May 11, 2008 is Mother’s Day. Here in Asia, it’s now May 11; probably people in the West are just actually celebrating ‘my birthday’ (Well, it's not my real birthday, a best friend of me tells so. :>) and Shida Mirai’s birthday. ^^

I woke up at around 5 am just to ready myself for surfing the internet. But I seemed to be unlucky, it’s not functioning properly. So, I took a bath and went to mass. The chapel is just in front of our house, and that was convenient. ^^

I learned that today is also Pentecost Day, when the Holy Spirit came down to those holy people. I learned from the Homily of the Priest that if we wanted a change in our life, we should not start it with our actions. We should start changing how we think—we should have a change of heart.

I actually plan to change my attitude as I enter my sophomore year. I want to change my noisy attitude. At most times, when you enter our room, you would already hear my voice because I usually talk a lot. Now, I want to be somebody’s who is quiet, but loud and noisy with my closest friends. And I am thinking of something on how I would survive. I have been noisy for 13 years or less, (if don’t you include my weeps when I was an infant ^^) and of course, I can’t change right away. I really wanted to make friends with other people, because I wanted them to know the real me. I hate people who talk about me at my back when they actually don’t know me that well. And just introducing myself to new friends would make me noisy in a way, I had to talk to them a lot and I have to make her be happy with my company. Argh, I really don’t know what to do. But of course, I would try because this seems like a promise to me. :)

After the mass, I attend a meeting of Legion of Mary. I am a member of Legion of Mary, and I am its secretary (for our presidium only ^^). In Legion of Mary, we pray the rosary, have Spiritual Readings, and have Spiritual Assignments. It is really not boring because this meeting doesn’t prohibit you to talk to your friends. I have been a member since 2003 so that means I have been a member for five years. I have been absent at some times, but the reason would be out-of-towns and oversleeping. Yes, oversleeping. Our meeting is usually 9 in the morning, and sometimes I wake up 11 am or 12 pm. But because it would be very embarrassing not to attend, specially to think that I am an officer, I try my very best to attend the meetings regularly. Anyways, it’s still my vacation, and it’s only once a week.

The head of our presidium arrived as we end our meeting, and he shared that he is really sad with the member status of our presidium. Members attend sometimes, sometimes they don’t. He said that if he remembers the previous year’s presidium, he’d be sadder since previous years’ presidium has lots of members. He wanted to have our presidium be active. And on my part, it was also sad, because this man—our head is too kind and I would really be guilty if he would be sad. He seems like a father for me.

And for Mother’s day, I never realized that it was Mother’s day today. The Priest just reminded it to me when he spoke the Homily. And I felt guilty, again. I didn’t hear anyone from my siblings greet her “Happy Mother’s Day”. So when we had a meeting, I got one white flower (well I don’t know what to call it ^^), and asked if I could have it because I’ll give it to my mom as a gift. They agreed, and as the meeting ended, I rushed to different stores just to buy for my favorite chocolate. Well, I have been to 4 stores, and I wasn’t able to found it. Luckily, I found it, however, that chocolate was bought at the farthest store from our house. So excited to give her the chocolate, I ran from the store to our house, and gave it to my mom. And of course, she was so happy. I told her that I bought the chocolates and got the flower for free. I then greeted her Happy Mother’s Day. She was so touched. I was so happy. I really don’t get along with my family well, that’s why I really had to have great guts to give her a gift. We just argued on Monday.

And, there, here I am writing for my blog entry. How did you celebrate your Mother’s Day? I would really like to hear from you. :)