Featured Friend 4 - Birthday Boy

Today, September 20, this person in the picture was born. Meet Jon Vincent Gonzaga or JV in short. Yes, you guessed it right! Today is his birthday and since today is his special day I am featuring him as part of my featured friends series. He was my high school batchamte and we became friends when we were in our second year in high school. He was a free spirited person. He is this person that has this unmatched energy in his body! He always cracks jokes and he does silly things. 

I remember one time when we were having fun and hanging out at a coffee shop with our other friends I remember him asking how to smile when someone is taking his picture. I thought it was weird because I thought that smiling was natural for every person and take note even babies smile! So when he asked me that question I was dumb founded and I don't know what to say and I just laughed. There was also an instance when we both got into this huge argument. He told me things that are unpleasant to be heard, like swear words. He said bad words towards me and I did the same because I won't go down without a fight :)). So there we were exchanging bad words and swearing and from that day on until the end of our second year we didn't talk to each other and we didn't want to meet each other in the hallway when we were walking with our friends. 

It took as a year to settle what had happened between us. I remembered him apologizing to me and crying. Because I told him that when we had that argument his other friends also initiated a fight with me. He was really sorry then and I was shocked when he apologized and he was crying in front of me. It was during that night when we were in our 3rd year that we became good friends again and we told each other that no matter what happens we will not do stupid things again to hurt each other. 

At present, we are both studying at the same university. We are still friends and we still manage to talk to each other even with the differences in our schedules. He is still the same person that we all know. He still does silly stuffs and he still got this energy that every child possesses. Since today is your birthday, I wish you all the best and success in all your endeavors. Again, Happy birthday jv, happy birthday jv, happy birthday...happy birthday...HAPPY BIRTHDAY JV! 

Featured Friend 3 - Little Friend

Meet my little friend Kalene. Are you wondering why I call her little friend? Well you don't have to wonder anymore because I'll tell you exactly why she is called as the little friend. We call her little friend simply because she is not tall, in other words she is vertically challenged (HAHAHA) kidding aside even though she is not tall like my other friends her personality and her weirdness is as tall as the highest building around campus. 

I met Kalene during our high school years. She was my classmate when we were in our first year and we became friends from that year onward. Before she was really quiet and I found her weird because she always sticks with her elementary friends. I also thought that she does not speak and that she was a mute. I also remember that we called her a bully. It was during our second year in high school during our biology class. One of our classmate answered incorrectly. Then everyone laughed but Kalene laughed the loudest and pointed her finger towards our classmate. Our classmate looked at her sat on his seat and cried. Then we called her bully because that classmate of ours is 6 feet tall and yet she made him cry! Amazing right? . 

We are now in our college year and she did not grow taller :)). She is still the same with a little exception because lately we discovered that she talks a lot! She can talk to anyone with several topics all at the same time. She never gets confused but we do. She can talk and talk and then suddenly change the topic and return to her previous topic and then jump into a new topic. I wonder if she is still in the right state of mind. I wonder if her thoughts are still organized. By the way, last semester she joined an organization and she was extremely happy now with her new found friends, but she never fails to meet us and join our conversations and hang out with us. 

Don't be fooled by her appearance. She may be small but she can make the tallest person cry and she can punch really hard :))) 

Zoology 11 @ Anilao, Batangas

September 3, 2011 was the date that our class in Zoology 11 went to Anilao, Batangas. Zoology 11 is one of the subjects that we aspiring veterinarians must take before we could go to our vet proper. We went to Anilao to observe different marine life forms. We went snorkeling and it was really fun. At the beginning when we went into the ocean it was difficult but as the time goes by we enjoyed every second of it. There are so many fish and so many corals and other marine organisms! I even saw nemo :))

First part of the trip was spent for briefing us on what to observe and what to do. Half of the time of our stay at the resort was devoted for looking for certain kinds of organisms and the other half was used for our personal enjoyment. By the way, the food at the resort was extremely delicious and it was raining sea foods during lunch! HAHAHA

Below are some underwater pictures @ DIVE 7000 Resort.

Here are some pictures the resort and of us having fun :) :

The trip was tiresome but it was uber fun at the same time. We enjoyed our stay at the resort eventhough after we went snorkeling we had so many scratches and cuts because of the corals. Still it was worthwhile. 

It's time to fight!

Everything just seems out of place. I don't know why and I don't know how things happened this way. I feel suddenly tired of everything. I feel that I just want to rest and relax and stop thinking of things. I want to have some time to reflect on things. I was never like this before and I never felt this depressed ever. Being depress really sucks and I am now having a hard time coping up with all the stress that my academic load is giving me. It sucks to be here in the position where I am right now. Sometimes I do want to give up, but then when I think about all the things that I had been through I feel that I can still overcome this hurdle in my life. I do believe that I can make it through alive but at the end of the day after everything has been done I still see myself stuck in the same position. I tried and I can honestly say that I exerted a great amount of effort to move from this situation towards the next, but here I am not progressing and not moving forward any further.

They say that every set back in life is just a challenge that we need to overcome. I do think that they are right. I think that there is a reason why I am experiencing it right now. I know that it will teach me something and it will make me realize things. There are things that are taught to you in a hard way and I think that this is the lesson that  life wants me to learn. I admit that I don't know a lot of things and I am still in the process of learning and acquiring knowledge in life. There are still more questions to be answered, more exams to take and more failures to make. Life is not about being perfect. Life is about making mistakes and learning from them. You may had loved someone and had been hurt after. You may had been stabbed in the back by your friend and got through with it or you just might had a really bad score in an exam and you managed to still laugh about it. Life is unpredictable and life gives you a lot of crap. This might be the reason why I feel tired. I can't handle my life properly and I think that I am not going with the flow of life but against it.

Now I just need to find the motivation for me to go through all of this. I need to motivate myself and find the drive to help me get out of this state. I need to hold on to the person who believes that I can overcome all of this and the person who opposes what others think about me. I need to hold on to the faith that was given to me and I need not to fail the person who believes in my abilities. You could be my motivation because you are the only one who believes in me. You could be the one to help me in what I am going through and I wish that as time goes by you will still be here still believing in me and never failing to encourage me through all the crap that life gives me. I hope and pray that when I wake up each day I will still find you there helping me to make it through the day and make me believe to believe in myself that I can do it and to defy those people who said that I can't do it. I will do my best because you believed in me and I will show those people that they are wrong about me. It is time to wake up from this slumber and time to fight.