My half blood princess

"Alexandria"

Struggling for what I can be.

     As an ABcomm student, I have to choose whether I want to pursue my writing career or to try my opportunity on advertising. This is a dillema I am currently facing. It's been my problem for the past few months and I have a hard time deciding which. Most of all my friends are going to take journalism as their elective and somewhat, I, too, wanted it.

Ever since high school, I've never dream of taking up communications as a course in college. Actually, I wanted to be a lawyer and make my family proud. And then one day, while I was sitting on a bench in the registrar's office, I saw this flyer. 

"OFFERING NEW COURSES:

MULTIMEDIA ARTS
BACHELOR OF ARTS IN COMMUNICATION"

And then out of nowhere, exactly when I was going to write "Legal Management" on my application, I erased it and then wrote "Bachelor of Arts in Communication". I don't believe in destiny or fate or whatever romantic words that will describe perfectly on why did I chose this program. Maybe because I knew I can do better in communicating with other people or maybe because I wanted to try if I can manage to be a broadcaster someday. And here I am realizing things that may or may not change my future. 

On journalism:

I want to write. I want to make a book, a novel to be specific. I want to be exactly like Dan Brown, or Stephen King or James Patterson and those famous young adult fiction writers like Cassandra Claire, John Green, David Levithian, Suzanna Collins, Veronica Roth and many more. I want to be a broadcast journalist like Karen Davila, Mel Tiangco, and Ted Failon. I want to be a feature writer in a popular magazine. 

But there are things which made me realized that maybe I have no future in journalism. My reasons are:

1. I don't even know if I have an opportunity in writing. 
2. Money is my priority. After graduating in college, I would be the breadwinner of my family. I need a lot of money to support my little brother and sister's education and even my family's expenses. And I've heard that on journalism, you have to be a passionate writer but I am not
3. I am not good in English unlike my friends Gianne, Pauline and Fae. I have a lot of grammatical errors which is not usual for a writer. 
4. In a way, writing bores me. I can't write if someone told me to write something, I have to read a lot of stories and articles before I write something.
5. 1/4 part of me wanted journalism because my friends would be there and I want to be with them so they can help in times I needed one.

And there are a lot of thoughts that arrived in my mind in this exact moment, am I fit enough to take up journalism?

On Advertising:

Welcome to  the world of advertising, the lifeblood of any newspaper. It had been my dream to become an advertising executive of the famous and well known "SUMMIT MEDIA" where the Candy Magazine, FHM, Pop Fiction books are created. Actually I have a confession to make, I really don't know what I am going to do if  I became a part of an advertising group. I know it would be very difficult and exhausting but everything will pay off after all the hard works. In the world of advertising, money is the priority. 

But somehow, there is a part of me doubting that I can do "advertising." It takes a whole lot of level before you finish an advertising as an elective. There is going late at home, there are lots of tiring works, COMRES, preferably, you have to be a superstudent. Advertising as an elective will make you crazy according to my seniors, and I, as a lazy and superbly tardy student, I can't do every paper works that needed to be done in a couple of days. I always hated paperworks because I'm not good at it. I always fail to make a good paper to submit whenever we needed to make one as a project. The least I can do is to revised everything again and again. 

But somehow, advertising might give me a preferable future. I mean, in an advertising company, there are lots of money invested, a lot of chances, and a lot of opportunities. I have a family to feed, expenses to pay, a house to build, and a future to create where everyone would want to be with me. I wanted money so badly that if someone ask me to do dangerous things like jumping outside the airplane using an umbrella and they will pay for it with a million bucks, for my family, I would do it with gratitude. I can survive I know that,but there would be just a lot of my bones damage. I'm simply implying that I needed money and those money can be found if I chose advertising. 

I know that I need to make my final decision, there is only a month left before I choose what I wanted to do. I keep silently praying that whatever or whichever I chose would help me deal with all my problems. 

I wanted to thank ms. Pauline Navarro for writing a good article and somehow inspired me to write something.  I'm still confuse and there would be times that I would say I want "journ" and there would be those times where I want "advert" as an elective. But currently, I'm trying to figure out if I can really make a good headline for my news in my assignment on Wriprin.

Intertown Basketball League 2014

"Photo ops with my idols"

Espinosa:

Cabangon:

Selfie with them: 

(sorry for the first photo, I looked like a drug addict so I edited it. This two are my idols and I am a huge fan of them so I took the opportunity to have selfie with them, here it goes)

MVP of Intertown Basketball League:

Javier - 12 (Talisay)

With the handsome player of Balete, he's not my idol actually. just wanted a photo with him:

MACUHA:

The players & me:

The most enjoying part of covering the Intertown. I had this awesome moments that I will never forget. I didn't had a chance to shake hands with them but everything's worth it. 

Photoshoot

"Alexandria"

Simple ang buhay kaya ngiti lang. So this is my sister, napapaenglish na ako, hehe. We just had a photoshoot chu chu. She doesn't want this kind of things but I forced her! #lol

Ang aking idolo sa larangan ng basketball.

"Cabangon"

The 1995 Earthquake Tragedy of Kobe, Japan

Isang kahindik hindik balahibo ang nangyaring trahedya noong taong 1995 sa Kobe, Japan. Niyanig ng magnitude 7 na lindol ang bansang Japan. Matapos ang lindol, nagkaroon ng sunog sa iba't ibang parte ng Kobe. Maraming establisyamento ang nasira, nasunog at gumuho. Isa na rito ang limbagan ng isang "daily newspaper" na Kobe Shimbun...ngunit hindi rito natatapos ang kwento. 

Ang mga dedikadong journalist ng Kobe Shimbun ay nagpatuloy sa kanilang trabaho. Pinilit nilang nilabanan ang uhaw at gutom. Nagkaroon man ng maliit at malalaking problema, hindi ito naging hadlang upang makalimbag sila ng dyaryo na magbibigay impormasyon sa lahat ng tao sa Kobe. 

Ilang bagay ang aking natutunan nang mapanuod ko at malaman ang kwento sa likod ng trahedya sa mga journalist ng Kobe Shimbun publishing. Una rito ay ang isang mahalagang dahilan kung bakit kinakailangan na ilathala ang mga di kaaya-ayang pangyayari matapos ang lindol, ito ay para sa record. Ang record na magbibigay ala-ala sa malabangungot na pangyayari na halos burahin ang buong Kobe, Japan. Ang record, isang mahalagang bagay para sa hinaharap, ang makitang muli ang nakaraan. Hindi lahat sumasang-ayon sa kasabihang past is past. Paano mo nga ba makakamtan ang hinaharap kung hindi mo titingnan ang iyong nakaraan? Ang nakaraan ang dahilan kung bakit mo nararanasan ang mga bagay sa kasalukuyan. Ipinaalala sa akin ng palabas na "Kobe Shimbun Tragedy" na may mga bagay kang dapat i-record upang malaman mong nang dahil sa iyong nakaraan, naranasan mo ang iyong kasalukuyan.

Pangalawang bagay na tumatak sa isip ko, bilang isang AB Communication student ng mataas na paaralan na De La Salle Lipa, ang pagiging journalist ay hindi lamang trabaho, ito rin ay isang uri ng serbisyo para sa tao. Sa oras na maging journalist ang isang tao, dapat ay laging handa ang puso at isip nito sa mga bagay bagay. Nararapat na tapusin ang kung anumang tungkulin at hindi dapat ipagsabahala ito. Sa palabas na iyon ko naunawaan ang serbisyo na binibigay ng isang manunulat sa dyaryo, ang pagiging balanse at pagbibigay ng tamang impormasyon, ang pagiging totoo, ang pagsisikap at kasama na rin dito ang pagbuhos ng pawis at dugo sa iyong trabaho. 

Pangatlong bagay na aking natutunan ay ang pagkamit ng kasiyahan matapos ang isang buwis buhay na gawain. Kahit na nahihirapan ka na, ang kailangan mo lang gawain ay ang ipagpatuloy ang bagay na iyon at tapusin. Hintayin ang maaring premyo mo pagkatapos ng lahat ng bagay. Hindi natatagpuan ang swerte, hinahanap ito, kaya sa bawat hirap, may kapalit na kasiyahan. Kung ang isang tao ay nasa ibaba ng kanyang buhay, na puro sakit at hirap ang nararanasan niya, dapat lang na siya ay magpasalamat dahil kapag tayo ay nasa ibaba, wala tayong maaring gawain kung hindi ang tumaas muli at magbago. 

Kung pagsasamahin itong lahat ng aking natutunan, isang bagay ang importante dito, ang maging dedikado sa kung ano man ang iyong gagawin.

Ang aking kababata at ang aking batang kapatid.

"Selfie"

Tampok sina Leona Jejean at Alexandria Jane

Dapithapon.

Nang dumating ang dapithapon, nagliwanag ang paligid at nakita ko ang kakaibang paraiso.