I Think I'm Falling For You...

"Me?", "Yes, YOU!" LOL, joke! hahaha..xDD Seriously, "That smile looks great on you..." would be the right message for you! :D

The title by the way is a song by Colbie Caillat, Falling For You. You can listen to it here:



Oh, Hey there everyone! How are you all doing? Me, I'm quite inspired and happy now..haha.. :D Wee! ♥

So, I'mma tell you about the first two days of school this week! They were okay, I could finally adjust a bit to the new school learning system! And I'm inspired to do a lot of things, as I am when I was very determined to top the class!

You know why am I inspired? or determined rather? It's because my parents told me that if, and only if, I could once again be a top first honor this school year, they would give a cool laptop for a (sort of) congratulatory gift! :D Yay! I want that laptop so bad since it's now needed for school, and that this laptop I'm using now would be out of my hands when my father retires soon (>,<) (^_^). And, this laptop will also help me out on my preparation for my career, which is to be a computer engineer, or an IT Consultant, or a graphic designer! haha.. :D

Another thing is that I have this unbelievable crush on somebody! hahahah..LOL! I mean, I truly can't believe I got a crush on him! He's not smart as I wanted my dream boy to be, he's not also tall, and not exactly handsome. But he is funny! I laugh at his jokes everytime. I really don't like this crushing thing going on, but the good thing is that these crushes give me some inspiration, like now..LOL. Hmm..maybe the comedian-like quality of someone really attracts me the most.

By the way, one result of those inspirations is that I was able to easily make up a poem in Filipino! I found out about making a poem, then viola! All ideas gathered around for the poem organized, then there! I was able to write the poem!

We were asked to make a poem relating to the poem, "Awit sa Ilog Pateros" by Jose F. Lacaba. It's actually in Tagalog, maybe some audiences won't understand. But here it goes! Oh boy! It's my first time to post something in Tagalog! haha.. :D

"Ano na ang Nangyayari?"

Balik tanaw tayo sa dati,
na ang kapaligiran natin ay kawili-wili,
lalo na ang mga ilog,
na malinaw-linaw tignan.

Noon pa man,
Masayang lumalangoy pa ang isda,
at mga nakatitira din doon,
tila wala pang duming nakikita.

Ngayon, ano na ang nangyayari?
Ano na ang nakikita?
Ano na ang nararamdaman?
Tignan natin, at ano ba ang iyong namamasdan?

Basura doon at dito,
Ang mga ito ay siyang dala-dalang agos na,
ng ilan sa mga ilog ngayon,
pati na rin ang iba't ibang uri ng polusyon.

Dulot nga ito ng pagwawalang bahala,
ng mga taong nakakatira doon at dito,
at iba pang mga lugar,
kung saan napakadumi na ang paligid.

May magagawa pa ba tayo?
Syempre meron pa,
kumilos nga tayo,
maglinis, mag-alaga, at matutong disiplinahin ang sarili,
Ganito lamang ka-simple,
Ano pa ang hinihintay nyo?

So, how's the poem? Comment your violent reactions! LOL..joke! :) Seriously, what do you think? Did I use the right words and grammar? Did I show coherence, and all that? Please, tell me what you think, if you wish! :D

Well, that's it for now! I still have some researching to do! Thanks for reading! :)

For a Moment...

Hey there everyone! How are you all doing? Me, I'm doing fine! Sorry for not updating much and for not replying to your tags and comments, without notice, because of some usual reasons like school, and I never knew that I could really be very, VERY busy in school now, that's why I hadn't gave a notice that I wouldn't be able to update anymore on the weekdays, . . . or, did I already tell you ahead about not updating that much because of those reasons? Oh well, once again, sorry for leaving my blog idle for 6 days. Woah! I really was out of the blogging world for a long time!

Imma tell you my experiences this school week! What can I say? I'm not liking a bit of it! You know why? Because that Independent Study made me very, very tired, and I was in a really bad mood with it!

Okay, first day of the Independent Study, Tuesday, yeah, I was excited at that time, because you know it, I was thinking, "Yay! A new thing to adjust to! I bet it would be as easy to adjust as the activity sheets!". There was still a subject period before the I.S., it's Computer subject, and as usual, I enjoyed the class discussions! We discussed about our lessons, reminded about the requirements, and what we would do during the afternoon, since we also have another meeting for the afternoon on that subject.

We were dismissed from Computer subject period at 8:20 am, even though the Independent Study should have started at 8 am, but our teacher said that T.H.E (Technology and Homeroom Economics) subjects could collide with other subject periods. Too bad class periods are only one hour or less, unlike past years in high school that they have 2 to 3 hours per subject! That really disappointed me a lot, and that started my bad mood throughout the week. You know why I'm disappointed by that matter? It's because there would already be less time for discussions and for finishing activities! ONE HOUR isn't a long length of time for me anymore in school!

What made my mood worse is that during the Independent Study, I had just realized how hectic the schedules would be! Only 4 hours of I.S., 7 subjects to accomplish going to, and 3 or more activities to finish, plus the research outputs?! WTH?! How the heck could we actually finish all of those activities in a week? And you know what I hate? Some activities have those groupings and roleplay! I hate groupings because it's so tiring having to recruit five to six members in a group, especially if you're really a loner and have only a few friends like me! And for roleplay? That activity never fails to make me nervous, and I also suck at acting! And, another thing, this "so-called" bestfriend of mine never wants to be left out!

I really find it hard to ignore her since she's a special child, uh, Autistic to be exact, and I don't want to hurt her feelings because of that, and you know, she's had enough of being hurt already, with all the boys teasing her and all, and fooling her around! Well, back to the topic, she never wants me to leave her, and she's a little bit, no, VERY MUCH DEPENDENT on me! Yeah, I did burst out in anger for a few moments, like I said, "Can't you learn to be more independent, [name of my so-called bf here]?! And please, if you think I write a lot faster than you (because I do..haha..not bragging here), and don't want to be left out because of that, then, I'm begging you, learn how to write fast!" What made me even more angry is that she even told me that we're not having a contest on who writes faster, we're having a contest on who's smarter! I thought like, haler?! Writing fast and getting high grades are related, and connected! If you don't write fast, and copy the necessary notes, you wouldn't be able to study properly, and you won't become smart! And, another incident, when she let a schoolmate of ours borrow her book, she ended up having a borrow my book! I thought WTF?! Letting someone borrow your stuff isn't always a good thing you know?! You don't have to let someone borrow your stuff if you're still going to use it! I really hate my bf's immaturity! :'(

---It's better if you don't read the text in very small font size. It would hurt your eyes..LOL..seriously, it would destroy someone's reputation. I can't help it but write it down here. I'm very sorry. Tell me if you had actually read that part..haha..

Now back to the topic, unfortunately, we didn't finish going through all subjects. Me, and my "so-called" bestfriend, lacked one subject to go to. But I think it's okay, maybe we're some of the few who had lacked only one subject! But then again, still, I was in a bad mood because I could have finished all of them if it weren't for my bf's dependent-ness. So sad, but true. :'(

Off topic! Sometimes, I think of breaking up mine and my bestfriend's relationship, and I got to admit, I don't like her a lot, and you might ask, why, and how did we become bestfriends? I couldn't recall clearly either! All I remember is that the first time we had talked was when we were having an election of class officers when I was in first year high school, when she pushed me to nominate her, and I reluctantly nominated her of course, and even reluctantly voted for her. That's still the case until now. Then, some moments later, she kept on going with me to other places I'd go to, and she also kept on following me wherever I go. She also likes me a lot, but me? I'm still not liking her as much as she does until now. I kind'a lost my perfectly normal and fun bestfriends because of her. She almost ruined my social life, or at least I think she almost did. Many don't bother to make friends with me anymore because of her. This is the only bad luck I could truly remember most in my life. What a life I'm dealing with right now!

But no, no! Our relationship isn't all that bad, only mostly! wahahah..

Again, back to the topic, during lunch, still on the Tuesday, I ate fast, and after that, I did my usual routine like going with my "so-called" BF to brush our teeth and do some grooming and all. Then, we were loaded with lots and lots, and LOADS of activities and work! Time surprised me even more that time because every time I look at the library's clock, even though I thought it was just second by second when I check it, 3-5 minutes pass by! See? Look how time passes by very, very fast!

During the afternoon period, as I thought it could finally be a relief from the ever tiring and stressful, and high-blood-pressure-giving Independent Study, but when I recalled that I still have a lot of things to do, the stress and high-blood came back all over again. I thought at that time, ACTIVITY SHEETS are really better than INDEPENDENT STUDY! I wish they would be back. I miss them a lot. They're a lot easier to adjust than I.S.

When I finally got home, still, I was loaded with a whole lot of researches to do and activities! Good thing I was still able to check some of my accounts for a while.

The next day, and the day after that, still, I had the worst experiences of my life. I choose not to say them to you anymore because I know you're very tired already from reading all of those things I had written above.

I'm so sorry.

Well, fast forward to the last weekday of the week, Friday, I should have thanked God that it's finally the day, but, yeah, I thanked God, but I wasn't really much happy that the day had come. You know why? It's because I haven't passed all of the activities and research outputs assigned to us, even though I had finished them all already. So unfortunate of me. I just hope that those teachers involved with those activities and research will consider and won't give me demerits. For crying out loud, it's still a DRY RUN! They should still be considerate, and give us second chances on the next week. What am I gonna do?! A friend of mine said that he was given a 10-point demerit for not passing the research output on time, but that was a different subject as mine. I hope that wouldn't happen to me!

Well, last Saturday, we shopped once again for school supplies, food, and some sports equipment, like a basketball. It was so tiring that I was too tired to write a blog post! Well, at least I had finally updated now! Did you miss me in the blog-o-sphere? If you ask me if I did miss you or not, I really did miss you so much! :D

*sigh* Tomorrow is Monday! I hope I could adjust to the new school learning system well this time! I think I already know what to do! :)

And, by the way, a few more days to go and it's the inaguration of the 15th Philippine President, Benigno "Noynoy" Aquino III! I think it's a holiday, so, yay! No classes! :D An additional time to rest for the week!

What a comeback, eh? :)

Before I go, I'd want to share to you this music! 100 Years by Five For Fighting! I really love the piano tune on the first part! :D



Well, that's it for now! Thanks for reading! :)

Happy Father's Day, Papa! :)

Happy Father's Day, Papa! :)

The image above is my digiscrap masterpiece, a surprise for my Papa for his special day! :) The quote by the way is by Bartrand Hubbard.

Well, I love my Papa so much! He had taken care of me, my brothers, and my sister, along with my Mama! He had also given me countless advices, basing on his life experiences!

He disciplines us well, that's why me and my siblings had grown to be well-disciplined. He spanks our sins away so that we could never do them again. It does hurt, but it's worth it, because if our sins are not let out by that, we could always do them again and again. We do believe that heart-to-heart talks won't work on most kids, so might as well do it the hurtful way..haha..xDD

So, he disciplines us well, he also lectures us about life, and he also relates those lectures of his to his past experiences! He had always told me not to be bad-tempered because it makes me ugly, and no person could get along with me well, and we could get no good from it. He had been there, and done that.

Another thing I like about my father is that he has great imaginations, that he could tell a lot of great, funny stories! They're some of the best (comedic) stories I had ever heard! He also tells some inspirational stories, and we do learn a lot from them!

My father is also smart and witty! He knows a whole lot of things! He's great in explaining stuff.

It's great indeed to have a father like him! I'm so lucky to have him as my father! He works hard for money for the needs of our family, he does some sacrifices just for our own good, he's responsible, loving, caring, and a lot more good qualities a great father has! Without him, I would be nothing, just like with my mother! I really, really love my Mama and Papa! They raised me well, and they made me the way I am now! I thank you so much for always being there for me! Oh, how could I ever repay you? :)

Off topic! Well, domain contests have been coming around this time, and I have been wanting to join one, but too bad it's during school time, that's why I couldn't join! I said to myself, why do some things I want to happen come at the wrong time? They should have held those contests during summer, that way I wouldn't have a problem! I'd want to try having a domain so bad so that I could see what it's like! Best thing about the contests are that they give a free domain, for one year, or so! I don't care if it expires, as long as I had tried having one, it's fine! I'd want to see for myself how domains work, and that I'll try not to believe in what others say about it, because I'll find about it myself! I won't try the domain on this blog though, because I'm afraid of what would happen to it.

Tomorrow is Monday! Oh, how time flies so fast! haha..xDD That has become a saying on my life right now! I once again would sleep early today, and wake up early too, very early! We'll wear our uniforms tomorrow, so, I'm excited about it! I could finally wear my new shoes and socks, and uniform! Yay! Tomorrow also, we'd be told about our subject requirements, and on Tuesday, we'll start that UbD (Understand by Design) Curriculum, the Independent Study. I'm also excited about that! Great, another thing to adjust to! I just hope I could still excel with it, and I know I will, just like last school year that I was able to survive that endless and tiring writing of activity sheets! LOL! :D Some even call them activity sh*ts..haha..xDD That's how my schoolmates hate that learning system! Good thing it was changed, but then again, some of my schoolmates are hating it. What do they want really? haha..

Our class schedule is so hectic right now, I know it! One of my teachers had already told us that club meetings aren't allowed to be held anymore during class hours! That's how hectic our schedule would be! T_T The class schedule is going to be given tomorrow! OMG! ^o^

We shopped for school supplies and food this afternoon by the way! Finally! I have my new USB Flash Drive, for my Computer (T.H.E) subject! I also have a new scientific calculator, and labgown! Yay! We also ate a lot of delicious food, one thing we did to celebrate Father's Day! :D

Well, that's it for now! Thanks for reading! :)

Time flies so fast...

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Indeed, time flies so fast! That makes life even more exciting! Better spend it wisely, you can never recover it once it's gone!

Hey there everyone! Finally! It's a weekend! I gotta admit, those first three (3) days of school were very, very tiring! I really needed a rest! Of course I had time to rest those past few days too, but I just didn't feel like resting, I mean, I really enjoyed surfing the net, and even if I was already very, very sleepy, I didn't want to sleep yet, and instead, I slept late, very late, like the time I used to sleep during summer. But good thing I still managed to wake up early, because of the alarm..haha..xD

Time flies so fast, do you agree? It's like it has been fast-forwarded, or something like that. And I love it, and sometimes it panics me. How about you? :)

I almost can't believe that I'm a Junior High School student already! It's like when our class is called "3rd Year", it's new to me, or I'm still not used to it. Well, I'll get used to it!

And also, thinking about me having lots of very high office positions in school makes me happy, but also panicky! haha..xDD

I'm happy about it because I would have lots of responsibilities, experience, and higher grades! I could also learn a whole lot more! And, I could increase my popularity in school, or lessen my shyness and silent-ness (is there such a word? haha)! I really wanted to have more self confidence and self-esteem with myself, and being an officer helps!

But on the other hand, I'm also panicking about it because I'm thinking, "OMG! Bigger responsibilities, less free time, higher stress level, could I handle it all?"! I really hope I could handle them all! Because of thinking about that stress I'm going to get, I thought that I would not push through anymore with auditioning for our Glee Club, because as what I had heard, that club gives a whole lot more stress than other clubs! Imagine? We have to attend practices everyday, including Saturday? And we still have those cleaning sessions, and club meetings if we're a member of any? Oh man! And especially now that club meetings between class hours aren't allowed anymore because of the new school learning system!

I love Junior Year! I really do! That's what I feel about it since the first day of school, or even before school started! We have more students already to be a role model of! I'm older, that means I have bigger responsibilities now. My teacher also says that this is the time many questions pop out our mind about everything around us. We explore more about life and all. Junior year (high school) is one of the most exciting years in our life! We better spend it well, 'ya know! haha.. :D

*sigh* Two more years to go and I'm college! Wee! But I haven't made up my mind yet on the course. And by the way, are Computer Engineering and Information Technology the same? I just needed some confirmation, that's all! :D And, do you know someone who became a millionaire (at least) who had a computer-related job/course? How about Multimedia Arts? These are just a few college courses I'm suggesting to myself. I based these with my passions, interests, and hobbies, now's the time to think if I could earn lots of money with them! I'm also thinking of getting an Engineering, or an Architecture course! There are lots of courses for me to choose! And here's another one: Accounting! Because I'm good in Math, and I know someone who became very rich with it! It's Manny Villar! haha..xDD Right?

By the way, I'm feeling sleepy now, which is strange because I did take a two-hour nap a while ago, at 3 - 5pm. Oh well, as usual, I don't want to sleep this early yet! Bwahaha! :P

And, another thing, tomorrow is Father's Day! I really hope I don't forget! It's one of the most special days of the year, and I don't want to miss greeting the person involved in it on that day! :) So, I better greet in advance (again) now, a Happy Father's Day to all father's out there, especially my father! :D

Another! The school implemented a rule that we're not allowed to bring cellphones anymore in school! And if we are caught bringing one, we won't be able to get inside the campus! T_T That hurts me a lot! I'm not used to not bringing a cellphone in school! It's my only mode of communication with my parents, brother, and sister when I'm in school! Well, on the bright side, nothing could ever disturb me anymore in school, and that those classmates and schoolmates of mine who can't seem to stop texting during school hours, could be disciplined by that.

We'll formally start wearing our school uniform next Monday, but we still don't need to bring some books, because our teachers would still give us some requirements on that day. And, we'll apply that new IS (Independent Study) on Tuesday. I hope I could adjust to it!

That's it for now! Thanks for reading! :)

And before I go, let me ask you, tell me about how your school was, if you want! :D

3rd Day of Junior High!

Hey there everyone! How are you all doing? Me, I'm doing fine! How's today's school? Mine's GREAT! I'll tell you why! :)

The day started the same as before, I woke up very early as usual during school days because of the ringing of the alarm, and I did those other usual routines, like taking a bath, breakfast, and many others! We also arrived in school very early too, like before.

When I arrived in school, I met up with some of my friends, then talked about random stuff, and when it was the time for the first period/session, our teacher/advisor arrived, then she talked and discussed about what we learned from yesterday's orientation-seminars. As usual, we have those laughs, and all. And because many could not answer our teacher's questions well, or could not respond directly, we discussed about this thing called Communication. We knew that if "response" is missing, Communication isn't complete, or something like that.

After that, we elected classroom club officers! Hooray! Well, we just elected on the English Club, then when it came to Math, Filipino, Social Studies (Araling Panlipunan), T.H.E (Technology and Homeroom Economics), and Values, our teacher just appointed some classmates of mine per position, and of course she also asked some suggestions on who to put in that position from my classmates too! Yay! I was elected as Secretary for English Club! I'm also very happy the time when my teacher appointed me as President for Math Club! I thought that it was just a joke, but when I knew it was real, I was jumping with joy, within me! haha..xDD Math is my most favorite subject of all time! And I'm not kidding, or being frank! :D I don't care how hard that subject is, as long as I enjoy solving Math problems and all. Well, I'm not saying this to boast about myself, but I do find Math easy, as long as you know the formula! ^^

I'm also appointed as Social Manager for Filipino, P.R.O (Public Relations Officer) for Social Studies, Treasurer for Values, I'm part of the Peer Counselor's Club and Capitol Courier. We haven't elected officers in those two latters yet, maybe next week there would be an election, or a month later.

Here comes the Overall Election of Club Officers! Since we would attend the highest position we're in classroom club officers, I attended Math Club! I had found out that two of my rivals in first honors are there! Aha! haha..xDD Cool! LOL! :D I sat beside one of the two by the way. She's really good at drawing Manga characters, that's why I enjoy sitting beside her because I love to see what, or how she draws!

Back to the overall election of club officers, we started with a prayer, yes, then our club moderator addressed the welcome message. After that, she then appointed a fourth year student who is good at Math to be the Club President! Then, the floor was open for nomination for other positions! The Club President nominated me as Vice President, then another student (I forgot who he or she is) nominated my first honor rival (LOL). I was thinking that this would really be a very, very close votation result with her! But it turned out that I was way ahead of the votes! Yay! 17-6, with me as 17! Yahoo! Hooray! haha..xDD I'm Vice President, yeah! I was very, very, VERY thankful to the one who nominated me, and to those who voted for me! But our Math Club moderator decided to make the Vice Presidents two, the Internal and External! So, there's no hurt feelings between us two! Then we're off to the secretary, treasurer, auditor, P.R.O, Social Manager, and Sgt. At Arms. One club member nominated himself for the Sgt. At Arms position, and was automatically appointed to that position! Wow! Our club moderator was very impressed by the member's attitude, that he bravely nominated himself! Even me, I admire students, or even other people, like that!

After the election of officers, we had some brainstorming for some school activities we would do related to Math! And oh man, we were very silent! LOL! xD Very few of us suggested some activities, and ended up having few suggestions too! haha.. :D We only had 5 (or 6) suggestions for Math activities. The Club President kept on asking us three (the first-honor-trio), and none of us were sure on what to suggest! I was thinking of the Quiz Bee, but thought it's very common already, and the same for the Sudoku Contest! Too bad I didn't have the guts to say my suggestions, because they were accepted after all! Some other club members suggested these exact two suggestions! T_T huhu...They stole my idea! LOLjk! Well, it's okay, there's always a next time! haha..

And oh! Here's something new! Our club moderator suggested that we would have rigid reviews on the MTAP (Mathematics Teachers' Association of the Philippines) Math Challenge, and she would pick students who are talented in Math, then, yeah, she'll have a rigid review with them. That would start as early as July. I'm excited! haha...Finally! My Math teacher had thought of this! Now when it comes to January, the month of the MTAP Math Challenge, we could answer the questions well! Thank you, thank you! :D

After the suggestions, club officers were told to say a speech, on anything about the club! Oh man! The President came first, and next, ME! OMG, I'm not really so sure on what to say! Then I ended up stuterring some sentences and all, and when combined, I said something like, "Hello everyone! Thank you to those who voted for me! I hope we could cooperate on our activities, then, yeah." See? Then next came the external vice! She couldn't think of any message to say, so, she said that she "agrees" on what I said! I LOLed at that..haha..She was really pushed to giving her own message, but she ended up saying the similar stuff I said, but only on the "cooperate" thing. Well, I did not laugh as much as I can, knowing I had experienced this too before.

Despite having a hard time on giving that message, I still love being a Vice President! It's for my GRADES, and EXPERIENCE! We may never know I might enter politics, and if I do, I already know how being an officer goes! :) Or if I could be a manager on a company, I would already know how to lead others to the right path!

Other club officers also gave their speech, and also had a hard time with it, so, we're not alone! haha...

We went back to our respective classrooms for the bulletin board structuring! It went well, the output, even though it isn't finished yet, is already great! I really love it!

It rained this afternoon. This is another thing why I love this day. And, we also went home early!

We changed to our house clothes and ate dinner as soon as we arrived home, as usual, then I proceed to my laptop and surfed the net!

About the laptop, our advisor told us that we are already allowed to bring our laptops in school because we now have this researching on our new school learning system. We have a laptop, but we do not have those things called Smart Bro or Globe Tattoo, so, I don't know if whether I'm allowed to bring this laptop I'm using now or not. If I'm not allowed, it's okay, maybe, just maybe, I could always use the school library's internet, or I also could always do the researching at home.

What I did on the Internet was checking out cool photos on Facebook Fan Pages, and I also found this cool music video of Justin Bieber! Somebody to Love!



It has a lot of dancing, and cool effects! I never knew Justin Bieber could ever dance like that! The music video is really cool, isn't it? I rate it 5 stars!

Well, that's it for now! I'll bloghop after this, then I'll go to sleep! :)

EDIT: Ciel gave me an award! Yay! Thanks so much sis! :)

I'm going to pass this to all of my good friends here in my blog! You know who you are! ;)

---Another end of the post! I'll post what happened on this day later! :)

Second Day of Junior High!

Hello there everyone! How are you all doing? How's your first days/weeks of school? Mine's really great!

Well, I'm feeling sleepy now as I write this blog post, so, sorry if I could commit mistakes. :)

So, how my day started was the same as yesterday, I woke up very early, at around 4:30 am, then I did those other usual routines we'd do in preparing for school! We also arrived in school very early too today, but yesterday was earlier. We left the house 5 minutes later than yesterday, then also arrived in school 5 minutes later! haha.. :D

Many students were already there when we arrived. I proceeded to my classroom, but since the doors are still locked, me, and one classmate of mine who arrived earlier than me, waited outside, leaning on the balcony and all..haha..and also talked about stuff. The key-holder finally arrived shortly, we got inside, then waited for further instructions teachers would give us.

Later, that's when I knew we would have orientations and seminars the whole day! I enjoyed the Computer teacher and School Nurse, and the Prefect of Discipline's seminar the most, because they made me laugh and enjoy the discussion! I really love discussions that make me laugh, even just a little! haha... :D I also love discussions that I could learn a lot too!

So, our first orientation was the school's security services, then the next is about the clinic services, then the guidance services, an orientation on our new school learning system, and the prefect of discipline's orientation on rules and regulations! We sat down on chairs the whole day! We only had a few minutes to walk around! And you know, I'm still sitting down now! haha...But the sitting down became worth-it, we learned a lot anyway.

About the new school learning system, we'd apply IS (Independent Study) and we'd also have those cards, namely:

1. Guide Card - Overview, and simply a guide for the whole activity.
   
2. Research Card - Research instructions, similar to our writing on activity sheets before.
   
3. Activity Card - for Activities.
   
4. Enrichment Card - for those who advanced in their activities, I think.
   
5. Remedial Card - for those who weren't able to finish their work in time.
   
6. Assessment Card - for Evaluations.
   

Independent Study is only conducted during Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays, 8 am to 12 nn.

Assigned classrooms are given for each major subject; Math, Science, Filipino, English, and Araling Panlipunan/Makabayan. We just choose which room to go first to do your activities, or something like that.

See? It's A LOT different from last year's writing-on-activity-sheets all day, and one bad part of that writing on activity sheets is that we have to pay for those sheets! Well, I don't know this school year that do we still need to pay for something needed for the activities or not. Well, maybe I could understand this school system more if we'd experience the actual thing!

There are really a lot of changes in our school! I do hope that I could adjust well to it! I'll just think that it's not really bad at all, then it would not be bad! haha..xDD That's what happened to me recently! I thought school would be really great, and it was! Yay! haha.. :D

In Facebook, I had posted something about asking my Facebook friends what an expression, "Salad Oh!", mean, because I really don't get the meaning, and you know, since the start of school, my male classmates kept on uttering that expression! It bother's me alot! Some say it's obscene (bastos in Tagalog/Bisaya). Then, one commented that the meaning, although she's not sure about it, is a sexy girl..haha..hmm..that makes a bit sense why it's obscene! Well, at least I have an idea, and it won't bother me anymore!

You know, about our elections, it was, uh, what do I call it? Hmm..CRAZY?! My classmates voted for those who are NOT deserving of the positions! They only voted for their friends, even though they're not sure whether they could do the job well or not! What happened to the VOTE WISELY thing? I'm quite disappointed that our Vice President and Secretary are two of the most mischevious classmates in our class! But well, what the heck! Why am I ranting about this? It's because I pitty those deserving people who were not elected to any position on the officer's list. I bet only few of the officers are deserving, well, including me I guess!^^ But despite these, I'm also happy that I am an officer! Yay! I'm an SBO Assistant Secretary, and a Class Sgt. At Arms! :)

Well, that's it for now! I have to sleep now, Bye! :D Still have school tomorrow!

My First Day went a little like this...

Hello everyone! How are you all? Me, I'm doing fantastic! haha..xDD You know where that title originated from? It's originated from Ke$ha and OH3's song, My First Kiss, I had just changed "kiss" to "day". haha.. :)) And I also would want to share to you my first day of being a 3rd year/Junior High school! Here it goes! :)

So, the day started when I heard my alarm on my phone ringing. I was suddenly wide awake! haha.. :D Then, I cooked rice, took a bath, brushed my teeth, changed my clothes, and waited for other members of my family to wake up! My mother cooked us a tuna omelet. I ate the breakfast, drank my Milo, went to the CR and brushed my teeth again, and I changed my clothes to the one I'd wear for school. We ended getting ready very early! At around 6:25 am we were done, and our class still starts at 7:30 am! Yep, we left our house at 6:25 am, rode a jeep at 6:30 am, and arrived at 6:40 am. We really did arrive very early too! It's good that when we arrived at school, many students are already there, so no need to worry about being the only ones there! haha.. :) We went looking for our classrooms, but there was no "section plate" (or whatever you call it) to determine which classroom does each class section belong! Me, together with my brother who is a freshman in high school now, went back to the benches. There, we found that many people were looking at the bulletin board. It turned out that class sections, and the names of students assigned there, were there! I looked at it too, and then I saw that my section is still Einstein! haha..Looks like I would never be Darwin anymore! LOL! :D But it's OK, my classmates are great to get along with! And my teacher-advisor is also good too!

Well, back to what happened, I saw my name on the 3rd Year Einstein section, and I also saw my so-called bestfriend's name there, my two other friends, and my one and only competition in the honor's list! haha...Why do I have to belong to a section wherein only two honors are there?? The other two first honors are already at the other section. Too bad, I could never monitor anymore how they're doing! LOL! :D

So, we had a bit of orientation, and we also had the election of class officers! And a "Yay!" for me! I'm one of those elected officers! I'm the Sgt. At Arms. My job is to maintain peace and order in and out of the classroom.

Tomorrow, there's more and more to discuss about our school! And I'm so excited what would they be!

I had just done doing my paper works my teacher and other class officers assigned me now! Whew! That's why I had written this post late.

Well, that's it for now! A short post, eh? Maybe I'm going to tell more about school tomorrow, or on the weekends!

I'm going to sleep now, bye! I still have school to go to tomorrow! :)

The time has come!

Hey everyone! How are you all doing? Me, I'm doing fine!

Yep, tomorrow is already our first day of school, and most other schools in the Philippines start their school today too! That's why now I posted this blog post so that I could prepare for school later this afternoon, or in the evening. There could be little chance that I'm going to be online this evening today, so, yeah.

I better get the most of the Internet this day, because I could rarely be online this school time because of, you already know, all the school works! All other students are getting the most of Internet now, so, I'm not the only one! haha..xDD

The time has finally come! School's coming, and yes, you all already know that I'm very excited! As what some of you said, it's very, very obvious that I am because of my countdown! haha.. :D

Make your own Countdown Clocks

Watch 'til the digits strike at zero! :)

You know, yesterday, in the evening, I was planning to get ready for school already, but because I was always tempted from the Internet, I did not resist the temptation, and yeah, I was still online yesterday evening! haha..xDD And also ended late! I ended surfing the net at around 11:30 pm. I really promise myself that I would not be online anymore later this evening, and that I would not be tempted this time! :) It's for my preparations for tomorrow! I don't want to end up getting ready at the last hour of getting ready tomorrow morning! Even though it's easy to prepare for school tomorrow because of the little things we needed to bring, I still need to prepare them early so that I wouldn't forget anything. All I had to bring by the way are a notebook, ballpen, pencil, snack, lunch, bottle of water, pad paper, and I think that's it! It's still the first day of school you know! We don't have to bring some books yet.

Now, I had just discovered that most of those previous classmates of mine who said that they would transfer, would not transfer after all! They didn't really mean it! Bwahaha.. :P I really thought that we're going to be very few now in our class. Yes, it's true that we're going to be fewer, but not very few after all. I'll just see tomorrow that if they once again mean it that they won't transfer! haha.. :))

There are really a lot of things I need to look forward to tomorrow! The old and new faces of classmates and schoolmates, my friends, faculty and staff, and many others! You know, a guy friend of mine kept on asking me these last few days that could he call me or not. Oh my! Did he miss my voice! LOL! hahaha.. :DD It's too bad that I couldn't find time to call him because I'm so busy doing some stuff and that I think that I might disturb some other members of the family. Well, I haven't tried asking permission from my parents that he may call me or not..haha..xDD *doh* Why didn't I think of that? Hmm..it's okay because I could finally see him, and hear him of course, tomorrow anyway.

I miss my schoolmates and teachers so bad that I wan't to see them now! LOLjk! haha..xDD I could wait! :)

Sometimes, I wish that some schoolmates, and other people I know (in person), have blogs too, so that I could know them more, and that I could enjoy reading what they wrote because I knew about it! haha.. :D And so that I could see if they are telling something about me, and all.

But even though I would really enjoy what they write, I could even more enjoy what people I don't know in person write about! Like my blogger friends here! You know who you are! *wink*

I already know some schoolmates of mine who have blogs, like my classmate-slash-schoolmate Christianne, and my schoolmate Ate Pearl! Yay! hahah..xDD Now I know what they are up to, and what they're thinking all along! LOL! :)

Well, that's it for now! Thanks for reading! Waah! Still a long post! haha..xDD I hope you had gotten this far! God bless, and Good luck! :)

Hello? Are you there?

Hey? Everyone? haha..xDD Well, hello! How are you all doing? Me, I'm doing fine as always!

You know, as what I had observed here on the Internet, it's getting quiet. Like for example, here in the blog-o-sphere, when I was bloghopping, only few of the blogs are recently updated. And on Facebook? Fewer are online. Plurk? Fewer are Plurking.

By the way, about Facebook. I forgot to tell you, last June 10, 2010, I had a record of 63 online people on my FB chat! I was so happy, that I broke the news on my status! LOL! :D It's the first time that my FB chat had reached above 60 online! I was thinking that many people logged in to Facebook because they're getting the most of it before school starts!

Well, today's Monday, and it's a holiday, that's why there are no classes. And tomorrow, for us, will have no classes too, because as what I had said, it would be Cagayan de Oro City's Charter Day. I am really, really excited for Wednesday, If you are frequently reading my blog, then you'll know how I really am excited for school. I even posted a countdown, like this:

Make your own Countdown Clocks

Another thing I'd want to share to you! My 100-peso load, which was loaded last April 28, 2010, had just expired now, even though it hasn't ran out yet! I'm so happy to know that my 100-peso load lasted long! Maybe because I was subscribed to Globe's IMMORTAL TXT, and that I didn't text much. I'm not really a texting addict like most teens are. I had been texting since 3 years ago, when I was in Grade 6, when my parents gave me a cellphone as a birthday gift. It was a Nokia 1110i. It's a cool phone, good for those who are fond of texting, for those who'd want a very simple and user-friendly phone. I really loved the phone, because it was the first phone I ever had, and I first learned how to text with that phone. It had been with me until last March 21, the day my parents bought a new phone for my being a top first honor. My old phone wasn't exactly destroyed, it was now used by my younger brother.

Back to my topic about my load, just now, I was loaded 50 pesos. I hope that this load would also last long! :) I'll save it really, really carefully!

I would like to greet again an advance Happy Father's Day to my Papa, and to all other fathers out there! I figured out that I would frequently greet a Happy Father's day so that I would not forget. It's a very special day for fathers, and I don't want to miss greeting my father on that day. It is the time to honor our fathers for all that they had done. They had worked for money for the needs of the family, they had a lot of sacrifices just to give us some good care and support. They continuously give us some advices, some encouragement, and some other things that we need to live well. I thank my Papa for all those things that he had done. He had made me cry so many times because he had scolded and hurt me so bad for something I did wrong. But I still love him for that despite all the hurt feelings I had felt, because he is just doing those to me because he loves me. Well, he even sacrificed himself to just stay with us here at home, to be with us, even if his assigned place to work is located very, very far from our place, and even if he receives less salary because of it. And, he also lent me his laptop, the laptop I'm using now! I am so happy that he did these great things to us. I love you Papa! :)

Well, that was emotional! :'D

Off topic! I'm finally going to be a Junior High School student! I'm so happy! Yay! I just hope that things would go well on our first days of school! I'm going to look my best, do my best, give my best, and a lot other best things that I could do! :) And oh my gosh! We're going to have a prom this school year! I gotta admit, I'm just so excited for the prom because I get to wear a gown! LOL! :DD And have my hair treated, or have some make-up, well, I don't like the make-up part..haha..xDD It only makes me uglier, I guess, but it's needed..lol.. Now I'm just being immature..haha..

I kept on looking through some gowns at a gown renting store at Limketkai, thinking, someday, I'm going to wear one of you! ^_^

This is going to be my second-to-the-last everyday update for now, since school's almost coming and you all know that we couldn't find some vacant time anymore each day to blog, or do some other stuff on the Internet! It would be lucky if I get to blog on a weekday! haha..xDD But I'll do try my best to blog on a weekend! :)

Well, that's it for today! I was thinking that this is going to be a short post this time, but it turned out that I was wrong..haha.. :DD Thanks for reading! I hope you had gotten this far! :)

Before I go and do some bloghopping, I'm going to share to you this music by Emilia, Big Big World:



Okay, I'll go now and bloghop, bye! :D

It's a Sunday! :)

Hello everyone! How are you all doing? Me, I'm doing fine!

So, yeah, it is indeed a Sunday in our place! You know what that means? A new week has come! haha..xDD And you know what this week brings me (and many other students?) ? This week is the start of classes in some schools! Some start their classes on the 15th, and some also start their classes on the 16th. I heard that tomorrow, the 14th, is a Philippine holiday, the 112th Philippine Independence day! Well, our soon-to-be-former President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo moved the holiday on that date! Hmm..she got the hang of it! haha..xDD

Most of some schools (outside Cagayan de Oro I guess) start their classes on June 15, 2010. Cagayan de Oro doesn't start their classes on that date because it's the city's Charter Day. So, we have no choice but to move the start of classes on the 16th of June. I'm so excited for that date! It's very obvious, right? haha.. :D Hooray! It's only 3 days to go before school! :)

My school has some construction going on. The elementary department's classrooms are going to be added! And I also heard that a new curriculum would be implemented. Here's the ongoing construction by the way, which was when we had our SBO Leadership Training Seminar:

See the roof? They're fixing it too. I'm also so excited to see the finished output of the construction! I bet it's going to look great!

Another thing about this Sunday, is that many are already greeting their dads a Happy Father's Day. I became confused because as what I have recalled, Father's day is on the 3rd Sunday of June. I confirmed Wikipedia about it, and here's what I found:

Father's Day is a day honoring fathers and celebrating fatherhood, paternal bonds, and the influence of fathers in society. It is celebrated on the third Sunday of June in 55 of the world's countries and on other days elsewhere. It complements Mother's Day, the celebration honoring mothers.

Turned out I was right! Father's day is indeed on the third Sunday of June! But I'll just greet my Papa, and all the other fathers out there a Happy Father's Day, just in case I forget! I am already forgetful nowadays, that's why I would try to keep myself reminded, or if it is birthdays or events I need not to forget, I could just greet everyone in advance about it.

But it's good that even though I'm forgetful, I never forget most of my past lessons I learned from school! I love my brain for being like that! ;) And of course, I never forget how to do some things like those we do everyday, or I do frequently!

And you know, I keep on forgetting to rant about how I hate it when I'm told to do some chores while I was using the computer or I'm in a bad mood. Again, I like how my mind does that! haha..xDD Thanks to it, I only seldom bore you with some worthless rants! :)

Well, I once again woke up a bit early this morning, at 9:30 am. As usual, I kiss my parents and baby brother good morning, then I take my breakfast and brush my teeth. One thing that's different about me compared to others is that I only seldom take a bath in the morning during non-school days. I usually take a bath in the evening, or sometimes in the afternoon because I would want myself to be all-clean when I go to sleep. I sometimes think that when I take a bath in the morning, I would become all-dirty for the rest of the day..haha..xDD

So, back to what I did during the day, until now. After brushing my teeth, I do my chores, like washing my clothes. Then, after that, I immediately run to my computer room and turn on the Internet connection and go to my laptop, then surf the net!

I do some usual stuff like checking my blog for messages, drop by other blogs, then log in to Facebook, share something on Plurk, research some things that come up on my mind, edit some pictures, scrolling up and down, and many others!

I also played basketball with my mother and sister early this afternoon. I won when playing with my mother, and I kind'a surrendered when I was playing with my sister because of severe tiredness. No prize was prepared, so it's OK to lose, but it seems that I never wanted to lose no matter if there's a prize or not! Maybe because I never wanted to make myself feel bad around anybody. The other family members who watch us playing basketball kept on kidding me that I was too serious with the game even though there's no prize! haha..xDD That's just who I am! :)

By the way, about school, since it is almost coming, my boredom would finally end! This is one thing I like about school, it kills our boredom, because we do a lot of worthwhile stuff, and we're always busy with school work, we have a lot of friends to talk to, we are brought to an adventure with books, and many others! Really, really random thoughts would not haunt me anymore! LOL! :D

Speaking of really, really random thoughts, I'm having one of that these days! haha..xDD Here's this guy who is kind'a handsome, kind, and is good at playing basketball, and goes to our house regularly to play with my brother (who is also good at playing basketball) and other guys from barangays near us. He is also our neighbor. Now, this really, really random mind kept on thinking that I do like him one bit..LOL! :)) I kept on glimpsing through my window to see them play basketball, and all. haha.. :D I really hate to admit that I do like this certain someone.

hahaha..LOL! :D I just hope this strange thought and feeling would go away! Good thing school's coming and chances of this thought (and feeling) going away would be big, because, well, as what I had told you, we'll be too busy with school work to think of some really, really random thoughts! I just wanted to fight this feeling of mine..char! rofl.. This secret of mine is getting harder and harder to keep to myself, so, yeah, I just wanted to tell you about it! --another laugh on myself..haha..xDD

Oh man, now I'm in a deeper stage of being a teen! LOL! :)) I'm beginning to have some worthless drama! T_T Please, go away! But on second thought, maybe these things just makes my life even more exciting, but most of the time I think that I just wanted not to experience all those drama and go on with my deep, deep concentration with my studies, and leave all those love related things after I graduate in college! :D

Well, that's it for now! Thanks for reading! I hope you had gotten this far! :)

Independence Day! :)

Hello everyone! How are you all doing? Me, as usual, I'm doing fine! Today in the Philippines is the Independence Day! I'm going to tell you about what we did for this day!

Image from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Flag_of_the_Philippines.svg , http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_the_Philippines

Kuya Renz shared this song for Independence day. I love the song, that's why I decided to share it to you here too! :D

"todo na 'to!
lliparin ang langit na bughaw
pagningningin mga tala at araw
mamumulang muli ang silangan
sa bagong simula ng ating bayan"

To tell you guys, I kind'a missed hearing some Tagalog songs. All I had been hearing now are English (and Korean) songs. Good thing some blogger friends of mine shared Tagalog songs! I really had a great sound trip from those Tagalog songs! Thank you Kuya Renz, and Kuya Julius too, for the song True Love Ko!

By the way, thank you so much to those who greeted my blog a happy birthday yesterday, and complimented my new blog layout too! :D Thank you, thank you! I highly appreciate them!

Well, this was an ordinary day for us. We just did some grocery shopping the whole day, and then here I am, in front of the computer surfing the Internet!

But before I continue my blabs about today, I'm going to share to you this Disaster Movie End Song! It was indeed funny and cool! haha.. :D My sister and brother shared this to me yesterday. I really loved it. Too bad every video of it doesn't approve embedding it! You may just click the link and watch it if you want! :)

Then, back to today, so, first thing in the morning, I woke up early, because I slept early yesterday. Hmm..I don't know why I got bored on the Internet early the night before. Well, as usual when we are going to have some grocery and shopping, we get ready as fast and early as we can. We usually have grocery shopping in the morning, just so you know. Then, I took some vain pictures of myself and my baby brother while waiting for my mother and sister to get ready. Here's one:

After my mother and sister got ready, we kissed Papa goodbye, then we went on going to the highway and waiting for jeepneys to ride. When we arrived, we kept on walking and walking on going to the grocery. It was tiring indeed. When we finally arrived again at the grocery, we went on grocery shopping of course! haha.. :D There were a lot of other people there! Maybe because of the holiday. After grocery shopping, we went to Goldilocks to buy some food for take out. Then after that, we finally went home! I was so relieved by that! Finally, I could rest at home, and eat, then go have a bit of exercise, then go to my laptop and click Mozilla Firefox, then off to surfing the net!

While surfing the net, the first site I visit is this blog, to check for messages and comments! And whew! I was so surprised to see a lot of comments and messages today! I was so happy too when I saw these! I'm so glad that you all took your time greeting my blog a happy birthday and compliment my new layout, and comment on my post of course! Thank you, thank you very, very much! As what I had said, I highly appreciate them! Thanks again! :D

So, the next site I visited was YouTube, to check out the Disaster Movie End Song video again! I really enjoyed watching it! After that, I checked out other videos of the Disaster Movie. Here's another one! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7sbjp5cglzw

Again, embedding was disabled, so, you may just click the link for the video! I really love the song, the beat, and it has a kind'a funny message! haha..xDD

It says, "We'll all be friends forever, unless a random disaster destroys our city!"

I LOLed when I read the lyric. :D

I really thought it wasn't their own song, but when I searched it on Google, it was indeed their song! I really, really loved it! haha..xDD

Here's the full version by the way, but sorry for the quality: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2jveRiwk-yM&feature=related

Another thing! Yay! Finally! It's already...

Make your own Countdown Clocks

Wooh!! School, I'm almost coming for you! haha..xDD My excitement for school came back! Today is June 12, and our classes would be on June 16, 2010, 7:30am! Yipee! LOL! :D I'll wear my best shirts and blouses for the first days of school! And I'll prepare my mind and body for those first days of school too! As what I had said, I'll sleep and wake up early, get ready and do some chores early, stop being lazy and procrastinating, wear my best shirt/blouse, yes, then wait excitedly for the jeepney! haha..my father doesn't bring us to school anymore with his car, unless it's raining. He, and my mother, are already training us to be more independent! And I'm kind'a loving it! I could also train myself for preparing to go to Manila and study there at the University of the Philippines! I really hope I could pass, and even more, get to the top 50! Hopefully!

As what I had read about the UPCAT (University of the Philippines College Admission Test),

U.P. Oblation Scholars are the top fifty qualifiers to the UPCAT. Their scholarships, should they choose to enter UP, provide them with a 100% discount on tuition fees, transportation and book allowances, and monthly stipends.

Among the Oblation Scholars who choose to enroll in UP, several are chosen to give a welcome address during the freshman assembly at the UP Theater.

See? Because of the "100% discount on tuition fees, transportation and book allowances, and monthly stipends", I really want to be on the Top 50! I want to become a scholar so bad, so that I could help my family save more money!

I really wish to be one of the best! :)

And another thing I had read about:

Eligibility and Application to the UPCAT

Individuals that are considered eligible for the UPCAT should be any one of the following:

1. A senior student of any secondary school that is accredited by the Department of Education;

2. A graduate of any secondary school that is accredited by the Department of Education, or of any secondary school found abroad; or

3. Any individual that has been declared eligible to enter college according to the Philippine Educational Placement Test (PEPT) results.

In addition, graduates must not have taken and must not be taking any college subjects. He or she should not plan to take any college subjects before the semester or academic year of the UPCAT.

Anyone who has taken the UPCAT may not take it again.

The deadline for filing of applications for the UPCAT is announced regularly, and is usually in late June.

See that bold statement? "Anyone who has taken the UPCAT may not take it again." Oh man! That panicked me a little! I SHOULD NOT fail myself on that test! Well, I still have a few more months to go before I would take the UPCAT! Maybe all I can do now is study well, pray to God, keep my hopes up, and aim high!

..and, another thing! Here's another one I've read!

University Predicted Grade

The University Predicted Grade (UPG) is a combined score of an applicant's weighted UPCAT score and the weighted average of his/her grades in high school. It is approximately 40% from his/her grades in high school and 60% from the UPCAT. UPCAT results are ranked according to the examinees' University Predicted Grades.

In order to make the student population of UP more representative of the country's population, socioeconomic and geographic factors are also considered in selecting campus qualifiers. see entry [1]

I'm so glad that my high school grade would count! Yay! 40 percent! That's already a big percentage to add to my UPCAT result! I just hope that I could also have a big result in the UPCAT exam itself too! :D

Me and my family talked about our plans when we grow up, then we talked about our plans in college. This UPCAT was also one thing we talked about. Yep, they hoped that I could pass the exam someday, and get a great job! My father said that finding a job would not be a problem for me because I get along with people well, I'm not bad-tempered to others, and I'm smart! He told me that I should improve my public relations, you know, I should be more like, uh, talkative, approachable, smiling, and all! Those are the only things I lacked in my personality. So, I just hope I could adjust my attitude a bit! :)

Well, that's it for now! Thanks for reading! Hope you had gotten this far! :D

EDIT: Ate Janile and Ate Kristina gave me an award! Yay! Thank you so much!! I'm so happy! Here they are! :)

From Ate Janile..

...and from Ate Kristina!

Here's for you! :)

I guess I just have to pass this award to all the people in my blog links! :D Especially Ate Janile and Ate Kristina! I give the award back to you! :) I already passed this award to some co-bloggers and friends in this post: http://vannice95.blogspot.com/2010/05/oh-my-gosh-new-addicting-song-and-blog.html To those friends who haven't claimed the award, please claim it now, and accept it! :)

Thank you, thank you, THANK YOU!! :D

---Another end of the post! :)

Happy First Birthday...

...to my blog, Take a Deep Breath! It's feels so good to know that me and my blog got this far! :)

Click the image for a bigger view! :D

To celebrate this first anniversary of my blog, I changed my layout to this:



What do you think of my new layout? :) Me, I think it looks great! It's simpler and more attractive to me, I guess! :D

And, I'll also celebrate this first anniversary of my blog by posting this blog post, and telling you about how it came to be, and some experiences I had!

So, let me tell you the history of my blog! Here it goes!

One day, when I was looking through some updates on Friendster (Friendster was still popular when this blog has been born), I saw some bulletins. One bulletin post of Ate Pearl promoted her blog, http://stupify5.blogspot.com, which I recalled was newly updated. Yeah, I clicked the link of her website, then there! I fell in love with her new layout, and all the things that she had written! :D Because of that, I decided to make a blog too, so that I could also design a layout like that, and also, I could make an online diary. That time, I finally knew what formal blogging was about. I already had a blog before this, which was http://vannice.blog.friendster.com/! Take a look at my posts there if you want! hahaha.. :)) See? I don't really know about how to write in a blog! LOL! All I had written there were song lyrics, some shortcut-ed typing which are so immature, and others that you may observe! After browsing through Ate Pearl's blog, that time I knew how I should use a blog! :) Thank you for that! :D

Yeah, I made this blog on June 11, 2009. Whew! I wrote three (3) blog posts on that date! A welcome post, almost class opening, and summer '09 almost ending! See? I was just as excited that time for school! I think only really, really small things had changed on me. Hmm..I kept on visiting Ate Pearl's blog, so that I could observe more on how to use a blog.

Two days after that, I designed my first layout. Here's the post telling about it: http://vannice95.blogspot.com/2009/06/new-layout.html ! Too bad I didn't have the screenshot for the layout! So you see, my first blog title for this blog was "Story of My Life". Very simple isn't it? Next comes "It's my Life, It's now or never", then I think "Take a Deep Breath" was the next and it was the last blog title I could think of for this blog.

I tried and tried to make a blog header, but didn't push through because whenever I make one, it would be in bad quality, because I was just using Microsoft Paint and Microsoft Word. I haven't discovered Adobe Photoshop or Fotoflexer and Cooltext, so, yeah..haha.. :D

Well, I'll try to describe my layout! I tried and tried various Blogger base templates, and I came across Ms. Motto Blogger template. I had just tweaked the template, with my HTML coding skills (haha). I searched for various backgrounds on DollieCrave. So, I could describe my first designed layout as colorful, bright, cheerful, and all. But it isn't exactly as neat as this. :( So, because I was not contented, I kept on changing and changing, then switched from one Blogger template to another, tweaked them, and at last, I came across the Dots template. Still, I switched from the dark one to the light one, and tweaked it to my preference. I had joined MyLot that time, and I asked people there if my layout was OK. One criticized that it was rather "blase". So, I continued tweaking and all. Then, my continuous tweaking had finally stopped this December 26, 2009, when my longest-termed layout, for now, had been made. Here's the screenshot:


Yeah, it was the layout before this, just that the difference is the header, and the navigations! I still made some minor adjustments on this layout after that.

Another thing, or problem I encountered while making my layouts was how to make my navigations. Since Ate Pearl was the only one I knew who has this amazing feature on her blog, I asked her how to do her navigations! She gave me a link which I referred and followed how to do it, but still the result I wanted to show still didn't come up. I asked for more help from Ate Pearl, then she answered about reverting my XML template to the classic HTML template. I did not understand at first what direction could this tutorial bring me, but now I finally do..haha.. :D Since navigations like hers and mine are usually made in HTML templates, she advised me to revert to that. But because I found that it was harder to deal with it because I was new and worried about what could happen to my blog layout, I decided not to revert it. Hmm..looks like I kind'a regretted that decision, and at some times I don't! I regretted it because my "BLOG" navigation is the only one different from the other navigations because I could not find a way to link it like other navs. But now I don't regret having this XML layout anymore because I thought it was easier to deal with!

Back to the navigations, I was about to give up, but I never did. Because of that, I had finally done it! I was very happy and I was kind'a jumping with joy! First of all I thanked God, myself for not giving up too easily, and of course to my schoolmate and blogger-mate, Ate Pearl. I also thank my family too! :)

For the Plugboard, I saw it first from Ate Ayan. Hmm..I told her how I wished I could have one for promoting other's sites, then she told me that we could get it from a certain website! Then there! I finally got the Plugboard! Thank you so much! :D

For the Contact section, I just searched for it. And oh, I forgot to credit Kontactr for it! I'll add that to my credits later! :)

Well, enough for the layout! Let me tell you my experiences as a blogger!

There, I installed the Shoutmix box for the first time. People from all over the world came by and tagged on my shoutbox. One blogger dropped by and said, "link-ex?". I'm not really sure what to reply to her, so, err, I kind'a replied something about "link example"! LOL! :D I was really this new to this blogging thing. I'm not exactly sure how I knew what "link-ex?" meant, but I finally knew about it during the month of August, August 30, 2009 to be exact. After that, this started some daily traffic on my blog! I dropped by a lot of blogs and said, "link-ex?" or "care to link-ex?", and in return, some also dropped by my blog and invited me for link exchange. It was really fun! That's the time I met new friends! Some friends I recalled are Ate Rich, Ate Rose, Kuya Arvin, Kuya Jose, Kuya Julius, another Ate Rose, Ate Dyane, Ate Jhen, Deniece, Toni, Pat, Kuya Sendo, Ate Grace, and many others! Yeah, I really did meet a lot of friends! I thank you all for being such good friends to me! By being so understanding and all! You all have been there for me! Thank you very, very much! I hope we could be friends for a long time!

I also learned a whole lot from other's lives! I began to become interested on other's lives.

Being here in the blog-o-sphere, I also received some awards and tags! The first tag I received was from Ella! I was so happy that I got tagged for the first time! :D And, the first award I received was from Kuya Jose! Again, I was very happy. I was happy with these because I already had complete experience in the blogging world! It's good that these all happened before my blog turned one year! At least my time here is becoming a bit worth it! :) Thank you so much! :D Later after those, more tags and awards came! That made me even more happier!

While blogging, my parents that time were finding ways to earn money online. They had thought of making a blog, but since I already have one, they kept on suggesting me some websites that I should join, and some stuff that I should put on my blog! My father also has his blog, which he kept on updating (well, 'til 4 months ago), and since he wrote some really great and interesting posts, many visited and came across his blog! He had a lot of views, and online people daily! Well, you should check out his blog if you want! :)

We continued to find ways of earning money online. I tried Geostring, MyLot, Cashcrate, Triond, and many other sites. I did earn some money, but they're just too little to cash out, so, so far, I hadn't gotten my earned money yet.

I came across this Blogger friend, Dennis. He suggested me to get my own domain so that I could earn a lot of money like him. But I was so hesitant because I had observed other domains that they became expired and not working anymore, and some said that it was a hassle to renew it and pay for it and all. But as what this blogger friend had told me, some pros that we could get from domains are that some advertisers choose paid domains for advertising other than non-paid domains. This kind'a make sense, but what I worry about is that my blog could be in-danger, and would be gone, and that's the last thing I'd want to happen to my blog!

I thank my parents so much because they had been an avid fan of my blog, especially my mother who kept on reading every latest post I had and telling every single detail of it to my father! Thank you Mama and Papa! I also thank them for this Internet connection and laptop, support, and for making my life the way I wanted it to be! :D Without them, I could never exist!

Well, I think that's pretty much it I can say for my 1st-anniversary-of-my-blog post! Thanks for reading! :D

Thank you so much to all of you, especially God, family, and to my blogger friends!