21.3.09

an aha moment for me

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it was a few hours before our long exams when we all felt we've had enough studying for the day. so we ordered pizza and decided to play dream day on my laptop. our eyes were all glued on berting to look for stuff hidden in the picture when mariel and her wandering mind suddenly bloated, "i think i can use this game for philo," (yeap, she's random like that.) "you know how the game asks you to look for something, and you think it's this thing, but it's not?" (yeap, she's confusing like that.) "pilosopiya!" (yeap, she's weird like that.)

and surprisingly, i understood. a few days back, mia and i played the same game. we had 3 minutes left to look for one more thing, a stamp. we searched here and there for that one rubber stamp to end the game but couldn't find it. so we used our last hint only to find out that we were supposed to look for a post stamp.

and that's when a thought hit me. nope, this has nothing to do with philosophy anymore (or so i believe).

imagine walking along a path that leads to a barrel of reese's peanut butter cups (or whatever makes you happy. haha)... more often than not, your eyes would probably be on the cups the whole time, without having to realize that the path itself was made up of peanut butter.

you see, sometimes we tend to become too obsessed to find what we think we want, without considering that what we want might just be something else. something completely different. i'd like to think we're far less materialistic than we all seem. what moves us isn't what we want but that unexplainable feeling of content after working hard for it.

happiness, for the lack of a better word.

i think finding happiness has a lot to do about what you think would make you happy and what really makes you happy. the more you're open to the possibility that there's happiness in a lot of things, the easier you'd find what truly makes you smile.

and i hope we all find happiness in the smallest things in this seemingly sad saaaad world. what do you think? =D

15.3.09

Halo by Martina Sandiego

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***she's one of the reasons why i want a ukulele (i hope ahia gets me one). HAHA... i'm an avid fan. =D

for more of marti's videos, visit andie's youtube site andierhean.

12.3.09

oh when chem freaks collide

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***ON SUPERIMPOSABLE MOLECULES***

"Molecules that are identical."
-PD Dr. Stefan Immel

"Something that may be laid or placed on or over something else."
-http://www.dictionary.com

"Pag pinagpatong-patong lahat ng boys ni Mariel. Sina B, M and J... superimposable!"
-Nicole Rae Wong, BS MAC '10

"Huh? Si B and M klaro superimposable pero ngano apil man si J?"
-Kirsten Vincente Casas, BS MAC '10

"Superimposable ung unbelievable sobra. kasi diba kung posable pwede mangyari so super imposable, sobrang di pwedeng mangyari. haha!"
-Ramon Alberto Ramos, BS Psych '09

"Yawa! Matulog nalang ko!"
-Marie Elaine Calejesan, BS Mgt '10

11.3.09

bisag unsaon ug pahumot sa igit, igit gihapon.

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i must admit, i actually had fun studying org chem last night... for the first time. like when those geniuses who were once unaware that they could do great things finally realized what they were born for, i felt as if i've reached my turning point.

oh scrap that. i THOUGHT i've reached my turning point.

but life has its way of slapping me with the reality that i'm no different from an elementary kid who can't draw the structure of L-leucine.

salamat, modesto chua, at hindi mo na pinatagal tong kahibangan ko.

this isn't my turning point after all.

it's my, well... it's my point of no return. in a few months i'm gonna be a senior. there's no way i'm turning my back on this. after everything i've been through, there's no way i'm giving up this time.

because a year from now, i'm gonna get a diploma that says BS Management of Applied Chemistry. i will be remembered as a sucky MAC major, but a survivor, nonetheless.

i can't wait for that time to come. maybe that will be my turning point... or another point of no return.

hai. igit uy.

twas a load of bull. twis a load of bull. twill forever be a load of bull.
(uuuy! starring the non-bitter darlene lois.)

4.3.09

echo

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close my eyes
let the whole thing pass me by
there is no time
to waste asking why