No, I did not just keysmash to create a post title. Intro now, explanation later. I believe 2011 is on its way to victory in becoming my most active year in the blogosphere. It's already the end of October and I haven't even wrote half of what I did last year. I don't know, did I become less introspective, or probably just less productive?
I've been taking less and less photos too. I remember having over 21 albums back in June; and now, only having 5 for September, 2 for October. Nicky's been going sunbathing in my room because life has just so much to throw at me. Not that I'm complaining, though. It's just that, even my sembreak has gone way too busier than expected that rest was just synonymous to being at home (but still doing work.)
Gates have been opening wide for me to enter; and God has been leading me to several things I can only imagine back in the day when I was the only hero and struggles were the sole feature of the plot. I haven't been journaling lately, and it's hard, really, to remember all these things; but here's my rather desperate attempt, just to avoid anything getting lost in the process of making new memories. (I've been losing touch too lately, haven't I?)
Well, I can't find the "journal entry" to this one wherein I described my oh-so-glorious first time to be inside UP Diliman's campus. It was love at first sight, but it could've been more poetic here had I not misplaced my incomplete dazzled account on what happened. Anyway, I was given the immense privilege of being part of the 9th National Youth Congress in UP-D. It's an Economics forum and I got to meet the likes of Solita Monsod and other great economists-in-the-making! Econ is really the subject that just seems to be my most natural. It's not something I'm so passionate about like English; but it's just like History - even if I don't declare my love, I know it's still one of the simplest and most powerful that will override my future more than English or Philosophy.
Anyway, there was a Quiz Bee and we lost. But accepting the loss was something so different that I couldn't believe myself either. Maybe because I'm with a team, or maybe because I'm so used to losing (what is this I am laughing). But whatever the reason is, I think what's behind all this is that I'm with God; and there was nothing more significant in that experience than that. I'm thankful more than regretful, and I wish I could face the next Goliath with the same perspective.
My battle against procrastination is going fairly well.(Okay, I just typed that after abandoning this post for days... how ironic life is) But school-related procrastination IS slowly being whisked away from my system. I just happen to be facing an impending doom that even non-procrastination won't help so I'm just taking my time to be happy until it comes to pass. I'll be practicing later so that really won't last. Am I just not making sense or what?
It's NaNoWriMo time. I'm on my second year of /formally/ joining, having lurked on the site for years, thinking that it's outrageously impossible to write a novel in a month; but as Erin Morgenstern, my current obsession of an author (more of that later), said; you don't have a novel at the end of November. You have a draft. And that was enough. Last year I was part of their Young Writers' Program so we wouldn't have to reach 50,000. I only reached my goal - 10,000; but that was enough, I believe, for me to win and to join again; and possibly to win again if life be kind enough to spare me a few hours to write everyday. I'll try something new this time. No personal thingamajigs. A historical romantic fantasy (can I even do this) will be my NaNo venture.
Zdravstvujtye is a formal hello in Russian. And yes, I know how to pronounce it. It's Jerah-stuvuh-yutehy. Thank you, Google. Haha! But this is just a product of my obsession with Russia. Ever since Anastasia from my childhood and Aleph (which I didn't like much, but made me love Russia anyway), I've been drawn to the country so much that I actually considered buying a house in Vladivostok one day. Oh, my dreams. If things go as planned, I'll be joining the World Youth Day in 2016 in London, being there for two weeks and immersing myself in a spiritual sojourn then proceed to Russia via train. Then, I'll take the Trans-Siberian Railway, which will be longest two weeks of my life, going down at around 4 stations so I can rest - making up one of the best months of my life. In God's Will, I wish I'd be able to.
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