I am a part of Grade 12 - Chabanel in the STEM Pre-Sci strand.

I am currently 17 years old, with my birthday being on christmas (25.12.2007) !

I also enjoy playing fast-paced video games like Hotline Miami and Forsaken on Roblox.

LIKES:

• Gyoza and garlic bread

• "Unconventional" or "Alternative" fasion

• Nuclear disasters

• Playing games with my friends all night

• People who don't meddle with my personal life

DISLIKES:

• Stupid people (usually I mean emotionally unintelligent people)

• People who claim to know everything about something/someone

• Unnecessary drama

• Cheaters (in-game and in real life)

• Ampalaya

• Pokemon (all the games, I've played every mainline game!)

• Hotline Miami

• Marikin Online 4

• Blood Debt on Roblox

• Look Back (2024)

• Ghosts US (2021)

• Zero Day (2003) (dont judge me for this one!! theyre well written characters)

Nearly all my meaningful experiences are just being able to have fun with my friends and occasionally my family.

I don't see my friends often, since most of them are online friends, but I really cherish the times we would spend on call just playing any interesting game we could find while laughing about them. All my friends make my mundane and otherwise very boring and bland life worth experiencing to the fullest, and I cherish all of them for that!

My favorite memory from before was when I was around kindergarten or nursery age, and I would make my parents cards or draw on bond paper to show them. My mother would always tell me I was talented, and though I never believed it, it still felt nice to hear from her.

As of right now I'm still learning how to cope with the fast paced life of ADDU and Davao in general, even though its been a year since I've started living here for school. Its still very hard to socialize with my peers, but you and I both know its because we're just not fit to be actual friends with them. I'm also still learning and improving on responsibility and my school work, and I'm still trying to work with deadlines I set for myself.

I wish that no matter where you end up, you're still with our friends. We both know socialization is pretty important to human development, and we can't just avoid that either. Dreams are great and all, but without our friends I find it hard to believe that you'll go anywhere in life.

Giving up isn't exactly a choice, so always be prepared to make a lot of plan B's. If med school doesn't work out, just take a gap year or something to figure yourself out since they said that's an option too. No matter what, always keep the people we love close and don't concern yourself with stupid little drama since we have a lot of work to do.

-Best wishes, you in the past (specifically 2025)

: I think, while not "helpful" to me in a practical sense as I already knew most if not all the things discussed, it was still a very fun subject. It helped me review on my own personality, brushing on things I haven't reviewed about myself in a while and making me think and share more about myself. Personal Development, as the name suggests, did help me revisit my own person, so it was helpful to me in the sense that I got time to reflect and revisit myself.

2. What were your key takeaways from the subject?

: My key takeaways from the subject were that I should always reflect on myself and my relationships. I should always value my mental health and my own development, but I should also consider others and how I regulate myself with them. The subject was all about knowing and developing myself, so my takeaways are essentially just that.

3. What two topics were your favorites and why?

: I think my 2 favorites was the one that discussed the MBTI and the one that discussed love. I am still interested in Typology, so revisiting that part of myself was fun, especially as a subject where I got to share that about myself. As for love, it was because of the types of love that made it my favorite. I find it hard to experience empathy, let alone love, so being able to see a love type correspond with what I felt was very refreshing.