A school subject

I am not really sure about what I'm doing right now. I know that I do not have any time to do this, I mean, this blogging thing. I just want to share the problem that I have in school: my entrepreneurship subject. For the past few years of my college life, most of the subjects I had are to train the left part of the brain. And I have always been good at those. Mathematics is my strength. And creativity is my weakness. On the first day of my entrep class, my professor had already warned us that we will use the right part of the brain for his subject. It is quite surprising for me because I am a business major. I chose this course because I am not creative at all! But now I do not really have any choice but to do what he asks us to do, do I? Here is what our professor wanted us to do: think about what is not existing. It may be a service or a product. It is hard for me to think out-of-the-box because, as I've said, that is my weakness. What is more is that we will make that product or service available for a school program. First of all, we are not engineers, inventors nor scientists who work for a company to think about the problems that they have right now. Can you just imagine how many people are doing that work? Secondly, we are limited by time. We only have two semesters to complete this requirement. Thirdly, we are also limited by financials. We are just students and we do not earn money yet! And to tell you, many students actually fail on the subject. I am supposed to graduate next year so can somebody tell me how to pass this subject?! Haha! Honestly I am just pressured. We need to propose an idea next week. In detail. How much more pressure can our professor give us? He said that it is just the beginning. The paper that we are supposed to submit towards the end of this semester is more bloody. True enough, it is just the second week of classes. Pressure and stress: two things that will always be in the life of many UP students. (not discriminating though. I just do not have any idea about what other students from other schools experience) Bye for now. But will try to update. :)

Happy Father's Day

Today is father's day, and although I do not have something for my father right now, I do promise myself that I would give my hard-earned money to him when I start working. For now, I just greet him a HAPPY FATHER'S DAY.

One of the things that I probably learned from him is driving. Even though he is very panicky when I get to drive, I know that it is a simple way for him to show his care for me.

Any lessons from your dad? Don't be afraid to share. :)

Things I learned from Temple Run

It is not that long since I had my iPad 3. This is only my second Apple product since my five-or-six-year-old iPod. So, all the apps are really new to me except 2 games, namely, Temple Run and Fruit Ninja. 

Although I am not much of a gamer, I downloaded Temple Run anyway, just for the sake of having the game installed on my iPad. I did not play much. My score did not even approach a hundred thousand. As I played the game, I honestly was not even amused enough to be willing to play it for half an hour. I thought, why do a lot of people play this game?
Though I am still in the process of appreciating it, there are just things that I realized while playing the game.

First is that every run is unique. At the start of the game, having to jump over a tree root is not always the first obstacle. That is how it is in real life, right? People do not go through the same sufferings. While some have broken family, some are simply broke. Just like in the game, we do not have control on some things. We were born with given family, status, physical appearance, etc. but as we go forward, it is our decision, whether we take left or right, that would lead us to where we would like to be.

Second lesson is that on every decision point, we do not know what lies ahead until we take the turn. We have to deal with everything that goes with the decisions we make. There is no backing out. I remember what my professor always tell: there is never a 'no choice'. Even when we made a mistake in taking a turn which made us face so many obstacles, we still have two options: jump over it or do nothing (which might lead to falling or stumbling). Maybe we should stop blaming all our present problems in the decisions we have made in the past. It does not make the situation better anyway. Like in the game, when we have taken the left turn, we will never know what is on the other side. In turn, we (I am also guilty of this) should stop making our 'what if' list.

Third is that as we go on with the game, we earn rewards. We might get rewards while we go through the smooth road or while we are in the process of overcoming a hardship. These rewards are the things we really do not ask for, or probably things we take for granted if we take them as they are. Imagine just getting one coin. It would be as if we have nothing, right? However, at the end of the game, we finish having a lot of coins. For every meal that we had for, let's say, this day, are we that thankful? Are we thankful every time we take a bite of the food we have? Yet, when we look back, we are thankful for the YEARS we ate. At the end of the day is the time we get to appreciate all the little things, that  is, when everything have been enjoyed. I guess that is just how life is.

Lastly, it is not always us playing the game. Throughout the game, as we earn the rewards in order to get some help (from the store). Likewise, as we go on with life,  we get a chance to meet different people. Some people may help us by filling a gap, by making our (collecting) job easier, or by playing the race for us for some time. How good is it to have some help sometimes? Well, that will all depend on how well you played the game.