The Day

I know, I know, I'm not updating anything substantial. Just busy, I guess. I mean, just busy procstinating as always.

Well, I've been to the Congress for the good part of the morning. We did some research for our baby thesis and you should really congratulate us (Porfie and I), for accomplishing about 2% of our thesis. It was really fun, although I admit that it was fun primarily because no mouth whatsoever was resting during the whole time.

Actually, we are not suppose to go to the Batasang Pambansa. It was not part of our thesis plan. Personally, I just want to go to the Congress because I haven't been there yet, except for some occasional rallies. Of course, there's a difference between staying outside the Batasan's gate shouting "No to UP budget cut...!" and being inside the Congress archives pretending to be a responsible student. I want to experience the latter. I succeeded. Wahahahaha! :)

Anyway, the result was insignificant. Joke. It was. We were able to find some privilege speeches about the Visiting Forces Agreement (FYI: that's our thesis' subject matter). It's a nice start for a thesis right?

You know, the more we know about the VFA the less appealing it gets. We are planning for a rightist view of the VFA. But so far, all we have are points against it. I don't know what will happened to our research. By friday this week, we will be visiting Camp Aguinaldo hoping to get the VFA some good points. Since they are the military, it is rational that it is them that benefit mostly from this agreement. Who knows, we might get some rightist standing after all.

Let's just get one thing straight. I am not pro-VFA. It is just that, there's no challenge in proving that the VFA is unconstitutional nor is it any harder to point that in one way or another, VFA tramples our sovereignity as a nation. The current Subic Bay rape case is enough to strenghten my point. According to what I've read earlier inside the Congress Archives, Congressional procedings have anticipated events like the Subic Bay Rape Case, and they are correct. We don't have jurisdiction if ever an American committed some offenses against a Filipino, etc, etc... it would be boring to discuss it here, so I will stop now.

Getting back on track, it will be more challenging to have a rightist standing regarding the VFA, but of course, we will not sugarcoat the VFA. Most probably, the good points will be limited to the different privileges that it brings to the military and the nation as a whole.

Enough of the VFA.

After the supposedly "researching", we went back to UPM and we were upset. We were upset for one reason alone (especially Edsie-chan and me)--there are no left-overs from Kuya Dave's birthday celebration. *sniff, sniff... but of course, I'm just joking. (jokes are half meant...so I better repeat it to make it whole...HELP: this involves math thingies. You know, 1/2 plus another 1/2 make a whole. hehe... :))

I know we are not suppose to explain jokes but I can't help it. I don't even know if the above statement is good enough to be categorized as a joke. Oh well...

Also, I keep on joking around saying that we plant bombs inside the Congress, so if ever, I won't be surprise if some police were to arrest me for terrorism. I hope not... :)

This is quite a long blog entry already. I have some procastinating to do, so I'll better go. My future is ahead of me... :)

So Near Yet So Far

...go figure... T_T

I think I can't make many updates nowadays...I'm too busy. In fact, I called this week and probably many other weeks, my death week. Well, I have bloody exams on my major subjects for three consecutive days. In order to pass those exams, I I have to read about 4 inches of combined readings (this is not a joke), not to mention I have to remember the details of those readings. There's a difference between comprehension and memorization. Now, you might be thinking of those things that a PolSci student should memorize. Well, just constitutional provision, republic acts, Executive orders...name it, we got it. Anyway, bottom line is, I have to read and read and read.

But at the very least, the Full Volume Campus Tour is now over. It was great! It really is worth the pains. The SVCF Pre-Valentines Party was held jsut hours ago. And like the concert, it was great also. I have to go now. I'm really tired. This is really an eventfull day for me.

Ciao!

How Things Are...

I think it will not hurt to do some assessment with what is going on with my life. The only problem is that I do not know where to start.

let's see...


I'm lagging behind ny studies right now. The problem when you had your study boosters on during the last semester is that you'll have no fuel left for the next one. That's exactly what is happening to me right now. Although I am doing my part as a student, I'm not doing my best. And there lies the problem. Speaking of studies, the biggest boulder that hinders me for further procastination is our "baby thesis." The hardest part is thinking about a decent topic. *sigh* I feel like I'm losing any writing skill that I have (If I have any...) *more sighs*

Anyway. About my "Daily Bible Reading" we can omit the "Daily" part there because honestly, I'm not reading my bible everyday. But I was able to finish the books of Job, Romans and Acts. I'm off to Isaiah. I'm also having an esbi addiction. I'm spending more time at our tambayan than I do at my dormitory and Parañaque house combined.

My song blog is still under construction. I finished the picture of the header and it is titled Noise Maker (after the history maker, which is, the title of this blog). From a sunset (if you are observant enough I will not have to say that the picture header of this blog is a picture of a sunset...), I changed it to night time. Of course, the dolphin is a mainstay (again, *sigh* just take time to look above the page, okay?). Let's not forget the animated gif that I made for the picture. It is really kawaiiii!!!!

Hehe...emotionally, I'm a happy person. Love life is still null. I'm not needing any rihgt now. I'm still happy and content at being single anyway. What else? Roan is getting angry at me because I'm not staying at Pque for quite awhile. It's because I feel so far from the rest of the world when I'm there. It's alright to stay there when you are hiding from somebody or if you feel like you need to be alone or to give you more reasons not attend school (i.e. walang pamasahe, masyadong malayo, etc...). But right now, I want to be closer to school because the two-hour ride between Pque and school is crucial when things are piling up on you. When you have two more hours to spare, it is equivalent to a crammed paper (complete with footnotes), a grade of 3 in an exam (you only had two hours to review), and the last but never the least, two hours of extra sleep (heaven!). Also, the internet in my dormitory is fully functional.

What else? Honestly I do not know... So I guess I better go... Ciao!