life is good

wow. kudos to me for getting things done! HAHA! i was pretty productive today. as of 2pm i was able to:

1. make teasers for the Feb. 7 symposium entitled: CHArter: CHAnge or CHAllenge? (get the cha-cha-cha eppex?). it's a symposium on various views on Charter Change-- the provisions as well as pros and cons. it's a huge event in celebration of the Department of Social Science week. the Area Studies program juniors and seniors are in charge of the symposium. so there.

2. i already contacted Danes for the plug at DWLSFM. Will meet up with him at the station on Thursday a.m.

and...

3. contacted Joey from INQ7.net's Cross Campus to post and announcement and write and article about it. the more publications we need, the better. i like the Publicity head thing. i love public relations. HAHA! oh, and also our professor wants to contact ANC, Malaya, and other newspapers out there to announce about the symposium. the more publicity, the better!

phew!

i am currently researching from my research materials (books, publications, and research papers on HIV/AIDS). to pump up my adrenaline i downed a mug of strong green tea to prevent me from sleeping. also, i downloaded classical mp3s to my music player like Pachelbel's Canon in D, Forrest Gump's musical score from the soundtrack, and songs from Miss Saigon for inspiration (you know what they say about music, it stirs the emotions).

i've repeated the musical score from Forrest Gump over and over and as i read Population Bulletin's publication on the HIV/AIDS pandemic around the world, i want to cry. no shit. my long-term goal is to be a human rights or HIV/AIDS advocate (you know, volunteer and stuff while i work). i fully support the campaign against HIV/AIDS and poverty. this thesis is a baby step to achieving that goal. i also wanted to write a thesis that would contribute to society, you know. i feel that if i do this correctly, it just might be a small but significant contribution. i figured if i want to fight the battle against the pandemic, i might as well feed myself with knowledge on how serious this really is.

anyway, if i had known that music was the inspiration i was looking for to push forward with this thesis, i would have listened to them over and over a long time ago.

and today i came into a conclusion in the middle of my notes-taking, classical music soundtripping, and researching...

it's not how fast you get to the finish line but how you tried to get there and how you learned from experiences. sometimes it's not all about who finishes first or last. it's about taking things slowly one step at a time and working on things slowly but surely and actually learning while you're at it..

so yeah. i have to get back to work.

again, thank you, Lord.

it's also my parents' 24th wedding anniversary. dinner later even if my mom's still in the states (not until next month the 18th, though!) yeheyness! :)