...I am posting a survey once again.
Thanks
mia!
1) Bold what is true about you.
2) Italicize what you wish was true about you.
3) Add one true thing about you to the end of the list.
* I miss somebody right now.
* I don't watch much TV these days. --except for Justice League
* I own lots of books.* I wear glasses or contact lenses.
* I love to play video games.
* I've tried marijuana.
* I've watched porn movies.
* I have been the psycho-ex in a past relationship.
* I believe honesty is usually always the best policy.* I curse sometimes. As opposed to constantly.* I have changed a lot mentally over the last year.* I carry my knife/razor everywhere with me.
* I have broken someone's bones. --frog bones too, mia!
* I have a secret that I am ashamed to reveal. * I hate the rain.
* I'm paranoid at times.* I would get plastic surgery if it were 100% safe, free of cost, and scar-free.
* I need/want money right now.* I love sushi.
* I talk really, really fast.
* I have fresh breath in the morning.* I have long hair.* I have lost money in Las Vegas.
* I have at least one sibling.
* I was born in a country outside of the U.S.* I have worn fake hair/fingernails/eyelashes in the past.
* I couldn't survive without Caller I.D.
* I like the way that I look.* I have lied to a good friend in the last 6 months.* I am usually pessimistic.
* I have a lot of mood swings.* I think prostitution should be legalized.
* I slept with a roommate.
* I have a hidden talent.* I'm always hyper no matter how much sugar I have.
* I have a lot of friends.* I have pecked someone of the same sex.
* I enjoy talking on the phone.
* I practically live in sweatpants or PJ pants.
* I love to shop and/or window shop. --for shoes!
* I'm obsessed with my Xanga or Livejournal. --Blogspot
* I don't hate anyone. I dislike them.
* I'm a pretty good dancer.* I'm completely embarrassed to be seen with my mother.
* I have a cell phone.* I have passed out drunk in the past 6 months.
* I've rejected someone before.* I currently like/love someone.* I have no idea what I want to do for the rest of my life.
* I want to have children in the future.* I have changed a diaper before.* I've called the cops on a friend before.
* I'm not allergic to anything.* I have a lot to learn.* I am shy around the opposite sex.* I'm online 24/7, even as an away message.
* I have at least 5 away messages saved.
* I have tried alcohol or drugs before.
* I have made a move on a friend's significant other or crush in the past.
* I own the "South Park" movie.
* I have avoided assignments at work/school to be on Xanga or Livejournal.
* I enjoy some country music.
* I would die for my best friend.
* I'm obsessive, and often a perfectionist.* I have used my sexuality to advance my career.
* Halloween is awesome because you get free candy.* I have dated a close friend's ex.
* I am happy at this moment.* I'm obsessed with guys.
* Democrat.
* Conservative Republican.
* I am punk rockish. --I can't stand most pop music.
* I go for older guys/girls, not younger. --I don't have much of a choice! Haha
* I study for tests most of the time.* I tie my shoelaces differently from anyone I've ever met.
* I can work on a car.* I love my job. * I am comfortable with who I am right now.* I have more than just my ears pierced.
* I walk barefoot wherever I can.
* I have jumped off a bridge.
* I love sea turtles.
* I spend ridiculous amounts of money on makeup.
* I plan on achieving a major goal/dream.* I am proficient on a musical instrument. --I'm out of practice for the guitar
* I hate office jobs.
* I went to college out of state.* I am adopted.
* I am a pyro.
* I have thrown up from crying too much.
* I have been intentionally hurt by people that I loved.
* I fall for the worst people and have been hurt every time.
* I adore bright colors. --Neon green, Neon blue, Neon pink!
* I usually like covers better than originals.
* I hate chain theme restaurants like Applebees and TGIFridays.
* I can pick up things with my toes.* I can't whistle.* I have ridden/owned a horse.* I still have every journal I've ever written in.* I talk in my sleep.* I've often thought that I was born in the wrong century.
* I try to forget things by drowning them out with loads of distractions.* I wear a toe ring.
* I have a tattoo.
* I can't stand at LEAST one person that I work with.
* I am a caffeine junkie.
* I am completely tree-huggy spiritual, and I'm not ashamed at all.
* If I knew I would get away with it, I would commit at least one murder.
* I cosplayed or
know what cosplaying is.* I have been to over 15 conventions.* I will collect anything, and the more nonsensical, the better.
* I enjoy a nice glass of wine with dinner.
* I'm an artist.* I am ambidextrous. --That way I can write Zoo notes faster.
* I sleep with so many stuffed animals, I can hardly fit on my bed.* If it weren't for having to see other people naked, I'd live in a nudist colony.
* I have terrible teeth.
* I hate my toes.
* I did this Meme even though I wasn't tagged by the person who took it before me.* I have more friends on the internet than in real life.
* I have lived in either three different states or countries.
* I am extremely flexible.* I love hugs more than kisses.* I want to own my own business.* I smoked.
* I spend way too much time on the computer than on anything else.* Nobody has ever said I'm normal.* Sad movies, games, fics and the like can cause a trickle of tears every now and then.
* I am proficient in the use of many types firearms and combat weapons.* I like the way women look in stylized men's suits.
* I don't like it when people are unpleased or seem unpleased with me.* I have been described as a dreamer or likely to have my head up in the clouds.* I have played strip poker with someone else before.
* I have had emotional problems for which I have sought professional help.
* I believe in ghosts and the paranormal.* I can't stand being alone.
* I have at least one obsession at any given time.* I weigh myself, pee/poo, and then weigh myself again.
* I consistently spend way too much money on obsessions-of-the-moment.
* I'm a judgmental asshole.
* I'm a HUGE drama-queen.
* I have traveled on more than one continent.* I sometimes wish my father would just disappear.* I need people to tell me I'm good at something in order to feel that I am.* I am a Libertarian.
* I can speak more than one language.* I would rather read than watch TV. --except for Justice League!
* I like reading fact more than fiction.
* I have pulled an all-nighter on an assignment I was given a month to do.* I have no piercings.
* I have spent the night in a train station or other public place.
* I have been so upset over my physical gender that I cried.
* I once spent Christmas completely alone because there was a miscommunication on wh parent was supposed to have me that night.
* I've been married and am now divorced.
* There have been times when I have wondered "Why was I born?" and may/may not have cried over it.* I like most animals better than most people.
* I own a collection of retro games consoles.* The thought of physical exercise makes me shiver.* I have hit someone with a dead fish.
* I have written/read erotic stories. --Anne Rice
* I am compulsively honest.
* I was born with a congenital birth defect that has never been repaired.
* I have danced topless in front of dozens of complete strangers. And not been ashamed.
* I have gone from wishing I was a boy to revelling in being a girl to feeling like a boy again in the span of five minutes, and not cared a whit for my actual sex.* I am unashamedly bisexual, and have different motivations for my desires for different genders.
* I sometimes won't sleep a whole night or eat a whole day because I forget to.
* I find it impossible to get to sleep without some kind of music on.
* I dislike milk.* I obsessively wash my hands.
* I always carry that something significant around with me.* Sometimes I'd rather wear a wig in day-to-day life than use my own hair.
* I've pushed myself to become more self-aware and thereby more aware of others.* Even though I live on my own I still cry sometimes because I miss my mother.
* I hand typed all the HTML tags in this document.* I've liked something which a majority of people claimed was either bad or weird.* I have been clinically dead for a brief period of time.
* Instead of feeling sympathy/empathy with people and their problems, I simply become annoyed.
* I am a virgin.* I participate/have participated in auto drag races and won.* I do not 'get' most comedy acts.
* I don't think strippers are money-greedy or slutty for dancing.
* I don't like to chew gum. --they get stuck in my braces
* I am intrigued with history/historical things and can't wait for someone to build a time machine so I can be the first to use it.* I can never remember for the life of me where I parked the car.
* Had the TEEN ANGST thing going for at least 2-3 years.* Wishes people would be more empathic and honest with each other.* I play Dungeons and Dragons weekly.* I love to sing. * I want to live in my mother's basement when I grow up.
* I have a custom-built computer. --I want one. :(
* I want to have a certain someone's babies, even though there's a 0% possiblity of ever achieving it. --Brandon Boyd's, maybe? HAHAHA
* I occasionally cling to someone's boobehs... online.
* I have fallen out of a tree.
* I am possessive of my friends.
* I made a gay couple in the SIMS, and they sleep together too.* I am going through a potentially life-changing dilemma as of this writing.
* Nerd.* People have complained of the smallness of my handwriting.* I know all the lyrics of 80% of all NSYNC's songs.
* I get to flunk almost 85% of my grades for one quarter.
* I can successfully twirl a pen.FACT: I wish I have a great and expensive electric guitar.
The Enneagram is an ancient system used by spiritual teachers and mystics used to classify personality times. Nine personality types are arranged in three triads, with each triad occupying one row (thus making a 3 x 3 table). Each triad (feeling, doing, relating) consists of three personality types that have in common the assets and liabilities of that triad. One of the types overdevelops or overexpresses the characteristic faculty of the triad, another type underdevelops or underexpresses the faculty, and the third is out of touch with the faculty.
This was taken from my English handout. I couldn't make it into a table because the space is too small.
A. Feeling Triad
1. Personality Type Two: The Helper
The Caring, Mothering Type: Concerned, helpful, possessive, and manipulative.
2. Personality Type Three: The Motivator
The Success-Oriented, Pragmatic Type: Self-assured, Ambitious, Narcissistic, and Hostile
3. Personality Type Four: The Artist
The Melancholy, Withdrawn Type: Creative, Individualistic, Self-absorbed, and Depressive
B. Doing Triad
1. Personality Type Five: The Thinker
The Intellectual, Analytic Type: Perceptive, Original, Eccentric, and Phobic
2. Personality Type Six: The Loyalist
The Committed, Traditionalist Type: Likeable, Responsible, Dependent and Masochistic
3. Personality Type Seven: The Generalist
The Hyperactive, Uninhibited Type: Enthusiastic, Accomplished, Excessive and Manic
C. Relating Triad
1. Personality Type Eight: The Leader
The Powerful, Dominating Type: Self-Confident, Decisive, Dictatorial, and Destructive
2. Personality Type Nine: The Peacemaker
The Easygoing, Phlegmatic Type: Accepting, Reassuring, Passive and Repressed
3. Personality Type One: The Reformer
The Rational, Idealistic Type: Principled, Orderly, Perfectionistic, and Intolerant
Do some of these ring bells? Some sound so like me...
Personality Type Four: The Artist: The Melancholy, Withdrawn Type: Creative, Individualistic, Self-absorbed and Depressive. Personality type four is the type in the Feeling Triad that underexpresses its feelings. Because their feelings are often shameful, chaotic and "dangerous", average to unhealthy Fours have
learned to keep their feelings to themselves, partly so that they can sort them out, and partly to spare themselves from humiliation or punishment if they were to reveal what they actually feel.
Personality Type Five: The Thinker: The Intellectual, Analytic Type: Perceptive, Original, Eccentric and Phobic. Personality type five is the type in the Doing Triad that has underdevelop its ability to take practical action. Fives tend to substitute thinking for doing, feeling that
they cannot risk acting until they have first carefully thought about what they might do, learned as much as possible about the task at hand, and foreseen every possible outcome if they act one way or another.
Ohh shucks. I keep my feelings inside, and I think about them too. It's a surprise I haven't exploded yet.
Natamaan lang ako. :)
Let me just say that I did not expect baboy damo and ostrich salpicao to be sooo damn delicious. Tapang usa was okay; the frog legs were too except that the meat was hard to get off the small frog bones. Believe me, after the frog dissection I automatically saw the frog legs anatomically; as I was eating them I automatically thought about the terms
femur, triceps femoris, tibio-fibula, tibialis anticus, and gastrocnemius. Well done, Zoology lab.
Surprisingly, kuhol sa gata beat them all. :) I honestly thought that snails would taste slimy and disgusting, but they actually tasted like oysters and clams. Cool. Let's add Phylum Mollusca Class Gastropoda Order Pulmonata to my list of favorite food then! Hahaha!
I didn't get to eat isaw though. Maybe next time!
I love my groupmates. They're creative and lots of fun (yes, that means you! :D). Doing projects is less of a chore with them, since the boys make it into one big laughtrip. Though it is slightly freaky to see the boys mock-cuddling, we the girls (the minority) actually feel comfortable with them.
Exo, Erwin, JA, Mia, Ralph - you guys are so great, baby talk and all!
Ooooh you touched my tra-la-la!!.
I think we did a freaky job filming the fear factor segment. The food wasn't at all disgusting, as we had to pretend it would be; in fact, as I said it was actually quite delicious despite its exotic-ness (is there such a word?). Also, we acted in lots of verbal abuse to pretend to insult and discourage our opponents in the challenges, so we had one hell of a fun time filming that part!
I just hope that the finished film will have as much content as comedy. :)
It really was a shame that Krocodile Grill didn't allow us to film inside their restaurant. That was a serious setback, since we were hoping to interview the manager and film the food as it was being cooked. Oh well, we should have expected that since Krocodile Grill is a high-end commercial establishment. I really really hope that we'd be allowed to film in the exotic food restaurant in Kapitolyo, or else we'd have to search for restaurants outside Metro Manila (which would be a huge hassle!). I'm keeping my fingers crossed...
And by the way Mia, I only acted like a teenybopper. It wasn't me. The day I really become a teenybopper is the day I have Multiple Personality Disorder. :P
"Oooooh you touched my tra-la-la! Mmmm, making ding-dong!".
Sheer hilarity!
I think I might drop dead here and now from lack of sleep. It's so amazing that I can even type in this condition...
Argh. My brain hurts.
Overkill. Information overload. Triple X. Meltdown. System crash. Mental paralysis.
Somebody please write me an eulogy.
ATENEO SURVEY
The Rule: Answer honestly and tag other Ateneans to answer it as well. Have fun :)
Q: Was Ateneo your first choice?
A: For a while my first choice was UP, then it became Ateneo. My mom convinced me to change my mind.
Q: Do you know what your ACET score is?
A: No. It's enough to know that I passed.
Q: What was your first choice in course?
A: BS Biology
Q: Second choice?
A: BS Human Biology (of course everything has to be bio-related!)
Q: What turned out to be your course upon entrance?
A: BS Biology (congratulate me!)
Q: Did you have any plans of shifting?
A: Nope.
Q: Are you Chinito/Chinita?
A: Yes.
Q: Taga-Ateneo High?
A: Uh...no! :)
Q: Did you have fun in your Orsem?
A: Yes! Bio L2 and our TNTs were the best! Thanks Kuya Tantan, Kuya Sabz and Kuya Jez!
Q: Which Gate did you enter during the first day?
A: Gate 2, and it was freakishly traffic.
Q: Ever had an F in your grade report?
A: No, and I hope I never will. Pray for me!
Q: How about an A?
A: Botany Lec, Botany Lab and Taekwondo. Haha!
Q: Highest grade?
A: A
Q: Lowest grade?
A: B for Filipino. It will always be my Achilles' heel. :D
Q: Worst experience in AdMU?
A: Girl emergency (you know what it is!) and getting stranded in school since the driver didn't show up. Thank God that I know how to commute by myself now. As for the girl emergency...it always takes me by surprise. :D
Q: Do you always attend class?
A: The only subject I cut was PE. And that was just once, though I had been sorely tempted to do it again for other subjects ever since...
Q: What was/were your org/s?
A: PMSA (Pre-Med Society of the Ateneo). I'm a doormat member! I don't participate in any org activities. It's sad, yes, but I'm just too busy.
Q: How many units have you passed?
A: Everything! (17 units)
Q: Nangangarap ka bang maglaude?
A: Why not? HAHAHA! I wish I can...
Q: When will you graduate?
A: 2009.
Q: Fave subject/s?
A: Zoology Lecture
Q: Worst subject/s?
A: Filipino and Zoology Laboratory
Q: Fave landmark sa AdMU?
A: The caf. I'm always there.
Q: Fave kainan?
A: Eyrie (cheap but filling) and Beef Teriyaki (Chicken Strips and Tang!)
Q: Are you always at the lib?
A: Only rarely. I prefer the computer labs. :D
Q: Ever gone to the infirmary when you were sick?
A: Nope
Q: Did you have a crush in campus?
A: Yeah, and I still do. I'm not telling, though...:D
Q: May balak kang mag-MS, PhD?
A: M.D. (Isn't it a master's degree?). It's always been my dream to be a PhD though, but I probably wouldn't have enough time to get it. An M.D. in Neurology alone is long enough, thank you very much!
Q: Have you ever watched a graduation ceremony?
A: Yes, my sister's.
Q: Do you know the "Song for Mary" by heart?
A: No.
Q: Memorize mo ba ang Fabilioh?
A: No.
Q: ...ang Halikinu?
A: Yes.
Q: ...ang Blue Eagle Spelling?
A: Yes, coz I know how to spell (of course!)
Q: Are you part of Team Ateneo?
A: Nope.
Q: Who's your fave UAAP basketball player?
A: Chris Tiu (surprised?)
Q: Ever had a perfect score in an exam?
A: Zoology Lec long test, 51/50! Oh yeah!
Q: Ano ang ayaw mo sa Hell Week?
A: Everything.
Q: What do you like about our school?
A: Decent people, supportive teachers, efficient way of running things.
Q: Ano ang ayaw mo?
A: Extravagant and snobbish people (and the way all Ateneans are stereotyped as such).
Q: Have you ever bought anything at the A-shop?
A: Nope.
Q: Maganda ba ID pic mo?
A: NO. I hate it.
Q: Done anything illegal on campus?
A: Nope, unless forgetting to wear my ID counts. Haha.
Q: Bought anything at National Katips?
A: Yes
Q: Ever gone to Starbucks Katips?
A: Yes, but only once.
Q: May nakaaway ka na ba sa school?
A: Yes, but not a big all-out fight. It was more like a...misunderstanding.
Q: QPI?
A: 3.65. Should I aim for a flat 4? HAHAHA!!
For clarification, italicized parts are in the point of view of the frog while non-italicized
parts are in our point of view (the students who were dissecting it). Thanks very much. :)It was horrible. It was bad enough that my whole identity - and those of others like me - were crammed into two unpronounceable tongue-twisting "scientific names" (and take note, my tongue doesn't twist easily because it's attached on the posterior end). They just had to kill me and subject me two four whole weeks of torture and humiliation. Even in death, my body was preserved, limbs and face contorted as if killing me had caused the ultimate pain...which it had.It was disgusting. It was bad enough that we didn't get to dissect animals per phylum so that our Zoology Lab sessions would be in sync with our Zoo Lec sessions. Our lab teacher had to be THAT mediocre to subject us to a whole month of dissecting just frogs. Such boredom; it would have been much more exciting to dissect leeches, molluscs, earthworms... Pity we didn't work on live frogs - now THAT would have been much more fun. Although, when we picked up the dead frogs, we did kinda feel sorry for them, especially with their body contorted in that awful way. But oh well, it was in the name of science. So we picked up our frogs, dutifully removing first the skin, then the muscles, then the organs...week after week after week, until all that's left were the bones. The frog was icky and slimy and yucky and messy and made us smell like formalin afterwards. Finally, we lost all our pity for the hapless frog, because the twisted position of its limbs made it much harder to scrape off their muscles...
I was dead; I couldn't feel anything more no matter how hard they pricked and poked at me. But couldn't THEY feel anything for me, not even pity that my death was all for the purpose of a grade in their 5 x 8 index cards? Why couldn't I have just decomposed in the soil or water like some decent frog? For four weeks I had been subject to the utmost indignity as they gradually stripped my body off its every system. I was made to feel even more little when they poked at me with that sharp metal thing, identifying every single part of me with more of those unpronounceable names. If I were alive then, I'd certainly have jumped out of that filthy and vile-smelling dissecting pan without further adieu. Gastrocnemius? Pectoral girdle? Latissimus dorsi? Do those terms encompass how I've lived and grown up?Gastrocnemius. Pectoral girdle. Latissimus dorsi. I'm really hating the stupid frog right now. We had to memorize loads and loads of terms to identify every single facet of its body for the practical exams, which were given in the same period as the dissection. Imagine memorizing over twently unintelligible Latin-sounding terms in thirty minutes - what a mind job.
Test subject. I was a freakin' test subject. How humiliating...Lab test. We have a freakin' lab test on Thursday about the frog. How useless...
What did I ever do to deserve this sterile and academic death? I looked from above as they scraped at my bones, put colorful pins on my preserved muscles, and threw my organs down the trash...Oh well. It was all in the name of science, right? Oh, and I think we have to do a homework about it, a color-coded chart on 5 x 8 index cards identifying the axial and appendicular bones in the skeletal system of our
Rana pipiens specimen (damn I broke the pectoral girdle).
I'd like to watch Brokeback Mountain. I think it's premise is interesting and unique; a western + gay movie that made the heights of Oscar success? This I gotta see.
And besides, Jake Gyllenhaal stars (as a gay, though). :D
Haay. Once again, the season of love approaches. On February 14, I am dressing up in black just to show my uninvolvement in That Day of Cheesy-ness. Sure, PDAs are justified for happy lovebird couples, but just don't show them to me. Not smack-dab in my face. And please, if you have mercy for my unromantic soul, spare me the pink heart-y decorations and the red roses. Others may be caught up in the hormone-overflowing and heartbeat-accelerating celebration that is Valentine's Day, but not me. Not me.
But I would appreciate some chocolates, though. :D
It seems like I never go through a single week without eating chocolate. It's an addiction. Every time our family goes to the grocery, I always stop by the chocolate and sweets aisle without fail. I buy Chunky Chocolate Chip Chips Ahoy, Meiji Chocolates with Macadamia Nuts, Time-Out, Crunch, Cloud 9...as long as the amount is that which I can reasonably gobble in a week. It might be fine while I'm still a kid, given my super-strong and efficient metabolism, but who knows what it might cost me when I'm older. I might not get pimples and cellulite due to chocolate right now, but that might change when I'm in my thirties. And heck, my addiction for chocolate and sweets in general might cause diabetes due to my pancreas' incapability to secrete enough insulin to control all that sugar - thus sending me to an early grave. RIP, Stephie?
Chocolate, I wish I knew how to quit you.
Would you please, please, PLEASE stop making hasty generalizations on my school!
I know you come from what is considered as the "best state university in the Philippines", but that doesn't give you the right to think that everyone else from all the other schools are beneath you!
Does the fact that Ateneo has no fraternities mean that Ateneans are weaklings? Does the fact that you do mean that everyone in your university is strong and tough? COME ON!!!!!!!!! The presence of fraternities does not guarantee the physical strength or the strength of the mentalities or personalities of all members of the population in your school! On the other hand, the absence of fraternities in our school does not mean that all members of the student population in Ateneo are soft and weak!
Dammit. Dammit. Dammit.
Being "the best state university" doesn't mean that you ARE the best university in the whole country! And even if you are, all I'm asking is a little humility and respect for my decision not to go there! You do not have to berate, criticize, and insult my school all the time! I hate your effing contempt, condescencion and patronization!
So what if more government officials graduated from UP than from Ateneo? They're mostly corrupt anyway! And hazing doesn't indicate that you're "tougher" - it indicates that you actually have the mental shallowness to think that physical strength is an indispensable part of success in life, when I think it's not!
And the worst part is, I cannot argue with you like this. I can't pour out my anger and irritation over your obviously illogical conclusions and prejudices regarding my school because I have to respect your age and status in the family.
But just because I'm younger than you and dependent on you doesn't mean that you are right all the time. I am a person too, therefore I have dignity that DESERVES to be respected, not trampled upon. I have my own opinions too. Despite the argument that older people have more experience and are thus more often correct, I believe that I am right in saying that conclusions should not be drawn from prejudice and incomplete observations.
I only make allowances for you, hiding my anger from you after you leave, because it is my DUTY to respect you. But because of your contempt for my affiliations and the obvious immaturity that you show in your hasty generalizations, I find that my respect for you has been gradually decreasing.
You expect everyone to listen to your side of the story. Why in the hell can't you listen to MINE? Why do you always regard my opinions as if they are inferior to yours, though I've academically achieved more than you ever had?
The only release I get is by fuming behind your back. And the worst part is, I'm obliged to feel guilty because I am supposed to be loving you and respecting you for all the things you've ever done for me.
Why do I always end up on the losing side if it's between you and I???
I can't understand WHY there had been a stampede in Ultra a while ago due to the effing noontime show that is Wowowee.
It's bad enough that they camped out for three days outside the stadium just waiting for what apparently was Wowowee's anniversary to start. Believe me, I pass through Ultra everyday coming from Ateneo, and I know the sheer annoying traffic that the camp-out caused. Hello?? As if Ultra doesn't have enough seats for all of them.
What puzzles me is why people would waste so much effort, and lose their minds over, a stupid show like Wowowee. Why would anyone camp out in the sides of the streets just to be early for a show that features effing dancing girls and a stupid mind-decaying jingle? Does the camp-out show that they have nothing better to do with their time than waste it in waiting outside Ultra for three damn days?
Why would anyone lose their minds over that show to the point that getting prime seats to watch it would be more valuable than the human lives destroyed by the stampede? Does a show like Wowowee justify the cold and uncomfortable nights of camping out, the number of people dead and the children lost?
Are the Filipino masses this uneducated and shallow that a show like Wowowee would be worth
all this? Does this incident show the low-grade kind of entertainment that the Filipino would give up so much - even human lives - for?
It's funny, but death by stampede would be more associated with the fleeing of mindless animals from their predators (think the Lion King Mufasa's death caused by wildebeests rampaging from hungry hyenas). It's ironic that although we humans pride ourselves on our ability to transcend primitive instincts and our tremendously advanced mental capability, it seems that there's still a bit of animal nature innately present within us, especially when it comes to competition. Except that this time, the goal is purely materialistic and fueled by a first-come-first-served basis. Adding to the irony is the fact that the Wowowee anniversary show in Ultra was cancelled anyway due to the masses' stampede, thus rendering the camp-out and the deaths useless.
Those people didn't
have to die if only the people realized that human lives are more precious than a few hours of watching Wowowee. Use your common sense, people! And more importantly, make better and more productive use of your goddamned time!
No wonder the state of the Philippines is constantly seen as stagnant and hopeless. If this incident shows us anything of the mental state of the masses, it is that they are held under a stupor by fantastical and nonsensical noontime shows just because they provide relief from the harsh realities of poverty.
Wake up and smell the coffee, people! Running away from poverty doesn't accomplish diddly-squat; get up and do something productive, for God's sake!
Oh God. If this incident encapsulates the mentally-deteriorating state of the Philippines, I can say nothing else but...
God help us.
To take or not to take Math 195?
The course, entitled "Seminar in Problem Solving Techniques," sounds like something from a horror movie. You would have thought that I wouldn't have any hesitation to refuse the subject altogether just because it sounds so DAMN scary, especially right after complaining about the toughness of Math 11. Moreover, taking Math 195 along with Math 17 (calculus, no less) during the summer would spell a freakin' death sentence for me, since who in their right mind would take two hellishly hard math subjects together?
Still, despite these arguments I feel that it would be such a waste to refuse this opportunity, especially since Fr. Nebres and Dr. Lee-Chua (Ateneo's very own Dumbledore and McGonagall, respectively) are going to teach it. Also, if Exo, Mia and the others firmly believe in my capability to handle it, then why shouldn't I take the friggin' chance?
Argh.
Argh. ARGH. I need to decide tonight, as the subject's gonna be closed soon. What will Tantan's decision be??
To compensate for my lack of ability to articulate this dilemma, I will post the email I sent to Dr. Lee-Chua last night, and her reply that I've read just now:
Hi maam,
We would like to take Math195g.1 for this summer. However, we do have questions and apprehensions which we hope you will clarify for us.
We would like to know what topics and requirements the subject entails. We are worried that the subject and its workload will be too hard for us, especially since we are only incoming sophomores and we will be taking Math195 along with Math17. Thus, if possible we would like to take either subject next year instead.
Also, one of us has to take other subjects, namely Lit 14 and Eng 12, in the coming summer/semesters because she was placed in a basic English class last sem. We are concerned that she might lag too far behind us if her English subjects were left too late because she replaced them with Math195. We would appreciate it very much if you could provide suggestions on how this problem could be remedied.
We have already informed our department head (Dr. Merab Chan of the Bio dept) of our concerns. However, she suggested that we might get a better response from you, especially those about our apprehensions regarding the Math subjects.
We are sorry because of the late response to your letter. It took us quite a long time to make up our minds because Math195 sounds like such a challenging subject. However, we thought that it would be nice to make use of this opportunity to learn more and be taught by great teachers. :)
Thank you very much!
From:
Karen Abalos
Kristan Angeles
Stephanie Jordan
I BS Biology Block L2
From Dr. Lee Chua:
The requirements are perseverance, dedication, and not giving up :)
You will learn math techniques (you don't even need calculus) and most importantly, go through the experience of tackling challenging problems. Your grades will be based on problem sets, individual and group work (no tests, since the problems are not standard).
I suggest that the person with basic English should take English instead, but for the rest, take the class this summer. We will offer this class again, but I cannot guarantee the invitation, since we will be looking for a new batch.
Good luck. The class is about to be closed, so I need a reply from you soonest.
What am I going to do now?
