On Studying and Laziness.

Today, on another rare momentous yet stray initiative, I decided to study.
Is it because it's Tuesday again?
Most likely. But more importantly, exams begin tomorrow.

Once again, I must say that I really suck at reviewing and studying.
Whenever I try, I can always tell myself that I know the stuff I'm reviewing.
Turns out I need to know MORE about the stuff I already know.
Since it'll require a bit more pruning to find that "more", I get lazy.
And because I get lazy after TRYING to study, I can almost guiltlessly fool around.
Perfect.

So it ends up with me not doing any more than remembering some very small bits that I've forgotten.
It always happens.

The only time studying actually worked for me was when we were to have an AP LT on the next day on a
lesson I completely didn't learn about due to inattentiveness.
Luckily, that proved that I can study well when I don't know anything about the topic.
It helps me stay interested in actually going over stuff.

For a long test on something I didn't learn about from listening to the teacher,
41/50 is pretty good.

I really wish I had never started on this whole "being seriously lazy" ordeal, because laziness is one of the pits hardest to get out of.
You get stuck, you want out, but you can't be bothered to take action.
You sit in that hole, telling yourself that you reeeaaally want to get out.
But what do you do? You try to jump up once or twice to climb out, fail, and sit back down.
It's just too much effort for a lazy person to continue trying.

I hate such a fate, but hey, I brought it upon myself.
And I know blogging about it won't solve anything, I'm not expecting it to.
I want to change this part of me, but I can't.
Sitting in this hole IS convenient, after all.

.MrRobby.
Throwing things that can keep you busy while in that hole makes it even harder.

To Sing, to Laugh, to Dream

Oh yeah.

Here's me practicing my Cyrano speech at home.
The audio quality is bad, so bear with it.
I sound like a girl in it. Hahaha.

++++++++++

I bought a crepe 2 days ago.

I stood in line, told the person I wanted a caramel crepe and paid for it.
Minutes later, they started cooking the crepe by placing the mix on the electric pan.
(YOU KNOW, THE ONES THAT KEEP YOU COOL?
ELECTRIC PAN! I'm so cornilly punny. HAHA! Daaang, I'm a sad boy.)
It was a nice golden brown, and smelled really good.
As the person there lifted the bottle of caramel, I watched in anticipation.
A wave of disappointment overcame me when I heard the bottle sputter little blobs onto my crepe.
There was very little caramel left.

The lady said to her partner, "Wala na ba tayong caramel?"
She looked at their stock of things, and came up empty-handed.
Grabbing the almost empty bottle, she squeezed it for the little it had left.
And it was done, my crepe was peeled from the pan and rolled neatly.
I bit into it, and true enough, it was the most crisp crepe I've ever tasted.
It's just that it didn't have very much flavor to it.

Which brings me to my point:
Cafeteria products can be categorized on two axes.

First, almost no meal/sandwich/item has both good quality and quantity for its price.
It's one or the other.

Then there's preparation.
It either tastes good, or feels good.
Example: You may have nicely fried fries, which will taste bland,
or really oily fries that taste good.
(Explanation: More oil means more powder/ salt will stick on. ;D )

It's almost impossible for it to be both.
If it's about to happen, Murphy's law will strike and you they'll suddenly have no caramel left.
Hahaha.

.MrRobby.
I'm suddenly hungry now! Argh.

Only on Tuesdays.

The title, is probably my favorite non-serious answer.
Sadly, I couldn't say it today. Wahahaha.

In some weird spin of the Earth or something, I actually felt responsible today.
Tuesday.

I started memorizing my Cyrano speech at 8:00 pm!
Usually, I start doing homework at 11 pm, or even 12 midnight.
3 hours? Not a big difference, you say? Yes? Aww.
Yeah, 3 hours is quite a big difference for any student.
Considering you don't really get much hours after school if you're dismissed at 4 pm.

-To be continued at a later date. Sorry. .MrRobby.

On second thought, I'm responsible only on Tuesdays.
So nope, this entry ends here. :D

.MrRobby.
I love excuses. Hahaha!

Freezing.

I've had a cold for an entire week now.
It's very unpleasant, mind you.
Seryoso nakakainis na. Haha. But oh well.
Wala naman akong magagawa eh. :P

Short entry lang, pagod na ako eh.

Hooray, exams na namin in 2 weeks.
One of my favorite times of the year, kasi early dismissal pag ganun.
And since hindi rin naman ako nag-aaral masyado, masaya siya.
Hahaha.I can't wait. Sana lang talaga okay grades ko this term, pero feeling ko hindi talaga.
Grr. Haha.

Yun, medyo frustration ko yun this year.
Hindi na kayang hindi nag-aaral masyado.
Kailangan ko nang magsipag.
Yan lagi sinasabi ko sa sarili ko, pero hindi naman nangyayari.
Haha, sana magawa ko na next term.

Let me end with this line na sobrang kakaiba. :>

""Just picture me beside you. Or if you really really miss me, hug a pillow and pretend I'm that pillow. :">"

Kung saan ko yan nakuha, secret na lang. =))

.MrRobby.
Go away, sipon. >:P

Inverse Property of Sleep.

Okay, seriously.
The earlier I sleep, the sleepier I am the next day.
It's annoying since the later I sleep, the more fatigue affects me at the later part of the day.

Simply said:
I can choose to be falling asleep during class the next day by sleeping early,
or physically hurting the next evening by sleeping late.

In other news, I haven't been writing in my planner very much.
I have more than a whole month of art to catch up in its pages.
That's around 11 pages by now. I promised myself I'd fill every box in my planner this year.
(Except maybe February 8, for irony. :D)

I also haven't been blogging as much, guess I don't feel as motivated to blog anymore.
Less idle time on my hands this term, eh.
I still want to get the habit back though. It's a nice habit. :[

PLEASE let me know if you still visit by dropping a message in my chatbox.
It's my main way of knowing if people still actually read here. Hahaha.
It'll help keep my blogger's spirit up! You want that, don't you? :)

Haha, anyway, that's all. I think I'll be designing my planner now.
Go me!

.MrRobby.
Come on, Robby. You can do better than that!

Summary of Academic Character.

"Robby, you suck in doing homework."
-Harvey Parafina.

Ladies and gentlemen, I humbly ask for a round of applause for my good friend.

.MrRobby.
Bow.

Record.

So far, in my entire life, my latest sleep time is 11:30 AM.
And it happened just around September. Hahaha.
I just feel like telling the tale now.

2 of my important commitments clash and required so much of me for the next day.
That Saturday, One issue of Spiritworks and the final lay-out of Hilites' second issue.

Contrary to how it seems, Laying out takes a lot of TIME, ENERGY and PATIENCE.
I had none of the three, but hey, I have to learn right?
Admittedly, It was my fault that I lacked all three.
Putting it off and taking my sweet time took the abundance of all three away.
So I did what the consequences of my actions called for.
I made time.
I used up energy I never even knew was there.
I managed to keep cool and waited HOURS AND HOURS.

It was a seemingly impossible task,
and it wasn't very far from being one.
The internet decided to cooperate with Lack of Time, and cut up at times I really needed it.
One of the pains of doing lay-out is getting your resources.
You can't fire a gun without bullets, and in the same way you can't kick off with a lay-out without your text and images.
My eyes grew immune to the steady glow that emanated from the laptop's screen.
Of course, immunity from something comes from being used to it. Undergoing pain and all.
My eyes BURNED in those moments
from staring at the laptop's LIGHT.
My fingers also FROZE in the air-conditioned cold,
and the DARKNESS worked with it to bring an unbelievable amount of typing mistakes.

I FREAKING LOVE THE IRONIES I JUST REALIZED. =))

Anyway, after much hard work, I finished both lay-outs at around 9:30.
But the hardships don't end at that.
Printing, is another different headache.
Since I'm also in charge of Spiritworks' printing, all of its problems are belong to me.
Hahaha!

Given no real training with InDesign, I encounter maaajor problems in the printing department.
Let's just say I usually don't get to fix them, but I try for hours anyway.
I stopped trying at 11:00 am, and just stayed to chat.
Figured I wouldn't really get any proper sleep anyway, might as well bask in my moment of extreme numbness.
My head felt so light. Sobrang sabaw ko na nun. =))
I fell asleep at 11:30 anyway, then woke up at 1.

Had to commute to Katipunan to get picked up on the way to the Youth Prayer Meeting.
Additional hassle. :D

And so it ends, with much stress and quite a good amount of success, considering given parameters. =))
In simpler terms, I did well during one hell of a sucky time. Hahaha!
Woohoo!

.MrRobby.
Success and the ability to survive with tiny amounts of sleep go hand in hand.

Upside of Scolding.

I told Kris this story earlier today,
when I remembered it because she asked me if I liked Hale.

Back in New Manila, our boarder neighbor (since we lived in a compound sort of house)
gave an autographed original copy of Hale's first album to me.
This was because he was related to one of the band members.
Forgot specifically who and how, though. Hahaha.

But here's the thing. I never asked for it.
And he was still new to the place, so he didn't really know us yet.
So why was the copy dedicated to me?

We wondered for a while and found the reason.
Back then, Mommy almost ALWAYS got angry at me for overusing the computer.
Not only her, but also my siblings. So they would always say my name out loud.
Since the said neighbor's front door is just a few feet from our study room (The room with the PC)
All these cries could be heard.
That's how he got my name, and being scolded led to me getting a nifty autographed album.

To this day though, I've never listened to it.
Hahaha.

.MrRobby.
Freebies are never bad. :D
Also, this is one heck of a useless post. Hahaha.