Happy Holidays! :)

Hey there everyone! :D It's been soooooooo long since I last blogged around here! And it's been more than a month, right? I'm so sorry I kept you waiting. It's just that there were a lot of things going on when I was away, and that it was hard to gather every detail of it to blog it here, or is it just because of my laziness and lack of inspiration that I wasn't able to blog? Whatever the real reason may be, all that matters is that I'm finally back (from the dead? JK), and without further adieu, I would like to greet everyone of you a Merry Christmas and advance Happy New Year! :)

Well, I would like to tell about the highlights when I was away from the blogging world.

December 1, 2011 - STEAG Energy Quiz Bee

1 week before this event, we prepared for this through reviews. I, along with other participants, were often excused from classes just for the reviews, which honestly made me happy yet also worried because at the same time we'd also miss a lot of activities, then only God knows whether teachers would also excuse us from doing those or not. We also prepared for the exams that time, and I guess it would be confusing to focus on both the quiz bee and exams at the same time, right? So, yeah, when that date came, we did our best in answering the questions since the prizes are worth winning, but unfortunately, we didn't win. But that's okay, every one of the contestants were rewarded with McDonald's burger and fries. LOL. I gotta admit, I wasn't very happy with the results, but food eased my mood. But, then again, by the time I woke up the next morning, it's pretty weird that I kept thinking about my experience during the quiz bee and regretted everything I did not do (only I know what I'm talking about here I guess), maybe this happened because all those McDo I ate was digested already. hahahah. xD

The rest of the days were spent reviewing once again for the summative tests this time. December 15 was the summative test and 16 was the Christmas Party! :)

Days before those dates (December 15 and 16), I really did feel the Christmas spirit, but I don't really know now why it all vanished. I guess it was because of what happened at the night of December 16. I'll tell you more about it:

December 16 - Christmas Party, and an unexpected happening

It was a gloomy, rainy, stormy day, yet the parties in school went on. xD Raindrops fell endlessly, and the weather kinda influenced my mood a bit. You know how much I hate the rain if it falls on the wrong day, well, if you didn't know, now you know (LOL). So, going back, parties went on despite the weather. In the evening of this day, we had our Christmas party for the high school department. It was hard going around the campus without getting wet though, since the rain fell harder that time already. Anyway, to give you a recap on the Christmas party, the theme we chose was Retro, which showcases different music genres from the 50s to 90s. Everyone had great outfits though, including me (LOLjk). Going back to the topic I started with, our Christmas Party was known now as the "Wet Party". Most students had fun though, but for me? I worried about getting sick. The rain fell harder, that even the covered court in our school wouldn't be a safe place to stay in to keep dry. Well, despite all these, I also had a bit of fun. There were parlor games, presentations, singing, dancing, rapping, contests, FOOD, and many more. Then during the exchange gift, I actually exchanged gifts with my great guy friend, which was pretty weird why of all the names in the container to be picked, we picked each other. xD Anyway, we both loved the gifts we gave and received each other, which made us happy. Then to end the party, we had picture taking with the whole class.

So, the unexpected happening would be that when we got home, the storm was getting worse, then there was brownout. So I went to sleep instead since there was not much cellphone signal as well too. Brownout went on until around 1:30am, then got off after a few seconds. And at the same time, outside we saw flood all over our place. So many belongings were lost because of the flood. It was a really strong storm after all, and you know, this was my first time witnessing something like this in my whole years of existence. Mud was all over the next morning, and brownout went on until December 21, which would mean we had no electricity from the dawn of December 17 until 7pm of December 21, so that's 4 days of no electricity. In other places, there was little or no water. I feel proud of myself and my family, and also everyone in my neighborhood that we survived this kind of calamity. The good news also was that no one died and got missing in our neighborhood, then every family here was still kept intact. The typhoon's name is Sendong by the way, and woah, it's so strong. Well, our neighborhood just got lucky that everyone was kept intact, since in other places, so many people got missing and died. I feel pity for them, and I really wanted to donate to those who were victims of the typhoon. The cities badly affected by the typhoon were Cagayan de Oro City (where I live) and Iligan. I hope you could help the victims here, everyone of us would surely appreciate  it.

You know, the 4 days of no electricity kinda ruined my "happy" Christmas vacation though, along with so many other projects that until now I'm worrying about them, especially the Investigatory Project. I gotta admit, I regretted choosing and proposing the IP I have now, and I desperately want to change it. :'( It's almost impossible doing all those sterilization and agar preparation, and I also desperately need help from my teachers now. I'm also becoming nervous for the upcoming Final Defense for this Investigatory Project, since I fear us getting scolded by the judges because of our poor progress and way of answering their questions. Please, Lord, I don't want that to happen.

Then there's this song-remixing that I kinda found hard to gather ideas on since my ideas were too overflowed in my head. Can you help me, guys? I'd appreciate that.

Thank you so much to whoever is reading this blog post now, and once again, happy holidays to you! Have a great Christmas vacation, and I bet yours would be better anyway. :p