Christmas Break

Well, yeah, the second trimester's exams are officially over. No worries of studying for two weeks, thanks to the Christmas Break. I kind of feel sad that I can't afford to buy my classmates some gifts for the Christmas Party, even if I have gifts for the teachers. Anything that I would give during Christmas Parties would never come from me. In actuality, they come from my grandmother who feels that the teachers should get presents.

Gifts should be given from the heart and you shouldn't be forced to give one. So yes, starting now, I would give gifts during Christmas Parties and say that it's from my grandmother. Oh God, I'm starting to remember last school year's batch of gifts. I ended up giving my female teachers pajamas along with panties. *shrug*

Things you should do before Christmas Parties:

#1 You should save money for your classmates' gifts if you have the heart to give them some.

#2 You should be the one to pick the gifts that you would give. This one is something that I fail to do all the time. You know those exchange gift traditions they have in school? Yeah, I picked someone who wanted a stuffed animal. I asked my grandmother, yet again, to buy one worth 300 pesos. She came back with two, cheap stuffed dogs. I swear, those two combined didn't even reach the 300 pesos quota. This would damage my reputation so badly. -__-

Commuting

I've been doubting my commuting skills and knowledge about directions for over 5 years now. My friends have been commuting to get to each others' places and I haven't. I won't go out unless they're willing to pick me up and escort me back to my house. Well, that was the situation last year. Now, things have been starting to go well for me. I could ride tricycles at ease. Well, it's true that I'm not scared of riding tricycles alone anymore, but I find it hard trying to get one! I've yet to master the art of calling tricycle drivers.

1. Raise your dominant hand, giving a 'come over here' gesture.

2. Make sure you're doing the gesture to the CORRECT tricycle - they should be going in the correct direction.

3. Remember the name of the place where you're supposed to go!

PROBLEM #1: Which way is back home?

PROBLEM #2: What should I do if the tricycle drops me at an unknown spot and says "I gotta go, don't pay me." <-- actually happened and I, obviously, panicked. Good thing there was another tricycle which noticed me BUT he ALSO dropped me at another unknown spot which led to me panicking yet again. Well, the third time's a charm when another tricycle approached me while I was in the midst of panicking.

"Where to, boy?"

I Dream Of Sundaes

Meh, our exams are only a day away and I'm not even reviewing one bit. I'll just hope for good grades and do exactly the opposite of the "Do your best and God would do the rest" saying. All I've done for the past few days are procrastinating and sleeping. I'm not even sure about this grammar thing anymore. Oh God, talk about obsession. XD

Last week, I went to this hydro-massage place. It's like a huge pool with lots of massage facilities and there are about four slots per massage type. There were these extremely huge ladies that were hogging the shower-type massage. It took a while for us to try it. I don't know how these massage things improve your metabolism and crap but I still tried it. XD After all that water pressure up my ass, I felt somehow less hungry at times. I'm seriously eating less now. I know, miracles could happen. lol

Moving health topics aside, there has been a small thing going on between my batchmate's brother and the 3rd year batch. Based from the information I acquired, they say that he's been randomly adding students from the 3rd year batch to his YM list and talking to them with weird topics. Well, it's a good thing that I haven't been added. I wouldn't want to talk to that guy. XD

So yeah, school is becoming boring and repetitive. This is all I could right about and as I usually write at the end of my entries, 'til next time! XD

Entrepreneurial + Drama

I thought that it would be a failure, but I guess you can't call 50% profit that! Our bestseller was our white-sauce pasta made by my grandmother. We were having trouble because of the price and the amount of people we could 'supposedly' serve but all was well. We even got amazing comments like "I love your pasta, it's the bomb!" We had a lot of fun serving the other students and sometimes even forcing teachers to buy. I think that teachers are encouraged to buy from students though.

A lot of things happened during that day - and by things, I meant feuds. I hate it when people fight. I mean, it's almost Christmas and this thing comes up. As far as I know, one of the essences of Christmas is love and this feud doesn't show any. If I were to give advice, I would obviously say talk about it and get it over with. This, of course, would be hard to achieve because of the awkwardness of approaching someone you don't have a nice background with. When people say that we need to talk, some or actually most perceive it as something unpleasant but it wouldn't be if you didn't want it to.

I promised myself to never again be part of high school drama but in the end, I realized that this 'high school drama' is one hard thing to avoid.

Requirements

Okay, I've totally quitted Perfect World. It takes too much from me - like time and money, all for just virtual things and temporary satisfaction. Wait, scratch that. Everything in this world is temporary, as believed in my religion but I don't want to go on with such a topic. LOL

Anyway, not being able to have spare time because of the loads of schoolwork the teachers have dumped on us has made me realize that I could complete such tasks if only I ignored distractions - television, surfing the web, games. I've been to a couple of my classmates' homes for practices for various presentations, but we only got serious by the time that the presentation was only one to two days away. Those practices made me realize what a wonderful game Dead Or Alive is! XD I know that wasn't the perfect sentence to write, but yes, I absolutely adore Dead Or Alive especially the characters, if you know what I mean. XD Yes, I just wanted to write about that even if it totally contradicted my previous statements about ignoring distractions.

Putting that game aside, I found real life as something better than online games. Yes, there's still that want to become an online game celebrity inside me, but that'll have to wait. I feel the need to increase my grades and school performance because of the hard to please people that are currently in charge of my life.

Moving on to other school issues, our entrepreneurial activities are coming up. It's two days away but we haven't even shopped for our supplies or even talked about the plans for our selling venue. Today's the first day for the entrepreneurial activities and it's a good thing that the seniors did it first. We could steal some of their business tactics or as a better way of saying it, we could learn from our experienced seniors. XD I feel that something wrong would happen though. Maybe it's because of the soy sauce from one of the seniors' products, gyoza, spilling all over me during recess.