Amanda goes beyond

For the past few days, I felt bad that I couldn't give time to journal, so today I'm giving u an update. Last Thursday, I watched Inside Out 1 and was also busy due to SC meetings and habits. Most importantly, I've read a data analytics book and continue reading the Morisaki bookshop.  The next day, I drew a couple picture, a portrait, of me and gab as a gift which I gave to him as a gift! He loved it. I was busy packing and creating his gifts so I wasn't able to do some of my habits like I only doing half of my workout and I wasn't able to read the statistics book, also the fact that I woke up late ://. Besides the portrait, I also wrote him a letter with a kiss stain at the end (using my lip gloss). I also gave him a set of snacks like nutella dip, candies, and gummies which he would really like.  On the bright side, today, Saturday was the best date ever! Although, I freaking got my period exactly this morning. Anyway, we watched Inside Out 2, and the movie was d...

I love how this drawing of lana del rey turned out! Although it was a little difficult at first getting the face shape right, I still managed to draw her well. I'm very thankful that I'm seeing improvements on my drawing skills! I also have been productive yesterday:  ✅Journal ✅Drawing ✅Read Data Science  ✅Read Morisaki ✅Exercise

I love how my drawings turned out! I just have a really frustrating struggle I'm facing right now with my portraits. Head tilts! I couldn't get it right and it always doesn't look like what I wanted it to look like. So yeah, I get so tired of every drawing I make. It takes a lot of brain power and work with my hands and eyes, not to mention my posture lol. Anyway, looking back at my old drawings, I can say I'm improving naman sa drawing, thankfully! I also found a new book to read called The Days at Morisaki Bookshop. I love books that are set in Japan. I'm loving it right now. Today, I also had a meeting with SC, WITHOUT MS LORNA Again huhu. Tasks could've been done if she was in our meetings huhu. But yeah never mind that, I trust Ms. that she will be productive and helpful for the whole year. I've been productive today! ✅Journal ✅Exercise ✅Read ✅Draw (2 times)

I'm happy I was able to do my habits such as exercise, journaling, practicing data science, and reading. I love the book I'm currently reading, it hooks me to read each hour. To be honest, I was focused playing DBD since there's an event and I'm earning up blood points as much lol.  However, sadness struck in the middle of the night. For no reason, I had a very small argument with my boyfriend, nothing to be serious about for a long time. But something struck me, that led me to breaking down all of a sudden. I felt so sad. I'm not sure why. It just made me cry. 

 I wasn't able to blog yesterday because I was so hooked and grinding on DBD lately because of the event. But yesterday I was able to exercise! Still good. Today I was busy with student council stuff, but during that time I was able to read a few pages of a data science book, just the first topics. So yeah that was good. I also found a dedicated book for Data Analysts so I might as well read that. Today is my rest day for a workout. I also watched watercolor painting vids to keep me inspired and in awe with how beautiful watercolor is in portraits. I would want to try it soon! I did my habits today! ✅Read + Practice Data Science ✅Journal ✅Exercise ✅Watch watercolor painting. 

So Ms. Lorna asked me if I could move the meeting to today at 8PM instead of tomorrow since she can't attend tomorrow. BUT GUESS WHAT SHE WASN'T ABLE TO ATTEND TODAY AS WELL NO WAY. I feel like she fell asleep or she forgot there was a meeting LOL. But yeah, with that, I'm the only one who will lead the meeting then. I was nervous already before the meeting BUT IT MADE ME MORE NERVOUS when I knew Ms. Lorna isn't gonna be there LOL. I don't know where to start but what matters is that I get to finish it and I did a good job YAY!! They were fun to talk to and it made me more comfortable with them since they were closer with each other!! BUT YEAH THE MEETING WAS SUCCESSFUL ALTHOUGH I could've progressed with the project proposal if Ms. Lorna had been there. BUT ANYWAY IT ALL WENT WELL AND I FELT RELIEF AFTER THE MEETING HEHE. I was able to assign tasks to them so it's good hehe!!                     Other than SC stuff, I was able to draw t...

To catch up on my drawing session, I drew yesterday a portrait and I actually enjoyed it! The right one took me the longest because of perfecting the nose and making sure the features were balanced as well as the proportions. I feel like I'm slowly improving my drawings. I'm very proud of it. Yesterday was also Father's day! And we decided to eat in NOMO to celebrate the occasion. It was a very simple lunch and celebration, nothing special but what matters is we greeted papa hehe. Last Saturday, we slept at Kuya's house and I couldn't sleep because the bed was a bit hard, and hurt my arms when I slept on the side. I enjoyed being there since it was peaceful, I had my own room, and I could do a morning walk. Although Anton kept stealing my laptop for the past few days. Oh well!  Today, I finished the Data Science course I've been previously watching. It was a great course if you just wanna see the application of Machine learning and data analysis on Python to Jup...

 Since yesterday I have been busy with SC stuff and it's also a holiday so I got less productive since my parents are here. I couldn't practice drawing yesterday and I'm busy from today until tomorrow, I'll be busy because of student council planning, especially on recruiting officers and planning events. I got home really late today so I'm really tired and I just wanna ease up and chill. Me and Ash talked again! It's so nice to be able to hear from her again after a long time. I'm planning to download Valorant so I can play with her. Oh well, I plan to catch up as well to my habits. I just need a lot of rest. 

I continued the Udemy course about data science in Python including Machine Learning concepts. I learned to apply classification, random forest, and KNN in my dataset. The code was complicated and I'm often unsure of each block's function. Most of the concepts learned today are machine learning. I enjoyed playing DBD with gabbi, his kuya, and ethan. It was my first time playing this game with them. I'm thankful it all went well. And btw, I slept really long for a nap. Idk why I got used to sleeping in the afternoon, that is not so me.  Anyway, I've been productive today: ✅Read ✅Journal ✅Code ✅Exercise

Today, I'm practicing how to draw eyes. I planned to learn each facial feature per session and apply it in my portraits. I hope it will be an effective method. I loved how my portrait turned out and I think I kinda gettin' how drawing eyes work. It's simple but there are a lot of details to keep in mind such as the symmetry of the eyes, the tilt, and the different eye shapes. I don't know how my portrait turned out to be pretty. At first, I was unsure and doubtful that it would look good cause the head of my reference photo was tilted a little bit, so I might struggle to draw the facial features and the facial symmetry of the face shape. Some of the guidelines are invented by me lol. So yeah, I enjoyed this session learning about eyes and applying it to my portrait.  Most of my day, I enjoyed being on my new laptop. There's no freaking lag on my games! I downloaded DBD and Zomboid and played with Gabbi. It was fun but the games were hard. So yeah, I'm forever gr...

This is such an exciting day! From the beginning until the end, I've been very excited about purchasing a new laptop. We went to the official Acer store and service center in the Festival Mall. We ate lunch there first, and the dishes were similar to those in a karinderya, definitely worth it since my stomach was really full, plus it was shrimp! After that, it was on top of my mind that we would purchase the Acer Swift as my recommendation based on kuya's desired specs. But it changed once we got to the store; it was recommended that we look into the Nitro series instead if my needs were mainly for gaming and also capable of handling the school workload. I couldn't believe the model they had chosen! IT WAS THE FREAKING LATEST MODEL! The salesperson said that the model was only released on April 17, 2024, like, no, I couldn't believe it. It's so recent! We were utterly shocked. Most of the time when we buy a laptop or anyone would, the model is usually released a yea...

Today is Saturday and it is planned that we will look for the best laptop that will accommodate my needs in college as well as for long-term use and longevity. I did a lot of research the night before and my boyfriend helped me to do so. We went to ATC first for a medical checkup. We waited for so long, it took us about over 3 hours and we got really tired of waiting, my dad was irritated with it because they were fasting. After that, we ate our lunch in KFC and proceeded to SM to look at and canvas prices of laptops. We compared the specs and consulted with the salesmen person in the store. Our price range is in the middle, around 40-60k max. I sent the picture to my brother of the potential laptops as well as their corresponding specs and prices and asked his opinion about it. We suggested that we can go with this 57k laptop but then he surprisingly suggested we should go with the 89k laptop. We were so shocked and then he sent us money to at least pay a quarter for it. I was kinda o...

Young Sheldon is just entertaining, I'm worried I might get distracted a lot binge-watching this series, that's why I need to be aware and control it lol, especially when the classes start. After a rest day, I did a more challenging workout which is a hip workout. I got so tired that it made me take more than a 2 hours nap. For that reason, I slept late which is around 2 AM and I hate it!! Cause my sleep schedule got ruined again when in fact it was stable lately! Around the time I couldn't sleep, I searched for an easy-to-read book since I was bored and I wanted to fall asleep. It was recommended to read Mieko and the Fifth Treasures, which I gave a try. I think it is a good book! I'm not halfway but I really like books that are set in Japan. Interestingly, the main character paints calligraphy. I know I'm not really fond of calligraphy, but anything that is related to art or painting is intriguing.  Anyway, I have also been productive by: ✅Journaling ✅Reading ✅Exe...

I wanted to advance review on my year 2 subjects but I don't know where to start. I don't have any learning materials or such but the only thing I have are the learning outcomes for each unit from's official document of Pearson. It was definitely reliable and accurate. But yeah I'm still not sure where to start and I don't know how much information or concepts our professors will cover on this information. I started with understanding machine learning with the Udemy course I just found. I only have a basic knowledge of machine learning based on the project we did in Data Analytics, but it wasn't sufficient for me to understand these new inputs and outputs from this course. So yeah, I was kinda lost during this course but when I searched again on Youtube, I kinda understood the concept of machine learning much better than before. I just can't really grasp the complexities yet. Anyway, so I'm not done yet with the Udemy course, but I'll continue it in ...

At first, I seriously thought it was a joke. No way I'd be promoted to that position! Never in my life, lol. Should I take the SC president role or not? The choice is mine. I could chill out in DA, be a secretary, and not mind anything else. Alternatively, I could become the SC president, a role I foresee as the most demanding, stressful, and dreadful for me. In fact, I’ve been badmouthing SC for a long time, saying it was a curse being in my current position. Surprisingly, after numerous rants and vents, I had a sudden change of heart. I’ve contemplated and pondered this decision. I gave it more logical and rational thought rather than being dismissive and denying it relentlessly. It’s a dilemma for me; if I choose one over the other, I’ll have regrets. If I choose DA secretary, I feel like a coward, isolating myself in my comfort zone and being a follower rather than taking a higher position and pushing my limits to be a leader. Realistically, being a DA secretary isn’t bad; I ca...

  I love how my drawings turned out! I was afraid that the side-view portrait would look bad but thankfully I looked better than I expected! I'm grateful that I'm starting to see improvements in my drawings! In my next session, I plan to learn facial features so that I can draw it accurately on me and gab's portraits hehe. I want to be an artist one day. I'm so happy earlier that Papa bought samgyup ingredients in a Korean mart for our dinner! Me and mama were so happy hehe. It's cheaper there in Korean Mart wherein the whole kimchi container is 190 pesos only. Papa and mama forgot their anniversary and they said they don't normally celebrate it lol, I mean we also didn't know! So that's why samgyup ingredients were bought instead of going somewhere. What a good food. I've also been productive today yay. ' ✅Journal ✅Read ✅Exercise ✅Drawing  

First of all, I don't know how and what the hell is happening while I'm creating these visualizations. I literally just followed the video step-by-step but throughout the process, I'm learning something new. It is my first time using Tableau and it is a good learning for me since I successfully built charts, graphs, and a dashboard. I didn't expect it would be a bit difficult and technical to build these graphs, I thought it was just an insert, drag, and drop process LOL, well in fact it wasn't entirely that. I'm grateful I successfully created this project and I'm hoping to learn more about data visualizations, manipulation, exploration, and analysis through projects so I can build my own. Soon, I'll be creating my own. I listed the things I learned from this project: Downloading the dataset from Kaggle to my Jupyter Notebook or Python using the Kaggle API. Data manipulation and exploration such as changing column names, creating a dictionary, and expor...

So I've been very busy for the past few days and I wasn't able to journal last Thursday and Friday because of 2-day school activity we had. It was a very exhausting and tiresome event but it was a somewhat enjoyable and memorable experience. It is called the student leadership BootCamp held in our school wherein only student organization officers are invited. I had a lot of shit I want to talk about like taking a shower with my friend LOL, playing ice water with students that I barely know, and gossiping through midnight! It was a very memorable experience for me especially since this is one of the last events that will be held for this academic school year. We also went to a samgyup place along Marcos Alvarez called Gogii Yolii, and its quite expensive than other samgyup but it was definitely worth it because of the ambiance as well as the various inclusions compared to other samgyup place I have been. Overall, I'm grateful I was able to arrive home safe and sound, even th...