nOt jUst debRis

February 25, 2006 is actually the closing of the National Astronomy Week (NAW) celebration, and THE DAY I GET MY HANDS INTO A REAL TELESCOPE!!!! Thanks to the USC Astronomical Society and its founder, Christopher Go, for having this Saturn Watch ‘06 held at the soccer field in our school. I invited a few acquaintances, and dragged my cousin along with me cause she also has this ‘interest’ in astronomy. Thanks big to you, peng!hehe.. Well, she is the only person I can talk to when it comes to this matter.  Others would think I’m mad!hehe…:) 

Well anyway, I knew about this since Thursday.  My eyes went big seeing the poster, getting enthused while the reading went! gosh! I could go efffffff…. Really got excited. Very excited. Let’s just forget about how I get through with Friday, okay? Let’s start with how Saturday "day" went. 

It started while I was sleeping.  ngsugod jud sa katulog!!! toink kaau! LOLz  yeah, really, it did.  I dreamt about getting into the "Saturn Watch activity" and I was not allowed to get inside.  I was sad and dishearted and embarrassed (of course i invited pips noh!!ü).  The reason was that the activity was exclusive only for members of the USC Astronomical Society.. mean!! hu..hu.. but when I woke up, I didn’t mind that obtusedly ridiculous dream. 

I left home earlier than I thought.  The activity starts at 8:00pm and I left the house at 3 pm.  I just wanted to make sure I wouldn’t miss this since I have to travel about an hour and a half in going to the place so I decided to see some relatives in the city while waiting for the time.  so blah.. blah.. blah..

Since morning, the skies didn’t cooperate with the activity.  There were rainshowers and the sky was really ‘muddy’, until the early evening.  I was even skeptical in going because of this atmospheric condition.  I was thinking that the said event would be postponed to another day.  but still, I came.  I WAS THERE! excited gud! lolz..  :D    Truly i was thrilled and frantic at the same time.  I could still remember the dream, that’s why, f-r-a-n-t-i-c. But all went well.  I was able to get inside, with my cousin and two friends, michael and anthony. 

T’was still a bit cloudy when we got there but in just minutes, to my amazement, the clouds gradually gave way. The scope was set-up and there were people around.  Most of them are in high school. hhmmmpp… =)   yea, the scope. wow the scope.  it’s really grand!  it’s a Celestron C11 scope.  amazingly amazing!!!  and it really can be pointed up the azimuth at really 90 degrees, huh! wicked. guess twas because of its German equitorial mount (guesszz so. another half-truth! hihi..). YEAH!!!!   and here i go:

Now there I was(at 9:30 pm), looking into the scope in awe, gazing at the wondrous baffling saturn  and its phenomenal rings, examining it.  T’was kinda golden(maybe because of the lens or the wavelength or, i dunno. just half-truth, huh) and the rings posed vertically.  I was looking for the Cassini space (a gap between the ring), and implausibly found it. But it was not long since there were also people in queue, eager to see Saturn too.  Then there was a little lecture.  Photos of Saturn and some of the planets (Jupiter and Mars) were showcased. Then a little stargazing was done.

Got a little chat with Mr. Go’s buddy, Mr. Tomio Akutsu(i think that’s the name! hihi…), the japanese guy..I guess he worked in an observatory. Was amusing when he asked a couple of fellow participants the meaning of "cge-cge", then they said something like ‘go! go!’  (which i think, really is, although there’s no exact translation to that in english).  When finally the telescope gave up (something was wrong with it, Mr. Go said the motor is not working, or so…) and it could only last for a while, he then shouted "go!go! cge-cge!"  LOLz getting offbeat, right?heheh…ü that’s just a lil ‘tête-à-tête’..  :D  Anyhow, we’d just left before everybody does (i mean before the acrivity actually ended), since it’s already getting late.

                                              haaayyy…!! twas just splendid. 

                                                    I couldn’t help but marvel.

                                                        I shall say, it’s fulfilling. 

                                             All that comes out is "WOW!".

Ofcourse, it doesn’t end in there.  More to come… abangan!

Valentines Day.  Everybody in school is very busy, with all the roses and sweets sold in the campus.  Everybody celebrates love.  Celebrating "it" in ways unique, as unique as every individual. M e? With just a simple greeting… HAPPY VALENTINES DAY everyone!   

in just a week from now, valentines day it is.. the "being-single-is-lonesome syndrome" is all around.  It’s sad but feel better knowing that I’m not alone.  I mean, not alone, having the same syndrome. whahahaha! *grinning* lol

I’ve always been whining and complaining, in almost everything.  It’s childish, I know.  Being thankful for what I have and be contented with it, is the right thing to do, despite my inadequateness.  But still, I whine since it’s my way of shooing off inner  emotions…