The first week of the second term is over just like that. From the five terms of tenure in the University, I would have to say that it was the best first week I’ve ever had. But first here is my current schedule:
Without further ado, I will present to you what happened last Wednesday and Thursday.
First Two Days (Last Wednesday and Thursday)
- Had my first class in Andrew building for GENDERS with Monzie
- Out GENDERS prof was the fabulous Sir Canoy
- He asked us, “Who would you be given a day where you are another person of the opposite or same sex?”
- I wanted to answer any celebrity but instead I chose my dad
- Monzie answered the Jake Gyllenhaal and Sir Canoy asked her, “Are you a lesbian?” - ROTFL moment
- BTW, the prof came late because he commutes via the LRT every morning from Blumentritt
- Went up to the 17th floor to bring Monzie to her TREDTRI class
- We then saw this girl eating a waffle and assumed she was a classmate of Monzie's
- Monzie asked, “Hello girl eating a waffle, are you in my TREDTRI class?”
- It turns out that the girl was my longtime Candymag.com Teentalk buddy Nadine!
- Chatted with the two of them in their classroom until the prof went inside
- Went to the DO to claim my certificate of good moral for START application
- Had lasagna at Animo Food Haus
- Slept at the lib because Monzie met up with her friend in Rob…
- Until she called me up to meet them there twenty minutes later
- When I was there, we had lunch at Hainanese Delights
- And I had 6 ½ SERVINGS OF HAINANESE RICE.
- On Thursday I met my SPANONE professor coming from Instituto Cervantes
- At first, I thought it was a student until she introduced herself x_x
- Sudden free cut in INTOECO so I had an early lunch at Pasta Boy
- Headed to Andrew for HISTCIV
- Hats off to Sir Rolly for his very eccentric yet lovable character: “I come across as crazy it comes to the point I cannot distinguish between truth and lie."
- Met up with Mica and spent the whole four hour break at White Hat in One Archers
- Had GREATWK as our last class and met Sir Jiggy for only ten minutes
Second Week (Monday - yesterday)
- By chance I saw Justine inside the LRT and walked together up to Coffee Bean
- Got a surprise text from Kevs before class since he was absent last week
- Had GENDERS at 8:40 and got dismissed at 9 AM
- Met up with Kevs and stayed at the 17th floor while Monzie had class
- As usual we spent the whole 90 minutes talking about hilarious stuff
- Workout at the Razon sports center during the break - jogging, curl-ups you name it
- Monzie and I were out of breath while Kevs sat in the corner laughing at us =))
- Since she was free cut in WIKAKUL, I had fun in the LRT with Pam and Sofia!
- SPANONE is getting more interesting every session
- Got to see our INTOECO prof for the first time as our class was about to leave
- Had GREATWK in Gox where I met the triad: Sir Jiggy, Dr. Sarza and Mr. Villacorta
- Boy, Mr. Villacorta was kind of intimidating with his theatrics while discussing about Nietzsche!
- Got to see many of my blockmates in our section + groupmates with them for the final project!
- After asdfghjkl weeks I finally got to see Tisha before GENDERS class! :”>
- Early lunch at 7-Eleven = too bad they only offer unlimited rice on Sundays :(
- Found out from the Lit department about the qualifying course for Lit this term
- Face-to-face BBM with Kevs at Flower Delight (aka the bubbletea store)
- Before sending this message: “Go out of the store because I know you will laugh so hard”….and I did
- Watched I Am David in TREDTWO class
- Caught up with
- Two burritos and pizza from Zaide for lunch
- Went to Instituto Cervantes to inquire about the SPANONE book only to find out that they don’t sell on Thursdays :/
- Got interviewed by the SFA regarding the student assistantship program (crossing my fingers!)
- Met up with the friends at Tokyo Tokyo - REUNION!
- Sir Jiggy did a good job in making us understand Aristotle’s Poetics better
On the sidenote, I got to see The Mistress with my aunt last week. She treated me to Greenwich while I treated her to Oishi chips and cheese popcorn. The movie was overall satisfying much to my pleasurable senses. Story was believable, characters were not static. Watching Pinoy movies on the big screen may seem like a plausible thing for me to do but this flick is an exception. As long as it offers many reasons for the audience to watch it, I would go and see it just like what I do with Hollywood movies.
About an hour ago I enlisted in the qualifying course for Lit majors for the second time. I must not shift. As Lao Tzu quotes, “If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.” Besides, have I decided to shift to another course this term I might be written off as a “quitter” for not trying until I succeed. Who knows, life would turn out differently if I proceeded to the shifting route. Ask any successful person out there, they have had an experience when they almost changed direction but persevered then got better than they wanted. Last Sunday and for the past few nights I’ve been praying to God that He may make me pass the QLY-LIM as Lit is the last option for me as a college course.
Last term was probably the worst ever in my year stay in the Taft-based university because everything fell into the lackluster category. I really hope my fortunes will turn around this term from my grades to the qualifying course. Probably the Big Man upstairs has given me all of these challenges the previous trimester to test my faith in Him as well as my endurance to surpass all of these struggles. I don’t want to assume or anything but I think He reserved all those good things in store for me this term. He saw how much I suffered last month and my desire to be as lucky as many people out there. If last term was their term, I would do everything to make this trimester my time to shine. With highly recommendable professors in the subjects I’m taking right now, I guess this is the beginning of turning tables from Bad Luck Brian to Lucky Larry.
With faith I believe Bro will make me a happy banana this Christmas.
