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Had a weird dream last night. There was some sort of event happening in the Kong Hua gym and Rap  was there, entertaining some Taiwanese people. It was raining hard (I think a callback to that scene in Pride and Prejudice , which I watched yesterday), and when I went outside the premises of the school, the beach was suddenly there. More scary is that from the beach, I was standing before this massive wave that towered over the whole city. It gets weirder: The ocean was perfectly still, as if someone had hit pause on the world, and the towering wave was actually not wave-shaped but a perfect 3D oblong. And there was lightning inside. Real-life physics obviously do not apply in dreams. Anyway, there was a group of people floating next to the wave, a bunch of tourists who were sticking their hands into the suspended lightning-water oblong and playing with the lightning inside it, much as one would play with a plasma ball. On the ground was a guy in black, coaching them on how to to...

Oh no. Looks like I'm beginning to fall short on my promise to update regularly. I am regressing into a state of blogging coma. But as much as I'd like to return to the regularity of my blogging back in first year, I guess that I've realized since then that there actually are far more important things on this earth than my blog. Like thesis. Or a social life. Or white chocolate macadamia cookies. Mmm. Anyway, I'll make this quick since it's 12 AM now and I have made an appointment with Rap to go jogging at 6. Ugh. Last Friday was ARSAfest (AKA Sinulog in Ateneo)! A much-needed break from all the work we had to do that week. And yes, that is water I'm holding. Leo vlogged about the party  here . Last Saturday after our Physio exams, Anton, Rap, and I drove to the Yuchengco Museum in Makati to pick up some photos from Jacob Maentz , a photographer dedicated to documenting the lives of indigenous peoples in the Philippines. He's a really nice p...

I came in late for the first of two quizzes in my Philosophy class today. I love the class (we talked about the possible reasons why evil exists in the world) but I hate that it's so damn early! Eh. Sir Tolentino makes it worthwhile, anyway. Then as soon as the bell rang, Rap, Bel, and I made a mad dash for his car. At 9:00 AM, the traffic going from Ateneo to ASMPH was not so bad, and the drive there took only about 20 minutes. Upon arriving at my top choice of med school, I expected some wave of emotion to wash over me as I eyed that iconic red brick facade. I don't know what I was waiting for, perhaps some sort of ache in the pit of my heart, an ache that symbolized not congenital heart disease but an intense longing to be accepted into this school of schools. There was nothing though. Rushing through the scorching hot parking lot and into the cool shade of the lobby, my heart was steady as a rock. The wait for my turn took about forty minutes. When finally my number ...

I have no picture to show for today so here is an old picture of a doodle of a bear. In a space suit. My new year's resolution is to write some more, even if it means senseless and boring stuff that nobody wants to read. Like this. The thing is that I want a future version of me to be able to read this post and remember how she was back when she was 20, standing on the brink of her college life and looking down into the vast unknown that is Everything that Comes After Graduation. I mean yes, I know that med school comes after graduation. But I also want to go on an exchange, maybe even put off med school for a year just to do so. Partially I want to work too. Return to Cagayan de Oro, immerse myself in a menial job like doing inventory for my uncle's hardware store, or taking orders for my lola's karinderia. I don't know. Well whatever it is, I'm certainly not going to decide tonight. It seems like the rest of my life right now hinges on the results of...