How can I stop someone from writing "The End"
I am completely at lost right now.
How do I comfort someone?
Everything seems so fine, we talked about all the random stuff we could think of. I've been waiting this moment to comeback here at my boarding house to check on my friend who's been struggling since online class started. She's struggling and I am trying my best to persuade here, to keep trying. Keep trying to live and face her problems head on.
Am I really trying my best?
I am not upset that it seems I don't know how to help her. It's not about me. I'm just lost of words and I can't think of actions that'll be effective for her to keep going on. She's having suicidal thoughts. A lot. I talked to her. Asked if she want to seek professional help. But I think it's not reaching her. I am not upset because I need to help her, but I just want to figure out and try harder. She mustered great courage to tell me how messed up she is, I want to treasure her trust and do something for her. Maybe this is why some people don't want telling someone their problems, because they don't want him/her to be dragged down along with their misery. However, there are people who are willing to be with all your miseries and pain. They just need a chance for them to help you.
I pray that my friend will be healed soon. She told me that it's fine when she's with someone. Because she get distracted from all those anxieties and prevents her attacks. She told me she's happy that I am with her compared to when she's alone, however I start to think I'll be away again after a month and she'll be alone again and I am not sure until when she can fight those thoughts. I want to stay here with her until she can get back on her own two feet. If my words won't heal her maybe my silence will. Sometimes people don't want to hear anything, just knowing someone is rooting for them despite all, I think it's a significant help as well.
I'm lost because I don't want to leave her alone here. I want to be with her till she can do it on her own, how've the problem is, if I stayed here for too long, I have to start preparing for my board exam considering that I am just self studying, I have to browse on books and stuffs- and she don't want to see anything related to our course. Yes, we're both Chem Eng Student but she have to retake some subjects so we're not classmates anymore since online class started. And our course is a major factor why she's feeling this way. She got frustrated and afraid when she see chem eng books, chem eng students, our blockmates, tshirts connected to our course, and even our lanyard or ID lace. If I stay here with her for too long what will I do? Should I give up my plan to take the boards so I will not cause her any frustrations? I am willing to do that, I just don't want her to know that I'll do that for her, because she'll feel really bad. If I will not review while I am here, what will I do? Part-time work maybe.
I don't know about everything but my priority is to help her.
It's not my Style
Good evening wonderful people of the universe, how's your Thursday?
I went to my University at 10am because I will follow up our Thesis manuscript if the dean already signed it. I wait and wait but the window for transaction is close so I have no choice but to come home and rest first. I also eat lunch there, my friend who is my boardmate, cooked food so I have a free lunch yey.
At 1pm I prepare to go back but the rain suddenly poured and I don't have umbrella. So I waited for it to stop and leave my boarding house at 1:30pm. I meet my friend there and she went with me to the dean's office. The only file that given to me is the received form, the manuscript is not yet signed huhu I have no choice but to come back again tomorrow. We went to SM and eat at Mang Inasal. Have a little stroll and then went back to our boarding house.
That's how my day went. What's the connection with the title?
Well, before I went outside I am dressed up like not that simple, and I don't like it. I mostly dressed based on comfort not based on fashion. Tho i have my own style, I mostly prefer knee or above the knee length clothes or just pants and shirt. No fancy top. Awhile ago, I was looking for shirt and I can't find a comfy shirt to wear. I end up using my pants and then a crop top long sleeve. I was about to leave when I changed my mind hahaha I put on my shirt meant for home use (pambahay), tucked it in my high waist pants and tadah it looks fine and comfy hahaha
Too much fancy style and skin expose is not my style. I go for comfort ;))
That'll be my short article for today kamsahamnida!
My Travel to CamNorte-CamSur-Albay
Wednesday full of adventure, but mostly just hours of sitting.
Hi everyone, as I've stated (countless time lol) in my nc acc, I travelled today from our province to another so I can fix my clearance forms. I originally asked my groupmate to please have my clearance signed too but it seems she's not an effective *taga asikaso ng clearance huhu*
Our manuscript have been sitting at the office for a long time because my groupmate just left it there so I have no choice but to take charge. I dunno till when I'll be staying here but I hope I'll finish it soon. How've I want to stay here longer because my friend seems to have a problem and I want to help her. Please pray for me that she'll open up with me 🥺
My travel is longer than expected because I took the bus from my town to another city. So this is how far my place is from my University haha. My province, then another Province, and then another one where my University is located. If you'll ask me why I decided to enroll there despite the great distance, I dunno the answer either HAHAHA
View when I was riding the bus. I am still in my province during this time. We stop for a moment because the driver fixed something from the bus' wheel. After almost 3hours I reached Naga City, province of Camarines Sur (we're from Camarines Norte, Bicol). I walk a little from the terminal to SM Naga and had my lunch at Mcdo. While eating here's what I wrote on my phone's notes:
I arrived at Naga City at 12:00pm and I'm starving. I went inside SM Naga so I can have my lunch. I first went to Jollibee but I didn't see any vacant seat, this is the difficult thing travelling alone considering that I am not good with interacting with people, looking for fine lunch or meal I now transfer to Mcdo. But it's the same and the place is much smaller. I end up asking someone if I can share table and glad she agreed mwehe. You have no I idea how much courage I have to put up to ask her huhu
The view is really mesmerizing. I was already in the van here on the way to Legazpi City, Albay Province. Soon as I reached Naga City I just had my lunch and then travel again. It was an amazing experience because we take different route than the usual. Actually we're only 3 passengers. It's because one of the passenger have to catch her flight at 4pm and she have to get there earlier. If she wait for other passengers to come and ride the van, she'll be late so she agreed to pay all the vacant seats. Yaman hahah probably she paid more than ₱2,000. It looks like she rented the whole vehicle lol. We went to the airport first before the terminal so it's good for me too as I saw other places hahah. Thankfully I didn't get dizzy haha
Soon as I reached Legazpi City, I went to my University and let our department head sign our manuscript. Then my friend and I went to SM Legazpi and have some time there. At the food court, Mayon Volcano is really visible as there are glass windows. Also there's a small alley and you can enjoy the view.
I am now at my boarding house and glad I still have the energy to write this article. But, I am not sure if I can interact more so talk to y'all tom thanks for reading!
Take me back to Apuao
I was just scrolling my gallery hoping to find inspiration for writing an article for today. I don't want to skip even though it feels I can't squeeze my brain for any topic. I also get distracted as I browse my soc media accounts haha
Upon scrolling upto photos from 2019, I saw few shots from Apuao Island that we visited that same year. From our home, we went to bagasbas beach maybe 10mins ride via tricycle or if you have private vehicle. From that beach, we rode the boat and sail for about one hour. That was the first time I experienced riding a small boat along big waves, my knees are quite shivering hahaha. When we reach the Island I was immediately mesmerized how clean the water and beautiful the sand.
The water is really beautiful and refreshing. From clear colorless to green and then blue in color.
The sand is my favorite though. Look how it is like a super small cute rocks joined together, it's not like a typical beach sand that almost look like soil. I spend a lot of time looking at the sand more than swimming hahha.
Also, I didn't swim much because there are jelly fish ackk I dunno but I'm afraid because I think I'll get electrified once I touch it hahaha
Walking walking. Even though there are seaweeds buried on the sand it doesn't hurt ny feet so I keep on walking while I admire the view. Also, when we visited this place, the only people here are us (my family and my bro in laws' friends and family) and the care taker so it's like we own the island.
My niece in senti mode hahah. She's also amazed by the water and sand so she just sat there playing with it.
The trees that also give shade to the Island make it more beautiful and also refreshing. I don't know what kind of trees this is but is it pine trees? Not sure
More pictures of the beach in wider perspective. We actually went here because my sister's pre nup was shot here. We just tag along hahah.
And a picture of me back when my hair is still black and long. Ackk take me back to this wonderful Island.
Thank you so much for visiting this article. Hope we all have the chance to go out and visit the beach 💙
Have a good day!
What makes my Heart Flutters
To all the boys I loved before, this article is not for you.
Cheret hahahah wala maayos na intro kung ano ano nalang huhu
Konnichiwa mina! I hope y'all had a wonderful Monday. It's a lazy Monday for me but I still managed to do my laundry. I didn't open my laptop tho to fix my files might do it later. I really have to do my laundry today because I will travel to my University this Wednesday and probably stay there 2 weeks or more huhu. I have to finish ny clearance both in University and department. Maybe some of you have already know it as I have posted it on nc multiple times lol.
Since I am really close in finishing my course there are a lot of things I am grateful for. Seeing those hardbound copy seems like the fruit of our labor. Thesis and our Chemical Plant Design hardbound copy and also the final grades that we get. I am really happy.
Who wouldn't be thrilled when you see you received flat one, highest grades, to a subject that depends your kapalaran if you'll graduate or not? I am so kilig as I saw this and thank God for this reward. Yes, grades are just numbers but I am not the type of person who will invalidates someone's achievement just because I didn't achieve the same thing. I honestly received failing marks (5.0) during my lower years and I can say I am proud that I didn't stop there, I didn't give up and continue my course. Look how fullfiling it is, I am near the finish line.
I don't have a pic of the hard bound copy of our thesis but it's soooo elegant for me because it's white hehe
Another thing that made my heart flutter is the hardbound copy of our Chemical Plant Design. Gosh this is super stressful to finish. Even it is by group you'll still feel the pressure and difficulty individually as we have one unit assigned to us. I will also have a copy of this hehe. Our grades here is 1.6 we are 3rd highest of all the groups 💛💛💛
This made my morning extra special. I love how he constantly message me RANDOMLY just to ask how am I doing. And now he messaged me like this as if I did a lot for him when in fact we was the one who often checks on me 🥺 such a cutie kiddooo. He is my junior and I let him borrow my books in Calculus. I also send some files connected to our course but I didn't feel like I did something major. So, it really makes me happy how grateful he is to me even though I didn't realize I impact that big to him.
These were just some and recent events or things that made my heart flutters. I still have a long way to go but I can say I already reached far from my starting point.
I will end this heart fluttering article with a picture of my snack, gosh I craved for this almost every day 😭
Sunday filled with Cuteness
It's a little late to write an article but I'll write anyway ☺️ I've been skipping a day or two of writing article and I am just starting again with the one article a day unspoken rule of every writer/blogger of read cash community. So yup my Sunday is actually filled with Cuteness. I travelled yesterday going to my church mate's house so I can join them on visiting other brethrens. I spend the night there and then we went to church together. As the sermon was finished, we had fellowship and then lunch. After that, we clean the church building. While I wait for my sister in Christ to finish with their accounting, I just played and have some chitchat with the younger brethrens (Elementary students).
They grabbed hymnal book and they started to sing. I told them I to sing again and I will record and video them, glad they agreed. When they are singing my heart is actually melting🥺🥺 they're like sweet and cute creatures I want to keep and put inside my pocket 😭 (crazyy) my heart is really soft with kids.
I let them sing the worship songs that they know. It's cute to know that the only boy there can't read that fast, he's just acting that he can read the lyrics haha but the truth is he already memorized it that's why he can sing together with her sisters. Yes, all of them are siblings. They have another sibling, the youngest she's a girl.
My family actually went swimming. I didn't come with them because Sunday Sermon is much important to me. My uncle celebrated his birthday today that's why they went outing. I saw this picture in our group chat. My mom and my nephew both of them are sooooo cute.
Another cutie. He is Prince, my nephew also and inaanak. He is my cousin's son. They are almost of the same age of my nephew (2nd pic). They are really cute and adorable I want to squeeze them heuheu.
So this is actually how my Sunday was filled with Cuteness. I want to rest now so I am ending this article with a photo of a peaceful scene as I went ride the bus on the way home.
Tell Me your Dreams: Book Recommendation
Happy Saturday. Upon reading @Murakamii.7 article regarding a favorite book I was reminded by this novel that I read maybe 8 years ago. This is just one out of the many books that I really love.
Tell Me Your Dreams, based on the notion of Multiple Personality Disorder or Split Personality, is an entertaining, and interesting story created by Sidney Sheldon. Ashley Patterson is the novel's primary heroine, and the mystery revolves around her and three other characters: her coworkers Toni Prescott and Alette Peters, as well as Ashley's father. This is such an engrossing work that you won't put it down until you've finished it, since each chapter contains a concealed suspense that makes you want to read more. The first few chapters are a little puzzling, but once you get through them, everything falls into place and you can move on.
I read this when I was still young, it was my first encounter with violent words and some words not meant for children. I always asked mom about some words and she answered it without hesitation, maybe because she don't want anybody else to explain it to me. I don't know about multiple personality disorder so I was really surprised by the turn of events in this book. I finished this just a few days and I remembered I was staying at the hospital that time, I forgot why tho.
I don't know who own that book but I just stumbled upon it while we're cleaning the house and it was just a black book. I mean, it seems the original cover is torn and someone just covered it with black.
Three women are presented at the start of the narrative and their differences are demonstrated. Ashley is a stunning woman who works for a computer company in Silicon Valley. Toni is a British woman who is bold, aggressive, and enraged enough to kill someone. Alette, on the other hand, is very serene, dreamy, and romantic. She is a native of Rome. Ashley, Toni, and Alette are shown to have quite different personalities, however Toni and Alette get along swimmingly, whilst Alette is pleasant with Ashley but Toni is harsh with her. Several murders are done in a similar manner in the early stages of the narrative.
If you enjoy suspense novels, this is the book for you. Even if you are not a regular reader of novels, you still will enjoy it.
I have an ecopy of this I can share and send it to your email if you want just comment down hihi
What makes my Life Adorable
Life, at times feel so tiring and frustrating. The endless challenges and failures one after another seems like a continuous episode we want to stop. But no matter how hard we try, we still end up waking from the same cycle that we have.
There are a lot of motivation we can consider. Be it our family, friends, or even our passion and talents. Just to make our every day different and break the monotonous journey.
We can always try to look for something that inspires us. The reason why we keep on moving forward. My family is of course the one I always get strength and also the reason why I keep on moving despite the rocky roads. But, sometimes our family frustrates us too. When this happens my life is still bearable because I have my pets. My cutie kitties which makes my life Adorable.
She's now 2 years in my care. Have 3 batches of babies but sadly no one survive from her recent pregnancy. She gave birth to 4 lovely black kittens but one by one they meow their good byes. But I'm still thankful with the small time I am with them. My cat don't have enough milk because she don't want to eat much from the past days. Maybe she's also stress with her lost daughter from her first batch of pregnancy.
She's Coco. Charlotte's first daughter. Charlotte gave birth to 3 kittens on her first batch of babies and only Coco survived. After a year of being with us, she suddenly left. It broke my heart but then I still go on as I have my Charlotte to take care of. She leave the house when I was staying on my boarding house because of school works. Still, even though she's not a sweet cat her memories make my life adorable.
She looks like her mom soooo much. We named her Vivor since she's the only one who live among the 4 kittens how've after few weeks she also passed away.
Look how adorable this mom and daughter bonding.
Playing hide and seek
Laki laki na pababy pa haha
These cuties makes my life Adorable in a whole different way. They're are difficult to raise at times as they have to be disciplined too but just seeing them sleep makes my heart at ease.
What makes your life Adorable?
Thank You for Waiting
The thing is, we should have enough love to wait. Sometimes, we thought patience is the only thing we need so we can wait, not just for people but the things we want to accomplish or achieve.
Without the love for a specific "thing" we can't actually wait for so long. Waiting is also a form of love and trust. It feels like the person you want to be with is nowhere to be found, wait. The goal you want to achieve seems to be far and out of reach, wait. Have enough patience and love for whatever you are waiting for.
We may feel most of the time that whenever we work hard for something, it gets father and harder to reach. The moment we could actually achieve it starts to depart and grow distance. A person that we've been waiting for so long appears like an imagination covering the reality. We may feel hopeless. Demotivated. Lost. How've we should still think that if it's not yet that specific moment maybe tomorrow. As long as we have that courage to wait while we work hard for it, the time will come that we could actually achieve it. There may be series of hindrances, detour, delays, but it doesn't mean it won't happen. At some point, some things that don't happened the way you want it to be is because God knows that it's not for you. Or a person is not the one for you. He is always in control. It's not actually a delay, but rather the right timeline, your own timeline.
Remember that, maybe it's not now, but it doesn't always mean never.
Just a little Update
I feel like I am already tired even it's just Monday. I've been doing a lot of physical and mental activities that makes me exhausted.
Physically tired because I wake up in the morning and immediately take a bath so I can help my sister at her canteen. What I do is clean the area, cook food that I can (frying street foods) and also display it. As my sister cook other food like viand I assist the customers that come to our store. The busy hour starts at 11:30am to 12noon and then we'll have a rest of 1-2 pm. During this time, I do my academic requirements and need my braincells to function well. After that, 3-5pm will again be the busy hours since students start to finish their class and ready to head home. At 6pm we start to clean and close the store and also wash remaining dishes. My sister will cook our dinner and I'll wait for it, bring home food for me, my sister, and mom or sometimes just for me and my sister. I usually can get home at 7pm.
After I ate, even though am tired and sleepy I have to help with our group tasks. We are now finished with all the defense and stuff but we are still revising and fixing our papers so we can print it and have our hardbound copy. My friend also help us with our clearance so she's the one who look for the professors and ask them to sign it and relay to us what fees we have to pay as per requirement.
So speaking of fees, we really have a lot. So far the only fee that I have completed is the graduation pictorial fee which is ₱2000 ($40). And then the long list go on.
Graduation Fee - ₱500 ($10)
Alampay - ₱1,300 ($26)
Stamp 4pcs ₱30 each - ₱120 ($2.4)
Thesis print -₱128.75
Thesis hardbound-₱300
Chem Plant Design print-(not yet final but our paper have almost 400 pages)
Chem Plant Design hardbound -(₱600)
Other expenses like clothes, shoes, and contribution for those who went to our University every day for our clearance
That's not yet the final fees there more to come that's why I am trying to still earn here despite my busy schedule. I don't want mom to be burdened by so much fees because my sister is also a graduating student and have a lot of fees.
So far I need ₱2,348.75 to cover existing fees, so roughly ₱3k for other expenses that don't have final cost yet.
I tried looking for filipiñana dress but gosh it cost really expensive for me. I don't buy clothes that are expensive, the most expensive I did bought is 200 and it's a dress. I'm a cheapskate haha. The filipiñana I saw cost 3000-5000 pesos, it has a good design of my liking. Mom told me to ask for a tailor but I know it will be more costly. As for the shoes, I don't have heels. I actually wanted to buy lolita shoes because it's really cute but the price is not cute hahah I saw one in shoppee that cost 1,000 pesos and err dunno if I'll have money for that hahha
Well, these are just little update with ny life as I am so inactive from the past days.
And btw we will be closing our store temporarily and will open again next academic year (August 2022) I have to start focusing on my study plan for my review before I take board exam and my sister have another work . I think I'll miss those highschool students that often buy and eat in our store. They remind me of my youth, gosh I just sounded like a middle aged woman hahahah
Well, that's it for today. Till next time!
A Feeling to Express
I forgot all the things I want to say.
I don't talk much either.
Should I just hug you and pat your back?
Sometimes, I don't want to hear words of encouragement, are you like that too?
Is smiling be enough?
Thank you?
How can I express this gratefulness?
A gift? What exactly?
You're constantly there.
You're one of the reason why I am here to begin with.
You love me more than yourself,
I can never love myself as much as you do.
"I love you" will never be enough.
"Thank you" seems a casual thing.
I hope you can feel my genuine care, even I am bad at expressing it.
Mom, I am always happy that you are my home.
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How can I ever express how thankful I am to a person who love me more than herself? I just can't help but wonder.
Quality Education where are you at?
Just another busy Thursday (^._.^)ﾉ
To all those students out there, you are doing a good job so you better keep going.
Education. One of the most important thing we can acquire. It's like discovering new places and finding the world broad and indeed wonderful. Education give us opportunities to improve or break a cycle of unfortunate things. How can we say that someone is a well educated person? I think it's not just about the degree a person holds, or how many certificate, trophies, and medals they received. It's also about the dept of your understanding, how much solutions you can hive in certain problems. Also, it defines someone who can understand people's situations and be able to help and give consideration. It's not about how many math problems you can solve with ease, or numbers of debate you can win. It's also about your character.
I think we all deserve a quality Education. A good system that will help us develop our skills and improve our weaknesses. We've been studying almost 50% of our lives, but how much learning can we actually get?
I want to share something that's a bit alarming. It's the quality Education that one of the colleges here in our area. I am not generalizing and putting the blame to all the teachers of this school, or saying that this college has a poor quality education as a whole. This is just one of the things that make education poor that I myself have witnessed.
My sister is an Elementary Education student. So yeah she's a future educator. They have a lot of paper works and demo teaching that will help them in their future career and of course train them as a teacher. My sister told me that they paid someone to do their research and just submitted it to the prof as if they did that. For me, it shouldn't be like that, because they should learn how to do it themselves. Actually a lot of people let someone do their research in exchange of payment, I can understand them. Being a student is difficult that sometimes things go out of hand and also because of lack of time. Also, if you're course isn't actually focus on doing such thing, I think it's fine to let someone do it. But, you should at least read and understand the contents.
My sister asked me if I can finish it since they can't pass it yet because they have to follow their prof's format. I was like "you'll just follow the format like change the Section Title, pages, and all, it's not that hard" (told this in a most soft tone that I can). Since she's from the old curriculum, she didn't experience doing research, one of her groupmate doesn't have laptop and live far from here, while the other one is not helping at all (that's why gets ko naman bat pa sila nag bayad). I told her to show me the file and upon reading it I immediately asked her "did your prof check this?". That's the paper that they paid for ₱700 and they were told it's already done like Chapters 1-5 and they submitted it to their prof and all they have to do is to revise the format BUT I SWEAR THIS IS NOT FINISH AT ALL 😭😭 LIKE DID YOUR PROF EVEN OPEN THIS?? okay okay I am not boasting my abilities but what?? they were told that the one who made that action research went to national competition for research paper, and as I read it, the title is not even connected with the Statement of the Problem. The one who did it went National but don't know the basic rule that in research, you can't use "I, we" but rather use "the researchers/proponents"?? They got scammed.
What stresses me more is they submitted it as a proposal but the prof just didn't realize how messed up the paper is. The conclusion is really funny that if I am the prof, I will surely give you failing grades if you will not revise it. They can't do a proper conclusion because they didn't perform surveys. They don't even have results aside from the number of males and females in that particular grp of ppl who are their respondents. No survey data, no results, of course no conclusion. It's sad to know that the prof did not check their work. Like, how about those who exerted effort and time to finish it? How about those who need his/her guidance to improve? Research is not soley the basis of quality education but the point is, that prof is teaching future educators, so, that prof want his/her students not to check works submitted to them as well?
Told my sister, no, I can't do this in one night because I have my own manuscript to revise, if ever I don't have maybe I can do it. I have to start all over again since Statement of the problem palang di na connected how much more yung flow. They end up paying again to fix it, I hope it'll be fix and this time hoping the one they got is decent one. Maybe even they don't fix it and just revise the format the prof won't know but for me, if I will do it, I want to make it right. I know that professors have a lot of tasks given to them, but they give tasks to students too so it's part of their responsibilities ;((
I am that Sung Bo Ra in the Family
Hello wonderful people of the universe, how are y'all? Tuesday, Choose things that will improve your self. Most importantly, choose eternal things. Take care of your spirit not just your flesh.
For today's Article I will talk more about myself. I am not fond of discussing stuff about me but yeah most of you (99%) don't know me personally so I think it's fine to share a little. Who among you is like Sung Bo Ra in a family, or Sung Deok Sun? But before that who are these people?
Both are just imaginary characters from a kdrama series entitled Reply 1988. Maybe most of you have watched it as it already aired 7 years ago. I watched this long ago when I still watch some kdrama but now I stopped watching it as it eats too much of my time and I have my more important priorities now. But I can say this is good as it talks about a lot of family matters and friendship. It also centers on youth, that, even if we don't want to, we'll soon grow up and end up just reminiscing our "youth". For me this is the saddest kdrama ever. Did someone died? No. Is it because the guy we all thought Deok Sun will end up with doesn't appear to be like that? Not that also. But, it leaves this saddening fact that we can't be forever with those people we grew up with. For someone who have childhood friends, my heart aches whenever I remember the ending of this series.
Sung Bo Ra and Sung Deok Sun are siblings. Bo Ra is the eldest while Deok Sun is the middle child and then they have youngest brother (i forgot the name lol). The struggles of being a middle child is well discussed here as the main character, Deok Sun, portrayed this order in a family. How've, what catches my attention is Bo Ra's character. She's the typical eldest sister who is strict and should always be followed whatever she said to the youngest. I am the youngest in the family but I can relate with her. Because her character shows a strong personality, and having difficulty of showing her care to her parents. She find it hard to express herself in a softer way. Yes, I am that Sung Bo Ra in a family. Masungit, madalas nakasimangot, at hindi sweet sa parents o mga kapatid. Yes, I am Bo Ra. That scene when Bo Ra envied Deok Sun when she cared for her mom when she's undergoing menopausal stage, because she don't know what to do, she don't know how she can make her mom feel better, but her sister, on the other hand just do it naturally and without difficulty as her sister is soft and sweet as she is.
My 4th sister is whom I see like Deok Sun. She's always the softer one. One of the most caring. She's a good older sister to me and a good younger sister to my 1st-3rd sisters.
Even to my niece and nephew, for them I am the bad guy haha and my 4th sister is the good tita. It's because I have small patience with their disrespectful attitude while my sister just say "ayy mali". My niece and nephew are close to me too but they know I will scold them anytime when they act out. When my 4th sister come home they are always excited but that's not the case to me. It's because of my masungit character that's why I don't blame them. Actually, my friends see me a really childish girl. That's my other side. But, they also witnessed my straightforward ever mean side haha.
I am that Sung Bo Ra who doesn't know her mom/dad's size in clothing making it hard for her to buy stuff for them.
Although, I may not be the Sung Bo Ra who is responsible and most tough in the family, the Sung Bo Ra who is really smart and do good in school, I am the Sung Bo Ra who try her best to show affection to people that she cherish so much. She's trying, she is me.
I am that Sung Bo Ra.
~ huyyy ang cute nya kaya huhu sana cute Bo Ra din me hahaha choss thanks for stopping by!
Introducing DARLicious Food Products
Who doesn't love food? No one can live without it, well you may survive for a few days without eating (as long as you have water) but you'll eventually get weaker and weaker if you don't consume food. That's why don't skip meals and take care of your health 😌 (says me who don't eat breakfast HAHAHA)
ANYWAYS, since I was so busy with the canteen awhile ago I still managed to took some pictures of our products. Tho not all because customers start coming and I am the only one who assist them since my sister is still cooking other viands. Our canteen's name is DARLicious, derive from her name, Darlene, and then from the word Delicious.
To start we have eggs for snack or if you want it as viand go! No problem 🥳
3 quail eggs of kwekwek for ₱12 and also a chicken egg or tokneneng with the same price. My sister made the orange flour but I was the one who dip and fry it.
Kikiam na medyo kupos na hahaha that's how Kikiam is, after you fry it it's so big and fluffy but as times goes by it become thinner. Customers asked to reheat it sometimes too. This costs ₱5 each sticks (4pcs of kikiam)
And tadahh fish na flat balls. Hahah eh flat naman talaga kaya pano naging fish ball. 6 pcs nalang to per tuhog tas five pesos per stick. Dati 50 cents lang to ihhh hays mahal na talaga ang mga bagay bagay tas dati yung kikiam piso isa lang yorn ihhh
I haven't captured other snacks like isaw dugo, squash ball, siomai etc. And amg na picturan ko lang na lunch is pakbet. Okoy and lumpia kanina yung other viands.
Photo of pakbet while it is being cook by my sister. Parang di pa luto sitaw? Di pa talaga beh wag excited pinapakuluan pa hahaha this is so DARLicious 🤤🤤 even though I am allergic to shrimp I ate this huehue bagoong is a small shrimp and pakbet is not pakbet without bagoong 😌
Dessert
We also have dessert like halo halo (nahalo at natunaw na hahah) Funny tho it rained real hard today, today is the first time we sell halo halo hahah
What we have last time was dokdok, you know that?
But now we decided to have Halo halo good thing as of today afternoon Mr. Sun is slowly showing up.
So yup that's it for today, will introduce other DARLicious products some other time.
Thanks for staying with me!
Sudden shift
Cold evening from my side. How are you all?
*Ame.*
Ame means rain in Japanese language. I love rain so much. It allows me to think and think of things. It's not the anxious way of thinking or overthinking just simply trying to reflect about life, past events and possibility of the future. I also love to read during rainy days and most of all sleep.
Having an allergy to cold makes me sometimes hate the cold weather. Because of course cold season means I'll itch and have rashes all over my body most especially after taking a bath. Also, rain reminds me of those times that our house is not sturdy. Before, rain makes us wake up in a middle of the night to put basins where there is a rain water leaking from the roof because it has holes. My sisters and I also go up near our roof to out hard paper covered with plastic cover then we will put it in between the pawid ano ba english dun haha nipa?? where the hole is present. Even though it's really difficult for us when it's raining I didn't hate the rain but don't wish for it either most especially when it's heavy or a stormy one.
However, from the past days I don't why I am experiencing a sudden shift. Whenever it's raining I can't keep myself at ease. When it becomes heavy and pours really hard, I can't help but be anxious. I don't know why. The worst is when it is accompanied by thunderstorm :(( I am not afraid with thunders before. I get shock whenever it comes but not to the point that I just wanna hide. If mom is not around or if someone in our family is not home yet amd it's raining I get paranoid. Hope I'll be able to fix and overcome with this.
It's raining right and my sister is still out there. Good thing mom is with me so am less anxious how've hope my sister will be home soon because it's stressing the fudge out of me.
Thanks for stopping by;)
I've got a Blank Space, should I write your Name?
Another episode of random sharing of different things in life. I am thinking to share about the new earning site I am trying to explore. Well it's just simple, a typical claim bitcoin every hour. But what I like about it is, it has a lot of features to earn a bit faster and no captcha just click the box but there's no need to solve captcha. Just don't get addict with the lotteries and stuff that will lead to lost of money. I will not provide detailed info for today's article because am lazy huhu but if you want to join just click this link below, register, then you're good to go, scroll down and click roll icon after you tick the captcha box.
Link:
https://freebitco.in/?r=49791170
I actually discovered it via @mc5punk 's article, so thank u mwehe I haven't cash out yet tho haha not enough balance but I think it's legit right?
Oh well, I am downloading files and recorded videos of our past lessons so I can watch it as I study for my review. I decided not to enroll in any review center now but I will still study like self review. I am not sure if I will take this coming October 2022 Chemical Engineering Licensure Examination or just take it next year on May 2023. Whichever the case, I'll still review after all my pending paper works. I am trying to organize my stuff and also build a certain study habit that I don't have since elementary hahahha I swear I only study if there's an exam lol As I reached higher years of college especially this year, I can't study because of too much activities and requirements.
I hope BCH will pump little by little and to stop this rumors of BCH dying grrr I haven't build a good business ahaha wag ka muna mawala bhiee and also I think It'll be super sad because I gained good friends here and some of them can only interact through these platforms, if ever these platforms will not be able to provide BCH how many users will stay? I will stay but honestly, I can't spend time like I used to if ever this site will not let us earn anymore. It's because I am now reaching adulthood and should be able to provide to my family so of course I will look for other side hustles while I do my job if ever I'll be accepted in a company one of these days.
I also remembered that my friends and I were talking last time regarding working abroad. I immediately told them, that'll be my super duper last resort. I mean, as long as I can find job here in our country I will not leave (charot charot lang na magpapa ibang bansa na ko after nung result ng elections hahah). I don't want to leave my mom. If ever I'll visit other country, I'll just visit but not work there unless I am with mom. I even told them that as much as possible I'll find job just within our province in which I can come home if not every day at least twice or thrice a week. I've been away from my family during my college life (2 years before pandemic) and my dad's death gave me this feeling and urge of not being away with mom for a long time.
This article is getting long so I'll end this here, hope everyone is healthy and fine. Awhile ago, I stared at this blank space article that's why I thought of writing your name. What name? Whose name? oh well I dunno hahhaha
Thanks for stopping by :))
What to do on the 24th day of May
Can't count how many times I rolled my eyes because of my laptop's slow and slow and super slow response ksksks it's draining my energy early in the morning. To avoid myself from completely losing it I decided to write my plans for mom's birthday. It's still 11 days away but for a low budget daughter like me, that preparation time is so little na haha
I am thinking of various ways to celebrate. Although mom told us she want a big celebration when she turn 60, I still want to give her threats for her birthday before she turns 60, afterall it's just 2 years before she turned into senior citizen. She don't want to admit that but yeah 🤣 Mom is getting older, that's the truth and I don't want her to work anymore. She already finish her responsibility since her youngest will now graduate. All of us finished our studies and I think it's something I should be proud of, because even we're just poor my parents managed to raised us five siblings and send us to school until college.
Going back, this is what I was thinking to celebrate mom's birthday.
1. Go out and eat in a resto
2. Spend time on the beach
3. Cook food in the house
4. Samgyup in our house
5. Buy food from resto but celebrate in our house
All choices of course required money. I don't want her to spend her own money because we already have a lot of debts to be taken care of because of some events happened from the past days. What I want to consider is of course if it will fit my budget, what we can enjoy most, and we can say that sulit talaga.
**Go out and eat in a resto**
Well, this is actually the easiest way to celebrate. I just have to choose a good place to spend and of course good food. How've, our time will just be less because after we eat we are of course need to leave unless we rent the place for how many hours.
**Spend time on the beach**
We recently went to the beach and actually mom told us that it's her advance birthday treat to us. I also consider the beach because I love the view and the kids really enjoy it. The problem is tricycle fare is too costly lol. Last time we spent ₱300 for fare alone, and if my sister didn't come, we will spend another 300 pesos on the way home because we don't have our own vehicle.
**Cook food in the house**
This is the easiest decision I can choose actually. My sister is a good cook as well as my brother in laws and I can be a good assistant hahah. I have things in mind that I want to prepare and this is less costly too. I am just hesitating because we always cook whenever there's a celebration and I think it's not bad to try other food like cooked by someone other than a member in our family from time to time. Plus, no one will get tired with all the preparation of food.
**Samgyup in our House**
Me and my sister was planning to try samgyup in our house but both of us don't have time and money from the past months. We have small stove, actually it's my sister's hahah it's a gift from their wedding but I guess they'll allow us to use that?? After all it's for mom. I am actually looking for stores that sell takeout raw meats with flavor and will also watch some yt vid for other stuff to buy. The problem is if it's too costly and I just remembered that mom don't like too oily and meaty foods nowadays because she said it's for her health since she's getting old now hahaha, hmm will buy or make salad if ever.
**Buy food from resto but celebrate in our house**
I think this is a good choice too. I crave for some Jollibee but am thinking other local resto here in our place. Since it's Tuesday (May 24, 2022), my sisters have work so it'll be good to celebrate it dinner time. I am thinking what food to order if ever it this will be my decision.
Hmmm am not yet decided and I will ask my sisters too. Most especially mom if she's free in her birthday lol most of the time she's in duty yah know nurses don't have holidays 🤧 I hope I can see her schedule so I can decide well.
Will update regarding this soon hehe
Thanks for reading!
Corn: Fruit, Vegetable, or Grain?
I think my random brain cells have the energy to talk about corn today.
Mom went home with some corns and I immediately get one and eat. It's not that I love eating corn but we seldom have corn in our house so when mom brought some I always have the urge to eat even though I have a bad memory about corn back when I was a kid.
As I eat this corn, I wonder if it is considered as fruit or vegetables. Then I am not sure why I thought of wheat and added grain in the options. Most probably agriculture people already knew the answer and can comment whether it is a fruit, a veggie, or grain, even without reading this article. That's good, I'll be able to get the answer from the experts mweheh.
Without further ado, based on what I researched on the internet, corn is considered as vegetable, fruit, and grain. What?? Yup I somehow feel dizzy haha so I dug deeper and saw this article.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.popsci.com/is-corn-fruit-vegetable-or-grain/%3famp
According to this, a single corn stalk has numerous ears (which are the plant's female parts) and one tassel at the top (which, as you can guess, is the male part). Pollen, often known as plant semen, is produced by the tassel. Those ears are effectively a hard cylinder coated in hundreds of unfertilized ovules before they resemble the luscious kernel-covered cob you eat. Each of these ovules has a single silk strand that extends up and out of the husk's top, dangling in the hopes of capturing pollen on its sticky hairs. If it does, the silk develops a pollen tube, which allows the male genes to reach the ovule and fertilize it.
Depending on the parts of the plant we eat, we distinguish between fruits and vegetables. According to Marvin Pritts, a horticulture expert and professor at Cornell University, "if we eat the component generated from the ovaries or other reproductive tissue, we term it a fruit." Everything else is referred to as a vegetable. "Maize is technically a fruit because it is a seed derived from the flower/ovary of the corn plant," he says.
Corn is a caryopsis, which is a form of fruit in which the seed coat is closely bonded with the pericarp (the fleshy section, similar to the part of a peach you eat). This implies they don't have a thick meaty covering, which aids in drying. Caryopses are also known by their popular name, grains.
Grains are thus a type of fruit. Corn, like wheat, millet, and oats, is both a grain and a fruit, hence it's a hybrid.
This gets us to the last part of the puzzle: is corn a vegetable? The answer is no, both botanically and scientifically. But here's the thing: "vegetable" is practically useless in everyday speech since it's utterly arbitrary.
There's a good, if philosophical, case to be made for sticking with the category that most people use. Maybe squashes are veggies if people think of them that way. Corn could be in the same boat. Pritts, for one, acknowledges that humans consume corn like other vegetables, but points out that this does not constitute it one. However, many individuals, including the US Department of Agriculture, consider corn to be a vegetable, and as "vegetable" is an arbitrary catch-all category, corn may also be considered a vegetable.
Then what's the answer? It's up to y'all hahaha each category holds good argument so whatever it may be just enjoy your corn 😂🌽
Thanks for stopping by!
Asian Regionalism
The source of Asian regionalism is economic interaction. Asian economies have grown not only richer, but also closer together, as a result of successful, out-oriented economic method. There are several factors that contributes to the said growth. How it all started? Since 1989, when the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) conference was established as a regional institution for economic cooperation, momentum for regionalism in Asia has gradually grown, leading to institutionalized regional progress. The development and use of multilateral intergovernmental institutions to share information, formulate, endorse and enforce common rules and regulations, and settle disputes are all examples of regionalism. The majority of memberships are based on common geographic space. The inclusion of regional income rise, removal of trade barriers, and advances in production and transportation technologies are some of the factors that influence the progress of Asian regionalism. Until the Asian financial crisis of 1997, Asian regionalism progressed gradually. Affected economies were unable to deal with major issues, and they learned that existing regional institutions were ineffective in either protecting or assisting the region’s recovery. There were two reasons for this inefficiency. First, the current mechanisms remained primarily regular debate forums that were unable to create the necessary resources when they were required. Second, Southeast Asian countries lacked faith in existing regional processes, believing they supported American and Western economic interests at the expense of regional government. The global economic crisis, which had a mixed influence on Asian regionalism, was by far the most major impediment. However, progress toward practical cooperation in trans-Pacific and East Asian regional frameworks has been slow at all. Regional economic integration faces unsolved obstacles, while multilateral security cooperation frameworks remain elusive.
Recently, the huge challenge that affects regional integration is the pandemic. There is a need of discussion between leaders regarding the impact of pandemic on the region’s linkages in the areas of trade and global value chains, cross-border investments, finance, and people’s adaptability. Despite the continuous progress of Asian regionalism, it is necessary to understand more about how economy can recover because of the aftermath of COVID-19 through regional cooperation. In general, regional cooperation and structural reforms can help Asian economies generate solutions and put their attention to aspects that has a potential contribution for the recovery of economic integration.
Defeat Accepted
I lost.
It was too early for me to do things on my own, I thought I could.
Maybe, most of us, especially those who experienced so much poverty since childhood will be able to understand my sentiments. As I earned my own money through read.cash to the point I can do groceries from it, I thought I can provide for my own needs without any help. Since noise cash started and the bot also visited my article after a long time, I managed to help my family with the bills and other things. They were proud of how I can handle things. I thought I can provide for my needs and my family's needs on my own.
I thought I can constantly help, and I really want to because I grew up having a lot of things I can't buy and my family is also enduring things. But, I can say I am happy I have this lovable family that despite being poor, we are loved and well disciplined by our parents. However, soon as I earned money I have this urge and want to continuously provide for them on my own.
I was wrong.
Soon as I started earning $100 in a month from both sites, I thought setting up a business will be a good thing so we can have a passive income even if both sites will die out (hope not please). It was a good idea but indeed a hasty decision. While business is about risks, it's also about planning carefully to lessen the risks of wasting money. That's what I failed to do. The business was already too big for me to handle and I didn't realized a lot of things that should've taken care of first. We opened a small canteen but it ate a lot of time and effort to all of our family. To the point I can't be active in both sites then I can't earn too. Mom have little rest too because after work she help us. We don't want to hire people because we can't still afford paying them. We also borrowed money for other things like tables and chairs and also capital for food. The rent also become too high plus utilities. Nevertheless, we keep on going.
I believe that these are just first challenges.
I think it'll be 2months since the canteen started but I can't pay the rent anymore. I admit defeat. Maybe it's too early for this kind of business. We don't have income from the past weeks that I am away because my sister have to fix things on her acads and she was sick the following days so our canteen was close.
Will I let go this canteen?
No. Not yet, am still figuring things.
I accept my defeat from my previous plan but am thinking of another way to keep this canteen. It's because it's not just a canteen, it's my sister's and her family's home now. Where will they go if I let go of this?
I can't do things on my own. I can't provide for my family's needs a hundred percent. Not yet, but soon.
I'll graduate this coming July so I have to focus on reviewing for board exam, but I will not take this exam this year hehe
Business is taking a big jump, however we can always take few steps don't rush things do it on your slowly but surely phase.
Thanks for reading lot's of love except sa mga--charot sana maganda ang araw nyong lahat kahit na red both ang stock market at ang crypto world 😊
First time voter, kabado bente.
[May 9, 2022]
Helloo ppl of the Philippines I hope y'all are beating the heat.
And to those ppl around the world, hope y'all doing fine 😊
I don't have mobile data to browse the net since am currently here at the elementary school where I graduated and where the voting for our Brgy. will commence. So I decided to write an article to ease my boredom and also utilize my time effectively.
There are a lot of people of course and I am really nervous because it's just my first time to vote. I also felt a sudden suffocation-- combination of crowd, heat, and my facemask that's a must. I want to pee and also drink cold water huhu what to do, I don't want to leave my line because I'm afraid when I come bavk hindi na nya pala ko mahal. Huh!? Naiba na hahaha I mean I'm afraid that if I come back from comfort room and canteen the line will be super duper long hahah.
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After 2 hours I already cast my vote. I'm happy that there were no errors and my vote was counted. Every time I got closer to the room where I have to vote and also as I interact with people ahhh my anxiety huhu. I don't want to look stupid so I calm myself and read instructions carefully. After few minutes of shading and also rechecking, I submitted it to the machine recheck the receipt and have my finger inked.
As I come hope 4 cutie kittens approached me. They're still nameless and am still thinking what to name the hihi these kittens are all Charlotte's kittens.
They're all adorableeee 🐈😺
Mom asking me to go the hospital so she can vote so babyeee thanks for stopping by ❤️
From up on D's Rooftop
Hello long time no published 🤧 and also I miss reading articles here huehue (sana di pa ko limot ni rusty at ninyo wickkdnskk)
The last challenge that I have to finish and overcome ended yesterday.
I passed the pre-board exam and I will surely graduate now 🥺
But, the struggles is neveeeeeeer easy. It's always a tearjerker since day 1. But, God allowed me to finish this course, I know that He guided me all throughout the journey. I am not yet sure about the other things but I really want to focus evangelizing my love ones and other people now that I am few steps to finish my bachelor's degree. Work? Board exam? Am not yet sure. Yeah people will find it odd that I don't have plans after this but I think some can actually relate. The difference is that, even I know I don't have a plan for myself I believe that God has plan for me.
The challenges before this success
Well, it's been really difficult since my first year as a Chemical Engineering Student. First year first semester I already got incomplete grade and drop one subject so I have to retake it. My prof dropped me and my other blockmates on that subject because he said it's better than having 5.0 (failed grade) in out record. So he's generous na nun hahaha I retake that subject and became an irregular student. Imagine I am still adjusting that time, new place, new people, new way of living, then I received failing grade on my first sem? I cried hard and always told my mom I'll come home and shift course. She said okay, it's on me whatever my decision they'll support me. Dad also told me the same. But I know dad wants me to keep going, he knows I am tough and his youngest won't give up that easily. While he was calling me one time, he asked me if I already fix my papers so I can trasfer school and shift course. It's funny how busy I am with all my ChemEng subject that I can't actually find time to fix my papers. I told him not yet, and it's like that until I he asked me if I will still shift then told me not to ("mashift ka pa baga? Wag na" with matching giggle cutiee). That's when I told myself I will finish this course for my parents. Not for me? Well, their happiness is mine.
The following years became more and more of a roller coaster ride. Failed exams here and there, the only difference is that, di na ko umiiyak HAHAHAH I become used to getting failing mark and then standing up again to fight. I didn't hear any complain from my parents even though they have to give me extra money for summer class and I seldom come home. My friends are the best, they make things less stressful. One of my advice to those who'll enter college especially when you don't know anyone, is that, be with people that understands you and make you comfortable. I have a super introvert friend and we understand her no and they also understand my i-don't-want-hang-out times. We are just hanging out while ranting hahah in our boarding house but sometimes I want my me time and I just sleep in my room while they are in the lounge. We mostly sleep too if we have time, it's cheaper than eating somewhere or gala here and there it's good for the body too hahaha.
Dad also told me he's not pressuring me and everytime I told him I failed this subject he always says that's fine and I can do it and that I can repeat it. He said he hope I finish my studies when he reach 60, that time, he was 55 so he's giving 5 years (my course is 4 years). Sadly, he past away at 55 February 2020 before the total lockdown. Papa, supposedly he's now 58 (mag 59 pa sa August) and am already finishing my my degree. I am a year early sa wish nya na maka graduate ako when he reach 60 but he's not here anymore. It was a bit saddening, but whenever I think that he's now away from pain it makes my longing bearable.
Third year and 4th comes pandemic, online classes is totally draining my energy. I had a small operation on my thyroid because I developed a lump which is due to my weakened immune system. It's because I was really stress on my 3rd year and overloaded units so I can be a regular student, but the consequence is I failed to take care of my health. I become a regular student when I reached 4th year.
Last April 20,2022 me and my friends traveled back to pur University. It was a long ride (almost 5 hours). Then we continue with our Chemical Plant Design, Thesis, and other requirements. Everyday is tiring to the point we don't sleep. First accomplishment is defending our thesis, we succeeded with a lot of good comments and praises from our panels ❤️ Then come our chemical plant design that stress out every cells in my body (🤧😭), it's a hood thing that our prof allowed us to defend our project because supposedly we have to pass our manuscript 2 days before our scheduled Defense but we end up passing it 2 hours before our defense. I didn't sleep during this time and it was 7am when the results (financial analysis of the chem plant) had errors. I have to rush things to finish it and in God's grace we passed it 10am. At 12pm we start presenting our paper and also received good comments with minor revisions. It was another accomplishment, PD defended! It's like we have 2 thesis this sem that's why it's difficult. Then comes pur pre-boards exam. This exam is what most of us are afraid of. Since we had our defense last May 5, the only time we can review is on May 6 because the next day is exam. Imagine reviewing all the lessons since first year in a day?? Gosh
It's impossible to pass that exam if I am only alone. But, God is with me. He let me pass it, it's not because of my ability but because he let things to be this way. What if it turns tge other way around and I failed that? I'll trust in Him that I'll pass the remedial, if I fail again and didn't graduate this year? I'll still trust His plans for me.
Faith on Him not on me.
This long journey of my college life will soon end. I had a lot of good and difficult experiences and both thought me several lessons in life.
From up on D's rooftop (boarding house) I am writing this while enjoying the wonderful view.
Thanks for stopping by ❤️
Kwentong Sabaw
Magandang hapon sa ating lahat. Recently kumakain kami ng lunch ng mga kaibigan ko dun sa silogan na malapit lapit sa boarding namin. Nilalakad pa ng mga ilang meter, yun na kasi yung pinaka malapit na kainan, sa totoo lang ang sakit nya sa bulsa ackk halos kada meal gumagastos kami ng 65 up or di na baba sa 40 pesos. Imagine kung araw araw 100+ pesos magagastos sa food pa lang ackkk samantalang dati napag kakasya ko kahit papano ang 500 one week or higit tas ngayon halos 500 ko 3 days nalang. Kaya di rin ako maka ipon kasi yung nakukuha ko sa noise and read pinapang dagdag allowance kasi dami na rin gastusin na hinhingi ko kay mama.
Pero ang ikikwento ko is ang sarap nung sabaw dun sa silogan na yun hahah. Dati may kinakainan din kami na karenderya, sarap din ng sabaw nila like nakakawala ng umay lalo pag mainit pa. Kaso ngayon take out lang ang inoffer nila bawal dine in, eh minsan gutom na gutom na kami pag take out babalik nanamn kami sa bh bago makakain. Pero miss ko na sabaw dun.
Another kwentong sabaw na di ko malilimutan at every time na kakain sa karenderya tapos may sabaw eh yun ang naalala ko talaga. Si papa kasi dati nung buhay pa sya and nag wowork so syempre dun na sila kumakain sa work nya super hirap ng buhay noon. Sabi nya kay mama ang ginagawa nya daw every tanghali is bumibili ng kanin tapos hihingi ng sabaw and yun na ang ulam nya. My mom was like huh? Bat di ka bumili ng ulam eh may budget naman kahit onti. Sabi ni papa di daw kasi nya alam kung anong ulam nila mama parang hindi daw sya mapakali na uulam sya ng masarap o kahit nung pinakamura na ulam sa karenderya tapos di nya sure if ano kinain nila mama. Huehue cutiee ni papa super caring 🥺
Me is recently and currently sabaw too acck. So yung another defense namin bukod thesis ay sa May 5 at dapat May 3 masubmit na manuscript eh ang dami pang kulang ksksksk so ayun sabaw na sabaw na utak ko kaka computer at kaka solve di ko na sure ginagawa ko sa buhay huhu I have a lot of sabaw moments too na sa super dami wala na ko maalala hahahah
How about you, what's your sabaw moments??
Peace as the Dawn Breaks
Let's start with a beautiful sunrise photo
Maybe, I already shared before that sunrise makes me more at ease. I love both sunset and sunrise but sunrise become part of me. It's like a hope in my everyday life. I am a morning person and usually woke up at 4am so I can see the dawn until it breaks almost every single day (there are days that I can't wake up at 4am because of exhaustion). The beauty of dawn reminds of breaking your way through positivity. Because from darkness, it started to glow and give light around it.
Sometimes, I am like the dusk. I hide myself in darkness. My life turned from a bright one to dim and then dark. However, I always try to remind myself that I am a sun not just the action or natural movement of it. The sun rises whenever it sets. So just like me, whenever I feel down and be in a situation that's really difficult, I have to constantly remind my self that this will pass and I'll be able to solve this problem. I am not alone, never was and never will.
Hope. It's difficult to have hope if you are too pre occupied by the things that don't actually matter. Surrounding yourself with all the doubts that you can think. Personally, I am an over thinker. I over think almost every thing, hundreds to thousands of what ifs. But, I learned how to control it through trusting all my worries and doubts to the Lord. Everything is uncertain, but as I put my trust in Him I learned to find hope in every aspect of my life. I still fail at times and got defeated by my worries, but knowing God got my back, makes me more stronger to stand up. I am nothing without Him.
To all those who are weary and going on something that seems to be so difficult o bear, I hope you find peace as the dawn breaks. New day to start anew or continue. But, hope you continue to be better and stop all those negativities. Good morning from my side and hope you'll have a nice day ahead ❤️
Thanks for stopping by 🌄🌻
Laundry, Meme, & Dress/Props Hunting
Exhausted yesterday so I end up sleeping instead of writing article or doing my school works. Well everyone deserves good sleep after a tiring day.
Yesterday morning, me and my friends did our laundry. It's a week long laundry while my other friend who's staying here for almost 3 months did her more than 2 weeks laundry lol 😆
Each basin is owned by one person, but we separated our white clothes so another basin belongs to all of us haha. One of my friends with the more than 2 weeks laundry owned 2 basins of clothes. As we soaked our clothes, one of our professors messaged us in our group chat that our classmate is requesting for meme entry for plus points. We did this before but I didn't join that time it's because am not an fb person huehue I seldom post and share ackkk so am really shy. But this time since alanganin na talaga HAHAHAH I decided to join because I still have a lot of points to gain in order to pass pur board exam huehue who knows our proof will give +10 so the needed points for me to score the exam will be lessen.
Thanks to our laundry and witty friends I had the chance to generate my own meme lol tho it's not super funny but I think almost all of my classmates can relate hahahha
After our laundry, we went to department stores and some ukay stores to look for dress and props for our creative photoshoot. I really regret that I didn't brought my white dress here in our bh 😭 I had a hard time picking on what to buy yesterday because I can't find the style that I want and the price that my wallet can handle hahaha. My friends already have their dress and they just bought props. I didn't expect that our creative photoshoot will be like this 🤧 parang pre debut photoshoot hahaha akala ko yung may mga meme lang ganern or yung hashtags or mga eme na nakalagay sa maliit na whiteboard or parang placard so di talaga ako prepared.
The theme that I am thinking is a butterfly. Paro paro g fly high butterfly 😭 late ko narealize na aasarin ako nila ate pero ang ganda kasiiii
Parang gantooooo ang pretty kasi 😭
Naol pretty ackk
I asked my sister to send my white dress via lbc if it will just cost $4 but if it's more than, never mind I'll wear my green dress and look for a brown wings ack sana bagay. Grrr di pa nga sure kung gagraduate tas pinoproblema ko na to ahhahah sa Saturday na kasi if ever sana umabot yung if ipapadala grrr.
So yup that's why am super tired yesterday from washing clothes to dress and props hunting.
Now, time for thesis ahh aja!
Global City
A global city is a place that has strong competitive advantages and functions as a crossroads in a globalized economy. The word comes from the research done in the 1980s on cities, which looked at the similar qualities of the world's most prominent cities. However, as more emphasis was devoted to globalization processes in future years, these international cities were known as global cities. The idea of spatial reorganization and the hypothesis that cities were becoming significant centers within global networks of production, finance, and telecommunications were linked to globalization. Such cities are thus considered as the building blocks of globalization in some formulations of the global city thesis. These cities were simultaneously becoming more privileged venues of municipal politics. Early studies of global cities focused on major cities like London, New York City, and Tokyo. However, research on growing global cities outside of this trio, such as Amsterdam, Frankfurt, Houston, Los Angeles, Mexico City, Paris, So Paulo, Sydney, and Zürich, has been done throughout time. These cities are supposed to connect to establish a global city network that serves the needs of multinational capital across vast swaths of land.
We witnessed noteworthy divergences in the trajectories of global cities in this year's Global Cities Index (GCI) rankings. COVID-19 affected first those who were most globally linked, and who were typically most reliant on their worldwide connectivity and international character. The pandemic's influence is evident in the general fall in these leading cities' absolute scores in year 2021 findings. The pandemic's effects were less severe in cities with less global connectedness and cross-border dependency. In many situations, these cities' grades and rankings have improved. The relative improvement in rankings is mostly due to the pandemic's delayed impact in many of these cities. Given the pandemic's disproportionate impact on the reigning cities, they displayed their resilience in this year's results. The top four positions in the Index were kept by New York, London, Paris, and Tokyo, showcasing the strength of their diverse global powers once again.
As a whole, global cities help to shape the global economy, culture, and society, but they are also influenced by it. They're also sites where opposing forces collide and local responses to globalization become particularly obvious.
Yesterday's
Happy Monday ❤️
Another day to start the week, how will you spend it?
Yesterday, Sunday, after 2 years I attended church at Ligao Curch. It's another city an hr away from my boarding house via jeepney. Before pandemic I usually attend there because it's the closest Philippine Life Word Mission Church in the province. Since our Korean pastor that time also lives in Legazpi (same where my university and bh is) he fetch me together with his wife and ride to the church using his car. But when lock down was announced all over the country I decided to come back home in Camarines Norte (another Province in bicol but almost 5hrs away from Albay). 2020-2021 I just attended online sermon. When 2022 came, I attended Sipocot church which is then an hr away from home via van.
Last Wednesday I travelled from my home to my boarding house near my university, so I also managed to attend at Ligao church after a really long time.
There's a rotation of pastors so new pastor is assigned and he's also korean. He knows how to speak English but his wife and two sons are still studying the language. During sermon a brother translates the sermon from English to Tagalog. Yesterday we had a visitation on houses of different brethrens and invitees for the upcoming 2nd batch of Summer Retreat. We travelled far and as we go back to church there's no jeepney from Ligao to Legazpi so our pastor offered me a ride together with his family. I'm super shy huhu
His sons talk to me in english a little. One is a sixth grader and one is in grade 8. We mostly talk about cats. Both of them is a cat lover like me.
That was a long ride and I feel like I'm in a kdrama movie because the family talk to each other of course using their language.
I miss my brethrens there sooo much, I miss their dialect and each and everyone's unique characters. The youth members are many now and I hope Ligao Church will continue to grow. After a month I'll come back home and I will miss them again.
What more to be afraid of?
And so, the long list of failures and success goes on...
Happy Saturday wonderful writers, how's your weekend? Mine is still the same, load of academic works that I need to finish-group or individual works. Well, I think if I am working already this busy days will be everyday not just some time in a week or month.
Since I have a lot of things to do, and long list of academic stuff to complete, overthinking is at it again. What ifs start to linger in every corner of my mind. Even though I told myself it's fine, I end up getting afraid of the possible outcome. I still have pre-boards exam that I have to pass (I need to score 85 out of 100 to pass or hope the class performance will be average so there will be normalization and the passing grade will be lower). I am afraid to fail this one subject and end up not get listed on the graduating students. I am confident that we can pass our thesis defense and also our plant design defense and all the other individual output that we have. But am not really confident with that exam it's really difficult, plus the fact that we don't have enough time to review our lessons because we are busy with our thesis and other requirements.
But,
It's been four long years. Four years that I experienced failure and success. Either, I am not alone, I was never alone. God guided me all throughout my journey. What more to be afraid of? He's been there for four years of my college life, what am I doubting? I will fail? I surely fail on my own, but not if I rely on Him. Whatever His plans for me I will obey. He will never let me into vain. Claiming that this is my time, but if not, I will wait. It's now or not now, but not never.
What more to be afraid of, if you have God by your side?
ChE
Friday is yey day (not for me tho)
Ahhh busy with everything but lemme share you guys how my day went mweheh.
Starting at 4:30am I started fixing myself because we have to go to school at 5am for our class pictorial. I dunno but the photographer want the natural light that's why he want us to have our class picture super early.
View from our room awhile ago maybe around 5am. It's pretty I want to paint it hueheu.
We reached school at 5:30 am and almost all of our classmates are there. There were a lot of "uyyyy kamusta", "hellooo", "haba/iksi na hair moooo" and a lot on conversations.
How wonderful seeing this picture ❤️ I would love to say goodbye to this University but still would like to remember all the bad or good things that happened to me. The lessons in life, failure, success, friendship, and every experience that this University let me experience. I'll cherish everything.
Our block in chaos haha while preparing for the class picture, we continue to have small chitchats. After that, we went to our campus to get application for graduation. I also submitted my form 137 as part of the requirements.
Welcome to our campus!
Our campus is separated from the main campus of our university. East Campus of BU consists of College of Engineering, Institute of Architecture, and College of Industrial Technology. Tho this campus is dominated with engineering student, that's why it is commonly known as CENG (College of Engineering).
Mah friends 💓 and the usual hallway wiehhh
Relaxing 🥺 namiss ko tong puno na tooo lakas maka ibang bansa pag naglalagas sila tas sunod mag bobloom ❤️ this tree is near Institute of Architecture's building. A lot of engineering department (CE, EE, GEODETIC) already improved their buildings while us in ChE (Chem Eng) nevahmind 🙄 hahaha ewan ko rin kung bakit di kami lab ni dean huhu di binibigyan budget building namin ksksk
After we visited our prof we went home (boarding house) then I saw this cat named Kahel. Kahel is actually a Filipino word for orange and the reason for the name is really obvious haha soooo adorable ahhh
Meowrrr
Such a kawaii kitty huhu makes me miss my cats more ackk
I played a little with this kitty then work on mu acads. We went outside to buy foods and also had a small talk with one of my friends who is also my board mate before.
This is how my busy Friday worked. Now, I drained my energy and I have to eat already. I'll just fix myself and will sleep the wake up early tom😌
Thanks for stopping by
Welcome Back
After 2 years, I am back again after two ling years. I can clearly remember the first time I entered my University, gosh so nostalgic. Well, no pictures for this article yet. A lot had changed. Different stores and buildings changed and became more and more pleasing in the eyes. However there are things that haven't changed. The smelly canals along the alley lol. But really, the street food stall that became part of my college life is still there-the prices doubled tho and it's understandable.
Tommorow will be our class pictorial, we have to go early (5:00am) because the photographer would like to have a good lighting. It's not a problem for a morning person like me, but for someone who have allergy to cold ahhh it's hard to take a bath that early.
As we walk outside awhile ago to buy food, we saw some of our classmates. So yeah most of us who have a very far hometown already get back and stayed in boarding house. It'll be difficult to come back and forth from house to school and vice versa because of the hectic schedule and also the transport fee. It's tiring too, that's why it id better to stay in bh. There are significant changes that I can see with my classmates. From hair, body built, even faces as a whole. I am not super close with them but at some point I kinda miss them and I am happy to see them again.
Hope I can can have a photos of my university tomorrow hehe and also the wonderful Mayon na araw araw ay magayon(maganda).
As I mentioned, I still have tons of work so I'll end my Article now hehe thank you for reading till next time!
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