Tuesday, October 28, 2003

On Breaks and Boredom

I was excited almost ecstatic when I heard the in-between-semesters break was coming. Finally, I'm experiencing a true (on whatever angle you look at it) sembreak. I should have known back then that although sembreaks meant no classes, tons of free time and catching up on gimiks, it also meant a month or so of being broke, bored and buddy-less.
Okay fine. I've made that last word up. And yeah right. I couldn't think of a b-adjective that could aptly describe my sembreak. You can't blame me. My mind went into some kind of a mild coma after weeks of void occupied it. It's pathetic, all right, but have you not been broke (unless of course you're some rich fella)or bored some time during your short "holiday"?

After a night of contemplating, I've decided vacations aren't all perks and benefits. They too have their own share of drawbacks and disadvantages.

1) I've mentioned it earlier, vacations meant no dough! No allowances, unless your
'rents cough up cash or you're some rich kid (lucky you).

2) And 'coz you've got no cash, there'll be less or no gimik at all. Poor you, You'd die of boredom! Nah.. kidding aside, you'll just have to make do with house parties (which are, by the way, more fun in some aspects).

3)No classes means not being able to see your friends. After weeks of not seeing them, their faces would escape your memory. Thereby, leading you to forget them. Ergo, come the class opening, you won't know anyone making you all the lonelier.

4)If you think vacations will give you some time to catch up on lost sleep, think twice man, coz you're wrong. Vacations encourage us to sleep later than ever for the television or the internet because we tend to think that there'd be no classes the next day.

5) Lost sleep equals Added eye bags and less time for our skin cells to regenerate hence, making us look even more haggard than we do during hell week. Dude, your delusions of radiant-looking skin and fresh-looking face would never happen too bad...

6) You don't expect to be the only one on vacation, do you? Your sibs are on vacation too. So, you can say goodbye to having the remote control all to yourself (lucky are those who don't need to battle over a single remote).

7) If, by chance, you are the only one on vacation on the household (perhaps, a single child or your home-alone), you'd spend hours in front of the TV or the computer. This isn't all too good, you know because excessive exposure to TV and computer radiation can cause headaches. Believe me, you, me it's true, try it!

8) Sometimes, you really make up on lost sleep that all you do the rest of the day is doze off. This might sound good but it's not. After a 13-hour sleep, you would wake up with a nasty headache that would make you want to lie down and sleep more for the rest of the day making you miss those shows you've been dying to watch.

9) And because you've been sleeping all day and no one can wake you up for fear that they might upset you, you'll be missing out on family outings too. Making you all home alone.

10) When your home alone, you would have to cook for your own and sometimes, you would have to do housework you won't do if there were classes. Your " Nagaaaral ako!" excuse won't work this time coz your 'rents won't bite that anymore (ahhhh..).


So there you are 10 reasons why vacations suck big time! I don't know about you, but I guess having classes isn't so bad after all except for departmentals, projcts, papers, practicals blah blah... ( this would take another blog entry).
I really have no idea what to put on my debut blog. You know how it is when, you're a beginner.
I guess I'll leave it here for now. TTFN!