God! I haven't blogged in like... forever, running on five months now. It's been a crazy four months, and a lot has happened to me and to the people around me. Actually I've gone through a whole semester of school in those four months. As we speak Im now doing the end of sem exams and the second one is beginning like immediately this one ends - it's not fun at all that we're not going to have a holiday in between. [but of course we being us are going to create one anyway Im sure :) ]

Im in a uni organization [a CBO-type thing] called SIFE for Students In Free Enterprise that carries out projects in society aimed at empowering people to make money for themselves who didn't know how. We present all our projects at a National Exposition at the end of every SIFE year in front of a panel of judges in compe with all the other unis that are also members of SIFE global. Last year we were the champions and went to rep the country at the world compe in France, so no prizes for guessing who was champs this year. And it totally rocks because the world compe this time is in NYC!! Can you feel me?!?! We were so on top of the world when numbers three and two were announced and neither was us, and we still managed to squeeze in a group prayer [there were five of us competing on behalf of the rest of our team] - right there on stage, with everyone watching and waiting. Of course there were celebrations afterwards but I don't really drink and/or rave so...

I've also done and finished the CPA exams - that nightmare I go through twice every year. This sitting it was real rollercoaster, coz I hadn't read at all until the last two weeks, then I spent one under the weather with malaria so I only had one to read. Oh, that's another thing - I caught malaria for the first time since '97! Not anyone's cup of tea :(. But I did pona and now Im back on top. And anyway, now that we won the SIFE championship it won't feel as bad if God forbid I don't pita the papers, coz I dedicated most of my time to SIFE instead of reading.

And I don't know if I've already said here that I finally got bought for that Dell I've always been dreaming about. It's so cool sometimes I just sit in my room and look at it. Now all I need is net and I never have to leave my room again. Naturally the music collection has grown in leaps and bounds, and the latest additions are Avril's The best damn thing and Linkin Park's Minutes to midnight. Also the WOW Hits collection for 07.

I've read, and finished for the second time, Bill Clinton's My Life, and I was still blown away, just like the first time [I must lead a really boring life]. I don't know a lot about that country, but I can tell there can't be more than five presidents they've had who were better than him. As a person he's one of my role models. And now I have Hilary's so that's my next project. Just today I passed by Books First and man! is there a lot of stuff to read, except the books cost house rent so can't really buy all the ones I want.

What else... Oh, I've fallen in love. Finally, and I thought I was above all that mushy stuff. Not really, just pulling your leg. Im still the same ol' me. Still alone and still loving it. :D

But if there's one thing I've learnt through this whole period, coz it was stress to stress, it's that when you emerge from the other end of that tunnel you always emerge a stronger person than you were, and in hindsight, nothing really happened to you that you couldn't handle with a little help. The old Chinese say this:
"The tree that is cut down grows again; and the moon that wanes after a time waxes again. Thus do the wise men reflect, and, though distressed, are not overwhelmed."

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