Pentium 1

Posted on April 26, 2008 at 3:06 pm | 10 Comments
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It’s inevitable, isn’t? There will come a time when the disk drive that we have will be in critical level, in other words, there will be scarcity with the available disk space that we have. That only means that we have to add more space, or delete a few programs and files, or move them to an external disk. And in my case, the unused space that I have is starting to deplete. To make matters worst, I don’t know which files and programs that I have to throw to the recycle bin. I also don’t own any external devices that I can use. The only means to backup the data that I can do is by burning files in CDs or DVDs and you know how unstable they are.

Moreover, I’m starting to feel that the physical memory that I have is not enough. Even though my physical memory that i have is a whooping 1 GB, I can feel that my computer is acting sluggish sometimes. During simple tests, I still have to wait for a few seconds or even minutes before my computer will respond.

I also have to upgrade a lot of things. Not only hardwares but also the programs that are currently installed in my computer which also contribute to the sluggishness of it.

Oh, it’s not my laptop that I am referring to but my brain. For more than 18 years, my brain has been abused, damaged, and over-used especially nowadays where I have to memorize a lot of things. Seriously, I badly need to shut down or just even hibernate it for a while. My brain hasn’t rested for almost a year now from school work. My brain cells are dying. And if I were to sell my brain, I’m sure, I would only earn a few cents because no one would like it and it’s overused!

A couple of weeks ago, I had to subtract something. Yeah, simple Math. God, I wasn’t able to get the right answer. The thing is, it took me five minutes before I realized my mistake: I used the minuend as the subtrahend, and the subtrahend as the minuend. How stupid is that?

All I want now is a very long vacation in a quite place far from civilization where I can rest for weeks, I don’t have to think about school related work, annoying blockmates, read unreliable text books, incompetent instructors, and avoid eating in fast food chains1 so that my brain could have all the rest it needs.

Of course, if someone out there is willing to lend me his or her brain, I would really appreciate it!

BTW, I’m now hosting Kathrin’s blog. She’s one of my oldest friends in the Internet.

  1. Since last semester, I eat in a fast food chain at least once or twice a week. God, they should abolish the branches of McDonald’s and Jollibee near our school. [↩]

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My Top 10 Worst Teachers

Posted on August 26, 2007 at 4:40 pm | 16 Comments
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In this post, I’ll feature my worst, incompetent, illiterate, unprepared teachers in no particular order. I’m sure I have talked about some of them, but for the sake of my new readers, I’ll still add them here.

The Bad Teacher with a Bad Temper

She has got a temper that you don’t want to mess, or else, you would be scolded and embarrassed in class. There was this time that she threw all of our books that were nicely stacked in our shelves into the floor. And after that, she said, “Clean up that mess!” She does not want secrets inside the room, but she herself kept the fact that she got pregnant. Moreover, she’s very strict, no wonder why we got the “Model Class” award. Tsktsk.

Manyak #1

Yup, he likes harassing female students. He’s also power-hungry. Ironically, the students can overpower him because you can easily make him follow whatever you want. Nevertheless, he knows so many things, and that made me so amazed.

The F & P Syndrome

My PE teacher back in high school got an advanced stage of this syndrome. He would say “Pailed” instead of “Failed” and “What’s so punny?” instead of “What’s so funny?” (and even if you want to stop from laughing, you will laugh even more because of his syndrome).

I took the following from my old entry, “I Doubt It”:

  • He does not know the odd and even numbers; he thought that the even numbers were 1, 3, 5, 7, 9 and so on, and the odd numbers were 0, 2, 4, 6, 8 and so on. We already corrected him though.
  • He knows FHM (For Him Magazine) as FMH (as in For My Honey?!).
  • One time he said: “To make the short story long.”
  • He pronounced ‘gauge’ as ‘goose.’ And he even said that the copy that he was reading was blurred that’s why he pronounced it wrong. MANIWALA?! Utuin mo ang lola mo.. lol. Malinaw lahat ng mga photocopy namin!
  • He teaches Physical Education and Health but I think he’s not Physically Fit. He’s fat!

Over Confident

Well, he’s a good teacher, the problem is that he’s too confident. I hate him for that.

Manyak #2

He holds a doctorate degree. And like Manyak #1, he teaches English. But he likes to harass male students. Yes, you read that right, he wants male students! There were other issues concerning him which led to his sacking.

Illiterate #1

He’s got a very ancient type pronunciation. You will not learn anything from him. It’s better if you will not listen to him and just read your book. And he can also embarrass his students without knowing about it. He also believes that Sam Milby is homosexual. Lol.

Manyak #3

With Manyak #2 being sacked, Manyak #3 took the post. He was the teacher who replaced our teacher in World History for a while in my third year. I suppose, my school had not found a competent teacher to replace Manyak #2, so Manyak #3 was called to replace the former. The big problem is that he is illiterate and incompetent. He does not know how to spell the word “Ghost.” He spelled it as G-O-S-T at first, which made us react, “Sir, there is a missing ‘H’.” And he changed it to G-O-S-H. Gosh! He does not deserve to be called as teacher. And yes, he lurves harassing students.

Illiterate #2

I hate her pronunciation. She can’t even pronounce simple words correctly!

One time, she entered our room with her usual outfit, but if you’ll look more closely at her, you’ll see that there is something wrong with her shoes. One of the pair was missing half of its heel. I wonder if she haven’t noticed it.

The Presenter

She loves using PowerPoint presentations in her class (but she does not know how to use it the easy way). The big problem is that she only reads whatever the content of the presentation. During our first meetings, I was listening to her, but in the latter part of the semester, I depended on the copies of the lesson that she gave to us.

The Chemist

In our laboratory period in Chemistry, we have two instructors, if you’ll ask question to the first, expect to have a wrong result and pray that the second instructor would not see your work!

This kind of teachers is just one reason why I hate school. But then, they could give us a good laugh, ‘ayt?

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