Tirintas

 What? HAHA. I can't do anything. I just keep on braiding and twisting and braiding my hair repeatedly. I am such a nuts! I should have accomplished something by now. Okay! Enough of the bumming...

(After a few moments...) I, still, can't do something relevant. I just keep on doing the same thing. Perhaps, I am thinking that I am one of the Filipino majors. They are tasked to popularise something and that is braiding. It is their culminating activity for their course subject, Kulturang Popular (or Popular Culture).

Long hair, short hair. Highschool student, college student. Waterfall braid, fishtail braid, french twist. I hope, they can fulfill their task.

Look! I braided myself. (4-strand braid) 

Happy Yuletide!

I curled my legs and put my chin on my knees as the Christmas breeze blew. No, it's not yet December and probably not yet Christmas but for us, Filipinos, September is the start of our long celebration of Yuletide Season.

A picture taken during our batch first ever reunion.

To write this, I have to find an inspiration which I am seeing right now. Across our house is a house decorated with Christmas lights and lanterns (we don't have christmas lights, lanterns, christmas tree and snow -- something we can't really have since the last time I checked, Philippines is still located near the equator giving it a tropical climate).

Aside from my birthday and New Year, Christmas is one of my most favorite occasions 'cause it leaves me with good and bad memories. Times when I have to repeatedly use the bathroom to ease my troubled stomach. Times when I have to stop indulging myself with delicious treats 'cause my tooth or teeth is/are already aching. But what I really miss are the people who I spent Christmas with. My cousins, my titos and titas, my lolo and lolas, my friends and my mom. Foods, gifts and their presence are the things that I'm looking forward to. This December, I will try to find time to be reunited again with them.

SweetandSpicy

It's difficult to be friends with people who suffer from mood swings and tantrums but it is more difficult when you are the one who suffers from it. I, personally, hate them but it's a lot different when I'm the one acting that way. I don't know why I have difficulty managing my anger and frustration but I am grateful that I have that attitude for once in a while I get to release my emotions (who wants to be a reservoir of negative feelings?). I find it positive and at the same time negative. It is negative for me since when I'm frustrated I always say or do something that I do not really mean. One thing more is I will not feel apologetic with what I did and will put in my mind that it is just right for them. When I'm pissed or frustrated, I keep on ranting about it and keep on repeating them to someone until I cool down. But it's a whole lot different when I am really angry or furious about something, I usually release it by punching something, abusing someone, usually myself (verbally and nonverbally), listening to music or eating something I crave.

If I don't, I cry (I usually cried when I was angry, a humiliating tendency--a quote by Isabella "Bella" Swan.)