I really don't have anything new to write about these days, and I still have a couple of papers that I think are worth sharing here, so that's what I'll be doing again today. This one is my reflection paper on part one of our exposure trip on BS155 (The subject focuses on deviance, as seen from psychological, sociological and anthropological views, although it's mostly psychological since we focused more on various mental disorders). The experience was very fulfilling for us, and I hope I'm able to convey that through my writing.

We had two days to go to four different institutions, and here's my first reflection paper where I detailed our experiences on day one of our trip.



( We may label these people as deviant, as a result of a mental illness or the constraints of society, but they possess qualities that we can definitely learn from, and it’s great that we had a chance to have an encounter with them. )



We've been on a lot of trips during the course of our lives in university, but this one is probably one of the most fulfilling ones I've had. Coming into contact with the people we've encountered really gave me a warm, light-hearted feeling :)

It's been almost two weeks since summer break started, and I wanted to post something new here, but I couldn't think of anything to write about. No creative juices active as of the moment, but I remembered that there were times that they have been in the past year, so I thought to just share some academic papers I'm quite proud to have written (and that I know won't be too boring to share). The first one that I want to share is one of my final papers for my Humanities II class, where we studied about Art, Man and Society. This was written last October 2010 as a reaction paper to our museum visit (which I thoroughly enjoyed). I'm quite proud of this because I'm not a person who's really into art (visual arts, that is), and yet this is the first paper to which I've acquired a grade of 1.00 (that's the highest grade in our grading system). I've put a lot of effort into this, so I'm really happy that it paid off very well.

Well then, here it is.



( I've learned that art really is an important facet of our society. It is not only a means through which the artist can express his or her thoughts and ideas; it is also a window to our history and a reflection of our culture. )


At the end of the 1st sem, I was really glad to have taken up Hum II because I really learned a lot from it. Even though I'm not really interested in the visual arts, it wasn't boring at all. It was actually quite interesting that because of it, I now learned how to appreciate art :)

Epilogue :)) A random post detailing what happened during the rest of my sembreak..

( October... )
( November... )

I've stopped writing after this. The week after was spent on enrolling. I had a good time with my best friends at MOA on the 8th, then spent one whole day on late registration on the 10th. I wasn't able to get any slots for PE, so I just changed my MST subject from NatSci 4 to NatSci 8. School started on the 11th (Tegoshi no tanjoubi ^^,). And that's about it. I'm still far from being productive during breaks, but at least I didn't spend it slacking off everyday :)

Last October 14th, I went to the Ayala Museum along with my sister as a requirement for our History I class. We were supposed to visit the museum and make a reaction paper about it, describing the contents of the museum and stating what our favorite exhibit in the museum would be. I finished mine tonight, and I was in a creative writing mode while writing this, so I figured it would be nice to share it here. I have to give credit though, to my sister and her friend who helped me with some of the wordings and phrasing for some of my thoughts. I also have to give credit to the descriptions provided by the museum, which I quoted when I couldn't provide an equally vivid description of the exhibit on display :))

Well then, here goes.

( "Re-collecting the Past, Re-presenting the Future" )

You can tell that I really enjoyed the museum experience.  It has been a while since I've gone on a visit to a museum, and this one is definitely both educational and enjoyable.

Cheers to the 111th Independence Day Celebration of the Philippines! ^_^

Speaking of independence, recently I've been telling myself I should become more independent. You see, my sister is planning/planned (I don't know if she's really going to pursue it, though)  to rent a room or something and live by herself for the mean time since the network she's working for is quite far from here and her call times are like, so early. I thought "That's cool~".. but when I think of it, it seems to be really hard. I realized that there are a lot of things I can't do on my own (i.e. waking up early, haha).  Some people ask me why I'm not going to rent a dormitory for college. Well aside from the fact that the university's not really that far from here, I didn't want to live in a dormitory because how could I when I don't even know how to do some chores by myself? And I'd probably always be running late for school. Haha. I should really start learning how to become responsible. Or else I'll be a goner in a few years if I don't. Haha.

In connection with the title of this post, I've just watched the Hanamaru Cafe (2008.11.7) episode with Toda Erika as guest. She talked about a lot of stuff and boy, her father is really strict! She said she didn't really have that much freedom at all because 1) she has a curfew, and it's 6:30; 2) she wasn't allowed to go to festivals and such (aww.. festivals seem to be so much fun, I wish I could go to one myself); 3) even when she's in high school she wasn't really allowed to go to her friends' places. It made me realize how lucky I am that my parents aren't that strict. Haha. But her dad seemed cool. He taught her some kind of martial art when she was three and she took up a lot more lessons, one of which is also some kind of martial art. How I wish I took up lessons when I was a kid. I mean, I could still learn a lot of things now but, it would be much easier if you learned when you were a kid right? Anyway, I really like her because she seems so natural and bubbly. She even admitted to being boyish (like me).

Back to the topic of freedom and independence, I really think people should cherish the freedom that our heroes once fought for, but at the same time.. we should also be responsible.

I'm being so random now, I'd better end this post. Jaa~

We had an interesting discussion in Science class earlier.

We're seniors in high school, so our class is Physics, but our discussion went a bit off topic and we ended up talking about space.

Interesting.

Space is one of my favorite topics in Science. I just think it's cool to be able to observe the heavenly bodies. They're cool, mysterious and just plain out-of-this-world.

We talked about black holes, and how no one in this world could ever know what happens to matter sucked by it. I was intrigued by how mysterious they are, and so I'm here to talk about one of the things that poke my interest: mystery.

I'm a big fan of mystery shows, especially those Japanese ones which feature really cool deductions. I always get thrilled by those shows that sometimes I feel like I want to be a detective myself  *laugh*. But they really are cool, right? Especially when they deduce hard-to-solve crimes like they were just silly puzzles.

And mysterious stuff.. well I like reading about them. Though we'll never probably be able to tell why certain things are that way, it's just.. so intriguing to read about them and know as much as we can.

I'm so random. Haha.