Week 2: Communicate!!!

Communication is a tool with which we exercise our influence on others, bring out changes in our and others’ attitudes, motivate the people around us and establish and maintain relationships with them. Communication makes a major part of our active life and is a social activity. This social activity is pursued verbally through speech, reading and writing or non-verbally through body language. In order for you to communicate successfully, you need to learn how to send mixed signals and how to build suspense, mystery and curiosity. This means that you have to interact with them as if you are not interested, but you provide them with subtle signs that shows that you are interested. You can employ light touches when you talk to them or playful little jabs that will suggest interest… but which leave some mystery. Some people find indirect communication not only attractive and mysterious but also challenging. Many are unfortunately frustrated by this, but it is essential to master if you want to successfully communicate with other people.

So why communicate? We need to communicate to develop our confidence. We'll be needing it to have a better life in the future. By communicating, we can share our thoughts, emotions and what we really feel. We can express what we really want by communicating. Just like what we are doing every day. We always communicate, even if it's just a "smile". We still communicate. I think that's why we need to communicate. :-)

Week 1: CAS is Fun!

In one week of staying in Lyceum of The Philippines University - Laguna and be one of the CAS family, all I can say is, it is really is fun. Yes, it was fun. Why? Because in CAS, they have lots of activities, they were the most active department in Lyceum and most of the professors were very mischievous and I love the way they told us jokes. I didn't have hard time to make friends with my new block mates even with my professors, I find them very cool. I don't know why. Maybe because I'm so talkative and crazy. Well, they're just like me. In one week, it feels like my block mates have known each other for so long and it's very nice. I can't remember some happy moments that I'm with my friends because I felt that there were so many happy moments that happened when I'm with them. Actually, I never thought that they will be my friends. First, they didn't know me yet and they didn't know my personality. I'm the kind of person that is moody or they call it "bipolar". Well, in my case, I get sad without any reason and you can't talk to me. By the way, too much for that. The picture above was taken yesterday during the Freshmen Day. Freshmen Day was fun though there are some part of the program that I got bored because of talking and talking. I get easily bored with those kind of talking things, why? Because the speaker was trying to explain what's on his/her slide but no one cares about what he was saying. I'm not saying that I'm not listening to the speaker. I still try to listen though I got bored. I was amazed with the Cultural Ensemble of the school. The Lyceum Concert Singers and the dance troupe (I forgot the name of the group.) I was like, "Woah. :O They're all good. I want to be a member!" So, I'm going to attend the whole day training for those who want to develop their skills in singing, acting and dancing on July 4, 2012. I want to be a part of the Lyceum Concert Singers, seriously. I think joining that kind of group will improve my singing skills. Yay! And the last picture above, it was me and Zamantha. She was nominated as Ms. Freshman but sadly to say, she didn't won. But it's okay, she's still pretty. We're like "Wooooooooooooooooooooh! Go Zamantha! Go CAS!" during her ramp on stage. I thought my throat was bleeding yesterday because of screaming and cheering for Zamantha and Gladwin. Even though they didn't won the Mr. and Ms. Freshman, they're still our friends and nothing will change that. So, I can say that CAS was really fun. I have no regrets choosing the course AB MMA. I'm so happy that I'm part of the CAS family now. I am proudly to say that, "CAS is Fun!"

June 21, 2012

Today was the General Assembly for CAS students and the election for the Student Council for the school year 2012-2013. I was elected as the Student Council’s Vice President for MMA. I don’t know why they voted for me as the Vice President. First, they didn’t know me yet. And I thought the Vice President will be picked at 3rd year MMA students. The time I was elected, I was like, “Are they for reals?” I don’t know how will I react that time. I’m the only first year student who was the Vice President of the Student Council for MMA, the Vice Presidents for Psychology and AB Communication were both third year students. How’s that? And after that, the election ended at exactly 11:00 am. We still attended our Philippine History class since we still have one hour. At exactly 12 noon, our professor dismissed us. We had our lunch at the cafeteria. As usual, I’m with Ian, Gaive, Marion and Zamantha. I forgot to have a picture with Zamantha. But it’s okay. I promise that we’ll have a picture tomorrow since we don’t have classes. It was English time and our professor discussed our home works. It was about Communication, forms and types and after that, we had an activity and she gave us a group activity to be presented on Monday. And after giving the activity, she dismissed us. After a few minutes, Ms. Anna came in. As usual, she set up everything before she start discussing her lesson. By the way, she’s our teacher in our first major subject. It was Communication Technology. After discussing, she gave us the first topic that we need to blog about. The topic given to us was, “CAS is Fun!” It should be posted in our blogspot account since we are required to have a blogspot account until Saturday night. She gave us also our second project for the first semester, it will be video again so we’re going to have a shoot tomorrow after class. She dismissed us early that’s why I got home early too. :-)

Blockmates. :-) Haha. Ian, Marion, Gaive and Zamantha. Those pictures were taken during the assembly. Hahaha. Zamantha, what happened to you? We should have a lot of pictures tomorrow since it’s Freshmen Day. Yay! See you tomorrow. :-)

June 18, 2012

It’s Monday again and our class will start at 9:00 am. So, I left our house at exactly 6:00 am and I got to school at exactly 7:45 am. I’m looking for some of my blockmates if there are some who were already at our room but sad to say I don’t find any. While I was walking in the campus, I saw my friend Kim, he’s a third year Information Technology student. He asked me if I can accompany him to go to the office at the 2nd floor of the JPL Building to get his schedule, then after that we went to the cafeteria to buy a bottled water. So, while I’m waiting for the bell to ring, I borrowed his iPad and took some pictures of myself. Seriously, it’s okay to him because we’re like brothers, then he saw my classmate Princess, I never thought that they know each other already. At exactly 8:45 am, Princess and I went to our first room. Mr. Niño was already there, and we discussed the first lesson and we had an activity about Komunikasyon and Wika. We’re going to make a jingle about what we’ve discussed and I was assigned to be the leader of our group. I’m the one who’s responsible for giving their grades for the activity. Then, we performed and it was fun. Then after the activity, we had the election for the Class Officers and I was elected as the President of the class for the whole semester. I don’t know how will I react, but I’ll just do my best to make our class active in every activity of our Department. I’m with Zamantha and Rommel and we had our lunch at Chic Boy at exactly 12:00 noon. We talked about some stuffs about our course and we were talking about our presentation for our major subject, Communication Technology. Since, our English teacher was not able to meet us, we were told to pass our homeworks and have an attendance. Then after I gave our homeworks and our attendance to the substitute professor at the CAS Department’s office, I went straightly to our room. I’m talking with my seatmates when Ms. Kagaoan came and immediately told us to set up everything so we can start our presentation. I’m so happy when Ms. Kagaoan told me that my presentation was good. Since, it’s our last subject, Ms. Kagaoan told us that we need to finish first all the presentations before she dismissed us. It’s already 5:30 pm when she dismissed us. Today was a tiring day but it was really fun. :-)

One day, I promise that we’ll be here, just the two of us. Reminiscing the happy and sweet moments we’ve had. I miss you already. It feels like we’ve been apart for months. I used to be with you when we both have enough time to see each other. Oh, how I wish I can be with you right now, hold your hands, hug you, stare at your face the whole night and kiss you as you fell asleep. I miss you, already. I hope you're fine. I can't wait to see you again. I'll see you soon! :-)