MMDA
does anybody know what MMDA mean? is it metro manila development authority? did i get it right?anways, it has been almost a month since the MMDA closed Ateneo's gate 3 (for pedestrians) by barricading the islands with tough pink fences. though i find that the MMDA has the best interest of the katipunan traffic in mind, do they have the best interest of the pedestians in mind?as a pedestrian, i find the closing off of gate 3 one of the largest hassles i've ever had my entire life. so, if you were to ask me if MMDA, as a government institution, has served the public better by enforcing the u-turn slots and thus, changing the traffic flows, my answer would be NO! and a BIG NO it would be. i am a pedestrian. the MMDA has not been of service to me. now, i have to walk to McDo to be able to cross the street. is it practical? not for me. if it takes me 10 minutes to go to school before, now it takes me 30. practical? no again. the MMDA has not been of service to the public. i am the public. i am not the entirerity(?) of the public but i am part of the public and as such, the MMDA should be of service to me and my fellow pedestrians.

Walking
while i was walking home - taking the long route MMDA proposed for pedestrians like me, a funny subject entered my mind. it was the subject of love. have you ever been in love? have you ever loved somebody? have you ever been loved?theology 131 has taught me to define love as the will to exert oneself for the spiritual growth another. my philosophy subjects has taught me that unconditional loving is participating in the subjectivity of the other. from here, therefore, i find love as a becoming - it is that which makes me and the person i love a better person. so, if i say that i love this particular person but then i end up ruining myself, then it isn't love at all. love is directed to higher values. love does not ruin people, love builds them up.there are so many people in the world who believe in soulmates. is this practical? i'm not saying that eventually finding your soulmate is impossible. there is such a thing as finding your soulmates. but is this practical? what i learned from theo is that when you marry a person, you don't marry him/her because he/she is your soulmate but because you are willing to make him/her your soulmate. love is a will, as i've said earlier. loving, therefore, is willful. it isn't easy. it takes responsibility and of course, freedom.like me, i know there are so many people out there who have thought about love over and over again... really, love is such a wonderful thing to think about. but more than that, love is more wonderful when it is shared!

"love each other or perish" - Auden

I miss stage plays. I miss watching one. I miss being in one.

Yesterday night, me and a couple of friends watched Pinnochio (musical) at Greenbelt. It was fun. Made just for kids. I am a kid. I enjoyed it. I really enjoyed Mr. Cat (meow!).

This is so sad... I really miss the old times - when Ms. Licas would host auditions for stage plays. More often than not, I was in Ms. Licas's plays. I loved being in plays. I love stage acting. I love memorizing my lines and then acting it out. I don't remember why I stopped acting though.

Today, there are auditions for Wizard of Oz. I'm so excited for them.

If I can find the time, I'll watch Wizard of Oz. I'm watching Baby on Sept. 4!!! I'm contemplating on watching Midsummer Nights Dream.

Where there is pain, I wish you peace and mercy.

Where there is self-doubting, I wish you a renewed confidence in your ability to work through it.

Where there is tiredness, or exhaustion, I wish you understanding, patience, and renewed strength.

Where there is fear, I wish you love, and courage.

this is what works...

i have a finance long test on monday. given that, guess what i'm doing now? studying? nope. i'm playing neopets, adding entries on my online journal, checking my mail, rechecking my mail, downloading movie trailers, viewing movie trailers (anything goes, actually, except for studying finance). why? because i want to feel guilty.

later, when i feel guilty enough for not studying finance (i'm wasting my parents' money, i'm being so irresponsible, bad grades and how it's gonna reflect on me as a person, etc.), i'm going to open my finance book and notes and start studying. it works. it really does. try it.

i had my immersion last weekend. it was at an orphanage in antipolo. since the orphanage, during my visit, only had 6 children (for the meantime), each of us (me and 5 groupmates) were assigned one child each. so, for 3 days and 2 nights i had a baby. his name was aaron. i was in-charged of feeding him, letting him taking a bath, dressing him up, putting him to sleep, playing with him, studying (he just started school) with him, and fixing his formula and checking his diapers late at night (he's four years old).

after my experience at the orphanage, sometimes it makes me wonder how my mom survived raising three children. i think i have a super mom!

Mathematicians shows why u should not study..

Why I am not studying???
Because :

No Study = Fail ....................... ( I )

Study = No Fail ............................ ( II )

By Combining ( I ) & ( II ) :

=====> ( No Study + Study ) = ( No Fail + Fail )

By Taking ( Study ) as a common factor in the left hand side
And Taking ( Fail ) as a common factor in the right hand side

=====> Study ( No + 1) = Fail (No + 1 )

By Dividing both sides by ( No + 1)

=====> Study = Fail

SO I ADVISE YOU TO STOP STUDYING