Letter

Dear Mr. Decena,

How are you? Isn’t it funny that we crossed paths again in an unlikely place? Well I sure wasn’t expecting it, after trying to get your attention hesitantly and abandoning the attempt just because it’s going to turn out awkward and embarrassing. Embarrassing you may ask? Well it’s simply because I forgot your first name and only remembered your last name. That explains why I addressed this to ‘Mr. Decena’ rather than your first name, which is what I would normally do. So yeah, I hope you forgive me for forgetting; you looked like you forgot my name as well, and I’m cool with it. I’d like to thank you though for remembering our friendship and the short but meaningful time we had together in the review center. I am really looking forward to being friends and co-students here with you in the university.

Your friend,

David

P.S. Kudos to you for passing the UPCAT!

Narrative

In the Deeps: for the First Time

I love our pool. It is the perfect place to unwind and to escape reality amongst the waves. Currently, it serves the purpose of being my exercise grounds where I do my lapping to keep myself fit and to relieve myself of stress. I can’t help but remember the time I first learned how to swim.

You see, our pool is the kind where the middle area is deeper than the ones at the sides. When I was a kid, the shallow parts were mine to command; my fortress held strongly in these parts, while the enemy was lurking in the deeps. I could easily float around and not cross boundaries; anyways the idea of being alone in an unfamiliar, hostile environment petrified me.

Little did I know that my peaceful days were drawing to an end. My father, who of all people I least expected, was about to betray me. He called me and I hurriedly trotted to him like any young boy should. Next thing I know, he caught me off guard and threw me to the clutches of the enemy! For a second I was flying in mid air until I plummeted down right at the middle of the pool. What transpired after this wasn’t all too clear to me but what I know is, pure instinct took over my entire body. This was actually pretty neat – my muscles were the ones doing the work for me. Without my mind’s direction, my body did everything it could to get myself out of danger.

Upon reaching safety, my mind was completely blank yet I felt relieved. I wasn’t even thinking of the hapless encounter with my father. It was all about ‘now I am safe, I made it out’. Moments after, I took a deep breath and then started searching for my missing swimming trunks.

Revival

Wow. I never thought I'm going to open this blog again, especially since this whole thing was just for a silly school requirement back in high school. Now, I have to post some articles I wrote for Eng 1 (To the future me: this is your first English class 1st year 1st sem in UP) and I've decided to just use this one. Although the blog is named this-is-for-cs ('cs' stands for computer science), it will have to serve the purpose as being for English as well. Anyways, it was nice to actually read some of the original posts. It feels really nice to reminisce and get back to the old days of high school. I also find observing the way I wrote and thought back then interesting. It's kinda like one of those things that nobody talks about or openly appreciate but they're really something worth your appreciation.

Hello blogger, old friend. It's been a while. :)

Our night-out last night

Yesterday my old band mates and I went to practice some songs back in the old studio we used to play in. It feels good to actually play with them once again, despite the rough past we have had. They have canged a lot, in the sense of their musical capabilities. In other words, I've noticed that they have gotten better, and our sound and harmony just got better as well. I'm not sure though if I'm officially back in the band, so far as I'm aware of, we're only playing together for the fair.

I had a great time last night. I really enjoyed myself together with them. After practice we went to the nearby mini mall toget something to eat. We stayed there for a while and just to sit down and reminisce about each other's experiences in school and in life. We also talked about our batchmates and I'm really surprise of how much I didn't know about them. There were so many stuff about different people that I never thought could be possible. It's nice how surprises just come out and stare at you right in the eye.

I'm looking forward to go out with them again. I'm sure we will, since we still have to patch up some of the songs we're going to play on the battle of the bands. I can't wait. :D

5 days of no classes

I enjoyed myself in the 5 days of no classes. The highlight of my break was probably the day we played dota in trinoma. It was team magnesium against team service (marwin's busmates including himself). We won that match, and it was best 2 out of 3. We won two games straight. After that, we just played 3 more games with random teamings. It was really fun, and no one went home empty-handed. That was probably my best dota there at trinoma, with my real friends. I hope other fun matches would soon come.

Too much hw >,<

Man we got so much hw over the weekend. We've got math, chem, eng, ss, str, and bio long test to do over the weekend. I can barely breathe with that much work to do. Plus, I have to get my grades up cause I went down severely this quarter. I went from 1.32 to 1.4 something, since our bio grades are not yet done. Man, I hate having to do so much hw. sigh.

Birthday

Wow I just finished with the filipino poems. I'm proud of my work; I didn't actually expect I would be able to come up with something very simple yet very striking, especially the way how I ended the poem, with those final strong words.

I'm about to go to bed now, since there is school tom and to top it all up there's a flag ceremony tom. I promise myself I wouldn't be late for tomorrow's flag cem.

I cant believe that I'm staying up late on my birthday again, just like the last 2 years. I was doing school work also when I stayed up this late two birthdays ago and I can't believe I'm doing the same thing again. I'm really sleepy now and I'm just glad I'm done with my work. Though I still have a socsci quiz to study for, but it's actually crammable.

Happy Birthday to Carl and Josh as well. :)