God, I need my powers back

What really happened to me? I used to be this really inspired type of girl when it comes to editing photos and videos. *Quick history: I was in 6th grade when I discovered about Photoshop on our laptop. I was just checking things out, clicking random buttons on the software until I fell in love with it. That's where everything started. I was also a youtuber that time, I saw videos, tutorials. It inspired me on what I could do using PS. I had that much power and imagination.* I'm not blaming high school, I got more active on my Freshmen years. I must have done something wrong. Tracing back through my memories, I realize that ever since I engaged into a young boy-girl relationship, I lost my sight of my goals in relation to editing. I got obsessed with my boyfriend, I was never busy with school work. Yet I was busy texting.

Now that I'm single again, for 3 months already. I was hoping to get my mojo back. But still, my edits look crappy to me. No life, no noise, I played it safe. I used to make awesome photos, edits, youtube and twitter backgrounds. I soon became inactive of my blog that was meant for editing. When I was a Sophomore, I made another blog on weebly.com. I posted my latest edits there, along with my other interests like giving links for downloads. But when I became a Junior, I slowly forgot about it. I only open Photoshop for a quick edit of my photo.

Now that I'm a Senior, preparing for college. Still confused on what to take. I thought about Computer Engineering, because I had this interest in computers. Or maybe Graphical Design. But I started having second thoughts about my choices and once again, I was lost in the world and I'm running out of time. So I'm praying to God to enlighten me. If related to Computers is where I really belong, then send me a sign. I need inspiration. I even forgot on how good I was at editing.

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2010

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2011

2012

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A child in disguise

I can't take it out of my mind how bratty my ex's younger sister is. She's a Freshmen and she treats me like we're at the same level. I had high expectations from her since she's boys's sister and he is used to be a nice person. Plus she's a girl, but her language is above her level. She needs to watch her mouth. She's a member of our school publication and most people there are very nice, well it's true. Why would we take a trouble maker as our member? Anyway, she treats me like sh*t.

Here's what happened. She texted me asking "how many goats are in the mountain? If you're smart, then you can answer that". I told her "I don't know." Then she said "then why is your signature '#21'?" I told her it's my favorite number and the name of my favorite store is Forever 21. Then she replied with "who asked?" and I was like "the hell?" in my head. I told her "you asked, duh." Then she suddenly came after me by saying "don't you talk to me like that because you have no idea who I am and how I can be when I'm mad." I was clearly lost in the world. Reading my sent messages over and over again and thinking what'd I do wrong? So I told her "you asked me a question, I gave you the right answer politely and you're suddenly accusing me of coming at you? It's you who should be watching your mouth." After that she never replied.

Luckily my friend Lenny had my back and she was more upset than I was after I told her about my conversation with my ex's sister. The world is just crazy that night. My ex's younger sister texted me the following day saying "I asked you how many goats were in the mountain." I never replied to her, how was I supposed to know that? Plus I'm about to become a proper lady and I can no longer play those kinds of games. Then today, she message me on facebook saying "gotcha!" and I replied back with "?" and she laughed and said "brainwash?" And was like "what's wrong with this kid?" I never replied to her after that. 

The Freshmen this year have issues. I mean serious issues. They may seem innocent, nice and friendly, but they've broken rules, disgraced the name of our school twice (or maybe thrice) more the the grade levels above them. They act like they're not their age. They act like they're older. Sometimes older than us, the Seniors.

Love: Afraid? or Just Don't?

A friend of mine recently told me he likes me, but I'm not completely believing him because he used to be someone I talked about having sex and stuff. He even offered me to make out with him once and I pretended I was in to it, but we never really did it.

After he confessed that he liked me, I told him I don't feel the same way. It was hard for me to explain why. Why? It's because I don't really see him as handsome. Well, physical attractiveness comes first but in love that doesn't matter. We've never been classmates ever for the past four years in high school so I don't really know his nature nor could I judge him. But the only time me and my friends can talk about him is when they say mean things about him and his faults. So basically I have no background on him. Plus his mom is one of our school teachers, and she almost busted me and boy (my ex) just for sitting at the back hallway for a while. [A/N: The back hallway is also known as the lovers en for the high school students in different grade levels.]

What I'm saying is, whenever I see my friend, my head creams trouble. But I left him hanging, by saying maybe I could learn to love him. I always gave him reasons to why I'm having a dilemma. 

Reasons:

1. Half of the school year was over which means college was coming soon, and he's not staying here for college and I am. Plus I'm not a huge fan of LDR (Long Distance Relationships).

2. Maybe I need a boyfriend so I would be very sure that I'd have someone to dance with on prom for the first dance.

3. I miss intimacy, I have always been the romantic time and I miss all the hugging, and holding hands.

4. What if the right person for us both would be in the colleges we would be attending? Would it be worth the break-up and the pain if I ever would say yes?

5. He's too good for me. The past girls he courted were on the top list of "prettiest girls on the Juniors and Seniors".

6. And he's super smart and it'd be a challenge to compete against him.

I'm just not sure if it's going to be worth it. I'm just not attracted to anyone right now, not since my break-up with boy that happened 3 months ago. Or maybe I'm the one that's not letting any love in? Seeing my friends who are -more attractive than me that had never had a boyfriend before still being happily single. It made me realize that for thirteen years I survived not having a boyfriend. What's another 13 years going to do to me? But then again I was never really like those single girls, I was more of the risk-taker type of girl. So I guess I'm stuck with my dilemma, and wondering if I'd ever get a college diploma 'cuz I have no idea what course to take after summer break.

A BRAT, not a BITCH

Spoiled brat?! If I were to speak before thinking I would strongly disagree to that name. After thinking about it, my mind just automatically gave me a solution to the problem on what I should and can say when someone calls me that.

Causes:

1. Being the only child, as expected from you, you'd be spoiled. Spoiled by the parents because all their love and affection would only focus on you alone. So you'd get whatever you want with out any hesitation.

2. Being spoiled by my boyfriend, or should I say ex-boyfriend. He was the first person ever in my 15 years of existence to call me a spoiled brat. Has he not been thinking straight?! Seriously? Has he forgotten that he offers to buy lunch for me? Well, I'd give him the money for my meal but then again he'd pay for the bottle of water. He never says no when I ask him to buy me a 70 pesos worth of pen, just for a pen people! It's that expensive.

Going back to the time when he called me a "spoiled brat", I didn't take it as an insult. I took it as a compliment. Weird right? Yeah, well, I'm on of Cher Lloyd's little brats. It's what she calls her followers. Back to me now.

When I take actions I don't really reflect on them at an early time, which means I'm not really the one to blame for becoming a spoiled brat. In fact it's the people around me that should be blamed. Though I don't like to blame anyone. Anyways, that clears my case that I'm not guilty for making myself a spoiled brat.

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Cher Lloyd

artist, song writer, performer

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Simple as That

You know how the world can be these days, the people in it can be really mean. But don't let that get to you. I know, easier said than done. But if you stop focusing on what you'll achieve and focus more on the pattie of the burger, you'll likely end up at some place more suited for you. 

What I'm saying is, smile your  worries away. We live in an overpopulated world, so basically wherever you go you're always going to meet someone. When you're hurt, or feeling down, don't show it. Smile instead. Emotions seen by other people affect their emotion too. When they see you smiling, they automatically smile back and they would smile towards other people and they would smile too and so on and so forth. In other words, emotions are contagious like a disease only it's psychological.  So spread happiness instead of sadness and make someone's day a better day than the opposite or make it worse.

Another Day For Regrets

Our school is the host for the Inter-La Salle Sports Camp. Interpretation, athletes from eleven Lasallian Schools (including ours) around the Philippines came to our school campus to spend three days filled with sports and fun entertainment. Aside from our very own athletes here in Ozamiz, the rest of the deligates arrived last Sunday (October 21, 2012). The games started on Monday (October 22, 2012) and ended yesterday, Wednesday (Octber 24, 2012). Excluding LSGreen Hills, DLSZobel, and DLSAraneta, the rest of the representatives from the 11 schools will be going home to their home town.

Yesterday was my last chance to ask some of the athletes to take a picture with me, but I was too busy discouraging myself from guys that when I got home at night I just realized that some of the athletes from La Salle Green Hills are actually cute. And the worst part is mom asked me for pictures, she never told me to do that the past two days that I went to school. Now all I could do is stalk them on twitter and hope they notice me, which seems almost impossible to happen because I barely get noticed in the virtual world. It's because of their kindness, warm hearts, and friendliness that makes me fall for them.

The worst feeling I got from last night wasn't the regret that I didn't get a remembrance photo from one of the athletes, but the fact that I started to have to urge to engage into young relationship towards the opposite sex again.

Fighting Back By Doing Nothing

So here, my ex-boyfriend (let's call him 'BOY'), and his new girlfriend (GIRL); they're messing with me again but apparently it has no effect on me. Just because this actress Andi Eigenmann was on Deal or No Deal on ABS-CBN, and she chose the briefcase number 23. And 23 is BOY and GIRL's monthsary, and BOY's and mine used to be 21. They kept on sending group messages saying "Andi likes 23 better than 21. 21, ewww!" And I was just sitting in our living room, reading their texts and I'm pretty sure they're having fun and laughing.

Which brings to my realization. I used to be like them, back when I was still with BOY. There was this girl (Dani), she has a crush on BOY. Both of us were upset by that, because Dani and BOY were classmates and Dani would get really close to BOY. I used to be such a 'bitch' to Dani, well not at her face. But when she's around or even not, BOY and I would talk about her and back bite her. We just laughed about it, laughing at her because she looked desperate and acting like a slut. When we broke up, I realized I was at my worst when I was with him. I never wanted to be that person again. I was like one of the girls from the movie Mean Girls with Lindsey Lohan in it.

I realized what I did was wrong, who I am was not the person I'm supposed to be. If my parents, grandfather, and the other top people I could let down knew about that side of me back then, they would've been very disappointed of me. Thinking that BOY is now changing GIRL, making her become the person I used to be when I was with him, I feel sorry for them. I feel sorry for GIRL for being dragged into BOY's wrong doing. But I feel more sorry for BOY for not realizing what he's done to GIRL. It's like it's a part of him to act that way towards people who fancy him and not even realizing that what he's doing is wrong and is not making any of them a better person.

I just wish they'd realize that what their doing is wrong and they should stop acting that way because it's really childish.

The World is in My Hands

The day I woke up and realized he was no longer there to text me good morning, no one to look for me every minute of the day. I knew everything was starting to change. It was either in a good way or the bad. Before he left, I had dreams. Dreams like being a part of the top list in our batch at school, being able to dance the modern dance again, not feel like an outcast of my own family. The family part is a bit painful story. Ever since they knew I had a boyfriend, when I was around they would look at me weirdly. And that would feel very awkward if you were ever in my place.

But after he let me go I didn't notice the change until I thought about it. I was doing better in class, my grades were up for the first quarter. My grades were enough to become an achiever and that's good enough for me. I'm a Senior now, and the last time I ever got an award was when I was a Freshmen. A long time right? So I guess you would've figured out by now that we've been together since Sophomore year and ever since I never got an award anymore. This time I feel allot taller than usual.

So I've been dancing for a long time, I love to dance. But the last time I danced modern was Elementary. Grade 6 to be specific. My entire High School life was spent with boyfriends and cheerdancing. No, cheerdance is not counted as modern dancing. Recently, we had this Street Dance competition for the inter-class. I had allot of new classmates for High School. Many of them just knew about my dancing because of the competition. Now my classmate Kezeah, asked me to dance with them for our Christmas party. And without a doubt, I said "YES". I had the time of my life being able to dance again.-

At present, in my family, I don't feel any awkwardness, nor uncomfortable. I feel very open towards them now when we talk about boyfriends. Especially to my Freshmen cousins, they're very fun to talk with when the topic is about boyfriends. Even though they don't have any, not ever but they talk about their classmates and friends boyfriends. It's a fun world for me, now that he's out of the picture.