Life is good.

If there is a big one thing from second semester that I do consider as a big achievement, it is the A I got for my Fil 12 class.

Sining sa Pakikipagtalastasan II or Fil 12 is a writing class where one is able to learn how to write creatively in Filipino. Of course, students will not be able to succeed in enhancing their Filipino writing skills without the professor. Being my cousin's Fil 11 prof for the first semester, our professor was really so intimidating for me at first. We needed to write very unique papers. Pressure because I really do not consider myself as a good writer. I just have thoughts, soooooo many thoughts, but no writing skills.

For our first paper, we needed to answer the question: Paano ka mag-isip? Indeed, it was really hard and twisted my brain for hours (because I just crammed). When we got our drafts checked, many got line of seven's and there were even some who got below seventy so I was lucky I got an 80+. For the final revision, I got a ninety. I just considered that as luck. Haha.

To make it short, Fil 12 really required a lot of thinking and creativity. I considered every paper as a Calculus long test and I was always thinking about my papers whenever I was not yet able to start writing them. I knew that I was not really that kind of person who had this very wild imagination. Sadly, I had zero percent creativity so I was shocked when our professor recognized me, together with two of classmates, as those students who are very good in writing papers. Haha.

Fil 12 really changed me. Besides making me discover this little skill of mine, the course also changed me as a person. It made me strive to always think out of the box and contemplate on what is really unique. I also learned to appreciate Filipino literature because of it. Nothing can still beat my favorite excerpt from Last Order sa Penguin by Chris Martinez. Haha.

Yes, deep inside of me I've got this spirit of nationalism. The new Ateneo car sticker (with a picture of a blue eagle alongside with flag of the Philippines) can already serve as a symbolism of me. HAHAHAHA. Joke.

Fil 12 + Sir Allan Derain = <3

I only get line of nine's. Our professor said that if we get a grade of a hundred, it means that our work is worth-publishing already. I think I should work on that. :)

Para kang kendi hindi nauubos. Para kang chocolate na hindi matunaw-tunaw kahit na gaano mo katagal kainin. Parang ang sarap-sarap mo. Parang ang juicy-juicy mo. Parang gusto mong mapiga. At gusto mo ring mamiga. Gusto mong mangyakap at magpayakap. Gusto mong ma-squeeze at mang-squeeze. Squeezee. It's a squezee feeling. Party ang feeling. Party ka lang ng party. Para kang natutunaw na nanlalamig na ang saya-saya na ang sarap-sarap na parang tuwang-tuwa ka na parang walang problema sa mundo na parang walang mali parang lahat tama lahat mabuti lahat kaibigan mo lahat love mo lahat friends mo lahat kaibigan ka lahat love ka lahat friend ka na wala kang kaaway walang badtripan walang iwanan walang bad vibes brothers kayo sisters kayo brother ka sister ka kahit saan kahit kanino kahit ano positive walang negative lahat positive bawal ang negative positive lahat kahit na ano positive basta positive positive na positive na life is good... Life is good... Life is good. Walang tatalo sa first time talaga. Walang tatalo (Martinez 72).