however, that didn't work too.
don't ask me why. (",)
14.11.05
so... hello. i'm back. back to school, back from school, back to my old desktop ways.
after a nine-day hiatus from the blogging world due to innumerable time constraints, i'm here again. yeah, you might have noticed that this is my first entry since the semestral break. see how time flies, so fast?
and i'm back to attending school, just like the days of old... after garnering a record-low 60% personal attendance rate, to extenuate the importance...
anyway, i still don't know what to write. everything's a void, seemingly. some fellow bloggers call this phenomenon the "writer's block." maybe that's what happening to me now... hopefully, just.
anyway, look at the time! it's just 6 pm! when was the last time i arrived at home 5 in the afternoon, let alone when the sun was still up? that was time immemorial, i suppose.
did anyone miss me? i doubt it. but for my sake, here's an overview of what happened the past week, in a form of some timeline:
monday, just my first day after the semestral break and after rushing my problem set, i was tasked to do this powerpoint presentation in chemistry. the result? one hour sleep. and by then it was tuesday.
tuesday, i thought we will be able to present that stuff, but then again, due to time constraints we weren't able to do so. that was followed by a math long test. and some other tests, if my memory serves me right. and more tests. and an english fable concerning animals, of course.
wednesday, finally we were able to present the thing and pass a short story about a zebra without stripes. that was followed by mental breakdown right in front of ma'am erpelo during a reporting. and then i started on my physics notebook. hard task, if you'd ask me, as the deadline is friday's. and i used the computer in doing so.
thursday was the start of the quarterly examinations, in particular order: english, math, ap. i thought that for certain, i was going to flunk at least one, for the night before i just worked on physics. i finished the exams first on english and math, but on nothing more. that was way too depressing, proven by the fact that i arrived home 1:35 pm. see? (joke..)
friday. things are starting to get worse, even after nerve-racking chemistry and research (statistics) tests. yes i was able to pass my physics notebook unscathed, but then i remembered that book report in filipino.
in fact, by that time i was just halfway through the novel, and the write-up was to be passed on saturday. talk about cramming, huh? and look what we have for saturday: physics, filipino, and pehm, rumored to be either very hard tests or very long. so what did i do? stay at mcdonald's until 4 in the afternoon. ain't i doing real great?
hence come saturday. i woke up 4 am. after three hours, i was still on the desktop, not even halfway through. i decided that i come late for the periodical exams, risking the fact that physics was the first of the last three. i arrived at school a quarter past eight. and on the way up the stairs, i met the one monikered "buttercup" - ms. awitan, who gave me a bit of a scolding. waving her off, i proceeded to our room.
everyone was fifteen to twenty minutes ahead of me when i arrived. and we lacked an extra paper, so our proctor (incidentally our "master" teacher in physics) had to ask for one in the other sections, costing another three or so minutes. guess how i fared? here it is: second one to finish, passing grade. marvelous!
so much for that. that very night i slept from 7:30 in the evening to 1:30 the next morning, thus automatically skipping my regular buy-the-newspaper errand. as soon as i woke up, dear ol' dad told me that i can have the sun cellular sim card. when will i run out of luck, i don't know. but i hope not!!!
ladies and gentlemen, that was my past week. i was really surprised to find out that my hit counter has skyrocketed, and even my tagboard is getting some responses. thank you everyone... and this is just part one, as i'm trying to make up for lost time. (",) that's all folks!
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it was just about now when i noticed that people write things about themselves in the profile section of their online diaries. then i looked at my former blog sites, and, it was like... whoa, am i really that weird?
so maybe it's time for a bit of change, a touch of conventionalism. for once, at least.
well, you see the guy in the picture? yeah, that spectacled boy running in haste? that's supposed to be me, j. gabriel de leon y limpin... what does j stand for, you ask? it's for me to know and for you to find out if you still don't know.
i'm a 16-year old boy who wears a pair of glasses, sports unkempt hair, and usually dons loose clothes. i might look a bit plump in the drawing, but in actuality i'm a tall, dark, skinny, frail guy who always forgets to drink his milk and take his breakfast. up to know i still wonder how come i stand at five-feet-eight-inches but weigh only 102 pounds...
way back then, i was a small, plump kid who showed a lot of promise. during parties, my mom and dad would usually strut around and boast of how intelligent, how healthy, how handsome i was. for eight or so years, that had been the case. i got my share of respect, like this little prince...
then came a heartbreak, and high school.
inexplicably, i suddenly became a complacent and idle guy who fell in love with my personal computer too much, even to the point of forgetting if i already had dinner. i was transformed into a student ridiculously full of potential but never getting to use the stuff. i developed a very healthy sleeping habit that made me garner the honorable distinction of being the student earliest for the nth class.
high school went on, heartbreaks pursued at will, and down to oblivion went that once promising young kid. so much for the pride of my parents.
today, i still look back to him. in fact, i'm trying to revive him, after four years of dormancy, or something more like stagnation. impossible, yes, but it's worth a try. too late, maybe, but i'll prove that it's not.
