First Sem

As I listen to the Journey classic Don't Stop Believing, I remember the day when dad introduced me to this marvelous band. This song may have been my theme song for this hell-of-a-ride semester. I just kept on believing that everything will just work out fine for me if I work harder.

Time flew by so fast. But there were moments wherein time flew so slow, too. I'm at the brink of becoming a professional engineer already and I am not about to give up. Giving up crossed my mind a lot of times this semester, though.

Everything's messed up, yeah. For one reason, I still don't know what my grade is for the Steel Design course. It's really giving me the pressure. I can't think right. Wanna know why? There are moments wherein I feel that I passed it and a few moments more where I feel that I failed. So it's kinda yin and yang, good and evil, light and dark. It mixes me up to the point that I sometimes get paranoid. I mean I just wanna know my grade, for Pete's sake!

Anyway, I'm thankful to God that I've been put in this place. It was his grace that saved me not by my own good works. I did my part, yes, I studied hard, I practiced well, and I burned my butt from learning what needs to be learned. But in every undertaking, I let Him take over. I learned this from Sharie. She said to me once that during her exams, she let God answer them. I did that, too. And it is for this reason that I am here in my present state right now.

At the very start of this semester, I carefully pasted one thing in my mind - EXCELLENCE. I started imagining the number 1. I planned to paste all forms of the number 1 in my room. Fortunately, I didn't because the house was renovated. Not only am I blessed in my academics, God has been giving my family a whole lot of gifts even before Christmas. My sister passed all of her subjects this semester and she has 6 more units left for the second semester. And she is also one of the officers of the entire Political Science society. My parents are loving each other more than I've ever seen them love each other. I mean, I've come to envy them. Someday, I'm gonna get my own wife and love her like how dad loved mom. Because of this enormous love overflowing in the family, God gave us a new car. It's an AUV from Toyata- an Innova. And of course, li'l bro is living and loving his life as a seminarian.

Everything has been set up pretty nicely. God has opened his gates of blessings upon this family and we are very grateful for it. I also had my a girlfriend this semester. September 18, 2009, Friday, at around 9 in the evening. Ha, ha, ha.

My heart is just so happy right now. It has been a wonderful ride!