Back to school 2011

Tomorrow will be my fresh start of a new chapter as a student in the university and the feeling is not as much as good as before, I don't know why. I don't have any notebook yet nor pens to use in writing. I don't have the energy to welcome the year that many people say the hardest year in my course. Among the four years alloted in plate making and lurking in the classrooms doing nothing they say third year is considered to be the hell year. You'll get to do a lot of paperworks, professors will be so demanding in giving you requirements, actual projects are always on the way, plates here and there etc. With all these things, I just hope that the time I spent during the last summer days are enough to help me get through this coming semester. I am the only one, I guess, from the class who's not excited to start the semester. Ok. Frankly speaking, this bothers me a lot. I should have a positive outlook on this but how can i do this if all I think are the restless and sleepless nights that surely will be filling up my timeline EVERY FRIGGIN WEEK. Anyway, I am still hoping for the best.

Sometimes though it pays you a lot when you had little preparations for something. It's the time when you get to another dimension where all you extra juices come out and be in vibes with adrenaline rush. These two - extra juices and adrenaline rush - are the thoughts that I am hoping for this semester to work since I haven't felt the feeling that other of my classmates discerned weeks ago. Well, I can't do anything about this anymore. The best thing to do is to survive the coming months and better if I do this with greatness and classy-ness.

GOOD LUCK AND GOD BLESS TO ME! :)
Let's call it a day! See you tomorrow! :)

Wifi on board

>Usually, I do blogs when in house, school or anywhere that has stable internet connection. But today is just extraordinary. In fact I'm having a blast right now. I never thought that I could actually surf the net while inside a moving vehicle. Moreover, I never thought that vehicles would have access on wifi(s). This is just crazy. (I am now typing this entry while travelling the long stretch of NLEX).

This is a living proof that technology will really go far with its day-to-day-innovation of almost everything we see now. You will really say I'm crazy if I'll have this forecast: 100 years from now people could talk to animals (vice versa) and would understand each other. This sounds hilarious and what? impossible? Yeah.. this sounds eerie but who knows? With all the technological advancements we experience this could just be possible. I don't know. just saying.

Anyway... my battery is dying now. If I knew that the bus we'll take has wifi I should have then fully charged my laptop and enjoy every second of my travel. Anyway, at least I was able to experience this awesome service of this bus. :) I think we'll take a ride in this bus this Sunday when we go back to manila. For sure, I'll charge my laptop's battery. :) For now, I have to say goodbye!





Some of the pics I took while inside the bus!

Cherios! :)

An opportunity that I should grab

We all know the feeling of joining competitions. It feels like you are about to be gutted by someone you haven't met yet. We experience butterflies in our stomach and sometimes we perspire cold sweat as if there's no tomorrow. But I realized lately that young people like me should take and grab each opportunity that comes our way.I have a friend whose dad shared to us that we should be adventurous and take the time to explore our youth before turning 20. This thought he shared stuck in my mind and became my sort of belief for a year now and I still have more or less seven months to do the things I want and need to do. Now, younger generation would have different takes on this. Some would perceive this as 'I have to get wild every Friday night', 'do every men /lady I bump in to', 'try every drug available out there' or to be more subtle 'do more unusual routine that you haven't tried since the time you knew the world' perhaps 'try to go bars every weekend' et cetera. I must say, we can really have different understanding on this and I don't what to zero in much on the differences we have. I respect what other's have in mind. But I really have a different take on this and maybe some of you could relate to me.

There's an opportunity coming tomorrow and sad to say I can't come to visit our university. My family has an errand the whole weekend and we are leaving tomorrow dawn. The competition's about furniture design and I want to be there so bad. Here are some of the reasons why:
1. It's an opportunity. I never won in a major contest ever.
2. It's an exposure for me as a student of interior design. As of now I don't have intentions to win this big competition. It's still my first (if ever) and all I want is the learning that I could gain from this experience.
3. If given the chance to win (which I'm keeping my fingers-crossed to this) I would be able to accomplish one of my plans this 2011 and that is to ace a competition. This could just be it.

Nonetheless, as I've said I am not still aiming or to top the spot. I am more after the experience, fun and the learning. I am young, capable of doing a lot of things. This event could just be one of the turning points in my life. Win or lose I would still keep my head up high and do designs as much as I want to. I know there are individuals who have good minds with wilder imagination than I am but I know that I can go far with this passion I have with me!

Im really hoping for the slot even if I wont be able to visit school tomorrow. Did I just say? I will go to school today to talk to our professor and ask her good natured heart to let me join this competition. I hope you'll be with me on this.


This is a picture of my group's side table - a requirement we have to accomplish in one of our majors. There a lot of criticisms that we got from our side table but it did not crumble my passion in designing. In fact, it burns more my desire to try this field more than anything else. This is also the reason why I want to join the said competition.

Goodluck to me on this! :)

A love that would last a lifetime

This is a picture of my mom and dad when they handed me my new DSLR. For the record, I really intended to have their picture taken first before anything and anyone else.

I think this is the first time that I made a blog about my parents. This dedication to them is never easy. I have to watch for my words and ponder deeply on the things I have to share. Nonetheless, I dont really worry that much for the reason that I don't rant in social networks especially if they are involved. This would just be a light blog about them for their 20th anniversary.

Today is June 1 and this means a lot of things.
1. School is just around the corner which gives me a feeling of excitement and nervousness. Mixed emotion at its best.
2. Summer is over. It's official according to PAG-ASA and based on the atmosphere that this surrounding is giving me.
3. And lastly... It's my parents anniversary! In fact they're celebrating their 20th anniversary of being husband and wife and 19 years of being parents to me. This calls for a celebration.


I bought a box of donuts for them! That's how sweet I am of a son to them.

When we are celebrating an event especially if it involves anyone from our family (the three of us), we celebrate it the best we could. Since we're not rich and can't afford to splurge on high-end restaurants we opt to have simple gatherings, perhaps a dinner in our house. If budget permits then we sometimes go to unusual resto and spend the night there. Though I prefer having simple dinner here in our house since it's cozy and I can act the way I wanted to and not be dictated by the ambiance of fancy fine dining. Today was the usual.

I came home late because I've been expecting no plans for tonight but I know that it's their anniversary. So I decided to sip some coffee and munch on tuna sandwich and a classic bavarian over at Mister Donut (a place in cubao that I like killing most of my time - just chilling). I chilled their for two hours leafing through the pages of my overdue book that I should have finished long time ago. Before leaving the cafe I bought a box of donuts for them. I feel so generous that time. I thought of doing this generous behavior because I was thinking that I am not getting any younger now which gives me no reason to act like a sweet child that I used to be (that is if they saw me as a sweet kiddo during my younger years). It's not hard to be sweet sometimes... it's the thought of being sweet to them that hinders us to be so. Anyway, going back. Since I never thought that plans will ever be considered tonight I took my time walking from our subdivision's gate to our house. I knew right then that my mom miscalled three times but she received no answers from me (That has been my problems for years now). I got home and was welcomed with my dad lying on the sofa sleeping and my mom cooking for our usual late dinner. The reason she miscalled was that they planned to have dinner outside and celebrate their 20 years of marriage. I was so pissed at myself that I let this good time passed just because of being an idler that I am. I said sorry to them and gave their donuts just to have an excuse. HAHA But the good news here is that we'll celebrate it tomorrow night! :) There's no reason to fret, no reason at all.



As for the relationship we have as a family I can say that it's never perfect BUT we try to live a normal life with a balance living. We sometimes get pissed at each other- I think its normal - but it shouldn't last that long. We encountered problems but we don't show how down we are when we face and solve each endeavors we have. I am not the perfect child they wish me to be (i think) but I try my best to at least pay them in return for all the love and support that they give me. I have few families in mind that I admire the most. Sometimes I wish that I belong to that group - yes! it happens sometimes. But I realized, everything that happens in this family is normal - the usual - and I guess it's the same process that the families I admire to have in their group. What sets this family apart from the others is I think the problems we are facing each day which gives us an in depth understanding of who we are when we're together and who we are when we are in different worlds. I faced a lot of tribulations regarding my relationship with them. They know it for sure. I get sad when we they don't understand me especially when its the time that I need someone to understand me the most. It's a pain in the ass. I get upset when this time surfaces. Sure, too, they get upset having a son like me. But then again, It's His plan why I belonged to this family and I whole-heartedly accept it.

Families are like roller coasters with a lot of hoops and turns. Sometimes it's like a carousel where you just go round and round and round and round leading and heading to nowhere. Most of the time it's like a horror booth where you see nothing but darkness and creepy faces or it's a ride like that of a bump car where you bump with each other and gets hurt for a moment and then bump again with another car without even composing yourself from the last trauma. Whatever ride that you can compare your family life with it's the fun that you'll have after experiencing either 'enchanted kingdom', 'star city' or 'disney land' and that's how happy I am to be in a family like this. I know the imperfections we have as a unit and because of this I learned how to love these imperfections and the people who have this blemishes. Moreover, I thank God for giving me such a wonderful family and for trusting me to be the only child of Ma. Corazon E. Soriano and Romulo A. Soriano Jr. who will take care of them until the last air I breath.

Happy Anniversary Mom and Dad!

Love,
Wesley