Writing an Essay Kamila Style

Writing a 3-page essay

 

10:00 – Turn on computer. Check email, facebook, tumblr, ohhh and maybe youtube too. yeahhh. Oh I should check Multiply I haven’t been there in soo long..

11:00 – I should probably eat something first, you know, brain food!

11:05 – Oh crap, the pan is still dirty, should wash it first though and I might as well wash the dishes from last night or else I’d never get to it.

11:30 – Ok, time to write the essay. Open word processing programme.

11:31 – Urgh, this is taking forever to open! I should clean my desk first though, so I have a clean space to put all my books and notes on.

11:45 – Ok desk is clean, Word is open. Lets start with the titles first.

11:50 – Research, hmmm where did I put my notes??

12:00 – Ok found my notes, lets start writing.. ohhhh crap, I totally forgot to make brain food! Must cook now.

12:30 – Hmmm I wonder what’s new on facebook… Oooo an invite, approve. New pictures?? HAHA That’s a funny picture.. I wonder how many chips I have on facebook poker. Hmm.. I guess I can take a 15 minute break and play for a bit, need more poker chips.

12:50 – WHAT?! I just lost 10,000 chips, must win them back!

13:30 – Ok, I’m loosing. Probably a good time to stop and start writing that essay.

13: 35 – Man, I don’t understand my notes!! But it’s funny how my hand writing changes, it leans to the left a lot? I wonder what that mean. Must Google search.

13:45 – Ok, now it’s really time to write the essay. Tries to decode notes.

14:30 – Need a break.

15:35 – Must take picture of myself hopeless so I can put it in my blog entry later.

16:00 – Oh I might as well write blog entry now.

17:00 – Actually I don’t feel like it.. but I’m pretty hungry so I should make dinner.

17:30 – Oh House is on TV, can watch that while I eat.

19:00 -FUUUUUCCCCCCCCCCCCCCKKKKKKKKKKKK

20:00- Ok I’ve written a paragraph, need a break.

21:00 – Oh no, forgot about it again, but I need to take a shower. Yeah, I’m gonna shower so when I’m done with the essay I can go right to bed.

22:00 – Ok now is essay time.. wohooo..

22:30 – I wonder what’s going on on facebook. OMG! I can’t believe she gave birth already, awww cute baby..

23:30 – Ok, essay essay…

00:00- A page done. I should take a break.

01:00 – 3 pages done, time to sleep.

Hello again

Hello! Remember me??

Once again, another month of not posting on this blog.  Inconsistency is my middle name. Actually, I joined the whole Tumblr craze and I regularly blog non-sense there. But this will still be my real blog, but hey if you have Tumblr let me know!

Anyway, I was woken up early this morning by a loud bang and sudden pain on my face. Apparently my bedside lamp decided to wake me up at 7 in the morning by falling onto my face. My fault, since the box that was holding the lamp up wasn’t really the sturdiest of surfaces, it was bound to give up one of these days. So I had no choice but to wake up and get frozen spring roles out of the freezer to sooth my 7am bump in the head. Which actually led to a productive day, so now that I’m done with all that I can blog.

So what have I been up to?

School, school, school. It’s that time of the year again where you cram 3 months worth of classes into a *insert a large number here that seem impossible to finish given the amount of time to do it* page report. To top it all off , next semester we have to intern in a company and country of our choice, and this internship searching was a lot harder than I anticipated. A LOT. I had three choices of countries to intern at:

1. Philippines. For obvious reasons.

2. Australia. I’ve never been there and I don’t know anyone there, so I figured it would be interesting. Plus they speak English!

3. Maldives. Don’t ask, I saw an internship placement there and it looked exciting.

Philippines and Australia are my top choices. I have about 3 months left to secure a placement, so wish me luck!

A quick rant

I have this idea that people are generally good people. I don’t know, maybe I was raised surrounded by loving people that when I witness people being assholes, being disrespectful, or just plain mean it still shocks me. I’m not saying that EVERYONE is evil or that I’m a good person but as much as possible I try not to be an ass to people I know and to the strangers who accidentally bump into me while walking down the street. But lately, I’ve been seeing a lot of errr.. negativity. Sure, they may be having a bad day, but man can you not take it out on me?

Aarhus

Apart from school and ranting, I’ve been visiting my friend Xingy in Aarhus, it’s the second or third?? I’m not sure.. largest city in Denmark and about an hour and a half away. So of course, my post wouldn’t be complete without pictures.

City Centre

When it was still warm enough to sit outside

Cafe Zurich

The best place to heal a hangover, plus they have awesome chilli burgers.

Summer

I’m officially on summer break, I survived the first year of uni. woohooo.. As of now, I’m exhausted. For the past couple of weeks I’ve neglected pretty much everything, dishes and laundry basket is stacking up, there are post-its, papers, and books all over the place, and I haven’t eaten a decent meal in almost 2 weeks. I AM TIRED. 65 pages, 20 something litres of coffee, a written exam.. and 2 oral exams later I’m finally DONE. I have to say I was pretty nervous, I hate oral exams, my mouth and brain never seem to function together, my heart feels like its pounding its way through my oesophagus and onto the exam table. Man, just thinking about it makes me nauseous. And hearing that around 50% of the students failed and said they were pretty much slaughtered in there didn’t help at all. Anyways, I made it out the exam room alive, the first one not soo good but still a pass. The second one was weird.. in a good way. In the end of the exam I found myself laughing with the examiners and making small talk when we finished, I don’t really care if they were laughing at me or with me but it made me feel at ease.

So, so far soo good. I passed the first year! I have 3 months of summer break to recover from this.. I’m now back to 10% brain activity. My parents are coming to Denmark in a couple of weeks which I’m pretty excited about and in less than a month I’m off to the Philippines.  But for now, I’m gonna make myself a big ass dinner, take a long and hot shower, and catch up on sleep.

I hope everything is good wherever you are!

Christmas in the Philippines

Sooo… December has finally arrived.  I’m slowly counting the days before I leave for the Philippines. My parents just managed to buy me a plane ticket last week, which was crazy expensive. It was all because my school wouldn’t tell us when we’ll be having exams until mid-November so this plane ticket to Philippines will be my Christmas present for the next 5 years or something. Anyways, I AM SOOOOO EXCITED!! We’ll be having a huge family reunion at our house in Palawan with my mom’s sisters and brothers. This is probably the first time in what? 5-7 years that we’ll all be spending Christmas together. SO that should be exciting.

Apart from being with the family again, Christmas, good food, warm weather, etc… I’ll also get to be with  my special someone. You know who you are. SO yeah, I’m all pumped up for going back home again. The 20 hours that it would take for me to actually get to Puerto Princessa is soooooo worth it. I’ll be in the Philippines for a month and then come back here to be welcomed by my very first exam in uni, which is somehow exciting but at the same time scary since it’s an oral exam and I’m not a big fan of oral exams.  ANYWAY, even though vacation is sooo close, I have this big school project that I have to do first before I can sit back and relax and think about drinking mango shakes, eating bagoong, and bear hugging my lolo.

At the same time, my procrastinating levels have hit an all time high. I KNOW I should be doing my project, but somehow I always get that urge to just go check what’s going on online even though I just checked like 15 minutes ago. Next thing I know I’m watching videos on YouTube,  reading Photoshop tutorials, and/or browsing through forums. And next thing I know it’s 5am in the morning. Great.

Anyway, that’s all that has been going on. Nothing exciting has been happening lately partly because I’m too lazy to get off the computer and breath fresh (and very cold) air. But yeah, this week involves Christmas shopping, trying to finish the project, and packing. I know it’s only 3 things, but the amount I procrastinate now, those three things can easily take up two weeks.

Have a good day

University

So, I’m back to school again.. back to books, waking up early, breaks, classmates, and teachers. Judging from the past 3 days I’ve been going to school, so far so good. I’m taking up International Communication and Multimedia. I’ve always wanted to take Multimedia but also marketing so I was lucky to find this with the International Communication part since marketing is part of our syllabus. But yeah, thing is, since I missed the first two weeks of class, I’m  a little behind, academically and socially. I have to catch up on some reading and in my Media Production class I have to make a website, from scratch, as in wrting it by hand, but with the help of Dreamweaver.. hehe.. Anyways, socially, everyone else is in their own little groups, I had some casual conversations with some but that’s how far it got. But hey, I’m not giving up just yet.

Even though education here in Denmark is free, we have to pay for books, which is really fucking expencive. Just for this semseter I had to pay for 2992kr ($578) worth of books and this is only for this 1st semester. Haiiii…

I have also moved into my apartment. It’s weird having a place of your own, unlike the boarding school where you have your friends next door, food is served, and things are cleaned for you. Here, my friends aren’t next door, I have to cook my own food (buy them too!) and clean up after myself. This kind of independece didn’t hit me until I felt this weird feeling in my stomach, like this big hole getting bigger and bigger.. I think some people call it hunger? But yeah, it hit me even harder when I was buying a toilet brush. I am now totally alone, in this new apartment, in this new city, and new school.

Wish me luck.

12 years later…

I am finally done with school! The last 5 minutes of my last exam was the longest 5 minutes ever. The last minute was even slower. So, now I have a month of partying and working before graduation and before I’m off to China and the Philippines.

I hope I pass though, taking the year again would suck… a lot. For now I don’t really quite know what I’ll be doing with my life.. I don’t know if I passed, I dunno if I get into any universities, I don’t even know where I’ll be living!

So yeah, I’m be celebrating my freedome from high school and an uncertain future! Wohooo..

 

nonsense

The storm is finally over (metaphor for my most feared exams). The week is finally over, 2/3 High Level exams done, I feel like I just died a little bit. I don’t really know how it went, I dunno if I’ll pass or not but yeah, I’m keeping my hopes up. I have 4 more exams left. Danish paper 1 and 2 and Geography paper 1 and 2..

All I have to do now is relax and stud for my last exams. It’s all blue skies and sunshine from here!

RE: MacBook: I did that whole, tantric shopping thing (put it in a list then look at it again 28 days later and decided wether or not i still want it) well, now I’m pretty sure that I want it. I’m sick of Windows and I feel like moving on to a Mac. There was this package from HuMac today and I was sure it was a MacBook, I secretly hoped it was for me but to my dissapointment it wasn’t (then again WHO WOULD BUY ME ONE?!) but yeah.. that’s life.

Oh yeah, I’ve also developed a new addiction. Rice milk. Swear, it’s the best, it’s an organic non-dairy rice drink, I dunno how they did it but it tastes good

Now I shall take a looooong nap and enjoy my long weekend. Take care and have a nice weekend!

falling down the stairs kinda hurts

Studying

It’s going good. Been studying Biology and Economics for the past week. However I didn’t go to any of my morning classes this week because I just wasn’t physically capable of waking up so freaking early in the morning.. but yeah, today was suppose to be the last day of classes, but noooo… I have extra Biology and Economics classes next week for 3 days, thank god it’s in the afternoon though.

University

Now I’m having second thoughts. My first choice is in a very small town here in Denmark. The thought of living in a small town depresses me. I have two options:

1) Live in the small town and be miserable.

2) Live in the big city but have to travel an hour to go to school.

being miserable VS waking up early in the morning??

That’s a tough one.

Oh well, I don’t have to think about it now, hell, I don’t even know if I’ll get my first choice!

Anyways… enough school talk.

Life

It’s going good. I can’t believe I’m soo close to being done with school. In less than a month I’ll be done with all my exams. ALL MY EXAMS. When I think about it it’s still pretty distant, but when I really think about it it’s soo close. To add on to it, right after graduation my friends and I are off to China and Philippines, now that’s something I really can’t wait for.. The sand, the beach, the parties, the weather.. ahhh…. But in the middle of our vacation we’ll find out how bad me fucked up in our exams if we passes the IB.

Anticipation is a bitch.

Love

Under construction.

Craving:

Oreos, Ice cream, and fermented tofu. Oreos I managed to buy with the coins I found under my pocket. The rest I just have to keep dreaming about.

Basically, I’m alive and breathing and in debt. Waiting desperately for my student support money and my pay check.

Take care and have a nice weekend

study smarter

So, this week I started studying for my exams which starts on the 5th of May. For the first time since…. well, for the first time EVER I am studying way before exams as opposed to the day before exam. One would think that after 12 years of school I should have mastered the art of studying but the truth is, I haven’t, I think it may have gotten even worse. Procrastinating is worse than ever before as well. But yeah, I used to study the day before exams and I got average grades or a little under average. Hopefully, somehow this would get me good grades.

Lately however, I’ve just been soo lazy. For almost two weeks, going to school was something I did on my free time. I dunno if it’s becuase I know I only have a week left of classes, but still, waking up in the morning is hard. Anyways, as of now, exams are my biggest priority.

After exams however, I have a month of doing nothing but celebrate and work until graduation day. Try to make as much money as I can before my friends and I go off to our little Asia trip. Two weeks in China and then a month (for me) in the Philippines. Man, I am looking forward to it soo much. The weather, the beach, my friends, the environmnet .*sigh*. Plus it’ll probabaly be the last time I’ll be going there for a long time.

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