Hey!

Before the year-end

I would like to extend

My greetings of merry Christmas

Though it's late

and happy New Year

May you have fun alway!

---with that, I end my year.

Party

So we had our year-end/holiday party earlier.

It isn't called Christmas party, since there are people of different religion coming too.

Actually just a person.

Anyway.

We had fun, especially because of the games. Or because it's only games. And the games are tiring!

The gift I received from the exchange gift is awesome. It's a shirt, and all shirt gifts are awesome.

I liked the food though, and I couldn't actually discern whether they really used only 4 grand, since I was full like everybody else.

As much as 'emotional' goes, I really felt sad at the end of it, seeing that it's the last high school party we'll ever have.

They came, they saw, they conquered

And thus, our batch received its first trophy for being the over-all champions in the High School Festival  Celebration.

Indeed, we're all overwhelmed and happy.

The High School Festival Celebration consisted of many events, and the Seniors (us) grabbed first place in many of them.

Sweet!

Thus, we can now graduate from this school without longing for the championship experience.

Thank God our efforts have paid off.

The Big Day

Today's the day for the street dance and cheer dance dancers, nay warriors to show their skill and determination to win.

I cheered for the Seniors team. (Sorry, Juniors, Freshmen and Sophomores.)


The Seniors fought well in the battle. They really did. I was so proud. My chest was swelling with pride. Such talent from my classmates... such will to win!

The Seniors' street dance was a hit! It pumped up the sleeping crowd into cheering and clapping. Although, bias aside, I think the Freshmen owned the street dance competition. (Was I really unbiased?)

The Seniors' cheer dance is... LEGENDARY. YES. LEGENDARY.

Our batch, since first year, hasn't experienced being the champion for cheer dancing. But because of today's performance, I'm pretty sure that the curse is broken.

We.
Will.
Win.
This.

Results are released tomorrow. Keep praying and your fingers crossed.

Anticipation

Off the events, we had a lot of fun.

We watched movies nonstop. We ate lotsa food. I drank lotsa rootbeer.

We went home yesterday, late afternoon.

I and a couple of friends decided that we should pass by our school before heading home, to see if there are still students having their practice. (Today is the big day for street and cheer dance competitions.)

We saw our friends. I was overjoyed.

I saw the Seniors cheerdancing team, our year's team. I was excited.

They danced well, dear reader, they really did.

Last week, the last time I saw them, they were always slacking around, and I thought they had no chance of winning.

But when I saw them yesterday, I was overwhelmed. It's like they trained in the mountains in a span and learned the art of cheer dancing in a span of three days.

Yes, I was so excited. I was so happy.

Mostly, it's because I'm home.

Rootbeer

Thus I am back from the school trip. Actually that was yesterday.

So, as promised I shall update you of most the happenings during the three-day conference.

In detail? I can't promise you that. Well anyway.

There are different journalism events. 90% of them are individual contests, such as editorial writing, feature writing, and editorial cartooning. Each school garner points whenever they get in the top 7 for an individual event. Then, the points are added up to determine the winning schools.

Our school was the first runner-up among around ten (I'm not really sure) schools. Look at that!

Ahoy!

Chips... Ahoy!

Anyway.

I'm quite happy since I was miraculously able to wake up at 5 am. To jog!

Now.

I'm leaving in a few hours (minutes) for a school trip to another school, all for DSPC. It bothers me because I still don't know what that stands for.

But it's basically a string of events, specifically journalism events where schools will be competing with each other.

I happen to be a member of the broadcasting team.

The... AUDIO MAN! Sounds like a legit superhero eh?

Anyways, hope you pray for our safety and victory.

And off I go. I'll blog about the results after three days.

CNN

So I'm the audio-man for our school's broadcasting team. Which will be competing against schools.

Sweet eh?

I'm borrowing the older CNN themes as background music whenever the reporters from the team report.

And I must say, being the audio-man requires skill. Good timing and quick fingers.

Thus, I must watch more videos of news broadcasts all over the net. Must acquire information and tips.

The competition will take place next week, at Tuesday or Wednesday.

Done with that, and things to look forward to

The school paper's done... FINISHED! No hard prints yet, so I have my fingers crossed for a good outcome.

Now I have to look ahead for the things that are yet to come.

I'm excited for the debate practice, since it will be debate season this January-February. I want to get better with debating! Hone them skills yeah! (No I don't talk like that when I debate.)

There's also this DSPC thingy where I'll be taking part (barely) as a technical sound man for broadcasting contest.

And directly after that is the High School Month celebration (?), where I get to see everyone dance to their wits. A spectator I shall be, and I don't think that's rather a bad and boring part.

Then, Christmas celebrations! I must say, however my head tells my self to hide it, I am excited for the events concerning Christmas.

All of this in December. I can't wait. Anticipation. And a little bit of anxiety. I'll manage to contain myself.

Is a week a such a long time already?

Because if it is, then I haven't blogged for 'such a long time.'

So let me just update you of things happening at school recently.

High School Month celebration is now just a week away and students have been practising--a lot.

Practising for the cheer dance competition, the street dance competition, the modern dance competition, singing competition, and a whole lot more.

There hasn't been a consistent day of classes the past week.

Which is sad and boring.

Greetings and Sensorimotory Thingamajigg

To Miss Donna Vargas, happy birthday.

(I had to greet her here because I was well fed on her birthday party technically two days ago.)

(I also have to apologize since I didn't give her any presents.)

I'm sorry if you can't take home your present Miss Donna ;)

Well anyway.

I took a test earlier, or yesterday.

It was one of the weirdest tests I've ever taken.

It's composed of 250+ items, a hundred of which aren't subject related.

Those items are for testing my mind power... sensorimotor, self-inventory, and other names. I can't recall, I don't really want to.

So, how was the test?

Let's say, without those abstract reasoning-ish part of the test, I'd say I aced it.

But sadly, I'm not as confident as I should be with the results.

Yet, my hopes are still high, not that high though, but still high enough.

Failure, again

The Jumpers (me and my best mates) tried out on a modern dance audition, of which chosen ones will perform for the High School Celebration.

I wasn't accepted whilst the rest of the Jumpers were accepted. Oh, right, except another one.

So both of us weren't accepted.

But the rest were.

I must say, I was very disappointed with myself.

There is a deeper story within this, but all the same, the disappointment dwells inside me.

I'm now teased as an emo, probably because my tone's less alive and I make less jokes.

Well. I guess that's ok.

Unpacking (Back from Baguio)

Yep. Back from Baguio.

T'was such a short time. No internet with me the whole time! I wasn't able to blog at all about stuff.

Stuff I kinda forgot already.

But mainly, this post will be about the exam, the main purpose why I went to Baguio.

I mentioned about taking two entrance tests—but I only took one. We were late for the other test, along with sour grapes.

The other exam, which is from the better school, was super-easy. Piece of cake!

Packing up

We'll go to Baguio tomorrow. (Come on, you gotta know Baguio if you know a tad bit about the Philippines.)

But no, it's not for vacation.

We'll be taking two entrance tests from two different universities.

I'm not expecting much, but I'm open to surprises.

I'll be staying there for two days and a night.

This will be quite an adventure, since this will be the FIRST time I'll be going to somewhere almost two hours away from home.

And even though we have our lodging plans, there's still a percentage of uncertainty that everything won't go according to plan.

Not that I'm wishing for it. ;)

Tardiness makes more waste than haste

We were given English homework last Friday. It was about figures of speech. We were asked to give at least 20, and give 2 examples each. (really I gotta stop using numbers rather than letters)

And me, being the lazy little anus I am, didn't do it until earlier.

English was our first period in the afternoon.

We were dismissed early from our morning classes, and I had to go home early to rush the assignment.

It took me about an hour and a half to finish.

I came to school forty minutes late.

I missed the checking of the homework, and the awesome reading aloud of our given examples for each figure of speech.

I missed it.

I might not have shown regret, but it's all over my innards.


But anyway, my homework was still accepted, and all's well for that matter.

USTET

...stands for University of Santo Tomas Entrance Test.

Which is absurdy and unbelievably a piece of cake.

Literally.

No just kidding.

But seriously.

It was easy. At least, it did not meet the 'difficulty level' I was expecting. It wasn't challenging at all. Not bragging at all, but really it wasn't.

I'll be so screwed if I don't pass this.

Late

Again. Late for first period.

It's really irritating.

This day, I'm not JUST late for the first period.

Today, we are supposed to take our departmental test in Math, which is our first subject in the morning.

I was.. 40 minutes late.

But I'm not the panic-now-scream-scream-panic kind of person. I acted all cool and unaffected, while deep inside, I was panicking.

Good thing, my Math teacher is a nice person—she let me take the exam later that day.

Except, I have to do it in 30 minutes.

Bleh, that was enough, I was able to finish it naman.



Really, I don't like major tests welcoming me from vacation.

Finally

Today's November 2. Classes supposedly should be resuming today, but was moved to November 3. Thus, I am left with a day to do a lot of studying and homework.

Yes, finally, I'm doing some homework.

And I'm not getting distracted at all.

Nah that was a lie.

But anyway.

I should resume to doing my homework. See you all tomorrow.

Piled Up

Ha. There are about four days left for our vacation—I like using em dashes—and I still haven't done homework.


And apparently, we're going to our relatives' place tomorrow, to visit my late grandma's grave. Common tradition for All Saint's Day.


Am I going to bring my homework with me?


I will. But I'm not certain if I'll be able to touch it even. 


So. How's your vacation and homework?


Anyways, I shouldn't be updating Blue Jeans, since the theme suggests that I blog about 'school'—and it's sembreak. But, I should comply with the at least two posts per week rule. I'm sorry if all I'm going to post about are things related to school. No. Please don't leave me.


Wow. Awkward.

Cram

I finished the first part of the homework pile: the Araling Panlipunan module. Woohoo!

But before I successfully passed that cursed thing of the sembreak, I had to go through quite a lot.

It's really my fault though.

Actually, this module's been assigned to us the week before last week. I didn't do it, partly because last week was exams week, and mostly because I'm lazy. Come on, there are points in our lives where we don't really want to do work.

Certainty

In response to yesterday's Uncertainty: SEMBREAK. IS. OFFICIAL.

So we're gonna have the semestral break next week. Yay!

..or does it deserve a yay?

For one thing, we are given homework. And I can expect that it'll be heaps. Please don't be in heaps. Please.

Although exams are mostly done after earlier, (but there's one more for tomorrow: Maths) there are more waiting for us after the break. Some of the subjects are physics and chemistry--subjects I love but do not excel at.

Well, I'm definite that I would take this chance to recharge. By recharge I mean sleep 10 hours a day. And movie marathons. (I need recommendations for good movies by the way.)

Read books. And basketball. And stuff I would do on a vacation.

Is it me or does thinking about the vacation sounds quite boring enough? Sigh.

Oh well. I guess I should be thankful, and stop being a worry wart.

Uncertainty

Argh. Exams week. Torture? Nah.

Truth be told, I can safely say that for the past month, there hasn't been a single week wherein we would sit all day to attend classes. Why? It's because our school is a festive dude. It's got events and activities time to time. And most of the activities require excusing us out of our classes.

But now, it's an exam week. This week is bombarded with tests. (Which might bring you to ask me why I'm blogging, and not reviewing.) With the little time for discussion of topics and a lot of recommendations to do self-study at home due to school events, can I go pass this?

Answer's yes. I can. Yes I can. (I borrowed that, Obama. Thanks.)

There's still hope kasi. It is rumored that this week will be succeeded by a week long vacation: semestral break!

But it's just a rumor. It's still uncertain. The higher-ups are hesitant on granting us a sembreak because there are already plenty of cancelled school days due to different reasons, and strong typhoons are one of them.

So, will there be a sembreak? Half of me wants to have it. Who doesn't want a week of rest? The other half doesn't want the break. Mainly because I won't receive my daily allowance during the break. >:)

Becquerel-Rap

So, our group have this 'Sci-drama' presentation for Physics tomorrow. And I, with two of my friends who are also members of our group, agreed to make a rap segment for the presentation. Uh-yeah!

I'm just thinking about it now, and I can't help but chortle. The lyrics are in Tagalog. And they're comical. Too comical, in fact. Even the beat's funny! I do hope we can pull off the rap for tomorrow.

Fun fact: Our Sci-drama presentation is centered on Antoine Henri Becquerel, supposedly the discoverer of radioactivity.

Ah, I wish I can rap as good as this guy. Yo-yo-yo nationalism is joy yo!

Humiliation

School Intramurals day. I joined the chess tournament.

Sadly, I lost. Not only once, but I lost all three games I played. What's even worse is that I'm supposed to be the oldest player there.

But I lost, fair and square due to my ineptitude. Which makes me wonder, how the heck did I get in the tournament?

So am I humiliated? Yes, I am. However, I don't consider this as something that should drag me lower. (As if I can join another intrams next year.) Primarily, I just realized that my level isn't as high as I think it is. And better yet, I know that I still can improve.

I gave a good fight. I fought the battle. I lost honestly. That's all that matters.

Clarification

As much as I want to blog about my 'daily school life' experience, I won't be doing that.

We were given the minimal blog post number, which is at least twice per week. Seeing that there are five school days per week, I should do five blogs per school day to comply with this blog's theme.

But, I don't think I will.

Although it is apparent that I've already made three consecutive blogs since Monday (this is the third one), I think I won't be able to keep this up. It's not that I am busy enough to not be able to go onli- oh wait, I am busy. Not busy facebook-ing, but busy doing real life things. Like homework. Copying notes. Reading a book. Learning a new algorithm for solving the Rubik's cube. Staring at my bedroom's ceiling. Eating. Breathing...

My point's been perceived, I guess.

Join in!

The blog project is not only assigned to me, but to everyone else from my class (and the other sections.)

And it is quite amusing to see other people make their own blogs.

Months ago when I started blogging, I thought, "The things I write here will never be read by anyone. But that's ok."

"Blogging will never be a trend that will be followed by my friends and classmates, since facebook is out there."

But, here they are! Each of my friends and classmates are compelled to make one. I'm now more than interested to read their posts; and from that, I hope to get to know them better.

Anew

Our Information Communication Technology made us create a blog site. And here it is.


This blog is supposedly for sharing events from my average school day. Whether I was able to get a good score from a test, recite properly or when my recess snack was satisfying enough. Or maybe, less mundane than that.

One thing's for sure: the main focus of this blog is 'school life'. Anything that has to deal with school. May this post be a reminder for me whenever I do make a post to not stray from my focus.


You may ask, why Blue Jeans? Perhaps the main reason is that I always wear blue jeans when going to school. And another is because of an Eraserheads song entitled Blue Jeans, which is about school.


Anyways,
Blue Jeans blogs starts right...
Now.