a view from my side..

~ thought bubble ~

HAPPY 2011!
WOOOOHOOOO!!

Another year to have great adventures!

Let's go!!
rant@ 1/17/11 :P

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~ black&blue ~

~ looking out ~

~ cool stuff ~
~Improv Everywhere~
~Letters to Crushes~
~Travesty Clothing~
~Jiro's Deviantart~
~Post Secret~
~Newgrounds~
~30-sec Bunnies Theater Library~
~The IMPOSSIBLE quiz~
~Yahoo Games~
~Serious Shorts~
~What does your name mean?~
~http://youdiehard.blogspot.com~
~http://www.pinoyblogosphere.com~
~SA on B :)~

~ friends ~
~amelie colobong~
~arik abu~
~arnel cosme~
~avis alibuyog~
~carmela ugay~
~dominic yatco~
~earl foust~
~earl masacayan~
~gelo lecaros~
~java lee~
~jerica riego~
~jiro tamase~
~joice carrido~
~jose tanjuan~
~jowee corrales~
~julianne alberto~
~kat silva~
~katrina perez~
~liana colobong~
~mandy mangubat~
~merie clarete~
~michelle kim inot~
~mika lopue~
~mike esguerra~
~nancy bansil~
~paulene bucag~
~tessa tamase~

~ et. al. ~
~anton silver~
~bianca gonzales~
~jim paredes~
~neil gaiman~

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~ about.. ~

UNDER CONSTRUCTION.. sorry for being a lazy b*tch. lol.

I'm stuck in a different time zone as of the moment. ;)

--isabel--atebel--isa--bel--bei--

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~ looking back ~

~ untitled ~
~ term-end thank you! :) (overdue) ~
~ wishing, hoping, praying.. ~
~ a really happy easter :) ~
~ another day..another day.. ~
~ rants..rants..rants.. :p ~
~ the f words.. ~
~ release it ~
~ heartbreak.. ~
~ searching for something more.. ~

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~ and beyond.. ~

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~ January 2011 ~
~ February 2011 ~
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~ April 2011 ~
~ November 2011 ~

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~ wishing on a star ~

reason
happiness :)
know and do what I really want
not be afraid
~~a music box :)~~
~~scream out loud~~
~~graduate :p~~

Credits
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udub
Thank You! :)

~ on being someone else ~

I remember in first year during our Oral Communications class (Engltri) that one of the activities we had to go through to pass the course was the Impromptu Speech. The professor had prepared several questions placed on her table. From there, we were to pick one, go out of the room for about three minutes to organize our thoughts and finally go back to the room to answer the said question in front of the whole class.

I'd be lying if I said I was really, really nervous before I was called because I wasn't. Maybe a little bit but not the I-think-I'm-going-to-faint nervous. Also, not being the first one to be called was a bit of bonus because I had a chance to watch my other classmates and learn from how they performed infront. Anyway, I got my turn to pick a question and what I got wasn't really that big of a deal (at least I thought it wasn't).

"If you had the chance to live another life, what would you choose to become?"

The nervousness sank in when I was out of the room thinking of an answer. What did I want to be anyway? What do I want to be for that matter.

Anyway, things turned out really embarrassing because I wasn't able to organize my thoughts well. And my magically weird answer to the question was...

"I want to be a Barrio Girl."
( Oh yes..I still laugh at this answer every single time I remember it..hahaha :p )

What the hell was I thinking, right? hahaha..Even I thought the answer was weird as I said it but what was I to do? It suddenly popped out of my mouth out of confusion and panic. Well, the good side of it was I was able to support the answer "well enough" (saying that I would like to be close to nature..learn how to plant stuff and have very little worries as possible..just stay in the bukid (farm)..yada, yada, yada...what the hell was i thinking!) to get a not-so-bad grade, but still, it was embarrassing! hahaha :p Some of my classmates even thought that I would think of something else rather than being a human (like butterflies, birds, horses..the creative answers..that sort of thing). How I wish they had given me the idea sooner.

Anyway, looking back, I still really don't have any idea on what I would really want to become if I were not myself. My theory is that I guess I wouldn't want to be anything else but me, at least the me I know of. Maybe what I would like to change is the circumstances of being me, but not the person that I know myself to be.

Wow, suddenly I am reminded of lessons I learned from my Introduction to Philosophy (Intphil) class. How DO you know that you are who you are, anyway? When I ask questions like this, I couldn't help but wonder why I hadn't taken Philosophy as my course. Then again, I might have gone a bit off the edge if I did..haha :p

Going back to the issue of being another thing or person other than being you, I guess everyone, a lot of us, at least, have moments where we would wonder how life would be if we we're not ourselves. Sure, maybe it'll be fun living the life of someone you admire or someone who has the things that you've been dreaming of getting..but then again, you won't be able to live as the you that you know anymore because you're already someone else.. I don't think I'd like to live knowing that I'm a completely different person from the life that I'm living.

Am I even making sense here? hahaha..I guess bumming and the heat have really weird side effects :p

Labels: "Barrio Girl", bumming, heat, impromptu, not me, someone else, thoughts, weird

~ isabel ~ posted @
Thursday, April 26, 2007,11:32 PM

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