subjects, oh subjects

I just hate mondays and thursdays

I have no time for lunch, I have five subjects, and I have to stay at school from 8:30 am-7:00pm for my CWTS.

Subjects for this sem are like:

Theater 100 turned out to be a theory class ehich means 12 plays/books to read and 2 plays to critique (1 on-campus and 1 off- campus).

Line Dance is so silly. You dance moves that are so wierd. The hitchhike move, the karate kid move, and the macarena move. Yuck! But to see things in a positive light, it develops your memory because you have to memorize the steps in seconds. Someone told me it would get
harder by the level and since were only in the first, let's see what's next.

CWTS 1 CS Geol is like values education--ok.

I can't believe that my professor in Speech 115 (the former vice chancellor of UP Manila) is my orgmate--COOL! She asked us to look for 5 journals (critque all 5) on assigned topics for only a week. Internet journals are NOT allowed--NOT COOL!

Speech 111--ask me about the general rules of pronunciation and you'll surely be in awe that thousands of words are mispronounced in the Philippines, like "triangle" is accented on the second syllable and not on the first. Yup!

NatSci 1 is Natsci 1.

Speech 130 is picking up its pace on the discussion of ancient rhetoricians, starting with the great, the geek, Aristotle!

Latin is becoming harder and harder by the meeting. Good thing the prof is really not boring.

There go my subjects--plainly hard! Too bad people think that speech majors only speechify--so callow.

Speech Path VS Speech Comm

Nakakalungkot.Nakakaasar.Nakakatamad. Nakakalito.

Tapos na ang first week ko bilang isang opisyal na sophomore. Medyo natatanaw ko na ang hirap ngayong unang semestre. CWTS hanggang 7 pm, Intro to Rhetoric na parang History, Bases of Speech na demanding (malamang dating vice chancellor ba naman ng UP Manila ang magturo sayo e), Voice and Diction na pronunciation overload, at Latin 10 na philosophy plus english Grammar.

Masaya sana e.

Kaya lang di ko alam kung gusto ko ba itong course ko.

Gusto ko naman talaga siya. Pero mas gusto ko yung course ko sana sa UP Manila na Speech Pathology. Wala talaga akong direksyon sa buhay. Gusto ko ang rhetoric (public address, debate, parliamentary procedures) kaya lang gusto ko rin ng science applied to speech. Mahal ko talaga ang speech. Maging speech comm o speech path. Wala kasi masyadong umaamin na ang speech ay hindi lang basta-basta. kinuha ko ang speech dahil tingin ko isa siyang science na dapat ring pagtuunan ng pansin. Kahit tignan niyo pa ang choices ko sa para sa UPCAT (Speech Comm, Speech Pathology, Organizational Comm, English Studies). Hindi ko kasi talaga alam na hindi ka na pala i-scree-screen for UP manila kapag pumasa ka na sa Diliman. Actually common sense dapat. Kaya lang masyado akong na-excite sa pag-a-aply sa UP.

Tinignan ko ang curriculum ng Speech Path kanina. Madami talagang science na mukha namang magugustuhan ko dahil wala masyadong math. Yung mga GE ko, nakaktuwa dahil ok siya para sa UP manila. Para talagang gusto ko na mag-transfer.

Sabi saking ng adviser ko sa speech comm, maganda daw kapag natapos ko ang speech comm at speech path, pero ano yun 25 years old na ako may dalawang degree pero walang Magister Atrium (latin yan hehehehe). Nakakalito. Ano ba talagang gagawin ko. Tapos ang dami ko pang gusto maliban sa speech path. Nandiyan ang education, law, music, ministering, at engineering ahahahahaha!

First week pa lang ramdam ko na na parang walang akong direksyon na tinatahak. Di ko talaga alam.

kaya ayun nag-aaral ako ng walang inpirasyon. kaya naman nakakatamad

Siguro kapag nagka-boarding house na ako o dormitoryo ay malalaman ko ang gusto kong maging. Labo!

zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz...

1st sem sked

Ayan ang sked ko.
Wala kasi akong magawa.

tapos na...

Just found out that musicnotes.com has a 's' on its web address (https://...). I had no idea until i tried to guess a credit card number (hehehehe)




s in a web add means security
s means you can safely use your credit card
s means i can ask my mom to buy me any music sheet or music book i want
(but i'm still working on it)
...

yesterday, we went to EK
i really enjoyed the space shuttle--it was all the tension down the drain (or the loop) i rode it several times alonebecause my siblings hated it (one vomitted and one got a backpain)
...

tapos na ang summer!
hay...

...

Nakuha ko na lahat ng gusto kong subject sa CRS
Kaya lang hanggang 7 ako tuwing monday at thursday

Nakakatamad...

A stig talga si AI Taylor Hicks,
pero mas gusto ko pa rin si Elliot Yamin
sumali kaya ako sa Philippine Idol! (hehehehe)

Ayos yung rendition ni elliotng Somebody to love, let down naman kasi yung kinanta niya sa top 3 week.
pero mas gusto ko yung Do I Make You proud ni Taylor. Sayang rin si Katherine, maganda pa naman siya kaso lang di masyado magaganda yung kinanta niya. too bad.


Nakakaantok...

zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz...



Currently reading "The Case for Easter" by Lee Strobel
astig talaga mga theologians, lalo na si William Lane Craig, PH.D., D.TH.
At si Bo sanchez na rin.
Gusto ko talaga magMA sa Theology

...

Summer's update

Dallas made it past Spurs! whoo! nice for them to put Nowitzki to forward from power forward giving spurs a hard time guarding Dirk. Phoenix and Dallas up next! Hope Dallas would win.

I can't believe that my very first recital is already finished. It was Nerve wrecking, especially since my fingers slipped at the very beginning of my recital piece ("Chaconne" by A. Durand). There was this girl younger than me that played a beautiful piece entitled "The Wanderer" by Mendelssohn, and she really played it superbly. My piece was relatively easy--a fourth grader actually. I just felt bad that my brother and I weren't able to play a duet because I like to play accompaniment to his violin better than performing alone. Plus, accompanying gives you the right to your own rendition of a music piece. Well that's that anyway.

The Philippines has just been worldwidely acclaimed recently for givng the Da vinci code an R-18 for a rating.. It's a shame that Filipinos are hyping the novel/movie (not only the christians but also the non-christians). Shame, shame.

I Did a genearal cleaning of our room this morning and I realized how scattered my things are.

The HIPPIES won the Amazing Race (almost forgot about that)! Amazing Race 9 just boiled down to a brain game--remembering and arranging the flags of countries the racers visited in the race. I just love the hippies' defying the norms. They even pulled a trick on the "frat boys"--who were winning with their physically fit bodies but lost because they didn't know what the Thai flag looked like--in excahnge for the trick the frat boys pulled on them earlier in the race.

GO Hippies! You deserve the money.

Well, since the Da vinci is R-18 (and since i respect ratings) I and my family will be watching X-Men 3 tonight. can't wait to see psylocke and archange.

I just finished my CSI marathon up to season 5 so i guess i just have to stick to AXN's delayed season 6. Too bad America just finished season six last May 18.

I was able to watch the FIVB World Grand Prix yesterday, and italian vollyebelss are just the bomb! Though

they lost to Netherlands.

Now that's an update...

BYE!

My Parenthetical Entry

check my new layout(i suppose that's what you're doing right now)

The incredibles...yup! i can't wait for incredibles 2 (which may be in the works)

I have a recital on May 20. A recital i was suppose not to attend due to summer classes
(my first actually--I dodged every potential recital throughout my music life)

Won't be able to attend a friend's debut (i feel so bad, really :C)

Is there really a one true self? (doing my think piece in sociology)

(5x+6)^(0)

who cares? (500 crunches, 3 sets tomorrow)

cool! [friends, CSI (not miami and definitely not new york), *a**** ***a*]

seeya! (adiós, adeus, au revoir, αντίο, arrivederci, vaarwel, paalam, Auf Wiedersehen, goodbye,)

I found out that i only got an 89 (percentile) for language in my UPCAT. ANd all the while i was thinking of it as my forte.

Weights and dates

150...
225...
300...
450...
CRUNCHES!

weight training as PE for summer means instant body pain. Imagine doing crunches everyday with number of reps increased daily. I realized that I cannot even carrya 50-kilo barbell. I can't even do a single (yes, A SINGLE!) PULL UP. To think that i will be needing a minimum of three reps to get a 3 in my practicals

WHOO!

My PROF in a GE is so damn hot. From the way she speaks, to her beliefs, and of course to her
drop-dead-gourgeous body. Too bad that i just hate the subject she is teaching. On the other hand, never did i yawn in her class (maybe 'cause i'm stunnedÜ). Can anyone set us up? is dating a prof even allowed in UP?

WHOO!

Summer is hot, too hot for me actually. Both of y subjects adds up to the heat. PhYsIcAllY! GREEN GREEN GREEN.

summer is green. to green for me.

1% of our barrio pics

Some Pictures From Our Barrio Work

Photos by Ate Allelu

Kuya Allan, Tay Aladin, Kuya Arnold, Ferdinand and ME!

under the pala-pala where we usually rest after work

Kuya Arnold, OJIN, "KaKa" Anthony, ME, and Nanay Fe near our house

3. UPSCA in our mid-immersion

I cannot place all the pics here obviously, so i'll probobly place them on my friendster account. These three pictures just showed the 2 families i have been with in the barrio work--My foster family anf my UPSCAN family!

CIAO!~

Post Barrio! (pix to follow)

>>after 7 and a half days of living in Cabangan, Zambales, I am finally home. Not that i did not like my stay in Zambales, on the contrary, i have already learned so much that i cannot wait to share all my experiences with my own family.

>> The family I stayed with during he barrio work was so accomodatingly warm
It includes: tatay Aladin
nanay Fe
kuya Arnold
kuya Allan
Anthony "kaka"
Ferdinand
Beverly
and my cute and affectionate cousin/neighbor Ojin (3 yrs old)

>> they taught me almost everything they do for work and for fun!
My brothers even allowed me to join them in one of their "laots"
Fortunately, i was able to catch 4 fish (yehey! unbelievable)

>>But of course, problems was part of my being family.
1. We experienced a ZERO catch on one day whcih really made me feel bad

2. Then, the BUMBAY became my enemy for he was

3. at our house every morning trying to make my nay pay him.
i know my nanay really had a debt. But I hate the bumbay still!

4.There were also some minor family conflicts but were nevertheless solved.

5. Since i grew more attached to my family day by day, the hurt i felt for the family whenever we have problems (especially on finance) was also grwing stronger daily.
Like when my youngest brother didn't have money for the entrance fee to the bvasketball game, and the depreciated value of the similya we often sold to the "bayan buyer"

>> Whoo! I miss my family now that i'm reminiscing, especially my brothers whom i shared many of experiences with: like pangangasoy, connivng at the ice cream vendor to obtain his goods (katuwaan lang!), pangangamote, taking shortcuts on bukids, disturbing sleepy carabaos, serious work, stories about ghosts, lovers, and buhay maynila, and gazillions to list.

>>The barrio work was the best week of my life! It even taugfht my feet how to walk longer distances ( like from the bayan to the barrio!)
>>I learned so many things, which includes words such as:
1. Turu-turo
2. sensuro
3. ambay
4. pala-pala
5. sigay (lambat)
6. kwatro kantos!
7. alak san
8. similya (bangus at its baby form)
9. Pudpurang-labi (hahahaha)
10. blah blah blah!

>> also tasted so many fruits!:
1. karamay
2. sinegwelas
3. camachile
4. kasoy
5. mangga
6. caimito
7. Guyabano
8. camote
9. langka

......................
...We said our goodbyes to our families and tears started to wet my nanay's cheeks. I embraced her for all the things she taught me.

...


After the barrio work, our cell phones and money were returned to us. I felt indifferent to them that holding my cell phone and money felt awkward. I was able to live for 8 days without them, I realized.

There are so many things in this experience that I want to share.
I just can't because reading about it would probobly bore you,
narrating them personally is so much better.
So, catch me if you want to know!

BYE! I'm not even used to typing already after the barrio work! hahahhah

( too bad i failed to get drunk (",) )
HOPE EVERYONE CAN TRY THIS EXPERIENCE.
IT 'S YOUR LOST IF YOU DON'T BUT CAN

Do good. Live simply.PRAY. ((<<--DGLSP!-->>))
JOIN UPSCA!

Migrating Out of US

Nakakhinayang!
Lagalag na ako sa University Scholar (US)
1.703333 na lang ang General Weighted Average (GWA) ko compared as 1.45 ko na sumabit sa US hehehehe

Nahihinayang ako na hindi ko man lang natikman yung
pa-merienda sa mga US, hehehehe. Asar naman yung KASAYSAYAN. Hanggang ngayon hina-haunt pa rin ako!

Hihihihhi. Pakiramdam ko sabi ng grades ko magshift na ako to Philo. Ano kaya?! hehehehhe

Pasaway ang Eng 10 at Eng 1 ko, nagkapareho pa sila. Para bang sinasabi na wala na akong pag-asa mag-improve sa grammar ko. Kelanagn ko talag ng tulong sa progressive, perfect at perfect progressive tenses. too bad.

Narealize ko sa ENG 12 na ang isang bagsak na long exam ay panghila talaga kahit taasan mo pa ang ibang exams. SA Soc SCi 2 naman, hindi enough ang magtest, kelangn ng reactions tungkol sa politics heheheheh...

Mag-aaral na lang ao uli ng mas mabuti para makatikim ako ng pa-merienda! nakakaasar! heheheheh cge BYE

BARRIO WORK!

BARRIO WORK NA!!!!!!

kinakabahan na ako, pupunta kami sa ZAMBALES at mamumuhay ala fishermen at farmers... cool! (kunwari lang kinakabahan na ako)

matututo na akong mangisda at magtanim siguro

10 days, sigurado may mapupulot ako dito sa activity na 'to,

Kaso lang daming wala: walang TV, Computer, piano, at CSI!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (bye CSI mates)

3 t-shirt
1 shorts
2 jogging pants
3 underwear (heheehhehe)
10 DAYS
sigurado maglalaba ako dito ( nung huli pa namang naglaba ako, pinagalitan ako ng nanay ko dahil mabula-bula pa nang sinampay ko heehehehehe)

Seryoso: makakapagnilay-nilay ako sa Barrio Work na ito

HAHAHAHAHAHA!

Ayun, cge kita kits sa HOLY WEEK
(may natutunan na ako siguro nun!)

GO UPSCA! kaya natin to

ANg tagal na!

Isang buwan na ang nakalipas mula nung huli
akong nag-pasok ng entry sa blog ko. Kasi naman,
madami ko ginawa nitong Marso:

1. Huling bahagi ng aplikasyon sa UPSCA
2. Grades na desperado habulin
3. Exams na Ewan
4. Mga librong magaganda't mahahaba
5. Papers na ikina-payat ko

Ayan! Yan ang ginawa ko buong buwan.

Matatapos na. Summer na ang kasunod.
Mag-ba-barrio work pala ako sa org ko kaya excited ako na kinakabahan.
Kaya wala ako sa April 2 hanggang 9. Nasa Zambales ako. hhehehehehehe
ano kaya magyayari dun?

Ang saya talaga na nakapasa ako sa UPSCA matapos akong magtanong ng napakadaming tanong. Buti tinanggap nila ako. HEHEHEHE.

Mem na ako! nakakapanibago
Tapos, sophomore na ako next Acad year. Di na ako Fresh!
Hehehehehehe!

Sana magkaroon na ng direksyon buhay ko bukas. O kaya sa susunod na araw! heheheheheeh
BYE!

the usual--a day Blessed and Tried

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!
thaiasaiasntthaeafaiarsttaiamaeathaiashaaappaeanaead
faoaauarthtaiamaeaaaactauaaaallyaiathaiank
aiaqauaaiattaeadthaeafaiarsttaiamaeaaiaalaltrythaiastaiamaea

Solve the puzzle, read my thought! Enjoy!

LAST STRETCH

Feb 24

Friday: I arrived home at 1 am... !
(t'was worth it with the great talk again with a busmate hihiih)

Saturday: Studied Soc Sci 2 for Monday's test
(too bad all i reached was page two of 86 pages)
then I slept

Sunday: Rush on the Toni Morisson Paper for World Lit (MLA format)
Study for Soc Sci 2 (machiavelli, Locke, hobbes, Rosseau)
practice for Finger Therapy

Feb 27

Monday-Friday: Rush read Toni Morisson's Beloved and
Jean Rhys' Wide Sargasso Sea.
Supplementary: Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre

Coming soon: (in a span of three weeks)
4 papers
5 Exams
4 Online Activities
1 Papuri Concert

Yehey... a tiny more and it's summer classes for me!

UP FAIR!

My friend and I asked for a sign-3 toki jeeps before an MRT one.

What was the sign for? Well, we decided that if the sign ever showed then we will have to watch the UP fair. The sign did came.

With our UPSCAN friends, we went to sunken garden at qurter to ten. Unfortunately, what met our eyes was a long line waiting to enter. So we decided to just sit in the sunken (sinking supposedly according to Kuya GT) garden and talk about whatever things (The conceert can be heard from our place anyway). Rigel( a new philosopher friend/orgmate) and I talked about so many question I had in my mind at that time, like:

If God already planned our lives, what the heck is free will for?

Given that a bombsite was already panned by God, does it mean that all the people at that time are meant o die?

We also talked about speculative thought (subject pala to), catergorical imperative, utalitarianism, and so much more.

It was one of the best conversations I had for for the month of February. Cool!

From the movie JUST LIKE HEAVEN to the upcoming novel of Dan Brown about masonry, we talked and conversed for 3 hours. That was until we decided to go to McDo Philcoa and spend the time there waiting for the 5:30 trip of the MRT. Here, we ordered fries and Milo to keep us awake. Then, we made a map of UP for the programme our orgmate was making for the Papuri concert(nood kayo).

Then, one of the most philosophical human being i've ever known shared to us some excerpts form the koran intersecting it with the Bible, dead sea scrolls, satanic Gospels, and so much more. It just made me so keen to take Philo 172 (Philo of religion).

And then for the first time in history, I rode a 5:30-southbound mrt train. Astig. Walang tao.
Plus, it was my first time to experienc the "inumaga syndrome." COOL!

Definitley one of my most exciting (i love conversations and debates) days with my orgmates even if im still an app.

BYE!

Kabadong-kabado

Ang aking organisasyon ang siyang kumakanta sa misa ng parish of the holy sacrifice sa UP tuwing 12:00 ng Thursday.

Syempre kumakanta rin ako dun kasi maganda boses ko sobra hehehehe.

Pagkatapos, tumugtuog ako kanina ng organ. pers tym! Syempre sinabak lang ako ni Kuya Ron ,ang aming choir master. Sobrang kinabahan

ako yung tuhod ko nanginginig, bigalng nging pasmado yung kamy kong hindi naman pasmado.

Pero, dahil para kay Lord naman yun, Ok lang. Medyo successful naman kahit na may mga mali akong napindot na tiklado. Tapos ang bait bait ng mga orgmastes ko, kasi nakangiti lang sila sakin kahit nagkamali ako. Napa-encouraging nila (or nagkukuwari lang yata sila heheheh). Pero astig. Isa pa naman akong kabadong bata, sabi nga ng gitarister namin na si kuya TJ at ng teacher ko sa "f

inger therapy." Buti na lang nabawasan ng kaunti dahil nga encouraging sila

3 kanta lang naman ang aking tinugtog:

Bayan Umawit
Alleluia (wikain mo)
I will sing forever

Astig talaga. Natuwa ako kasi natalo ko yung kaba ko.

Next week ata ako namn tutugtog ng lahatng song, kaya panibagong pagharap na naman yan sa kaba. Sana masanay na ako sa kaba para wala na hehehehe.

Ayun...

11:00 pm na ako makakauwi everyday next week dahil sa practice namin para sa PAPURI

kaya: buahay pa kaya ako nun? hehehe

CGE>>

17 n pala ako

Happy Birthday to me

Happy Birthday to me

Happy Birthday Happy Birthday

Happy Birthday to me!

17 years old na akong buhay sa mundo

yun lang...

Salamat sa mga bumati...

Xenxa na at 10-11 na ako nakakuwi arawarwa dahil sa UPSCA Papuri \ (masayan naman)

nood kayo

FEBRUARY 25, 2005

Saturday

Kakanta ako dun kasama ng Himig Delaney

Bye tulog na pala ako

Gloria and Manny

Before...

Gloria: Hello garci?












After: Hello Manny?



Astig diba? rinig na rinig sa paguusap ni President Gloria at Manny Pacquiao ang ganong estilo at tono ng salita ni GMA.

Pero astig na nanalo si Gloria, I mean si Manny. Kawawa naman si Morales dahil sa latang-lata na siya. Parang ngang napisa ilong ni Morales e.

Nanalo nga si Pacman pero parang di naman in top shape si Morales (mag-lose ka ba naman ng 1 pound in three days para sumakto sa required weight).

Hehehehe. Nalaman ko pala na kapag di ka sakto sa weight required sa division ng match mo, magbabayad ka ng $ 250,000 per round.

At least kapag ako sumali $250,000 lang total na yun kasi siguradong bagsak na ako sa unang sapak pa lang.

hahamunin ko siya ng rematch pero sa padamihan na lang ng maubos na kikiam at footlong. Ito kasing dalawa lang ang madalas kong kainin nowadays kasi nakakatuwang iprepre yung footlong on your own

cge

ka-kain na ako.

Onga pala... nag MUCHO pa si First gentleman kay president Glory in international TV. Iba talaga tayong mga Pinoy

Mica Mics

The word reminiscing is such a cliche that it hurts my ear whenever i hear it.

Mica's birthday was a reminiscing moment. I reminisced on High school days, bus-friends days, maggots-in-your-sapaghetti days, senseless-roundtrips-with-sensible-friends days, sleeping-in-the-service days(nights pala) and other more days.

The debut was really fun. Even with only 9 of us, Maskians , we did enjoy it. The party popper even went straight to us mascians when i opened it. Too bad!

Hi MICA! Happy Birthday.

I reminisced on the mica-louise-jm-and-sometimes-with-other-bus-friends roundtrips that are really fun since we get to extend the talk-time we have on the bus.

I reminisced on Mica's fingers making their way on the guitar (with of course the one with the electronic dictionary). Mica's finngers did grow by the way.

I reminisced, I reminisced, I reminisced.

Bottomline: I hate the word reminisced, but what can I do? Mica yun e, friend since 1st year.

Onga pala...Thanks dun sa clasmate ni mics hahahaha.

Bye!!

"let us now blow the cake"