Why are you happy?

Some nuggets I've learned this morning.

Don't base your happiness on your wealth, because someone will always be richer than you.

Don't base your happiness on your successes because someone will always be more successful than you.

Don't base your happiness on beauty because someone will be more beautiful than you.

Don't base your happiness on talent because someone will be more talented than you.

Base it on contentment, because nobody can take that away.

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The weekend has been a very good one.

This Saturday, we were able to present our Psychology 118 paper entitled "Bato Balani: Mga Mekanismo na Nagpapanatili at Sumisira sa Relasyon ng mga Indibidwal na Positibo at Negatibo sa HIV" to the Psynergy 4 conference of the Pambansang Samahan sa Sikolohiyang Pilipino. I'm so happy about this because one semester's worth of blood and tears has finally contributed some relevance to society. I've always dreamt of presenting in a conference, and I never thought it would happen. Haha. It was great that our paper was chosen in the screening process but it was even more fulfilling that we got to present orally. The audience were psychology students from different universities in the Philippines. Good thing their questions weren't too harsh. (Hello to my groupmates Anton Quizon, Jecel Censoro, Patrick Huang and Daniel Concepcion!) I went home and changed after the conference and went with my graduating BA friends to Mall of Asia to walk around and eat. And then we went to UP JMA's AdHoc.

And then came today, a piece of good news woke me up. A new responsibility awaits. Thank you AdCore for betting your trust on me. Let's go PRP!

And something will be happening tomorrow. Pray for me. :-)

xx, Danne