Pros and Cons

PROS

1. It's not an 8 to 5 job.
2. There is more opportunity to take graduate studies and there are higher chances of getting scholarships abroad because of the network. But do I really want to take graduate studies?
3. Compensation is good during the early years (well, compared to corporate).
4. According to Wigi and to Prof. Ignacio, "madaling rumaket".
5. There's sembreak, Christmas break and probably even summer vacation (if ICE continues not to offer courses during the summer term).
6. Prof. Castro once said during class, "The corporate ladder is made up of people. If you want to go up the ladder, you have to step on people... That's why I'm in the academe."
7. I don't have to leave UP. Plus I can still hang out in Maginhawa Street. And the new ICE building (which is currently under construction) is along C.P. Garcia, very near Moonleaf. Err, I mean Maginhawa Street.

No More Escaping

Last vacation of my life and I've been stuck in the city, mostly. I'm going to Batangas with my friends in less than two weeks. And that reminds me that I need to find a swimsuit. Sigh. I'd really like to go to many places this summer but I only got Batangas. Well, I guess it's better than nowhere. Although I wish someone would drag me to Ocean Park. Or to Enchanted Kingdom. Or to Tagaytay. Or anywhere nice but not too expensive. I'm pretty easy to please, really.

Where's the Circus?

As I didn't want to spend for a new dress nor ask my parents for money (ang dami nang gastos saken recently), I decided to wear this old pink lace dress. It's so old that it has become trendy once again. Ems said it looked like I bought it from Forever 21 but it's actually vintage.

I just wore it with a belt I got from Landmark, the shoes I used during Engg Grad and an embellished headband, which is actually the belt/sash I made for my grad dress. I didn't spend anything and that makes me proud haha.

Venue was great and accessible. Food was alright if only I had enough to fill up my tummy. There weren't a lot of people and there were only nine Aggre people. To be honest, the program was boring. I just hanged around Aggre people the whole time.

Aggre girls...

 ...and Aggre boys.

Theme was circus but I didn't find anything circus-y about the party save for the ticket and probably the theme colors (red and gold), which actually remind me of Gryffindor House. And they call it "Cirque Au Revoir" which literally translates to "Circus Goodbye". I wonder...

Anyway, there was a photobooth...

...and a mobile bar with unlimited drinks, which, I think, made the party crazy and worth it.

I also had the courage to introduce myself to fellow blogger, Ghoent! I recognized her while waiting for out turn at the photobooth. :D

And I was happy to get a group picture with Paulo, Dash and Jansei. They're my third year high school classmates and although a lot of us went to UP, only the four of us went to Engineering (Dash is even a shiftee from CBA) and I am proud that we all graduated!

There's lots of room for the party's improvement. Nevertheless, it was a great way to celebrate! It's probably the last time we can fool around so much as from hereon we've got to face the scary thing called 'real life'.