crashing

If my body is a car, and my mind is the driver, then coffee is the gasoline that fuels my body. Thanks to three days of coffee, papers, and no sleep, I now exist in a caffiene-induced, zombie-like state. I am ready to crash, but the week’s not over yet–heck, the day’s not over yet. After this I am going to make myself a cappuccino and work on my Filipino paper. Then tomorrow there’s the last of the documentary, and then papers to do over the weekend. Not to mention that I have to start studying for my finals. Argh. My back is aching for the massage I promised myself on Saturday, and my skin misses the Tali sun. Definitely counting the days till sem break.

Get Over it

Here’s an article I wrote for our Batch website about unrequited love. (Go visit !)

Do you know what I find completely hilarious about the whole unrequited love thing? It’s the way people deal with it. Everybody has their own way of coping with rejection, but some ways are just unbelievably dumb. You’d think a college sophomore would know better, but a surprising number of them still act like a bunch of sixth graders when it comes to the love department. I think that’s really funny.

Now, I’m no love guru, but let me break down the whole unrequited love process and tell you exactly why certain actions go way past laughable and become annoying. Romantic love begins with attraction, be it one-sided or mutual. We are all human, but the ironic thing is that nobody gets attracted to somebody “flawed”, unless you’re a moron. The common response is for the Attractor to think that the Attractee is the ultimate embodiment of perfection and godhood, to that point that even his/her flaws look cute on him/her. The sick part is that people have a strange inferiority complex that states that they are scum, imperfect and flawed. Placed beside someone they consider to be Godlike in nature, they are left with little to feel but a wretched sense of inadequacy.
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VS System

Hell week is about to begin. All I can see in front of me are deadlines and ineffecient groupmates and it’s annoying me. At least Shokoy apologized to me for being such an asshole and finally agreed to comply. But as for my Filipino group–arrrrrgh. During the past week, I have gone to school in a relatively good mood, only for it to be ruined two hours later because of something my groupmates didn’t do. It gets very annoying after awhile and I am so counting the days until the project is finally done.

The only thing that makes going to school something to look forward to is the VS System. Most of my friends play, which makes it wonderful because I never run out of people to play against. There’s just something so relaxing and therapeutic about figuratively beating the crap out of your opponent. I’m getting pretty good at the game and next semester, I will probably join the tourneys at the card shop across school.