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!

     Wow, with only less than three weeks in the school year, one could only imagine of the things that could possibly happen in such unexpected ways.

     I don’t want to spill too much details (although those who’ve seen my status in Facebook a couple of days ago already knew about it), but to cut things short: I’m filing a grievance against a professor.

    Like I said, it’s really not big of a deal. It just so happens that since in less than two weeks I am to present something important to that professor, it took something very valuable from me because of one small act of disobedience. I admit my fault but what I really find unfair was the tenure of how long that professor is going keep that important item from me. It’llbe returned to me on the day I was to present to my prof the report he or she told me and a dozen other students to do for him.

Despite the offer of amends and apologies, the prof didn’t seem to budge. It was unreasonable for him/her to do that to a student nonetheless. I won’t be the only one who suffers because of my actions but to others as well thus I even offered my final grade in exchange for giving me at least the necessary things I could to at least finish what is to finish.

I’ve exhausted all means to resolve this issue quickly but sadly, it didn’t came into fruition. Thus, I opted for something drastic: Airing my grievance before the dean.

I’ve yet to know when my case is going to get heard but expect a lot of arguments between me and that professor that even if it comes to this, I still respect the guy. It’s its inane way to punish students that I will have to complain against him/her.

Wish me luck!

Mananaig ang batas ng alipin!

I wonder…was it a mistake to do this from the very beginning?

Some error that needs to be corrected and avoid repeating it?

Is it a crime for which you think I shouldn’t have committed?

Why is it that I’m keep on doing it? What is it that I’m trying to prove?

Is there something you want me to do other than change what you think I shouldn’t be doing?

       Then let me ask you this:

1. Have I forced you to look upon this?
   
2. Do I want you to do this even if you don’t even have to?
   
3. Why is it that what I’m doing should not be in that form?
4. Is there a lamer excuse why you continue to do it just for the heck of it?

      I’m doing this because I want to. I’m doing this because I love what I’m doing.

      It makes me happy, it helps me. It makes me realize what kind of a person I am with every turn of the page. It made me look at things on a different way, to see things in a different light.

      It pains me not to take it all out, all the problems, all the stress, all the negative energy feeling from within. I’m not even forcing you to spend a lifetime observing me. You’re doing it from your own free will.

      I don’t expect people to take notice, I don’t expect them to do it all. It’s their choice if they want to, not mine. What I can’t do in my state, I can do it any way.

      The way I chose is the way I wanna go.

     So don’t you dare tell me what I ought to do to make what I’m doing acceptable to your terms. I know you’re merely suggesting, but I can’t modify it to suit your taste.

     If you, if ever you do, have a problem with it then ignore it. I can’t make you do something, it’s your choice if you wanna do it anyway.

    I’m leaving the door open so anytime, anywhere, your pretty much welcome to come in and see the beauty of it all.

[Another self-written prose I thought of putting up. Watching movies really do wonders on keeping myself inspired for my literary endeavors :D]

(Medyo naninibago ako ngayon sa muling pagiinternet ko sa mga comlabs ng Main. Currently live from one of these labs in 3rd floor Benilde Hall, CSB Main)

    I only knew about a general election in CSB last week when posters of candidates from one of the parties (either BAKAS or PUWERSA) began appearing ONLY in the SDA Caf and nowhere else in the School of Design and Arts building.

    I was kinda expecting that they’ll do their campaign in SDA door-to-door in many of the classrooms of the building some sort of a miting de avance inside one of the major hang-outs in the building, beyond Plaza Villarosa (which is in Main).

    Unfortunately, news of an election was not well spread inside all week. I only found out that it was already election time when a voting booth was established at the SDA lobby.

As a concerned and patriotic student of De La Salle-College of Saint Benilde, it’s kinda my duty to vote for the new set of officers so I said “What the heck, I’m gonna make my voice heard..”.

    At first, I thought the election is going to be like last year when many of the booths were both manual and computerized in terms of voting procedures, especially when a PC was set up in the booth I was voting in a while ago in SDA. Sadly, according to the girls manning the booth, a web domain was not created in time for the computerized voting so who ever was running this election (this year;s SC) had no choice but to opt for manual voting instead.

    I asked them (I assume they’re SC officers) on how come there wasn’t much publicity promoting the school election (which should be a big thing in every school you go to). They told me that they weren’t able to announce beforehand of the then upcoming miting de avance (which happened last Wednesday in Main) in SDA. No wonder the students of Pablo Ocampo didn’t notice that there was such happening on the other building found in Taft.

     I also aired my concerns of what seems to be an utterly lack of campaigning on the part of the parties vying for positions to the two ladies. First, they [the candidates] did tried campaigning inside the classrooms found in SDA [based from a reliable source] but looks like they didn’t do the same to the other “classrooms” found inside the building: computer laboratories, animation studios, and other non-traditional classrooms where students could be found most likely there.

    Second, they may have put up posters on the windows of the SDA Caf but they weren’t there physically to personally promote their respective campaigns as compared to what I saw in Main yesterday where a member of one of the two parties were distributing pieces of paper bearing the face of one of their candidates if not the whole party line-up.

    The SC officers-to-be should know first hand that in order to win votes from the students, they have to be WITH the students. Heck, I don’t even know who they are, what their campaign agendas are, nor their reasons why they wanna run the school.

    Compared to last year, student life was still centric to Main but because of the seemingly-developing isolation brought by the presence of the SDA building and the growing autonomy and vibrancy of student life found in there (compared to AKIC which contains mostly classrooms and kitchen labs), looks like Main being the driving force to all Benildeans is starting to wane.

    Maaga pa lang, napapansin ko na unting-unti na nahahati ang mga estudyante dala ng kulturang dinadala ng tatlong bulwagan ng eskuwelahan. Sana, habang maaga palang ay magkaroon ng agarang action ukol dito bago mahuli ang lahat.

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    I mentioned to you guys before that I’m this sort of a “human compass”. I would frequent places as far as I could go and I have a pretty good, if not always perfect, sense of direction.

    Take yesterday for instance. I was on my way to this place called “Clique n Snap” found in Strata 2000 in F. Ortigas Jr. Ave (formerly Emerald) in order to print my portfolio for Fotogra. With me was Raymond who also want to have his printed as well.

    From the Vito Cruz LRT station, we dropped off in EDSA station then went straight to MRT Taft en route to Ortigas station. From there, we walked passed SM Megamall, crossed the street in St. Francis Square and turned left to J. Vargas. And from J. Vargas, we finally arrived in F. Ortigas.

    At first, I though CnP was in Strata 100, that building whose name is printed in bold at the front. Turns out, we were mistaken. The guard called CnP using the number saved in my cellphone. What’s weird is that after making that phone call, he asked a high 5 from me.

    Realizing it was, in fact, Strata 2000, we crossed Emerald and walked straight inside that pinkish building with a “cherry” tower on top.

    The building has really weird elevators: You press the number of your preferred floor, a screen will show you which elevator should you wait for (A, B, C, D, E, F).

    At the fourth floor, we finally airrved to our prime destination. Armed only with our best shots, we had them all printed into two solid portfolios, one for me and the other for Raymond.

     I was grossly surprised to know that my portfolio alone cost me about ONE THOUSAND FOUR HUNDRED FIFTY SEVEN PESOS!

    Yes, hard to believe but its true. My mom only gave me Php1,200 but good thing I had some extra hundred-peso bills in my wallet, with a lot more to spare for merienda.

    We were there until around 5:30pm. Raymond and I had merienda at McDonalds, found just inside Strata 100. Afterwards, we went back to MRT Ortigas to ride home safely.

    I’ll have pictures of my best shots posted really soon.

PS: I wanna die because I failed to notice the wrong grammar in the “About Me” page before I had it printed…WAGHH!

a.k.a. “Moneymaking Tactics in the Streets” and formerly known as “Things People Do to Make Money in the Streets”

It’s been a while since I photoshopped an artwork.

This is for the cover of my portfolio, available in large and medium size. 😀

The last one…

Pretty disappointed on how these turned out. A lot of them were blurry 🙁

Well anyway, still got a few good ones 🙂

Location: Ilang-Ilang St., Baritan, Malabon City
Models: Irish Santos and my baby niece