Friday, September 30, 2005

thorns and tears

sometimes i wonder why i even give the effort to make something happen... what will be, will be. sometimes the very things you want to heppen won't and the things you're trying to prevent will.

sometimes, they start happening the moment you've learned to give up on the "impossible" then they start unhappening the moment you start believing in it (again)

three faint red marks on my right arm... life is a bed of roses, extrememly thorny. If you want to take a load off, don't look for a bed of roses, look for a sofa...

let's all learn to enjoy God's games of destiny :)

interviewed an applicant yesterday... funny how it happened that she cried even if all her main interviewers where actually biased on her favor. *sigh*

sometimes smiles aren't enough...sometimes smiles are simply too much...no matter how sincere they are.

thought of this moment: is it better to give comfort or teach strength?

tomorrow, the cycle will start again

Wednesday, September 28, 2005

doubts and stuff (dear reader, you won't understand anything)

tried to study law and do an accounting assignment today. Progress: 68 pages, 1/3 problems, over 48 hours to do it, around 12 remaining, half reserved for sleep. maybe i just want to quit studying...or maybe i just want a break (don't want to be a slacker all my life, but i can't handle this much stress for too long)

on the other side...more stress and doubts... people are simply too inconsistent, and it's starting to get to me. A will never be B, so what right does C have to become D.

interviewed three applicants yesterday (blogging about it now)... wasn't able to make any of them cry (despite significant effort on the second). They were tougher than i thought. :) and they memorize good. All three did good objectively, passed situationally and subjectively.

she was weird yesterday...

passed by yakal lobby around 6 times today, she wasn't there... *sigh* angels... maybe if things were just a little different... maybe some people belong to too distant worlds.

memory of the day: "You will never reach an angel"

on the ligher side, there will always be fish. :)

Saturday, September 24, 2005

smile and pretend nothing's wrong...

...when things aren't the way you want them to be
...when you get bound to do things you never wanted to
...when your earlier decisions create an inevitable causal effect beyond your tolerance
...when you're tortured by some very small things
...when your back is aching like hell
...when they do the very things you don't want them to
...when you have a ton to read and a pint to read them
...when you have an assignment you don't understand
...when you just failed an exam
...when the squarerroot of four turns to twelve
...when your calculator goes missing when exam is impending
...when 1+1 cannot to mentally solved
...when you are forced to do x things after saying for the xth time that i will never be forced to do something like this again.
...when you simply have had enough and they still do not stop
...when they get mad when you are the one who was supposed to get mad
...when they throw you down, step on you, crush you to pieces, burn whatever remains, take a leafblower, scatter your dust, then build you up again just to do the process all over again
...when they try to act cute and docile whenever they need something from you (forgiveness included)
...when they become nice despite the fact that their niceness is even more torturing than their not-niceness
...when you have a lot more to complain about but have other stuff to do
...when you have your shirt inside-out
...when your left shoe is black and your right is white
...when your blog seems to be updated everyday because of all the accrued emotions you need to expend
...when your bag is never cleaned
...when you don't have a pen for an exam
...when they won't shut up
...when they discard you the very moment you aren't needed
...when you see them crying over things that seem trivial
...when they loose the very things important to them
...when they say the weirdest things
...when they suddenly open up
...when they keep to themselves the things you want to hear and speak of the things you'd rather not hear
...when they leave to someplace very far away
...when you will never again taste their heavenly baking
...when your arms grow numb from the coldness of the room
...whenever else you want to

smile and the world smiles at you.

as long as you keep smiling, the world would resolve to smile back and everything will be fine and dandy again...

so what happens if i just stop smiling?

Tuesday, September 20, 2005

Of Rain, Turtles, Annoying Angels, Finance "Cats", Ice, Insomia, Swords, Cards, Princesses, Third, Fireworks, Cases, Reports, Maps, Deer and so on

..ei..when did that happen?

did i miss something important again?

life changes so quickly, sometimes one has to wonder when it made it's transition...

thoughts of this moment: tacit...some things need not be said to be understood...

but still, there are things that cannot be understood even if the definitions are right in your face.

Friday, September 16, 2005

goodbye, furry 2-inch little friend

Blogging this now to remember this side of me.

last night, marlon decided to setup a few fly papers on strategic locations around the room to rid of a mouse.

well, the little guy got caught earlier this morning, and with nobody but me in the room (open house preparations, both roommates are helping out, i was trying to sleep), i was left with the tedious (or so i thought) task of disposing him (assumption of gender) (he was noisy).

Situation:

The mouse was small, and it would be a waste of fly paper to sandwich him on the thingy. He was pretty restless, being freshly caught.

ACA:
1. Find knife, skewer rat, cut off the rest of flypaper.
Limitation: no useable knife (pinangkakain daw siya ni francis)

2. Find scissors, at least save the flypaper...
Limitation: no scissors, mine seemse to have been lost (lucky mouse)

3. sandwich mouse on flypaper, plain dispose...
Limitation: mouse was restless...he might get away.

(then i remembered what a girl i liked would have done)

4. beat mouse with chopstick, then sandwich him...he won't put much of a fight when he's near death.

Cnclusion:
Alternative four! Not only did it not make a bloody mess, it was stress relief. It's as if the mouse's mission in life was to rid me of my 114.1 stresses. For the record, i enjoyed beating the critter with a chopstick (who cares if he was hopelessly squeaking for mercy, who cares if he was over a thousand folds smaller than me, who cares if he was almost cute).

As if beating him was not enough, i sandwiched the guy in flypaper (poor flypaper was not reused), stuffed him in a plastic bag, tied the thingy tight, and whirled it around. (remembering a girl who was staring at me, whilst i consulted roommate on how i should dispose of my little friend) in the end, he was thrown in the yakal lobby's bin. (please recycle)

Mouse's chances of survival: If he manages to survive suffocation, get out of flypaper, and not choke to death while chewing the plastic bag; pretty high! :) -=evil grin=-

I doubt that i'll fall asleep any time soon, the excitement is still inside me.

Today, i found a hidden piece of me.

Thursday, September 15, 2005

facade

my desk is now clean...it feels so artificial...

double meanings...saying something, meaning the other...

not everything is what they seem...

the only certain thing is uncertainty...

not all smiles are of happiness....

not all tears are of sadness....

not all words are meant...

just because a person doesn't complain does not mean he isn't irritated...

just because a person doesn't frown does not mean he isn't sad...

just because a person is still there doesn't mean he hasn't given up...

just because a person doesn't flinch doesn't mean he feels no pain...

For the sake of what we hold dear, we have to lie sometimes...

Lies are one of the reasons we feel and deal pain, but sometimes we think that the truth will hurt too much, so we lie...

but then our lies get too far out of hand, and we reach a state when telling the truth from the very beginning would have dealt so much less pain...

then we live our lies as though they were the truths, not knowing how many people we've been hurting in the process...

and then we decide to never clean up our tables ever again...(or at least until our roommates get mad at our mess)

Tuesday, September 13, 2005

Little Trash Can Icons...

You Learn Something New Everyday.

:)

Sunday, September 11, 2005

My Desk (Pre-Open House Preview)


For a "diligent" BAA student who is failing 114.1, there is no time to clean one's desk. (But there is always time to update one's blog)

Monday, September 05, 2005

The Best Advice Ever

Today I met an old friend, my "best friend"...

Funny how we ever get to talk even if we are dormmates...

Anyway, I took the chance to complain about my failing standing on the one subject i cannot fail. His words:

"Hindi ko sasabihing ok lang yan, dahil alam ko ang nararamdaman mo. Maski sabihin ng mga taong ok lang yan, hindi eh."

...natauhan ako...

mas masama nga ang standing ko ngayon kesa sa maski anong standing na dinaanan niya... Mas mataas ang kelangan kong abutin para pumasa kesa sa maski anong kinailangan niya... Mas malaki ang mawawala sa akin ngayon kaysa sa maski anong muntik nang mawala sa kaniya... Pero sa sinabi niya, natauhan ako...

Hope is this sweet illusion that crushes you further upon defeat. To those who do not make me hope, my thanks.

I still won't quit, but no longer will i be driven by the false hope that "ok lang yan" gives. Hindi siya OK, kaya gagawan ko siya ng paraan.

Saturday, September 03, 2005

regrets

debit prepaid regret
credit whatever asset i'm losing right now

debit ??????
credit ????

debit regret expense
credit prepaid regret

debit return on ????? investment
debit loss on ?????
debit regret expense
credit ??????

debit regret expense
credit accumulated regret

tomorrow...i will do something stupid...and i will regret it.

but if i don't do it, i'll still regret it...

if i had the choice to regret something done over something not done, i'd rather regret doing something than regret not doing something about it...

then i will do something with the stupid something i did...and i'll enjoy it...then regret it after...or maybe i won't even enjoy it, then regret even more after...

it was rei who told me to live a life with no regrets...it was PDL who told me to live a life with no regrets...it was I who told myself to live my life without regrets...

still i regret

let's learn to enjoy our regrets. :)

Thursday, September 01, 2005

to accounting:

failed your exam again....

i admit to have waivering feelings for you, but my final resolve is to still keep going.

sorry na lang Maila kung hindi tayo pareho ng decision. :)

i have given up too much to quit, so i will not stop now. even if it means having to give up more for nothing in the future.

sorry na lang, makulit talaga ako. :)