Myrtle’s crappy recap of the year

Two months left for our sophomore lives and I can’t help but feel that I have to blog about everything that has passed this school year.

Enrollment-

When I was a freshman, I wanted to be in Adelfa for the following reasons: It was the first section alphabetically and it was the room nearest the dorm. But I wasn’t Adelfa; I was Champaca. Not bad, it was still part of the first four and I had a handful of classmates I already got along with. Not bad at all.

Humanities Week-

A happy humanities week. The most memorable activity was probably the katutubong sayaw where we praticed our pants off (disclaimer: no pants actually came off). There was the speech contest, the zoe cellphone thing, and the fact that we came in fourth place in the contest but it was still a great week thanks to the support of friends and the guidance (cough, cough!). )

Mala-Bisperas ng Pasko -

Yeah! Paskonsert, Paskorus and other christmas related activites including the awesome recollection. It was unaturally humid during those times and I was wondering when the cold would get here. Sadly, the cold only stayed for a short while during January. Paskorus was another happy event and I didn’t really feel the Paskonsert but it was fun all the same.

The fun-est event was the Reco particularly the maze thing-y which  stayed pitched in the field for another two days after the said event.

Champa Christmas party was a blast and my throat was sore for the next two days from all the karaoke. Jethro’s mom makes great cookies and Carlos has the nicest parents.

Fair -

Yeah, inflatables!!! Those fun two days of fair were worth staying in school for. Champaca manned the games booth and the upper years were very nice and cooperative. And no, I didn’t buy a fair shirt.

YMSAT Week –

A very tiring and stressful week but rewarding all the same. Bio advocacies were more than a handful on all the sophomores. I still remember the good old days when I was a freshman and fully enjoyed the kite-flying and star-gazing.

INTRAMS-

Intrams is more enjoyable this year than last year partly because all Emerald did last year was practice for the “Sound of Science” concert last year so it didn’t feel like much of a sports event.

All in all it has been a life-changing year. This school year I experienced my first failing card grade, my first REAL AND HONEST spin the bottle, my first continuous Bible study with different religious sects, my first speaking contest loss, my first time to try a drug other than diethelamine (don’t take this literally, people), my first cold war, and my first infatuation (on the Nica scale).

Champaca has been a wonderful section even if it’s not first alphabetically. I don’t think I would have survived one day in Adelfa anyways. )

Aug. 25, 2008 (Monday)

While I am typing this I am currently listening to Garnet by Aqua Timez…over…and over…and over again. It’s just so…beautiful.

It was so nice of Andro to offer his not-so-humble abode to his classmates and it was nice of our classmates to find time in their hectic schedules to practice (and look for a good tailor for our costumes). Not all of Champaca came though; there were ten girls and ten boys. A rather proportionate count, don’t you think? Anyway, it was a lot of fun even though my hand and feet hurt because I know ( or at least think) that my classmates are doing this out of sacrifice and love for our class and, of course, a high Filipino grade. This was what motivated me to rise from my bout of boredom, that I had somehow acquired yesterday, and partially do my best for the class. People are so nice.

It has come to my attention that someone has taken my words quite seriously and has taken immediate action to follow it. I didn’t think that that particular person valued my opinions that much. It’s either that or s/he is just really…um…sensitive. But if I am correct, than I have wronged this person in more ways possible. In my mind, I have degraded him/her and have come to thinking that s/he is lowly as a high school social climber and/or faker but now I realize that if the person has such a high opinion of me then I have not been fair with him/her. I have no right to disrespect someone who respects me. In conclusion, I say my sincerest apologies to you(if you are reading this, you know who you are [that goes for everyone else]). I am sorry that I cannot say it in person for I am not sure how I can say it face-to-face and in public when you certainly have no idea about the way I think about you. Again, sorry.

Champaca is made up of good people looking out for one another. Their purpose is sincere and purely innocent; as a matter of fact, they have no purpose. They have no particular intent to why they are friends or why they are united as a group. There is no reason for this; they – I mean, we – just are.

Whoever you are: thank you for taking the time to read this. You have made this post worth my while.

Still winding up…oh the randomness!!!

I need to try my best…but how? Hmmm….maybe I’ll try to be less lax and more like those panicky chicks who cry over a broken nail or those geeks who think their life is over because they missed one episode of Starwars. Kidding aside, I really should try to give a hundred percent, well at least fifty percent…if you get my drift.

Today was -as Carlos would say it- AMAZING. Well, everyday is amazing but this day was like…um…what would be the right word? Oh right, normal but ordinary days are the most extraordinary of all.

We practiced the singkil and I’m glad to say that Champaca is making a huge progress. The microscopes make my eyes hurt but it is pretty interesting! Now everything should almost be taken care of…with humanities coming up we have a lot on our plates!

Well, what else? Oh yeah! Here are my list of Champaca sayings:

1. “Good for YOU!”              -Carl Satorre
2. “Jenijethro mo ba ako?!”  -Ara Carillo
3. “YEEEEEAAAAAH!”           -Iego Tan

That’s all for today. Myrtle out!

Second Quarter…a start

When periodicals ended, the second quarter started. I was really disappointed when the canceled the speech choir competition. Instead, they’re replacing it with an impromptu speaking competition . Our class is ok. It’s kinda like my old class . There are lots of good people there and I may not love them like I love Eme but I LIKE them all.

The folk dance competition is a major headache and worry *sigh*. Humanities fever has officially begun! Everyone has to comply with the given schedule and deadline…or else. I’m happy that our group was top three for SIGAW ^_^. Speaking of Sigaw, here are the Champaca Sigaw groups:

• Delilah’s Endpoint (Originally “The Endpoint was here”)
• Nakakapagpabagabag (I think they want to give their MC a hard time=)))
• Hangover (A crammed name…but wait, there’s more!)
• Coke -1 (Not only Coke zero!)
• Mcaliraya (That’s Us!!!)

So yeah…that’s that. Buh-bye for now!

My expressed boredom

Aug.10, 2008

I finally finished re-watching Deathnote. I liked it and besides there was nothing much left to do. When I came back to the dorm, Noreen wasn’t there. We were incomplete and I was bored.

Aug. 11, 2008

Everything was…um…how can I describe it? Ah, yes! Boring.

Flag Cem.

Nothing. There was a lot of announcements. There was a different arrangement for the Pisay hymn but apart from that, nothing different happened.

Algebra

Explained graphing and intercepts. There wasn’t much recitation since Sir Leo wanted to make most of the fifty minutes. Sigh…your typical algebra lessons

EnSci

We just discussed the Long Test. It was sort of review of the first quarter. I recited and that was all.

Chem

Did an activity with another group. We got the worst deal out of it.

Break

It was like a mini-pictorial during lunch. Everything was…normal

Homeroom

The only interesting thing that happened was the Banana-Milk debate. Here’s the case: Vianca had joined Milk because she thought her friends were gonna be there. When she had joined milk in exchange for Shir, she found out her friends had gone to Banana. What bad luck! So now she wants top go back to Banana but Milk doesn’t want Shir back…oh, what to do; what to do?

Physics

Sir Angeles was disappointed at our grades so being the good teacher he was, he had us make up for it by giving us the same exam. How generous…

English

I was…amused. Shir had a scary but amusing performance and Jem told it like any story-teller should. Dom convinced Achilles a.k.a Andro to join the fight against Troy while Ten-ten told Dexter that he was the new receiver…amusing.

ComSci

I slept during this subject. Couldn’t help myself, it was just so cool and Sir’s voice just seemed to lull you to sleep.

Fil

Seatwork about Chapter 8 and 9 of Fili. Soooo….boring.

See how boring my day was?

What happened?

Since I don’t want to start doing our Geometry project yet, I’ll just use up my time explaining the events from the first week of July to the current day. Everyone’s-and I mean everyone’s- schedule was hectic for the first week of July here in Pisay featured Club meetings and auditions, back to back long tests and projects, and for the Dormers: The Dorm Acquaintance party. As for myself, I just had the following on my plate:

• CARE Meeting and Acquaintance Party planning
• Invictus Auditions (Still haven’t posted the results
• Science Scholar Editorial Exam (I am proud to say that I am now part of the newspaper)
• Himig Agham Auditions (General Assembly on July 9)
• Physics LT
• Bio LT
• Math2 and math3 LT
• Chem LT
• Geom Project
• ValEd Project (Biography on somebody that inspires you)
• English Dramatic Monologue (I plan on Doing Claudius of Hamlet:D)
• others…

Well, that was the first week of July. Today, we were given absolutely no homework to make time for our projects. Today the Champaca class got some bonding time with each other due to a canceled Physics class. I felt guilty for blaming another section for my sins (. Oh well… do better next time. I almost fell asleep during Ma’am Osit’s class!!! Good thing Vianca poked me with a pen during my moment of weakness. That’s what friends are for: waking you up with subtle means during those sleepy classes .

I’m really excited for the upcoming speech choir. Well…sort of excited.*sigh* I have really good people for classmates. I haven’t suffered enough to be blessed with this much . The SMALL group was a lot of fun. We played GUESSTURES ).

What happened during the Dorm Party? Not much…we played some games (brings me, pass the bottle, the usual) danced and went back to the dorm. It wasn’t much of an acquaintance since I didn’t meet that many people.

What else? Long Tests, Projects, Friends, Smiles, Frowns, Plants…the usual stress.