Was it a BIG BIG Week

Another week had passed but I feel like I have come across another year until today. My last week was really loaded, of fun and work, and I could not just let it pass without putting it to my record. After all, most of it are worth reminiscing.

3 Dec
We started our hands-on preparation for the upcoming Philippine National Skills Competition hosted by our school. It was a Saturday, our butts should be resting, but we were just so willing to do the job. Maybe because we missed doing it. MITc has been organizing and hosting events, and this one is kind of a BIG event for this year. In fact I considered it as our BIGGEST event, not to mention the reality that we were only 6 and we had to move like a hundred PCs and rearrange it for the competition. Our BIG BIG 'thank you' to our SAs, janitors, and other students who happened to be just loitering in the lobby and helped us out for that matter. We planned to work then til midnight or til we finish everything, and we thought we could end the day wasted but accomplished and we did actually, even if a BIG monster sneaked out and gave us a big throw of her authority which, by the way, I believed she put way beyond the top of her horrid head. Now I don't want to elaborate on that. Just a waste of time. And so it was midnight and we just put our chagrin to our blissful dinner at North Park and coffee at Starbucks 6750 til 2ish.

5 Dec
The day before the BIG event. I went half day to office because I alloted my morning to finally get my non-pro driver's license in San Juan. And that's one BIG accomplishment for me. I was with my dad (thank God I was with him) for everything was pressed so quickly, and I mean almost everything. :)

Then in the afternoon I joined our group and set-up everything for the next day. We didn't have enough workforce so all of us had been working so multitaskingly. Was it another BIG accomplishment for us. We were able to make the network in our lecture room run. hehehe. I know that would be a piece of cake for network guys but that's precisely my point, it wasn't our forte but nevertheless we made it. And take note, we were the ones who crimped some network cables. hehehe. It was 4ish of Dec 6 when we all have gone home, and the event is at 8am.

6-8 Dec
The event proper. First day was kind of toxic because it was the first time that everything we set-up was used, the network, the printers, the PCs and all. It was past lunch when all things were stabilized. And we had dress codes for the 3-day event! Blue, red, and green, respectively. Those three days were really so tiring because we always went home late. We couldn't leave until the organizers were done with their thing. And on the last day, or night I should say, after we put everything back to normal and all, we decided to call a celebration! We went to Music 21 and sing til dawn!

Yeah, that's the kind of energy worth missing with my officemates. We actually considered the rest of our preparation as our bonding moments. While we were cimpring cables, pulling tables, and all, we had enough time to update ourselves, clarify things, and put it back to almost on a normal state. How I treasured those days.

9 Dec
After office, my 2 friends and I went to SM Makati to just sort of relax ourselves. I actually get relaxed when I'm in the mall. hehehe. After our dinner, we tried catching up with the last full show of Just Like Heaven in G4. We were like 10 mins late though. And I thought I fell in love with it. I don't know. Maybe I'm kind of emotional lately that's why I find it that way.

10 Dec
Another BIG day for me! Finally, I get rid of 'Catcher in the Rye'! For whatever reason, everytime I read each chapter of that book, I feel like I'm in emotional and spiritual turmoil, because the book's about that. It really tests the reader's human behavior. It's kind of flat though and the highlights just surfaced almost at the latter part but there's a lot of lessons to learn.


It was about 2ish when we went to Paco Park for an outreach program initiated by Management Society of MITc (MSM), a stud org. I decided to join their charity because it's actually my first time to do it and I told myself to make the most of my time for this year. And we really enjoyed it a lot. There were about 20 kids and it's so nice to with them. You really wouldn't know how much you can make them happy even in the smallest and oldest stuff you had until you give it to them. It was an awesome experience. You laugh with them, eat with them, play with them, shout with them. Sometimes you couldn't even help but to do what they want you to do, just to make them happy. It was raining though but it didn't mess up the program that much. (More pictures at http://www.flickr.com/photos/delpoy/)

After that, almost 6ish, Ms. Marianne A. (MSM Adviser), Reggie, Ella, Pym, Sixto and Kuya Rogie went to Eva Marie in Makati Ave to have dinner and a couple of beer. At first we were just chit chatting and singing until we noticed that it's past 9pm. It's Pinoy Big Brother Big Night! So we watched it there until midnight. Boy, was it so so BIG! I mean the PBB. It's really phenomenal. It gave reality tv show a different perspective. Or should I say, that's the real reality-based tv show. It's one of the grandest shows I've ever seen on TV. And I bet even the Kapusos have dialed to PBB Big Night.

Right after PBB, we went home and had a sound sleep. I woke up almost 12 noon of Sunday.