philosophy 101

Ling and Kring

My youngest sister's best friend, Kring, came over our house to discuss Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle with me for her Philosophy exam tomorrow. I tried my best to recall my own Philo classes and helped her with the things that I could remember.

Did I ever mention that the Philosophy of the Human Person was one of my ultimate fave subjects in college? :p So even if I had a pile of observations to be transcribed for the research I'm currently helping out with, I was more than willing to extend my help to my "other younger sister". Although admittedly, the topics Kring had in class now were different from the ones I took up so I only helped her a teeny weeny bit.

While helping out Kring, we both saw this quote from the internet and I just had to share it with all of you:

"Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit."
- Aristotle

ON A DIFFERENT DAY OF THE WEEK

A LITTLE PUSH AND A LITTLE NUDGE
So much to do. So little time.
For the first time in history, I overslept and was late for class because of oversleeping. And the class was at 5:30PM. Ok, before you judge me, I'll just share how my day went. I was up before 6AM for my research project. I observed from 6:17am until 8:40. And then my partner and I met up with our professor to discuss some issues. And then I had another appointment at 9:30 and a very brief meeting about an article at 10:30. And then I joined the World Youth Alliance discussion and had lunch with my old college blockmate, Tammy Tan, whom I haven't seen since graduation. I missed Tammy and her Tammy-ish way of calling me "Lala Jaraaa" whenever we saw each other. When I got home at around past 3, I fixed some schedules with Franco over the phone, reviewed the rest of my schedules and papers, reviewed my notes for my evening class, and lied down on the sofa to rest for a while... and fell asleep.
When I woke up, it was almost 6pm. Ack!
I literally dashed to school. The few minutes of getting to school was a blur to me. Before I knew it, I was in my class and copying down notes as if I didn't fall asleep at all. Has that ever happened to you?

Now, I have lots of things to finish and I'm asking myself if there's enough time.
But maybe there really is enough time for everything because I still found time to blog.
Ok, now you can judge me :-)