Utopia

I laughed. I couldn't remember feeling so much joy and excitement. I sank to the ground and felt the lush meadow underneath me. I stood up and looked around the beautiful paradise around me. Soft music with graceful cadences played from somewhere and a brook gurgled near a willow tree. I was so happy to have become just a part of it. As I laughed again and walked over to the brook, I felt myself falling at a great speed. I screamed but I wouldn't stop. For what felt like a long time, I kept on falling and at last I slowed down. I looked around me and saw a vast wasteland shrouded by a thick fog. It was cold, dreary and gloomy. I stumbled through it when at last I came to the edge of a riverbank. A small boat was tied to the shore. I stepped into it and rowed silently. The fog cleared and at last, I found myself back in my paradise, my utopia.

In the renowned book Tuesdays with Morrie, we are portrayed as little waves riding on a vast ocean. We come upon other waves. Soon, we catch sight of the shoreline and we fear of crashing into it. We needn't fear for it, for once we do crash into the shoreline, we become waves once more and we come back into the ocean again.

written at 3:08 AM

praise the Lord, hallelujah!

praise be to God! my grades weren't so bad...there was just the drawback that some of my grades decreased...like in entrep (guess what? 3 pts) trigo (no surprises there...) and health (1 pt)...and most of my grades increased too...some were retained...and my conduct went up too! it felt really good..i was really happy for my sister because she finally got into the top 20...result of less TV and more studying...and i was really proud of her when i saw her card...she went up like 3 to 4 points in the subjects that she had previously low grades...my mom was so happy...that was what made everything i worked for worthwhile...seeing my mom's reaction...we even celebrated last night...:D

written at 5:06 AM

harry pottter

watched hp4 today...i didn't think it was really good...medyo sabog...scattered yung flow nung story...even if i've read the book and know how the story goes, it's still good to see the interpretation of the director and see how he's going to manage to fit the whole 4th book into 2 hours of viewing...it wasn't that good...i still think chris columbus is still hp's best director so far...alfonso cuaron and mike newell just aren't up to scratch...kuhang-kuha nila si voldemort though...and si fleur...the presentations of the school was really nice...and sobrang bitin nung quidditch world cup...i was really looking forward to watching that...also in the 3rd book...i was waiting for the quidditch final but alas, i was disappointed...i had fun with jescia and pig anyway...even if they had to leave early..:)

written at 4:55 AM

open your eyes

The depths of her eyes were unfathomable. It was a deep, ice blue abyss of mystery. They were striking, yet radiated a kind of gentleness and warmth one would not notice right away. Her laughter was infectious, her smile beautiful and sweet. Her actions were slight yet sincere, though it went unnoticed most of the time. Her words were simple and few yet had a great impact on those who heard and listened.
Yet, not everybody noticed how beautiful she was. No, they only saw the cold shadows in her eyes, emotionless laughter and heard only the austerity when she spoke. To them where a heart usually is, a stone resides, not even the slightest action could soften.
To others she was beautiful. To those who saw and not just looked, who heard and listened and listened and understood, she was the perfect embodiment of a person, warm and real. Not many saw how truly real she was, because few still possessed the ability to see, listen and understand. To those who saw only the bad, it is because of the burden of pain and hatred they were carrying. They were the ignorant, the stubborn, who refuse to see, because they are unwilling to let go. She saw how much the world needed to have their eyes opened.

Let us not be like the ignorant and the stubborn in my story. We fail to see the true beauty of things because we keep all our anger inside us. Anger destroys a person. Learn to forgive. As said, the weak do not forgive. Forgiveness is an attribute of the strong.

written at 3:34 AM

not so bad

well, we had the compet today. it wasn't as bad as i thought it was. okay lang. the students from st.stephen, ang galing! nasagot lahat ng questions. chinese school e. magaling talaga sa math. then we toured a part of la salle and saw the buildings and everything. we saw the building where the priests were massacred and reputed to still haunt the halls of the school till today. after the tour, we headed to mcdo for lunch then went home.:)

written at 2:59 AM

the eve of doom

okay, so maybe i'm exaggerating. i'm not really meeting my doom or anything. it's the eve of the compet and i'm terrified. i'm cramming all this knowledge into my brain and it can't take it anymore. my mind has gone on overdrive. ah well..i'm so scared to disappoint the school but i guess it won't be so bad. after all, ms cruz told us that she doesn't pressure us to win, but she is pressuring us to do our best. i hope i do my best tomorrow and give it all i can...anyway..gotta get back to the books...

written at 4:04 AM

open-boat day

the open-boat day was really fun. i learned a lot from that experience. it opened my eyes to how much we can make use of clean energy so that we won't affect the environment. it also made me realize how blessed we are to even have mother nature and now we keep taking her for granted.
we saw exhibits and received fliers and pamphlets. i wanted to become a greenpeace member but they only received donations through credit cards or bank accounts. sorry, not that rich! XD
we also saw agot isidro and her husband, i think, doing a commercial on greenpeace.
the greenpeace boat is called the "Rainbow Warrior". some parts of it were salvaged from the original Rainbow Warrior that sank some years back, like the steering wheel(yes, it really is used to steer the ship) and a bell. we also saw an oak dolphin. i think it also came from the wreck. its (or his or her, they weren't really sure of the gender) name was dave, or divina, since they didn't really know. it's said that dave or divina is hollow and that there's a bottle of rum and a time capsule inside.
we saw several parts of the boat and we also saw a real live (but rusty) anchor. anna even took a picture of that. actually, she took tons and tons of pictures. XD
the whole trip, though short, nevertheless made me grateful for mother earth because it is from her that we get everything, our food, electricity, everything, without mother nature, we'd all be dead. as humans, we need to learn to take of her. we can start with segregating our wastes. in the Rainbow Warrior, they had these color-coded trash bins for aluminum, plastics, steel, etc. when they reached a place, like in Japan, they would turn over the plastics they threw away so that it could be converted to something better than plastic.
greenpeace also helps affect governments' views on the environment. they lobby for change on the country's way of managing our environment. they promote clean energy like solar and wind energy. come to think of it, isn't that better to use rather than coal, since they are renewable and produce 0 pollution?
the environment is too good to waste. why not start taking care of it??

written at 3:11 AM

c'est la vie!

aaahhh...this is the the life..doing nothing, just kicking back for a little r&r..i don't have to do anything and i won't be attending any classes tomorrow! yay! as you can see from my mood, i'm eager to go to the open boat day tomorrow. i wonder what we'll do. anyway, details tomorrow!

written at 5:20 AM

new day

written at 5:49 AM

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