I've been senti these past few days. Most of my thoughts go around the idea of me not having accomplished anything. It saddens me that I am thinking these thoughts. It's as if I'm not capable of achieving anything (although the fact is, I am capable). I've done a lot of introspection, flashbacks and memory reviews. I even pulled out some of my memorabilia that chronicled my achievements in school. Yeah, that's how desperate I am to cheer up myself. Well, one of the things I'm most proud of in college, academic-wise, is our Marketing Presentation in Brand Management class. With a team of 6, we're tasked to create the next step for National Bookstore brand, which is quite hard since NBS has been the "national bookstore" since time in memoriam. From humble beginnings, NBS paved its way from a soap shop to supplies store and now, as the education partner of parents and students. We may not have the best idea for NBS' next step (although many would say the contrary :D ), but what I'm really most proud of this is our execution of ads. With only the 6 of us, we crafted crude commercials to support of marketing campaign for NBS. Well, you have to understand that we're just 4th year business students and none of us had a background on filmmaking so when the class was in awe after the commercial was shown, it was really worth carrying the big red couch 4 plight of stairs up and down. Please forgive me but I really would like to share this, even just to myself, to cheer me up and with a tap on the back, I can say, "I did this. I'm a part if this milestone." And I advise you to do the same.
I miss college already! I miss my classmates, my teachers, my orgmates and yes, even the classes. It's really true that life would be a lot different when you graduate. One of the things I especially miss from college is our activity called OrgPres (Org Presentation). It's a competition between teams of organizations in our college where we prepare a certain presentation (that now evolved into a short play) that mixes what-would-it-be-if-they-are-put-together ideas. I like this since it's the aspect of my college life that dwells with my passion for theater (believe it or not, I do have!). It's actually cute. You'll see how creative business people can be. In my 3rd year, the theme is CGI films and Nemo and Wall-E were assigned to us. I still remember how we made Eve be an evil robot made by Darla to steal Nemo but Wall-E would save him and change Eve back to the robot he loved by a true love's kiss. I don't know how we made possible cute fight scenes between The Incredibles and Up characters versus Garfield, Po of Kungfu Panda and fishes of Nemo. We had so much fun. Last year, it got closer to theater. We get to combine a musical play and a performing artist. A lot of story conferences were done to create a story for Lady Gaga and Sweeney Todd. We went so dark indeed. I even get to play Sweeney Todd and sing! Haha. That was really an experience! Well, it's also fun to see how Beyonce would dwell in Rent, how Rihanna would be inspired by Chicago and Britney hitting it off in Hairspray. Most of all, I miss cheering for my team. I still did cheer in this Orgpres I attended but it's different when you belong to a team and cheering while awaiting the results. I miss performing, too. At least, I can say I performed at least once! :) Congratulations to UP JIBA (UP JPIA + UP IBA) for winning! Also, hats off to the competitors for nice presentations.
Anyway, I got to see my collegemates naman who wouldn't want to miss this too. Then we went to a very late dinner. We still have that chitchat bonding and laugh we used to when we were classmates. Although now, it's not a presentation or a case keeping us late together, it's our sheer bonding. And I'll always miss that.
