What I want for Sembreak

Our 1st semester ended last October 14,2011 (Friday) yet I only felt the real start of our sembreak last October 21,2011 after finishing my term paper in Philippine Literature in English. I've procrastinated again. This and my old ways I hope to leave behind. I look forward to a renewed, refreshed me and a better semester this coming November.

Maybe I was ravenous for S-E-M-B-R-E-A-K that I simply lost control these past few days. I've become lax about almost everything. I've been watching movies, eating a lot, sleeping late and excessively. I felt like a glutton for REST and RELAXATION.

Sadly, this is not how sembreak is intended to function for us. A thought once popped out of my mind:

"Kapag may pasok di malaman kung anong unang gagawin, kapag walang pasok di malaman kung anong pwedeng gawin."

        #irony

Sembreak <3

During school days, we're geared up for battle. We prepare and know exactly that we have foes to fight soon. Yet during vacations like these, we are as if sent to a field without any requirements to fulfill. Thus, we are tempted to simply lie down out in the open, on the grass and gaze at the sky.

Rest isn't bad, relaxing neither, but too much of anything is always unhealthy and unhelpful. Our sembreak will work best for us if we do not lose sight of our focus and goals. Especially that this is not a long time vacation, we have less than a month (particularly for PNUans) to make the most of this opportunity.

We're being asked to relax but stay on guard, rest and prepare, reflect and plan for the fast approaching 2nd semester.

The experimental 1st sem will be the basis of what to do and what not to do for the 2nd sem.

Here's a to-do-list to keep track of a productive, fulfilled and fun vacation, inspired by Ate Joan. :))

WHAT I WANT FOR SEMBREAK:

(B.F.F Balance.Focus. Feasibility)

-  Quality devotional time :)

- Write articles again (at least 2)

- Accomplish Ministry concerns: Fix Sunday School supplies, class record and prayer album

- Read at least 1 book (The Life You've Always Wanted)

- Finalize my Life purpose statement (place them on bookmarks and one for posting)

- Recreation time (watch movies, volleyball and time for exercise!)

- Spend time with family :))

And one thing that I know I need to do, yet I don't really like to do, well, I want to do it because I need to do it... (do you even understand?) Haha.

Simply put, it's this one:

- Read debate handouts and write about "What Debating Does to me"

I'd like to prepare for our Saturday sessions. I know I'm having a hard time on this one so there's a call for hard work. I just said that, HARDWORK, really, for the second semester.

Hoping to fulfill this to-do-list :)

P.S.

THE RULE:

I was inspired by Ate Joan to impose a rule of early sleeping. Every 9:30pm, I'd like to be starting my way to dreamland. :)

Happy Sembreak! 

What to WRITE?

Running thoughts flood my mind, one rushing over another and I think they're brought about by the bulk of tasks I've been doing and I still need to do. 

It was a blessed relief we somehow got rid of "the figures" because we don't have any Math subject this 1st semester. But I find myself facing the blank paper innumerable times. We've been tasked (and we still are) to write different kinds of essays --- from descriptive, comparative, argumentative to occasional papers and end of term essays (not to mention two case studies). My school life as an English major turned out to be a writing course.

I have asked it so many times, What to write? (And the question itself I doubt if it's grammatically correct) 

Even during days when I attempt to write a blog --- I face a blank screen. 

The randomness of my thoughts simply finds itself expressed through pictures I specially handpicked from the internet. I hope these images paint the thousand words the captions could not fully describe. 

(writegroove.com)

Sadly, I could not upload the picture of my small pencil from my phone. So the one up here is a substitute. I simply reiterate --- Endless writing for the end times of the first semester. My pencil as small as that will support the italicized statement.

(http://www.mobilitysite.com)

I'm no tech savvy, but I've been longing for a net book or a laptop that I can call MINE. As always, it is preferably color blue. 

To my future net book, 

You have the very subtle ways of making me want you badly. Renting in computer shops or waiting for the right timing to borrow the laptop of my Ate in the dorm inconveniences me more often. I hope God will give you to me, miraculously,  and of course in the His soonest possible time line. 

By faith, 

Your  future owner 

(http://recruitingunblog.wordpress.com)

This one I won't write much about. There are sudden lurking monsters in my heart and they leave me writing this figure several times in my journal - - - - - </3. Well, brokenness of the heart  is no business alone of a longing lone individual. It could be a deep sense of inner turmoil.  Yet Daddy Lord quiets them down, someday soon, they will fully vanish.

(ph.88db.com)

After time immemorial, I've entered SM Manila again! Well, I bought some PASALUBONG (so excited to go home!) for my two sisters. I bought them from papemelroti and one from National Bookstore. You know what surprised  me? (1) The separation of the female and male entrance plus their very strict security and (2) The renovated National Bookstore! Weeeeee :) I missed school supplies hunting. 

By God's grace it's sembreak sooooooooon! God is so great that several deadlines of  requirements were extended til next week! Exams are even rescheduled on Friday. And really, to make the most of this ending semester is to give our best as well as sleep little, if still possible at all.

 #God really knows I am no superhuman

Finally, my God, Daddy, Best Friend ... Everything, never fails to make me

(sciencebuzz.org)

even during my "unblogged" days and every single day.

#my right to write

the randomness of  my thoughts