Bababa ba?

Summer! <3 You’re finally here. Oh summer! Sweet, sweet, sticky, sweaty summer. :D

I have approximately two weeks before I go back to damnation, err, chemnation. HAHAHA.

Chem17 for summer = aaaaaaargh.

But yeah, I have two weeks to bum around.

… kailangang kumakain ako.

Kaya siguro ang taba-taba ko, ano?

Tingnan niyo kuwarto ko ngayon habang nag-aaral ako, kasama ng mga bolpen, notbuk at libro, may nakakalat na Maxx’s, Snickers, Nagaraya, Hany, Stuffins, Chippy, etc etc. HAHAHA.

Anyways. Dumaan akong Chem Pav kanina para tingnan yung pre-final grade ko. Potek, naka 68.1% pa ako. Di naman kataasan, pero pasado, mehn! Mga 2pointsomething yun. Pero kailangan ko pa ring mag-finals. At sa finals, kailangan ko lang maka30something points, pasado na ako sa Chem! Yahu! Hahaha. Talk about mediocrity. Parang kami lang ni Casey nung nagfafinals sa Math55.

“Pare, makasagot lang tayo ng isang tanong pasado na tayo sa Math55!”

HAHAHAHA. :D

Bakit ang mga tao kahit ayaw talaga magpaistorbo mago-online pa rin sa YM tas yung stat nila “WAG IISTORBOHIN” o kung anu mang mala-ganun?

Kaya nga may invisible mode eh. Hmmm.

At kung importante naman talaga na ikamamatay na ng pancreas o appendix mo, kaya nga may selepono eh.

Wala lang. Now back to regular programming, este, chem-ing.

4% til completion. 40 more megabytes to go. POTEK PANO PA AKO MAKAKAPAG-ARAL NITO.

Panimula: Hindi ako naging estudyante ni Ginoong Xiao. Naging kaibigan ko lang siya dahil sa mga panahon at pagkakataong nakatambay ako sa may Bulwagang Rizal o sa ika-apat na palapag ng Bulwagang Palma. At sa kaunting panahon ng aming pagkakakilala, aking natanto ang kanyang libog sa pagtuturo, at ang kanyang libog para sa Pilipinas. Kaya isa ako sa mga taong naniniwala sa kanya, at nakiki-isa sa paghahanap ng katotohanan.

Kakaiba lang talaga ang balitang bumulaga sa akin ngayong hapon sa isang mensahe sa aking selepono at sa mga ilang sulating nabasa ko rito sa internet.

Hindi raw pinayagang magturo muli si Ginoong Xiao Chua sa Unibersidad ng Pilipinas.

Nalabuan ako nang marinig ko ang balitang ito. Hindi ko na-gets kung bakit hindi nila siya pinayagang magturo muli.

At karamihan ng mga estudyante at kaibigan niya ay nagsisigawang sabay-sabay, hinahanap ang katotohanan. Isang malaking “BAKIT?!” ang naka-ukit sa mga noo ng bawat isang nakasalamuha ni Ginoong Xiao sa mahigit na tatlong taon ng kanyang pagtuturo sa unibersidad.

Ako’y nakikiisa sa mga nagtataka, sa mga nagtatanong, at sa mga naghahanap ng katotohanan.

Sabihin na ninyo ang totoo. Bakit? Bakit hindi niyo na siya ipagtuturo muli?

Walang mananahimik sa amin hangga’t wala sa inyong nagsasalita’t nagsasabi ng katotohanan.

I’ve been tinkering with my brothers’ Rubik’s cube for a while. Ever since I independently figured out how to do the first layer, I just had this desire to finish the cube. I finished my first 2×2 cube last Thursday night, and my first 3×3 on Friday night with the help of Vince, Bingot and Chato.

Now, I’m still in the process of learning, and finding the logic and arithmetic behind the algorithms they provided me. So to make things a bit somewhat easier, besides giving names to the moves that I do, I imagined the cube as one atom with different colored electron. I imagined that solving the cube was like looking for the electron configuration of that atom.

It was like moving the electrons around, filling in each layer, each side, each configuration before I get to the final state of the “atom.” HAHAHA.

I’m being brainwashed. Tch.

… I turn to my Triple Point.

Someone who exists in three states at once, not only in certain conditions, but all possible conditions. Someone who doesn’t need a certain temperature and pressure just to be in three states at once.

When my bonds start to loosen and break…

When I’m about to melt and break down…

When I’m about to reach my boiling point…

When I’m about to evaporate and explode…

He’s there.

He lowers my vapor pressure.

He makes me more viscuous.

He strengthens my IMFAs.

He makes me more ionic than dipole-dipole, than London dispersion.

HAHAHA.

Writing this has made me feel a little better. :)

Prayers, please.

I can’t afford to fail Chem. I’m already delayed by 10 units. Mahirap nang maging 15 yun. T_T

At first, the Binibining Pilipinas World Janina San Miguel’s mess-up was amusing and frustrating at the same time. Amusing because one can just imagine how many ways a Filipino can chop up, re-arrange and bastardize the english language. Frustrating because at the very back of our minds there’s this nagging thought that, “this is the girl that’s going to represent us in October?!”

I told myself that I’d just keep quiet on the issue since it’s none of my business anyway, that I won’t ride on the ongoing blogging trend of Janina bashers. But wow, after reading so many blog entries and listening to some reactions (in real life and in national television), I can’t help but be annoyed at what Filipinos think of Filipinos. Ergo, what Filipinos think of themselves.

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He loves all of us more than we’ll all ever know. :)

There’s just something about this song that makes me feel so warm. I can just imagine Him extending His hand, reaching out for mine.

—

Michael Ruff - More Than You’ll Ever Know

Take my hand
We’ll walk a while, we’ll talk a while
Feel my love, always there beside you

Be the one
I know you’ll tell me everything
You are the one I cherish more than anything

I love you more than you’ll ever know
I love you more than you’ll ever see
More than my heart could ever show
I love you more than you’ll ever know

Think of me
And know that I’ll believe in you
There’ll always be this precious time together

With every tear
A love so strong, no words could ever say
A love to last forever

I love you more than you’ll ever know
I love you more than you’ll ever see
More than my heart could ever show
I love you more than you’ll ever know

Take my hand
We’ll walk a while, we’ll talk a while
Feel my love,always there beside you

Be the one
I know you’ll tell me everything
You are the one I cherish more than anything

I love you more than you’ll ever know
I love you more than you’ll ever see
More than my heart could ever show
I love you more than you’ll ever know

Disclaimer: This has got to be my nerdiest reflection ever.

I was in Mcdonald’s Katipunan this morning, waiting for the Katipunan traffic to lessen a bit, when I decided to open my beloved University Physics book to the 33rd chapter: The Nature and Propagation of Light.

The first section discussed light’s peculiar wave-particle duality: light exists as both a particle and a wave.

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Better than Ezra - Breathless

Here you are now
Fresh from your war
Back from the edge of time
And all that you were,
Stripped to the bone
I thought you d want to know

That when you feel the world is crashing
All around your feet
Come running headlong into my arms
Breathless
I’ll never judge you
I can only love you
Come now running headlong
Into my arms
Breathless

Lay down your guns
Too weak to run
Nothing can harm you here
Your precious heart
Broken and scarred
Somehow you made it through
I only ask that you won’t go again

When you feel the world is crashing
All around your feet
Come running headlong into my arms
Breathless
I’ll never judge you
I can only love you
Come now running headlong
Into my arms
Breathless

So glad to see you smiling
So good to hear your laugh
I think that you’ve found you even
Missed yourself
I’m only asking this because I think that
Truth be told
Oh, you’ll never go again
Again

When you feel the world is crashing
All around your feet
Come running headlong into my arms
Breathless
I’ll never judge you
I can only love you
Come now running headlong
Into my arms
Breathless
Breathless

—

The LORD is close to the brokenhearted and saves those who are crushed in spirit. A righteous man may have many troubles, but the LORD delivers him from them all.

The LORD redeems his servants; no one will be condemned who takes refuge in him.

-Psalm 34:18-19, 22 (NIV)

I’ve found a reason for me
To change who I used to be
A reason to start over new
And the reason is You

A reason for all that I do
And the reason is You

Just a thought.

How could you fall in love with someone who is far away from you?

Keep the person close to your heart. :)

So let’s not put Jesus on a superdupermega-high pedestal, bringing Him further away from us. Because really, I think He wouldn’t like that. I think He’d rather be with us, than just be up there watching us from a distance. Well for me, that’s why He became human in the first place.

Make Jesus your friend! Keep Him close to your heart.

Wait, don’t just keep Him close to your heart, keep Him IN your heart. :D

Have a nice day, everyone. God bless you all.

PS But of course, let’s not forget that He is still above us all. Let’s just not get too lost in giving in to the “ideal” uber mighty powerful images of Him that instead of loving Him, we end up fearing Him. I used to imagine Jesus having a powerful commanding aura and big-time presence whatever that I’d shy away if ever I saw Him. But further reading and praying made me realize how human and approachable He is. :) Siya pa nga yung nanga-approach ng tao eh.

I’d rather for you to be faithful and to know me than to offer sacrifices (Isaiah 6:6, Contemporary English Version).

Yes we all know that it’s the lenten season, but let’s not make sacrifices just for the sake of making sacrifices.

Sometimes we think too much of following the rules that we end up forgetting why the rule were there in the first place.

I’ve this feeling that if Jesus was physically alive today, He won’t be the most religious folk you’ve ever seen. I’ll bet that He’d even have clashes with some pastors and priests and religious people. Hahaha.

I love You. :)