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It's the day before New Year's Eve and I can't seem to put myself to sleep tonight. I guess the reason for that would be that I was practically sleeping on my bed for pretty much the whole day just as I've been doing for the past two weeks. I'm feeling kind of rusty now when I comes to writing down what I feel coz I think something's up. My thought organization doesn't seem to be as fluent as it was before when I started up this blog.
Anyway, the last time I posted something here, I put some other stuff on the site just to enhance this little blog of mine. These additions are namely the Twitter and statistics widgets that you can see on the right hand side of your screen. I can recall that during the first time I put it up, the total number of pageviews of this blog were at around 750 only. Then as I checked my blog once again this morning, it shot up to 900 plus already! I checked the stats and it showed that the blog got like around 300 plus views for the past two weeks I left it alone.
On to my post. This past year has been a year of ups and downs just like any ordinary human being experiences. I never thought that I would be where I am now as I innocently celebrated the new year coming in last January. I can truly remember entering my final trimester as a high school student and anxiously hoping for time to pass slowly because I really didn't want high school to end just yet.
Nevertheless, there wasn't really anything I can do to stop time and my high school days came to an end. Although it gives me that sad and nostalgic feeling, I realized that this is how really life goes. You can not stop yourself from entering a new chapter in your life right after one chapter is truly finished.
I'm thinking whether if I should narrate my moments of the year in detail but I'm guessing that it would make this entry too long so I'll just try to put in some pictures of some events so that it would be easier.
Now where was I.
Off to college. It was definitely a blessing from God to put me in the premier university in the country, the University of the Philippines. All through out the summer of this year, I was pretty clueless of what I would be doing after high school because I still did not have the assurance of a college education. Luckily, UP came along and I am glad to study in this university since this was my choice of school all along. It was a very different culture as I entered this State University because this was not a Catholic school anymore. Back in Zobel, the peaceful atmosphere was very much accustomed to me since I was in that school for practically my whole life. But in UP, I realized that I was all alone and no one else can help me pass college but myself. I'm guessing that the reason for the school to be called the best institution in the country is because of what you learn inside the classroom is the equivalent amount of lessons that you would be learning outside the classroom. I cannot elaborate more on that but what I should say is that you have to be there to experience it.
I'm not promising myself or anybody a New Year's resolution because I don't really believe in those stuff since none of those really work. I think it's just a way for some people to catch other people's attention so that they can notify others that they have good intentions for the coming year.
On the other hand, I think it can also be good because people can find out the negative aspects that they have in their lives and what they can do to turn these negative things into positive values.
Goodbye and thank you, 2010.
Hello, 2011! Cheers!
Until the next time.
Phim
Filipino football has definitely been overpowered by the attention that basketball has been having in this country of ours. In the past century, both sports were very much successful in the international playing field especially during the first half of this age. Sadly, basketball went on to be the more popular sport as time went by. Nevertheless, the beautiful game never went away in the cities and provinces in the country. The only thing that made the difference was the attention that both sports had to the people of the Philippines.
December 2010, The rebirth of Philippine football
The AFF Suzuki Cup 2010 was the venue where our men's national football team redeemed the Filipino's attention. Coming off a 2-0 win in their first match against Vietnam, the defending champions of the tournament, the Azkals definitely started a spark in order to be noticed by the Filipino people and by other Southeast Asian countries as well.
As an individual and a footballer myself, I can honestly say that I am really really happy that this team has captured so much attention by the media and the average Filipino. Two days ago, as I was riding a jeepney on my way home, I overheard two guys talking about the result of the first leg of the semi-final match of the Azkals. That was the first time I heard an average Filipino talking about football in a random place.
I have been dreaming for the longest time already for the explosion of media attention on football that our country has. One of the main reasons why football has not been at par with other countries is the politics behind the main organization for football in the Philippines, the Philippine Football Federation. Although I don't know much details about these delicate issues, I really really hope that the pride of the bosses in these types of organizations get to be set aside because I really believe that football has a great future in this country.
This past month has definitely been a start for the Philippines to be able to get back on the map when it comes to the football ranks. I really pray that this attention for the sport will continue because we, Filipinos, have a lot to offer for football and vice versa.
Good fight Team Philippines! Go AZKALS!
Until the next time.
Phim
As I write down this entry, my first sembreak as a UP student is slowly coming to an end. This week has really been becoming a challenge for us because of the car's simultaneous troubles but I still believe that I am a lucky person and I have a blessed family. All is well despite these troubles that occur as we all are safe here at home at the end of the day.
These times help me grow as a person since I get to count my blessings despite the hardships that are present. It surely is a hard thing to do but I learn and continue to develop this "skill" as I go on with my life.
Actually, before all of these things started to happen, I thought everything was going perfect for a certain moment since one day prior to the happenings, everything was going great. (I won't go any further into detail) I told myself, "This is weird. This is too good to be true. Something's different." And I was right. After that slight taste of heaven, everything started to go downhill.
These are the times that separate the strong from the weak.
Nevertheless, I will never be weak since I have a God that is so strong always guiding me just as long as I don't turn my back on Him.
Until the next time.
Phim
This shall be my 30th post for the 2 years that I have been writing and have been having this blog of mine. Anyway, on to my next topic.
The country just survived through another super typhoon this past week and thankfully, Manila was not badly damaged as well as Laguna. The main province which was badly affected by super typhoon Juan (international name: Megi) was Isabela. Everything as in everything was destroyed by this typhoon in Isabela. Agriculture, homes, buildings were terribly damaged as the strong winds dominated over the whole province as the storm was at its peak.
Let's go to the other side of the Earth. Presently, a Cholera outbreak is being experienced in Haiti and around 196 people have already been killed while thousands of people are hospitalised. Cholera causes severe dehydration, diarrhea, acute fever and vomiting. The source of the outbreak was said to be from people who drank infected water from the Artibonite river.
Most of the time we take for granted the little things that we have in our lives. We usually prioritize our wants over our needs since we believe that these are the more important things in life. Despite all of these, we should bear in mind that there is another person in this world which has bigger problems than the ones that we experience right now. Also, the problems we have were given to us by God since it is something we need in order to grow as an individual. The degree of difficulty of our struggles in life is very much in our capacity to handle since I believe that Jesus wouldn't give us something that we could not handle.
If you think that a problem of yours is too hard to handle, go to God for guidance. He will always be there to listen. Just remember to have an open heart and surrender yourself fully if you really want His guidance.
Until the next time.
Phim
I have just recently updated my blog with a new post just yesterday after keeping it stagnant for about a whole year. The last post I made before the one I made yesterday was about the Typhoon Ondoy which was very well known to us at this same month exactly a year ago.
I find it interesting because as I write this new post, there is an incoming typhoon once again which has been compared to the strength that Ondoy had a year ago. Typhoon Juan, as it is named, is most likely to hit Philippine land tomorrow morning. It is currently going west at a speed of 22kph and will hit the province of Cagayan the hardest.
A lot of things has happened through the past year. I didn't stop playing sports in Zobel after the UAAP season. In fact, I even went back to my first love which was football. I got to play in the Alaska Cup one last time for Zobel as I have done before during my elementary days. It was quite a nostalgic experience as I got to reminisce and experience once again how it is to be a footballer. My team mates were not entirely different since most of them were my team mates already back then but the players I grew up with and spent more time with were gone already since they have already graduated since most of them were about a year or two older than I was.
I got into a relationship after my short stint in Zobel football. It was the first relationship I got into after my first one. It lasted for about a decent number of months but not everything turns out as planned.
I'll try to share more of my thoughts on life as I have on my previous posts but I just want to keep this post about how I am now. I'll try to write more posts this sembreak since I'll be at home relaxing most of the time. :)
Anyway, I am now a freshman at the University of the Philippines at Los Banos currently taking up Veterinary Medicine. It is a grueling 6 year course which is composed of 2 years of pre-veterinary studies and 4 years of proper veterinary education. I didn't get to experience the genuine UP educational experience since the Large Lecture Class Policy(LLCP) has already been implemented during my first semester in UP. A lot of chaos has been going on in campus regarding this issue and I'll get to see how events unfold as I extend my stay in UP. Either way, I still get to absorb the true privilege of UP education despite the large number of classmates I have in every class. I'm guessing that it will need a lot of getting used to as UPLB experiences this LLCP.
I shall update more throughout this month. :) Bye for now!
Until the next time.
Phim
Here are some of the few things that I have pondered upon after finishing my first semester as a UP student.1. The use of po and opo
Back in Zobel, kuya/ate/sir/miss/tito/tita/and even bro was enough for us to address the elderly when we talk to them. The use of po and opo wasn't really reiterated since most of the students do not use them often upon talking to older people. Anyway, as I began my student life in UP, I started noticing my batchmates using the words po and opo towards older people. Yes, saying those words to people 10 years older and above than you is a given but I noticed that some of them use it towards our upperclassmen and even to me!
Now, I get to practice saying po and opo again and sometimes, I get the feeling that I give too much respect to some older people that I was sort of close to already. Anyway, more respect is better than less respect right?
2. It's back to zeroIt definitely is a greater world when compared to the little happy world I came from called "high school" just a couple of months ago. Living the college life, especially in UP, is definitely a challenge for every individual since most people usually start from scratch upon entering the university. Despite the amount of success that an individual has garnered throughout his or her high school life, it would be a mere needle in a haystack situation since not many people know you or know where you came from not unless people have talked to you and asked you about your personal information or if you will be lucky, have heard of you in the past.
Another interesting piece that I have experienced would be the lack of knowledge of people about what or where my high school is. Coming from Zobel, I didn't really expect much of the people to know about De La Salle Zobel since the most popular La Salle high school would be La Salle Greenhills. Furthermore, most UP students come from outside the Metro Manila area giving it a more slim chance of knowing about Zobel since some of the people in NCR themselves don't know what or where Zobel is.
By the way, I'm not commenting on this to brag about my school. It's just something that me and my batchmates who went to UP saw as an interesting topic. It's just something that we share among one another to check on how we are as UP students coming from Zobel. :)
3. SPEAKING good english doesn't assure you of breezing through english class (I'm not even sure if the structure of the title of this post is written correctly.)
At the beginning of the semester, I took my English 1 class for granted. I thought to myself that this was going to be an easy class since I believed that I already knew the basics of grammar since everything was being tackled year in and year out during elementary and high school. BUT I WAS DAMN WRONG.
The lesson I found really difficult to bear with was the one on Passive and Active voice. I found it really really confusing and nothing made sense to me.
4. Study.
You will never pass college without studying. Enough said.
Until the next time.
Phim
