9:22 PM Watching a series on my tablet as I write documents for submission, I contemplate what will happen several months from now. Will I still be here? Will it still be the same routine? Waking up and going through the motions is just so mechanical. I'm actually really happy because of the break and it feels like somehow I got to recalibrate a little. 

11:18 PM Ready to sleep but not quite sleepy. This is all too familiar. The buzz of the airconditioning, the silence, and the random creaks. I am once again sleeping late. Thoughts racing but don't quite make sense.

10:25 PM I listen to the droning washing machine and swishing of the electric fan. I've nothing but electronic stuff around me right now. The TV remote control on my left, my phone on the right, a smartwatch on my wrist and right now I'm typing away on my laptop. 

I've just turned off the TV. The sounds are actually pretty mundane. I've gotten so used to them as company for dinner or every so often all-nighters when I need to rush documents, layouts, codes or even games. White noise as some may refer to it. 

Noise. 

Everyday routine seems to suck the zest I once had. I need to distract myself. 

Lord, is this my ceiling?

9:21 AM I've watched the Disney movie, Coco earlier today. I really enjoyed it. I loved how the characters were developed, the animation so crisps and also the mix of colors and environment design. One day, I will create my own full film of such quality in story and visuals.

I've purchased two books too: You're Weird by Bo Sanchez and The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho. I've got the latter one recommended one too many times. The former, "spoke to me" as I saw it in the selves. Maybe because I kept on calling myself weird that I got to relate to it! Anyways, I'm excited to read both.

I love how little breaks such as today is peppered in between work. It serves as a breather to the otherwise monotonous days that we're living out.

On a side note, I even got to chat with a former student and even a colleague. This was the perfect way to end the workweek.

Lord, thank you for showing me how to balance work and life. 

9:08 PM It was just today that I was able to join a colleague visit someone from the hospital. Hospitals are those places where I would go there if I need to but would most often than not opt not to.

The rooms and hallways were white giving it that dull but sterilized look. Can't the wall have much more color? I think those in there would be much happier. Do you think so? Maybe if there were kids there, they'd know what I'd be talking about.

Lord, grant me good health so that I'd be able to live a long, happy and colorful life. 

9:15 PM Today, we were sent new schedules. I read the updated listing during a class that I will no longer handle in the semester. There were just a few kids present. There were only eight to be exact.

9:17 PM This is the first week that I'd get to conduct formal classes and lectures. So far, so good. I am enjoying my schedule this semester and hope that the kids will enjoy it too.

I've prepared and identified a breakdown of what topics we will be covering throughout the semester and I hope we'd be able to follow through on them all.

Lord, may you grant a mixture of fun with all the learning we'll be having in all the classes for this semester.