The CSB Experience 2: “Today is T-Shirt Day”

     Hooray for the last day of the school year. My life as a sophomore had finally drawn to a close and I’m really looking forward finally of a month’s worth of well-deserved summer vacation (Something I never got to have last year because of my summer class in BMAT2x).

     I said earlier this week that I was expecting some 2.5’s, a couple of 2’s and 1’s and a pinch of 1.5 because I felt that I’m not in my best position to get grade more than a 3.5. But for today’s recently-finished course card distribution, I got more than I expected.

One by one, I each received course cards containing 3’s and one 3.5. Although I was disappointed that I did in fact got a 1.5 (from Techdrw,which I should have saw that one coming), nevertheless, I was happy over-all that I actually did a better job this year compared to last term. Oh by the way, I happened to have a 2.5 as well.

Last term, I mostly got 2.5’s and and a few 3’s and a bit of 2’s but it wasn’t enough for me to make the cut for the GPA needed to be in the dean’s list.

This term was no different, a 1.5 pulled my GPA from the required DL average of 3.000 to a close 2.86 average. Tsk, tsk too bad. There’s always next year.

Just like what I’ve said a year ago from Foreclosure, there’s lot of things to say about the events that rocked the school in the past few months alone. But I’m hoping that I’ll be able to do a countdown of the best things that occured during the term, or hopefully the entire school year itself, hehehe.

But for now, this is good bye 😀

See you guys at the 20th of May and HELLO SUMMER!

“Through mountains high and valleys low
The ocean through the desert snow
We’ll say goodbye to the friend we know
This is our exodus ’04”

Twitter Me Twittles

      Hmmm…I may have been inspired to do this entry after reading Niko’s new blog from his website but all the “twittering” buzz is starting to irritate me to some extent so I decided to write something about this new social networking phenomenon called “Twitter”.

      To begin, I first heard of Twitter while I was somewhere along the LRT and had my ears plugged on my CD Player set to FM. I heard from this DJ host of a show that he was inviting his listeners to “follow” him in Twitter, the same goes to his female co-host. The female co-host had a lovely name of a Twitter username while the DJ host made use of his real name. And that’s how it all began…

      A couple of days later, I got an invite from my old profesor, sir Henry Bolo to join him in Twitter. yeah a lot of people miss him so I gave Twitter a shot.

       Once in, I find it rather…simple. Nothing much special about except that it has the fast features of Facebook and the present-status style of Plurk without the karma enticement. There are “Twitterological” terms I’ve yet to know about but other than that, I find it something eye-pleasing for a change.

      Out of the blue, I began to hear news of “Twitter this” and “Twitter that”. And then I found this article from TVGuide.com about Ashton Kutcher being able to gather one million Twitter users as his “followers” ahead of CNN but is being threatened by the looming “twittering” presence of Oprah with her solid minions (I love saying that! :P).

     And now just this morning, on a radio show that I always listen to, the two hosts of the program were discussing about Twitter being this very explosive phenomenon. One of the hosts recently got himself registered to the site and soonerafter, he was “twittering” with his colleague who’s based from abroad.

    The other host did said that morning that a lot of people were really reacting negatively over the rise of these social networking sites, because it has something to do with the growing trend of people’s interaction through these new mediums (in short, we don’t show our faces to each other anymore). She compared this to the same situation faced by the television and the radio when they were first introduced to the public since-God-knows-when.

      You guys may say that I’m one of those people who had those kinds of reaction toward Twitter and company. But I’m not over-all against it. It’s just that, I feel so overwhelmed by their rising presence that’s happening too fast for me to catch up to.

    Besides Multiply, I also have accounts from Facebook, Friendster, Plurk, Zorpia (never really used this one-heck-of-a-website-endorsed-by-Madonna), PinoyExchange, etc (Trust me, Neopets was the first).

     I’m kinda addicted by the status feature that Facebook, Twitter and Plurk has. I might be set for FB for the long-term while I feel that sooner or later, I’m gonna reach a saturation point for Plurk. In the case of my Twitter, I made my updates quite sparingly until now.

So for now, I have to wait until all these twittering buzz starts to simmer down. I know it’s not over til I know that the the DJ’s* who first “introduced” me into Twitter starts to promote their Twitter account on air on an increasingly lesser basis. 😀

(*Fun fact: One of them is my contact in my Facebook account while the other is my ka-Multiply 6 months earlier, hehehe)

The CSB Experience 2: Makuwento

Maybe even up til now, I still feel a li’l bit starstruck. But given that we’ve known each other in a rather not-so personal level, I must say he himself is practically felt very new in doing something not really his thing for a change: Teaching.

Yup, this prof of mine is the type of guy who seems to be so “makuwento” in a lot of stuff. Seriously, he has a lot of things to say in topics ranging from the everyday toils of the average commuter to his life being a prof.

He once told me that he got into the teaching gig after he was invited by a former prof of mine to join into his realm of teaching college students in CSB, which he, or so he says, agrees. But prior to his job as a prof, he has a pre-existing one which he has for almost close to oh so years.

I don’t know, maybe because he’s some sort of a celebrity in this thing that I’m into at present, I felt flashed by his presence. Fortunately, I found him to be an awfully nice and humble guy. Despite his commanding voice, he at some way created a connection with his students. Thus we never felt that we got lost along the way especially during the time when something unexpected occured sometime during the term.

Being the makuwento guy that he is, he often shares about his life outside of his usual day job, him being a prof included.

I wanna thank him though for imparting us with his knowledge as well as the kind of wisdom he gained from all the years he has been in the industry. I don’t know if he’s still going to be here for the next few years but just in case, many of us would wanna thank him for a job well done.

Thank you sir and see you soon!

The CSB Experience 2: In Plain Sight

Tomorrow’s the last day of school (Hopefully!), and I’m looking forward for some 2’s and 2.5’s and maybe a couple of 1.5’s for Monday’s course card distribution.

(Long deep breath and…inhale)

Now it makes me wonder: After all the ups and downs I’ve seen during the course of my sophomore year here in Benilde, where do I stand now?

It’s not that I’m not happy and all, but a lot of things happened and and a lot of things changed along the way. I can’t find the right words to put it but in a way, it led me to the realization on what I wanna do in the long term.

The talents harnessed and the skills developed  helped me focus on the type of niche I want to be in. Nevertheless, doubts would always stay at the back of my mind, especially when times call for me to make a decision at the soonest possible time.

I’m never good on making decisions but the risk of taking chances doesn’t make me a lesser person. I really need to think thoroughly because I tend to rush over things. I tend to to over react on something so small, and I even tend to become oblivious on the surrounding events.

So far, the reaps from taking chances are already bearing fruit and I feel like as if I could do something even more than what I have achieved at present.

I know that things are going to get rocky once the 19th of May arrives a month from now (Mind you, it’s April 19 today) and it will get rockier as  junior year progresses sooner after. More stress, more sleepless nights, more headaches, more creative thinking, and more “out-of-the-box” noodle dancing for many of us here.

And you thought MMA is sooo easy…It’s not!

But instead of complaining, I actually look forward to what junior year has in store for me and my buds. I know it’s going to be a rough ride but then again, we’re already half-way there and the next stop is just around the corner.

One Benilde!