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So much stuff has been happening lately.

I don’t have the time to blog about everything, but I have been keeping a journal.

Something major happened yesterday and just an hour ago in school.

I’ve been having problems with my band and all. Two of our members wouldn’t and cannot tolerate each other. There was lots of shouting and crying that happened yesterday.

I’ve wanted to leave my band since last January. All we’ve been is just being bandmates. Some of us were never friends at all… even with the three years of being together as a band. Apparently, all of us were playing just for the sake of playing… me included in that. And I really don’t want that to happen anymore. I want to play because I want to play. I want to enjoy what I do. And I was nothing but choked and trapped when I was in the band. I couldn’t do what I had wanted to do. I wanted to sing. I wanted to write songs. I never got the chance to do all of that. I may not have the nicest voice and all, but that’s what I want to do. I want to sing.

Being in a band for three years taught me a lot of things. I’ve done things that I have not done before when I was in this band. Late night practices, band practices in places that I’d never expect to practice in, hanging out in each others’ houses, playing in concerts, getting invited to stuff, being backstage and meeting celebrities, being recognized by lots of people around you, performing in the rain, riding the octopus, hanging out with cool bands, being friends with people that I never knew I would be friends with at all, improving my skill in playing the guitar, and lots more stuff. 

It hurts that we had to separate and go in our own ways, but I was not liking what was happening anymore. The purpose of playing as a band disappeared. Everyone was not enjoying what they were doing anymore. I had so much memories with my band, and I really appreciate every single thing that has happened. I don’t regret anything at all. But sometimes some things just need to end to make way for new beginnings. 

It hurts to say goodbye. I had formed this band, and now I am letting go of it. I started the band, and now I am ending it. It’s sad, it really is. But I offer everything to God. I don’t know His plan for me, but I know that He’s already started His plan for me.

I love you, CMC! I love you, Color Me Cliche! You will always be the first band that I have ever been in, the band that had ignited the spark in me, the band where I really grew as a guitar player. CMC will always have a special place in my heart that no one can ever replace. And I feel sad that it had to end, that it had to end this way. I am going to miss our adventures, our band practices, our gigs, our bonding moments.

Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you very very very very very very very much! 

My career won’t end here. I would still want to play, and I know I always, always, always will.

~~~Mima :)

The amount of work that the school has been giving us is toxic.

I’ve got 4 different…. make that 6 different paragraphs with different topics to write for World History. Half should contain people from the Renaissance and the other half shall include people from the French and the American Revolutions. I’d have to pretend I’m convincing TIME Magazine to include these people in their top 100 most influential people in history…. IN 5-8 SENTENCES PER PERSON ONLY!!!!!!!! HOW IS THAT POSSIBLE?!?!?!??!

I have to write 4 articles and AN ENTIRE COLUMN for our English magazine (which is the performance task for the quarter).

I have to finish up an Advanced Algebra take home quiz.

I have to type in my English take home quiz on the March sisters of Little Women.

I have to answer the questions needed for my Health take home quiz that has something to do with mental disorders blahblah.

I’ve got a quarterly test on computer programming (looping using visual basic) on Thursday.

I’ve got a quiz on World History on Thursday too.

Then there’s our midquarter test on Filipino which will include the entirety of Dekada ‘70, five “short” stories, teoryang pampanitikan, background information on short stories.

Then we’d have to “MAKE” regular polygon-shaped tiles for our Geometry performance task….

We’d have to shoot our own educational cooking show for Chemistry and it’s due next, next Monday.

I’d have to write a lesson plan on mining in preparation for our public school teaching on January.

We’re making pineapple jam for T.H.E. on Friday.

We’re gonna choreograph a dance for prom on Thursday.

And next week, it’s already OUR THIRD QUARTERLY EXAMS AND I AM NOWHERE NEAR READY!!!!!!!!

Battle of the Bands is on the 6th of January and we need to make time for band practices.

I don’t know what to do anymore. I’m dead tired. I don’t know if I can finish all of these stuff and submit them on time!!!!!!!!!

Let me just cry.

So, I just came home from our IFT. I was part of cluster 8, the health and medical sciences cluster, but specifically surgery.

I HAD AN AWESOOOOOOOOOOOOOME TIME!

We went to two universities:

• University of the Philippines Manila (College of Medicine)
• University of Santo Tomas (College of Medicine division)

And we also went to three hospitals:

• Philippine General Hospital (PGH)
• UST Hospital
• Medical City

We went to PGH first, and we toured the entire hospital. We even went to the main charity wards, pay wards, and we peeked in the ICUs (intensive care units)!!!!!!!!

We crossed the street after our PGH tour and headed to UP Manila. Three former AA students toured us around UP. We went to the morgue (it was empty though, but the smell of formaline still made us dizzy).

Right beside the morgue, there was the place where in they kept specimens of preserved organs, tumors, rare tumors, fetuses, AND EVEN FETUSES OF RARE CASES LIKE CONJOINED TWINS!!!!! There were also fetuses with rare abnormalities! They were just in big glass jars! In this place, we were getting teary-eyed because of the strong smell of formaline. I was also really, really, really shocked because it was my first time to see fetuses in jars. We weren’t able to visit the cadaver dissection area in UP because some students did not have classes today.

We headed to UST after visiting UP Manila. The head of surgery toured us around. We toured classrooms, lecture halls, and other stuff. And in UST, WE WENT INSIDE THEIR CADAVER DISSECTION HALL. The hall where in they had the cadavers was really big!!! There were about more than fifty tables in the hall with cadavers on them! They were inside leather bags though. The guy who toured us opened one of those bags and showed us a cadaver. It was already half dissected. It smelled funny too. The entire hall smelled funny. It did not smell like formaline, but more of a pungent, rotting smell…. prolly because of the 50 cadavers in the room. MY OTHER CLASSMATES TOUCHED THE CADAVER WITH BARE HANDS! On the other tables, there were body parts dissected out of the cadavers! There was a head cut in half! You can actually see the brain, the spinal cord, the tongue even! IT WAS SO COOOOOL! There were lots of rooms in UST with preserved organs/tumors/body parts/ and more fetuses. There were about 25 fetuses that I saw in UST. There were conjoined twins too! It was so sad to see that some of the fetuses did not have any abnormalities, they were just aborted. :(

The guy who toured us around also brought us to UST hospital. We saw the charity wards and everything else.

After that, we headed to Greenhills to eat lunch. I met up with my aunt and Luke. I had a Happy Lemon drink and the new Golden Spoon flavor: RED VELVET!!!!!!!!!

We went to Medical City, which was our last stop, after eating lunch. Some lady just toured us around the hospital. We went to the rehab area and it was so cool because they had some sort of gym thinggo that looks better than Fitness First or something. We went to the surgery floor, and toured around. We also toured around the delivery/labor rooms. Unfortunately, there was just ONE baby in the nursery so…. And then we accidentally saw one of our batchmates in the hospital. IN THE CARDIO AND PULMONARY AREA!!!! She was sick! So we ended up visiting her in her room hahahahahaha

Everything I saw and went to today was so cool and awesome. And I am hella exhausted because of the thousand stair steps that we walked today in all of those places!!!!