Thinking Out Loud

Over the past week, many thoughts have been going on in my head… there’s the echo of our current lesson in Physics regarding the thermal efficiency of heat engines,... then, there's the nightmare on the world of sines, cosines, tangents, secants, cosecants, cotangents, ek ek… and, there’s that danger light flashing in my brain that serves as my warning and it reads: "MAGBASA-BASA KA NA SA PANITIKAN KUNG NAIS MO PA PUMASA!!!" hehe… cos fast fact lang: I have NEVER read a single chapter of any school book since I was a kid (except those for book reports and my science books), nor do I ever listen to the teachers (except in science again, and music- and probably also in stats, public speaking and methods of research)… I’m the type of person who basically just jots down notes and that’s it… so ewan ko lang pano ako pumapasa…hehe… I’ve never encountered doing any serious studying in my whole entire life! Ü

Anyway, all those thoughts in my head kept me "busy" lately… but during spare times, I couldn’t help but ponder on what was to become of my college life and life after that… it was only this week that I once again began panicking… wondering if I had made a right choice…
Listed below are the choices I had for college:

1. Medicine
2. Music
3. Culinary Arts
4. HRM
5. Mass Communications

Right now, the plan I have is to take Mass Communications then go on pursuing my real desire, Med. Not too bad, considering Mass Comm. is still on my top 5 choices. But somehow, I’m hoping I could wait that long… this route would take a minimum of 14 years!!! Golly wow! Imagine that time plus, the time I need to take up a specialization… oh well, it would all be worth it…

Music, let’s just say I was inspired to take this up when my "former" confidante (and then best friend) suggested I take this up instead of med during my junior years… he’s my music teacher and also our choir moderator… he kept giving my ego a lift saying things like "kaya mo iyan" or "galing-galing mo sa pagkanta/ sa choir/ sa music eh" or "sobrang gifted ka naman sa music eh,.. mag music ka na!" Yeah, it did intrigue me to, as he said, "explore the awesome world of music"… after all, music was another one of my passions…

Culinary Arts, one-year course that would allow you to earn as much as half a million dollars per month! But my parents still thought of it as a no-no, saying that I wouldn’t get to have a good future if I took that up and that I’d just end up being a waitress…READ: C-U-L-I-N-A-R-Y! CULINARY=CHEFS, not WAITERS… no use pointing out HRM, since they said almost the same things…
But now, as I think of it, somehow, it’s a blessing in disguise that I didn’t get to take up culinary arts…. I think now that would just have been a major insult to my abilities… the CSAT says it all, baby. Ü

Now, all that’s left is medicine, my top choice! … And I really am feeling so guilty I haven’t taken a shot at UPM, when earlier this school year I’ve been planning to take an entrance for their College of Medicine… grrr!
Medicine’s been my interest since I was probably a kid! I remember the last time I even went to the States, the first thing I actually bought with my own money was this book on nutritional healing, I used all my money then (which my uncle gave me) just to buy that book and I must say, it’s very useful till now. Aside from my interest, there was one more important reason I bought that book. When we stayed in Hawaii for some days (this was our first destination), I had suddenly gotten sick with tonsillitis… a SEVERELY painful tonsillitis. Despite all the medications I’ve been trying, my condition just seemed to grow worse until I saw that book and decided to check it out.. I looked under tonsillitis and then I saw under the list of recommendations listed… yogurt. Yes, yogurt... who would have thought?! I quickly informed my mom and we decided to opt for that instead of those other drugs I had been taking. Days later, I noticed the pain was gone! We wanted to go back and buy the book but alas, there was no time. We had to leave soon for our flight to San Francisco… imagine my delight when I saw that book in one of the stores in San Francisco, I quickly went nearer and found that I was in luck… it was their last copy (good thing my uncle gave me money on that day!)… *continued next post*