questions is enough, I think. What about you? Do you have any talents that you wished to possess, prefer hobbies than passion, or dreams and ambitions? Whatever that might be, just feel free to share in the comments or write a post about it. That is up to you. 😉
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The Expenses Are More Stressful.
It is only just a month since our classes began, yet I have witnessed and experienced a lot of things that can trigger my stress. I want to chill and relax as much as I can but when your problem is about financials, you can't ever have your much desired peace of mind unless you have settled what you need to spend with or earn back what you have spent. This thing is common even if you are not a student but it is more stressful when you are the only one funding your studies and there are also other people that is relying on you.
You will be staring to nowhere for long without being aware of it like you are some kind of like a heart broken person. In the depths of your thoughts, thinking where did it go, when did you let it go, when will you're going to get it back, and if there is still a chance that you are going to find it again. I think that I'm really in the point of my life where money is the only thing that is making me feel those butterflies in my belly and at the same time can break my heart in an instant. But, well, that's life. Things just come and go as well as the people.
***Work hard to earn it, then spend it until it's gone, rinse and repeat!***
However, I still can't forget those things that made me frown afterwards until now. I have to tell my side and let them go. If I can what I had lost through voicing out my frustrations because of them, then that's cool.
The first thing that almost drained my enthusiam while looking at my wallet was my school **uniform**. The fabric alone is expensive and the labor in sewing it is another expenses. Plus, the scarf and the embroidery is also another expenses to shell out of my wallet. If I sum all of what I have spent for that one set of uniform alone, that would be **Php 1,250**.
It's fine. I still have this happy face after seeing the outcome and finally can wear it during our onsite classes.
The second one is the **flat iron**.
I have explored the floor at the mall where I never had stepped my feet before just because of this. I don't have any choice, though. I don't like to go to school wearing a wrinkled uniform. Even though I don't know how to choose an appliance wisely, I have to go through this. I'm just thankful that the salesperson wasn't impatient with me and was just gladly entertaining all of my noob questions. In the end, as long as it is working when tested, it is just fine for me and I bought it.
Another thing is shoes.
I never like to wear shoes like this before. Only sneakers or rubber shoes but those are ugly to pair the uniform. I have to force myself to wear shoes like this kind to fit the uniform's style. Initially, I even plan to buy shoes with a heel, maybe just 1 or 2 inches. It looked good seeing others wearing that than the flat shoes and I think the flat shoes looks dull.
Yet, there is a heeled type black shoes as I wander around the downtown to shop for it. They only thing left was those flat shoes. There, I bought it.
Those are just the things that caused a heartbreak to my wallet. I haven't add my expenses for transportation and food while I was on the quest but it was also a factor. Anyways, I have to grind hard again to earn back what I have spent and good luck with that.
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Have Some Sense Of Responsibility To Yourselves, Don't Just Study Hard
When I have met my classmates in person, I'm glad that we get along very well and I haven't struggle a bit in dealing with them. Even some of the schoolmates that I have met and get closed to, they are sociable and understanding with everyone. You can't feel the competition everywhere but the spirit of **Bayanihan** which is naturally residing in everyone of us. We don't just strive to be better for ourselves but also for the whole class. I can see that the students' goal is to uplift each other and wanting to graduate together in the end.
I mean, that' s a good attitude that every student should have and continue to do but for the sake of helping everyone, don't forget yourself. A few weeks of being on duty on the **Medical Corps** of the school, these are the things that I'm concerned with. If you have experienced NSTP, you might be familiar with the scenarios that I'm saying here. Implementations of instructions are strict in a way that students fear to voice out their concerns. Some students fear that they might a burden to the platoon if they tell what they truly feel. They will endure it even if they are not feeling well until they passed out. However, there are also those who are just simply irresponsible with themselves. Sorry to say this, but I just can't bear it in me.
As one of the Medical Corps, I have to be observant, alert, calm, and gentle. I have to observe and patrol around the formation to spot someone who aren't feeling well because, *as I have said earlier*, they wouldn't speak their concerns if they can still endure it. I have to pull them out from the formation before anything worse could happen. Most of the time, I will be running to the other end of the formation or the next building to respond immediately if there's no other medical corps that are stationed in that location.
Most of the cases in a school setting are fainting, abrasion, hyperventilation, hypoglycemia, allergies, and wounds. The one with the highest cases are fainting and the common reasons why is this happening to them is that they aren't eating breakfast before attending their classes, especially in the NSTP class. If you would ask them why they haven't eaten their breakfast, mostly they will tell you that they woke up late. This reason often makes my blood boil but of course, I can't scold them because I have to be gentle and earn their trust while treating them, so they would remain calm also.
Like, you know that your class will be starting early, you should set an alarm if you know that you can't wake up by yourself. I'm also like that because my body clock used to get up always at nearly noon but since my classes wouldn't adjust to my body clock, I have to set three alarms from 4 am just so I can wake up early and prepare myself. There was also a case that a girl almost fainted in the formation from doing push ups and said that her abdomen hurts. When I interrogated her, she said that she has an ulcer and she didn't had her breakfast. She is also taking medications but she didn't bring her medicines. Like, what would I do with that? Apply a vaporub in her stomach and massage it to lessen the cramps? The only thing that I can give her is a piece of candy to give her some sugar for it can take effect immediately than rice or other foods and also let her smell the sweet mint aroma of White Flower to eliminate her nauseous feeling. Yet, that could only lessen what she felt and she still has to eat more afterward so she can take her medications.
There are also cases there that they just got healed from their fever and the others currently have fevers but they didn't inform their platoon leader and excuse themselves. As expected, their body can't keep up and lose strength in the middle of the training. They said that they forced themselves to attend because they can still endure it and also there is a quiz afterward. Oh dear! You are currently sick and you know that you will be doing some vigorous tasks, and yet you still forced yourself to come. So, have you made it? NO. You thought that you haven't burden anyone from not being absent but you still did. You burden more people than you expected because we have to call the higher ups for permission to call her parents and fetch her.
The most irritating of all the cases are those who are too conscious with their looks. She was out of breath but she was against of taking her mask off and just because her acne would be seen by everyone. She was choosing beauty over her life. It was fine if she will take all of the consequences afterward but we are also involve in her, unfortunately. The blame will be on us if anything worse happened to the students during the class hours.
Those were the things that are stressful in our work. I'm happy doing this volunteer work because public service is one of my dreams but dealing with immature and irresponsible people is what I can't deal with. Perhaps, I just don't have a longer patience for that. I have to work on that, then. Yet, even so, that is their selves after all. Even if there are medical corps on standby, they should be the one first who will take care of themselves. ***Prevention is better than cure, hello?*** Also, they aren't elementary or high school students anymore wherein we should keep on reminding what they need for themselves. You're in college now ladies and gents, which means you're now big bois and big gurls. Before you rant your frustrations of your love life in social media, wake up early and eat your breakfast first. While you can have time for that, have time for yourself also.
Have that little sense of responsibility to yourselves, it's a common sense, I guess. While you are studying to be self sufficient and independent in the future, I think you have to start practicing that now. How can you be independent if you can't take care of yourselves in the first place? It's not always that there will be someone who will respond to take care of you when you fall sick. Trust me, I have been there. It's good that you are thinking the welfare of everyone else but you should think of your welfare first and think if you are capable of doing it.
I know there are some college students here also. I hope I have shared something that can help you, and this will not turn out just a rant. Thanks for reading!
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Change of Perspectives in a Random Post
The hardest parts aren't the exams, assessments, projects, and the evaluations but foreseeing yourself becoming successful in the career path that you are currently taking. It will measure your how determined you are to continue and finish what you have started. It will test all of your patience, perseverance, and consistency to achieve what you have aimed for from the very beginning. The question is, ***"Will you take the risk and responsibility for the decision you made no matter how unsure the future is?"*** This question always lingers in my mind and that I can never brushed off nor forget about it until now. Yet, I still chose to dive in the situation where I only have a little knowledge of what will be the future for me.
All that I could think, at first, is that this will be good for me and it can open a lot of opportunities in the future. When I have seen a chance for me to start over with my life and that I could be better if I would grab it, I didn't let anything to stop me from doing it. Yes, I encountered a lot of difficulties ever since before I could start executing my plans for the future and even now I'm still suffering from it. Consequently, discouragements will took advantage of my vulnerabilities and honestly, sometimes I felt that. I may not be able to sympathize with other people's sentiments but I still have that softer side in me which is the one that is always tempting me to fall into my dark side. Our shadows are a part of ourselves and it is just normal to have one, but falling deeply into its spell is the one that we should be avoiding.
Perhaps, I just tend to get emotional sometimes with the things that I can't even explain what exactly is stressing me out. Also, it could be that I'm just stressed because I can't figure out what's wrong with me and which side of me should I improve to present the best that I could have to people around me. Now, I missed the days where I wasn't giving any care about the world. It the useless part of me but at least, it is much safer that way. That kind of thinking like, it's enough to just be alive and get through every day. No skill building, retirement plans, and no plans of having responsibilities. However, I woken up to reality when it had slapped me for a few times. It didn't gave me any time to prepare but just strike early and left me choice but to go on.
I'll give a lot of credits to my self-consciousness and self-awareness for working hard to shift my perspectives to the positive side of things. I have strained myself almost every day just to have battles with my shadow and so it could let me do and try the things that I was anxious to do before. It was strenuous and my social battery often get drained before I could go home. Yet, I know that changing oneself, especially on the building and improving, is a long process and not achievable overnight. Sometimes, the pressure weighs heavier that I have to let it out. It might show my weakness but I don't hesitate to do just cry if needed. I'll just myself why and no matter what I could answer, I'll just feel better afterward.
Things don't stay the same anyway. I have learned it now that it isn't always going to be like this. As that famous quote says, ***"There's a light at the end of the tunnel."*** Well, here I am testifying that it's true. Seeing the fruits of my labor an it slowly shines before my eyes now, it hurts my sensitive eyes and leaving me teary-eyed. yet, those wasn't form for the dark reasons that I had before, those that flows now, is the tears of joy after knowing that all of my efforts have eventually paid off. The risk is high and the responsibilities along with it is a pain but it's a part of our life where we should deal of.
Just letting my mind speak through converting its thoughts into words. If you have read it up to this point, I appreciate it very much. Thanks for reading!
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Two Events In The Same Time Frame
It is the weekend which feels like a regular weekdays again. Just passing by to say hello, and before you get aware of it, only a few hours will be left until Monday. Like I still wanted to do more this weekend but it can't within the certain time frame of two days anymore. There is even a time that I have two events that happened in the same time last Saturday. I don't what to prioritize at first but just decided to open them both at the same time.
I was done drafting my post for the Hive Power Up Day when my classes have started but I haven't made a banner for it in Canva. Surely, I still have a lot of time to dot it since they based on UTC Time but there was a Mental Health webinar at 7pm yesterday. Though I'm thinking that I can handle my mental health well these days and I don't need something like that anymore, just a support as a staff of Hive Ph and appreciation for Tp to sponsor the said event. I also have to rest after classes or prepare myself that's why I was needing a time allowance. I choose to finish my post during the classes since it was just held online for 1 hour and 30 minutes.
When I saw that the one who was lecturing is my cousin, I got confident that she would understand me. Also, they have sent the copy of power point presentation in the group chat. I know that even if I wouldn't listen, I still have a learning material to look back on. The topics were all just easy as they were just talking about the agricultural crisis in the Philippines and as a citizen, how would contribute to help within our capabilities.
Halfway of the lecture, my connection were slow and the google meet errored. When I came back, she was already calling my name to participate in the oral recitation since no one answered in the class. I don't have any idea what are they discussing already. I got trolled by her though she knows what happened. Lol.
I have been able to published the post before the class ended but my internet connection were not good, and it was enjoying to interrupt my participation in the class. When I got back again. it has already ended. I'm just thankful that I was still included with screenshots for the attendance or else I would be doing a special assignment as an exchange not to be marked as absent in my records. It has also demerits and I don't like that to happen since my merits are already my grades.
After that, back to the usual grinding again. I can't have my usual weekend anymore. From now on, this is the new usual.
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We Got Lost Just For A Slice Of Cheesecake.
Yesterday was a rest day for me from all the school works. I was just happily grinding at home, and chatting with friends online when my friend messaged me that she will be going to her college to process her scholarship. The school is just near my place and just a few walks. I can just be there in a while without making her wait for so long.
We went first to a cafe where our high school friends are working for a part time job. We ate our lunch there and catch up with the recent things happening with each of our lives. Then, when we were done, we went to the 888 Chinatown Mall to buy an index card and I bought some sticky notes for me. I have thought of an idea that if I should stick my tasks in front of me while using my laptop, I will be reminded of the tasks that I should first instead of just randomly browsing in the internet for things which can't benefit me 0f anything.
I used it right after I went home. The pink notes are for things that I should be doing. The green notes are for the things that I'm currently doing to track my progress. Lastly, the yellow notes are intended for things that I'm done with. It just feels satisfying to see that you have done a lot during the period.
Anyway, back to where we were after buying something at the mall. We felt like not going home at the moment and was craving for desserts. I was craving for a burnt cheesecake and my friend was craving for Praline Cheesecake. We decided to go to Cafe Bobs since they have affordable slices of desserts.
We rode another jeep going there. I was confident that she knows where to get off since she was the one who suggested the place. We were almost near the Robinson's Mall when she realized that we were lost at the moment. We got off and walk back to the previous streets. We can't locate that one branch of the cafe, so we just went to the one which is near my place.
At last, we were finally here and was too happy to see that they have what we wanted. Gosh, we got lost just for the sake of a slice of cheesecake. Each of us ordered a slice of what we wanted, and settled on a vacant seat near the window glass wherein we can see the view of a private hospital. Many medical staff are also going here and the students since the hospital has a medical school of their own. There is also another college just across them and also a well-known one here in Bacolod.
It's too bad that we already had our coffee from the previous cafe before going here. It's also good on the other side since we can enjoy the cheesecakes well and savor it's every bit without the mix of any flavors. There weren't much customers at the time we entered. We freely took pictures and she shared it on her Instagram account tagging me.
*Now, for the moment of truth. Will this truly satisfy our cravings or will just disappoint our taste buds?*
I took a bite immediately since I have been drooling for it ever since we entered the place. *Guess what happened next? Will I giggle at its delicious taste or jump in my seat for the ecstatic feeling for satisfying my cravings?* Unfortunately, neither of the choices were my answers. I put down my fork as I tasted the cheesecake and sip my water to wash away the taste.
It tasted like the coating of an iron vitamins with a much stronger taste of eggs than the cheese. Of all the flavors, I really hate the strong taste of eggs. For that reason, I'm not eating hotcakes in the streets, pancakes, chiffon cakes, and that semi-well done fried eggs. Not even boiled eggs if I can help it, just scrambled eggs since it has to be cooked well done.
Anyway, I have paid for it, so I still tried to ate it all. Yet, in the end, I couldn't. There were still left overs when we left. My friend was laughing hard at me as we left the cafe. We didn't told the management about it because even if we do, they still will not refund me or do anything about it. Since my friend is baking burnt cheesecakes sometimes, she offered to bake me a plate of it if ever they can bake again. That calmed me down somehow. I just marked that cafe with an **X** in my lists for now, not gonna eat there again.
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Productive Drive Restoration: How's it going?
It was just once my speculations that the strong drive that I have back then might be the cause of the unceasing work loads and the pressure along with it. I guess I'm more efficient and I got to squeeze more ideas from my brain if I know that I must do that thing and I used to always think. Being aware of the policy that there is no excuses, it makes me strive more to thrive in every tasks. It was that part of me that I have been missing during the first months that I have been unemployed and just freelancing. I once thought that I could build myself more in blogging if it would be my only focus but it turns out wrong all along. I got trapped in the leisure of procrastination making it more hard to get out and make some improvements.
Recently, though it was a hectic schedule, piled up school works, and I was struggling to adjust and adapt with the new environment, it is still a good thing on my part since I could do something productive. Despite the busyness, I still have been able to write blogs though it was a few days apart from the previous publishing date. Not that it matter that much, but it can be of a big help to me if I can earn more like before. I have a lot on my mind to write honestly and I just can't find time to covert it all to words, then just store them in my drafts. It is now just a great achievement for me if I can publish a good write-up once every three days or so. It is even more great if your efforts are appreciated and you can see that it is all getting paid off.
I have been climbing slowly from the dumps after I messed up my introduction initially. I once just contented from the progress that I have been making in Hive, like it was fine for me not to get more interaction in my blogs or not to get curated by people who has more hive power. I still keep on going and just continued proving myself to be legit beyond my low reputation. Seeing the rewards and the interactions that I have been receiving in my blogs these day, I don't know if I would be jumping for joy first or just let out my giggles in my room to let the butterflies fly freely in my stomach every time I received a notification that someone upvoted, commented, and re-blogged my posts.
It was not just days but already weeks that it has been consistently receiving rewards like that. I can only just utter the words, ***"Thanks God."*** every time I got upvoted. I have been constantly praying that God will help me with my financial problems these days since I have quite a lot of expenses. Now, I can see my prayers getting answered. I just have to consistently exert more effort and support other people in the ways that I can such as returning the favor that has been blessed to me. Even Rusty after his long budgeting trip in the bear market has been generously giving me a fair amount of my efforts here. There is no reason for me really to get stressed over anything. All I have to do is work hard and smart, have faith that He will guide me and I can surely get through it.
As of now, my reputation have gone up to 61 and I have acquired four badges already. Aside from these things, I currently have 100 subscribers. I can't express my gratitude well on how I should thank them for putting trust in me that much. All I can promise is to help my other co-authors to be able to thrive in the platform too and teach them how to achieve what I have got. Honestly, you just have to be true in there, support one another as they support you, and make some friends. It is the only thing that I have learned while exploring the platform and looking for a way that I could be known. It wasn't that much difficult to do if you don't just aim to gain easy money and cheat for small gains that could lead you to more loses than what you have earned. I think you should think of a long term goal in the platform if you want to thrive.
Anyway, among these progress, I can finally say that I have restored that thing which I have lose back then. Now, I can be my productive self again that keeps fighting procrastination and keep on exploring things that could help me improve.
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What Does It Means When September Ends?
If you hear that ***"ber-months"*** is coming, probably the first thing that will come to your mind is the long celebrations of the Christmas Holidays. It is the days where most of the people look up to since this is where people got some time to celebrate as a family and gather together to strengthen the bond after such a long time of just working and setting up priorities in our daily lives. When the cold breeze of the ber-months caresses our faces, it signals the upcoming joyful memories that is yet to be made and cherished, and the arising excitement is evident in the quiver of every people's voices or on how their eyes shines from learning the news.
Perhaps, even if you're alone on this holidays, you'll still be smiling as you get reminded of the essence of the celebration. Thanking God and giving glory on to His name is enough to achieve the sense of fulfillment in your hearts. It is still worthy just to know the real essence of it even if you can't throw a grand party with your friends or anyone else. The fact that the idea is preserved and was carried out well is the important among all of the grandeurs all around us.
Anyway, going back to the topic, while the aforementioned above is applicable to some, in our case the end of September in the countryside, it only signifies that the blessings will keep on flowing until the new year. The end of September means that October will starting in a moment and that will be the specific starting date of the openings of all of the Sugar Mills here in Negros. It symbolizes hope for all planters and laborers in the place for they can finally make a profit out of their hard work of growing their crops and they can also delegate some loads of works to the laborers who have long been waiting for it.
While it is not known to all, Sugar production is the main business here at Negros since most of its land are used for its plantation. The season for the milling would always start at October and will end in March. Opening of the milling season only means more profit for the planters and also for the laborers for their hard work in helping the maintenance works for the crops and during the harvest. For some, this is where they can only have a stable income since work are coming simultaneously during the milling season but when it ends, that would be the start of their problematic life since sugarcanes only requires low maintenance. The work isn't implemented regularly and that would be depending on how vast do your Planter's lands are to provide more work for everyone.
If you're not lucky to find a big time planter to work for, then the kind of work that you can find is only for part time. It can't sustain a family nor yourself during the closing season if you don't have another kind of work aside from it. One of the techniques that laborers would do is they would shift into working in the rice fields from planting, maintaining, and harvesting. This is more beneficial since the cropping season is every three or four months unlike from the sugar which is only once a year.
Anyway, that is how life in the countryside works. If you're familiar with the famous line in the history of Negros which says, ***"Ang kwarta sa Negros gina-piko kag ginapala."*** *(The money in Negros is raked and shoved.)* The one that I was saying above is where this statement was derived from. The money is raked and shoved because the people need to rake and shove the sugarcane fields just to make the sugarcane grow and make money out of it. It is where their earnings comes from that's why they are treating the sugarcanes as money.
*It is what the end of September means to us planters and laborers on the countryside. How about you?*
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Changes, Dogs, and Books
The classes aren't that stressful, in fact, it's always fun during the class. Yet, I still go home in a low battery. Perhaps, socializing is one of the reasons because I'm trying my best to keep up with their energy. I feel like my social battery power is only at 5000mah which can only lasts for 20 hours or so depending on how much consumption of every task deducted from it.
Another source would be the physical activities that I'm doing in my daily life. Commuting to school is one of them, a 20-minute is still draining and the walk from my home to the corner where jeepneys are passing by and the walks from other places. Also, at our Physical Education class, which we were doing tasks which our curriculum requires us to do.
I apologize if I can't make a proper blog these days. I can't have time for that anymore but I can't set aside blogging. Now, here are some set of questions that I got from (this site). Please bear with me as I try to give my insights.
What’s the biggest personal change you’ve ever made?
My biggest move is breaking free from being too introverted and that's aside from becoming a mother. Back then, I was only thinking of the qualities when applying for work that requires me to be brave, confident, and more vocal. It is why I tried my best to practice expressing my thoughts orally and not just in written. Then, college came to my mind wherein I'm also pursuing now. New environment, new sets of people, and new setup. Along the way, I started to realize how much I missed out from being introverted. Now, I'm still an introvert but not that much unlike before.
It was hard from the start, but I'm getting the gist of it along the way. Changing the mindset is sure a difficult thing to do but it got to be the first step. Instead of fearing the new possibilities, new acquaintances, and speaking my mind, I switched it to the more positive side that's I can do it and slowly building up my confidence through the help of people that can understand me. My heart was beating fast and getting anxious of my every movement but somehow I have attained ease with doing it. Now, that decision have good results and it's clearly visible when you are with me in person. I still have a lot of things to improve and I will work hard on that.
What were your childhood pets?
Ever since I was a kid, we always have dogs at home. It is why I'm more fond of dogs than any other pets. Whenever I see one, I feel like petting and cuddle them. If only pets are allowed in my boarding house, I would surely take care of one. Sadly, the landlady doesn't approve of it because it can bring inconvenience with other boarders and we are all living in the same house but only different rooms.
We have a cat but they don't get along with my dogs, so it often ran away from our home and never comes back. They are really hereditary enemies of each other but not all of them are like this. Cats a good to keep at home but in our case, they would be just pitiful. Dogs are always a part of our family. We always keep one and take care of its generations. Right now, our dogs are the products of their previous generations. Sadly, they already passed away due to their old age.
If you could start a collection of one kind of item, what would it be?
Surely, this would be books. I'm planning to make a library at home by buying books one by one and just keeping them in a place where my other family or friends can read when they visit me. It has been always my dream to have this and just always lingering at the back of my mind since I can't still do it. Yet, the plan wouldn't be forgotten nor would be changed.
I already have a collection of books but digital copies. I'm giving free copies of it away to those who wants or needs. ***So, if you need one just ping me on Discord, Telegram, or Messenger***. If I can have some spare in my budget, I'll also try to buy printed copies. To be able to smell its pages as flip it when reading is truly blissful. I guess, this is where I'm also addicted aside from coffee.
Just another busy day from me. What's up, readers? I hope you are all fine. Thanks for reading!
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A Weekend That Just Feels Like Any Other Day.
***Heyaa, readers? How's your weekend?***
Mine just feels like it only lasted for few hours and unexpectedly, it's now Monday. If I could only just stretch the day longer to fit all of my activities but my body is already giving up. As much as I wanted to do more things, I have been dozing off in my seat that I wasn't even aware of. No other choice but call the night off and have some rest to grind again the next day.
One of the causes that is draining me this weekend instead of having a good rest was our NSTP subject. We are required to go to school before the call time of 7:15 am. I'm just 20 minutes away at most, *if there's a traffic jam*, from the school but I have to ride two jeepneys of different routes just to get there. Looking at how early it is, there are only few jeepneys passing by at that hour, so chances of catching a ride are less.
I set my alarm clock to 4 am and hopefully, I had heard that and got up immediately. Last time, I didn't heard it and missed my alarm. Good thing, I still have waken up a little late than that but still have given me a short time to prepare myself. It almost got me there, but luckily I have caught a ride before the clock hits 7 am and on a faster speed since there are only few cars on the road. I didn't came late but I haven't eaten my breakfast. Just imagine standing in the formation for hours under the heat of the sun, and listening to discussions until noon with an empty stomach. I'm so out of focus and have no energy to deal with all of things we did.
This time, I surely tried my best to wake up early just so I could eat my breakfast first before leaving. The subject lasted for 4 hours but as expected in a subject where service is required from us, it was full of activities that mandates us to move. After doing all of the drills that was instructed to us, the hours of pure lecture goes in. We were all both mentally and physically exhausted after that.
We went to a cafe to eat, rest, and refresh in the lead of one of my classmates. Then he leads us here,
and there he was at the door, pointing upwards to where the cafe is. *Awesome*, it's on the rooftop.
Unexpectedly, that shabby building has a gem inside and where the aesthetic setup resides.
Such a cozy and comfortable place, and has an amazing view of the mountains in the distance. It's windy from above there. It's like whispering in my ears to lull me to sleep. I have forgotten how exhausted we were from the mood that the cafe gave us and from the laughters of my companions. It's just a shame that we couldn't stay longer. Going home after that, I just slumped my body off to my bed and fell into a deep sleep just hours after. I guess, that's how tired I was and woke up knowing that it was already morning.
Sunday is still like any other day. I still have to study the topics that we would be discussing in class and do my side hustles after that. The hours felt like minutes that was passing by in the blink of an eye. If only sleep isn't a need for our body, I wouldn't do it. Yet, compromising my health isn't written on my ***to-do list***. I slept for 4 hours straight luckily before preparing myself for the online class. It's now Monday again, back to the usual exertion of efforts to get exhausted at the end of the day, then repeating that for the whole week.
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Knowing Thyself
Though we are starting to have a lot of activities, assignment, and reportings lately, that doesn't affect our schedule yet, and not that stressful enough. I can still do it in my vacant days, three days to be exact not including the weekends. The tasks given by the instructor also are mostly by groups since they understand how difficult it will be for us to do it individually because there are some who are working while studying. The schedule is flexible enough for us to balance my studies from side hustles. No excuse for sure not to do the assigned tasks.
In one of our classes last Tuesday, there's a certain subject for Philosophy, specifically ***Understanding The Self***. The goal of this subject is to literally understand ourselves at the end of the semester by determining our strength and weaknesses, limitations, emotional stability, skills to improve, and boosting one's self-esteem. The subject wasn't that heavy to handle since the instructor said it herself that she wanted it to be a chill and enjoyable with the students to study. Considering that everyone has their own weight to carry upon their shoulders outside the school premises, it's just one of the ways that the instructors have thought of to maintain the student's mental health stability.
The instructor's way of teaching is light and fun which everybody can participate and enjoy. Even me who doesn't like participating in oral discussions have found myself actively answering the questions in front of the class. It is such a good thing as an exercise to build up the courage in speaking in public since that is one of my greatest weaknesses. Before the class ends, we were asked to write an essay related to what we have discussed and that was about ourselves. No right or wrong answers since we are the only one who knows ourselves better than anyone. Regarding that, we were asked to write pertaining, ***"Who Am I?"***.
It was easy to think about before we could start answering in the yellowpad but as I took the cap of my pen and made it ready to write, pointing its edge to the paper, I got lost in my thoughts. Who am I really? Taking out the roles that I have which is being a mother, a daughter, a sister, a friend, and et cetera, *who am I?* It took me a minute or so just to ponder on that thought. At last, I let my fingers guide my pen to do the work in my paper.
As far as I could remember, this was how I wrote it.
*I wasn't the type of girl to interact and will be actively participating in class discussions back then. While my classmates would fo their thing like having conversations with their closed friends, group studying, or just playing online games, I would be just silently sitting at the edge of the room keeping my peace and giving off the vibe that I don't to be disturbed by anyone.*
*It was me back then. In some way, as I got to experience things through time, I also got to learn some lessons in life. I started to realize how much I missed out when life got messy. I'm trying to fix it until now and still in the state of improving. I rebranded myself as the* ***"Not your typical Farm Girl"****, as I grow up in farming but also a reminder for me that I can be something more than that.*
*I was once a frustrated writer who almost gave up because I can't take up Journalism or any course which is related to Literature. Somehow, I found a way to continue this dream and that is through blogging. I find it as one of my outlet wherein I can freely speak my mind and whereas some readers can relate. Well, despite that, I'm still farming while exploring the world more. Behind this realizations, if I would be asked* ***"Who am I?"****, I can only say that I'm a dreamer who is always trying to reach something in life despite the hindrances.*
It was how I put it and I think I have write something more that but I can't remember anymore. It's my version of myself in real life and the same her online. Although, I'm trying to hide my identity, which isn't a secret for other writers here anymore, I'm still the same wherever you see me. I wanted to be true and consistent. I want to left an impression that can help motivating people who have gone through what I have suffered back then. I know the pain, difficulty, and the pressure. It's insane, and I'm even thankful that I have keep myself sane until now. Anyway, I guess that's depend on how strong your will and capabilities are, wherein you'll only know if you start knowing yourself.
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This Month's Expectations
Time flies faster and it's like I just woke up, then later on, got to sleep again. The cycle just goes on and on the next days. This is what it feels like when you are busy and always trying to maximize your time to fit everything that you need to do in a day. Since formal classes have just started, I'm still adjusting with it. I have been out of school and unemployed for quite a long time that I have created a new body clock. Yet, I'm still trying to adapt it to my new schedule, so I can't be late and get things done on time.
Despite the busyness, I can still say that this is a good start for me to bring back that previous motivation to work under pressure and still be efficient. I think it is the pressure that pushed me to be productive back then. Since I left my job, I have never been the same as my previous productive self. I thought that I can focus on blogging when I resigned on my previous job while the classes hasn't starting yet. It turns out the exact opposite of what I had expected, and it even reduced my productivity to half of what I can do before.
However, when I have classes now, I get to bring my previous self little by little. It's kinda tiring but fulfilling at the end of the day knowing that I have done something productive. I'm hoping to bring back that kind of level of performance again. I badly need that now, since I have a schedule to follow and I only have limited time to do my side hustles. Still, let's see about that but let me share what should I expect from this month of September.
Online and Onsite Classes
Our Professors are very considerate to us who are working and going home to far flung places. Though our classes begins at 8 am and ends at 8 pm *(vacant periods included for lunch and siestas)*, we are only required to attend it for 3 days. Others students are living in the next neighboring towns and the travel time is longer to get to the school.
In consideration to this, the other classes is online and onsite classes will only be held for important matters that needs to be executed in a physical manner with the instructors present like the NSTP meetings, use of computers for programming, and exams. Other matters that can be discussed and no practicum needed will be held online, like the usual classes, reportings, assignments, projects, and also learning materials are uploaded in advance for those who can't regularly attend the online class due to poor connections.
More Blogs To Write
I have high expenses this month and I need to earn back what I have spent, so I could have something to spend for my needs next month. No matter how busy I am with my school works and studies, I should make time for this since this is the only thing that can help me survive for now while waiting for part time job openings this ***ber-months*** in our place.
I'm thinking of following a ***30-day writing prompt*** here again in readcash and post my daily life updates on Hive. It is the better way that I could think of, so I wouldn't ran out of topics to write about. I'm loving Hive but readcash is also important to me. This is where I had started my blogging journey, grow my name in writing, and made my skills improved in this path. I'll never leave this platform as long as it is still operating. Doing a lot of drafts and just saving it in my account for later use is also a good way to manage it. Yet, it would depend in my capability since it's tiring to write in a phone and typing just using both of my thumbs.
Curation Works
This one isn't a problem but a big help on making engagements with other writers. Perhaps, just an advantage to me since I love reading from the start and reading 10 articles or more in a day is nothing. The only thing which is *time-consuming* there is verifying the content's authenticity with its author. Plagiarism is still a main problem, no matter how you explain it to people that it is prohibited and regulated. There are really some people that just like to earn easily without sparing enough efforts like the other writers are doing.
They are looking for shortcuts on how to earn faster but in a negative way that could be their fastest downfall and something that can ruin their reputation on the platform. They are wanting success and earn a passive income in a short time but doing things that could kill their career and block their oath from going back. For someone out there who are doing these things or have plans to do this, just remember that ***a cheater never wins.*** Don't expect to get something in return that aren't worth of your effort.
Putting that little rant aside, I might be late in endorsing the top entries unlike before because of my loads but the deadline of submitting your entries is still the deadline. The date set for that will remain the same and will still follow the community's schedule of activities. The other staffs are also busy with their priorities in life, so just please bear with us and be patient to wait for the announcement of winners.
Anyway, despite all of that, I'm hoping to be able catch up with you guys and have some fun sometimes if I'm free. I kinda miss joining discord games and all the fun chitchats.
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College and Hive Updates
***It has been a while again, readers. So, heya!***
I have been inactive for days again. It's not so secret now that I'm a college student. Our schedule is quite compressed though we only have three days of classes. It starts from 8 am and ends at 8 pm, then half-day on Saturday. It's good that we still have vacant hours despite that. Our teachers are considerate enough to put up a schedule like that for students like us who still have to work after the class and who lives afar from the school. Modules are provided and of course, assignments. Lolz.
I thought that I will find it hard to get along with my classmates since I'm not good at making friends. I don't like my college life to be the same like what I had experience in college. You know, my typical old self —shy, silent, and prefers to be alone. Yet, I have realized that I can't do more and I have missed a lot of opportunities because of that. It is why I want to have a change in College. I'm determined to manifest, though I know that it will be hard for me. As I have said earlier, it's not what I expected. I want to thank God for this.
It was due to this that I haven't been here for a while. I wanted to focus in my first two days in college and learn the setup, blend with the atmosphere, and build a rapport with everyone which I think I have successfully done it. I'm not having a hard time finding a group to join or a partner to have during reportings and assignments anymore unlike before. All I have to do is try my best to help.
Since I got no problems with my classmates and teachers, which I always fear that I can't get myself to fit in with them, let me crossed that out and move on to the next problem. The only thing that is still staying in my list of problems is my uniform. Unfornately, I still haven't gone tona textile shop to buy and have me measured in the Tailor shop. I'm still finding the right shop to where I could get my uniform sewed at an affordable price.
Anyway, today is my vacant. I can finally write a blog, read, and interact with other authors. I just feel so blessed today. I won **300 HP** delegations from participating in ***September's Hive Power Up Day*** event.
**Hello, September. Time to Power Up!** https://peakd.com/hive-122221/@ayane-chan/hello-september-time-to-power-up
A day indeed that we are always looking forward to every month, not just for the rewards but also for building up our accounts. The benefits of building your account is to increase your curation rewards, gives you more resource credits to make transactions and interact more.
Congratulations to us @itsmeCguro for winning delegations and upvotes. Our efforts are well paid off from waiting fro the UTC time to strike September 1st, powering up, and creating a post. Let's make good use of it by supporting other writers in the form of upvotes, comments, reblogs, or delegations if our wallet can provide it, but also just make sure that the writer where you are supporting is worthy of your support.
***Done with that****.*
*It's a little harder to compose a blog even just for a* ***sh**post*** *after a few days of inactivity. I feel like my brain is getting dull in every absence. Anyway, I'm going to update soon enough if I have free time again.*
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Power Up, Catch Some Airdrops, and Have A Badge
What do you like about pizza? Is it the toppings, the crust, or the cheese? If I would choose from these, none of it because the only thing that I like about pizza is the token. If you are in Hive, you probably know what is that and what I mean. A promising project in the Hive Engine, *as of now having the value of $0.04*, which you can stake, hold, and trade.
There is an upcoming event in the Pizza Discord server happening at September 14, which is the **Pizza Power Up Day**. I'm thinking of joining the event and buy 300 pizza if I still have some spare Hive in my wallet to get an NFT at the upcoming event. Yet, base on my current state now, I'm anticipating that I'll be needing my Hive more to be spend on something else than buying the token. I discarded the idea for now and just bought a few of it.
I tried to buy on tribaldex but it isn't working and got some errors. I messaged @DennMarc and asked him where did he swap his Hive to Pizza since he already did it last time. He leads me to beeswap and the process keeps going smoothly now. I converted 2 Hive into 1.995 Swap.Hive, so I can elligibly swap it to Pizza. After that, I tried swapping Swap.Hive but only to find out that it requires a 0.5% slippage fee. Out of 1.99 Swap.Hive, I only got 45.49 Pizza at its current prize of $0.04 each.
Then, I checked my Hive Engine wallet if I already received them. I have earned 2 Pizza from tips that came from other writers who reads my articles. With the 45.59 Pizza and 2 Pizza in my wallet, I staked them all to register a power up action in the Pizza Discord Server and with that, I can also use the command to tip other people *(just sharing some blessings)*.
I went to check also at the discord if it truly have registered. I have trust issues, I need a confirmation. Welp, there it is!
A few minutes later, I received my Pizza badge displayed under my profile picture. It's not a big deal for some people but for me, it is. That is how I view my progress in Hive, aside from considering it as an award for my hardwork in building my influence and my account in the blockchain. It's just gives me joy by looking how many are they lying under my profile. It makes me want to set another goal to earn more of that and motivates me to write, so I could be capable of earning them.
By the way, before I got the pizza badge, I earned the **Ladies of Hive** badge first. I have met their requirements of posting at least 3 articles at the community in order to have it. Did you see that pink hive logo before the slice of pizza? Yep, that's it! I have been wondering if I'm really a lady since I don't usually do what a lady does but seeing that made me convince myself that I'm really one of them. Now, I can't just describe myself as the *not-so-typical* Farm Girl, or the boyish momma, but also a certified Lady on Hive.
I know that I'm a straight lady despite my personality from the start. *Just kidding*. My personality aside, let's farm some pizza tokens by joining events in their Discord server.
The first time that I went here to be active, there are some airdrops going on. Some just left 120, 30, 50, 20 pizza for everyone who will visit and some are actively tipping those who are actively chatting in the general chat's channel. At the end of that event, I earned 7 Pizza in total, which I gave some of it to my friends at Hive PH Server. I gained some of it through aidrops again overtime and having 6 Pizza in my wallet before I joined another event last night.
They are having a **Trivia Night** which was the third time already this month, and I missed joining the two of it. It was fun guessing the answers with some friends and that earned me 5 Pizza at the end of the game. Now, I have 11 Pizza in my tip.cc wallet in Discord. I'm still thinking if I will give it away in our server through airdrops and red envelope or I will just use them to power up at September 14. I don't know, but let's see.
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It's not a Scam, but it had almost deceived me.
Do you know what's more in engaging in the blockchain? Aside from the network and exposure that you can acquire, you can also earn hive rewards if the author or other readers will upvote your comments. Not just that, you can earn tokens from curation rewards of other authors' posts that you have curated or from your posts that has been curated by the tribes. As far as I could understand of how that one works, tokens can also be earned from from other authors who have the heart to give you tips or you can also power up some of it, then stake it to have some returns.
Airdrops and giveaways can also be another way to earn them, but that is only possible if you are actively chatting on Discord servers like the Pizza Guild, Hive PH, etc. If you are also keen enough to spot posts for freegifts or giveaways, then meet their desired requirements to join; you can have possibilities to win some. There is no harm in joining anyway, so why not?
The last time that I have joined a giveaway at Hive, I won **1000 Starbits** in my first participation. Here, see it for yourself.
It's not that much if you check its value at the Hive Engine tokens. Well, for just dropping one comment saying, ***"freegift for me"***, I guess it's still worth the prize. When I checked, 1000 Starbits has its equivalent value of $0.04 in my Hive Engine wallet. Maybe, I can make use of that if I play the Hive Game (***Rising Star***) but unfortunately, I'm not into any games. It's also a waste that the token can't be stake at the moment. I'll surely just let it sleep in my wallet for a while until I can accumulate more of it, then swap it into Hive when I have the enough amount for the exchange.
Another thing, using tags of the those tribes of token are surely useful in your blogging journey at Hive. You just have to make sure that you tagged the right tribe of tokens that is something related to the content of your posts. However, *fret not*, there are tribes of tokens that can be use generally in any post, like **palnet** and **neoxian**.
Here let me share some useful details to all of you who are also blogging in Hive.
This message came originally from ***kittygirl*** of **The Terminal Discord Server** but you can also see this at **Hive PH Discord** server at the ***#helpful-guides channel***. The message stated above in the screenshot tells about how you should use the tags in your post properly. If you still have questions regarding that one, just reach out to our Discord server anytime and the staffs will answer your questions. https://discord.gg/Prr6hh3m
Getting back to tokens I have, the ones that are actively giving me tokens for curation rewards are the Proof of Brain, VKBT, VYB, WAIV, ARCHON, Pizza, LOH, LUV, etc. The one with the highest value among all of those that I got is the token of **Ladies of Hive Community** which is the **LOH**. I initially thought of converting my HBD to Hive for the Hive Power Up Day that happens every first day of the month so I swap those in **tribaldex.com** of my Hive Keychain App's Browser.
I swap my 5.6 LOH to 2.265 Swap.HIVE *(a token pegged to Hive)*. I withdraw them to Hive at the thought that it can lessen the amount of the HBD that I will be converting to accumulate 10 Hive for the HivePUD. After doing that, I remembered that I still have 26 Hive in my Binance Spot wallet. I checked it out and cancel the order, then sent it all to my Hive wallet. I figured it out that I can't still constantly do trading, so it is just sleeping there being useless in my spot wallet. Why not just make use of it for the power up and for the upcoming **Pizza Power Up Day** at **September 15**, right? At least, I had thought of that but kinda too late since I already swap my LOH to Hive.
Then, here's the exciting part but kinda annoying for me.
***What would you feel after seeing this?*** Surely, you'll jump in joy like me since you received something new to your eyes like a kid who received a candy with a pleasing packaging but the taste is still unknown, yet you'll be happy with what you see. A new token in your eyes with a much higher amount than the others and take note of its name, **it is PESOS!** When you let your joyous feelings overpowered you than your analytical brain cells, you'll surely get deceived like me. Sorry for being gullible sometimes. Then, there at that moment when all the hype subsides, I finally realized that no matter what does its name says, it's in the Hive Engine and surely it is just another token.
I went to checked it there in my wallet and went to see its value in the market. ***Would you believe that it says zero?*** Yes, it's true! I don't know what exactly would I react at first but I made sure that I calmed myself down before telling this out to anybody. I don't know if I'm going to laugh or I'm going to swear after seeing that but I did both anyway. I can't restrain myself from doing so. Though it doesn't have any value yet, it can be staked, and so I did. Well, who knows, maybe the developer of that token will invest some money into it to have more value in the future. I can't make use of it for now, but I'll be patiently waiting. Let it flourish in my wallet even though it looks like a joke every time I see it.
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Just Got Back And Some Questions
**Heya!**
I just got back from my hometown. I went back home last Saturday with my cousin to send the school supplies that I bought for my daughter. We wanted to stay longer since today is holiday but we can't since I'm still waiting for my COR in my email. There are no any decent signal there, and I can't also published my blogs.
It has been two days since my last post and surely, procrastination have caught me in the process. I can't think of anything but to lay down in my bed all day since I have nothing to do yet. Thanks to @OfficialGamboaLikeUs for sharing a *post-saver* article a few days ago. Though it has to be a set of random questions again, I still can do some writing exercise from it to be posted for today.
Here are some random questions that I have choosen from the ***random question maker***. https://randomquestionmaker.com/
**Have you ever been in a car accident or seen one?**
I have never been into an accident fortunately, but I have seen one before. It happened when I was still in Senior High School. We are having a Fun Run activity and the line would start from the Negros Capitol Lagoon and the finish line would be in our school's entrance. As I got off from the jeepney in front of a fast food chan, a tricycle and a car clashed at each other on the intersection in front of us.
The tricycle came from the market with the vegetables he bought with his mother. It's a pitiful scenario to witness. The mother was shocked and couldn't move an inch in the passenger's seat while her son had dropped laying in the road and fainted from the dislocated bones in his knee. The driver and the passengers of the car whom they collided with are group of drunk Koreans who came from a Friday Night's Party.
The crew of the fast food chain were the one who called the police and the hospital. The police came after a few minutes but the ambulance weren't still there yet. The scene got pretty intense when the mother started crying shakingly in her seat seeing her son bleeding in the road and the ambulance wasn't there still to rescue him.
After 30 minutes, the ambulance of the Federation of Filipino-Chinese Chamber of Commerce of Bacolod came to the rescue and sent the victim to the nearest hospital. A little while later after that, the ambulance of that nearest hospital came also but the victim was already sent to them. They are often late to rescue, it's nothing new anymore to the residents.
**Give me the names of 3 objects or things you love most and why?**
First of all, my ***money***. I can't live without it. I'm not living in the countryside for now that I can just plant some vegetables, root crops, fruits, and raise chickens, then I can be self-sufficient for the years to come if I can just maintain the lifestyle. In the city, there are no spaces left to be planted with vegetables or to raise chickens anymore. I can only buy what I want to eat. If I have no money, I'll starve to death.
Second, my ***phone***. My phone isn't just for watching anime, chatting with friends and relatives, or seeing updates from pages that I'm following; this is also my source of income for now. Since I don't have a laptop yet, this is where I write my blogs and to capture pictures. It's tiring actually to type 2,000 words or more everyday in a small width of this device but I can't stop. I need this to save up for that laptop and my daily allowance.
Third and last, my ***earphones***. This is the thing that I often used second to my phone. I used earphones to listen to music while writing to help me focus and eradicate background noises that can distract me. I also used this when I'm calling someone or when I'm having meetings via Discord or Google Meet; same uses —to focus, to eradicate background noises and added to that is to hear the sounds clearly and louder. One thing that I also love with my earphones is that I can use it in an uncomfortable situations. I can plugged it on without listening to anything but can just help me pretend that I'm busy. In that case, I can't be disturbed by anyone and also I can hear who are those talking behind my back who thought that I can't hear them.
Didn't expect that two questions are enough to cover this post.
Anyway, those are my answers and I hope that you find that entertaining though it's a little bit odd. I'm not the type to easily drop a joke and make everything funny because I'm a boring person, so sorry about that. Yet, if you are still here reading this part, I appreciate the effort and the support.
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Looking Back At History And Culture at The Negros Museum.
We just once planned to tour the **Negros Museum** together with my cousin last few weeks ago when we were walking by the place. They were going back to the downtown to catch a ride home when passed by there. We asked the guards how much would be the entrance fees and was quite happy to know that it was affordable. They also have a lesser price for students and senior citizens.
It was also a great plan to learn more about the culture, art, and history of our place. Everyone seems to be busy in life these days that things like this has been ignored and aren't that much appreciated. I admit that I'm guilty with this, too. Things that can't help me from getting through my day doesn't bother me that much. Yet, when I took the entrance exam last month, I realized its importance. The past honed us to what we are today. We shouldn't forget how our ancestors fought for our freedom —*the one which we now enjoy*.
Though I'm not that confident with my answers, I still have given a lot of details that I have known from Google and Youtube. It still bothers me, though. It made me wonder if there are still a lot of things that I should known than what can the internet can give me. ***Now, let's see it here!*** Let me share how does my tour went by in that museum, and also we can have a tour together virtually.
Welcome to the Negros Museum!
It was unfortunate that my cousin can't go with me and I have to go here alone. Yet, still it was fun to discover new things that I haven't known before and look back to the past, feel it's presence, and visualize the past scenarios throught the artifacts and paintings that is reserved inside.
Before anything else, here was how the journey inside the museum started. After I paid at the entrance, I went to the first floor and have a look with each of the art displayed in every room. It was just amazing that they don't only kept things that are remnants of the past but also some painting and sculptures that talks about the history and culture of the Negros Island.
***How to make a Bao?*** The pictures in this area shows the process of making the carabao sculpture in the entrance of the museum. They also includes here the people who are beyond the magnificent sculpture and the materials that were used to build it for strong foundations.
*You can also refer to this article of* ***Inquirer*** *to know more*. https://lifestyle.inquirer.net/342757/bao-the-unbowed-carabao-unveiled-at-negros-museum/
In this room, they showcase the common livelihood found in Negros Island, mostly in the countryside part. The most common is sugarcane planting and harvest. Some paintings portrays the laborers, the common people living around the countryside and the sugar mills.
Negros Island is branded as the ***"Sugar Capital of the Philippines"***, and that explains a lot why the museum shows more of it than anything. I can't help but appreciate the laborers and the farmers more as I saw every paintings and artworks that portrays them. My family is one of those farmers and laborers of the said industry. I grow up in a place where that sugarcanes are mostly the one I see everyday and the one that is the main source of income of the people.
Here's a next room, it shows more of the the artist's mental dilemma. Showing a masterpiece portraying themselves in the **State of Uncertainties**, **Resting Angel**, and **The Attack of the Undefeated Enemy**.
*State of Uncertainties by Edsie Sazon Valladarez*
*Resting Angel by Daryl Javier*
*The Attack of the Undefeated Enemy by Roedil "Joe" Geraldo*
This is another room showcasing the past culture of the Negrense like the ritual healings and when neighbors have arguments turning into a fight.
This room speaks a lot about the culture and history of the Southern Negros back then. One portray shows the **Moro Raids in Ilog City** that also happened in Bacolod, which is the people living in the shoreline moved out and settled on the hillside. They created the first barangay, formerly known as ***"buklod"*** and now called Bacolod.
Other portrays show about how the people fish in the seas, hunt animals, and how they interact with their neighbors. There is also one portray that shows the burial practices and the old way of healing through the help of a **Babaylan**. Faith healing is still common in the countryside and the practice still goes on since there are still a lot of people who believes in it.
Some artifacts are also displayed beneath the portrays. Old jars that were used to store food and water and there are jars that are used to bury a dead body. Bows and arrows that are used for hunting animals in the wild, old and worn fishing boats, and the old tool used to mill rice, corns, or to smash boiled banana called ***"lusong"*** in a Hiligaynon dialect is also displayed. I smile whenever I see that, because I have experienced how to use that tool in the countryside.
There are more to see and learn from the museum but I already posted the other pictures in **Hive**. If you are interested to learn more, just read my **"The Negrense Cultural and Historical Art Exhibit"**. I'm sure you can see more great pictures and visualize what the museum can offer to the tourists and residents who wants to more about the history of the Negros Island, not just this but also how talented are the Negrense Artists. https://peakd.com/hive-163772/@ayane-chan/negrense-cultural-and-historical-exhibits
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Classes, Delegations, and Badges
**Howdy, readers!**
It's been a while since my last post. Sorry about that. I have been caught with certain activities in real life and got occupied with some unexpected events. Lately, I have just known that my school's registrar change their employees and the previous ones don't care to render. Now the new employees are having a hard time with the tasks that has piled up and that's why their announcements were late.
Even the higher years were late to received their **Certificate of Registration** which also contains the subjects, schedules, and the credentials that will be used to log in at the school's portal. Last Sunday, the school announced that the class will start at Monday *(which is yesterday)* and regarding with the CORs, they said that they are doing their best to follow up. For those who received theirs, they can already log in to the portal and start their classes. For those who don't have it yet, will have to wait until Friday. If it can't be still received by Friday, students are adviced to message the Facebook page of the registrar's office or the school.
It explains a lot now but I still wished they made an announcement about the lacking manpower at the registrar's office earlier, so the students wouldn't just wait and gettting hopeless everytime. Anyway, it's always busy at Hive, too. Just finished curating the weekly blogging contest entries and submitted the bests out of it. The winner have been announced also, and now we're running the **Week #4 Blogging Contest of August**.
Along with the hardwork, I didn't expect to receive delegations from other people, too. I surely need this one to create more engagements since I still consider myself as a newbie despite the achievements.
I have earned 125 HP in my account and delegated 20 HP to @OfficialGamboaLikeUs to help her start as a newbie in the platform. Then, 3 days ago, I received 200 HP from namiks. I just have seen this person and made some interactions with him at the ***Self Improvement and Hive Book Club Community***. Then, another interaction was made when he slid into the HivePH server last time.
Another 20 HP is from the Hive Book Club community. I received that as a consolation prize for participating in a contest there last time. Now, I have a total of 325 HP. I don't know up to when will they lend me this delegations but I'll make sure that I'll make good use of it.
I should have give thanks and good credits to @DennMarc for this one.
It is because of his post here that I have known how to have that **Curated Content Collections' Badge**. Just like him, I just feel proud everytime I see my profile with a lot of badges. It is like a displayed trophy of our hardwork. Though this one is just so simple to be acquired, it still feels great to see many badges on my profile.
I'm still saving up pizzas from airdrops and tips. I'll stake some if I could accumulate at least 20 Pizza, so I could have another badge. My main target to get a badge from actually is to have it from **Cinnamon Cup Coffee** since I'm a coffee lover. Yet, when I checked the community's staffs, they aren't a lot. They don't have any regular members also just like in Hive PH and other communities. There's no any harm to try harder to get in, I guess. Who knows, maybe I can be the first one to be their member and have that badge. *Laban lang, gurl*. 😆
*Anyways, may those unfortunate events can make me feel down by now but I wouldn't back down from everything by now, and not ever. Despite those things and the problems that has been always piling up, I'm still blessed with these things and achievements. I should just be thankful for everything that I received instead of complaining. That's why here I am sharing some good news to all of you and spreading good vibes.*
*More power and more achievements for all of us. May we all flourish in wherever platforms we are currently writing. Thanks for reading as always!*
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Cancelled Plan And Some Questions
I already received a response from my friend earlier and he isn't going to sleep at their cafe near my place, so I don't have someone to go with me to the live band which is happening right now at Bacolod's New Government Center. I have to cancel the plan, though I love to *go. Until next time then, Arthur Nery*... 🥺
It's fine, though it's just kinda sad that I can't get to experience it. Safety first before anything else. I can't die tonight. Just a month more to go and Masskara Festival will finally be celebrated again after getting cancelled for 2 years because of the pandemic. It seems that people don't feel that there is still Covid-19 since business is booming. We are just adjusting and living with the virus. Gatherings are now allowed but still with the mask on.
Anyway, let me just answer these questions from the article that @Ruffa shared a while ago.
You know, when I'm in the shower, I think about you. Do you do the same thing?
Yes, I think about money since my crush can't give me some even if I think of him. I think about how can I earn it, multiply it, and how can I budget it wisely. It is the part where it sucks the most —*the budget part*. I feel like making friends with the detective in an anime with an unlimited balance in his account. Where can I find you, huh? Pautang po. 🤧
Would you rather own a dragon or be a dragon?
I want to own a dragon then train it, so it would follow me everywhere and help me anytime *(How to train your dragon yern?)*. I gotta travel the world for free because I can ride at its back, fly at the sky, and it will send me anywhere I go. Less expenses from transportation fares, ain't it good? Also, it can be my protection. Anyone who would dare to harm me will be burnt to ashes and the number one victim of this will be those bad Marites in town. Burn those mouths!
As of right now, if you were to die, what would you leave me in your last will and testament?
If you can be trusted, then I'll give all my Hive keys and seed phrases. My daughter is just a kid, she can't understand how crypto works yet. If you could hold my keys for her, then I can put some good words for you in heaven, *lolz*. Just give it to her when she can already understand it and you can take one-fourth of my balances.
What's your favorite smell?
Everyone knows this already —the smell of **coffee**. It's my source of energy to get moving and be active everyday. I can't be productive if I can't drink a cup of it. Just a smell of it and it can get me going for a few minutes. What's more if I can have a lot of cups, then it's gonna be a whole and a whole night if I can.
If there were no consequences for a day, what would you do?
***Rob a bank!*** I'll do it for sure because I need money. I can't be imprisoned nor they can take it back from me since there is no consequence, then it will surely be a jackpot. I'll make sure to get enough that can live me off for the rest of my life.
If you were a flavor, what would you be?
**Bitter**, because I'm bittergourd and bitter towards life but anyway, I still want to live. It's just that the world is unfair to me but it's also unfair to anyone and it looks like its playing fair yet its actually not. *And*, that one makes me a bitter person on that perspective. 😏
I hope you enjoyed reading that one. If you like to answer this questions, too, just **click on this link** and find what questions do you like. https://pairedlife.com/etiquette/Funny-Questions-to-Ask-Your-Friends
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Better Safe Than Sorry
Though I'm not watching news on TV, the case about abductions are widespread that you just have to get out of your house and it's everywhere in the streets. Even my friends knows about it and their parents are now in panic if they would allow them to go out or not. Even us got frightened about it also, especially that the targets are young girls.
Here in **Bacolod**, a similar news was also broadcasted yesterday. A girl was forcibly urged by two men to board a motorcycle and was brought to one of the subdivisions in Bacolod. According to a radio interview, she said that she was maltreated and molested by the suspects but happened to escape from their hands the next morning when the suspects were still sleeping. She walked to the downtown and asked for help and luckily a concerned citizen have helped her. *[Source:* *SunStar Bacolod News**]* https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=pfbid02vpfHJEKZD8UtVZ7Vg9xabZ4mQfGztPoUdX7VKDjEucGrSgxnnYGSNMSJHFLdiFM8l&id=505284372974737&sfnsn=mo
We are still contemplating in our group chat in Messenger since this morning if we will push the plan of going to a free concert at the New Government Center tomorrow night. It is an event catered by the **Tanduay Rhum Festival**. It started last August 12, 2022 and tomorrow August 20, 2022 will be the highlight of the event featuring bands like Arthur Nery, Magnus Haven, Ethan Loukas, and other local bands.
***Source:*** ***Tanduay Rhum Festival Facebook Page*** https://www.facebook.com/348683632508777/posts/pfbid0k97XYxFMqq316FxYzYvqrMncVEYyiwHcVA89Az4CMfAqgaTZsME5rUZp11thyjxql/?sfnsn=mo
These are popular bands and this event will only be happening once in a year. It is expected that the venue will be flooded of people when the clock falls at 8:30 pm. Surely, it will be much safer there since a lot of police officers, medics, and government officials are looking out around the area while the event is held. Yet, since the event will start late in the evening, surely it will also end late at night, and probably midnight. When we go home, those officers who were watching out at the venue wouldn't volunteer to send each of us home afterwards. We will be on our own after that.
The problem lies there now. As I said earlier, my friends' parents are already in panic because of the news and they don't allow them to go. Some of my friends choose not to go also. I, on the hand, since there is no one who will forbid me here but myself, the choice is up to me if I will go with the plan or not. I'm not the one who will also hang out at night. I go out and have fun but 6 pm is often my limit since highschool, whether there is someone who will scold me for it or none.
I'm still playing it by ear if some of my friends will go. There is one friend of mine that is sleeping at his workplace near my place and I'm still waiting for his reply if he will go or not. My decision will depends on him now, since we can go home together after that. If he will go, I'll go. If not, then even if how badly I want to go to that concert, I have to cancel that plan.
***It's better safe than sorry***. I'm thinking that I can experience more concerts in the future if I can live longer than tomorrow. No matter how good that concert is, if anything bad will happen to us *(which I hope none)*, it's not totally worth to risk for. It's better to stay at home *(where it's much safer)* and just watch those Facebook lives about it.
Though I like to watch live bands, I can't really take the risk if I'm alone. I will better wait for the Masskara Festival at October since a lot of bands and different personalities will also visit our place.
To all of the people who are often outside or going home late, take care!
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To the Mountains or To The Sea?
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*How's life lately?* I can't yet regain my focus after that shocking event in Hive. It's not just me but all of us in the Filipino Community and for some people in Hive who knows her. It's saddened all of us, but we also need to continue our lives while helping the family as much as we can. I'm just looking for prompts in **Pinterest** now, so I could have something to write without pushing myself too much.
So, here's what I have found. A questions asking if ***I would rather have a trip to the mountains or to the sea***. Sounds tricky since I like both but I only have to choose one. Which one, really? Hmmmm?
To the mountains or to the sea?
If I have to choose now, that would be to the **mountains**. I'm not the type who loves to swim in a salty water but rather who will only sit in the sand at the shore and look at the waves since it sounds are soothing. I'm not fun to be with if you will have a trip with me to the sea. I don't like surfing, boating, or just stomp my feet at the salty water. I know how to swim but I don't really like its salty waters.
However, if you come with me to the mountains, I'll surely be the most energetic of all. I wouldn't mind the walk, the hike, the heat of the sun, or the coldness inside the forest. Perhaps, it's because I was born on the countryside wherein mountains greet me every day on a distance. Where the sun rises on the eastern part and it should climb the mountains first before it can shine.
I'm more into highland resorts than beach resorts, actually. Here in Negros Occidental, I have been to Campuestuhan Highland Resort for 6 times already, once at Mambukal Resort, and once at Canlaon City, but I can't share any pictures of me because I don't like taking pictures back then. The memories just etched to my brain and will forever be treasured.
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The other parts in the mountains that I want to go next is the Don Salvador Benedicto and in Candoni. These places are still on my bucket list and when I have the budget, I'll probably go even if I'm alone. They said that there are a lot of cafes there at Don Salvador and I want to try some highlands coffee and delicacies. In Candoni, I just want to visit my relatives that I haven't seen for years now.
It's fun to be in the mountains; you get to experience the abnormal weathers. For now it would be sunny, a little while later it would rain while it's sunny, then a rainbow would appear. The cycle just goes on and on for the whole day. I don't know but it is also super cold at there and I love that. It feels refreshing to me.
Things to see in the mountains
*It's not just about its forests and it highest peaks but also the beauty snd the paradise that lies within.*
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***Falls***. If I only tried to climb the Mambukal area where all of the 7 falls are located, I could see one but I haven't tried. ***Hotsprings***. This one is what I love the most. I'm always to comeback to the hotsprings. ***Plants and animals***. Flowers and fruits grow better in a cooler place and I often see it here that way. There are also animals that you can only see in that place like the monkeys, leopard cats, asian-palm civets, etcetera.
*Mountains has a lot to offer as much as the sea. It is just where you want to prefer it to be*.
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No Regrets 'Cause It Should Be That Way.
Being young and relentless, failures and mistake is expected. The immaturity is strong that it makes them think that they are right when they have their reasons. They will stand firm on their decision and would not listen to anyone. As long as they have their reason, they will go for it.
***Disclaimer:*** *I'm not saying that this is a thing for youngsters in general. I'm just speaking in behalf of my experiences and to anyone who has similar experience with me.*
I'm too sensitive, but not in a way that I will be hurt by criticisms and corrections that I will be receiving every time. I'm sensitive with my surroundings. I somehow know how to read between the lines, the atmosphere in a room, and much as well the words I can hear in a conversation though I can't see who's talking.
Just hearing how my parents fight every night while my other siblings are still sleeping, I'm the one who often feel the pain for them all. I'm too sensitive for that young age to just shrugged the situation off. I can't be insensitive like my siblings that will just wake up every morning like nothing bad have happened from the previous night.
I'm not like my siblings. I can understand what's going on at home. My mind wasn't into playing house, streetgames, and toys anymore *(which I should have done and enjoy my youth)* but I was more into the next step that my father would do everytime. I'm just praying that everytime I hear arguments again at night, there wouldn't be violence involved or I can't help but to commit one, too.
As a teenager who grew up in a toxic environment, rebellion within one's heart will have grown deeply from its roots and will explode until the limits are crossed. By the time that the patience are stretched enough and can no longer be streched more, the sudden pull to snap you back to reality is too surprising that in a blink of an eye, a serious damage was done when it was let go.
The moment that our father lashed it out on us, that boiling anger which I was keeping for years have overflowed. Anger and hatred motivates me to talk back until it also back fired to me and an unfortunate event have happened. ***It pushed to ran away from home.*** I know it was wrong but I don't have any other choice.
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I ran to my other relatives whom I have thought that could help me and they did, but it wasn't exactly the way that I have hoped for. I experience things that I have never done at home. I never thought that the helpless and hopeless feeling which I have felt at home would be felt twice as much as that when I'm away from them. Then, another thing have added, I felt worthless every time and I can't helped it.
Though I just felt worse, it never crossed my mind that I should have regretted what I have done. Yes, it was the worst feeling that I ever felt in my life but it has taught me a lot of lessons that I could never forget and that I'm still using them in my life with for now.
What I have done taught me ***to face the reality in life***. It's not always that merry and glories. It doesn't have always cherries and cupcakes. Most of all, it's not always full of rainbows and butterflies. There is also a side of rainy and gloomy. The hottest days and the coldest nights which I felt like the weather is making a fool out of me. In that young age, I have learned the real face of the world and it doesn't always go with the flow of what we wanted it to be.
Another thing is that ***it taught me how to be independent***. I learned ways that can help me survive at a young age. With how introverted I was, I managed to consign pastries from someone I know and sell it to my classmates in class. I'm not that friendly but if I needed to, I can manage it. I do a lot of stuffs as a side hustle on weekends that was supposed to be my rest days, but when you have no one to rely on, weekends are still weekdays.
I learned life's logic at a young age and ***it taught me how to properly discern things***, so I wouldn't get myself into trouble anymore. Yet, I have developed some trust issues with this but for the safety, it just became a regular thing. For once I taught that what I see is what I got, but along the way, it made me realize that it wasn't just like that. Not everything they do and say is always true. Sometimes people who will tell you things that you wanted to hear are the people who will take advantage of you and that one who have the hidden agendas from the start. So, what is trust issues when it can make you safe from fraudsters and scammers.
Those things aren't appropriate for a teen to experience because it was all the worse. On the contrary, instead of regretting and blaming myself for what I have done, I'm even thankful. *Yes, I am!* It is because if I didn't do that back then, perhaps I would be still ignorant of some things and remain a weakling and helpless that I was. I wouldn't learn how to stand on my own and fight for myself. I wouldn't be the strong and independent woman that I am now if ever. Perhaps, everything really happened for a reason.
This should have been my entry on Hive but I don't want to be much dramatic over there, but I can do it here since you are all used to this. *(Peace be with all of you!)*
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