It happened again.

     This occured around 2 or 3:30 in the morning after I went back sleep from closing the gates of our house after Ate left to join her choir for the traditional 9-Mornings Christmas Mass held in Malanday, Valenzuela.

   So I was in this building which I assume to be a school. I remember doing something which made my body move uncontrollably while I’m deep in my sleep. Suddenly, an old high school friend, Nikko DS, appeared and he was asking me a question. Can’t really remember what he asked me nor what I answered about (I get amnesiac a few minutes after I finally woke up). But how I answered him was what made me really fall of my bed!

     My mouth was moving, I was saying words, I mean intelligible words, speaking as if I’m actualy answering his question in real time. By that time I was doing that, I became aware that I was talking in my sleep! Don’t know how that happened but I felt very aware that this part of my body is moving upon orders coming from my brain.

    I woke up with a fright. Thinking, “Ano lang ba ang nasabi ko?”.

It’s been going on around me for quite sometime now, since my Prep days when I first discovered that I could sleeptalk as well as I could have strange premonitions when I’m sleeping.

Speaking of premonitions, I haven’t had any for the past few months or so but when an occurance happens in front of my face, it triggers something that somehow made me remember that I may have had a vision about it. But so far, there was none. My premonitions somehow makes me some kind of a psychic, can’t really foretell events but in a way knows that those premonitions may happen sooner than later. Record to date would be my “Oh my God I was in a place with 3rd Year High School students sitting on the floor and my Chemistry teacher is walking past them” vision last year which only took a day before it became a reality.

Until then, I will now put myself to SLEEP.

Goodnight!

   Since ayaw niyo na magpost ako ng pix sa Facebook at may sira Multiply Photos sa’kin, ibo-blog ko muna ang mga litrato. Enjoy!

After card distribution last Friday, I decided to accompany Jeco and Raymond in UST for the annual Paskuhan, a Christmas fair held every year in the Pontifical University. In the past weeks, us three had already agreed as to when we’re going to meet up in UST and this is one is a perfect time to do so.

                I left for UST at around 6pm and texted Raymond that I’m on his way. By the time I arrived at Dapitan before 6:30 (After meeting some groovy traffic along the way), I noticed that I’m running out of cellphone load so I went to a nearby loading station to reload, unfortunately, the lady there said they’re loadless, the same with Ministop Dapitan which, unfortunately, doesn’t sell cellphone load.  I don’t want to ask my mom again for additional load after I exhausted the reload I got from the day before.

             I texted Raymond that I’m already in the Dapitan gate so from there, I waited. Unfortunately, Monde didn’t reply to my succeeding text messages as I was waiting for almost half an hour. I decided to look for a loading station within the Thomasian ground, at their famous food strip by the carpark. I paid the reload lady Php 20.00, told her my number and simcard affiliation. Again, for some reason, I haven’t received any text afterwards and my existing load continues to deteriorate.

         The ground itself is jam-pack crowded with people that kept coming in, including outsiders like me. Not just outsiders but also missionaries asking for donations and little carolers trick-or-treating people nearby.

       I was about to give up until I saw at least, one Jamer in the area, Von. Von was with his girlfriend for almost three years. I asked if he had seen Jeco or even Raymond, and he did. But the bad news, it seems like nakakawalaan kami.  It was already past 8 and if the two aren’t able to show up before a quarter until 9, I have to leave.

               I was seating in bench at the quadrangle and I was facing the entrance of the Faculty of Civil Law. Seated with me was a girl with her boyfriend. Because I’m so desperate, I politely asked her if I could borrow her phone to text Raymond, urging her that it’s an emergency.  She lend me her cellphone and texted him right away. When that didn’t work, I went around  to look for them. Von saw me again and said that he just saw Jeco and Monde and pointed them where I  was just then. Coming back from where I was seating, looks like there’s n certainty if we’ll ever see each other so I looked for another person whom I could borrow a phone and, this time, call Raymond. Just as I was calling them, nagkita na kami, grabeh!

It was already past 9pm and I still haven’t eaten dinner. Just so we won’t spoil the night, we watched the ongoing concert at the UST soccer field where the last act for the evening was none other than BAMBOO!! Jeco and I brought along our dSLR’s and took pictures like crazy.

         The concert was over at around 10:30, people were starting to leave pero kumakalam ang aking tiyan. We went to McDonald’s within USTe and bought myself double-cheeseburger, a large cup of Coca Cola for myself and another for Jeco who gave me money for his royal thirstiness.

                Outside the Dapitan gate, we were fetched by Monde’s parents who were waiting for us, parked near an old Caltex/Chevron station. Monde’s parents drove past H. Lopez Avenue,  Radial 10 Road (near Letre) and dropped Jeco near the infamous SSS office (where there was a shootout that took place a couple of years ago). I was then dropped somewhere near the loading area of jeeps en route to Monumento in Concepcion, Malabon. I took a jeep ride until dropping myself off near Francis Market, Acacia and from there took a jeepney ride en route to Paco, Bulacan (instead of Polo, Valenzuela for there were none available at the meantime). I dropped off in Panghulo (still in Bulacan) and from there, walked to cross the border before arriving finally at my house past midnight!

Remember: There may be One La Salle, there’s also One BENILDE!

It’s the Term Break once more, and not just any term break but my second collegiate Christmas break ever! HahaHAHAHA! Ehem….

          But nevertheless, it’s another break of uncertainty for me. Yeah, I got myself enrolled for the third term and all but the recent course card distribution had me wonder if it’s still possible for me to be in Dean’s Lister status for the second straight trimester. I got two 2.0’s from Desprin and NSTPCWT but was able to have my GPA equaled to a 3.0, just enough for me to get 2nd Honor status. But I thought, would the two 2.0’s possible make me not qualify for being DL.
  
            I just hope not, I worked very hard to maintain my grade just so I’d be able to at least become qualified for a grant (if I get to be DL for three straight terms that is). But if not, I guess that’s okay, kahit papaano ay nakaranas na rin ako kung paano maging DL.

Merry Christmas!

         Yesterday, I organized an eyeball among my co-CSB PExers just so we could be able to meet one another in person (thus the word “Eyeball”). Unfortunately, not too many weren’t able to attend and it ended with three people attending the EB (myself included).

       Among those who attended is a 108 CDA student named Franz and a 105 BM dude named Mac. We all met at around 12 noon in Plaza Villarosa. When we did met, we were all speeches. never have we thought we couldn’t say anything in person now that we weren’t online.  Usually in PEx, we all have a lot to say, thus a lot of thing to type about. But then again, we introduced ourselves and we shared a little bit about ourselves to each other.

     Another awkward moment is the lack of girl PExers in the already three-some EB. There was one but she’s not the type who join into such hehehe.

    Franz had to leave early so I was left with Mac. Mac and I had a lot of things that we discussed, usually anything about CSB in general, the PExers from CSB, and Pinoy Exchange (our section in particular). We had lunch at Tropical Hut where we continued our discussion.

      Around 1 in the afternoon, I have to go back to SDA so I thanked Mac for attending the EB regardless how too few we were who attended and left him smoking outside the now-former Charlie Brown restaurant.

I hope the next time we are to have another EB, many more would come.

Maayong Gab-i

Rock music ranging from heavy (metal), to commercial (emo, pogi), to indie, to glam, to lite rock.

      Before calling it a day, I’m going to write just one entry for tonight while an electric fan is cooling my legs away from flesh-eating mosquitoes, the radio here downstairs is on frequency that’s currently playing nonstop dance hits from 20 years ago while I’m struggling myself between typing my blog and brushing my teeth.

Wait a sec (Trying to finish brushing before going anywhere)………….

Okay, where was I? Oh yeah!

      I felt myself so attach to my laptop that there’s never a day that my are glued to the LCD screen of the Mac Powerbook G4 instead of our Phillips plasma TV (missing out from my fave shows on television). My usual onlline destinations are 1)Multiply, 2)Yahoo! Mail, 3)Facebook, 4)Pinoy Exchange.com, 5)Youtube and more recently 6)Plurk.

    But whenever I get bored or that there’s nothing new on the abovementioned sites, I’d go blogsurfing and read blogs written by other people. If it’s not the blogs, it’s usuallys ome vintage archived websites with historical value (due to me being a history geek). there’s this one particular vintage website that I found quite interesting.

        It’s an old Manila Bulletin article from its Youth and Campus section dated February 2004 (I’d be around 13 years that time and was nearing the end of my freshman year in high school). the article is an interview made by the author with former WLS-FM ( the old Campus Radio 97.1) disc jockey Joe Spinner regarding its student radio program, Campus Aircheck.

Reading this old article made me reminisce how the old LS-FM sounded like during its run as Campus Radio. Even though I’m much of a TV junkie, I also had my share of exposures from radio, growing up listening to at least 3 recognizable stations: WRR 101.9, Campus Radio, and Kool 106. Somehow, a radio counterpart to my TV preferences of watching ABS-CBN, GMA, and ABC (with some pinches of RPN, RJ and IBC then). When Kool went out of commission, only RR and LS were left (although I listened more to RR out of my then-network loyalty until it wen to commercial oblivion).

I was completely oblivious to what was going to happen to LS until only a few days past Valentine’s Day 2007 when I saw a ticker airing on DZOE-TV saying something about a new station on 97.1, Barangay LS. Surprised that LS as Campus Radio bowed out of the competition and was replaced to one whose format is the tried-and-tested MASA Hot Adult Contemporary format. Nothing against ‘masa stations’ like Love and Yes!, it’s just that we already have too much of a good thing that it’s turning out to be worse. For LS’s case, it’s more of a downgrade if you ask me.

What really made LS-FM stand out back then is that it’s all about the music that its target demo, the youth (preferably high school and college students), could easily identify with. Its programming is similar to those in other English-language stations like Magic and RT although I observed that the music they play is somehow different (due to a lack of a better term) as well as it is a less-talk station. I can’t really describe it but the important thing is that it was truly living up to its name, “Campus”.

 I was able to familiarized myself with the names of most of the DJ’s there like John Hendrix, Joe Spinner, Triggerman, Jimmy Jam and Braggy (they each have their own set of ID stingers calling out their names).  Add to that are some of their well-known programs like Top 20 at 12, Infopop, FrontdotCenter, Campus Flyer and their top-of-the-hour news bulletin.

As for their Campus Aircheck program, I’d get envious whenever I hear students becoming student DJ’s on LS as part of their training as Aircheckers. Although the thought of becoming one myself never occur to me but I guess it would have been a good opportunity if given. I remember back in high school, there were these two airchecker guys from La Salle around 4 to 5pm about to sign themselves off as I listened from my school service/carpool’s radio whenever I’m being fetched home from school. I missed that opportunty when auditions were called in during the summer albeit the Aircheck program were now being conducted in DWRT-FM’s former incarnation, Campus 99.5.

I also remember 2 summers ago, I spent two months listening to their morning programs before Top 20 (first with John Hendrix and with Joe Spinner after) and would often catch Sandwhich’s song “Sugod” being played more than twice within the hour hehehe.

“Sayang” is the best way to describe the demise of Campus Radio. Its listeners displaced and went on to listen to other youth-targetint stations like RX and NU. There was a glimmer of hope when the old Campus DJ’s returned on air but in a different station carrying LS’s old format, but that died out a couple of weeks before my birthday before it was replaced by another old brand, RT (who successfully moved back its target market from the youth/student population to the general 18-28 youth demographic).

Even though I’m not really an RT baby then, I gave this one a chance and somehow I’m liking it (most especially during weekends). But the void left by Campus would still be there, and unless someone is brave enough to fill it up, it woul remain as such.

Weird, after reading that article, it made me appreciate the good ol’ days even more as much as I appreciate the things that really shaped, not just me, but to other people as well when we were all growing up. These somehow made an impact on us so I guess, it’s our turn to return the favor 😀

End!

1. See how I work (Update on my Colrend final plate)
2. See how gym buddies react when they get caught on cam
3. See how the lights of the city glitter
4. And see how other people use my camera like Ate, et al (Di ako kumuha ng kahon ng posporo, balde, bentilador, mga libro, ako).

**Special thanks to the good management fo Preferred Gym (formerly ELG Fitness Center) of M.H. del Pilar St. cor. Navarette St., Arkong Bato, Valenzuela for the on-location shots they allowed me to take.

Yey! I’m in the big league!! Wohoo!