Welcome, Roi Jullian Palafox, batch 2004. AB Political Science

its over

There are infinite things a relative being can do. There are infinite possibilities that can happen now and later. At this very moment, as I type this paper, I am not sure of what would happen an hour from now, or tomorrow. In short, we live in a world full of uncertainties. We sometimes end just waiting for the next episode in our unsure life. Life can be about waiting. We wait for our turn in the comfort room. We wait for the day to end so we can rest. We wait for school to end.

To claim that life is about waiting, is to accept our doomed existence. The only thing we are sure of is life and death, as Sartre’s philosophy explains to us. From this notion, we can see how life is absurd. We see the limitless boundaries, the absolute freedom that a person can actually have assuming that this person is emancipated from any religion.

Despite these possibilities, I firmly believe and uphold that the best way to see life is not as a process of waiting. As I have mentioned life can be about waiting, but from a premise that life is full of uncertainties. This outlook for me is too cynical. I personally feel that to keep an open mind and to learn to hope is a good way to live life. We should not let the impending freedom of an absurd life take over us. I try so see life with full of hope and openness even when things do not turn out the way I want them to be.

There is a song I think originally done by Bob Marley titled Waiting in Vain. In the song, it tells us this person has been suffering from unrequited love. As the person claims, despite waiting for years, still the person does not see the guy’s value. Waiting can indeed be pointless.

Despair comes when one loses hope. To lose hope is to see life again as just simply waiting. As I end my life in college, I see so many uncertainties. I cried inside just thinking about it. I am very scared. But I keep my heart open and trust myself to the Absolute and have faith that he has grandiose plans for me. Then I would not end up merely waiting, nevertheless my life would be about Him and others.

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Candice G's birthday

 

 

 
Julian's birthday

 

 
AIESEC Events

 

 

after ten thousand yearssss...

yes. i am back. it's been weeks since my last post. this has been my first weekend where i can relax and not worry of any work for basketball, aiesec and school. so i tried to indulge and take advantage of my opportunity to relax and rewind.
 
after watching enemy of the people last friday, i went to eastwood to meet up with some girl friends. muffin, candice, miam and roni were there with some of their other friends. they stayed in jack's loft after watching a movie. when i got there, i was suprised to see that i was the only guy. i was such a hunk again. but really, it was so awkward. and they were actually talking about some bigtime girl stuff. i felt like i was disturbing their girl bonding. i left around 1am to go eryang's but then an unexpected incident happen: my car wont start.
 
i tried to diagnose the problem of my car, and i was definitley sure it was the battery. i could've fixed it on my own, but i did not have tools for the job, so i called my brother, VP.  i was actually surprised that he was able to call back at once when i sent him a message that i was having some car trouble. but deep down i knew, he'd be there. with two of his brods, they tried fixing my car with but with no luck. we decided to leave the car there and come back for it the following day. what a to end my friday night...
 
so saturday came. i had to wake up early so i can tell my parents about the car before they leave for the province. that was the start of yet another busy and stressful weekend which i thought was going to be a weekend of relaxation. ill just give the lineup of events for the day:
1. go with my sister to her dermatologist
2. go to eastwood to fix the car
3. but vhs to record the games
4. pay my cellphone bill
5. go to ateneo to submit hardcopy of aiesec applicants' database
after doing all these, i went straight to cuneta astrodome with marga, the other student manager.  ateneo was against ust. the game was hardly fought. i sat behind the bench and my friends were texting me that ive been getting some airtime.
 
anyway, after the game, waps and i went to glorietta to watch kill bill volume 2. it was a great follow-up and conclusion to the first one. the fighting sequences were again outstanding. uma and david carradine did some fine acting. the tiger crane was no match for the eagle's claw. watch out for the 5 point palm exploding heart technique (im not sure if i got it right) i was supposed to go jay g's birthday bash after the movie, but i fell asleep at eryang's house because i was dead tired.
 
besides the movie and basketball game, my saturday was still stressful. but tonight, im planning of sleeping till 9am. that's already too much sleep for me.

same old

it has been three weeks since my last post in this blog. i have been really busy these past weeks because of school. things have been piling up in my three classes. i have been attending practices everynight, 6-9 pm. (i applied for student manager for the UAAP basketball team because i felt that i have the time for it) but it has been aiesec that has been eating up a lot of my time. recruitment week just started and org awareness week just finished then there's our orientation seminar. things will get heavier with javi in the hospital...im sure he'll be incapacitated for a couple of weeks. (pls pray for his quick recovery) but you know me, the always cool and patient roi...kaya to.

lost

i haven't been posting the past days because i felt really bad when i lost my digital camera in il ponticello last thursday. i lost my mood to type and post pictures. to actually think that id always bring that camera anywhere like to bacolod and to depressed areas in commonwealth and lose it in a high-end bar was really disheartening. haaay, of all places....

anyway, it was first day of school. it felt really weird being around with so many people that i dont know. i tried looking for people that i knew, but there weren't much! i feel lost in school, i hardly see a familiar face.

i was able to meet two out of the three of my teachers. they seem to be ok. rica santos was really perky and energetic which was good because modern drama was my first class on MWF.

ok...low batt....no more energy to type...ill finish this tom....

last thursday...

last thursday i was able to hangout with my girl-friends...

i met up with candice and miam in eastwood. we chatted in coffee bean and tea leaf.
miam just got back from the US. we did some catching-up. we had a pictorial in eastwood which i did reluctantly.


miam and me


cands and me (check out her hair, new do!)


profile shot


after eastwood, i fetched minnie in her condo and cher in discovey suites. that was already around 1030pm. it was really embarrasing because i was late for more than an hour in picking up cher. i didn't know she was waiting there since 9pm.

we went to yero, a bar in greenhills. mau, the sister of minnie, was the dj there. she was playing house that night. we met up with lehd, jo castro and her cousins from the US.


that's us in yero. they made cher and the balikbayans eat chicken sisig.


minnie, me, and cher

busy day

Yesterday was really tiring. We had our first meeting in our AIESEC Executive Board and Staff after lunch. We had to discuss our preparations for the Freshmen Orientation Seminar this coming week. It went very well.


This is our EB&S. That's me doing the 8-8.

After the meeting, I had to run to CCP to watch Roberta's ballet. She was magnificent. Graceful and beautiful.

We had dinner in Oscar's, her family's restaurant in Pasong Tamo extension. I was with her barkada and her mom. That her in black. Her mom is in the Chinese outfit, and her younger sister, Samantha.

I went to Pammy's birthday celebration after the dinnner. It was in Grilla Rockwell. Charles, Dino, Vikas, Tristan, Rey were there to party with Pammy's other friends.