The graduation of the batch a year ahead mine...

While I consider college graduation events as something remarkable and joyous, I also think of it as something incredibly um, life-changing (?) or... well... I dunno, college grads give me a verrrry strange feeling of excitement and sadness.

Last Saturday, April 27, 2013, the UP Pampanga Chorale was "hired", I mean asked, to sing three pieces for the graduation rites of the Kapampangan Peyups held at the Grand Palazzo Royale, Angeles, Pampanga, in exchange for a delicious dinner (of course, I'd be present). Two of the pieces are the usual, the national anthem and the UP hymn, and the other one was an intermission song. I am proud to say that the piece for the intermission, Ang Tinig Namin, was written & arranged by a co-Chorale member, Kuya Rey Concepcion, and I think it was really good, but we should have practiced it more hehehe turns out we need more o'that.

That was the first time I witnessed a college graduation, and UP's grad for that. O M ... I felt so (strangelyyyy) emotional for them though I know just some of them (since they're a batch ahead) and I'm close to only a few of them... but, I was really happy for them! Really. For me, college grads are not just the happy endings of a 4-7-year college battle, but it's the end of a decade-and-a-half-or-more journey of being a student within the walls of the classrooms within the realms of the schools. 

I can hardly imagine myself getting past being a student! Rrrreeeeaalllyyy, I mean I'll be totally exuberant and all joyful but... it's strange, really, really strange. Some of my earliest memories were set in my preschool, as in since I've had a memory, I know that I've been studying and it's weird to end that journey. All our lives we've been looking forward to that day when we can finally go our own paths, at least most of us, I think, but I think it'll be really saddening to get there. That's what I think, I don't know if the graduates feel that way, too...

HAHAHAHAHA, I suddenly felt embarrassed being gloomier than those who graduated hehe

I feel kinda proud of 'em! After the UP Hymn song, I even absentmindedly jumped and said "Yeeees!"  like I was the one who graduated. Honestly, Shai, what's in your head! Good thing the graduates were so into their own farewells and eye-dabbing moments that what I did didn't matter. No one's really looking anyway haha

Geeeee~  I wanna know how it feels! B U T I have yet two rainy seasons and a summer to pass through before I finally get to that one life-changing summer o'my life (this summer not yet counted), ha! I'll get there, I'll get there!

I think that the graduation ceremony that I'd be most affected will be my batchmates' grad! Hehehehe. For three reasons: 1. I am honestly happy they're going on their careers already and be real grownups 2. I'll miss them so badly since they're a huge family for me, home away from home 3. I envy them, so badly... (These thoughts are ahead of time. I shant be thinking these things nowwwww)

Anyways, here are some of the few shots I got with mah phone last grad. The Chorale's seated in front so, I had only a few snaps:

Me with my "vocal mentor" ehem, Ate Mayey! when we entered the hall :)

Kuya Lucas and Miggy organizing our seats 

The lovely Soprano bellas, ehehehehhermm

Ok, so that's where we will be, beside the stage

The graduates! A view from our place hehehe didn't have enough shots of 'em

With Yna @ the dining hall... This dinner was prepared for the faculty, staff, chorale, and usher/ettes. Well, Yna isn't one of any of those but since some chorale members already left, she grabbed the slot

That's it! C O N G R A T U L A T I O N S  Graduates! May God be with you always!!!!! :)

Summer must be...

The humidity is undeniably a pain and I feel like being Rapunzel trapped home because I just can't take the heat outside. Hello, Pinas!

What to do?
1. Summer Job
2. Summer Class
3. Freelance home-tambay

I feel like I'm the laziest 18-year-old lady in the country because it seems like I'm the only one spending these days at home and yes, I'm still a student so these things may still be bearable and who says a kid must take a job when s/he's not in class when s/he has already spent the schooldays being so "ppppr-ppr-roductive"? But of course, I know I'm not the only one being dull these days... hehe apir sa lahat ng tropang tambay! :)

My body's not doing anything and it just goes um... well... it's something like... yeah, I'm gaining more weight I have to blame it to the comforts of being at home. Well, soon I'll be getting out to the real world (workplace) and will be suffering a lot, so for now, I'll live life like there's no food tomorrow. Cooool.

Anyways, it doesn't mean that my body's fattening up, that I'll allow my mind to go without a workout! Hihi. I'm so happy I've been able to read lots these days and I have to say that I've enjoyed all the novels I've read ever since I've been meaning to be faithful to my 2-books-a-day-2-books-in-2-days self-challenge though they're not all champs. 

Def: 2-books-a-day-2-books-in-2-days means that I have to read 2 books a day and it may always go like this: Today, I will start reading this and prolly end it tomorrow and then I'll start another book again after that, so I'll be reading 2 books a day but not 4 in 2 days, but still 2. Ummmm... it's hard to understand but the logic is easy.

So, I've been doing that and I must say that my reading pace has coped and I'm enjoying all my summer reads!!!! :) So far my favorite among all my summer reads is A Small Free Kiss in the Dark by Glenda Millard because it's awesome. I totally recommend it to all the readers of any genre out there because it's sooo deep and it's good. I really think it's good. Heeeeh~ Anyway, I have to say that I found Graffiti Moon written by Cath Crowley also good. Graffiti Moon because I haven't read a YA and a love story yet since the year started  (except for McEwan's Atonement which I read last Feb. It's a love story but I don't wanna classify it with Graffiti Moon) and it's quite refreshing for me, and the fact that it made me laugh lotsa times throughout reading it and even after I've read it makes it top my summer read list.

Well, so far, those are my summer champs and I resolved to read more and more and more and to avoid watching too much Korean dramas, to which I've been into at the start of the summer, these days. Watching stuff like that make me so dreamy and high schoolish all over again when I'm tryna get past that! Hehe

Apparently, whenever I'm talking/writing, I'm overusing words. Chsh! Anyways, still more than a month before summer ends and I have to make sure that I snatch the most out of this heat! Oyeeeebabes. :)

P R O C R A S T I N A T I O N

Procrastination destroys you. It snatches you out from your organized life. It gives you temporary joy and long suffering. It is a deceiver. It is a very pretty thing that is empty within, so it sucks you into it. It leads you nowhere...

Yea, I hate procrastination.

But yes, I do procrastinate. <///3 My breaking heart is in need of passion...

And I am thinking... college kids do procrastinate but they still graduate...

And the wise old man in me said, "Yes, they do graduate, but in a procrastinated date"


pro·cras·ti·nate  (pr-krst-nt, pr-)

v. pro·cras·ti·nat·ed, pro·cras·ti·nat·ing, pro·cras·ti·nates

v.intr.

To put off doing something, especially out of habitual carelessness or laziness.

v.tr.

To postpone or delay needlessly.

via thefreedictionary.com