College Life Unfolds!

Still not being able to post something about the tagged thingy courtesy of Kuya Gerome (and Abychu!), I wonder if ever there are bad lucks entailed with it. Anyway, I find it quite surprising being able to come up with a blogpost this afternoon. Unfortunately, I don’t know wherever this post will lead you since spontaneity is in me, again. Anyway, please bear with me.

Time really flies fast, don’t you think? It was as if in a blink of an eye, a decade has transpired. Exagge! Haha. I just can’t believe that for the past two weeks, I was able to adapt to what college life has in store. Well, as of now, life has been smoothly sailing.

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The first one to spice up my college life perhaps is the FWA (Freshmen Welcome Assembly) A lot of presentations was held by College Mass Communication, College of Human Kinetics, UP Concert Chorus and others (of which I forgot the name). The closing ceremony was filled with UP students rallying again because of TOFI, heeding for stoppage of commercialization of our University by igniting our innocent minds. On the contrary, it only made some of us scared. Others, on the other hand, just can’t help but raise an eyebrow. As we sauntered outside the University Theater, we were surprised by banners with inscriptions like G-23, G-24 etc (block sections that is). The rest was history (since storytelling’s not really my expertise. Haha ;p)

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To tell you the truth, I wasn’t able to sleep on my first four days of stay in Kalayaan. Others teased me that I was just scared of supernatural life forms that might appear. But actually, it’s because of the additional kutson MJ and I bought at SM North Edsa. Well, I just needed to adjust, that’s all.

So how’s the food? Sometimes acceptable. Oftentimes, you just can’t help but buy food outside even it is just a fishball and the heck. Well, the good thing is that by coincidence, you just happen to meet people who are actually your classmates in some of your subjects. Like for example, I was flabbergasted when I found out that there are five of us Kalayaan residents in my Kas 1 class. Aside from that, I don’t have to bother riding the jeepney all the time since buildings are now just a stone’s throw away. I don’t even have to bother waking up early, which lessen the chances of being tardy in class! What an achievement!

As a welcome assembly for Kalayaan dormers, the UP Singing Ambassadors (a choir recognized worldwide) performed. The night was marvelously great as we listened to their world-class voices. FYI: the group was founded in the said residence hall, mind you.

We also had a corridor assembly led by RA Kuya Alper (or Alfer?!) last Thursday night which was mostly packed up with weird games. It was fun having seen your floor mates and even get to know them. The rest was, again, history.

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“Matapos tayong grumaduate, dapat magkita na lang tayo after ten years para naman mamiss natin ang isa’t isa!” (After graduation, we should just perhaps meet after ten years so that we would miss each other!)

Well, that one wasn’t quite fulfilled. I guess we really can’t resist the temptation, which is why we again converged from different parts of the globe (which is Metro Manila lang naman. Haha ;p) to our usual meeting place that is MCDO UN. It was fun spending time with them as we did the usual shenanigans. But, as what I have said earlier, I’m not really good in storytelling so I guess I’ll end this one up by saying “The rest is history”. Haha.

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Last but not least, being one of the first beholders of the Linnaeus ’06 CD, I was able to watch again for the second time around the 35-minute slideshow of Linnaeus pictures (take note: with Background Musics!). It was midnight then and, whether you believe it or not, tears flowed from my eyes (now that’s way eewie!) Up to now, I still can’t help but watch it over again. I even saved it in our computer so that there would be a back-up file.

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It was also nice that somehow, our block(G-7) is starting to feel free to talk to each other especially in times when we wait for Christopher (our Math 17 professor. Haha ;p) to come. By the way, our block also won in the Amazeng’g Race! Unbelievable! Too bad I wasn’t able to be with them. Well, it’s okay. I hope there’s still a lot in store.

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Well, I’m quite tired, you know. I haven’t done anything productive this weekend. Fortunately, I did have a couple of nice days within the course of my stay in UP Diliman, though in general, I still miss MaSci. Anyway, I’m really thankful for having such circle of friends!

Harmony

Harmony, when used in context, is regarded in a positive aspect. When you get the sight of birds chirping, blending with the vibrant aura sunrise has to bring, that might conclude of a harmonious start of day. For me, I think harmony has something to do with mixture of elements producing a singular entity. So what’s with this harmony thingy being the center of this contemplation?

I have come to ask: when can one say that the experiences you have had for the past days, or even weeks, have been harmonious? For me, experiences which flooded me for the past weeks had been a harmonious coalescence of good and bad. I first had struggles which I have somehow surpassed, but not overcome. Scathes obtained still hurt, even if I have got used to it an infinite number of times. But when things of more importance appeared into picture, all seemed to have been set aside. I say it’s an upshot that doesn’t have space for self-centeredness; an act of altruism which calls for settlement of everything that has been terribly warring inside your pneuma.

Say of a person who has had a harmonious day: at first, you will think that maybe this person has had a lot of wonderful moments during the course of the day; but then, as I am pointing out in this blog post, it actually is a smorgasbord of good and bad times you have had that day, which brought forth what that person has just had – a harmonious day.

Again, I conclude that I have just had a harmonious three weeks experience, and still counting.

PS: I was just “tagged” by Kuya Gerome and still don’t have any idea how to start it! Well, I promise to have this one done when I get to claim (and not reclaim!) my sanity back (was that of a positive answer or a negative one?). What a firm answer. But honestly, the topic’s entertaining if you ask me.