The CSB Experience 2: Out From the House

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I bumped across an old friend while I was walking out from UST in Dapitan. Unexpected meeting so I waved my ahnd and yelled out his name. Then we talked, trying to update with each other and knowing how we both are doing since the last time we’ve met.

He already graduated quite recently, about 2-3 weeks ago. Nice to know that he’s done with life here in college and now he’s hellbent on facing the corporate world. (Wow!)
I asked why he was in the area in the first place and found out that he’s running a business in the locality and that he was on his way on another one. 
It has been almost a year already since we’ve last seen each other. We both used to be in an org but we all got too preoccupied with other things that time that we left (Him leaving weeks before I followed). He’s one of the few friends I’ve made in CSB outside my block, and one of the nicest non-107 people I have ever met. We were present during our first training session being conducted by the org if I could recall correctly, orienting us about some stuff and the rest is history.
I wish him the best of luck in his career. I just hope I, too, could also survive this thing called “college”. ^V^

Na-USTe Ako!: The Last Exile, Dapitan!

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"just keep on trying, keep on flying
I will be the light"
-Cloud Age Symphony (from the animated series 'Last Exile')

So yeah, I was back inside the University of Sto. Tomas once again last Friday to file my brother’s application. If I could remember correctly, this would be the 4th time that I was in UST, not counting being in the area multiply times since I was in like 8 or 9 years old.
I left CSB at around 3pm and rode the LRT until Tayuman. Took a jeepney ride until I finally arrived at Dapitan. The present Jollibee there used to be an old Greenwhich restaurant years back so it’s kinda sad that JFC turned it into another Jollibee branch (No wonder Greenwhich-Bayan bowed out of the competition because of Chowking-Star J and nearby Jollibee-Bayan).
I went inside and once again got amazed and all. It’s like I was in Intramuros except that i’m not. I headed to UST’s own Tan Yan Kee Building/Student Center (Since UE Caloocan’s Fine Arts Building is also named after the guy). When I went there inside, I looked ofr the admissions center. Thanks heavens it wasn’t crowded with applicants accompanied by their mothers like the one I saw in La Salle’s Bro. Andrew Gonzales Building last month. 
The admissions center looks a lot like the library in SJA. I don’t know why but that’s pretty much my observation from the wallpaper to the cubicles and the like. When it was my turn in line (To be honest, there wasn’t much any line at all) I brought out all of Jorge’s requirements, his birth certificate, application form, two identical 2×2 ID’s and of course his recommendation letter. 
Speaking of “recommendation letter”, he admissions lady said I don’t need to have it submitted until enrollment (if Jorge is to pass the exam). But I noti
ced that the envelope containing the letter has the letters “CSB” written on it. Good thing I didn’t opened it upon initial request of the admission lady since this one I know contains the letter coming from CSB itself! Wheew!

Then she directed me to one of many PC’s to encode the needed information about my brother. They have this program that serves like an “application form for examination” thing. The moment I pressed “Submit”, I was quickly shown with the available exam date, place, and time plus his test permit number.
So it read that Jorge was to his exam on the 7th of December, 8am to 12 nn at the Beato Angelico Building.
After I was done with my primary objective to be in UST, it’s then time to fulfill another objective, mag-lakwatsa!
Good thing I brought my ‘old-reliable’ FinePix digicam with me to remember this momentous event of a lifetime. I went around campus, took
 some pictures and walked in some parts and walked in other parts. 
Then I walked some and took pictures more.
I saw their most famous building (where I took my exam more than a year ago), the statue of its founder and the mini-park fronting it. I also saw the really, really wide soccer field+baseball field+volleyball field. They also have an “Ying Te U”-type of road, you know, one single road lined with trees on each side where you could see people jogging from afar, few cars would be seen passing by, etc.

I also saw from afar their amphitheater wherein last few Fridays ago, there was a concert held there at night. In addition was Beato Angelico, the place where CFAD people go.
I also saw UST Hospital, lots of sad memories there.
 Fronting it is a wide stretch of a food strip occupying the first floor of their Accountancy building/parking building. They have not just stalls but also restos like Ice Cream Monster, McDonald’s, KFC, and San Miguel Foodstore. 
30 minutes after 4, I left UST and while I was walking in Dapitan chanced upon one of my old friends back in CSB, Neri. He is fresh from his graduation two weeks ago where he earned his bachelor’s deg
ree in Consular and Diplomatic Affairs. Congrats to him!







	Good thing that I was in UST earlier because by 4pm, admissions got attacked by swarms of applicants accompanied by their mothers. Hahaha!





					

		
		
	


				
					
	

				
					
	

				
					
	

		

						
The CSB Experience 2: Ang Gym sa AKIC

			
						

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Sa wakas, natapos na rin ang matagal na paghintay dahil bumalik na rin sa orhinal na tirahan ang GYM sa AKIC.


            Matagal na rin palang may gym ang CSB noong nakaraang taon pa. Nung second term ak nakakuha ng pagkakataon na mapuntahan to, iyun nga lang ang oras na nakalaan sa mga estudyante ay limitado mula alas tres hanggang alas kuwatro ng hapon. Nung mga panahong iyon, dalawang araw, Martes at Huwebes, ang tanging mga araw kung saan wala na akong mga klase sa ganong mga oras.


            Sa habang nandoon ako, dami kong mga nakilala na mga tao, mga madalas kong nakikitang pumunta doon para magbuhat: mga atleta, estudyante, propesor, maging  mga non-work personnel. Ang namamahala ng gym doon ay isang prof na kung  tawagin ng nakararammi ay si Sir Bong.


            Malaking gulat ko lang noong nalaman kong planong ilipat ng nakatataas ang gym sa Blessed Subilion Hall, ang tirahan ng mga atleta sa Pasay. Considering na malayu-layo rin ang lalakarin bago makarating doon, marami diumano’y mga kapwa estudyante ang nagreklamo tungkol sa paglipat daw.


            Relieved na ako na naibalik na sa dating kinalalagyan ang gym, sa mas accessible na Angelo King International Center sa Arellano Avenue.


            Ang mas maganda na doon, nagkaroon na rin ako ng sarili kong mga kasamahan sa tuwing pumupunta ako doon para magbuhat. Sila’y mga kapwa mga kamag0aral ko sa ilang mga klase na pareho naming pinapasukan ngayong term. So napaka-encouraging tuloy na ipagpatuloy ang gawiang to dahil alam mo na may mga makaksabay kang mga tao na lubos mong kilala lalo pa’t wala na ang pakiramdam na nag-iisa lang ako doon.


            May mga bali-balita na plano raw magkaroon ng sariling Sports Center ang CSB sa hinaharap para hindi na magrely masyado sa paggamit ng mga pasilidad ng Enrique Razon Sports Complex ng DLSU-M. Mabuti nga ang ganoong ideya ngunit maraming problema ang kailangan malutas ng nakatataas para maisakatuparan ang mithiing iyon tulad nang 1)lugar ng pagtatayuan, 2) panahong ilaan sa proyekto, 3)accessibility para sa mga estudyante.


 




Nice!


 




        



					

		
		
	


				
					
	

		

						
The CSB Experience 2: Na-USTe Ako ni Nikko DS!

			
						

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Hehehe! Nakita ko na rin siya matapos nang matagal na panahon.


            So I was in this place in Valenzuela, and upon entry I saw Nikko’s name on a logbook. Good thing I’d be able to talk to him with regards to the CSB ID lace he wanted for. I wasn’t able to reach him by neither phone nor text for a whole month so seeing him in person is a much-needed relief.


            Knowing Nikko for a long time, he’s really shy and quiet.  No one expected that he had a knack of talent over dancing. A talent he was able to show in several school events back in high school like Enigma and Alay Kina Nanay at Tatay.


            I was quite surprised to see him after such a long time, he looked a bit taller, bigger and his hair completely contrasted his personality.


            I’m quite curious on what he does on his course in UST which is Architecture (popularly known by many Tigers as “Arki”). I heard it is very hard, especially that by their first year, they are already doing plates and even models of houses.


            Soooo anyhow, back to what I was saying earlier, so we had an agreement that since I’m going to buy him a CSB id lace/strap, he’s to pay me back by buying me my own UST lace. I bought him the lace for 90-pesos so he has to pay me back sooner or later. Unfortunately, he was busy with finals and even though it’s sembreak he can’t go to school. Even he does, he won’t find any ID lace anyway since their bookstore went out of stock. 


            He promised that he will notify me if ever he succeeded in buying me my own lace in exchange for buying him his own from CSB. So for the meantime, all I need is to wait.


        



					

		
		
	


				
					
	

		

						
The CSB Experience 2: Na-USTe Ako ni Will!

			
						

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Perhaps some of you may get confused on who this “Will” is. He’s not overseas buddy William Evans, nor is he fellow undergrad Willord Chua, nor is he even one-time conquistador William the Conqueror of Normandy. This particular “Will” is loud, opinionated, and loved by many. He is Will the Thomasian Blazer.


         I find him quite the reciter during Partdes (Philippine History of Arts and Design) every Monday. If there’s something in his mind, he doesn’t hesitate to raise his hand. Funny and witty yes, that’s why he became friends with my friend from last term’s Hartds-1, Trish.


         Just last Monday, he accompanied me to National Bookstore-La Salle Taft while I was looking for something for tomorrow’s Colrend. Since he’s on his way home to D. Jose LRT Station, we both rode the LRT. There we began to know each other better. He now know about my new interest in radio broadcasting while I now know about his past venture from web designing. 


         Despite already being in CSB for quite a while now and is now an AB-FDM, he still uber miss UST, CFAD, Arki, Arki friends, and Arki classmates. He also keeps on mentioning Dianne and Nikko DS since they were, after all, our common link to each other (Thus the reason we became friends in the first place).


         He’s really nice, and I really like his personality. Thus the reason why I’m also friends with Mark-not-the-Jamer, and my other ex-classmate from JoseRiz, whose colorful personalities shone like a fluorescent light bulb. 😀




“There is a Will in all of us…”


          



					

		
		
	


				
					
	

		

						
The CSB Experience 2: Clothes, Smell

			
						

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	For quite sometime now, I’ve been noticing something about myself yet still wondering on what exactly made me make that thought in the first place. It was then I realized that my clothes smells very odd.




	I mean, before going to school, my newly-worn clothes smelled like laundry powder with an added Downy Anti-Bac, which make them smell all the more delightful. But whenever I got home, my clothes smell very odd. It’s as if there’s something inside CSB (or at least in SDA in particular since it’s where I have all my classes now) that making my clothes smell.




	Eventually I came up with the conclusion on what made them smell. I used my “smell sense” to scan the shirt I just wore today. I discovered numerable scents from various aromas, aromas coming from different food, food being sold and eaten at the SDA CAF!




	So whenever I entered the SDA Caf, these aromas get caught on my clothes and by day’s end smell like roasted chicken poured with gravy and added with kimchi rolls and spicy Korean beef noodles.



					

		
		
	


				
					
	

		

						
The CSB Experience 2: Lunchtime Gigsters with the MusicProd People in the Caf

			
						

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	As I am writing this blog, there’s an ongoing one-man concert right here at the SDA Caf. And just now, the one singing just finished and left the stage for the next act. The next one is a guy with a brown over pink jacket holding a white guitar while sitting and a cheat sheet taped on his mic stand.




	The guys from Music Production are one of the most musically creative people among all the SDA people here in CSB. Though a minority compared to the bigger MMA majority, they assimilated well into the SDA community. That’s because for most of our stay in CSB, we’ll get to be with them as classmates for our minors and design foundation subjects.




	I don’t know much about how MusicProd works since they are mostly music-related and is somehow related to the more-technical courses like Technical Theater. 




	But right now, I’m seeing how MusicProd students do their thing but having a live concert right in the middle of C-Break where their fellow students would be able to witness their different talents in the field of music.