We held a Christmas party for our TD kids in Nangka this very sunny afternoon. I was having a headache so that put me into kind of a grumpy mood. But of course, I still managed to be cheerful and all smiling with my kids.

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See related chronicle here.

See the lack of enthusiasm among my classmates during competitions? It disheartens me.
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The afternoon could’ve been spent on rehearsing the dance for the competition tomorrow. But since we aren’t joining the contest and three other competitions… I just went with my classmates to Macky’s house and spent the afternoon there.
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There’s something about Manila (the city itself) that makes me feel so foreign. It fascinates me. Maybe it’s the congestion of a multitude of people and a myriad of places to see in a small area? The architecture of the buldings? The narrow labyrinth of streets? The parks? I don’t know. It feels so different from any other place in Metro Manila.

Anyway, I just saw my first ballet last night with my mom at the Cultural Center of the Philippines (my first time in the CCP actually). We watched Ballet Philippines’ production of the classic Nutcracker.

Because of ridiculously heavy traffic, it took us MORE THAN two hours to get from Quezon City to CCP in Manila. It felt like everybody was spending Saturday night in Manila (well, except for my classmates who were at Macky’s party, which I obviously had to miss). There was even a parade by different ati-atihan groups that occupied two lanes of Roxas Blvd.

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Next time, remind me to care and involve myself less in the affairs of class performance in anything. It would save me a lot of frustrations and annoyance. If my classmates have the right to be apathetic sloths who wait for other people to begin doing something before they begin doing something themselves, then I have the right to retire from being so involved. I highly doubt we’ll win more than five banners this year. (Though, I want to be surprised).

(It really frustrates me. We are such a talented class and we rarely use our talents to their full potentials.)
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After the first three periods, we had the interdisciplinary contest. As usual, my class didn’t do well at the beginning, ending at the 15th spot out of 15 sections, after the easy round. But admirable as we are (are we?), we were able to lift our reputation as a semi-honors class and ended up 5th. That’s okay.

After that contest was more than an hour of break time. The next event was paskong pinoy when we were supposed to decorate the halls of our classroom like a two-dimensional parol.
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