I am Irene Joy. I am born at the dawn of July 13, 1993, Tuesday. I live at the heart of Misamis Oriental, Philippines. I love blogging about things I like, the lessons I learned and about the life I live. I am a totally dependent daughter to my parents, a friend to my friends and a good person to the people who are true to me.

I am taking up Technology Communication Management of Mindanao University of Science and Technology here at the City of Cagayan de Oro. I am at my senior year now and is hopefully looking forward to march the aisle to get my diploma. I want to be a good communicator someday, a Developmental Communicator, specifically. I want to address the problems and concerns of the people who are less fortunate to those who are in power, through my skills and talent. And hopefully, someday, I would be able to do that one.

I am a family-oriented person. I am a only daughter to our fam. I mostly depend my decisions to them especially the critical ones. However, sometimes, they want me to be self-reliant, that is why I learned to think deeper and be responsible in everything I do. I grow up alone and no siblings at all so I understand them in that part. I usually having a hard time with decision-making because I learned to weigh both sides and think about the possible consequences in each decision that I could make. My parents are sometimes very harsh when they lay lessons which I must learn. I often say that what they are doing are already too much, and I may give up my dreams for them but that I know in my heart isn’t true because I am striving good and enough for them, my schooling is for them, my hardwork is for them, my dreams are for them and my future is their future too. I sometimes cry and weep but at the end of the day I know that those things are just lessons for me to learn and its for my sake, only for my sake. I thank God for giving them to me and I thank them for staying around. Because of them, I learned not to be a spoiled only-daughter but a person coiled with values. I love them so much.

I am a writer since I was an elementary grader and I learned to write various articles and literary pieces. Being a a student-writer is a career that I can say a unique thing of me and something that I could be proud of. I could express myself and find the real person in me. Now, I am an editor to our university student publication and I don’t know how I became one. I simply write to express not to impress.

Four years ago, I learned something where I could express myself, other than being a writer, of course. I love being a blogger. I tried websites to websites until I found this one and I considered Blogger as my home. I blog things that catches my eyes and all the matters that interest me and nothing else. For now, I welcome you to this space. You will know me more in my blog posts because my story continues here and I am hoping to see the once ‘once upon a time’ would have its ‘happily ever after’ ending in here.

A superhero is someone who would be there in time of danger. A superhero is someone who will come up when everything seems impossible. A superhero is someone who is considered as a hope of all helpless. A superhero is someone whom kids wished to meet.

All my life, I have known innumerable fictional superheroes. Yet, I only have one superhero in my life. This superhero of mine is a woman. She is the strength that I always have. She is the person who is always in my back no matter what. She guides me and teaches me how to be a good fellow to other people. She opens my eyes to the path towards the broader horizon. She is the sound that wakes me up everyday. She is as well my comforting pillow when I feel bad. She is the firm pillar when I am in between delimma. Her smile is always there telling me I’ll be alright. She is the greatest adviser of mine. She is the ideal role model I have and always will. She is the one who see me as the most beautiful girl. Yes, she is my number one fan. She is my superhero. She is my queen. She is my mother.

Last August 25, 2012, we went to Cebu for a Benchmarking Activity with other publications, namely, The Nation Builder of Cebu Technological University (CTU) and The Quill of Southwestern University (SWU). With all the worries of unfinished magazine we had that made our moderator very angry with us, the bad weather that nearly spoiled our travel, the fear of incomplete tickets, important papers that had been left, lost USB flash disk with the amazing important certificates, we at last made it through. Truly, I really had my sleepless night at the ship. Nevertheless, amazingly through prayer, all the problems were solved. Thanks God much. You are worth-praising, my God.

Further, as we rode the CDO-Cebu route Trans-asia ship, we had this opportunity of seeing the endless wide blue sea. It is really beautiful that removed your stress away!

After the all-night ride, we went to Jollibee for our breakfast and we went to St. Peter's Basilica. Since, I'm not to enter the chapel, I just stayed outside and another one, I had the opportunity to see my cousin who is having her review Electronics Engineering Licensure examination. Whew! I’m so thankful to her that she managed to print the benchmarking certificates (which was luckily sent to my gmail account by our artist), and hey! It’s early in the morning. I was so embarassed because she wasn’t able to take her breakfast earlier.

Benchmarking by the way is the exchange of ideas between publications. There and then, the activity has been conducted. We then took pictures afterwards. Here:

After the activity, the extra was all ours! We went to Ayala Center Cebu and we had our snacks there. Oh, oh. I love foods! Especially pizza.

We then took pictures in various sections of Ayala. Few are the wishing fountain and the mini man-made waterfalls which were designed magnificently.

After that, we went to SM Cebu City, stroll there and tasted the very tasty Gelatissimo ice cream – it is an expensive type of ice cream but it’s all worth it! Yum-yum-yum.

Afterwards, with all the tiring walk and picture-taking, we took a cab and rode towards the pier where the Cebu-CDO China ship was waiting. We are all too tired but we still laugh to death and smile for more. Crazy moments with friends and colleagues, you know, are really the best!

In the future, I will be remembering this one memorable trip of us. Thank you soooo much, Cebu City!

From: The Trailblazer Publication