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Friday noon
Today started with a great breakfast. Thanks to all the "bisdak" guys
for sharing us their delicious tummy-filling breakfast. Well, special
thanks to Sir Christian and Sir Rey, who sacrificed their own breakfast
so that all four of us (Mam Jen, Mam Cath, Miss Marianne and I) can
enjoy a very hearty breakfast. [Hehe, murag PBB noh, my
pa-sacrifice-sacrifice pa.] For days they've been treated with a very
satisfying early meal in their hotel, while we (the ladies) settled for
the not-so-satisfying meal served at the cafeteria. They had two extra
meal tickets they wanted to share with us, but there are four of us so
two guys didn't avail of their meal tickets. Yey! The meal was so BIG
that we weren't hungry at all during lunch time (but we ate anyway).
The training today is not so nosebleeding. We are more relaxed today
and everyone is excited about the weekend. Since we don't have
trainings during weekend, everyone not from Manila is scheduling their
own lakwacha. I arranged to meet my sister who is in Nueva
Ecija Saturday morning and we are planning to spend to entire weekend
together going around the city. I can't really go shopping coz I don't
have the budget. This afternoon we are going to Mall of Asia just to
see the one of the largest malls in the world.
I now have a new found interest in taking pics of food. I have been
taking pictures of the food that we ate during this training. I'll
compile and post them later.
Thurday noon
OMG, laziness is totally owning me! When I woke up this morning I practically dragged my butt out of bed just to be on time for the training. The breakfast served this morning didn't help. It looked same with almost all other breakfasts we had. We had to work on an activity and I was really not into it. I tried so hard to stay focused. All I ever thought of was when lunch was gonna be.
We just had a better lunch earlier. I mean, it's at least tastier than all other lunches we had in here. The previous ones were too bland for my taste. As what we've done the past days, we "documented" our meal by taking pics of it. I already have lots of food pics taken on my cam.
This afternoon I hope there's not much to do. I'm too tired to do anything (other than blog, that is). I'm going to somewhere north of Manila to attend worship services. I asked Jiena for directions. It's gonna be quite challenging getting there coz I'll gonna ride the LRT for the first time, then the MRT, and then a bus. I hope I don't get lost. Wish me luck. Haha.
OK, I'm sleepy now. I think I'm gonna doze off a minute first before we begin the afternoon nosebleed session.
Wednesday morning
Uggghhh...I feel like I can't last the morning session. My head is soooooooo heavy due to lack of sleep. It's like I'm about to doze off any second. But it's alright coz I had fun last night anyway. I went out with two of my bestest friends, Jiena and Joseph, to catch up and all since I'm in Manila and this happens like almost never. It was great catching up and telling stories and laughing and teasing and reminiscing older times with them. The best is them treating me to a great dinner and coffee at Starbucks. Our session ended at around 11pm and since it was already late for me to go back to the guest house, Jiena made sleepover her apartment. In the morning, I rode the MRT by myself to get back to the guest house. Yey! haha (mabaw ug kalipay) This afternoon we have another laag plan. I think we are going malling. This is really a way of draining every last bit of energy we have. But we are having fun and this is a rare chance so that's ok. This is the bisayan people's bonding session after the very nosebleeding training sessions. I can't wait for lunch. I don't know how I'm gonna get through the entire day!
Tuesday around 4:30 pm
My head is soooooooooo aching right now with all the coding we were doing earlier. Actually the others are still coding; I have just done mine and I figure I still have time to blog til we have our snack break. We've been coding since yesterday Day 1 of this training. Yes, I'm in a training (more like a trainers' training) right now, trying to learn whatever, sitting in this quite comfy swivel chair in a quite hot airconditioned room inside CSB somewhere in Manila. The training has been a bit tough. Well, at least for me it has been. It wasn't really THAT tough, I don't I just end up draining all my energy. I wanted to see Manila once and for all (this is my first time here) but I just don't have the energy to go anywhere. From what I see it's just like Cebu only bigger and more buildings and more of the dreaded traffic too.
Yesterday I was forced to learn HTML programming in record time. We were given a warm up activity on writing HTML codes using notepad (hard coding kumbaga!) just to understand on how it works. And so since I never had "true" experience with programming using HTML (unless writing HTML tags in replying to forums called experience) I have to start from scratch (yes, you can laugh at me). I wrote my codes at the same time learning it. Not bad! It's not hard at all. I completely understand it's logic, I just hate having to memorize tags and reading about what things I can do with it. Today we are starting with JSP and so far it was quite easy. More like HTML meets Java. I kinda know Java so I no problem there. My problem would be when reach databases that's really one of my weakest CS points. It's all basically programming for the web with databases and all that. I haven't been really into web programming, maybe this is a good start for me.
I feel like I'm gonna get really big by the time this training is over. WE ALWAYS EAT! The pattern is like eat-sit down-eat again-sit down-eat more-sit down-eat eat eat-sleep. I'm getting piggy-er by the day!
So today is the first regular class day of Summer 2008. Uugghhh...I'm not ready yet! I'm sick again. I can barely breathe with my clogging nose and my head feels like it's about to crack wide open because of my bad, very very bad, sinusitis plus my throat feels like it's harboring itchy worms. How am I going to give a 3-hour straight lecture in this condition? This is such a torture!
You think teaching is easy huh?
Found this floating somewhere in cyberspace:
Boys are like purses. You're always gonna have that one boy that you're always comfortable with and you know you'll always kind of like. That's your purse that you wear everywhere. Then you have that gorgeous bag that you want everyone to see you with but the gorgeous bag is usually an asshole or costs a lot of money. Then you have those other purses that you really like but you really don't want to be seen with.
That used to be true for me. Now, I don't know. I really don't have any purses right now. I mean, there is this one purse that I really wanna have and it's kind of mine but I'm not really really sure if it's mine and I wanna be sure now that it's really mine but things are complicated and I'm afraid it won't be mine forever so if it's not really mine I hope it will be taken away from me soon so I won't get used to it to the point that I can't live without it. Whew! Got it? Ugh, I hate purses...they are complicated! (See, that's two "complicated"s in one paragraph.)
i just finished re-reading one of my favorite books by one of my favorite authors: "By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept" by Paulo Coelho. i have read this book n times. i so love the words by the author. most part of it talks about taking risks, which is one of the things that i still need practice with. and, of course, a lot about love. well, love and taking chances...whew! NOSEBLEED...it's the kind of book you'd want to read when you're feeling blue or whatever emo-ness you feel...haha...no, i'm not blue right now...just kinda bored when i saw the book sitting on my table and reading is really one of my simple pleasures, so i read...and i feel like sharing some of my favorite quotes from the book...so here:
"You have to take risks. We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the unexpected to happen."
"Love perseveres. It's men who change."
" We have to listen to the child we once were, the child who still exists inside us. That child understands magic moments. We can stifle its cries, but we cannot silence its voice. The child we once were is still there."
"Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worst kind of suffering."
"Only the happy can spread happiness."
"Feelings should always be allowed to be free. You should not judge a future love by past suffering."
"Love does not ask many questions, because with thinking comes fear. This might be the fear of being scorned, of being rejected, or of breaking the spell. However ridiculous this may seem, that is how it is. This is why one does not ask, one acts."
"I opened the window and my heart. The sun flooded my house and Love flooded my soul."
"No one can avoid defeat. That is why it is better to lose a few battles in the fight for your dreams than to be defeated without even knowing why you are fighting."
"Anyone who loves needs to know both how to lose himself and how to find himself."
"Perhaps love makes us grow old before our time and makes us young again when youth has passed."
OK, i think i need to stop. i'm giving you nosebleed already...haha
aaaaaaahhhhhh!!! addict na pod ko aning Internet dah...this is bad! it's consuming my time, preventing me from being productive...tsk! tsk! tsk! this addiction has to stop...SOON!
