Facts ‘Bout Me

Posted on April 13, 2008 at 12:01 pm | 16 Comments
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I decided to rewrite my “About Me” page. I started from scratch again and I come up with an seven-paragraph introduction to myself. I decided to post it here so that it’ll get the attention that it will need. The front page is always the best part where you can put stories that you want your audience to notice.

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During the year I started blogging, my answer to the question “What’s your ASL?” was 14/M/Pampanga. Now that almost four years have passed since I first encountered that question, my answer is still the same, except for the age part which you have to add to four (that’s equal to 18). But of course, giving you a two-digit number, a letter that stands for “male”, and the name of a province here in the Philippines is not enough for you to know me. So the purpose of rewriting my short description of myself is for you to visualize me better on your head. Feel free to make your own image of myself. I’ve also provided links to my previous posts, that you can freely read (minus those password protected entries) which can help you know more about myself.

I was born three days after Christmas in the year of 1989. December 28, 1989 was the start of my journey here on earth. Eighteen years later, I’m already 18 years old, obviously. Kidding aside, I think, I’ve achieved a lot of things but there are still many things to conquer. Currently, I’m a college student but I still have to learn how to love my course and I still think that college is synonymous to hell.

Reading books has been my main source of entertainment since sixth grade when I first read JK Rowling’s Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone. Since then, I have read more than 50 books which include the whole Harry Potter series, two of Dan Brown’s controversial books, reads by Mitch Albom which are all talking about death, and even books that are more disturbing like Ian McEwan’s Atonement and Khaled Hosseini’s The Kite Runner which is my most favorite book, by the way.

Other forms of entertainment that I enjoy include watching American TV shows especially Grey’s Anatomy, Heroes and The Amazing Race, ridiculing incompetent teachers, sleeping, surfing the Internet, and most recently, listening to indie music by Feist, Death Cab for Cutie, Snow Patrol, The Postal Service, Hellogoodbye, Jack Johnson, and many more. As a matter of fact, because of my obsession to indie music, I named my iPod touch as Gibbard, in honor of Death Cab for Cutie and The Postal Service’s singer: Ben Gibbard. Just visit my Last.fm account to know my listening patterns.

Oh, I forgot to mention that I also love writing. I was actually the news editor of our official student publication for two consecutive years back in high school. But until now, I still don’t know how I was able to get that position because of my faulty grammar. I know, my grammar sucks. And if it were not because of Firefox’s spell checker feature, I would have committed lots of misspelled words. I need an editor, really. Haha. But despite all of those reasons I’ve mentioned, I’m really thankful for my adviser who trusted me. Writing news never gave me pleasure. You have to be specific with the facts and you can’t give your own points and using adjectives is a big no-no.

Now, I want to tell you what I’m not: I’m neither a singer nor a dancer (I suck at both). I’m not also a cellphone and SMS addict, I can leave even without a phone. I hate PE classes (I’m just glad that I will not wear my PE uniform ever). And oh as some of you might already know, I don’t have the ideal body weight (take a guess if I’m overweight or underweight) and I don’t look like an 18 year old student (I look younger… lol).

I’ve got more things to tell you but I guess, I’m already boring you. Just watch out for the next version of this introduction to myself to know more about me. But if you need something or you just want to leave your two cents, feel free to contact me.

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DanHellbound and Dre tagged me to post facts about myself. BTW, Mr. DanHellbound tagged me way back in December of last year. Dan says I should post seven facts, and Dre says that I should post eight. But obviously, I broke the rules. Lol. And oh, I didn’t make this post because of these memes. It’s just coincidental. Of course, everyone is invited to post random facts. Yeah, I’m tagging you everyone!

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Cinderella

Posted on October 6, 2007 at 5:08 pm | 8 Comments
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Let me tell you a story about my misadventures last Monday…

It was my last PE class this semester. Every single day that I have a PE class, I bring with me my PE uniform and my rubber shoes. On the morning of Monday, when I have finished preparing myself for the day, I decided to play Jak II on our PS2 console. An hour had passed and that means I had to go. But I still haven’t packed my things, I was cramming. I’m not one of those students who are always tardy and I really avoid to be tardy.

When I was on my way to school, I noticed that I forgot my shoes. I could not go back home because that means I have to sacrifice my first subject. Luckily for me, I was able to borrow the rubber shoes of an old blockmate.

The shoes, I suppose, was one size too small for me. But it’s better than nothing. I wasn’t able to play bowling comfortably. The balls that I threw always went into the gutter. But nevertheless, I and my group mates still won!

After our PE class, I immediately changed my clothes and guess what, I forgot my leather shoes in the apartment of my blockmate! Instead of going straight back home, I still had to make a detour to my blockmate’s apartment just to get my leather shoes.

So, the moral of the story? Always double check your things before going and don’t cram on packing your things.

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It will be my finals this coming week. Wish me luck! Okay? See you!

Carpe diem!

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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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If you haven’t noticed, I changed my layout. This layout is based on my previous layout. If you think you’re not seeing it correctly, just refresh the page or you can clear you cache.

The site looks good on Firefox and Safari. On the other hand, it looks stupid on IE7.0, and it looks stupidest on IE6.0. I haven’t tried my site on Opera.

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“Welcome Back to Hell,” Said Satan

Posted on June 25, 2007 at 6:28 pm | 17 Comments
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I’m officially back to grogginess mode.

As I have expected, I don’t have enough time to post here or even just visit your blogs and leave a comment. I’ve got 200 plus of unread blog entries in Google Reader.

So how’s my school life? Ah, very tiring. Out of the eight subjects that I’m taking up this semester, only one is my favorite. And that’s English. I’m enjoying it because we’re tackling about oral communication. So, after the term, if I would be able to be good in nasality (I want a British accent, haha) and improve my voice, I might release the first episode of Podcasteeg. More over, we also have a laboratory period for our English subject. The laboratory is so cool. It’s called Digital Language Laboratory. We look like call center agents when we are there.

PE is tiring. Who would not get tired, especially in our case that we have swimming and bowling for this semester? I don’t like the swimming part but I hope that I would like the latter.

I don’t like CF (Theology), not because I hate the subject itself but my instructor. The instructor that I had last semester is also the same professor who is handling us. Kapag sinuswerte ka nga naman.

PolSci does not look interesting, but according to my classmates, our professor is good. She said during our first meeting that she don’t give a failing mark to those students who has a perfect attendance. I got to like this one! Haha.

As for my remaining subjects, nine word: they are the ingredients to make me feel haggard.

Hmm… my new classmates? They’re not that bad but how I wish we were not reshuffled.

[EDIT] I want to share to you this conversation I had with a friend last week:

Christian: School is very bad to our health.
Michael: True.
Christian: It should be banned.
Michael: Better if annihilated.
Christian: Yeah, that would be better.

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Bye for now, I got to review. See you next time if there is a next time!

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The Divine Subjects

Posted on March 30, 2007 at 11:04 am | 17 Comments
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Last semester, I compared and contrasted my subjects to foods, this time, I’ll verdict them where they should go. And of course, my subjects are not divine, it was just the title. Lol.

CFE2 - Inferno

Yeah, inferno. I thought I’ll enjoy this subject because learning Theology has a new level in college. Thanks to my boring professor who always forgot to bring something very important in class and basically, she ruined everything! Muchas Gracias!

CHM03a - Paradiso

Memorizing the jargons in this subject was very easy. I thought I’ll have a hard time on memorizing them, but I was wrong. My professor in this subject was very impressive. What she brings when she enters the room were only writing materials. All of the things that she had to teach us were stored in her brain. No wonder why she is a board topnotcher.

And here are some of the comments of my blockmates regarding our professor:

Parang computer si ma’am! Ilang GB kaya ang meron siya sa utak niya? Pa-USB naman ma’am!

And when my professor forgot something…

Ay, navayrus si ma’am!

Lol.

ENG02a - Inferno

I don’t like the subject very much. Yeah, it’s very ironic. My professor does not know how to make the class alive, yeah, it was very boring.

FIL02a - Purgatorio

The subject was very demanding, especially in the last part of the semester when we were required to create a baby thesis. I’m happy though that we did not need to defend it because there was no time to do so.

ICT110 - Purgatorio

I don’t want to comment about this subject. All I can say is that this will be stuck in the purgatory!

NSTP2 - Paradiso

Why paradiso? It’s because of our professor who’s very lazy. The last time we had a meeting was last January. Ang saya!

PE02 - Inferno

I danced in this subject! Heck, I really hate it. Jive was very hard! The good part? Well, our instructor said that for our finals, all we have to do is to attend the PE Day tomorrow.

PHL03 - Inferno

Do I have to tell the reason why I put this subject in hell? Hey, Sophie, have a great time with Satan, hu? And don’t forget to ask him for a date in the most hottest fiery pit of hell with the Mountain of Purgatory in the background… what a nice place to answer Satan with your sweet “yes.” Goodluck, Sophie!

ZOO01 - Purgatorio

This one is supposed to be in hell because of the hellish names, technical terms, and jargons that I had to memorize. But because of our professor in the laboratory, memorizing all of these was easier. As for the lecture part, during the latter part of the semester, I decided to copy what my blockmates were doing. I decided to stop listening from our instructor (we have a different professor in our lecture) and do other important things. Like my blockmates, I depended on the handouts that were given to us.

While I was reviewing just this week in this subject for our finals, I saw a note that I scribbled in the margins of my handouts:

Zoology is poison to my brain that slowly degenerates it.

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