February 8 - 14, 2010: Finding Love on Chinese New Year

This is a week anticipated by lovers and the Chinese. Valentine's day and the Chinese New Year both fall on February 14. Is it purely coincidental that these two major events would fall on the same day, a Sunday? Or was it written in the stars that on this day, lovers and people from the Sino race would celebrate in jubilation?

It happens to be finals week in school too. The students would labor hard to make it past this term......... Would they or will we see each other again next term? I sure would love to see them again but not repeat the same things I taught. That would mean I failed. In my earlier years as a teacher, I used to take pride in the fact that a student's future hinges on my mood when I reckon who is supposed to make it and who did not get it. I mellowed a lot over the years. Experiences have taught me to use the heart more than the head in most cases. That seem to work both ways. The students are happier. I am less stressed out too.

Preparing the final exams proved to be the hurdle. I am so distracted and disrupted by this cool music site I discovered recently that work suffers. Suffice it to say that I crammed big time preparing the exams for my students. At one point, I just had the exams freshly out of my printer as I was about to go to school from the office.... bad, bad, bad! I used to be ready with the answer key to the exams before I give the exams to my students. This time, I was lucky to have finished drafting the questions. I got to review them as I was giving the test and I had to correct some entries........ really bad!

Addiction (to music this time) is again eating me up. Music soothes and heals. But it can also eat up time otherwise devoted to productive pursuits. Like my other 'vices', this will be contained soon....

It was supposed to be TGIF but here I was at school watching over my flock. They wanted to extend the time indefinitely........ I wanted to relent. But there are limits to a man's capacity..... On their own, the students submitted their test papers to me letting me know that is the best that they can do under the circumtance. The week ended just when the last of my students reluctantly handed me her test paper. I was just happy to go home.

I had to meet up with ED who watched the musical, Rent, with her classmates at nearby RCBC Plaza. I was starving and we had to take dinner at North Park, one of the few restos still open at that hour. It's quite a surprise considering that it's a Friday before Valentine's Day.

Getting home was the only place I want to be after filling up my stomach. The travel didn't take long but it was almost 1:00 am when we got home. We actually arrived the next day, eve of two major celebrations.

Sunday is awaited by everyone. It's a red letter day literally..... which is the color of love and the lucky color for the Chinese people too.

To the whole of Christiandom, it's a day of obligation.

Happy Hearts' Day to lovers and all those who loved, are in loved, and are longing for love. The last category might have the most members....

GONG XI FA CAI!!!
2010 is the Year of the Tiger, also known by its formal name of Geng Yin.

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