yey! hahaha! wala lang...
masaya si ako eh...
kung di mo alam...di tayo close..hehehe, jowk!
watched transformers na SUPER DUPER MEGA HYPER TO THE HIGHEST LEVEL COOL!!! at kumain sa Super bowl sa Gateway...
received a very sweet greeting card...
and finally got capow na! yey! hehe
Jejo and the appetizer..me..super bowl table setting...jejo at canon makati
Artistic wooden chairs-slash-sculptures by Jerusalino V. Araos exhibited at the College of Science lounge. hehe...ang cool tuloy mag-hangout dun...duh, andun ako ng mondays ang thursdays...nyek...
Anyway, here's a sample:
rocking chairs yang mga crocodile na yan...aliw! hehe
first week of school! balik peyups na naman! tambak na agad ng kwento! hehe...
FIRST DAY HIGH: June 12, 2007. Tuesday. Independence Day supposedly. Hmm..i didn't feel the independence day hype...nakakalungkot rin. kung dati may program pa nga yan sa skul eh...pero nagparamdam ang independence day sakin dahil ng colorful straws namin nila dennen at talia...
no classes sa LA 199.1 (thesis)...ambait talaga ni Sir VJ o...ayun, finally na-assess na ang nabubulok kong form 5! hehehe..paid 6,063.50php...nyak...cheap i know, pero utang pa yang pambayad ko jan FYI...mmhhmmm...money isn't easy nowadays, kaya laking pasasalamat ng magulang ko at di ako apektado ng tatlong daang porsiyento ng pagtaas ng tuition...haay, napagtatanto ko tuloy ang pangarap kong mag-secong degree ng Visual Communications o Interior Design...ang mahal! mahigit 20k daw ang tuition ng ate ni Talia na 1st year Law student...nyay! mahal!
anyway, may class kay Ma'am G as usual...pero saglit lang..ang no 4-5 class! hehehe...bihira daw kasi pumasok si Sir Lim, lalo na't first day....bow.
SECOND DAY: Wednesday. UPCLAS GA, Vid shoot, and Photo op. MASAYA SUPER! end of story...i shall nakaw pix from cathe and dennen sooner or later *sniff*i miss CaPow*
THIRD DAY: Thursday. Triple GE day! nyak. nalate ako sa KOM1 kumusta naman. grabeh ang traffic sa Balara...now i've learned my lesson, better very early than very late ! hehehe...therefore, sasabay nako sa 6:30 na pagaalis ng pinsan ko to school....
STS ang next subject ko...hehe...nakaka-overwhelm ang subject...why? (cge i-aadvertise ko):
1. flexible ang course topics...as in varied and broad ang lectures. example: about robots, computers, ET life, about love (yes, c/o a prof from Psych ata), rizal as a scientist, sci-fi films (c/o a prof from MassComm) etc....ang dami eh, di ko memorize lahat ng lectures hehehe...
2. interdisciplinary. group of faculty from different colleges ang lecturers: from CS (of course), Engg, CAL, CSSP, MassComm, CHE....
3. ver comfy sa CS auditorium...hehehe (ganun?)
eniwey, next class is NatSci2 na dapat ay sa NIGS pero sa CS audi narin kaya di nako aalis ng CS after STS...hehehe...prof ko si Sir CP David who's so humorous na parang walang ka-effort-effort...grabeh...fun class! but he'll only be teaching Geol...hay boring daw ang Bio prof ayon kay Ayit...owel...keri...
end of day.
LAST DAY OF FIRST WEEK: Friday.ayan, sumabay nako sa pagaalis ng aking mga pinsan...i'm early for skul pero at least hindi late! hehe...may class na sa LA 199.1...medyo na-pressure ako plus na-excite narin sa "thesis" ...dan-dan-dan-dan! (beethoven playing in my mind as sir dan's name plus thesis pop's up)...rar...may assignment that i have yet to do...hmm, maybe a bit later hehehe...wha! grabeh! wala nang atrasan toh! diz izit! thesis nah!!!!!! wha! i have sudden nostalgia of my first year of college...parang kahapon lang naliligaw pa ko sa UP...hay...blockmates! kaya natin toh! yay! cathe! ina! nawa'y ituloy natin ang thesis house sa second sem...i really feel i need the support system by then hehehe....
si mam G nag lecture at nagpa-sketch opcors ever...nyay...parang di ako na-satisfy sa dinrawing kow...owel...
wala na namang 4-5 clas! yey! go home na...care of Jared and Jig's car, jejo and i went home to Lipa...hehe...shux, ang mahal nga lang ng gas at toll...owel, keri...tsk, ang magkapatid na yun ay nasa abroad na...isa sa states and isa nag-China...how i wish to travel rin...and work abroad! not patriotic i kno, at least i'm no hypocrite...i really want to work abroad...ok ok...nawala sa topic...
CONCLUSIONS:
this AY is the hardest enrollemt phenomenon ever! mahal na ang tuition ng freshie, hirap pa mag-enlist and enroll! kumonti ang mga naglalakad sa UP...tila yata dumami ang naka-car..yay...UP? is dat you? parang mga rich kid narin ang naglipana...
i'm excited for UPCLAS this year hehe...dunno why...actually, maybe i'm just excited for the vid presentation that mitch editted...yo MITCH! hellloooow...upload the vid you made asap! hehe...excited akow!
i'm excited about this sem...ewan...my GEs maybe...kasi ngayon nalang ulet...nung third year kasi walang GE...
i'm also scared...THESIS TOPIC! yelp...
hay, i hope this will turn out to be a good sem for me...hehe...
so much for my constant rants about UP...
don't get me wrong, i love UP! nagdidilim lang talaga paningin ko pag naiisip ko ang enrollment.hay, so...forgive me...i know many of you have shared their times of enrollment or enlistment tragedies
optimism naman ngayon for this entry...
i just received an email from Faith.
she forwarded the valedictorian speech of BS Physics pride, Mikaela Irene D. Fudolig, the ever-so-amazing 16-year-old summa cum laude with a GWA of 1.099!
hay, some people are simply gifted. God-given for a great purpose.
and so...i googled her name up and visited different sites. One of them was a blog na ranting about how great Mikki is and he/she isn't...blah blah blah...and didn't like the thought na baka maging professor pa daw niya eh 16 lang hehe...may inferiority complex ata yun.ewan. My point is, instead of being proud or inspired eh nainis pa siya. la lang. share lang. ang chorva kasi.
anyway, i was so inspired by her speech, i thought i'd share it:
Take not the road less traveled
Mikaela Irene Fudolig – BS Physics
Speech at the Commencement Exercises, UPD
April 22, 2007
One of the things that strike me as being very “UP Diliman” is the way UPD students can’t seem to stay on the pavement. From every street corner that bounds an unpaved piece of land, one will espy a narrow trail that cuts the corner, or leads from it. Every lawn around the buildings sports at least one of these paths, starting from a point nearest to the IKOT stop and ending at the nearest entry to the building. The trails are beaten on the grass by many pairs of feet wanting to save a fraction of a meter of traveling, no matter that doing so will exact some cost to the shoes, or, to the ubiquitous slippers, especially when the trails are new.
What do these paths say about us, UP students?
One could say that the UP student is enamored with Mathematics and Pythagoras, hence these triangles formed by the pavement and the path. Many among you would disagree.
Others could say that the UP student is naturally countercultural. And the refusal to use the pavement is just one of the myriads of ways to show his defiance of the order of things. This time, many would agree.
Still, others will say that the UP student is the model of today’s youth: they want everything easier, faster, now. The walkable paths appeal to them because they get to their destination faster, and presumably, with less effort. Now that is only partly true, and totally unfair.
These trails weren’t always walkable. No doubt they started as patches of grass, perhaps overgrown. Those who first walked them must have soiled their shoes, stubbed their toes, or had insects biting their legs, all in the immovable belief that the nearest distance between two points is a straight line. They might even have seen snakes cross their paths. But the soiled footwear, sore toes, and itchy legs started to conquer the grass. Other people, seeing the yet faint trail, followed. And as more and more walked the path, the grass gave in and stopped growing altogether, making the path more and more visible, more and more walkable.
The persistence of the paths pays tribute to those UP students who walked them first – the pioneers of the unbeaten tracks: the defiant and curious few who refuse the familiar and comfortable; the out-of-the-box thinkers who solve problems instead of fretting about them; the brave who dare do things differently, and open new opportunities to those who follow.
They say how one behaved in the past would determine how he behaves in the future. And as we leave the University, temporarily or for good, let us call on the pioneering, defiant, and brave spirit that built the paths to guide us in this next phase of our life.
We have been warned time and again. Our new world that they call “adulthood” is one that’s full of compromises, where success is determined more by the ability to belong than by the ability to think, where it is much easier to do as everyone else does. Daily we are bombarded with so much news of despair about the state of our nation, and the apparent, perverse sense of satisfaction our politicians get from vilifying our state of affairs. It is fashionable to migrate to other countries to work in deceptively high-paying jobs like nursing and teaching, forgetting that even at their favored work destinations, nurses and teachers are some of the lowest paid professionals. The lure of high and immediate monetary benefits in some low-end outsourcing jobs has drawn even some of the brightest UP students away from both industry and university teaching to which they would have been better suited.
Like the sidewalks and pavement, these paths are the easiest to take.
But, like the sidewalks and pavement, these paths take longer to traverse, just as individual successes do not always make for national progress. The unceasing critic could get elected, but not get the job done. The immigrant could get his visa, but disappear from our brainpower pool. The highly paid employee would be underutilized for his skills, and pine to get the job he truly wants, but is now out of his reach. And the country, and we, are poorer because of these.
Today, the nation needs brave, defiant pioneers to reverse our nation’s slide to despair. Today, we must call upon the spirit that beat the tracks. Today, we must present an alternative way of doing things.
Do NOT just take courage, for courage is not enough. Instead, be BRAVE! It will take bravery to go against popular wisdom, against the clichéd expectations of family and friends. It will take bravery to gamble your future by staying in the country and try to make a prosperous life here. It might help if for a start, we try to see why our Korean friends are flocking to our country. Why, as many of us line up for immigrant visas in various embassies, they get themselves naturalized and settle here. Do they know something we don’t?
Do NOT just be strong in your convictions, for strength is not enough. Instead, DEFY the pressure to lead a comfortable, but middling life. Let us lead this country from the despair of mediocrity. Let us not seek to do well, but strive to EXCEL in everything that we do. This, so others will see us as a nation of brains of the highest quality, not just of brawn that could be had for cheap.
Take NOT the road less traveled. Rather, MAKE new roads, BLAZE new trails, FIND new routes to your dreams. Unlike the track-beaters in campus who see where they’re going, we may not know how far we can go. But if we are brave, defiant searchers of excellence, we will go far. Explore possibilities, that others may get a similar chance. I have tried it myself. And I’m speaking to you now.
But talk is cheap, they say. And so I put my money where my mouth is. Today, I place myself in the service of the University, if it will have me. I would like to teach, to share knowledge, and perhaps to be an example to new UP students in thinking and striving beyond the limits of the possible. This may only be a small disturbance in the grass. But I hope you’ll come with me, and trample a new path.
Good evening, everyone.
http://www.upd.edu.ph/~updinfo/Pagtatapos07/summa07.html
hay, di parin ako enrolled.
Room assignments sa Archi are taking...forever!
Ghad, i just can't bare the simple thought that i am not yet enrolled just because of a lousy TBA na classroom...grr nakakainis for life
this is probably the longest enrollment in my UP life. rar!
Yeah, the OUR probably has their reasons and i should probably try to understand...NAH!
Various UP systems have changed..and first on the list is the tuition fee increase! yes, yes...i know cheap paring matuturing ang tuition namin compared to other universities...and i understand na matagal nang di nag-iincrease ang tuition...and that hindi naman talaga ako affected kasi 4th year nako and applicable to freshmen lang yun...but the point is the shock value sa mga estudyante! - sa madla even! where's the idea of gradual change or at least a thorough explanation on why the heck the tuition will increase? honestly, there was none of that from the admin.
second dynamic change, the CRS face and system...BLUE?! hello CRS people? UP tayo! in case you guys aren't aware maroon ang kulay natin...which also goes with green and yellow and white...pero blue?! a bit hazy blue pa nga...if the reason behind is for aesthetic purposes, i'm not buying it...peace guys...i commend you though on the college search option and the 'remarks' feature on the class schedules list kung conflict or not...kudos for the system! pero the blue is such an issue for me...sorry, but i'm sure many would agree...
thirdly, the dorm issue...buti nalang tamang tama lang ang pag-alis ko sa Yakal...the Student Housing recently changed their admission system for dormers...kanina lang i was surprised that Jomie texted me at sinabing di daw siya natanggap sa dorm...kasi daw mas maraming tinaggap na freshies...mhmm...i mean there's nothing wrong with that i know...pero kasi the system just changed this summer and not everyone has summer classes, so not all of the dormers were informed about the new requirements and all (my bestfriend included)...i think she just knew about it medyo late na...so much for information dissemination.
At heto, nirereklamo ko ang enrollement system ng UP na sa simpleng TBA ay di ma-assess ang aming mga form 5...dati pwede ang TBA...ngayon di daw tatanggapin ng Registrar...okay, that's fine with me...it's just that SANA DATI PA INASIKASO YANG ROOM TBAs NA YAN KUNG GANUN LANG RIN ANG SISTEMA....why oh why kolehiyo ng arkitektura? ke tagal mo namang mag-isip kung saang silid dapat ang bawat klase...winawarak niyo ang pag-asa ng mga mag-aaral na nais makapgbayad agad...yung iba gusto nang lumuwas sa knilang probinsiya para sa sana'y natitirang mga araw ng bakasyon, ngunit hindi at nag-eenroll, naghihintay ng room assignment para sa maikling blanko sa kanyang form5 na nalukot na dahil ilang araw na siyang nabubulok sa paghihintay sa WALA. Pano naman ang mga estudyanteng halos naubos na ang barya para sa pamasahe, nagagastos ang pang-tuition sana para sa pagkain? o minsan nga'y tinitiis nalang ang gutom? Pano naman ang mga tuition na alagang-alaga araw-araw dahil baka ma-holdap?
haay...
UP talaga...
HAPPY DAY! 
