It’s been a long week… uhhhmm… no make that a sem! i cant believe i had the busiest schedule in my entire life! i was nearly booked for 5 months!!! cant u believe that??! its a sem with no sleep, no eat, no social life, no malling, no youth ministry, no TV, no radio, no hanging out over the weekend, no LIFE! after the series of "NoS" ended, i finally said to myself….i’m going to miss them…. (WHHHAAATTTT???!!! YOOUUU CCRRAAAZZZYY??!!)—well i hope i’m not but these are what happened to me in the past 5 months!
hhhmmm…lets see…
after a crazy enrollment, i finally settled myself in my nail-full wooden chair in Rm. 438, as i fastened my sealtbelt, held on for dear life, for my first major subject of the semester, Marketing 30: Salesmanship and Sales Management. the teacher was there all right.and i had my first assignment! (oh Goody!!!) some of my teachers didn’t report to class until the next week so i had time to kill with friends, my blockmates, etc. i thouhgt to myself: School aint bad in 3rd year….Oh boy! you can still find me saying that i was DEAD WRONG! the next week was crazy already. reports, assignments, projects, major requirements, etc.. already, i was feeling the pressure of being a double major student. already, i was sleeping late studying over for 3 quizzes in one night with other homeworks lying flat on my table waiting to be answered. i wished i could clone myself into 10 so i wouldn’t be so stressed out.
if the second week was crazy, it went crazier! it streched until week 20! if i looked really pretty at the start of the sem, i aged 20 years by the end of the sem. its the first time i ever got a double-layered eye "luggages" (and it’s going to Beirut! hehe). here are what we were asked to do: study for major exams, operating business plan (finance 15), integrated marketing plan (marketing 33–th best subject), sales and distribution plan (mark 31), company study (BA 30), GIS plan (Geo 41). "so little time..so much to do"
i have to squeeze all of those major papers in 5 months.. i had daily meetings and i mean including saturday and sunday to work on them. and it never got accomplished til October. make that the last week of school. i was so dead tired…and so are my other classmates. pressure was definately kicking in! oh i forgot! i was one of the delegates of our school for 7th Philippine Association of National Advertisers IMC Competition–national competition. wow! we have to come up with an integrated marketing plan(just like Marketing 33) in a month. YIPES!!!!! we are five in the team….four from our course, and the other one from CAFA. in our college, we are the only 4 who auditioned for it, and the 4 who got accepted. crazy huh? (members are: Jian Maverick Lasala, Sylner Lopez, Adrian Aurelio Banzon, and yours truly.) we got help from an advertising arts major in CAFA (college of architechture and fine arts) Wesley Rasines to do our collaterals. it was exciting, fun, frustrating, brain-draining, "samok samok", to have joined the competition but right after a million of revisions, printing, and meetings, the final draft was handed to me, and was mailed to the big m for screening. i felt like screaming when i got the final draft. i couldn’t understand the feeling. i felt excited, happy, angry, fulfilled…..impressed! it came out nice and attractive. hehe! results for the TOP 7 (the only 7 who would compete for nationals) would be on October 20, 2006. i don’t really know if i would want to be accepted or not. there are 2 sides to a sunny-side-up egg, the good yolk part, and the bad chewy base (i think im the only one who thinks its bad…owell!). if we get accepted…it’s an honor to serve the school, and it would be fun to travel with my friends, and our very cool faculty adviser (Maam Mel B. de Ocampo) to Manila! heheheh! but then, that would leave more "pending" work behind for next sem. the competiiton is on November and next sem would be a busier sem because of our Project Feasibility Study. WOW! hehehe! so i really don’t know which is better. im just leaving everything to God. i will let him decide for the whole PANA Team.
The star subject of this sem was our IMC subject mentored by Maam Mel de Ocampo. its the biggest subject, the tiring one, but really really fun to work on. there’s just something about maam mel that can really motivate us to work. we had our creative oral defense last saturday. our group didn’t win but i could say it really paid off. all groups were good and creative. just as what maam mel said, she had a hard time deciding. but just to see all my classmates strut their stuff onstage is really something different. i cherished every minute of it because i know it will never happen again. we spent so much of our time, money, efforts, not to mention coffee and C2 to keep us awake, but after every group has presented, the moment was PRICELESS. no value can amount to it at all! we were so happy it was over and sad at the same time that it is over. the highlight to me of this presentation is not in our defense but on that particular moment we said our thank yous to our beloved maam mel. everyone cried, laughed, smiled, to show our deepest thanks and gratitude for our mentor for she has been always there to support us and keep our spirits up when we are already on the verge of giving up. to me that moment was just magic. everyone came out of the Rigney Hall fulfilled and winners. no one felt sad because they didn’t win. what matters most is that our batch keeps our friendship like a tight knot thats so hard to untangle, and break. and in our friendship knot are our teachers who made us what we are today. thanks to them!!
after the papers have been submitted, its finally time to lay back in my bed, thank the Lord for everything….and retire to sleep. still in my dreams, i see the accomplishments that the double majors did…and i could say…it’s the best sem of my life.
