Hello again.

Lately, I have been busy doing all sorts of stuffs.  I’d usually go around the bush when starting a topic but then I’ll just tell it straight – we lost in the FCM and yeah, I felt really bad. Who won’t anyway?

We might have lost, but then, even the best lose. Don’t they now?  As long as we put the lessons that we have learned through the times we have spent together during the practices and never lose heart (even though some don’t come to some practices, they still belong here ), we could use this as an opportunity to be more closer as a group.

And yeah, there should be no pinpointing even if others made some mistakes or was not so good during the performance, give them a chance to improve and see their potential. Pinpointing is bad.

I almost forgot. Thanks to all the people who watched or participated during the ‘Paligsayawitan ‘07’. Go 2B!

 “Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.” – Winston Churchill

^Always remember that :S

Bottom Line is: Never lose heart. Play life with passion.

-Neil

to be edited tomorrow, i just need some more info to actually write something non-fictional — i’m pretty unsure of what to write or how to write that idea of mine, sorry if i have not updated in a LONG time.

-good luck to all the participants in the filipino program tomorrow, best wishes to you all.
-good luck also in the chinese test tomorrow ^^.

–God bless us all. ^^

Thanks. -Neil.

Perfection

*This topic is very debatable and if you are going to comment about it, please do it in a nice way. Thanks.

Perfection, a state that people strive to be in, it’s a wonderful word indeed and a powerful one also.

However, I do not like the idea of being perfect, because being in that state is just the same as, in my opinion, not having any more way to improve. It is illogical to say that: “It’s perfect, but you just need to add something more to make it better.” It’s as if it’s too good that we couldn’t put anything more to it. It is a very debatable subject, really.

Imperfection is a gift. Try visualizing a world with people, so perfect. What do you think will happen? Of course there are always a myriad of answers to that, I know. One could think: “If that is the case then there will be no wars, no fights, no misunderstandings at all in this world.” I don’t think like that idea though. If that were the case, then everyone’s attitudes would be the same, because they all think perfectly, wouldn’t they? Life isn’t perfect. Life’s imperfection makes it a great experience, because it makes us unique from others. Our set of imperfect traits makes us weird, cool and innovative in a way. It separates us from others and it makes us different so that we would always have something to work about, think about and feel about.

I’ll be honest. I had strived to be perfect. But when I was finding my way to perfection, at some time, I had thought about what would happen if I was perfect. Yeah. And that changed many things about me. Before, I always tried to get A’s and high marks in everything that I do. Now, I don’t feel the need to. I feel that I should stop trying to reach a state that is almost impossible if not impossible to reach, and start trying to make myself comfortable and feel good rather than doing those things. It’s right to study. That’s true but, you could always try to be yourself and still study, not thinking about achieving a higher rank or state than the others. It’s more satisfying for me that way.

Disclaimer:

It’s only my opinion about this topic, and anyone could disagree with me on this. It’s only a matter of how you think. Do post constructive criticism on this. Thank you.

Life isn’t what you really expect it to be. There could be times when you expect the best of something but only get one of the worse possible endings… or there could be times when you wouldn’t expect something good at all but get a great result in the end, it happens all the time.

It’s 10p.m. here in the Philippines, and I feel tired already. Things today were very exhausting. I wouldn’t say I hate schedules like these, because for me, these schedules are fun, but then some of my plans for today were moved to another date. I’m sorry for this boring entry because I’m pretty sleepy now and I can’t think well, I just feel the need to express my thoughts about it.

About the speech thing, we had a grade of 87, which is not bad. I wouldn’t blame anyone for doing some not-so-good things. It’s good that we didn’t have any technical difficulties like the other groups, maybe we were just lucky. The presentation was fine, we had unexpected moments, and since I was just the props guy, I was allowed to literally laugh. Heh. Some specific people destroyed our performance and time delay, but yeah, its fine, the project was entertaining for me anyway.

For our biology class, we had to clean the beaker which contains molds. I hated this, but later on I found out that I could throw all the stuff in the beaker without my hands getting wet or dirty. Many people were saying yuck and everything. I couldn’t do anything since I have the responsibility to do what my other group mates wouldn’t do.

During the Filipino Chorale Medley (FCM), I was getting worried because I heard that other sections were also prepared and were doing good during performances. When our turn was going to start, I was feeling cold, and also exhausted.

I would say I got rid of my shyness during the presentation but still, some things were weird and I had some mistakes too. We had a take two from Ms. Pacleb: “Ito ang huling pangkat pero hindi sila nagpapahuli. ” Maybe our presentation was not too good compared to what others expected it to be , but we still managed to make it through. I also hope that during next practices we could still fix the lightings because, really, I thought they weren’t that cool, and I think that if we did the lights pretty well, its effects would be great on the entire presentation. Sorry.

We managed to get to the top 3. I’m pretty sure we could make the presentation better overall during the Filipino Program. Let’s go two B. I know we can do it. Thanks guys for showing cooperation towards work and being great on stage. We did what we could and this shows it.

I’m very sorry again for the boring post. Remember that teamwork is fundamental to the success of a team. Everyone is part of it and let us all do our parts in it, well and good. I hope that we could all be cool with things and stay cool at it. Thanks to God for blessing us with his presence in our presentation. May the light shine upon us all. Thanks again and good luck with your lives. Especially 2-B. Long live Two-B!!!

 

Congratulations to all the sections for showcasing their talents to the school audience. Also congratulations to the other sections too for making it to the top 3.

“Where’s our pizza?” -> Mr. Rillo, Mr. Capili.

Let’s do it.

There are many times in which life seems to turn its back on you. It’s hard to know how to deal with it or… how to feel about it. But no matter how hard it can be, we still try to make up for what time we have lost or what things we missed. There will always be a time that we will regret what we do, and think that we shouldn’t have done this… and done that. It all comes to this anyway: that we will learn from the things we did wrong or that we felt was wrong and learn to think what will happen next if we do this… or that.

Problems arise in everyday of our lives, and it ranges from being unnoticeable to being so overly important that we see the need to fix it as soon as possible. But of course, not every problem should be addressed A.S.A.P, there are ones that need time to heal, and those that need space in order to feel better.

Lately, I have been doing a lot of things, particularly projects and performances. I encountered a lot of problems in the way, all sorts of them to be specific. I wasn’t really able to write for a week and a few days, I’m sorry. Not only projects really, but also the numerous quizzes and I thought I need to study because my grades aren’t what I expected. I just needed the time in order to think thoroughly what my next stage in life would be, what things I need to do, what things I wanted to do and have. I want to have a vivid view about what my future has for me. I wanted to do things: to cope up for lost time, to make up with friends, to catch up with my homework, and do what I enjoy the most.

I would say that the problems I had were pretty major, one hit my chest, the other pierced my heart and the other one, well, made a mark on my soul. One was with practice, where people really don’t enjoy going to most of the time, that’s most of the time. Well some hate the practices in Filipino, some just feel… ok, and some well for some reason enjoy it. One was with my grades, where I don’t feel comfortable with them anymore, they seem to jump from high to low, and low to high and going to extremities sometimes. The other one, I wouldn’t want to tell. I’d prefer if I’d just keep it to myself. If you really would like to know, take a hint from my last few posts in which I  seem to have felt bad about something.

We had been practicing for the FCM (Filipino Chorale Medley) for a month now, and we are going to show what we have all done tomorrow. I feel nervous and also somewhat excited about what will happen. I hope we at least get to the top 3 so that we could still fix the things that we did wrong and mend the wounds that we caused to each other. That’s my opinion, you can have yours if you want. I’m pretty sorry for shouting at other people and telling them some stuff during practices. I just hope that we all do our best to win of course. There will be 5 groups that will present tomorrow in SJCS .Fr. Peter Yang Hall at 4:30 till about 5:30 I think.

We’ll also have our Speech Broadcasting Show thing tomorrow. I wish I did the powerpoint presentation right and make no obvious mistakes in it. We didn’t actually prepare that much for it, the only things we did were do the scripts and do the powerpoint presentation and prepare some thing else. Aside from the props, we are pretty much set to go for it tomorrow. I wish that we would get a higher mark for tomorrow. Heh. I wish.

Well yeah, that’s about it. I missed writing this long, I have lost interest in haikus already but I will never grow tired of writing like this, except for some times when I feel bad about something or just can’t share anything about anything.

Yeah, thanks for reading. I wish all the groups tomorrow good luck. Especially 2-B. Also, I wish the best luck for the lights tomorrow, that they wouldn’t be missing out on us. And that we wouldn’t forget anything, the things we learned from the practices we had, the memories we gained, the hardships we experienced, the patience that we all showed, and of course the hard work that we put effort on. May God bless our performance tomorrow. Again, good luck and Godbless sophies!

Good luck also for our presentation in speech guys… and gals.

And before I forget… whatever happens, 2-B, just stay cool and don’t put blame on others. ^^ thanks. And sorry for whatever I did.