Monday, May 27, 2013

Sneak Peak

At last I can post using my mac! :)

A lot of things has happened since I posted the I-shall-hibernate post months ago- I am an incoming 4th year BS BAA student (*insert lots of emotions here), I lost my slot in the dormitory (I eventually found an apartment to stay next sem), I just had my internship with BDO Advisory (check FB and instagram for details haha) and right now I am in Camiguin trying to do some things really important.  

I am just so glad I can post normally here. Will finish this stuff first and I'll update this blog again!

DMD

Sunday, May 12, 2013

Yuhooo!!!

Aloha! I can't post using my Mac but I can post using my ipad and any other laptop! What kind of sorcery is this? Anyway, my rants will come back the coming days. A lot of things has has happened. Bear with my photos, my rants. Bear with me.

Lots of love,
DMD

Thursday, May 9, 2013

Hello

Hello!

Got published here. so there's something wrong with my laptop. :'(

Saturday, February 9, 2013

Hibernate

These are the times when I really need to hibernate and as much as I want to pour everything in this blog, I can't.  The waves of exams are coming. Requirements are piling up. :( I know all will go well, soon.  I hope the next time I'll post in this blog, I'll be posting with a happy heart.

Meanwhile, I'll let you have a sneak peak of my private laptop world...



The rants of someone dancing in the rain might subside in the coming months.  However, you are assured it'll be back because whatever happens, nothing can comfort her more than writing what her heart tells her to. :)

Happy Chinese New Year! God bless!

See you soon,
DMD <3

Sunday, February 3, 2013

Rants of an UPCAT Passer

Yesterday, I woke up from my usual 2-hour-weekend-nap and my roommates told me, "Debbie, may results na ang UPCAT." My mind started listing the names of the persons I know who took the exam, particularly from my High School. Later, I saw six of their names in the UPCAT passers list.  Honestly, I felt enthusiastic and proud for them.  It maybe a weird and OA emotion but I feel really proud every time someone from my high school will make his/her name among the prestigious UPCAT passers list.

What's sad is the fact that only a few people from my hometown appreciates the honor of passing the entrance exam of the top university in the country. You see, Camiguin is one of the provinces that has the fewest number of UPCAT takers each year.  During my time (that was August 2009), we only filled one classroom with a 30-50 student capacity (maybe lesser, whatever, I can't really remember the size). Imagine my surprise a year later when I saw Diliman come UPCAT time heavily strucked in traffic with a lot of aspiring seniors.  High school students were really determined and I noticed some of them getting nervous while lining up to enter the exam room.  "Ang laki ng pinagkaiba sa amin," I uttered to myself.

I don't want to blame my hometown fellows for that attitude.  UP, particularly Diliman, Los Banos and Manila, is really far far far away from Camiguin that you need to gather your courage to pursue studying there, not to mention the fact that you need to close your ears on several discouraging words about UP.

I could still remember the events that orchestrated when I learned that I passed the UPCAT.  Yes - I felt like I was floating (OK, that is exaggerated) but I was really really really really really elated that I can tell you it made my day (or even week) perfect! :) When I saw my name in the list, there was certainty in the words I told my mom, "I will study in UP." My decision was final, at least for me. I won't go on telling you how I fought for that decision but it was a series of mustering every courage I had and believing in the dream I nurtured in my heart since grade school amidst people telling me to do otherwise .

To all UPCAT 2013 passers, studying in UP is something that is up to you now. You took the chance, now the top university in the country is giving you one of its esteemed slots to experience UP life.  I will not tell you to grab it right away because deciding where to study in college is something that requires a lot of thinking. I won't even say that "UP life is fun" or "UP life is hard" or "Yeah, the teachers here are great" or something like that.  No words can depict the exact bizarreness of life here. Instead, I will tell you, with the same conviction I had three years ago, that the decision to study in UP is one of the best decisions I made in my life.

UP gave you a challenge.  Now, it is up to you whether you'd take on that challenge or not.  Of course, I hope you would. To those who will forego the chance of studying in UP, cherish this moment in your heart. C'mon guys, passing the UPCAT is something you can be proud of for the rest of your life! :)  To those who will pursue studying in UP, brace yourself future iskolar ng bayan, brace yourself and welcome to UP! Regardless of what your decision will be, I want to congratulate you all for passing the UPCAT! God bless!


From UP with love,
DMD <3

Friday, February 1, 2013

Echoes of Our Hearts

This is not mine.  This from Joe D' Mango's love notes (correct me if I'm wrong please).  I am posting it here because seldom does an "love lesson" touches my heart the way the way Echoes of Our Hearts does. Worth reading! :)



Sometimes we close our eyes and just listen to the echoes of our hearts. We all fall in love and there are times when we love so much that we lose ourselves in our emotions. More often than not, we wonder why there are love that grows, and love that grows cold. We would start to search for answers and try to find where love has gone wrong. But in the end, we find ourselves where we started for we cannot question love when it has its own reasons. Love will always be as it always has been....silent, mysterious and deeply profound.

Many of us believe that love is forever, that love never dies, only to be disillusioned in the end when we find our hands empty and our hearts longing. We mistakenly have looked at love as a need to be fulfilled. But love is a gift given to us. We should not hold it in our hands for we may never find the strength to let it go when it decides to leave. We should only embrace its warmth and glow while it last and then freely open our arms when its time to say good-bye.

When we fall in love, we don't want that feeling to end for it is everything we are, everything we wanted to be. We pray that love will stay and grow in our hearts. But if it doesn't then we should never let our lives be taken by it, for life should not end where heartaches begin.
There is always a reason why we have to move on. When we have to say good-bye to the feeling we wanted to stay forever, let us not wave our hands with a heavy heart. For love will have to set its wings free and find the place where it belongs. We may have lost it but then again, when we close our eyes and listen to the echoes of our hearts, we will hear that feeling resounding silently forever.

Then we'll know that love never left us, for the good that we have become because of love will always stay. Love will always be there, reminding us that we should be thankful and happy not because we have lost love, but because, for once in our lives, that feeling called love lived in our hearts and made us happy. #

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