Messing With my Schedule

Posted on May 7, 2008 at 8:55 am | 8 Comments
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I hate make-up classes, especially if they’re announced only a day before (worse, on the same day). I don’t like to compensate for such thing especially if I’ve already scheduled something for that time and day like making a draft or returning comments. I believe that time is gold so I’m really strict with my schedule (of course, except for school related things). I hate wasting time, that’s not in my vocabulary. As a matter of fact, I say “You’re wasting my time!” to my friends whenever they’re delaying something or whenever they keeping me from going for something that is useless.

Yesterday, I should have only taken my midterm examination in one of my major subjects and I was free to go home. It took me about an hour and a half to finish answering 100 brain damaging questions. But because my instructor had set for a make-up class which was originally from 1-3PM but was later moved to 3-5PM, I was forced not to go home. Sorry, I’m not that type of student who skives classes. It was really annoying. Good thing, I didn’t planned to go out with my high school friends on that day, or else, they would have killed me by now.

I finished answering my examination by 11:00. All-in-all, I had four hours to kill. Going back home and return to school three hours later was never an option to me on how I wanted to kill my four-hour break because it’s uneconomical and I didn’t want to spend an additional of at least 1.5 hours in a jeep. That left me with two choices: either go to the library to continue reading Life of Pi by Yann Martel and abuse the Internet service or go to the mall and watch a flick. I chose the latter and I was able to tag two friends to go with me.

Because it was unplanned (yet another on the spot decision), I didn’t bring any street clothes. You see, we’re not allowed to go to the malls — worse, to the movie house — wearing our uniform. But I had no options left. Besides, my two friends told me that they’re doing that (going to the cinemas while wearing their uniform) always and were never caught.

We bought deluxe tickets for Iron Man but instead of heading to the deluxe seats we went to the premier seats. Lol. Bad. Bad. Bad. There was no one who was guarding the entrance to the premier seats so we climbed the stairs and we had an instant savings of Php 20.00! Lol.

Well, Iron Man is a good movie, it’s based on the Marvel Comics of the same title. The acting skills of the cast was superb. And of course, the special effects was really good. The only downside was that I was able to predict correctly a few things.

After watching Iron Man, we rushed back to school for our make-up class. Nevertheless, I had fun. XD

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Summer Classes

Posted on April 9, 2008 at 10:41 pm | 13 Comments
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So yeah, my visitors are starting to deplete. And I will not wonder anymore if in the coming weeks, Google Analytics would report to me that the number of my visitors will plunge to two-year low. And that’s because of the shortage of new blog entries here and I haven’t returned comments lately. Yeah, I know, it’s my fault. But then, I was too busy. Busy with school work (refer to the post below), reading books, relaxing, and most of all… preparing for my summer classes.

Yeah, you read that right, I have summer classes. So I can’t say that I’m an incoming junior… just yet. Actually, I was in school yesterday to enroll myself for the summer classes. Good thing, I didn’t have to spend the whole day there (the last time I enrolled, I spent the whole day in school, it was totally a waste of time). I got there very early and I finished everything I had to do in just a couple of hours or even less. I was the ninth student to finish the enrollment process. Yeah, the early bird catches the early worm!

So now, this summer, instead of going to beaches, have an adventure somewhere in the country, or just be a bum here in my scorching room surfing the Internet, reading a nice read and follow the latest development on the rice shortage in the country, I will be in school, stressing my self. Also, this could also mean that I’ll not be able to go to iBlog4. I cannot really believe this. I’m already tired of thinking about school work. I still haven’t had a decent rest. And in just a few days, hell will dominate my world again. The worst thing is that I’ll be in school five times a week, from morning to afternoon. My schedule really sucks. Come on, Satan, please, spare me! I just hope that I will survive the summer heat.

There are so many things that I want to do but my two-week vacation is almost over. I guess, I have to postpone them. One of the things that I really want to do is to revamp this blog. I’ve mentioned in my Twitter account that I’ll change the theme of this site and everything. But I’m really not in the mood to make a new one. I already know how will my next layout should look like but I’m really lazy to do that now. I guess, for the mean time, I will change the banner of this current theme and hopefully, I will also find a good background image that I can use.

Lately, I’ve also started reading books again (I’m trying to read at least 20 books this year). So far, I have already read three books this year. Seventeen to go! (Sorry, I haven’t updated my “Books” page) But I’m not sure if I’ll get to my target as for sure, I’ll be tremendously busy for the rest of the year my college life. Right now, I’m reading “Atonement” by Ian McEwan. I’m enjoying it but there were parts where I felt bored. And oh, just before I move on, I want to say to Briony (a character from the book) that you’re stupid and you took it all wrong!

Last Sunday, we went to Quezon City and we visited two malls. Lol. I still don’t get it how TriNoma became a triangular mall and SM North Edsa’s The Block never failed to make me awe me with its magnificent structure (see the photos that I took in The Block below). For nine straight hours, we were in the malls that I mentioned and by the time we were going home, I really felt exhausted. Actually, that was my family’s so-called outing this summer. But I still hope that after my summer classes, we’ll go out of town and have a real excursion. That day, I bought three books: “Interpreter of Maladies” by Jhumpa Lahiri1, “The Yiddish Policemen’s Union” by Michael Chabon (finally, I’ve got a copy of this book), Yann Martel’s “Life of Pi” and Story Philippines’ latest edition which I confirmed that it’s not a magazine for children (read “Isabel Jimeno’s Price” by Jonathan Jimena Siason to know what I mean).

I guess, that’s all for tonight. Oh, I forgot to mention that I didn’t fail in any of my subjects. As a matter of fact, my grades are really okay. I have the chance that I’ll be a college scholar next school year. Dunno if I should be happy with that. We are just really required to attend the summer classes. I really don’t have any choice, unless I want not to graduate in time.

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  1. She’s got a new book called Unaccustomed Earth but I’ll just wait for the paperback edition of it. [↩]

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Catching Up

Posted on November 25, 2007 at 11:30 am | 18 Comments
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Sixteen days after my last update, at last, I have a new entry! Sorry for the unannounced hiatus. My blog went to hibernation because of school work. Only three weeks have passed since the second semester had started and I’m already tired. It seems that my professors’ favorite pastime is to give their students loads of assignments, researches, projects, reports and tests. So many deadlines, procrastination is my best friend. My only consolation is that I have a better schedule now, by dusk, I’m already home (except for Tuesdays) and I’ve got loads of break time (two and a half hours of break every Tuesdays and Thursdays and another extra hour every Tuesdays).

Yesterday, I had to go to the mall to get my invitation for the debut party that I’m going to attend on the very first day of December. The debutant is a grade school friend. Yeah, that’s how long I’ve known her. Some of my grade school friends (most are also my high school friends) were there to get their invitations. I didn’t expect that most of us are invited because we haven’t got in touch with her all these years, and if there is, only a little. The biggest surprise of all surprises is that the guy who we constantly linked with the debutant during our grade school days is also invited.

We’ve talked about so many things. We talked about the photo of the debutant in her invitation, we reacted that the photo was Photoshopped. And as my friends really love rumors (actually, most are facts but we still call them rumors), I knew that Friend A is now dating Previous Schoolmate-slash-Previous Classmate A (who’s studying aeronautics) again, Friend C had to stop studying, Friend D is now wearing braces whereas Friend E would have his braces removed sometime this week, Friend F shifted to another course, Friend G lost weight (whom I didn’t recognize until Friend D told me her name), Friend H’s suitor four years ago will be back here in the Philippines soon (he’s somewhere in North America right now, and from what I’ve heard, he’s in the military), and Previous Schoolmate B fathered a child. Ah, time flies so fast, and so many things happen in just a snap. I really miss my friends. I miss laughing hard just because of a small thing that others would not recognize as laughable. Laughing with my grade and high school friends is really different from laughing with my college friends.

As for me, aside from the fact that I’m busy with school, one of my blockmates had wet my clothes last Thursday (long story, and I don’t want to elaborate it), I’m reading “The Thirteenth Tale” by Diane Setterfield, enjoying my Statistics class, my Internet connection is not working (I’m on dial-up right now), Google Reader reports that I have 175 blog posts to read, hating my Literature subject because of my professor who talks very slow (we just finished the introduction), opened a new blog (I’ll be giving the link to a few selected ones), my cellphone started to show signs and symptoms that it’s going to die pretty soon, managed to lost my umbrella in school, and I now strongly believe that the weather reports here in the Philippines are not accurate.

Well, we spent our time mostly in talking (and laughing), we wanted to catch up with our latest experiences, and we’re craving to fill up the spaces that are still missing. But we had to stop because it was getting dark, one of us had other things to attend, while the others wanted to watch “One More Chance.” And because I don’t like watching Filipino movies (I think I have only seen three Filipino movies in the big screen during my 17 years of existence here on earth), I decided to go home1. I would rather pick a boring English movie than watch a corny Filipino flick.

I just hope during the debut of my friend, more spaces would be filled, that we’ll laugh so hard that we would look like rocking chairs, and we could plan an overnight party sometime during our Christmas vacation.

And if you’ve been following me in Twitter, you might perfectly know that one of my college friends is also inviting me to her debut party on the last day of November. Hell, two debut parties in two consecutive days! Euri says that I should attend both because debut parties = free food but debut parties = clothes + gifts to buy. And as of the moment, Christian = broke. Eek!

  1. Corny na kung corny pero corny talaga. Magulo ba? Sorry, pero nakokornihan at nababaduyan talaga ako sa mga Filipino movies, no offense [↩]

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Faulty Schedule

Posted on January 22, 2007 at 1:32 pm | 9 Comments
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Last Saturday, almost 12 hours of my precious time was wasted because of a faulty schedule. Instead of dedicating most of that time in doing dignityAKO.info, a members only site for my high school classmates, I was in school waiting for nothingness which made me end up spending the rest of that almost 12 hours in the mall.

So let me tell you how my Saturday was ruined by our NSTP instructor.

I was invited in the debut party of one of my high school classmates. No, it was not the elegant type of party where one has to go in a formal attire. The set up was this: go to Fontana Leisure Park at Clark Field, Pampanga and spend an almost sleepless night there. It’s very practical isn’t? The good part was that we had really a great time. A day before that, one or two of my blockmates asked him if we would have classes since the 2nd year nursing students in our university took NAT. Our instructor’s answer was yes.

But during the night before the day this unlucky incident happened, I had a doubt if our professor would stick with his word as he was absent the week before. Yes, you read that right, our teacher is skiving his classes with us! It’s not just my time that will be wasted if I would go to school and find out that he skived us again but also money, effort, and energy! So I did my schedule.

So the next day, after texting all of my blockmates in my phone book without any reply from them if we have classes, I decided to go to school with all the things that I needed during the overnight stay at Fontana. Boom! We did not even see our instructor’s shadow! He was nowhere to be seen. Out of boredom, I and my blockmates decided to play in our room but that’s another story.

After an hour or so, we decided to go as we were dead sure that our professor won’t see us. So I texted all of my high school friends if they were already in SM City Clark even though the meeting time is at 5:00pm (which turned out to be 8:30pm due to the Filipino time). And guess what… one of them decided to play a prank on me! She said that she’s already in the mall. So, I went there — call me stupid if you want. I was texting and texting and texting that person and she was not replying! After thirty minutes of waiting for her to reply while I was looking for a good book at National Bookstore, I ended up with a conclusion that it was a prank. That’s the silliest prank ever played on me. To make matters worse, until now, that person who played a prank on me have not yet replied whatsoever. I’m waiting for her message that says something like “Oh, I’m so sorry for that silly prank. I hope you’re not mad at me.” But it looks like that person has no intention to do so.

At kinarir ko na ang aking pag-iisa.

I ate alone at my favorite fast food, Tokyo Tokyo. I also ended up watching — believe it or not — KKK out of nothing to do.By the time the movie had ended, my classmates were not yet there so I scanned the books at the bookstore again. Luckily, I was able to find a copy of Young Blood3 and the Prestige. I even had the chance to read them before my friends had arrived.

When we arrived at Fontana, I was surprised to see that we were already complete. I suppose, they arrived there with their own wheels or they were fetched earlier as it’s impossible to get to Fontana without your own wheels, unless you have money to get there in a cab. It’s very ironic that I was the first to get into the meeting place and arrive last in the place where we had the party.

So what we did? Basically, we had fun! We even played go fish with some variations. And during the course of playing it, one of my classmates shouted “Punyeta ka! Punyeta ka!” The problem was that there were some older people in the living room by that time so they were shocked, particularly the mother of the debutant. And the rest of us? We were all laughing. Someone even commented “Oi! Wala ka sa dorm!”.

We decided to sleep at around 3:00am. And as the villa was crowded, I had to sleep in a table. Yes, in a table at the living room.

I’m so glad that I was able to spend some time again with my high school classmates. I really missed them so much. Once again, I was able to laugh hard freely. I’m glad that I was able to unleash my stress. Not like now in college, I can’t laugh as how I used to. Laughing now is a chore. I’m hoping that during the vacation somebody will invite me and my high school classmates for an overnight again.

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Overloaded

Posted on October 29, 2006 at 3:01 pm | 10 Comments
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I enrolled yesterday for the second semester. I haven’t shifted yet to another course. Actually, I had a fight with my father about it during the first part of the month. Also, I want to say that I hate my schedule! I have to wake up at 5:00am as I still have to travel for one hour and my last period won’t end until in the afternoon (except for Mondays and Saturdays).

And still, I’m overloaded with 29.0 units!

Here is a list of my subjects: CFE2 (I’m pretty excited with this one), CHM03a (as long as it has a computation part, I’m saved! Lol! Wait, do you know if there’s a computation part in this?), ENG02a (I hope it’s the same instructor that we had last semester in ENG01a who would handle us), FIL02a (I hope it will not be a boring subject), ICT110 (I think I will like this subject very much), NSTP2(CWTS) (I will not expect anything from this subject), PE02 (no comment), PHL03 (looks frightening) and ZOO01 (no memorization please!).

As for my grades, I got six line of 9’s and three line of 8’s. Happy? I think so…

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