coicoi’s Blog

Before the year ended, I promised
myself that I would write at least one blog about anything under the sun. I
tried to write before, but I just can’t finish a simple story. And so, I
decided to sum up all things that happened to me in the past year. It was one
hell of a roller coaster..

My close friend Gilbert called
(after knowing that I dropped all of my subjects in the last month of 2003,
lacked the urge to go to school after having problems with the school’s
teaching method) in the early months of the year informing that his cousin is
in need of a database administrator for his grocery store. So I got the job and
stayed for nearly 3 months.

I decided to resign because my
body is having difficulties in adjusting to my working hours. I usually wake up
10 a.m. then suddenly I wake up at 6. I’m not a computer that you just have to
adjust the settings and then it’ll follow!

Then enrollment came for the
first trimester, so I went back to school without minding what’s going on
around it and their teaching method they wanted to press on to the students. I
got assigned at BEAM (Philippines – Australia Basic Education
Assistance for Mindanao) for my “On the Job Training”. I have to wake up early again; it was
a cool experience working with foreigners though.

An annual computer graphics
competition was on! Being the defending champions, I told my teammates and
worked on our entry for a week. We were hoping to get the Grand Slam.
Unfortunately, we got the place next to the champion.

I was halfway through my second
trimester when we had financial problems. So, I had to stop my studies again.
It was also the time when I found out that a filmmaking competition was up. I
called a couple of friends, looked for some sponsors and supporters (thanks to BEAM
for the support), and went on with the competition. And again, I got nothing
this time. Doomed huh?!

I felt the previous year was a
bad year for me. Got dumped from the two competitions that I entered into (the
year before, I got major awards from those! Err!), had to stop my studies,
also, add the fare rate from my place to the city! But then I realized, there
are so many things to be thankful for. A challenging life, a growing strong
relationship with my better half, lot of friends (..and counting!), good and
bad experiences, a solid family and a mighty God that’s always there for me.

Well, it wasn’t  a bad year after all…