[] Sem Break []

I'm technically free as a student. The sem-break has already began. I have many plans for this month, some of which involves me getting off the Metro. Ive been trying to do stuff off of the polluted city streets and within the confines of mother nature. What fun must have awaited me for so long? I do believe I am worth having a comfortable vacation after a hard-sem's work. After this I'd be back to the university again, doing academic works and making sure a good resume may arrive after my school years(damn all the people... do we really have to study to get a high paying job? hmmm). So, it is just right for me to have a break with all the stress.

I was somewhere in the northern part of the country last week. I really thought it would be cold out there but to my dismay, Its simply as cold as our car's aircon. Yes, it is quiet cold but not as cold as it used to be ( I've been there before... a couple of time earlier). I didn't even need to use my sweater / jacket ( I actually brought 3 sets) to be able to carry on with my adventures there.( I used the jackets though.. bandwagon... everyone was wearing one... hahaha..) Though not approved of what have met me there, I still had fun. Its actually not the temperature that we visited rather the stress-free ambiance. One of my companions even suggested to us that sleeping under the pine trees does well to your self-conception. I would want to try that but I was too ashamed to do so. (Maybe next time when no one is looking at me...)

Here are some pictures:

( i'v also posted this in my friendster account.. and there are also more there not posted here.. hehe...)

113th step... and still more to go... urghhh...

Shhh... Holy Sanctuary... Psst! PICTURE!

This is what we call non-sense shots... here we have myself... Following Rules...

( so not abram!)

Almost a day ending in mines view...

Another non-sense take... wooo... a sight to behold...

( we namedBaguio - "Comfort room Capital of the Philippines... you'll usually find many of these here..haha...)

One of the best food... grilled coconut in banana leaves...

they call it here... "tupig"

Technically, the biggest strawberry I ever saw...

(We shot this while my parents was busy buying fresh vegetables in La Trinidad.. )

ohhh... We were too late... We planned to pick strawberries fresh... but we came too late...hayz...

The Lumbang brothers minus one... the other one was in subic that time...

(shot inside our ride)


The other side... and now smiling...

Another shot...

(If you bother to ask... The white thing on my cheek is powder... I was eating bavarian cream doughnut before that shot...)

Waiting for snacks to be served... let's have a picture first moment... haha...

By the pine tree with my dad...

Pose for the camera... Yiiii...
(My favorite shot of that vacation... nice one, isn't it?)

You know what, getting a day off or a rest period isn't that bad. I assure you the more relax you can be, after you go back from the vacation, the better you do when you continue your daily choirs. Don't deprive yourself with even a little fun.

[] DiSDaiNFuL PuRPoSe []

What is the purpose of life? It is much of a hassle to ask the question. Can it really be that objective? On the first place, does life really had a purpose? My mind cannot decipher an exact answer to the question. Must it have been that even I who tried to live in this foolish life of mine hasn't seen any purpose for my existence?

I went to philosphy not knowing where I might end up one day. Should I be running an extravagant company in the middle of makati, a sales agent in one of the big malls in our country or maybe a call center agent speaking accented english over a phone talking to a blonde lady buying electonic appliances? This idea enters my mind oftenly since I went deciding my future over a course which does not promise a million-bucks-salary after graduation. People around me even joked that i might become an old hogged intellectual sitting under a tree looking up the sky asking : " Is their God?" Would I ever be a stereo-typed philosopher in the middle of the forest or the mountain ranges of sierra madre ( random choice... I was just there a week ago... haha) ?

I wouldn't want to end up like that. I would like to be an intellectual but never a nomad. But even knowing my occupation in the future doesn't give me the answer on the purpose of my life. I hate myself for venturing on things in my life eventhough I don't know any reason for me to do so. Almost everyone knows how happy-go-lucky I am. Without any hesitation I'd find myself in places I don't know where to or what for. I usually am in trouble because of my adventurous instinct but people around me are always there to help. Is this all that I am? Am i purposed to make problems and be saved afterwards?

I give a big deal on my purpose. No one exist for nothing, I so do believe. I hate not knowing what I am for. Taking to consideration the worlds magnanimity, what is my part in it? Am I just a dust, an add-on to this world whose beauty incompassable? Can I simply be nothing? Do I exist for that matter, for only the existing does have purpose? We should ask Descartes on that matter. Can he prove my existence?
(very philosophical... oohh.. please... its sembreak... haha)

I cannot arrive to any answer. I failed myself for I cannot see an importance to my existence. I'm nothing but a blank canvass waiting an artist to paint my art. Nothing is in my future for nothing is seen through me. Could I ever find an answer? That I couldn't answer but I believe I do have a purpose. I exist ain't I? Maybe not now but sometime later. I know it. I'm not just a dust or a hogged nomad. Im for something much better. A millionaire? A star? that i may not know for now. But I know I would be one.

It just might not be worth finding a purpose for now. But i'll live my days finding one. And as long as i am here. I have a purpose. I must have one. I do have one.