Note to Self

When i was a student,  school and saving are one of my priorities. I rarely got a chance to go outdoors and wander. But wen i got my license and finally had a job i told myself that i'm surely going to do what i always wanted to do and that includes going to other places, exploring new experiences and chasing adventures. I wanted to do all of those with my hard-earned money. There's nothing more fulfilling than having to finance your own self for something you really love to do.
Others may misjudged or mislabeled me for everything that i do. Well, i couldnt change how your mind thinks or limits. Just one thing I want to emphasized; Never will i ever ever regret everything that I had experience.
Yes, im working on a shifting schedule, i'm paying my graduate studies, i have classes every other weekends. And sure i still have time to LAAG. I do all of these things because i dont wanna be idle. I dont want to be stagnant. I want to keep moving.
Before I thought that traveling

Brickbat: Don't Care

I am not ideal, I guess. I’m not the friendliest person you know. But I have more true friends than you have. I may not kiss and greet you when we pass by each other, but I’m very sure I don’t give a damn about you or hitting you behind. I just really don’t care. I get to do this to those person I don’t know really well. I may recognize your face, yet that does not urge me to embrace you, especially if I don’t feel you. Perhaps, you may be older or younger than me but I believe that does not make me disrespectful.  I still respect you though by just not giving a crap on you and I don’t mind about your own life. I may just know few people personally but that does not make me a terrible person. I don’t need to know all the person in town just to fit in. I don’t need to be the first one to disseminate other people’s problems. I’m not busy rummaging other folks’ mistakes because I have my own life to get into. I have a life to nurture and lessons to learn. I never tend to cease learning by making your brickbat a priority. 

I believe that im still young, and that life could still offer more. I know I have to be patient and havta start at the very beginning, Yes, i just started the journey of my  chosen career. Why settle in something  keeps pulling me down if iv got the chance to keep soaring high. For Now, im jst goin wd the flow of life and letting time and opportunity unfold on its own.

Winding roads

I may have a long way to go but sure I'm already far from where I used to be. In my long roads of life travel, I'd rather stumble on my feet with my efforts invested then walk again than taking up short cuts, riding wheels, bringing in mind nothing but an effortless, ain't worthwhile dreams.

Say no to PRESSURE!

Though I wasn't in our batch meeting earlier, I can already feel the pressure among my batchmates' status and from my twin's nagging speech about the things to be accomplish before graduation. I'm not saying I don't feel the pressure (to be honest, if only there's such word more than the pressure you felt, i'd be screaming already. I'M TOO FAR FROM CASES ACTUALLY).hehehe :)

Hey guys, there's no use of putting pressure on our minds, it'll just add our worries. Why not let's just double our efforts and sacrifice our free time. Sometimes, over thinking won't help. Perhaps a little move from our actions would be indispensable.  Remember, nothing is impossible so long as we try. Surely, the sacrifices spared will bear fruits in the end. We can do this (MAHUMAN RA LAGE NI, ",). So let's not overly pressure ourselves. The next thing we know, mang graduate nata. hehe :))

i am

I’m Raquel Ann Noval Batayola. I was born on the 13^th day of September in the year 1993. And luckily, on that the same day I was born next to my twin sister Rachel.  Allow me to share with you some parts of my life.

I’m usually the person who’s everyone’s impressions are so timid and reserved. Yes, I usually don’t start conversations especially to those people I never had most of the time being with them. However, I know how to use my communication skills when it is needed. I’m talking about dealing with my clients. Honestly, I love talking and getting to know people, I like hearing different experiences and advices from those experienced ones. That in turn leads me to love writing, putting my ideas into literary forms. It has become my passion since highschool but I think right now I was not able to hone this ability because I’m not more into it at present due to my responsibilities being a nurse student. School took most of my time and I was left to set aside what I love to do.

I also love dancing, doing extemporaneous speech, broadcasting and all other forms of linguistics. I like talking in a crowd especially when talking absolutely not a medical related topic. Studying my course for some years already made me miss much of what my heart desires to do. Yes, being in a medical environment has always been my ambition. However, time and circumstances taught me different things that made me discover of what I am capable to do. It is not that I don’t want what I am studying right now, in fact I always wanted to learn what I have learned presently, it is just that I long to do things that could enhance my capacities, various opportunities that give me room to improve my skills but with time considerations as well.

I realize that we can make most of our time growing in every aspect we wish we could be like in the future. Whatever I have today, I see it as an opportunity.

I’m even proud of whom I have become and the goals I have accomplished. I may get stressed out from time to time but that doesn’t make me think even in the slightest that I have a terrible life because I don’t. I have the greatest life I could ask for. I find new opportunities everywhere I go, I have great friends and even greater family, I’ve overcome challenges that I didn’t feel like I could get through, and that has made me the strongest person I could possibly be.

I’m happy. With myself. With my life. With everything I do.