Get Frustrated

Posted on January 17, 2008 at 7:44 pm | 9 Comments
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As I write this, I’m sitting on a chair on the fifth floor of one of the buildings in school with my energetic and noisy classmates, and at least eight instructors in our room. My blockmates are waiting for their turn to perform a certain activity in front of one of our professors and as I am already done and passed with flying colors in our activity, I decided to write this.

Actually, I don’t know what will I write. I guess, I’ll just let my mighty 0.5 mechanical pencil lead my hand. You see, thoughts and ideas are overflowing in my mind and I don’t know which topic I would expound. More than that, ideas would sprout from nowhere like wild mushrooms at the most inconvenient time (e.g. while you are shopping at the mall), and when I get the chance to put my thoughts into writings, I’ve already forgotten them. My ideas are as if they were place inside a top hat and a magician transfigured them into a rabbit or a bouquet of roses.

Currently, I have two articles marked as drafts here in my blog (one of which is my original essay that my professor had marked with “Lifted Article?”). The other one is my own account of one of the most tragic events in my life which still needs further revisions. Besides, I’m waiting for the right time to publish them.

As I’m writing about blog entries, I may also write something about my LiveJournal account. It has become stagnant — mosquitoes started to treat it as their abode — and the entries that I posted there were just excerpts of my entries here. I guess, I’ll revamp it and make it as my private blog. I have so many things that I want to write and publish in the Internet but are not intended for the whole public to read. But I always forget or get lazy to revamp my LJ whenever I get the chance to do it. My other blogs has entered hibernation as well and I don’t know when I’ll be able to update them. I’m also planning to open again a photoblog but I’m not sure if I’ll be able to maintain it. This is the main reason why I hate maintaining multiple blogs. I cannot maintain them due to my busy schedule. But of course, this blog is updated more often than my other blogs.

Well, I guess, I’ll end this entry so I can draft my review of one of the books that I have recently read as I still have loads of free time.

Note: This was originally written two days ago. Today, I have successfully revamped my LJ account. I will also post my review of Marti Leimbach’s “Daniel Isn’t Talking” later or tomorrow.

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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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Appetizers, anyone?

Posted on October 17, 2006 at 12:21 pm | 6 Comments
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Yeah… I know, this is just the appetizer; there is still the main course, entremets or desserts to go but let me tell you what the appetizers I had tasted like.

My first helping of appetizer was consisted of Eng01, Fil01a, Psy01, Mat02, SSc01b, Chm01a, CFE1, PE01 and NSTP01. Some did not taste good, one of which was very intoxicating that you want to puke once it traveled down to your digestive track. But at least the others were sweet and spicy! Lol!

Psy01
Sour. Not an easy subject but not also a hard subject. What you need to do to pass this subject was to stock all the pieces of information you get to your long term memory and properly encode, store and retrieve the memory. Obviously it’s pure memorization. On the brighter part, our instructor was always late with an average of fifteen minutes and it’s even our first class during MWF.

CFE1
Tastes like water! This is what is known as Theology in other universities. Just maintain your faith in God and read your book with comprehension and you’re saved! The lessons were easy to understand as the instructor we had was good and has a sense of humor. Isn’t that great? I pretty enjoyed this subject. I had a greater knowledge on what’s in the Bible. It really cleanses the body like water!

Fil01a
Delicious! Just laugh and laugh and laugh and watch your grades. This is the Filipino subject that I enjoyed most. It’s not about pangngalan (noun), panghalip (pronoun), pandiwa (verb) and the like this time. It’s more on memorization, memorization with a touch of fun. Thanks to our funny professor! A meeting with her would not pass without the class bursting into laughter.

PE01
Tastes like an unripe fruit (mapakla). It really makes me tired! Who would want having a fifteen minute presentation of an aerobic dance? I hate it! Oh, it was PE day yesterday, our class won the 2nd place for gymnastics! Woot!

SSc01b
Tastes like a mixture of vinegar, soy sauce, salt, sugar, butter, pepper, onion, cheese, fish sauce (patis) and its stinky sister shrimp paste (bagoong), and syrup. Actually, the original taste was like syrup but thanks to our illiterate and unprepared instructor who added the rest. You see, the subject isn’t that hard at all but because of our instructor who knows “second to the last” as “last to the second” he made it hard. Hey, I think he’s one of the primitive apes, I just don’t know which but I bet he’s one of the survivors of the Java men. By the way, the book’s really perfect for him, it has tons of wrong grammar and spelling.

Chm01a
Combine sodium and chlorine in a beaker and add some water to make NaCl solution. Whatever! This subject definitely tastes like salt! As what I had expected the computation part was easy to medium hard and the memorization part was hell! Argh! I had to memorize the oxidation numbers of the common elements, cations and anions! I just hope you understand Chemish. Lol.

NSTP1
It tastes like the food that you don’t like to eat anymore but was one of your favorites in the past. What a very boring subject! And I think there’s something wrong with what we had studied; we were discussing volunteerism but we are required to render our services to the community. It’s not that I don’t like to help the people below the poverty line. It’s just that there is some conflict with what we study and the things that we are required to do especially next semester.

Mat02
I don’t really know what it tastes like… Salty? Sweet? Or do I have dysgeusia? I know all the things that we discussed. But this time, the problems that our instructor gave us were harder to solve. So, so, so complicated!

Eng01
It’s insanely delicious like the donuts of Go Nuts Donuts (but I don’t really like them). It’s all about grammar. It’s an easy subject to pass, I can’t see any reason for a student to fail this subject. As for our instructor, I really like her. She reminds me of my English teacher when I was still in junior HS, both knows so many things! What’s more was that our instructor was so kind. She even treated the whole class! Would you believe that? She treated us! Sadly, on the time she scheduled her treat, my blockmates were nowhere, they were in the accounting office, piled in a line that was as long as the line of a blockbuster movie. It made her mad, good thing some of my classmates did something to cheer her up!

I still have many foods left on my plate, I don’t need another helping at the moment. At least, it’s the semestral break and I can have time to empty my plate before I will be called to get another serving.

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As it’s the semestral break, this site will experience a major revamp, especially the contents. I already changed the layout which took me some time to finish it! Whoa! I had to start from the beginning, especially for the coding part. I think my HTML skills are beginning to diminish! Help me! Anybody who has any solution to fix this layout in Internet Explorer feel free to drop your suggestions.

As for ASTEEG.NET, start saying your goodbyes to it. I think I’m not going to renew this site. I’m thinking of buying a new domain sometime before this site will expire. But then again, I can also opt to buying a redirecting site and try to look for somebody who will host my site; it’s cheaper.

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It starts…

Posted on June 15, 2006 at 6:24 am | 17 Comments
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Now, if you’re only commenting because you want to get a comment from me, please think again. From now on, I may not be able to give back all comments. Please bear with me.

I’m officially a college student. As of now I’m still enjoying it.

During the night before the classes formally opened, I haven’t got sleep… I think it’s my insomnia. But I did not feel drowsy during the discussions.

I’m still in the “culture shock” mode; I’m having a hard time doing some conversations with my new classmates. Well, I have this classmate which I already met during my first year in high school. And I don’t have any classmate or batch mate in high school that is in the same section as mine. I found many people eager to gain new friends and I’m pleased that some were talking to me sometimes. And I think, these are the reasons why I find myself with my high school classmates during vacant periods.

I just hope they’ll not find this blog.

As of now, I think I already met all of our instructors except for NSTP and if we will have a separate instructor for Chemistry (lab). In general, I found my instructors very humorous. Or are they just really like that during the first meeting? Almost of the subjects that I’m taking looks interesting especially English, Math and Anthropology.

Wish me luck, okay?

Yeah… that’s it. I don’t want to make a long entry with detailed scenes on what happened to me because I know you won’t like that.

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