👻 Operation October: II (Achy Breaky Down)

👻Operation October: I (Revising in Grids)

“Believe that you have it and it shall be yours.”

May this month be filled with fruitful and fun-filled adventures with a tiny bit of wondrous nocturnal discoveries.

On the first two days of October, I just revised my notes on Trig, Music, Chemistry, and Physics.

One of my objectives this month is to emphasize the importance of note-taking and revision. I remember my previous year when I spent the whole academic year tearing up pages of my notebook because it wasn't "creative". Every night I go downstairs with lots of old colored pens and my Math notebook, forcing myself to write unpracticed calligraphy of the word Factoring. However, as I try to mitigate my perfectionism these days, I learned to just use my single black Panda Crystal Ballpen, correction tape, and plain grid notebook. As I skim through my notes, I felt comfortable and more grateful than I was.

Though I was weeks late in revision due to adapting to a new learning routine, my current situation also teaches me to learn time management because no one will do it for me.

Mid-autumn Missions:

Improve my performance in doing tasks, individually or in a group.

Ace every recitation and exam in every subject.

Apply the knowledge I have learned and will learn throughout the quarter.

Make every day enjoyable and worth living!

I may not be as apt as my classmates, but I'm still the most competent 😊.

"The only difference between your abilities and others is the ability to put yourself in their shoes and actually try." - Leonardo Ruiz

Cheers to another season of the narcoleptic, nocturnal, nerdy owl's adventures 🥂!

owlallthumbs, signing in! 🦉

👻 Operation October: IV (Epilogue)

🏆 This is mine to work, mine to win. I want to win and I am going to win.

All the best to my fellow narcoleptic, nocturnal, nerdy owls out there! 🍀🍀🍀

9th Grade, Manila Science High School, "Sustaining the tradition of excellence."

“May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness. I hope you read some fine books and kiss someone who thinks you’re wonderful, and don’t forget to make some art — write or draw or build or sing or live as only you can. And I hope, somewhere in the next year, you surprise yourself.”

— Neil Gaiman

🎃 Nifty November: I (Eyestrain)

Finally! I'm back to being the narcoleptic, nocturnal, and nerdy owl blogger in the house. 🎊

This month marks the beginning of the school year's Second Quarter and has caused me back pain just from the first week. Thank God and the heavens, I passed my exams in most subjects! Though I regret being unnecessarily busy catching up on my notes instead of reviewing them for many days, I am grateful that my hard work has paid off. 🤗

On the first Friday, I finally got my eyeglasses for the first time 😭. What's incredible is that as I read my diary yesterday because I randomly thought that it had been months since I last wrote in it, I saw an entry where I asked to have eyeglasses for the same reason I bought one 🤠. I just thought this is God's gift for the hard work I have done for the past few weeks, thus, I thank and praise You!

On Sunday, we went to my grandparents' house to celebrate my grandfather's birthday, whom I call Tatay. How I've missed the gleaming sunshine and the jiving breeze 🍃! Unfortunately, I had a new glasses headache and it made me sleep almost throughout the day, making me not enjoy the sunshine and the breeze outside. Despite the circumstances, I was able to wholeheartedly eat the carbonara my mother made and enjoy it with the whole family!

May this month be great and become a headstart for another awesome quarter to ace 😉.

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🎧: Summer Blooms Without You (Album) - Rachie 📖: *currently trying to save up for Christmas and buy more Collins Classics 📺: *currently binging animes with my best friend!

Kimi ni Todoke (Season 2)

Horimiya

My Next Life as a Villainess

April 2023 ₊˚ʚ 🍕 ₊˚✧ ﾟ.

“Springing into April with gratitude and love.” ―  Charmaine J. Forde

It's a false alarm! I did not go into a 1-month hiatus but a month of indolence 🤭.

So far, this month is below my satisfaction as I have created unhealthy habits that affected my performance on our Summative Test Week for the 3rd Quarter.

Thus, let this post serve as a memento for me to start myself anew this May and continue learning zealously.

All the best to us! ✨

Happy ADHD Awareness Month! I wish to be diagnosed and live a little bit easier than today from the fact that I already know how I am and what I should do about it. 💛✨

A little ADHD life hack for when Executive Dysfunction is making task completion difficult.

Magical March! [1.3] ₊˚ʚ 💙 ₊˚✧ ﾟ.

“Even in difficult times, there could be good moments.” ―  J. Aleong, A Most Important Year

Yes, those good moments seemed to have happened to me last week!

˗ˏˋ Monday, March 13 – My otouto's birthday! I felt bad for him as he bawled about something on his special day but I prayed that this should be the start of his journey toward a more difficult adolescent life. I love you, T! I will always do my best to be the best sister and friend to you 🥰.

˗ˏˋ Tuesday, March 14 – Our EsP class was absolutely fun as we talk about our experiences from the promenade while doing a performance task—an ideal weekly schedule that I sure won't follow 😋.

˗ˏˋ Wednesday, March 15 – Finally done discussing the Romantic Period in our Music class, and playing the piano with our teacher was such a hasty yet amazing experience! We are currently practicing sir Frédéric Chopin's Nocturne in E-flat major, Op. 9, No. 2 for the upcoming group performance but since I'm part of our class' chorale, I was exempted in this output and the 3rd Quarter summative test—one of the biggest reasons I should definitely work hard and win the contest! 🏋🏼‍♀️

˗ˏˋ Thursday, March 16 – New economics-related song done! It is a cover of that of sir Rick Astley's song as we plan to rickroll the whole class 😎, and yes, we all did an amazing job! The instrumental we used is from Caitlyn Myers et al. to make the atmosphere of our class youthful when we present it. Check it out here!

˗ˏˋ Friday, March 17 – My mother's-fellow-teacher-in-a-Chinese-school-and-friend-who-is-my-now-favorite-teacher-in-Filipino's birthday! I've known him since I was in elementary and the fact that he's now my teacher in high school makes me realize that life really moves faster if you don't cherish each moment. I pray that he'll always have a healthy and happy life as he becomes better every day. We love you, sir Su! 🥰 I apologize for passing my output late though it won't be in Google Classroom as I have passed a Canva link—the file is editable and new edits will be seen if one just clicks on it 😭.

Speaking of which, though I have the option to use the remaining 40 minutes before the output's due—used most of the nighttime to create a fugly owl clay sculpture for an Arts worksheet 😩—, I chose to use my weekdays to write an original adaptation of an angst legend about the mulberry tree (Pyramus and Thisbe); heavily inspired by Greek Mythology and the "middle child syndrome", "childhood friends", and "star-crossed lovers" trope with a hint of a Biblical theme because I plan to publish most of my written stories someday after the school year 😩✊🏼.

Tbh, every output I've passed in my Filipino subject is a tragedy, my best friend—and my adventurous life—is the main culprit for this 😭. Lav likes to read angsty fanfiction (DSMP-centric as such) and rant about her thoughts in our Discord server 🤕. As a friend, we tend to be influenced by them and so I delved into the realm of AO3 and here I am, traumatized on the first week of usage after reading a Rin Itoshi fanfiction that literally made a deep cut in my heart and made me think of my life for a whole damn week 😞. Check it out here! (prepare your 🫀 and a bunch of 🧻)

Having said that, there are still a lot of things I need to catch up on so let's keep fighting and slaying! Have a great life! 🌻

🍂September Solace: II (Fat Favors)

Last week made me merrily cry so hard. 10+ tasks accomplished, another to do for this week. Some were done hastily, few of them assiduously. Despite such episodes of mania, I managed to finish all of them on time!

We had a summative test on Chemistry and I was really burning paper because of how the time felt so fast. I assume I will have a few mistakes but I will try my best to study more about Introduction to Chemistry.

The most enjoyable task I did was my worksheets in Arts. I made a paper cartouche and a mosaic which both earned perfect scores. Making efforts in these kinds of tasks is the least I can do to make up for the subject.

Still, I am never fit for architecture. I had back pain for several days since I finished my drafting task in TLE. I admire my classmates' work because of how polished and clean they look while here I am, failing for over 4 hours and still passing crappy work. Nonetheless, I will always try my best to pass properly and punctually.

I'm above the top of the world today because I just learned piano on a tablet yesterday! What's more unbelievable is that I was able to teach my mom too! Like goodness gracious, we just sang the oldies while she was clicking the keys on the tablet's screen. I already knew about musical notes when I was in elementary school and chords as I play the guitar. Still, I cannot comprehend how fast it was. Man, oh man, God can really just give favors to the peculiar ones.

I hope to properly finish these 10 tasks this week and can't wait to learn new things!

By the way, stream BLACKPINK's new album, BORN PINK. My favorite among all of the songs is The Happiest Girl and gladly I can play it on the guitar and piano!

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🎧 : The Happiest Girl - BLACKPINK

📖: To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee (paused)

🍂September Solace: I (On The Trot)

Last week was a very hectic one! We had 5 synchronous classes — one in the early morning and four in the afternoon, consecutively 🤧.

Fortunately, I did not cram my research title proposal. However, I feel really keyed up for I will be the only one to propose a topic ✨individually✨! #girlboss it is 💅. Therefore, I will be the first person in the class to present on Wednesday 🤡.

Though I was 4 hours late, I spent 4 hours in the morning and 10 hours in the evening last Friday till Saturday finishing my short story as our output in Filipino. I did not mind submitting it late as long as I did my best and ✨yes, I did! yes, I did!✨ To share a few points, my inspiration for my short story was my family, Greek mythology, and some of my current reads which are Little Women and To Kill a Mockingbird.

Yesterday, I woke up very late 😃. I wasn't able to revise my notes in all my subjects in the morning but I made up for it last night by reviewing Trig and Math (the subjects I'm weak at) accompanied by a great amount of motivation from my best friend/my math master who's working on her task in TLE at that time. Considering that I'm inclined toward Science and she is in Math, I believe that opposites really do attract and I can't wait to study with her in face-to-face classes 👥.

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🎧 : I Just Wasn't Made For These Times - Sixpence None The Richer (Originally by Beach Boys)

📖: To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee (paused)

🎃 Nifty November: II (Epilogue)

The best way to pay for a lovely moment is to enjoy it.

The whole month was the most uncommon throughout the whole year 😭. I can't believe I haven't been posting my progress for the past few weeks. No week has ever had a gap for me to fill in with a blog post, an outrageous amount of tasks always gets in the way!

I may not be able to tell what happened during those indescribable days but all I know is that those days were difficult that I learned a lot.

December, please be kind to me 🙏. I wish this Christmas, everyone will be at peace.