2008: Happy NEAL Year! LuckyNEAL ever after!
It’s been a great year for me!
I experienced the most extreme problems in my life yet I survived this year with poise and grace!
The predictions of Chinese and even the Western Zodiac
Was so true to me this 2008- SUCCESS, in spite of the worst?
Achievements wise, success was really there but the whole year’s about
COMPETITIONS- not just in academics, in student leadership but also in times of family trials, physically and financially
January- The year 2008 started with mini/classroom competitions
with some of my classmates when they started to be competitive
like Perci, Josh, Kit started to nourish their academics. As their class President,
I’m happy because most of us improved and it made me study and raised the bar.
February was one of the biggest competitions (literally) I NEVER expect to run as a candidate in the Student Council- not in my dreams! (It’s Arianne Solis who started and made my life COMPLICATED) There I’d experienced the politics, the rumors, “patutsadahan”, paninira at lahat lahat na. Totoo pa la na may mga iilang tao pa rin na gagamit ng paninira para lamang makapanlamang at tumatakbo para lamang sa titulo ng pagiging isang Student Council Officer.
But fortunately, nanaig ang katotohanan ang mga tunay, palaban at makabayang masaSANDIGAN =p
March is a super fast-pace month. It’s like two weeks of clearing up my academics, in spite of my SC Campaign, no time to review and re-organize/ proof-read and polish my 6 DEFENSE/Output based subjects in Marketing, I unexpectedly got a 1.47 GWA, my highest GWA ever in my college life!
The month of April and May is the transition of something NEW for NEAL, bigger environment, bigger network and bigger responsibility because of being a Student Council Officer. The first months of being SC is my most favorite. I enjoyed the perks and being one of the faces in the crowd but above from that‘s the pressure on WHAT I CAN DO FOR THE IABF Students. For me this month is really my happiest moment.
Making plans with my co-Sandigan colleagues, leadership trainings, Baguio City and Gateway,food tripping and many more bonding stuffs and tireless moments with the students and parents during the “card day” and enrollment and the whole summer is the super Happiest moment of my 2008 kahit ngayon ko pa lang nakilala yung ibang Student Council Officers=p
The remaining weeks of May is the peak of another academic competition, the 6th FEU IMC/Advertising Congress. The pressure and the competition different groups in the whole FEU 3rd year Mktg Management sizzled up and fortunately we’ve entered the finals in spite of biases. This is when I felt the unfair competition in the department. Idagdag pa diyan ang paghahati sa K0533
but I believe that there’s more to come on the start of the first semester and all we have to do is to excel, stand-out and shine! Lahat ng nawala may mas magandang kapalit
June- I, together with my closest of friends in k0533 was enrolled in k0541. It was a culture shock for most of my friends. The classroom competition was felt especially during recitations and super extreme in terms of personality difference, but what I learned the most is that, it’s the test of patience and professionalism the ability to adjust with these people. May mga nakakainis or hindi man kasing saya ng sa K0533, at least I know that I can stand out even I’m not in my comfort zone.
Because of this, na-stress ako kay Ma’am Fontanos!
July- the Agony in the student Council started. Naalala ko tuloy yung controversial na regrouping sa feasib! Tsk! This is probably my worst semester in college because of the attitude of some of the people in my new section. It seems that every time I go to class is a routine of agony for me.
August is a good month of at least being used with the routine life in class. It’s also the month that my mom started to feel something bad. In spite of that, this month for me is more of a NEAL as a Student Council Officer. I still enjoyed attending several leadership seminars and meetings with the other SCs and being always at the SC Office to talk with the sponsors, event organizers etc. It’s also the remaining months of being together with MOST of my closest friends. Through these I can still work productively kahit may nakakabahalang prob.
September is the peak of the competition in several marketing subjects, and some of the most significant were Green Mktg, Global Marketing and the Development of an Enterprise. Fortunately I’ve got satisfactory results except for the unjust grading we’ve got in global! This was my super frustration this month is also when my mother experienced several operations (3) in her gall bladder, kidney. This is the time when we experienced the worst family problem- it’s like almost
“akala ko kukunin na si Mama, Paano kami mabubuhay kung wala siya…” yung mga ganoong feeling. Halos lagi kaming nasa hospital na laging kinakabahan. Hinding hindi ko malilimutan yung time na natataranta na kami para makahanap ng blood na my type B- at worse is when I saw her super critical na parang wala ng pag-asa.
October, is like March, so fast pacing and every week demands a lot of tasks.
Fortunately, in spite of my frustration, we’ve entered as one of the five national finalist in StratMark, I unexpectedly passed the remaining screening of MarkProf and the grade of 1.00 in two of my subjects was granted. Masaya becaue, hindi man ako nag-super excel sa class this sem, napakaganda ng karma but the greatest competition and prize that I’ve got in life is that when we cope with our family trial. Fortunately, magagaling ang mga doctor sa FEU Hosp. Thank God! Nabunutan ako tinik at pangamba ng nakita ko ng nagsasalita si Mama ng maayos after 2 months+
November, the OJT: waking up before 4:00 AM being at the office by 7:00 having some stressful and exciting walks, The Starbucks 3x/week, fine dine tripping and supermalling on Thursdays, the start of the corporate world experience in the city of stress and glamour Makati! MarkProf Bootcamp, another series of competition, outside my comfort zone!This is one of the appetizers that sizzled and wrapped up my 2008 =p
December 2008 was a whole month of everyday celebrations for me because everything is going back to normal and for me I believe that it’s the time to feel rewarded and enjoy the perks that I’d work hard for. This is the month that I went in no less than 4 far places a day from parties, food tripping mapa-street man no fine dining, party, chikka galore with my closest friends, bonding with my cousins and even with the Jamma’s and university’s security department at maraming maraming iba pa nakasama at napasaya ko! Sa lahat ng mga stressful moments na nangyari sa akin, hindi ako makapaniwala na magiging maganda ang pagtatapos ng buong taon para sa amin.
Doon ko nafeel na yung mga problema sa buhay parang ulan lang yan. Yung maiitim na ulap dadaan pero nasa taas lagi at hindi mawawala si Haring araw! Sa lahatng mga napagdaana ko this 2008, tumino ako, nagging mas matatag at higit sa lahat naramdaman ko na hindi ako napabayaan ni God dahil sobra pa sa inaasahan ko yung ibinigay niya.
Malakas na si Mama
Mahahabol ko pa naman yung Midterm ko kaya OK lang
Hindi ko naramdaman yung financial problem pero alam kong pag-graduate ko,
mararamdaman ko na yun pero ayos lang, kakayanin ko lahat dahil alam kong hindi ako pababayaan ni God and I know that all these hardships will be paid for.
This is the year that I become
Resilient, matured enough, more confident and God fearing
Hindi man kami kasing yaman ng dati (financially)
Pero mas narealize naming ang tunay na halaga ng buhay.
Pero sa experience ko ngayong taon, masasabi ko na hindi ito matutumbasan ng kahit ano at hinding hindi ko ipagpapalit ang lahat ng ito =p
kung may mas mabibigat pang problemang darating ngayong 2009
sabi pa rin ng horoscope “katamtamang suerte pa rin ang mga nasa year of the snake and it’s an Aquarian year!”
I’ll standout and shine this 2009!
(This article is just a draft and still subject for improvement)
