Dream, Believe, Survive!

"I can almost see it, that dream I’m dreaming but, there’s a voice inside my head saying, you’ll never reach it…"

One night, as I was reviewing my lessons, thoughts about being a student occupied my mind. Being one is not that easy because it is hard for me to make all things possible or perfect. Sometimes, I can’t even fulfill the expectations of people surrounding me. There are also times when I put myself down and say, “I can’t do this, I am not good enough.” After how many hours of thinking, I came to my senses that I don’t need to make al things possible or perfect or even be very problematic on thinking how to meet people’s expectations. All that I have to do is to play my part, to do all things that I can and give it my best shot. After these thoughts haunted me, I fell into a deep slumber just like ‘Sleeping Beauty’.


3-in-1 Fun!

I can still remember the feeling of excitement that surged inside when the Science and Math Club revealed that there will be a Science Fair in our School entitled, “Science in Motion”. When I joined the fair, my knowledge about science widened. We first entered a room wherein we watched a short movie about the very controversial Global Warming. As I watched, there’s something stirred inside of me which made me very emotional. The movie deepened the concern I feel for our dear Mother Earth. I realized how much pain and suffering we’ll feel because of our own fault.

And then, we went to another section wherein different amazing gadgets can be found. What a great place it is! Full of mind bogging and unbelievable gadgets, I can’t decide where to look at. What gadgets I enjoyed the most were the ‘Body Conductor’ and the ‘Magic Eye’. The ‘Body Conductor’ was a great try! I finally felt how to be electrified within just a matter of seconds. While the ‘Magic Eye’ exercised or strained my eyes at first because of staring at the frames for a very long time. But after I got the technique, my eye strain was relieved and a great and precious joy came upon me. The images I saw were marvelous and undeniably terrific!

And at last, here we are at the last room where we can experience the unbelievable dubbing and chroma key. I enjoyed this section because some students were able to try to speak for the characters of Naruto and Sakura in the cartoon ‘Naruto Shippuden’ in the dubbing portion while others acted like Superman fling high above the sky some danced underwater in the music ‘Nobody’ with the help of chroma key.

As darkness extinguishes the warm rays of the sun, I sighed and then said, “What a great day it is! I hope that this fun and exciting activity would happen again!”

What?!

It was a sunny morning and the fresh breeze brushed upon my face. I was about to enter the campus with a smile on my lips because this was the moment I’ve waited for, the Intramural. The sight of bright colored athletic attires met my gaze. I greeted my friends ‘good luck’ and gave them a big hug then I went straight to the place where I should be, in the Green Vipers lane, a moment later, the parade started. It was followed by the “Search for Mr. and Ms. Intramural 2009” wherein both candidates from the Gold Tigers got the title.’ Dance Showdown’ came and all teams gave their best shots and showed their coordination and graceful moves.

In the afternoon, while the sun shone brightly above us all, the ball games started. I can hear the scream and cheer of all students for their perspective teammates. I see the eagerness to grab the gold in all athletes’ faces. Each one plays his part and does it in a fair and just way. Everybody are enjoying the first day of the Intramural while I, I don’t know where should I go. Should I go into the auditorium and supervise the film viewing or should I go and cheer my teammates? Of course, I went to the auditorium and then sometimes, I go down. I do this all over again. The first day ended and my feet really ached because of going up and down, going here and there. When I came home, I did nothing but to lie on my bed, hug my pillow and went to a deep sleep.

The next day, I woke up early to my excitement of what will happen on the 2nd day of Intramural. I went to school early and to my surprise, I’m not the only one who’s excited but almost all Charlesian. I have to do the same routine just like yesterday and I’m glad that I’m doing it, haha! Whoops! I think I’ve heard that we’ll have our first game! Oh my God! I’m about to play basketball! This is it; I ran here and there, dribble then pass, again and again. Huh, my heart beats as if it’ll explode, I can’t chase my breath and I sweat a lot! The game ended and aww, sad to say, but we lose. Its okay, atleast we enjoyed, right? And there’s another game, we’re still tired but we have to play. Same thing with our first game, we lost in our second game. The word loser kept on ringing in my head but I said to myself that it’s not about whether we won or lose as long as we played it fair and just. Oh, I almost forgot, I got some memorabilia- scratches on my knees, haha, not just because of playing basketball but also in ‘luksong baka’. At the end of the day, I went home with a scratch and the identity of being a looser.

Third day is the championship day. I didn’t go to the auditorium but I screamed my throat out, cheering for the Green Vipers competing for the championship. The screams and cheers are louder than the past two days. Then after all the championship games were finished, the battle for the best junior and senior Latin dancer was held. The dancers entertained everybody as they grooved and swayed gracefully on the dance floor.

The final day of our Intramural 2009 was suspended because of the “Typhoon Ondoy”, that’s why we celebrated it on Monday. All teams still competed in the ‘Singing Duets’. Every contestant showed how lovely and enchanted their voices are. Also, students displayed their God-given talents in the ‘SCA Idol’ wherein the group of my classmates Shernie, Dempel, Jonniene, Sophia and Krizzle won because of their unique and amazing performance. At last, rockers of SCA rocked the campus with their headbanging songs and beats. The over-all champion was announced the next morning… none other than the silent killers… the Green Vipers! Really? Are they sure? Oh my goodness gracious! ‘Go Green Vipers, go! Vipers grab the gold!’

The Intramural 2009 was truly a big, big fun and experience!