Late Registration- Almost!

October 29, 2012

          

          Since our sem break started last week, I didn't have the urge to register as a voter until now. The last day of registration is on Wednesday and I'm already two days near the deadline.

          The call time for my friends and I was supposedly 8:30 a.m so that we'll get a chance to be the first in line but we ended up going there around 9:30. I can't help but make fun of how long the lines are. I don't know how this works but in our municipal hall in San Pedro, Laguna there are actually two lines. The first line is for getting the registration form. After filling up all necessary information you fall in the second line where registrants pass the form. The you're going to wait until your name is called. After that they're going to have your picture, thumb marks and signature taken. 

          The process is quite easy and fast, what makes it look hard are the lines. I saw COMELEC Chairman Sixto Brillantes, Jr. in the news getting angry after seeing a lot of registrants in Quezon City. They are also blaming COMELEC for poor service. People tend to blame the government, this case the COMELEC, when things like this happen. I remember the sign that we saw while in the line: Registration will not be easy at this time. But don't blame us we've been waiting for you to register for the past 16 months. For me this is really correct. If you don't want to get stuck in a line full of late registrants you should've registered earlier. There is really no need to complain. But my friend told me why fall in line for a long time when you're just going to take a form and submit it? He said that it's not that hard to give forms and take it back after. Well, I'm not sure. Good thing Clarisse saw her brother-in-law who works in the municipal hall. He took our form and submitted it to the office and we just waited for our names to be called. We're like cheating, but it definitely saved us time. The only requirement they asked us is one valid i.d with our birth dates printed on it. 

          It was tiring, good thing I have my friends for company. One thing I learned is don't wait until the deadline to start doing things, be it personal or school things. Why do I always have to procrastinate and cram? I don't know.

           It's our University's 108th Founding Anniversary and lots of events are held, meaning, irregular classes. So I decided not to go to school for a week. I think I made the right decision because I spent most of my time sleeping, watching TV and go online for hours which I can't do often when I have class and stay at the dorm.

          Since we had irregular classes, I on the other hand, had irregular waking/eating/sleeping schedule. This week, I usually wake up around 2:00, 3:00 or even 4:00 in the afternoon and then I'll take my breakfast-lunch-snack rolled into one meal. Then I'll watch TV, the eat supper and watch again. At midnight I go online. For me not to be unproductive the whole day, I usually edit our online magazine or sometimes update my blog. I also make sure that I log in to my four accounts on different social networking sites to stay active. Around 3:00 or 4:00 in the morning is when I decide to go to sleep. Before going to bed, I'll remember all the school works I haven't done yet- Procrastination at its best! I'll tell myself to do it the next day, which I still forgot doing. I even go online on my mobile phone before "really" going to sleep. It's like torturing my body in a "silent treatment" type and I'm sure it's very unhealthy. I'm going to regret this when I get old.

          I'm back to school this week and my body clock is totally messes up and it's 2:50 AM in my clock and I'm still awake. I even need to travel early so I can unload my things to the dorm before heading to school. Good luck to that!