The song Bad Day by Daniel Powter does not justify this day. Horrendous is more like it. You see, I wanted to go to Splash Island because I haven’t been there in a long time so I texted some of my friends if they wanna come. Only 3 made it due because of the short notice, Paul, Liz and her bf, Alex.

We took a bus bound to Pacita in Ayala. Pacita Complex was our “bayan” when I was a kid living in San Pedro, Laguna and it was a surprise being there after all these years. We took a tricycle to Splash Island and after a somewhat long trip, we arrived there before the guard stopped us and said, “Sarado po ang Splash Island ngayon….may nagpareserve, bukas na lang po.” I wanted to shout, “ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME?” but maintained my cool despite the scorching heat and asked the driver to take us back to Pacita. When we got back, I suggested we should just go to Enchanted Kingdom because it will just be one short jeepney ride to Sta. Rosa but they wanted to go swimming. We, or rather, they decided to just go to Pansol (a place I’m somewhat sick of) and look for a resort there. Took another jeepney going to Calamba and rode another tricycle and ask to take us to any good but budget-friendly resort. The driver took us to a place called Ria Resort and pool and it’s beyond disgusting.

See, a quality that I hate about myself is I’m sort of a pushover. So, I am forced to pay 300 bucks for the entrance fee and a room for our things. After changing to my swim clothes, we headed to the pool area and to my horror, the pool is…green and murky? I didn’t want my friends to think I’m maarte so I got in anyway, trying not to think about all the itchiness in my body.

Paul and I talked and we both wanted to go home, like right away. We even thought about ditching the others but that will be so bad or maybe it wouldn’t considering the condition of the pool. We managed to survive only for 2 hours and went home, trying not to think that we wasted 500 bucks for that horrible experience.

Lesson learned? Insist harder on Enchanted Kingdom! You can never go wrong with Space Shuttle and Rio Grande Rapids.

I FUCKING HATE DIAL-UP!!!!! I don’t know if it’s always been this slow or it’s just with PLDT Vibe. Argghhh… give me back my DSL! Please PLDT guys, I’m begging you, come over to our house and install it already! I’m nearly close into killing myself because of this fucking slow connection.

I’m suppose to be in a pool right now somewhere in Laguna but my parents attended this 10 hour long wedding for some people they barely even know. They just arrived home right now and said that we’ll be leaving tomorrow at 4am instead. Screw it, I’m not joining them anymore. I’d rather spend Sunday here at home having a Friends marathon.

Here it is, I’m feeling it again. I’m starting to go back to being the old Mark. The old person who’s a loner, the old person who is selfish. I started feeling it when I stepped back into the familiar small halls of my college. In there, I was a nobody.

You know what, I’m starting to think, maybe it’s better this way. In the past years, I grew attached to people around me and then I realized, when you don’t expect things to happen the way you want it, you just end up being really disappointed. After all, isn’t it that the higher you get, the harder the fall? My life isn’t at all complicated but when you get tangled in their mess, you know the drill.

When I’m a full-time student again, I’ll be hanging out again with my friends in school. I use to think it’s pointless hanging out with those people because our friendship is shallow. First-name basis, academic talks and sometimes pointless discussion about some geeky stuffs that I couldn’t care less about. I’m starting to see the positive in all that. They could not hurt me because I don’t care that much about them, we only see each other at school and we certainly have our own lives after classes are over.

When I’m a student again, it’s just me, my mac and a tall cup of coffee. I can’t even think of a more perfect company.

I think I might finish my degree early as expected. My target completion date is by the end of the 2nd term which is on December but due to my eagerness to graduate, I might be able to do it 3 months earlier. I manage to squeeze in all subjects possible in my load for this term. 2 of them is a tutorial class with one in which I am the only student, the rest are really really hard ones with extra difficult final projects.

If I manage to pass all my subjects this term, then that leaves only 2 and an internship program. Funny how I worked as a programmer for more than a year and be an intern again after. Talk about falling down the career ladder. I’m eyeing to companies for my internship: Nestle and Lufthansa, both of them just right beside the Power Plant Mall, how awesome is that? Of course, I’d rather prefer to be in Lufthansa so I sorta have a record with them when I apply for a First Officer pilot in the future…

Ha! Dream on Mark!

First day of classes. For normal students, it’s the day they’ve all been dreading for as they will not be able to just stay at home and watch Oprah (OK, maybe the Oprah part is not for the normal ones). Yesterday is that day for Mapuans and the weirdest thing is… I was excited. I really am. After being gone for almost 6 months, I was excited to see the inside of a classroom again, to be with people the same age as I am and to learn something new.

From the moment I woke up, I know that day should be special. I ditched my usual work get-up of knitted polo and replaced it with a fitted vintage tee, faded jeans and chucks. I waxed my hair pointing up in the way that birds who accidentally land on it would die immediately. I looked at the mirror, muttered “I’m in college again,” and beamed my best toothpaste commercial smile. Enough of that, it only shows how much of a nerd I am.

Work, work, work, scrap that. Surf, surf, surf the web at work until 5:30pm. I quickly left work and rushed into school even though my class won’t start until 6. I lost my ID already so I have to fight with the guard and say that I’ll have it replaced immediately. I bumped into some of my old friends and had a little chat. When I said that I resigned from work to go back to studying they all say “Are you fucking crazy?” If only they have any idea how much my work sucks.

For now I was able to enroll only 1 subject which is Modeling and Simulation Theory, a hard one I heard. I intend to change that and enroll in a tutorial class for the other subjects as financially possible. I have 7 left to take before I can receive that precious diploma. Here’s hoping this is all done by the end of the year or earlier so I could start my journey on becoming a pilot.

And so it begins:
Bachelor’s Degree (B.S. CS) > Private Pilot (PPL) > Commercial Pilot (CPL) > Airline Transport Pilot (ATPL) > World Domination