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		<title>Disadvantages of Being Alone</title>
		<description><![CDATA[<font face="helvetica" size="2" /><font face="helvetica" size="2"><p><font face="Helvetica" size="2">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Last Saturday, I was all alone at home. While doing my homeworks upstairs, at around 8:30 in the evening&nbsp;it&nbsp;started to rain hard. At first I was quite calm, hoping that the &quot;mini-dike&quot; at home would be enough to block the flood from coming in the house. However,&nbsp;after 1 hour and 30 minutes of raining, I saw how the first floor of the house was&nbsp; filled with stinky, muddy flood. I even saw a rat running, trying to save his life,&nbsp;looking for a high place where he could stay. At that very moment, I suddenly felt that I want to be&nbsp;out&nbsp;of that house. I wan to be back&nbsp;home, wherein&nbsp;there is no flooding like such. &nbsp;</font></p><p><font face="Helvetica" size="2">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; That was the first time I experienced this. Witnessing how the living room is&nbsp; filled with water is very traumatic. I'm scared also because in less than hour the whole first floor was filled with approximately 3 inches below the knee&nbsp;deep&nbsp;flood. What if&nbsp;the flood&nbsp;will gets higher?&nbsp;What&nbsp;will I do?&nbsp;Should I turn off the main switch of the electricity? What will happen to me? Is it highly possible that there will be fire?&nbsp;Will I experience like the ones I saw from the television, that I was being fetched by the helicopter to evacuate? Should I call anyone, the fact that&nbsp;I know they wouldn't&nbsp;be able to help me? How about my things? These are only some of the thoughts running in mind&nbsp;while I was&nbsp;at upstairs trying to concentrate&nbsp;with what I am doing<em>. Siguro para sa iba OA ako mag-isip. Pero kasi&nbsp;nung nasa Pasig pa ako, isang beses ko lang naranasan na bumaha ng matindi. At nung&nbsp;panahon na yun, hIndi ako mag-isa</em>.&nbsp;<em>Tsaka inaalala ko rin kasi yung matinding paglilinis na gagawin ko&nbsp;pagkatapos nun.</em>&nbsp;<em>Alam ko sa sarili ko hindi ko kaya mag-isang gawin yun. </em>But I&nbsp;somehow managed to calm down when my cousin called. Although&nbsp;we both know that&nbsp;right now we can't do anything&nbsp;about it for the moment, It felt&nbsp;good that somebody did try to make an effort to&nbsp;ask how&nbsp;was I.&nbsp;</font></p></font></font>]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Sep 2006 01:09:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Disadvantages of BEing Alon</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Sep 2006 00:33:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Sep 2006 00:33:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Sep 2006 00:33:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Sep 2006 00:33:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Sep 2006 00:33:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Buhay Third Year</title>
		<description><![CDATA[<p>&nbsp;</p><p><font face="trebuchet ms,geneva">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Preliminary Period is about to be over and so far, it's been filled with so many works despite the several times classes were suspended. It's already my third year, and I would want this year to be very fruitful.&nbsp;So far, these are the things I achieved or accomplished: </font></p><p><font face="trebuchet ms,geneva">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 1. I joined two organizations- UST-UNICEF Volunteers&nbsp;and JPMAP or the Junior Personnel Management Association of the Philippines (Membership Committee);</font></p><p><font face="Trebuchet MS">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &gt;&gt;&gt; I really wanted to be active in these organizations. I do not want my work and studies to be somehow hindrances&nbsp;to do&nbsp;other works and at the same time meet a lot of people. &nbsp;This is why I am really trying my best to give time and effort for the activities of these organizations. </font></p><p><font face="trebuchet ms,geneva">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 2. I was able to somehow adjust to my not-so-good work and class schedule; </font></p><p><font face="Trebuchet MS">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &gt;&gt;&gt; Last month, I had a verbal warning from Sir Charles for forgetting to punch in my time card for work. That's why I already placed notes in my ID case and on my cellphone's reminder and also asked some friends and officemates&nbsp;to remind&nbsp;me not to forget to&nbsp;time-in!&nbsp;I'm quite happy right now because since then I didn't forget anymore to punch in my time card! <img src="http://s.tabulas.com/ik/smilies/blue/jester.gif" border="0" /></font></p><p><font face="trebuchet ms,geneva">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 3. I'm&nbsp;the current VP of our class!- hahaha..is this for real?!hahaha... &nbsp;although this is not&nbsp;really an accomplishment, the fact&nbsp;that I really didn't expect nor thought&nbsp;of&nbsp;this to happen.&nbsp;Although this position does not demand so much effort and time from me, I'm&nbsp;so&nbsp;happy and thankful that somehow my classmates entrusted&nbsp;to me a position&nbsp;in our class&nbsp;officers.</font></p><p><font face="Trebuchet MS">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &gt;&gt;&gt; Actually, the very busy officers are the president, secretary, and tje treasurer. Honestly, I am quite frustrated with myself.&nbsp;Because I've turned down Jai several times. I mean when she requests me or asks me if I could do this, etc. I just hope next time that she asks me to do something, I hope&nbsp;I could do it.&nbsp;</font></p><p><font face="Trebuchet MS">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Anyway, got to go.... &nbsp;&nbsp;</font></p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</p>]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu,  3 Aug 2006 09:06:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>I miss living in Pasig</title>
		<description><![CDATA[<p>&nbsp;</p><p><font face="trebuchet ms,geneva">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Last June 12, I already started staying in my Tita Pina's place somewhere here in Sampaloc.&nbsp;It's&nbsp;somehow advantageous because its near school and I wouldn't have to spend much money just for my fare.&nbsp;I wouldn't feel so&nbsp;tired because of the traffic nor feel that&nbsp;I have little time left to do&nbsp;my school works. However,&nbsp;after a week of staying&nbsp;in my tita's crib, I still&nbsp;long to go home in Pasig.&nbsp;SIyempre tama yung sinabi nila na there's no place like&nbsp;home.&nbsp;Pero aside from that, I miss&nbsp;my family, my life, and Pasig itself so much.&nbsp;</font></p><p><font face="Trebuchet MS">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;My Family, although&nbsp;we all&nbsp;have cellphones and the fact that I could contact&nbsp;most of them through a landline,&nbsp;its been a while that we haven't seen each&nbsp;other- escpecially my brother,&nbsp;Mon. Would you believe mag-2 months na kameng hindi nagkikita at nagkakausap kahit&nbsp;through SMS lang?&nbsp;Tae talaga e. Then it came into my mind na para na kameng broken family.&nbsp;Sobrang dalang ng communcation. We aren't able to update ourselves of what's going on with our lives. Para talagang may kanya-kanya na&nbsp;kameng mga buhay.&nbsp;I thought of this&nbsp;after&nbsp;we had&nbsp;an activity in our Group Dynamics Class. We were to defend if a broken family is still considered as a group or not? Our group was the only ones who answered that a&nbsp;broken family&nbsp;is considered as a group. My professor said that our arguments were mostly based on our experiences that we&nbsp;are consciously or unconsciously aware of that also made us go beyond the definition of a group the class had agreed on.&nbsp;Maybe most of us&nbsp;in&nbsp;our group just&nbsp;really value our families. (hehehehe....)</font></p><p><font face="Trebuchet MS">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; My life&nbsp;as a Pasigue&ntilde;a is&nbsp;one thing I&nbsp;missed so much. Dito kasi sa Sampaloc dapat&nbsp;school-bahay lang ako. My tita is very strict and she always believe that as a student I should have this school-house routine. E I'm&nbsp;not used to that kind of system. I&nbsp;mean, gusto ko rin namang magliwaliw. Baka mabaliw ako kung aral-trabaho-gawaing bahay&nbsp;lang ang buhay ko. That's why&nbsp;right now I do not feel like going home right after class/work. Because when I am in that house, I feel that my world is too small for me to move freely. It seems that every movement that I do should always be right, and that it should also be something that would please my tita.&nbsp;What's another frustrating is that I am having a hard time applying what I have learned as a&nbsp;behavioral science major. Hindi ko&nbsp;kasi masyadong ma-predict tita ko e. May mga taong ganun d b? Yung mahirap maunawaan o malaman yung mga reactions nila sa mga bagay-bagay.&nbsp;Kung ganito man sitwasyon ko,&nbsp;sana dala lang ito ng paninibago. Sana makapag-adapt agad ako at sana matutunan kong tanggapin&nbsp;yung sistema ng tita ko na&nbsp;isa sa mga taong&nbsp;tumutulong sa akin.&nbsp;</font></p><p><font face="Trebuchet MS">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Kaya Ness,&nbsp;steady ka lang. Tutal nandyan lang ang OCD at ang BESWAN.&nbsp;Magiging okey rin&nbsp;ikaw as an Official Manila Girl :)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</font></p><p><font face="Trebuchet MS">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </font>&nbsp;</p><p><font face="Trebuchet MS">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</font>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p>]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jun 2006 10:57:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Santacruzan</title>
		<description><![CDATA[<font face="trebuchet ms,geneva" size="2" /><font face="trebuchet ms,geneva" size="2"><p><font face="Trebuchet MS" size="2">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; For almost two weeks, I was in Batangas helping my titas&nbsp; (the sisters of Papa) prepare for the santacruzan event in our province. My titas were the &quot;Hermana Mayor&quot; of the said event. I spent my days in Batangas cleaning the house of my tita gemma since it will be the venue after the procession. At the same time, I was chosen as one of the&nbsp;sagala, specifically I was the &quot;Corona Imperial.&quot;&nbsp;&nbsp;Hahaha... I never knew that there exist such in the santacruzan. All along I am only familiar with the Reyna Elena and Reyna Emperatriz. Anyway, here is the line up of the procession for the santacruzan: </font></p><p><font face="Trebuchet MS" size="2">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Karo (carrying the image of the Virgin Mary)</font></p><p><font face="Trebuchet MS" size="2">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Corona Imperial (Ako toh! bwahahaha..) </font></p><p><font face="Trebuchet MS" size="2">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;6 little girls who&nbsp;are the&nbsp;&quot;buntot&quot; of the Corona Imperial</font></p><p><font face="Trebuchet MS" size="2">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Hermana Mayor and Family (sila rin yung tinatawag na mga alay)&nbsp;</font></p><p><font face="Trebuchet MS" size="2">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Mga Sagala and each of them carries a letter that forms the AVE </font><font face="Trebuchet MS" size="2">MARIA PURISIMA (My sister, Vivian, was one of&nbsp;them)</font></p><p><font face="Trebuchet MS" size="2">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Rosa Mysticas &nbsp;</font></p><p><font face="Trebuchet MS" size="2">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Reyna Elena I</font></p><p><font face="Trebuchet MS" size="2">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Reyna Elena II</font></p><p><font face="Trebuchet MS" size="2">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Reyna Elena III&nbsp;(Weird di ba? 3 yung&nbsp;Reyna Elena)&nbsp;</font></p><p><font face="Trebuchet MS" size="2">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Reyna Emperatriz (This&nbsp;was Dang's role)&nbsp;</font></p><p><font face="Trebuchet MS" size="2">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Queen of&nbsp;May</font></p><p><font face="Trebuchet MS" size="2">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Queen of the Rosary</font></p><p><font face="Trebuchet MS" size="2">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; So to describe the procession, it was&nbsp;quite a long one since each purok of the barangay had their own&nbsp;set of line up. There are 5 purok, and can you just imagine that each purok has this kind of line up.&nbsp;We walked the whole barangay for&nbsp;almost 2 hours. Luckily, I had an escort because&nbsp;I was suppose to carry a very heavy pole with a crown . So althroughout the procession, I was&nbsp;concentrating on holding my gown because&nbsp;its length is quite long for me :) and my escort (Eric sobrang salamat! Haha... sakripisyo mo rin yun) was the one carrying the said pole. Masaya yung karanasan. kakaiba. sobrang nagkapaltos yung&nbsp;mga paa ko. Anyway, given a chance to be a part of such event again,&nbsp;I think I'm gonna turn it down. Well, not just because of the long distance that we had to walk. It's just that I find&nbsp;it very impractical (hay naku,,, kung alam nyo lang&nbsp;kung magkano nagastos nila para dyan). I&nbsp;think anyone shouldn't be spending too much&nbsp;for such occasion.&nbsp;kaya minsan ang hirap paniwalaan na ang simbahan ay naghihirap... naku nakakahinayang sa pera. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</font></p><p><font face="Trebuchet MS" size="2">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;</font></p></font></font>]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri,  2 Jun 2006 02:05:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Jul 2006 09:56:13 +0000</pubDate>
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