ONAT LOPERA

It had been a very long time since I posted here. Brace yourselves for one long update after the jump.

How do I even begin?

First, let me welcome the month of February by saying “Happy Singles’ Awareness Month”. (Awareness Day is on the 14th) =))

On school news, Tuesday last week was our Thesis 2 presentation in front of local and “import” lead panelist from another campus. The same week and the week before when I had migraine and the sinus thing. Just imagine how hard it was with the pain and the pressure of that “judgment day”.

I already predicted the worst on that day: getting stomped on the presentation, them finding bugs on our program, the scariest and meanest lead panelist but thank goodness, it was all the opposite. Shaking like leaves, my thesis mates and I entered the room and went to set up the computer network to have everything ready and running. There was a bit of a delay and then we were asked to sit down first for a briefing of what was supposed to happen that moment from the lead panelist. A briefing from the most calming voice I’ve ever heard in my entire life coming from someone I had pictured like Professor Umbridge. I was dead wrong. There was even one time when I wanted to hug her for being that kind. I’m weird, I know. I admit that almost every bit of nervousness on my body that moment just disappeared after hearing her. I wished she took my migraine that moment also but it didn’t. She sounded so kind, and she is after hearing our group’s “verdict” from our thesis: conditional pass with major revisions. On non-STI speak, that means our software needs a little tweaking listed on an official revision list made by the lead panelist and if the list is met, will be bowing on stage on our graduation day (fingers crossed). I got exempted from an actual programming test with one of my thesis mates, and one not so lucky but her test went well the next day.

It went relatively well. I tell you a huge chunk of nerves went kaput when I heard our verdict. Like the “optimistic me”, I was thinking of the worst (though we are still not of the hook already). We were given two weeks to do all the revisions and to present the software again to the panel. Until then, pray for us.

And a new addition to my ever so annoying and disenabling body “defects”: brain cancer. No, it’s migraine. Right now, I’m taking a beta adrenoceptor blocker pill and if works, I won’t be having migraine episodes for quite some time. The pain was excruciating that I had no choice to $pop$ a few extra pain killers and sleep it off. My doctor says that sleep was the best solution to it when I went to his clinic to get a prescription. And I am recovering from a sinus inflammation that made half of my face pulsate in pain with a pressure-like strain on my left eye. I thought something is wrong with my left eye again. Allergic rhinitis; the cause of them all and I don’t even know what I am specifically allergy to. Up until now, my left nostril feels a bit weird. I’m taking an allergy pill (Telfast) right now, quite expensive pill.

Acute IBS, acid reflux, hyperacidity, prolonged vertigo, “brightlight” -induced headaches, migraine and sinus inflammation. It’s even tiring typing them, much more when 2 or more goes on at the same time.

I just hope they stop popping up, it seems that after a few weeks of sobriety from my ailments that a new one always comes along to join the party, sort of speak.

On some other notes, I finally had the time and the capacity to watch some of the movies and TV shows I’d wanted to watch on the longest time. Been following soaps also every night, I couldn’t resist a good plot.

And yesterday, February 8 marked the second year of the day I started my effective diet. I broke my diet once last year, the night my high school mates and I went out. And so I gained a few pounds from the holidays but I can get rid of it the same way I got last years off my body. I’ll try riding our mountain bike again every morning to help with the loss. Diets works best with some cardio.

And that is pretty much it. Site’s birthday is coming up next month; I hope I get the new layout done in time. Until then, bonne chance.