Guess what happened this September 29. Besides no classes, Milenyo, the brownouts, clean ups, other things that related to the typhoon and things that aren't related to the typhoon.

I turned 14. Whoa.

I don't feel all that different from a few days ago. It's just that 14 sounds... different. And maybe I've changed since I turned 13. I still have yet to figure out how I did.


Signing off.

To make up for the days I could have posted but didn't get to because of the typhoon, power outage and homework, I'll be posting about what happened this week involving typhoon Milenyo.

I got home this Wednesday (late, as usual) to print out my EnviSci reports for the next day and to review a little for the coming long tests. At the door, I saw that the news was already on, showing something about a typhoon coming. Big deal. It's been raining hard for a while here, so it might not affect us that much. I just continued inside and saw my sisters slacking off, when they should have been doing homework. They said that typhoon Milenyo, a supertyphoon, was coming and that there were no classes. Yay. I forgot about doing all that work and went to sleep.

The next morning was pretty cold. Did the usual thing and got started on my homework. Alas, the electricity got cut off at around 11. Now all we did was watch as the coconut trees swayed to the very strong winds the whole day. We heard some trees falling on roofs, branches dropping on the chickens and the dog. Not much to do except to sleep, watch the chaos, sleep, then watch the chaos--in the dark.

There was electricity the next morning and most of the storm was over. What a way to start your birthday after all that trouble the day before. I went outside to see the glorious outdoors I missed for a day. Wow, the street was all green. Lots of trees fell on the street, all the banana plants were bent. I saw the cable that was disconnected during the storm and caused the blackout in our street. I heard from classmates that lots of them still don't have electricity. We also went out that day to see most of the city without electricity, lots of streetlights, posts and even billboards were blown down.That was probably the worst condition I've seen Metro Manila in after a typhoon.

News about Manila being in a state of calamity was really new to me. I thought that this location would never be as badly affected by a typhoon as the other "storm-prone". Such a metro we thought was very mighty was thrown into chaos after being passed by Milenyo for a few hours.

I think there was a lot to learn from this.

• What goes up must come down.
  
• Preparation for a storm is key.
  
• Be thankful.
  
• If you weren't so fortunate, be hopeful.
  
• Try to finish your homework before something unexpected happens. No, seriously.
  
• Gray doesn't know how to conclude posts.
  

Hope everyone is still intact, in one way or another.

Ranting about requirements. Again.

Days started at 5 am, ended at past 12 midnight, mainly because of schoolwork. Hope it doesn't go on like that until the end of the 2nd quarter. Now I'm exhausted from that schedule. While I really feel like sleeping to make up for those hours in the night spent for doing things, I'm still bothered by the many requirements I have to finish.

If it's bothering me so much, why am I writing this post right now?

I seriously want to do something not related to school. With all this work, how can I? School isn't the only thing we are involved with; it isn't our whole life. It just, unfortunately, happens to take up most all of our time.

But still, the work has to be done.


Signing off.

It's a Monday today. There isn't much left to do for tomorrow, but lots to do for the other long-term projects. Now I don't know whether to continue these or leave them for later because I'm sleepy or to do them now. Meh, might as well do them now. I don't care about sleep. But sleep is nice. But you don't even know that you slept and are still tired after you sleep. What's the use?

And what's the use of these posts about nothing?

This might be used to record my mental activity these days. I don't know if this can even be called activity. Also, my mind is more focused on school.

Oh, yeah. The periodical exams are less than a month away.

I need to post something other than about requirements to keep what is left of my sanity. Something about layout design (designer's block), drawing (no time for that), video games (no time for that, either), or a long post about myself (absolutely no time for that).

Sleepy. Signing off.

The Return

The return of the piled-up requirements. How fun.And I haven't finished at least one of them yet.

Now, let's get to know all of them.

1. Geometry- Kusudama, the ball origami. I still haven't figured out how to fold them.
   
2. Envi Sci- Compile 10 reports about pollution. Found 5 >_<.
   
3. Chemistry- Portfolio. What the?
   
4. Values Ed- Report on suicide. I can actually motivate myself to do this one. I've been thinking about this topic for a while (not that I am considering it.), read about it and talked about it with my parents and counselors before. I even volunteered to be the leader of the group.
   
5. Art- Part 1. Research. Overwhelming.
   Part 2. Gallery visit. As if I have the time to go to Megamall, with all these stuff to do.
   Part 3. Avant garde. Got the idea. Don't know what kind of project to do.
   
6. and beyond. Some things that I might have forgotten to place here. Or new projects that might be given this week. >_<
   

This morning, I was feeling kind of sick. Woke up, then ate, then slept for another 3 hours. Wasn't able to do any progress with these for that reason.

Anyway, got to get back to work.


Signing off.

Once Again, Another Uninspired and Disorganized Post

Okay, so I feel obliged to post here because the Humanities Week is over and everyone is talking about it in their blogs. I have only a few things to say about it. Good job, everyone. And good riddance. It's over.

Woke up at 8 yesterday and still felt sleepy. We went to do errands at a grocery which I haven't been to for more than a year. I almost got lost looking for the sugar. Couldn't find the tea.

I didn't get to rest yesterday afternoon. I spent the whole time surfing the internet and planning another layout (I'm starting to grow out of this one).

And now I feel like there's a secret being kept from me. I got a part of a given statement on it, did some investigation but can't put everything together and get the truth.

Sloth is taking over right now. I'm not in the mood to do stuff right now, even though there's lots to do.


I'm signing off.

Life? Well, it's okay right now.

Except for the successive deadlines and presentations this week.

It's all right.

Not completely. I'm exhausted from all this endless thinking about things (most are not related to school). My bedtimes become later by the day. Depression seems like it's coming out of nowhere. I miss something.... Um, well.

Blogging. I just can't seem to blog as "freely" as I used to. Sorry if this post was disappointing.


Will end this misery-inducing post by signing off.