Anticipating a Long Weekend

My weekends have always been busy, what with all the church activities, nursing major, projects and family bonding moments I've committed myself to. But this weekend will be, as I've allowed it, even busier than normal. Tomorrow, I'm attending our Prayer Breakfast Fellowship at 6 in the morning, as I always do with my family. I have Semi Finals for both my major and Pharmacology. At four pm, I'm planning to join my local blogger community at  McDonald's and by six, I have to get to my high school for our annual alumni reunion (yes, that committed). I have to go home by eight or eight thirty so I can wake up early on Sunday as I'm running this Red Cross Fun Run thing that Pastor John encouraged me to go for. I actually invited some of my sedentary/light activity nursing friends but, as I expected they reasoned it's the time to debrief from our stressful exams. The way I see it, running / jogging is the best way I can relieve myself. I used to think the polar opposite, but when I tried it myself, I was quite happy with the results. Anyway, I have to finish the 5k run in 30mins more or less, because our Sunday Service starts at 9am. After that, we proceed to the much needed family bonding time and I squeeze in making homework and projects somewhere in between all these things.

So yeah, it'll be quite a busy and active weekend for me. I won't be able to post anything new until Monday... if I can actually keep myself from the computer. I dont think I'll be able to do it though. Not when I've found the rest of the pictures from the Wedding. Expect another image-heavy post of fluffness overload sometime this week...

It's time I go. Au revoir!

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Learning Is Everywhere

We all have multiple skills, multiple intelligence, multiple adept qualities that make us who we are. Some of them we learn at school, or at work, or at home, at church, on a boat, online, from our teachers, from our preachers, from our parents, from our peers. But no matter what they are, we've learned them and, at some level, mastered them. Earlier psychologists believed personal traits are innate, genetic, intrinsic while others argue that they’re developed, environmental and altering. The studies of modern psychology lead us to believe that it’s actually the combination of both that deliver us our personal traits. Why am I saying all these? And where does this knowledge come from?

 I am convinced I learned this from, among many things, but am not entirely won over that one has to finish all 20 years of scholarly penance in order to go somewhere, be someone, in this world. Not that I’m hating on school here, if that’s what you think. Merely stating the fact that not everything we learn at school are useful, like how everything we learn in the streets are not necessarily beneficial.

As I’ve already said but will repeat again to erase any misgivings you have on the topic: I am no school-hater. In fact, I’m in school, and although I’m not the sharpest needle in the sewing kit (because those needles hurt), I try to keep up and absorb everything I can while I still can. But sometimes I find that some things they teach us—like the size of the sun or the distance from the earth to the sun—are NTK (Nice To Know) but don’t have purpose in my knowing. Now I know for you sun-geeks that this information “is like, the biggest revelation ever since Copernicus said the earth circled the sun” but where I currently have no plans to go on a cruise trip to Jupiter, it doesn’t impact me in the big way it does to you, sun-geeks.

Okay, I think I’ve gone really off-topic here but my point is that there are special skills that we can develop that we don’t really need to go to school for in order to improve. Like photography, caring, cooking, conversationalism, listening, speaking languages, writing, singing, and even fast reading. And although we can always take courses to improve these areas, they’re not necessarily learned in school and may be developed by discussions, watching videos, listening to audio tapes, looking at samples, reading, googling, etc. So yeah, go ahead and improve yourself, sister / brother! Go google a special skill today!

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