the writing's on the wall

I won an award in Panay News!

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Of course not!

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If ambition checks, awards in inter school or regional writing competitions remains to be a pipe dream..hehe! Well, actually, I have won an award when I was in high school. I think I lost my certificate for that. It was not a well cherished award since I was only forced to join the Filipino Essay Writing. I was never good in Filipino but sheer dumb luck made me won Second Place. Maybe because I formulate sentences in English first then by some power of the pen, it translated well into Tagalog..hehe!

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I have been writing since Elementary. Writing had been a fascination for me at a young age. I was venturing into poetry first but I realized I didn't do much good in that. Well, I was not practicing much anyway..hehe! But it was not until high school when I got really intersted in writing. My tutor was the one who helped me discover the writer in me. (God forgive, I forgot her name!) After I finish my assignments, she would let me write anything I want from creative news stories, in which I get to choose the names of the victims and the slayers, to free essays. I still have the copies of those stories in my drawer! I remember creating the town of "Ghostlywitchaboo, Oreo" and some creature who eats their citizens..haha! I even made a doodle of the creature which I forgot the weird name I created myself..hehe!

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I also remember my Chain days. Darn that school paper! I joined them as a Feature Editor when I was a senior in high school. I joined because of the primary reason that it will help me enhance my skills, blah..blah...and of course, new friends are a bonus. I was really excited to join them and I was proud of myself that I got in every screening. It was the first time that they had those screenings. What was just so bwisit about it is that we have no office, no computer, not even a typewriter and all the staffers must write news stories! I don't do news! I'm not good at it! I don't even know how to! And how am I supposed to know anything since we had zero workshops! (The advisers told us we will have some.) Unlucky me, I was expecting too much. If you know me that much, then you'll know that I complained. haha! I complained that why is it that the old Chain office was removed and was replaced by some crap laboratory. We were meeting in a vacant room instead. (I always wanted to belong in an organization with their own office. It looked dignified, for some sort of reason.) I complained big time on why do I have to write a freakin' news article when I am the Feature Editor! It was a dumb decision, i thought! Bal-an mo Feature Editor ko pasulaton mo ko ya news? Amo na gani sa Feature nyo ko ginbutang kay pigaw ko sa News! kag indi ko kabalo sang News! But then again, I'm not the boss so off I go with my lousy attempt at News Writing. And mind you, I got my article back with so much corrections! Told ya so! I was really fed up with the system! Bulok gid ya! We don't even have writers..only editors..d-uh! all of us held positions as editors...d-uh!

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After this lousy experience, I was kind of discouraged to write again. In college, I was not able to join the school paper. Primary reason is that, I was afraid that if I join, my academics would sink beneath the Titanic. Second was that, my appetite in writing was lost. It was not until I was in second to third year when I got to write again. I started my Friendster Blog and it was a real outlet for me, most especially when I was in third year when all of the trouble you can imagine came right down for us. And when I was in fourth year, we started a friendship diary with the Royalty Girls (Whispers and Screams: the official diary of our laughs and cries). From then on, I just love blogging! hehe!

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The diary hasn't been with me for months now so I'm just content with blogging. I just need to write my ramblings at times..hehe..And for those who have enjoyed reading my blogs, thank u mucho! I'll keep updating!

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And oh, it was my brother who won the Panay News trophy. he got 2nd place in the regional news writing competition. trained...first timer...well, hard work pays..and sometimes it pays big with a yellow Ninoy bill! And all i get is raw, natural talent (or at least i think so..) what an envy!

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