Saturday, January 03, 2004
IT'S AN ALL NEW EPISODE
Carpe Noctem (Seize the Night) - Year 2 - Starting Week #26
Background Music: "Rest in Pieces" by Saliva
NOTE: This is a weekly blog entry that is posted at the start of the week prior to moving into my dormitory.
TWO-THOUSAND and FOUR, and this is my first post for the year. For the past few days I've been sleeping at 5 o'clock in the morning and waking up around 2 o'clock in the afternoon. It's been this viscious, broken cycle of sleep. I can't picture myself in a week when things return back to normal.
Anyways, straight to the point (hey, some people like me like that... har har): All that bullshit is over. No more whining like a 12 year old who lost a few of his little friends. Not that I've lost any friends recently, but me being this guy who bitches about those little issues about friendship has come to an END.
I'm cleaning everything out and starting something new. Last year I was all problematic with this grand search for that ideal best friend. I should be satisfied with what I've got already... which is a lot actually. I thank the Lord Almighty for giving me all these blessings. I know, I complain a lot... but it's time for me to shut up and get to work. Serious work.
I have 9 cases to work on and each case takes about a whole day, according to many. It's supposedly due on the first meeting of the new year. Laws of Mass Media is my major subject on Monday, but luckily classes start on Tuesday. So the first meeting in Laws of Mass Media with that terror professor will be next next week. But I have a feeling he'll be looking for his cases first thing on Tuesday in his office. Yikes!
I am planning on boosting my efforts greatly in the Heraldo Filipino and I will be showing keen interest in the AB Comm Channel after its apparant slowdown in recent months. Work work work... a new strategy. Less on the social life. Not that I'm dumping the past and changing everything, but I'm working on establishing THE BALANCE.
This past Holiday Break has given me certain revelations and realizations. I've realized that I'm too attached to a number of my friends, and not knowing or getting updates about them at some points can be frustrating. I need to cut that out now and lessen my efforts greatly there. I'm only hurting myself.
I'm typing this Carpe Noctem early so I can concentrate on both working on those cases ASAP and moving back into my dorm. My brother's birthday is on Monday but he'll be celebrating it tomorrow (Sunday, January 4) here in our house. He's invited a number of his friends. Happy Birthday Paul. He's now 15 years old which only reminds me I'm going to be 19 later this year.
If you frequent my online journal, thank you. To all the people who keep posting on the tag-board, thanks for all your support. I'm glad you guys like the 2004 Edition of Brodcst Msktir. ^_^ If you wish to be linked, just tag me. I can't provide face plates for all of you if I don't have a picture of you. Right now I'm badly looking for a picture of Kuya Jay... who I owe so much gratitude for the gracious webspace he's given me free of charge. The only picture I can find of him is one where he's drinking a Dalandan-flavored Sunkist.
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I always make this resolution and list of "must-do's" during the New Year. A tradition I started during the 2002 New Year. It's saved on my computer. I'm no longer in the mood to enumerate about them. Instead, I'll list down some highlights of the resolutions I've made in 2003 and the general resolutions/must-do's I have for 2004.
BRIEF REVIEW OF RESOLUTIONS IN 2003
Theme: Improved Social Life
[ ] - Gain weight, gain height, and be ripped.
[x] - Speak the native language more.
[x] - Increase love and support for Broadjourn.
[x] - Drive a car and a motorcycle at least once.
[x] - Step foot on at least six provinces.
BRIEF RESOLUTIONS FOR 2004
Theme: Multi-personal Independence
[ ] - Become more independent; control my social life.
[ ] - Gain weight, gain height, and be ripped.
[ ] - Do not get demoted from any position obtained.
[ ] - Drive a vehicle to a total of 20 kilometers at least.
[ ] - Stop being late or absent to class w/o a good reason.
[ ] - Be able to write in complete Filipino; speak fluent Tagalog.
[ ] - Step foot on at least eight provinces.
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And now, for the first time in 2004, the four pillars of my college life:
Academics/JOU2-1. I'm lost for words and I'm out of energy when it comes to returning to my own lovable block section. I love these people, not too much and not just barely. I love them enough to say that there are coming times now that I must be able to stand on my own. There will be instances in the next few weeks where I will be eating my lunches alone, or retreating to the dorm quietly instead of yappin' away at Fiat or Inasal. In other academic works, this week we'll be starting our first lessons for the Midterm and we'll be seeing the results of our Prelim exams from last December.
Heraldo Filipino. I'm not sure what the condition of the La Salleno XI-2 is at, but I think it's already published and is just waiting for distribution. Whatever the case is, there's no reason for me to stop now. There's absolutely no excuse for not working efficiently for the publication. Maybe the HF office will be more of my home to escape to in the coming weeks. Away from "losing that balance I'm trying to build...".
AB Comm Channel/ISA. These two minor organizations are seemingly quiet in nature right now. I'm hoping I can show renewed energy in both of them. For the Comm Channel, hopefully all the 2nd years can spark a revolution or something and get things back to work because our 3rd Year and 4th Year members are really tired and extremely busy with AB Comm/Broadjourn duties. I think it would be up to a number of the 2nd year AB Comm's to put things back into order. And for the ISA, the Cultural Night thing for the Lasallian Days 2004 later this month. I'm sure there'll be a few meetings about that.
Dormitory/Tropa. I'm moving in. Other than that, absolutely no other comment at this time.
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I end my post with two things. First, this beautiful paragraph a close friend of mine posted in her journal. For some strange reason, it felt like I can really connect to what she's saying about what she learned at the end of 2003.
What i learned the past year is that we forget faster than we admit to ourselves, because to remember every detail is an insane attempt to keep ourselves connected to our past, and always there is something which we would have to let go of, an event, a person, or even a simple word or whisper, which must find its way out of our memories into oblivion, if we are to forgive the beings we become day after day, memory after memory...
When she publishes a book one day, I'll be the first one to buy it.
Finally, as much as I may be on this new mission to becming my own best friend, I must remember one thing. This other close friend of mine typed this in her blog about me...
I pray George is doing okay now. I mean, I know what he’s going through. And it’s also rare for a guy to be so open about how he feels about certain things and his problems. Most guys (as Lance puts it) goes around bushes. George goes straight to the point. George, don’t change that part of you.
I have to remember that. I won't change that part of me, but there's another part of me that is changing for the better. I Promise, Abbie.I promise.
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