Road Trip To Ilocos

Ilocos is crossed off my list of places to check out after I got to run an errand to Nueva Vizcaya, Tarlac, Pangasinan, and finally Vigan. Three days of travel had kinda bored me but the sights along the journey had been very kind for a treat. 

Carangalan, Nueva Ecija (ooh, if I  am not too sleepy to remember)

Banaoang Bridge, Ilocos Sur

Family on Vigan stroll.

A welcoming sight to San Fernando, La Union.

Bell Tower 1951, Ilocos.

Ilocos' infamous empanada.

Night at Calle Crisologo.

10 THINGS YOU HATE ABOUT SCHOOL

1.    Waking up early. Especially when it's freaking cold outside and all you could wish is for the night to extend so you could succumb in the warmth of your sheets. Or the booze did really get you and standing up in the moment is the last thing you would do...

2.    Running out of clothes. So your class is 7am and you woke up 6:50 and hastily get to your closet only to find out your ragged jeans is at the laundry together with all your fave stuff. Just reverse that shirt kiddo!

3.    ID misfortune. My university having no gates around its perimeter is very lax when it comes to ‘No ID No Entry’ policy. I had more than enough of this in high school though. I live 10km from school and forgetting your ID at the last minute means you better be absent. Darn!

4.    Surprise quizzes. Because you know too well how you will suck at it because you trade study with a gulp session.

5.    A greedy classmate. Those people who keep their notes to their own. Those people who do not share assignments. Those people who don’t tell there's a quiz. Geez, I could go on forever at this.

6.    Movie review. Remember those days when you walked inside the classroom and read the instruction on the board: Proceed to blah, blah, blah, watch blah, blah, blah, and pass your movie review next meeting. Like really?

7.    Lazy instructors. Those teachers who come to class late and leave early. Those who are best at giving students gazillion of reports and give no inputs. Those who only show up twice or thrice in a semester and ask you to pass assignments via email.

8.    Killer instructors. Those who are too good at their field of endeavour. Too good that you can't please them at all. And in a class of 30, only 5 will pass or worst none.

9.    Repeating the same killer professor. Not again!

110. Thesis. Here’s the deal. Group: Too many heads, too few hands. Individual: One head, two hands with self as the enemy. Enough said.

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Brewing Boredom

Soliloquy [Hotel Room Rants]

If only I got one interesting story to tell. Something that can make you stick around for another sec. Something that could make you realize that I am of worth to hear out. But I have nothing but rants about the maladies life offered. Could I even be more thankful?

Hotel rooms have been my sanctuary these days. The solitude it inflicts, the ‘me’ moment it brings. Hearing my own breathing is but lovely. Green Day is telling me, ‘One 21 gun lay down your arms give up the fight’, on the other side. I do not know what he is trying to convey. Music hardly penetrates the core of my being lately.

There’s beer on the fridge but I do not know how in the world will I get it open. Lots of peanuts on my side but it’s starting to dawn into me why in the hell do I have a dozen of this rounded sweet nuts when I do not eat such. Isn’t it a sarcastic humour to either have things you still have to reckon the purpose or to have things you have but you hate? But such is life they say. If not irony, surprises. And I am bored so I rant about such.

And here goes that rectangular robot screaming like hell for me to pick up. Really, I have nothing against phones. The very invention of it took communication to a very different level. Communication has never been this easy, handy, convenient, and all the adjectives that connotes it. But it also is the very reason why people over communicate and get misunderstood.

20:09 11/24/14