I made it to the top five of the Pen Power preliminary screening! I am so happy! This is the first breakthrough in my career as a journalist, if I have one that is. Hahaha!
It was definitely, with no false humility, unexpected. I'm not always the organized person but I've come up with this; JEROME'S LIST OF REASONS ON WHY HE THOUGHT MAKING IT THROUGH THE PRELIMINARY SCREENING WAS HOPELESS. Hahaha! I know that all of these sound cheesy and that I might sound narcisstic and overreacting to something that might not even be of worth to others but hey, that was my first time to enter an essay writing competition, and I am just so ecstatic right now. Good thing that my classmates allowed me to represent them, not that I asked for their permission though. Hahaha!
1. The time limit and required number of words. As I've said in my previous blog, we were only given and hour and a half to finish what was suppose to be a 300-500 words essay. Since I was so taken aback by the topic, The Two Faces of Philippine Nursing: Meet Overpopulation and Underemployment, it took me a while to gather my thoughts. In the end, I finished a 200-word essay of 4 paragraphs. Given that, I should have been disqualified, right?
2. The contestants. Just by looking at the other 12 contestants from their respective sections, you could already tell that they were carefully chosen. So imagine how surprised I was when I learned that one of them was Dwight, the Editor in Chief of Advocate. And oh, did I mention, he was quite hot. Hahahaha! Anyway I wasn't able to see the actual list of those students who made it, I was just informed through text, so I'm not quite sure of myself really. Hahaha! But I'd love to see him at the actual competition on September 13. Nothing better to inspire me than a nerdy, silent and hot IN student. Nyahehehe!
3. My Interpretation of the Theme. As I've said the theme was "The Two Faces of Philippine Nursing: Meet Overpopulation and Underemployment". My intial thought was it's about how nurses today are so numerous while they are underemployed, which I dismissed early because I thought it was too narrow. Instead I wrote on how overpopulation and underemployment in the Philippines serve as a hindrance to optimum nursing care, which I entitled as Dwarfing the Root Causes of Nursing Deficit. I don't know but after I submitted it I felt so stupid because I really thought that my first intuition on the theme was the right one. I managed to read some of my peers title and it was about it too. That's why I was so drained and lost hope on making it to the actual competition. But well. . .
Hahaha! I just can't calm myself now. I've been meaning to try for the LAMP but I never had the guts. If I make it again this Sunday, of all the odds that are against me, I'll be a member of the LAMP staff! Not that I expect though. But I can dream. . . Nyahehehehe!
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