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Anna, I’m so sorry for not updating. Busy with school, and rekindling my social life. Oh yes, I am. Last term, I didn’t have a social life because I focused too much on my studies. And it’s my last term having minors so I have to make the most out of it, and be a DL after that.

For this term, I have a bad feeling that I’ll be removed from the Dean’s List. Wala lang, I have a feeling that my subjects will be harder as term goes. But, even though I’m quite pessimistic, I look on the bright side. Just not now.

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Yesterday during NSTP class, we watched a movie called, “Grave of the Fireflies”. It’s about two children, Seita and Setsuko, during the end of World War II in Japan.

“In 1945, on the night of September 21, I died.” That was the first lines of the movie. So the outcome of the movie will be Seita’s death, the movie features a flashback on what happened to the character.

What I love on this movie was Setsuko, the 4/5-year-old sister of Seita who serves as the cuteness in the movie. However, it was sad and traumatizing on her part because, at a very young age, she witnessed what happened during the war and the scarcity of necessities. One of the touching scenes in the movie was Setsuko following Seita in the police station, and instead of worrying about herself, she’s worried about his older brother. Another one was Setsuko’s montage after her death. (She was cleaning the shelter, playing on the swing)

While I was watching, I wanted to cry because of what happened. However, I was with my friends and I don’t wanna be embarrassed because of it. Instead, I was saying “aww.”

A day after watching the movie, I’ve researched on the movie. And there was a 2005 made-for-TV live action remake of the animé. I watched a clip of it from YouTube, and I cried because of the touching scene and the music added to it. The music in the live action was more touching than the anime (it was sad but very scary).

“Brother, don’t go. I don’t need any food. I just want to be with you.” -Setsuko, from the live action movie.

Sad. So sad.

Well, not really. My first week in the second term was… So-so. But I like it.

Monday was COMGRAP and COLREND day. In COMGRAP, our professor looked like a student. (He graduated last 2001, hence the young look.) He gave out some silly rules that no one will eat if he’s not eating as well. (However, eating and drinking is not allowed inside the computer laboratory) Our first exercise for him was a mask that represents who we are, and it has to be easy to execute in Photoshop. COLREND class was also ok, we did a creativity exercise. One was to choose colors for a picture (A typical picture drawn by elementary school students) and the other to draw a stool and rendering.

Tuesday to Thursday were my rest days. Yes, 3 days without classes. As usual, I did what I always do when I do not have classes. (Like surfing the net, watching television and eating)  However, it felt like I was on LOA because it’s quite boring. But I still love it! Woot.

Friday was DESPRIN and FREHAND day. I heard that my professor in DESPRIN gives 2.5 as his highest grade. He was like, “Don’t treat me as your professor. TREAT ME AS YOUR CLIENT” When he uttered those words, I felt the pressure because I remembered my NATSCA1 subject last school year. And he asks for too many and too expensive materials. Well, let’s see. On FREHAND, we were asked to draw a Volkswagen Beetle. (The old one, thank you very much.) But since we have no picture of the Beetle, we have to draw it the way we imagined it. My drawing came out fine, but that good. We got dismissed early.

Saturday was HARTDS2 and NSTPCWT class. HARTDS2 was quite boring, I kept on yawning. We already started discussing on Art in general. After that class, I had my lunch break. But I spent less because I’m saving money again. (This time, for a mobile phone.) We then had our NSTPCWT class after. Our professor almost became mad at us because we were noisy. But when the grading thingy was revealed to us, we were objecting to the criteria but we wanted the old one again. LMAO. Like FREHAND, we got dismissed early.

Anna had a little celebration with her classmates and friends (Seth, Jacob, Alyssa, Goldie, Reji, Drew, Ian, Char, Jeanne, Princess and yours truly) at Yellow Cab Taft. It was fun, and the food is delish. Love. Thanks for the invite, host! And belated happy birthday! Much love.

Um, looks like I didn’t have a tough first week. It went alright.

But I’m still afraid. Now, it’s ON!