The Spontaneous vs. The Prepared

I was never a fan of christmas wish lists nor gift lists but I guess the situation asks for it. My head is too sabog (disorganized) of what I want (material or immaterial) so might as well make a list and straighten up. After all, this blog is about arranging all these disorganized thoughts of mine. 

**Trust me, if you know what it feels like, you will also get irritated and you can attest that it is NAKAKABOBO. 

Here goes my wish list/s (segregated from material to immaterial):

Material wish list:

1. Car 

This may sound very materialistic and immature but I honestly want (if this is not considered a need) a car because of two reasons: 

First, this is me having a statement of becoming bold (to my close friends, I didn't mean bold naked, okaaay. Ang defensive ko, omg. HAHAHA) and independent. GIRL POWER (so sabaw, sorry. *singing the song Run The World inside my head)!!! 

Second, I don't want my dad to do extra driving for me. I mean, he's tired from work then he will drive me all the way from home to the event, drive back home, wait for the event to finish then pick me up again. I appreciate my parents for bearing with me but I feel like there is a need to move on and be more independent; unless I am being too pa-independent. 

2. External hard drive.

I realized that I haven't been taking the effort to keep my drafts and published works. Being the disorganized that I am, my laptop is often either broke (overcharged or overused) or had crashed. Unfortunately, I haven't compiled my previous works. If I get an external drive this Christmas or as a birthday present, I am seriously going to compile everything and perhaps make a portfolio. :) 

Also, I've been planning to watch a lot of TV series like The Walking Dead, How I Met Your Mother (yes, ako na loser), Modern Family, etc. and continue watching Gossip Girl, Grey's Anatomy and my first love TV series, One Tree Hill. Unfortunately, my laptop memory isn't enough to accommodate these awesome shows! 

**sleepy na. to be continued (hopefully tomorrow.HAHA)

Substance.

Setting up a blog is not easy. It is high maintenance considering the time and ideas you invest. I even think of a blogger as an instant celebrity because in a way, you will expose yourself to the public (unless of course if you make your posts private) and you give them an option of invading your personal space or not. To a certain extent, your life will become an open book but you'll never know, you might inspire people or help them to stop being narrow-minded.

Sorry! I'm blabbering. 

Ready...Set...Go!

Okay, so the reason why I'm writing this entry is actually connected on my title. Substance. 

Earlier this morning, I was reading Angel Bombarda's latest post. Angel is my former editor-in-chief in The LaSallian. You can check out her blog here. Her blog is about, how the blog title goes, Chasing Columbia (apparently! Duh, Vrig, duh!!). Any reader will be inspired from all her travels and insights especially if you know where she is coming from. After reading one entry to another, you would most probably feel like the purpose of living is to travel and to figure out who or what you want to be. So I kept on reading and clicked the tab Who's Chasing? Apparently, that portion of her blog is where she introduced herself and stated the whole point of establishing her blog and that is, after learning that Columbia University is offering a double degree in Law and Journalism, she suddenly felt the desire to chase Columbia. I find it really awesome, substantial, inspiring and so connected to what she has been posting on her blog. I'm sure you find it pretty awesome too (wink wink!). It's like everything is wired to a series of adventure or some sort to chase a dream. 

And there goes Anna Oposa. Another blogger that I admire the most for her wit, intelligence, bibaness (if there's such a word), and love for marine life. Check out her blog here. You will laugh any time of the day and still feel like you actually learned something after reading her posts. 

...which got me thinking about my own blog. I even tweeted that I feel so ashamed (uh-oh. Here's the melancholic Vrig. Stop. Wait. Stop) of mine 'cause it feels like this doesn't have any substance, but oh well, everyone has to start somewhere. Perhaps as of now, what I'm chasing or figuring out is who I am (not that I am confused with my gender. Believe me, I'm sure I'm straight.) and what I am fighting for is my own mark not just in DLSU but to the whole world proving that a Filipina can standout in a respected and sophisticated (...and can I say posh and glamorous? 'cause I believe I am!!) way. 

On "student theories/types"

I've been having trouble focusing on my studies lately, and with the state of my midterm grades on some of my subjects, I am screwed. One of the many things I've learned for the past months is not to panic. It gives you shit when you expect the best. Out of boredom, I made up a couple of student theories based on the regular days when I feel like observing norms:

Theory #1: the "Oh-I-am-going-to-ace-next-term!-or-maybe-next-next-term" student

Normally, these are the students who performed poorly on their previous term. They either failed a subject or got a very low CGPA. These are the ones who experienced ice-cold hands while going to their university website, typed their username and password with hands shaking, closed their eyes after clicking 'View Grades', opened one eye to peek on their grades and tadaaaa! low grades as expected. Next thing they know, they are obsessing on food while saying "I will do good next term! I will be DL next term" over and over again. But then, the term they have been waiting for comes and history repeats itself. At the end of the day, they found themselves saying, "...or maybe next term."

Theory #2: the "almost-but-not-quite" student

Do you know that infamous bar "I did my best but I guess my best wasn't good enough." from the song Just Once by James Ingram? Yep, that is the perfect line to describe the almost-but-not-quite students. Every term, their GPA would be .05 or even .01 short from making it to the dean's list. They will also say, "next term will be MY term" but history, yet again, repeats itself.

Theory #3: the "I-just-did-what-had-to-be-done" student a.k.a the effortless student

Most of the time these are the consistent dean's listers and the overachievers. So far, I have never read or heard a student from this type that explains word-per-word their "secret" on why they are so good. When asked about what they do, they'll just answer the generic "enough hard work and discipline" kind of thing. Normally, you'll see them around either preoccupied with their thoughts, running around to beat a deadline or to make it on time for a meeting, or even in school papers either on the byline or they were the ones being interviewed. 

Theory #4: the ''eff school" student

These are the students who are not interested in school at all. I can think of two reasons: first, they might be the past "responsible students" but eventually got lazy because they failed a subject or two. Second, these may be the people like Steve Jobs who doesn't see the point of school at all but excels on other activities.

Apparently, there are still a lot of theories I have not covered but the sad state of my academic life is a mix of all these. I am always one of the people who finds it hard to describe herself because I think I am a mixture of all (sorry if it sounded like a narcissist). These days, I find myself indulging in food, Twitter, random ideas and dream jobs, blogs and future whatnots. Hopefully, it's not yet too late to gain momentum and ace this term.

xoxo,

Vrigy (feel ko lang na may ganito.HAHAHA.)