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The CSB Experience: The First Day the Third Time around

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     This is a very delayed post since our PC didn’t have a DSL connection for a week. That’s why I’m writing this piece just now.

    Okay, somehow I’m able to get used to the fact that DV1 is long gone although, bits of us would found to be in the same class. Don’t get me wrong, I do miss my old block section but I guess I need to mingle to other people I haven’t met as well, just for a change of environment.

    1. MONDAY-W-F

    My first day had me go to school earlier since my my first class (which is PETRIID) is at 9 in tye morning. My DV1 classmate there is Hoogie, Geric, Dino and Ferdie. Hoogie and I had the wrong understanding with regards to the location of our class. For one, we thought BC means “basketball court” whcih refers to the court lying just next to Plaza Villarosa. Second, we waited for nothing. Third, we learned to the bitter truth that BC actually stands for “badminton court”.

    C-break is from 12:40 am-2:30 since I’m already used to this sched since the second trimester.  11:40 is Philoma for which I have Issi and Marlon as classmates and a former seminarian as a professor. 2:30 is Comsk2-x with Issi-Marlon plus Camae and friends.

    My Filip13 class was a last-minute change since I have to replace my emptied Bmat slot with another subject. I have a professor with a personality that is so familiar,. somewhat like that of Sir Raffy of Filip11. For the first time, majority of my classmates are SHRIM students (some days, they wear formal, and in others, they wear uniforms) that’s why I feel a bit left out although there are a handful of us from MMA.

    Last but not least is my Algeb-x class at the AKIC (yeah, AKIC LOLz). this class is also a mixture of majority SHRIM students plus non-shrims (like EMs, CAs, and MMAs). Good thing is that Ms Melody aka Ms Algeb is my lec prof once again and I have good ol Joseph Alipo-on as my classmate (batchmate). I’ve also made friends with some of my classmates like Charmaine who is also my travel companion at the LRT. Since I’m kind of familiar with Ms Algeb’s lessons, some approach me to help them with our lessons. wow! Well, the first lessons before the midterms were really not that difficult, I still have to deal with my fear of word problems before the finals, grr….

   2) TH

    Good thing about my TH classes is that most of classes, especially my lab subs in Comsk2 and Algeb are all in one day plsu Reconse and Worlite. on thursday, I only have the last two mentioned with a 3 1/2 hour gap (Reconse ends at 9:30 while worlite starts at 1:00 and ends at 2:30). I have no more classes in 4:10 and 2:30 PM every Tuesday and Thursday respectively.

    Only in Tuesday would I find myself crossing three roads to three buildings, and I mean all THREE buildings of CSB: Taft Main, AKIC (Algeb lab) and SDA (Reconse).

So far, I’m happy at the way things are going since I really need a breather after two terms of being with DV1 (I’m still with DV1 by the way, for Worlite). Hopefully, I can finally pass ALgeb (a 1 would be nice) and I only have to take summer classes if necessary (that means no more Ilocos for a while).

The CSB Experience: Course Adjustment, AKIC, LRT, Jollibee… (Termbreaker 2)

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     It’s a good thing that my mom dropped me off to school this morning since it will be difficult to hitch a ride at the LRT to get to CSB. The problem is that a fire, as I write this piece, is currently razing a mall near the LRT Baclaran Terminal in Pasay. I would only have a problem about it by the time I get myself home.

    I was in CSB to have my course adjustment. I failed in Algeb-x (third child in a row) and now I want to have it retaken. Since I enrolled myself to its secondary course, Bmat2-x, I have to replace it with Algeb. The lines are particularly long and there was indeed no order. I thought the line that I joined was the one for CA but in actuality, it is for enrollment purposes (CA form requests and all), so I went to the actual line which is really shorter. If I was there in the first place, I would have been done in no time.

   I cross upon Mark the BSBA-CA guy I met a few months back. he lent me some advise over CA procedures but it’d only made my situation worse. I was looking for a good altenrative schedule for me to take Algeb but there’s a but of a problem. It’s just that whatever convenient time I pick, it always have a conflict with one of my enlisted subject. Well, since I’m only replacing Bmat2-x for Algeb, I just went to the registrar and get all things done. I shared to her my dilemma and she had one of my classes moved to the time vacated by BMAT so I can have a convenient schedule as well as a convenient time for Algeb. I promise that by this time, I’ll pass this subject. I only have to make sure that I get the right rpofessors, not just from lecture, but from lab as well.

    By the way, I had my Filip13 classes moved from the DV2 MWF 16:50-17:50 to an earlier time at 15:40-16:40 at the AKIC…cool. Too bad that I Won’t be with DV2 since many who enlisted at DV2 Filip13 are from DV1. Waaghh

    Oh, yeah. On the way home, there was a long line of passengers lining up at the Vito Cruz station. the problem: the fire in Baclaran. It had forced the LRTA to have LIne 1 open from Monumento to Buendia Station southbound and northbound vice versa. The train that I was on was able to get to the first few stations from Vito Cruz to R. Papa fast but when it comes to the last two, 5th Avenue Station and Monumento Terminal, it got pretty yet awfully slow. Judging but how many songs I listened from my I-pod while reaching these two, I guess it’s around 20 if not 15 (really).

   I ate lunch at Jollibee inside the Araneta Square before taing a jeepney ride straight to home. Can’t wait for Monday!

 

Sa nanghiram sa’kin ng ballpen kanina, text ko na lang kita, ok?

A Look Back to 07

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It’s now 2008 Anno Domini. Time for New Year Resolutions and new beginnings. It’s Christmas LOLz and it will still be until next week. A lot of things happened and it’s not just the bombings that took place in Glorietta and the Batasan nor the Peninsula Hotel siege of know-it-all Antonio Trillanes IV.

 

Here’s a look back of the past year

January

  1. Start of thesis report
  2. first time that my high school intrams were held for several weeks
  3. first and last time that ill be playing scrabble for intrams
  4. documentarista for CAT
  5. first to ever dread the early phases of my thesis report
  6. Took the UE entrance exams sa Caloocan campus nila
  7. took the UST entrance exams the same time as ADMU is comducting its own

February

  1. First and last time that I was a part of our school’s athletic contingent for DAOP Palad in Bulacan even if I’m not a student athlete (thanks to Sir Ponce and my TKD family!)
  2. First time to earn a medal for my school in an interschool meet
  3. Shocked that I was “not accepted” in DLSU
  4. Shocked that I didn’t make it to the quota in UP
  5. Happy that I passed UST with flying colors

March

  1. Happy that I passed the exam in CSB
  2. I graduated
  3. I finished my last video as a student of SJA
  4. Went to CSB to enroll

April

  1. Went to Ilocos
  2. went swimming in Curremao and Pagudpud
  3. visited wonderful vigan and batac
  4. ate merienda at fort ilocandia

May

  1. Accepted as a student of CSB
  2. Orientation
  3. Enrollment
  4. First day

June

  1. Frosh night

July

  1. Out of town in Antipolo and Nasugbu

August

  1. 17th birthday
  2. finals

September

  1. 2nd term
  2. Left an org

October

  1. Blog crisis

November

  1. chunk full of projects

December

  1. Farewell to DV1
  2. Finals
  3. Enrollment
  4. Algeb crisis
  5. Ordev crisis
  6. Christmas
  7. Kris Kringle
  8. Hataw Hanep Hero
  9. first time di nagtagaytay
  10. first nanood ng horror movie sa sine
  11. last time na makakapiling ko on Cable tv ang mga channels ng Solar

INTENSYON: Ikatlong Kabanata, Outbound

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[Writer’s Note: This entry does not mean to inflict any harm to anyone. This is based on true events so anything that you may find may be offensive. If you don’t want to continue, don’t read from this point on.]

    Waghhh, hirap pala ang maging member ng isang debate varsity, talagang kakaiba ha? Kailangan gawin mo to pero dapat hindi from the book. Kailangan di mo gawin ito habang ginagawa mo ang ganyan. Nakakalito ‘no? Kaya nga akala ko wala nang pahingahan ito eh.

    Malaking relief talaga na sasabak kami sa isang out-of-town trip sa Pagudpud, Ilocos Norte. Medyo may kamahalan pero okay lang kasi sina Senpai ang gagastos para sa’min. Tsaka na lang sila babawi sa’min (Ngyeee).

     Isang Sabado ng buwan ng Hulyo ang ginawang departure day naming mga miyembro ng Lipon. Sa org office, nandun na iyung mga friends ko sa Lipon na sina Mao, Lara, Licca, Jomelyn, Jamille, Marco at Jyna. Among the vets naman ay nadun sina Senpai, Carol, Rem, Rico at Jairus, plus si Raspy. Actually, di makakasama sa trip sina (Sir) Jairus, at si Rico pero isa sa mga dating vets ay makakasama namin na ang name niya ay si Rix na graduate nang school.

    Dumating na kami sa isang magandang resort sa Pagudpud (Maaga kami nakaalis kaya maaga na rin kami nakarating). Nakapagreserve sina Senapi sa isang room na okay lang: malawak, malinis at medyo di accomodating kasi isa lang ang bedroom pero 2 ang banyo. It was agreed na kaming mga boys ay matutulog sa may living room whle ang girls ay nasa bedroom.

    Nagstart na kami sa pag-aayos nang mga gamit namin habang may ilan na lumabas para mamasyal along the beach. Naaalala ko pa nga na sina Mikel, Reeves, Marco, Lara at Licca ay pumasok sa isang pool na may lamang water under treatment. Hehehe. Di naman namin alam lalo pa’t sina Lara at Mikel ay nagpadip sa ilaliman ng pool.

    Nightfall came at doon nagstart ang aming “outbound training”. Akala ko pa naman, bakasyon lang ang aatupagin namin kaya hayun. Nose-bleedan hanggang sa kadulu-duluhan ng gabi. 

     Mga ala una na ng madaling araw kaya trip ko nang matulog. Iyung iba hinde nila trip ang matulog eh kaya up till the dusk of dawn ay gising pa rin sila. May nagyosi sa labas, may nag-inuman sa loob and vice-versa.

   I don’t like what I’m seeing kasi I look up to Senpai and Carol (yeah, they smoke and drink). It’s not good na humahawak sila ng authority tapos nagpapalulong sila sa mga ganoong bisyo. HIndi iyon tamam kasi dapat role models sila sa mga members ng Lipon plus higpit na pinagbabawal ng CS na maginum man o magyosi sa mga school-recognized activities lalo pa’ kinukonsidera iyon na under jurisdiction ng school. Weeghh. Doon nagstart ang pagnanais kong makaalis sa org na iyon. Well, ang baba ng katwiran ko pero ayoko macompromise ang mga nakikita ko nung time na iyon sa kung ano ang dapat naming iasal. Oh well, di naman nalaman ng colege kaya lusot.

   In general naman, nagustuhan ko iyung out-of-town namin pero I just really hope that people like Senpai should uphold, with utmost dedication, their roles as models for us members of the orgs.

DURUGTUNGAN

Enter the J-POD!

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    Wehehehehe! At long last, the most and long-awaited endless wait of all is over. I have in the palm of mah hands my one own I-POD Nano!! It’s a dream made in heaven! Oh yeah! I’m so happy happy!

    Well okay, that’s too much loving. I’ve been waiting since August to have my own I-pod so now that I have one, I’m totally speechless!

    My ninang who is based in Long Beach, CA bought this I-POD Nano for my 17th birthday but it was only last November when one of our relatives who lives with Ninang came home with a lot of pasalubongs plus my special gift. Base sa resibo na kasama sa I-Pod na yan, it was bought from Costco costing around US$212 (around not exact). If I were to bought one from here, it’d probabaly cost around Php10,000.00 around the same cost as my new Samsung phone.

From its first day of usage, I had 26 songs inserted into it, 14 from my “dramaholic” soundtrack CD volume 1. The next day, I admitted up to 30 more songs from my little brother’s collection plus from my own music files, totalling up to 58 songs. Yesterday, I included many songs from Utada Hikaru’s Exodus album plus a lot more which had my I-Pod carrying more than 80 songs. Other than that, I also added songs from my friend’s multiply accounts like Linkin Park, Solja Boy, and a whole lot more. I plan to have more from the many CDs we have around this house so that I can make use of my IPod’s 8 GB memory.

    Did I just said “Nano”? Unlike the other Nano models, mine’s wider with functions similar to an Ipod Video. It has games, and extras. I’m not sure if it’s a newly-updated model but the important thing is, I’m no longer alien to my siblings who all have Ipods of their own.

    I want to diversify the kind of music that I want to hear from my I-Pod that’s why I’m incorporating songs not only from the Anime/Jpop variety as well as songs that you may find corny but also songs from different musical genres like RnB, Ballads, Rock, etc.

    At the very least, I don’t have to use my brain as an mp3 player and uncontrollably lip syncing as I do that. I don’t have to be bored whenever I hitch a ride at the LRT as I have something to keep my occupied. hehehe.

Oh my gosh, I have an I-POD!!! I HAVE A FREAKIN’ !@#$%^&* I-POD! AHHHHHH!