The Miseducation of the Filipino

This essay by Renato Constantino is so ironic. He keeps on promoting the Filipino language and says that teaching in English is somewhat toxic. Then why the hell did he present his arguments in English? Shouldn't he had written it in Filipino?

Other than that, the essay was very relevant, interesting, and meaningful. You should read it when you have the time. Lots of free time.

This could come in handy.

Seminars

I should get used to that. It's better that way. They say you learn more things in attending forums and seminars more than attending your classes. [But yeah, you should still attend your classes. Forums and seminars aren't credited.] Only if I can convince my college acquaintances/friends to do so too. :)) That would be so beneficial to them.

On a completely different note, seminar is not equal to seminary.

Work work...

College suddenly became really stressful. WTF? I'm just a freshman. FRESHman. Ibig sabihin dapat hindi pa pinapahirapan para magstay fresh for the rest of the year :-" Pero whyyyyy. @_@

I'm now a coordinator of this seminar thingy on Essentials of Leadership. Basically, it's a leadership seminar, but how can I become a coordinator of such a seminar if I haven't even been to a single leadership seminar in my entire life? @_@ It's not graded. It's not even for school, but something in it makes you guilty if you wouldn't do a good job. The community that handles it is a very Christian community called Opus Dei. [You can research about that. I don't have time to explain for now] It would seem like a SIN to not cooperate. :| But wait, there's more. There's a 10 o'clock mass on Saturday in honor of Opus Dei's patron saint, St. Josemaria Escriva. The thing is, I have this orientation seminar with AIESEC [an int'l org] from 9 to 11. :| If I don't go to the seminar, I would be missing a lot - programs, activities, FRIENDS. If I DO go to the seminar, I would again seem to be a sinner to choose the seminar over going to mass. :| What a dilemma!

Anyway, I have more important things to do right now than blogging. [Sorry blog :(] I have to go now. This English 1 creative essay won't write itself!

On a completely different note, I, together with two friends, saw Windsor and Karen eating lunch. So we hung around for a while. When we parted with Windsor and Karen, my friends were like, "Girlfriend?" =))))) Nah. I don't think they are.

...or are they? :-?

Where to eat?

This time we tried having lunch at the Economics building. Why? They have air-con. B-)

Too bad the food was pretty expensive... and unappetizing. Rodic's is way better. [Best tapsilog ever!!] Then again, it's also a bit expensive... Then it's down to that pasta place by the main library. :))

Now, where should I eat tomorrow?

On a completely different note... nakita ko si Miss Mariel kanina sa Ortigas. \:D/ Mas weird na yung hair nya. @_@

Something weird happened.

But I'm not quite sure what it was.

Cyclists

I'm too tired/lazy to make an actual blog post. :))

Quote nalang...

"Best friends are siblings that God forgot to give you"

Wala lang. Naaliw ako eh bat ba. =))

Freshie

It's really convenient to have someone you know as a blockmate. Better yet, if he you have the same classes everyday. You wouldn't need to make a schedule since you could just copy and paste, like what I did above. :))

There are some cons though, but I wouldn't want to expound on that. :))

On a completely different note, parang si Miss Mary-Arr ung prof ko sa geog. :)) Seryoso. @-) Nakakamiss tuloy.

Weeeeeeed!

We went all the way from Diliman to Ortigas just to get our hands on some milk tea. :))

On a completely different note, there was a fire in UP last night, causing all the Palma Hall classes to be suspended today and yesterday. Two of my classes were there, so I only took one class today. :))

Kikomachine

UP life has been really awesome so far. The only downside is that you're so tired to do anything by the end of the day. I've only been going to UP regularly for three days and I've had so many experiences already I could make a comic book! Well, if I had the skill to make one. Too bad I'm not a good artist.

On a side not, Physics 10 was awesome. Air-con room! And the prof dismissed us 30 minutes early :)) I think I'll be liking Physics. It has the nicest building among my classes. :)) And they say it's really easy too [It's not your typical high school physics. It's an easier version, more on astronomy even]

Best Class Ever!

GEOG 1.

The room has air-con! \:D/ But the sad thing is, it's so small. Parang naglagay lang ng sandamukal na chairs sa janitor's closet. :)) Pero, who cares? Basta may air-con! Wooo!

Start ng class: 1:00PM. Jet and I arrived at around 1:05. There's a 15 minute grace period so no worries. :)) Our prof was checking the attendance when we got in. She then gave us an assignment, bring index card blah. And then...

Prof: Next meeting nalang ung introductions and syllabus. May attendance na kayo, may assignment na kayo. So, ano sa tingin nyo ibig sabihin non?

Class: Uhh.. we can go?

Prof: *smiles and points at the door*

Class: ...

Best. Class. Ever. =))))

[Ang cool mo prof pero sorry di ko alam name mo :))]

On a completely different note, our class before that was Eng 1. The professor didn't come. :))

Zeroth Day of Classes

My mom woke me up at 6am, but I only managed to get up 40 minutes later. I ate breakfast, took a shower, clipped my nails; my brother was supposed to come with me since he was going to pay for his tuition but he felt like sleeping a little bit more, so of I go to UP.

I was supposed to meet Jet at the CBA building [College of Business Administration] at 7:30, but I arrived at 7:45am. The orientation was at 8. Jet, who even said we should meet earlier [7am], arrived at 8.

The orientation ended at 11, and then Jet and I bonded with our blockmates. We rode the Toki, we rode it through its whole route. We arrived back at the CBA building and chat[ted? di eh.] with each other. Windsor appeared from out of nowhere and the three of us [Jet, Windsor and I] continued our journey.

Jet went to Katipunan and Windsor and I went on our way to LSGH; I was going to get my transcript sent to the UP Registrar [where we met Coach Ding and chat[ted? ano ba talagaaa] for a while about how suckish this year's PE]. After that, we met with Sir Marlo. He said he was obese and needed exercise. [=))] We rode the elevator while using the phone. We went inside the work area. Nothing is prohibited and no place is forbidden. Thank God we're alumni. :)) [By the way, Sir Ants was slacking off inside.]

We went to the 4A classroom. We saw Ms. Sandra. She said, "WHOAAA Anong ginagawa nyo dito?" with those big eyes. =))))) She was adviser of 4B. Then we saw Sir Jun. He's the new adviser of 4A. We found out that Ms. Vicky was already married. :P

At around 4:30pm, we decided to leave LSGH. We went to 7-11. Windsor mixed the two Mountain Dews together. :)) Then we rode the MRT. I said good-bye to Windsor as I got out at the Cubao station, where I walked to Monpee's house. He was playing a Bio Hazard kind of CS. :)) We ate dinner. I out'ed some bad innards [lol translation: ako'y naglabas ng sama ng loob] and went home after a few more minutes. Now I'm resting in front of the computer. My legs are killing me! @_@

Three days

It's obvious that I'm not yet ready to go to college. I haven't even sent my transcript yet. @_@

I don't know how to blog anymore @_@

Someone teach me!

Guess who's back

Internet at last! [More than a week na walang internet. 15 lang tuloy posts ng May :-L] And I'm back from Davao too. I'm not on my usual station though. I'm using my brother's computer because he'll be away for three days. He has Mirror's Edge. :)) I'm planning on finishing it before he comes back...