College: Another step in my mundane life

Sure I have read quite a lot of "college tips" around the internet and I've also read most, if not all, of the "UST Freshmen tips" my future schoolmates have posted online, but I still feel scared and honestly, nervous on being a college student.

First of all, college is a whole new thing. You get to meet different kinds of people from different parts of the country. Unlike in high school, you get to be more free..  free in your time, schedule and whatnot. It's all about being independent and being 'out there' or feeling the quote unquote real life (do you guys get where I'm going at this?) anyway it's not like those are bad things but they scare me because all those are kind of out of my comfort zone or what I've been used to living for the past 16 years. 

Second, college life would most likely decide our future. Our performance in college would affect our forthcoming careers or it's just me? 

Third, I'm going to commute from Marikina to freaking Espana, Manila! The farthest I've commuted alone is up until Katipunan. Manila is way too far not to mention dangerous for me. Idk, that scares me above all.

So basically, I just want to share my sentiments on how excited (as much as I want to say excited, it's actually the opposite) jittery I am to this next step in my ever so mundane life. Although another part inside of me is agitated to start off college since I want to do a lot once I get there e.g join fun orgs, attend lots of events, meet new people and of course learn more.. Adjustments would have to be made and I can only hope for the best as it is yet to happen :) yet, meaning near.. and when I say near, I mean very near! less than a week's time now. 

I wonder how the royal and pontifical University of Sto.Tomas would welcome me. Will I prove to be a good Thomasian? Will my 4-5 years of stay in UST be filled with abundant and beautiful memories just as how my high school have been? Anyhow, what I really need to be doing is to relax. 

Summer's last rays

As they say, pictures are worth a thousand words, so I might as well just post some photos :D and since I'm still on a vacation hangover I'm too lazy to blog in words. This is Boracay yet again. just been there last year and boy it's still the same. haha

oha! fish-eye =)))

 This was a very unplanned trip. We decided we're going just a day before we actually did ;) talk about being very random. And since flights need to be booked weeks ahead there are no more choice but to take a ferry. At first I was hesitant to go aboard a ship but upon seeing the very accommodating and actually really comfortable place my opinion turned otherwise.

hafta say, ship food are better than airport food :))

this was right before sunrise. capturing this, I feel like a pro! not B-)

A reminder for everyone :)

got pancakes for breakfast! this is my idea of life!! 

Upon arriving we right away headed off to the famous Jonah's shakes. tried Avocado milk shake, Mango banana and Strawberry banana. All were good, they weren't famous for nothing :)

FOOD is one thing you'll never get tired of at Boracay.
 I especially love the grills and fresh out of the water seafood served just by the shore.

cheapest gelato! 100 for 2 scoops already, not bad.

henna tattoo

my sister's tattoo

A 4day & 3 night trip to this paradise is worth it.. escaping the hustle and bustle of the city's busy streets. Though I haven't tried any new water sports which I am looking forward every summer, the relaxation and appeasing ambiance of Boracay (on certain parts of the day) actually appealed to me. 

yehey finally had a summer thing going on! indeed at its last rays ☀☀☀

McReary-Time Reary

Did I say I'm a person who can never make up my mind? diverse and likes variation? If no, read my previous writings. So, while browsing.. I was staring at my blog title for quite a while and I thought of changing it into a simpler English catchphrase because if you haven't noticed my current blog title is in French. Being the occasional obsessive compulsive that I am with words, I kind of dwelt with the meaning of that french expression. 


"Je ne regrette rien- I have no regrets." 
Sure, we are bound to live life with no regrets and all but I think this isn't sensible. We go through life everyday and every now and then, we experience something that we totally despise which equates to regretting it. I can be completely honest, I have a list of regrets in life though not quite long, there still are.. from the uncomplicated  why did I go to this place? why did I buy this dress? or why did I eat this today? to the more important why didn't I pursue what I love? or why have I always been giving less efforts on academics? why I was a complete coward for not saying what I really want to say? etc. I suppose it would be a lot good if I say I have no regrets in my life, it actually gives you quite the boost to just live life but truthfully, ask yourself, do you really have NO regrets in life? no shameful feeling in you that you would actually want to do over? no apologetic conscious or reaction to any personal past acts? 


I am aware that there would be lots of regrets in the future. At one point I wish we could just press that rewind button and go back a minute before we actually made that wrong move. Of course we wouldn't change it all because that would totally change who we are now. Perhaps altering just one tiny moment would be cool :) I daresay the phrase "Je ne regrette rien" doesn't appeal to me now as compared to how it first appealed to me when I decided to make it as my blog title.. The more realistic phrase would have to be, live life knowing regret but learning from every single rueful detail of it. 


*only those who watch and has been a fan of the now defunct Disney show Wizards of Waverly Place shall understand my post title*