Aspirations

As a president, I want my own strengths to resurface: organization, structure, dependability, dedication to quality. I want the levelheadedness, privacy, and work ethic of Mike Pedro and I want passion, character, friendliness...

As a human, I need to learn lessons:

• STRIVE.
• It's not what happens to you; it's what you do afterward that defines you.
• Always do the right thing.
• Give people the benefit of the doubt--especially when you know them.
• Even when people don't deserve it, be compassionate and, at the very least, friendly.
• Feel. In order to live life, you've got to feel things, whether it's happiness, pain, anger, or confusion.
• Be uncomfortable. It's only then when we can really grow.
• The world is a fufcked up place, so it's on us to make it better.
• Family is important. Family is important. Family is important.
• Take care of yourself; that includes your actual body.
• There's a reason and purpose for everything that happens.
  

I know I have a lot to work on, but I'm gonna try to develop my potential. To me, taking on Barkada is the best opportunity for growth. Some areas to improve upon: motivation, communication, decision making, composure.

Side note: if I am elected president, Barkada will be my boyfriend.

Key elements I want to stress:

• academics
• culture
• social
• sports
• alumni
• philanthropy
• support/teamwork
• communication
• growth as individuals
• interpersonal relations

The keynote speaker at yesterday's Golden Key induction was pretty good. I don't know why it took him to convince me. Don't settle for mediocrity. Be a leader.

good times

I know that in corporate world I said that I wasn't scared of the "real world" and life as a full-time employee, but as another year comes to an end, I keep thinking about how much I'm gonna miss college.

I hope I don't treat it like high school; I wanna come back and visit as much as possible.

College has been an awesome experience. Hands down the best years of my life thus far. Growth, education, and fun.

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!

8 quarters down, 1 in progress, and 3 more to go...

girls vs. women (taken from jowee)

Girls leave their schedule wide-open and wait for a guy to call and make plans.
Grown women make their own plans and nicely tell the guy to get in where he fits in.

Girls want to control the man in their life.
Grown women know that if he is truly hers, he doesn't need controlling.

Girls check you for not calling them.
Grown women are too busy to realize you hadn't.

Girls try to put a man 'on lock' by using sex.
Grown women know that it is the sex of the mental kind that makes a man want to lock YOU down.

Girls fake-moan, lay there and take the jabbing.
Grown women say, "just stop", get up, get dressed and walk out.

Girls are afraid to be alone.
Grown women revel in it-- using it as a time for personal growth.

Girls ignore the good guys.
Grown women ignore the bad guys.

Girls make you come.
Grown women make you come home.

Girls worry about not being pretty and/or good enough for their man.
Grown women know that they are pretty and/or good enough for any man.

Girls try to monopolize all their man's time (i.e, don't want him to have "guy time".)
Grown women realize that a lil' bit of space makes the 'together time' even more special -- and goes to hang out with her own friends!

Girls think a guy who cries is weak.
Grown women offer their shoulder and a tissue.

Girls want to be spoiled and 'tell' their man so.
Grown women 'show' him and make him comfortable enough to reciprocate w/o fear of losing his 'manhood'.

Girls get hurt by one man and make all men pay for it.
Grown women know that that was just one man.

Girls fall in love, chase aimlessly after the object of their affection, ignoring all 'signs'.
Grown women know that sometimes the one you love, don't always love you back -- and move on, without bitterness.

Girls will read this and get an attitude.
Grown women will read this and pass it on to other women!!

everything changes

So tomorrow is Alumni Sabbath at San Gabriel Academy (SGA) [crappy website, though]. I attended SGA for my entire high school career. I met a lot of awesome people and learned a lot (probably more things not related to academia). There was drama and there were good times. I loved high school.













But I haven't really been back since I left.

It's gonna be weird walking back on-campus. I know it's only been three years, but I feel like I've changed so much, especially over this past year. Comparing my life now to how it was before... so much has changed. My circle of friends, my opinions, my accomplishments, my awareness of culture...

Cal Poly Pomona has been a great choice. Sometimes I wonder (and I've also been asked), what am I doing at CPP? I probably could've gone somewhere else... maybe some place more prestigious. But hey, the choice has been made and I've done what I could with it.

It's crazy to think that in a year I'll be starting my last quarter of college.

Next year itself is gonna be weird with all the dinosaurs graduating...

Damn.

I've had the luxury of having others stick around; until now I've still had older people to look up to in Barkada. There will still be some next year, but it's just weird to think that I'll be one of the higher ups now...

Anyhoooo. I think I totally got off topic.

Point: things change. Hopefully people can deal with it.

lesson

Everyone has good and not so good parts to them. Acknowledge that and deal with it. Don't dwell on the bad parts. Try to work through those differences to appreciate the good they do have.

Spring Quarter 2007

It looks like it's gonna be a good quarter!!!

• Managerial Statistics (TOM 302) - hybrid class (only meets Wednesdays instead of both Mondays & Wednesdays); cool teacher; online quizzes; tests on how to use statistic software
• Interactive Marketing (IBM 326) - a bit scary (50% of our grade is a group project!), but definitely interesting; cool teacher; toward the end of the quarter, we won't have class meetings, only group meetings
  
• Intro to Ethnic Studies (EWS 140) - cool teacher (Barkada's very own advisor!); a lot of writing, but interesting subject; no class this Thursday; group project on a community
  
• Data Modeling (CIS 345) - a lot of people say she's a crazy teacher, but she's not that bad; interesting subject; option to work individually or in a pair (i'm opting to work alone) for the projects in which we reverse engineer a data model for a website; no class 5/29

For the most part, each class is interesting, has a cool teacher, or both! It's gonna be a bit demanding. I hope I can put more effort into this quarter than I did with last quarter. ::crosses fingers::

gaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!

Sometimes, some people piss you off the instant you start talking to them.

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I Just CAIN'T Give Up Now!

Thank You for Smoking

Thank You for Smoking

I can't wait until Netflix sends this!!!

Great Moments in Spin

• "If the gloves don't fit, you must acquit." --Johnny Cochran
• "My band played the wrong song." --Ashlee Simpson
• "But I didn't inhale." --Bill Clinton
• "It's what I would call a terrorist surveillance program." --George W. Bush
• "It was a wardrobe malfunction." --Janet Jackson
  

feelings

I already feel like Spring Quarter 2007's gonna be another "I can't wait until this quarter's over!" Quarter... T=

I'm gonna be HELLA chill till Monday.