Sulong, laban, 'wag uurong! (tagalog entry)

Ang ganda ng opening ng SEA Games! weehee.. I was there! Kasama ako sa GK Youth.

Sa totoo lang, disappointed ako sa participation ng GK Youth.. (Isipin mo nalang, sulky mood ako noon.) Pero ayos lang kasi maganda yung music! As in!

San Miguel Philharmonic Orchestra and San Miguel Master Chorale (??) ang ganda...

tapos nandoon pa Rivermaya...FUSION! heehee.. sinabayan ng orchestra yung Rivermaya sa tatlong kanta. ang ganda rin nung kantang "Posible!" hehe..:D

SEA Games... excited!

Hi...

You know I'm a YFC member (as much as I hate to admit it), right? Well, I don't like the people, but I like its GK activities.

Being a YFC member, I am, sort of automatically, a member of GK Youth. GK Youth volunteered to be among the 5,000 youths who are going to cheer during the SEA Games opening this year. It all simply means that I'm going to cheer and dance during the SEA Games opening.

I feel kind of patriotic. For me it's not about showing up on tv.. It's more being enthusiastic about the Philippines. The Philippines can be brought back up from where it is down there below by encouraging all Filipinos to help. Volunteering for the SEA Games is one way to do it. I want to be among the youth who want to show other Filipinos that there's still hope.

Well.. I'm excited! I'm going to dance. You can just imagine how 5,000 people will look like dancing and clapping their hands together. Imagine the top view of those people doing the same arm movements all at the same time... I'm just so excited to be a part of it.

We're also going to have face paint! Half the face all painted! It looks so cool..

:D

Enrolment...

I had so many problems in enrolling for this coming sem.

1. I was not able to get a math and PE class in the CRS. This is the last to be solved.
2. Last Monday, I found myself ineligible to enroll because the College of Engineering did not update from the OUR that our transcript of records was already mailed by our old school to UP. This problem actually delayed me for a whole day! It wasted the day when I should be enlisting my missing subjects in the priority! Oh well, I was able to settle it after findng out too late in the day that some damned letter had to be transferred from one office to another before the "deficiency" was settled. I was not able to do anything else during that day.
3. I had to enlist my math subject. I was told that freshmen like me can still enlist. But you know what? Nothing happened that day too. I just wasted time, money and effort in trying to get a math class that day. Why? Because of the Tricoll. (The Tricolleges: Arts and Letters, Science, and Social Science and Philosophy prioritize their students for the whole of tuesday. As it turns out, Math belongs to the College of Science, so only tricoll students, which does not include Eng'g students like me, can enlist.)

Break: It was too much. I didn't want to go home yet; not in that bad mood anyway. So I went to Pisay when Gellie told me she was going there. I had a good chat with her, Jowi and Desa. It had to be good because I felt lighter when I was going home.

4. Yesterday (Wednesday), I was hoping to get my math class. Problem? The tricoll has exhausted all the aailable slots in the math subject and schedules that I need. The available schedules in math would ruin my schedule. The point is, I was no further that I was in the enrollment process than where I had been on Monday.

Break: I did that in the morning. I intended to go to Pisay again to deliver a book that Clao is borrowing. But I'm not allowed to go there early; It had to be at least later than 4pm. So what did I do to waste my afternoon? I thought of Miriam once I knew I had nothing more to do that day. And I thought maybe I can go visit her. Then I felt this strong tug saying "GO." (Maybe it was intuition. I met her when I was coming out of the elevator on her floor and she was about to get in to go down. If I came later or if she went earlier, maybe we would not have met.) I went with her into Ateneo to keep her company while enrolling. We talked about many things of course. Then we were both hungry so we went back to her place. She cooked us a meal! We ate together... (That was probably the happiest lunch of my life. I missed her so much.) We talked even more. At around 4:30pm I went to Pisay. I even played soccer (barefoot, as I usually did when I did not bring my proper shoes.) Running around and kicking felt so good. I was so happy. I went home very happy. Yes, it is a day that I call "O, Happy day!"

5. My math problem was finally solved this morning. (Of course it's not a math problem. It's a subject problem. No, enrolling problem ->better.) I was hoping ro prerog into a math class in my proper schedule. It turns out that I needn't be so nervous to prerog because there was enlistment going on. AND YES! They opened slots in the schedule that I need. Enlisting in that one subject feels so good.

After that... I went to my classes. (Yesterday was suposed to be the first day of classes.) After my classes, I went to EEE for confirmation of slots, post-advising and assessment.

I had a scholarship, so when the guy just dashed the scholarship/privilege box as if I had no scholarship, I asked "What if I have a scholarship?" He said, then I won't do this. You have to have your scholarship stamped."

So went to the place where I knew my scholarship is stamped. I found out that my scholarship was better. I don't have to pay anything in my tuition anymore.

I went backto EEE for assesment. then the girl said, "Oh, You have to go to the OUR. You're already subsidized." Actually I don't know the whole meaning of subsidy until now. But I walked to the OUR anyway and fell in line. After the lady looked for my name in a list and did a bit of checking, I got surprised when she stamped "registered" on my form. Then she gave me my copy. I thought I had to go to the AS or somewhere else for machine validation. But it was finished there. I was finally done!

Yeah, I went home happy.

grav reunion!

Haay.. I missed grav so much! This morning, I went to Lance's condo to see other gravipeeps.. Sayang walang magic sing! Oh well.. we played cards, and, oh yes! I never lost in pusoy dos today. But in bridge, I really lost that game, all the way.

Anyway.. A few people were there. MarkA, Eby, Jean, Nina, Ginnie, Lance (of course, it's his place), Guinto and MarkZ (oh yeah, we have marks a-z, except B. Asa.) I missed these people so much. I wish Miriam and Daisy were there. Jean said Daisy was still trying to get permission to come.

Me, on the other hand, don't really need permission. I just have to say that I had to do something outside. Then I would do it to be truthful and do whatever I want to do, as long as I'm home before dark. Oh, yes. I am so good at lying. (it's a half-way lie anyway.)

But since papa has already caught me going somewhere else, he made me promise that I'd be home for lunch. I couldn't do anything else, so I promised.

Oh well, I thought. Sometimes, I have my lunch at 2pm anyway. I can still go the grav reunion, leave at 12nn and be home for lunch.

Yeah, the world hates me for lying.

Next time there's an occasion like this during the daytime (which is rare), I'd ask proper permission to go. Come to think of it, why didn't I say that? "Papa, there's a reunion with my former classmates. I'd be home by 5pm. Can I go?" Oh please.

Then he'd say.. "NO. You should be here, helping around the house." I'd rather say, "help with the bunjing around the house." Nobody really does anything to get it totally clean. That's totally impossible. It would take days or weeks of intensive cleaning to get it done. After a few days, thehouse has to be cleaned again because it has become as dusty as it was before we even bothered to clean it.

Cluttery writing heh? I'll stop now.

Grades.. (update)

I got a 2.5 in math.. as expected..

I was talking to my old friend joanna in ym i told her the same thing.. Apparently, a 2.5 in mathe for someone who came from pisay is dreadful, at least for her.
joanna: What happened?
me: lousy and lazy me
joanna: That's a problem since you're in third year
me: actually, it has been a problem since i stepped into pisay.
joanna: not really, you did fine during first year.
me: it was the same study habits.. first year is just plain easy so i made good grades..
me: you think something better will happen to me if i study astronomy? somewhere.. maybe i should shift to physics.

She didn't reply.. I guess she got disconnected.

See. I think I just need to do something that I really love to do. Like staying up late, staring at the sky and tinkering with telescopes.

Grades

yeah, i have some grades out... here they are:

es1 (engineering drwaing)- 2.00
english1 (basic college english) 1.75 (just as i expected)
mbb1 (biotch and you)- 1.75 (i was expecting a grade no lower than 1.25! ;_;)
pe2 td (tap dance)- 2.25
kas2 (asian history)- 2.25 (oh good, i was expecting a lower grade)
philo11 (logic)- not out yet
lastly, math17 (algebra & trig)- 2.5 (great, that's good enough for me, though i wish it were higher.)


at least my grades are not so depressing.. just what my laziness deserves.