nOt jUst debRis

The project we had in a major subject was a Digital Chess Clock.  Well, of course, it doesn’t tell the time but instead, it monitors time of each chess players on both sides of the board, acting like a timer which will eventually tell who wins the game.  With this project, I learn not only practical applications discussed in this major, but time-telling as well.(achuuu!)

It made me realized that from that time until I graduate, there’ll be more challenging projects to come, meaning I should be more responsive to the demands of the decisions I make, in order to cope up with everything(whew!).  To be more mature and to grow up, as I am supposed to be, and be flexible as I can be…hahaaaayy!

Clocks are not the only gadget that tells the right time.  It’s the events that moves me to change This is the clock I have that tells the turning-point.  From there, with wise decision and humble step, though faltering can’t be prevented, I shall walk through, always starting from where I have fallen with faith and with the Almighty as the bulb(hihi..)  And then, it would be sure that the turned point is directed towards the right path, and the clock surely says that I’m the winner!(pataka lang!!! har..har…) bitaw, sa tinuoray, nindot jud ang result sa amo project.. THE BEST!!

i woke up dawn. I have to go with my mother for marketing. I was seven then… 

I felt tired. I don’t wanna go. I’m still a kid.  I don’t have to go to market at four in the morning. Only mothers do that, right??  But I have to, upon hearing "Happy Birthday, anak!" Oh, I’m eight already! gosh!  So I reluctantly got up and got dressed.  THere I go, in the market.  I was there, just observing all the people.  One thing I learn is when bargaining for prices, bargain for half of it! *learned that from my mother* funny noh? she would say, "nihangyo naman jud, hangyo og sakto!" hehe…ü that’s her… 

So again, there I am. The market. Mother told me things about facts in life. The real life. Lessons on life. About people….  I couldn’t remember them exactly. All i could recall is life isn’t that easy, it’s complicated.  It’s all up to me to know to handle them.  That thought remained to me.  I was really bothered and even made me scared. Scared of the thought that what if I couldn’t fight amidst the challenges of life ahead.  Many questions on uncertainties lurked on my very young mind.  It really made me sad and made me feel helpless.  Until we rode on a jeepney for home, I was still on that thought.  Then I saw something I’ve never seen before and t’was very awesome.  I saw it clearly on that early morning skies.  T’was floating in midair exrending to lengths that I didn’t bother to trace becuase of the colors I saw.  I asked my mother, and..

t’was a rainbow!

MOther toLd me it was a gifT froM God –’saw rAinboW(for the first time) on my biRthdaY’.  Something that I should be thankfuL.  I could remember she told me, twas a gReat giFt. I agreEd thAt tiMe tHat iT’s gReat giFt because iT’s bReathtaking, full of wOndeRs, and awEsome, AMAZING!hehe.. aNd now, beYond thAt veRy innOcEnt reAson, I know why! and indeed, it was and it stiLL is.  That rAinboW is indEed the pErfecT giFt God gave mE since iT remInds me that no maTter wHat challengEs and obsTacLes thaT’s aheAd of mE, He is aLwaYs theRe tO guIde me in aNy waY, and tHat iT remInds mE tHat i aM noT aLone in tHe baTtLe — thaT theRe aRe thOse peopLe(esP my mOm) who’LL heLp me to make iT through…

I was eight then…

kahilak man sad tah!hu..hu..hu..