The Four Things that I Wanna Learn

Hey there, World!

Hours ago, me and my groupmates organized a seminar that is about Training and Development. Organizing a seminar was one of our requirements to finish the subject, "Seminar and Workshop." Since its for the completion of the subject, we planned and organized the whole event and I'm glad that everything went great and we could breathe a bit easily and focus more on the damn Feasibility Study (and other subjects too.) The resource speaker was Ms. Swanee Gumatay and she was great upfront, even though she admitted that she could barely answer our professor's question. While the seminar was on going, it made me remember the things that I want to learn in my lifetime (since our speaker's point for her presentation is about lifelong learning.)

Here are the four things that I wanna learn:

1. Learn to speak, read and write Japanese. I put this item first because I think it's something major for me to learn a whole new language. It feels like a great achievement for me if I learn to speak such a complicated language. Believe me, I tried learning from the internet and I'm only at the part of writing hiragana. Also, another reason is that I'll be able to use it if I go to Japan and watch anime.

2.Learn to play the piano. I played a Playstation 1 game named, "Legend of Mana." I went to an abandoned city, and I heard the musical score for that place. The more I hear it, the more that I fall in love with it. The piece is named "City of Flickering Destruction," and it's played on the piano. After hearing that beautiful tune, I wanted to learn to play the piano so that I can play that piece. The piano is my favorite instrument and I actually learned to read musical notes, just so I can read the music sheet of "City of Flickering Destruction." Though the actual playing of it isn't much mastered yet because our keyboard is old and can't be played anymore, and my left and right hands aren't trained to be played together yet. I actually look up to people who can play the piano, like Alodia Gosiengfiao. "City of Flickering Destruction" isn't the only thing I wanna play, in fact there are other songs and musical pieces that I wanna play (one of them is "Davy Jones Locker," a musical score from the movie, "Pirates of the Caribbean.") Ruth Anciano, my classmate and groupmate in organizing the seminar, taught me a bit while we were cleaning up the audio visual room.

3. Learn how to bike. When I was a kid, my parents didn't taught me how to bike. Not even my older brothers because they only taught me how to use a computer and play video games. I remembered what my professor in Logistics Management and International Management said that your life isn't complete if you don't know how to bike. That statement made me think, "Wow, am I really missing out on the joy of biking?" so then, I thought about it... and there I suddenly wanted to learn to bike. I wanna feel the wind on my face when I bike and use it to roam around our little subdivision. I asked my significant other to teach me, since he knows how to ride a bike... but he hasn't taught me yet because of the lack of bikes. But he said soon he will teach me.

4. Learn how to drive a car. I put this item last because I dunno if I'll be given the chance to learn how to drive and I don't have a car yet. I saw some of my batchmates from high school knows how to drive and practically have their own cars. They post pictures in Facebook about them driving and I thought, "Whoa, they have their own cars and they can drive." I guess I felt envious seeing them like that, but I won't let envy get a hold of me. If I get the chance to learn I will take it.

I hope that in the near future, I get to learn all these skills. I tend to have a declining motivation if I learn new things by myself. Probably because I am self-taught and I have this thought like, "I'll do this next time." I guess I'll have to keep reminding myself why I wanted to learn those things. And not just learning Japanese, piano, biking, and driving; I wanna learn more things too. If I learn new things, I'll be a better me.

I think this is the longest post I made so far. If you made it reading up to this part then I thank you for taking a part of your time to read this.

I hope you enjoyed reading, and I'll write again soon. :)

How Teleseryes Affect My Emotions

Hey there, World!

Today, I am going to talk about how watching Filipino teleseryes affect my emotions. I thought of writing about teleseryes and emotions because I just watched the latest episode of Pangako Sa'yo #Pagtuklas. After watching it, I felt annoyed, and excited... if I tell you why it'll be a spoiler. :P

The first teleserye that I watched from start to finish, was Tayong Dalawa, starred by Gerald Anderson, Jake Cuenca, and Kim Chiu. I was a second year high school student, and I watched it with my mother because first of all, you can't change the channel because her favorite show was on and second was that there wasn't anything interesting to watch on TV. Tayong Dalawa was about two military men who are half-brothers that fell in love with one woman. Typical love triangle in Philippine TV shows. Though that was five or six years ago and I could barely remember the scenes, I enjoyed watching it with my mother and the ending was quite unexpected. During watching, I felt excitement, fear, anger, sadness, and maybe some kilig too. After that, I watched more and more up to now.

When I watch teleseryes, it's like I feel for the character, especially the characters who were being ridiculed and bullied. When those characters are being treated cruelly by the kontrabida, I feel SO mad and angry towards the kontrabida because he or she did something bad to make the bida's life like hell.

Commonly, part of the story is that somebody has a long-lost child and they have hopes in finding them and then it turns out that the main character is their long-lost child and if they are close on finding out who is their real child I feel excited and happy because if the person with the missing child is rich I'll go like, "Yes! The main won't be poor and help her foster family!"

Another is the romance part of teleseryes. Romance in Philippine TV shows can spark "love teams" if the chemistry is right, and love teams can make a show popular because of the love team's fan-base. If people see their favorite love team be all sweet and romantic to each other, they will feel a love thrill or most commonly known here in the Philippines as, kilig. Filipinos have this trait of being hopless romantics so they will feel better if they see some on-screen romance.

Those are the three emotions that I mostly feel whenever I watch teleseryes. And I think what makes TV shows popular, is that the audience can feel these various kinds of emotions that they keep watching and see what happens next and get the anticipation of what will be the ending. And not only anger, happiness, and love thrill can be felt by watching. Sometimes you will also feel embarrassed for the main character doing something stupid, feel an adrenaline rush when the bad guy is going to be caught, and if the scene is really sad you will sometimes cry.

I hope you enjoyed reading, and I'll write again soon. :)

I'm No Leader

Hey there, World!

Last semestre, we had this subject course named Feasibility Studies. It's a study that lets you think of a service or product, do some research and interviewing, then find out if your product will be a hit to the public. We were assigned to think of at least three ideas for the FS. I thought of a strap that attaches to your phone so that you won't drop or get it snatched away by some riding in tandem. The second was a high school that teaches english proficiency. I couldn't think of a third one but my friend suggested that I put in a mobile pet groomers. Well I went with it so I wrote it down because I need a third idea and our class was going to start.

Our professor looked at all of our ideas... she chose five ideas and one of them is the mobile pet groomers (because she freakin' likes dogs). And she also assigned who will be the the leaders of each idea... which is the person who thought of the idea (crap).

At first we went with the pet groomers and for some reason our prof let somebody change their idea. One of my group members was like, "Hey, we should change our topic too, because one of my friends did an FS too and their finished with it. Lets use it!" At first I want to reject her thought because I wanted to do this from start to finish, but I never said a word. Some of my groupmates didn't want to change too but they couldn't say anything either. So in the end we asked our prof to change it and we went with coffee spa. I know you're thinking, "But you're the leader! You should've said something." Well yeah, I SHOULD'VE said something, but that person has a strong aura to her that can't be reckoned with.

After that we did survey and tallied the answers of the survey... thats when productivity went stagnant. After consulting multiple times only one of us was working. This girl was taking all of the work and wouldn't give some to us so that work can be finished fast. And even if she did some of us are too busy with part-time jobs. You're probably thinking, "You're the leader, you should've divided the work." Yes, I should've done that, but it's like a cat got my tongue, and somebody already did that.

I felt so ashamed... I wasn't able to lead my groupmates in what they should do. They weren't doing anything because they were waiting for my orders. I tried motivating them by saying that we will graduate if we finish it, but it seems that they weren't fazed by it. I apologized to them through our group message. I told them that I would try to be a better leader, but until now I feel like I'm not even trying.

I guess I am not an effective leader. I guess I am kind of a laissez-faire style leader, according to our lesson in "Supervisory Management." I let people do what they want.
Right now, we are cramming to complete our Feasibility with the thought of a small chance of graduation and time running out.

I'm sorry if this is quite a negative post but like I said, I'm using this as a form of expression.

I hope you at least enjoyed reading, and I'll write again soon.

Newbie

Hey there, World! Okay, so I'm kinda new to this blogging thing... but I really wanted to start one since my friend, Aeron manages one. Though he blogs about other stuff... I would like to write about my day to day life. Most likely I will rant about things that happened during the day but I hope you guys don't mind.

Since I was like Grade 6, I wrote a story that was actually a bit of a copy of an anime that I watched back then named "Bokura ga Ita ". It was one of the romance anime that I enjoyed watching, even though I never understood the concept of love back then because I was only 12. But anyway, that anime inspired me to write some kind of light novel. I actually wrote about 5 or more volumes of that little light novel. I made that many parts because I had a friend who is a bookworm and she was my sole reader, which is why I got motivated to write more. But then I never got to finish the damn thing because of reasons. I also wrote two more stories after that. One of them about a missing princess who was being searched far and wide, and the other about a womanizing doctor that met a sickly girl and fell in love. Both I never managed to finish... *sad* though I did finished a very short story. I posted it on DeviantArt buuuut I don't wanna find it and post it here because it is kind of embarassing.

Also when I was wee child, I wrote about a girl who lost her ribbon, and another about two girls fighting an evil being in the world of toys.

I'm telling you guys about my writing history because... I like to write. I would say that I love it but I only like it as a hobby. It's the reason why I wanna start this blog and express myself. In real life, I am a quiet person, but I have things running in my head and sometimes when inspiration strikes, I have the urge to write. I sometimes dream to publish novels but I don't think I'm confident enough in my writing. But hey, I'm 20 and who knows what opportunities would life give me?

I hope you enjoyed reading and I'll write again soon. :)