Enchanted Kingdom

Had great fun with my classmates: Erika, Verne, Jam, Mabel (the humbio one), Hana, Chris (Canto), JC (Tayco), Reg (humbio irreg), Fanny, Marlon, Melay (Turao), Ian, Mark (Longus), Henry/Ron (man... I still get confused with those two), and me. That's 16 all in all, the biggest group I've ever been with in EK and since amusement parks are just made for big groups like that, I had a total blast.

Erika and I arrived at the same time that the humbio peeps (Jam, Mabel, and Hana) and Melay's 'kada (Ian, Mark, Henry/Ron) did. It was raining off and on during the morning and the sun was peeking as we lined up to buy tickets. When we finally had the php500 tickets in our hands, it began to rain. Erika and I went ahead because Verne was waiting near Rialto so we just yelled at the others that we'd meet them there. We met up with Verne then rode Rialto (which totally sucked, by the way, we spent the entire 'ride' wondering what the heck was going on) and then went out and began texting the others. Apparently, they rode Rio Grande with newcomers Chris and Reg, saying that since they were already wet, it didn't matter much to get wetter. The humbio girls were all wearing their newly bought EK raincoats while the others were in various stages of wetness.

We then headed off to Space Shuttle and numerous other rides (Anchors Away, Flying Fiesta, Log Jam, Rio, etc). It was just pure fun - a perfect de-stresser from a stressful first half of the second semester of our second year medicine.

Self-Improvement

There are times when I miss retreat and recollections, wherein people would give out letters and stuff. It was a time to write down everything that you never could say to the person to his/her face. It was also a time, at least for me, to find out what certain character traits of mine needs improvement.

Lately, I've been feeling sort of weird, out of sorts, somewhat moody. I don't know if it has anything to do some of my thoughts or if my moods brings about my weird (reflective?) thoughts, but lately, I've been thinking about myself. About who I am and who I want to be. Am I someone likable? Did I turn out to be the kind of person I've always wanted to be? If I were not me, would I want to be friends with me? In short, I'm wondering at the type of person I am right now and wondering whether I need improvement or not, if I'm walking the path I want to walk or I've somehow strayed from it before.

I don't know if I'm the only one, but I always want to go out and improve myself. After all, there's no such thing as being over-improved, is there? Or of being perfect? There's always room for improvement, yes?

In his book, David Eddings once wrote something that went like, "we should never have to look inside our own hearts because we will never like what we see." So now, I wonder... if I really do look inside of me, will I like me? Am I a kind of person that I'd like or do I have some traits that I don't like? When I can't help but diss someone else, am I absolutely certain that I'm not dissing a trait that I refuse to see in me?

Yeah, I know, I sound totally confused. And possibly fishing, which I'm totally not, so don't nobody say no nothing complimentary (and that has got to be the worst possible sentence I've constructed, grammar-wise LOL).

New Year's is coming by... and I've never really believed in New Year's Resolution since I figure that if you want to change something about yourself, why wait until New Year's? And I'm guessing that all this 'reflective' self-improvement blah-blah comes from that. Then again, if there is something in me that needs to be changed or that I want changed... then there's no time like the present for some soul-searching self-improvement, right?