Finally! ••F•R•E•E•D•O•M••!!

..is what I want to say. But I don't think that's going to happen soon. I'll be having a job this summer. Well, I do want to help decrease my parents' burden concerning my schooling's financial needs. And another thing is to satisfy my material desires. At least this will help me kill my time in a productive way.

I don't really feel the Yes!-Humana-ang-klase! feeling and I don't know why. Maybe because it ended up in a disappointing way. We were supposed to have our last(for our first year) laag to SM. At first, there were few who said they can't come along but they had good reasons. Then suddenly, for some reason, more than half of us weren't able to come (I know part of the reason and it's really disappointing). Well, anyway, we had fun at WoF (for those who came).

This is going to be a real LONG summer.

CSPF1 Shirt

The idea of making our t-shirt was decided when some of us from F1 went to SM. If I remember correctly, it was Jamila, Yuri, Kesiya, Von, Albie, Barrera, and myself who was there chatting idly in the Food Court. Hmmmm, an F1 t-shirt might really be a good idea. It should be fun if all of us are wearing the same shirt on a Wednesday.

The next thing we had to decide was about the design of the shirt. After choosing from few suggestions, we decided to have "chibi" drawings of each of us in F1 and put them in a huge capitalized "CSPF1" word. The funny thing is, "Albie" the father of F1, will be the same size as the huge capitalized "CSPF1".

Later on, Von started to draw the chibis since he can draw it best than the rest of us. Recently, the chibis left to draw is Roy Rusiana and Judilyn. Then for some uncertain reason, the editing job fell on me. I have to do it in Adobe Photoshop CS3. Even though it's really tiring, this job "distressifies" my mind. So far, I have only finished editing these four:

Can you guess who these guys are? :)

Learning

I've noticed this one thing while I was thinking how I only "fully" learn my lessons, people have different ways on learning.

Barrera told me before that he can only learn so much if it is explained to him by a good teacher. In other words, he's not good at self-studying. Albios, on the other hand, learns via "Insight Learning", it means instant learning, like the idea just pops in his head and then he gets the whole lesson already [this is no exaggeration]. Albios is officially categorized as "IMBA". I also noticed about our 'Discrete Structures' and 'Probability and Statistics' teacher, Ms. Em Parac, that she learns stuff by totally analyzing the topic. There was a time when there was a problem that she encountered at class. She suddenly stared into deep space like she can actually see through parallel dimensions and see the answers there. But actually, she thought through the problem and found the solution by mere analysis. Wow [with jaws down]! She truly is categorized "IMBA"!

Well, as for me, I've known this for a long time, I think I learn most in the middle of the test. Weird, isn't it? Sometimes, it kind of sucks because there are times when I lose time because of the loading delay. For that, I have discovered a solution. I don't think this works for everyone, but eating "white rabbit" candy in a middle of a test helps for me [I eat 5 of it every Analytic Geometry test. haha!]. It actually makes me think faster than usual.

An example of my learning style is in our Programming test. I didn't really get the whole idea of Structures in C programming, but when we were having our written exam, I actually got the hang of it. It took some loading time and I wasn't able to finish the whole exam. But the lacking ones were small details. I hope it'll be considered. :)

Goodbye CIT, Hello UP?

I'm still thinking this through.

That's right, even though the one [which I will hide in the name of "James Kenneth Cantago Albios"] who shared to me this idea of transferring to UP college already backed-out on this. I already tried to weigh the pros and cons, but it seems to me, that both almost weigh the same.

If I am to be in UP, aside from the conducive-to-learning environment, the tuition would be way cheaper. Another thing is that UP has a good name and reputation. It is also a Center of Excellence in Computer Studies, BUT if I transfer, I will surely have troubles catching up to my SMB1 [my DOST summer class friends] friends' lectures. Most probably, I will be left behind. Another big problem is that my DOST Scholarship privileges will be on hold for a whole semester.

Well, If I also leave CIT, I would really miss my PF1 friends. This might sound cheezy, but I've gotten really attached to them. They're like my second family now. Even though I am expecting this from the start, I got really sad when I heard some of us are going to shift courses or transfer schools[talk about hypocrisy.. (: ].

Well, as of now, I think staying in CIT is still the default decision. :)

Material Desires

I've been craving for a lot of material things lately. And no, I don't think it's greed. Most of it is just to satisfy my so-called "artistic" imagination.

I really want to buy a laptop so badly so I can work my scanned works in Adobe Photoshop CS3. I just don't feel comfortable working on our desktop computer since my sister also has to use the computer and if you didn't know, working with photoshop takes hours.

Another thing is that our printer is broken! Always having to print outside is too troublesome and costly. A scanner too! How will I able to put my works on the computer if I don't have one? I think buying a printer/scanner should be more practical. And yeah, I also really want to buy a tablet! I finally experienced using a tablet at the house of my colleague in [TSP] The Technologian Student Press. And it felt really amazing! I was hard letting go of the pen!

So if I calculate all of that:
25000 - only good laptops can handle heavy programs like Adobe CS3
3000 - Argh! Why are tablets so expensive? T_T
4000 - This an estimated price of a printer/scanner.
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32000 - 32k?! I'm just a student! I can't hope to afford that! Makes me want to strive to become a presidential scholar[but hell It's NOT EASY!] so I can keep all my DOST scholarship allowances. T_T

Anyway, Albios agreed to go with me to SM tomorrow so we can canvas good laptops which accepts installment payments. I hope we can get a good offer!

Sleep Deprivation

I've been sleeping really late nowadays. Like now, it's already 12:52am, yet I still feel alive and alert. I've been thinking that this is absolutely unhealthy, I know that. But it can't be helped. I've tried going to bed even though I'm not sleepy, and it FAILS.

Hmmmm, now that I think about it, I wonder what the reason is why I'm like this now. If I remember correctly, when I was still in high school, I used to sleep late too. But I was always tired at that time and I always feel the need to sleep before the clock hits 12:00mn. And since my classes at that time always starts at 7:30am, I have no choice but to get to bed early. But now, I'm in college. My schedule for this semester usually starts at the afternoon. Maybe that's why I'm used to sleeping late and waking up late.

I've been missing plenty of breakfasts already! I seriously have to recover this summer. Even my running ability is starting to rust. 17 days more to go for summer. ^_^

The First Post

I'm not sure what I should write down in my first post. Well, basically, I just thought this blogging idea would be a good medium to write down my thoughts. It could also be a good way of relieving stress.

Lately, my thoughts are all unorganized inside my head and it really affects my performance at school. I'm not really sure what's causing this. Anyway, I hope this idea will help.