Midlife Phoenix

My enrolment for Thesis Seminar during the summer classes was nothing short of  useless. I reported for classes without any sane write-up to submit.  Summer classes started and ended without me submitting a single line. Blame it all on my brain.  When I don't feel the urge to write, no matter what I do, I couldn't write.  The words just won't flow. I might not have been that motivated, or I may have temporarily lost the flair for words. Whatever the case, those summer sessions were rendered useless by this stubborn brain of mine. Again, I tried my luck this first semester.  I wasn't really certain I could make it, but I certainly hoped that at least, at one point, this brain will cooperate. With all the teacher's piled-up paperworks summoning for immediate attention, I never thought I could find the time to organize the ideas floating on my head.  But well, one day, I just felt like I wanted to sit down, tap the keypads of my laptop and get the agony ov...

I have been enrolled in two subjects for this summer: Non-formal Education and Thesis Seminar. Summer sessions are soon to end and look where I've been...been nowhere, in reality, lol!   Well, attended sessions the way automatons do --- uninvolved.  Couldn't find it myself to be excited with school the way I have been the previous summer.  The sessions are soon to end and I haven't done anything --- haven;'t submitted anything...it's a lazy summer indeed! My BRAIN took off to a vacation somewhere else and left moi feeling a bit dizzy and disoriented. Work pile up one after the other and I am in no mood to even lift my lazy butt off my computer chair to  work on them... But nonetheless, I will go on...

How can one synthesize daily events of a breathless masterand's travail??? Is there any way whatsoever to do just that?  But then, this is my page and I can darn well do anything and say anything I want to say in it, hehehehe.  This semester, the skeds aren't as hectic as compared with the hurry of the first semester.  Fewer requirements too.  It's not that I am getting lazier by the minute; it's just that with single parenthood (hub works far, that's why), teaching and studying juggled, there are times when the latter needs to be let fall. Couldn't sacrifice my family for it because in the first place, I am chasing after an elusive dream because of them.  Needless to say, I couldn't also sacrifice my bread and butter.  Though hub has work, the economic status of the world bluntly yet subtly (how's that???) suggests that both man and wife keep their job.  I incurred fewer absences this sem, yay! I only get to be absent when the bebes are sick. But w...

“Your soul is oftentimes a battlefield upon which your reason and judgment wage war against your passions and your appetite.   Your reason and your passion are the rudder and the sails of your seafaring soul.” This is a quote by the famous poet Kahlil Gibran.   The quote suggests that people are driven by different motives.   Every action is compelled into completion through the presence of external and internal stimuli which are most commonly referred to as extrinsic and intrinsic motivations, respectively.             Emotions fall into the intrinsic category of motivations.   Though not tangible and most often not easy to measure, it can not be denied that emotions play a vital role in the lives of humans. Affective situations appear to be the driving forces that compel individuals to begin tasks and sustains them until the tasks are done.   Satisfaction and joy over a milestone achieved and the feelin...