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Saturday, 5 of April , 2008 @ 9:00 am

I almost forgot about this blog. I feel awful. I had such a wild, eventful school year so I guess I couldn’t talk about it much - for my sake and the sake of a lot of people. But it’s all good. I’m just glad it’s finally over. God, I thought it would stretch on forever.

So to make up for it, here’s what I’ve been up to.

In my attempt to make my senior year more exciting (read: complicated and busy), I ran for two Executive committee positions in two orgs. Yeah. I am now the layout editor of Mandala (Psych yearbook and senior council of sorts), and the publicity head of Buklod CSSP. But to contextualize my victory, I did not have any opponents in both positions, so yeah, it would seem like both positions just fell comfortably on my lap. Hey, at least I didn’t lose to abstain. Haha.

The funny thing about being both layout editor and publicity head is that the job descriptions are pretty much identical - designing layouts and publicity materials. I remember this one night a few weeks ago. I had already won as layout editor and Buklod elections was coming up. For both Mandala and Buklod, I wanted to show the electoral body that I know my Photoshop, so I placed both my General Programs of Action in flashy layouts that I made, and printed it in full color on 7×11 board. So there, that night, as I was cramming my GPOA for Buklod at 3 AM in the morning, I had a mental image of what my life is going to be like next year. Talk about a preview of my senior year - a groggy, sleepless me, glued to my laptop/PC (duh, as if I don’t do that everyday) tinkering with Photoshop, churning out layouts and publicity materials at 3 in the morning.

Gah. I don’t think I’ve ever had this much responsibility in my life. The last time I was ever elected for any officer position was in second grade; my opponent got 14 votes, I got 15 - but that included my vote. Haha. Probably the biggest job I’ve ever had was being junior batch representative (which was offered to me) just this year. But yeah, if there’s one thing I learned, it feels great to be useful to people. Student service may sound really cheesy and all, but it is strangely quite fulfilling, going out of your way for other people and making sure they’re satisfied with your output. Yeah, I like feeling useful. So that is why I decided to run for two positions knowing fully well that I’ll be taking at least 19 units each for my last two semesters in UP. Go me!

But it’s okay. I love my batch a lot, so being in the Mandala Editorial Board is like being batch rep all over again, and I loved being batch rep (most of the time, anyway). I certainly love Buklod CSSP, too. That part is kind of funny, though. A year ago, I swore off campus politics after a very controversial local elections had a lot of people biting my head off. And now, I am affiliated with a political party, and I’m in the Executive committee, too. Huzzah! Initially, I only joined because a good friend of mine asked me to be his campaign manager. Politics just grew on me I guess. I mean, how could it not? The dedication, the late nights, the struggles, the blackmail… it was exciting. But more than that, you gotta hand it to them: what people do in political formations - and it doesn’t matter which one - is pretty amazing. Apart from being the brightest student leaders in UP, the Buklod people are some of the most intelligent and hilarious people I have ever me. I almost regret not joining sooner.

So there, my life so far. The filtered version, anyway. If you know where my Livejournal, Multiply and Tumblr accounts are, you can check that out. There’s more dirt on me there. Haha.

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