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1. What have you discovered in yourself?

I found out that I shouldn’t change myself just because of someone else, I should only limit it.

2. What are your core strengths?

I think my core strength is being optimistic. Even though sometime I rant about not being good enough at the certain types of multimedia, I find some time to improve on it even outside of classes. I also think that this load of school works is a practice for me in the future where mistakes are not acceptable.

3. What do you consider as your weaknesses, abilities, and talents?

My strengths can be my weaknesses too; one example is having a brutally honest personality. Sometimes truth hurts but lying can’t change the truth, I tell the truth to my friends even though it will hurt them, and that’s the reason why some people can’t tolerate me and my ‘toxic’ personality.

4. What are the remedies you will take to improve or compensate for your weaknesses?

I reflect on it, and I will ask them for forgiveness if ever they are offended.

5. Where and how do you use it to your best advantage?

I tell the truth when I need to because sometimes a slap to reality is a wake-up call to a person’s insanity. I usually confront my friends too if ever they did something offending because I want them to realize their mistakes, and I wish that they do it to me too so that I know if what I’m doing is right or wrong.

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1.    Is there a ‘center’ or a central theme in your timeline and life? If you will give a title for your timeline what would it be and why?

The theme of my life is “Lost and Found” because I lost myself in trying to find myself in the wrong people and things in the past. I also the chance of growing up with a father but it all changed when I found God, because after finding Him, everything else was a realization and a chance for me to find the things that I thought I lost permanently.

2.    Identify the turning points in your timeline. What were the thoughts, feelings and actions that you experienced?

The turning point of my life is when I was in grade 6 because I thought everything was falling apart, but it was actually falling to the right places. I realized all of these after graduating from St. Scholastica’s College because transferring to iAcademy turned my life for the better. I didn’t move on from my past, but instead of looking at it as a nightmare, I saw it as a blessing. Looking back it now, I’m glad I live and survived and I have found God. I want to help others, who experienced the same fate as me and lost themselves, to find themselves and I will achieve that through God.

3.    Who are/were the most significant people in your life? How did they influence you?

First is Hanieng, because she was the first friend to tolerate and accept me for who I am. She’ was always there for me when I needed an assurance, or when I needed someone to let me love life again. Second is my spiritual family, who has showed me God and His powerful Love. They inspired me to be stronger and to never let anyone or anything bring me down because God is with me. Third is my MMA-11A classmates, because of they taught me how to accept my weirdness, and be happy about it even If I am judged or not. Fourth is my parents who was my inspiration to work harder so that I can give back to them. And Lastly, God. Because He was the one who gave this people to me and He is the one who stayed besides me even though I haven’t found Him yet.

4.    What would you change or add, if you could? How would each of these changes or additions affect your life, or even change its present course?

I won’t change anything because my past hardships and current blessings is the proof of God’s existence in my life.

5. Where do you want to be in a year, 5 years, and 10 years? What do you expect your future timeline will be?

Years from now, I see myself as a person filled with blessings and I will share all of these blessings to others who need it. I guess my timeline will depend on God's plans for me.

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Entry #3: 5 Things That I am Grateful for:

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Entry #3: 5 Things That I am Grateful for:

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1. Anime
I was always called a 'nerd' for my liking of anime. I loved anime when I was little, I prefer to be alone and watch anime rather than playing outside with my cousins. It was because of anime that I started to liked drawing (other than Barney and Spongebob), I even had a dream of being one of the animators in One Piece because I think that anime will go on forever until I am 60 years old (Wish ko lang).

2. Learning how to swim
When I was kid, my parents enrolled me in a swimming class. When I grew up I was the only one who knows how to swim compared to my cousins. One summer, we are swimming by the pool then I didn't know what happened next but my cousin (I am older than her) accidentally step on the deep side of the pool where she can't reach, I did not know what to do but I swam to her and saved her. Now, my cousins are better swimmers than me.

3. Losing interest in Art
All of us have something that we love doing because we think we are good at doing it but we lose the confidence because there are others who is much more good at doing it. Every school year, I always pick the Art Club as my club because I love drawing and crafting. But when I was first year High School, there is a rule that before you can join a club there should be a teacher and club officers' approval (which is a little unfair especially when the other students have connections inside that club so they can easily join). I was not accepted even though I submitted all the best drawings I have done, and it left me thinking am I really good at drawing? And because of this I stopped doing it and tried to explore other things. After all this years I found out that, there is no other thing that I can enjoy doing except doing art. I also realized that I should not draw for others to enjoy, but I should draw because I enjoy doing it.

4. Leaving my old school
When I was in grade 10 I was sure that I will stay at my old school for Senior High School because it has fine arts, and all my friends will be staying. One day, I saw an ad in facebook about iAcademy, and I found out that they have animation and multimedia arts track. I was torn between the two at first because I love drawing and I thought that I'm good at photography (but then I realized that photography is much more than getting good pics using my phone hahaha) after some searching about the two, I chose multimedia arts because it offers more than animation. It was January when I took the entrance exam here and after passing it and the interview I did not hesitate to enroll here immediately (yes, even though I haven't even graduated at my school I enrolled) and I was happy with my decision, because it was my first time to decide because of someone. I never regret it because I really enjoy what I am learning now not only from my teachers but also from my classmates and friends.

5. Not believing in God's Love
I always thought that if God loves His son and daughters, why would He let them go through pain? Then I realized that, without challenges there will be no success, without pain there will be no happiness, without God, there will be no true love. I was questioning God for letting me go through that hardships, and because of it I was blinded by hatred and I never saw God's love. But because of the people I've met in the past months, they became a light for me and they showed me God's love by letting me feel it through them and I am grateful for it and I hope that one day, I can be a light to others who need it too.