Allergies

I have allergies... icky! I just had a little of it yesterday and now I'm covered with it! I was even rushed to the emergency room last night because mom's worried that I won't be able to breath well. The doctor said that my airways are a bit clogged so I they let me use the nebulizer (I'm not sure if I spelled that correctly). After that, they gave me a shot. It was the worst injection I've ever received! It hurt A LOT. I felt the medicine go in my arm and I had chills for about 10 mins. My body was quivering and my teeth wouldnt stop chattering. Doc said that was the effect of the injection. I felt dizzy after I stopped shivering. Mom escorted me back to the car and drove us home. I slept through lunch time the following day. I took a shower when I woke up. Imagine the shock when I found myself covered with allergies! I was swollen and red all over- like a tomato. I wanted to laugh at myself. But I was too weak to even laugh. I slept again after lunch and occassionally woke up due to the sound of messages from the cellphone. I finally found my strength back just tonight. I must really thank my mom and my shoti for taking care of me and being patient with me not only when I'm sick but every single day. Thanks!! Love you!!

Of Brownouts and Deadlines

I arrived school thinking it would be just like any day. I walked passed through Gox Lobby. Same sights of people playing, studying or simply hanging out with friends. I was 20 mins early so none of my blockmates were there. I decided to take a peek in our classroom to see if there was still classes. I met Ken on the 2nd floor hallway. He told me Derick was already in the classroom playing. He was playing DTXMania while waiting for our class. He finished the song and stopped to have a chat with me. Later, we found ourselves watching some anime. I'm not really fond of animes but I found this one amazing. The graphics was amazing! People started arriving one by one. So did our prof. But she was still busy setting up her laptop so we continued watching while waiting. After a while, Donna arrived announcing that she bought some food from the Central Plaza- fish chips and chocolate crinkles!! After the prof called our attention, we settled in our seats. The lights started to flicker and everything went dark... We waited for a while for the generator. 5 minutes had gone by... still no electricity. We soon decided to take advantage of the situation and started opening the snacks donna bought. It found it exciting eating in the dark. 30 minutes had gone by and still no electricity. Our prof decided to just discuss the lesson without the powerpoint presentation. She used the board instead. It tool her about 20 minutes to finish the lesson then she dismissed us. Our group used the time to discuss about our project. Our working software is due on November 7. So is our project in WEBDEVE. That's when it hit me- NO VACATION!!! Okay, so that was a bit exaggerated. We still have our long weekend. But still... We have to think about lots of school stuff over the vacation. And I still have of gimmiks plan out! hay... Comsci life.

Medical Mission

This year is our church's 4th medical mission. It was held in Ramon Magsaysay Highschool in Cubao. It's about 5-10 mins drive from our church. Today is my first time to attend as a volunteer. I arrived there around 7:30. There were already a lot of people. While all of us were preparing, a small group from our church made some presentations. They sort of brought the church service there. Around 9am, they started letting people in. There were 6 stations: councelling, xray, pharmacy, optical, medical and dental. I was assigned in the Optical station where people are supposed to have their eyes checked. We have five optometrist and one opthalmologist. We catered to about 300 patients for the past four hours. My job there was to release free eyeglasses based on their eye's grade prescibed to them by the doctors and attend to whatever the needs of the doctors. It was very tiring since I had to run around and sometimes escort the patients. Some of the patients were a bit demanding and others asked a lot of questions. It's hard to accomodate all of them since we're all very busy. I guess these things really happen and since most of them were poor and uneducated, we really need to be patient in explaining things... Overall, the experience was great. I felt so blessed to be able to serve to the poor in this liitle way. I felt happy and tired at the same time when I arrived home because I was able to not only serve but also met a lot of people at the same time. One of the greatest lesson I have learned from this experience is to be contented in what you have. I am too blessed to complain.

Not So Bad Day

Today wasn't so bad. I had only two classes today. My first class starts 11:30am so I woke up late today. Defenses of our INTROSE projects were today so there was nothing much to do but listen to the reporters. In my case, I just chatted with my friends and read the book Donna lent me. MUMEDIA was the same. Our professor gave us the time to finish our photomontages which were due on Thursday. I'm working on mine this very moment. I need some creativity. I feel dried out. I can't think of a unique way to present my photomontage! So basically, I did nothing on both classes. Which is okay since I'm kind of not in the mood for discussions today...

Bad Day

My day started out good. I had a great time during my first two subjects. We created instructional materials for our micro-teaching in TINTECH. Kimby and I had fun making ours because we would be simulating a Grade one class so we had to make interesting presentation materials for the kids. FILIPI2 was also fun because our professor has a cool teaching style. I learn something trivial from her every meeting. After those subjects my day started to head downhill. I was bored during GENPSYC and I guess that feeling carried on during WEBDEVE. I don't exactly know what caused this feeling. I just felt so irrited and so bored all of a sudden. There wasn't a person who could cheer me up. Not that anyone tried anyway. Not to be KSP and all, but sometimes I wish that there could be someone who could cheer me up. Sometimes I'm so tired of cheering everybody up, I want someone to be there to cheer me up too. Anyway, I'm now quite okay I guess. I'm done with today's work. I can gladly retire to my dreamworld...

About Jacq

I honestly still don't even know or understand myself. I am a combination of both extremes. I can be so noisy at a time then end up being super quiet within seconds. I love daydreaming and I love the world. I love travelling, meeting new people and learning about different cultures. I'm attracted to anything weird, strange, unique, bizarre or extraodinary. I'm a person full of energy and humor. I see good in everything and I possess a positive attitude. I can be stubborn, impatient and moody at times. Just don't mind me for a while if that happens. I cool down as quickly as I heat up. Adventures excite me. I like trying out new things. We only get to be young once, so try everything and anything! (except sex, drugs, smoking and the like, of course) I'm also a lover of accessories, books, artworks,nature and most importantly, God. He is my love, my light and my purpose for living. He made me this way and I'm loving every inch of it!

`even the smallest creature can change the course of history.
`the difference between the ordinary and extraordinary is the little extra.

Moving On...

"All endings are also beginnings. We just don't know it at that time."