Living Inside My Head

My brother and I took this exam yesterday. Very difficult! We arrived at the testing center at 7:15 AM, looked for our room assignments, and after fixing my signature and securing my pictures at a large piece of paper, I took my seat. At exactly 8AM the exam started. There were 150 items in total, composed of English vocabulary, word usage, paragraph composition, logic, mathematics, and of course about the Philippine Constitution. I spent the whole 3 hours allocated time to finish the exam. Very tedious and the questions definitely gave me headache. I hope we'll be able to pass the exam. *fingers crossed*

I am a self-professed bookworm. I love reading more than any other hobbies, and I grew up with fascination with books. In reading, I find a sense of comfort and relaxation, and in a world where everyone is busy living their lives, it has become difficult to find time to sit calmly and ponder things. I can become extremely busy sometimes and become very tired because of work, but when I get a free time, I prefer to spend it with reading. Reading has given a wider sense of what the world is like, of the feelings and emotions of people, of how people lived and live their lives in the past and the present, and how society works its way everyday. I can take a peek into the lives of many people, and understand the way of the world. One cannot underestimate the power of it: reading about history makes readers wiser, poems make readers witty, philosophy can make readers deep, logic and rhetoric make readers able to contend. Reading has been my consolation and I learn a lot because of it, and i

The rainy day season has certainly entered the Philippines, bringing with it a typhoon that is currently giving the country large amount of rain-shower. The capital was in signal number 1, but despite the two-day continuous rain, I find myself very much delighted to this type of weather. I always hated summer, and find the smoldering heat plus the humidity totally unbearable. During summer days, I am limited to staying at home, almost always doing nothing. Any kind of work, even doing simple household chores can make me sweat so much, and eventually render me completely exhausted. Summer is an unproductive season for me; it also often makes me irritated, lazy, and weak. But when the rainy season arrives, it is like a manna to me. Suddenly, I find myself beaming with energy to do many things. Doing household chores gives me enjoyment, and even though it's raining very hard outside, I can go out and stroll in the mall for hours, looking for a nice sweater and a couple books to re

I've been suffering from severe eczema for two weeks now. Actually, this skin problem started when I was 22 years old. During that time, my mother and I wasn't surprised at all when I first told her about the tiny fluid collecting in the skin of fingers. She has had it from time to time. Then I realized that eczema is hereditary, and now I am also inflicted with it. The summer heat in the Philippines, where recent temperatures climbed around between 36-38 degree Celsius took its toil in my already dry skin. As a wearer of contact lenses, I didn't want to use lotion to my hands. It felt uncomfortable and dirty. And so my skin was left totally unprotected. Several days ago, vesicles started appearing in my skin. I'm used to this kind of scene when temperatures are extremes. The vesicles erupt, dry up and crack and usually heal by themselves after putting an emollient. But not this time. The vesicles gradually became worse. Soon, my fingers were already red, very itchy,