Another sem… a protracted stay here in the more famous public university of the Philippines. I don’t really mind that I’m staying here a bit a more (although I know a lot of it is my doing). It’s my parents who are. Mostly because they believe students should finish their courses in time, particularly those who had a history of being an achiever like in high school.
The first week came and went. The weather had been so hot, I couldn’t walk to class without releasing buckets of sweat. I realized I have plenty of time in my hands. Enough, I think, to get all my experimentation and hopefully, the paper for my thesis done by the end of the semester. Yes, there is a need to graduate, since my parents can’t rest till they know I’ve got my diploma. I greeted my dad yesterday (fathers’ day) and he mentioned that hopefully I would graduate by October. Am I much too stubborn? Well, I haven’t exactly given them the whole picture during all those years. They just assumed I was doing well in all my subjects except math. Now, it’s the thesis. FT theses are not the easiest to conduct. Some even take more than two semesters to do the whole thing. But I do plan to finish this degree. I’m not just keen on rushing, since I have an idea how it is. I’ll take it in stride, but I’ll make sure I get to graduate.
So getting back, I indeed have plenty of time. but I haven’t started completing the initial manuscript and delving on my research problem. First day blues. There was the French Film Fest (gone to watch there twice), reading Contact, playing Solitaire, Spider Solitaire and Hearts on the pc, and watching Ouran High School Host Club and Gensomaden Saiyuki. I was with mom last Saturday and bought things for Kevin. Sunday saw me sleeping till noontime. I finished Contact today. Thriving on nothing but biscuits, some chips and water, I didn’t go out of the boarding house since I came back Saturday. I only went out this evening, when I bought some rice for a more fulfilling dinner. I could’ve gone to the infirmary this morning to have my foot examined but I woke up late so I’m gonna postpone going there to Wednesday. I know, this should not go on. And it will not. I’ll start reading up on my thesis, now that I’ve finished the novel.
People are making appearances at my inbox. The recent Fathers’ day got my dad many expressions of happiness thought I wasn’t able to reply to the senders.
“If you keep doing what you’ve always done, you’ll keep getting what you’ve always got. “ – Jim Rohn
- this message seems to be doing the rounds since I received it twice last Saturday
There was a message from cindy inquiring about me and Diana. Kris, my high school classmate, also dropped a line, as did jajo. Got an update on the fete de la musique from joyce. Received a missent text from Sally. She was supposed to send it to her sister ronah (I didn’t know before now she had a sibling named as such) and I was thinking about all the h’s that people have affixed to my own nickname (rona) and how appalling names which originally don’t have an h now sporting it look to me – like jhimmy, or rhose. I’m sorry, but the aesthetics of such names don’t agree well with me. Then sally invited me to watch a movie - either kung fu panda or incredible hulk starring Edward Norton (now this is could be interesting but I wonder why Hollywood made another film about the green muscleman) with a number of mc peeps probably. But I need to save up. If I am going to watch, I think I’ll go to the Shang instead for free French Films. grace informed me that there’s gonna be food tomorrow at the subol tambayan (I haven’t been there for a long time). chesca says there a book sale at the college of educ the whole week. This next one’s from raine:
“Opportunity Costs:
The cost of something is what you give up to get it.”
Are you taking up econ girl? I only thought of this before in economic equivalents. when I read it now, it’s telling me what I already know. I could’ve been making headway on my thesis instead of lazing around the whole three days. And it’s been a full week since I’ve checked the internet – my mails, the posts at multiply, blogs of people I know or frequently visit.
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