First of all.

I have a deadline on October 2. Our school's Sportfest is on November 13, so that means we have to start making batch t-shirt designs!

I feel a little inspired, I have a few ideas on my sleeve. Now that I'm a Senior, the color of our shirt is red. I'll be working extra hard now, it's my last year, I want my batch to win, not only in the batch t-shirt, but as an overall winner of the Sportfest.

I never really did went through uploading our batch shirt design here in my gallery, but I will, just not at the moment. Hehehe.


Second of all.

Last September 16 (Wednesday) was our English Extemporaneous Speech Contest (for the Seniors, since the Juniors' contest was about the Hamlet Soliloquy by William Shakespeare), and I was a contestant, the same teacher who entered me when I was a first year student. A week before the contest, she told me and I didn't want to join...AT ALL. But sadly, I never got time to back out.

I have the baddest stage-fright...EVER. So I really didn't think I would survive it. I'm deathly afraid of going onstage with a lot of people watching.

They already gave us the topics, 14 topics and 10 contestants. And since it's EXTEMPORANEOUS, we will only draw the question from the ballots when a contestant is already giving his/her speech. So all of us has at least 2 minutes. So when I got home, I already did a few notes on all 14 questions.

Anyway, I was one of the props people for the English program, so the day before the whole contest, me and a few other props people and their also my friends, Erika, Alfred, and Claudine, was with me, we're rushing everything, so we were painting a 6 pcs. cartolina (kind of like a thin cardboard paper) poster. And we didn't finish it, since we did it after class while the intermissions performers were practicing (we were at our school performance hall).

So the next day, I had to wake up freakin' 5 AM early, just to get to school on 6:00 sharp. Thank goodness we finished it.

But while were finishing, I was nerve-wrecked, in minutes I would be up on stage giving the speech. Moving on...

The Juniors were first to go with their soliloquy.

So we, the contestants, are all in the backstage, we were all feeling queasy. It was freaky, my hands feel cold but my face is warm.

And you know what I did? I prayed to God that He'll give me the confidence and strength to get through this, win or lose, I want to be done with it. I was number 9 by the way, lucky me that I'm second to the last.

When it was my turn to pick the question, since number 8 is already on stage, I got the question that goes something like this: "Will Science a.) save the world b.) end the world c.) do neither" (my answer is C).

And then when it was my turn to give my speech, I took a deep breath, looked back at the people backstage and went to the mic stand, they said I should smile, keep eye contact, and be poise. At first I couldn't think, but finally, words became available in my head. I skipped a few beats, but I still went on. And I noticed that I was trembling in the middle of my speech so I took hold of the mic stand with my other hand. And finally, I was done, I went back stage and then went offstage back to my seat on the first row.

I'm also the photographer (since I'm an English club member), so I was taking pictures. When it was time for everyone to know the winners for the Seniors division, guess who got called on the 3rd prize? I was called and I didn't know where to put my SLR. LOL!

Yeah, my last year and I won a medal in a Speech contest. It felt great. So that's the 2nd medal I got for this school year.


3rd and last.

Since the New Moon movie is already near, I'm already planning to make a soundtrack. The first soundtrack will be all of my choices, but that will be including "Already Gone" by Kelly Clarkson and "Meet Me On The Equinox" by Death Cab For Cutie. And when I get the real playlist, I'll make a cover for it too.

For the moment, I'm out of ideas, been brainstorming for the shirt.

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That's all.

Thanks to all who read this. I know I suck at summaries. Hahaha! But if you meet me in person, I'm quite quiet. LOL! But I'm talkative when I have to be.

Here's a and God bless!