Busy voicing Superdudes with the rest of the crew from 11:30 to 2:30pm and presenting my advocacy campaign before a panel of judges from 2:45 to 5:45 pm. Was the second student to present so I was able to get home early.
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!
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)
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!
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!
I made banners for my ongoing and yet-to-finished blog serials. I’m so itching on finishing two of them while I’m dying to post more entries under the existing ones.
Here they are:
-Isang kuwento tungkol sa mga kaganapan na nauwi sa isang desisyon. Isang pagtatangka. Isang intensyon. Kuwento ito ng isang bagong salang sa mundo nang pagdedebate, kung saan kanyang masasaksi ang kabutihan at kasamaan sa likod ng kanyang pagsapi sa Lipon.
-The mistake of the past. A shot for happiness. A husband who thought it was all over until the day when his wife left him and their two kids. From there, secrets and revelations will lead him to one question: Was it all for nothing?
Yah, self-centered hehehe. Ang dami ko pang puwede i-kuwento tungkol sa isang taon na nahandun ako pero di ko lang mahanap ang tamang mga salita para ma-share ko ito sa inyo. Ang buhay, kultura, at amoy America ay sadyang makulay, kakaiba, at hindi kapanipaniwala.
Enter a world of magic and fantasy. Where the borders of the unreal starts to loosen. A world where evrything’s possible unless proven to be a hallucination created by the mind. Enter to a world of reality and dreams.
Year 2 is now going under wraps so as might be doing a lot of them filed under Year 2. Season 3 will premiere May 2009.
From the creator of The CSB Experience comes the all-new season of hot-sizzling entries filed under one summer experience…just before school starts this coming May.
This is the name of three separate entries of the J-Blog Files under J-Blog, J-Pics, and coming soon…J-Vids. The video version will see the light of day sometime in late April/early May.
Sometimes, one should take the risk of having to go to some unfamiliar place in order to reach one’s final destination. Nevertheless, me and my groupmates are willing to take such a risk so that we’d be able to attend a seminar conducted by the ERDA Foundation.
The foundation is found in a residential area in Sta. Mesa Heights, Quezon City besides Siena College QC. We were able to get there before the prescribed time of 2pm. Since we were hungry, we had lunch at a nearby Chinese restaurant along Banawe.
Ms Jen was nowhere to be found but she sent a proxy prof to guide us. During the course of the meeting, I got to know a lot about the ERDA Foundation, its humble beginnings and the many scholars it had helped and continue to help throughout the years. So there are a lot of things that sure to be ahead us in the coming weeks.
Miscommunication was the theme for the second week. We weren’t able to have a clear contact with our social worker from ERDA and Charlon was way late. He’s supposed to be in charge for the transportation but it was already way past noon when he finally arrived.
We dropped off somewhere near Anda Circle and took a tricycle ride en route to Baseco Compound. We then stopped at the Baseco Compound-Food Terminal where we waited for Ms May R Lim, the social worker sent by ERDA to oversee their operations in the area, who’s supposed to bring us the place where we’re to teach kids there.
We were finally approached by one of the community leaders of Baseco and directed us to the place where we are going to teach. We had about 25 students to teach. The classroom is small but it’s well maintained. But there was no power running so we have to be patient with our situation.
After the session was over, we went straight home.
We were still teaching the afternoon, which wasn’t supposed to be considering that our NSTPCWS is set in the morning. Ms May R Lim assured us that we’d be able to teach kids in the morning for the remaining weeks. There was still no power running the classroom, because it was revealed that the kagawad was not present in his office. He was supposed to be in charge for the power but looks like he had other matters to attend to.
Finally, we were able to teach in our supposed time although once again we were late. Around this time, we were doing our evaluation towards Ms Jen. Afterwards, we waited for Charlon to arrive in school. But because we weren’t able to make a thorough contact with the guy, we decided to go ahead. Turns out that Charlon was already in SDA while we were buying lunch in Main, talk about weird!
We found him and Ms Jen at the site. Charlon explained to us that he got lost but eventually he found his way to the site.
There were some neighborhood kids flocking the outdoors of the classroom. At first we ignored their constant distraction brought to the class but what was worrisome was that they were starting to enter the room and creating tensions with the class. Much to the worries of the community leader guarding the place, she looked for one of the students’ parents/relatives while we try to stall the situation by prolonging the session past the prescribed time of our stay for the day. Until “Big Mama” finally arrived did those juvenile punks finally left.
Following the incident, about a quarter of the class didn’t attend class the next week. But nevertheless, we started the days teaching on our usual areas: Math, Heograpiya, Kasaysayan, Science and random subjects like English, and Art.
There wasn’t much going on since the incident so we tried to forget about it.
It’s not yet the end. Simon thought that we’re in week 8 but turns out we’re only one week short of a last day. But despite that, we continue to teach our final lessons with the kids. Tiresome yes but the response from the class was ever so great. It touched me.
To mark our group’s final day, we had a party to celebrate our last moments with our class. We had games, activities, and lotsa lotsa food. One of the students gave me a letter saying that they were glad that they had us as their teachers, even for a short while. Surely, I’m gonna miss them all.
I’m gonna miss them all, that’s for sure.
Photos include post-house blessing party at Jeco’s, the introduction of several members of the Bonzon Clan, and the SJA High School Reunion-supposedly-overnight-turned-one night karaoke party.
The Gang
When Vanity Strikes Anew!
Yoko Learns to Rock!
Chamy and Dianne
The Lights of Paco
For more pics, click on the following:
1) When Jaime Go Loco
2) One Night Love Affair
3) The Singing Bee
Not Gonna Get Us-TaTu
“That’s when good neighbours become good friends..”
Hopefully, I could have this one done by next week 😀
The movie will feature a theme from three different TV shows
Finals Week is just around the corner. Still, I have a lot of things to take care of, a lot of things to review for, and a lot of things to fight for.
But despite the weight, I still put on an optimistic face hoping that I could get myself through this.
So far, I’m done with Fotogra, submitting my portfolio awaiting judgement, and Techdrw (Isometric and 1-point Dimension drawing back-to-back). What’s left?
1. Sondesn: Radio Ad (Needs some twinks on the final product) and the Radio Commercial (My constant stuttering forced me to go for the “Announcer” role instead). Sony Vegas Pro and Sony Sound Forge, I’m counting on you!
2. Profes1: Presentation of our Business Plan and the battle for right and wrong
3. Deskpub: 2-part magazine-slash-portfolio with Ryan S, with the theme “motion”. (Sir Magallanes left for Singapore so he had Mr. Bringas to lead the class for the final week)
4. Desncon: Advocacy Presentation (Need to finish off my plate and have it ready by then). My advocacy is the campaign against smoking (Yeah!).
5. NSTPCWS: Group Scrapbook, Weekly Mini-Journal by Thursday and Exam come Saturday in CSB Main (And I even thought I’ve already seen the last of Main, I was mistaken).
The 20th and the 21st is probably going to be the distribution of the course cards. I’m hoping for a decent 2.0-2.5 GPA. Not really keeping my hopes up for my inclusion to the dean’s list but in case I get to be in it again, that’d really be something!