Sports-filled Sunday

June 10th marked significant episodes in the field of sports. Here are those, consecutively, in Philippine time:

1. NBA Eastern Conference Game 7 of Miami Heat and Boston Celtics
2. Manny Pacquiao versus Timothy Bradley for the former's Welterweight title
3. Shakey's V-League Season 9 First Conference Finals Game 3 between University of Santo Tomas and Ateneo de Manila University
4. French Open 2012 Men's Tennis Finals, Rafael Nadal versus Novak Djokovic

Yup, it was a sports-filled Sunday. And 'twas good that the odds were on my favor today.

Scripps and Spelling Bees

I watched a few episodes of the telecast of the Scripps National Spelling Bee 2012, and I must say that that was one heck of a Spelling competition. Kids not beyond their eighth grade spell words of different origins and, I reckon, out-of-this-world words - words I could not even pronounce myself and words I hardly knew ever existed - in front of a live audience. That's why I highly revere them for their dedication to spelling in such young ages.

   With that, I share that I can relate to their situation, because I joined twice in a spelling bee competition way back when. I was in third year High School, representing my school and competing against the fifteen others in our division. I was blessed with a 2nd place during that year, 2008. But since I wasn't able to be in first place, I was again sent to contest during my fourth year in High School. Although, sadly, I slid down to third place for a reason that I was not conditioned that much compared to the year before. But I was happy, for I brought honor to my school for two consecutive years, and to think that I beat the others being the second and third place among fifteen.

   That was so long ago that I already lost my keen sense of spelling words often misspelled. How do you correctly spell accommodate again? What about lieutenant? Ack, I need to redeem my spelling prowess.

Keen Literacy

continue what you do, kid

Sitting on the floor looking for some books shelved under, I set an eye to this kid who grabbed a book from the children’s section and positioned on the floor for a read.

Excursion

People in attendance during that day (Me not included since I was taking the photo)

Although the planned reunion wasn't really a reunion since the class weren't in quota, still a day with High School friends is fun as it still was way back when.

Family Day

Sundays are usually the day to spend with the family, and today the Reyeses had a chance to gather and have fun together at San Antonio Beach Resort. Well it is actually like a despedida celebration for my sister who will be leaving for an international flight in June for work abroad. Our family was complete at one sitting on the rarest times.

I missed the Internet

I missed the Internet.

All the activities I used to enjoy during the vacation are things that I am now looking forward to, since I was drained by my academic stresses in the fast-paced summer classes. I need to recover myself from this exhaustion and I can see that the Internet can do it very well for me.

A new semester is coming soon and my summer subjects will finally be put into end by Saturday of this week. But despite that, there is an idea which terrifies me that we will have our qualifying exam on the next. Pressure is on ours in the next two weeks for we will face significant challenges of our courses. But I believe that we shall conquer them and be able to survive Engineering's wrath, hopefully smoothly.

All that, I should lay down and keep calm about. Although you cannot take away from my face that I've been mentally tired and used by my summer subjects.

I missed the Internet. Forgive my redundancy, but I just missed the Internet so much I had to repeat it over and over again.

Engineers' Brethren

An engineer, or likewise an engineering student, will not survive his craft if he has no calculator in hand. He or she is not capable of solving problems on mathematical applications without ever having computing it in a calculator unless solved by arithmetic sense.